Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun faced the choice of aiding Pure Heart Daoist Temple or preserving White Cloud City as Yan Kingdom came under overwhelming attack. He refused Pure Heart Old Daoist’s plea, leaving the temple’s mountain gate with about a month before it could fall.

• Chen Country was destroyed by demons, and the invading forces then turned toward Yan Kingdom.
• Demons and demonic cultivators besieged White Cloud City while a force raided Yan Kingdom’s interior, devastating Pure Heart Daoist Temple and seizing more than a thousand spirit veins.
• Pure Heart Old Daoist received word that three Formation Breaking Talismans had weakened his temple’s protective array, which could now hold for only about a month.
• Pure Heart Old Daoist asked Ling Pengyun to rescue Pure Heart Daoist Temple, whose mountain gate held its foundation and valuable spirit veins.
• Ling Pengyun refused because sending Ling Clan cultivators to help would weaken White Cloud City’s defenses and endanger all of Yan Kingdom.

Pure Heart Old Daoist asked Ling Pengyun to save his temple from a demon siege, and Ling Pengyun arranged for the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King to help in exchange for resources worth five hundred thousand spirit stones. As the great chaos worsened, Ling Pengyun decided to stop deducing the Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Tome and focus on cultivation, while the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King secretly looked forward to profiting from the deal.

• Pure Heart Old Daoist begged Ling Pengyun to save the Pure Heart Daoist Temple, and Ling Pengyun offered to ask a powerful friend for help.
• Ling Pengyun told Pure Heart Old Daoist that his friend required Third Rank cultivation resources worth five hundred thousand spirit stones, and Pure Heart Old Daoist agreed to provide them within five years.
• Ling Pengyun contacted the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King, who agreed to protect the temple and set out after learning that it had accepted his price.
• Ling Pengyun returned to White Cloud City's walls, worried about the growing chaos, and decided to stop deducing the Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Tome to cultivate with all his strength.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King left the Ling Clan Territory, pleased that the temple had agreed to pay him and planning to use the resources to advance two or three clansmen.

Ling Pengyun kept the Flame Demon Wolf King in White Cloud City while two flood dragons cultivated toward Golden Core. At Pure Heart Daoist Temple, the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King drove off Lei Mao Old Flood Dragon but refused to fight the remaining enemies without extra payment.

• Ling Pengyun assigned the Flame Demon Wolf King to control White Cloud City's White Cloud Slanting Cloud Grand Array, using his final promised condition.
• The Earth-Turning Dragon Earthworm and its Pseudo Earth-Turning Dragon Earthworm offspring cultivated in Cloud Stepping Valley after improving their bloodlines and transforming into flood dragons.
• Lei Mao Old Flood Dragon planned to seize Pure Heart Daoist Temple's wealth, but the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King suddenly struck him and forced him to flee.
• Bai Qianshi asked the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King to eliminate the remaining Demon Kings and demonic cultivators, but the king said that would cost extra.
• Bai Qianshi declined to pay more and took comfort in the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King's presence as the enemies watched from afar.

Ling Pengyun broke through to the Golden Core Ninth Layer and demonstrated his enhanced strength by charging out of White Cloud City to fight the demon beast horde. Old Golden Flood Dragon rallied reinforcements, leaving Ling Pengyun besieged by four Golden Core Completion-level opponents.

• Ling Pengyun emerged from his Cultivation Abode in White Cloud City after breaking through to the Golden Core Ninth Layer.
• Ling Pengyun rode the flood dragon phantom from his Summon Flood Dragon Banner into the demon beast horde and killed three Golden Core Initial Stage demon kings with his spells.
• Hundred Spirits Old Daoist watched Ling Pengyun fight and reflected that his lifespan-extending spirit plants had given him five years to protect Hundred Spirits Sect.
• Old Golden Flood Dragon and Old Mother Earth Flood Dragon attacked Ling Pengyun with the merged Gold Earth Law Orb, but Ling Pengyun's Crimson Phosphorous Gold Mountain and spells overwhelmed their attacks.
• Old Golden Flood Dragon called on Mo Yu Water Flood Dragon and a Golden Core Ninth Layer demonic cultivator, who merged three vicious ghosts into a Golden Core Completion monster, to join the fight against Ling Pengyun.

Hundred Spirits Old Daoist sacrificed his remaining lifespan to strengthen himself and the Black Flame Fire Phoenix, while Ling Yunhong joined the battle to protect Ling Pengyun. With the other enemies held back, Ling Pengyun unleashed Pure Yang Five Elements Profound Lightning at Old Golden Flood Dragon and Old Mother Earth Flood Dragon, who began a desperate countermeasure.

• Hundred Spirits Old Daoist used a secret technique to reach Pseudo Nascent Soul strength and sent the Black Flame Fire Phoenix to attack the three-headed, six-armed evil ghost.
• Ling Yunhong appeared and used the Thunder Breaking Spear to hold back Mo Yu Water Flood Dragon, easing the pressure on Ling Pengyun.
• Ling Pengyun drove Old Golden Flood Dragon and Old Mother Earth Flood Dragon back with his three Spirit Treasure Prototypes and forced them to rely on their defensive treasures.
• Ling Pengyun cast Pure Yang Five Elements Profound Lightning at the two old flood dragons with power comparable to a Nascent Soul First Layer cultivator’s full-force strike.
• Old Golden Flood Dragon and Old Mother Earth Flood Dragon invoked the Gold Earth Law Orb and formed a gold-and-earth dharma seal to resist the lightning.

Ling Pengyun fought the Old Golden Flood Dragon and Old Mother Earth Flood Dragon outside White Cloud City, overwhelming their Geng Metal Meteor Shower with his perfected Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning. After the flood dragons restored their spiritual power with the Gold Earth Law Orb and cast the technique again, Ling Pengyun replenished his own strength and took interest in their treasure.

• The Old Golden Flood Dragon and Old Mother Earth Flood Dragon sent nine Geng Metal meteors against Ling Pengyun's Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning, drawing the attention of White Cloud City and the demonic beast horde.
• Ling Pengyun's lightning destroyed five meteors and retained most of its power, while the two flood dragons used the Gold Earth Law Orb to restore their spiritual power.
• The two old flood dragons cast Geng Metal Meteor Shower again with the orb's help and barely blocked Ling Pengyun's attack.
• Ling Pengyun admired the Gold Earth Law Orb's ability to enhance techniques and store spiritual power, then used his Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass to restore eighty percent of his own spiritual power.

Ling Pengyun killed Old Mother Earth Flood Dragon and Old Golden Flood Dragon with his Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning, breaking the siege on White Cloud City. As the demon beasts retreated, Hundred Spirits Old Daoist spent his remaining lifespan to pin down a three-headed evil ghost and called on Ling Pengyun to help destroy it.

• Ling Pengyun restored his spiritual power and used two Pure Yang Five Elements Profound Lightning strikes to break the flood dragons’ defenses, but Old Golden Flood Dragon and Old Mother Earth Flood Dragon survived behind a Fourth Rank Heavenly Golden Light Talisman.
• Old Golden Flood Dragon fled with Old Mother Earth Flood Dragon, but Ling Pengyun shattered their talisman with a third lightning strike and blasted Old Mother Earth Flood Dragon into charred carbon.
• Old Golden Flood Dragon vowed revenge for its dao companion, but Ling Pengyun struck it down with another Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning.
• Mo Yu Water Flood Dragon called for a retreat, and the million demon beasts fled from White Cloud City.
• Hundred Spirits Old Daoist burned through his remaining lifespan to reach the Pseudo Nascent Soul Realm and empower the Black Flame Fire Phoenix Artifact Spirit, which kept the three-headed, six-armed evil ghost trapped.
• Hundred Spirits Old Daoist asked Ling Pengyun to join him in destroying the evil ghost.

Ling Pengyun and Hundred Spirits Old Daoist joined forces to kill the Golden Core Completion Three-Headed Six-Armed Evil Ghost. After the battle, Hundred Spirits Old Daoist's lifespan-burning technique left him on the brink of death, and he entrusted the future of Yan Kingdom and the Hundred Spirits Sect to Ling Pengyun.

• Hundred Spirits Old Daoist burned his remaining lifespan to hold the Three-Headed Six-Armed Evil Ghost in place, and Ling Pengyun resolved to help destroy it.
• Ling Pengyun swallowed third-tier Qi Recovery Pills to restore his spiritual power and unleashed Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning against the ghost.
• The lightning destroyed the Three-Headed Six-Armed Evil Ghost, leaving three Ghost Crystals, which Ling Pengyun collected.
• Ling Pengyun offered two Ghost Crystals to Hundred Spirits Old Daoist, but he refused them and reflected on having helped kill a Golden Core Completion powerhouse.
• Hundred Spirits Old Daoist asked Ling Pengyun to protect the Hundred Spirits Sect and entrusted Yan Kingdom's future to him before his cultivation and vitality vanished.

Ling Pengyun bid farewell to Hundred Spirits Old Daoist and watched his faction grieve, then turned to the retreating demon horde and pursued its Golden Core leaders. He trapped the slower beasts and helped Chen Country cultivators ensnare several Demon Kings, while stronger enemies escaped.

• Ling Pengyun promised to aid Hundred Spirits Old Daoist's sect during the upheaval, and Hundred Spirits Old Daoist died peacefully after asking him to protect the sect.
• Bai Yuan placed Hundred Spirits Old Daoist's remains in a Spirit-Locking Jade Stone coffin, while the surviving disciples feared their faction would be threatened by Spirit Talisman Old Ancestor's faction.
• Ling Pengyun saw the demon leaders fleeing White Cloud City and sent his remaining Profound Lightning through the horde, killing tens of thousands of beasts.
• Ling Penglin activated the clan's Third Rank High Grade trapping array, enclosing the million slower Qi Training and Foundation Establishment demon beasts.
• Ling Pengyun pursued the fleeing Golden Core Demon Kings and called on Chen Country cultivators to stop them from regrouping.
• Chen Country cultivators trapped more than thirty early- and middle-stage Golden Core Demon Kings and several demonic cultivators, while the stronger Demon Kings escaped.

Thousand Stars Old Man and four other Chen Country Golden Core cultivators helped Ling Pengyun trap and kill more than thirty demon kings outside White Cloud City. After sharing the spoils, they pledged themselves to Ling Pengyun while leaving open the possibility of reclaiming Chen Country later.

• Thousand Stars Old Man and the other Chen Country Golden Cores used their concealment and trapping arrays to imprison more than thirty Golden Core demon kings.
• Ling Pengyun led the Ling Clan Golden Cores through an opening in the array and joined the five cultivators in killing every demon king inside.
• Ling Pengyun honored their agreement by letting the Chen Country cultivators take thirty percent of the corpses, choosing two each.
• Ling Pengyun asked Thousand Stars Old Man whether they still intended to reclaim Chen Country, and Thousand Stars Old Man explained that powerful demons remained there.
• Thousand Stars Old Man and the other four pledged themselves to Ling Pengyun, who welcomed them and promised they could leave to reclaim Chen Country in the future.

Ling Pengyun agreed to help the displaced Chen Country cultivators reclaim their homeland in exchange for spirit stones and their forces’ inheritances. He then contacted Liu Haochan, whose recent rise to Nascent Soul cultivation had coincided with a major victory against the Demon Race and Devil Path.

• Thousand Stars Old Man and the other Chen Country cultivators asked Ling Pengyun to help them reclaim Chen Country.
• Ling Pengyun demanded one million spirit stones from each of the three forces and their inheritances, and promised to eliminate the Golden Core Demon Kings and provide one future defense for free.
• Thousand Stars Old Man and the other cultivators accepted, asking for a month to raise the spirit stones by selling spoils and assets.
• Ling Pengyun returned to White Cloud City and used its communication array to contact Liu Haochan, who had become a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• The Three Great Immortal Sects and mysterious Nascent Soul True Lords had slain two Demon Lords and a Nascent Soul devil corpse, leaving the Calamity Flame Spider Clan without a Nascent Soul cultivator and prompting the Demon Race and Devil Path to consider retreating.

Ling Pengyun learned that Earth Soul Essence was being offered as a reward for helping the Righteous Path, giving him a chance to obtain the spiritual items needed to form a Five Elements Nascent Soul. After replenishing his power in White Cloud City, he traveled toward Heaven Maple Country, where the Black Mountain Zhao Family faced a looming threat from Black Flood Dragon Lake.

• Liu Haochan told Ling Pengyun that the Three Great Immortal Sects had begun a counteroffensive and were offering Earth Soul Essence in exchange for killing powerful demons and paying three and a half million spirit stones.
• Ling Pengyun explained that he had killed several Golden Core Completion demons in Yan Kingdom and asked Liu Haochan to watch for Nascent Soul Demon Lords.
• Liu Haochan assured Ling Pengyun that the Three Great Immortal Sects were monitoring the Demon Lords and Black Flood Dragon Lake, easing Ling Pengyun's concern.
• Ling Pengyun replenished his Golden Core in White Cloud City, then left Yan Kingdom and crossed Thunder Essence Country without attacking Mo Ye Old Water Flood Dragon.
• Ling Pengyun continued toward Heaven Maple Country, where the Black Mountain Zhao Family had relocated before Black Flood Dragon Lake appeared.

Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King repeatedly blocked Lei Mao Old Flood Dragon from destroying righteous-path forces, protecting them in exchange for spirit stones. As Lei Mao Old Flood Dragon prepared to attack the Heavenly Spirit Yuan Family, Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King demanded three million spirit stones to stop interfering.

• The Black Mountain Zhao Family remained the strongest Golden Core force in Heaven Maple Country, which had avoided disaster during the turmoil.
• Lei Mao Old Flood Dragon besieged the Heavenly Spirit Yuan Family while Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King trapped him with a Thousand Flowing Water Spirit Treasure Prototype.
• Lei Mao Old Flood Dragon offered spiritual items to persuade Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King to let him destroy the Yuan Family, but Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King refused.
• Lei Mao Old Flood Dragon complained that Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King had repeatedly stopped his attacks across Yan Kingdom, Thunder Essence Country, and now Heaven Maple Country.
• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King explained that forces targeted by Lei Mao Old Flood Dragon had hired him, then demanded three million spirit stones to stop interfering.

Ling Pengyun arrived while Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King held Lei Mao Old Flood Dragon captive and killed Lei Mao with a devastating Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning strike. His power stunned Dragon Abyss and the besieged cultivators at Heavenly Spirit Mountain.

• Lei Mao Old Flood Dragon cursed Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and complained that he lacked the spirit stones to return to his clan and obtain materials for a new Spirit Treasure Prototype.
• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King kept Lei Mao trapped in Thousand Flowing Water, hoping to profit from forces threatened by the flood dragon rather than drive him away.
• Ling Pengyun arrived and ordered Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King to withdraw Thousand Flowing Water before unleashing Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning.
• Lei Mao used his defenses and Violet Spirit Thunder Cloud, but Ling Pengyun's lightning shattered them and blasted Lei Mao into blackened charcoal.
• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and the cultivators at Heavenly Spirit Mountain were shocked by Ling Pengyun's strength as the demon army continued its siege.

Ling Pengyun defeated Lei Mao Old Flood Dragon with Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning, then harvested the few remaining useful parts of its corpse and secured another proof of his progress toward obtaining Earth Soul Essence. After explaining the war’s circumstances to Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King, Ling Pengyun headed for Heaven Maple City, with the Flood Dragon King following him.

• The demon beasts fled from Heavenly Spirit Mountain after Ling Pengyun killed Lei Mao Old Flood Dragon, ending the siege.
• Ling Pengyun replenished his spiritual power, collected the flood dragon’s blood, Golden Core, soul, and head, and lamented that his lightning had ruined most of its valuable materials.
• Ling Pengyun noted that he now had three Golden Core Completion flood dragon heads and needed two more to qualify to purchase Earth Soul Essence.
• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King asked whether the Black Flood Dragon Lake Clan would retaliate, and Ling Pengyun explained the war without revealing the Earth Soul Essence reward.
• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King considered hunting Black Flood Dragon Lake’s flood dragons to strengthen his clan, then followed Ling Pengyun toward Heaven Maple City.

Ling Pengyun attacked the Golden Core Completion Crimson Gold Bear besieging Heaven Maple City and overcame its powerful defenses with repeated strikes of Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning. He destroyed its shield and killed it, leaving the city’s battle ongoing.

• Ling Pengyun arrived at Heaven Maple City and attacked the Crimson Gold Bear King with his three Spirit Treasure Prototypes.
• The Crimson Gold Bear King blocked Ling Pengyun’s attacks with a Spirit Treasure Prototype shield and a fourth-tier Defensive Spirit Talisman.
• Ling Pengyun’s lightning forced the bear to use a life-preserving item that summoned a spiritual power projection of the Crimson Gold Demon Lord, which blocked one strike before dissipating.
• Ling Pengyun launched another bolt of Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning, cracking the Crimson Gold Shield, then battered its damaged barrier with his three Spirit Treasure Prototypes.
• Ling Pengyun’s flood dragon essence soul broke through the bear’s defenses and bit off its head.

Ling Pengyun killed a Golden Core Completion Crimson Gold Bear and claimed its damaged Crimson Gold Shield, then helped drive back the demon beast horde threatening Heaven Maple City. Zhao Baigang recognized him and suspected he had come after hearing the Three Great Immortal Sects’ announcement about Earth Soul Essence.

• Ling Pengyun retrieved the Crimson Gold Bear’s corpse and obtained its damaged Crimson Gold Shield, adding a powerful defensive Spirit Treasure Prototype to his collection.
• Millions of demon beasts fled after witnessing the bear’s defeat, while Ling Pengyun took Qi Recovery Pills and killed several Golden Core Late Stage Crimson Gold Bears before the rest escaped.
• Zhao Baigang and the cultivators of Heaven Maple City watched in shock as Ling Pengyun proved stronger than the bear that Zhao had once been unable to defeat alone.
• Zhao Baigang recalled his long history of dealings and cooperation with Ling Pengyun and the Ling Clan, including their joint destruction of the Ice Snow White Lion Race.
• Zhao Baigang suspected Ling Pengyun had come because he had learned that the Three Great Immortal Sects had announced the discovery of Earth Soul Essence.

Ling Pengyun defeated a Golden Core Completion Crimson Gold Bear in Heaven Maple Country and accepted Zhao Baigang’s offer of a share of the demon-beast spoils. After learning about the Earth Soul Essence, Ling Pengyun headed back to Yan Kingdom while the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King caught up with him and demanded to know what was happening.

• Zhao Baigang praised Ling Pengyun’s strength and suggested he might obtain the Earth Soul Essence and reach the Nascent Soul realm.
• Zhao Baigang offered Ling Pengyun ten percent of the demon beasts killed by Heaven Maple City’s cultivators, and Ling Pengyun accepted in exchange for promising future assistance.
• Zhao Baigang led fifty or sixty thousand cultivators in pursuit of the fleeing demons, while Ling Pengyun finished inventorying the Crimson Gold Bear’s possessions and departed for Yan Kingdom.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King arrived near Heaven Maple City, saw Ling Pengyun with the Crimson Gold Bear’s corpse, and worried that Ling Pengyun was taking away its demon-slaying business.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King caught up with Ling Pengyun and demanded an explanation, so Ling Pengyun told it about the Three Great Immortal Sects’ Earth Soul Essence.

Ling Pengyun recruited Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King to help hunt demon beasts and collected spirit stones from Thousand Stars Old Man and the Chen Country cultivators. With the payment secured, he set out for Chen Country to hunt the Golden Winged Tiger and pursue the heads of five Golden Core Completion demon beasts.

• Ling Pengyun persuaded Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King to hunt under his leadership in exchange for thirty percent of the profits, and Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King agreed rather than let Flame Demon Wolf King take the opportunity.
• Ling Pengyun returned with Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King to peaceful White Cloud City, where his protection and Flame Demon Wolf King's array guarded the city.
• Thousand Stars Old Man and two other Chen Country cultivators paid Ling Pengyun three Storage Bags containing a total of one and a half million spirit stones.
• Ling Pengyun confirmed the payment completed the funds needed to purchase Nine Heavens Profound Qi and considered his plan to qualify for Earth Soul Essence by collecting five Golden Core Completion demon beast heads.
• Ling Pengyun left for Chen Country with Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and several Ling Clan Golden Core cultivators to kill the Golden Winged Tiger and hunt other demon beasts.

Ling Pengyun and his allies found the Golden Winged Tiger occupying Thousand Stars Valley behind a powerful spirit-vein formation. Despite the danger, Ling Pengyun decided to attack the valley himself and pursue the fifth Golden Core Completion demon beast he needed to exchange for Earth Soul Essence.

• Ling Pengyun and the others discovered that the Demon Race had fortified Thousand Stars Valley with a Third Rank High Grade defense array and stationed demon beasts inside.
• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King warned Ling Pengyun that the formation would be difficult to break and that the Golden Winged Tiger Clan might send reinforcements.
• Ling Pengyun chose to attack Thousand Stars Valley, assigning himself to fight the Golden Winged Tiger while the others targeted or delayed the remaining demon kings.
• Ling Yunhong agreed to Ling Pengyun's plan, and Ling Pengyun used the White Shadow Escape Technique to head for the valley.
• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King hesitated until Ling Pengyun challenged its courage and promised he could break the formation, then followed with Ling Yunhong and the other Ling Clan cultivators.