Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun read the account of Lin Qingya, a Third Rank High Grade Spirit Vein Master who had hidden a treasured Water Vein from Flame Domain City, and learned that Bei Shan Zhenren was Lin Qingya’s descendant. Bei Shan began explaining how Lin Qingya had protected his family, leaving Ling Pengyun with more questions about Bei Shan’s motives.

• Ling Pengyun read Lin Qingya’s inscription, which recounted his escape from Flame Domain City and his discovery of the hidden Water Vein and Body Tempering Spirit Pool.
• Lin Qingya described raising a swarm of Kui Yuan Armor-Devouring Bugs, freeing them before his death, and leaving behind a Jade Lotus Pod and a request for revenge against Flame Domain City.
• Ling Pengyun questioned Bei Shan Zhenren about his connection to Lin Qingya and why he had spread news of the hidden place.
• Bei Shan admitted he was Lin Qingya’s descendant and explained that Lin Qingya had severed karmic ties with his second son, Lin Xuanyuan, before secretly sending him to the Golden Talisman Immortal Sect.

Bei Shan Zhenren revealed his lineage’s connection to Lin Qingya and explained why he had gathered people in the Mystic Kui Mountain Range. Ling Pengyun agreed to their existing division of the Spirit Pool’s water and lotus seeds, while demanding three mineral veins and the Jade Lotus Pod, leaving Bei Shan Zhenren surprised by the request.

• Bei Shan Zhenren explained that he descended from Lin Xuanyuan, Lin Qingya’s second son, and had gathered manpower to find the Spirit Pool and deal with the Kui Yuan Armor-Devouring Bugs.
• Bei Shan Zhenren said his lineage had fallen into decline and that he was its last remaining cultivator, then proposed settling their division of the local treasures.
• Bei Shan Zhenren offered Ling Pengyun eighty percent of the Spirit Pool’s Third Rank Middle Grade Spirit Water and three of the Jade Lotus Pod’s nine seeds, with the option to buy back part of the water.
• Ling Pengyun accepted the original agreement but demanded three Second Rank medium-sized mineral veins and ownership of the Jade Lotus Pod.
• Bei Shan Zhenren accepted the mineral-vein demand but was surprised that Ling Pengyun wanted the seedless Jade Lotus Pod.

Ling Pengyun and Bei Shan Zhenren settled the division of benefits, then Bei Shan revealed that he wanted help stealing the Dragon Mane Elephant King’s gifted young elephant. Ling Pengyun balked at the danger but became interested when Bei Shan offered to take him to a ruined secret realm that might contain Nascent Soul resources.

• Bei Shan Zhenren explained that the Jade Lotus Pod would wither for a thousand years after its seeds were taken and would need about fourteen hundred years to return to its current state.
• Bei Shan revealed that he planned to seize the Dragon Mane Elephant King and Elephant Queen’s only offspring and tame it as the Lin Clan’s Guardian Spirit Beast.
• Ling Pengyun warned that raiding the Dragon Mane Elephant Clan’s territory could draw aid from four allied demon strongholds and prove fatal even for a Golden Core Completion cultivator.
• Bei Shan offered a Gold Spirit Vein and its Geng Metal Artifact Refining Spirit Pool as payment, but Ling Pengyun rejected the offer as insufficient to improve his Lifebound Magic Treasure meaningfully.
• Bei Shan offered to take Ling Pengyun into a ruined White Shadow Sect secret realm in three years, claiming it might contain Nascent Soul resources, and Ling Pengyun asked whether the account was true.

Ling Pengyun and Bei Shan Zhenren negotiated an alliance to seize the Dragon Mane Elephant King's cub and explore the White Shadow Sect mystic realm in three years. They agreed on entry slots, how to divide the inheritance and spiritual treasures, and Bei Shan harvested the nine Jade Lotus Seeds.

• Bei Shan Zhenren explained that cultivators trapped in the drifting mystic realm had likely perished, but its entrance would stabilize for one month when it opened in three years.
• Ling Pengyun agreed to help seize the Dragon Mane Elephant King's cub in exchange for entry slots for himself and his wife, and access to the Gold Spirit Vein and Treasure Refining Geng Metal Treasure Pool.
• Bei Shan Zhenren required the White Shadow Sect cultivation art inheritances to be shared and agreed to reveal the treasure pool's location after Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi helped him obtain the cub.
• Bei Shan Zhenren picked the nine Jade Lotus Seeds, giving three to Ling Pengyun and storing the other six.
• The Jade Lotus Pod quickly withered and lost its spiritual qi after its seeds were harvested.

Ling Pengyun transplanted a Third Rank Middle Grade Jade Lotus Pod and negotiated to buy two million jin of First Rank Spirit Iron Ore from Bei Shan Zhenren. He collected insect eggs from the spirit pool and uncovered the Kui Yuan Armor-Devouring Bugs’ nest, where the group found a trove of spirit plants and materials.

• Ling Pengyun transplanted the Jade Lotus Pod from the spirit pool and stored it in a jade box.
• Bei Shan Zhenren offered to sell Ling Pengyun two million jin of First Rank Spirit Iron Ore, and they agreed on a price of six hundred thousand spirit stones, to be paid after the Dragon Mane Elephant cub matter was resolved.
• Ling Pengyun claimed three insect eggs from the spirit pool and several hundred ordinary Kui Yuan Armor-Devouring Bug eggs from the cliff wall.
• Ling Pengyun blasted open the insect nest and revealed tunnels leading to a chamber stocked with water-element spirit plants, Water Spirit Iron, and other supplies.

Ling Pengyun and Bei Shan Zhenren baited the Dragon Mane Elephant Clan into attacking thirteen Golden Core cultivators, drawing nearly the entire clan away from its territory. They then used Bei Shan Zhenren’s Vein-Seeking Escape Technique to approach Dragon Mane Valley, where they planned to seize the Dragon Mane Elephant King’s only offspring.

• Ling Pengyun and Bei Shan Zhenren divided the Maple Jade Spirit Fruit trees, and Bei Shan Zhenren said they would begin their plan after recovering from battle.
• After five days, Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, Bei Yan Furen, and Bei Shan Zhenren lured thirteen Golden Core cultivators to a desolate valley with the promise of finding the Unowned Spirit Pool.
• Three Golden Core Dragon Mane Elephants attacked the cultivators, while Bei Shan Zhenren used his Vein-Seeking Escape Technique to carry Ling Pengyun’s group away.
• Bei Shan Zhenren watched as twelve more Dragon Mane Elephant Demon Kings, including the Dragon Mane Elephant King and Elephant Queen, joined the battle against the thirteen cultivators.
• Bei Shan Zhenren took Ling Pengyun’s group toward Dragon Mane Valley, and they arrived within ten thousand zhang of the clan’s territory.

Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Bei Yan Furen attacked Dragon Mane Valley while Bei Shan Zhenren secretly infiltrated it through an earth vein. The battle left the attackers facing several hidden Demon Kings and the valley’s quasi fourth-rank protection array as Xiang Yuan moved to trap them.

• Bei Shan Zhenren slipped underground toward Dragon Mane Valley while Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Bei Yan Furen surfaced and approached openly.
• Xiang Yuan emerged to defend the valley, and two Golden Core Middle Stage Demon Kings and a newly advanced Demon King joined the fight.
• Ling Pengyun assigned the Wind Shadow Peng and his companions to hold off the Demon Kings while he fought Xiang Yuan.
• Spiritual fluctuations from within the valley revealed that Bei Shan Zhenren had infiltrated without triggering the protection array, and Ling Pengyun sensed another hidden Demon King inside.
• Xiang Yuan activated the valley’s formation plate to trap the attackers and sent the quasi fourth-rank Armor Piercing Mountain crashing toward them.

Bei Shan Zhenren escaped Dragon Mane Valley with Ling Pengyun and the others, revealing that he had stolen a young Dragon Mane Elephant with a rare Na Kui Spirit Body. He kept the elephant despite the danger, postponed Ling Pengyun’s search for spirit iron, and offered compensation while learning that Ling Pengyun needed Fourth Rank Heavy Yuan Treasure Iron.

• Bei Shan Zhenren emerged from underground badly injured and led the group away through the earth veins before the Demon Kings could return.
• After several days of flight, Bei Shan Zhenren stopped in a forest outside Earth Splitting Bear territory and explained that a Na Kui Spirit Body Elephant Demon had ambushed him with three magic treasures.
• Bei Shan Zhenren revealed that he had also taken the Dragon Mane Elephant King’s young, and Ling Pengyun warned that the theft could bring the clan and its Nascent Soul allies after him.
• Bei Shan Zhenren refused to abandon the young elephant, though Ling Pengyun suspected his Spirit Vein Master methods could help conceal it.
• Bei Shan Zhenren postponed helping Ling Pengyun search the Profound Fiend Mountain Range and offered three hundred thousand jin of First Rank spirit iron as compensation.
• Ling Pengyun accepted the offer and stated that he needed at least ten jin of Fourth Rank Heavy Yuan Treasure Iron.

Ling Pengyun negotiated with Bei Shan Zhenren for Heavy Yuan Treasure Iron and arranged a future search for the remaining Quasi Fourth Rank material. He then traveled with Yan Siyi to Flame Domain City and settled into a Golden Core cave residence to cultivate.

• Ling Pengyun pressured Bei Shan Zhenren to honor their agreement, and Bei Shan gave him five jin of Quasi Fourth Rank Heavy Yuan Treasure Iron while owing him another five jin.
• Ling Pengyun and Bei Shan agreed to trade Third Rank Heavy Yuan Treasure Iron for cultivation pills, including twenty jin of High Grade iron for seven Third Rank Middle Grade pills.
• Ling Pengyun and Bei Shan arranged to search the Profound Fiend Mountain Range together in two years for the remaining Quasi Fourth Rank iron and agreed to divide any additional materials they found.
• After settling the Soul Contract terms, Ling Pengyun parted from Bei Shan Zhenren and Bei Yan Furen, who planned to leave the Central Province Cultivation World.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi traveled to Flame Domain City, rented a Golden Core cave residence, and began cultivating there.

The Dragon Mane Elephant King sought help from a powerful Yellow-Furred Bear Demon to find his kidnapped descendant, but the demon’s karmic search failed. The chapter revealed that Bei Shan Zhenren, Bei Yan Furen, and their daughter Lin Yating had hidden the young elephant in the Bei Shan Secret Realm, whose Karma Isolation Grand Array shielded them from detection.

• More than ten million demons searched the Earth Splitting Bear Clan’s territory but found no trace of Ling Pengyun and the others.
• The Dragon Mane Elephant King and Dragon Mane Elephant Queen asked the Yellow-Furred Bear Demon to find their kidnapped descendant, offering him thirteen Golden Core cultivator corpses.
• The Yellow-Furred Bear Demon accepted three corpses and tried to track the descendant through karma, but found that all karmic ties to Xiang Yan and the Dragon Mane Elephant Clan had vanished.
• Bei Shan Zhenren, Bei Yan Furen, and Lin Yating watched the Karma Isolation Grand Array withstand the karmic investigation and concluded that they were safe for now.
• Bei Shan Zhenren explained that he had established the Bei Shan Secret Realm decades earlier, bringing spirit veins into it to preserve the refuge and its array formation.

After two years, Ling Pengyun and his companions entered the White Shadow Secret Realm using Bei Shan Zhenren’s inherited token. They arrived at the overgrown mountain gate and were immediately surrounded by powerful subterranean demon beasts.

• Bei Shan Zhenren and Bei Yan Furen discussed Lin Yating’s cultivation and their fears about letting her leave the secret realm once she reached Foundation Establishment.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi met the Bei Shan couple, and they searched the Profound Fiend Mountain Range for Heavy Yuan Treasure Iron; Bei Shan Zhenren compensated Ling Pengyun with fifteen jin of Quasi Fourth Rank spirit iron.
• Bei Shan Zhenren used his White Shadow Sect inheritance and token to locate the secret realm’s entrance, and the group broke through the void to enter.
• The group emerged at the overgrown White Shadow Secret Realm mountain gate, where Ling Pengyun sensed an underground threat and raised a protective shield.
• Five colossal yellow-scaled serpents burst from the earth and attacked the group, while their leader declared that the mountain gate passage had opened as their ancestors foretold.

Ling Pengyun and his allies fought five Golden Core Snake Demons, and Ling Pengyun used Locking God Chain to pin them down long enough to kill two. He pursued the Snake King underground and defeated it after it burned its lifespan, then captured its Golden Core and remnant soul, though the battle weakened the corpse’s value as a future puppet.

• Ling Pengyun used Locking God Chain to immobilize the five Snake Demons, and he, Yan Siyi, Bei Shan Zhenren, and Bei Shan Zhenren's wife killed the two Golden Core Initial Stage snakes.
• The enraged Snake King raised its cultivation with a Strength Enhancement Technique, but Ling Pengyun summoned three phantoms with the Azure Sea Shadowing Art and drove it underground.
• Ling Pengyun chased the Snake King while Yan Siyi and the Bei Shan couple held off the two Golden Core Middle Stage snakes.
• The Snake King burned its lifespan to reach Golden Core Completion, and its summoned Snake Demons helped it pressure Ling Pengyun and his three phantoms.
• Ling Pengyun trapped the Snake King with the Water Imprisoning Gourd, broke through its defenses, and killed it with his golden spear.
• Ling Pengyun captured the Snake King's fleeing Golden Core and remnant soul, then stored its corpse despite realizing its spent origin power would limit its value as a corpse puppet.

Ling Pengyun and his allies slew the remaining Golden Core Snake Demons and learned from Bei Shan Zhenren how the White Shadow Sect’s spirit beasts had rebelled and destroyed its surviving cultivators. The chapter left Ling Pengyun interested in investigating how three ordinary demon beasts had mutated and reached Golden Core Completion.

• Ling Pengyun collected spirit materials from the slain Snake Demons, then joined Yan Siyi and the others to kill two Golden Core Middle Stage Snake Demons and divide the spoils.
• Bei Shan Zhenren explained that three Golden Core Completion demon beasts had led a rebellion after the White Shadow Sect survivors tried to control them with Beast Controlling Bells.
• Ling Pengyun condemned the rebels and said that anyone who inherited the White Shadow Sect’s legacy should help eliminate the secret realm’s Demon Race creatures; Bei Shan Zhenren agreed to assist.
• Bei Shan Zhenren revealed that the three demon beasts had changed during the sixty years the secret realm was isolated, though Bai Gang Zhenren had not known what caused their mutations.
• Ling Pengyun recalled an acquired mutation he had encountered before and agreed with Bei Shan Zhenren to investigate the demons’ deaths or the Demon Race force they had established.

Ling Pengyun and Bei Shan Zhenren agreed to explore the White Shadow Secret Realm together under a lifelong alliance contract, with Bei Shan providing a map and taking a larger share of ordinary gains. After reviewing the realm’s treasures and dangers, Ling Pengyun focused on the Birch Forest as a promising place to cultivate his wood-based longevity method.

• Bei Shan Zhenren proposed searching the secret realm together and asked for a seventy-thirty share of the gains, but Ling Pengyun negotiated a sixty-forty split, with Golden Core and Fourth Rank spirit objects divided equally.
• Bei Shan Zhenren produced a Third Rank High Grade Soul Contract, and he and Ling Pengyun agreed to become Lifelong Allies and signed it.
• Bei Shan Zhenren showed Ling Pengyun the map and explained that the realm’s Quasi Fourth Rank spirit vein, treasury, and medicinal gardens were occupied by powerful demon beasts, so he proposed visiting the Technique Pavilion first.
• Bei Shan Zhenren described other potential sites, including White Shadow Lake, Peach Mountain, and the Birch Forest, where spirit wood and herbs might remain.
• Ling Pengyun recognized that the Birch Forest’s abundant wood vein power could help him cultivate the Azure Sea Wood Origin Longevity Extension method more quickly.

Ling Pengyun and Bei Shan Zhenren infiltrated the White Shadow Sect’s Technique Pavilion mountain, where a powerful Flame Demon Wolf guarded a largely preserved collection of inheritance manuals. Ling Pengyun attacked the wolf while Bei Shan planned to retrieve the books, but the wolf claimed descent from a spirit beast once belonging to the pavilion’s master and pleaded with Ling Pengyun to stop.

• Bei Shan Zhenren led Ling Pengyun and their companions through underground earth veins toward the Technique Pavilion, while Ling Pengyun observed the secret realm’s spirit veins, demon beasts, and spatial collapses.
• Bei Shan scouted the mountain and discovered that a Golden Core Completion Flame Demon Wolf guarded the pavilion with a powerful formation, though the pavilion and its books remained intact.
• Ling Pengyun agreed to fight the wolf while Bei Shan broke the pavilion’s formation and collected its inheritances; Yan Siyi was told to leave with the others and watch Bei Yan.
• Bei Shan used his Vein-Seeking Escape Technique to bring Ling Pengyun past the mountain’s protective formation, and Ling Pengyun immediately attacked the Flame Demon Wolf with his techniques, treasures, phantoms, and demon corpses.
• The Flame Demon Wolf blocked Ling Pengyun’s attacks and called out that it descended from a spirit beast belonging to former Technique Pavilion master An Weicong, pleading with him to stop fighting.

Ling Pengyun learned that the Flame Demon Wolf was the Technique Pavilion’s loyal guardian and wanted his help escaping the secret realm. The wolf offered the Pavilion’s preserved inheritances and ten jin of Quasi Fourth Rank White Flame Spirit Iron, but Ling Pengyun had not yet agreed to the deal.

• Ling Pengyun stopped attacking after the Flame Demon Wolf swore a Heavenly Dao Oath and claimed loyalty to the White Shadow Sect.
• The Flame Demon Wolf explained how its ancestors fought the spirit-beast rebellion and continued guarding the Technique Pavilion.
• Ling Pengyun recognized that the wolf wanted to leave the secret realm and challenged its claims, prompting it to admit its goal and offer a Quasi Fourth Rank Soul Contract.
• Ling Pengyun refused to help without compensation, and the Flame Demon Wolf offered access to the Pavilion’s inheritances, including Nascent Soul techniques and the White Shadow Phantom Escape Technique.
• Ling Pengyun demanded a more substantial payment, so the Flame Demon Wolf offered ten jin of Quasi Fourth Rank White Flame Spirit Iron, which Ling Pengyun saw could help Yan Siyi forge a Spirit Treasure Prototype.

Ling Pengyun negotiated with the Flame Demon Wolf King for Quasi Fourth Rank White Flame Spirit Iron, spirit trees, and the wolf clan’s help in restoring the White Shadow Sect. The wolf king agreed to wait sixty years for Ling Pengyun to lead a campaign against the rebellious Demon Race clans, but demanded Quasi Fourth Rank Profound Heaven spirit water in return.

• Bei Shan Zhenren agreed to let Ling Pengyun take the Quasi Fourth Rank Spirit Iron in exchange for half of the other spirit objects they obtained.
• Ling Pengyun secured twenty jin of Quasi Fourth Rank White Flame Spirit Iron and three spirit trees from the Flame Demon Wolf King.
• Ling Pengyun required the wolf king to help eliminate the rebellious Demon Race clans and protect a future White Shadow Sect successor for life.
• The Flame Demon Wolf King explained that three powerful Demon Race clans dominated the secret realm, making the plan impossible for now.
• Ling Pengyun proposed waiting sixty years before attacking the three clans, and the wolf king agreed to assist him.
• The Flame Demon Wolf King demanded one mouthful of Quasi Fourth Rank Profound Heaven spirit water as its reward after the campaign.

Ling Pengyun learned that the secret realm’s Profound Heaven Spirit Pool could hold several portions of Nascent Soul-advancing water, and he secured agreements with Bei Shan Zhenren and the Flame Demon Wolf King over future shares. The chapter ended with Ling Pengyun asking about the flood dragon clan’s strength and loyalties before the planned campaign against the rebel Demon Races.

• Ling Pengyun questioned Bei Shan Zhenren about the hidden spirit pool, and Bei Shan swore a Heavenly Dao Oath to prove he had known nothing about it.
• The Flame Demon Wolf King explained that the pool’s formation could only be entered with a secret realm token and might contain five or six portions of Quasi Fourth Rank Profound Heaven Water.
• Bei Shan offered Ling Pengyun his entry token and reduced his future share of the secret realm’s profits to forty percent in exchange for one portion of the spirit water, and Ling Pengyun agreed.
• Ling Pengyun and the Flame Demon Wolf King signed a Quasi Fourth Rank Soul Contract granting the Wolf King one portion of spirit water and securing their alliance.
• Ling Pengyun revealed Bei Shan’s Vein-Seeking Escape Technique, then amended the contract to include Bei Shan in their plan and promise him one portion of spirit water if it succeeded.
• Ling Pengyun asked whether the flood dragon clan of White Shadow Lake remained allied with the Wolf King and how powerful it was.

Ling Pengyun traveled with Bei Shan Zhenren and the Flame Demon Wolf King to White Shadow Lake, where he negotiated with Dragon Abyss Demon King for its clan’s help rebuilding the White Shadow Sect. He obtained the Hundred Treasures Dragon Profound Technique and Dragon Abyss Demon King’s agreement to leave the secret realm, while their alliance for the coming battle remained under negotiation.

• The Flame Demon Wolf King explained that the White Shadow Lake flood dragon clan had stayed loyal to the White Shadow Sect because of an ancient debt and a bloodline-purifying technique, and Ling Pengyun asked it to arrange a meeting with Dragon Abyss Demon King.
• Ling Pengyun, Bei Shan Zhenren, and the Flame Demon Wolf King secretly traveled through the earth veins to White Shadow Lake, avoiding the three demon clans guarding the route.
• Dragon Abyss Demon King learned that Ling Pengyun and Bei Shan Zhenren could leave the secret realm and begged Ling Pengyun to take it outside so it could pursue a Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Ling Pengyun traded for three spirit trees and the Hundred Treasures Dragon Profound Technique, then agreed to take Dragon Abyss Demon King out of the secret realm.
• Ling Pengyun proposed that the flood dragon clan help defeat the three traitorous demon clans in sixty years, promising twenty Golden Core combatants and a share of Profound Heaven Water; Dragon Abyss Demon King considered the offer but sought two portions instead of one.

Ling Pengyun negotiated a share of the Profound Heaven Water and secured the Dragon Abyss Demon King's support for rebuilding the White Shadow Sect, then explored the Technique Pavilion with his companions. There he found the White Shadow Sect's powerful Limitless Nether Water Treasure Tome and considered its potential while reflecting on the dangers of joining the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect.

• Ling Pengyun negotiated with the Dragon Abyss Demon King and secured two portions of Profound Heaven Water, while the Dragon King agreed to help eliminate the three Traitorous Sect Demon Races and protect a future White Shadow Sect inheritor.
• The Dragon Abyss Demon King and Flame Demon Wolf King agreed to shelter the rebuilt White Shadow Sect after the secret realm's enemies were defeated, and Ling Pengyun planned to place a Ling Clan member there as its inheritor.
• Ling Pengyun and Bei Shan Zhenren collected six spirit trees, dividing them equally, while Ling Pengyun received twenty jin of Quasi Fourth Rank White Flame Spirit Iron and Bei Shan received a copy of the Hundred Treasures Dragon Profound Technique.
• Ling Pengyun, Bei Shan Zhenren, Yan Siyi, and Bei Yan Furen entered the Technique Pavilion and went straight to its Fourth Layer.
• Ling Pengyun discovered the Limitless Nether Water Treasure Tome, which could lead to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and contained three powerful divine abilities, including two Mystic Lightnings he could potentially comprehend.
• Ling Pengyun learned that the tome was the White Shadow Sect's highest-grade cultivation technique and wondered what the Nascent Soul portion of the Azure Sea True Scripture contained, while weighing the risks of deeper involvement with that sect.