Chapter Summaries

The five clans negotiated control of a Stone Spirit Walnut Tree and divided the other resources in the captured Rock Armor Ape Mountain Range. They settled in the valley and reported their success to the Hundred Spirits Sect, but remained there to defend the range as the war continued.

• Luo Minghui identified the Second Rank Low Grade spirit tree as a Stone Spirit Walnut Tree, and Ling Yunhong confirmed it.
• Ling Yunhong proposed caring for the tree and giving each of the other four clans five walnuts every fifty years; Luo Minghui secured extra shares by asking Wang Changming and Wen Xianyun to give him one walnut each.
• The five Foundation Establishment Cultivators divided the valley's First Rank spirit fruit trees and twenty-five young Rock Armor Apes among their clans.
• The clans marked their areas, built wooden houses, and used Hundred Spirits tokens to report that they had captured the mountain range.
• The five clans stayed in the valley to defend it from beast hordes and began rotating Qi Refinement cultivators on patrols.

Ling Pengyun received his share of the demon ape spoils, fed a piece of the strongest corpse to his Wind Shadow Peng, and began tending the Ling Clan’s spirit fruit trees in Rock Armor Valley. Meanwhile, the cultivator army reached Demon Python Mountain, where Mo Congxin’s formation killed the Foundation Establishment serpents and pressed the Demon Python King.

• Ling Yunhong awarded Contribution Points for the battle and divided the demon ape spoils, giving Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengxing an extra Qi Training Completion corpse each.
• Ling Pengyun fed a piece of the Qi Training Completion demon ape to his Wind Shadow Peng, stored the remaining corpses, and replenished his spiritual power.
• Ling Pengyun watered the Ling Clan’s four spirit fruit trees and reflected that the valley’s other fruit trees might have been transplanted by the demon apes.
• The cultivator army arrived at Demon Python Mountain, and the Demon Python King led more than ten Foundation Establishment serpents and thousands of Qi Training serpents against it.
• Mo Congxin deployed the Flame Fire Annihilation Formation, killing the Foundation Establishment serpents and intensifying its flames against the Demon Python King.

Mo Congxin captured the Demon Python King, defeated the serpents, and established a formation on Demon Python Mountain for the Hundred Spirits Sect. Far away, a Profound Yang Sect elder warned the dragons of Serpent Dragon Lake about the sect’s expansion, prompting them to gather allies.

• Mo Congxin broke through the Demon Python King's defenses, disrupted its Sea of Consciousness, and placed a Recognition of Ownership Restriction on it.
• The Hundred Spirits Sect's cultivators defeated the Qi Training Demon Serpents and occupied Demon Python Mountain.
• Mo Congxin connected the mountain's spirit vein to his formation and completed the Blazing Sun Sky Sword Formation around the peak.
• A Profound Yang Sect elder visited Serpent Dragon Lake and warned its two Golden Core dragons that the Hundred Spirits Sect would keep taking their territory unless they sought aid.
• The ice dragon took a blue fruit and flew away, while the water dragon summoned demon beasts; nearly a hundred thousand Qi Training beasts and dozens of Foundation Establishment beasts gathered at the lake.

Ling Pengyun learned that demon beasts might soon attack the valley, while Mo Congxin and Wu Tian faced a massive counterattack at Demon Python Mountain. Mo Congxin claimed he could repel the three Golden Core beasts with hidden Earth Flame True Essence, but Wu Tian recognized his greed and resented being underestimated.

• Xiao Tian delivered the Second Rank High Grade Two Elements Vein Accumulation Grand Array to the five Huai River County households and warned that demon beasts might attack soon.
• Luo Minghui set up the array, raising an earthen-yellow barrier over the valley as its artifacts began absorbing Earth Vein power and spiritual energy.
• Two Golden Core flood dragons and the Black Wind Wolf Demon led a vast horde toward Demon Python Mountain, and Mo Congxin and Wu Tian realized the sect faced a dangerous counterattack.
• Mo Congxin told Wu Tian that nine drops of Earth Flame True Essence could help the Blazing Sun Sky Sword Formation unleash eighteen swords against the three Golden Core beasts.
• Wu Tian inferred that Mo Congxin had withheld the Earth Flame True Essence to claim the spoils from the coming battle and resented Mo Congxin's attempt to reassure him.

Mo Congxin used the Blazing Sun Heavenly Sword Grand Formation to severely wound the Ice Flood Dragon and then kill it, while Wu Tian and the puppets held off the Water Flood Dragon and Mo trapped the Black Wind Wolf Demon. As a vast demon beast horde attacked Demon Python Mountain, Mo restored the mountain’s defensive screen, and some beasts split off to strike the other spirit veins.

• Mo Congxin ordered Wu Tian and three Golden Core Puppets to hold back the Water Flood Dragon and Black Wind Wolf Demon while he targeted the Ice Flood Dragon.
• Mo Congxin’s nine Blazing Sun Heavenly Swords shattered the Ice Flood Dragon’s Protective Yuan Qi and damaged its inner core.
• The Ice Flood Dragon attacked the summit, but a second volley of nine swords broke its inner core and cut its body into nine pieces.
• Wu Tian and the three puppets fought the Water Flood Dragon, while Mo Congxin trapped the Black Wind Wolf Demon with the Flame Fire Annihilation Formation.
• Mo Congxin used spirit stones to restore Demon Python Mountain’s defensive screen against the approaching horde of more than one hundred thousand demon beasts.
• Several tens of thousands of Qi Training Demon Beasts and dozens of Foundation Establishment demon beasts split from the horde and headed for the other five spirit veins.

The five clans defending Rock Armor Valley repelled a horde of several thousand demon beasts with the Two Elements Accumulating Earth Grand Array and their combined attacks. After the last beasts were slain, the clans divided the Foundation Establishment demon beast remains according to their strength, leaving the defense successful and the alliance intact.

• Ling Pengyun saw that the approaching horde included eight Foundation Establishment demon beasts and more than two thousand Qi Training demon beasts as the five clans gathered to defend Rock Armor Valley.
• Luo Minghui used the Rock Earth Seal to kill six Foundation Establishment demon beasts, then led the Luo Clan in trapping the two surviving Late-Stage Foundation Establishment snake demons in the Flame Fire Burning Extermination Grand Array.
• Ling Pengyun attacked the Golden Pattern Pythons and Phosphorus Armor Pythons with his Earthly Fiend Sword Formation and Water Arrow Technique, while the other clans' Foundation Establishment cultivators and the Flame Cloud Tiger slaughtered the Qi Training horde.
• The valley defenders wiped out the Qi Training demon beasts without casualties, then killed the two trapped snake demons and divided the Foundation Establishment demon beast remains among the five clans.
• The Luo Clan received the two Late-Stage Foundation Establishment remains, the Ling Clan received the two Middle-Stage remains, the Liu Clan received two Early-Stage remains, and the Wang and Wen Clans each received one.

After the Hundred Spirits Sect defeated the demon beast counterattack and killed an ice dragon, Ling Pengyun calculated the Contribution Points he could earn from his spoils. Ling Yunhong told the Ling Clan that they could leave Rock Armor Valley or spend the next year hunting in the Serpent Dragon Lake region, and he invited them to join him.

• Ling Pengyun counted his demon beast corpses and determined that, after keeping materials for the Wind Shadow Peng and weapon refinement, he could earn enough Contribution Points for a bottle of Cloud Forest Spirit Water.
• At Demon Python Mountain, Mo Congxin drove away the Black Wind Wolf Demon, then joined Wu Tian and three Golden Core Puppets to wound the water dragon and force it to retreat with the surviving demon beasts.
• A Hundred Spirits Sect disciple brought news of the victory to Rock Armor Valley and showed the five clans a recording of Mo Congxin killing the ice dragon.
• Ling Yunhong summoned the Ling Clan cultivators and confirmed that the front-line battle had ended in victory and that the Hundred Spirits Sect would accept demon beast corpses for Contribution Points for another year.
• Ling Yunhong announced that the Ling Clan could return home or hunt in the Serpent Dragon Lake region, and he said he would venture there to earn Contribution Points for Hundred Spirits Water for the clan’s Immortal Spirit Crane.

After leaving Rock Armor Valley, the Ling Clan traveled deep into the Serpent Dragon Lake region to hunt demon beasts and earn the right to buy a shop in Ice Flood Dragon Market Town. The chapter left Ling Yunhong’s group hiding in a desolate valley after the Immortal Spirit Crane King located a nearby place rich in spiritual energy.

• Ling Rufan and four other elderly clansmen insisted on joining the hunt, and Ling Yunhong agreed to lead the clan into the lake region after their relief arrived.
• After the Hundred Spirits Sect took over Rock Armor Valley, the Ling Clan traveled to Ice Flood Dragon Market Town, exchanged demon beast corpses for Contribution Points, and Ling Pengyun bought Cloud Forest Spirit Water.
• The Ling Clan learned that it would need to hand over five Foundation Establishment demon beasts to qualify to buy a market shop, so Ling Yunhong made such beasts their primary targets.
• Ling Yunhong led the thirty-one cultivators deeper into the lake region after they found that other cultivators had already cleared the nearer spirit veins of demon beasts.
• After traveling more than six thousand li, Ling Yunhong hid the clan in a desolate valley and sent the Immortal Spirit Crane King to search for nearby spirit veins; the crane soon returned after finding a spiritually rich location.

Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengxing led a Ling Clan group to exterminate a Fireball Rat swarm and secure its spirit vein. After the group quickly killed the rats and found no other treasures, Ling Pengyun gave a young Fireball Rat to Ling Xiaoming and led everyone to rejoin Ling Yunhong's group.

• Ling Yunhong split the clan forces, sending Ling Pengyun and Ling Pengxing with twelve clansmen and the Immortal Spirit Crane King to attack the Fireball Rats while he led the others against the Demon Wolf Pack.
• Ling Pengyun's group reached the rat nest, set up the Binding Demon Array and Golden Needle Array, and killed the rats that rushed out.
• Ling Pengyun searched the nest and found a newborn Fireball Rat, which Ling Xiaoming asked to keep and received.
• Ling Pengyun found no other spiritual objects in the nest and led his group out to rejoin Ling Yunhong.

Ling Yunhong and eighteen Ling Clan cultivators defeated a pack of wolf demons, only to be attacked by hundreds of Golden Feathered Sparrows. As the clan struggled to hold off the flock, Ling Penglin used her essence blood to amplify the Earthen Soil Transformation Curtain Formation and restore its failing defenses.

• Ling Yunhong led the Ling Clan members in killing an Early-Stage Foundation Establishment wolf demon and more than a hundred Qi Training wolf demons without suffering casualties.
• A flock of hundreds of Golden Feathered Sparrows arrived, including two Early-Stage Foundation Establishment birds, and Ling Yunhong ordered the clan to fight rather than flee.
• Ling Yunhong killed nearly eighty sparrows with his flying swords while Ling Yunqian’s Azure Wood Binding Demon Array restrained the two Foundation Establishment birds.
• The sparrows broke through Ling Xiaohua’s Blazing Fire Array and battered the Earthen Soil Transformation Curtain Formation, forcing Ling Yunhong to use a magical shield while fighting the two leaders.
• Ling Penglin spent her essence blood to cast Spirit Array Amplification, restoring and strengthening the Earthen Soil Transformation Curtain Formation.

Ling Pengyun and the other Ling Clan members joined Ling Yunhong’s battle against the Golden Feathered Sparrows and helped defeat the flock. Afterward, Ling Yunhong decided the weakened Qi Training cultivators should return to Huai River County while Ling Pengyun, Ling Pengxing, and Ling Xiaohua stayed to hunt demon beasts and help the Immortal Spirit Crane King advance.

• Ling Penglin used her blood essence to strengthen the Earthen Soil Transformation Curtain Formation while Ling Yunhong fought the Foundation Establishment Golden Feathered Sparrows.
• Ling Pengyun spotted the battle and led his group of twelve to support Ling Yunhong, killing more than fifty Golden Cloud Sparrows with their surprise attack.
• Ling Pengyun’s group entered the formation and helped kill both Foundation Establishment Golden Feathered Sparrows and the rest of the flock.
• Ling Yunhong led the clan members back to their concealed valley and ordered the weakened Qi Training cultivators to return to Huai River County the next morning.
• Ling Yunhong ordered Ling Pengyun, Ling Pengxing, and Ling Xiaohua to stay, gave them Azure Wood Binding Demon Array flags to refine, and divided the battle spoils, leaving Ling Pengyun with twelve demon beast corpses worth more than seventy Contribution Points.

Ling Pengyun refined an Azure Wood Binding Demon Array Flag, used Cloud Forest Spirit Water to greatly advance Thorn Vine’s cultivation, and practiced his spells while waiting in the valley. After Ling Yunhong returned, the clan members agreed to divide future demonic beast hunting profits seventy-thirty, with Ling Yunhong receiving the larger share.

• Ling Pengyun fed Rock Armor Ape flesh to the Little Wind Shadow Peng and estimated that the remaining meat could sustain its cultivation for about a year.
• Ling Pengyun spent three days refining the Azure Wood Binding Demon Array Flag Ling Yunqian had given him.
• Ling Pengyun fed Thorn Vine a mouthful of Cloud Forest Spirit Water and spent three days guiding it as it refined the spiritual power, advancing its cultivation by at least twenty years.
• Ling Yunqian gathered the group to practice activating the Azure Wood Binding Demon Array after Ling Xiaohua finished refining his flag.
• Ling Yunhong returned to the valley and proposed dividing hunting profits equally between himself and the nine array controllers.
• Ling Yunqian, Ling Rufan, and the others proposed giving Ling Yunhong seventy percent, and Ling Yunhong accepted their suggested split.

Ling Yunhong led the Ling Clan to attack a boar demon herd and then a group of Earth Demon Tigers. The tiger group counterattacked under its Foundation Establishment Tiger King, and the chapter ended with Ling Yunqian urging the clansmen to strengthen their array as the tigers broke its vines.

• Ling Yunhong learned from the Immortal Spirit Crane King about three demon beast groups and chose to attack the boars and Earth Demon Tigers, leaving the larger snake den alone.
• Ling Yunhong and the clansmen trapped and swiftly killed more than thirty Qi Training Stage boar demons in their mud pool.
• Ling Yunhong went ahead alone and killed two Qi Training Late Stage Earth Demon Tigers, provoking the Foundation Establishment Tiger King and twelve more tigers to charge toward the Ling Clan party.
• Ling Yunhong returned to the clansmen, prepared his sword array and golden shield, and had Ling Pengyun and the others set their Azure Wood Binding Demon Array flags.
• Ling Yunhong and Ling Yunqian activated the array against the thirteen tigers; Ling Yunhong's sword torrent killed two, while the Tiger King shielded the rest and broke free of the vines.
• Ling Yunqian told the clansmen to pour more spiritual power into their array flags to keep the tigers at a distance.

Ling Yunhong’s group captured and killed an Earth Demon Tiger pack, then later agreed to Liu Daozhou’s proposal to hunt a den of Flame Tigers together. The chapter ended with the two clans set to meet at dawn and attack the Flame Tigers.

• Ling Pengyun and the other Ling Clan members strengthened the Azure Wood Binding Demon Array, allowing Ling Yunhong to break the Earth Demon Tiger King’s defenses and kill it and the rest of the pack.
• The Ling Clan members collected the tiger corpses and searched the lair, storing several immature spirit herbs for planting back at the clan.
• The Immortal Spirit Crane King spotted Liu Daozhou riding a Foundation Establishment Flame Cloud Tiger toward the Ling Clan’s temporary camp and alerted Ling Yunhong.
• Liu Daozhou proposed that the Ling Clan help hunt twenty-three Flame Tigers, offering Ling Yunhong the two Foundation Establishment inner cores and all twenty-one Qi Training tiger corpses.
• Ling Yunhong accepted Liu Daozhou’s proposed division of the spoils, and Liu Daozhou arranged to meet the Ling Clan west of the camp at dawn.

Ling Yunhong and Liu Daozhou led their clans in a coordinated assault on a Flame Tiger pack, defeating its Qi Training demons and two Foundation Establishment leaders. After the battle, both clans remained wary of each other as Ling Yunhong ordered the Ling cultivators to dismantle their formation and search the battlefield.

• Ling Yunhong and the Ling cultivators met Liu Daozhou and his Qi Training clansmen, then followed them deeper into the forest to find the Flame Tiger nest.
• Ling Yunhong prepared his Earthly Fiend Sword Formation while Ling Yunqian deployed the Azure Wood Binding Demon Array, and Liu Daozhou armed Huo Yun as Liu Clan Beast Tamers strengthened their spirit beasts.
• The Azure Wood Binding Demon Array trapped the Qi Training Flame Tigers, while Ling Yunhong battled the Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment tiger king and Huo Yun fought the other Foundation Establishment Flame Tiger.
• The Liu Clan cultivators and their spirit beasts killed all twenty Qi Training Flame Tigers, then helped Huo Yun and Liu Daozhou slay the Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Flame Tiger.
• Liu Daozhou and his allies joined Ling Yunhong against the remaining tiger king, which Ling Yunhong cleaved in half with his sword formation.
• The Ling and Liu cultivators stayed on guard after the battle, and Ling Yunhong told the Ling cultivators to withdraw their formation and search the battlefield.

After the Ling and Liu clans found the Flame Tiger nest, Ling Yunhong accepted six hundred spirit stones for the three cubs and led his clansmen away. Six months later, winter had made demon beast packs difficult to find, and Ling Yunhong proposed returning to the clan mountain after they had earned enough Contribution Points for Hundred Spirits Water.

• Ling Yunhong pressed Liu Daozhou to search the Flame Tiger nest, and the two clans agreed that the Liu Clan would keep the three cubs in exchange for six hundred spirit stones.
• Ling Yunhong and Liu Daozhou entered the nest, confirmed that three Flame Tiger cubs were there, and completed the exchange before their clans parted ways.
• Ling Yunhong had the Immortal Spirit Crane King check whether the Liu Clan followed them, then moved his group to a new wilderness valley.
• Six months later, the Immortal Spirit Crane King returned from a fruitless search for demon beast packs in the snow.
• Ling Yunhong explained that winter, the loss of Ling Pengyun's Spirit Seeking Rat, and the high price of replacements made further hunting too risky, and he proposed returning to the clan mountain.

Ling Pengyun and the Ling Clan elders ended their demon-beast hunt in the Serpent Dragon Lake region and returned safely to Lingxiao Mountain. They spent their Contribution Points, checked on the clan’s market-town shops, and were welcomed home with a celebratory feast.

• After a Foundation Establishment bear demon killed Ling Pengyun’s Spirit Seeking Rat, Ling Yunhong and the group killed the bear and agreed to return to the clan.
• Ling Yunhong led the ten clan members out of the Serpent Dragon Lake region and turned in their demon-beast corpses at Ice Flood Dragon Manor, earning 750 Contribution Points; Ling Pengyun spent his share on five First Rank High Grade spirit fruits.
• The clan members purchased resources with their Contribution Points, while Ling Yunhong completed a private transaction at Ice Flood Dragon Manor.
• Ling Yunhong and the group visited the Ling Clan’s shops in Ice Flood Dragon Market Town and told Ling Yunfu they were returning to the clan.
• The ten clan members reached Lingxiao Mountain, reported their return to Ling Ruda, and joined the clan’s younger and elderly members, women, and children for a grand feast.

Ling Yunhong presented the Hundred Spirits Water he had obtained to the clan elders and proposed giving it to the Immortal Spirit Crane King. After the crane king agreed to try for Foundation Establishment again, Ling Yunhong fed it the water and stayed to guard its slumber.

• Ling Yunhong showed Ling Ruda, Ling Yunxi, and Ling Yunqian the bottle of Hundred Spirits Water he had exchanged for at Serpent Dragon Lake.
• Ling Yunhong proposed giving the water to the Immortal Spirit Crane King in recognition of its long service to the Ling Clan, and the elders agreed.
• Ling Ruda offered Ling Yunhong Mystic Water Iron from the Clan Repository to help him refine a Lifebound Magic Item.
• Ling Yunhong went to the Lingxiao Back Mountain and asked the Immortal Spirit Crane King if it would attempt Foundation Establishment again.
• The Immortal Spirit Crane King agreed, drank the Hundred Spirits Water, and returned to its nest to fall asleep as Ling Yunhong began guarding it.

Ling Pengyun traveled to Lingyun Mountain to relieve Ling Rucong, who told him about the mountain’s spirit plants and his growing Fruit Flower Bee colony. Ling Rucong handed over the mountain’s defenses and cultivation notes before leaving, and Ling Pengyun took over the post.

• Ling Pengyun visited Cloudwater Market Town to reassure his parents, then traveled to Lingyun Mountain and explained that all thirty-one clan members had returned safely from hunting demonic beasts.
• Ling Rucong told Ling Pengyun that the Fruit Flower Bee King had reached the Qi Training Middle Stage and that the colony now had forty-three ranked worker bees.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Rucong five jin of Fruit Flower Honey, and they shared a meal of dishes made with Azure Spirit Bamboo Shoots.
• Ling Rucong reviewed Lingyun Mountain’s spirit fields and plants with Ling Pengyun, then handed him the Azure Leaf Array formation plate, its Azure Spirit Sword, and a book of spirit-plant insights.
• Ling Rucong advised Ling Pengyun to begin watering the plants the next day and left Lingyun Mountain on a flying magical item.

Ling Pengyun checked the progress of his spirit beasts and the Spirit Fields on Lingyun Mountain, then directed the Fruit Flower Bee King to use its honey to nurture worker bees. He returned to the Bamboo House and spent the following days refining the Azure Leaf Array’s formation plate and Azure Spirit Sword.

• Ling Pengyun found that three Earth-Turning Earthworms had raised the Spirit Soil in five mu of fields from Grade D to Grade C, and one had advanced to the Qi Training Third Layer.
• Ling Pengyun inspected the Fruit Flower Bee hive and found nearly a thousand ordinary bees and forty-five Qi Training worker bees, including five at the Qi Training Second Layer.
• Ling Pengyun ordered the Fruit Flower Bee King to reserve forty-five jin of honey each year to nurture the five Second Layer worker bees and demanded they reach the Qi Training Middle Stage within three years.
• Ling Pengyun returned to Lingyun Mountain and began refining the Azure Leaf Array’s formation plate and Azure Spirit Sword, continuing the work over the following days.