Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun returned to Azure Stone Mountain and refined Azure Bamboo Swords while learning another artifact inscription. After Ling Ruda tested his claimed skill, Pengyun successfully refined five swords from ten sets of materials, demonstrating a fifty percent success rate.

• Ling Pengyun collected the Gathering Water Shoes, returned to Azure Stone Mountain, tended his spirit fields, and failed his first attempt to refine an Azure Bamboo Sword.
• Over the next twenty days, Ling Pengyun refined nine Azure Bamboo Swords from twenty sets of materials and studied the Fortification Spirit Inscription for a Round Iron Shield.
• Ling Pengyun sent Ling Rufan to deliver a Storage Bag containing twenty-three Azure Bamboo Swords and a letter to Ling Ruda.
• Ling Ruda inspected the swords, read Ling Pengyun's account of his forty percent success rate, and traveled to Azure Stone Mountain to verify his claims.
• Ling Pengyun refined five Azure Bamboo Swords from Ling Ruda's ten sets of materials over three days, raising his success rate to fifty percent.

Ling Pengyun accepted the Ling Clan’s commission to refine Azure Bamboo Swords and asked for an Immortal Spirit Crane, while Ling Ruda arranged materials, paid him for earlier swords, and gave him a new weapon refinement tome. Later, after the rice harvest, Ling Dong announced that he would marry Mo Qiunian in three days, and the village celebrated with them.

• Ling Ruda commissioned Ling Pengyun to refine Azure Bamboo Swords, supplied materials, and offered five spirit stones for each sword, with extra swords bought for twenty-five spirit stones apiece.
• Ling Ruda explained that the clan could not spare an Immortal Spirit Crane, but promised to notify Ling Pengyun about future eggs or promising flying spirit beasts.
• Ling Ruda praised Ling Pengyun’s progress in spirit plants, answered his questions, and gave him the Lingxiao Refining Treasure Tome while reminding him to keep cultivating.
• Azure Stone Village finished harvesting its rice, and Ling Dong announced at the Harvest Feast that he and Mo Qiunian would marry in three days.
• Ling Qian urged Ling Dong to treat Mo Qiunian well and have a child soon, while villagers congratulated the couple and toasted them.

Ling Dong told Ling Pengyun that he would marry Mo Qiunian in three days, and Ling Pengyun verified her background before giving them Spirit Honey as a wedding gift. Ling Ruxian carried the news to Ling Ruguo and Wang Yun, and Ling Ruguo insisted on traveling to attend his grandson’s wedding despite his failing health.

• Ling Dong introduced Mo Qiunian to Ling Pengyun and asked him to tell his parents and Ancestor about their wedding in three days.
• Ling Pengyun used the Bewilderment Art to question Mo Qiunian, confirmed her account of her family’s origins, and gave Ling Dong one jin of Spirit Honey.
• Ling Pengyun asked Ling Ruxian to deliver the news to Ling Ruguo and Wang Yun, while Ling Dong’s father, Ling Yunming, remained away at Huai River Market Town.
• Ling Ruxian told Wang Yun that Ling Dong was getting married, and she brought him to see the bedridden Ling Ruguo.
• Ling Ruguo rejoiced at the news and asked Ling Ruxian to take him to the wedding; despite concerns about the journey, Ling Ruxian agreed and Ling Ruguo invited Wang Yun to go with them.

Ling Ruguo witnessed Ling Dong’s wedding and the birth of his great-grandson before passing away, and Azure Stone Village began honoring him each year. More than a year later, Ling Pengyun found that his spirit fields had improved and continued developing his cultivation and refining skills.

• Ling Ruxian and Wang Yun brought the frail Ling Ruguo to Azure Stone Village, where he attended Ling Dong’s wedding and remained with Wang Yun to spend time with his grandson.
• Mo Qiunian gave birth to a son, and Ling Ruguo died a few days later at the age of 112.
• Ling Yunhong led Ling Clan members and Azure Stone Village residents in mourning Ling Ruguo, and the village established an annual Day of Remembrance.
• More than a year later, Ling Pengyun inspected his mature spirit crops and calculated that each mu of Yellow Jade Spirit Rice would yield about 1,200 jin.
• Ling Pengyun observed that his Qi Training Earth-Turning Earthworm was growing stronger and noted his progress in refining, spiritual patterns, and spirit-rice experiments.
• Ling Pengyun cast the Cloud Rain Technique over the six mu of mature spirit plants while waiting for the harvest specialists.

Ling Pengyun broke through to the Qi Training Seventh Layer with help from his Thorn Vine, spirit fruits, and hundreds of spirit stones, but the effort damaged the plant’s foundation and weakened him. He resolved to seek a restorative treasure at the Huai River Little Meet while nurturing the Thorn Vine and preparing Round Iron Shields to sell to the clan.

• Ling Pengyun used two hundred spirit stones and the Thorn Vine’s accumulated power to reach the peak of the Qi Training Sixth Layer, then struggled to break through the Seventh Layer bottleneck.
• Ling Pengyun took three First Rank Middle Grade spirit fruits and more than two hundred additional spirit stones, while the Thorn Vine spent nearly half its Yi Wood Essence purifying spiritual energy for him.
• Ling Pengyun broke through to the Qi Training Seventh Layer, increasing his divine sense to one hundred zhang and gaining spiritual power comparable to an ordinary Qi Training Eighth Layer cultivator.
• Ling Pengyun realized the breakthrough had damaged the Thorn Vine’s foundation, leaving him able to wield only about seventy percent of his strength, and decided to seek a restorative treasure at the Huai River Little Meet.
• Ling Pengyun nurtured the Thorn Vine, successfully refined another Round Iron Shield, and planned to sell fourteen shields to the clan to raise spirit stones for the Huai River Little Meet.

Ling Pengyun reached Qi Training Seventh Layer and First Rank Middle Grade Spirit Plant Farmer, then received his stipend and earnings from weapon refinement and spirit rice. After Ling Rufan left with a letter for Ling Ruda, Pengyun planned how to invest his growing wealth and planted new spirit plant seeds.

• Ling Pengyun told Ling Rufan that his Natal Spirit Plant had advanced, helping him break through to Qi Training Seventh Layer and become a First Rank Middle Grade Spirit Plant Farmer.
• Ling Pengyun handed over fifty-three Azure Bamboo Swords and fourteen Round Iron Shields, and Ling Rufan calculated his earnings, stipend, and dividend to total 1,379 spirit stones.
• Ling Rufan and Ling Pengyun harvested the spirit fields, and Ling Rufan paid Pengyun forty-eight spirit stones for his share of the Yellow Jade Spirit Rice.
• Ling Pengyun entrusted Ling Rufan with a letter for Ling Ruda and considered buying a spirit plant remedy while investing in weapon refinement to build toward a Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object.
• After Ling Rufan departed, Ling Pengyun tilled the fields and planted the seeds Ling Rufan had brought, finishing after nightfall.

Ling Ruda warned Ling Pengyun about his reckless attempt to break through and urged him to seek a healing spirit object for his injured Thorn Vine at the Huai River Little Meet. Ling Pengyun traveled there with Ling Ruxian and Ling Penglin, arriving ready to search the market and spend his savings.

• Ling Ruda inspected Ling Pengyun and his weakened Thorn Vine, then advised him to find a spirit object to restore the vine's lost Yi Wood Essence at the Huai River Little Meet.
• Ling Ruda asked Ling Ruxian to escort and protect Ling Pengyun at the gathering.
• Ling Ruxian and Ling Pengyun secured Azure Stone Mountain and Azure Stone Lake with their protective formations before departing.
• Ling Ruxian and Ling Pengyun picked up Ling Penglin at Fruit Bee Ridge and flew together toward Huai River Market Town.
• The three arrived at the crowded market town, where Ling Pengyun planned to seek a healing spirit object, a flying demonic beast egg, weapon-refinement materials, and rare spirit fruits.

Ling Pengyun arrived at Huai River Market Town with Ling Ruxian and Ling Penglin for the Huai River Little Meet, where he recognized his cousin Yang Siling arriving as a Foundation Establishment cultivator. The chapter ended with Yang Siling flying into the market town alongside a handsome Hundred Spirits Sect cultivator.

• Ling Ruxian warned Ling Pengyun and Ling Penglin to be cautious in the crowded market town and told them to return to the clan's Lingxiao Treasure Pavilion before the auction.
• Ling Pengyun passed the eastern gate's Demon Mirror, paid one spirit stone, and entered Huai River Market Town.
• A Foundation Establishment roc bird landed on the eastern gate wall, and Chen Dong went to greet its riders.
• Ling Pengyun recognized Yang Siling, his maternal cousin, and was surprised that she had advanced to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
• Chen Dong greeted Yang Siling and the handsome cultivator, who registered before flying with her into the market town.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Penglin shopped at Huai River Market Town before visiting its stall district, where Ling Pengyun learned that a flying demonic beast egg would be auctioned. He left with the auction flyer and waited for a Liu Clan vendor’s clansman to bring more Songhua Chicken Eggs.

• Ling Pengyun and Ling Penglin visited Butterfly Love Clothing Shop, where he bought a First Rank Middle Grade Daoist robe and she bought an Ice Silkworm Silk spirit dress.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Penglin went to the market’s stall district, where Ling Pengyun bought three Songhua Chicken Eggs from a Tiger's Roar Liu Clan vendor.
• Ling Pengyun asked the Liu Clan vendor about flying demonic beast eggs, and she told him one would be sold at the Huai River Auction.
• The Liu Clan vendor gave Ling Pengyun an auction flyer, and he eagerly studied the description of the flying demonic beast egg.
• The Liu Clan vendor summoned a Message Parrot and sent it to fetch her Third Brother, while Ling Pengyun asked about the bird.

Ling Pengyun bought Pine Flower Eggs and a used Beast Taming Pouch, then met his cousin Yang Sitong, who revealed that Yang Siling was returning with her fiancé, Wu Yan, to discuss their marriage. The chapter left Ling Pengyun curious about Wu Yan’s hidden identity as Yang Sitong led him and Ling Penglin to dinner.

• Ling Pengyun bought six Pine Flower Eggs from the Liu family vendor’s brother and purchased his used Beast Taming Pouch to store all nine eggs.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Penglin two Pine Flower Eggs, and she bought a First Rank Middle Grade seal-shaped artifact after he bargained for it.
• Yang Sitong met Ling Pengyun and Ling Penglin at the stalls and said his family was visiting the market with Yang Siling and Wu Yan.
• Yang Sitong revealed that Wu Yan and Yang Siling had been in love for years and had returned to discuss their marriage, but said Ling Pengyun would learn more when the auction began.
• Ling Penglin said she was hungry, and Yang Sitong invited her and Ling Pengyun to eat at the Ten Thousand Blessings Pavilion.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Penglin shared an expensive spiritual meal with Yang Sitong, who sold Ling Penglin Qi Refining Pills at a discount. Afterward, Ling Yunhong took the group to the Huai River Auction House, where he planned to bid on Second Rank cultivation pills.

• Yang Sitong took Ling Pengyun and Ling Penglin to Ten Thousand Blessings Pavilion and treated them to spiritual dishes.
• Ling Penglin bought ten Qi Refining Pills from Yang Sitong for eighteen spirit stones.
• The three relatives ate and chatted, and Ling Pengyun gave Yang Sitong ten jin of Fruit Flower Honey when they parted.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Penglin returned to Lingxiao Treasure Pavilion, where Ling Yunhong and Ling Ruxian urged them to hurry to the auction.
• Ling Yunhong summoned the Immortal Spirit Crane King and flew the group to the Huai River Auction House, where he led them inside past the line.

Ling Pengyun attended the Huai River Auction and won a Wind Shadow Peng spirit egg for four hundred and fifty spirit stones. He then waited for the Earth Spring Spirit Emulsion to appear at auction.

• Yang Hua opened the auction and sold various spirit items, including an Earth Rock Turtle egg and two other demonic beast eggs.
• Yang Hua presented a Second Rank Low Grade Wind Shadow Peng spirit egg, and Ling Pengyun began bidding against a private-room guest and a young Liu Clan member.
• Ling Yunhong advised Ling Pengyun to stop bidding if the price passed four hundred spirit stones, but Ling Pengyun continued because he believed the egg could become a powerful spirit beast.
• Ling Pengyun won the Wind Shadow Peng egg for four hundred and fifty spirit stones and placed it in his Storage Bag.
• Ling Pengyun watched the auction platform, waiting for the Earth Spring Spirit Emulsion to appear.

Ling Pengyun bought Earth Spring Spirit Emulsion to heal his Thorn Vine, while Ling Yunhong acquired Spirit Gathering Pills at the auction. As the finale items appeared, members of the Falling Dusk Luo Clan discussed their limited chances of obtaining a Foundation Establishment Pill and considered another path for Qiu Ming.

• Ling Pengyun won the first mouthful of Earth Spring Spirit Emulsion for two hundred and seventy spirit stones after explaining to Ling Yunhong that he needed it to heal his Thorn Vine.
• The remaining four portions of Earth Spring Spirit Emulsion sold for between two hundred and ninety-five and three hundred and fifty spirit stones each.
• Ling Yunhong bought two bottles of Second Rank Low Grade Spirit Gathering Pills for five hundred spirit stones apiece.
• Yang Hua brought out Second Rank magical artifacts, drawing most of the bids from Foundation Establishment cultivators in private rooms.
• Two members of the Falling Dusk Luo Clan worried that they could not obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill and planned for Qiu Ming to attempt Foundation Establishment with Hundred Spirits Water and a Meridian Protecting Pill.

At the Hundred Spirits Sect auction, Wu Yan bought the final Foundation Establishment Pill and revealed he would marry Yang Siling, exposing his status as a descendant of a Golden Core True Person. The revelation led Ling Yunhong to seek closer ties with the Yang Family, while Ye Yongjin feared the Yang Family would soon act against his clan.

• Yang Hua auctioned ten portions of Hundred Spirits Water for roughly eight or nine thousand spirit stones each, and Ling Yunhong's bid was outmatched.
• The Blue Moon Lake Song Family and Purple Cloud River Family bought the first two Foundation Establishment Pills for twenty-eight thousand five hundred and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred spirit stones.
• Wu Yan bid thirty thousand spirit stones for the final Foundation Establishment Pill and announced his upcoming dual cultivation ceremony with Yang Siling.
• Ling Pengyun realized Wu Yan's identity and explained what he knew to Ling Yunhong, who resolved to strengthen ties with the Yang Family.
• Ye Yongjin feared the Yang Family's new Golden Core backing and decided he needed to settle the long-standing feud with them.

After the auction, Ling Pengyun reunited with his maternal Yang Family relatives, received gifts and a letter for Ling Yunhong, and bought supplies in Huai River Market Town. The letter revealed the Yang Family’s demands of the Ling Clan, and after returning to Azure Stone Mountain, Ling Pengyun successfully refined two batches of shields before checking his neglected spirit fields.

• Yang Minghua summoned Ling Pengyun after the auction and introduced him to his Yang Family relatives and Wu Yan, who was soon to marry Yang Siling.
• Ling Pengyun learned that Yang Siling had used Wu Yan’s connections to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill, and Yang Minghua gave him a letter for Ling Yunhong.
• Wu Yan gave Ling Pengyun three Golden Light Talismans, and Ling Pengyun bought a Message Parrot, weapon-refining materials, and spirit fruits in the market town.
• Ling Yunhong read Yang Minghua’s letter demanding periodic marriages and annual spirit-rice tribute; he agreed to the terms while resolving to strengthen the Ling Clan.
• Ling Yunhong guided Ling Pengyun in refining Round Iron Shields at Azure Stone Mountain, and both batches succeeded before Ling Pengyun went to inspect the spirit fields.

Ling Pengyun used Earth Spring Spirit Emulsion to restore the Thorn Vine’s Yi Wood Essence and strengthen its cultivation, then bonded with a Wind Shadow Peng egg and arranged spirit stones to aid its hatching. He left the Wind Shadow Peng and seven Songhua Chicken eggs to incubate before resuming his own cultivation.

• Ling Pengyun watered the six mu of Spirit Fields with the Cloud Rain Technique and checked that the Fruit Bees were safe in the winter cold.
• Ling Pengyun fed the Earth Spring Spirit Emulsion to the Thorn Vine, which restored its spent Yi Wood Essence and gained two or three years of cultivation after refining the remaining medicinal power.
• Ling Pengyun used his essence blood to place a Recognition of Ownership Restriction on the Wind Shadow Peng Spirit Egg, establishing an intimate bond with the unborn beast.
• Ling Pengyun placed the Wind Shadow Peng Spirit Egg on his remaining sixty-two spirit stones and set aside his next breath of Yin Yang Primordial Qi to improve its aptitude.
• Ling Pengyun placed seven Songhua Chicken Spirit Eggs beside the spirit stones, then ate a First Rank High Grade spirit fruit and cultivated.

Ling Pengyun discovered a school of fish near the Profound Water Mineral Vein, including a fish that was close to becoming an Azure Moon Spirit Fish. He and Ling Penglin agreed to raise the school, while Ling Ruxian entrusted its future care to them and, later, the clan.

• After leaving the mine, Ling Pengyun spotted a half-blue-scaled fish among a school of white-scaled fish and trapped it with Water Binding.
• Ling Pengyun determined that the fish contained spiritual energy and that the surrounding Innate Realm fish could potentially become Azure Moon Spirit Fish.
• Ling Penglin fetched Ling Ruxian, who confirmed the fish king's potential and asked Ling Pengyun how he planned to manage the school.
• Ling Pengyun proposed marking the fish king with a Recognition of Ownership Restriction and letting the school cultivate near the mine; Ling Ruxian gave the fish to Ling Pengyun and Ling Penglin, with the school to pass to the clan after his death.
• Ling Pengyun offered Ling Penglin half the dividends, and she considered whether she should accept a share despite not discovering the school.

Ling Pengyun directed the growth of his Fruit Flower Bee colony and took its king and five promising worker bees to Fruit Flower Ridge. The colony had reached its limit of worker bees under the king’s control, and Ling Pengyun planned to improve its quality and cultivation.

• Ling Pengyun had Ling Ruxian tame the fish king and put him in charge of the school of fish.
• In spring, Ling Pengyun saw that the colony had grown to twenty-nine Qi Training Stage worker bees under its Fruit Flower Bee King.
• Ling Pengyun ordered the bee king to provide him with twenty-nine jin of Fruit Flower Honey each year and use the remaining graded honey to cultivate itself and five peak Qi Training Level One worker bees.
• The bee king summoned the five chosen workers to accompany Ling Pengyun to Fruit Flower Ridge, while it instructed the remaining workers to guard the nest and gather pollen.
• Ling Pengyun flew away on his Green Travel Leaf as Azure Stone Village villagers watched, and Ling Yang wondered whether his grandson Qiu'er might have Immortal Fate.

Ling Pengyun visited Fruit Bee Ridge and discovered that Ling Penglin had concealed its Spirit Fields with a Bewildering Formation. After leaving his Fruit Flower Bees to pollinate the Spirit Mandarin Tree, he asked Ling Penglin to learn to refine a Spirit Gathering Array for his Wind Shadow Peng Spirit Egg.

• Ling Pengyun used the Aura Observation Technique to see through the illusion concealing Fruit Bee Ridge and praised Ling Penglin's Bewildering Formation.
• Ling Penglin agreed to let Ling Pengyun's six Fruit Flower Bees pollinate the twenty-five blossoms on the Spirit Mandarin Tree.
• Ling Pengyun asked whether Ling Penglin could refine a Spirit Gathering Array to help hatch his Wind Shadow Peng Spirit Egg.
• Ling Penglin promised to comprehend the Spirit Gathering Array before June, and Ling Pengyun agreed to buy one from her at a discounted price.
• Ling Pengyun chatted with Ling Penglin and then flew away on his Green Travel Leaf.

Ling Pengyun trained while Han Sha’s elderly parents tracked his Storage Bag’s aura to Azure Stone Mountain and plotted revenge. Their plan sent Blazing Fire Wolves to Fruit Bee Ridge, where Ling Penglin activated two formations and called for help.

• Ling Pengyun continued comprehending the Earthly Fiend Sword Formation, water spells, spirit plant arts, and artifact-refining patterns as the spirit eggs developed beside the spirit stones.
• Han Sha’s parents found the aura of his Storage Bag near Azure Stone Mountain and decided to lure a Ling Clan cultivator out so they could avenge their son.
• Ling Penglin noticed warning restrictions triggered south of Fruit Bee Ridge and activated the Earthen Soil Curtain Formation and Bewildering Formation.
• Ling Penglin identified four Blazing Fire Wolves entering the mist and crushed her Clan Token to call for help.
• Ling Penglin strengthened the Bewildering Formation, trapping the four wolves in the fog and disorienting them.