Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun divided the spoils from the wolf demon battle with Ling Pengxing and Ling Peng Lin, then flew to aid Huai River Market Town, which was besieged by demon beasts. He arrived as two Late-Stage Foundation Establishment demons moved to attack him, and the defenders briefly held them off while urging him to enter the town.

• Ling Pengyun allotted Ling Peng Lin a quasi-Second Rank sword blank, gave Ling Pengxing four magic items, and kept a Purple Star Miasma Piercing Awl for Ling Peng Liang.
• Ling Pengyun, Ling Pengxing, and Ling Peng Lin divided the wolf demon corpses, and Ling Pengyun left for Huai River Market Town while the others began transporting the corpses back to the clan.
• Ling Pengyun arrived near Huai River Market Town and saw it surrounded by more than two thousand five hundred demon beasts, including eight Foundation Establishment demons.
• The Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Purple Star Demon Wolf and Azure Nether Ape charged Ling Pengyun while ordering the other demons to continue attacking the town.
• Two Hundred Spirits Sect cultivators used the town's formation blade and a rope magic item to hinder the attackers and called for Ling Pengyun to enter the town.

Ling Pengyun killed the Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Azure Nether Ape and entered Huai River Market Town after its defenders could no longer hold out. Ouyang Qun then asked whether Ling Pengyun had killed Wang Yun, whose magic items he carried.

• Ling Pengyun summoned the Wind Shadow Peng and combined his Thorn Vine with a thorn thicket to help overwhelm the rope-bound Azure Nether Ape.
• Ling Pengyun froze and pierced the Azure Nether Ape's heart with the Icy Frost Flying Sword, then severed its head after the ape's shield broke.
• Ling Pengyun abandoned his plan to attack the Purple Star Demon Wolf when Ouyang Qun and Li Xiang said Huai River Market Town could no longer hold out, and he entered through an opening in its formation.
• Ouyang Qun and Li Xiang praised Ling Pengyun and agreed to support the Ling Clan; Ling Pengyun asked them to aid his clan if it faced danger.
• Ouyang Qun asked whether Ling Pengyun's Frost Sword and Frost Transformation Flood Dragon Jade Bottle had belonged to Wang Yun, then asked whether Ling Pengyun had killed him.

Ling Pengyun helped Ouyang Qun and Li Xiang eliminate the demon beasts besieging Huai River Market Town, then claimed his share of the spoils. He traveled to Ice Flood Dragon County to investigate the Beast Tide and ended near the Sun Family Clan Mountain.

• Ling Pengyun explained that Wang Yun had been killed in self-defense and that the matter had already been settled, reassuring Ouyang Qun and Li Xiang.
• After resting, Ling Pengyun proposed killing every demon beast besieging Huai River Market Town, while Ouyang Qun and Li Xiang agreed to help trap and fight them.
• Ouyang Qun activated the Geng Metal Cloud Piercing Grand Array, and Ling Pengyun, Li Xiang, Ouyang Qun, and the market town’s cultivators attacked the trapped beasts.
• Ling Pengyun killed the Seventh-Layer Purple Star Demon Wolf, helped defeat the remaining Foundation Establishment beasts, and the cultivators wiped out the siege.
• Ling Pengyun negotiated a share of the demon beast spoils, accepted a lavish meal from Ouyang Qun and Li Xiang, and departed with several dozen Storage Bags.
• Ling Pengyun investigated five clans in Ice Flood Dragon County, found the Shen Clan again besieged but rescued, and reached the vicinity of the Sun Family Clan Mountain.

Ling Pengyun found the Sun Clan’s mountain overrun by Azure Nether Apes and took half of its Earth Silk Spirit Silkworms and Spirit Mulberry Trees, leaving compensation for the absent clan. After returning to Lingxiao Mountain, he reassured the elders that Huai River Market Town had survived and its demon beast attackers had been annihilated.

• Ling Pengyun discovered that Azure Nether Apes had occupied Sun Family Clan Mountain and pursued and killed their force with Wind Shadow Peng.
• Ling Pengyun found the Sun Clan’s Earth Silk Spirit Silkworms beneath the Mulberry Garden and judged that their silk could become a lucrative source of clan income.
• Ling Pengyun took half the silkworms and Spirit Mulberry Trees, left valuable magic artifacts in the Sun Clan Repository as compensation, and copied the clan’s cultivation manuals.
• Ling Pengyun returned to Lingxiao Mountain, where the clan members were processing Purple Star Demon Wolf corpses.
• Ling Yunhui, Ling Yun'an, and Ling Yunqian feared Huai River Market Town had fallen, but Ling Pengyun told them it had been defended and the attacking demon beasts had all been killed.

Ling Pengyun returned to the Ling Clan with spoils from Huai River Market Town, including Earth Silk Spirit Silkworms and a silkworm-farming inheritance. After establishing a silkworm farm, he set out to deliver magic artifacts to clan members and help clear a powerful demon beast pack at Falling Dusk Mountain.

• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Yunqian a quasi-Second Rank Azure Profound Long Staff for one thousand Spirit Stones and distributed demon beast materials for the clansmen to harvest.
• Ling Pengyun told the clan elders he had raided the Sun Clan's holdings, bringing back Spirit Mulberry Trees, Earth Silk Spirit Silkworms, and copied manuals; he argued the Ling Clan need not fear the Sun Clan's retaliation.
• Ling Pengyun and the elders sorted the Sun Clan manuals, discovering a Second Rank silkworm-farming inheritance, and Ling Pengyun asked them to find clansmen suited to become Silkworm Farmers.
• Ling Pengyun planted twenty-three Spirit Mulberry Trees, awakened the Earth Silk Spirit Silkworms, and appointed a Qi Training Ninth Layer silkworm as their new leader.
• Ling Pengyun left to deliver a Purple Star Flying Sword to Ling Pengxing at Falling Dusk Mountain, then joined Ling Pengxing and the Wind Shadow Peng in clearing a Purple Star Demon Wolf pack with three Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment members.
• Ling Pengyun departed for the Rock Scale Snake Den to deliver another magic artifact to Ling Pengliang.

Ling Pengyun joined Ouyang Qun and Li Xiang in planning a counteroffensive against the Purple Star Demon Wolves, recruiting the Tiger's Roar Liu Clan and clearing Huai River County before meeting Yue Shan and Meng Yao in Cloudwater County. Yue Shan outlined a plan to gather more Foundation Establishment Cultivators and extend the campaign across Jing Province.

• Ling Pengyun returned from the Rock Scale Snake Den and agreed with Ouyang Qun and Li Xiang to counterattack the Purple Star Demon Wolves after gathering more allies.
• Ling Pengyun, Ouyang Qun, and Li Xiang helped the Tiger's Roar Liu Clan defeat a wolf pack attacking Tiger's Roar Mountain, and Liu Daozhong joined their campaign.
• The group cleared demonic beasts from Liu Clan territory and Huai River County, while Ling Pengyun left the Wind Shadow Peng with Ling Pengxing to guard the county.
• Ling Pengyun and his companions reached Cloudwater Market Town and met the late-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivators Yue Shan and Meng Yao.
• Yue Shan proposed recruiting the Foundation Establishment Cultivators of Cloudwater County's four clans, then clearing demonic beasts from the other counties of Jing Province.

Ling Pengyun and the counteroffensive force cleared the Purple Star Demon Wolves from three counties, then discovered that the wolves in Purple Moon County had gathered into a much larger force and besieged the Phoenix Stream Feng Clan. Though the twenty-six reinforcements faced sixty Foundation Establishment wolves, Yue Shan pressured the group to continue fighting, and the Hundred Spirits Sect cultivators agreed.

• Ling Pengyun and the counteroffensive force exterminated the wolf packs in Cloudwater County, then freed Peaceful County and recruited more Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• The force cleared Heaven River County and grew to twenty-six cultivators before entering Purple Moon County to find the Fuyang Zhang Clan nearly deserted.
• A Zhang Clan elder revealed that eight wolf packs had gathered to attack the Phoenix Stream Feng Clan, where nineteen local cultivators and their Guardian Spirit Beasts were defending against sixty Foundation Establishment wolves.
• Yue Shan weighed retreat against the chance to earn merit, then insisted that the group continue fighting and warned the others not to withdraw.
• Meng Yao, Ouyang Qun, Li Xiang, and the other Hundred Spirits Sect cultivators voiced their willingness to fight on.

Ling Pengyun and the other Foundation Establishment cultivators agreed to reinforce the Phoenix Stream Feng Clan, whose mountain was besieged by a huge pack of Purple Star Demon Wolves. In the battle outside the clan’s formation, Ling Pengyun killed a Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer wolf demon and then hurried to help the others.

• Yue Shan persuaded Ling Pengyun and the other family cultivators to join the battle, and sent a message to the Zhang Clan announcing that twenty-six Foundation Establishment cultivators were coming to support Purple Moon County.
• Yue Shan led the group to Phoenix Stream Mountain, where the Feng Clan’s formation was holding off the wolf pack but was running low on spiritual energy.
• The Feng Clan’s leader trapped the Qi Training wolf demons inside the formation and separated fifteen Middle- and Late-Stage Foundation Establishment wolf demons for the arriving cultivators to fight.
• Yue Shan and Meng Yao engaged the strongest wolf demons, while Ling Pengyun and the other cultivators charged the fifteen isolated targets.
• Ling Pengyun used his magic items and techniques to wound and kill a Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer wolf demon, trapping its inner core and claiming its magic items and corpse.
• After using more than half his spiritual energy to win, Ling Pengyun moved to assist the other fighters as Yue Shan watched his rapid victory.

Ling Pengyun and his allies faced the Foundation Establishment Completion Little Wolf King after it broke through Phoenix Stream Mountain’s formation barrier. Ling Pengyun used a Third Rank Black Flame Fire Phoenix Talisman to destroy the wolf’s magic items and exhaust its Purple Star True Fire, but the Little Wolf King survived, badly injured.

• The Little Wolf King broke through the enemy-trapping light barrier and charged at Ling Pengyun, Yue Shan, and Meng Yao.
• Yue Shan, Ling Pengyun, and Meng Yao tried to stop the Little Wolf King, but its Violet StarHeavenly Radiance and magic items overwhelmed their defenses, forcing Yue Shan to escape with an Earth Escape Talisman.
• Yue Shan warned that they could not defeat the Little Wolf King with only three fighters and offered Ling Pengyun his last Earth Escape Talisman.
• Ling Pengyun activated a Third Rank Black Flame Fire Phoenix Talisman, whose fire phoenix melted the Little Wolf King’s Purple Star Miasma Piercing Awl and three Purple Star Flying Swords.
• The Little Wolf King released the Purple Star True Fire from its gourd, and its flame demon wolf fought the Black Flame Fire Phoenix until both dissipated.
• The Little Wolf King survived with severe injuries, while its Purple Star True Fire Gourd lost its power and fell to the second rank.

Ling Pengyun and his allies defeated the Purple Star Demon Wolves attacking Phoenix Stream Mountain and negotiated a share of the spoils with the local families. After the battle, Feng Yuqing thanked the reinforcements and introduced Ling Pengyun to his younger sister, Feng Yurou, before inviting everyone to a celebratory feast.

• Ling Pengyun, Yue Shan, and Meng Yao killed the wounded Little Wolf King, and Ling Pengyun claimed its Purple Star True Fire Gourd and inner core in exchange for the wolf’s corpse going to Yue Shan and Meng Yao.
• The reinforcements and Phoenix Stream Mountain’s cultivators killed the remaining Foundation Establishment wolves and massacred the Qi Training wolves.
• Feng Yuqing thanked the reinforcements, offered them seventy percent of the Qi Training demon beast corpses, and confirmed the Feng Clan would support the counterattack.
• Feng Yuqing introduced his younger sister Feng Yurou to Ling Pengyun and encouraged her to seek his guidance on spirit plants.
• Ling Pengyun answered Feng Yurou’s planting questions, and Feng Yuqing invited the cultivators into Phoenix Stream Mountain for a celebratory feast.

After liberating Ning Province, Ling Pengyun and the counterattack force reached the besieged Hundred Spirits Mountain Range, where they witnessed the sect’s Black Flame Fire Phoenix fighting a Pseudo-Core Thunder Essence Great Peng. The battle began as Ma Yuan hoped to seize the Great Peng’s core and enter the Pseudo-Core Realm.

• Yue Shan led the counterattack force to Ning Province, where they exterminated the Golden Armor Mad Cow Clan and recruited sixty local Foundation Establishment Cultivators, bringing their force to 110.
• Ling Pengyun and the others found more than ten thousand Thunder Essence Great Pengs attacking the Hundred Spirits Sect’s formation, led by a Pseudo-Core Realm Great Peng.
• Ma Yuan recognized the arriving reinforcements and summoned the Hundred Spirits Sect’s Golden Core Initial Stage Black Flame Fire Phoenix Demon Spirit.
• The Pseudo-Core Thunder Essence Great Peng equipped its Thunder Essence Exhaustive Armor and unleashed Tribulation Crossing Divine Lightning at the Fire Phoenix.
• The Fire Phoenix countered with Black Flame Spiritual Fire, and the attacks collided, killing nearby Qi Training Great Pengs and shaking the Foundation Establishment ones.

Ling Pengyun and the reinforcements helped the Hundred Spirits Sect defeat the Thunder Essence Great Peng flock, then agreed to join Ma Yuan’s expedition to aid other besieged territories. As he reunited with Yan Siyi and Ye Yu, Yan Siyi asked him for Fruit Flower Honey after securing his promise to help her grandfather at Serpent Dragon Lake.

• A Hundred Spirits Sect steward led Ling Pengyun and the other reinforcements through a secret passage into the sect, where Ma Yuan promised rewards and compensation for the fallen cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun and the sect’s stationed cultivators killed the Thunder Essence Great Peng flock and its Pseudo-Core Realm leader, then collected their spoils under Ma Yuan’s terms.
• Ma Yuan invited the cultivators to join an expedition to aid other invaded territories the next day, and Ling Pengyun reunited with Yang Siling, Yang Qiuyun, Zhao Hong'e, and Wu Hong.
• Yan Siyi and Ye Yu visited Ling Pengyun and explained that Qin Shi, Zhang Chuan, Xue Chao, and Yan Cang had gone to the Serpent Dragon Lake frontline.
• Yan Siyi asked Ling Pengyun to help protect Yan Cang if trouble arose at Serpent Dragon Lake, and Ling Pengyun agreed.
• As Yan Siyi and Ye Yu were about to leave, Yan Siyi asked Ling Pengyun whether he had any Fruit Flower Honey.

Ling Pengyun reunited with Yang Siling, declined her offer to join the Hundred Spirits Sect, and gave her a damaged Purple Star True Fire Gourd in exchange for her promise to help him obtain Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron. Meanwhile, the counteroffensive force expanded after clearing Jiao Province and Yuan Province, then advanced toward Serpent Dragon Lake.

• Yang Siling teased Ling Pengyun about Yan Siyi and Ye Yu, then offered to help him join the Hundred Spirits Sect, but Ling Pengyun declined out of loyalty to his clan.
• Ling Pengyun gave Yang Siling the damaged Purple Star True Fire Gourd, which he had recovered after killing a Foundation Establishment Completion Purple Star Demon Wolf.
• Yang Siling accepted the gourd and promised to help reserve Second Rank High Grade Mystic Yuan Heavy Iron for Ling Pengyun and his brother-in-law, provided they paid for it.
• Ma Yuan led the counteroffensive force south, where it exterminated the demon beasts in Jiao Province and Yuan Province and gained forty-eight additional Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• The counteroffensive force grew to one hundred and eighty-three Foundation Establishment combatants and secretly advanced toward Serpent Dragon Lake.

Ling Pengyun and the counteroffensive force reinforced Serpent Dragon Lake, helping the Hundred Spirits Sect defeat the beast tide and secure the lake. After the fighting, Ling Pengyun exchanged his spoils for Contribution Points, checked on Yan Cang, and learned that Spirit Talisman True Person would oversee the new branch at Serpent Dragon Lake.

• Ling Pengyun and the 183 Foundation Establishment cultivators joined the defenders at Serpent Dragon Lake, while the three Golden Core cultivators held off the five Demon Kings.
• The defenders and counteroffensive force killed nearly 200,000 demon beasts in three days, forcing the five Golden Core Demon Kings to withdraw and ending the beast tide.
• The Hundred Spirits Sect kept more than 100,000 demon beasts in the region so the lake could remain a nearby hunting ground, then had cultivators exchange their demon beast corpses for Contribution Points.
• Ling Pengyun turned in 33 Foundation Establishment demon beast corpses for 62,500 Contribution Points and spent much of them on cultivation resources while lending 30,000 to the Ling Clan.
• Ling Pengyun found Yan Cang opening spirit fields, learned that Yan Cang's aura was declining, and heard that Spirit Talisman True Person would be stationed at the Serpent Dragon Lake branch.
• Ling Pengyun anticipated that the Ling Clan could benefit from Spirit Talisman True Person's influence and wondered what would happen to Spirit Array Old Ancestor after his conflict with the other Golden Core cultivators.

Ling Yunhong outlined the Ling Clan’s resources and plans, including support for Wen Nianling’s Foundation Establishment and repayment of clan debts. He then revealed the history behind Ling Ruxian’s severed arm and proposed that the clan destroy the Tongyang Bai Family in ten years to recover the Earthly Fiend Sword Formation method and avenge him.

• Ling Yunhong proposed lending Wen Nianling Hundred Spirits Water and a Meridian Protecting Pill, while reserving the remaining Foundation Establishment treasures for clan members who reached Qi Training Completion first.
• Ling Yunhong said the clan would use its yearly surplus to repay members who had lent Contribution Points, improve the clan mountain’s spirit vein, and build a Spirit Plant Garden.
• Ling Yunhong told Ling Pengyun, Ling Pengxing, and Ling Pengliang that Bai Jiaqian had severed Ling Ruxian’s arm and taken the Earthly Fiend Sword Formation’s subsequent circulation method.
• Ling Yunhong explained that the Ling Clan now had six Foundation Establishment combatants against the Bai Family’s three, but proposed waiting ten years before striking in Chen Country.
• Ling Pengyun, Ling Pengxing, and Ling Pengliang agreed to help complete the sword formation and avenge Ling Ruxian, and Ling Yunhong warned them to keep the plan secret.

After years of cultivation at Falling Dusk Mountain, Ling Pengyun advanced to the Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer while his Black Armored Turtle broke through to Foundation Establishment. The chapter ended with Ling Pengyun strengthening his cultivation and preparing for the clan’s planned conflict with the Bai Clan.

• The Ling Clan held a grand wedding for Ling Pengliang and Wen Nianling, displaying its six Foundation Establishment combatants to visiting cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun spent eight years cultivating at Falling Dusk Mountain and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer.
• Ling Penglin installed four formations in Falling Dusk Mountain’s spirit fields, combining them with its Spirit Gathering Array to accelerate the plants’ growth.
• The Black Armored Turtle reached Qi Training Completion, consumed Foundation Establishment resources from Ling Pengyun, and successfully entered the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Ling Pengyun advanced his Natal Spirit Plant to the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment and used its spiritual power feedback to reach the Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer.

Ling Pengyun reunited with Yan Siyi at Falling Dusk Mountain, learned about the sect’s struggle against demon beasts and the changes among their acquaintances, and acquired a rare spirit seed for his second Natal Spirit Plant. After sharing a feast, Yan Siyi stayed for two days to refine the spirit food’s spiritual power.

• Yan Siyi told Ling Pengyun that Qin Shi and their other friends were guarding the Blazing Fire Iron Ore Vein, while she remained with her grandfather, Yan Cang, whose lifespan had been extended by ten years.
• Yan Siyi noticed Ling Pengyun had reached the Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer, and Ling Pengyun confirmed his breakthrough.
• Yan Siyi delivered Yan Cang’s Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass seed to Ling Pengyun for one thousand spirit stones, and Ling Pengyun thanked her and her grandfather.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi exchanged Fruit Flower Honey for three hundred and thirty spirit stones and discussed the Hundred Spirits Sect’s leaders, Spirit Array True Person’s departure, and Yang Sitong’s new alchemy master.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi shared a feast of Second Rank spirit food, and Yan Siyi stayed at Falling Dusk Mountain for two days to refine its spiritual power.

Ling Pengyun helped his Fruit Flower Bee King overcome its failed Foundation Establishment attempt and then refined Yan Siyi’s Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass spiritual seed as his second Natal Spirit Plant. The Bee King succeeded and began strengthening its swarm, while the new spirit plant quickly sprouted in Ling Pengyun’s Dantian.

• Yan Siyi left Falling Dusk Mountain after promising to visit again, and Ling Pengyun said he would serve her Second Rank Fruit Flower Honey once his Bee King advanced.
• Ling Pengyun examined the recovered Fruit Flower Bee King, gave it Small Hundred Spirits Water and a Meridian Protecting Pill, and guarded its Foundation Establishment attempt.
• After three days of Qi Infusion, the Fruit Flower Bee King successfully condensed an inner core and reached Foundation Establishment.
• Ling Pengyun ordered the Bee King to use the swarm’s remaining honey to nurture promising subordinates and to gather pollen from his spiritual fruit trees next spring.
• Ling Pengyun rewarded the Bee King with an Early-Stage Foundation Establishment demon beast inner core, then returned to Falling Dusk Mountain.
• Ling Pengyun infused Yan Siyi’s Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass seed with Yin Yang Primordial Qi, refined it as his second Natal Spirit Plant, and watched it sprout in his Dantian.

Ling Pengyun reforged his Sand Soil Bronze Bell into a powerful Second Rank High Grade artifact, then reunited with Yan Siyi and spent time sharing food and conversation with her. Their peaceful autumn routine ended when Ling Yunhong and several clan members arrived at Falling Dusk Mountain to see Ling Pengyun.

• Ling Pengyun reforged the Sand Soil Bronze Bell with demon-beast inner-core liquid, Sand Soil Crystal Stone, and Black Rock Spirit Sand, raising it to Second Rank High Grade.
• Ling Pengyun tested the bell's defenses and Black Rock Spirit Sand attack, finding it could severely damage or destroy a Second Rank High Grade flying sword.
• Yan Siyi visited Ling Pengyun, tasted his Second Rank Fruit Flower Honey, and prepared eight dishes of Second Rank spiritual food for them to share.
• Yan Siyi and Ling Pengyun spent five days talking before agreeing to meet again the following autumn, and Yan Siyi gave him a First Rank Low Grade spirit-cuisine inheritance.
• Over the following seasons, Yan Siyi and Ling Pengyun continued their gatherings and occasional sparring, with Ling Pengyun letting Yan Siyi defeat him.
• Ling Yunhong, Ling Pengxing, Ling Pengliang, and Ling Pengqiu arrived at Falling Dusk Mountain, and Yan Siyi left after realizing they had business with Ling Pengyun.

Ling Yunhong led Ling Pengyun and the Ling Clan’s forces to Myriad Unities County to destroy the Tongyang Bai Family after their ten-year agreement expired. They reached Together Yang Mountain and launched a coordinated assault on its protective formation, which began to falter under their attacks.

• Ling Yunhong explained that the Ling Clan’s Foundation Establishment forces gave them a strong chance of defeating the Bai Family, and the group departed for Chen Country.
• After nearly a hundred days of travel, Ling Yunhong ordered the group to rest near Together Yang Mountain before attacking the Bai Family’s ancestral land.
• The Ling Clan group approached Together Yang Mountain at night, but its formation detected them within two li.
• Ling Yunhong activated the Shielding Talisman and led the group in attacking the mountain’s Gale Golden Blade Grand Formation.
• Ling Pengyun sent the Black Armored Turtle to defend the group and joined the assault with his other spirit beasts and magic items as the formation barrier began to dim.