Chapter Summaries

After Ling Penglin awakened from sudden enlightenment as a Golden Core cultivator, she agreed to become an Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect Guest Elder and requested an array formation inheritance. Ling Pengyun sought the sect’s Lightning Destruction Grand Array method, arguing that it would help the Ling Clan face the coming Beast Tide, but Thundercloud True Person objected to sharing the sect’s core formation.

• Ling Pengyun, Thundercloud True Person, and Wang Ying discovered Ling Penglin in sudden enlightenment and left her undisturbed for three days.
• Ling Penglin awakened and descended the mountain, where Ling Pengyun greeted her and Thundercloud True Person invited her to become a sect Guest Elder.
• Ling Penglin accepted and chose an array formation inheritance, then asked whether it included the Lightning Destruction Grand Array method.
• Thundercloud True Person refused to include the sect’s core formation and asked why the Ling Clan wanted it; Ling Pengyun admitted that his clan hoped to obtain the method in exchange for Contribution Points.
• Ling Pengyun explained that the Ling Clan planned to establish the formation at Cloud Stepping Ridge to defend against the approaching Demon Beast Uprising.

Ling Pengyun negotiated with Thundercloud True Person for the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect to share its Lightning Destruction Grand Array method in exchange for the Ling Clan’s future aid and friendship. After Thundercloud provided the method and agreed to guide Ling Penglin, Ling Pengyun took her and Wang Ying back to Azure Water Island to talk.

• Ling Pengyun offered future Ling Clan reinforcements to win Thundercloud True Person’s support for sharing the Lightning Destruction Grand Array method.
• Thundercloud demanded twenty Golden Core battle forces, the Ling Clan’s two top-tier mid-grade Corpse Refining Methods, and a promise of eternal friendship; Ling Pengyun agreed and asked Thundercloud to establish formations on the clan’s Thunder Vein.
• Thundercloud retrieved the formation inheritance and Lightning Destruction Grand Array method, then gave them to Ling Penglin after requiring her to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath and accepting a restriction in her Sea of Consciousness.
• Ling Pengyun handed Thundercloud the Steel Nether Fire and Steel Mystic Ice Corpse Refining Methods and asked him to teach Ling Penglin formation techniques; Thundercloud agreed.
• Ling Pengyun left with Ling Penglin and Wang Ying for Azure Water Island to reminisce and talk.

Ling Penglin described the insights she gained from her sudden enlightenment, including a defensive grand array and a cultivation art she hoped to perfect, and Ling Pengyun arranged for her to study with Thundercloud True Person. Half a month later, Ling Pengyun reached Turtle Spirit Island and learned that the Han Clan was celebrating Han Dongjie's Foundation Establishment breakthrough.

• Ling Penglin told Ling Pengyun that her enlightenment had revealed her Dao Path, the prototype of the Unmoving as a Mountain Array, and the beginnings of the As Mountain Supports Heaven Array Scripture.
• Ling Penglin asked Ling Pengyun to gather earth-element cultivation arts, array cultivation arts, and Third Rank array manuals for her to study after returning to the clan.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Penglin shared a celebratory meal with Wang Ying, after which Ling Pengyun sent Ling Penglin to study array formations under Thundercloud True Person.
• Ling Pengyun agreed with Thundercloud True Person that he would protect Ling Penglin on her journey home and upgrade the Cloud Stepping Ridge spirit vein while setting up the Lightning Destruction Grand Array.
• Ling Pengyun arrived at Turtle Spirit Island and discovered that the Han Clan was holding a Foundation Establishment ceremony attended by two Foundation Establishment Completion cultivators from the Qiu Family.
• Ling Pengyun summoned Ling Pengshan and Han Feng, who told him that Han Dongjie had become the Han Clan's second Foundation Establishment cultivator after receiving the clan's concentrated resources.

Ling Pengyun strengthened the Han Clan branch, then met Ling Pengqiu in the Source Water Sea Region and supported his growing Fire Serpent Society. The chapter ended with an account of the powerful Fire Yang Yang Family in the Wrathful Whale Sea Region.

• Ling Pengyun ordered Ling Pengshan and Han Feng to eliminate Turtle Spirit Island’s other two Foundation Establishment families within five years, giving them resources and five Third Rank Low Grade Spirit Talismans.
• Ling Pengyun told Ling Pengshan that Ling Chengshi would be sent to help within three years, then left Turtle Spirit Island after visiting Wind Shadow Peng.
• Ling Pengyun met Ling Pengqiu, learned that he had built the Fire Serpent Society into a force of more than three thousand members, and gave him two hundred thousand spirit stones to obtain a Third Rank Spirit Vein.
• Ling Pengqiu sought out his Darkwater Sect contacts to trade spirit stones for battle merits.
• The chapter described the expansion of the Wrathful Whale Sea Region and the rise of Fire Yang Zhenren’s Yang Family, which had three Golden Core cultivators and a strong reputation for alchemy.

Ling Pengyun collected three portions of Core Formation Fluid from Fire Yang Zhenren and left for Wrathful Whale Marketplace. Fire Yang Zhenren refused to let Yang Changyuan seize the fluid, then warned that the Yang Family needed to grow stronger before its rivals gradually undermined it.

• Fire Yang Zhenren finished refining five Third Rank Low Grade pills and left his earthfire chamber after receiving a Message Talisman.
• Ling Pengyun met Fire Yang Zhenren and received three bottles of Core Formation Fluid that Fire Yang Zhenren had refined from Ling Pengyun's elder's materials.
• Ling Pengyun thanked Fire Yang Zhenren, agreed to seek his help with future alchemy, and departed for Wrathful Whale Marketplace.
• Yang Changyuan asked Fire Yang Zhenren whether they should seize the Core Formation Fluid, but Fire Yang Zhenren rejected the idea because it would ruin the Yang Family's reputation and alchemy business.
• Fire Yang Zhenren explained that Yang Yonghai still lacked a Golden Core Spirit Object and warned Yang Changyuan that the Jin Family and Liu Family could weaken the Yang Family if he failed to advance further.

Ling Pengqiu bought merit points from fellow Golden Core cultivators and sent members of the Fire Serpent Society to gather more, hoping to obtain enough to exchange for a Third Rank Spirit Vein. The chapter ended with Little Twelve reporting that he had gathered 4,050 merit points.

• Hundredfold Old Daoist explained that his injuries and shortened lifespan kept him from taking more Darkwater Sect missions, then offered to sell Ling Pengqiu his remaining 50,000 merit points.
• Ling Pengqiu agreed to pay 65,000 spirit stones for Hundredfold Old Daoist’s points despite the rising market rate, then bought another 40,000 points from two friends for 52,000 spirit stones.
• Ling Pengqiu declined to pursue other cultivators who withheld their points in hopes of selling at higher prices.
• Ling Pengqiu waited at his rented cave abode until Little Twelve arrived and reported gathering 4,050 merit points from the market and the Fire Serpent Society’s members.

Ling Pengqiu spent his merit points to claim a Third Rank Low Grade Fire Spirit Vein in the Misty Water Sea Region and named its island Fire Serpent Island. Ling Pengyun arrived and promised to clear the territory’s demon clans, then learned that the island held three mu of Third Rank Low Grade Spirit Fields.

• Ling Pengqiu gathered 351,000 merit points, bought the fire spirit vein from the Merit Hall, and traveled to its island with the Fire Serpent Society followers.
• Liu Qing told Ling Pengqiu that demon clans had invaded the territory, including a Giant Crocodile Turtle clan led by a Golden Core Initial Stage king, and gave him a map of their locations.
• Ling Pengqiu inspected the island, named it Fire Serpent Island, and learned that the surrounding territory contained numerous demon clans and spirit veins.
• Ling Pengyun arrived at Fire Serpent Island, heard about the Giant Crocodile Turtle clan, and promised Ling Pengqiu he would clear out the demons before leaving the Boundless Sea Region.
• Ling Pengqiu told Ling Pengyun that the island had three mu of Third Rank Low Grade Spirit Fields, and Ling Pengyun asked to see them.

Ling Pengyun established the Golden Flame Fruit Tree in Fire Serpent Island’s Fire Spirit Field, cleared nearby demon-held islands, and helped Ling Pengqiu develop the territory. Half a year later, Ling Pengqiu founded the Fire Serpent Sect and announced its rules and ranks.

• Ling Pengyun identified three fields on Fire Serpent Island as Third Rank Low Grade Fire Spirit Fields and planted a Golden Flame Fruit Tree with Earth Soul Soil to speed its growth.
• Ling Pengyun told Ling Pengqiu to seek fire-element spirit wood for the remaining Fire Spirit Fields, then planted spirit herb seeds across the island’s other fields.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengqiu killed the Giant Crocodile Turtle king on Yellow Earth Island, captured five hundred breeding pairs, and cleared demon beasts from nearby spirit veins.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Pengqiu the demon beast materials to fund Fire Serpent Island’s development, advised him on cultivation, and returned to the clan.
• Six months later, Ling Pengqiu gathered more than three thousand cultivators and renamed the Fire Serpent Society the Fire Serpent Sect, assigning ranks, rewards, and rules to its disciples.

Chi Qiu brought the Crimson Kite Bear Empress’s order to the Ice Snow White Lion King, urging the race to attack the weakened Ling Clan. The lion king initially refused, but learned that the Crimson Gold Bear Emperor had advanced to the Nascent Soul Second Layer and began weighing the gains of joining the assault.

• Chi Qiu trespassed into the Ice Snow Forest and was stopped by the Ice Snow White Lion King’s roar.
• Chi Qiu reported that Yan Kingdom’s Golden Core cultivators were occupied in Yuan Kingdom, Ling Pengyun was away, and Ling Yunhong had also left the Ling Clan Territory.
• Chi Qiu conveyed the Crimson Kite Bear Empress’s plan for the Ice Snow White Lion Race to attack the Ling Clan in ten days.
• The Ice Snow White Lion King objected that Yan Kingdom’s cultivators could retaliate and that the Ling Clan’s array would be difficult to overcome.
• Chi Qiu announced that the Crimson Gold Bear Emperor had reached the Nascent Soul Second Layer and ordered the lion race to attack.
• The Ice Snow White Lion King considered the Lingxiao Mountain Range’s spirit veins and the prospect of strengthening its race by slaughtering the territory’s inhabitants.

Yan Siyi organized the Ling Clan’s defenses after learning that demon beasts were gathering to attack its territories while Ling Yunhong and her husband were away. Nine days later, a huge Winged Shadow Tiger army assembled on the border of the White Cloud Mountain Range.

• The Ice Snow Lion King accepted the Crimson Autumn Bear Demon's proposal to attack the Ling Clan, and Crimson Gold Bear Race elders visited nearby demon beast territories.
• Ling Chengyuan warned Yan Siyi that demon beasts were gathering near both the Lingxiao Mountain Range and the White Cloud Mountain Range.
• Yan Siyi ordered reinforcements to defend the White Cloud Mountain Range, gathered cultivators to protect White Ape Market Town, and assigned Ling Chengyuan to organize the clan’s remaining defenses.
• Yan Siyi contacted the Shadow Hall branch, which relayed that Ling Yunhong would return from Yuan Kingdom within a month.
• Nine days later, more than two hundred thousand demon beasts gathered at the White Cloud Mountain Range border, led by three Golden Core Winged Shadow Tigers.

The Winged Shadow Tiger Clan launched an invasion to seize the White Cloud Mountain Range Territory, and Ling Pengcheng prepared White Cloud Market Town to resist its vast demon beast horde. The battle began with the town’s defenders facing three Golden Core Winged Shadow Tigers, while Ling Pengcheng forced the Steel Netherflame Corpse to hold them off.

• The Winged Shadow Tiger King led its clan and a demon beast horde toward the White Cloud Mountain Range after noon.
• Five days later, Ling Pengcheng guarded White Cloud Market Town and worried that reinforcements from distant Ling Clan territories would arrive too late.
• Ling Pengcheng spotted over two hundred thousand incoming demon beasts and three Golden Core Winged Shadow Tigers, then rallied the town’s nearly ten thousand cultivators with promised merit rewards.
• Ling Pengcheng threatened the Steel Netherflame Corpse with its Life Soul Tablet and promised help advancing its cultivation, compelling it to fight the three Golden Core Tigers.
• The Steel Netherflame Corpse used its demonic treasure and netherflames to hold off the Tigers near the town’s protective array, while Ling Pengcheng attacked the demon beast horde.

Yan Siyi sought aid as nearly five hundred thousand demon beasts and seven Golden Core Ice Snow White Lions attacked White Ape Market Town. Yang Siling agreed to come alone, while Yan Siyi coordinated reinforcements and deployed her demon corpses and magic treasures as the town’s defenses came under assault.

• Seven Golden Core Ice Snow White Lions led a horde of nearly five hundred thousand demon beasts toward White Ape Market Town, alarming Yan Siyi and the Ling Clan defenders.
• Yan Siyi contacted Yang Siling, who agreed to leave the besieged Serpent Dragon Lake branch and support her cousin, while the other Golden Core cultivators stayed behind.
• Yan Siyi checked on Ling Pengcheng and Ling Chengshi, directing Ling Chengshi to return to the Ling Clan and confirming that Ling Chengping was already heading to reinforce White Cloud Market Town.
• Yan Siyi summoned three Golden Core Demon Corpses and ordered them to fight the two middle-stage and one late-stage Ice Snow White Lions.
• Yan Siyi attacked the four initial-stage Ice Snow White Lions, but two blocked her while the other two struck White Ape Market Town’s defense array as the demon horde charged in.

White Cloud Market Town faced defeat as its exhausted defenders struggled against a massive demon beast army, but Ling Chengping and Lin Fan arrived with their spirit beasts to reinforce the city. Their attack began turning the tide, and the chapter ended as a giant tortoise emerged from the flooded enclosure.

• White Ape Market Town’s formation broke under the demon beast assault, but Ling Clan cultivators held back the beasts that breached it while Yan Siyi repaired the barrier.
• At White Cloud Market Town, Ling Pengcheng’s weakened forces struggled as three Winged Shadow Tigers led the demon beast horde against the city’s formation.
• Ling Chengping and Lin Fan arrived on their Dragon Earthworm, and Ling Chengping sent her Golden Core Second Layer Steel Mystic Ice Corpse into the demon beast horde.
• Lin Fan and Ling Chengping summoned eight Foundation Establishment spirit beasts, while Lin Fan used Beast Taming Secret Methods to strengthen them.
• The Dragon Earthworm’s underground pit filled with water behind the ice wall, and a giant tortoise emerged from beneath the earth.

Ling Chengping’s unexpected force helped White Cloud Market Town repel the Winged Shadow Tiger army, while Ling Pengcheng’s cultivators and demon corpses turned the battle against the invaders. After failing to secure allies, the Winged Shadow Tiger King decided to target the territory’s three Third Rank Spirit Veins before returning to attack the town.

• Ling Chengping led nearly a hundred Hump Mountain Whales, their cultivators, and spirit beasts into battle, killing thousands of demon beasts and engaging the Foundation Establishment forces.
• Ling Pengcheng urged the market town’s cultivators to attack and sent his Steel Mystic Fire Corpse against the three Golden Core Winged Shadow Tigers, where it joined Ling Chengping’s Steel Mystic Ice Corpse in stabilizing the Golden Core battle.
• White Cloud Market Town’s cultivators and Ling Chengping’s force killed nearly fifty thousand low-level demon beasts, forcing the Winged Shadow Tiger King to order a retreat.
• The Winged Shadow Tiger King failed to obtain support from nearby Golden Core Demon Races or the Crimson Gold Bear Race and suspected the latter was using its clan to test the pact forbidding large-scale invasions of the Yan Kingdom.
• The Winged Shadow Tiger King resolved to seize the territory’s three Third Rank Spirit Veins before returning to conquer White Cloud Market Town, then rested to recover.

After White Cloud Market Town celebrated its defense, the battle at White Ape Market Town turned desperate when seven Ice Snow White Lions used their divine sense attack to disable its defenders. Yan Siyi countered by binding the Seas of Consciousness of two lions, leaving their fate in the hands of the waiting attackers.

• Ling Pengcheng praised the Black Armored Turtle’s strength and potential to reach the Golden Core Realm, while Lin Fan worried about his own prospects until Ling Chengping urged him to serve the clan.
• Yang Siling and Ling Chengshi’s Golden Core demon corpse helped stabilize White Ape Market Town’s defenses against the demonic beast horde.
• The seven Ice Snow White Lions unleashed Ice Snow Lion’s Roar, stunning nearly twenty thousand cultivators and allowing the lions to trap their opponents’ magic treasures with bronze bells.
• Yan Siyi formed two chain-covered black dharma seals and sent them into the two weakest Ice Snow White Lions, binding their divine senses and making them collapse.

Yan Siyi and her allies killed two Ice Snow White Lions and fought off the remaining attackers at White Ape Market Town. The Ice Snow Lion King sent Bing Ling and Bing Kuang to intervene while calculating how much the Ling Clan’s destruction could profit its clan.

• Yan Siyi used the Locking God Chain to immobilize two Ice Snow White Lions, and she, Yang Siling, and the four Golden Core Demon Corpses killed them before they could recover.
• Yan Siyi used the Locking God Chain to free the group’s trapped magic treasures, and they resumed fighting the five remaining Ice Snow White Lions.
• The five lions used Ice Snow Lion’s Roar again, but Yan Siyi, Yang Siling, and the Demon Corpses protected their Seas of Consciousness and quickly broke free.
• The Golden Core Seventh Layer Ice Snow White Lion crushed a token to summon aid, waking the Ice Snow Lion King and prompting it to send Bing Ling and Bing Kuang to White Ape Market Town.
• The Ice Snow Lion King stayed behind to heal its Ice Snow Flying Sword and calculated that the Ling Clan’s deaths and Clan Repository could supply resources for Beast King Pills.

Ling Pengcheng left Ling Chengping to defend White Cloud Market Town and went with the Golden Core Demon Corpses to join the White Cloud Spirit Fox in a trap for the Winged Shadow Tiger horde. The three Golden Core Winged Shadow Tigers and more than two hundred thousand beasts were killed at White Pine Mountain.

• The beast horde bypassed White Cloud Market Town and headed for the three Third Rank spirit mountains, prompting Ling Pengcheng to leave the town in Ling Chengping's care.
• The Winged Shadow Tiger King persuaded the White Cloud Spirit Fox to open White Pine Mountain to its horde, but the fox activated a trapping formation as the beasts entered.
• The White Cloud Spirit Fox revealed its alliance with the cultivators, and formations from White Cloud and White Rock Mountains attacked the trapped horde.
• Ling Pengcheng and Ling Chengping joined the assault with their Golden Core Demon Corpses while an isolation formation prevented the Winged Shadow Tigers from sending for help.
• The formations and Demon Corpses shattered the tigers' defenses, and the three Golden Core Demon Kings and more than two hundred thousand beasts were killed.

The Ice Snow White Lion Race breached White Ape Market Town’s defenses and inflicted heavy losses on its cultivators. Just as the Lion Queen and Bing Kuang Old Demon threatened the town, Zhao Yuanqian and two Black Mountain Zhao Clan members arrived with the Prairie Fire Array to fight them.

• Ling Pengcheng agreed to deliver two Golden Core Beast Puppets to the White Cloud Spirit Fox and began clearing demon beast corpses from White Pine Mountain.
• The Ice Snow Lion Queen and Bing Kuang Old Demon arrived at White Ape Market Town and battered its formation while Yan Siyi struggled to defend the town.
• The two demons opened breaches in the formation, allowing demon beasts to pour inside and kill nearly fifteen hundred cultivators before Yan Siyi repaired the gaps and attacked them.
• Zhao Yuanqian and two Black Mountain Zhao Clan cultivators appeared around White Ape Market Town and trapped the Lion Queen and Bing Kuang Old Demon within the Prairie Fire Array.
• Zhao Yuanqian asked Yan Siyi and the Ling Clan cultivators to hold off the other five Golden Core Ice Snow White Lions while he and his clansmen attacked the two demons.

Yan Siyi and the Zhao Clan defeated the Ice Snow White Lion force, though the Lion Queen escaped after Bing Kuang Old Demon sacrificed his lifespan to help her. The Ling Clan then slaughtered the trapped demon-beast horde, secured a profitable arrangement with Zhao Yuanqian, and began recovering from the crisis.

• Bing Kuang Old Demon burned his lifespan to reach the False Nascent Soul realm and hold back the array’s attacks while the Lion Queen escaped through a breach.
• Zhao Yuanqian killed Bing Kuang Old Demon, trapped his Golden Core, and helped destroy the remaining Ice Snow White Lions.
• Zhao Yuanqian offered Yan Siyi two lion corpses and asked Ling Pengyun to refine the other four, then stationed his group at White Ape Market Town to guard against retaliation.
• Yan Siyi lent Yang Siling a Golden Core Middle Stage Beast Puppet and promised to help the Hundred Spirits Sect branch once the Ling Clan stabilized.
• Yan Siyi trapped nearly three hundred thousand low-level demon beasts, and the Ling Clan’s cultivators slaughtered them and collected more than 335,000 corpses.
• Yan Siyi learned the gathered corpses could yield about five million spirit stones, though processing and selling them would take over a century.

Li Congtong returned to Maple Leaf Valley with demonic cultivator corpses gathered for the Li Clan’s secret plan. True Lord Li Xuanyuan revealed that the clan was feeding the corpses to its Crimson Spirit Phoenix, which was cultivating toward the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Li Congtong reported that two of the five Li Clan cultivators sent to attack an Earth Demon Sect stronghold had died, but the survivors had collected five Golden Core demonic cultivator corpses and thousands of lesser cultivators’ remains.
• True Lord Li Xuanyuan rewarded the fallen cultivators’ descendants with support for future Golden Core breakthroughs and ordered Li Congtong to keep the mission secret.
• Li Xuanyuan told Li Congtong that the Crimson Spirit Phoenix had at least a thirty percent chance of entering the Nascent Soul Realm with the clan’s help.
• Li Xuanyuan descended into an underground cavern beneath Maple Leaf Valley, where the Crimson Spirit Phoenix devoured demonic cultivator corpses to build its pure yang qi.
• Li Xuanyuan added the newly gathered corpses to the cavern’s stockpile and left the phoenix to cultivate.