Chapter Summaries

Ling Wansheng and the defenders struggled to hold a mortal city against a demon siege, while the Ling Clan Territory itself faced a far larger assault. Ling Xiaoshun activated a special formation that linked the territory’s defenses with those of sixteen cities, creating a Third Rank formation across a vast region.

• Three Foundation Establishment demon cultivators led their forces and demon corpses against a mortal city, but its sturdy protective formation withstood their bombardment.
• Ling Wansheng organized thirty Qi Refinement cultivators to activate a Second Rank formation and help resist the attackers.
• A thousand demon cultivators and more than two thousand demon corpses, led by three Golden Core cultivators, attacked the Ling Clan Territory but could not quickly breach its many formations.
• After receiving a warning through the Mother-Child Token, Ling Xiaoshun agreed with Yang Qiuyun to activate the special formation Peng Lin had established.
• Ling Xiaoshun activated a formation plate, linking the Ling Clan Territory’s formation with the City Protection Array Formations of sixteen mortal cities.
• Seventeen pillars of light joined into a Third Rank Low Grade formation that protected the Ling Clan Territory, the sixteen cities, and the land between them.

Ling Penglin's Immovable as a Mountain Grand Array trapped the devil cultivators attacking the Ling Clan, and its defenses protected the earth veins from their attempt to destroy them. Meanwhile, the Profound Corpse Sect's forces besieged Serpent Dragon Island and the Hundred Spirits Sect's mountain gate, leaving both under attack.

• Ling Xiaoshun activated Ling Penglin's Immovable as a Mountain Grand Array, joining the defenses of the sixteen mortal cities into a Third Rank Middle Grade formation.
• A devilish Array Formation Master tried to break the array by attacking the earth veins with an Earth-Devouring Demonic Array, but four formations protecting the veins thwarted him.
• The Array Formation Master crushed a Mother-Child Token to request help from Profound Corpse Sect forces attacking other Yan Kingdom factions.
• Spirit Array Old Ancestor, Mo Qianqiu, and an earth flood dragon returned to Serpent Dragon Island with a thousand devil cultivators, putting its defenders at a disadvantage until Qin Shi reopened the Third Rank High Grade Lake Protection Array.
• At the Hundred Spirits Sect's mountain gate, the Black Flame Fire Phoenix Demon Spirit held off a Golden Core devil cultivator and two demon corpses while the attackers' troops slaughtered mortals in the sect's territory.

Profound Corpse Sect demon cultivators attacked Yan Kingdom’s major powers while Ling Clan Territory endured a siege. As the outer defense array neared collapse, Ling Xiaoshun activated the Ten Thousand Beasts Subduing Heavens Array and unleashed its beast phantoms against the invaders.

• Profound Corpse Sect demon cultivators assaulted the mountain gates of Yan Kingdom’s four major Golden Core powers and two pseudo-Core powers, while those powers were too besieged to help one another.
• The White Cloud Mountain Range remained largely untouched by the demon cultivators, making it the safest region.
• After three days of attacks, the demon cultivators had nearly broken Ling Clan Territory’s outer defense array but still faced several stronger arrays.
• A Golden Core demon corpse regretted accepting the task of breaching Ling Clan Territory to seize its treasures and its sixteen or seventeen million mortals.
• Ling Xiaoshun activated the Ten Thousand Beasts Subduing Heavens Array, summoning nearly twenty thousand demon beast phantoms, including twelve Golden Core phantoms.

The Ling Clan’s Ten Thousand Beasts Subduing Heavens Array overwhelmed the invading demonic cultivators, while three Golden Core demonic cultivators and their demon corpses tried to break through. Ling Chengyuan, the Frosty Spirit Tree, Yang Siqi, and Liang Mingtu arrived as reinforcements and cut off their escape.

• The Ling Clan’s demon souls shattered the demonic cultivators’ Kui Sha Gang Qi Array and slaughtered their forces.
• The three Golden Core demonic cultivators empowered themselves and their five Golden Core demon corpses, pushing back the twelve Golden Core demon souls and attempting to escape.
• The Frosty Spirit Tree appeared and used its Water Wood Sword to block the demonic cultivators’ escape route.
• Ling Chengyuan, Yang Siqi, and Liang Mingtu arrived with the Frosty Spirit Tree after Ling Chengyuan summoned them to reinforce the Ling Clan.
• Ling Chengyuan had arranged for Zhao Baidong to reinforce the Yang and Liang clans, allowing Yang Siqi and Liang Mingtu to join him.

The Ling Clan and its reinforcements defeated the demonic forces attacking their territory, then Ling Xiaoshun dispatched Ling Chengyuan and the others to aid the Yang and Liang Clans. After the nearby invasions were quelled, the group set out to reinforce Medicine King Valley.

• Frosty Spirit Tree and the Golden Core cultivators helped the Ling Clan Array destroy the invading demonic forces and their Demon Corpses.
• Ling Xiaoshun thanked Ling Chengyuan, Yang Siqi, and Liang Mingtu, then sent them to reinforce the Yang and Liang Clans.
• Ling Chengyuan and the others reached the Yang Clan and swiftly defeated its demonic attackers.
• They learned that Zhao Baidong had already saved the Liang Clan, and Zhao Baigang asked Ling Pengyun to try refining a captured Golden Core demonic cultivator into a Demon Corpse.
• The group checked that the Liang Family Territory was safe, then agreed to reinforce Medicine King Valley.

Heavenly Star Sect leaders considered sending aid to Yan Kingdom as demonic cultivators threatened both countries, but their forces were stretched thin. Meanwhile, Ling Chengxia led a group of Ling Clan elites into a forest where a large band of demonic cultivators was believed to be hiding.

• Flying Eagle Old Daoist told Heavenly Fire True Lord that demonic cultivators had entered Yan Kingdom and asked whether the sect should support Liu Haochan.
• Heavenly Fire True Lord agreed Yan Kingdom was important but said the sect had too few available cultivators to send many, and Flying Eagle Old Daoist doubted the Fu Yun Immortal Sect would provide help.
• Ling Chengxia and eight other gifted Ling Clan members left Extinguish Bear City to hunt demonic cultivators in Heavenly Star Country with Ling Pengyun's approval and life-preserving items.
• The Ling Clan group reached the only unsearched forest on a plain and prepared to investigate it, suspecting that hundreds of demonic cultivators were hiding there.

Ling Chengxia led his companions into a forest, discovered a powerful demonic formation, and attacked it despite Lin Fan’s initial hesitation. After the formation revealed a force far stronger than expected, Ling Chengxia and his allies broke through and began slaughtering the demonic cultivators and corpses inside.

• Ling Chengxia sensed a Second Rank High Grade formation ahead and explained to Lin Fan why they should attack before their enemies could take the initiative.
• The white-bearded Daoist revealed his demonic nature, and more than four hundred demonic cultivators and over a thousand demonic corpses emerged from the formation.
• Ling Chengxia fused the Yin Profound Mirror and Yang Profound Mirror into the Yin Yang Transformation Profound Treasure Mirror and blasted a breach in the formation alongside Ling Chengping and the others.
• Ling Chengxia charged through the breach on a Golden Flood Dragon, while the four dragons’ Golden Flood Dragon Phantom battered the enemy’s strongest cultivator.
• Ling Chengxia, Ling Chengping, Lin Fan, and their companions fought inside the formation, whose attackers failed to break through their defenses as the demonic forces suffered mounting casualties.

Ling Chengxia and his clan companions defeated the remaining demonic cultivators, recovered a vast hoard of stolen spiritual objects, and buried the mortals whose remains they found. As they traveled toward the Demonbane Branch Valley, a Golden Core demonic cultivator ambushed them, and its sword and demonic corpses battered through their defenses.

• Ling Chengxia killed the surrendering Foundation Establishment Completion demonic cultivator and the three remaining Late-Stage Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators.
• Ling Chengxia and his companions opened the demonic cultivators’ Storage Bags and found about one hundred thousand spirit stones’ worth of stolen spiritual objects, demonic pills, and mortal remains.
• Ling Chengxia and the others agreed to divide the spirit stones, return the formations and pills to the clan, and bury the mortal remains.
• Ling Chengxia and his companions buried the remains in a desolate valley and then set out for the Hua Province Exterminate Demons Branch Valley.
• Ling Chengxia sensed a Golden Core demonic cultivator approaching and used three Third Rank Low Grade Water Source Talismans to shield the group.
• A Third Rank Low Grade demonic sword shattered the first talisman’s screen, while four demonic corpses broke through the second and struck the third.

Ling Chengxia and Ling Chengping killed a Profound Corpse Sect Golden Core demonic cultivator and settled the cost of Ling Chengping’s talismans. Meanwhile, White Cloud City’s defenses collapsed under a renewed demon and devil assault, leaving the South City Wall breached and its defenders devastated.

• Ling Chengxia trapped the Golden Core demonic cultivator’s Demon Corpses, and Ling Chengping killed him with five Black Flame Fire Phoenix talismans.
• Ling Chengping gave Ling Chengxia three Water Source Talismans in exchange for the demonic cultivator’s corpse, which she took to appease Ling Pengyun.
• Gang Sha Old Demon and five other powerful demonic cultivators reinforced the attackers at White Cloud City, and the city’s remaining defensive array began to fail.
• Demon beasts poured through a breach in the South City Wall and slaughtered cultivators as a Golden Core Demon Corpse attacked the defenders.
• The Golden Core Demon Corpse detonated its demonic core, destroying the remaining wall section, wounding nearby Golden Core cultivators, and killing nearly a thousand low-level cultivators.

As White Cloud City's defenses failed, Ling Pengyun and the Yan Kingdom cultivators evacuated aboard a fleet of flying boats. In Cloud Stepping Ridge, Ling Pengyun chose to split from the fleet and establish a Ling Clan defense line, while the other powers took their share of the independent cultivators.

• Liu Haochan warned Ling Pengyun and the other Golden Core cultivators that the City Protection Array Formation would fail within three hours, so they evacuated the city's sixty thousand survivors aboard hundreds of flying boats.
• Liu Haochan withdrew White Cloud City's formations, and the fleet fled south under attack from the pursuing demons and devils.
• Crimson Burst Old Bear sent three Golden Core Demon Kings and more than a hundred thousand demon beasts to occupy the abandoned White Cloud City.
• After the fleet reached Cloud Stepping Ridge, Ling Pengyun proposed that the powers establish separate defensive lines and decided to defend the territory with Ling Clan cultivators and independent cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun and his companions led more than a hundred flying boats carrying Ling Clan cultivators and ten thousand independent cultivators toward Cloud Stepping Valley as the demons and devils watched them depart.

Gang Sha Old Demon and four fellow demonic cultivators pursued the Ling Clan fleet into Cloud Stepping Forest, hoping to claim its Golden Core cultivators and Demon Corpses. After dismissing warnings about the Thunder Vein, Gang Sha Old Demon led them toward Cloud Stepping Valley under the protection of a Third Rank High Grade demonic array.

• Crimson Burst Old Bear welcomed Gang Sha Old Demon’s offer to attack the Ling Clan, while recognizing that the demonic cultivators wanted its corpses and treasures.
• Gang Sha Old Demon and four fellow Golden Core demonic cultivators caught up to the Ling Clan’s hundred flying boats but could not break through their defensive array.
• Ling Pengyun watched the attackers approach as the Ling Clan fleet entered Cloud Stepping Forest and headed toward Cloud Stepping Valley.
• Yin Kui Old Demon warned Gang Sha Old Demon that the valley’s Thunder Vein could support a lightning array dangerous to demonic cultivators, but Gang Sha Old Demon refused to summon help or turn back.
• Gang Sha Old Demon investigated Cloud Stepping Valley, detected only a Third Rank Low Grade lightning array, and led the five demonic cultivators in setting up the Demon Origin Evil Ghost Grand Array.
• Protected by their demonic array, Gang Sha Old Demon and the others pursued the Ling Clan fleet to within ten thousand zhang of Cloud Stepping Valley.

Ling Pengyun and the Ling Clan defended Cloud Stepping Valley against Gang Sha Old Demon and five other demon cultivators. The Lightning Destruction Grand Array destroyed their Wind Fiend Evil Ghost, broke their array, and left them with only six Golden Core Demon Corpses.

• Ling Pengyun led the flying boats into Cloud Stepping Valley as Gang Sha Old Demon and the five demon cultivators pursued them and summoned a Wind Fiend Evil Ghost to attack.
• Ling Pengyun called on Lei Yuan to activate the Lightning Destruction Grand Array and release its tribulation lightning.
• The twenty-one lightning bolts overwhelmed the Wind Fiend Evil Ghost and destroyed it, severely damaging the Demon Origin Evil Ghost Grand Array.
• Three more lightning bolts broke the damaged demon array and destroyed three Golden Core Demon Corpses.
• Ling Pengyun watched the attack succeed and reflected that the array's power exceeded his expectations.

Ling Pengyun and the Ling Clan forces used the Lightning Destruction Grand Array’s stored tribulation lightning and their strongest techniques to attack Gang Sha Old Demon’s Evil Fire Burning Abyss Grand Array. Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengqiu exhausted their spiritual power, and although the array neared collapse, their attack faltered and Gang Sha Old Demon briefly regained hope.

• Ling Pengyun rallied the six Golden Core cultivators, eleven Golden Core demon corpses, and the valley’s cultivators to battle Gang Sha Old Demon’s forces with twenty-one tribulation lightning bolts.
• After nearly half an incense stick, Ling Pengyun saw the valley’s three offensive arrays weakening and asked Ling Yunhong and the concealed Ling Pengqiu to help break Gang Sha Old Demon’s natal array.
• Ling Yunhong unleashed a Pure Yang Fire Dragon while Ling Pengqiu summoned a fire wolf that swallowed three devil treasures and attacked the Evil Fire Burning Abyss Grand Array.
• Ling Pengyun struck the array with his Profound Yang Treasure Lamp, Thunder Transformation Treasure Mirror, and two Azure Sea Sky Sword techniques as Yan Siyi and the others held off the devil cultivators.
• The combined assault cracked the Evil Fire Burning Abyss Grand Array, but Ling Yunhong and Ling Pengqiu exhausted their spiritual power, the fire constructs dispersed, and Gang Sha Old Demon’s array came under less pressure.

Ling Pengyun used a Quasi Fourth Rank Spirit Talisman Cave to destroy Gang Sha Old Demon and the demonic cultivators attacking his group. After regrouping, the Ling Clan Golden Core cultivators rushed to support the fleeing Yan Kingdom forces, where their unexpected victory drew the attention of Liu Haochan and the other sect leaders.

• Ling Pengyun shattered Gang Sha Old Demon's Evil Fire Burning Abyss Grand Array and unleashed the Icy Soul Mystic Phoenix Talisman.
• Gang Sha Old Demon fled with an escape secret art, but the ice phoenix caught and killed him along with his two Golden Core Demon Corpses.
• The ice phoenix killed or severely wounded the other demonic cultivators and demon corpses, and Yan Siyi and the others finished off the surviving enemies.
• Ling Pengyun and his allies gathered the corpses and demon corpse remains, rested at Cloud Stepping Valley, then set out to aid the forces fleeing Crimson Burst Old Bear and his demon beast army.
• Ling Pengyun and the other Ling Clan Golden Core cultivators caught up with the main force and joined its defense; he told Liu Haochan that his clan had slain the demonic cultivators pursuing them.

Ling Pengyun and Liu Haochan destroyed the demon army, then raided four ancestral territories before the Crimson Gold Bear Race forced them to retreat. The conflict reshaped the borderlands, and a year later Ling Pengyun prepared to negotiate the division of Ice Snow Forest’s treasures.

• Ling Pengyun and the Yan Kingdom cultivators killed Crimson Burst Old Bear, the remaining Golden Core Demon Kings, and the million low-level demon beasts.
• Liu Haochan recruited Ling Pengyun, Ling Yunhong, Yan Siyi, Yan Pengqiu, and other Golden Core cultivators to raid the poorly guarded demon clan territories in the Crimson Gold Bear Race’s heartland.
• Ling Pengyun’s group captured four ancestral lands and divided their treasures, but escaped when the Crimson Gold Demon Lord sent twenty Golden Core Demon Kings after them.
• Liu Haochan returned to Extinguish Bear City, where the Heavenly Star Sect attacked the weakened Crimson Gold Bear Race; the ensuing battle ended with the demon forces retreating and the Heavenly Star Sect and Li Clan gaining territory.
• A year later, Ling Chengyuan told Ling Pengyun that the clan had surveyed Ice Snow Forest and arranged to divide its Third Rank treasures with the Black Mountain Zhao Family.
• Ling Pengyun agreed to attend the meeting and heard that the Profound Heaven Corpse may have destroyed its Nascent Soul during the battle at Thunder Essence Forest.

Ling Pengyun negotiated the division of the Ice Snow Forest’s spirit resources with Zhao Baidong and secured the Third Rank High Grade Ice Spirit Vein for the Ling Clan. He named its valley Ice Cloud Valley and entered seclusion, while the chapter outlined how the clan used its other spirit veins.

• Ling Pengyun and Zhao Baidong agreed that the Ling Clan would receive the Third Rank High Grade Ice Spirit Vein, one Ice Snow Spirit Fruit Tree, and half the Snow Sea Spirit Pool’s water, while the clans shared the other fruit tree and pool.
• Zhao Baidong told Ling Pengyun that he would establish a Zhao Clan branch in the Ice Snow Forest after the Demon Beast Uprising, and Ling Pengyun suspected the move would give Zhao Baidong room to pursue a breakthrough.
• Ling Pengyun inspected the Ice Spirit Vein valley and concluded that its dense ice spiritual qi would improve his cultivation.
• Ling Pengyun discovered the valley’s Ice Snow Spirit Pool, set up a Third Rank Array Formation, named the place Ice Cloud Valley, and entered seclusion.
• The chapter described how Ling Yunhong, Yan Siyi, Ling Chengxin, Ling Penglin, Lin Fan, and Ling Li Hu used the Ling Clan’s other Third Rank Spirit Veins.

After the Demon Beast Uprising ended, the Three Great Immortal Sects and other righteous forces expanded their territories, while Heavenly Star Sect and the Li Clan established two new subordinate countries. The leaders of the Three Great Immortal Sects met to discuss the growing strength of Heavenly Star Sect and whether to hinder Liu Haochan's rise to the Nascent Soul realm.

• The righteous path, demons, and devil cultivators ended the five-year Demon Beast Uprising after suffering heavy losses, beginning a century of peace.
• Fu Yun Immortal Sect gained two to three million li of territory, while Heavenly Star Sect and the Li Clan jointly seized land to establish Heaven Maple Country and Thunder Essence Country.
• The new countries brought the Northern Wilderness Cultivation World from seven righteous countries to nine, and Spirit Treasure Academy strengthened its domain with territory seized during the war.
• Hai Yun True Lord asked Fu Yun True Lord for a Third Rank Middle Grade Water Vein and agreed to trade Core Forming Pills in return.
• Fu Yun True Lord warned Hai Yun True Lord and Cold Moon Lady Monarch that Liu Haochan might soon reach the Nascent Soul realm and asked whether they should delay his advancement.

Sea Cloud True Lord, Cold Moon Lady Monarch, and Fu Yun True Lord debated the Heavenly Star Sect, the Black Mountain Zhao Family, and the Lingxiao Ling Clan. They decided to let the Ling Clan develop freely, nurture the Zhao Family, and warn Heavenly Star True Lord not to suppress either clan.

• Sea Cloud True Lord argued that the Three Great Immortal Sects should let Liu Haochan attempt to enter the Nascent Soul Realm rather than weaken the Heavenly Star Sect’s future prospects.
• Fu Yun True Lord asked the other sect leaders to help suppress the Heavenly Star Sect if it later challenged his sect, and Sea Cloud True Lord agreed.
• Sea Cloud True Lord proposed relocating the Black Mountain Zhao Family to a subordinate country and discussed concerns that the Ling Clan’s hidden backing could threaten the Three Great Immortal Sects’ influence.
• Cold Moon Lady Monarch and Fu Yun True Lord agreed that the Ling Clan should develop freely and that the Zhao Family should be nurtured.
• Sea Cloud True Lord proposed jointly writing Heavenly Star True Lord to relocate the Zhao Family and forbid him from harming either the Zhao Family or the Lingxiao Ling Clan.

Five years after the war ended, Ling Chengxia watched Ling Pengqiu’s Fire Serpent Python begin its transformation into a flood dragon on Serpent Dragon Island. Blue Jade mocked the attempt, but Ling Chengxia warned it to keep quiet, and the chapter ended with the history of the island’s captive Earth Flood Dragon.

• Ling Chengxia cultivated on Serpent Dragon Island with his four Golden Flood Dragons while Ling Pengqiu’s Fire Serpent Python absorbed the Dragon Vein’s spiritual qi.
• The Fire Serpent Python erupted with flood dragon aura and began growing as it reached the final stage of transformation.
• Ling Chengxia brought the Golden Flood Dragons to the serpent’s cave and said he hoped it would complete its transformation, warning that failure could leave it badly wounded for a century.
• Blue Jade dismissed the serpent’s chances, but Ling Chengxia threatened to tell Ling Pengqiu, recalling how Ling Pengqiu had beaten Blue Jade eight years earlier.
• The chapter recounted how Ling Chengyuan and allied cultivators defeated the assault on Serpent Dragon Island, while Spirit Array Old Ancestor escaped and the Earth Flood Dragon was captured and bound with eighty-one chains.

Ling Chengxia assessed the Dragon Transformation Grass and the captive earth flood dragon, then welcomed a Fire Serpent Python that had successfully transformed into a Fire Flood Dragon. The chapter explained the bloodline grades and potential of the flood dragons around Serpent Dragon Lake, while the earth flood dragon remained captive and grieved over its Master’s betrayal.

• The earth flood dragon recalled that the Spirit Array Old Ancestor had tried to detonate the ownership restriction in its Sea of Consciousness, but Ling Penglin’s concealment array had protected it.
• Ling Chengxia decided to reduce how much blood the Ling Clan and the Hundred Spirits Sect drew from the earth flood dragon, preserving its cultivation while prioritizing the five older stalks of Dragon Transformation Grass.
• The Fire Serpent Python completed its transformation into a Fire Flood Dragon, and Ling Chengxia celebrated having five flood dragons in the clan alongside his four Golden Flood Dragons.
• Ling Chengxia considered the bloodline grades and future potential of the flood dragons, including the Fifth Grade Golden, Ice, Water, and Fire Flood Dragons, the Fourth Grade earth flood dragon, and the Third Grade Blue Jade Water Flood Dragon.