Chapter Summaries

Yan Siyi told Ling Pengyun that she had reached the Fourth Rank in the Way of the Spirit Chef, and her Spirit Food gave him enough cultivation resources to expect to reach Nascent Soul Completion within the hundred-year pact. Ling Pengyun then met the anxious young Ling Feifan and asked about his understanding of the Dao Path and the battle path he hoped to pursue.

• Yan Siyi explained that her Fourth Rank Spirit Chef progress had been aided by Ling Pengyun's Yin Yang Primordial Essence and the clan's supply of Nascent Soul Beast meat.
• Ling Pengyun tasted Yan Siyi's Fourth Rank Spirit Food and calculated that her planned thirty portions, together with his Fourth Rank Gathering Yuan Grass, would resolve his cultivation resource shortage.
• Ling Pengyun watched Ling Feifan wait anxiously outside his cave abode and considered him a possible future successor to Grand Elder Ling Chengyuan.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Feifan several Second Rank spirit fruits, which the boy gratefully accepted after initially hesitating.
• Ling Pengyun asked Ling Feifan to explain his understanding of the Dao Path and the battle path he wanted to pursue.

Ling Pengyun created a superior-grade cultivation method tailored to Ling Feifan’s Earth Fiend Spirit Body and named it the Lingxiao Flying Chief Treasure Scripture. Ten years later, Ling Pengcheng prepared to attempt the Nascent Soul breakthrough with Ling Pengyun’s aid.

• Ling Pengyun examined Ling Feifan’s Earth Fiend Spirit Body and began creating a cultivation method suited to his potential.
• After three days, Ling Pengyun completed the method’s outline and promised Ling Feifan its Early-Stage Qi Training portion in three months.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Feifan named the cultivation method the Lingxiao Flying Chief Treasure Scripture, and Ling Pengyun later returned to closed-door cultivation.
• Ten years passed as the great chaos approaching the surrounding Cultivation Worlds drew nearer, and Ling Pengcheng emerged after preparing for his Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Pengcheng a Sun Moon Crystal and a manual for a breakthrough method that could raise his chances by roughly thirty percent.

Ling Pengcheng began attempting Nascent Soul formation with Ling Pengyun’s Sun Moon Crystal and the Sun Moon Nascent Soul Formation Method as the World Extinction Calamity approached. As he endured the Spiritual Qi Tide at Golden Winged Mountain, the crystal protected him, leaving the challenge of condensing the Sun Moon Pill.

• Ling Pengcheng accepted the Sun Moon Crystal and formation method from Ling Pengyun, promising to obey him if he succeeded in forming a Nascent Soul.
• Ling Pengyun reflected on the coming World Extinction Calamity and hoped Ling Pengcheng would become another Sun Moon Nascent Soul cultivator.
• The Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor used pseudo-enlightenment to deduce a superior-grade water divine ability, hoping to complete it before the calamity.
• Ling Pengyun evacuated the cultivators from Golden Winged Mountain, and a Spiritual Qi Tide gathered there as Ling Pengcheng began his Nascent Soul attempt.
• After three days, Ling Pengcheng swallowed the Sun Moon Crystal, which protected his meridians and strengthened his divine sense, and he prepared to condense the Sun Moon Pill.

Ling Pengcheng survived the Spiritual Qi Tide but failed to complete his Sun Moon Pill, leaving him with power near the Nascent Soul Realm but no increased lifespan. Ling Pengyun promised to fund another attempt before the World Extinction Calamity, while Heavenly Star Old True Lord discussed his sect’s preparations for the coming crisis.

• Ling Pengcheng completed the twelve-day Spiritual Qi Tide, but no Nascent Soul lightning tribulation appeared.
• After several days without movement, Ling Pengyun visited Ling Pengcheng and learned that he had tempered his Golden Core to ninety-nine percent but lost his insight before the final step.
• Ling Pengyun reassured Ling Pengcheng that his strength was already near that of a Nascent Soul cultivator and offered to gather resources for another breakthrough attempt.
• Ling Pengcheng agreed to pursue the Dao again and pledged his life to Ling Pengyun.
• Heavenly Star Old True Lord envied the Ling Clan’s resources and discussed with True Lord Liu Haochan the sect’s preparations for the World Extinction Calamity and the progress of its dispersed disciples.

Liu Haochan searched for a way to extend Heavenly Star Old True Lord’s dwindling lifespan and negotiated with Ling Pengyun for a Longevity-Increasing Divine Power. Heavenly Star Pavilion exchanged several Fourth Rank arrays and treasures for the method, while Ling Pengyun strengthened Golden Winged Mountain’s defenses.

• Heavenly Star Old True Lord told Liu Haochan that he had at most thirty years of lifespan remaining, and Liu Haochan set out to find a way to extend it.
• After the Three Great Immortal Sects had no Fourth Rank Longevity Enhancing Spirit Objects, Liu Haochan asked Ling Pengyun whether the Ling Clan possessed one.
• Ling Pengyun offered a Middle Grade Longevity-Increasing Divine Power, and Liu Haochan proposed exchanging Fourth Rank arrays and spirit treasures for it.
• Ling Pengyun raised the price to two Middle Grade Fourth Rank Offense-Defense Arrays and one ordinary Fourth Rank Middle Grade defense array, so Liu Haochan returned to consult Heavenly Star Old True Lord.
• Heavenly Star Old True Lord approved the trade and accompanied Liu Haochan to the Ling Clan, where both sides completed the exchange successfully.
• Ling Pengyun installed the newly acquired Fourth Rank Middle Grade defense array at Golden Winged Mountain of Border Mountain.

Ling Pengyun placed a Fourth Rank Offense-Defense Array at Golden Yang Mountain and tasked Ling Penglin with advancing its spirit vein so it could sustain the formation. With help from clan array masters and the Three-Eyed White Fox, Ling Penglin succeeded, leaving Golden Yang Mountain as a Quasi Fourth Rank cultivation site.

• Ling Pengyun assigned Ling Penglin to raise Golden Yang Mountain’s Third Rank High Grade spirit vein and explained that the site would support a Fourth Rank array guarding the clan’s border.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Penglin two Formation Plates from the formations he had obtained by trading the simplified Lingxiao Longevity Enhancing Divine Power to Heavenly Star Pavilion.
• Ling Penglin inspected Golden Yang Mountain’s single-attribute Gold Spirit Vein, judged that its advancement required specialized help, and recruited clan array masters and the Three-Eyed White Fox.
• Ling Penglin and her helpers arranged a Geng Metal Spirit Ascension Array and used secret techniques to improve the spirit vein’s chances of advancing.
• After a year, Golden Yang Mountain shook as its spirit vein advanced; three days later, a Quasi Fourth Rank aura spread from the mountain and its spiritual qi increased substantially.

Ling Pengyun rewarded Ling Penglin’s array formation team and gathered Demon King Golden Cores to help promising clan masters reach the False Core realm, while Ling Lihao successfully established himself as a Fourth Rank Talisman Master. The clan strengthened its defenses and gained new talisman-making capacity as the World Extinction Calamity approached.

• Ling Penglin completed the advancement of Jin Yang Mountain’s spirit vein, and Ling Pengyun awarded the contributing Array Formation Masters one thousand Contribution Points each.
• Ling Penglin asked Ling Pengyun to help promising Array Formation Masters advance toward the Golden Core realm, so he offered Demon King Golden Cores and cultivation resources to help them reach the False Core realm.
• Ling Pengyun killed five Golden Core Demon Kings in Crimson Gold Bear territory, while the Crimson Gold Bear King fled and watched its forces suffer another major loss.
• Ling Pengyun returned with the Demon King Golden Cores and inferior Golden Core Spirit Objects for Ling Penglin; two Array Formation Masters later reached the False Core realm, while three failed their attempts.
• Ling Lihao successfully drew four Great Strength Sea Whale Talismans in ten attempts and recognized that he had become a Fourth Rank Talisman Master.

Ling Lihao advanced to Fourth Rank Talisman Master and learned that Ling Pengyun had completed a stronger version of his cultivation technique. Ling Pengyun then visited Heavenly Star Old True Lord to offer a superior-grade ocular divine ability, leaving the two to discuss its price.

• Ling Lihao told Ling Pengyun that he had become a Fourth Rank Talisman Master and could make many more Fourth Rank Great Strength Sea Whale Talismans for the clan.
• Ling Pengyun rewarded Ling Lihao with a tome containing the Nascent Soul Initial and Middle Stage chapters of a perfected Limitless Dark Water Talisman Codex.
• Ling Pengyun explained that he planned to visit Star Sea Pavilion to fight the Sea Flood Dragon Race and earn rare Nascent Soul Spirit Objects.
• Ling Lihao offered Ling Pengyun his five completed Fourth Rank talismans, but Ling Pengyun told him to keep them for the clan and later draw a batch of talismans for him.
• Ling Pengyun visited Heavenly Star Old True Lord and offered him a superior-grade ocular divine ability, which caught the formation master's interest.

Ling Pengyun traded a superior eye technique to Heavenly Star Old True Lord for Fourth Rank talisman-making materials, then arranged a second deal for a powerful offensive divine ability. The transactions left Heavenly Star Pavilion with the Azure Profound Destruction Needle but nearly depleted its materials, while Ling Pengyun received an intermediary fee and returned with resources for his clan.

• Ling Pengyun persuaded Heavenly Star Old True Lord to exchange thirty sets of Fourth Rank talisman-making materials for the Lingxiao Void Piercing Eye Technique and offered to help obtain other divine abilities.
• Heavenly Star Old True Lord requested a superior offensive divine ability, and Ling Pengyun agreed to arrange one through his channels.
• Ling Pengyun gave the thirty sets of materials to Ling Lihao to draw Spirit Talismans, then staged trips to Sea Cloud Immortal Sect and the Boundless Sea Region Cultivation World.
• Ling Pengyun brought a mysterious black-clothed man to Heavenly Star Pavilion, where the man offered the Azure Profound Destruction Needle.
• Heavenly Star Old True Lord traded thirty-five sets of Fourth Rank talisman-making materials and his lifelong Array Dao insights for the divine ability, then gave Ling Pengyun an intermediary fee.

Ling Pengyun sold divine powers to several Northern Wilderness Nascent Soul forces, secretly using an Avatar Spirit Talisman as the mysterious black-clad cultivator, and brought the proceeds back to strengthen the Ling Clan. After giving Ling Lihao the talisman materials, Ling Pengyun left for the Boundless Sea Region, while the family prepared for the approaching World-Ending Calamity.

• Ling Pengyun and the mysterious black-clad cultivator sold divine powers to the Maple Leaf Li Family and Spirit Treasure Academy after trading with Heavenly Star Pavilion, earning a large haul of Fourth Rank talisman-crafting materials.
• The Crimson Flame Fire Phoenix bought three middle-grade Demon Race divine powers, while the Northern Wilderness forces chose not to pursue Ling Pengyun and his companion as they departed for the Boundless Sea Region.
• Ling Pengyun returned to Golden Winged Mountain and revealed that the mysterious cultivator had been an Avatar Spirit Talisman, and that he had created the divine powers himself, hiding control restrictions within them.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Lihao 143 Fourth Rank talisman-crafting materials and urged him to make talismans to protect the Ling Clan during the coming calamity, then left for the Boundless Sea Region.
• A year later, Ling Lihao completed the first thirty materials, producing eleven Fourth Rank Spirit Talisman Caves and raising his success rate with Great Strength Sea Whale Talismans to nearly forty percent.

Ling Pengcheng repaired his Sun Moon Pill and successfully entered the Nascent Soul realm, though he regretted missing the chance to temper his foundation with a Spiritual Qi Tide. With the Ling Clan prepared for the approaching World Extinction Calamity, Ling Pengyun decided to leave for Star Sea Pavilion and join the war.

• Ling Pengcheng used the clan’s spirit stones and a Fourth Rank Spirit Gathering Grand Array to perfect his Golden Core into a Sun Moon Pill.
• Ling Pengcheng survived all twelve bolts of Nascent Soul tribulation lightning and officially entered the Nascent Soul realm, but lamented his limited potential.
• Ling Pengyun promised to seek an aptitude-improving spirit object through Star Sea Pavilion if Ling Pengcheng earned battle merits by fighting Nascent Soul Demon Lords.
• Ling Pengcheng returned to secluded cultivation to study Nascent Soul methods, while Ling Pengyun assessed the clan’s ten Nascent Soul-level battle strengths and its defensive trump cards.
• Ling Pengyun told Yan Siyi that he intended to leave the clan and head to Star Sea Pavilion to contribute to the war and earn resources for Ling Chengxia and the Black Armored Turtle.

Ling Pengyun prepared to leave for the sect war by arranging protection for his clan and checking on its branches in the Boundless Sea Region. On the eve of the battle, he perfected his water spells and condensed nine strands of Primordial Qi into a single five-colored essence, then brought out his reforged Fourth Rank Superior Grade treasure.

• Ling Pengyun asked Old True Lord Yun Qian and the other sect elders to aid his clan during the World Extinction Calamity, and they agreed.
• Old True Lord Yun Qian worried that the Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor would attack the Three Immortals Marketplace while the Spirit Transformation forces were occupied elsewhere.
• Ling Pengyun crossed into the Boundless Sea Region, where demon beasts had begun appearing in righteous territory unusually early, and visited his Mountain Sea Han Family and Fire Serpent Sect branches.
• Ling Pengyun left Quasi Fourth Rank methods with both branches before returning to the Yun Qian Lineage and spending half a year perfecting three water-attributed spells.
• Ling Pengyun condensed nine strands of Primordial Qi into a five-colored essence on the eve of battle and took out his reforged Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River.

Ling Pengyun used Yin Yang Primordial Essence to transform the Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River into a spirit treasure with a Transformation God Foundation, greatly increasing its power and its ability to temper his spiritual power. He considered how to strengthen his other treasures and help Ling Yunhong and his Natal Spirit Plants advance, while the World-Ending Calamity drew near and cultivators gathered at the Star Sea Pavilion.

• Ling Pengyun infused the Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River with Yin Yang Primordial Essence, allowing it to comprehend most of the Heavy Water True Intent and gain power rivaling veteran Nascent Soul Completion cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun discovered that the transformed treasure could temper his spiritual power, and he planned to use future strands of Primordial Essence to improve his other treasures and Ling Yunhong's cultivation prospects.
• Ling Pengyun considered advancing his Thorn Vine, Ren Water Blue Cloud Grass, and Ten Thousand Jade Blood Jade Tree into the Nascent Soul realm, potentially using the coming battle to find them opportunities.
• Half a year passed, leaving one month before the World-Ending Calamity, and the Star Sea Pavilion summoned powerful cultivators to prepare for battle.
• Cultivators from the Star Sea Realm explored the Star Sea Pavilion and traded with its locals, prompting the Pavilion's higher-ups to hold a gathering open to them.

Ling Pengyun commissioned Star Kui to refine a fourth-rank middle-grade flying boat from rare materials, offering a lavish fee despite the risk of failure. After learning the Star Tool Lineage could use a powerful treasure flame to speed the work, Ling Pengyun returned to await the World Extinction Calamity, increasingly suspicious that it would be unusually dangerous.

• Ling Pengyun visited Star Tool Valley and asked Star Kui to refine a flying boat after Cloud Blaze had declined the difficult task.
• Ling Pengyun showed Star Kui eighteen stalks of fourth-rank middle-grade Qing Feng spirit bamboo and fourth-rank superior-grade Azure Nether treasure iron as the main materials.
• Ling Pengyun promised thirty stalks of fourth-rank low-grade Gathering Yuan grass as a fee, and Star Kui accepted the commission while warning the boat would take six months to a year to finish.
• Star Kui explained that the Star Tool Lineage's Crimson Sky Spirit Volcano and quasi-fifth-rank treasure flame would help him refine the boat more quickly.
• Ling Pengyun returned to Cloud Thousand Valley and suspected the coming calamity would be especially troublesome after learning that the Star Sea Pavilion had not summoned outside Nascent Soul forces for a thousand years.

As the World Extinction Calamity approached, Star Sea Pavilion Great Elder Xing Qing organized the cultivators for war against the Sea Flood Dragon Race and offered battle merits for combat achievements. Ling Pengyun joined a Nascent Soul team, received a powerful grand array and a large force to operate it, and saw more than a thousand third-rank-or-higher flying boats appear as the sect prepared to depart for the front lines.

• Xing Qing assembled Star Sea Pavilion’s cultivators, announced the coming war, and presented battle merit rewards that included a quasi fifth-rank Spirit Treasure.
• Ling Pengyun planned to earn merit for Nascent Soul breakthroughs and agreed to cooperate with Wang Qiuyang and three other powerful Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Xing Qing briefed cultivators of Golden Core completion and above on the enemy forces, then distributed special grand array discs and assigned cultivators to operate them.
• Ling Pengyun received the Sea Dragon Riding Sea Grand Array and command of nine Golden Core, nine hundred Foundation Establishment, and nine thousand qi refining cultivators.
• Xing Qing summoned more than a thousand enormous flying boats, and Ling Pengyun recognized that every one was third rank or higher.

Ling Pengyun joined Star Sea Pavilion’s immense fleet as it departed the Star Sea Realm to fight the Sea Flood Dragon Race. The fleet reached a hidden stronghold in the Righteous-Demon Barren Sea Region, where Ling Pengyun learned that the sect had brought a Quasi Fifth Rank Spirit Vein with an Earth Spirit Body to serve as its battlefield base.

• Ling Pengyun sensed a powerful threat within Star Sea Pavilion’s fleet and suspected its flying boats formed a concealed grand formation.
• Old Daoist Xing Qing organized the cultivators aboard the flying boats, and the returned boats brought the assembled force to more than ten million cultivators.
• Old Daoist Xing Qing led the fleet through Reception Valley and out of the Star Sea Realm, after which the boats raced toward the Demon Race territory under concealment.
• The fleet entered the Righteous-Demon Barren Sea Region and reached a vast sea island where Star Sea Pavilion had established an advance position.
• Senior Brother Wang Qiuyang told Ling Pengyun that the sect had moved a Quasi Fifth Rank Spirit Vein with an Earth Spirit Body there to serve as a stronghold against the Sea Flood Dragon Race.

Star Sea Pavilion’s fleet and the Sea Flood Dragon Race’s fleet clashed at sea as both tried to gain the advantage before the World Extinction Calamity. Star Sea Pavilion gained the upper hand, but Grand Elder Hai Yun refused to retreat, fearing that surrendering the initiative would doom his race and disrupt the demon races’ plans.

• Star Sea Pavilion’s fleet met the Sea Flood Dragon Race’s fleet, and both sides deployed powerful Boat Protecting Array Formations that manifested water flood dragons.
• The Star Sea Pavilion array spirit revealed that it was a former Sea Flood Dragon Race elder forced to serve the pavilion after its death and the capture of its descendants.
• Ling Pengyun and the cultivators under his command joined the battle with special arrays as both fleets exchanged attacks.
• Star Sea Pavilion’s Grand Elder Old Array Master Xing Qing exploited a gap in the enemy formation, and the Sea Anemone array spirit destroyed five third-rank flying boats.
• The Sea Flood Dragon Race’s array spirit urged Grand Elder Hai Yun to retreat to Sea Flood Dragon Valley, but Hai Yun refused because retreat would let Star Sea Pavilion surround them and gain the initiative.

Star Sea Pavilion’s fleet battered the Sea Flood Dragon Race’s formation, and Hai Yun scattered his forces to thwart Xing Qing’s plan to trap them at their stronghold. Hai Kui and the Sea Flood Dragon Race’s leaders fought to a draw while Xing Qing sent cultivators after the scattered demon forces, leaving the battle unresolved.

• After months of fighting weakened the Sea Flood Dragon Race’s defensive formation, Hai Yun sent Nascent Soul Demon Lords and their forces away in smaller groups, reducing his fleet to just over four hundred flying boats.
• Xing Qing recognized that Hai Yun’s dispersal had ruined her plan to drive the fleet back to Sea Flood Dragon Valley, then empowered Hai Kui with a spirit treasure and formation power.
• Hai Kui left Star Sea Pavilion’s formation and battered the Sea Flood Dragon Race’s barrier, while its array spirit wondered whether joining Star Sea Pavilion could offer a better path to advancement.
• Hai Yun and the array spirit Hai Dong joined the fight against Hai Kui, and their lightning attacks briefly dimmed Hai Kui’s armor before Hai Kui struck Hai Yun with a hidden mountain spirit treasure.
• Xing Qing ordered Liu Fenghan, Ling Pengyun, and other Nascent Soul cultivators to pursue the forces Hai Yun had dispatched, rejecting a proposal to risk damaging Star Sea Pavilion’s formation by trying to kill Hai Yun and Hai Dong.

Ling Pengyun took Yun Qian Number Two and nearly ten thousand private soldiers to pursue a fleet of Red Crabs, suspecting they were fleeing together because they had a special formation. He trapped the Red Crab formation’s powerful flying sword with his Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River, leaving the Red Crab Demon Lord alarmed by the treasure’s strength.

• Wang Qiuyang lent Ling Pengyun the Yun Qian Lineage’s Fourth Rank flying boat, Yun Qian Number Two, and urged him to call for help if he encountered danger.
• Ling Pengyun led nearly ten thousand private soldiers away from the main force to pursue a fleet carrying thirty to forty thousand Red Crabs and guarded by a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Demon Lord.
• Ling Pengyun used the Flood Dragon Sea Defense Great Array to catch the fleet, but the Red Crabs countered with a formation that summoned a golden flying sword that pierced the Flood Dragon phantom.
• Ling Pengyun brought out his Fourth Rank Superior Grade Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River, trapped the golden flying sword, and then captured the Red Crab Demon Lord’s Red Giant Pincers as well.
• The Red Crab Demon Lord realized Ling Pengyun’s treasure had extraordinary power and prepared to spread word of it while using its treasures to hold him back.

Ling Pengyun used the Yun Qian Number Two Flying Boat’s sword formation to break the Red Crab Race’s defenses and defeat the Red Crab Demon Lord. He agreed to spare the demon lord in exchange for his treasures and a ransom from his race, then left with him imprisoned in the Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River.

• The Red Crab Demon Lord recognized Ling Pengyun and realized nearby demon lords were unlikely to help against his spirit treasure.
• Ling Pengyun activated the Three Thousand Dividing Cloud Sword Formation, shattered the Red Crab Race’s array, and killed its low-ranking Red Crabs.
• The Red Crab Demon Lord offered his race’s reserves and a rare fire jade spirit fruit tree to buy his life, and Ling Pengyun agreed to the exchange.
• Ling Pengyun made the Red Crab Demon Lord hand over everything he carried and swore to release him once the ransom arrived, provided he did not attack him for thirty years.
• Ling Pengyun allowed the Red Crab Demon Lord to send word to his people, then departed with him imprisoned while the watching demon lords speculated about his intentions.