Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun gave Ling Yunhong a treasure to refine and urged him to focus on cultivation so he could attempt to reach the Nascent Soul Realm. As Ling Yunhong began refining the treasure, a Water Flood Dragon overwhelmed the defenders outside White Cloud City and helped thirteen demon kings escape.

• Ling Pengyun entrusted Ling Yunhong with a treasure, and Ling Yunhong promised to refine it and support the clan with its power.
• Ling Pengyun urged Ling Yunhong to set aside alchemy and focus on cultivation, and Ling Yunhong agreed to try for the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Ling Chengxin summoned corpse puppets to help hold back two Golden Core Middle Stage Demon Kings, freeing Ling Yunhong to refine the Thunder Breaking Spear.
• After Lei Mao fled, Ling Pengyun turned his attention to the Water Flood Dragon that Yan Siyi and other defenders were holding back.
• The Water Flood Dragon used several Strength Enhancement Techniques to scatter the defenders' attacks, then helped thirteen Black Flood Dragon Lake demon kings flee while it remained behind.

Ling Pengyun and the Yan Kingdom cultivators had let the battle outside White Cloud City settle into a stalemate, but a message from the Heavenly Star Sect revealed that the Three Great Immortal Sects had begun fighting the Demon Race in earnest. With great chaos approaching, Ling Pengyun urged the other leaders to stop feigning weakness and fight for a path to survival.

• Ling Pengyun watched the Black Flood Dragon Lake Demon Kings flee while the remaining Crimson Gold Bear demons and Yan Kingdom defenders eased their fighting into a stalemate.
• Ling Pengyun returned to his cave dwelling and restored his spiritual power.
• White Cloud City's Communication Array relayed the Heavenly Star Sect's warning that the Three Great Immortal Sects were fighting the Boundless Great Swamp Demon Race and had killed a Nascent Soul Demon Race cultivator.
• Hundred Spirits Old Daoist, Medicine King Old Daoist, and Pure Heart Old Daoist asked Ling Pengyun what Yan Kingdom should do as the conflict threatened to engulf the Northern Wilderness Cultivation World.
• Ling Pengyun declared that great chaos was approaching and urged the other leaders to fight for survival by hunting Golden Core demons.

Ling Pengyun and Yan Kingdom’s Golden Core cultivators wiped out the Crimson Gold Bear Race’s demon kings, then trapped and slaughtered the low-level demon beast horde around White Cloud City. After four or five days, the surviving cultivators had amassed many corpses, though independent cultivators faced limited buyers for their spoils.

• Ling Pengyun summoned his three Spirit Treasure Prototypes and killed three Golden Core Demon Kings, prompting the other Yan Kingdom Golden Core cultivators to attack.
• Ling Pengyun and the Ling Clan killed eleven Golden Core Demon Kings, while the Hundred Spirits Sect, Medicine King Valley, and Pure Heart Daoist Temple killed the rest.
• Ling Pengyun and the other Golden Core cultivators left White Cloud City and attacked the leaderless demon beast horde as Ling Penglin activated a trapping array around the area.
• For four or five days, the Golden Core cultivators and the city’s seventy to eighty thousand low-level cultivators slaughtered the trapped demon beasts.
• The independent cultivators grew wealthy from their spoils, but the Hundred Spirits Sect, Medicine King Valley, and Pure Heart Daoist Temple bought only limited quantities of their demon beast corpses.

The Ling Clan bought more than 2.5 million low-level demon beasts from independent cultivators, betting that their practitioners and distant branches could turn the haul into enough spirit stones to purchase Nine Heavens Profound Qi. After Yan Siyi departed with materials for the Boundless Sea Region, Ling Pengyun and the clan’s Golden Core cultivators decided how to use the eleven Golden Core Demon King corpses to strengthen the clan.

• The Ling Clan spent most of its spirit objects buying demon beasts from independent cultivators, bringing its total haul to more than six million.
• The Ling Clan planned to refine and sell the beasts’ materials over the next twenty to thirty years, aiming to raise five million spirit stones for Nine Heavens Profound Qi from the Sea Cloud Immortal Sect.
• Ling Pengyun arranged for Yan Siyi to carry forty percent of the materials across the Barren Sea Region to the clan’s branches in the Boundless Sea Region.
• After Yan Siyi departed, Ling Pengyun and the Golden Core cultivators chose to use six Golden Core Demon King corpses to make Spirit Talisman Caves or pills and give their Golden Cores to six clan members to refine false cores.
• Ling Pengyun and the clan’s Golden Core cultivators decided to refine the remaining five Golden Core Demon King corpses into demon corpses.

More than fifty Golden Core demons, led by four Golden Core Completion flood dragons, approached White Cloud City, forcing Ling Pengyun and the defenders to prepare for battle. Old Golden Flood Dragon and Old Earth Flood Dragon unleashed a powerful combination Spirit Treasure Prototype, and Ling Pengyun faced the incoming spell barrage.

• Ling Pengyun identified fifty Golden Core demons approaching White Cloud City, including the weakened Lei Mao Old Thunder Flood Dragon and Mo Yu Water Flood Dragon.
• Old Golden Flood Dragon blamed Lei Mao Old Thunder Flood Dragon for the deaths of the beasts that had attacked the city and turned his anger toward its defenders.
• Old Golden Flood Dragon and Old Earth Flood Dragon joined their golden and earth pearls into an Earth-Gold Round Orb and attacked White Cloud City with a torrent of enhanced Third Rank Spells.
• Ling Pengyun recognized the Earth-Gold Round Orb as a top-tier mid-grade Spirit Treasure Prototype, while Ling Yunhong complained about the Black Flood Dragon Lake clan's wealth.

Ling Pengyun and White Cloud City’s defenders fought the Black Flood Dragon Lake forces as powerful flood dragons and their Golden Core allies attacked. The city’s cultivators and formations began to push back the enemy, while Hundred Spirits Old Daoist struggled to endure his weakening lifespan.

• Ling Pengyun used his three Spirit Treasure Prototypes to block the spells Old Golden Flood Dragon and Old Earth Flood Dragon sent toward White Cloud City.
• Ling Yunhong fought Mo Yu Water Flood Dragon with the Thunder Spear, while Hundred Spirits Old Daoist and Medicine King Old Daoist intercepted Lei Mao Old Thunder Flood Dragon’s lightning attacks.
• The Yan Kingdom cultivators summoned spirit beasts, puppets, and demon corpses to hold back the Black Flood Dragon Lake’s Golden Core Demon Kings.
• Three Half-Jiao array masters deployed a defensive formation and two attack formations against White Cloud City.
• Ling Penglin rallied the city’s cultivators to activate six formations, helping the defenders withstand the assault and begin driving the flood dragon forces back.

The Black Flood Dragon Lake demon kings failed to take White Cloud City after half a month of fighting, while the chapter shifted to Ice Snow City, where Ling Chengyuan and Zhao Baidong defended against a Frost Centipede siege. Ling Chengyuan refused Zhao Baidong’s request to attack the three Golden Core Frost Centipedes, saying the Ling Clan’s Golden Core Demon Corpses had been sent to White Cloud City.

• Old Golden Flood Dragon crushed a high-grade Communication Token to summon reinforcements after judging that his fifty demon kings could not take White Cloud City alone.
• After half a month of repeated battles, White Cloud City remained intact, while three Golden Core Half-Jiao had been killed and the demons’ defense array had been broken.
• The chapter introduced Ice Snow City, jointly established by the Lingxiao Ling Clan and the Black Mountain Zhao Family, which faced a siege by three Golden Core Frost Centipedes and hundreds of thousands of low-level demon beasts.
• Ling Chengyuan and Zhao Baidong led the city’s defenders as they held back the attacking demon beasts with the aid of the City Protection Array Formation.
• Zhao Baidong urged Ling Chengyuan to attack the three Frost Centipedes, but Ling Chengyuan said the Ling Clan’s Golden Core Demon Corpses had been sent to White Cloud City and proposed continuing the defense.

Ling Pengxing and Ling Lihao ambushed and killed five Black Flood Dragon Lake demons near Ice Snow City, leaving the Frost Centipedes alive to lure more Demon Kings. Elsewhere, Ling Pengcheng advanced in seclusion, while Yan Kingdom’s forces continued to gain ground at White Cloud City.

• Ling Pengxing and Ling Lihao waited in hiding for demons approaching the Ice Snow Forest Territory.
• Ling Pengxing trapped five Black Flood Dragon Lake Demon Kings and, with Ling Lihao’s spells, helped kill them.
• Ling Pengxing claimed three demon corpses and fed the five demons’ essence souls to his Natal Five Elements Spirit Ghosts, while Ling Lihao received two corpses and Golden Cores.
• Ling Pengxing and Ling Lihao left the Frost Centipedes and low-level demon beasts alive to draw more Demon Kings into their ambush.
• Ling Pengcheng emerged from seclusion pleased with his rapid progress and expected to reach the Golden Core Late Stage within a century.
• Half a month later, White Cloud City’s cultivators had killed two more Demon Kings and secured their corpses.

A million powerful demon beasts from Black Flood Dragon Lake arrived at White Cloud City, and Ling Pengyun chose to conserve strength and defend rather than fight head-on. When a Dark Crystal Flood Dragon Python used a powerful array to undermine the city’s foundations, Ling Pengyun sought help from a fellow Daoist and contacted the Flame Demon Wolf King.

• A million demon beasts, including twenty Golden Core Demon Kings led by a Golden Core Ninth Layer Dark Crystal Flood Dragon Python, reached White Cloud City.
• Ling Pengyun ordered the city’s cultivators to conserve spiritual power and hold off the demon assault instead of escalating the battle.
• The Dark Crystal Flood Dragon Python deployed the Earth Overturning Vein Reversal Grand Array, weakening the earth veins that supported White Cloud City’s defenses.
• Ling Pengyun asked Ling Penglin to neutralize the array, but she said her formation skills were insufficient.
• Ling Pengyun contacted Ling Pengcheng, and the Flame Demon Wolf King appeared on the Communication Treasure Mirror.

Ling Pengyun recruited the Flame Demon Wolf King to counter the Dark Crystal Flood Dragon Python’s Earth Overturning Vein Reversal Grand Array threatening White Cloud City. The Flame Demon Wolf King’s array dragon gained the upper hand underground, leaving the enemy array’s dragon badly wounded.

• Ling Pengyun reminded the Flame Demon Wolf King of its agreement to return him to the White Shadow Secret Realm after setting up three formations, then asked it to help destroy the array threatening White Cloud City.
• The Flame Demon Wolf King negotiated a fee of three hundred thousand spirit stones and agreed to fight a Golden Core Ninth Layer demon beast or hold back a Golden Core Completion demon beast, while reserving the right to flee if danger became severe.
• Ling Pengyun instructed Ling Penglin to use White Cloud City’s defensive formations to protect the surrounding earth veins until the Flame Demon Wolf King arrived.
• The Flame Demon Wolf King reached White Cloud City and deployed its own Third Rank High Grade Earth Overturning Vein Reversal Grand Array.
• The Flame Demon Wolf King’s array dragon fought the Dark Crystal Flood Dragon Python’s array dragon underground and badly injured it, preventing the Python from recalling its dragon.

The Dark Crystal Flood Dragon Python’s Overturning Array was damaged, so it unleashed a Quasi Fourth Rank grand array to assault White Cloud City. As the city’s defenses faltered, Ling Pengyun activated a powerful black iron-colored array that stabilized the city, astonishing the Flame Demon Wolf King.

• The Flame Demon Wolf King strengthened its Overturning Array and shattered the Dark Crystal Flood Dragon Python’s earth dragon, severely damaging the Python’s array.
• The furious Dark Crystal Flood Dragon Python assembled its Foundation Establishment demon beasts and activated a Quasi Fourth Rank grand array that sent immense floodwaters against White Cloud City.
• The floodwaters and the demon army’s attacks weakened the city’s outer defense array, leaving White Cloud City at risk of being breached within half a month.
• The Flame Demon Wolf King offered to help Ling Pengyun resist the floodwaters in exchange for spirit stones, but Ling Pengyun brought out a black iron-colored formation plate instead.
• Ling Pengyun activated a massive black iron-colored light screen that withstood the attacks and stabilized White Cloud City.
• The Flame Demon Wolf King recognized the power of the newly revealed array and reacted with astonishment.

Ling Pengyun used the White Shadow Slanting Cloud Array to protect White Cloud City and repel the demon army’s assault. With reinforcements unlikely, the Old Golden Flood Dragon agreed to pursue the conquest of Yan Kingdom slowly, while the chapter shifted to the besieged Three Immortals City and a battle between Nascent Soul cultivators and Flood Dragon Clan Demon Lords.

• Ling Pengyun revealed that he had secured the Stabilizing Immortal Realm-Crossing Array’s protection for the Profound Heaven Spirit Pool and activated the White Shadow Slanting Cloud Array to shield White Cloud City.
• Ling Pengyun and the city’s cultivators held off the Dark Crystal Flood Dragon Python, sixty-four Golden Core Demon Kings, and the demon army, while Ling Pengyun fought defensively against the Old Golden Flood Dragon and Old Mother Earth Flood Dragon.
• The Dark Crystal Flood Dragon Python told the Old Golden Flood Dragon that the main battlefield could not spare reinforcements and that the Nascent Soul seniors might be angered by further requests.
• The Old Golden Flood Dragon agreed that the demons would have to pursue the conquest of Yan Kingdom slowly, and the battle around White Cloud City stabilized.
• The narrative shifted to Three Immortals City in Wu Country, where demon beasts besieged the city and three Nascent Soul True Lords fought three Nascent Soul Demon Lords of the Flood Dragon Clan above it.

Sea Cloud True Lord used the Sea Cloud Cauldron to trap a Calamity Flame Spider Demon Lord, prompting the Thunder Flame Spider Demon Lord to challenge him. The demon commander ordered Thunder Flame Spider to withdraw, and Sea Cloud True Lord returned to Three Immortals Mountain, where six cultivators stood ready.

• An elderly Sea Cloud Immortal Sect True Lord trapped the Nascent Soul second layer Calamity Flame Spider Demon Lord inside the Sea Cloud Cauldron and intensified its assault.
• Thunder Flame Spider attacked the cauldron, but a magical sword from the Three Immortals Marketplace intercepted his lightning.
• Sea Cloud True Lord appeared and challenged Thunder Flame Spider to fight him instead of his sect's lower-ranking cultivator.
• Thunder Flame Spider prepared to accept, but the Nascent Soul late stage flood dragon Demon Lord commanding the demon host ordered him to return.
• Sea Cloud True Lord withdrew to Three Immortals Mountain, where Sea Abyss True Lord, the palace master of the Cold Moon Immortal Palace, Fu Yun True Lord, and three others awaited a possible battle.

Sea Cloud True Lord negotiated over the materials from a Calamity Flame Spider while learning more about his lineage and receiving encouragement from his Martial Uncle. At the rear of the beast horde, the Black Flood Dragon Lake Clan watched the battle and debated asking for reinforcements, but Old Azure Flood Dragon said the clan would send none.

• Cold Yin Immortal Maiden and Fu Ming True Lord asked Sea Cloud True Lord for materials from the Calamity Flame Spider being hunted by his sect member.
• The burly black-clad man rebuked Fu Ming, who then offered a Fourth Rank Spirit Talisman Cave in exchange for the spider's hide.
• Sea Cloud True Lord remembered being taken as a boy to a pocket dimension controlled by his lineage, where he cultivated until he reached the Nascent Soul realm and was sent to lead the Sea Cloud Immortal Sect.
• The Thunder Flame Spider Demon Lord retreated to a river behind the beast horde, where several Black Flood Dragon Lake flood dragons watched the battle.
• A Wood Flood Dragon warned Old Azure Flood Dragon that the Demon Lords were losing and asked whether the clan would send reinforcements, but Old Azure said the clan's Old Ancestor had refused.

Devil cultivators joined the Demon Race’s assault on the righteous territories, leaving most nations in crisis while Yan Kingdom remained relatively secure. With Thunder Essence Country close to collapse, envoys from its last two Golden Core Forces gathered at the Ling Clan Territory to seek Yan Kingdom’s aid.

• Old Azure Flood Dragon and the Wood Flood Dragon decided to summon the devil cultivators they had kept in reserve to reinforce the battles against the righteous forces.
• Devil cultivators appeared across the righteous territories and tipped the balance of the war, but Ling Pengyun’s defenses kept White Cloud City secure and Ling Pengxing protected the Ling Clan’s interior.
• Yan Siyi returned from the Boundless Sea Region and helped Ling Pengyun hold back the Golden Core Completion flood dragons attacking White Cloud City.
• Heaven Maple Country lost some territory, while Thunder Essence Country’s Border City fell and its forces lost more than thirty percent of the country.
• Turtle Control Sect and Heavy Sword Sect failed to secure aid from other nations and sent their envoys to the Ling Clan Territory to ask Yan Kingdom for help.

Turtle Control Sect and Heavy Sword Sect sought Ling Clan aid against the invasion of Thunder Essence Country, offering their treasured inheritances. After hearing the enemy’s strength, Ling Pengyun agreed to consider sending troops only if each sect paid him one million spirit stones.

• Turtle Control Sect and Heavy Sword Sect Golden Core cultivators met Ling Pengcheng in Ling Clan Territory and asked to contact Ling Pengyun in White Cloud City for aid.
• The sect cultivators offered the Turtle Control Inheritance and Heavy Sword Sect’s sword Dao inheritances, including its Mountain-Shattering divine power, in exchange for Ling Clan support.
• Ling Pengyun questioned them about the invading forces, and the Turtle Control Sect cultivator reported roughly 1.5 million demons, 10,000 Demonic Path cultivators, and 45 Golden Core combatants led by one Golden Core Completion Demon King.
• Ling Pengyun demanded that each sect provide another one million spirit stones before he would send troops, leaving both cultivators troubled by the enormous cost.

Ling Pengyun negotiated spirit-stone payments from the Turtle Control Sect and Heavy Sword Sect in exchange for defending their territories in Thunder Essence Country. He arranged a force led by Yan Siyi and equipped it with two rented defensive arrays, leaving the sects to gather the agreed payment.

• The Turtle Control Sect and Heavy Sword Sect Golden Core cultivators agreed to pay Ling Pengyun for aid, offering acceptable spiritual objects at seventy percent of market value if they lacked spirit stones.
• Ling Pengyun required the sects to pay half within three months and promised to send Ling Clan cultivators to Thunder Essence Country within three days.
• Ling Pengyun reported the agreement to Yan Siyi and the other Ling Clan Golden Core cultivators, who approved sending support while White Cloud City remained secure.
• The Ling Clan chose Yan Siyi to lead five other Golden Core cultivators and ten Golden Core Demon Corpses to defend the two sects.
• Ling Pengyun rented two Third Rank High Grade defensive arrays from the Flame Demon Wolf King for one hundred thousand spirit stones and gave them to Yan Siyi's force.

Yan Siyi and her companions left White Cloud City to hunt demons in Thunder Essence Country, where they fought to protect Heavy Sword Valley. A Golden Core Completion Blue Scale Water Flood Dragon arrived to attack the valley and recognized Ling Pengyun’s aura on Yan Siyi.

• Ling Pengyun watched Yan Siyi’s group depart White Cloud City and calculated that their mission could earn the Ling Clan enough spirit stones to buy Nine Heavens Profound Qi.
• At Spirit Purity Mountain, Elder Mo Ye refined corpses in a furnace until he learned that a powerful female cultivator with a fire cauldron Spirit Treasure Prototype had appeared in Thunder Essence Country.
• Elder Mo Ye swallowed his furnace and left to seize the cauldron, though he felt an inexplicable sense of unease on the way.
• Elder Mo Ye joined the siege of Heavy Sword Valley and attacked its Defense Array alongside the Demon Race and devil cultivators.
• Yan Siyi used the Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot to burn away the incoming attacks, including Elder Mo Ye’s Third Rank Spells.
• Elder Mo Ye sensed Ling Pengyun’s familiar aura on Yan Siyi and cursed in surprise.

Yan Siyi confronted Mo Ye Old Water Flood Dragon outside Heavy Sword Valley and discovered that its old Heavenly Dao Oath forbade it from harming the Ling Clan. The flood dragon withdrew its demon forces but threatened to seek reinforcements, and Yan Siyi attacked it rather than abandon the Heavy Sword Sect.

• Mo Ye Old Water Flood Dragon recognized Yan Siyi as a Ling Clan cultivator and realized that attacking her had triggered the oath it had sworn to Ling Pengyun.
• Mo Ye Old Water Flood Dragon ordered the demon beasts besieging Heavy Sword Valley to withdraw and told Yan Siyi to take the Ling Clan away.
• Yan Siyi recalled that Ling Pengyun had defeated Mo Ye Old Water Flood Dragon and taken its Illusory Flood Dragon Banner, then refused to leave the Heavy Sword Sect undefended.
• Mo Ye Old Water Flood Dragon threatened to retreat and let another Black Flood Dragon Lake expert take its place, but Yan Siyi dismissed the threat and told it to scram.
• Yan Siyi unleashed Mandarin Duck Flame Fire at Mo Ye Old Water Flood Dragon with the Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot.

Yan Siyi and the Ling Clan secured Heavy Sword Valley and Turtle Control Sect by reaching an arrangement with Mo Ye Old Water Flood Dragon, then collected one million spirit stones for their support. Three years later, the five-year chaos had spawned resentful ghosts across the Northern Wilderness Cultivation World, strengthening its ghost cultivators.

• Mo Ye Old Water Flood Dragon agreed with Yan Siyi that its forces would only stage attacks on Heavy Sword Valley while the Ling Clan reinforcements stayed out of the defense, resolving the immediate crisis there and at Turtle Control Sect.
• Heavy Sword Old Master credited Yan Siyi with easing the danger, while Mo Ye Old Flood Dragon returned to Spirit Purity Mountain to continue refining a Spirit Treasure Prototype.
• Turtle Control Sect and Heavy Sword Sect each paid Yan Siyi five hundred thousand spirit stones, and she returned to the Ling Clan to deposit the one million before going back to Thunder Essence Country.
• Three years passed as the Northern Wilderness Cultivation World's chaos continued, producing resentful ghosts that strengthened ghost-controlling demonic cultivators and other ghost cultivators.