Chapter Summaries

Ling Penglin discovered a school of Scaled-Tooth Black Fish in the Main Vein of the Underground River and exterminated them before they could become a threat to the Ling Clan. Her search of the river yielded numerous spirit veins and spiritual resources, and she stopped only after exhausting her formation materials.

• Ling Penglin inspected the injured Second Rank Fire Spirit Vein, drove the Flame Sprite back into the Azure Spirit Volcano, and sealed the volcano with the Endless Flame Fire Formation.
• Ling Penglin spotted nearly two hundred Scaled-Tooth Black Fish, including a Foundation Establishment Black Fish King, approaching from downstream and trapped them in her Yellow Sand Erosion Grand Array.
• Ling Penglin killed the entire school of fish, then followed their trail to a Second Rank Low Grade spirit vein guarded by more Scaled-Tooth Black Fish.
• Ling Penglin killed the nest's guards, collected immature aquatic herbs and fish eggs, and set up a Second Rank formation to protect the spirit vein for the Ling Clan.
• Ling Penglin searched the Main Vein of the Underground River for half a month, killing thousands of Qi Training Demon Beasts and eight Foundation Establishment fish demons while finding more than ten First Rank spirit veins, eight Second Rank spirit veins, and many spiritual plants.
• Ling Penglin ended her search after using up her array-setting materials.

Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Ling Penglin discovered a First Rank Azure Spirit Volcano beneath the Underground River and discussed how it could benefit the clan. Ling Penglin accepted a promise of help extending her lifespan, and agreed to let Ling Pengyun take the volcano’s core demon spirit, the Azure Spirit monarch.

• Ling Penglin showed Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi the Azure Spirit Volcano and explained that it had formed after the nearby Fire Spirit Vein advanced to the Second Grade.
• Ling Pengyun found a Deep Blue Flame Demon Spirit inside the volcano and said the spirit fire could support several fire chambers for the clan’s alchemists and Weapon Refiners.
• Ling Penglin credited Yan Siyi with finding the site, but Yan Siyi and Ling Pengyun persuaded her to accept the merit and choose a reward.
• Ling Penglin asked for a spiritual item to increase her lifespan, and Ling Pengyun promised to help her find one and urged her to continue cultivating.
• Ling Penglin agreed to let Ling Pengyun take the core Flame Sprite, which she believed was better suited to his long lifespan and Golden Core Realm cultivation.

Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Ling Penglin explored the Underground River Mainstream, claimed its spirit veins, and gathered a vast haul before returning to their duties. Ling Penglin then delivered the expedition’s eggs, cubs, and spirit fish to Ye Fan on Spirit Beast Island.

• Ling Pengyun placed a divine sense imprint on the Flame Monarch, gave it fire-element inner cores, and ordered it to raise the grade of its Azure Spirit Volcano.
• Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Ling Penglin searched the Underground River Mainstream, killing demon beasts and claiming spirit veins as they went.
• The trio collected demon beast eggs and cubs, spirit fish, and spirit plants, and discovered more than three hundred First Rank and over twenty Second Rank spirit veins.
• After they returned to the surface, Ling Penglin stored the expedition’s materials at Lingyun Island and asked Ling Pengshan to arrange clan guards for the spirit veins.
• Ling Penglin brought two hundred eggs and cubs and five hundred spirit fish to Spirit Beast Island, asking Ye Fan to care for them.

Lin Fan entrusted Ling Penglin with repairing a damaged token that might locate a Third Rank Array Formation, while Spirit Beast Island’s growing population of beasts and fish burdened him with daily work. Meanwhile, Ling Pengyun and the Ling Clan finished transforming the Muddy Swamp Territory into a vast lake, named it Lingxiao Thousand Stars Lake, and headed back to Lingyun Island.

• Lin Fan chased after Ling Penglin and showed her a token he had found near the Second Rank Beast Taming Inheritance, asking her to repair its damaged array patterns and help locate the formation it activated.
• Ling Penglin identified the token as an object for activating at least a Third Rank Array Formation, agreed to repair it within ten years, and swore a Heavenly Dao Oath not to harm Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan settled Ling Penglin’s two hundred spirit beast cubs and five hundred spirit fish on Spirit Beast Island, where the enlarged population left him overwhelmed with caretaking duties.
• Ling Pengyun and the other Ling Clan cultivators finished clearing the swamp black mud and flooded the territory, turning it into a lake dotted with a thousand islands.
• Ling Pengyun rewarded the cultivators and renamed the region Lingxiao Thousand Stars Lake, then led them toward Lingyun Island aboard the Lingxiao Flying Boat.

After Ling Pengyun returned to Lingyun Island, Ling Pengshan asked him to personally train Ling Wanchuan in spirit plant cultivation. Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi agreed to take Wanchuan into their household, and Ling Pengyun planned to reunite the family and bring Cheng Ping to Lingxiao Thousand Stars Lake.

• Ling Pengyun reported that the swamp had been transformed into Lingxiao Thousand Stars Lake, and Ling Pengshan recorded the clearing crew’s rewards and merits.
• Ling Pengshan asked Ling Pengyun to teach Ling Wanchuan, a gifted cultivator with talent for spirit plant cultivation.
• Ling Pengyun consulted Yan Siyi, who agreed to take Wanchuan in and asked him to bring Cheng Ping and their elderly parents back to the family.
• Ling Pengyun agreed to personally nurture Wanchuan and told Ling Pengshan to record Cheng Ping’s transfer and the planned transplant of Spirit Mulberry Trees.
• Ling Pengshan brought Wanchuan to meet Ling Pengyun, who welcomed him as family and then left with Yan Siyi and the child.

Ling Pengyun established War Spirit Island as the Ling Clan’s War Hall headquarters and set demanding rules for its members to earn their salaries through solo combat. After settling the group, he and Yan Siyi left to bring a clan aunt from Huai River County, while Ling Chengxia began organizing training for the less-confident members.

• Ling Pengyun brought Ling Chengxia, Ling Wanduo, and thirty Wan Generation clan members to War Spirit Island, where he assigned them cultivation space and Demon Beast Tokens for four islands filled with Qi Training demon beasts.
• Ling Pengyun required War Hall members to present three same-rank demon beasts they had killed alone each month to receive their salaries, offering extra pay for additional kills and expulsion for sustained failure.
• Ling Chengxia welcomed the rules because the demon beast corpses would help feed his four Golden Scale Pythons and ease his resource expenses, while Ling Wanduo and the others worried about meeting the combat requirements.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi settled Ling Wanchuan on Yunyi Island and left to retrieve a clan aunt from Huai River County, prompting Ling Wanchuan to hope that Aunt Cheng Ping would bring Spirit Mulberries.
• The next day, Ling Wanduo volunteered to hunt demon beasts, while Ling Chengxia offered daily sparring practice to the twenty-nine Wan Generation members who lacked confidence in fighting alone.

Ling Chengxia sent his four young Golden Scale Pythons to fight a stronger demon beast, and their teamwork let them kill a Qi Training Third Layer Yellow-Furred Bear. Impressed by their strength, Ling Wanduo considered visiting Spirit Beast Island to acquire a spirit beast of his own before he and Ling Chengxia continued hunting.

• Ling Chengxia and Ling Wanduo entered a Demon Beast Island and found a Yellow-Furred Bear Demon imprisoned within a light barrier.
• Ling Chengxia ordered Jin Da, Jin Er, Jin San, and Jin Si to kill the stronger bear, threatening to withhold their food if they failed.
• The four Golden Scale Pythons coordinated their attacks, restrained the bear, and Jin Da used the Giant Strength Technique to twist its neck apart.
• Ling Wanduo congratulated Ling Chengxia and wondered whether the pythons had an unusually powerful bloodline.
• Ling Chengxia told Ling Wanduo that Spirit Beast Island held promising demon beast cubs, and Ling Wanduo said he would visit after the hunt.
• Ling Chengxia collected the four pythons and the bear's corpse, then he and Ling Wanduo went to seek more demon beasts.

Saint Demon Old Man continued his attempt to break into the Azure Sea Secret Realm, hoping to steal its world origin and use it to improve his chance of reaching the Primordial Spirit realm. After the Void Treasure Crystals ran out, he withdrew with Chu Hui'er and the Saint Demon Sect forces, leaving the secret realm’s fate unresolved.

• Azure Sea True Lord and the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect cultivators kept the secret realm’s entrance stable while the Saint Demon Sect’s array battered its defenses.
• Chu Hui'er warned Saint Demon Old Man that the crystals were nearly depleted and that the sect’s resource spending risked causing dissent.
• Saint Demon Old Man rejected her concerns, insisting that the sect had to destroy the secret realm before the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect could rise again.
• Saint Demon Old Man privately recalled that he planned to refine the secret realm’s origin power to aid his breakthrough to the Primordial Spirit realm.
• When the crystals’ power ran out several days later, Saint Demon Old Man left guards behind and withdrew with Chu Hui'er and fifty thousand demonic cultivators.

After the Azure Sea Secret Realm crisis ended, Azure Sea True Lord rewarded Ling Yunhong with access to the sect’s Third Rank alchemy inheritances, hoping his fortune and alchemy talent would benefit the sect. Azure Water True Person then brought Ling Yunhong to the Technique Pavilion to collect the first inheritance.

• Azure Sea True Lord announced that the demonic sect army had withdrawn, and he thanked Ling Yunhong for helping defend the secret realm.
• Azure Sea True Lord granted Ling Yunhong a Third Rank Low Grade alchemy inheritance and promised access to higher-grade inheritances if Ling Yunhong advanced his alchemy.
• Azure Sea True Lord told Thundercloud True Person that the Azure Sea Pupil Technique revealed Ling Yunhong’s dense fortune and that he might become a Golden Core Completion cultivator and a Third Rank High Grade alchemist.
• Azure Water True Person brought Ling Yunhong to the Technique Pavilion, where Ling Yunhong saw the Golden Core Completion Profound Flame Lion guarding the entrance.
• Azure Water True Person informed the Profound Flame Lion that he was bringing Ling Yunhong to claim the inheritance, then led Ling Yunhong inside the pavilion.

Ling Yunhong read the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect’s Third Rank Low Grade Alchemy Inheritance and accepted a restriction to keep its contents secret. Back on Azure Water Island, he and Wang Ying discussed future pill refining before Azure Water True Person took Ling Yunhong aside for a private conversation.

• Azure Water True Person brought Ling Yunhong to the Technique Pavilion’s third floor and gave him the Third Rank Low Grade Alchemy Inheritance to study under strict secrecy rules.
• Ling Yunhong finished reading the inheritance, recognized that accepting it created a karmic debt to the sect, and returned it to Azure Water True Person, who placed a divine-sense restriction in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Azure Water True Person and Ling Yunhong returned to Azure Water Island, where Wang Ying congratulated Ling Yunhong and asked him to refine pills for her after she entered the Golden Core Realm.
• Ling Yunhong agreed to help Wang Ying, and Azure Water True Person joked with them before sending Wang Ying away and bringing Ling Yunhong into his Bamboo House to talk privately.

Ling Yunhong left the Azure Sea Secret Realm after promising Azure Water True Person that he and Ling Pengyun would protect the latter during his future Nascent Soul breakthrough. Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi returned to Falling Dusk Mountain, where they reunited with Ling Chengping and Ling Chengyuan and prepared to take Ling Chengping to the family's new clan grounds.

• Ling Yunhong told Azure Water True Person he planned to return to his family but would honor his vow to protect the master during his future breakthrough, and Azure Water True Person gave him a Third Rank High Grade Ice Soul Mysterious Water Talisman.
• Ling Yunhong said goodbye to Wang Ying, then left the secret realm with Azure Water True Person and set out from the Dragon Scale Sea Region toward home.
• Sunflower Water True Person watched Ling Yunhong depart and decided it was time to leave her post guarding the secret realm entrance and seek a successor.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi arrived at Falling Dusk Mountain aboard the Lingxiao Flying Boat, and Ling Chengping eagerly asked if they had come to take her to the new clan grounds.
• Ling Chengping showed Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi the Spirit Mulberries and Fruit Flower Honey she had saved, and Yan Siyi agreed to make her spiritual food.
• Ling Pengyun praised Ling Chengyuan's progress and promised to find him a Foundation Establishment Pill when he reached Qi Training Completion.

Ling Chengping reached Qi Training Completion and chose to attempt Foundation Establishment without a spiritual object, while Ling Pengyun continued organizing the clan’s new territory and supporting its members. After visiting Ling Pengliang and Wen Nianling at Lingxiao Mountain, Ling Pengyun took fifteen children with spirit roots to Lingxiao Thousand Stars Lake.

• Ling Pengyun guided Ling Chengyuan through his cultivation questions while Ling Chengping broke through to Qi Training Completion after eating Yan Siyi’s spirit food.
• Ling Chengping told Ling Pengyun she planned to attempt Foundation Establishment on her own after advancing the Explosive Tempering God Art, and Ling Pengyun praised her resolve.
• Ling Pengyun transferred spirit plants and silkworms from Falling Dusk Mountain, then gave Ling Chengyuan spirit fruits and left him to guard the mountain.
• Ling Pengyun visited Ling Pengliang and Wen Nianling at Lingxiao Mountain, gave them cultivation resources, and promised to send someone to help with their duties.
• Ling Pengliang told Ling Pengyun that fifteen children had tested positive for spirit roots, and Ling Pengyun took them to Lingxiao Thousand Stars Lake, including a child talented in alchemy.

Ling Pengyun visited Five Elements Marketplace with Yan Siyi and Ling Chengping, reunited with Ling Xiaoyan, and accepted Ling Xiaoshun and Yang Qiuyun’s decision to keep managing the clan’s shops. He then returned to Lingyun Island, entrusted new clan children to Ling Pengshan, and ordered a grand relocation banquet to be held in half a year.

• Ling Pengyun arrived at Five Elements Marketplace aboard the Lingxiao Flying Boat and was respectfully welcomed by a Pure Heart Daoist Temple cultivator.
• Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Ling Chengping reunited with Ling Xiaoyan at his restaurant and praised his progress as a spirit chef.
• Ling Pengyun and his family tried to persuade Ling Xiaoshun and Yang Qiuyun to retire, but the couple chose to continue managing the clan’s shops.
• Ling Pengyun returned to Lingyun Island and entrusted fourteen children, including the alchemy-talented Ling Wanliang, to Ling Pengshan’s care.
• Ling Pengyun ordered Ling Pengshan to announce a grand relocation banquet for half a year later and prepare it on the scale of his Golden Core banquet.

Ling Pengyun brought Ling Wanliang to Earth Fire Island and arranged for Ling Chengxin to teach him alchemy. After returning to Yunyi Island, Ling Chengping welcomed Ling Wanchuan with spirit fruits and honey before Ling Pengyun led them to the island’s spirit plant garden.

• Ling Chengxin explained that he planned to advance the Explosive Tempering God Art to its Fifth Layer before trying to refine Second Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Pills.
• Ling Pengyun asked Ling Chengxin to teach Ling Wanliang alchemy, and Ling Chengxin agreed to take the child under his care.
• Ling Wanliang excitedly kowtowed to Ling Chengxin, who told him to call him Uncle Cheng Xin instead of Master.
• Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Ling Chengping left Earth Fire Island and returned to Yunyi Island.
• Ling Wanchuan greeted Ling Chengping, who gave him Spirit Mulberries and Fruit Flower Honey as a meeting gift.
• Ling Pengyun led Ling Chengping and Ling Wanchuan toward the Second Rank Spirit Plant Garden to transplant spirit trees from Falling Dusk Mountain.

Ling Pengyun brought Ling Wanchuan through the Ling Clan’s highest-grade Spirit Plant Garden, where Wanchuan identified the brutality in two demon-blood-cultivated trees and demonstrated a Nourishing Technique. After learning of Wanchuan’s rapid progress in spirit-plant arts, Ling Pengyun considered how to guide him in choosing his first Natal Spirit Plant.

• Ling Pengyun showed Ling Chengping and Ling Wanchuan the Second Rank Middle Rank Spirit Plant Garden and its Second Rank High Grade Spirit Peach Tree and Third Rank Low Grade Yellow Jade Spirit Fruit Tree.
• Ling Wanchuan recognized that the trees’ auras carried traces of brutality and asked Ling Pengyun whether they had been cultivated with Ancient Demon Beast Blood.
• Ling Pengyun confirmed that the Swamp Giant Crocodile had cultivated the trees with demon beast blood and invited Wanchuan to try removing their brutality.
• Ling Wanchuan used a Nourishing Dharma Seal on the Spirit Peach Tree, weakening its brutality slightly before his Qi Training Second Layer spiritual power ran low.
• Ling Wanchuan told Ling Pengyun he had reached entry level in the Ripening Technique and Spirit Rain Technique in less than a year, but had not chosen a Natal Spirit Plant because Ling Pengshan wanted Ling Pengyun’s advice.

Ling Pengyun helped Ling Wanchuan choose a cultivation path and arranged for him to refine a Clear Water Spirit Bamboo as his Natal Spirit Plant once the clan produced a spirit seed. He established the Spirit Plant Garden on Yunyi Island and left Ling Chengping responsible for its silkworms.

• Ling Pengyun explained possible cultivation paths, and Ling Wanchuan chose to use spirit plants to strengthen his combat power.
• Ling Pengyun recommended Clear Water Spirit Bamboo for Ling Wanchuan and explained that producing its spirit seed would take at least a year.
• Ling Pengyun opened new Spirit Fields, planted the clan's spirit plants, and used cultivation techniques to promote their growth and encourage the Clear Water Spirit Bamboos to produce a seed.
• Ling Chengping released her Earth Silk Spirit Silkworms among the Spirit Mulberry Trees, and Ling Pengyun gave her a token granting access to the garden.
• Ling Pengyun left the Spirit Plant Garden and built Ling Chengping a cave dwelling with a First Rank High Grade Spirit Gathering Array.

Ling Pengyun assigned his Black Armored Turtle to guard the Ling Clan’s underground river holdings, then returned to Cloud Yi Cave Residence to continue transforming the Saint Demon Fate Continuation Art into a righteous secret art. Meanwhile, Lingxiao Marketplace had expanded into a thriving small city.

• Ling Pengyun inspected his spirit beasts and sent the Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer Black Armored Turtle to guard a water spiritual vein and protect Ling Clan cultivators along the Lingxiao Underground River.
• Ling Pengyun gave the Black Armored Turtle a formation token and a Clan Token, then showed it the Ling Clan’s underground spiritual veins and introduced it to their stationed cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun returned to Cloud Yi Cave Residence and resumed deducing the Saint Demon Fate Continuation Art into a method for righteous cultivators, having already completed more than half of the work.
• Lingxiao Marketplace had grown several times larger, with its shops and courtyards rented out and thousands of daily visitors drawn by its reputation and the Ling Clan’s spiritual goods.

A Qi Training Late Stage cultivator fleeing a black-clad highway robber reached Lingxiao Marketplace, prompting Ling Pengqiu to pursue and kill the attacker. Ling Pengqiu then condemned the rogue cultivators responsible for policing the region and ordered them summoned to the marketplace.

• A young cultivator called for help while fleeing a black-clad Early-Stage Foundation Establishment robber, and he used a Water Cloud Shroud Spirit Talisman to survive the robber’s attack.
• Ling Pengcheng identified the pursuer as a highway robber and summoned Ling Pengqiu, who chased the fleeing attacker on a flying boat.
• Ling Pengqiu killed the robber with his Crimson Sun Raging Flames Fan and returned to Lingxiao Marketplace to reassure its visitors.
• Ling Pengqiu blamed the more than twenty Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators tasked with keeping the region safe and ordered Ling Pengcheng to summon them to the marketplace.

Ling Pengcheng recruited Wang Quan, a talented talisman crafter from the Heavenly Talisman Sect, to cooperate with the Ling Clan after learning he had been targeted by an interceptor. Ling Pengqiu meanwhile prepared to discipline the Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators in Lingxiao Ridge, and the chapter ended with Wang Quan and Ling Pengcheng agreeing on terms for their business partnership.

• Ling Pengcheng agreed with Ling Pengqiu's plan to summon and discipline the Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators in Lingxiao Ridge, then sent patrol cultivators to notify them.
• Ling Pengcheng met Wang Quan, who explained that an Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Black-Clothed Interceptor had attacked him after buying talismans from his stall.
• Ling Pengcheng invited Wang Quan to join the Ling Clan as a Guest Elder, but Wang Quan declined because he was a True Inheritor Disciple of the Heavenly Talisman Sect in Chen Country.
• Ling Pengcheng proposed that Wang Quan refine Spirit Talisman Caves using materials supplied by the Ling Clan, and Wang Quan negotiated for higher payment in exchange for a sixty-percent success rate.
• Ling Pengcheng accepted Wang Quan's proposed prices, and the two headed deeper into the marketplace to begin their business arrangement.

Ling Pengqiu confronted the independent Foundation Establishment cultivators responsible for patrolling Lingxiao Ridge Territory and accused them of failing to stop robber cultivators. He left them with a new profit-sharing system that rewarded cultivators according to the robber cultivators they killed.

• More than twenty independent Foundation Establishment cultivators gathered after Ling Pengqiu summoned them, and Li Danian assured them the Ling Clan would not cancel their marketplace shares.
• Ling Pengqiu accused the cultivators of neglecting their patrol duties and challenged Li Danian over his leadership.
• Ling Pengqiu revealed that Li Danian had allegedly seized Spirit Fields from Qi Training cultivators, and Li Danian denied the accusation.
• Ling Pengqiu changed the distribution of thirty percent of marketplace profits so cultivators received more for killing robber cultivators, with recorded proof required.
• The Early-Stage cultivators welcomed the new system, while Li Danian and the other stronger cultivators accepted it rather than oppose the majority and Ling Pengqiu.