Chapter Summaries

After returning to Lingxiao Mountain, Ling Pengyun visited the clan’s spirit fields and Spirit Beast Garden, where he learned how its beasts had multiplied and how a young clan member showed promise in beast taming. He left the garden’s future in Ling Yunhan’s hands, with Cheng Yue beginning to learn the craft as her potential successor.

• Ling Yunhong arranged a marriage between Ling Pengliang and Wen Nianling, and Ling Pengliang agreed for the clan’s benefit.
• Ling Yunhong invited Ling Pengyun to stay at the clan for a day, and they discussed the Dao in the Great Fortune Cave Residence.
• Ling Pengyun visited the Stone Spirit Walnut Tree and found that his Fruit Flower Bee queen had advanced to the Qi Training Ninth Layer.
• Ling Yunhan reported that the Spirit Beast Garden’s herds had grown, its beasts were being put to use, and Ground Drilling Rats had helped the clan discover two micro spirit veins.
• Ling Yunhan told Ling Pengyun that Cheng Yue had strong beast-taming talent and was learning the path at the Clan School.

Ling Pengyun visited his pregnant aunt Ling Xiaoying and her husband Zhu Wen, offering gifts and making peace with Zhu Wen. After spending time with his family and clan, he returned to his long-neglected courtyard before flying back to his garrison at the Rock Scale Snake Den.

• Ling Pengyun learned that Ling Xiaoying was pregnant and visited her, giving her flesh from an Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Peng bird to help nourish her during pregnancy.
• Zhu Wen returned and was initially afraid of Ling Pengyun, who offered him a superior First Rank High Grade talisman brush as a gift and welcomed him as part of the Ling Clan.
• Ling Pengyun discovered that Ling Xiaoying's unborn child was a boy and named him Ling Yu.
• Ling Pengyun joined Ling Xiaoying and Zhu Wen for lunch at Ling Yunhan's home, where he gave Ling Cheng Yue an Azure Spirit Sword and a Mystic Water Shield.
• Ling Pengyun visited clan elders and acquaintances, then cleaned his old courtyard and reflected on his parents before leaving for the Rock Scale Snake Den on an Immortal Spirit Crane King.

After a year of cultivation, Ling Pengyun attended an autumn gathering in Tu Yuan Market Town, where Yan Siyi invited him to hunt a powerful group of Black Rock Bear Demons. He accepted in exchange for a share of the demon beasts’ spoils and the chance to buy five Spirit Mandarin Trees, and the group set out for Serpent Dragon Lake.

• Ling Pengyun returned to the Rock Scale Snake Den, checked on the Black Armored Turtle Egg and Three-Eyed White Fox, tended his Spirit Fields, and resolved to reach Foundation Establishment Fifth Layer before the Hundred Spirits Sect’s Evergreen Spirit Fruit matured.
• A year later, Ling Pengyun met Qin Shi, Yan Siyi, Zhang Chuan, Xue Chao, and Ye Yu at Free-and-Easy Teahouse in Tu Yuan Market Town and learned that four of them had advanced to Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment.
• Yan Siyi invited Ling Pengyun to help hunt a group of Black Rock Bear Demons so she could obtain enough meat to prepare twenty-four Second Rank spirit dishes, offering him the chance to buy five nearby Spirit Mandarin Trees.
• Ling Pengyun accepted the hunt, and Qin Shi and the others explained the bear materials they wanted for their own cultivation and crafts.
• Ling Pengyun and the group left Tu Yuan Market Town and headed toward Serpent Dragon Lake.

Ling Pengyun and Qin Shi’s group attacked the Black Rock Bear horde in Serpent Dragon Lake, using a high-grade trapping formation and powerful wide-area attacks to eliminate the Qi Training Stage bears. The four Foundation Establishment bears remained, and Qin Shi charged the Late-Stage bear king after the group trapped it.

• Qin Shi led Ling Pengyun and the others into an orange grove and ordered them to kill the Qi Training Stage Black Rock Bears there.
• Qin Shi and his companions slaughtered the first bears, but four Foundation Establishment bears and hundreds of Qi Training Stage bears emerged from the grove.
• Qin Shi, Yan Siyi, Zhang Chuan, and Ye Yu trapped the four Foundation Establishment bears in a Second Rank High Grade formation while Ling Pengyun and Xue Chao attacked the bear horde.
• Ling Pengyun used his Immortal Spirit Crane King and Earthly Fiend Sword Formation, while Xue Chao deployed lightning talismans, wiping out the Qi Training Stage bears.
• Qin Shi’s group withdrew the spirit-draining formation, and Qin Shi charged the bear king, breaking its arm and striking its head before it knocked him flying.
• Qin Shi suppressed his churning blood and qi, then charged the bear king again.

Ling Pengyun and his companions defeated the Black Rock Bear Clan in Serpent Dragon Lake, and he claimed valuable bear materials and spirit sand. Afterward, the group found five Spirit Mandarin Trees, which Ling Pengyun bought with spirit stones.

• Ling Pengyun and the Immortal Spirit Crane King killed two Foundation Establishment Black Rock Bears, while Xue Chao and the others defeated the remaining bears; Ling Pengyun collected Black Rock Spirit Sand and the slain bears’ materials.
• Ling Pengyun declined to interfere in Qin Shi and the others’ fights, then agreed to give Yan Siyi the flesh of the two Foundation Establishment bears for her spirit dishes.
• The group left most of the Qi Training Stage bear corpses behind and ventured deeper into the mandarin grove.
• Ling Pengyun inspected five Spirit Mandarin Trees and agreed to buy them, with Qin Shi giving him the First Rank Middle Grade tree as a reward for his contribution.
• Ling Pengyun paid fifteen hundred spirit stones for the five trees, and Qin Shi told him he could transplant them.

Ling Pengyun and Qin Shi’s group continued hunting demons in the Serpent Dragon Lake region until cultivators from the Spirit Array True Person’s faction ambushed them with a Second Rank High Grade formation. The attackers’ identities revealed that the Hundred Spirits Sect’s faction conflict had reached a deadly turning point, leaving Ling Pengyun caught in the middle.

• Ling Pengyun and Qin Shi’s group divided the Black Rock Bears’ spirit iron and cubs, then agreed to hunt more demonic beasts together in the Serpent Dragon Lake region.
• Half a month later, Ling Pengyun and the others killed five Foundation Establishment Demon Serpents, but twelve concealed Frost Ice Cloud Array flags trapped them on a Spirit Mountain.
• Ling Pengyun shielded the group with his Sand Soil Bronze Bell, while Qin Shi, Yan Siyi, Zhang Chuan, and Ye Yu raised the Boundless Marsh Array to defend against the attackers’ ice barrage.
• Ling Pengyun sent water serpents toward the formation flags, but a Shapeshifting Magic Item destroyed them before Xue Chao trapped the black serpent phantom with his Lesser Thunder Talisman Array.
• Ling Pengyun and Qin Shi recognized the ambushers as Wang Yun, Jiang Song, and Wei Yan, powerful members of Spirit Array True Person’s faction, and Qin Shi warned that sect cultivators had begun killing one another.

Qin Shi and his companions escaped Wang Yun’s ambush, but their pursuers caught up and split after them. Ling Pengyun fought three Azure Flame Wolves in a valley and used two Azure Sea Sky Swords to expose the true body concealed by the Azure Wolf Shadowing Technique.

• Xue Chao used Thunderbird Talismans and a spiritual-power-draining talisman to break Wang Yun’s Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array, allowing Qin Shi and the others to flee aboard a flying boat.
• Wang Yun, Wei Yan, and Jiang Song agreed to pursue the group, with Wei Yan promised two Foundation Establishment Completion demon beast cores as part of the revised spoils.
• Wang Yun’s faster flying boat caught Qin Shi’s group, and Qin Shi ordered everyone to scatter; Wei Yan sent three Azure Flame Wolves after Ling Pengyun and pursued Xue Chao and Ye Yu with a Golden Scale Scorpion.
• The three Azure Flame Wolves caught Ling Pengyun near a valley, where he and the Immortal Spirit Crane King fought them while avoiding drawing nearby demon beasts.
• Ling Pengyun trapped one wolf with the Sand Soil Bronze Bell and launched two Azure Sea Sky Swords at another wolf, which used its Azure Wolf Shadowing Technique to evade the first strike.
• Ling Pengyun shattered the remaining wolf phantoms with his swords and revealed the Azure Flame Wolf’s true body.

Ling Pengyun killed Wei Yan’s three Azure Flame Wolves and then discovered Qin Shi trapped in Wang Yun’s Frost Ice Cloud Array. After seeing Qin Shi turn the fight with a powerful pill and battle puppet, Ling Pengyun considered joining him to kill Wang Yun and claim his treasures.

• Ling Pengyun battered the first Azure Flame Wolf’s inner core and beheaded it, then defeated the second wolf and helped the Immortal Spirit Crane King kill the third before escaping with their corpses.
• Wei Yan suffered backlash when his three Azure Flame Wolves died, but his Golden Scale Scorpion blocked Xue Chao’s Thunder Spear Talisman; Xue Chao and Ye Yu fled, and Wei Yan pursued them.
• Ling Pengyun spotted Qin Shi fighting Wang Yun inside the weakened Frost Ice Cloud Array.
• Qin Shi used a Second Grade Middle Rank Battle Puppet to shield himself, swallowed a Second Rank High Grade Spirit Burst Pill, and began overpowering Wang Yun’s Frost Sword.
• Ling Pengyun assessed Qin Shi’s chances of breaking the array and considered joining the battle to kill Wang Yun and seize the Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array and Frost Sword.

Ling Pengyun joined Qin Shi in battling Wang Yun, and the two overwhelmed the array master despite his powerful magic items and formation. The chapter ended with Ling Pengyun’s Thorn Python killing Wang Yun as the battle drew to a close.

• Ling Pengyun sneaked up on Wang Yun and unleashed water dragons and flying swords, then formed his Thorn Python to fight Wang Yun’s ice flood dragon.
• Ling Pengyun destroyed the ice flood dragon and joined forces with Qin Shi, who agreed to help kill Wang Yun instead of escaping.
• Wang Yun strengthened the Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array with blood essence, but Ling Pengyun and Qin Shi continued attacking him.
• A herd of more than three hundred Bronze Armor Iron Bulls arrived, forcing Wang Yun to withdraw his array and allowing Qin Shi to escape its trap.
• Ling Pengyun and Qin Shi pursued Wang Yun in the air while the herd attacked from below, wearing down Wang Yun’s defenses and spiritual power.
• Ling Pengyun’s Thorn Python broke through Wang Yun’s defenses and bit him to pieces.

Ling Pengyun escorted the weakened Qin Shi toward Tu Yuan Market Town after they killed Wang Yun, then rescued Yan Siyi from a demon serpent pack. The three set out together, wary that more enemies and demon beasts might find them.

• Qin Shi offered Ling Pengyun first pick of Wang Yun’s wealth and a future favor in exchange for an escort out of Serpent Dragon Lake territory, and Ling Pengyun agreed.
• Ling Pengyun used the Thorn Python to kill the Bronze Armor Cattle herd, collected Wang Yun’s belongings, and traveled with the weakened Qin Shi.
• Mo Congxin learned that Wang Yun had died but decided not to investigate because he was preparing for the Evergreen Spirit Fruit to ripen.
• Ling Pengyun spotted Yan Siyi besieged by demon serpents and, at Qin Shi’s request, rushed to rescue her.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi killed the demon serpents, and Yan Siyi thanked him before Qin Shi explained how Ling Pengyun had helped him kill Wang Yun.
• Ling Pengyun warned that enemies and demon beasts might approach, so he, Qin Shi, and Yan Siyi departed toward Tu Yuan Market Town.

After escaping Serpent Dragon Lake, Ling Pengyun and Qin Shi divided the valuable spoils from Wang Yun, while Zhang Yan went to search for their missing companions. Ling Pengyun returned to Tu Yuan Market Town and learned that the Ling Clan was using its gains from the Luo Clan to support its growth and Peng Liang’s next Foundation Establishment attempt.

• Zhang Yan found Ling Pengyun, Qin Shi, and Yan Siyi, then sent his Green-Eyed Ape to protect them while he went to search for Xue Chao, Zhang Chuan, and Ye Yu.
• Ling Pengyun and the others returned safely to Tu Yuan Market Town, but found no sign of their missing companions or Zhang Yan.
• Ling Pengyun and Qin Shi opened Wang Yun’s Storage Bags and discovered demon beast materials, inner cores, an array, and other spoils worth about seventy thousand spirit stones.
• Qin Shi agreed that Ling Pengyun could take Wang Yun’s four ice-attributed artifacts and sixty percent of the total spoils, and Ling Pengyun selected additional materials and an Aura Concealment Array.
• Ling Pengyun gave Wang Yun’s damaged Frost Ice Cloud Array flags and repair materials to Ling Yunfu to send back to the clan, then received weapon-refinement supplies and twelve thousand spirit stones.
• Ling Yunfu told Ling Pengyun that the Ling Clan planned to use its growing resources to help Peng Liang attempt Foundation Establishment again within two or three years.

Ling Pengyun arranged for the Ling Clan to obtain a Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object for Ling Peng Liang and learned that his allies had survived their pursuit. After eating Yan Siyi’s twenty-four Second Rank spirit dishes, he broke through to Foundation Establishment Fifth Layer and left to stabilize his cultivation.

• Ling Pengyun told Ling Yunfu that the Evergreen Spirit Fruit’s impending ripening could bring unrest, and they planned to use a Foundation Establishment Completion demonic beast inner core to commission Small Hundred Spirits Water for Ling Peng Liang.
• Ling Pengyun entrusted the inner core to Ling Yunfu to return to the clan, with the Immortal Spirit Crane King escorting him.
• Xue Chao and Ye Yu returned to Tu Yuan Market Town after Zhang Yan saved them, while Zhang Chuan reported that he had grievously wounded Jiang Song with his Second Rank High Grade puppet.
• Ling Pengyun visited Yan Siyi and ate the twenty-four Second Rank spirit dishes she owed him over twelve days.
• Ling Pengyun broke through to Foundation Establishment Fifth Layer after two days, thanked Yan Siyi with Fruit Flower Honey, and left her courtyard.

Ling Pengyun visited the Hundred Spirits Sect, bought the Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron he had reserved, and asked Yang Siling to find twenty more jin so he could refine an offensive Lifebound Magic Item. The sect’s tense atmosphere and Yang Siling’s hint about the sect master’s return suggested that the Evergreen Spirit Fruit was nearing maturity, and Ling Pengyun stayed at the Spirit Talisman Residence with his family.

• Yan Siyi used Ling Pengyun’s Fruit Flower Honey to create and enjoy Fruit Flower Honey Roasted Bear Paw, then sought him out for more honey but learned he had left Tu Yuan Market Town.
• Ling Pengyun stabilized his cultivation at the Rock Scale Snake Den, entrusted its spirit plants to Ling Ruxian, and traveled to the Hundred Spirits Sect.
• Ling Pengyun reunited with Yang Siling, Yang Qiuyun, Zhao Hong'e, and Wu Hong, congratulated Wu Hong on reaching the Qi Training Third Layer with a bottle of honey, and learned that Wu Yan had advanced to Late-Stage Foundation Establishment.
• Ling Pengyun paid Yang Siling sixteen thousand spirit stones for eighty jin of Second Rank High Grade Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron and offered his Black Cloud Shield in exchange for help finding twenty more jin.
• Yang Siling agreed to search for the scarce iron and hinted that Hundred Spirits True Person had returned from the Blazing Fire Iron Ore Vein, leading Ling Pengyun to suspect the Hundred Spirits Fruit was close to ripening.
• Ling Pengyun returned to the rear courtyard and supervised Wu Hong's Dao technique practice while spending time with his family.

Ling Pengyun used Yang Siling’s help to enter the Black Flame Fire Cave and began refining the Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Pearl as his Lifebound Magic Item. After shaping the sphere and inscribing its special spirit pattern, he left it solidified at the Second Rank Low Grade stage.

• Yang Siling gave Ling Pengyun twenty jin of Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron and offered to arrange a Weapon Refiner, but he chose to refine his Lifebound Magic Item himself.
• Yang Siling brought Ling Pengyun to the Black Flame Fire Cave, secured him an A-grade fire chamber, and borrowed him a Second Rank High Grade Refining Furnace and ten instructional Image Recording Discs.
• Ling Pengyun refined the furnace, studied the recordings, and used the chamber’s Third Rank Black Flame Spiritual Fire to temper the Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron and Water Spirit Iron.
• Ling Pengyun combined the iron essences into a blue sphere, added a drop of his essence blood, and inscribed the Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Spirit Pattern.
• Ling Pengyun solidified the sphere into the Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Pearl, whose aura reached Second Rank Low Grade.

Ling Pengyun refined his Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Pearl and used the Black Flame Fire Cave to forge magic tools, then returned to Ling Clan Mountain as the Evergreen Spirit Fruit neared maturity. There, he learned that Ling Pengliang had reached Foundation Establishment and received a bottle of Small Hundred Spirits Water for his Wind Shadow Peng.

• Ling Pengyun tested the Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Pearl, discovered it could temper his spiritual power, and planned to strengthen it with Water Spirit Iron.
• Yang Siling lent Ling Pengyun the Class A fire chamber and Second Rank Refining Furnace, which he used to refine Second Rank and First Rank magic tools and earn about fourteen thousand nine hundred and fifty spirit stones.
• Ling Pengyun left the Hundred Spirits Sect after learning Yan Cang had not found Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass seeds, and returned to Ling Clan Mountain.
• Ling Yunhong told Ling Pengyun that Ling Pengliang had entered Foundation Establishment and was preparing to marry Wen Nianling.
• Ling Yunhong gave Ling Pengyun the clan's remaining bottle of Small Hundred Spirits Water for the Wind Shadow Peng, after Yang Changxing refined three bottles from Ling Pengyun's demon beast inner core.

Ling Pengyun used Small Hundred Spirits Water and a Meridian Protecting Pill to help the Wind Shadow Peng reach Foundation Establishment, then assessed the newly hatched Black Armored Turtle’s exceptional talent. The Peng began stabilizing its cultivation, while Ling Pengyun focused on nurturing the turtle and its food supply.

• Ling Pengyun accepted Small Hundred Spirits Water from Ling Yunhong and planned to buy a Meridian Protecting Pill for the Wind Shadow Peng.
• Ling Yunhong transferred two thousand spirit stones from the clan’s funds, and Ling Pengyun bought a Meridian Protecting Pill from the Yang Clan for five thousand spirit stones.
• After consuming both Foundation Establishment aids and sleeping for two months, the Wind Shadow Peng began absorbing qi and successfully reached Foundation Establishment three days later.
• Ling Pengyun tested the Wind Shadow Peng’s speed and strength, then fed it a Foundation Establishment demon beast core and told it to stabilize its cultivation.
• Ling Pengyun inspected the half-month-old Black Armored Turtle, recognized its remarkable cultivation talent, and used the Cloud Rain Technique to help grow the Lotus Cloud Water Grass it ate.

The Hundred Spirits Sect’s three Golden Core cultivators seized Serpent Dragon Lake after discovering it could produce Dragon Blood Spirit Ginseng, provoking a dangerous demon-beast retaliation. As the sect mobilized nearly twenty thousand cultivators to defend the territory, Ling Yunhong left Ling Pengyun in charge of protecting the Ling Clan.

• Spirit Array True Person helped Yellow Dragon refine Golden Core Ice Flood Dragon essence blood and learned from the Fire Serpent Python that Serpent Dragon Lake could grow Dragon Blood Spirit Ginseng.
• Bai Ling revealed his Golden Core Late Stage cultivation, and he, Spirit Talisman True Person, and Spirit Array True Person killed Serpent Dragon Lake’s two Golden Core flood dragons and claimed its Third Rank Spirit Vein.
• The Hundred Spirits Sect mobilized its cultivators and allied clans to defend Serpent Dragon Lake, while many independent cultivators fled the sect’s territory.
• Ling Yunhong reorganized the Ling Clan’s defenses, left Ling Pengyun in charge of the clan, and departed with Yang Changxing to guard Serpent Dragon Lake.
• Ling Pengyun took the Second Grade flying boat back to the clan, while the chapter left the Hundred Spirits Sect’s forces facing the impending retaliation from the Boundless Great Swamp.

As demon beasts and demonic cultivators ravaged the Hundred Spirits Sect territory, Ling Pengyun planned to rescue Huai River Market Town after dealing with the Purple Star Demon Wolves occupying Lingxiao Market. He and Ling Pengxing lured the wolf pack toward a concealed Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array, setting up an ambush that was underway when the chapter ended.

• Five Golden Core demon kings led a vast horde against Serpent Dragon Lake while other demon beasts invaded the Hundred Spirits Sect heartland, and rogue and demonic cultivators preyed on the chaos.
• Ling Pengyun received a plea for aid from Huai River Market Town, which was besieged by Foundation Establishment and Qi Training demon beasts.
• Ling Pengyun told the clan elders he would first eliminate the Purple Star Demon Wolves at Lingxiao Market, then reinforce Huai River Market Town.
• Ling Xiaohua went to recall Ling Pengxing, who returned to the clan while Ling Xiaohua took his place at Falling Dusk Mountain.
• Ling Pengyun, Ling Pengxing, and Peng Lin secretly established the Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array and concealed it with an Aura Concealment Array.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengxing lured seven or eight hundred Purple Star Demon Wolves toward the hidden formation after fighting their four Foundation Establishment leaders.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengxing trapped a Purple Star Demon Wolf pack in the Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array and fought its four Foundation Establishment leaders. As the strongest wolf immobilized Ling Pengyun’s treasure pearl with Violet Star Heavenly Radiance, Ling Pengyun realized he had to end the fight quickly before the array ran out of spiritual qi.

• The Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array trapped the pursuing wolf pack, while Ling Pengyun’s Thorn Vines bound many Qi Training wolves and the array’s ice arrows killed them.
• The Qi Training wolves raised Violet Star Heavenly Shields, and the four Foundation Establishment wolves attacked the array’s light curtain with their magic items.
• Ling Pengxing, Ling Pengyun, and the Wind Shadow Peng intercepted the four Foundation Establishment wolves’ attacks as Ling Pengyun’s Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Treasure Pearl battered two enemy swords.
• The strongest wolf and a Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer wolf immobilized Ling Pengyun’s treasure pearl with Violet Star Heavenly Radiance, then struck it with their swords.
• Ling Pengyun judged that the fight had to end before the array’s spirit stones ran out and more wolf packs learned of the battle.

Ling Pengyun used the Thorn Python and his magic items to defeat the Purple Star Demon Wolf pack within the Frost Ice Cloud Array. After the battle, he and his companions assessed the valuable spoils left by the slain wolves.

• Ling Pengyun trapped one Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer wolf with the Sand Soil Bronze Bell and used the Thorn Python to kill the Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer pack leader.
• Ling Pengyun freed the trapped wolf, then killed it with the Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Pearl, the ice dragon, and the Thorn Python.
• Ling Pengyun, Ling Pengxing, and the Wind Shadow Peng joined forces to kill the remaining Foundation Establishment Fifth Layer and Early-Stage wolves.
• The three Foundation Establishment combatants slaughtered the remaining Qi Training Stage wolves, leaving none alive in the Frost Ice Cloud Array.
• Ling Pengyun estimated that the wolf hides, magic items, and other spoils could bring the group at least twenty thousand spirit stones.