Chapter Summaries

After the Azure Profound Lineage defeated the Ghost Domain’s Superior Grade Evil Ghost Forces, Ling Pengyun organized the new Ghost Veins and arranged for the Ghost Immortal Lamp to nurture spirit ghosts to guard and cultivate them. He also purified the Heavenly Thunder Evil Ghost Clan’s Ghost Vein and Extreme Baleful Yin Yuan Thunder Pool, then had both relocated to the Azure Profound Realm and converted into orthodox treasure lands.

• Ling Pengyun arranged for the Azure Profound Lineage’s cultivators to recover and assigned trusted members to tally the campaign’s gains, including nearly a hundred Fifth Rank Ghost Veins.
• Star Sea Pavilion and other allied forces handed their allocated Ghost Veins to the family to manage in exchange for agreed shares of the profits.
• Ling Pengyun gave the Ghost Immortal Lamp Ghost Dao resources and Evil Ghost Ghost Cores, and promised it half a percent of the Ghost Veins’ profits to nurture spirit ghosts for guarding and cultivating them.
• The Ghost Immortal Lamp began raising spirit ghosts in the Heavenly Thunder Small Mountain Range, producing over a thousand ordinary spirit ghosts and one First Rank spirit-plant cultivator ghost each day.
• Ling Pengyun used the Nether Void Blade to remove the strange restrictive power tainting the Heavenly Thunder Evil Ghost Clan’s Ghost Vein and Extreme Baleful Yin Yuan Thunder Pool.
• Ling Pengyun had Ling Penglin and Starry Sunny Grand Elder relocate the purified treasure lands to the Azure Profound Realm, where orthodox formations and resources made them pure orthodox treasure lands.

Ling Pengyun oversaw the transformation of special ghost lands into Righteous Path treasure lands and saw the Azure Profound Army grow stronger after its recent battles. Confident the army could now challenge powerful Spirit Transformation cultivators, he gathered the Azure Profound Lineage’s leaders and prepared to resume their Ghost Domain campaign, with the Panshi Evil Ghost Clan as their remaining major target.

• Ling Pengyun and the family’s array formation masters turned special ghost lands into Righteous Path treasure lands and preserved the Yin Thunder Grand Array’s ability to strengthen the thunder pool.
• Ling Pengyun relocated more special Ghost Dao treasure lands to the Azure Profound Realm, while the family kept ordinary ghost veins to develop its Ghost Dao.
• Cultivators near Heavenly Thunder Small Mountain broke through in large numbers, and the Azure Profound Army grew substantially stronger by using the gains from its battles.
• Ling Pengyun judged that the army and its Ghost Dao Battle Formation might now contend with Spirit Transformation Completion cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun met with Star Sea Old Ancestor and the Azure Profound Lineage’s other leaders, and they agreed to resume their campaign against the Ghost Domain’s remaining major power, the Panshi Evil Ghost Clan.

Ling Pengyun and the Azure Profound Army joined the Shining Star Immortal Sect’s forces to attack Panshi Small Valley. Panshi Ghost Monarch used the valley’s sudden counterattack as cover to charge the Azure Profound fleet, determined to kill Ling Pengyun and seize the Nether Void Blade.

• Ling Pengyun led the Azure Profound Army toward Panshi Small Valley after agreeing to help the Shining Star Immortal Sect destroy the Panshi Evil Ghost Clan.
• Panshi Ghost Monarch recalled the clan’s past losses and resolved to seize Ling Pengyun’s Nether Void Blade to escape his predicament and pursue advancement in the Myriad Soul Ghost Realm.
• Shining Star Dao Lord ordered his forces to conserve their strength and prepare supplies while they awaited the Azure Profound Army’s arrival.
• Ling Pengyun and Star Sea Old Ancestor joined Shining Star Dao Lord’s forces, and the allied armies began bombarding Panshi Small Valley with overwhelming strength.
• Panshi Ghost Monarch ordered the valley’s defenders to expend their talismans and cover his departure, then equipped the Panshi Axe and Panshi Full Body Armor.
• Panshi Ghost Monarch led physical-combat specialists out of the valley and charged the Azure Profound Flying Ship Fleet, intent on killing Ling Pengyun and taking the Nether Void Blade.

Panshi Ghost Monarch and the Panshi Evil Ghost Clan used a barrage of formation-breaking objects to breach the Azure Profound Flying Ship Fleet’s defenses and then attacked Ling Pengyun, seeking the Nether Void Blade. Ling Pengyun held them off with his armor, treasures, and talismans, then led Azure Profound Army cultivators away from the besieged area.

• Panshi Ghost Monarch and the other body-cultivating evil ghosts launched nearly a hundred Fifth Rank formation-breaking spirit objects at the fleet’s Boat Protecting Arrays, damaging several defenses.
• Ling Pengyun and the Azure Profound Lineage leaders ordered Array Formation Masters to feed Spirit Stones into the damaged arrays, which began repairing themselves.
• Panshi Ghost Monarch led more than ten Spirit Transformation evil ghosts through the breaches and charged Ling Pengyun to seize the Nether Void Blade.
• Ling Pengyun strengthened his Black Flood Dragon Armor, wielded the Primal Chaos Axe, and trapped the attackers temporarily with the Nether Void Blade’s Spatial Domain.
• Ling Pengyun used Fifth Rank Talismans to reinforce his defenses, then led Azure Profound Army cultivators away from the Spatial Domain.

Ling Pengyun and the Azure Profound and Shining Star armies trapped the Panshi Ghost Monarch under a vast barrage of attacks. After the Ghost Monarch broke out of the Ghost Immortal Domain and pursued Ling Pengyun into the Endless Void, Ling Pengyun wore him down and struck at his body and Primordial Spirit, leaving the Ghost Monarch unable to retaliate.

• Star Sea Old Ancestor and the Azure Profound Army joined the Shining Star Dao Lord and his army in bombarding the Panshi Ghost Monarch and his trapped Spirit Transformation Evil Ghosts with talismans and other weapons.
• The Panshi Ghost Monarch used his clan's Strength Enhancement Technique and his reserves of protective items to withstand the assault, then forced his confidants to detonate their Primordial Spirits and used the blasts to weaken the attacks.
• The Panshi Ghost Monarch broke through the Ghost Immortal Domain after five strikes and pursued Ling Pengyun into the Endless Void by tearing through the void at a weak point left by Ling Pengyun's Space Channel.
• Ling Pengyun used the Lingxiao Spirit Ascension Technique to strengthen himself and the Nether Void Blade, trapped the Ghost Monarch in the Nether Void Domain, and sent the armies' talismans after him through a Space Channel.
• As the Ghost Monarch's strength and vital essence ran low, Ling Pengyun pierced his body with blades of space and seized his Primordial Spirit with Spatial Power.

Ling Pengyun gathered Panshi Ghost Monarch’s treasures and returned to the Azure Profound Army in the Ancient Ghost Domain. Yan Siyi and the other cultivators asked what had happened to Panshi Ghost Monarch.

• Ling Pengyun collected Panshi Ghost Monarch’s primordial spirit, Panshi Armor, Panshi Axe, and remaining spirit objects.
• Ling Pengyun planned to refine the Panshi Armor and Panshi Axe into materials to strengthen his own treasures.
• Ling Pengyun used the Nether Void Blade to open a space channel and returned to the Azure Profound Army.
• Yan Siyi, Star Sea Old Ancestor, Shining Star Dao Lord, and the others asked Ling Pengyun what had happened to Panshi Ghost Monarch.

Ling Pengyun showed the allied forces that he had killed the Panshi Ghost Monarch and shared Ghost Dao Spirit Objects to compensate them for the talismans they had used to aid him. The Azure Profound Lineage experts promised him a larger share of any spoils from the campaign, and the forces resumed their assault on Panshi Small Valley.

• Ling Pengyun displayed the Panshi Ghost Monarch's Primordial Spirit, recounted the fight, and distributed ordinary Ghost Dao Spirit Objects among the allied leaders to repay their talismans.
• The Shining Star Dao Lord, the Star Sea Old Ancestor, and the other experts marveled that Ling Pengyun had defeated the powerful Panshi Ghost Monarch, while the Shining Star Dao Lord failed to buy Ling Pengyun's Panshi Axe and Panshi Full Body Armor.
• Ling Pengyun explained to Yan Siyi and the Star Sea Old Ancestor why he had fought the Panshi Ghost Monarch alone instead of opening a Space Channel for reinforcements.
• The Star Sea Old Ancestor and other Azure Profound Lineage experts praised Ling Pengyun for eliminating the Ancient Ghost Domain's only Spirit Transformation Full Completion expert and promised him a larger share of future gains.
• Ling Pengyun accepted their offer, and the forces returned to the battle to encircle Panshi Small Valley and attack the Panshi Evil Ghost Clan's remaining forces.

After the allied forces destroyed the Panshi Evil Ghost Clan in Panshi Small Valley, Ling Pengyun and the Azure Profound Lineage claimed the valley’s valuable ghost resources. The Azure Profound Lineage then offered the Shining Star Immortal Sect a share of the Silver Moon Savage Bear Clan’s Spirit Veins in exchange for letting it claim the Ghost Domain’s treasure lands.

• The Azure Profound Army and the Shining Star Immortal Sect Allied Army broke Panshi Small Valley’s array and wiped out the evil ghosts, while suffering some casualties.
• Ling Pengyun and the other leaders comforted the surviving cultivators, recorded their war merits, and arranged compensation for the fallen fighters’ descendants.
• The allied leaders surveyed the valley and found valuable Ghost Dao resources, including a top-tier Fifth Rank Superior Grade Ghost Vein and a Fifth Grade High-Rank Valley Protecting Grand Array.
• The Shining Star Dao Lord accepted the agreed forty-sixty division, which gave the Ghost Vein to the Azure Profound Lineage, but objected when it sought the array and captured ghosts as well.
• Ling Pengyun and the other Azure Profound Lineage leaders offered the Shining Star Immortal Sect thirty percent of the Silver Moon Savage Bear Clan’s ordinary Spirit Veins in exchange for control of the Ghost Domain’s treasure lands.

Ling Pengyun and the Azure Profound Lineage arranged exchanges of ghost lands for Spirit Lands with the Shining Star Immortal Sect and other forces, bringing them close to controlling the Ghost Domain. After the deals were secured, Ling Pengyun opened a passage to the Heaven River Realm and rallied the Azure Profound Army to attack the Silver Moon Savage Bear Clan.

• Shining Star Dao Lord agreed to exchange the Shining Star Immortal Sect’s Panshi Evil Ghost Clan ghost lands for thirty percent of the Silver Moon Savage Bear Clan’s Spirit Lands after Ling Pengyun explained the Azure Profound Lineage’s plan to defeat the clan.
• Ling Pengyun and the Azure Profound Lineage’s experts resolved to take control of the Ghost Domain and later negotiated exchanges with other forces that had acquired its ghost lands.
• The Azure Profound Lineage and Shining Star Immortal Sect’s allied army swept away the remaining ordinary Evil Ghost Factions, leaving the Azure Profound Lineage in possession of nearly seventy percent of the Ghost Domain’s ghost lands.
• Ling Pengyun learned that the negotiations had succeeded, then used the Nether Void Blade to open a spatial passage from Panshi Small Mountain Range to a border region of the Silver Moon Savage Bear Clan.
• Ling Pengyun called on the Azure Profound Army to join the attack, and the cultivators eagerly agreed to march against the clan.

Ling Pengyun led the Azure Profound Army from the Ghost Domain to the Heaven River Realm, where they conquered Silver Spirit Valley and nearly all of the Silver Moon Savage Bear Clan’s territory. The army surrounded the clan’s final stronghold, and Elder Xing Qing found weaknesses in its powerful protective formation.

• Ling Pengyun brought the Azure Profound Army through the Nether Void Blade’s spatial passage to reinforce Ling Pengxing and Old Daoist Zheng Yuan at Silver Spirit Valley.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Pengxing the Primordial Spirits of sword-skilled evil ghosts and healing treasures to help repair his injured Sword Soul.
• The Azure Profound Army breached Silver Spirit Valley’s formation, slaughtered its defenders, and collected the spoils.
• The Azure Profound Army captured nearly all of the Silver Moon Savage Bear Clan’s Spirit Lands and surrounded the Silver Moon Small Mountain Range.
• After several months of examining the clan’s protective formation, Elder Xing Qing discovered several weak formation nodes.

Ling Pengyun and the Azure Profound Army attacked the Silver Moon Savage Bear Clan’s Clan Protection Array after learning the location of a weak node. Yin Gang rallied the clan to defend it, but the southeastern node began to crack under the concentrated assault.

• Elder Xing Qing revealed the array’s weakness, and Ling Pengyun ordered the Azure Profound Army to attack the southeastern node.
• Star Sea Old Ancestor, Ling Pengyun, and the Withered Bone Evil Ghost Formation Spirit led the army’s assault with powerful spirit treasures and formations.
• Yin Gang recognized the danger, called on the clan to stop the attacks, and used his spirit treasures and Silver Moon Small Mountain to defend the array.
• The Silver Moon Savage Bear Clan’s attacks clashed with the Azure Profound Army’s, but the clan’s forces were overwhelmed.
• The Withered Bone Evil Ghost Formation Spirit and the army’s cultivators struck the weakened node with attacks and Formation Breaking Spirit Objects until cracks spread across it.

Ling Pengyun and the Azure Profound Army exploited a breach in the Silver Moon Savage Bear Clan’s protective formation to devastate the clan and force its survivors to flee aboard their flying boat fleet. Ling Pengyun trapped the fleet with the Nether Void Domain, and after the Silver Astral Bear Lord fell, the Azure Profound Lineage collected the spoils, including the valuable Fifth Grade Peak Spirit Vein.

• Martial aunt Xing Qing’s discovery of a weak point let the Azure Profound Army blast open the Silver Moon Savage Bear Clan’s formation and attack the demon beasts inside.
• As the clan’s defenses collapsed, the Silver Astral Demon Bear ordered the demon beasts to board the Silver Moon Flying Boat Fleet and activated its combined Silver Moon Crescent Array to escape.
• Ling Pengyun used the Nether Void Blade to trap the fleet in the Nether Void Domain while Star Sea Old Ancestor and the other experts reinforced the surrounding restraints and attacked.
• The Azure Profound Army destroyed the fleet’s protection and killed the Silver Astral Bear Lord and the demon beasts aboard.
• Ling Pengyun and Star Sea Old Ancestor’s group collected the flying boat fleet, hunted down demon beasts left behind, and began dividing the spoils, with the Fifth Grade Peak Spirit Vein as the most valuable prize.

After the Azure Profound Army defeated the demon beasts, its cultivators prepared to collect the spoils. Ling Pengyun, Star Sea Old Ancestor, and the army’s other leaders explored the Silver Moon Savage Bear clan’s palace and decided to jointly control its valuable Fifth Grade Peak spirit vein as an Azure Profound Lineage stronghold.

• The Azure Profound Army’s cultivators celebrated their victories and began collecting the demon beasts they had slain.
• Ling Pengyun, Star Sea Old Ancestor, and the other leaders entered the core of the Silver Moon Small Mountain Range and reached the palace atop Silver Moon Small Mountain.
• Ling Pengyun and Star Sea Old Ancestor recognized the palace’s abundant Spirit Energy as a valuable cultivation resource.
• The leaders concluded that no individual or faction could claim the Fifth Grade Peak spirit vein alone.
• Ling Pengyun, Star Sea Old Ancestor, and the other leaders agreed to jointly control the spirit vein and make it a primary Azure Profound Lineage stronghold.

The Azure Profound Lineage divided the Silver Moon Savage Bear Clan’s spoils, secured control of the entire Ghost Domain, and began developing its ghost lands. Ling Pengyun set out to find the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm, while Shining Star Dao Lord assessed the Lineage’s growing strength and the sect’s own prospects.

• The forces divided the Fifth Grade Peak Spirit Vein, and the Ling Clan received forty percent while Star Sea Pavilion received thirty percent and three other alliances received ten percent each.
• Ling Pengyun paid extra to secure the Silver Moon Flying Boat Fleet and its Boat Protection Formation for the Ling Clan, while the allies divided the remaining treasures and Spirit Veins.
• Star Sea Old Ancestor urged Ling Pengyun to search the Withered Bone Demon Sect Ruins for traces of the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm, and Ling Pengyun agreed to use the Nether Void Blade and the recovered treasures to help find it.
• The Azure Profound Lineage exchanged Spirit Lands for all remaining Ghost Domain treasure lands and placed the entire Ghost Domain under its control.
• Ling Pengyun left Ling Pengxing and the Ghost Immortal Lamp in charge of developing the Ghost Domain, then searched for the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm as the Lineage barred outsiders and its Spirit Ghosts began cultivating the ghost lands.
• Shining Star Dao Lord learned of the Azure Profound Lineage’s gains and resolved to use the Shining Star Immortal Sect’s resources to nurture more experts at Spirit Transformation Full Completion.

The Azure Profound Lineage expanded its forces and developed its Heaven River Realm Spirit Lands, while Great Elder Cheng Yuan oversaw the Ling Clan’s Spirit Testing Convention. Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming emerged as exceptional talents and, a century later, became renowned as the Ling Clan Twin Prodigies.

• The Azure Profound Lineage recruited cultivators across the Heaven River Realm, assigned disciples to manage Spirit Lands, and increased its strength and population over several decades.
• Great Elder Cheng Yuan opened the Ling Clan’s annual Spirit Testing Convention and tested thousands of children in the Spirit Testing Grand Hall.
• The testing identified Ling Feixiang, who possessed the White Jade Treasure Body, and Ling Guangming, who possessed the Armor-Breaking Shattered Gold Spirit Body, as promising Spirit Transformation prospects.
• Cheng Yuan arranged for Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming to study under Spirit Transformation cultivators and reassured Ling Guangming that he could visit his parents.
• Over the following century, Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming advanced from Foundation Establishment to Nascent Soul, cultivated and adventured together, and earned the name Ling Clan Twin Prodigies.

Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming wiped out the Adamantine Gong Pig Clan’s three Nascent Soul Savage Pigs in Vajra Valley while Ling Pengyun and Ling Cheng Yuan watched. Ling Pengyun agreed to take the two young cultivators to the Heaven River Realm for training.

• Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming investigated Vajra Valley and found three powerful Nascent Soul Savage Pigs among the Adamantine Gong Pig Clan.
• Ling Feixiang refused to waste their rare Bloodthirsty Bewitching Incense, strengthened his body with his divine ability and medicinal potion, and charged into the cave to attack the elderly Savage Pig.
• Ling Guangming took position on a cliff and supported Ling Feixiang with a barrage of arrows as the two fought and killed all the Savage Pigs.
• Ling Feixiang dismissed his injuries and used his healing medicinal liquids while he and Ling Guangming collected the spoils.
• Ling Pengyun praised the pair’s teamwork after watching with Ling Cheng Yuan, then agreed to take them to the Heaven River Realm for training.

Ling Pengyun brought Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming to the Heaven River Realm, promising Ling Guangming longevity-extending tea leaves for his parents if he reached Nascent Soul Perfection within a hundred years. After settling the two on Azure Profound Mountain, Ling Pengyun returned to the Ghost Domain and focused on advancing his artifact-refining skills to help the Black Flood Dragon Armor attempt another breakthrough.

• Ling Pengyun and Ling Cheng Yuan told Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming to prepare for the Heaven River Realm, and Ling Guangming asked to bring his parents along.
• Ling Pengyun agreed to take Ling Guangming's parents and promised both young cultivators three Fifth Grade Bi Luo Tea Leaves if they reached Nascent Soul Perfection within a hundred years.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Cheng Yuan brought Ling Guangming's parents and the others to the Heaven River Realm through the Nether Void Blade.
• The surviving Adamantine Gong Pigs made a new Golden Core Perfection pig their king, while the family secretly drove away rival Savage Beast clans that threatened them.
• Ling Pengyun arranged Fourth Grade Peak cave abodes for Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming on Azure Profound Mountain, with rent and family missions required.
• Ling Pengyun returned to the Ghost Domain and entered secluded cultivation, determined to improve his artifact-refining skills before the Black Flood Dragon Armor's next attempt to reach Fifth Grade Peak.

Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming accepted a lucrative mission to kill the elusive Nascent Soul demon Shadow Fiend and traveled to Snow Origin Palace to hunt him. They arrived as Shadow Fiend began slaughtering a city to gather materials for a breakthrough pill.

• Ling Guangming asked Ling Feixiang to join him on family missions, and Ling Feixiang agreed, hoping to earn resources through both missions and alchemy.
• At the Azure Profound Affairs Hall, Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming accepted the dangerous mission to kill Shadow Fiend despite a steward's warning.
• The two traveled to Snow Origin Palace's territory and quietly searched for Shadow Fiend without alerting the local force.
• Shadow Fiend targeted a heavily populated mortal city, intending to collect flesh and blood for a breakthrough demonic pill.
• Shadow Fiend breached the city's formation with his Yin Sha Flying Shuttle and slaughtered its cultivators and mortals.

Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming killed the Shadow Fiend Demon, earning rewards and fame for the Azure Profound Lineage as Snow Origin Palace returned from hiding. Ling Pengyun returned to Azure Profound Mountain, where he planned to test his artifact-refining skill before attempting to advance the Black Flood Dragon Armor.

• Snow Origin Palace's leaders fled their territory with cultivators and mortals after learning the Shadow Fiend Demon had attacked a city under their command.
• Ling Guangming tracked the Shadow Fiend Demon while Ling Feixiang fought him at close range; together they killed the demon and captured his Nascent Soul.
• Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming buried the demon's mortal victims, completed further missions, and gained rewards and a growing reputation as the Ling Clan Twin Prodigies.
• Snow Origin Palace's leaders returned after the Azure Profound Lineage announced the demon's death, and grateful powers sent gifts that the lineage passed to Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming.
• Ling Pengyun returned from the Endless Void River to Azure Profound Mountain after advancing his artifact-refining skill, intending to test it before upgrading the Black Flood Dragon Armor.
• Ling Pengyun met Yan Siyi and other senior family members and learned that the Ling Clan had more than thirty Spirit Transformation cultivators and many promising younger talents.

Ling Pengyun learned how the Ling Clan's senior members and resources had developed before returning to Azure Profound Mountain to refine a fifth rank superior grade fire-attribute treasure. He successfully shaped the Crimson Origin Flying Dagger materials into nine daggers, but still had to inscribe their spirit patterns.

• Ling Pengyun reviewed the strengths of the clan's senior cultivators, its vast population and spirit vein holdings, and the promising futures of Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming.
• Ling Pengyun spent time with Yan Siyi and their children, then entered a fifth grade peak cave abode on Azure Profound Mountain to refine artifacts.
• Ling Pengyun activated the Silver Moon Artifact Refining Furnace and began forging the Crimson Origin Flying Dagger from the clan's crimson origin spirit tree materials.
• Ling Pengyun spent nearly half a year purifying the materials, then fused their refining liquids and shaped them into nine wooden flying daggers.
• Ling Pengyun prepared to inscribe spirit patterns on the matched set, the most difficult stage of the refining process.