Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi encountered Ping Daoren fleeing three masked Golden Core cultivators and agreed to help in exchange for rare spirit medicines and future pill-making deals. The pursuers revealed Ping Daoren’s wealth and spirit plant inheritance, and Ping Daoren realized the ambush came from the Song Clan.

• Ling Pengyun recognized Ping Daoren as three masked Golden Core cultivators pursued him, including a Golden Core Fifth Layer cultivator.
• Ping Daoren appealed to Ling Pengyun for help and offered two Near Third Rank Breaking Yuan Grasses and a Near Third Rank Purple Cloud Flower, promising pills in return.
• Ling Pengyun negotiated for additional Miasma Breaking Pills and a future Gathering Yuan Pill refinement deal, then set off with Yan Siyi to rescue Ping Daoren.
• The lead pursuer offered Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi a share of Ping Daoren’s wealth and copies of his Third Rank Low Grade Spirit Plant Inheritance if they stayed aside.
• Ping Daoren recognized that the attackers were connected to the Song Clan and regretted trading his inheritance for a defensive magic treasure.

Ping Daoren explained how he traded a Third Rank Low Grade Spirit Plant Inheritance for defensive treasures before the Song Family pursued him. Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi killed the three pursuers, then Ling Pengyun threatened Ping Daoren as he fled.

• Ping Daoren explained that he had exchanged his inheritance for a Lifebound defensive treasure, spirit stones, and three more defensive treasures, and that the Song Family had pursued him afterward.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi attacked the three Song Family cultivators who were chasing Ping Daoren.
• The Golden Core Fifth Layer Song Family cultivator summoned an array and called for reinforcements, but Ling Pengyun trapped the array with his own formation.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi unleashed ten Golden Core demon corpses and the Black Armored Turtle against the three Song Family cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun killed the three pursuers and took their possessions, then warned the fleeing Ping Daoren that he would kill him if he continued running.

After helping Daoist Mu Ping escape danger, Ling Pengyun secured a pill-refining deal for the Ling Clan and one hundred plants of Gathering Yuan Grass. He then demanded Mu Ping exchange a Third Rank Low Grade spirit plant inheritance for one of the Ling Clan’s other Third Rank inheritances.

• Daoist Mu Ping stopped fleeing and promised Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi four Breaking Yuan Pills and one Creation Purple Cloud Pill in five years.
• Ling Pengyun reminded Mu Ping of their earlier pill-refining arrangement and offered the Ling Clan’s alchemist’s services at a sixty-percent success rate, with four pills returned per batch.
• Mu Ping agreed to provide one hundred Gathering Yuan Grass plants as they matured over five years, and Ling Pengyun accepted the deal.
• As Mu Ping prepared to leave, Ling Pengyun demanded a copy of Mu Ping’s Third Rank Low Grade spirit plant inheritance in exchange for another Third Rank Low Grade inheritance from the Ling Clan.

Ling Pengyun obtained Mu Ping Zhenren’s Third Rank Spirit Plant Inheritance and learned that Mu would not pursue the Song Clan over the ambush. Song Changhai prepared for possible retaliation, while the chapter ended with Ling Pengqiu learning that the Jin Yang Sect had launched a major attack on Qianqiu Island.

• Ling Pengyun exchanged a Third Rank Low-Grade Alchemy Inheritance for Mu Ping Zhenren’s Third Rank Spirit Plant Inheritance and made Mu swear not to harm the Ling Clan.
• Mu Ping Zhenren declined to seek immediate revenge on the Song Clan, and Ling Pengyun returned toward the Ling Clan with Yan Siyi and their acquired goods.
• Song Changhai failed to track Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi, then sent the Song Clan’s talented members away while remaining behind to face possible retaliation.
• A Fire Serpent Sect cultivator told Ling Pengqiu that the Jin Yang Sect had attacked Qianqiu Island with nearly three thousand cultivators and its Pseudo-Core Grand Elder.

Ling Pengqiu prepared to defend the Fire Serpent Sect against the Jin Yang Sect, despite having only one Golden Core cultivator and no reliable outside help. Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi met him and gave him a Golden Core Second Layer Azure Water Shark to help face the crisis, leaving the branch's defense in his hands.

• Ling Pengqiu ordered the Fire Serpent Sect cultivators to reinforce Qianqiu Island and fight the Jin Yang Sect, while rejecting the idea of seeking help from the injured Hundredfold Old Daoist.
• Ling Pengqiu considered asking the Ling Clan for aid if the sect could not withstand the coming battle.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi contacted Ling Pengqiu and met him on a deserted island south of Flood Dragon Island.
• Ling Pengqiu told Ling Pengyun about his cultivation progress and the Fire Serpent Sect's worsening situation.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Pengqiu a tamed Golden Core Second Layer Azure Water Shark, but said he and Yan Siyi would not intervene directly.
• Ling Pengqiu thanked Ling Pengyun and promised to live up to his expectations.

Ling Pengyun gave Ling Pengqiu pills and promised future support before leaving with Yan Siyi, while Ling Pengqiu prepared to defend the Fire Serpent Sect. When the Jin Yang Sect attacked Qianqiu Island, Ling Pengqiu used several powerful formations and treasures to drive off its leaders and slaughter its invading cultivators, leaving the rival Tang and Xie families wary of him.

• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Pengqiu pills, including a Snake Demon Blood Origin Pill, and promised to bring him Miasma Breaking Pills in the future.
• Ling Pengyun assured Yan Siyi that Ling Pengqiu could protect himself, and the couple left for Misty Water Marketplace.
• Jin Yang Zhenren, Jin Po True Person, and Jin Xuan Zhenren trapped Ling Pengqiu in their sect-protecting formation during the assault on Qianqiu Island.
• Ling Pengqiu countered with defensive and offensive formations and the Qing Feng Zither, badly injuring Jin Xuan Zhenren and forcing the others to retreat.
• Ling Pengqiu killed the Jin Yang Sect invaders on Qianqiu Island and warned the Tang and Xie families not to threaten his sect.
• Jin Yang Zhenren counted thousands of dead disciples and vowed to kill Ling Pengqiu and destroy the Fire Serpent Sect.

Ling Chengshi pressed the Qian Clan branch to destroy the Liu Family and Zhong Family quickly so it could prepare for the Ling Clan’s relocation ahead of the coming Demon Beast Uprising. Ling Pengshan mobilized the branch’s forces and sent them toward both families, leaving the attack ready to begin.

• Wan Xuan warned Ling Pengshan that the Liu Family and Zhong Family might outnumber the Qian Clan branch and drag it into a costly war.
• Ling Chengshi insisted that the two families had to be wiped out within a year, and Qian Fei supported him.
• Wan Xuan accepted the decision and stepped back, while Ling Pengshan approved of Ling Chengshi’s authority.
• Qian Feng reported that he had gathered 153 Qian Clan cultivators and Guest Elders under the pretense of Ling Pengshan’s impending death.
• Ling Pengshan ordered his force to attack the Liu Family from Skyback Mountain and sent Qian Feng, Qian Fei, and another force to attack the Zhong Family from Wind Shadow Mountain.

Qian Feng and Ling Pengshan led their forces to attack the Liu Family, with Wind Shadow Peng joining the campaign after emerging from seclusion. The Liu Family’s protective array fell, and Ling Pengshan and Ling Chengshi fought its remaining Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

• Qian Feng brought Bai into the plan to destroy the Liu and Zhong Families, then led her and Qian Clan cultivators away from the mountain.
• Qian Feng summoned Wind Shadow Peng, which eagerly flew toward the Liu Family; he followed while privately resolving to put the Ling Clan’s ambitions ahead of Bai’s ties to the Qiu Family.
• Ling Pengshan’s group used a concealed flying vessel to enter Liu Family territory and trap its clan grounds behind formations that blocked communication.
• Ling Pengshan and the Qian Clan cultivators battered down the Liu Family’s protective array over ten days, then his Near Third Rank formation killed two Foundation Establishment defenders and wounded two others.
• Ling Pengshan and Ling Chengshi charged into the Liu Family’s clan mountain, where Ling Pengshan gained the advantage and Ling Chengshi fought a stronger opponent to a standstill.

The Ling Clan branch and Qian Clan destroyed the Liu and Zhong Families, then Qian Feng sought Qiu Family support by giving Qiu Baiqian spirit items. Ling Pengshan and Ling Chengshi revealed that they intended to seize the Qiu Family’s clan grounds and would kill Qiu Baiqian if the family resisted.

• Ling Pengshan led the Ling Clan forces to destroy the Liu Family, while Qian Feng’s forces and the Wind Shadow Peng annihilated the Zhong Family.
• The Qian Clan cleared the Liu and Zhong Families’ spirit veins, and Qian Feng’s cultivators suppressed unrest caused by rogue cultivators turning Heretical Cultivators.
• Qiu Baiqian warned Qian Feng that nearby factions suspected the Qian Clan of acting like Heretical Cultivators, and Qian Feng gave him spirit stones and medicinal pills to secure Qiu Family support.
• Qiu Baiqian accepted the gifts and promised to defend the Qian Clan’s reputation before the Qiu Family, while Qian Feng gave him another Storage Bag of spirit stones.
• After Qiu Baiqian left, Ling Pengshan and Ling Chengshi discussed the planned seizure of the Qiu Family’s clan grounds and decided to kill Qiu Baiqian if the Qiu Family resisted.

At the Eastflower Marketplace auction, Ling Pengyun bought Eastflower Spirit Water and Pseudo-Core Formation Fluid to improve his Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass’s chances of reaching the Golden Core realm. After the auction ended, he stayed for the Eastflower Immortal Sect’s Golden Core trade fair, hoping to find rare magical treasures and Purple Cloud Flowers.

• Ling Pengyun purchased Eastflower Spirit Water for 343,000 spirit stones and one portion of Pseudo-Core Formation Fluid for 178,000 spirit stones.
• Ling Pengyun calculated that the spirit objects and other advantages gave his Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass roughly a fifty percent chance of entering the Golden Core realm.
• Ling Pengyun decided to prioritize advancing the Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass before seeking Golden Core spirit objects for his Wind Shadow Peng.
• An Eastflower Immortal Sect Golden Core cultivator announced the auction’s end and invited Golden Core cultivators to remain for the sect’s trade fair.
• Ling Pengyun chose to attend the trade fair to look for rare magical treasures and Purple Cloud Flowers.

Ling Pengyun exchanged a powerful formation for the Water Imprisoning Gourd and acquired Spring Jade Grass at the Eastflower Trade Fair. After he offered ten Gathering Yuan Pills refined by Ling Yunhong, the Eastflower Immortal Sect cultivator questioned him about the alchemist who had made them.

• The Eastflower Immortal Sect cultivator opened the trade fair by offering ten magic treasures in exchange for spirit objects, prioritizing pill sellers.
• Ling Pengyun traded a Third Rank Low Grade killing formation for the Water Imprisoning Gourd, while Yan Siyi passed on the treasures.
• Ling Pengyun bought Spring Jade Grass from a Golden Core Late Stage cultivator, intending to cultivate it and potentially produce spirit seeds.
• Ling Pengyun offered ten Gathering Yuan Pills refined by Ling Yunhong in exchange for Third Rank spirit herbs.
• The Eastflower Immortal Sect cultivator noticed the pills' unusually strong auras and asked Ling Pengyun whether he had refined them; Ling Pengyun said an elder had.

Ling Pengyun traded ten Gathering Yuan Pills to an Eastflower Immortal Sect cultivator and considered the Ling family's lack of artifact-forging and talisman-making successors. He and Yan Siyi then headed for Fallen Star Sea Region, where they entered the dangerous Kui Shui Limitless Astral Wind aboard the Black Armored Turtle.

• An Eastflower Immortal Sect cultivator offered thirteen portions of Gathering Yuan Grass and fifteen thousand spirit stones for Ling Pengyun's ten Gathering Yuan Pills, while inviting his hidden Third Rank alchemist to join the sect.
• Ling Pengyun accepted the offer and agreed to pass along the recruitment message, then reflected on the Ling family's shortage of artifact-forging and talisman-making talents.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi left the trade fair, traveled through a marketplace in eastern Eastflower Sea Region, and set out for Fallen Star Sea Region ahead of its once-every-three-hundred-years auction.
• After days of travel, they reached a Barren Sea Region and found their fastest route blocked by the vast, deadly Kui Shui Limitless Astral Wind.
• Ling Pengyun rode into the astral wind with Yan Siyi on the Black Armored Turtle, then entered secluded cultivation as the turtle's defensive screen withstood the winds.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi crossed the dangerous Kui Shui Limitless Astral Wind Zone and reached Fallen Star Marketplace, where righteous and demonic cultivators traded openly. While browsing the stalls, Ling Pengyun spotted a cracked, weak spiritual egg advertised as one laid by a Golden Core Realm Magma Turtle.

• Ling Pengyun identified the Kui Shui Astral Wind Demon Spirits ahead and had the Black Armored Turtle sneak past them.
• After two months crossing the zone, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi reached the Fallen Star Sea Region and used teleportation arrays to travel to Fallen Star Marketplace.
• Ling Pengyun observed that demonic cultivators traded openly alongside righteous cultivators and reflected on the region’s factions and three-hundred-year war pact.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi visited shops and bought several useful Third Rank Low Grade spiritual items before entering the stall district.
• Ling Pengyun noticed a cracked, faintly glowing spiritual egg at a Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator’s stall, labeled as an egg laid by a Golden Core Realm Magma Turtle.

Ling Pengyun proposed that Yan Siyi raise a Magma Turtle whose egg had been weakened, explaining how it could benefit from the clan’s Azure Spirit Volcano and how he could restore its vitality. They bought the egg for thirty thousand spirit stones and learned that its parents’ corpses had already been consigned to the Fallen Star Marketplace auction.

• Ling Pengyun asked Yan Siyi if she wanted to raise the weakened Magma Turtle Egg, and she agreed after hearing its potential and his plan to revive it with the Jia Yi Spring Breeze Technique.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi bought the egg from Yan Daoyou for thirty thousand spirit stones.
• Ling Pengyun asked about the egg’s parents’ corpses, and Yan Daoyou told them he had consigned them to the auction house the day before.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi browsed the stalls for a while, bought inexpensive spirit objects for the Ling Clan’s low-level cultivators, and settled into an inn.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi met Jia Mu Zhenren and Yan Qing at the Fallen Star Marketplace auction, where they learned about Jia and Yan Qing’s history and entered the auction. Yan Qing then asked Jia to recruit the Ling couple to help secure a higher-grade spiritual land, relying on his White Feather Eagle to defend it once it reached the Golden Core realm.

• Yan Siyi recognized Jia Mu Zhenren at the auction and asked him to conceal her and Ling Pengyun’s identities.
• Jia Mu Zhenren explained how Yan Qing had helped him obtain Creation Purple Cloud Pills, and Ling Pengyun learned Yan Qing had no more Purple Cloud Flowers.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi entered a private room and observed the huge crowd gathering for the fifteen-day auction.
• Yan Qing asked Jia Mu Zhenren to invite the Ling couple to help him claim a higher-grade spiritual land.
• Jia Mu Zhenren and Yan Qing studied a map of potential spiritual lands as the auction began.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi spent nearly two million spirit stones at the Fallen Star Auction, acquiring several Golden Core breakthrough resources before attending the trade fair. After the auction ended, they returned to their inn and planned to wait until the excitement died down before leaving.

• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi bought many useful items during the ordinary auction, and Ling Pengyun later purchased both Magma Turtle corpses for more than eighty thousand spirit stones.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi bought one low-grade and one middle-grade Creation Purple Cloud Pill, spending more than three hundred thousand spirit stones.
• Near the auction’s end, Ling Pengyun purchased two Meridian Protecting Pills, Fallen Star Spirit Water, and two portions of Core Formation Fluid for more than 1.39 million spirit stones, including one portion for the Yang Family.
• After Starflower Zhenren began the Fallen Star Trade Fair, Ling Pengyun traded away some unused spirit items for others, while a Nascent Soul True Lord acquired the Fourth Rank White Tiger Gold Breaking Killing Array.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi left through the auction house’s secret passage and stayed at their inn, intending to wait until the attention surrounding their spending subsided.

Jia Mu Zhenren and Yan Qing tried to recruit Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi to help destroy Danyang Palace and seize its territory, but Ling Pengyun refused because the attack was too dangerous and the offered treasures would be difficult to sell. As the couple prepared to leave, Yan Qing offered them a Third Rank Low Grade Treasure Refining Fire Pool in a final attempt to win their help.

• Jia Mu Zhenren summoned Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi to Fallen Star Teahouse and revealed Yan Qing's plan to seize Danyang Palace's Third Rank Spirit Vein.
• Yan Qing offered the couple forty percent of Danyang Palace's storeroom, its manuals, and its complete Third Rank Pill Refining inheritance if they helped defeat its five Golden Core cultivators.
• Yan Siyi warned Ling Pengyun that the mission was dangerous and the promised low-value treasures would be difficult to sell, and Ling Pengyun declined the offer.
• Ling Pengyun advised Yan Qing to wait for a war in another sea region and earn military merit before seeking a Spirit Vein.
• As Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi left, Yan Qing offered them a Third Rank Low Grade Treasure Refining Fire Pool to persuade them to join him.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi agreed to help Yan Qing attack Danyang Palace in two years in exchange for its Treasure Refining Fire Pool. After leaving Fallen Star Marketplace with their auction gains, they traveled through the Kui Shui Astral Wind Sea Region to return the Golden Core Spirit Objects to their clan before the planned assault.

• Yan Qing revealed that he possessed a Treasure Refining Fire Pool and explained why he needed to seize Danyang Palace's territory to establish a powerful clan.
• Ling Pengyun agreed to join Yan Qing's attack after two years, and Yan Qing accepted the delay while reserving Danyang Palace's other spoils for himself.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi left Fallen Star Marketplace by teleportation array after a year of unrest and Golden Core battles in the region.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi rode the Black Armored Turtle into the Kui Shui Astral Wind Sea Region, aiming to deliver their Golden Core Spirit Objects to the clan before returning to help Yan Qing.
• After a month of travel without incident, the Black Armored Turtle had crossed nearly ten million li, about one-third of the journey.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi witnessed a Third Rank High Grade Wind Spirit Vein beginning to break through to the Fourth Rank and fled before the region turned chaotic. Fallen Star True Lord blocked Eastflower True Lord from interfering, revealing his control over the spirit vein and raising Eastflower’s fears about his sect’s future.

• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi sensed a massive Qi Infusion in the depths of the Kui Shui Limitless Astral Wind and realized a spirit vein was attempting to reach the Fourth Rank.
• Ling Pengyun warned Yan Siyi that the breakthrough could empower the core demon spirit and draw Nascent Soul True Lords into a conflict, then took her away at high speed.
• Eastflower True Lord arrived near the island, but Fallen Star True Lord blocked him and declared that he had cultivated the spirit vein and commanded its demon spirits.
• Fallen Star True Lord’s aura revealed his peak Nascent Soul Sixth Layer cultivation, and Eastflower True Lord judged that he could not win a fight before retreating.
• Eastflower True Lord concluded that Fallen Star’s breakthrough could give his side two Nascent Soul battle forces and threaten the Eastflower Immortal Sect, so he resolved to cultivate another Nascent Soul True Lord.

Fallen Star True Lord’s wind spirit vein reached the Fourth Rank, allowing him to create a Nascent Soul Demon Spirit Emperor and plan further expansion. Half a year later, Ling Pengyun helped the Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass survive its tribulation and enter the Golden Core realm.

• Fallen Star True Lord used his formations to protect the wind spirit vein’s advancement tribulations, and the vein reached the Fourth Rank.
• Fallen Star True Lord channeled the vein’s spiritual qi into a Kui Shui Astral Wind Demon Spirit, which formed a Nascent Soul and became a Demon Spirit Emperor.
• Fallen Star True Lord planned to expand the Fallen Star Sea Region toward the Demon Race and seek more Kui Shui Limitless Astral Wind.
• Ling Pengyun helped the Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass refine spiritual qi and condense a Yi Wood Crystal.
• The Lightning Destruction Grand Array blocked the grass’s tribulations and tempered its body, and the Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass entered the Golden Core realm.