Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengqiu reached Foundation Establishment Completion after changing to the Fire Cloud Treasure Tome, then used Ling Pengyun’s support and Core Breaking Peak’s formation to survive his Golden Core tribulation. After joining the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect as a Guest Elder, he asked Thundercloud True Person to grant Ling Pengyun a Third Rank Spirit Plant Inheritance, leaving Thundercloud hesitating.

• Ling Pengqiu completed his cultivation of the Fire Cloud Treasure Tome and prepared to pursue the Golden Core Realm with the treasures Ling Pengyun had obtained for him.
• A year later, Ling Pengyun watched Golden Core tribulation clouds gather over Core Breaking Peak and celebrated the prospect of the Ling Clan gaining another Golden Core cultivator.
• After surviving nine bolts of lightning tribulation, Ling Pengqiu thanked Ling Pengyun for helping him attain the Dao.
• Thundercloud True Person invited Ling Pengqiu to become a Guest Elder of the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect, and Ling Pengqiu accepted.
• Ling Pengqiu asked Thundercloud True Person to grant Ling Pengyun a Third Rank Spirit Plant Inheritance, and Thundercloud hesitated.

Thundercloud True Person granted Ling Pengyun a Third Rank Low Grade Spirit Plant Inheritance in exchange for a future supply of Gathering Yuan Grass and his eventual service to the sect. At Bishui Island, Wang Ying gifted Ling Pengqiu Wood Flood Dragon blood and revealed the sect’s flood dragon dual cultivation methods, prompting Ling Pengyun to consider finding Earth Flood Dragons for his son Cheng Xia’s Golden Flood Dragons.

• Thundercloud True Person agreed to give Ling Pengyun the inheritance on condition that his clan supply the sect with Gathering Yuan Grass in a century and that Ling Pengyun eventually help tend its spirit plants.
• Thundercloud True Person gave Ling Pengyun the Third Rank Low Grade inheritance after he memorized it, swore a Heavenly Dao Oath, and accepted a restriction in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengqiu returned to Bishui Island and learned that Wang Ying had reached the Golden Core realm.
• Wang Ying gave Ling Pengqiu three hundred jin of her Wood Flood Dragon’s blood to help his Fire Serpent Python transform, explaining that she hoped the two flood dragons could later cultivate together.
• Wang Ying revealed that the sect possessed dual cultivation methods for all Five Elements of flood dragons, and Ling Pengyun said he wanted to find Earth Flood Dragons to help Cheng Xia’s Golden Flood Dragons cultivate faster.

Azure Water True Person reached Golden Core Completion and offered Ling Pengyun a chance to join the sect, but Ling Pengyun declined. Before Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengqiu left, Azure Water True Person gave Ling Pengyun a Quasi Fourth Rank Spirit Talisman Cave to help the Ling Clan withstand the Nascent Soul Demon Race and support his own future breakthrough.

• Azure Water True Person emerged from seclusion after reaching Golden Core Completion, and Ling Pengyun, Wang Ying, and Ling Pengqiu congratulated him.
• Azure Water True Person invited Ling Pengyun to join the sect as a core disciple, but Ling Pengyun declined because he wanted to remain with his clan.
• Azure Water True Person congratulated Ling Pengqiu on entering the Golden Core Realm and gifted him a superior Third Rank High Grade Ice Soul Mysterious Water Talisman Cave.
• Azure Water True Person held Dao Discussions with Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengqiu for about half a month, helping Ling Pengyun sense progress toward Golden Core Fifth Layer and strengthening Ling Pengqiu's confidence in advancing.
• Azure Water True Person gave Ling Pengyun a Quasi Fourth Rank Spirit Talisman Cave and urged him to prepare the Ling Clan for the Saint Demon Sect's retaliation.
• Ling Pengyun accepted the gift, promised to help Azure Water True Person when he attempted the Nascent Soul Realm, and left Azure Water Island with Ling Pengqiu.

Ling Pengyun visited Ling Pengshan on Turtle Spirit Island, rewarded him for strengthening the Han Clan branch, and reviewed the branch’s operations and intelligence. He offered Han Feng a chance to reach Late-Stage Foundation Establishment in exchange for a marriage alliance, leaving Han Feng to learn what the arrangement would require.

• Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengqiu reunited with Ling Pengshan and gave him six lifespan-enhancing items, which restored twenty to thirty years of his life.
• Ling Pengshan updated them on the Han Clan’s expansion, its remaining rivals, and the loyal service of Wan Xuan and Han Feng.
• Ling Pengyun credited Ling Pengshan’s service toward Ling Chengshi’s future Lifebound Magic Items and examined the intelligence Wan Xuan had gathered.
• Ling Pengyun summoned Han Feng and asked whether he wanted a chance to enter Late-Stage Foundation Establishment.
• Han Feng accepted the opportunity and asked what Ling Pengyun wanted in return, and Ling Pengyun answered, “Marriage alliance!”

Ling Pengyun arranged for Han Feng to pursue a marriage alliance with the Qiu Family and rewarded Wan Xuan for his service and intelligence. After hearing about wars among nearby Nascent Soul forces, he sent Ling Pengqiu toward the Azure Water Sect to seek demonic materials and a chance to secure a spirit vein for the clan.

• Ling Pengyun told Han Feng to seek a marriage alliance with the Qiu Family, investigate its lack of successors, and help the Han Clan unify Turtle Spirit Island.
• Wan Xuan arrived at the Han Clan Mountain, and Ling Pengyun rewarded him with a Miasma Breaking Pill and a high-grade treasure sword before asking for intelligence.
• Wan Xuan reported that the Wood Origin Immortal Sect was close to defeating the Mystic Ice Giant Whale Race and that the Azure Water Sect might soon fight the Mystic Nether Sect over a spirit iron mine.
• Ling Pengyun ordered Ling Pengqiu to pose as an unaffiliated cultivator, join the Azure Water Sect if war began, and seek third-rank demonic materials and a spirit vein.
• Ling Pengyun explained that demonic materials were needed for his corpse-refining methods and that Ling Pengqiu would fare better against the Mystic Nether Sect than the water-specialized giant whales.

Ling Pengyun visited the Wind Shadow Peng on Turtle Spirit Island, urging it to strengthen itself and help the Ling Clan unify the island. Meanwhile, the Azure Water Sect launched a surprise attack on the Yin Soul Sect, and its patrol raised the alarm as the attackers approached.

• Ling Pengyun found the Wind Shadow Peng at Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer and gave it spirit fruits, urging it to advance and master two demonic cultivation arts.
• The Wind Shadow Peng promised to work toward Foundation Establishment Completion and worried that Ling Pengyun would grow too powerful for them to meet again.
• The Azure Water Sect and Mystic Nether Sect formally went to war over a mineral vein, then began recruiting forces and targeting each other's allies.
• Qiu Shan and Huo Yun led thirty cultivators into the Mystic Nether Sea Region to attack the Yin Soul Sect, whose remaining Golden Core cultivator was Yin Spirit.
• A Yin Soul Sect patrol spotted Qiu Shan's flying boat, identified the Azure Water Sect attackers, and crushed a sect token to warn the sect.

Ling Pengqiu, posing as Fire Cloud True Person, helped Qiu Shan True Person destroy Yin Soul Island and plunder the Yin Soul Sect's treasury. He left with demonic materials and the Evil Ghost Banner for Ling Pengyun, then planned to earn battle merits for cultivation resources.

• Qiu Shan True Person and Fire Cloud True Person broke Yin Soul Sect's protective formation and led their group in an assault on Yin Soul Island.
• Qiu Shan True Person and Fire Cloud True Person killed Yin Spirit Old Ghost and wiped out the island's demonic cultivators.
• Fire Cloud True Person claimed Yin Spirit Old Ghost's corpse, his Evil Ghost Banner, and other materials, agreeing to yield Qiu Shan True Person an extra share from the treasury.
• Qiu Shan True Person divided the treasury's usable items, while Fire Cloud True Person selected demonic materials for refining demon corpses.
• As the group departed, Fire Cloud True Person was revealed to be Ling Pengqiu, who intended to use the spoils to strengthen Ling Pengyun and pursue battle merits for cultivation resources.

Qiu Mingyue and four Qiu Family cultivators were overwhelmed by Water Moon Octopuses on the sea route to Wood Origin Marketplace until Han Feng arrived and killed the Foundation Establishment octopus king. After Han Feng challenged the Qiu Family over its failure to keep the route safe, Qiu Baitian waived the Han Clan’s passage fees for ten years and asked him to keep the incident quiet.

• Qiu Mingyue and four Qiu Family cultivators fought off a Water Moon Octopus swarm, and Mingyue used a Second Rank Low Grade Water Serpent Talisman to destroy most of the attackers.
• A Foundation Establishment Water Moon Octopus King arrived with reinforcements, and Mingyue used her remaining Second Rank Spirit Talismans to protect the group as their defenses faltered.
• Han Feng arrived aboard an Azure Flying Boat and used nine crimson flying swords to kill the octopus king and its Qi Training followers.
• Qiu Baitian and the others thanked Han Feng, who questioned why the Qiu Family had failed to keep its sea route safe and suggested nearby forces should not pay for unreliable passage.
• Qiu Baitian promised to report the failure and waived the Han Clan’s passage fees for ten years, asking Han Feng not to spread what had happened.

After Han Feng rescued Qiu Mingyue and her clan members, Qiu Baiqian arranged for his daughter to become Han Feng’s Dao Companion, bringing the Han Clan and Qiu Family closer. The chapter ends with Ling Pengshan waiting for the Qiu Family’s False Core Old Ancestor to die before the Ling Clan branch makes its move.

• Han Feng escorted Qiu Mingyue and the Qiu Family cultivators toward home, where they met Qiu Baiqian, who thanked Han Feng for saving them.
• Qiu Baiqian considered the Han Clan a potential ally against the Wild Goose Mountain Bai Clan and the Golden Scale Huang Family, while wrongly suspecting those families had caused the demon-beast attack.
• Qiu Baiqian visited Turtle Spirit Island with gifts and proposed that Han Feng and Qiu Mingyue cultivate a relationship; Han Feng accepted.
• Han Feng and Qiu Mingyue became Dao Companions within half a year, and the Han Clan and Qiu Family developed closer business and marriage ties.
• Ling Pengshan resolved to wait until the Qiu Family’s aged False Core Old Ancestor died before the Ling Clan branch acted.

The Ling Clan announced a marriage recruitment ceremony, drawing hundreds of independent cultivators hoping to become sons-in-law or gain rewards. After three days of duels, ten cultivators of at least the Qi Training Seventh Layer won places in the final selection.

• Huang Daoyou and Old Li Head read the Ling Clan’s marriage notice and decided to travel there with Huang Daoyou’s son.
• More than three hundred outside cultivators gathered at the Ling Clan Guest Hall for the ceremony.
• Ling Chengxia arrived on his Golden Flood Dragon and set age and cultivation requirements, warning unqualified applicants to leave.
• Ling Chengxia announced that ten contestants would be chosen as potential sons-in-law, while unsuccessful fighters would receive a flying sword and spirit stones.
• After three days of one-on-one fights, ten cultivators with at least Qi Training Seventh Layer cultivation emerged as winners.

After a year in the Boundless Sea Region, Ling Pengyun returned to the Ling Clan with battle spoils after fighting the Mystic Ice Giant Whale Race for the Wood Origin Immortal Sect. He gave Yan Siyi spiritual water and left to deliver more to Ling Yunhong, warning that the next Demon Beast Uprising was approaching.

• Ling Pengqiu recruited a dozen skilled independent cultivators into the Ling Clan External Affairs Hall, and Ling Chengxia led them into the Lingxiao Small Plains to see the clan’s territory.
• Ling Pengyun returned to Lingxiao Mountain after spending six months fighting the Mystic Ice Giant Whale Race and earning battle merit and demon-beast corpses.
• Ling Pengyun exchanged his battle merit and spirit stones for a Golden Core Spirit Object, Foundation Establishment resources, and other spiritual objects before returning home.
• Yan Siyi questioned Ling Pengyun’s willingness to risk his life in battle, and he explained that the rewards and the approaching Demon Beast Uprising made the fighting worthwhile.
• Ling Pengyun gave Yan Siyi three bottles of Third Rank Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water, then left to deliver more spiritual water to Ling Yunhong.

Lin Fan and Ling Chengping watched an Earth-Turning Earthworm survive a painful transformation into a Half-Jiao after taking a Serpent Blood Pill. Their discussion of how it might become a true jiao was interrupted when Ling Chengxia arrived on a Golden Flood Dragon and teased them about hiding from the clan’s matchmaking ceremony.

• Lin Fan used a healing secret art on the Earth-Turning Earthworm, then stopped when he realized the treatment was preventing scales from forming.
• The Earth-Turning Earthworm completed its transformation, growing tough yellow scales and a forehead bulge as it released a flood dragon’s roar.
• Lin Fan judged that the earthworm had absorbed the Serpent Blood Pill’s flood dragon blood and said stronger pills or Flood Dragon Essence Blood could help it become a true jiao.
• Ling Chengping worried that obtaining Flood Dragon Essence Blood would be difficult, while noting that the clan could make more Serpent Blood Pills.
• Ling Chengxia arrived riding a Golden Flood Dragon, teased Ling Chengping and Lin Fan about meeting in secret, and drew Ling Chengping’s attention to his mount.

Ling Chengping persuaded Ling Chengxia to give the family's Earth-Turning Earthworm a drop of the Golden Flood Dragon's essence blood so it could transform into a flood dragon. After three days, the earthworm awakened with a flood dragon body and bloodline.

• Ling Chengping told Ling Chengxia that the Earth-Turning Earthworm could become a powerful Earth-Turning Dragon Earthworm, and asked him for essence blood from his Golden Flood Dragon.
• Lin Fan confirmed the earthworm's abilities and explained how long it might take to condense Spirit Veins, including Third Rank ones.
• Ling Chengxia decided the potential benefit to the family was worth the cost and had the Golden Flood Dragon give up a drop of essence blood.
• Ling Chengping fed the essence blood to the Earth-Turning Earthworm, which fell asleep.
• Three days later, the earthworm awakened with a horn, fish-scale-like patterns, and a flood dragon bloodline, then responded warmly to the Golden Flood Dragon.

Ling Chengping and Lin Fan confessed their feelings and agreed to spend their lives together, while Ling Chengxia secretly witnessed them and told their parents. Ling Pengyun resolved to test Lin Fan’s intentions, then sent Ling Chengxia into seclusion and carried Yan Siyi away after she laughed at him.

• Ling Chengping and Lin Fan discussed his feelings for her, and she agreed to travel with him in search of rare spirit beasts.
• Ling Chengxia watched Ling Chengping and Lin Fan clasp hands, then flew to Lingxiao Mountain to tell their parents.
• Ling Pengyun said he would secretly question Lin Fan with a Third Rank Illusion Technique as a Heart Questioning Grand Formation.
• Ling Pengyun ordered Ling Chengxia to cultivate until he reached Late-Stage Foundation Establishment and kicked him into a cultivation room.
• Ling Pengyun carried Yan Siyi into a room after she laughed at his reaction.

Yang Qiuyun successfully entered the Foundation Establishment Realm, reuniting Ling Pengyun’s family in celebration. Elsewhere, a Golden Core cultivator recovered from old injuries but remained weakened and sought a healing treasure, while his disciple noticed his improved condition.

• After three days of Qi Infusion, Yang Qiuyun emerged from seclusion having successfully reached the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Ling Xiaoshun congratulated Yang Qiuyun, and Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi gave her a gift and planned a family celebration.
• Ling Pengyun recalled how his parents had supported his early cultivation and said he wanted their family to be whole.
• At Profound Yang Mountain, an elderly Golden Core Completion cultivator recovered from his injuries but found his foundation and strength still damaged.
• The elderly cultivator decided to seek a superior Third Rank High Grade Healing Treasure Pill and summoned several people, including his disciple, who asked if his injuries had recovered.

Xuanyang True Person learned that Medicine King Valley had refused to refine pills for the Profound Yang Sect and planned to attack it after healing his wounds. As he left the sect, the Ling Clan and Hundred Spirits Sect ambushed him at the Yan Kingdom–Chen Country border, where Ling Pengyun prepared to kill him.

• Qiu Shui Zhenren told Xuanyang True Person that Medicine King Valley had refused their request to refine Third Rank Gathering Yuan Pills, and Xuanyang True Person decided to raid its treasury once his wounds healed.
• Xuanyang True Person gave Qiu Shui Zhenren the sect's Third Rank High Grade Sect Protecting Array Formation command token and left the Profound Yang Sect to seek medicine and an external alchemist.
• A Hundred Spirits Sect cultivator who had been watching the Profound Yang Sect pursued Xuanyang True Person after he departed, though Xuanyang True Person showed a sinister expression as he flew away.
• At the Yan Kingdom–Chen Country border, thirty-six array flags trapped Xuanyang Old Daoist in a Third Rank Middle Grade formation.
• Ling Pengyun revealed that the Ling Clan and Hundred Spirits Sect had sent their Golden Core cultivators to surround Xuanyang Old Daoist, then declared that he would kill him.

Ling Pengyun, Ling Yunhong, Yan Siyi, and the Hundred Spirits Sect cultivators overwhelmed the Profound Yang Old Daoist, who had attacked the Ling Clan. As they prepared to finish him, five Golden Core cultivators of the Blood Fiend Sect appeared after he called for their aid.

• Ling Pengyun used his Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Treasure Pearl and summoned an array of magic treasures and demon corpses to battle the Profound Yang Old Daoist’s Profound Yang Treasure Dragon.
• Ling Yunhong and Yan Siyi arrived and combined their attacks to crack the Profound Yang Shield protecting the Profound Yang Old Daoist.
• The Hundred Spirits Sect’s Golden Core cultivators joined the fight, and their combined assault shattered the Profound Yang Old Daoist’s defenses.
• The Profound Yang Old Daoist used a defensive spirit talisman to buy time and called on the Blood Fiend Sect for help.
• Five Blood Fiend Sect Golden Core cultivators emerged near the battlefield, including one at Golden Core Completion.

Ling Pengyun exposed Xuanyang True Person’s alliance with the Blood Fiend Sect as five Golden Core blood ghosts joined the battle. As the blood ghosts threatened to overwhelm his side, Ling Pengyun ordered his allies to unleash their full strength and summoned eight demonic corpses, leaving the battlefield transformed into a demonic domain.

• A Blood Fiend Sect cultivator used Bloodfiend Possession to transform himself and four fellow Golden Core cultivators into six-armed blood ghosts.
• Ling Pengyun accused the wounded Profound Yang Old Daoist of colluding with demonic cultivators, but Xuanyang True Person said he intended to kill everyone who could expose the alliance.
• The five blood ghosts blocked attacks from Ling Pengyun’s eleven Golden Core combatants, allowing Xuanyang True Person to recover and rejoin the fight.
• A pseudo-Nascent Soul blood ghost charged Ling Pengyun, tore apart one of his Crimson Gold Netherflame Corpses, and badly injured two others.
• Ling Pengyun told Yan Siyi and Ling Yunhong to stop holding back, then summoned six Demon Iron coffins as his allies opened two more.
• Eight coffins released six Mystic Ice Giant Whale demon corpses and two humanoid Netherflame Corpses, filling the battlefield with demonic qi.

The Ling Clan’s overwhelming Golden Core force left Profound Yang Old Daoist desperate to flee, while Qiu Shui Zhenren learned that his master’s scheme had failed and began evacuating the Profound Yang Sect. Ten Thousand Medicines True Person intercepted the fleeing sect leaders and prepared to stop them on behalf of the Ling Clan and Hundred Spirits Sect.

• After the Ling Clan revealed ten Golden Core Demon Corpses and three Golden Core cultivators, Profound Yang Old Daoist crushed a Mother-Child Token and attacked the formation trapping him as he planned to escape.
• Qiu Shui Zhenren discovered that the token had shattered, told Jin Yang Zhenren and Mist Water True Person that Profound Yang Old Daoist had colluded with demonic cultivators and failed, and led them to collect the sect’s valuables and remove its protecting formation.
• Qiu Shui Zhenren, Jin Yang Zhenren, and Mist Water True Person left the Profound Yang Sect, but Ten Thousand Medicines True Person appeared and blocked their path.
• Ten Thousand Medicines True Person revealed that he had been tasked by the Ling Clan and Hundred Spirits Sect with stopping the trio, then displayed his Golden Core Seventh Layer cultivation.
• Ten Thousand Medicines True Person explained his resentment toward the Profound Yang Sect and summoned his Ten Thousand Flames Burning Annihilation Furnace, warning the three not to leave the sect’s territory.

Mist Water True Person revealed his century-long infiltration of the Profound Yang Sect and helped Ten Thousand Medicines True Person defeat Qiu Shui Zhenren. After avenging his father, Mist Water pledged himself to Ten Thousand Medicines Valley, which waited for the Ling Clan and Hundred Spirits Sect.

• Qiu Shui Zhenren and Jin Yang Zhenren attacked Ten Thousand Medicines True Person, who trapped their weapons with the Ten Thousand Flames Burning Annihilation Furnace.
• Ten Thousand Medicines True Person called on Mist Water True Person to emerge from his century-long cover, and Mist Water removed his Profound Yang Sect oaths with a Seal Removal Spirit Talisman.
• Mist Water True Person killed Jin Yang Zhenren with the Weak Water Gourd and trapped Qiu Shui Zhenren in a cage of weak water.
• Mist Water True Person explained that Qiu Shui Zhenren had caused his father's death by forcing him to refine pills, then spent his lifespan to keep Qiu Shui from escaping.
• Medicine King Zhenren arrived and killed Qiu Shui Zhenren, after which Mist Water True Person vowed to serve Ten Thousand Medicines Valley.
• Medicine King Zhenren and Mist Water True Person waited for the Ling Clan and Hundred Spirits Sect, leaving Qiu Shui and Jin Yang's possessions untouched for fear of the Blood Golden Core cultivators.