Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun successfully refined the Crimson Origin Flying Daggers into a powerful set of Fifth Rank Superior Grade Spirit Treasures and gave them to Yan Siyi, then produced three more treasures over the next decade. He began reforging his Black Flood Dragon Armor to Fifth Rank Peak, leaving the chapter as he carefully strengthened its artifact patterns.

• Ling Pengyun inscribed artifact patterns on nine wooden daggers, suppressed their violent resistance, and refined them into the Crimson Origin Flying Daggers.
• The flying daggers survived a powerful treasure tribulation and became top-tier Fifth Rank Superior Grade Spirit Treasures.
• Ling Pengyun gave the daggers to Yan Siyi, then refined three more Fifth Rank Superior Grade Spirit Treasures and distributed them among clan cultivators.
• After nearly ten years, Ling Pengyun began reforging the Black Flood Dragon Armor, purifying its material and preparing to perfect its artifact patterns.
• Ling Pengyun used his divine sense and special techniques to suppress resistance as he began strengthening the armor's artifact patterns.

Ling Pengyun completed the Black Flood Dragon Armor’s core artifact patterns and endured a powerful tribulation with the help of three formations and his other treasures. The armor reached Fifth Grade Peak, and Ling Pengyun turned his attention to advancing his offensive Spirit Treasures.

• Ling Pengyun perfected the Black Flood Dragon Armor’s Fifth Grade Peak Spirit Gathering pattern, then used the Lingxiao Spirit Ascension Art to suppress it while he refined the remaining patterns.
• Ling Pengyun completed the armor’s core and auxiliary patterns, reshaped the molten metal into armor, and summoned a powerful Spirit Treasure Tribulation Cloud.
• Ling Pengyun deployed three Fifth Rank Peak Grade formations and his Spirit Treasures to weaken the final purple-gold lightning bolt, then struck it with the Primal Chaos Axe until it dispersed.
• The Black Flood Dragon Armor survived the tribulation and reached Fifth Grade Peak, gaining exceptional durability and the ability to store enough spiritual power to restore Ling Pengyun’s reserves several times over.
• Ling Pengyun assessed the armor’s strength and noted that the Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River and Primal Chaos Axe might reach Fifth Grade Peak after another decade of nurturing.

After successfully refining a Fifth Grade Peak treasure, Ling Pengyun took commissions from Star Sea Old Ancestor and Old Daoist Zheng Yuan to reforge their Natal Spirit Treasures. He successfully raised both of Star Sea Old Ancestor’s treasures to Fifth Grade Peak, greatly increasing the old ancestor’s strength.

• Star Sea Old Ancestor asked Ling Pengyun to reforge the Star Sea Flying Sword and Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner, and Ling Pengyun agreed despite estimating low odds of success.
• Over the following years, Ling Pengyun also accepted a commission to reforge Old Daoist Zheng Yuan’s Fifth Grade High-Rank Natal Flying Sword and studied all three treasures’ reforging methods.
• Ling Pengyun and Star Sea Old Ancestor failed twice while reforging the Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner, but succeeded on their third attempt and helped it survive its treasure tribulation.
• The Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner became a Fifth Grade Peak spirit treasure, and Star Sea Old Ancestor tested its formidable strength.
• Ling Pengyun and Star Sea Old Ancestor reforged the Star Sea Flying Sword successfully on their second attempt, and it also survived its tribulation and reached Fifth Grade Peak.
• With both treasures upgraded, Star Sea Old Ancestor’s strength surged, giving him confidence that he could contend with Shining Star Dao Lord.

Ling Pengyun reforged several powerful spirit treasures for Star Sea Old Ancestor and Old Daoist Zheng Yuan, earning great rewards and advancing his artifact-refining skill to Fifth Grade Peak. After successfully raising two of his own treasures to the same grade, he planned to seek more materials in the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.

• Star Sea Old Ancestor paid Ling Pengyun generously after he reforged the Star Sea Flying Sword and Star Sea Flood Dragon Banner to Fifth Grade Peak, then secluded himself to temper his spiritual power with them.
• Old Daoist Zheng Yuan asked Ling Pengyun to reforge the Zheng Yuan Flying Sword, and they succeeded on their second attempt, raising it to Fifth Grade Peak.
• Ling Pengyun entered seclusion to study what he had learned from the reforgings and advanced his artifact-refining skill to Fifth Grade Peak.
• Ling Pengyun reforged the Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River and Primal Chaos Axe to Fifth Grade Peak after several failed attempts.
• Ling Pengyun concluded that he needed more high-grade materials to improve his remaining treasures and decided to seek them in the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.

After tempering his spiritual power and foundation with his spirit treasures and tribulation lightning, Ling Pengyun successfully reached Spirit Transformation Full Completion. His breakthrough strengthened the Azure Profound Lineage and left him with a vast new world of cultivation ahead.

• Ling Pengyun used three Fifth Grade Peak spirit treasures to temper his Spiritual Power Origin for thirty years, then consumed five Boundary Breaking Spirit Items before attempting his breakthrough.
• Ling Pengyun overcame the heart-demon trial and shattered his bottleneck, drawing an immense Tribulation Cloud over Azure Profound Mountain.
• Ling Pengyun trapped the tribulation lightning with the Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River and refined its power to strengthen his foundation, using the lineage's formations, talismans, and other defenses against the final world-destroying bolts.
• Ling Pengyun survived the tribulation and reached Spirit Transformation Full Completion, gaining a foundation several times stronger than an ordinary cultivator's and greatly increased lifespan.
• Yan Siyi, Ling Pengyun's children, the younger Ling Clan prodigies, and the Star Sea Old Ancestor celebrated his breakthrough, while the lineage held banquets across Azure Profound Mountain.

The Shining Star Dao Lord and the Shining Spirit Dao Lord congratulated Ling Pengyun on reaching Spirit Transformation Full Completion and negotiated a special agreement with the Azure Profound Lineage over searching for the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm. The chapter ended with the Shining Star Immortal Sect hiring Ling Pengyun to refine its treasures and the guests celebrating at a banquet.

• The Shining Star Dao Lord decided to seek cooperation with the Azure Profound Lineage before it found the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.
• The Shining Star Dao Lord and the Shining Spirit Dao Lord visited Ling Pengyun and gave him thirteen Fifth Grade Peak Shining Star Treasure Pills to congratulate him.
• The Shining Star Dao Lord offered more treasure pills for cooperation, and Ling Pengyun consulted the Star Sea Old Ancestor and the Azure Profound Lineage's senior members.
• Ling Pengyun and the two Dao Lords agreed that the Azure Profound Lineage would search independently, sell surplus resources to the sect, and call on it for help when needed.
• The parties signed a Primordial Soul Contract and swore Heavenly Dao Oaths, after which the Shining Star Dao Lord and the Shining Spirit Dao Lord delivered the first hundred years of pills.
• The Shining Star Dao Lord and the Shining Spirit Dao Lord hired Ling Pengyun to refine or recast their Spirit Treasures, then joined the Azure Profound Lineage's banquet.

Ling Pengyun helped Golden Feather Old Dao Lord reforge the Golden Origin Bow and Arrow set to fifth grade peak, then resumed searching the Endless Void for the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm. After finding a place that emitted traces of its aura, he sent a memory-altered spirit ghost to investigate while protecting the Heaven River Realm and his Lineage from being implicated.

• Ling Pengyun and Golden Feather Old Dao Lord successfully reforged the Golden Origin Bow and Arrow set on their first attempt, giving Golden Feather Old Dao Lord a weapon capable of challenging spirit transformation full completion cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun reforged five spirit treasures for the Shining Star Immortal Sect, succeeding twice and earning a substantial fee.
• Ling Pengyun resumed his search for the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm in the Endless Void while cultivating aboard his Ling Xiao Flying Boat.
• The Nether Void Blade detected concealed traces of the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm's aura near a dangerous patch of void, and Ling Pengyun retreated to avoid detection.
• Ling Pengyun established a newly advanced transformation god spirit ghost as the Golden Dry Ghost Sect's ancestor by altering the memories of its senior members.
• Ling Pengyun altered the spirit ghost's memories and sent it toward the suspicious void to investigate the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm without exposing the Heaven River Realm or his Lineage.

The family’s Spirit Transformation Spirit Ghost was captured by a patrol from the Void Flame Ghost Sect near the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm and, under interrogation, revealed the location and circumstances of the Golden Dry Ghost Realm. The patrol reported the independent minor realm to its sect, hoping to profit from the discovery.

• The family’s Spirit Transformation Spirit Ghost was suppressed by a formation near the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm and confronted by ten God Transformation ghost-path cultivators led by a late-stage Snake Demon.
• The Snake Demon used a soul-bewitching technique to interrogate the Spirit Ghost, while the patrol recognized that it came from a minor realm outside the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.
• The Spirit Ghost revealed information about the Golden Dry Ghost Realm, and the patrol learned that it was an independent realm without obvious backing.
• Nether Snake Ghost Monarch and the other patrol members decided the Void Flame Ghost Sect might claim the realm as a secret base and reported their discovery with a high-grade communication treasure mirror.

Nether Snake Ghost Monarch strengthened its control over Panshi Ghost Monarch and its other Guardian Spirit Ghosts before traveling to the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm. After entering the realm, it returned to its sect’s territory and cave abode.

• Nether Snake Ghost Monarch judged that Panshi Ghost Monarch could become a powerful asset and provided cultivation resources to it and its other Guardian Spirit Ghosts.
• Nether Snake Ghost Monarch traveled through the Endless Void River to the concealed Myriad Souls Ghost Realm using the Void Sky Ghost Sect’s guidance.
• Ten Void Sky Ghost Sect Spirit Transformation Ghost Monarchs checked Nether Snake Ghost Monarch’s sect token and let it pass through the realm’s protective formation.
• Nether Snake Ghost Monarch entered the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm and saw its ghost-path laws and the Void Sky Ghost Sect’s mountain range.
• Nether Snake Ghost Monarch returned to its cave abode on a Fifth Grade Low-Rank Ghost Mountain.

After decades of cultivation and preparation, the Nether Snake Ghost Monarch entered the newly opened Myriad Souls Secret Realm to seek treasures and strengthen his Poison Dao. He arrived in the territory of the Kuimu Ghost Spirit Clan and launched an assault on a guarded fifth-rank ghost vein.

• The Nether Snake Ghost Monarch cultivated for decades while his ghost plants and spirit ghosts grew stronger, but he eventually exhausted his resources and prepared to enter the Myriad Souls Secret Realm.
• The Myriad Souls Secret Realm opened for the first time in three thousand years, and the Nether Snake Ghost Monarch entered alongside many other Ghost Dao practitioners.
• Spatial interference scattered the entrants, and the Nether Snake Ghost Monarch appeared in territory belonging to the Kuimu Ghost Spirit Clan.
• The Nether Snake Ghost Monarch studied his map, decided to target the clan’s ghost-tree treasures, and concealed a fifth-rank ghost vein with a Ghost Treasure.
• The Nether Snake Ghost Monarch summoned his three fifth-rank life-bound Ghost Treasures and ordered his guardian spirit ghosts to help break through the vein’s defenses.

Nether Snake Ghost Monarch and his Guardian Spirit Ghosts overwhelmed the Kuiwood Ghost Spirits’ Ghost Territory and breached its protective array. With the defenders slaughtered, Nether Snake Ghost Demon entered to search for spoils.

• Nether Snake Ghost Monarch and his Guardian Spirit Ghosts battered the Fifth Grade Low-Rank Mountain Protecting Array until cracks spread across it.
• The two Spirit Transformation Early Stage Kuiwood Ghost Spirits recognized the attackers from the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm and cursed them.
• The Kuiwood Ghost Spirits failed to call for help because Nether Snake Ghost Monarch had concealed the entire Ghost Mountain.
• Nether Snake Ghost Monarch’s forces broke through the array and slaughtered the Ghost Territory’s defenders.
• Nether Snake Ghost Demon led his Guardian Spirit Ghosts into the ruined Ghost Territory to search for spoils.

The Nether Snake Ghost Monarch looted several ghost lands in the Myriad Souls Secret Realm, but a Poison Refining Natural Ghost Spirit patrol forced him to burn his life force to escape. Decades later, he had recovered, spent his spoils, and strengthened his forces, while remaining unaware of strange fluctuations in the Boulder Spirit Ghost’s soul.

• The Nether Snake Ghost Monarch stripped the Kuiwood Ghost Spirit Clan’s land of its array, ghost plants, and Ghost Cores before leaving with his spoils.
• Over the next half year, he raided more ghost lands and reached the Poison Refining Natural Ghost Spirit Clan’s swamp territory.
• He attacked a lightly guarded Fifth Grade Low-Rank ghost land, but a patrol squad discovered him and trapped him in battle.
• The Nether Snake Ghost Monarch burned his lifespan, blood essence, and other source energy to escape, then returned to the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm to recover.
• Several decades later, after using up his gains, he had raised two more Spirit Transformation Early Stage Guardian Spirit Ghosts, bringing his total to six.
• He grew to rely on the Boulder Spirit Ghost and planned to nurture it further, without noticing the peculiar fluctuations in its soul.

Ling Pengyun learned that the Boulder Spirit Ghost had uncovered a safe route into the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm and obtained its spatial coordinates through their covert Primordial Essence connection. He traveled into the Endless Void with a Shadow Spirit Ghost and arrived near a minor realm occupied by the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm, leaving the Myriad Treasures Ghost Alliance identified as its ruling power.

• Ling Pengyun used the Primordial Essence within the Boulder Spirit Ghost to secretly learn what it had observed while following the Nether Snake Ghost Demon.
• Ling Pengyun discovered that the Nether Snake Ghost Demon had revealed the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm’s coordinates and a route for entering it safely.
• Ling Pengyun took a family-raised Shadow Spirit Ghost into the Endless Void using the Nether Void Blade.
• Ling Pengyun arrived near a minor realm transformed into a ghost realm and occupied by the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.
• Ling Pengyun identified the Myriad Treasures Ghost Alliance as the realm’s overlord and one of the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm’s five top powers.

Ling Pengyun sent a Golden Core Shadow Spirit Ghost into the Blood Origin Small Realm to test whether the Myriad Treasures Ghost Alliance could help outsiders enter the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm and forge identities. After the ghost adapted to the realm, it reached the Alliance’s Myriad Treasures Ghost Tower in a busy market.

• The chapter explained that the Myriad Treasures Ghost Alliance had formed from specialized Void Refinement powers seeking independence from the dominant forces of the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.
• Ling Pengyun chose the Blood Origin Small Realm, an affiliated realm where the Blood Origin Tribe had been wiped out and the Alliance operated shops.
• Ling Pengyun used the Nether Void Blade to open a hidden spatial passage through the realm’s protective formation and sent the Shadow Spirit Ghost inside.
• The Shadow Spirit Ghost hid in a remote place for several years and absorbed the realm’s laws until it resembled a native ghost cultivator.
• The Shadow Spirit Ghost entered a busy market and found the Myriad Treasures Ghost Tower, known as the market’s leading shop.

The family's Shadow Spirit Ghost paid Jin Zhong Evil Ghost to smuggle it into the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm. After waiting half a month, it joined other travelers disguised as members of a treasure-protection squad, and Jin Chuan Ghost Monarch led them toward Blood Origin Marketplace.

• The family's Shadow Spirit Ghost met Jin Zhong Evil Ghost at the Myriad Treasures Small Building and offered resources as passage money to the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.
• Jin Zhong agreed to arrange the journey after half a month, and the family's Shadow Spirit Ghost rented a room to wait.
• The family's Shadow Spirit Ghost returned to Jin Zhong, who introduced it to Jin Chuan and more than a dozen other ghost-path cultivators seeking passage.
• Jin Chuan explained that the group would pose as a treasure-protection squad escorting resources for the Myriad Treasures Ghost Alliance.
• Jin Chuan led the group aboard a low-grade fourth-rank flying vessel toward Blood Origin Marketplace and reassured them that he would honor the agreement.

The family's Shadow Spirit Ghost traveled through the Blood Origin Small Realm into the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm and found that the Soul Star Ghost Dao Lineage offered rogue ghost cultivators room to develop. After confirming the route and leasing a high-grade ghost vein, it gave Ling Pengyun confidence to send more of the family's spirit ghosts there.

• Jinchuan Ghost Monarch and the Myriad Treasures Ghost Alliance escorted the family's Shadow Spirit Ghost and hundreds of ghost cultivators through the Blood Origin Marketplace's realm-transmission formation.
• A Spirit Transformation Evil Eye Spirit Ghost recognized that most arrivals were newcomers from the Blood Origin Small Realm, but accepted resources from the Myriad Treasures Ghost Alliance and let them pass.
• The Myriad Treasures Ghost Alliance delivered the group to an ordinary area in the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm, sold them maps, and warned them to keep the crossing secret.
• The family's Shadow Spirit Ghost traveled alone to the Chaotic Star Spirit Ghost Lineage and, after several years of inquiries, leased a high-grade ghost vein for secluded cultivation.
• Ling Pengyun learned through his connection to the Shadow Spirit Ghost that the route and territory were suitable, and decided to gradually send Pengxing Clan Brother and the family's spirit ghosts there.

Ling Pengyun visited Ling Pengxing in the Ancient Ghost Domain and explained that he had found a route through the Blood Origin Small Realm into the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm. Ling Pengxing agreed to travel there with spirit ghosts and establish a foothold for the Lineage.

• Ling Pengyun saw how the Ghost Immortal Lamp had helped the Azure Profound Lineage build up the spirit ghost forces and profits in the Ancient Ghost Domain.
• Ling Pengyun visited Ling Pengxing at his cultivation abode in Panshi Small Mountain and learned that Ling Pengxing had recovered from his injuries.
• Ling Pengyun explained the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm, the route through the Blood Origin Small Realm, and his plan for Ling Pengxing to explore the Hunxing Ghost Dao's territory.
• Ling Pengyun offered Ling Pengxing the Lineage's stored high-grade ghost dao resources to support his cultivation there.
• Ling Pengxing eagerly accepted the assignment to travel to the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm and establish a foothold for the Lineage.

Ling Pengxing entered the Blood Origin Small Realm with Ling Pengyun, disguised himself as a young ghost cultivator, and rose through the Purple Extreme Ghost Sword Sect over five hundred years. After becoming its sect master and gaining a reputation as the realm’s greatest talent, he accepted recruitment by the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan, which offered him a path to the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.

• Ling Pengxing entered the Blood Origin Small Realm with Ling Pengyun, who gave him a Nether Void Small Mirror and stayed hidden nearby to support him.
• Ling Pengxing disguised himself as a Qi Refinement ghost cultivator and joined the Purple Extreme Ghost Sword Sect to hide his origins while seeking resources.
• Over five hundred years, Ling Pengxing revealed staged breakthroughs until the realm’s cultivators believed he had reached Spirit Transformation Late Stage through extraordinary talent.
• Ling Pengxing became the Purple Extreme Ghost Sword Sect’s sect master and attracted the attention of the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan.
• A Spirit Transformation Full Completion cultivator of the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan offered Ling Pengxing resources and cultivation opportunities in exchange for accepting a restriction and performing missions.
• Ling Pengxing agreed to join the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan, hoping to reach the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.

Ling Pengxing joined the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan and uncovered information about the Clear Mist Realm and a future war between the realms. Ling Pengyun learned of a possible route into the Clear Mist Realm and entered its subordinate Cold Spirit Realm with a trusted member of the Lineage.

• Ling Pengxing left five powerful Natal Spirit Ghosts to guard the Purple Extreme Ghost Sword Sect before joining the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan as a Guest Elder.
• Ling Pengxing learned that the Clear Mist Realm was a powerful Righteous Path realm and that a war between it and the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm was expected in about a thousand years.
• Ling Pengxing sent his findings to the five Natal Spirit Ghosts, who relayed them to Ling Pengyun through a Communication Treasure Mirror.
• Ling Pengyun decided to seek a foothold in the Clear Mist Realm and traveled with a dependable Golden Core Realm cultivator to the Cold Spirit Realm.
• Ling Pengyun used the Nether Void Blade to enter the Cold Spirit Realm, a subordinate realm of a Clear Mist Realm power.

Ling Pengyun brought Ling Wantong into the Cold Spirit Small Realm to explore its ice-and-water resources and find a route into the Clear Void Realm. After learning that the Frost Immortal Sect offered passage through its marketplace, they began building clean identities to use that opportunity.

• Ling Pengyun and Ling Wantong entered the Cold Spirit Small Realm, where Ling Pengyun saw benefits for his Black Flood Dragon Armor and the cultivation of Ling Lihao.
• Ling Pengyun explained that Ling Wantong could earn merit by secretly entering the Clear Void Realm and gathering information, and they refined their auras to resemble natives of the realm.
• Ling Pengyun and Ling Wantong investigated nearby marketplaces and learned that the Frost Immortal Sect controlled the Cold Spirit Small Realm and offered passage to the Clear Void Realm for sufficient benefits.
• Ling Pengyun decided the Frost Immortal Sect's passage could help the family enter the Clear Void Realm, and he and Ling Wantong fabricated mortal identities and joined local cultivation forces.