Recaps

After reaching the Golden Core realm, Ling Pengyun strengthened the Ling Clan, forged alliances, and gathered resources while preparing to establish territory in the White Cloud Mountain Range. He left Lingxiao Mountain with family and clan members, entrusting Ling Pengshan with defenses and supplies for those staying behind.

• Ling Pengyun arranged a Golden Core Ceremony, warned the Ling Clan not to attack the Poison Blood Demon Sect yet, and established a thousand-year alliance with the Yang Clan.
• Ling Pengyun held his Golden Core Ceremony, received gifts from the great sects, and gave Ling Pengxing protective artifacts and Longevity Shells before Ling Pengxing left to pursue his sword art.
• Ling Pengyun traveled to the Boundless Sea Region, joined Jia Mu Zhenren in killing a Golden Core Red Armor Crab King, and split the proceeds from auctioning its giant scissor.
• Ling Pengyun bought spiritual resources and Longevity Shells, returned to Lingxiao Mountain, and distributed supplies to Ling Pengshan, Ling Penglin, and Ling Pengqiu.
• Ling Pengyun repaired and strengthened his treasures during a year of seclusion, then decided to travel to the White Cloud Mountain Range rather than risk the clan losing access to its resources.
• Ling Pengyun left with Yan Siyi, his parents, Cheng Xia, Qian Fei, and Ling Xiaoyan, then ordered Ling Penglin, Ling Pengqiu, and the Qi Training Wan Generation clansmen to help establish territory.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Pengshan the Immortal Spirit Crane King, three Black Flame Fire Phoenix Talismans, and an emergency-support token, and ordered the clan to prepare pills, talismans, and formations.

Ling Pengyun helped the Hundred Spirits Sect defeat the demon kings, then established the Ling Clan at Lingxiao Ridge and prepared to seize the Muddy Swamp Territory. The clan expanded its forces and made new discoveries while Ling Yunhong reached Golden Core Realm, and Ling Pengxing helped Bai Xuanhe take the imperial palace.

• Ling Pengyun joined the Hundred Spirits Sect’s campaign, helped kill the Black Wind Wolf Demon, and claimed its Golden Core, spirit-beast souls, and a share of the spoils.
• Hundred Spirits True Person and Ling Pengyun divided demon beast cubs and surveyed the former Cloud Treading Thunder Leopard territory, where Ling Pengyun chose to establish the Ling Clan near the Muddy Swamp.
• Ling Pengyun named the clan’s new home Lingxiao Ridge, arranged its spirit veins and farms, and began preparing a campaign against the Swamp Giant Crocodile Clan.
• Ling Pengyun reforged the Wind Cloud Flying Boat into the Lingxiao Flying Boat, recruited rogue cultivators, made forty more flying boats, and distributed secret Ghost Control Long Banners to clan cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun discovered that the four Little Golden Armor Pythons shared a Twin Spirit Body and helped Ling Pengqiu improve his aptitude while promising to seek him a Golden Core Spirit Object.
• Ling Yunhong condensed a Golden Core beneath the Thunder Spirit Tree, then joined Wang Ying’s sect in reinforcing the Restoration Treasure Mirror against the Saint Demon Sect.
• Ling Chengxin recruited Lin Yuan as a Guest Elder and invited him to join the campaign against the Swamp Giant Crocodile Clan, while Ling Pengshan tested and settled eleven children with Spirit Roots on Lingxiao Mountain.
• Ling Pengxing led Bai Xuanhe’s soldiers into the Hundred Spirits Imperial Palace, captured Bai Yanzhong and his officials, and watched emperor’s aura pass to Bai Xuanhe.

Ling Pengyun led the Ling Clan to defeat the Swamp Crocodile King and claim the Muddy Swamp Territory, then built its settlements, marketplace, and clan institutions. As the clan recruited skilled outsiders and developed its new holdings, Ling Chengxin and Ling Wanxu pursued their crafts and cultivation.

• Ling Pengyun brought the Ling Clan fleet to Yan Sun Mountain, helped drive back the demon beast horde, and later killed the Swamp Crocodile King when it returned with more than 250,000 beasts.
• Ling Pengyun gathered the remaining demon beasts’ spoils, explored the Muddy Swamp, claimed Lingyun Island, and established spirit-vein leases and an arrangement for itinerant cultivators to serve the Ling Clan.
• Ling Pengyun moved clan members, artisans, and mortals into the territory, built six artificial islands, and organized new halls and defenses while Ling Pengshan handled settlement and recruitment.
• Ling Pengyun uncovered a large Yellow Rock Steel mine, and the clan formed its War Hall, established Lingxiao Marketplace, and held an auction that brought in more than 300,000 spirit stones.
• Ling Pengshan recruited Zhang Xun and Zhang Qiuyang as Guest Elders after Zhang Xun demonstrated his brewing talent, and Ling Pengyun supplied the resources that let Zhang Xun reach Foundation Establishment.
• Zhang Xun settled on Lingyun Island and grew close to Ling Chenglan while brewing wine, as Ling Chengxin attempted to refine Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pills and produced two.
• Ling Wanxu operated fifteen Mining Wood Puppets in the Yellow Rock Steel mine while studying the Explosive Tempering God Art, and promised Ling Chenggang he would cultivate properly.

The Ling Clan expanded its territory, discovered and secured new spiritual resources, and brought relatives and recruits into its growing community. As Ling Pengyun continued building the clan, Ling Pengqiu tightened marketplace patrols and arranged new business with Wang Quan.

• Yan Siyi returned to the Muddy Swamp Territory, acquired an injured fire python, and found a Fire Essence Spirit Pool beneath its dwelling.
• Ling Penglin advanced the nearby Fire Spirit Vein, awakening a Flame Sprite and raising the pool to the Second Rank, then explored the Underground River and secured its veins and resources for the Ling Clan.
• Ling Pengyun took charge of the Flame Sprite and joined Yan Siyi and Ling Penglin in claiming the Underground River’s resources, while Ling Penglin delivered beasts and fish to Ye Fan and helped Lin Fan with his damaged token.
• Ling Pengyun and the clan transformed the swamp into Lingxiao Thousand Stars Lake, settled the Wan Generation clansmen on War Spirit Island, and brought Ling Wanchuan and Ling Chengping into the new clan grounds.
• After Saint Demon Old Man withdrew from the secret realm, Ling Yunhong received a Third Rank Low Grade alchemy inheritance and returned home with Azure Water True Person.
• Ling Pengyun gathered spirit-rooted children, arranged Ling Wanliang’s alchemy training with Ling Chengxin, and helped Ling Wanchuan choose Clear Water Spirit Bamboo while Ling Chengping settled her silkworms in the Spirit Plant Garden.
• Ling Pengyun assigned the Black Armored Turtle to guard the underground waterways and continued developing the clan, while Ling Pengqiu killed a robber and confronted the Foundation Establishment cultivators responsible for marketplace patrols.
• Ling Pengcheng arranged for Wang Quan to refine Spirit Talisman Caves, and Ling Pengqiu changed the marketplace profit system to reward cultivators who killed robbers with recorded proof.