Chapter Summaries

Tu Qian Flood Dragon and Wood Hidden Flood Dragon returned to attack White Cloud City with reinforcements, prompting Ling Pengyun to prepare the city's defenses and summon Yan Siyi. Amid the preparations, Wu Hong spoke with his uncle about his cultivation bottleneck and his growing affection for Fairy Ling Juan.

• Old Black Flood Dragon ordered Tu Qian Flood Dragon and Wood Hidden Flood Dragon to attack Yan Kingdom again, assigning Tortoise Prime Minister and Wind Origin to support them and threatening them with death if they failed.
• Several months later, Tu Qian Flood Dragon and Wood Hidden Flood Dragon led more than one hundred and fifty Golden Core Demon Kings, Tortoise Prime Minister Old Demon, and Wind Origin Flood Dragon toward White Cloud City.
• Ling Pengyun emerged from secluded cultivation and joined the city’s defenses, while Ling Yunhong asked whether to summon Ling Pengxing and Yan Siyi; Ling Pengyun declined to recall Ling Pengxing but agreed to summon Yan Siyi.
• Wu Hong visited Ling Pengyun and explained that he had been secluded while trying to overcome a cultivation bottleneck.
• Ling Pengyun teased Wu Hong about Fairy Ling Juan, and Wu Hong warned him not to speak carelessly about their relationship because it might harm her reputation.

Wu Hong asked Ling Pengyun to help kill the Golden Core Completion Wind Origin Flood Dragon so he could obtain materials to reforge his Lifebound Magic Treasure, offering the Ling Clan five hundred years of Dragon Qi in return. Ling Pengyun agreed, and the Demon Kings then advanced on White Cloud City with powerful arrays and divine abilities.

• Wu Hong offered the Ling Clan five hundred years of Dragon Qi from the Serpent Dragon Lake Branch if Ling Pengyun helped him obtain the Wind Origin Flood Dragon's tendon and scales.
• Ling Pengyun accepted, and Wu Hong explained that the Hundred Spirits Sect's guardian water flood dragon would not object because its bloodline had reached its limit.
• Wu Hong returned to the Hundred Spirits Sect Golden Core cultivators, who rejoiced when they learned Ling Pengyun would help hunt the Wind Origin Flood Dragon.
• Tu Qian Flood Dragon and Wood Hidden Flood Dragon led the Demon Kings within ten thousand li of White Cloud City and set up two Fourth Rank grand arrays that formed Nascent Soul-level flood dragon phantoms.
• Wood Hidden Flood Dragon summoned a Nascent Soul-level tree-man, while Turtle Prime Minister Old Demon shielded the Demon Kings with the Void Turtle Cloud Concealing Technique.
• The Wind Origin Flood Dragon unleashed black astral wind from its azure gourd Spirit Treasure Prototype as the Demon Kings attacked White Cloud City.

Ling Pengyun led White Cloud City's cultivators in resisting a powerful Demon Race assault, then revealed four Nascent Soul-level Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightnings. The attacks were blocked by a hidden formation implement, leaving the city facing the enemy's advancing forces.

• Ling Pengyun assessed the Demon Race's formidable array formations, Wood Flood Dragon, Water Essence Flood Dragon Tortoise, and Wind Flood Dragon, and decided he would have to risk everything.
• Ling Pengyun ordered White Cloud City's seventy or eighty thousand cultivators to attack and defend the city in shifts as the enemy's attacks drew near.
• The cultivators' attacks were crushed by the two array-formed flood dragons, the tree giant, and the Black Fiend Astral Wind.
• Ling Pengyun unleashed four Nascent Soul-level Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightnings at one flood dragon phantom, but its hidden Spirit Treasure Prototype shield blocked them.
• Tu Qian Flood Dragon recognized Ling Pengyun, realized the lightning's danger, and commanded the second flood dragon phantom to help defend against it.

Ling Pengyun damaged both enemy formation artifacts with four bolts of Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning, then stopped fighting to avoid further injury to his meridians. As White Cloud City remained under siege, three concealed black-clad men watched and praised Ling Pengyun, revealing that he was their junior brother.

• Ling Pengyun's four profound lightning bolts broke through one formation artifact and damaged the other, injuring the flood dragon phantom before their power ran out.
• Ling Pengyun chose to recover instead of using more Qi Recovery Pills, reasoning that the damaged enemy formation artifacts would remain weakened.
• Tu Qian Flood Dragon resumed attacking White Cloud City, while Ling Yunhong and the city's cultivators held back the tree man and Ling Pengyun conserved the defensive flying sword.
• Three black-clad men watched the battle from a distant barren mountain and discussed Ling Pengyun's strength.
• The eldest black-clad man said he could likely draw against Ling Pengyun now but might lose once Ling Pengyun reached Golden Core Completion, and the three welcomed the prospect of their junior brother restoring their honor.

After recovering, Ling Pengyun returned to White Cloud City's walls and used four Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightnings to destroy one of the Demon Race's fourth-rank formations. The surviving formation and several demon leaders then attacked White Cloud City's weakened flying sword, while Turtle Prime Minister Old Demon prepared his strongest offensive divine ability.

• Ling Pengyun returned to White Cloud City's walls at full strength after several days of recovery.
• Ling Pengyun unleashed four Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightnings, badly damaging one of Tu Qian Flood Dragon's fourth-rank formations.
• White Shadow Slanting Cloud Flying Sword destroyed the damaged formation, then lost power and was caught by the surviving flood dragon phantom.
• Wood Hidden Flood Dragon, Wind Flood Dragon Feng Yuan, and Turtle Prime Minister Old Demon joined the attack on the weakened flying sword.
• Turtle Prime Minister Old Demon formed his Mountain Splitting Earth Shattering Cannon and began pouring Demon Power into it.

Ling Pengyun rushed to save White Cloud City’s White Shadow Slanting Cloud Flying Sword as the Demon Race’s forces battered it. Mysterious reinforcements arrived, but before they could act, Ling Pengyun’s lightning stopped two attacks while the sword remained close to breaking.

• Ling Pengyun used the White Iris Pill’s medicinal power and Qi Recovery Pills to restore himself and prepare to cast the Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning.
• A Golden Core Completion Thousand Flames Fire Phoenix arrived carrying three veiled Golden Core Completion body cultivators, and one called Ling Pengyun Junior Brother.
• Ling Pengyun suspected the newcomers might be his master Cloud Bear True Lord’s three senior disciples, but continued casting and fired lightning at the Demon Race’s fourth-rank formation.
• Wood Hidden Flood Dragon, Wind Origin Flood Dragon, and Turtle Prime Minister trapped the White Shadow Slanting Cloud Flying Sword again, spreading cracks across its blade.
• Ling Pengyun replenished his spiritual power and fired two more Profound Lightnings, blocking the treant and Black Fiend Astral Wind while the sword remained in danger.

Ling Pengyun’s three senior brothers and the Thousand Flames Fire Phoenix arrived at White Cloud City’s battlefield and turned the battle against the Demon Race. With the enemy’s formations and defenders under pressure, Ling Pengyun recovered some spiritual power and joined the attack using his Spirit Treasure Prototypes.

• The White Shadow Flying Sword returned to White Cloud City after exhausting its spiritual power, and Ling Pengyun sent it back into the city’s array to recover.
• Ling Pengyun’s three profound lightning bolts injured the flood dragon phantom formed by the Demon Race’s remaining fourth-tier grand array, weakening it from the Nascent Soul Second Layer to the First Layer.
• The Thousand Flames Fire Phoenix arrived with Ling Pengyun’s three senior brothers, who transformed into bear-like giants and attacked the Demon Race with their Giant Hammers.
• Eldest Senior Brother battered the weakened flood dragon phantom while Second Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother struck the flood-dragon-turtle phantom protecting Turtle Prime Minister Old Demon and the other demon kings.
• The White Cloud City cultivators supported the senior brothers, while the Thousand Flames Fire Phoenix suppressed Wood Hidden Flood Dragon’s treant, leaving the Demon Race at a disadvantage.
• Ling Pengyun swallowed Qi Recovery Pills and began attacking with his Spirit Treasure Prototypes to conserve spiritual power.

Ling Pengyun and his allies overwhelmed the demon beasts besieging White Cloud City, while the Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and Yan Siyi arrived as reinforcements. As the demons tried to flee aboard their fourth-rank array’s dragon, Ling Pengyun’s senior brothers pinned it down and began slaughtering the Golden Core Demon Kings.

• Ling Pengyun summoned waves of Spirit Treasure Prototypes against the besieged demon beasts, then crushed a token to call for reinforcements.
• The Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King arrived with Yan Siyi, and they joined Ling Pengyun and his senior brothers in attacking the demon horde.
• Turtle Prime Minister Old Demon cast four defensive dragon-turtle phantoms, but the attacks eventually shattered them all.
• Tu Qian Flood Dragon strengthened the remaining fourth-rank array’s dragon and ordered the demon beasts to board it and escape together.
• Second Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother enlarged themselves and their Giant Hammers, broke through the dragon’s defenses, and beat its head crooked.
• Eldest Senior Brother pinned the array dragon to the ground while Second Senior Brother and Third Senior Brother charged onto its back and killed Golden Core Demon Kings with their hammer blows.

Ling Pengyun’s Senior Brothers overwhelmed the demon forces while he joined Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and Yan Siyi in fighting Wind Origin Flood Dragon. After draining much of the enemy’s Black Fiend Astral Wind with Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning, Ling Pengyun helped turn the battle and beheaded Wind Origin Flood Dragon.

• Third Senior Brother chased Turtle Prime Minister Old Demon, who fled into the clouds, and Second Senior Brother followed to help.
• Eldest Senior Brother pinned the flood dragon formed by Tu Qian Flood Dragon’s fourth-rank formation, while the other demon forces were occupied by the cultivators and Ling Pengyun’s allies.
• Ling Pengyun joined Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and Yan Siyi in attacking Wind Origin Flood Dragon, whose strength matched that of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Ling Pengyun cast Five Elements Pure Yang Profound Lightning, breaking through the Black Fiend Gourd’s wind barrier and consuming much of its Black Fiend Astral Wind.
• After Wind Origin Flood Dragon exhausted most of its methods, Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King unleashed greater power, and Ling Pengyun seized the chance to sever the flood dragon’s head.

After Feng Yuan was slain, Ling Pengyun’s allies focused on breaking the fourth-rank formation led by Tu Qian Flood Dragon. Tu Qian was killed, causing the formation to collapse, but the trapped Golden Core Demon Kings continued to resist Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and Yan Siyi.

• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King left Ling Pengyun to attack Tu Qian Flood Dragon and the more than seventy Golden Core Demon Kings sustaining its formation.
• Ling Pengyun sent Yan Siyi to join Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King, while his Eldest Senior Brother continued holding back the formation’s flood-dragon construct.
• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and Yan Siyi shattered Tu Qian Flood Dragon’s defenses and enclosed the formation’s defenders with the Thousand Flowing Water Spirit Treasure Prototype.
• Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King bit off Tu Qian Flood Dragon’s head, and the fourth-rank grand formation collapsed.
• The trapped Golden Core Demon Kings resisted Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and Yan Siyi with their combined attacks.

Ling Pengyun and his allies defeated the demons at White Cloud City, divided the spoils, and learned that the slain Wind Origin Flood Dragon and the pursued Turtle Prime Minister Old Demon had been exceptional prospects for reaching Nascent Soul. Ling Pengyun worried that killing them would provoke retaliation from the Black Flood Dragon Lake Clan.

• Cao Yi joined Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King and Yan Siyi in killing the Golden Core Demon Kings, and the righteous forces overwhelmed the demons across the battlefield.
• Ling Pengyun, Cao Yi, Yan Siyi, Dragon Abyss Flood Dragon King, and the Thousand Flames Fire Phoenix divided the slain demons' formations, treasures, and remains according to their contributions.
• Ling Pengyun invited Cao Yi to White Cloud City, where Cao Yi introduced himself and explained that Cloud Bear True Lord had sent him, Liu Yu, and Zhao Meng to ambush the demons gathering in Yan Kingdom.
• Cao Yi explained that the Wind Origin Flood Dragon and Turtle Prime Minister Old Demon were Late Nascent Soul Stage seedlings with a chance to condense Superior Grade Nascent Souls.
• Ling Pengyun asked whether killing the two exceptional demons would bring retaliation from the Black Flood Dragon Lake Clan.

Ling Pengyun welcomed his senior brothers after they slew Turtle Prime Minister Old Demon and arranged a celebratory meal. He later gave Wu Hong the Wind Origin Flood Dragon materials he needed and asked whether he had found a Quasi Fourth Rank Weapon Refiner to help craft a Spirit Treasure Prototype.

• Cao Yi reassured Ling Pengyun that the Demon Race lacked the forces to retaliate against the Yan Kingdom.
• Zhao Meng and Second Senior Brother returned after killing Turtle Prime Minister Old Demon, and Zhao Meng invited the brothers to a meal made from the demon beast.
• Cao Yi agreed to provide spirit wine for the gathering after Zhao Meng teased him about being stingy.
• Ling Pengyun arranged Golden Core cave abodes for Zhao Meng and Second Senior Brother, then sought out his nephew Wu Hong.
• Ling Pengyun gave Wu Hong the Wind Origin Flood Dragon's tendons and scales, and asked if he had found a Quasi Fourth Rank Weapon Refiner to assist with refining a Spirit Treasure Prototype.

Wu Hong told Ling Pengyun that Liu Haochan was offering to refine Quasi Fourth Rank Spirit Treasure Prototypes, while Ling Pengyun already knew because he and Liu Haochan were friends. Ling Pengyun returned to his cave abode as Black Yun Demon Lord learned of Wind Origin and Tortoise Prime Minister’s deaths and sent a messenger to investigate whether Ling Pengyun had survived.

• Wu Hong explained that Liu Haochan of the Heavenly Star Sect would refine Spirit Treasure Prototypes for a fee of three hundred thousand spirit stones, and invited the Ling Clan to gather suitable materials.
• Ling Pengyun appreciated Wu Hong’s thoughtfulness, teased him about Fairy Ling Juan, and watched him flee in embarrassment.
• Ling Pengyun left Yan Siyi to refine the Black Fiend Gourd alongside her Mandarin Duck Fire Cloud Pot, then entered seclusion to perfect his Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Tome.
• Black Yun Demon Lord found the command plaques of Tu Qian, Mu Qian, Wind Origin, and Tortoise Prime Minister shattered and worried that Ling Pengyun might still be alive.
• Black Yun Demon Lord retreated into the river after Three Immortals Marketplace’s experts tracked him, then sent a Golden Core Late Stage demon beast to Yan Kingdom to investigate Ling Pengyun.

A year after the battle at White Cloud City, Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi shared a lavish meal with Ling Pengyun’s senior brothers, who praised their gift of flood dragon scales and offered them food, wine, and gifts. The chapter left Ling Pengyun asking whether his senior brothers planned to leave White Cloud City soon.

• A Crimson Gold Bear told Black Yun Demon Lord that three Golden Core body cultivators with demon-bear transformations had helped defeat the demon invasion of White Cloud City, leading Black Yun Demon Lord to fear Yan Kingdom was beyond his reach.
• A year later, Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, and Cao Yi’s fellow disciples gathered in White Cloud City for a banquet of high-grade spirit foods and wine.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi drank Tenfold Great Supplement Wine and ate Quasi Fourth Rank Flood Dragon-Turtle Soup, which strengthened their bodies and advanced their cultivation.
• Zhao Meng thanked Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi for the flood dragon scales and promised to cook them another Quasi Fourth Rank spirit dish when he obtained more Pseudo Nascent Soul Realm demon beast flesh.
• Cao Yi secretly gave Ling Pengyun a gourd as a gift for him and Yan Siyi, while the Second Senior Brother offered to refine spirit treasures for them.
• As the group continued eating and chatting, Ling Pengyun asked Cao Yi and the other senior brothers whether they would be leaving White Cloud City soon.

Ling Pengyun’s three Senior Brothers agreed to defend White Cloud City, and he later used their gifted spirit wine to strengthen his cultivation. Four years later, he completed the Golden Core chapter of his Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Tome and began switching to it.

• Cao Yi and his two Junior Brothers agreed to stay in White Cloud City during the chaos, accepting 500,000 spirit stones each and promising to protect Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi used several months of secluded cultivation to digest the banquet’s spirit wine and spirit food, then found Cao Yi’s gourd contained valuable wines for body cultivation.
• Yan Siyi urged Ling Pengyun to keep all the spirit wine so he could advance his body cultivation, and he promised to prioritize her when he found future resources.
• Over four years, Ling Pengyun perfected the Golden Core chapter of the Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Tome and its three spells and three lifebound magic treasures to superior quality.
• With White Cloud City still free of demon invasions and Cao Yi’s group guarding it, Ling Pengyun began secluded cultivation to switch to his own method.

Ling Pengyun emerged from ten years of seclusion after converting to the Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Tome, gaining powerful Five Elements Spiritual Power and stronger divine sense. He learned the great chaos was still raging beyond White Cloud City and began refining three Natal Spirit Treasure Prototypes to prepare for the danger ahead.

• Ling Pengyun completed his conversion to the Lingxiao Five Elements Treasure Tome and discovered that his spiritual power and divine sense had grown far stronger.
• Ling Pengyun left seclusion and learned from Clan Head Ling Yunhong that the great chaos continued, while Yan Kingdom remained safe because demonic beasts feared White Cloud City's defenders.
• Ling Pengyun considered why the Black Flood Dragon Lake Clan continued the war despite the Three Great Immortal Sects holding the upper hand, and worried about its possible schemes.
• Ling Pengyun decided to strengthen himself by refining the Five Elements Hundred Treasure Water, the Five Elements Primordial Chaos Bell, and the Five Elements Illusion Mist Bottle.

Ling Pengyun worked with Liu Yu to refine three middle-grade Natal Spirit Treasure Prototypes, then strengthened his body cultivation with spiritual wine. He left seclusion with combat strength near the Nascent Soul First Layer, but his current body-tempering technique would cap his physique at Golden Core Completion unless he fulfilled the Yun Qian Lineage’s demand.

• Ling Pengyun asked Liu Yu to help refine three Natal Spirit Treasure Prototypes, and Liu Yu agreed in part to repay him for the flood dragon scales.
• After several failures and ten years of work, Ling Pengyun and Liu Yu completed the Five Elements Hundred Treasure Water, Five Elements Primordial Chaos Bell, and Five Elements Illusion Mist Bottle, then raised their quality to middle grade using other prototypes as materials.
• Three years later, Ling Pengyun finished nurturing the treasures and left seclusion to check White Cloud City, where he found no demons; he also learned that Yan Siyi was secluded to attempt a breakthrough to the Golden Core Ninth Layer.
• Ling Pengyun consumed Cao Yi’s spiritual wines and raised his body cultivation first to the Golden Core Late Stage and then to the peak of the Golden Core Ninth Layer.
• Ling Pengyun realized his current body-tempering technique would limit him to Golden Core Completion and recalled that he could learn a Nascent Soul-grade technique from the Yun Qian Lineage only after making the Ling Clan a Nascent Soul Force and an exclusive vassal.

Ling Pengyun completed his body cultivation and cultivation-path breakthroughs, reaching Golden Core Completion in both and raising his power close to Nascent Soul First Layer. After returning from White Cloud City, he learned how the Ling Clan had grown during his seclusion and approved more support for Grand Elder Ling Chengyuan.

• Ling Pengyun broke through to Golden Core Completion in body cultivation, strengthening his meridians and allowing him to recover his spiritual power with six Qi Recovery Pills.
• Ling Pengyun cultivated for twenty years and reached Golden Core Completion in his cultivation path, with divine sense and spiritual power comparable to a Nascent Soul First Layer cultivator.
• Ling Pengyun learned from Ling Yunhong that the clan had saved over four million spirit stones, then raised Ling Chengyuan's salary by thirty percent for his service managing clan affairs.
• Ling Pengyun returned to the clan territory and learned from Ling Chengyuan that the clan had grown to over thirty thousand cultivators and twenty-seven Golden Core cultivators.
• Ling Chengyuan reported that Ling Pengyun's Earth-Turning Dragon Earthworm and Ling Li Hu's Thunder Winged Shadow Tiger had both entered the Golden Core realm, while Ling Chengping's second-generation Earth-Turning Dragon Earthworm had also become a Golden Core spirit beast.

Ling Pengyun gathered the Earth Soul Essence and arranged to use the Sea Cloud Immortal Sect’s tribulation array for his Nascent Soul breakthrough. As he prepared at Tribulation Transformation Mountain, his master Cloud Bear True Lord learned of the attempt and left the front lines to watch over him.

• Ling Chengping’s second-generation Earth-Turning Dragon Earthworm successfully formed a Golden Core, while several clan members’ attempts failed without costing them their lives.
• Ling Pengyun learned of Ling Lihao’s and Ling Pengcheng’s rapid progress, then withdrew four million Spirit Stones from the Ling Clan repository before setting out for Wu Country.
• At the Sea Cloud Immortal Sect, Ling Pengyun exchanged the Spirit Stones for Earth Soul Essence and borrowed a Fourth Rank grand array, telling Hai Liang True Person he planned to attempt Nascent Soul Formation.
• Hai Liang True Person gave Ling Pengyun the Earth Soul Essence and led him to Tribulation Transformation Mountain, where Ling Pengyun began meditating inside the activated array.
• Sea Cloud True Lord told Cloud Bear True Lord about Ling Pengyun’s plan, and Cloud Bear True Lord left Three Immortals Marketplace to go to the Sea Cloud Immortal Sect.

Ling Pengyun used his Five Elements Golden Core and rare spiritual materials to successfully form a Five Elements Nascent Soul, drawing the attention of allies and demons alike. After surviving an unusually powerful tribulation, he emerged with an aura far stronger than an ordinary first-layer Nascent Soul cultivator.

• Ling Pengyun began the Five Elements Nascent Soul Formation Method and broke through the memories that surfaced during the process.
• The formation drew spiritual qi across a vast region, and Cloud Bear True Lord recognized that Ling Pengyun was attempting to form a Five Elements Nascent Soul.
• Black Rain ordered Black Yun Flood Dragon to attack Hai Yun Immortal Sect and disrupt the breakthrough, while he stayed behind to watch the righteous path forces.
• Ling Pengyun used Nine Heavens Profound Qi and Earth Soul Essence to stabilize and strengthen his Nascent Soul embryonic form as it refined the incoming spiritual qi.
• Cloud Bear True Lord intercepted Black Yun Flood Dragon near Hai Yun Immortal Sect, and the two fought for twelve days while Ling Pengyun completed his breakthrough.
• Ling Pengyun's formation ended, and he endured thirty-six bolts of Nascent Soul tribulation lightning as the mountain's defensive array nearly failed; afterward, his powerful new aura spread from the summit.