Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun and the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King attacked Thousand Stars Valley, but a hidden Quasi Fourth Rank trapping formation trapped them. The Black Flood Dragon Lake’s ambush was revealed, leaving Ling Pengyun facing three Golden Core Completion demon beasts and one False Infant Realm flood dragon.

• Ling Pengyun used Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning twice to blast a breach in Thousand Stars Valley’s valley protection formation, then sensed danger and tried to flee with the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King.
• Thousand Stars Valley’s formation repaired itself and expanded into a Quasi Fourth Rank trapping formation, enclosing Ling Pengyun, the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King, and their companions.
• The Golden Core Completion Golden Winged Tiger confronted Ling Pengyun and revealed that it had expected the Ling Clan to come after the Three Great Immortal Sects’ Earth Soul Essence.
• An elderly False Infant Realm water flood dragon revealed the hidden aura-concealing formation and Spirit Treasure Prototype, exposing the Black Flood Dragon Lake’s ambush.
• Ling Pengyun realized the ambush included the Golden Winged Tiger, two Golden Core Completion flood dragons, and a False Infant Realm flood dragon, while the trapping formation would be difficult to break.

Ling Pengyun used repeated Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightnings to kill the Pseudo Nascent Soul Realm aged water flood dragon and the Golden Core Completion earth flood dragon. He survived but discovered that casting the divine abilities had severely damaged his meridians, which could take a hundred years to heal.

• Ling Pengyun assigned Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King to hold off the Golden Winged Tiger, sent Ling Yunhong and the other Ling Clan cultivators against the fire flood dragon, and attacked the water and earth flood dragons with two weakened Profound Lightnings.
• The aged water flood dragon blocked Ling Pengyun’s lightning with its defensive treasure and charged toward him, while the earth flood dragon countered the other lightning with its hammer treasure.
• Ling Pengyun swallowed nearly forty Qi Recovery Pills, restored his spiritual power four times, and cast four full-strength Profound Lightnings that struck the aged water flood dragon and left it charred.
• The earth flood dragon escaped underground using Earth Movement Teleportation Technique, but Ling Pengyun sent the four remaining lightning bolts after it and killed it ten thousand li away.
• Ling Pengyun inspected his meridians and found them riddled with damage, which he expected would take at least a hundred years to heal without a spiritual treasure that could repair them.

Ling Pengyun killed the Black Flood Dragon Lake Race’s Pseudo Nascent Soul water flood dragon and Golden Core Completion earth flood dragon, terrifying the demon forces besieging him. Jin Yuanlao fled with the trapping formation, while the surviving fire flood dragon remained determined to kill Ling Pengyun for a promised Nascent Soul Spirit Object.

• Ling Pengyun’s allies and the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King held back the fire flood dragon and the Golden Winged Tigers while Ling Pengyun killed two powerful flood dragons with four mystic lightning bolts.
• Jin Yuanlao panicked at Ling Pengyun’s strength and decided that staying to fight was too dangerous, despite the reward he had accepted to join the ambush.
• Jin Yuanlao raised his cultivation with several techniques, broke through the Thousand Flowing Water Spirit Treasure Prototype, and fled with the Quasi Fourth Rank trapping formation.
• The fire flood dragon cursed Jin Yuanlao for abandoning the fight and threatened to report him to its clan’s Nascent Soul Demon Lords.
• The fire flood dragon resolved to keep fighting for the Nascent Soul Spirit Object promised to whoever killed Ling Pengyun.

Ling Pengyun confronted the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King for letting the Jin Yuanlao Golden Winged Tiger escape and warned that the Ling Clan could face revenge. After the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King apologized and promised to protect the clan, they turned to help Ling Yunhong and the other Ling Clan cultivators defeat the fleeing Fire Flood Dragon.

• The Jin Yuanlao Golden Winged Tiger fled Thousand Stars Valley, while the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King let it escape to avoid a dangerous fight.
• Ling Pengyun criticized the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King for sparing the tiger, fearing it would seek revenge on the Ling Clan.
• Ling Pengyun threatened to revoke the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King's promised return to the secret realm if it also let the Fire Flood Dragon escape.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King apologized and promised to destroy the Jin Yuanlao Golden Winged Tiger if it threatened the Ling Clan.
• Ling Pengyun urged the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King to help Ling Yunhong and the other Ling Clan cultivators, who were struggling to hold off the strengthened Fire Flood Dragon.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King surged into action to join the fight against the Fire Flood Dragon.

Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and Ling Pengyun’s group defeated the remaining flood dragons and gathered their spoils, while Jin Yuanlao Golden Winged Tiger escaped. Ling Pengyun claimed several powerful treasures, including a concealment array, and planned to refine two Spirit Treasure Prototypes for his own use.

• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King killed the weakened fire flood dragon and took its fire-attribute Spirit Treasure Prototype, while Ling Yunhong and the other Ling Clan Golden Core cultivators collected the remaining loot.
• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King pursued the fleeing Golden Winged Tigers, eager to bring their corpses back to the White Shadow Secret Realm for the White Shadow Lake Flood Dragon Clan.
• Jin Yuanlao Golden Winged Tiger escaped toward the edge of Chen Country and decided to hide elsewhere to avoid the Black Flood Dragon Lake Clan’s anger.
• Ling Pengyun and the Ling Clan Golden Core cultivators inspected the earth flood dragon’s and water flood dragon’s possessions, including two Spirit Treasure Prototypes and a Quasi Fourth Rank Aura Concealment Array.
• Ling Pengyun decided to keep the array, the Thick Earth Hammer, and the Mo Yuan Full Body Armor, and planned to refine the armor instead of his Crimson Gold Shield.

After killing two powerful flood dragons, Ling Pengyun sought Earth Soul Essence from the Three Great Immortal Sects but lacked the strength to travel safely to Wu Country. He secured the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King's escort by lending it five thousand Storage Magic Items, then returned to Yan Kingdom to reinforce the Ling Clan's defenses.

• Ling Pengyun decided to give the Crimson Gold Shield Spirit Treasure Prototype to Ling Pengxing, whose Ghost Cultivation made him suited to wield it.
• Ling Pengyun lamented that the two flood dragons' corpses and Golden Cores had been ruined, then took their heads, bringing his total to six Golden Core Completion demon beast heads for the Earth Soul Essence exchange.
• Ling Pengyun realized his damaged meridians and the chaos in Wu Country prevented him from traveling to the Three Great Immortal Sects without an escort, so he summoned the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King agreed to escort Ling Pengyun in exchange for Storage Magic Items, and Ling Pengyun lent it five thousand first-grade items after refusing to provide more.
• Ling Pengyun and the others rode back to Yan Kingdom with the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King, then sent Ling Yunhong and the other cultivators to reinforce White Cloud City.

Ling Pengyun traveled to Wu Country to seek the Earth Soul Essence and learned that the Demon Race had kept the righteous forces from meeting the exchange requirement. He presented proof of killing five Golden Core Completion demon beasts to Grand Elder Hai Liang, leaving Hai Liang to judge whether he qualified for the treasure.

• Ling Pengyun escorted Ling Yunhong and the other Ling Clan cultivators back to White Cloud City, then headed toward Wu Country on the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King.
• After months of travel and more than ten days crossing Wu Country, Ling Pengyun reached the Sea Cloud Immortal Sect's base at Sea Cloud Mountain Valley.
• Grand Elder Hai Liang met Ling Pengyun and confirmed that the Earth Soul Essence remained available because the Demon Race had prevented the righteous forces from killing enough powerful beasts.
• Ling Pengyun brought out the heads and Golden Cores of five Golden Core Completion demon beasts he had slain as proof of meeting the exchange requirement.

Ling Pengyun proved to Grand Elder Hai Liang that he had slain five Golden Core Completion demon beasts and qualified to purchase Earth Soul Essence. He contacted True Lord Yuan Hua about their old agreement, then paid for the promised Nine Heavens Profound Qi, leaving him with both spiritual items that could aid his Nascent Soul formation.

• Ling Pengyun presented five Golden Core Completion demon beast heads, and Grand Elder Hai Liang confirmed that he qualified to exchange for Earth Soul Essence.
• Ling Pengyun asked Hai Liang to contact Yuan Hua and explained that he lacked the spirit stones for Earth Soul Essence but had other business with Yuan Hua.
• Hai Liang used the Communication Array to notify the other two Great Immortal Sects, which accepted Ling Pengyun's claim and announced that the Earth Soul Essence had been exchanged away.
• Ling Pengyun spoke with Yuan Hua, who confirmed that the Sea Cloud Immortal Sect still held the promised strand of Nine Heavens Profound Qi.
• Ling Pengyun handed Hai Liang three and a half million spirit stones to purchase the Nine Heavens Profound Qi.

Ling Pengyun received the Nine Heavens Profound Qi from Grand Elder Hai Liang and returned toward Yan Kingdom, while the Sea Cloud Immortal Sect’s hidden backers considered recruiting him into their mysterious pavilion. Sea Cloud True Lord arranged an investigation into Ling Pengyun’s demon-beast kills, and a Heavenly Star Sect cultivator noticed that the attacking demon forces seemed to have fewer Golden Core Demon Kings.

• Grand Elder Hai Liang gave Ling Pengyun the Nine Heavens Profound Qi, and Ling Pengyun left Hai Yun Valley on the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King.
• A Nascent Soul Late Stage elder told Sea Cloud True Lord to investigate how Ling Pengyun killed five Golden Core Completion demon beasts before deciding whether to recruit him into the pavilion.
• Sea Cloud True Lord learned that Azure Sea True Lord had given Ling Pengyun the Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning inheritance and agreed to follow his martial uncle’s plans.
• Sea Cloud True Lord arranged for investigators to check Ling Pengyun’s exploits and offered a Calamity Flame Spider a Creation Purple Cloud Pill in exchange for information.
• A Heavenly Star Sect cultivator at Extinguish Bear City wondered why the demon attackers seemed to have fewer Golden Core Demon Kings.

More than 150 Golden Core Demon Kings led by the Pseudo Nascent Soul flood dragons Tu Qian and Mu Qian attacked White Cloud City with two Fourth Rank formations. With Ling Pengyun absent, the city’s defenders faced a looming breach as the attackers intensified their assault.

• Tu Qian and Mu Qian led the demon forces to White Cloud City and judged that their clan’s treasures could break its Quasi Fourth Rank defense array.
• Tu Qian directed the Golden Core demon beasts to form two Fourth Rank arrays, whose flood dragon phantoms began battering the city’s protective formation.
• The city’s cultivators rallied under the Ling Clan’s Golden Core cultivators, while the Flame Demon Wolf King reinforced the array and estimated it would still fail within a month and a half.
• Ling Yunhong worried that Ling Pengyun and the others would return too late to save White Cloud City.
• Mu Qian concluded that Ling Pengyun was either injured or away from the city, then joined Tu Qian in intensifying the attacks on its defense array.

Ling Yunhong and the cultivators of White Cloud City launched a counterattack against the Demon Race siege by activating the White Shadow Slanting Cloud Flying Sword. The sword heavily wounded one flood dragon phantom, but Tu Qian Flood Dragon sent another phantom to its aid.

• Ling Yunhong ordered White Cloud City's cultivators to prepare to strike and told the Flame Demon Wolf King to act.
• The White Shadow Slanting Cloud Array empowered its flying sword, which cut one flood dragon phantom in two and reduced its strength to the Pseudo Nascent Soul Realm.
• Tu Qian Flood Dragon recognized White Cloud City's two Spirit Treasure Prototype array artifacts and resolved to seize the array for himself.
• The flying sword retreated into White Cloud City, absorbed spiritual qi drawn from the city, and renewed its assault on the weakened phantom.
• Tu Qian Flood Dragon used a formation plate to send the other Nascent Soul flood dragon phantom to support its ally.

Ling Yunhong and White Cloud City's cultivators broke the defensive barriers protecting the demon army, but the Wood Hidden Flood Dragon summoned a giant tree to shield it. As hidden cultivators attacked the formation leaders, Mu Qian raised a barrier, though the chapter ended before their strike was revealed.

• Ling Yunhong and White Cloud City's cultivators attacked Old Earth Thousand Flood Dragon and the Golden Core Demon Kings, then shattered their defensive barriers with Formation Breaking Talismans.
• Mu Qian used the Azure Wood Mysterious Pearl to cast the Myriad Tree Soul Technique, summoning a giant tree that blocked the city's attacks.
• Ling Yunhong recognized that the city's forces had fulfilled their role in delaying the formations and destroying their barriers, leaving the next move to their allies.
• Old Earth Thousand Flood Dragon spotted cultivators who had secretly approached the demon army, and Mu Qian used Jia Wood Mysterious Light to shield the group.
• An unseen cultivator admitted that they had been discovered.

Ling Pengxing ambushed the Demon Kings maintaining two Fourth Rank great formations, then fought Wood Hidden Flood Dragon after he identified the Gold Earth Law Orb. Yan Siyi joined the battle, and Ling Pengxing’s Armor Piercing Ghost Shadow Sword Blade shattered Wood Hidden Flood Dragon’s defense again and charged into the Demon Kings.

• Ling Pengxing emerged from a patch of void and used Armor Piercing Ghost Shadow Sword Blade to break Wood Hidden Flood Dragon’s Jia Wood Mysterious Light and kill five or six Golden Core Demon Kings.
• Ling Pengxing summoned his five Golden Core Late Stage Natal Spirit Ghosts, whose spell torrent killed five more Demon Kings while he slew a Golden Core Middle Stage Demon King with the Ghost Immortal Sword.
• Wood Hidden Flood Dragon blasted away Ling Pengxing’s Ghost Immortal Sword, shielded the formation cultivators with Azure Wood Mysterious Light, and demanded to know how Ling Pengxing had obtained the Gold Earth Law Orb.
• Ling Pengxing rejected Wood Hidden Flood Dragon’s demands and drew power from the Ghost Immortal Lamp to restore his spiritual power.
• Yan Siyi appeared and summoned the Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Treasure Pot as Ling Pengxing struck Wood Hidden Flood Dragon’s Azure Wood Mysterious Light with Armor Piercing Ghost Shadow Sword Blade, breaking it and sending the sword into the Demon Kings.

Ling Pengxing and Yan Siyi’s assault killed many Golden Core Demon Kings and destroyed one of the enemy’s Fourth Rank formations, easing pressure on White Cloud City. The Ghost Immortal Lamp Artifact Spirit then awoke and confronted Ling Pengxing about consuming decades of its accumulated cultivation.

• Ling Pengxing, Yan Siyi, and the five Natal Spirit Ghosts killed more than a dozen Golden Core Demon Kings while Mu Qian Flood Dragon struggled to defend the beast horde.
• The Demon Kings’ losses weakened their two Fourth Rank formations, giving White Cloud City’s White Shadow Slanting Cloud Flying Sword room to fight back.
• Tu Qian Flood Dragon sent a flood dragon phantom to help Mu Qian, but Ling Pengxing shattered it with two Armor Piercing Ghost Shadow Sword Blades and destroyed its formation’s flood dragon essence.
• Tu Qian ordered the freed Demon Kings to help maintain the remaining Fourth Rank formation as Ling Pengxing celebrated the breakthrough.
• The Ghost Immortal Lamp Artifact Spirit awoke and demanded to know why Ling Pengxing had consumed the cultivation it had accumulated over decades.

Ling Pengxing negotiated with the Ghost Immortal Lamp Artifact Spirit for more Ghost Power, then destroyed a fourth-rank Demon Race formation and vanished before anyone could identify him. Ling Yunhong credited the rescue to a hired expert and persuaded the other Yan Kingdom forces to share a two-million-spirit-stone bill.

• The Ghost Immortal Lamp Artifact Spirit agreed to let Ling Pengxing draw on its cultivation five more times after he promised to provide additional high-rank ghost veins.
• Ling Pengxing decided he could not eliminate all the Demon Race’s Golden Core Demon Kings and used the Ghost Immortal Escape Technique to reach the battle against the fourth-rank formation.
• Ling Pengxing combined five Armor Piercing Ghost Shadow Sword Blades with the White Shadow Slanting Cloud Flying Sword and shattered the Nascent Soul flood dragon phantom, exhausting nearly all his Ghost Power.
• Ling Pengxing vanished instead of entering White Cloud City, while the city’s cultivators wondered about the ghost cultivator who had saved them.
• Ling Yunhong told Medicine King Old Daoist and the other Golden Core forces that the Ling Clan had paid two million spirit stones for the ghost cultivator and asked them to split the cost.
• Medicine King Old Daoist and the other forces agreed to share the payment, and Ling Yunhong privately celebrated collecting another one and a half million spirit stones.

Ling Pengyun returned to White Cloud City and rejected Ling Yunhong’s plan to attack Ghost Dao demonic sects for spirit objects, citing the Ling Clan’s weakened strength and his own injuries. He chose to focus on recovery and strengthening the clan before they risked entering the Eastern Demonic Domain.

• The Golden Core Demon Kings fled after the White Shadow Slanting Cloud Flying Sword shattered their formations, ending White Cloud City’s crisis.
• Ling Pengyun returned to White Cloud City and learned that Ling Pengxing and Ghost Immortal Lamp Senior had driven off the attackers.
• Ling Yunhong explained that Ling Pengxing had promised to cultivate two ghost veins for Ghost Immortal Lamp Senior, then proposed attacking Ghost Dao demonic sects to obtain spirit objects.
• Ling Pengyun opposed the plan, explaining that his meridians were badly injured and the clan lacked the strength to face Golden Core Completion experts safely.
• Ling Pengyun entered a cave abode to recover, while the Flame Demon Wolf King agreed to remain in White Cloud City after he offered it more benefits.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King went to Chen Country to secretly hunt Golden Core Demon Kings for the White Shadow Secret Realm.

A mysterious Nascent Soul True Lord entered White Cloud City undetected and invited the injured Ling Pengyun to join Star Sea Pavilion, a powerful reclusive force. He offered Ling Pengyun an inheritance, rare treasures, a life-saving token, and a Fourth Rank healing pill, leaving Ling Pengyun to consider the invitation and the benefits it could bring him and the Ling Clan.

• A black-clad man bypassed White Cloud City's protective array and appeared inside Ling Pengyun's cave abode without being detected.
• Ling Pengyun sensed the man's presence through the Primordial Beginning Scripture and realized he was likely a Nascent Soul True Lord, so he respectfully greeted him instead of resisting.
• The black-clad man praised Ling Pengyun's meridians and recounted how he had used four Pure Yang Five Elements Profound Lightning bolts to kill two flood dragons in Thousand Stars Valley.
• The man invited Ling Pengyun to join Star Sea Pavilion and claimed it controlled the righteous path of the Boundless Sea Region and surpassed Black Flood Dragon Lake in strength.
• The black-clad man offered Ling Pengyun the Primal Chaos Five Elements Treasure Canon, five Quasi Fourth Rank spiritual objects, a Yun Qian Lineage token, and a White Iris Pill to treat his injuries.

Ling Pengyun accepted the black-clothed True Lord’s offer to join the Star Sea Pavilion as a true inheritor of the Yun Qian Lineage. The man revealed himself as Cloud Bear True Lord, Ling Pengyun’s new master, and explained how he planned to guide him.

• The black-clothed True Lord offered Ling Pengyun treasures and a cultivation method in exchange for joining the Star Sea Pavilion and accepting its obligations.
• Ling Pengyun questioned him about Azure Sea True Lord and his own cultivation, and the man revealed that Azure Sea True Lord was his martial nephew and that he was at the Nascent Soul Late Stage or close to it.
• Convinced by the man’s power and the benefits offered, Ling Pengyun agreed to become a true inheritor of the Yun Qian Lineage.
• The man identified himself as Cloud Bear and accepted Ling Pengyun as his disciple.
• Cloud Bear explained that he focused on body cultivation, had three Golden Core Completion disciples, and intended for Ling Pengyun to inherit his lineage.

Ling Pengyun learned about Star Sea Pavilion, the Yun Qian Lineage, and the protection his clan could gain by becoming an affiliated Nascent Soul force. After Cloud Bear True Lord departed, Ling Pengyun absorbed the Primal Chaos Five Elements Treasure Canon and decided to use it as a reference while continuing to develop his own technique.

• Cloud Bear True Lord explained that the Yun Qian Lineage was a main lineage of Star Sea Pavilion and that the Star Sea Realm was a vast world within the Wind Cloud World.
• Cloud Bear True Lord told Ling Pengyun that the Ling Clan could receive Star Sea Pavilion's protection after it became a Nascent Soul Force and an official affiliate.
• Cloud Bear True Lord gave Ling Pengyun spirit objects and a True Disciple Token, placed an agreement-triggered restriction in his Sea of Consciousness, and returned to Wu Country.
• Ling Pengyun absorbed the inheritance of the Primal Chaos Five Elements Treasure Canon and spent the night digesting its techniques and secret arts.
• Ling Pengyun decided to use the Primal Chaos Five Elements Treasure Canon as a reference for perfecting his Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Tome, and kept the five Quasi Fourth Rank spirit materials for future Lifebound Magic Treasures.

Ling Pengyun used the White Iris Pill to heal his meridians and resumed refining the Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Tome. At the righteous path’s main battlefield, Black Yun Flood Lord examined evidence of a powerful ghost cultivator in Yan Kingdom and vowed to kill the newcomer who had thwarted his clan’s plans.

• Ling Pengyun recognized the pill left by Cloud Bear True Lord as a White Iris Pill and swallowed it to heal his damaged meridians.
• After half a month, Ling Pengyun’s meridians and other deep-seated injuries had healed, and he sealed the pill’s remaining medicinal power for future use.
• Ling Pengyun used the Primal Chaos Five Elements Treasure Canon to speed up his work perfecting the Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Tome.
• Wood Hidden Flood Dragon and Tu Qian Flood Dragon told Black Yun Flood Lord that a Golden Core Late Stage ghost cultivator had unleashed more than a dozen Superior Grade divine abilities in Yan Kingdom.
• Tu Qian Flood Dragon showed Black Yun Flood Lord an Image Recording Disc, and the images convinced him the ghost cultivator might belong to a reclusive Spirit Transformation demon sect.
• Black Yun Flood Lord remained determined to kill the ghost cultivator for disrupting his clan’s plans.