Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun, Luo Qiuming, and Liu Daozhong searched Shen Family Clan Mountain after its destruction, taking copies of the Shen Clan’s scriptures and a share of its spiritual items while compensating the clan with demon beast spoils and formation repairs. Back at Lingxiao Mountain, Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengliang sorted the books, discovering that the Earth Armor Art completed the Ling Clan’s collection of Five Elements Foundation Establishment techniques.

• Luo Qiuming proposed that the three parties copy the scriptures and take only thirty percent of the First Rank spiritual items from Shen Family Clan Mountain, and Ling Pengyun and Liu Daozhong agreed.
• The three copied scriptures from the ruins and the Technique Pavilion, divided the spiritual items, and offered the Shen Clan demon beast flesh and blood in exchange for help harvesting materials and repairing its defensive formation.
• Ling Pengyun returned to Lingxiao Mountain with copied books and spiritual items, gave the items to the clan for Contribution Points, and asked Ling Pengliang to help sort the scriptures.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengliang found valuable inheritances among the books, including the Earth Armor Art, which gave the Ling Clan Foundation Establishment techniques for all five elements.
• Ling Pengyun placed the most valuable scriptures in the mountaintop study and had Ling Pengliang record the books’ purchase on his Contribution Point account.

After the Demon Beast Uprising ended, Ling Yunhong convened the clan leaders to plan for the Ling Clan’s future and settle how to manage the Dark Ice Spirit Pool Ling Pengyun had discovered. The chapter left the clan preparing to strengthen its younger cultivators and mortal population while keeping the spirit pool secret from the powerful Tiger's Roar Liu Clan.

• Ling Yunhong and the other Ling Clan cultivators returned from West Yang Market Town, bringing news that the Demon Beast Uprising in the Yan Kingdom had ended after the White Cloud Mountain Range withdrew its forces.
• Ling Yunhong told Ling Pengliang and Ling Yunqian that the clan would eventually fulfill Thirteenth Uncle’s final wish by killing the Bai Family Head, and he ordered the clan to nurture younger cultivators to address a coming shortage of Qi Training experts.
• Ling Yunhong assigned Ling Yunqian to train Peng Qiu and Peng Shan, directed Ling Pengliang to encourage mortal families to have more children, and asked Ling Pengyun to develop higher-yield mortal rice.
• Ling Pengliang explained that Dark Ice Spirit Water from a spirit pool discovered by Ling Yunxi had advanced his cultivation, and said Ling Yunxi was guarding the pool with the clan’s original protection array.
• Ling Yunhong gave Ling Pengyun two portions of hundred-year Evergreen Spirit Water, promised to seek materials for his Lifebound Magic Item, and agreed that Ling Pengyun would receive thirty percent of the spirit pool’s future output.
• Ling Yunhong warned that the Tiger's Roar Liu Clan might soon gain two Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment battle strengths and urged the clan to avoid drawing its attention to the spirit pool.

Ling Yunhong established new rules for clan members seeking Foundation Establishment resources, then arranged to buy Ling Pengyun’s Crimson Fire Iron Ore and commission Spirit Gathering Pills from demon beast cores. Ling Pengyun agreed to join Ling Yunhong at the West Yang Auction in three months, where the clan would sell pills and he could sell demon beast materials.

• Ling Yunhong proposed contribution-point prices and credit terms for Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects, and Ling Pengyun and the others agreed.
• Ling Pengliang and Ling Pengyun recounted events from the Demon Beast Uprising, and Ling Yunhong praised Ling Pengyun’s handling of them.
• Ling Yunhong asked to buy Ling Pengyun’s Crimson Fire Iron Ore for the clan to refine and sell; Ling Pengyun agreed, subject to Azure Bamboo Wang Clan’s restriction on where the resulting magic items could be sold.
• Ling Pengyun commissioned Ling Yunhong to refine six Foundation Establishment demon beast inner cores into Spirit Gathering Pills, with the clan providing supplementary herbs.
• Ling Yunhong selected a demon serpent’s spinal bone and fangs from Ling Pengyun’s demon beast materials to attempt a second-tier magic item for Ling Pengliang.
• Ling Pengyun agreed to accompany Ling Yunhong to the West Yang Auction in three months.

Ling Yunhan helped a pregnant Gale Wolf give birth to a male pup in the Spirit Beast Garden and arranged for the clan to find someone to tame it. She warned Ling Pengliang that the clan needed to find her a Beast Taming successor before her remaining lifespan ran out.

• The wolf king summoned Ling Yunhan when a pregnant Gale Wolf struggled to give birth.
• Ling Yunhan used the Fetus-Protecting Technique and Spirit Transfer Technique to help the female wolf deliver a healthy pup.
• Ling Yunhan discovered that the newborn pup was male and had reached the Innate First Layer, then decided to ask the clan whether anyone wanted to tame it.
• Ling Yunhan told Ling Pengliang to notify interested clan members quickly, and he recorded fifty Contribution Points as her reward for raising the pup.
• Ling Yunhan collected the monthly demon beast meat and urged Ling Pengliang to find her a successor, but he said the clan had no suitable Beast Tamer.

Ling Pengyun successfully improved mortal rice into Azure Autumn Mortal Rice and planted a mu of it, while Ling Pengxing set out to hunt Foundation Establishment demon beasts for spirit stones to buy cultivation resources at the West Yang Grand Auction. The chapter leaves Ling Pengxing observing a spirit mountain deep in Serpent Dragon Lake and spotting the demon beasts inhabiting it.

• Ling Pengyun tempered a mortal rice seed with Autumn Cloud Spirit Rice’s Yi Wood Essence, using his Thorn Vine to stabilize it, and named the improved seed Azure Autumn Mortal Rice.
• Ling Pengyun devised a reliable method to improve the rice, planted one mu in his courtyard, and returned to cultivating with Spirit Gathering Pills.
• Ling Pengxing realized he needed more century-old Evergreen Spirit Water to advance and decided to earn spirit stones by hunting Foundation Establishment demon beasts before the West Yang Grand Auction.
• Ling Yunfu warned Ling Pengxing that Serpent Dragon Lake remained dangerous after the Demon Beast Uprising, but Ling Pengxing insisted on going and left West Yang Market Town.
• Ling Pengxing crossed into Serpent Dragon Lake, avoided groups of Qi Training demon beasts, and traveled nearly a thousand li into the region.
• Ling Pengxing spotted a spirit-rich mountain and used Aura Observation to detect the demon beasts hidden there.

Ling Pengxing hunted demon beasts in Serpent Dragon Lake to earn spirit stones, killing a serpent pack before fleeing from a wolf pack and a Golden Feather Great Peng. After escaping the lake region, he abandoned further hunts and returned to the Ling Clan Alchemy Hall ahead of the West Yang Market Town auction.

• Ling Pengxing searched around a mountain, then attacked its nearly hundred blue-scaled demon serpents and used his sword formation to kill the Qi Training serpents and the Foundation Establishment Demon Python King.
• Ling Pengxing harvested materials from some serpent corpses, but fled when two Foundation Establishment wolf demons and hundreds of Qi Training wolves arrived.
• Ling Pengxing restored his spiritual power and continued hunting in Serpent Dragon Lake, but passed up several packs whose Foundation Establishment beasts were too strong.
• Ling Pengxing attacked a wolf pack in a spirit valley, then fled when a Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment Golden Feather Great Peng arrived and pursued him for nearly a thousand miles.
• Ling Pengxing escaped the Serpent Dragon Lake region and returned to the Ling Clan Alchemy Hall in West Yang Market Town before the grand auction.

Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengyun visited the Sun Clan to collect a silkworm-silk order before traveling to West Yang Market Town for its grand auction. They arrived a day before the auction began and found the venue already crowded.

• Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengyun flew to the Sun Clan, where Sun Mingle greeted them and explained why he would not attend the auction.
• Ling Yunhong paid Sun Mingle 150 spirit stones for ten jin of Earth Silk Worm Silk.
• After the Ling cultivators departed, Sun Mingle considered the Ling Clan’s growing strength and resolved to build closer ties with them.
• Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengyun reached West Yang Market Town, registered at the city wall, and went to the auction venue, where cultivators had already gathered.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong consigned magic tools and pills to the Hundred Spirits Sect’s once-in-a-century West Yang Auction, then joined Ling Pengxing to attend. The first day’s auction began in a packed venue and ended after every item offered had sold.

• Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong consigned their qualifying magic tools and pills, agreeing to the auction house’s ten-percent fee.
• At the Lingxiao Alchemy Hall, Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong learned Ling Pengxing had risked entering Serpent Dragon Lake to hunt Foundation Establishment demon beasts, and Ling Yunhong later urged him not to act rashly while promising family support.
• The next day, Ling Yunhong, Ling Pengxing, and Ling Pengyun received a private room at the crowded West Yang Auction House.
• Chen Yue opened the seven-day auction, and a bidder bought Ling Pengyun’s Flowing Wind Sword for 120 spirit stones.
• The auction continued through the day as cultivators bought every item offered, then paused until the following day.

At the auction’s climax, Ling Pengxing and Ling Pengyun bought hundred-year Evergreen Spirit Water, while Ling Yunhong secured two Second Rank Low Grade Spirit Gathering Arrays. The chapter leaves the third array still to be auctioned.

• Chen Yue began the finale auction by selling Spirit Gathering Pills and other valuable Second Rank items to Foundation Establishment bidders.
• Ling Pengxing won three bottles of hundred-year Evergreen Spirit Water, spending all his available spirit stones, and Ling Pengyun won one bottle.
• Ling Yunhong bid three thousand two hundred spirit stones for the first Second Rank Low Grade Spirit Gathering Array and won it.
• Ling Yunhong bid the same amount for the second array and won it, fulfilling his promise to buy arrays for Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengxing.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengxing received Spirit Gathering Arrays from Ling Yunhong at the auction, while Ling Pengyun bought Hundred Spirits Water to help his Thorn Vine become a Second Rank Spirit Plant. The auction ended after a fire-element cultivation technique sold for thirty-five thousand spirit stones, and the Ling family prepared to leave.

• Ling Yunhong paid for two Spirit Gathering Arrays and gave them to Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengxing, promising to build each of them a Cultivation Abode after they returned to the clan.
• Ling Yunhong recognized Zhang Yan as a newly advanced Foundation Establishment Completion cultivator and explained his ties to the Hundred Spirits Sect’s Hall of Affairs.
• Ling Pengyun won the first bottle of Hundred Spirits Water for nine thousand five hundred spirit stones and told Ling Pengxing he needed it for his Thorn Vine.
• Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengyun reassured Ling Pengxing that his sword-cultivator path suited him, easing his envy of Ling Pengyun’s artifact-refinement skills.
• The auction sold the remaining Hundred Spirits Water, five Foundation Establishment Pills, and a fire-element cultivation technique, which an old-established Foundation Establishment Family bought for thirty-five thousand spirit stones.

After the auction, Ling Yunhong negotiated with Yang Changxing over the Ling Clan’s share of the Rock Scale Snake Den’s Second Rank spirit vein, which the Hundred Spirits Sect planned to bring within its new territory. The clans agreed to contribute resources and split the spirit plants equally, and Ling Yunhong asked about the den’s current condition.

• Yang Changxing invited Ling Yunhong, Ling Pengyun, and Ling Pengxing to his private room to discuss the Rock Scale Snake Den.
• Yang Changxing explained that the Hundred Spirits Sect planned to expand into the Serpent Dragon Lake region and demanded that the Ling Clan contribute three thousand spirit stones toward bribes.
• Yang Changxing proposed that the Yang Clan receive sixty percent of the spirit plants while the Ling Clan continued to send a Foundation Establishment Cultivator to guard the den.
• Ling Yunhong learned that the Yang Clan had gained another Foundation Establishment Cultivator and insisted on keeping the Ling Clan’s share at fifty percent.
• Yang Changxing accepted the equal split, and Ling Yunhong asked about the Rock Scale Snake Den’s current condition.

Yang Changxing enlisted Ling Yunhong, Ling Pengyun, and Ling Peng Xing to reclaim the Rock Scale Snake Den, then told them that Ling Pengyun’s newborn nephew Wu Hong had a Wind Attribute Variant Spirit Root. After the group defeated the wolf demons and restored the den’s formations and spirit fields, Ling Peng Xing stayed behind to guard them while the others left for Wu Hong’s Hundred Days Banquet.

• Yang Changxing explained that four Foundation Establishment wolf demons and more than a thousand Qi Training wolf demons occupied the Rock Scale Snake Den, and Ling Yunhong agreed to help clear them out.
• Yang Changxing revealed that Wu Hong had a Wind Attribute Variant Spirit Root and asked Ling Yunhong to keep the news secret; Ling Pengyun welcomed the news and learned his family would attend the Hundred Days Banquet.
• Yang Changxing, Ling Yunhong, Ling Pengyun, and Ling Peng Xing traveled to the Rock Scale Snake Den, cleared the nearby demon beasts, and attacked the wolf pack.
• Yang Changxing and Ling Yunhong held off the four Foundation Establishment wolf demons while Ling Pengyun, Ling Peng Xing, and the Immortal Spirit Crane King slaughtered the Qi Training wolf demons; together, they then killed the remaining Foundation Establishment wolves.
• The group recovered the buried Aura Concealment Array, reset it and the Geng Metal Needle Splitting Array, and replanted the den’s thirty-five mu of Spirit Fields.
• Ling Peng Xing and the Immortal Spirit Crane King remained to protect the spirit plants while Ling Pengyun, Ling Yunhong, and Yang Changxing departed for the Hundred Spirits Sect.

Ling Pengyun and Yang Changxing arrived at the Hundred Spirits Sect for Wu Hong’s Hundred Days Banquet and learned why Yang Siling was absent. The family gathered to welcome them, and Wu Yan served rare spiritual tea while Siling remained in seclusion recovering from childbirth.

• Ling Pengyun and Yang Changxing reached the Hundred Spirits Sect and were escorted to Wu Yan and Yang Siling’s residence.
• Wu Yan and the relatives welcomed the visitors, and Yang Changxing and Ling Pengyun gave gifts to the infant Wu Hong.
• Wu Yan revealed that Yang Siling had carried Wu Hong for nine years using a secret technique, which left her vitality depleted and her cultivation reduced to the Qi Refinement Realm.
• Wu Yan said his father had given Yang Siling spiritual medicines and a Longevity Pill, and that she was refining them in seclusion.
• Wu Yan vowed he would never abandon Yang Siling or marry again, then invited everyone into the hall.
• Wu Yan served Second Rank High Grade Cloud Mist tea, and Ling Pengyun discovered that a sip noticeably advanced his cultivation.

Ling Pengyun attended a gathering hosted by Wu Yan, where Cloud Mist Spirit Tea helped several relatives reach cultivation breakthroughs. Wu Yan offered to find Ling Pengyun a Foundation Establishment gift, and they agreed he would reserve Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron for Ling Pengyun’s Lifebound Magic Item.

• Ling Pengyun learned that Yang Siqi was the Yang Clan’s newly advanced Foundation Establishment cultivator and foremost genius of the Si generation.
• Ling Pengyun’s parents, Yang Sitong, Yang Qiujiang, and Zhao Hong'e entered seclusion after the Cloud Mist Spirit Tea helped them reach cultivation bottlenecks, while Yang Minghua left to benefit from its vitality.
• Wu Yan apologized for not preparing a Foundation Establishment gift for Ling Pengyun and insisted on repaying him for the Black Wind Wolf cub he had given Wu Hong.
• Ling Pengyun asked Wu Yan to find Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron for a Lifebound Magic Item and offered to pay for it.
• Wu Yan agreed to reserve several dozen catties of Second Rank High Grade Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron until Ling Pengyun could gather enough spirit stones.
• Ling Pengyun, Wu Yan, and Yang Changxing discussed the Dao until night, and Ling Pengyun gained insights from their cultivation experience.

After Ling Pengyun reunited with his parents, Ling Xiaoshun and Yang Qiuyun urged him to find a Dao Companion and give them a grandchild. He agreed to seek a suitable partner but rejected the idea of rushing into marriage, leaving his parents planning to ask Si Ling about Foundation Establishment women in the Hundred Spirits Sect.

• Ling Pengyun visited Ling Xiaoshun and Yang Qiuyun after refining Cloud Mist Tea, and they asked about his experiences and safety during the Demon Beast Uprising.
• Yang Qiuyun told Ling Pengyun that she and Ling Xiaoshun hoped he would take a wife and give them a grandson, and he promised to look for a Dao Companion without rushing.
• Yang Qiuyun showed Ling Pengyun portraits of several female cultivators from nearby families, but he felt little interest in them because he had not met them and they were still at Qi Training.
• After Ling Pengyun left, Ling Xiaoshun and Yang Qiuyun agreed that he needed a Foundation Establishment Dao Companion, and Yang Qiuyun planned to ask Si Ling about suitable women in the Hundred Spirits Sect.

At Wu Hong’s Hundred Days Banquet, Ling Pengyun declined Wu Tian’s invitation to join the Hundred Spirits Sect and met Yan Cang, the Spirit Plant Hall Master, for several days of discussion about improving spirit rice. After Yan Cang ended their talks to return to his duties, Ling Pengyun left the sect with Yang Changxing to return to his clan.

• Wu Tian hosted Wu Hong’s Hundred Days Banquet, praised Ling Pengyun’s spirit-rice work, and invited him to join the Hundred Spirits Sect, but Ling Pengyun politely declined.
• Yan Cang approached Ling Pengyun and invited him to discuss spirit-rice improvement, and Ling Pengyun accepted.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Cang exchanged ideas about improving spirit rice for several days, benefiting both cultivators.
• A message from the Spirit Plant Hall prompted Yan Cang to end their discussion, and Ling Pengyun said he would leave the Hundred Spirits Sect for his clan.
• Ling Pengyun bid farewell to Wu Yan and his family, then departed with Yang Changxing aboard a flying boat.

Ling Pengyun returned to Lingxiao Mountain, discussed Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron and marriage with Ling Yunhong, and prepared to replace Ling Pengxing at the Rock Scale Snake Den. The two set out for Serpent Dragon Lake and entered the region stealthily, leaving the Wind Shadow Peng to scout ahead.

• Ling Pengyun arrived at Lingxiao Mountain and learned that the clan had built Soaring Cloud Cave Residence for him and Starry Sky Cave Residence for Ling Pengxing.
• Ling Pengyun told Ling Yunhong that Wu Yan had found eighty jin of Second Rank High Grade Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron, and Ling Yunhong arranged for the clan to fund half its cost as a Lifebound Magic Item material.
• Ling Pengyun asked Ling Yunhong for advice about taking a wife, and Ling Yunhong advised him to seek a female rogue cultivator or a woman connected to the Hundred Spirits Sect.
• Ling Yunhong agreed to accompany Ling Pengyun to the Rock Scale Snake Den, and Ling Pengyun rested in Soaring Cloud Cave Residence before their departure.
• Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengyun rode the Wind Shadow Peng toward Serpent Dragon Lake, then dismounted and entered the region stealthily while the Wind Shadow Peng scouted their route.

Ling Pengyun took over the Rock Scale Snake Den, cultivated there, and learned that the Hundred Spirits Sect had occupied the surrounding territory. Zhang Yan warned him to keep the den hidden and gave him a token to summon help, leaving Ling Pengyun to continue cultivating under the protection of his family connections.

• Ling Yunhong left Ling Pengyun and the Immortal Spirit Crane King in charge of the Rock Scale Snake Den and departed with Ling Pengxing.
• Ling Pengyun watered and accelerated the growth of the den’s spirit plants, set up a Spirit Gathering Array, and cultivated alongside the Immortal Spirit Crane King and Wind Shadow Peng.
• Ling Pengyun discovered Hundred Spirits Sect cultivators fighting Snake Demons nearby and returned to the den after recalling Yang Changxing’s warning about the sect’s invasion.
• Zhang Yan arrived at the den on Wu Yan’s orders, told Ling Pengyun that the surrounding territory had become Yuan Province, and urged him to keep the Snake Den Spirit Vein hidden.
• Zhang Yan gave Ling Pengyun a Mother-Child Token so he could summon help, then left for his duties, and Ling Pengyun returned to secluded cultivation.

Wen Nianling failed to reach Foundation Establishment, leaving the indebted Wen Clan without a second Foundation Establishment cultivator to deter the Ling Clan. Wen Xianyun sought a marriage alliance with Ling Yunhong, who demanded control of five Wen Clan spirit veins and threatened the clan with the fate of the Ye Family.

• Wen Nianling emerged from seclusion after her Foundation Establishment attempt failed, and Wen Xianyun urged her to recover and try again later.
• Wen Xianyun told Wen Ruofei that the Wen Clan had to pursue marriage alliances and set out to meet Ling Yunhong.
• Wen Xianyun offered Ling Yunhong a stalk of Spirit Gathering Grass and proposed marrying five Wen Clan women into the Ling Clan.
• Ling Yunhong accepted the gift but demanded that Ling Clan members oversee five First Rank Spirit Veins in Mist Shadow Town as the price of peace.
• Wen Xianyun objected, and Ling Yunhong threatened him by invoking the destruction of the Red Leaf Ridge Ye Family.

Ling Yunhong secured a marriage alliance with the Cloud Mist Wen Clan, along with a cheap lease on its five spirit veins and Wen Xianyun’s weapon-refining insights. After arranging a matchmaking meeting, he left five Ling Clan men stationed at the leased veins and urged them to pursue the Wen Clan women they had met.

• Wen Xianyun agreed to the alliance, a hundred-year Heavenly Dao Oath, and rent of two hundred spirit stones a year for the five spirit veins.
• Wen Xianyun wrote down roughly seventy percent of his weapon-refining insights for Ling Yunhong, who set the matchmaking meeting for the fifteenth.
• Ling Yunhong asked Ling Pengliang to select five unmarried Peng Generation men, while Ling Pengliang declined to attend so he could focus on cultivation.
• Ling Yunhong and the five men traveled to Cloud Mist Market, where they met five Wen Clan female cultivators and began courting them.
• After the meeting was extended by three days, Ling Yunhong assigned each Ling Clan man to guard one leased spirit vein and encouraged him to visit and win over his match.