Chapter Summaries

After the Wind Shadow Peng advanced to the Golden Core realm, Ling Pengyun tested its exceptional speed and brought it to meet Yan Siyi in the Spirit Beast Forest. The couple checked on the Magma Turtle Egg, whose vitality was recovering with the help of the forest's wood vein power, and Ling Pengyun prepared to use a Spirit Plant Secret Method to aid it further.

• Ling Pengyun rode the newly advanced Wind Shadow Peng and found that its innate escape art gave it remarkable speed and combat potential.
• Ling Pengyun directed Wind Shadow to fly into the Spirit Beast Forest, where Yan Siyi congratulated them both on the Peng's advancement.
• Wind Shadow thanked Ling Pengyun for the opportunity that had helped it grow and vowed to remain by his and Yan Siyi's side.
• Yan Siyi told Ling Pengyun that the Magma Turtle Egg's vitality had steadily recovered through the forest's wood vein power.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi descended into the forest so he could use a Spirit Plant Secret Method to help the egg absorb more wood vein power.

Ling Pengyun used a Third Rank Giant Iron Tree King to restore Yan Siyi’s Magma Turtle Egg and said his spirit plant path was close to entering the Third Rank. After a month of study, he reached Third Rank Low Grade and could begin learning the Azure Sea Wood Origin Longevity Extension method.

• Ling Pengyun cast the Wood Guiding Essence Transformation Art on Yan Siyi’s Magma Turtle Egg, greatly increasing its vitality.
• Yan Siyi asked whether Ling Pengyun’s spirit plant attainments had improved, and he said he expected to reach the Third Rank within a month.
• Ling Pengyun stayed with Yan Siyi to continue restoring the egg while the Wind Shadow Peng worked on deriving a method to refine its Wind Shadow Blade into a magic treasure.
• Over the next month, Ling Pengyun comprehended the Azure Sea Nurturing Art and his Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass entered the Golden Core Realm, raising his spirit plant path to Third Rank Low Grade.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi celebrated his advancement, which allowed him to begin comprehending a longevity method that could grant up to one hundred and fifty years but risked burdening him with the resentment of destroyed plants.

Ling Pengyun studied the Azure Sea Nurturing Art and realized how it could accelerate the Ling Clan’s spirit plants and reduce its reliance on outside resources. After tending the Magma Turtle Egg and the Giant Iron Tree King, he returned to Lingxiao Mountain, where he worked to raise a Spirit Field’s rank amid the Northern Wilderness’s restrictions on Third Rank Spirit Fields.

• Ling Pengyun learned that the Azure Sea Nurturing Art could greatly speed the growth of spirit plants and considered how it would benefit the Ling Clan’s trees and herbs.
• Ling Pengyun tried to comprehend the Azure Sea Wood Origin Art but concluded it would take years to master.
• Ling Pengyun used the Wood Vein Transformation Art on the Magma Turtle Egg and estimated it would recover and hatch within half a year.
• Ling Pengyun cast the Azure Sea Nurturing Art on the Giant Iron Tree King, bade farewell to Yan Siyi, and rode the Wind Shadow Peng back to Lingxiao Mountain.
• Three months later, Ling Pengyun worked on the weakest of four Spirit Fields at Lingxiao Mountain, while the chapter explained why Third Rank Spirit Fields were scarce in the Northern Wilderness.

Ling Pengyun expanded the Ling Clan’s Third Rank spirit fields at Lingxiao Mountain and Fire Cloud Mountain, then tended the clan’s spirit plants and studied the Spirit Awakening Art. The chapter ended by shifting to Follow Heart Island, territory of the Mo Family in the Wrathful Whale Sea Region.

• Ling Pengyun raised a spirit field at Lingxiao Mountain to Third Rank Low Grade and planned how to use the mountain’s newly opened fields for spirit trees, herbs, and rare mother plants.
• Ling Pengyun opened two mu of Third Rank Low Grade spirit fields on Fire Cloud Mountain, planting the Profound Yang Fruit Tree and fire-attributed spirit plants there.
• Ling Pengyun used the Azure Sea Nurturing Art on the Fire Cloud Mountain plants and the Wood Guiding Essence Transformation Art on the Magma Turtle Egg in the Spirit Beast Forest.
• Ling Pengyun studied the Spirit Awakening Art, which could increase spirit plants’ intelligence and awaken ordinary plants into spirit plants.
• The story shifted to Follow Heart Island, where the Mo Family, a famous Golden Core formation-crafting family, held its territory.

Mo Congxin, the Follow Heart Island Mo Family’s Spirit Array Old Ancestor, broke through to the Golden Core Fifth Layer and prepared his clan for the Demon Beast Uprising in two and a half years. Seeking to improve the clan’s chance of claiming a Dragon Vein, he urged his earth flood dragon to force a breakthrough with three Miasma Breaking Pills.

• Mo Congxin advanced to the Golden Core Fifth Layer after spending decades and hundreds of thousands of spirit stones on cultivation resources.
• Mo Congxin learned that Mo Qianqiu was attempting to break through to the Golden Core Third Layer and expected his success to strengthen the clan before the Demon Beast Uprising.
• Mo Congxin descended into a hidden cave and asked his earth flood dragon how long it would take to reach the Golden Core Third Layer.
• The earth flood dragon estimated it would need around ten years, so Mo Congxin gave it three Miasma Breaking Pills and ordered it to attempt a forced breakthrough before the uprising.

The earth flood dragon swallowed three Miasma Breaking Pills despite the risk of damaging its meridians, hoping to gain future access to the Dragon Vein. Half a year later, Wu Hong reached the Golden Core Second Layer, leaving Hundred Spirits True Person worried that the sect would eventually fall under Wu Tian’s family.

• Spirit Array Old Ancestor urged the earth flood dragon to accept the long-term benefits of the Dragon Vein and left it with three Miasma Breaking Pills.
• The earth flood dragon decided the future gains outweighed nearly a century of impaired cultivation and swallowed all three pills.
• Wu Hong emerged from secluded cultivation at the Golden Core Second Layer, and Hundred Spirits True Person praised his rapid progress.
• Hundred Spirits True Person considered Wu Hong’s family’s strength and feared they would control the sect after his death.
• Hundred Spirits True Person concluded that opposing Wu Tian’s family would expose the weakened sect to rival forces, and he prayed for a gifted successor among his own disciples or descendants.

Ling Chengxin successfully condensed a low-grade Golden Core, and Ling Pengyun welcomed him out of Cloud Stepping Valley. Ling Pengyun gave him magic treasures and urged him to prepare for the Demon Beast Uprising while advancing his alchemy skills.

• Hundred Spirits True Person praised Wu Hong after he emerged from seclusion at the Golden Core Second Layer.
• Ling Pengyun watched tribulation clouds gather over Cloud Stepping Valley and noted that Cheng Xin had attempted his breakthrough without Yin Yang Primordial Qi.
• Ling Chengxin survived the lightning tribulation and emerged from the valley with a low-grade Golden Core.
• Ling Chengxin thanked Ling Pengyun for the Golden Core Spirit Objects, and Ling Pengyun told him he owed his breakthrough to his own ability.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Chengxin three powerful magic treasures and urged him to train for the Demon Beast Uprising and eventually become a third-rank alchemist.

Ling Chengping and Lin Fan visited Ling Chengxia after his seclusion, hoping to get essence blood from his flood dragons to help her Pseudo Dragon Earthworm transform before the coming Demon Beast Uprising. Ling Chengxia recognized the request as another favor his sister and brother-in-law wanted from him.

• Ling Chengping managed the Ling Clan branch on Lingxiao Island, where Lin Fan helped the spirit beast population grow to nearly three thousand.
• Ling Chengping and Lin Fan waited for Ling Chengxia to emerge from seclusion beside her Qi Training Ninth Layer Pseudo Dragon Earthworm.
• Ling Chengxia emerged at Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer Peak and noticed that the Pseudo Dragon Earthworm had advanced since he last saw it.
• Ling Chengxia remarked that Ling Chengping and Lin Fan usually sought him out to ask for favors or help capturing female demon beasts.
• Ling Chengping asked Ling Chengxia to provide essence blood from his Golden Flood Dragons or Mother Dragon Earthworm so her Pseudo Dragon Earthworm could transform before the Demon Beast Uprising.

Ling Chengxia reluctantly agreed to let Jin Da and the Mother Dragon Earthworm give their child essence blood to help it transform into a flood dragon. Later, a youth riding a winged Black Fur Tiger arrived among the Ling Clan’s gathered demon beasts and ordered them to separate and line up.

• Ling Chengxia refused Ling Chengping’s request at first, warning that donating essence blood would slow Jin Da and the Mother Dragon Earthworm’s cultivation.
• Jin Da and the Mother Dragon Earthworm volunteered to give their child a drop of essence blood each, and Ling Chengxia agreed.
• Ling Chengping thanked Ling Chengxia, and the Pseudo Earth-Turning Dragon Earthworm swallowed the two drops and began refining them.
• At Lingxiao Small Lake, a youth riding a winged Black Fur Tiger arrived among several hundred demon beasts, who greeted him without hostility.
• The youth used the Beast Language Art to tell the herbivorous demon beasts to keep cultivating and the carnivorous ones to line up.

Ling Li Hu tended the Ling Clan’s demon beasts and considered how to strengthen his Winged Shadow Tiger so it could reach Foundation Establishment Completion in time to support his path to Golden Core. He decided to adapt the clan’s mutation method for Earth Flame Tigers to try to induce a favorable mutation in his tiger.

• Ling Li Hu fed the carnivorous demon beasts and noticed that two wolf demons had grown stronger, then used the Beast Essence Spirit Absorption Technique to boost the cultivation of thirty beasts.
• After completing his work, Ling Li Hu worried that the Ling Clan would be poorly prepared for the Demon Beast Uprising a year later.
• Ling Li Hu reflected that his Winged Shadow Tiger’s Golden Core Demon King bloodline could improve both their chances of reaching Golden Core, but the tiger needed to cultivate faster.
• Ling Li Hu concluded that inducing a favorable mutation was the only way to accelerate the Winged Shadow Tiger’s cultivation, though failure could destroy its potential or kill it.
• After finishing his duties at the Spirit Beast Three Mountains, Ling Li Hu began studying how to adapt the clan’s Earth Flame Tiger mutation method for the Winged Shadow Tiger.

Ling Wanduo defeated Ling Wanliang in their monthly spar and criticized him for relying too heavily on close combat. He urged Ling Wanliang to master a spell before the approaching Demon Beast Uprising.

• Ling Wanduo and Ling Wanliang fought across a mountain protected by a second-tier formation, with Ling Wanduo overwhelming his opponent using Earth Technique spells.
• Ling Wanliang summoned the Nether Fire Wolf to shield him and charge at Ling Wanduo, who countered by summoning a Yellow-Furred Bear Demon.
• Ling Wanduo broke through the wolf’s defenses and forced Ling Wanliang to concede.
• Ling Wanduo told Ling Wanliang to work on his weak long-range attacks by comprehending a spell, warning him that the Demon Beast Uprising was drawing near.

Ling Wanduo reprimanded Ling Wanliang for neglecting his technique cultivation, then reflected on how he and Wanliang hoped to catch up with the stronger Ling Wanchuan and Ling Wanxu. Elsewhere, a ghostly cultivator meditating inside the Black Lamp broke through to Foundation Establishment Completion.

• Ling Wanduo ordered Ling Wanliang to enter seclusion and comprehend his techniques, and Wanliang hurried into a nearby cave residence.
• Ling Wanduo considered the abilities of the Ling Clan Six Sons and resolved to improve his own body cultivation to make up for his weaker physique.
• Ling Wanduo cleaned the battlefield ruins and entered a cave residence to cultivate in seclusion.
• Inside the Black Lamp in Ghost Star Valley, a ghostly cultivator absorbed dense ghostly qi while two ghostly cultivators and a black spider guarded him.
• The cultivator's dantian made a shattering sound, and his aura rose to Foundation Establishment Completion as his illusory hair became solid.

Ling Pengxing learned that the Ghost Yin Lamp was the inheritance treasure of the long-destroyed Ghost Immortal Sect, once a powerful force in the Northernmost Cultivation World. After hearing how the sect fell, he asked whether accepting its inheritance would let the righteous sects that destroyed it trace him.

• The Ghost Immortal Inheritance Treasure Lamp awakened and offered Ling Pengxing a chance to inherit the Ghost Immortal Sect's Dao lineage.
• Ling Pengxing recognized the lamp's likely Spirit Treasure status and respectfully asked whether the Ghost Immortal Sect still existed.
• The artifact spirit explained that the sect had ruled the Northernmost Cultivation World before its Ghost Monarch and other leaders fell fighting the Demon-Burning Fire Phoenix Clan.
• The artifact spirit said righteous forces slaughtered the sect's surviving ghost cultivators after the war, severing its Dao lineage.
• Ling Pengxing asked whether forging a karmic bond with the sect would expose him to the righteous forces that destroyed it.

Ling Pengxing learned that the Ghost Immortal Sect’s enemies included the powerful Extreme Cold Immortal Sect and Xuanyuan Royal Clan, then accepted the sect’s inheritance despite the risks to himself and his clan. The artifact spirit agreed it could sever his clan’s karmic ties once it regained Nascent Soul strength, and Ling Pengxing asked how its recovery could be accelerated.

• The Ghost Immortal Lamp Artifact Spirit explained that it could conceal Ling Pengxing’s ties to its sect before Nascent Soul, then named the Extreme Cold Immortal Sect, Drifting Rain Pavilion, and Xuanyuan Royal Clan as the sect’s enemies.
• Ling Pengxing described the current strength and locations of the Extreme Cold Immortal Sect and Xuanyuan Royal Clan, leaving the artifact spirit dismayed at how powerful they had become.
• The artifact spirit offered Ling Pengxing a lesser bargain for help killing three Golden Core cultivators and finding an inheritor, or a greater inheritance with more burdens and at least a thirty percent chance of reaching Nascent Soul.
• Ling Pengxing resolved to accept the Ghost Immortal Sect’s inheritance and asked whether the artifact spirit could sever his karmic ties to his clan.
• The artifact spirit said it could sever those ties after recovering to Nascent Soul strength, but its injuries and limited ghost-vein resources slowed its recovery.
• Ling Pengxing asked whether there was a way to speed up the artifact spirit’s recovery.

Ling Pengxing accepted the Ghost Immortal Lamp’s inheritance and learned that restoring its artifact spirit would require rare materials and many years. After discussing which inheritances his clan could safely receive, he returned to Ghost Star Valley as the Demon Beast Uprising approached.

• The Ghost Immortal Lamp’s artifact spirit explained its injuries, the materials needed for recovery, and the sealed Ghost Immortal Sect vault.
• Ling Pengxing formed a tracking restriction with the lamp and received access to the sect’s inheritances, including the Ghost Immortal Treasure Canon and the Ghost Immortal Possession Technique.
• The artifact spirit advised Ling Pengxing against giving most inheritances to his clan because doing so would deepen the clan’s karmic ties to the sect.
• Ling Pengxing agreed to let suitable clan members receive inheritances individually, then left the lamp’s interior as it entered his Sea of Consciousness.
• Wang Shi, Wang Li, and the Ghost Shadow Spider congratulated Ling Pengxing on reaching Foundation Establishment Completion, and he urged them to prepare for the coming Demon Beast Uprising.
• Ling Pengxing left Ghost Star Valley while the Ghost Shadow Spider eagerly anticipated feasting on demon beast essence souls during the coming battle.

Ling Pengyun learned that the damaged Ghost Immortal Lamp held the Ghost Immortal Sect inheritance and could nurture Ghost Immortal Light, but its current limits made it useless to righteous cultivators like him. He agreed to help Ling Pengxing restore the lamp and find a formation-breaking formation for the sect’s secret treasury, then asked whether the lamp could identify people with Ghost Dao aptitude.

• Wang Shi asked the Ghost Shadow Spider to protect him and Wang Li during the Demon Beast Uprising in exchange for seventy percent of the demon beast souls they obtained, and the spider agreed as long as its master's business came first.
• Ling Pengyun learned that the Ghost Immortal Lamp was a damaged fifth-rank spirit treasure containing the Ghost Immortal Sect inheritance, and he promised to help Ling Pengxing restore it and search for a formation-breaking formation to open the sect's secret treasury.
• Ling Pengxing explained that Ghost Immortal Light could aid ghost cultivators' breakthroughs, but the injured lamp could only produce lower- and middle-grade light, which righteous cultivators could not use.
• Ling Pengyun accepted that the lamp could still benefit the clan's ghost cultivators and asked Ling Pengxing whether it could detect Ghost Dao aptitude in righteous cultivators.

Ling Pengyun proposed establishing a Ghost Hall after the Ling Clan gained access to Ghost Dao testing methods and inheritances. Ling Pengxing agreed to become its Hall Master, and the clan prepared to develop ghost cultivators while keeping the path secret and avoiding harm to mortals.

• Ling Pengxing explained that Ghost Measurement Arrays and Ghost Testing Stones could identify Ghost Dao Aptitude, and that Ghost Immortal Lamp Senior had provided the clan with Ghost Dao inheritances.
• Ling Pengyun said he would have Peng Lin set up a Ghost Measurement Array, test cultivators with poor spirit roots, and screen children with Ghost Testing Stones.
• Ling Pengyun proposed secretly founding a Ghost Hall and asked Ling Pengxing to serve as Hall Master.
• Ling Pengxing worried that revealing the clan's ghost cultivators would provoke other Righteous Path forces, but Ling Pengyun argued the clan could protect itself if it avoided mass slaughter and cited the Li Clan's use of mortals to grow stronger.
• Ling Pengxing accepted the Hall Master position and asked Ling Pengyun to appoint elders or deputy hall masters to help manage the hall.

Ling Pengxing asked Ling Pengyun and the Ling Clan to help find outsiders with Ghost Dao Aptitude so he could establish a force to rebuild the Ghost Immortal Sect and pursue its enemies. Ling Pengyun agreed to help search within the clan’s territory, then studied two ancient legacies that could advance his artifact-refining and spirit-plant paths.

• Ling Pengxing explained that he wanted to establish a Ghost Immortal Sect force using talented outsiders, and asked the Ling Clan to help find Ghost Dao cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun agreed to assist, recommending that they search among mortals under the clan’s subordinate forces before expanding the search beyond clan territory later.
• Ling Pengyun studied the Ghost Immortal Sect’s Third Rank Low Grade artifact-refining and spirit-plant legacies and found that their ancient methods could greatly deepen his understanding.
• Ling Pengyun explained that the legacies contained lost Righteous Path methods but that their core techniques were difficult for him to comprehend as a Righteous Path cultivator.
• Ling Pengxing thanked Ling Pengyun for giving him Yin Yang Primordial Qi decades earlier, which had raised his Ghost Dao Aptitude and helped him awaken the Ghost Immortal Lamp Artifact Spirit.

Ling Pengyun learned that the Ghost Immortal Lamp Spirit had detected traces of his hidden fortune and received three Ghost Immortal Sect legacies. Ling Pengxing then chose to attempt a Golden Core breakthrough soon to protect the Lineage, and Ling Pengyun took him to Cloud Stepping Ridge.

• Ling Pengyun warned Ling Pengxing that studying the Ghost Immortal Sect’s legacies could expose his karmic connection, but the Ghost Immortal Lamp Spirit found that a hidden opportunity was concealing it.
• The Ghost Immortal Lamp Spirit gave Ling Pengyun a corpse-refining method and complete third-rank artifact-refining and spiritual plant legacies, and asked that qualified ghost cultivators visit Ling Pengxing every three years.
• Ling Pengxing told Ling Pengyun he planned to break through to Golden Core using the Lineage’s formation, despite Ling Pengyun urging him to prepare for a superior or Five Elements Golden Core.
• Ling Pengxing explained that the coming Demon Beast Uprising threatened the Lineage and that his preparations gave him a sixty percent chance of reaching Golden Core.
• Ling Pengyun accepted Ling Pengxing’s decision and took him away from the Lineage grounds toward Cloud Stepping Ridge, where the Ghost Immortal Lamp could sustain his need for ghost qi.

Ling Pengxing condensed a high-grade Golden Core and survived the unusually powerful tribulation lightning in Cloud Stepping Valley. Ling Pengyun gave him a Ghost Control Banner and a Yin Soul Crystal to strengthen his forces, then returned to Lingxiao Mountain and found Grand Elder Ling Chengyuan waiting for him.

• Ling Pengxing condensed a high-grade Golden Core, and the Lightning Destruction Grand Array absorbed all nine bolts of his tribulation lightning.
• Ling Pengxing emerged from seclusion and marveled at the increased Ghost Power of his Golden Core Realm cultivation.
• Ling Pengyun congratulated Ling Pengxing and gave him the Ghost Control Banner containing six Golden Core vicious ghosts, along with the unused Yin Soul Crystal.
• Ling Pengxing accepted the gifts and planned to refine the banner and use the Yin Soul Crystal to help one of its ghosts attempt a Golden Core breakthrough before the Demon Beast Uprising.
• Ling Pengyun returned to Lingxiao Mountain, where Ling Chengyuan was waiting for him.