Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun’s Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass grew stronger, learned to communicate, and revealed a complete Golden Core cultivation route. Ling Pengyun used its spiritual power to attack his cultivation bottleneck, then prepared pills and spiritual water for the grass to refine as its strength ran low.

• Ling Pengyun saw the Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass grow to a foot tall and store spiritual power equal to roughly half his own, and he planned to raise its cultivation with Third Rank spiritual water.
• The Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass told Ling Pengyun it had comprehended the Divine Sense Utterance Technique and could communicate with him.
• The grass confirmed it had awakened a complete Golden Core Spiritual Energy Circulation Route that could take it to Golden Core Completion.
• Ling Pengyun instructed the grass to return its spiritual power, then used it with his own to attack the bottleneck at the peak of the Golden Core Fifth Layer.
• After half a month, the bottleneck was heavily cracked, but the grass’s spiritual power was nearly exhausted, so Ling Pengyun gave it Third Rank Qi Recovery Pills and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water to refine.

Ling Pengyun broke through to the Golden Core Sixth Layer with help from the Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass, while Yan Siyi also reached the Golden Core Fourth Layer. As Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi prepared for their future agreement with Yan Qing and others, they entered seclusion together, leaving the Thunderbolt Rat waiting for a chance to ask them for a reward.

• The Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass refined two Qi Recovery Pills and two bottles of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water, consuming twenty percent of its Yi Wood Essence to help Ling Pengyun break through to the Golden Core Sixth Layer.
• Ling Pengyun examined the Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass and found that the spiritual waters he had prepared should restore its consumed Yi Wood Essence within half a year.
• Yan Siyi arrived and congratulated Ling Pengyun, revealing that she had also advanced to the Golden Core Fourth Layer with the aid of a Miasma Breaking Treasure Pill.
• Ling Pengyun urged Yan Siyi to remain with the clan and stabilize her cultivation instead of joining him on the planned trip, but she insisted on going.
• Ling Pengyun accepted Yan Siyi's decision, then carried her into a cave and set up an isolation formation.
• The Thunderbolt Rat waited at the valley entrance and planned to ask Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi for a Third Rank Low Grade Beast Spirit Pill when they emerged.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi left Cloud Stepping Valley after the Thunderbolt Rat unsuccessfully tried to obtain cultivation resources from Ling Pengyun. A year later, they finally reached Fallen Star Marketplace, where Yan Qing and Jia Mu Zhenren were waiting to discuss their plan against Danyang Palace.

• The Thunderbolt Rat praised Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi, then asked Ling Pengyun for resources to help it break through.
• Ling Pengyun refused the Thunderbolt Rat’s request, warned it to guard Cloud Stepping Valley, and left with Yan Siyi.
• The Thunderbolt Rat lamented that it had failed to obtain resources and recalled its ambition to return to the Thunderbolt Rat Race and dominate it.
• Yan Qing worried that Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi had missed their appointment to help destroy Danyang Palace, while Jia Mu Zhenren reassured him that they would keep their word.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi arrived at Fallen Star Teahouse after detouring around the dangerous Kui Shui Limitless Astral Wind Sea Region.
• Yan Qing welcomed Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi, and the four sat down to drink tea and talk.

Dan Jing discovered that a Golden Core heretical cultivator was attacking Danming Island and joined the fight to defend Danyang Palace’s territory. After Dan Jing and the island’s array trapped the attacker, two more Golden Core cultivators arrived, and the red-haired cultivator struck the enemy’s shield with a massive axe.

• Dan Jing found Danming Island’s Mother-Child Spirit Talisman shattered and flew to investigate.
• Dan Jing saw a black-clad Golden Core Initial Stage cultivator attacking the island’s protection array and called his master for help.
• Dan Jing attacked the heretical cultivator, while the island’s Foundation Establishment Completion guard trapped him with the array.
• A Golden Core Sixth Layer elder and a red-haired Golden Core Fifth Layer cultivator arrived, intending to use the attacker’s body to nourish Danyang Palace’s spiritual fruit.
• The red-haired cultivator transformed into a steel-like giant, charged into the array, and struck the black-clad cultivator’s spell shield with his Mountain-Splitting Axe.

Ling Pengyun revealed his strength and killed Dan Gang True Person and Dan Jing True Person, while Yan Siyi helped him slay Danyang Old Freak. The couple then turned their attention to Danming Island, leaving Yan Siyi to support Ling Pengyun as he attacked its defenses.

• Dan Gang True Person attacked Ling Pengyun, who revealed his Golden Core Sixth Layer cultivation and killed him with his magic treasures and Azure Sea Sky Sword.
• Danyang Old Freak fled and ordered Dan Jing True Person to hold off Ling Pengyun, but Ling Pengyun quickly killed Dan Jing True Person.
• Yan Siyi ambushed Danyang Old Freak with a flame demon wolf and five Golden Core Initial Stage demon corpses, then joined Ling Pengyun to kill him.
• Ling Pengyun asked whether Yan Siyi's cultivation remained stable, and she assured him it had not begun to fall.
• Ling Pengyun attacked Danming Island's protective formation while Yan Siyi sent her five demon corpses to assist him.

Ling Pengyun joined Yan Qing and Jia Mu Zhenren in destroying Danyang Palace, then faced a coalition of nine Golden Core cultivators who sought to claim the spoils. The chapter ended as Ling Pengyun and his allies blocked the coalition’s opening attacks.

• Yan Qing and Jia Mu Zhenren attacked Danyang Island’s defensive formation until three Golden Core reinforcements arrived and forced them onto the defensive.
• Ling Pengyun arrived with his wife, declared his intent to destroy Danyang Palace, and used the Water Imprisoning Gourd to trap the three reinforcements.
• Ling Pengyun, Yan Qing, and Jia Mu Zhenren killed one reinforcer, while the other two escaped after breaking free of the water prisons.
• Ling Pengyun and his allies shattered Danyang Palace’s formation in a month and slaughtered the island’s cultivators.
• Nine Golden Core cultivators surrounded the group, and a Confucian cultivator from White Radiance Academy led their attack in the name of avenging Danyang Palace.
• Ling Pengyun summoned the Black Armored Turtle and the Profound Yang Treasure Shield, and the two treasures blocked the coalition’s attacks.

Yan Qing tried to expose Danyang Palace as a demonic sect and persuade the ten Golden Core cultivators outside the island to let them investigate, but Bai Mo Zhenren accused the attackers of deception and the outsiders renewed their assault. Yan Qing offered Ling Pengyun and the others greater rewards to keep them fighting, then unleashed his enhanced cultivation and a vast sword technique against the ten cultivators.

• Yan Qing told the ten Golden Core cultivators that Danyang Palace had used humans as pill ingredients and warned them of the consequences of stealing credit for its destruction.
• Bai Mo Zhenren claimed his Baiyao Golden Eye had detected demonic aura on the island’s occupants, convincing the outsiders to attack rather than investigate.
• As the ten cultivators battered Ling Pengyun’s defenses, Yan Qing apologized and offered Ling Pengyun and Madam Ling half the treasury’s profits and the third-order fire vein.
• Yan Qing negotiated additional benefits with Jia Mu Zhenren, persuading him to stay and fight.
• Yan Qing raised his cultivation from the Golden Core Sixth Layer to the Golden Core Eighth Layer and unleashed a torrent of more than eight thousand sword lights at the ten cultivators.

Ling Pengyun and his companions fought off the Golden Core cultivators attacking Danyang Island, and Ling Pengyun drove the survivors away with repeated Azure Sea Sky Swords. After Yan Qing gave him a map to the Treasure Refining Fire Pool and fire vein, Ling Pengyun sensed an unusual spiritual plant aura deep within the island.

• Ling Pengyun warned Yan Siyi not to reveal their demon corpses or Beast Puppets, then joined her and Jia Mu Zhenren in fighting the ten Golden Core cultivators outside the island.
• Ling Pengyun killed a Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator, and Yan Siyi used the Fire Wolf Moon Devouring Art to kill a Golden Core Initial Stage cultivator.
• Yan Qing exhausted himself with the Sword Light Torrent, allowing Ling Pengyun to kill two more Golden Core Initial Stage cultivators before the attackers renewed their assault.
• Ling Pengyun restored his spiritual power with stored energy and pills, repelled the attackers with three Azure Sea Sky Swords, and pursued and killed one fleeing cultivator.
• Yan Qing gave Ling Pengyun a map to the Treasure Refining Fire Pool and fire vein, then Ling Pengyun sensed a spiritual plant aura mixed with dense blood qi deep within Danyang Island.

Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Yan Qing explored Danyang Palace's base and uncovered its hidden prison before breaking into the palace's Spirit Plant Garden. They entered the garden to investigate the strange-aura spirit plant, whose valuable fruit Yan Qing secretly hoped to claim.

• Ling Pengyun told Yan Qing he wanted to inspect a strange-aura spirit plant and swore not to take anything, so Yan Qing reluctantly agreed after setting up a Third Rank Middle Grade formation on Danyang Island.
• Yan Qing led Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Jia Mu Zhenren to Danyang Mountain Range and explained how Danyang Palace had gathered hundreds of spirit veins there.
• The group found a concealed cavern beneath Danyang True Person's cave abode, where Danyang Palace had imprisoned mortals and cultivators and stored demonic-path spirit items; Ling Pengyun questioned how Yan Qing had learned of it.
• Yan Qing promised to free the prisoners and recruited them, while the group divided the spoils from their battle and Jia Mu Zhenren chose to wait outside the valley.
• Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Yan Qing broke the formation protecting Danyang Palace's Spirit Plant Garden, revealing its interior.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Qing encountered a bizarre blood-red spirit tree that fed on corpses and attacked them with thousands of powerful roots. As Ling Pengyun defended them, he realized the tree was likely an extraordinarily rare mutated spirit plant, though he could not determine how the Danyang Palace had obtained it.

• Ling Pengyun spotted a Third Rank blood-red tree amid corpses, where its roots drained blood and souls to nourish a single fruit.
• The tree roared and sent thousands of powerful roots lashing at Ling Pengyun and Yan Qing.
• Ling Pengyun used the Profound Yang Treasure Shield to block the roots and recognized that the tree was the strange spirit tree he had sensed earlier.
• Ling Pengyun noted that the tree’s appearance and blood-based nourishment did not match the spirit plants recorded in the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect’s inheritance.
• Ling Pengyun concluded that the tree was probably a mutated spirit plant, possibly one that had mutated spontaneously, and wondered how the Danyang Palace had acquired it.

Ling Pengyun learned that the Ten Thousand Jade Blood Jade Tree was a blood- and soul-feeding mutated spirit tree and helped Yan Qing tame it without a binding restriction. After warning Yan Qing to nourish it with demon beasts instead of people, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi left Danyang Island.

• Ling Pengyun questioned Yan Qing about the blood tree, and Yan Qing explained that Danyang Palace's late patriarch had obtained and named the Ten Thousand Jade Blood Tree.
• Yan Qing asked Ling Pengyun to spare the tree, keep its identity secret, and help tame it; Ling Pengyun agreed and requested some branches and roots.
• Ling Pengyun restrained the tree with the Water Imprisoning Gourd while Yan Qing extracted its Jia Wood Crystal and placed a restriction inside it.
• The tree threatened to detonate its Jia Wood Crystal unless Yan Qing removed the restriction, promising to produce fruit if supplied with flesh, blood, and souls; Yan Qing removed it.
• Ling Pengyun took more than a dozen branches and warned Yan Qing to feed the tree demon beasts rather than mortals or cultivators, and Yan Qing agreed.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi flew away from the Spirit Plant Garden and left Danyang Island.

After leaving Danyang Island, Ling Pengyun explained why he could not take the Ten Thousand Jade Blood Jade Fruit Tree and proposed using its cut branches and his rare opportunity to cultivate an offspring tree. He and Yan Siyi then set off underwater for the Human Race Sea Territory, hoping to reproduce the tree while acknowledging the mother tree’s dangerous nature and likely limits.

• Yan Siyi regretted leaving the Ten Thousand Jade Blood Jade Fruit Tree behind, but Ling Pengyun explained that removing it would require relocating the island’s Third Rank Middle Grade spirit vein and would draw other cultivators’ attention.
• Ling Pengyun revealed that the branches they had taken could be cultivated through cuttings with the help of his opportunity, though it would consume another breath of Yin Yang Primordial Qi and delay condensing Yin Yang Primordial Essence by nine years.
• Ling Pengyun argued that the mother tree’s rapid growth suggested extraordinary aptitude, making an offspring tree potentially valuable to the Ling Clan despite the risks and cost.
• Ling Pengyun warned that the mother tree’s slaughter of humans had accumulated immense resentment, likely obstructing its path to the Nascent Soul Realm and making it difficult for the clan to control.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi mounted the Black Armored Turtle, concealed their auras, and traveled underwater toward the Human Race Sea Territory.

Yan Qing seized Danyang Palace’s territory, used the Ten Thousand Jade Blood Jade Tree to help his White Feather Eagle reach the Golden Core realm, and established the Danyang Yan Family. Two seasons later, a young Ling Clan cultivator was nurturing a blood-red tree with demon beast corpses and souls.

• Yan Qing guarded the Ten Thousand Jade Blood Jade Tree and planned to use its fruit, Fallen Star Spirit Water, and a Meridian Protecting Pill to help his White Feather Eagle break through to the Golden Core realm.
• Yan Qing and Jia Mu Zhenren swept through Danyang Palace’s low-order spirit veins, while Jia Mu later brought Yan Qing’s relatives to Danyang Island.
• A disciple of Fallen Star True Lord made Yan Qing agree to pay yearly spirit stones to Fallen Star Island.
• The damaged island-protecting formation blocked nine tribulation bolts as the White Feather Eagle completed its Golden Core breakthrough, and Yan Qing named his family the Danyang Yan Family.
• Two seasons later, a young Ling Clan cultivator used beast corpses and souls to nourish a blood-red tree until it reached the Qi Training Second Layer.

Ling Pengyun examined the rapidly growing Small Ten Thousand Jade Blood Jade Tree and decided its spirit seed could become his third Natal Spirit Plant, helping him strengthen his cultivation ahead of the Crimson Gold Bear Race’s retaliation. He began nurturing a spirit seed and hoped the tree could produce one in time for the Demon Beast Uprising.

• Ling Pengyun assessed that the Small Ten Thousand Jade Blood Jade Tree had reached Qi Training Second Layer in half a year by absorbing blood and souls, and might have exceptional aptitude.
• Ling Pengyun concluded that refining the tree’s future spirit seed as his third Natal Spirit Plant could help him gain cultivation, which he needed to face the Crimson Gold Bear Race.
• Ling Pengyun decided to leave the Longevity Enhancing Spirit Apricot Tree for possible future use by Nian Chuan or Cheng Yuan and planned to nurture the Frosty Spirit Tree for Nian Chuan.
• Ling Pengyun used a secret method on the Small Ten Thousand Jade Blood Jade Tree, forming a vitality vortex that could develop into a spirit seed.
• Ling Pengyun estimated the tree might produce a spirit seed in three years and hoped to refine it before the Demon Beast Uprising.

Ling Pengyun nurtured the obedient Little Ten Thousand Jade Blood Jade Tree before meeting Mu Ping Zhenren to exchange the final batch of Gathering Yuan Grass for pills refined from the previous batch. Mu Ping left delighted with the profitable arrangement, while the new forty stalks remained with Ling Pengyun for future pill refining.

• Ling Pengyun fed the Little Ten Thousand Jade Blood Jade Tree cultivation-type Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water and reflected on how he had tamed and nurtured it.
• Ling Pengyun received a message that the final batch of Gathering Yuan Grass had arrived and went to meet Mu Ping Zhenren in the Guest Hall.
• Mu Ping gave Ling Pengyun forty Third Rank Gathering Yuan Grass stalks, and Ling Pengyun checked their quality before storing them.
• Ling Pengyun gave Mu Ping seventy-two middling-quality Gathering Yuan Pills refined from the previous batch of grass.
• Mu Ping inspected the pills and rejoiced at the profits from his pill-refining agreement with the Ling Clan.

Ling Pengyun negotiated new pill-refining terms with Mu Ping Zhenren after Ling Yunhong advanced to Third Rank Middle Grade, then returned to see how the Ling Clan’s expanded territory had developed. The chapter ended with Ling Pengyun arriving at the cave residence on Fire Cloud Mountain, where a young Ling Clan woman came to the door.

• Mu Ping Zhenren praised the Ling Clan’s pills and learned that Ling Yunhong had advanced to Third Rank Middle Grade.
• Ling Pengyun set less generous terms for future alchemy commissions, and Mu Ping Zhenren agreed to bring more spirit herbs for refinement.
• Mu Ping Zhenren said the promised Miasma Breaking Pills and Creation Purple Cloud Pills might take another one or two years to finish.
• Ling Pengyun returned to the Ling Clan Territory, which now contained seventy-two linked spirit veins, thirty-six peaks, and expanded spirit fields and beast-breeding grounds.
• Ling Pengyun climbed Fire Cloud Mountain and knocked on the cave residence door, where a young Ling Clan woman answered.

Ling Pengyun visited Ling Wanxing on Fire Cloud Mountain, encouraged her alchemy studies, and gave her spirit herbs to pass to Ling Yunhong. He returned to Lingxiao Mountain while considering the clan’s preparations for the Demon Beast Uprising and the possibility of having another child if the clan survived it.

• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Wanxing Fruit Flower Honey and Spirit Mulberries and asked about her alchemy studies under Ling Yunhong.
• Ling Wanxing said she expected to formally enter the alchemical Dao in a few months, and Ling Pengyun promised her a great gift.
• Ling Pengyun learned that Ling Yunhong remained in seclusion refining pills and resolved to urge him to focus on cultivation after the tense period passed.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Wanxing forty Third Rank Low Grade Gathering Yuan Grass plants to deliver to Ling Yunhong when he emerged from seclusion.
• Ling Pengyun reminded Ling Wanxing to rest from her studies, then returned to his cave abode on Lingxiao Mountain.

The Wind Shadow Peng resolved to attempt a breakthrough into the Golden Core Realm to help the Ling Clan face the approaching Demon Beast Uprising. Ling Pengyun supplied spirit objects and took it to Cloud Stepping Valley, where a special formation could protect it during its tribulation.

• The Wind Shadow Peng told Ling Pengyun that its training had given it a thirty-five percent chance of reaching the Golden Core Realm, and asked to attempt the breakthrough immediately.
• Ling Pengyun urged the Wind Shadow Peng to wait and pursue a chance at forming a high-grade Golden Core, but the Peng insisted it wanted to help the Ling Clan face the Demon Beast Uprising.
• Ling Pengyun agreed to assist the Wind Shadow Peng and gave it Core Formation Fluid and a Meridian Protecting Pill, raising its estimated breakthrough chance to fifty percent.
• Ling Pengyun took the Wind Shadow Peng to Cloud Stepping Valley in the White Cloud Mountain Range to use the Lightning Destruction Grand Array during its tribulation.
• Ling Pengyun ordered the Thunderbolt Rat to guard the Wind Shadow Peng, then inspected the nearby First Rank High Grade Thunder Vein and found that it had stabilized and grown stronger.

Ling Pengyun strengthened the Thunder Vein and guarded Wind Shadow Peng as it attempted to break through to the Golden Core Realm. Wind Shadow Peng successfully formed a low-grade Golden Core, and the remaining Qi Infusion phenomenon gave it time to improve its quality.

• Ling Pengyun assessed the Thunder Vein’s growth and planned to seek an offensive thunder-attributed spirit tree for a future Lightning Destruction Grand Array.
• Ling Pengyun placed thunder-attributed spirit objects in the Thunder Gathering Vein Condensing Grand Array to nourish the Thunder Vein, then returned to guard Cloud Stepping Valley with Gatekeeper Rat.
• A month later, Wind Shadow Peng’s breakthrough triggered Qi Infusion, and it revealed that it had condensed Solidified Spiritual Power without using its Golden Core spirit objects.
• Wind Shadow Peng swallowed the Core Formation Fluid and Meridian Protecting Pill, then refined the spiritual qi flooding into its body.
• By the third day, Wind Shadow Peng had formed a low-grade Golden Core, leaving six days of Qi Infusion to potentially raise its quality.

The Wind Shadow Peng completed its Golden Core tribulation in Cloud Stepping Valley and awakened the Wind Split Severing Art, while Ling Pengyun warned the Thunderbolt Rat against scheming against the Ling Clan. The rat agreed to cooperate as the coming Demon Beast Uprising and the Crimson Gold Bear Race’s revenge threatened Yan Kingdom.

• The Thunderbolt Rat suspected the Ling Clan had a hidden opportunity, but Ling Pengyun threatened it and urged it to remain loyal in exchange for protection and resources.
• When the Thunderbolt Rat asked whether Ling Pengyun could defend Yan Kingdom from the coming uprising, he said he was sixty percent confident.
• The Wind Shadow Peng raised its Golden Core to nearly top-tier middle grade during the Qi Infusion phenomenon, then survived its tribulation with help from Cloud Stepping Valley’s array.
• After reaching the Golden Core Realm, the Wind Shadow Peng received its clan’s cultivation method and awakened the low-grade Mystical Treasure Art, Wind Split Severing Art.
• Ling Pengyun learned that the art required Wind Shadow Peng bloodline and arranged for the Peng to teach it to the clan’s Foundation Establishment Wind Shadow Pengs.
• The Thunderbolt Rat envied the Wind Shadow Peng’s new art and regretted never mastering a Mystical Treasure Art of its own.