Chapter Summaries

Ling Chengxia killed the Winged Shadow Tiger and thousands of demon beasts, while five years later Ling Pengyun completed a set of nine Frosty Giant Whale Flags from Frosty Spiritwood and a Mystic Ice Giant Whale’s remains. The flags passed their Magic Treasure Tribulation, and Ling Pengyun named the new treasure set.

• Ling Chengxia used a Yin Yang Obliteration Ball to break the Winged Shadow Tiger’s defense, then helped the four golden flood dragons crush the beast to death.
• Ling Chengxia and the four golden flood dragons slew the thousands of Qi Training Demon Beasts that surrounded them, frightening away the Foundation Establishment beasts that arrived afterward.
• After five years of research, Ling Pengyun devised a magic treasure suitable for Third Rank Frosty Spiritwood and cut down three of his four Frosty Spirit Trees.
• Ling Pengyun used the Frosty Spiritwood, a Golden Core, whale hide, and the soul of a Mystic Ice Giant Whale to refine nine blue flags in his Blazing Fire Refining Furnace.
• Ling Pengyun used the giant whale summoned by the flags to withstand their Magic Treasure Tribulation, then named the treasure set the Frosty Giant Whale Flags.

Three years after beginning his work, Ling Pengyun simplified the Adaptation Treasure Pattern and used it to perfect the Mystic Ice Demon Corpse Refining Method with Ling Li Bing. The successful experiment established a powerful but difficult-to-produce corpse-refinement method, and Ling Pengyun left Ling Li Bing unconscious after transferring Yin Yang Primordial Qi into him.

• Ling Pengyun deduced First and Second Rank Adaptation Spirit Inscriptions from the Third Rank Adaptation Treasure Pattern.
• Ling Pengyun refined an ape demon corpse into a Steel Ape and used the Adaptation Spirit Pattern to harmonize its weapon-refining inscriptions with the Mystic Ice demon-corpse patterns.
• Ling Pengyun revived the Steel Ape as a Mystic Ice Demon Corpse and tested its strength, finding it stronger than ordinary corpses and free of a dangerous freezing side effect.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Li Bing celebrated the success and judged the method powerful but too difficult for mass production.
• Ling Pengyun praised Ling Li Bing, knocked him unconscious with spiritual power, and transferred the Yin Yang Primordial Qi he had condensed three years earlier into his body.

Ling Pengyun strengthened the Ling Clan’s demon corpse forces and used a precious pill to break through to the Golden Core Fourth Layer. He planned to seek further advancement before the next Demon Beast Uprising, which was drawing closer.

• Ling Pengyun awakened Ling Li Bing, who discovered that his body, cultivation, and demon corpse refinement knowledge had improved, then swore to keep the opportunity secret and received a restriction in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Ling Pengyun refined a Golden Core First Layer Mystic Ice Giant Whale corpse into a Steel Giant Whale Mystic Ice Demon Corpse and buried it on Demon Corpse Island to nourish it with demonic qi.
• Ling Pengyun assessed the Ling Clan’s growing strength and worried that Yan Kingdom would face the Crimson Gold Bear Race’s retaliation during the coming Demon Beast Calamity.
• Ling Pengyun swallowed a Third Rank Middle Grade Creation Purple Cloud Pill to overcome the bottleneck at the peak of the Golden Core Third Layer.
• Three months later, Ling Pengyun reached the Golden Core Fourth Layer and planned to advance further before the next Demon Beast Uprising, sixty-one years after the previous one.

Ling Pengyun’s Three-Eyed White Fox continued learning array formation from Ling Penglin, while Yan Siyi completed her twelve-year conversion to the Fire Cloud Treasure Tome and gained strength comparable to a Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator. Ling Pengyun congratulated her and suggested a Daoist title before reuniting with her in private.

• The Three-Eyed White Fox failed to refine a Second Rank Low Grade formation plate, and Ling Penglin reassured it that its progress was impressive.
• Ling Penglin reflected that the fox could become a pillar of the Ling Clan’s array formation path, while she had little lifespan left and still hoped to refine a Third Rank array formation.
• Yan Siyi completed her conversion to the Fire Cloud Treasure Tome, strengthening her spiritual power and divine sense and bringing her combat strength near the Golden Core Middle Stage.
• Ling Pengyun congratulated Yan Siyi and asked whether she would take Fire Cloud Old Daoist’s Daoist title, but she refused because it did not suit her.
• Ling Pengyun carried Yan Siyi to a bed inside the Meditation Room after telling her he had missed her during her long seclusion.

Hundred Spirits True Person pressured Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor and Wu Hong into binding themselves to the sect with a Soul Contract, promising Golden Core resources in return. After they signed, Bai Yuan warned that the sect had no Golden Core spirit objects left, but Hundred Spirits True Person hinted he had another way to obtain them.

• Wu Hong worried about his father’s seclusion, while Hundred Spirits True Person reassured him and learned that Wu Hong had nearly mastered two cultivation methods.
• Hundred Spirits True Person accused Wu Hong’s family of being insufficiently connected to the sect and demanded that Wu Hong serve at the White Cloud Mountain Range.
• Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor and Wu Hong agreed to swear oaths and sign a Soul Contract in exchange for the sect’s support for Wu Hong’s future Golden Core breakthrough.
• Hundred Spirits True Person wrote the contract, and Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor and Wu Hong signed it with their soul essence.
• Bai Yuan warned that the sect had no Golden Core spirit objects and that seeking them in the Boundless Sea Region would endanger Hundred Spirits True Person.
• Hundred Spirits True Person said he had never planned to obtain the spirit objects from the Boundless Sea Region, leaving Bai Yuan uncertain about his source.

Ling Pengyun attended Wu Yan’s Golden Core Ceremony and noticed signs that Hundred Spirits Sect might be concealing a water-element Golden Core cultivator or spirit beast. Half a year later, he questioned a covert Ling Clan informant about the sect’s use of water- and ice-element resources.

• Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and their son arrived at Hundred Spirits Sect for Wu Yan’s Golden Core Ceremony, where Hundred Spirits True Person recognized Yan Siyi’s Golden Core cultivation and Ling Pengyun’s advancement to the Golden Core Middle Stage.
• Ling Pengyun congratulated Wu Yan with three Third Rank Low Grade Gathering Yuan Pills and offered him access to the Ling Clan’s alchemy services; Wu Yan and Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor offered spirit-talisman services in return.
• Ling Pengyun gave Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor several dozen Frosty Spirit Tree branches to refine into ice-element Third Rank Spirit Talismans, and the old cultivator asked him to seek another such tree.
• Ling Pengyun noticed the Hundred Spirits Sect cultivators’ disappointment over the remaining Frosty Spirit Tree branches and suspected the sect was hiding a water-element Golden Core cultivator or spirit beast.
• Six months later, Ling Wanxun secretly entered Lingyun Island and reported to Ling Pengyun and Cheng Yuanbo, who asked whether he had uncovered the sect’s consumption of water- and ice-element spirit objects.

Ling Wanxun reported that the Hundred Spirits Sect had gathered elite disciples and secretly collected water- and ice-element serpent and python remains, leading Ling Pengyun and Ling Chengyuan to suspect it was preparing for war and had raised an ice jiao. Ling Pengyun concluded that the sect would likely attack the weakened Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and decided the Ling Clan should exploit the conflict to seize resources and strike the Ice Snow White Lions.

• Ling Wanxun told Ling Pengyun and Ling Chengyuan that the Hundred Spirits Sect had secretly collected water- and ice-element demon beast corpses and inner cores before stopping two years earlier, and had recently recalled its elite disciples.
• Ling Pengyun rewarded Ling Wanxun with three Second Rank Low Grade Spirit Peaches and ordered him to keep investigating while staying safe.
• Ling Pengyun reasoned that the Hundred Spirits Sect likely possessed an ice jiao and asked Ling Chengyuan which force it would target.
• Ling Chengyuan judged the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect the most likely target because its guardian spirit beast was dead and its sect master remained weakened by old injuries.
• Ling Chengyuan urged the Ling Clan to stay out of the conflict, but Ling Pengyun explained that he meant to seize resources and attack the Ice Snow White Lions for their corpses, minerals, and territory.
• Ling Chengyuan accepted Ling Pengyun's reasoning, and Ling Pengyun ordered him to secretly gather manpower to snatch resources during the coming conflict.

The Hundred Spirits Sect mobilized against the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, whose master chose to stay and defend while sending Liu Nian away with its Golden Core Spirit Objects. The Ling Clan also set out to attack, and the chapter ended as Hundred Spirits True Person sealed the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect inside a Third Rank trapping formation.

• Senior Brother Liu warned Liu Nian that the Hundred Spirits Sect's Dragon Abyss Flying Boat was heading toward the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• Ten Thousand Beasts True Person decided to remain with the sect and ordered Liu Nian to take its two Golden Core Spirit Objects and flee.
• Liu Nian escaped to a distant barren mountain and vowed to return and avenge the sect.
• Ling Pengyun rallied the Ling Clan cultivators, boarded the Lingxiao Flying Boat with them, and left Ling Chengyuan to guard the family with the Frosty Spirit Tree.
• Hundred Spirits True Person arrived with more than a thousand cultivators and used thirty-six formation flags to trap the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect inside a massive formation.

Hundred Spirits True Person besieged the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, using Formation Breaking Talismans to weaken its powerful defensive array. Ten Thousand Beasts True Person unleashed the Ten Thousand Beasts Subduing Heavens Array against the Dragon Abyss Flying Boat as Hundred Spirits True Person and his allies fought back, while Ten Thousand Beasts True Person attacked the boat’s barrier.

• Hundred Spirits True Person warned Bai Yuan and Wu Yan that Ten Thousand Beasts True Person had recovered and might soon break through, then steered the Dragon Abyss Flying Boat toward the sect.
• Ten Thousand Beasts True Person reinforced the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s protective array, but Hundred Spirits True Person brought the flying boat close and ordered his disciples to attack it.
• Hundred Spirits True Person sent ten Third Rank Low Grade Formation Breaking Talismans to the array, while he intercepted Ten Thousand Beasts True Person’s arrows; the talismans exploded and weakened the formation by about twenty percent.
• Ten Thousand Beasts True Person summoned the Ten Thousand Beasts Subduing Heavens Array, sending demon beast phantoms toward the Dragon Abyss Flying Boat.
• Hundred Spirits True Person raised a Third Rank Middle Grade defensive array and fought the phantoms alongside Bai Yuan and Wu Yan, while Ten Thousand Beasts True Person bombarded the boat’s barrier with the Golden Horn Bow.

The Profound Yang Sect arrived at the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect battlefield, where Profound Yang Old Daoist revealed his renewed lifespan and attacked Hundred Spirits True Person. The Ling Clan intervened to protect the Hundred Spirits Sect, and the factions settled into a fierce standoff around the Dragon Abyss Flying Boat.

• Profound Yang Old Daoist arrived with his sect’s forces and attacked Hundred Spirits True Person, explaining that a Lifespan Pearl had extended his life by more than thirty years.
• The Ling Clan arrived, and Ling Pengyun rejected Profound Yang Old Daoist’s offer to stay out of the conflict and challenged him for the Profound Yang Treasure Lamp.
• Ling Pengyun and the other Ling Clan cultivators suppressed Profound Yang Old Daoist’s treasure sword, forcing him to recall it and focus again on attacking the Dragon Abyss Flying Boat’s formation.
• Ten Thousand Beasts True Person recalled the remaining demon beast phantoms and fired arrows from the Golden Horn Bow at the Dragon Abyss Flying Boat.
• Hundred Spirits True Person, True Person Bai Yuan, and Wu Yan held off the combined attacks behind their formation as its spiritual light gradually dimmed.

Ling Pengyun and the Hundred Spirits Sect pursued the fleeing Profound Yang Sect cultivators after overwhelming their forces. Blazing Sun True Person died buying time for Profound Yang Old Daoist to escape, and Ling Pengyun’s group continued the chase after killing Tu Yang Zhenren.

• Ling Pengyun used the Lingxiao Flying Boat and three Crimson Gold Netherflame Corpses to break Blazing Sun True Person’s array and attack the Profound Yang Flying Boat.
• Profound Yang Old Daoist used the Profound Yang Lamp to escape, and Ling Pengyun joined Hundred Spirits True Person in pursuit while Ling Yunhong and Yan Siyi stayed behind to watch Ten Thousand Beasts True Person and the Hundred Spirits Sect’s cultivators.
• Blazing Sun True Person raised his cultivation with secret arts, trapped Ling Pengyun’s group, and gave his Storage Bags to Profound Yang Old Daoist in exchange for promises to care for his descendants.
• Hundred Spirits True Person shattered the trapping array, and Ling Pengyun killed Blazing Sun True Person before the group resumed the chase.
• Ling Pengyun’s group caught Profound Yang Old Daoist again, killed Tu Yang Zhenren, and forced Profound Yang Old Daoist to injure Hundred Spirits True Person before escaping with the wounded Qiu Shui Zhenren.

After helping destroy the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, Ling Pengyun negotiated with Hundred Spirits True Person for the Ling Clan to receive the sect’s Third Rank Spirit Vein and Golden Essence True Fiend Pool in exchange for guarding the frontier against the Ice Snow White Lions. The two forces divided the sect’s enormous spoils, leaving the Ling Clan and Hundred Spirits Sect as the new masters of its territory, though the sect’s core inheritances had been destroyed.

• Ling Pengyun regretted failing to kill Profound Yang Old Daoist and Qiu Shui Zhenren, but noted that the battle had killed two Profound Yang Sect Golden Cores and weakened the old Daoist.
• Ling Pengyun and the other Golden Cores returned to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, broke its defensive array, and slaughtered Ten Thousand Beasts True Person and the sect’s remaining cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun demanded the local Third Rank Spirit Vein and Golden Essence True Fiend Pool, and Hundred Spirits True Person agreed in exchange for most of the remaining wealth and the Ling Clan’s oath to defend against the Ice Snow White Lions.
• Ling Pengyun and Hundred Spirits True Person sent others to guard their territories, then plundered the sect and led the slaughter of its affiliated families and stationed disciples while sparing ordinary subordinate forces.
• Ling Pengyun and Hundred Spirits True Person inventoried more than seventeen million spirit stones’ worth of spoils, including the Ten Thousand Beasts Subduing Heavens Array and the Golden Horn Bow and arrows.
• Ling Pengyun lamented that Ten Thousand Beasts True Person had destroyed the sect’s core technique inheritances, leaving only low-level inheritances for the Ling Clan.

Ling Pengyun and Hundred Spirits True Person divided the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s spoils and territories, leaving the Ling Clan with the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Region and a share of its demon beasts. Ling Pengyun began organizing the new territory and reflected that the Ling Clan had become a true Golden Core Force, while looking toward the Purple Scorpion Ridge Territory.

• Ling Pengyun traded the Ling Clan’s thirty percent share of spirit treasures for the Ten Thousand Beasts Subduing Heavens Array, and he and Hundred Spirits True Person divided the sect’s spirit veins between their clans.
• Hundred Spirits True Person claimed the Thick Earth Spirit Turtle Territory and most of Beast Taming Valley’s demon beasts, then departed with the Hundred Spirits Sect’s spoils.
• Ling Pengyun kept more than fifteen hundred Qi Training demon beasts and six Foundation Establishment demon beasts, and praised their potential to strengthen the Ling Clan’s spirit-beast line.
• Ling Pengyun learned from Ling Pengcheng that Lin Fan had not married into the Ling Clan and might be growing close to Cheng Ping.
• Ling Pengyun assigned Ling Pengcheng to manage the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Region’s mortals and spirit veins, then stood atop Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain and considered the Ling Clan a true Golden Core Force.

After the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect fell, Profound Yang Old Daoist returned to Profound Yang Mountain with Qiu Shui Zhenren and prepared his disciple to carry the sect’s future. News of the Ling Clan’s growing power spread across Yan Kingdom, while Ling Yunhong’s clan assessed the territory and resources it had acquired.

• Jin Yang Zhenren learned that his master, Blazing Sun True Person, and Tu Yang had died, and vowed revenge on the Ling Clan and Hundred Spirits Sect.
• Profound Yang Old Daoist told Qiu Shui Zhenren that the weakened sect’s survival depended on his cultivation and ordered him to use its Third Rank resources.
• A month later, news of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s destruction and the Ling Clan’s three Golden Core Demon Beast corpse puppets alarmed Medicine King Valley and Pure Heart Daoist Temple.
• Ling Yunhong joined the Ling Clan’s upper echelon at the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect Ruins, where Ling Pengcheng reported on the territory’s population, spirit veins, allied families, and captive demon beasts.

Ling Pengyun proposed relocating the Ling Clan’s ancestral grounds and mortals to the former Ten Thousand Beasts Sect territory, renaming the region and consolidating its local forces. Three months later, Liu Haochan of the Heavenly Star Sect arrived to meet Ling Pengyun, who went down to greet him.

• Ling Pengyun proposed moving the Ling Clan’s ancestral grounds and its mortals to the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Region, renaming it the Lingxiao Mountain Region, and integrating its existing population and submitted families.
• The Ling Clan’s leaders approved Ling Pengyun’s plans, and the clan began transporting more than one million mortals from Huai River County by flying boats.
• Three months later, Liu Haochan, Third Elder of the Heavenly Star Sect, arrived beneath Lingxiao Mountain and announced that he had come to visit the Ling Clan.
• Ling Pengyun recognized Liu Haochan as the Heavenly Star Sect’s Golden Core Completion true inheritor and descended to meet him.

Ling Pengyun agreed that the Ling Clan would pay the Heavenly Star Sect an annual tribute of thirty thousand spirit stones. Liu Haochan then revealed the Crimson Gold Bear Race’s plans for the coming Demon Beast Uprising, leaving Ling Pengyun aware of Yan Kingdom’s danger and the Heavenly Star Sect’s need for its forces to remain united.

• Ling Pengyun welcomed Liu Haochan and asked why he had come to the Ling Clan’s new Clan Mountain.
• Liu Haochan said the Ling Clan owed the Heavenly Star Sect thirty thousand spirit stones each year for occupying the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s territory, and Ling Pengyun reluctantly agreed to pay.
• Liu Haochan warned Ling Pengyun that the Crimson Gold Bear Race planned to target Yan Kingdom in the approaching Demon Beast Uprising.
• Liu Haochan revealed that the mother of the slain Nascent Soul bear’s offspring had gathered at least twenty Golden Core subordinates and intended to capture Yan Kingdom.
• Liu Haochan urged Ling Pengyun not to spread the secret or let Yan Kingdom’s Golden Core Forces fall into internal conflict, warning that the Heavenly Star Sect would hold the Ling Clan accountable if forces fled and disrupted its plans.

Ling Pengyun learned that the next Demon Beast Uprising could pose a greater threat and concluded that the Ling Clan needed more strength and resources. Later, a Shadow Hall report led him to suspect that Hundred Spirits True Person was searching for someone connected to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s missing Golden Core Spirit Objects, so he ordered an investigation.

• Liu Haochan warned Ling Pengyun about the Crimson Gold Bear Race’s plans, and Ling Pengyun swore a Heavenly Dao Oath not to reveal the information.
• After Liu Haochan departed, Ling Pengyun worried that the next Demon Beast Uprising would be more dangerous and resolved to strengthen the Ling Clan through warfare.
• A Shadow Hall clansman reported that Hundred Spirits True Person had met with True Person Tianfu and that the Heavenly Talisman Sect had since searched for someone across regional markets.
• Ling Pengyun connected the search to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s two missing Golden Core Spirit Objects and suspected the unidentified person might have come from that sect.
• Ling Pengyun ordered the Shadow Hall to investigate whether the Hundred Spirits Sect was searching for someone in Yan Kingdom and to extend the investigation to other Cultivation Countries.

Ling Pengyun learned that Hundred Spirits Sect personnel were searching for someone in Yan Kingdom, while a year later a reclusive cultivator emerged from a concealed cave in the Boundless Great Swamp after completing his Tempering Meridians Method. He left with his Golden Feather Great Peng, intending to reach the Central Province Cultivation World by teleportation or cross the Boundless Desert.

• Ling Pengyun ordered the Shadow Hall to investigate Hundred Spirits Sect agents and arranged for a Third Rank Low Grade Message Treasure Mirror to restore communication with the Chen Country branch.
• A Shadow Hall operative reported that disguised Hundred Spirits Sect personnel were searching marketplaces, and Ling Pengyun rewarded him with one thousand family Contribution Points.
• A Black Feather Great Peng discovered a concealed cave in the Boundless Great Swamp, but a Golden Feather Great Peng killed it and carried its body inside.
• The Golden Feather Great Peng asked its master whether he had completed the Tempering Meridians Method, and the Ice-Faced Man confirmed that he had.
• The Ice-Faced Man explained that he needed a Third Rank Spirit Vein to attempt a Golden Core breakthrough and chose to seek a teleportation route to the Central Province Cultivation World or cross the Boundless Desert.
• The Ice-Faced Man mounted the Golden Feather Great Peng, put away the concealment array, and left the cave.

Hundred Spirits True Person tracked down Liu Nian, Ten Thousand Beasts True Person’s disciple, but Ling Pengyun intervened before he could kill him. The two powers agreed to divide Liu Nian’s two missing Golden Core Spirit Objects, then joined forces to attack him as he fought off a demonic corpse with talismans.

• Hundred Spirits True Person followed the Golden Feather Great Peng’s bloodline trail and caught up with Liu Nian in Yuan Kingdom.
• Hundred Spirits True Person attacked Liu Nian, but Ling Pengyun arrived and blocked his flying sword while sending a demonic corpse after Liu Nian.
• Ling Pengyun and Hundred Spirits True Person fought over Liu Nian, and Ling Pengyun’s many treasures and demonic corpses briefly gave him the advantage.
• Hundred Spirits True Person offered Ling Pengyun one Golden Core Spirit Object for an additional one hundred and twenty thousand spirit stones, and Ling Pengyun accepted.
• Ling Pengyun and Hundred Spirits True Person turned their attacks on Liu Nian, who used Third Rank Spirit Talismans to withstand the Golden Core First Layer demonic corpse.

Ling Pengyun and Hundred Spirits True Person killed Liu Nian and divided his valuable spirit objects and inheritance, while Ling Pengyun wondered how Hundred Spirits True Person had tracked him down. Elsewhere, Liu Haochan completed a concealed Quasi Fourth Rank array intended to strike the Crimson Gold Bear Race during the next Demon Beast Uprising.

• Ling Pengyun and Hundred Spirits True Person overwhelmed Liu Nian, killed him, and divided the Golden Feather Great Peng's corpse after Liu Nian's beast-taming method killed it.
• Ling Pengyun and Hundred Spirits True Person opened Liu Nian's Storage Bags, found rare treasures and Ten Thousand Beasts Sect inheritances, and copied his manuals and books.
• Ling Pengyun took the Profound Heaven Water and a killing array, but Hundred Spirits True Person refused spirit objects offered as compensation, prompting Ling Pengyun to suspect he needed spirit stones for a Golden Core Spirit Object.
• Liu Haochan finished laying the Quasi Fourth Rank Earthen Soil Starfall Extinction Array across a barren plain and set its nine Yellow Seals to absorb earth-vein power for thirty years.
• Liu Haochan planned to use the array during the next Demon Beast Uprising to kill Golden Core Demon Kings and cripple or destroy the Crimson Gold Bear Race.