Recaps

Ling Pengyun strengthened the Ling Clan, forged new alliances, and led it into a war that destroyed the Profound Yang Sect and Blood Fiend Sect. The Ling Clan left with spoils and rescued prisoners as rival forces converged on Bloodfiend Valley’s spirit vein.

• Ling Pengqiu reached the Golden Core Realm, joined the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect as a Guest Elder, and secured a Third Rank Spirit Plant Inheritance for Ling Pengyun in exchange for the Ling Clan’s future service.
• Ling Pengyun declined Azure Water True Person’s offer to become a core disciple, accepted treasures and a warning about the Saint Demon Sect, then arranged a Han Clan–Qiu Family marriage alliance through Han Feng.
• Ling Pengqiu secretly joined the Azure Water Sect’s war against the Mystic Nether Sect, while Ling Pengyun fought the Mystic Ice Giant Whale Race and returned with battle spoils.
• Ling Chengping and Lin Fan helped transform the Earth-Turning Earthworm with Golden Flood Dragon essence blood, then agreed to travel together in search of rare spirit beasts.
• Ling Pengyun and the Hundred Spirits Sect trapped Xuanyang Old Daoist, but the Blood Fiend Sect intervened and turned the battle into a struggle against five demonic Golden Core cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun revealed his Golden Core demon corpses and joined his allies in killing Bloodfiend True Person and Xuanyang Old Daoist, then led them east to raid the Blood Fiend Sect.
• Ling Pengyun and the other Golden Core cultivators destroyed the Blood Fiend Sect’s Blood Ghost, forced Hundred Spirits True Person to agree to a Soul Contract, and killed Blood Abyss Old Daoist after breaking the sect’s formation.
• Ling Pengyun, Ling Yunhong, and Yan Siyi rescued thousands of imprisoned mortals and took the Blood Fiend Sect’s treasures before Flame Demon Old Daoist and Mystic Nether Sect cultivators arrived to fight over the valley’s spirit vein.

Ling Pengyun strengthened the Ling Clan, secured alliances, and prepared for the coming Demon Beast Uprising while advancing his own cultivation. At the Heavenly Star Trade Fair, the rise of the Yin Poison Sect drew him and other Golden Core cultivators into a campaign in Yuan Kingdom.

• Ling Pengyun defeated the Thunder Essence Great Peng King with allied Golden Core cultivators, claimed his share of the spoils, and entrusted Cloud Stepping Ridge to Ling Wanchuan.
• Pure Heart True Person helped Bai Qianshi form a Golden Core, and Pure Heart Old Daoist strengthened ties with the Ling Clan by offering training and the Pure Heart Spirit Talisman method.
• At the Clan Meeting, Ling Pengyun rewarded the clansmen, reviewed the clan’s growth, and agreed to help the Peace Cloud Yang Clan obtain Golden Core Spirit Objects for Yang Siqi.
• Ling Yunhong departed to deliver Core Formation Fluid materials to Senior Fire Yang, while Ling Pengyun increased the Shadow Hall’s resources and warned Ling Chengyuan that the clan faced poor odds in the coming uprising.
• Ling Wanduo and his companions hunted Yellow Scale Snakes in Maple Leaf Forest, and Ling Chengxin focused on refining Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects for the clan.
• Ling Pengyun and his allies fled an attack by five Golden Core Ice Snow Lions, while Yang Siling completed her tribulation and entered the Golden Core Realm.
• After advancing to Golden Core Fifth Layer and strengthening his treasure pearl, Ling Pengyun traveled to the Heavenly Star Sect’s Golden Core Ceremony and Trade Fair.
• Heavenly Star True Lord announced that the Yin Poison Sect had gained a Nascent Soul cultivator and invaded Wu Country, then led Ling Pengyun and other Golden Core cultivators into Yuan Kingdom to aid the Li Clan.

Ling Pengyun joined the war against the Yin Poison Sect, then led the Ling Clan through costly missions, defeated Liang Hanqian’s ambush, and brought the Liang and Qiu families under Ling Clan control. He later traveled with Ling Penglin and Wang Ying to seek Golden Core resources, ending at Misty Water Marketplace with plans to attend another auction.

• Liu Haochan seized the Star Crystal Spirit Iron Vein while Ling Pengyun and the alliance attacked the Yin Poison Sect, forcing Yin Poison True Lord to sacrifice demonic cultivators to empower his sword and prolong the war.
• Ling Pengyun fought beside the Li Clan and Heavenly Star Sect, then joined the prolonged conflict as demonic reinforcements arrived and both sides settled into recurring attacks.
• Ling Pengyun led the Ling Clan against Poison Flame Gate and the Sand Demon Sect, suffered casualties and damage to the Lingxiao Flying Boat, and challenged the Li Clan over its faulty mission intelligence.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong killed Qiu Yueyou and Liang Hanqian after the pair ambushed them, then secured compensation from Li Congtong and took the Liang Family’s wealth and holdings.
• Ling Pengyun forced the Liang and Qiu families to submit as Ling Clan vassals, arranged to relocate their cultivators and millions of mortals, and returned to the Ling Clan with their resources and inheritances.
• Ling Pengyun took Ling Penglin to the Azure Sea Secret Realm and traveled with Wang Ying to Mountain Marketplace to seek Golden Core Spirit Objects.
• Ling Pengyun bought Earth Soul Soil and won Earth Essence Spirit Fluid and a Pseudo Core Forming Pill at auction, then left with Wang Ying for Misty Water Marketplace to await another auction.

Ling Pengyun strengthened the Ling Clan and its allies while the demon beast invasion struck their territory. The defenders defeated major hordes at White Cloud and White Ape Market Town, while Li Xuanyuan secretly prepared the Crimson Spirit Phoenix for a possible breakthrough.

• Ling Pengyun returned from the Misty Water Auction, helped Ling Penglin form an inferior Golden Core, and secured the Lightning Destruction Grand Array method from Thundercloud True Person in exchange for clan support and corpse-refining methods.
• Ling Pengyun strengthened the clan’s outposts, helped Ling Pengqiu establish Fire Serpent Island, and cleared its nearby demon beasts before Ling Pengqiu renamed his organization the Fire Serpent Sect.
• The Crimson Gold Bear Emperor’s forces ordered an attack on the Ling Clan, and demon beast hordes advanced on White Cloud and White Ape Market Town while Ling Yunhong was away.
• Ling Pengcheng and the Steel Netherflame Corpse defended White Cloud Market Town against three Golden Core Winged Shadow Tigers until Ling Chengping and Lin Fan arrived with reinforcements.
• Ling Pengcheng and Ling Chengping lured the Winged Shadow Tiger horde into the White Pine Mountain formation, where their forces killed the three demon kings and more than two hundred thousand beasts.
• Yan Siyi, Yang Siling, and their Demon Corpses defended White Ape Market Town, killed two Ice Snow White Lions, and joined Zhao Yuanqian in defeating Bing Kuang Old Demon and the remaining lions.
• The Ling Clan trapped and slaughtered nearly three hundred thousand demon beasts, while Zhao Yuanqian’s group stayed to guard White Ape Market Town against retaliation.
• Li Xuanyuan secretly gathered demonic cultivator corpses for the Crimson Spirit Phoenix, which devoured them beneath Maple Leaf Valley as it built its pure yang qi.