Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun and the other Golden Core cultivators discovered and copied six valuable White Shadow Sect inheritances, including techniques, divine abilities, and Spirit Talisman Cave knowledge. The records strengthened the Ling Clan’s prospects of becoming a Nascent Soul force, but Ling Pengyun recognized they had to rise before the Three Great Immortal Sects changed their plans.

• Ling Pengyun examined the White Shadow Sect’s Nascent Soul techniques and learned about the White Shadow Escape Technique, the Spirit Talisman Cave inheritance, and the Divine Ability Compendium.
• Ling Pengyun found the origin of the Fire Wolf Moon Devouring Art and reviewed records of divine abilities held by demon clans.
• Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, Bei Shan Zhenren, and Bei Yan Zhenren copied the six inheritances and returned the originals to the bookshelf for the White Shadow Sect’s future rebuilding.
• The four explored the third floor and found extensive Golden Core techniques, rare spirit-root inheritances, miscellaneous arts, and a history of the White Shadow Sect.
• Ling Pengyun considered the clan’s path to Nascent Soul, concluding that it must seize its opportunity before the Three Great Immortal Sects no longer welcomed new Nascent Soul forces.

Ling Pengyun and his companions collected the White Shadow Sect’s inheritances before leaving the Bei Shan Secret Realm, and he reaffirmed his promise to help the Flame Demon Wolf King in sixty years. Afterward, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi joined the Bei Shan couple to claim a Geng Metal Artifact Refining Spirit Pool and its companion spirit vein, which Bei Shan Zhenren successfully packed into a formation.

• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi copied the Technique Pavilion’s inheritances, filling their storage beads with cultivation techniques and arts.
• The Flame Demon Wolf King reminded Ling Pengyun of their agreement to help defeat the traitorous sect demon races when the secret realm reopened in sixty years, and Ling Pengyun agreed.
• Ling Pengyun recalled that Azure Water True Person planned to use a Five-Colored Spirit Fruit to attempt Nascent Soul formation in about thirty years, and reaffirmed his promise to send twenty Golden Core cultivators to aid him against the Saint Demon Sect.
• Ling Pengyun and his companions left the secret realm without visiting its other treasure lands to avoid alerting the demon races occupying it.
• Bei Shan Zhenren led Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Bei Yan Furen to the Geng Metal Artifact Refining Spirit Pool and offered it together with its companion Gold Spirit Vein.
• After Ling Pengyun dealt with nearby low-level demon beasts, Bei Shan Zhenren used a Vein Shifting Grand Formation to pack away the spirit pool and spirit vein.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi checked on the Mountain Sea Island Han Clan Branch and Fire Serpent Sect, then visited the Azure Sea Secret Realm. The Fire Serpent Sect was expanding against the Jin Yang Sect, and Wang Ying looked forward to pairing her Wood Flood Dragon with Ling Pengqiu’s newly Golden Core Fire Serpent once the fighting ended.

• Bei Shan Zhenren gave Ling Pengyun the Vein Shifting Grand Formation and Migration Grand Array before he and his wife returned to the Boundless Buddha Country.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi inspected the Mountain Sea Island Han Clan Branch, where Ling Pengshan continued to guide Ling Chengshi as the branch developed steadily.
• They found the Fire Serpent Sect thriving under Ling Pengqiu, who had accepted Ling Pengyun’s advice to limit its gains against the Jin Yang Sect rather than risk drawing more enemies into the conflict.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi entered the Azure Sea Secret Realm and learned that Azure Water True Person was in seclusion preparing for the Nascent Soul calamity.
• Ling Pengyun told Wang Ying that Ling Pengqiu’s Fire Serpent had reached the Golden Core Realm and would be brought to the secret realm within three years to cultivate alongside her Wood Flood Dragon.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi sought the Azure Sea Azure Sky Sect’s help to reforge Yan Siyi’s Lifebound Magic Item using quasi Fourth Rank fire-element Treasure Iron. After waiting a year for Sui Jin True Person to finish refining, they met him at Red Kite Mountain and were welcomed to share his rare spirit tea.

• Ling Pengyun and Wang Ying discussed the Spirit Plant Dao for half a month before Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi visited Thundercloud True Person at Cloud Piercing Mountain.
• Ling Pengyun asked Thundercloud True Person to introduce them to Sui Jin True Person so Sui Jin could reforge Yan Siyi’s Lifebound Magic Item with their quasi Fourth Rank Treasure Iron.
• Thundercloud True Person brought the couple to Red Kite Mountain, but Sui Jin True Person was in seclusion, so they returned to Azure Water Island and waited a year.
• After receiving Sui Jin True Person’s message, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi returned to Red Kite Mountain, where Thundercloud True Person introduced them to Sui Jin.
• Sui Jin praised Ling Pengyun’s cultivation and auxiliary-art talent, then invited the couple to drink Third Rank High Grade Heavenly Clarity Spirit Tea.

Ling Pengyun met with Old Daoist Sui Jin to ask him to reforge Yan Siyi’s lifebound magic treasure, the Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot, into a Spirit Treasure Prototype. After Ling Pengyun handed over ten jin of Quasi Fourth Rank Treasure Iron to support the sect and Azure Water True Person, Sui Jin offered him Contribution Points or a future Spirit Treasure Prototype in exchange for more iron.

• Thundercloud True Person left Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Old Daoist Sui Jin to talk privately after they shared tea and stories.
• Ling Pengyun gave Sui Jin a piece of Azure Nether Treasure Iron and asked him to reforge Yan Siyi’s Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot into a Quasi Fourth Rank Spirit Treasure Prototype.
• Ling Pengyun showed Sui Jin the materials for two forging attempts, including twenty jin of White Flame Treasure Iron, and Sui Jin asked whether he had more Quasi Fourth Rank Treasure Iron to aid Azure Water True Person’s Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Ling Pengyun handed over another two jin of Azure Nether Treasure Iron, three jin of Heaven River Treasure Iron, and four jin of Emerald Crystal Treasure Iron, while keeping his five jin of Heavy Yuan Treasure Iron for his own treasure.
• Sui Jin said the ten jin Ling Pengyun had contributed would earn three hundred thousand Contribution Points and offered a Spirit Treasure Prototype if Ling Pengyun supplied another twenty jin in the future.

Ling Pengyun discussed exchanging spirit iron for a Spirit Treasure Prototype with Sui Jin True Person and arranged for Sui Jin to reforge Yan Siyi’s Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot. After three months of discussing forging, Azure Sea True Lord arrived and recognized Ling Pengyun as a rare Person Against Fate.

• Ling Pengyun considered trading Quasi Fourth Rank spirit iron for a Spirit Treasure Prototype, while Sui Jin True Person explained the terms and the risks of reforging Yan Siyi’s Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi agreed to let Sui Jin attempt the reforging, and Sui Jin went to ask the Sect Master for assistance.
• Sui Jin returned alone and asked the couple to wait in the sect until Azure Sea True Lord emerged from seclusion.
• Ling Pengyun discussed the Dao of forging with Sui Jin for three months while Yan Siyi studied divine abilities from the White Shadow Secret Realm.
• Azure Sea True Lord arrived, sensed Ling Pengyun’s unusually thin fate, and suspected he was a rare Person Against Fate.

Azure Sea True Lord praised Ling Pengyun and agreed to commission Ling Yunhong to refine pills for the sect, while offering both men valuable guidance and records of his experience. After a lengthy weapon-refinement discussion, Azure Sea True Lord and Old Daoist Sui Jin began preparing to recast Yan Siyi’s lifebound magic treasure.

• Azure Sea True Lord learned that Ling Yunhong had reached Third Rank Middle Grade alchemy and asked him to refine pills for the sect, and Ling Pengyun accepted the commission on his behalf.
• Azure Sea True Lord gave Ling Pengyun his handwritten alchemy and weapon-refinement records and invited him to discuss weapon refinement with Old Daoist Sui Jin.
• Ling Pengyun spent three months discussing weapon refinement with Azure Sea True Lord and Old Daoist Sui Jin while Yan Siyi comprehended divine abilities.
• Azure Sea True Lord and Old Daoist Sui Jin brought Yan Siyi and Ling Pengyun to a quiet cave abode on Red Kite Mountain to recast Yan Siyi’s lifebound magic treasure.
• After everyone regulated their breathing for several days, Azure Sea True Lord and Old Daoist Sui Jin began refining the weapon with Yan Siyi taking the lead.

Yan Siyi reforged her Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot with help from Ling Pengyun, Azure Sea True Lord, and Old Daoist Sui Jin. After a failed first attempt, her second succeeded, raising the pot to Quasi Fourth Rank and greatly increasing her strength.

• Azure Sea True Lord and Old Daoist Sui Jin used the Tiger's Roar Geng Metal Refining Furnace and White Yang Treasure Fire to temper the reforging materials.
• Yan Siyi fused the prepared spiritual iron into her Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot and tried to inscribe a Spirit Treasure Prototype rune, but the attempt nearly ruined the treasure and left it at Third Rank High Grade.
• Ling Pengyun, Azure Sea True Lord, and Old Daoist Sui Jin urged Yan Siyi to use the remaining materials and try again, and she agreed.
• Yan Siyi completed a second reforging attempt, inscribed a smoother rune, and fused it with the pot over the following months.
• The Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot reached Quasi Fourth Rank and produced white flames nearly twice as hot as before, boosting Yan Siyi's strength to around the Golden Core Eighth or Ninth Stage.
• Yan Siyi showed the treasure to Ling Pengyun and joked that she would charge ahead and burn their future enemies.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi celebrated the Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot’s successful reforging and learned from Wang Ying about Ling Pengqiu’s growing Fire Serpent Sect and the old romance between Sui Jin and Sunflower Water Matron. Sui Jin sought Sunflower Water Matron at her mountain but found her away, then returned to his cave dwelling with his hopes seemingly abandoned.

• Azure Sea True Lord praised the Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot’s foundation and urged Yan Siyi to improve her weapon-refinement skills, while Ling Pengyun discussed his own insights with him.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi returned to Azure Water Island, where Wang Ying congratulated Yan Siyi and gifted her Third Rank High Grade Tortoise Blood Pills.
• Wang Ying told Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi that Ling Pengqiu’s letter described the Fire Serpent Sect’s expanded territory, increased income, and five thousand disciples, and assured them he would protect the sect branch.
• Wang Ying recounted how Sui Jin’s youthful fickleness ended his relationship with Sunflower Water Matron, who had never taken a dao companion and still rebuffed his later visits.
• Sui Jin went to Sunflower Water Mountain to see Sunflower Water Matron but learned she was still away seeking a disciple to inherit her mantle.
• Sui Jin returned to Red Kite Mountain, looked toward Sunflower Water Mountain, and entered his cave dwelling as willow catkins drifted around him.

Azure Water True Person emerged from seclusion and celebrated Yan Siyi's new Spirit Treasure Prototype with Ling Pengyun and the others. Elsewhere, Sunflower Water Matron discovered that Ye Luo possessed the All-Talent Spirit Body, though his Five Spirit Root aptitude left Thundercloud True Person doubtful about how much he could achieve.

• Azure Water True Person congratulated Yan Siyi on reforging her Lifebound Magic Treasure and gave her an Icy Soul Mystic Phoenix Talisman before joining the banquet.
• Sunflower Water Matron found five- or six-year-old Ye Luo in a remote village and brought him to the sect after suspecting that his unusual body concealed a rare talent.
• The Spirit Measurement Array identified Ye Luo as possessing the All-Talent Spirit Body and recommended the Gold Rending Talisman Scripture for his Gold Spirit Root.
• Sunflower Water Matron rejoiced at Ye Luo's exceptional talent for talisman arts, while Thundercloud True Person lamented that his Five Spirit Root aptitude could limit his cultivation and future prospects.

Sunflower Water Old Woman discovered that Xiao Linluo possessed the rare All-Heaven Talisman Body and accepted him as her disciple. Lei Yun True Person arranged for Azure Water True Person to teach him additional talisman methods, and the chapter ended with Xiao Linluo becoming Azure Water True Person’s second personal disciple and being asked to study with him for several years.

• Sunflower Water Old Woman found Xiao Linluo at the Spirit Measurement Array, accepted him as her disciple, and gave him foundational spiritual items.
• Lei Yun True Person proposed that Xiao Linluo learn from the sect’s Third Rank talisman crafters so he could combine their methods.
• Lei Yun True Person and Sunflower Water Old Woman brought Xiao Linluo to Azure Water Island and asked Azure Water True Person to teach him his talisman-crafting skills.
• Azure Water True Person agreed to teach Xiao Linluo only if he also became his personal disciple and promised to carry on his legacy.
• Sunflower Water Old Woman agreed, and Xiao Linluo kowtowed to Azure Water True Person and called him Master.
• Azure Water True Person named Xiao Linluo his second personal disciple and asked Sunflower Water Old Woman to let him study under him for several years.

After Xiao Linluo began cultivation and talisman training on Azure Water Island, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi returned to the Ling Clan and learned how it had developed during their absence. The clan honored its rising young cultivators with new titles, and Ling Pengyun asked about three clan members studying spirit talismans.

• Sunflower Water Old Woman agreed to teach Xiao Linluo cultivation while Azure Water True Person taught him talisman-making, and she brought him to Azure Water Island after he entered the Dao Path.
• Xiao Linluo grew close to Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi, who left him spirit fruits and honey when they departed for the Ling Clan; he later missed them as he ate their gifts.
• Ling Chengyuan told Ling Pengyun about the clan’s six Golden Core seedlings, its growing ranks of cultivators, and the emergence of eight promising young talents.
• Ling Pengyun learned that his grandson Ling Wanhuan had water and wood Dual Spirit Roots and talents for silkworm farming and beast taming.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Chengyuan established new titles for the clan’s promising male and female cultivators, including the Ling Clan Five Sons and Ling Clan Three Daughters.
• Ling Pengyun asked about the three clan members he had sent to study spirit talismans under the Hundred Spirits Sect’s Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Chengyuan reviewed the clan’s talisman seedlings and the situation among the Yan Kingdom’s major powers before Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi hurried to Ice Snow Valley to reunite with their family. Their return delighted their relatives, but seeing Ling Xiaoshun and Yang Qiuyun nearing old age left them grieving over their parents’ limited remaining lifespans.

• Ling Chengyuan reported that Ling Renyang, Ling Licui, and Wang Quan had advanced in their talisman skills and cultivation during their nine years of instruction.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Chengyuan discussed the Yang and Liang clans, the Yan Kingdom’s sects, and the fate of Qin Shi, then arranged for spiritual ingredients and a formation to be delivered to clan members in seclusion.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi traveled to Ice Snow Valley, where Ling Wanhuan and Ling Chengxia were sparring and learned that their grandparents were approaching.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi arrived on the Wind Shadow Peng and reunited with Ling Xiaoshun, Yang Qiuyun, Ling Chengxia, and Ling Wanhuan.
• Yang Qiuyun and Ling Chengxia asked why Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi had taken nine years to return, while Ling Wanhuan greeted them as his maternal grandparents.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi realized that Ling Xiaoshun and Yang Qiuyun had nearly exhausted available lifespan-extending treasures and might die within a century if they failed to reach the Golden Core Realm.

Ling Pengyun reunited with his family and welcomed his grandson Ling Wanhuan, offering him magic items and approving a Pseudo Earth-Turning Dragon Earthworm as his Lifebound Spirit Beast. The chapter ended with Ling Pengyun learning that the mother Dragon Earthworm had safely borne another egg and would soon recover her lost origin essence.

• Ling Pengyun reassured Yang Qiuyun and Ling Xiaoshun, then praised Ling Chengxia’s cultivation and warned him not to travel to the Central Province Cultivation World before reaching Golden Core Realm.
• Ling Pengyun warmly met Ling Wanhuan, praised his sword practice, and gave him a choice of magic items as an initiation gift.
• Ling Wanhuan chose a set of daoist robes and three long needles, and Ling Pengyun promised to refine Lifebound Magic Items for him after he entered Foundation Establishment.
• Ling Chengxia proposed giving Ling Wanhuan the egg from Jin Da and Ling Pengyun’s Earth-Turning Dragon Earthworm as a Lifebound Spirit Beast, and Ling Pengyun approved.
• Ling Chengxia explained that Lin Fan had used a third-rank beast-taming technique to preserve the mother Dragon Earthworm’s origin essence, which would recover within two or three years.
• Ling Pengyun praised Lin Fan’s beast-taming talent after hearing that the Dragon Earthworm and Jin Da’s offspring were being cared for at Serpent Dragon Lake.

Ling Chengping and Lin Fan sought Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi’s advice on whether Ling Wanhuan should give up an auxiliary art to focus on cultivation, but Ling Pengyun urged them to nurture all four of the boy’s paths. Though the cost would be enormous, the couple resolved to work harder to support their son’s future.

• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Wanhuan a Pseudo Earth-Turning Dragon Earthworm egg, and the family gathered for a reunion feast after nine years apart.
• Ling Chengping and Lin Fan explained their concerns that Ling Wanhuan’s cultivation would lag behind because he pursued silkworm breeding, beast control, and possibly body cultivation as well.
• Ling Pengyun advised Ling Chengping and Lin Fan to let Ling Wanhuan cultivate all four paths, arguing that his talents and family support made the demanding plan worthwhile.
• Ling Chengping and Lin Fan weighed the immense cost of raising Ling Wanhuan and changed their minds about having him abandon an auxiliary art.
• Ling Chengping and Lin Fan decided to hunt demon beasts in the Demon Beast Gathering Ground whenever they had time to earn spirit stones for Ling Wanhuan.

Ling Pengyun helped his grandson Ling Wanhuan begin cultivating four Dao Paths and gave him a breath of Yin Yang Primordial Qi to protect him from the karma attached to White Shadow Sect’s inheritance. He planned to make Ling Wanhuan the sect’s inheritor when its secret realm reopened in fifty-one years, while considering how Yin Yang Primordial Essence might aid his own future breakthrough.

• Cheng Ping and Lin Fan told Ling Pengyun they would pay for Ling Wanhuan’s cultivation and raise him to cultivate four Dao Paths, and Ling Pengyun agreed while offering help if they ran short of resources.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Wanhuan the Water Wood Radiance Body Forging Treasure Tome and the Cosmos Return Origin Treasure Tome, replacing his previous Azure Water Art.
• Ling Pengyun planned to present Ling Wanhuan as White Shadow Sect’s inheritor at the secret realm’s next opening and use the sect’s forces and resources, while delaying broader plans because the Earth Splitting Bear Clan could target anyone carrying White Shadow Sect’s karma.
• Ling Pengyun transferred one breath of Yin Yang Primordial Qi to Ling Wanhuan, leaving himself four breaths and judging that he had time to gather nine before the secret realm reopened.
• Ling Pengyun reflected on how his earlier investments had benefited his allies, family, spirit beasts, and spirit plants, then wondered whether the Yin Yang Primordial Essence could help him reach the Nascent Soul realm.

Ling Pengyun strengthened Ling Wanhuan and warned him to keep the Yin Yang Primordial Qi secret, while Bei Shan Zhenren used the Karma Isolation Grand Array to protect children learning White Shadow Sect techniques. A month later, Ling Pengyun’s family visited Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor’s family, where they caught up on their relatives’ cultivation.

• Ling Pengyun explained the danger of revealing Ling Wanhuan’s aptitude-changing opportunity, and Ling Wanhuan promised to keep it secret.
• Ling Pengyun placed a restriction in Ling Wanhuan’s mind, told him to study the Cosmos Return Origin Treasure Tome, and gave White Shadow Secret Realm inheritances to relatives who had received Yin Yang Primordial Qi.
• In the easternmost Supreme Buddha Country Cultivation World, onlookers discussed Zhang Quan’s wedding and the Lin Clan’s growing control of the region.
• The Karma Isolation Grand Array’s spirit severed a child’s karma with the White Shadow Sect, and Bei Shan Zhenren brought the child to Lin Yating’s school for cultivation seedlings.
• A month later, Ling Pengyun’s family visited Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor’s family at the Serpent Dragon Lake Branch, where they learned that Wu Yan had reached the Golden Core Third Layer and Yang Siling had formed a false core.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi visited their old friend Qin Shi and learned he feared for his daughter Qin Yue'er amid growing tensions at the Serpent Dragon Lake Branch. Qin Shi asked them to find Yue'er a husband in the Ling Clan, and they agreed to help protect her.

• Ling Pengyun encouraged Ling Renyang, Ling Licui, and Wang Quan, then helped guide their cultivation with Yan Siyi.
• Ling Pengyun and his family visited Qin Yue'er, who gave them bottles of flower honey and received rare spirit flower seeds in return.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi reunited with the ailing Qin Shi, whose remaining lifespan seemed short, while the younger members went inside to talk.
• Qin Shi explained that unrest might arise at the Serpent Dragon Lake Branch and asked Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi to find Qin Yue'er a suitable Ling Clan husband.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi agreed, having already hoped to arrange a marriage for Yue'er, though they knew she and Ling Chengxia regarded each other as siblings.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi left Serpent Dragon Lake after reassuring Qin Shi’s family and arranging protection for Ling Chengxia and the dragons. Back at Ice Snow Valley, they arranged a matchmaking meeting between Qin Yue'er and Ling Wanchuan, who realized she matched his ideal of a Dao Companion and began to speak with her.

• Ling Pengyun offered to help find Qin Yue'er a husband and asked whether Qin Shi would send Qin Ping and Qin An to the Ling Clan, but Qin Shi chose to leave his sons at the branch to face its dangers.
• Ling Pengyun and his family spent more time with Qin Shi, gave his family spirit items, and Ling Pengyun stayed for a month to play chess and drink tea with his old friend.
• Ling Pengyun taught the Hundred Treasures Dragon Profound Art to the Earth-Turning Dragon Earthworm, while Ling Chengxia stayed at Serpent Dragon Lake to watch over the dragons and received help and a Golden Core beast puppet from his father.
• After returning to Ice Snow Valley, Ling Pengyun and his family selected Ling Wanchuan as a suitable match for Qin Yue'er and brought him to meet her at Serpent Dragon Lake.
• Ling Wanchuan felt nervous during the meeting, but he found Qin Yue'er suited his ideal of a Dao Companion and asked about the tea she had brewed.

Ling Wanchuan and Qin Yue'er married after growing close over their shared interest in spirit flowers, and their son Ling Hao was born with a Water Attribute Heavenly Spirit Root. His discovery delighted Ling Pengyun, who saw the boy as the Ling Clan’s first true Nascent Soul Seedling.

• Ling Wanchuan and Qin Yue'er bonded over cultivating Secluded Blue Flowers, then married and had a son named Ling Hao.
• Qin Yue'er's father, Qin Shi, lived three years longer than expected before passing away in meditation.
• Three years later, Ling Pengyun rushed back to the clan territory after hearing astonishing news about Ling Hao.
• Ling Yunhong confirmed that the Spirit Measurement Array had revealed Ling Hao possessed a Water Attribute Heavenly Spirit Root.
• Ling Pengyun rejoiced at Ling Hao's exceptional aptitude, which gave the Ling Clan a genuine Nascent Soul Seedling.