Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun traded the Red Crab Demon Lord’s freedom for a vast cache of spirit objects, including two valuable spirit fruit trees, and escorted the crabs safely away. The ransom left the Red Crab Race nearly bankrupt, and the Red Crab Demon Lord began considering how to regain strength by targeting weaker Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Ling Pengyun examined the spirit treasures he had seized from the Red Crab Demon Lord and insisted that the ransom exchange take place near Star Sea Island.
• The Red Crab Demon Lord’s dao companion arrived with a large collection of spirit objects, including a Quasi Fourth Rank Fire Jade Spirit Fruit Tree and a Fourth Rank Crimson Flame Profound Yuan Fruit Tree.
• Ling Pengyun judged the ransom worth roughly ten million battle merits and agreed to release the Red Crab Demon Lord.
• Ling Pengyun escorted the Red Crab Demon Lord and its dao companion to the Sea Flood Dragon Race’s base, then departed.
• The Red Crab Demon Lord lamented that the ransom had nearly emptied its race’s treasury and considered attacking weaker Nascent Soul cultivators to acquire spirit treasures.

The World Extinction Calamity spread across the Cultivation Worlds as demon and devil forces launched attacks, leaving the Northern Wilderness righteous forces badly outnumbered. At Golden Winged Mountain, Yan Siyi prepared a powerful fire divine ability to help break the siege while Ling Pengyun remained missing.

• The Spirit Transformation demon and devil forces tied down righteous powers across several Cultivation Worlds, while the Black Flood Dragon Lake Clan attacked the Northern Wilderness with the aim of reclaiming its territory.
• Old True Lord Yun Qian and the Nascent Soul cultivators at Three Immortals Marketplace struggled to hold off a superior force of Demon Lords and feared they could last only five years without reinforcements.
• The Black Flood Dragon Lake Clan besieged the Ling Clan at Golden Winged Mountain with ten million demon beasts, while Ling Pengcheng and Yan Siyi defended the mountain and Ling Pengyun remained absent.
• The veteran Nascent Soul Late Stage Demon Lord warned other besieging forces that Ling Pengyun had not appeared at the Ling Clan and might be acting elsewhere.
• Yan Siyi used fire-element Special Spirit Objects from Ling Pengyun to improve her divine abilities, then condensed the Raging Flames Shattering Cone to attack the besieging demons.

Yan Siyi used two Fourth Rank formations, talismans, and the Ling Clan’s spirit ghosts to kill two Nascent Soul Middle Stage Demon Lords and turn the battle in the clan’s favor. She negotiated with the Ghost Immortal Lamp for aid, and it joined Ling Pengxing to trap the remaining demons in corrosive black mist.

• Yan Siyi activated the formation at Golden Yang Mountain, while Ling Pengcheng and Ling Lihao helped hold back the other Demon Lords with spirit ghosts and talisman arts.
• Yan Siyi unleashed thirty Fourth Rank Great Strength Sea Whale Talismans to kill one Nascent Soul Middle Stage Demon Lord and capture its Nascent Soul, then used their remaining power to kill a second.
• With Yan Siyi depleted, the two formations and the clan’s other fighters kept the remaining Nascent Soul Middle Stage Demon Lord and two Nascent Soul Late Stage Demon Lords at a disadvantage.
• Yan Siyi asked the Ghost Immortal Lamp to help eliminate the remaining Demon Lords and bargained to give it one Nascent Soul Late Stage Demon Lord’s Nascent Soul, as well as the Nascent Soul of the surviving middle-stage demon.
• The Ghost Immortal Lamp agreed, joined Ling Pengxing beyond the mountain, and released a vast, corrosive black mist that trapped the three Demon Lords and tens of millions of demon beasts.

Ghost Immortal Lamp used Ghost Immortal Domain to turn demon beasts into powerful blood souls, shifting the battle around Golden Winged Mountain in the Ling Clan’s favor. As the demon lords fought back and one charged toward Ling Pengxing to seize the lamp, Ghost Immortal Lamp met the attack with its black mist.

• Ghost Immortal Lamp’s black mist corroded the demon beasts, while their mutated souls merged into a Golden Core Completion Thousand Jun Blood Soul that advanced to Nascent Soul after devouring more beasts.
• Yan Siyi recognized the technique as Ghost Immortal Domain, and Ghost Immortal Lamp sent the Nascent Soul Middle Stage blood soul to attack the demon lord in the sky.
• Ghost Immortal Lamp created a second Nascent Soul Initial Stage blood soul, kept other blood souls as nourishment, and summoned seven Nascent Soul Spirit Ghosts to join the battle.
• The demon lords realized the Ling Clan had sixteen Nascent Soul combatants and became greedy for Ghost Immortal Lamp, then used powerful abilities and trump cards to regain ground.
• The strongest Nascent Soul Late Stage demon lord broke through the encirclement and charged at Ling Pengxing, and Ghost Immortal Lamp met it with the Ghost Immortal Black Mist.

The Ghost Immortal Lamp and Ling Pengxing defeated a powerful tiger Demon Lord and helped Yan Siyi’s clan win the battle outside Golden Winged Mountain. After the remaining demon beasts were killed, the clan began dividing the spoils and preparing to replenish its Fourth Rank Talismans.

• The Ghost Immortal Lamp trapped the tiger Demon Lord in Ghost Immortal Black Mist, and Ling Pengxing shattered its defenses with the Black Phantom Treasure Mirror, leaving it mindless.
• The Ghost Immortal Lamp gave the tiger’s body and Nascent Soul to Ling Pengxing for Yan Siyi, then sent him to recover his Ghost Power.
• The Ghost Immortal Lamp assisted Yan Siyi and her clan in defeating the two remaining Demon Lords, and Yan Siyi gave it one Nascent Soul Late Stage beast’s remains and the Nascent Souls of two Demon Lords to nurture into spirit ghosts.
• The Ghost Immortal Lamp killed the remaining four to five million demon beasts, collected their souls, and gave their corpses to the Ling Clan before going into seclusion.
• Yan Siyi assigned the hides and blood of two Nascent Soul beasts to Ling Lihao, who estimated he could craft at least twenty-four Fourth Rank Talismans from them.

After the Ling Clan agreed to turn two demon lords’ flesh into spirit food and divided their spirit treasures, Yan Siyi gave the Moon Shadow Wolf King two of her old treasures to strengthen him for the world-ending calamity. She secured his promise to aid the clan and considered a dangerous plan to reinforce nearby allies before the Black Flood Dragon Clan attacked again.

• Yan Siyi, Ling Lihao, and Ling Pengcheng agreed to make fourth-rank spirit food from the demon lords’ flesh, with Ling Lihao and Ling Pengcheng giving Yan Siyi the larger share.
• Yan Siyi and the two men divided the demon lords’ spirit treasures, giving Yan Siyi the strongest pair and Ling Pengcheng the remaining pair.
• Yan Siyi entered the Moon Shadow Secret Realm and gave the Moon Shadow Wolf King a fourth-rank flying sword and defensive magic shield.
• Yan Siyi told the Moon Shadow Wolf King that the clan would need his help in the calamity, and he promised to fight for them.
• Yan Siyi learned that reinforcements had strengthened the Black Flood Dragon Clan and anticipated another attack, so she weighed sending Ling Clan forces to support nearby Nascent Soul factions and the front lines.

Ice Thousand Old Flood Dragon recruited Xu Jin Old Demon to attack the Ling Clan after the Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor refused to intervene. Xu Jin reached Golden Winged Mountain and began assaulting its defenses, leaving Ling Lihao worried that Grandma Si Yi’s plan to lure away the enemy might fail.

• Ice Thousand Old Flood Dragon learned that five Demon Lords sent against the Ling Clan had died and persuaded the Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor to seek outside help.
• The Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor refused to fight personally but issued a decree asking the allied Nascent Soul Completion demons and devils for aid.
• Xu Jin Old Demon accepted the task to avenge his Golden Tiger Lineage clansman and brought two Nascent Soul Middle Stage tigers with him.
• Xu Jin left the siege at Three Immortals Marketplace, weakening the demons’ advantage there, and traveled to the Ling Clan’s territory.
• Xu Jin discovered multiple fourth-rank formations at Golden Winged Mountain and attacked, while the Ling Clan’s cultivators rallied to reinforce the defenses.
• Ling Lihao recognized that Grandma Si Yi had anticipated the enemy’s arrival and worried that her plan to lure it away might fail.

The Ling Clan’s forces rescued Heavenly Star Pavilion from the demon siege at Extinguish Bear City as part of Yan Siyi’s plan to rally nearby Nascent Soul forces. Heavenly Star Old True Lord and Liu Haochan hesitated to join the plan to reinforce Three Immortals Marketplace, fearing another encounter with powerful Spirit Transformation demons.

• At Golden Winged Mountain, Xu Jin Old Demon suspected the Ling Clan had sent its strongest fighters elsewhere and dispatched two Nascent Soul Middle Stage tiger demons to investigate nearby battlefields.
• Ling Lihao realized the two demons could disrupt Yan Siyi’s plan, but Xu Jin Old Demon’s communication blockade left him unable to warn the clan.
• Yan Siyi, Ling Pengcheng, Ling Pengxing, and the Moon Shadow Wolf arrived near Extinguish Bear City and used the Ghost Immortal Lamp to check for hidden demons.
• Yan Siyi contacted Heavenly Star Old True Lord and Liu Haochan, who trapped the three demon lords attacking the city until her group arrived and killed them.
• Heavenly Star Old True Lord gave Yan Siyi four gift boxes of Gathering Yuan Pills, then he and Liu Haochan hesitated when she proposed the Villages Encircle the Cities Plan because they feared the dangers at Three Immortals Marketplace.

Yan Siyi and her allies recruited Heavenly Star Old True Lord, destroyed several demon forces, and reinforced the Maple Leaf Li Family. The deaths of several demons led Xu Jin Old Demon to suspect a hidden group and head toward the Li Family, where Yan Siyi’s group was already fighting.

• Yan Siyi and Heavenly Star Old True Lord agreed to cooperate, divided the spoils from the three slain Demon Lords, and left True Lord Liu Haochan to clear the beasts outside Extinguish Bear City.
• True Lord Liu Haochan drove off a Void Sky Demon Flame Tiger scout, then warned Yan Siyi’s group; the scout’s report and the death of another scout made Xu Jin Old Demon suspect hidden attackers and rush toward the Maple Leaf Li Family.
• Ling Lihao realized Xu Jin Old Demon was likely heading for the Maple Leaf Li Family and sent a message to warn Yan Siyi.
• Yan Siyi’s group reached the Maple Leaf Li Family, killed a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Demon Lord, and helped the Crimson Flame Fire Phoenix’s forces turn the battle against the remaining demons.
• The Crimson Flame Fire Phoenix called for the two trapped Demon Lords to be killed, and Yan Siyi’s group slew them and shared the corpses with the Li Clan.

After defeating the demon lords at Border City, Yan Siyi learned that a Nascent Soul Completion Void Sky Demon Flame Tiger was heading for Maple Leaf City, so she persuaded the city's defenders to join the Ling Clan and Heavenly Star Pavilion's larger plan. Xu Jin Old Demon arrived and attacked the city, leaving the defenders to face its powerful Void Sky Demon Flame Mirror.

• The Crimson Flame Fire Phoenix gave Yan Siyi and the others Scarlet Flame Treasure Iron, and they divided the defeated demon lords' spoils among themselves.
• Ling Lihao told Yan Siyi that Xu Jin Old Demon was heading toward Maple Leaf City, prompting her to inform the gathered True Lords and propose that the Phoenix join their plan to reinforce the front line.
• The Crimson Flame Fire Phoenix agreed to join the plan, and the group entered Maple Leaf City to prepare for the threat.
• Xu Jin Old Demon arrived, examined the city's defenders, and attacked from beyond the city's reach with several powerful strikes.
• Yan Siyi and the others combined their spirit treasures to block the attacks, but Xu Jin Old Demon brought out its Void Sky Demon Flame Mirror and began corroding their treasures with demonic fire.

Xu Jin Old Demon attacked Maple Leaf City but retreated after Ling Pengyun’s Avatar Spirit Talismans revealed the power of his Five Elements technique. Yan Siyi then ordered the Ghost Immortal Lamp to capture Xu Jin Old Demon, leaving him bound and unable to contact his allies.

• Xu Jin Old Demon recognized the two cultivators summoned by Yan Siyi as Ling Pengyun’s Avatar Spirit Talismans and dismissed them as no threat.
• The two avatars unleashed Five Elements Obliteration Nihility Orbs that devoured and destroyed Xu Jin Old Demon’s Sui Jin Demon Flame Spear.
• Xu Jin Old Demon feared provoking Ling Pengyun and turned to flee, but Yan Siyi told the Ghost Immortal Lamp to act.
• The Ghost Immortal Lamp sent its Iron Chain after Xu Jin Old Demon, restrained him, and dragged him toward Extinguish Bear City.
• Xu Jin Old Demon failed to contact his clan because the Ghost Immortal Lamp had concealed its Ghost Immortal Domain around the area.

Yan Siyi and Maple Leaf City's allies battered Xu Jin Old Demon with coordinated attacks, but he survived and prepared to seize the Ghost Immortal inheritance. The Ghost Immortal Lamp then unleashed the Ghost Immortal Domain, which collapsed the space around Xu Jin Old Demon and left his fate unclear.

• Xu Jin Old Demon awaited reinforcements from the Black Flood Dragon Lake Clan while fighting the defenders of Maple Leaf City.
• Twelve Nascent Soul Spirit Ghosts appeared, and Yan Siyi ordered the assembled cultivators to unleash their strongest attacks on Xu Jin Old Demon.
• The first barrage shattered Xu Jin Old Demon's talismans and badly damaged his defensive Spirit Treasure, but he survived; Yan Siyi rallied the fighters for another assault and asked the Ghost Immortal Lamp to help.
• The Ghost Immortal Lamp enveloped the battlefield in black mist and manifested the Ghost Immortal Domain, while Xu Jin Old Demon recognized the technique and activated Void Sky Demon God Transformation.
• The Ghost Immortal Domain suddenly exploded, collapsing the space around Xu Jin Old Demon and leaving him dumbfounded.

Yan Siyi used the Ghost Immortal Lamp to kill Xu Jin Old Demon and evacuate Maple Leaf City before the surrounding void destroyed it. She then recruited the Crimson Flame Fire Phoenix to help Spirit Treasure Academy, while the Void Sky Demon Flame Tiger Clan learned of Xu Jin’s death and sent someone to investigate.

• The Ghost Immortal Lamp pulled Xu Jin Old Demon’s remains from the Endless Void, gave Yan Siyi his corpse and offered to build a bridge so Maple Leaf City’s cultivators could escape.
• Yan Siyi persuaded the Crimson Flame Fire Phoenix and the city’s cultivators to cross the Ghost Immortal Bridge after showing them Xu Jin’s remains and the shattered space outside.
• Yan Siyi claimed she had killed Xu Jin with a quasi fifth-rank treasure talisman from Star Sea Pavilion, and the Crimson Flame Fire Phoenix gave her fourth-rank spirit objects in compensation.
• The Ghost Immortal Lamp destroyed Maple Leaf City after its people escaped, and the Crimson Flame Fire Phoenix rebuilt a city elsewhere before agreeing to accompany Yan Siyi to support Spirit Treasure Academy.
• The Void Sky Demon Flame Tiger Clan discovered that Xu Jin Old Demon’s Life Tablet had shattered, and its Second Elder sent a clansman to investigate his death in the Northern Wilderness Cultivation World.

Yan Siyi gathered Nascent Soul allies and ambushed a demon and devil squad sent to hunt the hidden threat, while Old True Lord Yun Qian prepared to support her. The chapter ended with Yun Qian leading the puzzled cultivators deeper into Three Immortals Marketplace instead of breaking out through its besiegers.

• Yan Siyi recruited Spirit Treasure True Lord and led nineteen Nascent Soul combatants north after securing the ordinary Nascent Soul forces.
• Yan Siyi's group killed three Nascent Soul Late Stage Demon Lords, prompting Ice Thousand Old Flood Dragon and two Nascent Soul Completion allies to send ten powerhouses to hunt them.
• Old True Lord Yun Qian recognized the danger and led the marketplace's Righteous Path cultivators in an attempt to stop the departing demons and devils, but the squad broke free with injuries.
• Yan Siyi's group trapped the ten-powerhouse squad in Heavenly Star Old True Lord's formation and attacked, but struggled to overcome their opponents.
• Yan Siyi crushed a Mother-Child Token to request help, and Old True Lord Yun Qian led Nascent Soul cultivators deeper into Three Immortals Marketplace to provide support.

Old True Lord Yun Qian used a concealed teleportation formation to bring reinforcements to Yan Siyi and the Ling Clan, revealing a long-planned trap for the strongest demons and devils of the Black Flood Dragon Lake Clan. The battle turned decisively in the righteous cultivators’ favor, leaving only two Nascent Soul Completion enemies alive and hoping Ice Thousand would realize they were in danger.

• Old True Lord Yun Qian activated a concealed Fourth Rank Teleportation Grand Formation and warned ten Nascent Soul cultivators to strike quickly after reaching the support battlefield.
• Old True Lord Yun Qian and the reinforcements arrived to find Yan Siyi and the Ling Clan fighting ten powerful demons and devils, including two Nascent Soul Completion combatants.
• The righteous cultivators joined the battle, and the demons and devils realized Old True Lord Yun Qian had lured them into a trap and blocked their communications.
• Yan Siyi and the reinforcements killed a Nascent Soul Middle Stage demon lord, then gained a growing advantage over the remaining enemies.
• After hours of fighting, only the Sea Flood Dragon Race flood dragon and a Nascent Soul Completion devil from the Crimson Flames Buddhist Sect remained, and they hoped Ice Thousand would learn of their deaths and come to their aid.

Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor learned that hidden Nascent Soul cultivators had slain the demon forces sent to hunt them, leaving his Northern Wilderness forces in danger. He persuaded the other Spirit Transformation demon forces to send more reinforcements, though they had to prepare for the possibility that Righteous Path Spirit Transformation cultivators were behind the hidden attackers.

• Ice Thousand Old Flood Dragon warned Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor that their forces were trapped between the hidden cultivators and the Righteous Path defenders inside Three Immortals Marketplace.
• Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor suspected the hidden force was bait intended to draw him into a trap, then decided to seek help from the other Spirit Transformation demon forces.
• Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor contacted the Sea Flood Dragon Race, the Boundless Demon Territory Clan, and the Crimson Buddha Demon Sect, and they argued over their endangered Nascent Soul reinforcements.
• The Boundless Demon Territory Demon Lord urged the other forces to send five Nascent Soul Late Stage powerhouses apiece and equip them with powerful treasures or protective methods.
• The Sea Flood Dragon Old Ancestor and the Crimson Buddha Demon Sect's Devil Master reluctantly agreed to provide the reinforcements and rare protective resources.

Yan Siyi and Old True Lord Yun Qian’s plan to lure out the Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor failed after the demons recognized the trap, though the righteous forces killed several powerful demons. Yun Qian then warned the Ling Clan that their Spirit Ghosts could make them targets and explained he was protecting Yan Siyi for the sake of his successor, Peng Yun.

• The Sea Flood Dragon Old Ancestor confirmed that its Nascent Soul Completion clansman had died and worried that the loss would weaken its clan in a future conflict with Star Sea Pavilion.
• Yan Siyi and the righteous Nascent Soul cultivators killed the remaining demons they had lured out, but the Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor did not appear.
• Old True Lord Yun Qian collected the two Nascent Soul Completion demons’ corpses and treasures, while Yan Siyi’s group received the spoils of three Nascent Soul Late Stage demons.
• Yun Qian proposed a counterattack, but the demon forces retreated before the righteous cultivators could pursue, so he called off the plan and told everyone to prepare for more fighting.
• Yun Qian kept Yan Siyi and the other Ling Clan cultivators behind and advised them to use fewer Spirit Ghosts so they would not attract hostile attention.
• Yun Qian explained that he was helping Yan Siyi because she was Peng Yun’s wife and he wanted to protect the future successor of his lineage.

Yan Siyi and her companions settled into a cultivation cave in Three Immortals Marketplace after Old True Lord Yun Qian gave her a powerful talisman and affirmed his support for Ling Pengyun’s future leadership. When Bai Ming tried to buy the Ling Clan’s Nascent Soul Spirit Ghosts, Yan Siyi refused, and the clan prepared for the coming World Extinction Calamity.

• Old True Lord Yun Qian gave Yan Siyi a Quasi Fifth Rank Sword Sea Piercing Light Talisman for protection and asked her to cook Spirit Food for him in the future.
• Sea Cloud True Lord welcomed Yan Siyi, Ling Pengcheng, and Ling Pengxing and led them to a cave abode with dense spiritual energy.
• Bai Ming visited the group to ask about buying their ten Nascent Soul Spirit Ghosts, but Yan Siyi said they belonged to Star Sea Pavilion and could not be sold.
• Other righteous-path Nascent Souls also asked to buy Spirit Ghosts, and Yan Siyi and her companions turned them away using the same explanation.
• Yan Siyi prepared to cook Spirit Food while Ling Pengcheng and Ling Pengxing trained, and the Ling Clan’s Nascent Soul Spirit Ghosts refined spirit treasures to strengthen themselves for the coming calamity.

The reinforced demon alliance launched a renewed assault on Three Immortals Marketplace, gaining the upper hand while the defenders settled into a war of attrition. Yan Siyi secured time to attempt a breakthrough to Nascent Soul Middle Stage, while Ling Lihao observed that the Ling Clan’s territory remained peaceful.

• Fifteen Nascent Soul Late Stage demons arrived as reinforcements, and Ice Thousand Old Flood Dragon arranged for the alliance to attack Three Immortals Marketplace after three days and paid the newcomers for their aid.
• The four-sided demon alliance attacked Three Immortals Marketplace with tens of millions of beasts, and Ice Thousand Old Flood Dragon saw Yan Siyi and other Righteous Path cultivators defending the city while Liu Haochan was absent.
• Old True Lord Yun Qian organized a rotating defense as the marketplace held against the demons, and Yan Siyi asked him to adjust her duties so she could enter seclusion.
• Yan Siyi gave Old True Lord Yun Qian Fourth Rank Spirit Food, received his approval to pursue a breakthrough, and entered seclusion with twenty portions of spirit food.
• At Golden Winged Mountain, Ling Lihao found the Ling Clan’s territory peaceful and reflected that Yan Siyi and the others had kept the demon forces occupied at Three Immortals Marketplace.

Ling Lihao continued preparing Fourth Rank Talismans while the demon-devil forces remained locked in a long war over Three Immortals Marketplace. On Mountain Sea Island, the besieged Han Clan faced defeat until a powerful force arrived and its mysterious expert killed the enemy’s Golden Core Completion Demon King.

• Ling Lihao used demon beast materials from Yan Siyi’s group to draw dozens of Fourth Rank Talismans, while Yun Qian’s restrictions kept knowledge of the hidden Teleportation Array from spreading.
• Ice Thousand Old Flood Dragon urged leaders of three allied forces to use their powerful treasures and Spirit Transformation methods against Three Immortals Marketplace, but they refused and the siege remained a protracted war.
• The demon-devil forces besieged Mountain Sea Island, leaving the Mountain Sea Han Family with few surviving holdings and no reply to its requests for aid from the main family.
• Ling Chengshi told Han Qianhua that the clan might have to fight or break out, though either choice risked the lives of thousands of cultivators and hundreds of thousands of mortals.
• An enormous flying vessel arrived with ten thousand cultivators, and its mysterious expert killed the Golden Core Completion Demon King with Five-Colored Thunder that destroyed only its soul.
• Han Qianhua recognized the expert’s Pure Yang Five Elements Profound Lightning and asked Ling Chengshi whether the newcomer was a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor from the main family, while Ling Chengshi looked delighted.