Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi lay low after spending heavily at an auction, then learned that Mo Qianqiu had reached Golden Core and strengthened the Mo Family. Half a year later, Spirit Array Old Ancestor and Mo Qianqiu killed a powerful Wood Serpent Dragon with a grand formation and collected its remains.

• Yan Siyi traded three Gathering Yuan Pills and a thousand spirit stones for ten pounds of Scarlet Flame Treasure Iron to improve her Lifebound Magic Treasure.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi left the exchange gathering with Jia Mu Zhenren and hid in a marketplace cave abode after spending seven hundred and eighty thousand spirit stones at the auction.
• Jia Mu Zhenren told Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi that Mo Qianqiu had survived a Golden Core tribulation with the aid of a rented Fourth Rank formation.
• Yan Siyi recognized Mo Qianqiu as the Hundred Spirits Sect formation prodigy and predicted that his breakthrough would help the Mo Family rise.
• Spirit Array Old Ancestor and Mo Qianqiu used the Blazing Sun Heavenly Sword Grand Formation to kill a Golden Core Middle Stage Wood Serpent Dragon and gather its corpse and blood.

Spirit Array Old Ancestor and True Person Qianqiu helped the Mo Family’s earth flood dragon transform into a true flood dragon and prepare to form a Golden Core. The dragon survived its tribulation with the help of a hidden formation, while Spirit Array Old Ancestor continued scheming to seize Serpent Dragon Lake.

• Spirit Array Old Ancestor fed the Yellow Scale Flood Dragon Python the corpse of a Golden Core Middle Stage Wood Serpent Dragon, and it transformed into a true flood dragon.
• Spirit Array Old Ancestor told True Person Qianqiu that the Mo Family would eventually scheme to seize Serpent Dragon Lake, but withheld the secret of its Dragon Vein and Dragon Blood Grass because of his oath.
• Spirit Array Old Ancestor gave the flood dragon a Wood Origin Spirit Fruit to aid its Golden Core breakthrough, and it began cultivating in seclusion.
• The flood dragon triggered a lightning tribulation on Radiant Light Island, while a concealed Third Rank Middle Grade Blazing Sun Heavenly Sword Grand Formation hid the event from outsiders and knocked the island’s cultivators unconscious.
• The formation destroyed the tribulation’s lightning, allowing the flood dragon to form its Golden Core, and Spirit Array Old Ancestor judged the expenditure of the formation’s stored power worthwhile.

Ling Pengyun and his wife were pursued by the Gold and Earth Fiend brothers, who tried to kill them for their Double Dragon Overturning Sea Array. As Fire Yang Zhenren and Jia Mu Zhenren arrived, the brothers fought to break free of the Water Dragons and escape.

• A Wood Origin Marketplace guard reported that two figures had left heading southeast, and the Gold and Earth Fiend brothers set out after them.
• The disguised brothers caught up with Ling Pengyun and his wife, pretending to ask for directions before launching an ambush.
• Ling Pengyun activated the Double Dragon Overturning Sea Array, sending two Water Dragons to attack the brothers and shield the couple from Geng Metal Arrow Feathers.
• Fire Yang Zhenren and Jia Mu Zhenren arrived on a flying boat, prompting the brothers to fear they would not escape alive.
• The Gold and Earth Fiend brothers unleashed their Innate Spells and magic treasures, suppressing the Water Dragons long enough to try to break free.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi helped Fire Yang Zhenren kill the Gold Fiend and Earth Fiend brothers, then received six valuable pills as payment for serving as bait. The brothers’ remaining possessions went to Fire Yang Zhenren, who had arranged the ambush to eliminate the bandits and bolster his plans to establish a family.

• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi joined the fight, using their magic treasures to pressure Gold Fiend and Earth Fiend while waiting for Fire Yang Zhenren and Jia Mu Zhenren to arrive.
• Fire Yang Zhenren arrived and easily killed both brothers with his Sun Treasure Furnace, then collected their surviving valuables.
• Fire Yang Zhenren gave Ling Pengyun six promised pills, which Ling Pengyun assessed as worth a total of three hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Fire Yang Zhenren explained that he had targeted the brothers after realizing they planned to rob Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi, who had recently bought the Double Dragon Overturning Sea Array.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi accepted the pills and did not challenge Fire Yang Zhenren for the brothers’ remaining possessions.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi learned of a Hump Mountain Whale herd deep in the Mystic Ice Giant Whale Sea Region and set out to capture it. They successfully seized the herd and left with the whales and several spiritual herbs.

• Fire Yang Old Daoist speculated that Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi had the backing of a powerful force, then rewarded Jia Mu Zhenren with five Gathering Yuan Pills.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi returned to Han Clan Mountain, where Ling Pengshan told them about a gentle-tempered Hump Mountain Whale herd in the Mystic Ice Giant Whale Sea Region.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi departed to capture the herd, and Ling Pengshan's family learned that Yan Siyi had reached the Golden Core Realm and promised to keep it secret.
• After traveling a million li into the Mystic Ice Giant Whale Sea Region, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi found the herd in an undersea valley and sealed it with the Five Elements Return Origin Grand Array.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi knocked out the Hump Mountain Whales, placed them in Beast Taming Pouches, collected immature water-element herbs, and left the valley.

Ling Pengyun discovered a Frosty Forest growing around a rare Ice Spirit Vein, guarded by Mystic Ice Giant Whales, and planned to seize its valuable spirit trees. He and Yan Siyi began drawing the whale Demon Kings away from the forest, leaving Yan Siyi fighting two of them while Ling Pengyun prepared to act.

• Ling Pengyun left Yan Siyi behind and secretly found a trench containing an Ice Spirit Vein and hundreds of Frosty Spirit Trees guarded by four Mystic Ice Giant Whale Demon Kings.
• A Frosty Spirit Tree broke through to the Third Rank, and the whales used a Third Rank Middle Grade formation to block its tribulation lightning, damaging the formation in the process.
• Ling Pengyun returned to Yan Siyi, and they searched the surrounding sea before confirming there were no other nearby Golden Core Demon Kings to reinforce the trench.
• Yan Siyi openly charged toward the trench and drew out two Golden Core Initial Stage Mystic Ice Giant Whales, while one Initial Stage and one Middle Stage Demon King stayed behind.
• Yan Siyi used her formation, Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot, and Crimson Gold Sword to hold off the two whales, then burned her blood with the Blood Burning Technique and advanced to the Golden Core Second Layer.

Ling Pengyun attacked the Mystic Ice Giant Whale guarding the seabed trench, using his Crimson Gold Netherflame Corpses to occupy it while he seized six Frosty Spirit Trees. The Whale King raised its cultivation from Golden Core Fifth Layer to Golden Core Seventh Layer and charged at Ling Pengyun, leaving him in immediate danger.

• The Mystic Ice Giant Whales called for aid, and Yan Siyi used the distraction to flee with three Golden Core Initial Stage whales pursuing her.
• Ling Pengyun slipped into the trench and attacked the Golden Core Middle Stage Mystic Ice Giant Whale with the Double Dragon Overturning Sea Array.
• Ling Pengyun summoned three Crimson Gold Netherflame Corpses, which pressured the whale and weakened its damaged formation with corrosive Netherworld True Fire.
• Ling Pengyun used a transplanting secret technique to calm and collect six Third Rank Frosty Spirit Trees, then began gathering nearby lower-ranked trees.
• The Golden Core Fifth Layer Whale King surged to Golden Core Seventh Layer, broke through the Netherworld True Fire, and charged toward Ling Pengyun.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi fought the Mystic Ice Giant Whales, killing two while one escaped, then fled with the corpses. Their actions triggered a devastating war between the Wood Origin Immortal Sect and the Mystic Ice Giant Whale Race, while the couple remained unaware and attended a farewell banquet on Turtle Spirit Island.

• Ling Pengyun fought off a Golden Core Fifth Layer Whale King while finishing the Frosty Spirit Tree transplant, then escaped when the whale’s strength-enhancing technique weakened.
• Yan Siyi’s strength-enhancing technique ended as three Golden Core Initial Stage Mystic Ice Giant Whales pursued her, and Ling Pengyun arrived to help trap them in her grand array.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi killed two of the trapped whales, but Xuan San escaped after raising its cultivation with a life-risking technique; Ling Pengyun took the two corpses and left with Yan Siyi.
• A Golden Core Late Stage Mystic Ice Giant Whale led an incursion into the Wrathful Whale Sea Region, where the whales destroyed human settlements and killed their inhabitants.
• The Wood Origin Immortal Sect fought the intruders, losing five Golden Core cultivators while killing nine whales, and launched a retaliatory campaign that escalated into a Nascent Soul war.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi attended a farewell banquet at Ling Pengshan’s courtyard on Turtle Spirit Island, unaware of the war their actions had set in motion.

Sima Changguang agreed to help the Sima Family secretly seize cultivators and refine a Demon Core Forming Pill while the Wood Origin Immortal Sect was distracted by war. Later, Ling Pengyun captured a group of Golden Sand Turtles and heard Wang Xuan offer himself as a servant, asking what he could provide.

• Yuan Xuan urged Sima Changguang to exploit the Wood Origin Immortal Sect's war and obtain a Demon Core Forming Pill to help Sima Dao Ming and save the Sima Family.
• Sima Changguang agreed to take the risk and told Dao Ming to gather trusted family members before the sect requisitioned them.
• Wang Xuan led Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Ling Chengshi to the island where the Golden Sand Turtles were hiding, and Ling Pengyun captured them.
• Ling Pengyun spared Wang Xuan because his information was accurate; Wang Xuan explained that he had betrayed his former demon-hunting team to survive.
• Wang Xuan offered to become Ling Pengyun's servant, and Ling Pengyun asked what he could bring him.

Ling Pengyun recruited Wan Xuan as a concealed informant in the Wood Origin Sea Region, binding him with a Blood Soul Seal and tasking him with gathering intelligence for the Han Clan. After reaching Wood Origin Marketplace, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi agreed to help the Wood Origin Immortal Sect hunt a dangerous demonic force, and left with Jia Mu Zhenren.

• Wan Xuan offered his connections in the Wood Origin and Wrathful Whale Sea Regions, and Ling Pengyun accepted him as a servant under a Blood Soul Seal.
• Ling Pengyun gave Wan Xuan three thousand spirit stones and ordered him to gather faction intelligence from a shop, secretly support the Han Clan, and remain hidden.
• Ling Pengyun warned Wan Xuan against embezzling the shop’s profits with his Golden Core pressure, then sent him away to return to Wood Origin Marketplace alone.
• A day later, Jia Mu Zhenren told Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi that a Golden Core Middle Stage demonic force had destroyed many factions and vanished across the Wood Origin Sea Region.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi agreed to help search for the demonic cultivators in exchange for the Wood Origin Immortal Sect’s promised rewards, then left with Jia Mu Zhenren.

Ling Pengxing entered Foundation Establishment through Ghost Dao cultivation and unlocked the Foundation Establishment chapter of the Ghost Yin Treasure Canon. On Yunyi Island, Ling Wanchuan also broke through to Foundation Establishment and planned to share the news with his family.

• Ling Pengxing absorbed ghost qi to break through to Foundation Establishment, then agreed to give Wang Shi the Lingxiao Life Extension Art after Wang Shi swore not to share it.
• Ling Pengxing entered the Ghost Yin Lamp and revealed the Foundation Establishment cultivation route, four Innate Spells, and the Shadow Thorn ghost soldier method.
• Ling Pengxing discovered that the Ghost Yin Treasure Canon could be cultivated to Golden Core First Layer and suspected the lamp's remaining walls held higher-realm cultivation methods.
• Ling Wanchuan's Second Rank Clear Water Spirit Bamboo transferred spiritual power to him as he attempted a breakthrough.
• Ling Wanchuan used his divine sense to guide the Qi Infusion and broke through to Foundation Establishment, then resolved to tell his family.

Ling Wanchuan celebrated his independent Foundation Establishment breakthrough with his aunt and visited his mortal parents. Meanwhile, Jia Mu Zhenren’s search squad found no trace of the demonic cultivators, so Ling Pengyun urged him to summon the Wood Origin Demon Slayer Treasure Sword.

• Ling Wanchuan stored his Foundation Establishment Clear Water Spirit Bamboo and learned from Ling Chengping that Ancestor Peng Yun and Grandma Si Yi had not returned to the clan.
• Ling Chengping gave Ling Wanchuan Spirit Mulberries, Fruit Flower Honey, and other delicacies to take to his parents on Wanchuan Island.
• Ling Wanchuan told his parents he had broken through in cultivation, but they urged him to keep the spiritual food and focus on cultivating.
• Half a month later, Jia Mu Zhenren and his squad finished searching their assigned area without finding the demonic cultivators, and the other three squads reported the same result.
• An elderly Golden Core cultivator suggested inviting the Wood Origin Demon Slayer Treasure Sword, and Ling Pengyun agreed that Jia Mu Zhenren should summon it.

Ling Pengyun and his companions followed a Sword Soul to a desolate island where Sima Changguang tried to prevent them from searching for demonic qi. Sima revealed his demonic allegiance and attacked, but Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi quickly gained the upper hand against him.

• Jia Mu Zhenren returned with four Sword Souls from the Wood Origin Demon Slayer Sword, and the group used them to hunt demonic cultivators across nearby sea regions.
• In the Wrathful Whale Sea Region, Jia Mu Zhenren's Sword Soul led the group to a desolate island where Sima Changguang claimed a clansman was attempting to break through to Foundation Establishment.
• Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Clear Wine Zhenren insisted on searching the island, and Jia Mu Zhenren began to descend while the others watched Sima Changguang.
• Sima Changguang activated a formation that trapped the group and attacked them, revealing his intent to enter the demonic path.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi unleashed their treasures and formations together, forcing Sima Changguang onto the defensive.

Ling Pengyun defeated and killed Sima Changguang, then freed Jia Mu Zhenren and Qingjiu Laodao from the array. The group searched Sima Changguang’s hidden island and found the newly refined Demon Core Forming Pill.

• Sima Changguang summoned three Golden Core corpse puppets and used a life-risking technique, but Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi continued to overwhelm him.
• Ling Pengyun revealed his Golden Core Second Layer body-cultivation strength and beat Sima Changguang until he captured the man’s escaping soul and took his possessions.
• Sima Changguang’s death caused his trapping array to vanish, freeing Jia Mu Zhenren and Qingjiu Laodao.
• Ling Pengyun collected the array flags and told the two cultivators he would keep Sima Changguang’s possessions for himself.
• The group searched the hidden island, killed its guard Sima Xuanyuan, and found a blood-wreathed Demon Core Forming Pill in a jade box.

Ling Pengyun and his companions uncovered evidence that the Sima Family had inherited the Corpse Driving Sect’s demonic legacy and agreed to divide the family’s wealth after destroying it. They broke into Fish Dragon Island, killed the Sima cultivators who resisted, and began plundering the family’s holdings, including a valuable Third Rank Low Grade Spirit Peach Tree.

• Jia Mu Zhenren identified the red cloth as a fragment of the Demon Locking Mortal Transformation Cloth and suspected the Sima Family had used the Demon Core Forming Pill in its rise to power.
• Ling Pengyun asked Jia Mu Zhenren and Qingjiu Laodao to yield him the Demon Core Forming Pill and cloth, and they agreed to divide the Sima Family’s remaining wealth, reserving thirty percent for the sect.
• Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, Jia Mu Zhenren, and Qingjiu Laodao reached Fish Dragon Island and spent five days breaking through its Third Rank Low Grade defensive array.
• The group killed the Sima Family cultivators who counterattacked, then searched and plundered the family’s buildings and other holdings.
• Ling Pengyun’s group found treasures worth more than two million spirit stones, including a Third Rank Low Grade Spirit Peach Tree that had belonged to the Yang Family.

Ling Pengyun and his companions divided the spoils from the Sima Family’s defeat, then returned to the Northern Wilderness Cultivation World. There, the Three-Eyed White Fox recovered from its long-standing injuries and promised to advance its cultivation.

• Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, Jia Mu Zhenren, and Qingjiu Laodao divided the Sima Family’s treasures and copied its cultivation methods; Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi took the Spirit Peach Tree and Dragon Whisker Fish school.
• The group searched the Sima Family’s spirit veins, killed the cultivators who had fled, and collected their wealth before claiming rewards from the Wood Origin Immortal Sect.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi took Ling Chengshi through the Wood Origin Marketplace Teleportation Array and left the Wood Origin Sea Region.
• A year later, the Three-Eyed White Fox’s damaged meridians healed after it consumed the Yi Wood Wound Transformation Pill, and its cultivation advanced to the Qi Training Late Stage.
• Ling Pengyun urged the fox to cultivate diligently, and it promised to reach Foundation Establishment within three years before receiving spirit fruits from him.

Ling Penglin completed a control token for the Ling Clan’s Two Elements Life Severing Array, giving the clan command of a powerful hidden defense formation. On Earth Fire Island, Ling Chengxin successfully refined three portions of Small Hundred Spirits Water and confirmed that his success rate made the process profitable.

• Ling Penglin used the token to control the Third Rank High Grade Array Formation and revealed its defensive Life Severing Shield and offensive Life Severing Hammer.
• Ling Penglin told Ling Pengyun that she had completed the formation’s control token, and she explained that the array artifacts could store Earth Vein Power and threaten even powerful Golden Core cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun celebrated the formation as a new Ling Clan trump card and considered the cavern a potential hidden refuge, though the formation needed to remain there to protect the teleportation array and spirit vein.
• Ling Chengxin refined a batch of medicinal ingredients into three portions of Small Hundred Spirits Water after deciding that attempting five portions at once was too risky.
• Ling Chengxin confirmed his thirty percent success rate made refining Small Hundred Spirits Water profitable and resolved to try refining the Meridian Protecting Pill.

Ling Chengxin lamented that Ling Wanliang had abandoned alchemy to pursue battle, while Ling Wanliang fought and subdued a powerful Red-haired Fire Wolf. Ling Wanliang returned toward Spirit Beast Island with the wolf unconscious in his Beast Taming Pouch.

• Ling Chengxin discovered that Ling Wanliang had left a letter and decided to train more clan members in alchemy rather than rely on him.
• Ling Chengxin recalled how Ling Wanliang had made little progress in alchemy but advanced rapidly in cultivation by repeatedly fighting demon beasts.
• Ling Wanliang used the Blood Burning Technique and another dangerous secret art to raise his cultivation while battling a Red-haired Fire Wolf.
• Ling Wanliang battered the fire wolf with a black iron staff until it feared him and wailed in submission.
• Ling Wanliang knocked the fire wolf unconscious, placed it in a Beast Taming Pouch, and headed toward Spirit Beast Island.

Ling Chengxia and four Golden Flood Dragons entered the Winged Shadow Tiger Territory to hunt metal-attributed demon beasts for food. They attacked a mountain of Golden Fur Tigers, and Ling Chengxia wounded a Foundation Establishment Third Layer tiger with his Yin Yang Transformation Profound Mirror, but it survived.

• Ling Chengxia led Jin Da, Jin Er, Jin San, and Jin Si into the Winged Shadow Tiger Territory to hunt metal-attributed demon beasts after the Ling Clan ran out of suitable inner cores.
• Jin Da sensed four Foundation Establishment demon beasts and over a thousand Qi Training beasts in a nearby spirit mountain, and Ling Chengxia agreed to attack quickly.
• The group discovered that the mountain was inhabited by Golden Fur Tigers, and Ling Chengxia ordered the four Golden Flood Dragons to use their fusion spell to break through the tigers' formation.
• The fused Golden Flood Dragon Phantom and the four dragons charged into the tiger formation, while a Foundation Establishment Third Layer Golden Fur Tiger attacked Ling Chengxia.
• Ling Chengxia fused his red and blue treasure mirrors into the Yin Yang Transformation Profound Mirror and blasted the tiger several zhang away, leaving a deep chest wound, but it survived.

Ling Chengxia and the four golden flood dragons wiped out the Golden Fur Tiger pack, then faced a concealed Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Winged Shadow Tiger. Ling Chengxia unleashed an Yin Yang Obliteration Ball that badly damaged the tiger but failed to kill it, leaving him completely drained as the fight continued.

• Ling Chengxia used the Yin Yang Transformation Profound Mirror to kill the Foundation Establishment Third Layer Golden Fur Tiger, and he and the flood dragons slaughtered the Golden Fur Tiger pack.
• An enraged roar came from the Winged Shadow Tiger Territory, and Ling Chengxia discovered a concealed Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Winged Shadow Tiger attacking with nine black flying daggers.
• Ling Chengxia refused to flee, restored his spiritual power with a Qi Recovery Pill, and used a life-risking technique to raise his cultivation to the Foundation Establishment Second Layer.
• Ling Chengxia and the four golden flood dragons fought the Winged Shadow Tiger, which donned Dark Gold Full Body Armor and used a life-risking technique to reach the Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer.
• Ling Chengxia raised his cultivation to the Foundation Establishment Fourth Layer and struck the tiger with an Yin Yang Obliteration Ball, damaging its armor and burning away much of its fur but leaving it alive.