Chapter Summaries

Flying Eagle True Person demanded that the Ling Clan send cultivators to help the Heavenly Star Sect attack the Crimson Gold Bear Race, despite Yan Siyi warning that Yan Kingdom faced a devastating invasion. He threatened to withdraw the sect’s protection but offered ten Foundation Establishment Pills in exchange, leaving the Ling Clan’s response unresolved.

• Flying Eagle True Person asked the Ling Clan to provide two Golden Core cultivators, fifty Foundation Establishment cultivators, and three thousand Qi Refinement cultivators, specifically including Ling Pengyun.
• Yan Siyi questioned why the Heavenly Star Sect was requisitioning Yan Kingdom’s cultivators and learned that the sect planned to seize Crimson Gold Bear territory and establish a subordinate country.
• Yan Siyi warned that the Crimson Gold Bear Race would retaliate against Yan Kingdom for killing one of its Nascent Soul Seeds and condemned the Heavenly Star Sect for weakening its subordinate forces.
• Flying Eagle True Person threatened that the Heavenly Star Sect would withhold protection from Yan Kingdom if the Ling Clan refused to comply.
• Flying Eagle True Person offered the Ling Clan ten Foundation Establishment Pills in exchange for the requested cultivators.

Yan Siyi negotiated with Flying Eagle Old Daoist over the Ling Clan’s conscription, while Ling Chengyuan gathered the required cultivators and weakened the clan’s regional defenses. Yan Siyi then watched the long-awaited Magma Turtle Egg hatch and discovered the newborn turtle had reached the Qi Training Fourth Layer and carried both fire and wood-vein auras.

• Yan Siyi agreed to the Heavenly Star Sect’s conscription only if the Ling Clan received twenty Foundation Establishment Pills and a Third Rank Middle Grade formation, and Flying Eagle Old Daoist left to seek approval for the demands.
• Ling Chengyuan used the Communication Treasure Mirror and recruited from the clan’s territories and cities to assemble fifty Foundation Establishment cultivators and three thousand Qi Training cultivators, reducing the defenders across five regions by as much as thirty percent.
• Yan Siyi visited the Giant Iron Tree where she had been tending the Magma Turtle Egg and waited for its recovered origin to finish healing.
• Two days later, the egg absorbed spiritual energy, cracked open, and revealed a fiery red turtle that regarded Yan Siyi with familiarity.
• Yan Siyi sensed that the newborn turtle had reached the Qi Training Fourth Layer and possessed a strong fire aura alongside a weaker wood-vein aura.

Yan Siyi watched the Magma Turtle hatch and assessed its strong cultivation prospects before reorganizing the Ling Clan’s defenses in response to Heavenly Star Sect’s conscription. When leaders from three Yan Kingdom powers arrived to discuss the conscription and the coming Demon Beast Uprising, Hundred Spirits Sect sent only Bao Yuan Zhenren, who claimed his master was cultivating toward Golden Core Ninth Layer.

• Yan Siyi watched the Magma Turtle hatch, eat its shell, and sleep; she stored it in a Beast Taming Pouch and placed it in the clan’s Second Rank Deep Blue Volcano.
• After Ling Penglin returned, Yan Siyi gathered the clan leaders and assigned herself and Ling Pengyun to go to Heavenly Star Sect while arranging Golden Core Demon Corpses and defenders across the clan’s territories.
• Bao Yuan Zhenren, Medicine King Zhenren, and Pure Heart Old Daoist arrived to discuss Heavenly Star Sect’s conscription and joint defenses for the Demon Beast Uprising.
• Yan Siyi asked why Hundred Spirits True Person had not come, and Bao Yuan Zhenren said his master was in seclusion attempting to advance from Golden Core Eighth Layer.
• Yan Siyi, Medicine King Zhenren, and Pure Heart Old Daoist were startled by the news that Hundred Spirits True Person might reach Golden Core Ninth Layer.

Yan Siyi organized Yan Kingdom’s defenses against the coming Demon Beast Uprising, while the four powers’ generous Merit Hall drew independent cultivators to the White Cloud Mountain Range. After news of Yan Kingdom’s conflict with the Crimson Gold Bear Race spread, many recruits fled, and Ling Yunhong ordered an investigation into who had revealed the secret.

• Yan Siyi laid out a defense plan for the White Cloud Mountain Range, and the other three powers agreed to establish strongholds and prepare formations and flying vessels.
• Yan Kingdom’s four powers created a Merit Hall and raised rewards for turning in demon beast corpses, drawing tens of thousands of independent cultivators to the White Cloud Mountain Range.
• Flying Eagle Old Daoist delivered Heavenly Star Sect’s requisition payment, and Yan Siyi sent fifty Foundation Establishment cultivators and three thousand independent cultivators toward Heavenly Star Sect.
• After nearly twenty thousand cultivators from Yan Kingdom’s four powers joined the independent cultivators, neighboring Golden Core powers revealed that Yan Kingdom had provoked the Crimson Gold Bear Race.
• Heavenly Star Sect promised to support Yan Kingdom, but nearly ten thousand independent cultivators still left the White Cloud Mountain Range.
• Ling Yunhong ordered a Ling Clan Foundation Establishment cultivator to investigate who had spread the secret and threatened retaliation against the responsible power.

Yan Siyi led the Ling Clan and three other Yan Kingdom factions to Extinguish Bear City, where Heavenly Star Sect was gathering cultivators for the coming Demon Beast Uprising. She met Hou Quan Zhenren, whose interest in Ling Pengyun led him to offer the Ling Clan early entry and a possible connection with his influence.

• The four Yan Kingdom factions arrived at Extinguish Bear City and landed outside after Heavenly Star Sect required them to register their numbers and cultivation levels.
• Hou Quan Zhenren greeted the Golden Core cultivators and recognized Yan Siyi as Ling Pengyun's wife.
• Hou Quan Zhenren offered to give Ling Pengyun a Golden Core Late Stage demon beast corpse to refine into a Beast Puppet, and invited Yan Siyi to seek his help in the city.
• Yan Siyi said Ling Pengyun would arrive before the uprising and agreed to visit Hou Quan Zhenren with him.
• Hou Quan Zhenren ordered his subordinates to tally the Ling Clan's cultivators first, allowing them to enter the city ahead of the other factions.

As the Demon Beast Uprising approached, Ling Pengyun arrived at Extinguish Bear City and was summoned by Heavenly Fire True Lord to refine Golden Core Demon Beast corpses into Beast Puppets. Ling Pengyun considered the offer after learning he could avoid battle and began checking the War Merit Hall catalogue for valuable rewards.

• Heavenly Star Sect gathered nearly two hundred thousand cultivators at Extinguish Bear City and assigned Yan Siyi and the Ling Clan the safe task of staying inside the city's fourth-rank formation.
• Ling Pengyun arrived in Extinguish Bear City and was summoned to the City Lord Manor by Heavenly Fire True Lord.
• Heavenly Fire True Lord offered Ling Pengyun war merits for refining Golden Core Demon Beast corpses into Beast Puppets, promising that he could remain inside the city during the uprising.
• Ling Pengyun asked to inspect the War Merit Hall catalogue before accepting the commission, and Heavenly Fire True Lord handed it to him.
• Ling Pengyun examined the third-rank spirit objects and spotted Five Elements Core Forming Pills and other Golden Core resources.

Ling Pengyun agreed to refine Beast Puppets for Heavenly Star Sect and took on a commission from Hou Quan Zhenren to make Corpse Puppets. As the Demon Beast Uprising began, the cultivators gathered atop Extinguish Bear City’s walls to face the Crimson Gold Bear Race’s first assault.

• Ling Pengyun accepted Heavenly Fire True Lord’s request to refine Beast Puppets and asked whether Heavenly Star Sect had plans for Yan Kingdom, but Heavenly Fire True Lord refused to explain.
• Ling Pengyun reunited with Yan Siyi and learned that Hou Quan Zhenren had helped the Ling Clan, so they visited him.
• Hou Quan Zhenren commissioned Ling Pengyun to refine several Golden Core demon beast corpses into Corpse Puppets, offering a weaker beast corpse for each puppet in return.
• Half a month later, Heavenly Star Sect gathered nearly two hundred thousand cultivators on Extinguish Bear City’s walls as the city’s Fourth Rank defensive array activated.
• Heavenly Fire True Lord addressed the assembled cultivators, warning them to withstand the first beast tide, while Yan Siyi told the Ling Clan cultivators to protect one another.
• Yan Siyi assigned Ling Chengxia, Ling Chengping, Ling Wanchuan, Ling Wanduo, Ling Wanxu, Ling Wanliang, Ling Li Bing, and Ling Li Hu to rescue clansmen in danger as the demon beast roars sounded from the north.

Ling Pengyun continued refining a Golden Core wolf demon corpse as a massive Demon Race army approached Extinguish Bear City. The city’s formations destroyed the demon army’s defenses and devastated its ranks, but their power was spent, and the surviving beasts charged onward.

• Ling Pengyun heard the distant sounds of battle, worried that the Yan Kingdom would face a Demon Race invasion, and resumed refining the wolf demon corpse.
• A force of more than sixty Golden Core Demon Kings and millions of low-level demon beasts emerged from the darkness north of Extinguish Bear City.
• Heavenly Fire True Lord ordered the city’s cultivators to activate their formations as the demon army established defensive formations of its own.
• The city’s formations shattered the Demon Race’s defenses and killed or badly wounded millions of low-level demon beasts.
• Furious Golden Core Demon Kings drove the surviving demon beasts into a faster charge, while Extinguish Bear City’s formations had lost much of their power.

Heavenly Star True Lord revealed himself during the battle for Extinguish Bear City and helped turn the tide against the demon army. As he fought the Crimson Gold Bear Demon Emperor, an unexpected fiery arrow struck the cracking shield protecting the bear.

• Heavenly Fire True Lord activated the Heavenly Star Array with thirty-five Golden Core cultivators, while Heavenly Star True Lord trapped the Crimson Gold Bear Demon Emperor’s Wolf Tooth Mace in his Heavenly Star Extinction Array.
• Heavenly Star True Lord ordered Heavenly Fire True Lord to attack the Demon Kings, and the Heavenly Star Array killed ten of them with its starlight sword rays.
• The oldest Crimson Gold Bear used its Pseudo Nascent Soul strength and Crimson Gold Claws to shatter most of the sword rays, but a remaining ray badly wounded it.
• Heavenly Star True Lord fought the Crimson Gold Bear Demon Emperor and forced it to rely on its Fourth Rank armor as its shield began to crack.
• An unseen attacker launched a fiery arrow from behind the Crimson Gold Bear Demon Emperor, striking the cracked section of its shield.

Heavenly Star True Lord and the Crimson Fire Phoenix severely wounded the Crimson Gold Bear Emperor and drove the Demon Race forces from Extinguish Bear City. The allies then used a Fourth-Rank Teleportation Array to travel twenty million li to Golden Wing City, revealing the costly weapon they had prepared for the Demon Beast Uprising.

• The Crimson Gold Bear Emperor’s armor and body were pierced by the Crimson Fire Phoenix’s Demon-Burning Fire Arrow, leaving it badly wounded and afflicted with fire poison.
• The Crimson Fire Phoenix revealed itself and joined Heavenly Star True Lord, attacking the bear emperor with the Fire Phoenix Sword and Fire Phoenix Bow.
• Unable to withstand their combined assault, the Crimson Gold Bear Emperor ordered the Demon Race forces to retreat and escaped using the Strength Enhancement Technique.
• The Crimson Fire Phoenix told Heavenly Star True Lord that its fire poison would take the bear emperor at least a century to recover from, then accompanied him to the City Lord Manor.
• Heavenly Star True Lord and the Crimson Fire Phoenix activated a Fourth-Rank Teleportation Array and appeared in Golden Wing City, twenty million li away.
• Heavenly Star True Lord explained that the array had been built with a Quasi Fourth-Rank Void Treasure Crystal and nearly ten Third-Rank crystals from the Void Treasure Crystal Lode.

Heavenly Star True Lord and Crimson Fire Phoenix joined forces to attack the Golden Winged Tiger besieging Golden Wing City, while Ling Yunhong discovered a massive demon army approaching the White Cloud Mountain Range. The chapter left Yan Kingdom facing an attack by dozens of Golden Core Demon Kings led by a Golden Core Completion Crimson Gold Bear.

• Heavenly Star True Lord and Crimson Fire Phoenix agreed to hunt the Golden Winged Tiger attacking Golden Wing City and chased it from the city.
• Yan Siyi checked the Ling Clan cultivators at Extinguish Bear City and found them unharmed after the demon army retreated.
• Ling Yunhong scouted the White Cloud Mountain Range frontier and spotted more than a million demon beasts led by a Crimson Gold Bear Demon King.
• Ling Yunhong counted thirty-five Golden Core Demon Kings, including twenty sent by the Crimson Gold Bear Race, and feared that other forces would encircle the White Cloud Mountain Range.

Ling Yunhong returned to Yan Kingdom as the Crimson Kite Bear Empress led a million demon beasts toward the White Cloud Mountain Range Territory. The horde was trapped in a powerful formation, and its nine array artifacts shattered the Crimson Gold Bear Emperor’s Essence Blood Incarnation before badly injuring the Empress.

• Ling Yunhong reasoned that the Crimson Gold Bear Race might have gained a new advantage over the Heavenly Star Sect and returned toward Yan Kingdom’s first line of defense.
• The Crimson Kite Bear Empress detected Ling Yunhong’s trail, vowed to kill him, and urged her million-beast army onward.
• As the horde entered the wilderness, a hidden formation activated and trapped the demon beasts within a thirty-thousand-li area.
• Nine array artifacts rose from underground and converged on the Crimson Kite Bear Empress, who ordered nineteen Golden Core Demon Kings to protect her.
• The nine seals crushed the demons’ magical defenses and shattered the Crimson Gold Bear Emperor’s Essence Blood Incarnation.
• The remaining force of the seals struck the Crimson Kite Bear Empress and made her cough up blood.

Liu Haochan used the damaged Nine Seals Combined as One to kill Crimson Kite Demon Queen and five other Demon Kings, then withdrew his wilderness formation. Ling Yunhong recognized Liu Haochan and feared the Heavenly Star Sect’s plans could threaten the Ling Clan, while Liu Haochan escaped with the slain demons’ corpses.

• Liu Haochan combined his nine seal magic treasures and crushed Crimson Kite Demon Queen, then killed five more Golden Core Demon Kings as the demon horde attacked.
• Liu Haochan withdrew the damaged formation and returned the nine seals to their separate forms, accepting that their power would likely never fully recover.
• Ling Yunhong recognized Liu Haochan as the Heavenly Star Sect’s Nascent Soul Seed and suspected he had secretly built the formation decades earlier.
• Ling Yunhong worried the Heavenly Star Sect might target the Ling Clan and resolved to have the clan support Peng Lin’s study of Third Rank Array Formations.
• Liu Haochan blocked the remaining Demon Kings with his Heavenly Star Extinguishing Yuan Array, seized the six corpses, and left before they could surround him.

Liu Haochan escaped the demon beast army and rejoined Ling Yunhong, while the surviving Demon Kings decided to abandon the Crimson Gold Bear Race and seek refuge with the Golden Winged Tiger Clan. At the Thunderous Mountain Range, Crimson Gold Demon Lord learned that his dao companion, Crimson Kite Bear Empress, had been killed and erupted in fury.

• Liu Haochan broke through the encirclement of the fifteen Demon Kings and headed back toward the White Cloud Mountain Range Territory with Ling Yunhong.
• A Golden Core Late Stage wolf demon urged the other Demon Kings to flee to the Golden Winged Tiger Clan, and the group agreed to take their clans and spiritual resources with them.
• The Demon Kings sent some of their number ahead with the demon beast forces and hurried back to their clans before Crimson Gold Bear Race could retaliate.
• Crimson Gold Demon Lord sensed that Crimson Kite Bear Empress had died and destroyed his Essence Blood Incarnation, then roared and battered the ground in grief and anger.
• Crimson Gold Demon Lord recognized that Crimson Kite Bear Empress's death had deprived the Crimson Gold Bear Race of its only Quasi Fourth Rank Talisman Crafter.

The Crimson Gold Demon Lord learned that the Crimson Kite Demon Queen had died in an earth-vein-powered array and sent the aged Crimson Gold Bear to avenge her by hunting Liu Haochan. At Purple Scorpion Ridge, Ling Penglin and Ling Chengxin led the defenders of Purple Scorpion Mountain as a vast demon beast force besieged them.

• The Crimson Gold Demon Lord told the aged Crimson Gold Bear that Crimson Kite had been killed by a Quasi Fourth Rank Earthen Soil Starfall Extinction Array powered by an earth vein.
• The Crimson Gold Demon Lord blamed Heavenly Star Sect’s Liu Haochan and promised to support Chi Ming, so the aged Crimson Gold Bear left for Yan Kingdom to seek revenge.
• More than three hundred thousand demon beasts and five Golden Core Demon Kings besieged Purple Scorpion Mountain in Purple Scorpion Ridge Territory.
• Nearly twenty thousand cultivators from the Ling, Yang, Liang, and Qiu clans defended the mountain under Ling Penglin and Ling Chengxin.
• Ling Penglin’s Third Rank High Grade Earth Fiend Transformation Curtain Grand Formation and its array artifact protected Purple Scorpion Mountain from the attacking demon beasts.

Ling Penglin used three Ice Snow White Lion Beast Puppets to relieve pressure on Purple Scorpion Mountain’s defense, but the Ice Snow White Lion King countered by activating a Mimic Magic Treasure formation. The formation’s icy arrow feathers began weakening the mountain’s defenses, leaving Purple Scorpion Mountain in grave danger.

• Ling Penglin estimated that her spirit stones could sustain Purple Scorpion Mountain’s formation for only about twenty days and released three Ice Snow White Lion Beast Puppets.
• The three Golden Core Initial Stage puppets held back the Ice Snow White Lion Race’s reinforcements, allowing Ling Penglin, Ling Chengxin, Yang Siqi, and Liang Mingtu to help resist the Lion King and Lion Queen.
• With the pressure reduced, the formation consumed nearly half as many spirit stones, giving Ling Penglin hope that it could last another forty days.
• The Ice Snow White Lion King summoned a Third Rank High Grade formation plate and formation flags, and five demon kings formed a white cloud formation around Purple Scorpion Mountain.
• Ling Penglin recognized the white cloud as a likely Mimic Magic Treasure formation, and the Lion King sent icy arrow feathers raining down on the mountain’s defensive formation.

The Ice Snow White Lion King used the Ice Snow Flying Sword to crack Purple Scorpion Mountain’s formation, forcing Ling Penglin to spend spirit stones to keep it intact. As the defenders faced dwindling supplies and the threat of defeat, Ling Yunhong arrived with a masked Golden Core Middle Stage cultivator.

• The Ice Snow White Lion King unleashed the Ice Snow Flying Sword and its Sword Qi Strands, tearing a crack in Purple Scorpion Mountain’s formation.
• The demon beasts exploited the opening and charged into the mountain, but the cultivators there killed the intruders.
• Ling Penglin fed spirit stones into the formation to repair it, while worrying that the mountain would fall and leave the Ling Clan’s territory exposed.
• After one day, Ling Penglin’s supply had dropped from one hundred and eighty thousand spirit stones to one hundred thousand, and she resolved to use a life-saving item if reinforcements did not arrive.
• Ling Yunhong flew toward Purple Scorpion Mountain atop an azure great roc with a masked cultivator whose aura had reached the Golden Core Middle Stage.

Ling Yunhong revealed that Zhao Yuanqian and Zhao Baidong had been hiding among the cultivators at Purple Scorpion Mountain, and they joined the defense against the Ice Snow White Lion King and its allies. The outnumbered Lion King weighed the danger against the cost of retreating, then vowed to kill Zhao Yuanqian.

• Ling Yunhong called for Zhao Yuanqian and Zhao Baidong to reveal themselves and help stop the Ice Snow White Lion King, the Lion Queen, and three other Demon Kings from escaping.
• Zhao Yuanqian and Zhao Baidong dropped their disguises as Qi Refinement cultivators and flew away from the low-level cultivators to intercept the Lion King and Lion Queen's Dharma treasures.
• The Ice Snow White Lion King realized the human side had gained several Golden Core fighters while its forces had spent much of their spiritual power and could not easily retreat.
• The Lion King took heart that Zhao Baigang had not appeared and recalled the Spirit Talisman it had bought from the Crimson Kite Demon Queen.
• The Lion King glared at Zhao Yuanqian and vowed to kill him for slaughtering Golden Core Demon Kings of its race.

Zhao Yuanqian and the others activated the Zhao Clan’s Prairie Fire Grand Array to trap the Ice Snow White Lion King and summon a Pseudo Nascent Soul fire wolf. The battle shifted as the lion king’s formation and talisman-backed bear suppressed the wolf, while Ling Yunhong and the red-robed cultivator committed eight Golden Core puppets to the fight.

• Zhao Yuanqian used his Magma Gourd to attack the Ice Snow White Lion King while Ling Penglin and the others defended Purple Scorpion Mountain.
• Ling Yunhong ordered the formation to be set up, and he, Zhao Baidong, the red-robed cultivator, Zhao Yuanqian, and Ling Penglin brought out the matching formation flags.
• The Ice Snow White Lion King recognized the flags and tried to flee, but Zhao Yuanqian trapped it in Magma True Fire and activated the Prairie Fire Grand Array.
• The Prairie Fire Grand Array summoned a Pseudo Nascent Soul fire wolf, which fought the Crimson Gold Bear phantom produced by the lion king’s talisman.
• The Ice Snow White Lion King used its Icy Cold White Cloud Grand Formation to help the bear suppress the fire wolf, while Purple Scorpion Mountain’s formation began recovering.
• Ling Yunhong and the red-robed cultivator deployed eight Golden Core corpse puppets and Beast Puppets, including one at the Golden Core Late Stage.

Ling Yunhong and his allies broke the Ice Snow White Lion King’s formation, killed the Demon Kings defending Purple Scorpion Mountain, and defeated the two remaining lions. Ling Yunhong then led the cultivators in pursuit of the fleeing beasts, wiping out more than three hundred thousand and claiming valuable materials.

• Ling Yunhong’s forces destroyed the Icy Cold White Cloud Grand Formation and killed two Golden Core Demon Kings, leaving only the Ice Snow White Lion King and Queen.
• The two lions used the Ice Snow Roar to stun their attackers and fled, but Zhao Yuanqian resisted the attack with his jade pendant and used Strength Enhancement Techniques to block their escape with the Magma Gourd.
• Ling Yunhong and the others recovered from the roar and joined Zhao Yuanqian in killing the Ice Snow White Lion King and Queen.
• Ling Yunhong ordered the cultivators from Purple Scorpion Mountain to pursue the fleeing demonic beasts.
• Over the following days, Ling Yunhong’s forces wiped out more than three hundred thousand low-level demonic beasts and gained materials worth more than three million spirit stones.