Chapter Summaries

The Ling Clan began preparing to expand its population and cultivate its growing younger generation, while Star Sea Pavilion continued converting the clan’s captured Demonic Veins into Spirit Veins. A newly converted Spirit Valley marked progress, though the larger vein-refinement effort was still underway.

• The Sea Cloud Sect Master envied the Quasi Fifth Rank Spirit Fields at Linghai Mountain, then returned to his cave abode to cultivate toward Nascent Soul Completion.
• The Star Yuan Array Formation Master guided Ling Penglin in array formations, accepted three Fourth Rank Gathering Yuan Pills from Ling Pengxing, and left to help refine the Ling Clan’s captured Demonic Veins.
• Ling Chengyuan announced rewards for clan members who had children with Spirit Roots, prompting a clan-wide push to expand the population and a search for suitable Dao Companions.
• At a council meeting, Ling Chengyuan proposed expanding Lingxiao Academy to guide the many future young clan members, and Ling Chengxia’s support led the other elders to agree.
• A Star Sea Pavilion cultivator finished converting a Demon Valley into a Spirit Valley and sent a Message Talisman; several dozen Ling Clan cultivators hurried to the site.

Ling Clan branches flourished as they received spirit lands, while Ling Pengxing returned to the Ghost Mountain Range to help the Ghost Immortal Lamp build a powerful array. At Lingxiao Mountain, Old Clan Head Ling Yunhong began his attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, leaving his success uncertain.

• A Ling Clan Foundation Establishment cultivator warned his branch that it had to produce a future Foundation Establishment cultivator to keep its newly granted Second Rank spirit land.
• Ling Penglin advanced toward Fourth Rank array formation mastery after receiving guidance from Xing Yuan, and Ling Chengxin joined Ling Chengxia at Linghai Mountain while Ling Pengxing returned to the Ghost Mountain Range.
• The Ghost Immortal Lamp told Ling Pengxing to help bury Ghost Dao spirit objects so it could establish a Fourth Rank Superior Grade Ghost Raising Grand Array.
• Ling Pengcheng evacuated the elderly cultivators from Lingxiao Mountain to protect Ling Yunhong's seclusion as the old clan head prepared to break through.
• Ling Yunhong broke through his bottleneck, consumed Nascent Soul Spirit Objects, and began condensing his Golden Core into a Nascent Soul.

Ling Yunhong completed his breakthrough on the fifth day of the Spiritual Qi Tide and emerged from seclusion as a Nascent Soul cultivator with a Superior Grade Nascent Soul. After his clan celebrated, he reflected on the support that had carried him through centuries of cultivation and returned to his cave residence to plan his future.

• Ling Qingmeng ordered the Flame Spirits at the Quasi Fourth Rank Spirit Volcano to guard Ling Yunhong's breakthrough, while Ling Pengcheng explained how the strengthened volcano had helped them cultivate.
• Ling Yunhong split off one-third of his soul, fused it with his Golden Core to form a False Nascent Soul, and used the Fourth Rank Middle Grade Mountain Protection Formation to withstand the tribulation lightning.
• The tribulation's sweet dew gathered into Ling Yunhong's cave residence, completing his breakthrough and transforming the False Nascent Soul into a true Nascent Soul.
• Ling Yunhong reflected on the dangers he had faced and the help Ling Pengyun and other clansmen had given him, then ended his seclusion.
• Ling Qingmeng and Ling Pengcheng congratulated Ling Yunhong and learned that he had condensed a Superior Grade Nascent Soul; he then returned to his cave residence to plan for the future.

After Ling Yunhong entered the Nascent Soul realm, he devoted himself to advancing his alchemy while Ling Pengcheng and Ling Qingmeng pursued their own cultivation goals. The Northern Wilderness forces accepted the Ling Clan and Sea Cloud Immortal Sect’s growing power, and Ling Chengxin began cultivating Quasi Fifth Rank Gathering Yuan Grass at Linghai Mountain.

• Ling Yunhong began seclusion to improve his Fourth Rank alchemy, expecting his success rate to rise with continued practice.
• Ling Pengcheng brought Liu Qin and their children to Lingxiao Mountain, urged Liu Qin to advance her cultivation, and supervised his children’s training before entering seclusion to pursue the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Ling Qingmeng admired Ling Yunhong and cultivated in the lava of Quasi Fourth Rank Nether Fire Spirit Mountain, determined to reach the Nascent Soul realm and serve the Ling Clan.
• Heavenly Talisman True Lord learned that the Ling Clan had gained a Nascent Soul cultivator and joined the Sea Cloud Immortal Sect in transforming the demonic vein; he decided to offer congratulations and strengthen ties with both forces.
• Nascent Soul forces across the Northern Wilderness gathered at Linghai Mountain to offer gifts, while Ling Chengxin tended Quasi Fifth Rank Gathering Yuan Grass seedlings in the mountain’s spirit fields.

Ling Pengyun broke through to the nascent soul late stage in body cultivation after refining the Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor’s flesh, then sought help upgrading his body-refinement treasures. The Star Sea Old Ancestor agreed to refine them and asked whether Ling Pengyun had forged them himself.

• Zhao Tao praised Ling Chengxin’s rapidly improving spirit-planting skills and continued advising her.
• Ling Chengxia assessed his cultivation gains and the progress of his three golden flood dragons, while Ling Lihao focused on talisman arts after Golden Wing Mountain’s defenses became safer.
• Surrounded by righteous cultivators near the Heavenly Corpse Demon Sect, Ling Pengyun broke through to nascent soul late stage in body cultivation using the Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor’s flesh.
• Ling Pengyun and Yan Siyi tested his new strength, finding that his physique rivaled a fourth rank superior grade defensive artifact and could tear apart same-stage demonic beasts.
• Ling Pengyun summoned the Star Sea Old Ancestor to improve his Five Elements Mixed Origin Armor and Five Elements Profound Piercing Blade, and the Old Ancestor agreed before asking if Ling Pengyun had forged them himself.

Star Sea Old Ancestor reforged Ling Pengyun’s Five Elements Mixed Origin Armor and Five Elements Mixed Yuan Saber to Quasi Fifth Rank, then Ling Pengyun joined the Righteous Path Coalition’s assault on the Heavenly Corpse Demon Sect. After the sect’s protective formation collapsed, Ling Pengyun charged inside to confront the Heavenly Corpse Sect Master.

• Star Sea Old Ancestor used his weapon-refinement skills to reforge Ling Pengyun’s armor and saber to Quasi Fifth Rank, while Ling Pengyun observed and learned.
• Ling Pengyun received guidance from Star Sea Old Ancestor, entered seclusion, and resolved his weapon-refinement problems.
• Starry Sunny Grand Elder told Ling Pengyun that the Righteous Path Coalition was ready to destroy the Heavenly Corpse Demon Sect, and Ling Pengyun agreed to join the attack.
• The Righteous Path Coalition besieged the Heavenly Corpse Demon Sect, whose depleted defenders failed to stop the coalition’s attacks.
• The coalition broke through the sect’s protective formation, and Ling Pengyun charged toward the Heavenly Corpse Sect Master to kill him.

Ling Pengyun killed the Heavenly Corpse Demon Sect’s Nascent Soul Completion Guardian Demon Corpse and its Sect Master, then salvaged their treasures while the Righteous Path Coalition overwhelmed the sect. He refined the seized demon treasures into materials for his Primal Chaos Armor and Saber and began opening the Sect Master’s Storage Bags.

• Ling Pengyun used his four Transformation God Foundation Spirit Treasures to fend off the Guardian Demon Corpse’s demonfire and the Heavenly Corpse Sect Master’s demon treasures.
• Ling Pengyun defeated the Guardian Demon Corpse in close combat with his Primal Chaos Saber, captured its demon soul, and stored its remains.
• Ling Pengyun crushed the Heavenly Corpse Sect Master with the Five Elements Long River, collected his remnant soul, remains, Storage Bags, and demon treasures, and left the remaining battlefield to the Righteous Path cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun used Five Elements Profound Thunder to remove the demonic qi from the seized demon treasures and gave the resulting materials to his Primal Chaos Armor and Saber to refine.
• Ling Pengyun took out the Heavenly Corpse Sect Master’s Storage Bags and began tempering their restrictions with his divine sense.

Ling Pengyun discovered the Heavenly Corpse Demon Sect’s hidden treasures, fed its Corpse Raising banner to the Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River, and helped the Righteous Path coalition plunder the sect. The coalition’s leaders then disputed the spoils at Heavenly Corpse Mountain, ultimately allowing Ling Pengyun and the Star Sea Pavilion to claim its quasi fifth-rank demonic vein while the other forces discussed the formation.

• Ling Pengyun found the quasi fifth-rank Gathering Yin Heavenly Corpse Banner among the Heavenly Corpse Sect Master’s treasures and ordered the Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River to devour it.
• The Righteous Path coalition slaughtered the remaining demonic cultivators, recorded battle merits, and gathered the fallen cultivators’ remains and spoils.
• Starry Sunny Grand Elder led Ling Pengyun and the other leaders into the sect’s treasury and scripture repository, where they divided millions of items and many demonic inheritances.
• Ling Pengyun claimed thirty percent of the sect’s recovered wealth and considered how his clan might eventually obtain a quasi fifth-rank composite formation.
• At Heavenly Corpse Mountain, Starry Sunny Grand Elder proposed that the Star Sea Pavilion and Ling Pengyun take the demonic vein while the other forces received the quasi fifth-rank formation.
• Old Monk Wu Yuan objected, but the other Spirit Transformation forces accepted the arrangement after receiving special items, then discussed ownership of the formation.

After the Righteous Path forces conquered the Heavenly Corpse Demon Sect, Ling Pengyun helped search for the Crimson Buddha Demon Sect’s hidden secret realm, but the four World Stabilizing Realm Arrays failed to find it. Starry Sunny Grand Elder proposed combining the arrays’ power at the cost of consuming their origins, and the major forces agreed to take the risk.

• The Extremely Cold Immortal Palace obtained the damaged quasi fifth-rank demonic array after yielding benefits, and Ling Pengyun and the other Righteous Path leaders divided the remaining demonic veins.
• Starry Sunny Grand Elder called on the assembled cultivators to help destroy the Crimson Buddha Demon Sect, and they agreed before she and the other Spirit Transformation leaders began searching with four World Stabilizing Realm Arrays.
• Ling Pengyun traveled with Starry Sunny Grand Elder and the others as they searched, while Crimson Buddha Old Demon secured a quasi fifth-rank Aura Concealment Array from the Xu Tian Flame Demon Tiger Emperor to hide the Crimson Buddha Small Secret Realm.
• Over the following years, Ling Pengyun and the Righteous Path forces found and plundered dozens of lesser secret realms, but they still failed to locate the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm.
• Starry Sunny Grand Elder proposed temporarily combining the four arrays to rival a fifth-rank array, warning that their origins would take at least a thousand years to recover, and the major forces agreed to proceed.

Starry Sunny Grand Elder merged four Quasi Fifth Rank World Stabilizing Realm Arrays into a temporary Fifth Rank array, and the Righteous Path began using it to search for the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm. As the search neared its end, Crimson Buddha Old Demon rallied his sect to defend the secret realm and sought help from the Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse, who refused to attack the array.

• Starry Sunny Grand Elder combined the four World Stabilizing Realm Arrays, and Ling Pengyun and the other cultivators praised her work before guarding her as she recovered.
• Starry Sunny Grand Elder strengthened the temporary Fifth Rank array, allowing the Righteous Path to search half the Crimson Buddha Realm in less than half a month.
• Crimson Buddha Old Demon asked the Xu Tian Flame Demon Tiger Emperor and other demon experts for aura-concealing methods, but they refused and discussed preparing to aid his sect if it faced disaster.
• Crimson Buddha Old Demon returned to the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm and ordered its cultivators to gather at Realm Mountain to defend the entrance.
• Crimson Buddha Old Demon informed the Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse that the Righteous Path had obtained a Fifth Rank World Stabilizing Realm Array, but the Heavenly Corpse refused to attack it.

Crimson Buddha Old Demon and Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse prepared for the impending siege while the Righteous Path coalition located the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm and forced open a channel to attack it. The chapter ended with both sides settling into a war of attrition as the demonic leaders sacrificed mortals to restore their strength.

• Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse drove Crimson Buddha Old Demon away, then considered using him to restore its damaged Heavenly Demon Hammer but chose to conserve its strength instead.
• Ling Pengyun and the Righteous Path forces found the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm hidden in the Void River and established a Space Channel to it.
• Starry Sunny Grand Elder led the coalition in holding back the secret realm’s counterattacks while Ling Pengyun, Old Monk Wu Yuan, White Cloud Old True, and Cold Yin Old Lady Monarch bombarded its Fifth Rank Array Formation.
• Crimson Buddha Old Demon reassured the demonic cultivators guarding Realm Mountain while privately fearing their array would fail, then left with Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse to drain the mortals in cities and villages.
• After hours of fighting, Starry Sunny Grand Elder ordered the Righteous Path cultivators to rest in rotation, and both sides continued the siege as a contest of reserves.

Ling Pengyun’s Hundred Treasures River refined the Corpse Raising Long Banner and completed its Heavy Water Dao Intent, displaying Spirit Transformation-level might as it battered the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm’s defensive formation. As the demonic defenders sought aid, the Crimson Buddha Old Demon emerged with greatly increased but unstable cultivation and headed for another empty city rather than the battle.

• Ling Pengyun’s Hundred Treasures River finished refining the Corpse Raising demonic banner and awakened with complete Heavy Water Dao Intent.
• The treasure’s aura stunned both sides, and Ling Pengyun warned off anyone who might try to seize it while the Star Sea Old Ancestor promised protection.
• Ling Pengyun sent the Hundred Treasures River to attack the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm’s Fifth Rank formation, and its blow cracked the weakening barrier.
• Demon Head Yin Sha saw the demonic forces panicking and crushed a token to seek aid from the Old Ancestors.
• The Crimson Buddha Old Demon emerged from an empty city with powerful but unstable cultivation, then traveled to another deserted city instead of supporting the battle.

Ling Pengyun joined the Righteous Path Coalition’s Spirit Transformation battle against the Crimson Buddha Demon Sect, which initially went badly for the demons. The Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse emerged with a restored Demon Hammer, but Ling Pengyun suppressed it with his Heaven-Shocking Profound Thunder before the corpse charged into battle at Nascent Divinity Middle Stage.

• A Fifth Rank demon sword from the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm’s grand array attacked Ling Pengyun’s Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River, and Star Sea Old Ancestor’s Sea Flood Dragon Banner joined the fight against it.
• Crimson Buddha Old Demon brought out the Crimson Demon Flying Sword, prompting White Gold Old Dao Lord, Supreme Buddha Lord, and Icy Cold Empress Lord to reveal themselves and fight alongside the Righteous Path cultivators.
• Black Flood Dragon Old Ancestor, Sea Flood Dragon Old Ancestor, and Xu Tian Flame Demon Tiger Emperor arrived to aid the demons, while the Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse secretly absorbed the essence of corpses deep inside the secret realm.
• After several days of battle, the Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse emerged with a restored Demon Hammer and began overpowering the Righteous Path’s treasures.
• Ling Pengyun used the Five Elements Spirit Burning Art and a Heaven-Shocking Profound Thunder to suppress the Demon Hammer and refine its demonic origin.
• The Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse charged through the Space Channel in full armor, revealing cultivation at Nascent Divinity Middle Stage and astonishing Ling Pengyun.

Ling Pengyun struggled to hold back the Nascent Divinity Middle Stage Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse until Elder Xing Qing sacrificed the Star Sea Pavilion’s quasi fifth-rank combination formation to devastate it. The corpse survived the blast and charged again, but Ling Pengyun’s attacks pinned it down once more.

• The Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse attacked Ling Pengyun while the other Spirit Transformation fiends tied down the righteous cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun used his spirit treasures and a second Grand Five Elements Thundercloud to suppress the corpse, despite the strain on his cultivation and sea of consciousness.
• Elder Xing Qing rallied the righteous cultivators to power the formation, while Old Monk Wu Yuan, White Cloud Old True Lord, and Cold Yin Old Lady Monarch blocked demonic attacks.
• Elder Xing Qing ordered Ling Pengyun to withdraw his attacks, then detonated the combination formation against the Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse.
• The Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse survived the blast with severe wounds and charged Ling Pengyun again, but Ling Pengyun’s attacks pinned it down.

Ling Pengyun sacrificed much of his lifespan and cultivation to unleash a devastating thunder strike that gravely wounded the Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse. As the weakened corpse pressed its attack, Zheng Yuan, Dao Lord, revealed himself and intervened with the Righteous Path Alliance’s sword formation.

• Starry Sunny Grand Elder risked her remaining lifespan and joined Ling Pengyun in holding back the Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse.
• Ling Pengyun burned his blood, lifespan, and cultivation to combine twelve thunderclouds and strike the Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse, destroying part of its body and reducing its cultivation.
• Ling Pengyun suffered severe injuries and lost most of his remaining lifespan, but he and Starry Sunny Grand Elder continued fighting the wounded corpse.
• The Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse seized the Demon Hammer, broke through the defenders’ attacks, and charged at Ling Pengyun.
• The Star Sea Old Ancestor called out Zheng Yuan, Dao Lord, who revealed himself beside Ling Pengyun and attacked the Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse with the Righteous Qi Sword and Righteous Sword Formation.

Ling Pengyun recovered from his grievous injuries while the Star Sea Pavilion’s battle array turned the ordinary battlefield in the Righteous Path’s favor, leaving the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm’s defenses close to breaking. He learned that the sect had ample war supplies and that the Star Sea Old Ancestor had obtained rare medicines to restore his foundation and extend his life.

• Ling Pengyun assessed his shattered meridians, Nascent Soul, and Sea of Consciousness, then planned to rely on Ling Chengxin’s Longevity Enhancing Spirit Apricot Tree to replenish his and Starry Sunny Grand Elder’s lost lifespan.
• Starry Sunny Grand Elder activated the Star Sea Sword Yuan Grand Array and other flying-boat arrays, shielding the Righteous Path Coalition and relieving its weakened cultivators.
• The Righteous Path forces overwhelmed the demonic cultivators, while the Star Sea Old Ancestor gained the advantage until another Spirit Transformation demon tiger arrived and restored balance on that battlefield.
• Over the following years, the Righteous Path continued battering the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm’s Territory Protection Grand Array, and Ling Pengyun learned from Starry Sunny Grand Elder that the Star Sea Pavilion had several years of war supplies.
• Starry Sunny Grand Elder asked about Ling Pengyun’s injuries, and the chapter revealed that the Star Sea Old Ancestor had secured a Fifth Rank Extremely Cold Spring Jade Pill and a Fourth Rank Pure Origin Hundred Spirits Fruit for him.

Ling Chengxin’s Spirit Apricot Tree reached Fourth Rank Middle Grade and produced six Longevity Enhancing Spirit Apricots, allowing Ling Pengyun and Starry Sunny Grand Elder to restore their lifespans. With his strength and prospects renewed, Ling Pengyun continued recovering while Starry Sunny returned to the battlefield, and Ling Chengxin devoted herself to cultivation after being sent home.

• Ling Pengyun told Starry Sunny Grand Elder that his injuries had healed enough for him to cultivate and fight again, though he worried she had only a few years left to live.
• Ling Chengxin used rare breakthrough treasures to help her Spirit Apricot Tree reach Fourth Rank Middle Grade, where it produced six high-grade Longevity Enhancing Spirit Apricots.
• Ling Chengxin delivered the fruit to Ling Pengyun on the battlefield, and he sent her back to safety despite her wish to stay and care for him.
• Ling Pengyun gave three Spirit Apricots to Starry Sunny Grand Elder and consumed the other three, adding more than two hundred years to each of their lifespans.
• Starry Sunny Grand Elder returned to the war and strengthened the Righteous Path Coalition’s formations, while Ling Pengyun entered seclusion to heal his Nascent Soul and divine soul.
• Ling Chengxin returned home and focused on cultivation so she could eventually help her parents.

The Xu Tian Flame Demon Tiger Emperor and the other demon reinforcements abandoned the failing defense of the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm, then returned to help Crimson Buddha Old Demon kill the Icy Cold Empress Lord. Star Sea Old Ancestor saved her divine soul and led the Righteous Path Coalition into the breached secret realm, where Crimson Buddha Old Demon was captured and the Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse escaped.

• The Xu Tian Flame Demon Tiger Emperor withdrew with the other demon Spirit Transformation cultivators as the Righteous Path battered the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm's weakened array.
• Crimson Buddha Old Demon unleashed his Blood Demon Small Sword, breaking the Icy Cold Empress Lord's defenses, and the returning demons destroyed her body and seized her divine soul.
• Star Sea Old Ancestor rescued the Icy Cold Empress Lord's divine soul and remains, then fought the demons until the Xu Tian Flame Demon Tiger Emperor escaped severely wounded.
• The Righteous Path broke through the Territory Protection Grand Array and entered the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm.
• The Crimson Flame Heavenly Corpse used a secret art to escape, while Star Sea Old Ancestor captured Crimson Buddha Old Demon's divine soul and led the coalition to subdue the secret realm.

The righteous forces defeated the Crimson Buddha Demon Sect and divided its treasures, with Star Sea Pavilion and Ling Pengyun acquiring the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm. In the years that followed, the Northern Wilderness Righteous Path expanded into Demon Race territory, while the Ling Clan strengthened its position and gained two new Nascent Soul cultivators.

• Star Sea Old Ancestor trapped and slaughtered the demonic cultivators in the Crimson Buddha Secret Realm after Crimson Flame Demon Corpse Old Ancestor fled.
• Star Sea Old Ancestor, Ling Pengyun, and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators negotiated shares of the spoils, then Star Sea Pavilion and Ling Pengyun exchanged their shares for the secret realm.
• The major forces discovered that Crimson Flame Old Demon and Crimson Buddha Old Demon had refined two-thirds of the secret realm's mortal population, intensifying resentment toward demonic cultivators.
• After Star Sea Pavilion approved a campaign against the Demon Race, the Northern Wilderness Righteous Path seized territory in the Boundless Great Swamp and grew into more than a dozen Nascent Soul forces.
• Ling Chengmie and Ling Penglin entered the Nascent Soul realm, with Ling Penglin also advancing to Fourth Rank array mastery and forming a Superior Grade Nascent Soul.

Ling Pengyun’s family strengthened its array formations and spirit-vein resources while Star Sea Old Ancestor cultivated Linghai Mountain’s Quasi Fifth Rank spirit vein and checked on Ling Pengyun’s recovery. Elsewhere, Ling Chengxia and Ling Chengmie raided a Rock Soul Toad stronghold to secure resources for themselves and their spirit beasts.

• Ling Pengyun’s family benefited from Ling Penglin’s Fourth Rank array formation skills, and nearly half of the demonic veins Ling Pengyun had obtained were tempered into spirit veins.
• Star Sea Old Ancestor used demonic-vein origin power to strengthen Linghai Mountain’s Quasi Fifth Rank spirit vein, then left Xing Qing to continue cultivating it.
• Star Sea Old Ancestor visited Ling Pengyun and learned that his meridian injuries had mostly healed, with full recovery expected in half a year.
• Ling Chengxin and a Star Sea Pavilion spirit plant farmer expanded the Quasi Fifth Rank spirit fields, while Yan Siyi broke through to the Nascent Soul Late Stage using high-rank resources.
• Ling Chengxia and Ling Chengmie broke the array guarding a Rock Soul Toad clan stronghold, killed its Nascent Soul Demon Lord, and took its body and Nascent Soul for cultivation resources.