Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun agreed to teach Ling Xiaoyan the Spirit Chef path and settled him on Falling Dusk Mountain, where the boy made rapid progress. Meanwhile, Ling Pengxing set out for the Serpent Dragon Lake region with Ling Penglin and Ling Pengshan to gain combat experience and hunt demonic beasts.

• Ling Yunfu brought Ling Xiaoyan to Falling Dusk Mountain and asked Ling Pengyun to teach the boy the Spirit Chef path, and Ling Pengyun agreed.
• Ling Yunfu returned to the Clan Mountain while Ling Pengyun built Ling Xiaoyan the Yan Ci Cave Residence and began teaching him Spirit Chef skills.
• Ling Xiaoyan learned quickly under Ling Pengyun's guidance, and Ling Pengyun expected him to enter the Spirit Chef path within two years.
• Ling Pengxing decided to hunt Foundation Establishment demonic beasts in the Serpent Dragon Lake region to gather resources for his Geng Metal Cloud Piercing Flying Sword.
• Ling Yunhong arranged for Ling Penglin and Ling Pengshan to accompany Ling Pengxing for combat training, and the three left on the Immortal Spirit Crane King.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi visited their relatives at Serpent Dragon Lake and learned how Yan Kingdom’s five great sects were expanding into the White Cloud Mountain Range. After a month with family, Ling Pengyun joined his nephew Wu Hong on a hunt, but the pair found few Foundation Establishment demon beasts.

• Ling Pengyun left the Black Armored Turtle with Ling Chengping to guard Falling Dusk Mountain, then flew with Yan Siyi to Serpent Dragon Marketplace and Serpent Dragon Lake.
• Yan Cang told Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi that the five great sects had killed three Golden Core Demon Beasts and occupied about fifty thousand li of territory and nearly five hundred spirit veins in the White Cloud Mountain Range.
• Yan Cang reported that Qin Shi had earned renown at the Blazing Fire Iron Ore Vein and that Xue Chao had become a well-known Second Rank High Grade lightning talisman maker, while Ye Yu remained with him.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi met with their relatives, learned that Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor planned to promote Yang Sitong, and spent the following month with family at Serpent Dragon Lake.
• Wu Hong returned from training and asked Ling Pengyun to hunt demon beasts with him; after ten days of searching, they had slain only three Foundation Establishment demon beasts.

Ling Pengyun remotely activated the Yin Yang Primordial Qi hidden in Yang Siling, restoring her damaged meridians and foundation after twenty-three years. Yang Siling resumed her path of cultivation, while the Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor wrongly attributed her recovery to an unknown powerful expert and spread rumors about a Nascent Soul True Lord.

• Ling Pengyun activated the hidden Yin Yang Primordial Qi, which repaired Yang Siling's meridians and crippled foundation.
• Yang Siling told Wu Tian that she could cultivate again, and he promised to help her pursue the False Core Realm.
• Wu Tian and Yang Siling informed the Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor, who searched Serpent Dragon Lake for the benefactor but found no trace.
• The Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor urged Yang Siling to resume cultivation and offered her resources, noting that she had limited time to pursue the Golden Core Realm.
• The Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor reviewed the lake's recordings without finding the cause of Yang Siling's recovery, then spread rumors that a Nascent Soul True Lord had helped her.

Ling Pengyun and Wu Hong traveled to Golden Horn Grassland to hunt Foundation Establishment demon beasts, then followed a Ling Clan aid token to a battle against a large herd of Golden Horn Mad Cows. Ling Pengyun joined Ling Pengxing, Ling Pengshan, Ling Penglin, and the Immortal Spirit Crane King and broke the shield of the herd’s strongest cow.

• Ling Pengyun agreed to take Wu Hong to Golden Horn Grassland, where they hunted demon beasts along a river and killed ten Early- and Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment beasts.
• Ling Pengyun’s Ling Clan Supreme Elder Token guided him and Wu Hong to a battlefield where Ling Pengxing, Ling Pengshan, Ling Penglin, and the Immortal Spirit Crane King fought more than six hundred Golden Horn Mad Cows.
• Ling Pengyun saw that the clan members were trapped in a prolonged battle against six Foundation Establishment Golden Horn Mad Cows and hurried to help with Wu Hong.
• Ling Pengyun struck the Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Golden Horn Mad Cow’s Golden Spirit Heavenly Qi Shield with his Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Treasure Pearl and shattered it.

Ling Pengyun and his allies escaped a Golden Horn Mad Cow herd and learned of a Second Rank High Grade spirit fruit tree bearing fruit in a nearby valley. After resting and confirming the tree’s presence, they approached the valley, where the remaining herd charged out to meet them.

• Ling Pengyun and Wu Hong helped Ling Pengxing, Ling Penglin, and Ling Pengshan kill six Foundation Establishment Golden Horn Mad Cows and wipe out the trapped herd.
• The group hid from a pursuing herd of nearly a thousand Golden Horn Mad Cows using Wu Hong’s Aura Concealment Array.
• Ling Pengxing explained that a Second Rank High Grade spirit fruit tree was bearing fruit in a valley occupied by the Golden Horn Mad Cows, and Ling Pengyun agreed to help seize it.
• Ling Pengyun promised Wu Hong thirty percent of the tree’s Second Rank High Grade spirit fruits and help finding Late-Stage Foundation Establishment demon beasts for him to challenge; Wu Hong agreed to join the fight.
• After resting for half a day, Ling Pengyun’s group confirmed the spirit tree’s presence near the valley and advanced toward it.
• A Foundation Establishment Completion Golden Horn Mad Cow led the remaining bull demons out of the valley, and Ling Pengyun warned everyone to retreat if they could not win.

Ling Pengyun and his companions defeated a herd of Bull Demons and discovered a rare Purple Moon Spirit Tree in their spirit valley. The tree’s value raised concerns about Wu Hong learning of it, but Ling Pengyun chose to discuss the matter with his nephew, leaving their decision unresolved.

• Ling Pengyun used the wood vein beneath the grassland to strengthen his Thorn Vine and helped his companions battle the Bull Demons.
• Ling Pengyun’s Thorn Python and Frost Ice Flood Dragon overwhelmed the herd’s leader, and the Purple Star Miasma Piercing Awl pierced its armor before the Thorn Python tore off its head.
• Ling Pengyun joined the fight against the remaining Bull Demons, and the group killed them all before entering their spirit valley.
• Ling Pengyun and his companions found a Second Rank High Grade Purple Moon Spirit Tree bearing nine purple spirit fruits, and Ling Pengyun explained its value to the clan.
• Ling Pengxing warned Ling Pengyun that Wu Hong was an outsider who could reveal the tree’s location, but Ling Pengyun said he would discuss it with Wu Hong.

Wu Hong agreed to keep the Purple Moon Spirit Tree secret in exchange for five spirit fruits, and Ling Pengyun’s group brought the tree back to the Ling Clan. Ling Yunhong assigned Ling Pengyun to tend it at Falling Dusk Mountain, then asked whether he wanted to attempt the Golden Core realm after reaching Foundation Establishment Completion.

• Wu Hong agreed to keep the Purple Moon Spirit Tree’s existence secret in exchange for his original share and two additional Purple Moon Spirit Fruits.
• Ling Pengyun used a Spirit Plant Secret Method to raise nine fruits to Second Rank High Grade, distributed them, transplanted the tree, and led the group out of the valley.
• Ling Pengyun, Ling Pengxing, Ling Pengshan, and Ling Penglin returned to the clan mountain and reported the tree to Ling Yunhong, who rewarded them with Contribution Points and future fruit shares.
• Ling Yunhong chose Falling Dusk Mountain as the tree’s home and entrusted its care to Ling Pengyun, warning everyone to keep it secret.
• Ling Yunhong declined the four fruits offered to him, then learned Ling Pengyun expected to reach Foundation Establishment Completion in about ten years and asked if he would pursue the Golden Core realm; Ling Pengyun said he would.

Ling Yunhong revealed that their ancestor Ling Zhu had ties to a hidden sect in the Boundless Sea Region and that the sect could offer a Golden Core opportunity. Ling Pengyun agreed to travel with him in ten years, then returned to Serpent Dragon Lake and learned Yang Siling had recovered her cultivation with help from a mysterious Nascent Soul expert.

• Ling Yunhong told Ling Pengyun that their ancestor Ling Zhu came from the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect and that its hidden secret realm might hold a Golden Core spirit object.
• Ling Yunhong asked Ling Pengyun to join him in ten years on a journey through Dragon Scale Shark territory, and Ling Pengyun agreed to keep the plan secret.
• Ling Pengyun returned to Falling Dusk Mountain, planted a Purple Moon Spirit Tree under concealment, and set out to retrieve Yan Siyi from Serpent Dragon Lake.
• Ling Pengyun gave Yan Siyi a Purple Moon Spirit Fruit, then learned that a passing Nascent Soul expert had restored Yang Siling's foundation.
• Ling Pengyun congratulated Yang Siling and gave her five jin of Second Rank Fruit Flower Honey, while concealing that he had secretly helped restore her cultivation.

Ling Pengyun reunited with Yang Siling, then returned to Falling Dusk Mountain, where Yan Siyi advanced to Late-Stage Foundation Establishment and the Black Armored Turtle broke through to Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment. The chapter ended with Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi discovering that she was pregnant and agreeing to name their child Ling Xia.

• Yang Siling deduced that Ling Pengyun's clan had obtained a Purple Moon Spirit Fruit Tree, warned him to keep it secret, and asked him to sell her five fruits when it bore them again.
• Ling Pengyun bought Second Rank spirit iron, visited his family, and returned to Falling Dusk Mountain with Yan Siyi when winter arrived.
• Yan Siyi advanced to Late-Stage Foundation Establishment after half a month of seclusion, aided by a Purple Moon Spirit Fruit Ling Pengyun had given her.
• The Black Armored Turtle broke through to Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment, and Ling Pengyun tested its shield, finding that it withstood two full-power strikes from his Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Pearl.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi discovered she was pregnant, chose the name Ling Xia, and agreed to tell her parents and grandfather so they could retire to Falling Dusk Mountain.

Yan Siyi gave birth to Little Ling Xia, recovered with her family’s help, and celebrated his full-month feast with the Ling Clan. Afterward, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi joined their relatives on a successful hunt in the Golden Horn Grassland, returning with materials from more than forty Foundation Establishment demon beasts.

• After Yan Siyi became pregnant, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi brought Ling Xiaoshun, Yang Qiuyun, and Yan Cang to Falling Dusk Mountain to retire, where the three elders settled into a quieter life.
• Yan Siyi went into labor, and Ling Pengyun used the Fetus-Protecting Technique and his Thorn Vine to help her give birth to Little Ling Xia.
• Ling Pengyun introduced Little Ling Xia to Ling Xiaoshun, Yang Qiuyun, Yan Cang, Ling Chengping, and Ling Xiaoyan, while Yan Siyi recovered in seclusion with qi-and-blood replenishing items.
• After Yan Siyi recovered, she and Ling Pengyun held Little Ling Xia’s belated full-month feast at Ling Clan Mountain, attended by clan members, relatives, and friends.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi joined Wu Hong, Ling Pengxing, Ling Pengshan, and Ling Penglin in the Golden Horn Grassland, where the six killed more than forty Foundation Establishment demon beasts in a month.
• The group handed the demon beast materials to Ling Pengyun to forge into magic items, further increasing his wealth and refining skill.

Ling Pengyun discovered that his son Ling Xia had conflicting fire and water spirit roots, then obtained an incomplete dual-attribute cultivation art for him. After refining a powerful blue pearl and preparing for the ten-year agreement, Ling Pengyun left his family to pursue a Golden Core opportunity, promising to return and find Ling Xia a better cultivation art.

• Ling Xia tested positive for fire, water, and wood spirit roots, but his equally strong fire and water aptitudes created a dangerous cultivation conflict.
• Yan Cang took Ling Pengyun to the Hundred Spirits Sect, where Ling Pengyun obtained the incomplete Two Forms True Profound Art for Ling Xia.
• A year later, Ling Pengyun finished refining a blue pearl weighing one hundred thousand jin and prepared to honor his agreement with Grandfather Yunhong.
• Ling Pengyun told Yan Siyi and his family that he would be gone for five to ten years while seeking a Golden Core opportunity.
• Yan Siyi, the elders, and Ling Xia said goodbye as Ling Pengyun rode away on the Wind Shadow Peng.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong left the Ling Clan to seek a Golden Core opportunity, and True Person Bai Yuan stopped them to confirm they would not settle in Hundred Spirits Sect territory. After they swore they would move to the White Cloud Mountain Range if one of them succeeded, they traveled to Sea Cloud Marketplace and prepared to teleport toward the Boundless Sea Region Cultivation World.

• Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong departed Lingxiao Mountain, leaving Ling Pengxing in charge of the clan’s affairs.
• True Person Bai Yuan intercepted the pair near the edge of Hundred Spirits Sect territory and asked where the Ling Clan would settle if it gained a Golden Core cultivator.
• Ling Yunhong swore that the Ling Clan would establish its future base in the White Cloud Mountain Range, and True Person Bai Yuan let them continue their journey.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong crossed Yan Kingdom and several other cultivation countries before reaching Sea Cloud Marketplace in Yuan Yang Country.
• After learning that flying across the Boundless Sea Region would take years and carry great danger, Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong chose the Sea Cloud Immortal Sect’s teleportation formation to travel to Ripples Marketplace.

Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengyun traveled from the Northern Wilderness Cultivation World to Ripple Marketplace in the Boundless Sea Region and learned how long and dangerous their journey to the Dragon Scale Sea Region would be. They committed to continuing together and arranged to teleport onward to the Coral Sea Region, then explored Ripple Marketplace while they waited.

• Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengyun paid to enter the Sea Cloud Immortal Sect's teleportation hall, where they encountered a Golden Core Buddhist cultivator and waited for the group to reach fifty people.
• The master of the Teleportation Hall sent the fifty travelers to Ripple Marketplace, where Jiang An gave them manuals describing the Boundless Sea Region and its major powers.
• After learning they would have to cross ten sea regions and travel hundreds of millions of li to reach the Dragon Scale Sea Region, Ling Yunhong asked Ling Pengyun to accompany him, and Ling Pengyun agreed.
• Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengyun paid Jiang An to travel onward to Coral Marketplace and left Message Talismans with him while they waited for the array to gather enough travelers.
• The two explored Ripple Marketplace, where Ling Pengyun bought Jade Transformation Spirit Pearls for Ling Chengxia and they found Water Spirit Iron cheaper than in the Northern Wilderness.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong arrived at Wrathful Whale Marketplace to buy a map of the Boundless Demon Sea, but the Wrathful Blood Spirit Whale Clan launched a massive attack while they were in the shop. They joined the defenders on the city wall as the battle began.

• Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong reached Wrathful Whale Marketplace after traveling through several teleportation arrays and chose to buy a map covering thirty million li of the Boundless Demon Sea.
• Ling Yunhong inspected the map at the Wood Origin shop, but three bell chimes sounded and the marketplace sealed itself behind a protective array.
• The white-haired shopkeeper explained that the Wrathful Blood Spirit Whale Clan had returned to reclaim the sea region, and a Nascent Soul whale emperor struck the array with a fourth-rank magic treasure.
• Wood Origin Immortal Sect’s disciples ordered the cultivators to defend the marketplace, and the shopkeeper led Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong to the North City Wall.
• A horde of more than a million demon beasts attacked the marketplace’s array, and Zhang Qingxuan called on the defenders to fight for battle merit.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong learned about the rewards and Zhang Qingxuan’s pseudo-core cultivation before joining the attack on the demon beast horde.

Nameless drove the million-strong demon tide away from Wrathful Whale Marketplace, then noticed Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong’s unusual auras before departing. After waiting for the area to calm, the two left the marketplace and traveled across the sea, wondering about other cultivation worlds and promising to explore them together someday.

• Nameless bound the Wrathful Blood Spirit Whale Emperor, wounded it with his magic treasures, and forced its demons to withdraw when an Azure Dragon appeared.
• After the battle, Nameless gave Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong a meaningful look, leading them to suspect he had recognized their Azure Sea Azure Sky True Scripture and to decide to keep a low profile.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong waited nearly half a month for the area to settle, then left Wrathful Whale Marketplace and admired the vast sea and its rich water energy.
• Ling Pengyun proposed that he and Ling Yunhong explore the Central Province and Northern Snow Cultivation Worlds a hundred years later, and Ling Yunhong agreed.
• Ling Pengyun released the Black Armored Turtle, and the two traveled three million li underwater over thirty days while its Aura Concealing Method helped them avoid demon groups.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong discovered and looted Old Taoist Qian Yuan’s cave residence, gaining valuable array and puppet legacies along with a record of his tragic life. After resolving to visit the mortals descended from Qian Yuan’s hidden clan, they traveled to the Dragon Scale Shark Sea Region, where Ling Yunhong used an Azure Water Token to guide them onward.

• Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong noticed a body cultivator kill his friend on a barren island, then break into a concealed cave residence with a Formation Breaking Talisman.
• The two Foundation Establishment Completion cultivators killed the body cultivator, entered the cave residence, collected its treasures, and dismantled its Second Grade Middle Rank Array Formation.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong examined their spoils and read Old Taoist Qian Yuan’s journal, learning about his destroyed family, his betrayal by Zhang Qingxuan, and the legacy he left behind.
• Ling Pengyun proposed visiting Turtle Cloud Island to help any mortals with spiritual roots among Qian Yuan’s former clan, and Ling Yunhong agreed.
• More than four hundred days later, Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong reached the Dragon Scale Shark Sea Region, where Ling Yunhong activated an Azure Water Token and directed them to follow it.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong reached the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect’s secret realm with the help of Kui Yuan, a white-haired Golden Core cultivator who recognized their ancestor Ling Zhu. They entered the sect and were sent to undergo its Heart Questioning Grand Formation, while the gate guards speculated about their origins.

• Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong encountered a Dragon Scale Shark swarm and revealed their Lifebound Magic Items to draw out its controller.
• Kui Yuan examined their items and cultivation, recognized them as descendants of Ling Zhu, and agreed to take them into the sect.
• Kui Yuan led the two through a hidden seafloor valley and opened the secret-realm entrance with her Kui Yuan Token.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong entered the Azure Sea Azure Sky Immortal Sect’s vast island realm and learned its dimensions from Kui Yuan.
• Kui Yuan flew them through the sect gate toward the Heart Questioning Grand Formation, while the gate guards wondered whether they were descendants of a high-ranking sect member.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong underwent the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect’s heart-questioning trial and were cleared of suspicion as enemy spies. Azure Water True Person recognized them as Ling Zhu’s descendants and considered repaying his debt to their ancestor by taking them in, while Wen Yun True Person revealed that Azure Water was nearing Golden Core Completion.

• Kui Shui True Person brought Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong to Heart Questioning Hall, where Wen Yun True Person activated the Heart Questioning Grand Formation.
• The formation put Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengyun to sleep, and Wen Yun True Person observed that both had unusually resilient divine senses.
• Wen Yun True Person questioned the pair and learned of Ling Pengyun’s Five Spirit Root, spirit-plant talent, and search for a Golden Core Opportunity.
• Azure Water True Person arrived, recognized Ling Zhu’s descendants, and learned that the pair had passed the trial without being identified as enemy spies.
• Wen Yun True Person warned that the pair knew the location of a hidden secret-realm entrance threatened by the Saint Demon Sect, while Azure Water True Person said he owed Ling Zhu a debt and would arrange matters for the descendants.
• Wen Yun True Person discovered that Azure Water True Person was nearing Golden Core Completion.

Azure Water True Person offered Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong a choice of Golden Core opportunities and accepted them as registered disciples in his lineage. They chose Kui Water True Evil, and he brought them to his island residence after warning them not to reveal the secret realm and asking them to help protect his future Nascent Soul breakthrough.

• Wen Yun True Person released Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong from the Heart Questioning Grand Formation, and they recognized and greeted Azure Water True Person.
• Azure Water True Person invited the two to join his lineage and offered either a Core Forming Pill in fifty-three years or three Golden Core Spirit Objects, including two strands of Kui Water True Evil, in three years.
• Ling Pengyun chose the Kui Water True Evil, and Azure Water True Person promised two strands and another ordinary Golden Core Spirit Object while warning them that leaving the sect would trigger a deadly restriction.
• Azure Water True Person asked them to protect him when he attempted to reach the Nascent Soul realm in a hundred years, and the two pledged to help if they achieved Golden Core.
• Azure Water True Person took Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong to an island with a high-grade Water Vein, where they saw two bamboo houses and many Azure Water Spirit Bamboos.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong settled on Azure Water Island, where they received the Explosive Tempering God Art and tended the Azure Water Spirit Bamboo. After Wang Ying explained the grades of Golden Cores, Ling Pengyun secretly used Yin Yang Primordial Qi to improve Ling Yunhong’s aptitude, and Ling Yunhong realized the source of his change.

• Azure Water True Person gave Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong the Explosive Tempering God Art and assigned them to care for the Azure Water Spirit Bamboo.
• Ling Pengyun cultivated the method and reached its fourth layer over the following year.
• Wang Ying returned and explained the differences between low-, middle-, and high-grade Golden Cores, as well as Spirit Source Golden Cores.
• Ling Yunhong asked Ling Pengyun to return to the family in two years to help stabilize its territory while Ling Yunhong continued cultivating.
• Ling Pengyun secretly attached Yin Yang Primordial Qi to Ling Yunhong, then activated it days later to improve Ling Yunhong’s aptitude.
• Ling Yunhong recognized that Ling Pengyun had altered his aptitude and decided to keep the discovery to himself and repay him.