Recaps

As the Centennial Demon Beast Calamity struck, Ling Pengyun defended his clan and helped neighboring families while building its resources and livestock. Meanwhile, Tian Yuan used mass killings to reach Foundation Establishment and set his sights on Huai River County.

• Ling Pengyun prepared the clan’s bees, chickens, and spirit fields for the coming calamity while Ling Yunhong delivered Yellow Sprout Grass and acquired Azure Steel Mother-Child Flying Swords.
• Ling Yunhong led Ling Pengxing and thirty cultivators to defend West Yang Market Town, where Mo Congxin repelled the first demon beast assault as another wave advanced into sect territory.
• Ling Pengyun intercepted a horde threatening Xia Zhi Mountain, bound hundreds of demon beasts with Thorn Vines, and helped kill the Black Flame Leopard after reinforcements arrived.
• Ling Pengyun helped clear the remaining beasts, then aided the Cloud Mist Wen Clan at Mist Shadow Mountain and killed its Foundation Establishment Demon Serpent.
• Ling Pengyun helped raise Azure Stone Lake’s spirit eye into a First Rank Low Grade Spirit Vein, captured five White Cedar Sheep for the clan, and began expanding their pasture.
• Tian Yuan slaughtered mortals, cultivators, and his own followers to refine Blood Origin Pills, reached Foundation Establishment, and prepared a Thousand Ghost Banner.
• Ling Pengyun and Luo Qiuming helped the Sun Clan defeat a Gale Wolf horde, and Ling Pengyun returned with fifteen young wolves for Ling Yunhan to tame.
• Tian Yuan decided to target the two Huai River County families whose Foundation Establishment cultivators were guarding them and set out for the county.

Ling Pengyun expanded the Ling Clan’s resources and inheritances while the clan faced losses, refugees, and renewed threats. As the West Yang Auction ended, Ling Pengyun and his family secured cultivation resources and prepared to return home.

• Ling Pengyun killed Tian Yuan, destroyed his demonic artifacts, and discovered an icy spiritual pool in Qi De’s hidden cave, which Ling Yunxi guarded with the Cloud Mist Drifting Rain Great Array.
• Ling Pengyun advanced to the second level of Foundation Establishment, while Ling Pengxing also broke through after consuming Evergreen Spirit Water and Ling Pengqiu defended River Creek Mountain from Flame Wolves.
• Ling Pengyun negotiated an ore-sharing agreement with the Azure Bamboo Wang Clan, then helped defeat a Fire Feather Swallow flock, but Ling Ruda died after entrusting him with his final requests.
• Ling Chengxin admitted Shen Qi and a thousand refugees into Ling Clan territory, while Ling Pengyun joined Luo Qiuming and Liu Daozhong to clear demon beasts from Shen Family Clan Mountain and recover its scriptures.
• Ling Yunhong announced plans to strengthen the clan, accepted Ling Pengyun’s Crimson Fire Iron, commissioned Spirit Gathering Pills, and warned that the Tiger's Roar Liu Clan might soon grow more powerful.
• Ling Pengyun developed Azure Autumn Mortal Rice, while Ling Pengxing risked hunting in Serpent Dragon Lake and narrowly escaped a Golden Feather Great Peng before the West Yang Auction.
• At the auction, Ling Pengxing bought Evergreen Spirit Water, Ling Yunhong acquired two Spirit Gathering Arrays for Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengxing, and Ling Pengyun bought Hundred Spirits Water for his Thorn Vine.

Ling Pengyun strengthened his cultivation and the Ling Clan’s position while helping reclaim a mine and defeating the Luo Clan in the martial duel. The arc left him back at the Rock Scale Snake Den after declining a match, while Zhu Wen gained more freedom and moved closer to Ling Xiaoying.

• Yang Changxing negotiated an equal share of the Rock Scale Snake Den with Ling Yunhong, and the group cleared its wolf demons and restored its arrays and spirit fields.
• Ling Pengyun attended Wu Hong’s Hundred Days Banquet, learned of Yang Siling’s sacrifice and recovery, and secured Wu Yan’s promise to reserve Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron for his Lifebound Magic Item.
• Ling Yunhong arranged a marriage alliance with the Wen Clan, while Ling Ruxian set Zhu Wen to work on Fire Arrow Talismans and Ling Pengliang failed his Foundation Establishment attempt.
• Ling Pengyun refined Dark Ice Spirit Water, advanced to Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer, and helped Thorn Vine break through to the Second Rank.
• The Ling Clan joined the contest for the Sand Soil Mine, where Ling Yunhong lost to Luo Minghui, but Ling Pengyun defeated Luo Qiuming and Ling Pengxing beat Li Xia to secure first place.
• A year later, Ling Pengyun visited the Hundred Spirits Sect to meet potential Foundation Establishment matches, declined Pei Xue’s proposal, and learned Yang Siling’s foundation remained damaged.
• Ling Pengyun exchanged spirit-plant knowledge with Yan Cang, requested Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass seeds, and then left the sect with Yang Qiuyun and Zhao Hong'e staying behind to help care for Wu Hong.
• Zhu Wen accepted Ling Clan talisman commissions and earned two outings per month, during which he gave Ling Xiaoying a hairpin and Ling Yunhan encouraged her to consider him as a Dao Companion.

Ling Pengyun’s hunts and growing strength drew him into the Ling Clan’s feud with the Luo Clan, which ended with the Luo Clan’s defeat and its lands seized. The Ling Clan secured new alliances and resources, while Ling Yunhong arranged a marriage alliance with the Wen Clan.

• Ling Xiaoying and Zhu Wen married as the Ling and Wen Clans matched cultivators and welcomed independent cultivators, while Ling Pengxing set out to hunt demon beasts.
• Ling Pengyun created Azure Cloud Spirit Rice, then joined Yan Siyi’s group to hunt Black Armored Turtles and Gray Feathered Eagles, earning demon cores and eggs for the clan.
• Ling Pengyun killed Luo Qiuming in a duel, survived Luo Minghui’s retaliation with Zhang Yan’s intervention, and rescued the badly injured Three-Eyed White Fox.
• Wind Shadow Peng failed to establish a Foundation, Ling Yunhong advanced to the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer, and Ling Pengyun refined a Windbreaker Daoist Robe as Luo Minghui recruited demonic cultivators against the Ling Clan.
• Luo Minghui and Li Xia ambushed Ling Yunhong, Ling Pengyun, and Ling Pengxing, but the Ling cultivators killed the hired Poison Blood Demon Sect cultivators and Li Xia while Luo Minghui escaped.
• Ling Pengyun secured a Formation Breaking Talisman and the Luo Clan’s spirit veins through an agreement with Wu Tian, then joined the Ling and Liu Clans in besieging Falling Dusk Mountain.
• The allied forces broke through the mountain’s defenses and killed Luo Minghui and the remaining Luo Clan cultivators, then seized its holdings and spirit veins.
• Ling Yunhong reforged Ling Pengxing’s Crimson Fire Flying Sword, agreed to share Azure Cloud Spirit Rice profits with Ling Pengyun, secured the Wen Clan’s Sand Soil Mine share, and proposed Wen Nianling’s marriage to Ling Pengliang.