Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun and the other leaders divided the Profound Heaven Water in the secret realm, with the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King receiving Bei Shan Zhenren’s share of the five Quasi Fourth Rank portions. The Ling Clan claimed eight portions of Third Rank water, leaving Bei Shan with a smaller but still substantial share of the realm’s gains.

• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King asked Ling Pengyun and the Flame Demon Wolf King to give up a portion of their Quasi Fourth Rank Profound Heaven Water, but both refused because they needed it for their own Nascent Soul breakthroughs.
• Bei Shan Zhenren agreed to yield his portion to the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King, then privately discussed the arrangement with him.
• Ling Pengyun used his token to withdraw the spirit pool’s protective light screen and filled five bottles with the Quasi Fourth Rank Profound Heaven Water.
• Bei Shan Zhenren handed his bottle to the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King after they reached an agreement.
• Ling Pengyun distributed the twenty portions of Third Rank Profound Heaven Water, giving the Ling Clan eight portions, including five low-grade, two middle-grade, and one high-grade portions.
• The four parties divided the rest of the secret realm’s gains according to their alliance shares, leaving Bei Shan Zhenren with the smallest portion.

Ling Pengyun's allied forces searched the territories of the Azure Scale Snake Clan, the Red-Eyed Golden Scale Crocodile Clan, and their affiliated clans, uncovering vast resources, rare spirit pools, and inherited arts. Ling Pengyun claimed Two-Headed Valley with his family's share, while the Five Elements Life Evolution Art and the spoils from the search remained among the forces' gains.

• Ling Pengyun's four allied forces searched Two-Headed Valley, Red-Eye Swamp, and the affiliated clans' territories, finding spirit veins, treasure lands, spirit plants, and Golden Core Spirit Objects.
• The forces discovered the Secluded Sunflower Fiend Pool and the Wu Earth Profound Magnetic Spirit Pool, which could refine valuable treasure materials and support powerful magic treasures.
• Ling Pengyun and the others found the Azure Scale Snake Clan's Five Elements Life Evolution Art and the Red-Eyed Golden Crocodile Clan's Spirit Opening Crimson Eye Art.
• The Five Elements Life Evolution Art could evolve Azure Scale Snakes to three heads through a dangerous method, while the Crimson Eye art offered a low chance to open a third eye with attacks that broke protective qi.
• Ling Pengyun used his family's forty-percent share of the gains to claim Two-Headed Valley, which contained more than five thousand spirit veins.

Ling Pengyun divided the secret realm’s spoils among the Ling Clan, the two remaining top demon races, and Bei Shan Zhenren, then went to collect Ling Wanhuan and Ling Wanhui. He brought them into the White Shadow Secret Realm to prepare for establishing a Ling Clan branch in the Central Province Cultivation World, where they hoped to gain capable helpers.

• The Ling Clan, the Flood Dragon Clan, and the Flame Demon Wolf Clan agreed to share the Profound Heaven Spirit Pool’s water and future Profound Heaven Water, while each party copied the three discovered inheritances.
• Ling Pengyun distributed demon corpses, Spirit Treasure Prototypes, and territories, securing a portion of territory for Bei Shan Zhenren and claiming valuable spoils for the Ling Clan.
• Ling Pengyun left the secret realm and met Ling Wanhuan and Ling Wanhui at a temporary cave abode, assuring Ling Wanhui that his father, Cheng Yuan, was safe.
• Ling Pengyun brought the two young men into the White Shadow Secret Realm and explained that the Ling Clan’s territory could support their planned branch in the Central Province Cultivation World.
• Ling Wanhui asked whether the helpers for the new branch would include the secret realm’s two top demon races and their affiliated Golden Core races.

Ling Pengyun introduced Ling Wanhuan and Ling Wanhui as White Shadow Sect’s future sect master and Grand Elder, then asked the allied demon clans to help rebuild the sect. The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and the Flame Demon Wolf King approved the heirs and offered support, leaving Ling Pengyun seeking troops to protect them in the outside world.

• Ling Pengyun brought Ling Wanhuan and Ling Wanhui to Two-Headed Valley, where they reunited with their relatives and met the allied Golden Core Demon Kings.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King asked whether the two young cultivators were the heirs Ling Pengyun had chosen for White Shadow Sect.
• Ling Pengyun named his grandson Ling Wanhuan as the future sect master and his great-grandson Ling Wanhui as the future Grand Elder.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and the Flame Demon Wolf King approved the two heirs and promised their clans’ support.
• Ling Pengyun explained that righteous spiritual veins in the Central Province were already occupied and asked the demon clans to send Golden Core Demon Kings or Foundation Establishment spirit beasts to protect the two juniors as they rebuilt White Shadow Sect.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ling Pengyun, the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King, and the Flame Demon Wolf King discuss rebuilding the White Shadow Sect.
• The three leaders agree to dispatch spirit beasts to aid in the sect's reconstruction: two Golden Core Middle Stage spirit beasts and forty Foundation Establishment spirit beasts.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and the Flame Demon Wolf King express their intention to stay within the secret realm but may leave to attempt a breakthrough into the Nascent Soul realm using the secret realm's resources.
• Ling Pengyun requests that the demon clans contribute resources to the sect whenever the secret realm opens every sixty years.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King agrees to contribute resources and participate in the sect's management, with the other clans following suit.

Character Developments

• Ling Pengyun: He is determined to rebuild the White Shadow Sect and is willing to make deals with the demon clans to achieve this goal.
• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King: He is pragmatic and willing to compromise, agreeing to contribute resources and participate in the sect's management to secure his clan's future.
• Flame Demon Wolf King: He is also pragmatic and agrees to the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King's terms, seeing the potential profit in investing in the White Shadow Sect.

Significant Themes

• Alliance and cooperation: The demon clans and Ling Pengyun form an alliance to rebuild the White Shadow Sect, with each party contributing resources and gaining benefits.
• Power dynamics: Ling Pengyun controls the means of entering and leaving the secret realm, giving him leverage in negotiating with the demon clans.
• Resource management: The rebuilding of the sect requires significant resources, and the demon clans agree to contribute a portion of their profits to support it.

Character Interactions

• Ling Pengyun interacts with the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and the Flame Demon Wolf King, negotiating terms for rebuilding the sect and securing their support.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and the Flame Demon Wolf King interact with each other, aligning their stances and making decisions together regarding their clans' involvement in the sect's reconstruction.

Ling Pengyun settled the secret-realm demon clans’ support for White Shadow Sect’s reconstruction, then brought their envoys and spirit beasts out of the secret realm. He sent Ling Wanhuan and Ling Wanhui to Cloud Peak Continent to choose spirit veins for rebuilding the sect, and they arrived at Hundred Flowers Marketplace.

• Ling Pengyun negotiated for the demon clans to provide spirit beasts and serve as White Shadow Sect Guest Elders, then had the array spirit place protective restrictions on the departing demons.
• Ling Pengyun left the Black Armored Turtle to guard Two-Headed Valley and exited the secret realm with Yan Siyi, Ling Wanhuan, Ling Wanhui, and the demon beasts.
• Ling Pengyun assigned Ling Wanhuan and Ling Wanhui to choose vacant spirit veins in Cloud Peak Continent as the foundation for rebuilding White Shadow Sect.
• Yan Siyi escorted Ling Wanhuan and Ling Wanhui to Cloud Peak Continent, gave them the demon beasts and resources, and returned to Flame Domain Continent.
• Ling Wanhuan and Ling Wanhui arrived at Hundred Flowers Marketplace, intending to rent vacant spirit veins in Hundred Flowers Valley’s territory.

Ling Wanhuan and Ling Wanhui acquired a second-rank spirit mountain and ten First Rank Spirit Veins in Hundred Flowers Valley’s territory, then discovered that rogue cultivators were already renting the mountain. As they asked about the nearby land, the cultivator they met began to suspect they were Golden Core Seedlings from a powerful force.

• Ling Wanhuan and Ling Wanhui bought one second-rank spirit vein and ten First Rank Spirit Veins from Hundred Flowers Valley, all within the Cloud Mist Thousand Families’ territory.
• Ling Wanhuan and Ling Wanhui reached the second-rank spirit mountain and found three Foundation Establishment Cultivators living there.
• The middle-aged cultivator explained that his wife and Old Mo had rented the mountain from a Hundred Flowers Valley disciple who had been renting out ownerless spirit veins for personal gain.
• Ling Wanhui gave the middle-aged cultivator spirit stones and asked about rogue cultivators occupying other nearby spirit veins.
• The middle-aged cultivator felt greed at the brothers’ apparent wealth, then grew wary of their youth and cultivation and suspected they were Golden Core Seedlings.

Ling Wanhui and Ling Wanhuan founded the White Ling Sect, recruiting unaffiliated cultivators with promises of spirit veins and stipends. After the sect grew to several dozen members, leaders of five nearby Foundation Establishment forces visited to warn Ling Wanhui against expanding too quickly, leaving him troubled as Ling Wanhuan joined him.

• Ling Wanhui offered the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, his Dao Companion, and Old Mo sect elder positions, spirit veins, and annual stipends, and they agreed to join.
• Ling Wanhuan and Ling Wanhui established the White Ling Sect on their second-rank spirit mountain and recruited cultivators leasing their other spirit veins.
• The White Ling Sect grew to several dozen members as Ling Wanhui sent sect members to recruit disciples.
• The Wen Family Old Patriarch and representatives of four other local Foundation Establishment forces visited Ling Wanhui and cautioned him that the sect might struggle to support more members.
• After the visitors departed, Ling Wanhui watched them leave with a shadow on his face, and Ling Wanhuan flew to his side.

Ling Wanhui restrained Ling Wanhuan from retaliating against five rival forces and set a gradual expansion plan for their Sect. Meanwhile, Ling Pengyun and the Ling Clan arrived at Righteous One Marketplace to seek the Righteous Unity Dao Alliance’s help in finding a way for Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King to withstand Nascent Soul Tribulation Lightning.

• Ling Wanhui rejected Ling Wanhuan’s proposal to wipe out the five visiting forces and invade their territories, instead planning to expand the Sect gradually and target the Black Garden Mountain Wen Family first.
• Ling Wanhuan accepted Ling Wanhui’s advice, and the two returned to the mountain gate to cultivate in seclusion.
• Ling Pengyun arrived at Righteous One Marketplace with Ling Yunhong and more than ten Ling Clan Golden Core cultivators, sending the others to explore while he went to consult the Righteous Unity Dao Alliance.
• Ling Pengyun sought a tribulation-resistant item for Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King, whose request he had agreed to help fulfill in exchange for three opportunities to call on the flood dragon’s full strength.

Ling Pengyun arranged to borrow the Righteous Unity Dao Alliance’s Fourth Rank formation for his spirit beast’s Nascent Soul tribulation, paying one million spirit stones’ worth of spiritual items. He followed Deputy Marketplace Lord Zhong Hong to Tribulation Lightning Mountain, where Array Formation Master Su Xiang welcomed him inside.

• Ling Pengyun asked Deputy Marketplace Lord Zhong Hong whether a Fourth Rank formation was available to withstand Nascent Soul Tribulation Lightning, and Zhong Hong explained the borrowing terms and the open slot.
• Ling Pengyun paid the required value in spiritual items and said his spirit beast would use the formation as soon as possible.
• Zhong Hong escorted Ling Pengyun through the guarded Righteous One Mountain Range to Tribulation Lightning Mountain.
• Su Xiang emerged from the Fourth Rank formation, confirmed the payment, and invited Ling Pengyun to follow him into the mountain.

Ling Pengyun brought Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King to Tribulation Lightning Mountain to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm. The flood dragon failed to condense its Nascent Soul and survived only by consuming precious spirit objects, leaving Ling Pengyun to consider his own future breakthrough.

• Deputy Marketplace Lord Zhong Hong returned to the marketplace, and Ling Pengyun entered Tribulation Lightning Mountain with Array Formation Master Su Xiang.
• Ling Pengyun learned that the mountain's array drew lightning to nurture its Lightning Attribute Spirit Plants and followed Su Xiang to the summit.
• Ling Pengyun summoned Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King, set up a Quasi Fourth Rank Array Formation, and the flood dragon began its seclusion.
• After three years, Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King triggered Qi Infusion, but its aura leaked on the fifth day and the phenomenon dispersed.
• Su Xiang returned Ling Pengyun's resources, believing the flood dragon had died, but Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King survived by using two Quasi Fourth Rank Profound Heaven Water doses.
• Ling Pengyun saw the flood dragon's weakened, bloodied state and considered how its failure affected both its clan and his own future attempt at Nascent Soul.

Ling Pengyun returned to Righteous One Marketplace after the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King failed to reach the Nascent Soul stage but survived with the prospect of becoming a Pseudo-Nascent Soul. He reunited with the Ling Clan and learned about valuable spirit objects they had acquired at the marketplace auction, including pills for Ling Chengxin and Ling Penglin to attempt breakthroughs.

• Ling Pengyun reflected on his slim chances of reaching the Nascent Soul stage and hoped the Yin Yang Primordial Essence he would gather in a few years could help.
• Ling Pengyun stored the grieving Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King in his Beast Taming Pouch, and Su Xiang escorted him out of the Righteous One Mountain Range.
• A hidden Nascent Soul cultivator watched Ling Pengyun leave and decided not to pursue the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King because Ling Pengyun bore another Nascent Soul cultivator's aura.
• Ling Pengyun told Ling Yunhong and the other Ling Clan Golden Core cultivators that the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King had failed his breakthrough but survived.
• Ling Yunhong described the Righteous One Marketplace's grand auction and the valuable spirit water and Third Rank pills the clan had purchased.
• Ling Yunhong said Ling Chengxin and Ling Penglin were in seclusion using pills to refine their cultivation and attempt breakthroughs.

After returning to the Yan Kingdom, Ling Pengyun learned that the Profound Corpse Sect had been raiding Ling Clan territory and ordered Ling Chengxia to hunt down its demonic cultivators. He warned the clan that the raids might foreshadow an alliance between the Profound Corpse Sect and the Crimson Gold Bear Race during the Demon Beast Uprising five years later.

• Ling Chengxin and Ling Penglin broke through their cultivation bottlenecks, and Ling Pengyun's group returned to the clan after a long journey.
• Ling Chengping reported that Profound Corpse Sect disciples had killed hundreds of thousands of mortals and more than a hundred cultivators in Ling Clan territory over two years.
• Ling Chengxia offered to use his Yin Yang Transformation Profound Treasure Mirror to find the demonic cultivators, and Ling Pengyun gave him command of the patrol squad, the Wind Shadow Peng, and a Golden Core demon corpse.
• Ling Pengyun suspected the Profound Corpse Sect was preparing to join the Crimson Gold Bear Race against the Yan Kingdom during the Demon Beast Uprising five years later, and urged the clan to prepare.

Ling Pengyun returned to Ice Snow Valley after arranging the clan’s affairs and visiting Purple Scorpion Mountain, where Liang Mingtu and Yang Siqi asked for help against demonic cultivators. Ling Chengxia accepted their offer to clear the territory, and Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi were welcomed home by the valley’s elders and cultivators.

• Ling Yunhong and Ling Chengxin entered Linghuo Mountain to cultivate spiritual fire and refine pills, while Ling Chengyuan handed family affairs to Ling Chengping.
• Before leaving, Ling Pengyun visited Ling Renye, who had reached Early-Stage Foundation Establishment and Second Rank Low Grade talisman crafting under Wang Quan’s tutelage.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi visited Purple Scorpion Mountain, where Liang Mingtu and Yang Siqi offered sixty thousand spirit stones for help against the demonic cultivators ravaging their territories.
• Ling Pengyun contacted Ling Chengxia, who agreed to arrive within three months and clear the demonic cultivators within a month of reaching the territory.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi returned to Ice Snow Valley, where Ling Xiaoshun, Yang Qiuyun, Ling Chengxin, and Ling Lihao greeted them.

After returning from their journey, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi learned that Ling Chengxin had independently established her foundation and advanced her spirit plant cultivation, while Ling Lihao had improved his talisman crafting. Three and a half months later, Ling Chengxia fought a powerful demonic cultivator in Purple Scorpion Ridge Territory and struggled to keep him from escaping.

• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi reunited with Ling Chengxin, Ling Xiaoshun, Yang Qiuyun, and Ling Lihao, and learned about the younger generation's cultivation progress.
• Ling Chengxin explained that she had established her foundation independently and reached the Foundation Establishment Second Layer after her Spirit Apricot Tree broke through.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi praised Ling Chengxin, then guided her, Ling Lihao, Ling Xiaoshun, and Yang Qiuyun in cultivation after a welcoming feast.
• Ling Chengxia discovered a Golden Core Middle Stage demonic cultivator's lair while suppressing demonic cultivators in Purple Scorpion Ridge Territory and began fighting the cultivator and his demonic corpses.
• The demonic cultivator pleaded to leave, but Ling Chengxia refused and continued attacking as he hoped reinforcements would arrive before his strength ran out.

Ling Pengyun arrived in time to kill the demonic cultivator threatening Ling Chengxia, then offered Golden Core Spirit Objects to the Liang and Yang Clans. In the Boundless Great Swamp, a recently awakened ruler rebuked the Demon Lords and ordered them to defend their territory in the coming Demon Beast Uprising.

• Liang Mingtu and Yang Siqi joined Ling Chengxia's fight and helped him hold off the Golden Core Middle Stage demonic cultivator until support arrived.
• Ling Pengyun reached the battle and killed the demonic cultivator and its three Golden Core Initial Stage demon corpses within a dozen moves.
• Ling Pengyun offered to sell one inferior-grade Golden Core Spirit Object each to the Liang Clan and the Yang Clan, and Liang Mingtu and Yang Siqi gratefully accepted.
• A half-asleep young ruler with a black-scaled tail scolded the gathered Nascent Soul Demon Lords for allowing Demon Race territory to shrink.
• The ruler warned the Demon Lords to prepare for the Demon Beast Uprising in five years and threatened any clan that lost more territory.

The strange young man summoned three flood dragons and ordered them to prepare to disrupt the Righteous Path during the Demon Beast Uprising in five years. Two and a half years later, Ling Pengyun gathered and fused nine wisps of Yin Yang Primordial Qi, transforming his body, divine sense, and Golden Core and leaving him with strength comparable to a Pseudo Nascent Soul cultivator.

• The strange young man summoned three Nascent Soul flood dragons and ordered them to prepare to cause trouble for Righteous Path Cultivators during the Demon Beast Uprising in five years.
• After two and a half years, Ling Pengyun absorbed moonlight until his ninth wisp of Yin Yang Primordial Qi matched the other eight.
• Ling Pengyun fused all nine wisps into one thread of seven-colored Qi and guided it into his body.
• The thread strengthened Ling Pengyun's meridians, spiritual power, and divine sense, bringing their quality to the level of Pseudo Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun's azure Golden Core transformed into a Five Elements Golden Core that could absorb diverse spiritual qi, circulate on its own, and support cultivation outside Ice Snow Valley.

After Yin Yang Primordial Essence transformed Ling Pengyun’s Golden Core into a Five Elements Golden Core, he considered pursuing a legendary Five Elements Nascent Soul and planned to seek the rare spirit objects needed for it. He returned to his cave to cultivate and began considering a five-elements technique, but his family lacked one of sufficient quality.

• Ling Pengyun discovered that the Yin Yang Primordial Essence had formed a Five Elements Golden Core and raised his estimated chance of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm to thirty percent.
• Ling Pengyun recalled that a Five Elements Nascent Soul required Earth Essence Soul, Nine Heavens Profound Qi, and a special formation method, and decided to ask Azure Water True Lord about obtaining the spirit objects after the Demon Beast Uprising.
• Ling Pengyun cleansed the impurities from his body and returned to his cave abode in Ice Snow Valley to cultivate.
• Ling Pengyun realized that a five-elements technique could benefit his Five Elements Golden Core, but he recalled that his family had no high-grade Five Elements Techniques and had given him the Azure Sea True Scripture instead.

Ling Pengyun began deriving a Five Elements cultivation technique and gained major insights during a rare Enlightenment Opportunity, improving both his cultivation and spirit-plant arts. Two years later, the Demon Beast Uprising began, and Yan Kingdom was drawn into a coordinated attack by demonic forces and demon races.

• Ling Pengyun decided to derive his own Five Elements Technique and gathered the clan’s manuals for study.
• Ling Pengyun selected five superior single-attribute techniques and used them to create a Five Elements method.
• Ling Pengyun entered a rare Enlightenment Opportunity, advancing his technique to Qi Training Completion and gaining insights into the Azure Sea Nurturing Art and artifact refinement.
• Ling Pengyun named his developing technique the Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Tome and continued deriving it.
• Two years later, the Demon Beast Uprising began as the Demon Race invaded human territories and Eastern Demonic Domain forces attacked the righteous path.
• The Profound Corpse Sect allied with the Crimson Gold Bear Race and Golden Winged Tiger Clan to attack the Heavenly Star Sect and Maple Leaf Li Family, drawing Yan Kingdom into war.

The Crimson Gold Bear Race and Profound Corpse Sect launched an oversized Demon Beast Uprising against Yan Kingdom, while its forces gathered at heavily fortified White Cloud City. As invaders bypassed the city and devastated weaker territories, Ling Chengxia’s demon-detecting treasure helped the Ling Clan keep its lands safe.

• More than two million demon beasts and over ten thousand demonic cultivators invaded Yan Kingdom, but the Heavenly Star Sect left the kingdom’s forces to defend themselves.
• Yan Kingdom’s Golden Core forces gathered thirty thousand cultivators at White Cloud City, where Ling Penglin’s spirit-vein relocations supported five defensive arrays.
• Unable to break through White Cloud City quickly, the invaders sent demon beasts and demonic cultivators into Yan Kingdom’s interior, destroying dozens of weaker forces and mortal settlements.
• The Ling Clan avoided most surprise attacks by patrolling its territories with cultivators and spirit beasts under Ling Chengxia’s leadership.
• Ling Chengxia used the Yin Yang Transformation Profound Treasure Mirror to detect demon beasts and demonic cultivators, and he expected to reach the Golden Core Second Layer within ten years.