Chapter Summaries

After the Clan Meeting, Ling Chengyuan used his new spirit-fruit allowance to prepare for cultivation, while Lin Fan helped the Earth-Turning Dragon Earthworm give birth to a golden spirit egg. The egg proved healthy and unusually gifted, and Ling Chengping gained permission to raise it.

• Ling Chengyuan finished reviewing the clan elders’ memorials and looked forward to using Second Rank High Grade Spirit Peaches to advance his cultivation before the Demon Beast Uprising.
• Lin Fan used the Fetal Production Technique to help the Mother Dragon Earthworm lay a golden spirit egg fathered by Jin Da.
• Lin Fan examined the egg and sensed that its offspring was healthy, carried faint jiao-dragon essence, and had strong gold-element aptitude.
• Ling Chengping asked to raise the egg, and Jin Da and the Mother Dragon Earthworm agreed on the conditions that she use the finest resources and keep it in the Ling Clan Secret Realm until it reached Foundation Establishment.
• Ling Chengping hurried to obtain gold-element cultivation spirit fluid, while Ling Chengxia teased Lin Fan about not having a child with his wife.

Ling Wanduo led Ling Wanliang, Ling Wanxu, and Ling Li Hu into Purple Scorpion Ridge to hunt Demon Beasts, and they attacked a nest of Yellow Scale Snakes guarded by a Foundation Establishment Yellow Scale Python. The battle began with Ling Wanxu’s sword formation cutting down the trapped snakes.

• Ling Wanduo gathered Ling Wanliang, Ling Wanxu, and Ling Li Hu, and they agreed to hunt Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Demon Beasts in Purple Scorpion Ridge.
• Half a month later, Ling Li Hu’s Scent Tracking Dog detected a Foundation Establishment Demon Beast and many Qi Training Demon Beasts in a forest several thousand li into the territory.
• Ling Wanduo led the group into a Maple Leaf Forest, where they found a quasi-Second Rank spirit vein and killed Yellow Scale Snakes at other spirit veins along the way.
• A first-layer Foundation Establishment Yellow Scale Python led nearly a hundred Yellow Scale Snakes to attack the group, and Ling Wanduo summoned his Black Rock Bear and trapped the snakes in quicksand.
• Ling Wanxu unleashed his Earthly Fiend Sword Formation and blasted apart more than a dozen Qi Training Yellow Scale Pythons in one exchange.

Ling Wanliang and the others defeated a horde of snake demons in Maple Leaf Forest, while Ling Chengxin completed a successful batch of Meridian Protecting Pills and resolved to focus on preparing Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects for the clan. The story left Ling Chengxin restoring his spiritual power after deciding to pause his cultivation and study of the Meridian Tempering Method.

• The Winged Shadow Tiger ambushed the Foundation Establishment First Layer Yellow Scale Snake, and the Immortal Spirit Crane and Black Armored Turtle arrived to protect it from the snake horde.
• Ling Wanliang mounted his Nether Fire Wolf, charged into the battle, and joined the Winged Shadow Tiger in breaking the snake demon's defenses and killing it.
• With the Snake King dead, Ling Wanliang and the others slaughtered the remaining snake demons and left Maple Leaf Forest.
• Ling Chengxin refined five Second Rank High Grade Meridian Protecting Pills and assessed his success with Meridian Protecting Pills and Small Hundred Spirits Water.
• Ling Chengxin decided to prioritize refining more Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects for the clan, putting his cultivation and study of the Meridian Tempering Method on hold.
• Ling Chengxin closed his eyes and absorbed spiritual energy to restore the power in his dantian.

Ling Pengyun’s assault on the Golden Horn Mad Cow clan was interrupted when the Hundred Spirits Sect tipped off the Ice Snow Lion clan, forcing him and his allies to retreat. Days later, Yang Siling reached the Golden Core Realm with their help, while Liu Haochan watched from afar and anticipated future conflict.

• Ling Pengyun and his allies weakened the Golden Horn Mad Cow clan’s formation with Formation Breaking Talismans and prepared to break through it.
• Five Golden Core Ice Snow Lions arrived as reinforcements, and Ling Pengyun suspected the Hundred Spirits Sect had revealed the attackers’ movements.
• Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, Wu Yan, and Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor fled aboard the Profound Yang Flying Boat, escaping the pursuing Ice Snow Lion.
• Yang Siling completed her tribulation and thanked Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi for helping her obtain a metal-attributed Golden Core and enter the Golden Core Realm.
• Liu Haochan observed the events from outside Serpent Dragon Lake and said that future conflicts between the forces had been set in motion.

Ling Pengyun advanced to the Golden Core Fifth Layer and raised his Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Treasure Pearl to Third Rank Middle Grade as he prepared for a looming battle against a Golden Core Completion demon beast. After he received a message that the Heavenly Star Sect had sent another Golden Core cultivator, the chapter left him wondering why the superior force had intervened again.

• Ling Pengyun broke through to the Golden Core Fifth Layer and considered how to strengthen himself before his agreement to kill another Golden Core Completion demon beast came due.
• Ling Pengyun assessed the Ling Clan’s wealth and planned to reserve Golden Core spirit objects for Ling Penglin, Ling Chengxin, and Ling Chengyuan according to their prospects.
• Ling Pengyun took more than eighty-two thousand jin of Water Spirit Iron from the clan repository and used it to advance his Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Treasure Pearl to Third Rank Middle Grade.
• Ling Pengyun received a message talisman and learned that the Heavenly Star Sect had sent another Golden Core cultivator to the Ling Clan.

Ling Pengyun received an invitation from Heavenly Star Sect Elder Flying Eagle to attend a Golden Core Ceremony and the advanced Heavenly Star Trade Fair, whose unusual timing raised his concerns. Two months later, he left the Ling Clan in Yan Siyi’s care and set out for Heavenly Star Country.

• Ling Pengyun met Flying Eagle True Person, who invited him to a Golden Core Ceremony three months later and announced that the Heavenly Star Trade Fair would be held immediately afterward.
• Ling Pengyun agreed to attend, wondering why the Heavenly Star Sect had moved the fair forward, and watched Flying Eagle depart on his Thunderclap Eagle.
• Ling Pengyun returned to cultivate and later gave Yan Siyi a Golden Core Initial Stage Beast Puppet to help protect the Ling Clan.
• Ling Pengyun left Lingxiao Mountain alone and traveled toward Heavenly Star Country for the ceremony and trade fair.

Ling Pengyun considered the Ling Clan’s dangerous future under the Heavenly Star Sect and arrived at the sect’s Golden Core Ceremony. There, he saw Zhao Baigang arrive riding the long-hidden Crimson Flames Wolf, leaving him wondering why the Black Mountain Zhao Family had brought the demon beast out.

• Ling Pengyun weighed whether the Ling Clan should submit to the Heavenly Star Sect, relocate, or establish an independent territory, and resolved that only strength could secure its future.
• Ling Pengyun traveled to the Heavenly Star Sect’s Heavenly Star Small Mountain Range on the day before the Golden Core Ceremony.
• A peak Golden Core Ninth Layer red-furred wolf demon arrived near the mountain gate and frightened the cultivators gathered there.
• An elder warned the wolf, called Crimson Flames Old Ancestor, not to cause trouble near the Heavenly Star Sect’s gates, recalling how a Nascent Soul True Lord had nearly killed it a thousand years earlier.
• Ling Pengyun recognized the elder as Zhao Baigang and realized the wolf was the Crimson Flames Wolf once thought to have died; he wondered why the Black Mountain Zhao Family had brought it out.
• The Crimson Flames Wolf flew into the mountain range, and Ling Pengyun followed.

Ling Pengyun attended Tu Hua’s Golden Core ceremony and the Heavenly Star Trade Fair, where he learned about the powerful Golden Core Completion cultivator Qing Feng. The fair began with Liu Haochan offering rare treasures, and Ling Pengyun focused on a Quasi Fourth Rank Array Formation whose appearance suggested the Heavenly Star Sect intended to strengthen its affiliated forces.

• A Heavenly Star Sect disciple welcomed Ling Pengyun and escorted him to a guest hall before Tu Hua’s three-day Golden Core banquet began.
• Ling Pengyun attended the Heavenly Star Trade Fair, where fifty-one Golden Core cultivators gathered, including three at Golden Core Completion.
• Medicine King Zhenren told Ling Pengyun that Qing Feng had forged a superior-grade Golden Core and founded the Feng Clan in Yuan Kingdom.
• Liu Haochan opened the trade fair by offering more than twenty treasures, including powerful arrays and pills.
• Ling Pengyun noticed a rare Quasi Fourth Rank Array Formation and wondered why the Heavenly Star Sect had put it up for trade.

Ling Pengyun traded for formations, pills, and materials at the Heavenly Star Trade Fair before Heavenly Star True Lord revealed that the Yin Poison Sect had invaded Wu Country and asked the sect’s subordinate forces to aid the Maple Leaf Li Family. The chapter left Ling Pengyun and the other Golden Cores facing a call to war against the newly strengthened Yin Poison Sect.

• Clear Wind True Person exchanged an undisclosed jade box for a Quasi Fourth Rank Array Formation, and Ling Pengyun traded magic treasures for a Third Rank Middle Grade formation, pills, and refining materials.
• Liu Haochan ended the exchange fair and asked the Heavenly Star Sect’s subordinate Golden Cores and Clear Wind True Person to wait for his master.
• Heavenly Star True Lord appeared and explained that Yin Poison Old Ghost had reached the Nascent Soul realm, making the Yin Poison Sect the Demonic Domain’s fourth Nascent Soul sect.
• Heavenly Star True Lord said the Yin Poison Sect had invaded Wu Country and driven back the Maple Leaf Li Family, whose Nascent Soul ancestor Li Xuanyuan was nearing the end of his life.
• Heavenly Star True Lord told the gathered Golden Cores that he had agreed to aid the Maple Leaf Li Family and asked the Heavenly Star Sect’s subordinate forces to join him, offering rewards for merit.
• Ling Pengyun recalled how Li Congyi’s past actions had helped weaken the White Cloud Mountain Range and shape Yan Kingdom’s current situation.

Ling Pengyun and the other Golden Core cultivators agreed to aid the Li Clan after Heavenly Star True Lord pressured them and offered powerful array formations as merit rewards. The group secretly entered Yin Poison Sect Territory, where Heavenly Star True Lord departed to intercept the Yin Poison Old Ghost and the others approached the sect residence.

• Ling Pengyun suspected that Clear Wind True Person and Zhao Baigang had been recruited to help the Heavenly Star Sect fight the Yin Poison Sect.
• Heavenly Star True Lord pressured the reluctant Golden Core cultivators into agreeing to aid the Li Clan and promised array formations as merit rewards.
• Heavenly Star True Lord proposed striking the Yin Poison Sect's territory to force its forces away from the Li Clan, and the group agreed to the plan.
• The cultivators secretly left Heavenly Star Market aboard Heavenly Star True Lord's flying boat and reached the Yuan Kingdom two days later.
• Heavenly Star True Lord flew off to intercept the Yin Poison Old Ghost, while Liu Haochan, Clear Wind True Person, and Zhao Baigang received separate instructions.
• Liu Haochan and Heavenly Star Sect cultivators left the flying boat in Yin Poison Sect Territory, and Zhao Baigang piloted it to the fortified Yin Poison Sect Residence.

The Heavenly Star Sect attacked the Yin Poison Sect while Xuan Yin summoned reinforcements from a distant Void Treasure Crystal vein. Liu Haochan’s force seized the vein, where a newly formed Golden Core demonic cultivator welcomed them.

• Xuan Yin and the Yin Poison Sect’s defenders fought the Heavenly Star Flying Boat as Ling Pengyun and the other Golden Core cultivators battered the sect’s Guardian Array for three days.
• With the sect’s defenses weakening and Yin Poison missing, Xuan Yin crushed a Mother-Child Token to summon Yin Soul back from the Void Treasure Crystal vein.
• Yin Soul left eight weak Golden Core demonic cultivators and a Golden Core Late Stage evil ghost guarding the vein, then departed with four other evil ghosts.
• Liu Haochan and fifteen Heavenly Star Sect Golden Core cultivators isolated the vein and broke its Quasi Fourth Rank Array Formation in less than two days.
• A Golden Core First Layer demonic cultivator approached Liu Haochan’s group and greeted the Heavenly Star Sect cultivators with excitement.

Liu Haochan’s forces seized the Void Treasure Crystal mine vein by subduing its guards and moving the surrounding Star Crystal Spirit Iron Vein. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Star True Lord and Li Xuanyuan fought the Yin Poison Demon Lord, and Li Xuanyuan worried that their actions would earn the demon lord’s vengeance.

• Liu Haochan revealed that Zheng Song was a Li Clan spy, and Zheng Song explained that a spirit treasure protected him from the Soul Contract’s soul imprint.
• Liu Haochan trapped the vicious ghost and seven Golden Core demon cultivators in the Heavenly Star Extinction Array without killing them, then ordered his sect’s cultivators to set up the Earth Dragon Shift Grand Array.
• Liu Haochan and the other Heavenly Star Sect cultivators lifted and shrank the land containing the Star Crystal Spirit Iron Vein, then fled with the captives toward their sect’s territory.
• In Yuan Kingdom, the Heavenly Star True Lord and Li Xuanyuan attacked the Yin Poison Demon Lord inside the Heavenly Star Extinction Array while the Crimson Flame Fire Phoenix supported them.
• After learning that the mine vein had been secured, Li Xuanyuan reminded the Heavenly Star True Lord of the promised teleportation arrays and asked whether they could join forces to kill the Yin Poison Demon Lord.

Li Xuanyuan agreed to keep trapping the Evil Dragon Demon Lord after Heavenly Star True Lord warned him that risking death would leave the Li Clan exposed. Meanwhile, Zhao Baigang’s forces destroyed the Yin Poison Sect’s defenses and defeated its remaining Golden Core cultivators, though the Fire Fiend Evil Ghost’s self-destruction killed five attackers.

• Heavenly Star True Lord warned Li Xuanyuan that killing the Evil Dragon Demon Lord could cost them their lives, and Li Xuanyuan chose to continue trapping him while protecting the Li Clan’s future.
• Zhao Baigang used the Earth Overturning Vein Reversal Array and Formation Breaking Talismans to collapse the Yin Poison Sect’s Guardian Array and weaken its devil vein.
• Zhao Baigang and Clear Wind True Person held back Xuan Yin Old Ghost and the Fire Fiend Evil Ghost while Ling Pengyun and the other Golden Cores raided the sect’s storehouse and gathered its resources.
• Ling Pengyun’s group and their allies killed the Yin Poison Sect’s four Golden Core Middle and Late Stage demon cultivators.
• Xuan Yin Old Ghost forced the Fire Fiend Evil Ghost to self-detonate, killing five Golden Cores, but the attackers later slew Xuan Yin Old Demon and Yin Soul Old Demon and left the sect.

After the Heavenly Star Sect and the Li Clan allied against the Yin Poison Sect, Zhao Baigang recruited Golden Core cultivators to reinforce the front. Ling Pengyun agreed to fight and negotiated a reward with Zhao Baigang for refining Xuan Yin Old Demon's corpse, and the story left with fourteen cultivators heading toward the battlefield.

• Zhao Baigang told the cultivators aboard the Heavenly Star Flying Boat that the Li Clan needed support against the Yin Poison Sect and invited them to join the fight.
• Ling Pengyun volunteered first, then denied Zhao Baigang's suspicion that his clan possessed rare corpse-refining methods.
• Zhao Baigang asked Ling Pengyun to refine Xuan Yin Old Demon's corpse, and Ling Pengyun warned that success was unlikely and the resulting demon corpse would be weaker.
• Ling Pengyun and Zhao Baigang agreed that Zhao Baigang would provide the materials and reward him with a Golden Core demon beast corpse according to the refined demon corpse's strength.
• Fourteen Golden Core cultivators, including Ling Pengyun, agreed to join Zhao Baigang, who piloted the Heavenly Star Flying Boat toward the battlefield.

Ling Pengyun and the Heavenly Star Sect reinforcements arrived to support the Li Clan, whose forces were losing ground to Yin Poison Sect. Their arrival prompted Heavenly Star True Lord and Li Xuanyuan True Lord to intensify their attack, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain as the demonic forces remained trapped in combat.

• Ling Pengyun saw that Yin Poison Sect outnumbered the Li Clan in Golden Core cultivators, with many demonic cultivators supplied by forces allied to the three great Eastern Demonic Domain sects.
• Yin Poison True Lord realized that the Heavenly Star Sect reinforcements could change the battle and demanded that Heavenly Star True Lord stop supporting the Li Clan.
• Heavenly Star True Lord argued that the other demonic sects were using Yin Poison True Lord, while Yin Poison True Lord reflected that he needed war and blood sacrifices to advance his cultivation and restore his demonic treasure.
• Yin Poison True Lord drove the Evil Dragon Demon Sword against the Fourth Rank array, weakening it, but Heavenly Star True Lord chose to keep him trapped.
• Li Xuanyuan True Lord rallied the Li Clan’s Golden Core cultivators, and the sixty-two cultivators fought with renewed strength to hold all seventy-eight demonic Golden Cores in place.

Ling Pengyun joined the battle and used his powerful treasures to kill two Golden Core Middle Stage Demonic Path cultivators. Afterward, he ignored the greed of nearby cultivators and moved on to help the Li Clan cultivator.

• Zhao Baigang led the Golden Core cultivators into battle, and Ling Pengyun joined the Li Clan elder fighting a middle-aged demonic cultivator and a Female Demon Head.
• Ling Pengyun unleashed the Profound Yang Treasure Lamp, Lightning Transformation Mirror, and Azure Sea Heavy Yuan Treasure Pearl to destroy the middle-aged demonic cultivator and his Sunflower Yin Demon Corpse.
• Ling Pengyun crushed the demonic cultivator's Golden Core, collected his remains and soul, and drew covetous looks from nearby cultivators who recognized his powerful treasures.
• Ling Pengyun flew to assist the Li Clan elder and his avian demon king, and together they killed the Female Demon Head and shattered her Golden Core.
• The Female Demon Head's evil ghost perished when its master's death triggered the Recognition of Ownership Restriction, so Ling Pengyun collected some of its remaining soul power.

Ling Pengyun fought alongside the Righteous Path Golden Core cultivators, killing several demon cultivators while exhausting his spiritual power and gathering spoils. After four days, the Nascent Soul battle shifted when Yin Poison True Lord escaped Heavenly Star True Lord’s formation and called on the three great demon sects for reinforcements.

• Ling Pengyun and the elderly Li Clan cultivator divided the female demon head’s belongings, with Ling Pengyun claiming her corpse, soul, and two demon treasures.
• Ling Pengyun helped kill five Golden Core demon cultivators, rested aboard the Heavenly Star Flying Boat, then returned to battle and helped destroy a Golden Core Late Stage demon cultivator’s body, though another demon cultivator rescued his Golden Core.
• For four days, Ling Pengyun continued fighting and collecting spoils until Heavenly Star True Lord’s formation shattered in the Nascent Soul battlefield.
• Yin Poison True Lord saw that transforming the Evil Dragon Demon Sword had worsened its damage and lamented the vast number of mortals required to restore it.
• Yin Poison True Lord contacted the three great demon sects and threatened to withdraw from the Yuan Kingdom unless they sent reinforcements.
• The Fiend Ghost Sect and Five Poison Sect agreed to each send twenty Golden Cores and additional lower-ranked cultivators to the Yin Poison Sect.

Yin Poison True Lord slaughtered the retreating demonic cultivators and fed their corpses to the Evil Dragon Demon Sword, turning the battle against Heavenly Star True Lord and Li Xuanyuan True Lord. Zhao Baigang and the surviving Golden Cores then began powering the Heavenly Star Flying Boat’s Fourth Rank array to support them.

• Yin Poison True Lord ordered the demonic cultivators to retreat, while Li Xuanyuan True Lord and Heavenly Star True Lord ordered their forces to pursue them only for fifty thousand li.
• Yin Poison True Lord used the Evil Dragon Demon Sword to hold off Heavenly Star True Lord and Li Xuanyuan True Lord, then charged into the retreating army and slaughtered more than twenty thousand low-level demonic cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun fled to the Heavenly Star Flying Boat as the Evil Dragon Demon Sword devoured the corpses and grew stronger, leaving Yin Poison True Lord confident enough to attack the two Righteous Path True Lords again.
• Yin Poison True Lord and the empowered evil dragon suppressed Heavenly Star True Lord and Li Xuanyuan True Lord, while Zhao Baigang called on the surviving Golden Cores to help activate the flying boat’s Fourth Rank array.
• Zhao Baigang steered the Heavenly Star Flying Boat toward the Nascent Soul battle and directed Ling Pengyun and the others to supply spiritual power as he drew on the Spirit Storage Array.

Ling Pengyun and the Heavenly Star Sect helped the Li Clan withstand Yin Poison True Lord’s forces, but reinforcements soon turned the battle into a prolonged war. The chapter leaves the Yin Poison Sect and the alliance occupying territory and trading smaller attacks while their Nascent Soul cultivators recover.

• Zhao Baigang used the Great Heavenly Star Formation to wound Yin Poison True Lord’s Evil Dragon and destroy his defensive treasure, giving Heavenly Star True Lord and True Lord Li Xuanyuan a chance to press their attack.
• Heavenly Star True Lord thanked Ling Pengyun and the other cultivators, warned that demonic reinforcements might arrive, and sent them away to recover; Li Clan Golden Core cultivators then further injured the Evil Dragon with a Fourth Rank formation.
• Several days later, demonic reinforcements arrived with more than one hundred Golden Core cultivators, while Liu Haochan brought Heavenly Star Sect forces to support the alliance.
• Ling Pengyun and the alliance cultivators activated powerful formations that shielded their forces, battered the demonic cultivators, and heavily damaged Yin Poison True Lord’s Evil Dragon Demon Sword.
• After nearly half a month of fighting, both sides’ Nascent Soul cultivators exhausted their spiritual power and agreed to a truce without either side withdrawing.
• Yin Poison Demon Lord established a stronghold on a blood-sacrificed demonic vein, and the Yin Poison Sect and alliance began a prolonged war of recurring small-scale attacks.

Ling Pengyun emerged from seclusion after refining a Golden Core Eighth Layer Netherflame Demon Corpse and joined Ling Yunhong to prepare the Ling Clan for its alliance task. The chapter ended as 1,438 Ling Clan cultivators assembled in orderly ranks, earning Ling Pengyun’s approval.

• Ling Pengyun refined a demonic cultivator’s corpse into a Golden Core Eighth Layer Netherflame Demon Corpse to exchange with Zhao Baigang.
• Ling Yunhong explained how he had returned from the Boundless Sea Region to support Ling Pengyun, while Ling Pengqiu remained with Darkwater Sect to pursue a branch establishment.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong discussed the Ling Clan’s overdue task to destroy a Golden Core demonic force’s stronghold and their plans to earn battle merit.
• Ling Yunhong told Ling Pengyun that he had secured five hundred jin of Golden Core demonic dragon blood for Cheng Xia to use in making Serpent Blood Pills.
• Ling Pengyun rang the bronze bell, and 1,438 Ling Clan cultivators gathered on the mountaintop in orderly ranks.