Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun returned to Lingxiao Mountain after leaving the Serpent Dragon Lake region and reunited with Ling Rushui, learning that his spirit beasts had prospered in his absence. He inspected the expanded Songhua Spirit Chicken flock and heard Ling Rushui explain its costs, future profits, and the Liu Clan’s growth-accelerating Beast Taming Secret Method.

• Ling Yunhong delivered the clan’s share of Yellow Sprout Grass to Ling Yunfu at the Lingxiao Treasure Pavilion before he and Ling Pengyun flew back to Lingxiao Mountain.
• Ling Pengyun tested his Wind Shadow Peng’s speed and found it could fly more than thirty li in one incense stick’s time.
• Ling Pengyun reunited with Ling Rushui, told him he would remain at the clan because the Centennial Demon Beast Calamity might soon arrive, and reassured him that the clan had four Foundation Establishment combatants.
• Ling Rushui showed Ling Pengyun eighteen Songhua Spirit Chickens, including sixteen hatched from the two chickens Ling Pengyun had entrusted to him.
• Ling Rushui explained that the flock could eventually earn spirit stones through egg sales and said the Liu Clan’s Beast Taming Secret Method could accelerate the chickens’ growth.

Ling Pengyun visited Ling Rushui and inspected the spirit creatures he had entrusted to his care, then returned to the mountaintop to check the earthworms and bee colony. With the Centennial Demon Beast Calamity approaching, he decided to focus on cultivation, sword comprehension, and spell mastery.

• Ling Rushui told Ling Pengyun that two Earth-Turning Spirit Earthworms had reached the Qi Training Second Layer and the third had advanced to the Qi Training Late Stage, and that he had lent it to the clan to improve spirit fields.
• Ling Pengyun entered the mountaintop spirit field area and found that the late-stage Earth-Turning Spirit Earthworm had unusually strong physique and intelligence, leading him to consider preparing Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects for it and the Wind Shadow Peng.
• Ling Pengyun summoned the Fruit Flower Bee King and gathered its colony, finding 1,868 bees, including sixty Qi Training Fruit Flower Worker Bees.
• Ling Pengyun ordered the bee king to reach the Qi Training Late Stage within three years or stop consuming graded Fruit Flower Honey so the sixty worker bees could benefit from it.
• Ling Pengyun returned to his cultivation room and chose to focus on cultivation, comprehending the Azure Sea Sky Sword, and mastering spells ahead of the Centennial Demon Beast Calamity.

Ling Yunhong visited the Yang Clan to deliver its share of Yellow Sprout Grass, withdraw an array, and secure the clan’s protection for Lingyun Mountain during the approaching Demon Beast Uprising. After he left, Yang Siqi successfully broke through to Foundation Establishment, strengthening the Yang Clan as the uprising drew near.

• Ling Yunhong delivered the Yang Clan’s Yellow Sprout Grass and withdrew the Geng Metal Splitting Needle Grand Array from the Rock Scale Snake Den, while leaving its Aura Concealing Array in place.
• Ling Yunhong paid Yang Changxing two thousand spirit stones for the Azure Steel Mother-Child Flying Swords and asked the Yang Clan to protect Lingyun Mountain during the Demon Beast Uprising; Yang Changxing agreed.
• Yang Changxing and Yang Mingquan guarded Yang Siqi while he attempted to break through to Foundation Establishment inside a Cultivation Abode on Level Cloud Mountain.
• After a Qi Infusion phenomenon, Yang Siqi emerged three days later as a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Yang Changxing gave Yang Siqi a Spirit Solidifying Pill, a flying sword, and a defensive shield, and Yang Siqi returned to seclusion to stabilize his cultivation.

After perfecting the Primal Water Technique, Ling Pengyun learned that the Centennial Demon Beast Uprising would reach Serpent Dragon Lake within three months. Ling Yunhong led Ling Pengxing and thirty Ling Clan cultivators to defend West Yang Market Town, leaving Ling Pengyun to guard the clan’s territory.

• Ling Pengyun perfected the Primal Water Technique but remained stuck at the peak of the first Foundation Establishment level.
• Hundred Spirits Sect steward Wen Daoluo told Ling Yunhong that demon beasts were gathering and ordered the Ling Clan to send one Foundation Establishment Cultivator and thirty Qi Training cultivators to West Yang Market Town within two months.
• Ling Yunhong decided to lead the defense with the Immortal Spirit Crane King, and Ling Pengxing volunteered to join him while Ling Pengyun stayed behind to guard the clan.
• Ling Pengliang selected thirty cultivators from the Yun, Xiao, and Peng Generations, and the clan gathered them at Lingxiao Mountain.
• Ling Yunhong, Ling Pengxing, and the thirty cultivators departed for West Yang Market Town, while Ling Pengyun patrolled An Yang County on the Wind Shadow Peng.

Lin Fan reported that White Cloud Mountain Range had sent another force to support Serpent Dragon Lake, prompting Hundred Spirits True Person to reveal his plan to kill Mo Congxin and give Lin Fan the Evergreen Spirit Fruit in nine years. Two months later, the century’s Demon Beast Uprising began as demon beasts poured into human territory.

• Lin Fan spotted a second wave of demon beasts heading from White Cloud Mountain Range to Serpent Dragon Lake and reported it to Hundred Spirits True Person.
• Hundred Spirits True Person told Lin Fan that Mo Congxin planned to leave the sect and establish a clan, and that he intended to kill Mo Congxin when the Evergreen Spirit Fruit ripened in nine years.
• Hundred Spirits True Person promised Lin Fan the fruit to help him break through to the Golden Core Realm and ordered him to keep their plan secret and warn the sect members at West Yang Market Town.
• Hundred Spirits True Person gave Lin Fan advice about the cone-shaped magic tool he had received and sent him away as the Demon Beast Uprising approached.
• Two months later, snowfall marked the start of the century’s Demon Beast Uprising, and demon beasts led by powerful Demon Kings and Demon Emperors invaded human territory.

A horde of nearly three hundred thousand demon beasts attacked West Yang Market Town, where Ling Yunhong and the assembled cultivators joined Hundred Spirits Sect’s defense. The sect’s forces killed the leading Golden Core demon wolf and engaged the other powerful beasts, but tens of thousands of demon beasts bypassed the town and pushed into Hundred Spirits Sect territory.

• Ling Yunhong gathered his thirty-one clansmen and led them to the South City Wall, where they joined the other four great clans of Huai River County.
• Spirit Array True Person Mo Congxin warned the nearly thirty thousand defenders that the demon beasts would soon arrive and urged them to defend the town.
• The demon beast army reached West Yang Market Town, and the water dragon, demon tiger, and demon wolf attacked its protective formation.
• Mo Congxin transformed the formation into nine Blazing Sun Heavenly Swords, which shattered the demon wolf’s Inner Core and killed it.
• Mo Congxin restored the town’s defensive screen and trapped the demon tiger with the Blazing Sun Extinguishing World Array Flags, while Wu Tian and three puppets fought the water dragon.
• The demon beasts split into five waves; four attacked the town’s walls, while the fifth bypassed West Yang Market Town and advanced into Hundred Spirits Sect territory.

Ling Ruda discovered that nearly a thousand demon beasts, including a Foundation Establishment Black-haired Leopard, were approaching An Yang County and abandoned the clan’s exposed spirit sites. He gathered supplies and clan members at Xia Zhi Mountain, where he sent an urgent plea for aid.

• Ling Ruda spotted the demon beast horde approaching Fruit Bee Ridge and decided he could not defend the ridge alone.
• Ling Ruda harvested the immature spirit plants and spirit mandarins, removed the Bewildering Formation flags, and left the Spirit Mandarin Tree behind.
• Ling Ruda collected the Azure Moon Spirit Fish from the pond in the former Profound Water Mineral Vein ruins and harvested the spirit plants at Azure Stone Mountain.
• Ling Ruda warned Ling Pengtao and Ling Pengjing about the invasion and brought them to Xia Zhi Town, where the villagers had already been relocated for protection.
• Ling Ruda reached Xia Zhi Mountain and crushed his Elder Token to request aid from the clan.

Ling Pengyun rushed to Xia Zhi Mountain after the clan’s Supreme Elder Token called for aid and learned that a huge demonic beast horde was approaching. With reinforcements still on the way and more than twenty thousand mortals sheltering on the mountain, he left alone to delay the horde.

• Ling Pengyun followed the flashing Supreme Elder Token to Xia Zhi Mountain and found Ling Ruxian, Ling Ruda, Ling Pengtao, and Ling Pengjing moving Xia Zhi Town’s mortals into the mountain.
• Ling Ruxian explained that nearly a thousand Qi Training Demon Beasts and a Foundation Establishment Black Flame Leopard had entered the clan’s territory and could reach the mountain in less than half an hour.
• Ling Ruxian said Ling Yunxi was bringing reinforcements, but the group feared they could not protect the mortals until help arrived.
• Ling Pengyun proposed leaving the mountain to stall the non-flying demonic beast horde, arguing that Wind Shadow Peng would let him escape if necessary.
• Despite Ling Ruxian and Ling Ruda’s warnings, Ling Pengyun mounted Wind Shadow Peng and flew off to intercept the horde while the others went to bring the remaining mortals up the mountain.

Ling Pengyun encountered a horde of nearly a thousand Qi Training demon beasts led by an Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Black Flame Leopard and fought to hold them back. He used his Thorn Vine to bind hundreds of beasts, leaving them exposed to his counterattack.

• Ling Pengyun spotted the beast horde approaching Xia Zhi Mountain and prepared his artifacts and defenses while riding the Wind Shadow Peng over the forest.
• The Black Flame Leopard launched fireballs, and the demon beasts followed with a massive spell barrage that destroyed Ling Pengyun’s Primal Water screens before his Mixed Rock Shield stopped the weakened attacks.
• Ling Pengyun sent his Azure Steel Mother-Child Flying Swords toward the Black Flame Leopard and had his Thorn Vine create more than five hundred seeds.
• Ling Pengyun scattered the seeds among the Qi Training demon beasts, where they grew into thorn-covered vines that bound more than five hundred beasts.
• About a hundred powerful beasts broke free, but the vines restrained more than four hundred others, leaving them unable to move even though they could still cast spells.

Ling Pengyun used his Thorn Vines, Wind Shadow Peng, and powerful water spells to kill more than four hundred Qi Training demon beasts, then retreated toward Xia Zhi Mountain to conserve his strength. The Black Flame Leopard and the surviving beasts ate the fallen demons and continued toward the mountain.

• Ling Pengyun and Wind Shadow Peng attacked the Thorn Vine-bound beast horde, killing more than two hundred weaker demon beasts with wind blades and water blades.
• Ling Pengyun took a Second Rank Low Grade Qi Recovery Pill, restored his spiritual power, and used the Water Serpent Technique to kill nearly sixty more demon beasts.
• Ling Pengyun and Wind Shadow Peng killed all more than four hundred bound Qi Training demon beasts, leaving Ling Pengyun nearly out of spiritual power.
• Ling Pengyun bound the remaining beasts with Thorn Vines, recalled his flying swords, and ordered Wind Shadow Peng to return to Xia Zhi Mountain.
• The Black Flame Leopard abandoned pursuit and devoured the dead demon beasts with its surviving horde after they broke free of the vines.
• After finishing the corpses, the Black Flame Leopard led the beast horde toward Xia Zhi Mountain.

Ling Pengyun and the Ling clan defenders prepared Xia Zhi Mountain for the beast horde’s second assault, using the mountain’s formation to withstand its spells. As Ling Pengyun fought the Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Black Flame Leopard and the others killed Qi Training Demon Beasts, the defensive light screen began to dim under the bombardment.

• Ling Pengyun returned to Xia Zhi Mountain after killing more than four hundred Qi Training Demon Beasts and rested to recover his spiritual power.
• Ling Ruxian activated the First Rank High Grade Earthen Soil Curtain Formation as the Black Flame Leopard led more than five hundred Qi Training Demon Beasts toward the mountain.
• Ling Pengyun sent his flying swords, Earthly Fiend Sword Formation, and water serpents against the Black Flame Leopard, which countered with black flame attacks and its inner-core light screen.
• Ling Ruxian, Ling Ruda, Ling Pengtao, Ling Pengjing, the Wind Shadow Peng, and the Immortal Spirit Crane attacked the Qi Training Demon Beasts, while mortal Martial Artists fired ballista bolts.
• The formation blocked the horde’s spells while the defenders killed demon beasts, but the light across the Earthen Soil Curtain Formation steadily grew dimmer.

Ling Yunxi arrived with reinforcements and strengthened Xia Zhi Mountain’s formation, allowing the Ling Clan to rout the demon beast horde. Ling Pengyun pursued the fleeing Black Flame Leopard while Ling Ruda followed to protect him, and Ling Ruxian led others after the fleeing Qi Training beasts as Ling Yunxi stayed behind to handle the corpses.

• Ling Yunxi and the reinforcements entered Xia Zhi Mountain, and she took control of the formation plate and greatly strengthened the mountain’s defensive screen.
• With the reinforcements helping kill the demon beasts, the remaining Qi Training beasts fled, and the Black Flame Leopard soon fled as well.
• Ling Pengyun pursued the weakened Black Flame Leopard on his Wind Shadow Peng, and Ling Ruda followed him to assist and keep him safe.
• Ling Ruxian led Ling Clan cultivators on Immortal Spirit Cranes to hunt the fleeing Qi Training demon beasts despite Ling Yunxi warning that the battle could further reduce his cultivation.
• Ling Yunxi led the remaining early-stage cultivators and mortal martial artists out of the mountain to deal with the demon beast corpses.

Ling Pengyun pursued and battled the Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Black Flame Leopard, while Ling Ruda arrived to support him. Their attacks broke through the leopard’s defenses, and Ling Pengyun’s Azure Steel Mother-Child Flying Swords killed it.

• Ling Pengyun chased the Black Flame Leopard on the Wind Shadow Peng until it turned and attacked him with black flames.
• Ling Pengyun defended against the leopard’s fire attacks and fought it with his Azure Steel Mother-Child Flying Swords while wearing down its strength.
• Ling Ruda arrived on an Immortal Spirit Crane and used the Melt Word Swordplay Secret to force the leopard to raise its Protective Yuan Qi.
• Ling Pengyun struck the leopard’s Protective Yuan Qi with the Azure Sea Sky Sword and shattered it.
• The leopard used its inner core to block the Azure Sea Sky Sword, but Ling Pengyun’s Azure Steel Mother-Child Flying Swords severed its head and killed it.

After helping clear escaped demon beasts and settling the spoils from Xia Zhi Mountain’s defense, Ling Pengyun received Wen Ruofei’s request for aid against a demon horde threatening the Cloud Mist Wen Clan. He agreed to help kill its Foundation Establishment demon beast, but limited his commitment to three days and left with Wen Ruofei.

• Ling Pengyun and Ling Ruda helped Ling Ruxian hunt down escaped Qi Training demon beasts, but twenty or thirty remained missing after the search of An Yang County.
• Ling Pengyun reviewed the clan’s battle tallies, arranged a share of the spoils for Ling Yunxi, and bought the members’ demon beast corpses for family Contribution Points.
• Ling Pengyun sent most reinforcements back to their posts while Ling Ruxian remained at Xia Zhi Mountain.
• Wen Ruofei arrived at Lingxiao Mountain and asked Ling Pengyun to help the Cloud Mist Wen Clan fight a horde led by a first-level Foundation Establishment demon beast.
• Ling Pengyun agreed to help for five hundred spirit stones and the demon beast’s corpse, while reserving the right to leave early and setting a three-day limit.
• Ling Pengyun told Ling Pengliang about the request, mounted the Wind Shadow Peng, and followed Wen Ruofei toward the Wen Clan’s territory.

Ling Pengyun helped the Cloud Mist Wen Clan defend Mist Shadow Mountain by slaying a Foundation Establishment Demon Serpent and nearly a hundred Qi Training demonic beasts. After he left with the serpent’s corpse and five hundred spirit stones, Wen Ruofei and Wen Ruofeng feared the Ling Clan’s growing strength and considered a marriage alliance if the Wen Clan could not secure another Foundation Establishment cultivator.

• Ling Pengyun and Wen Ruofei reached Mist Shadow Mountain, where a horde of demonic beasts besieged the mountain’s formation and a Blazing Flame Array trapped a Foundation Establishment Demon Serpent.
• Ling Pengyun entered the mountain, had six Wen Clan cultivators keep the serpent trapped, and used his flying swords and Azure Sea Sky Sword to kill it.
• Ling Pengyun killed nearly a hundred Qi Training demonic beasts, accepted five hundred spirit stones, and asked the Wen Clan to consider refining a Second Rank magic item for him in the future.
• Ling Pengyun rode out through the beast horde, collected the serpent’s corpse, and returned toward his clan.
• Wen Ruofeng and Wen Ruofei discussed Ling Pengyun’s Foundation Establishment and worried that the Ling Clan might eventually threaten the Wen Clan.
• Wen Ruofei said the Wen Clan would need Wen Nianling to reach Foundation Establishment to stand against the Ling Clan; otherwise, a marriage alliance might be their only way to preserve the clan.

Ling Pengyun tended the Spirit Mandarin sapling and the Azure Moon Spirit Fish pond after supporting the Cloud Mist Wen Clan, then used his reward to help Ling Yunxi raise the pond’s spirit eye into a First Rank Low Grade Spirit Vein. He left with only thirty-three of his five hundred spirit stones remaining, while the fish school fell into a spiritual-energy-induced slumber.

• Ling Pengyun visited Fruit Bee Ridge, used the Cloud Rain Technique on the reborn Spirit Mandarin sapling, and then went to the underground pond beneath Azure Stone Lake.
• Ling Pengyun told Ling Ruda that he had supported the Cloud Mist Wen Clan, then watered the Lotus Cloud Water Grass and observed five ordinary fish reach Innate Perfection.
• Ling Ruda asked Ling Pengyun to urge Ling Peng Liang to fund a Spirit Raising Array, and Ling Pengyun offered the five hundred spirit stones he had earned from the Wen Clan.
• After finishing his patrol, Ling Pengyun returned to Lingxiao Mountain and waited until morning to seek out Ling Yunxi.
• Ling Pengyun escorted Ling Yunxi to the underground cave, where she used the five hundred spirit stones to raise the spirit eye into a First Rank Low Grade Spirit Vein.
• The Azure Moon Spirit Fish fell asleep amid the outpouring of spiritual energy, and Ling Pengyun was left with thirty-three spirit stones.

Ling Pengliang arranged for Zhu Wen to craft spirit talismans for the Ling Clan, proposing safeguards and rewards that tempted the captive talisman crafter. Zhu Wen had not yet accepted the commission when the chapter ended.

• Zhu Wen delivered a batch of blank talisman paper to Ling Pengliang and received more demon beast hides to process.
• Ling Pengliang summoned Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunxi and proposed having Zhu Wen craft low-grade spirit talismans while the clan monitored him with formations.
• Ling Pengyun approved the plan, and Ling Yunxi agreed to craft an Image Recording Formation within three days.
• Ling Pengliang offered Zhu Wen improved wages, talisman and cultivation inheritances, and a Miasma Breaking Pill in exchange for crafting Fireball Talismans at a required success rate.
• Zhu Wen was deeply tempted by the rewards but had not yet answered Ling Pengliang's offer.

Ling Pengyun helped defend Rice Fragrance Valley from a demon beast attack and captured five White Cedar Sheep for the Ling Clan to raise. The clan agreed to keep the sheep, leaving Ling Pengyun responsible for expanding their pasture and growing enough spiritual-energy-containing grass to feed them and the Mountain-Opening Oxen.

• Ling Pengliang gave Zhu Wen talisman-making materials and the promised inheritance, while secretly monitoring his work and planning to keep him from escaping.
• More than three hundred demon beasts besieged Rice Fragrance Valley, and Ling Pengyun arrived with the Wind Shadow Peng to reinforce the three Ling Clan cultivators defending it.
• Ling Pengyun and the defenders killed nearly all the demon beasts, and Ling Pengyun captured the five surviving White Cedar Sheep alive.
• Ling Pengyun collected useful materials and flesh from the demon beast corpses, then reported the battle and his plan to raise the sheep to Ling Pengliang.
• Ling Pengliang approved raising the sheep but told Ling Pengyun to expand the Back Mountain Pasture and accelerate the growth of its tender grass; Ling Pengyun accepted and headed there.

Ling Pengyun visited the back mountain pasture to deliver five captured White Cedar Sheep and improve the fodder for the clan’s spirit beasts. After Ling Yunhan proposed capturing more demon beasts for breeding, Ling Pengyun planted additional Tender Sprout Grass and left her taming the sheep.

• Ling Pengyun visited Ling Yunhan at the pasture and explained that he had brought five White Cedar Sheep, planned to enhance the fodder, and wanted to expand the pasture.
• Ling Yunhan proposed that Ling Pengyun capture strong demon beasts for the clan to breed, and he agreed to look for opportunities during future encounters.
• Ling Yunhan inspected the five sheep and found that two were ewes, giving the clan a chance to establish a flock.
• Ling Yunhan began placing ownership restrictions on the sheep and taming them while Ling Pengyun used spirit techniques to grow the pasture’s Tender Sprout Grass.
• Ling Pengyun planted more Tender Sprout Grass beyond the pasture, then returned to his meditation room while Ling Yunhan continued taming the sheep.

Ling Pengyun refined a Golden Scale Inner Armor and continued trying to develop a new spirit rice from improved seeds, but the Yellow Jade Spirit Rice seed was destroyed. During his patrol, he tended the family’s spirit resources and observed the growth of its fish school.

• Ling Pengyun used the Gather Fire Array to refine five batches of Golden Scale Inner Armor, succeeding once and earning the prospect of selling it to the family for 180 spirit stones.
• Ling Pengyun tried to combine the Yi Wood Essence of Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice with Yellow Jade Spirit Rice, but their conflicting essence caused the seed to explode.
• Ling Pengyun left Lingxiao Mountain on the Wind Shadow Peng to patrol the family’s territory.
• Ling Pengyun tended the replanted Spirit Mandarin Tree at Fruit Bee Ridge and noted that Azure Stone Lake’s spiritual spring had become a First Rank Low Grade Spirit Vein.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Ruda decided to stop eating the Azure Moon Spirit Fish for several years and let the school breed, after five ordinary fish reached the Qi Training realm.