Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun joined the Tide Moon Immortal Sect under a false identity to study its powerful spirit-planting inheritance and acquire rare treasure flowers. After impressing the sect with his planted talent, he became Tide Moon Dao Lord’s nominal disciple and began tending flowers under the sect leader’s instruction.

• Ling Pengyun chose the Tide Moon Immortal Sect for its spirit-planting expertise and Fifth Grade Peak Tide Moon Treasure Flowers.
• Ling Pengyun disguised himself as a seventeen-year-old Qi Refinement cultivator and impressed the sect at its Spirit Testing Convention.
• Tide Moon Dao Lord accepted Ling Pengyun as a nominal disciple, with the possibility of making him a true disciple after a thousand years of good performance.
• Tide Moon Dao Lord showed Ling Pengyun the Tide Moon Flowers he would tend and explained his daily duties.

Ling Pengyun spent a century building his position in the Tide Moon Immortal Sect while perfecting his Five Elements Thunder Flood Dragon Great Divine Ability. After revealing that he had become a Fourth Rank Low Grade Spirit Planter, he earned Tide Moon Dao Lord’s hopes as a future successor, while Ling Wantong reached the Clear Void Realm under his direction.

• Tide Moon Dao Lord taught Ling Pengyun to tend Tide Moon Flowers, gave him the first-rank Tide Moon Spirit Plant Inheritance, and guided his cultivation.
• Ling Pengyun developed the Five Elements Thunder Flood Dragon Great Divine Ability by combining five-element powers with Destruction Thunder Power, though he still needed metal-, earth-, and water-attribute spiritual power spirit treasures to perfect it.
• After nearly a hundred years in the sect, Ling Pengyun revealed that his Spirit Plant Attainment had reached Fourth Rank Low Grade while keeping his displayed cultivation at Golden Core Completion.
• Tide Moon Dao Lord praised Ling Pengyun as a potential successor, gave him high-level Boundary Breaking Spirit Items, and asked him to safeguard the Tide Moon Immortal Sect’s heritage.
• Ling Wantong established a clean identity, traveled to the Cold Spirit Marketplace, and used the Frost Immortal Sect’s cross-realm Teleportation Array to reach the Clear Void Realm.

Ling Wantong reached the Clear Mist Realm, surveyed its powers, and chose the Primordial Unity Lineage as a promising place for the Ling Clan to develop. After receiving his report, Ling Pengyun began arranging for trusted clan members and allies to move into the Cold Spirit Small Realm and prepare for expansion.

• Ling Wantong arrived in the Clear Mist Realm and saw the Frost Immortal Sect separate its recruits from independent cultivators, then escort the latter safely out of Frost Forest.
• Ling Wantong studied the realm’s map, judged the Frost Immortal Sect too powerful to challenge, and declined recruitment offers from lesser powers founded by Cold Spirit Small Realm cultivators.
• After several years of travel, Ling Wantong identified the Primordial Unity Lineage and its thriving Primordial Unity Immortal City as a suitable base for the clan’s development.
• Ling Wantong sent his findings through Frost Immortal Sect channels to the Cold Spirit Small Realm.
• Ling Pengyun approved Ling Wantong’s choice, used the Nether Void Blade to leave for the Celestial River Small Realm, and gathered Yan Siyi, Ling Chengxia, Ling Cheng Mie, Ling Lihao, and other allies.
• Ling Pengyun brought the group into the Cold Spirit Small Realm and concealed them among its various powers.

Over four hundred years, the Ling family expanded its strength by developing in the Clear Mist Realm and the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm, accumulating Boundary Breaking Spirit Items and raising dozens of Spirit Transformation cultivators. Ling Pengyun approved sending Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming to the Clear Mist Realm, reassured Ling Cheng Yuan about Ling Wantong, and returned to the Cold Spirit Small Realm as the Tide Moon Immortal Sect’s sect master.

• Yan Siyi, Ling Chengxia, Ling Cheng Mie, and other senior family members established themselves in Primordial Unity Immortal City with help from the Frost Immortal Sect and bought Boundary Breaking Spirit Items for the family.
• Ling Pengxing acquired three portions of Fifth Grade High-Rank Boundary Breaking Spirit Items and entered seclusion to pursue Spirit Transformation Perfection, while the Ling family grew to nearly seventy or eighty Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Ling Cheng Yuan asked Ling Pengyun to send Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming to the Clear Mist Realm, and Ling Pengyun agreed.
• Ling Pengyun told Ling Cheng Yuan that Ling Wantong had reached Spirit Transformation Early Stage and might advance to the Middle Stage within a few hundred years, then delivered Wantong’s letters and resources.
• Ling Pengyun took Ling Feixiang and Ling Guangming to the Cold Spirit Small Realm and arranged for Ling Cheng Yuan’s resources to be sent to Ling Wantong.
• Ling Pengyun returned to the Tide Moon Immortal Sect, where he had become sect master a century earlier after revealing his cultivation and spirit-plant expertise.

Ling Pengyun returned to the Tide Moon Immortal Sect and gave his master, Old Dao Lord Tide Moon, three longevity-increasing tea leaves. After receiving guidance on spirit planting, Ling Pengyun stayed to share tea and conversation with his aging master.

• Ling Pengyun returned to the sect and decided to visit Old Dao Lord Tide Moon with three tea leaves from his Azure Firmament Immortal Elder Tea Tree.
• Old Dao Lord Tide Moon accepted the tea leaves and gave Ling Pengyun valuable Cultivation Treasure Pills in return.
• Ling Pengyun asked Old Dao Lord Tide Moon for advice on spirit plants, and his master resolved his difficulties.
• Ling Pengyun chose to stay and chat with Old Dao Lord Tide Moon, brewing Fifth Grade Peak Tian Qin Good Tea for them to share.
• Ling Pengyun gave Old Dao Lord Tide Moon his remaining Tian Qin spiritual tea, and Old Dao Lord Tide Moon accepted it while warning him not to spend recklessly on more.

Ling Pengyun advanced his Spirit Planting path to Fifth Grade High-Rank, enabling him to greatly accelerate the growth of high-rank spirit plants. Old Dao Lord Tide Moon entrusted him with Tide Moon Mountain’s gardens and left to tend other spirit lands, while Ling Pengyun planned to use the mountain’s valuable Tide Moon Flowers to benefit his family without arousing suspicion.

• Ling Pengyun completed secluded cultivation and reached Fifth Grade High-Rank in Spirit Planting, mastering techniques that could accelerate spirit plant growth more than fiftyfold.
• Ling Pengyun told Old Dao Lord Tide Moon of his breakthrough, and Tide Moon celebrated his ability to secure the sect’s future Spirit Planting tradition.
• Ling Pengyun offered to tend other spirit lands, but Old Dao Lord Tide Moon gave him responsibility for Tide Moon Mountain and went to tend nearby lands himself.
• Ling Pengyun entered the mountain’s special spirit plant garden and surveyed its Fifth Grade High-Rank and Peak Tide Moon Flowers and other rare plants.
• Ling Pengyun decided to secretly cultivate high-potential Tide Moon Flower seeds for his family while keeping the sect from becoming suspicious.

Ling Pengyun cultivated in seclusion and completed the refinement of the six Spiritual Power Spirit Treasures linked to his Five Elements Thunder Flood Dragon Great Divine Ability. He planned to combine them with his natal Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River to make a single, more powerful treasure, while the Black Flood Dragon Armor could help him unleash the technique repeatedly.

• Ling Pengyun carefully cultivated the high-grade Tide Moon Flowers and their seedlings, then returned to his cave abode to cultivate in seclusion.
• Over many years, Ling Pengyun advanced to more than 2,300 strands of Spiritual Power Origin as his family established itself in the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm and the Clear Mist Realm.
• Ling Pengyun completed the refinement methods for the remaining Spiritual Power Spirit Treasures, bringing the number corresponding to the Five Elements Thunder Flood Dragon to six.
• Ling Pengyun assessed that activating all six treasures together could unleash power equivalent to twenty or thirty percent of an early Void Refinement cultivator's might, but the technique consumed too much spiritual power and required too many treasures.
• Ling Pengyun planned to use the natal Five Elements Hundred Treasures Long River as the core and the six Spiritual Power Spirit Treasures as auxiliaries to forge one extraordinary natal treasure.
• Ling Pengyun calculated that the Black Flood Dragon Armor could store enough spiritual power for him to restore himself three times, letting him unleash the Great Divine Ability four consecutive times.

Ling Pengyun fused six Spiritual Power Spirit Treasures into the Five Elements Dharma Bead and guided it through a powerful tribulation. With the completed Fifth Grade Peak Divine Ability Supreme Treasure, he gained the strength to challenge ordinary Void Refinement experts and planned to lead the family into the Clear Mist Realm.

• Ling Pengyun returned to the Heaven River Realm and began refining six Spirit Treasures into a Divine Ability Supreme Treasure.
• Ling Pengyun used the Five Elements Natal Treasure-Fusion Method to form the five-colored Five Elements Dharma Bead despite the treasures’ powerful rejection.
• The Dharma Bead summoned a tribulation, and Ling Pengyun used its power to unleash a Five Elements Thunder Flood Dragon that swallowed the lightning bolts.
• Ling Pengyun detonated the Thunder Flood Dragon to weaken the final tribulation bolt, then used hundreds of fifth-grade talismans to destroy it.
• Heavenly dew healed and strengthened the Dharma Bead, which completed its transformation into a Fifth Grade Peak treasure.
• Ling Pengyun tested the Dharma Bead’s power and resolved to lead the family into the Clear Mist Realm to seek high-grade spirit veins.

Ling Pengyun completed the Five Elements Dharma Bead, a powerful Natal Spiritual Power Spirit Treasure that could temper his spiritual power and improve his chances of reaching Void Refinement. Shining Star Dao Lord visited to congratulate him and asked him to find a Void Refinement Boundary Breaking Spirit Item in the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.

• Ling Pengyun drew the Five Elements Dharma Bead into his Dantian, where it began tempering his spiritual power.
• Azure Profound Lineage experts returned to Azure Profound Mountain after the Tribulation Cloud dispersed and congratulated Ling Pengyun on his new treasure.
• Shining Star Dao Lord visited Ling Pengyun with a congratulatory gift and recalled their agreement to trade Myriad Souls Ghost Realm treasures for cultivation pills and aid.
• Ling Pengyun had supplied the Shining Star Immortal Sect with materials from the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm, helping it grow stronger while Shining Star Dao Lord developed a Void Refinement inheritance.
• Shining Star Dao Lord asked Ling Pengyun to obtain a Void Refinement Boundary Breaking Spirit Item from the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.

Ling Pengyun declined the Shining Star Dao Lord’s request for a rare Void Refinement Spirit Item and agreed to seek other valuable resources instead. After receiving congratulatory gifts, he traveled to the Cold Spirit Small Realm and began a breakthrough to Spirit Transformation Full Completion, drawing a powerful tribulation cloud above Tide Moon Mountain.

• Ling Pengyun told the Shining Star Dao Lord that a Void Refinement Spirit Item was too difficult to obtain and agreed to look for high-grade pill ingredients and a Sixth Grade Pill Refining inheritance.
• The Shining Star Dao Lord accepted the revised arrangement and promised to pay well for the requested resources.
• Ling Pengyun received gifts from visiting cultivators, then used the Nether Void Blade to travel to the Cold Spirit Small Realm.
• A terrifying tribulation cloud appeared above Tide Moon Mountain as Ling Pengyun attempted to reach Spirit Transformation Full Completion.
• Old Dao Lord Tide Moon recognized Ling Pengyun as the one undergoing the breakthrough and felt fortunate to have him guarding the sect.

Ling Pengyun fabricated a tribulation to conceal that he had already reached Spirit Transformation Full Completion, and Old Dao Lord Tide Moon and the Tide Moon Immortal Sect rallied to support him. After the sect acquired him a Flowing Cloud Flying Sword, Ling Pengyun approved a cautious plan to expand its trade and recruit skilled disciples.

• Old Dao Lord Tide Moon evacuated the ordinary disciples as Ling Pengyun used the Five Elements Thunder Flood Dragon Great Divine Ability to fake a breakthrough tribulation.
• Old Dao Lord Tide Moon congratulated Ling Pengyun, offered the sect’s Tide Moon Saber and Tide Moon Bell, and promised to seek a Fifth Grade Peak Spirit Treasure, but Ling Pengyun declined the two treasures.
• Old Dao Lord Tide Moon won the elders’ support to raise Ling Pengyun’s stipend and sell sect assets to fund a Fifth Grade Peak Spirit Treasure.
• The elders obtained the Flowing Cloud Flying Sword and presented it to Ling Pengyun, who thanked them and warned them not to provoke powerful rival sects.
• Ling Pengyun and Old Dao Lord Tide Moon approved the elders’ plan to expand the sect’s spirit-item trade and recruit disciples skilled in various arts.

Old Dao Lord Bing Qiu offered Ling Pengyun a place in the Frost Immortal Sect after Ling Pengyun’s feigned breakthrough drew attention. He revealed that he wanted Ling Pengyun to strengthen the Ice Profound Lineage, leaving Ling Pengyun to weigh the offer and its binding conditions.

• Old Dao Lord Bing Qiu arrived to congratulate Ling Pengyun on reaching Spirit Transformation Full Completion and presented him with a Fifth Grade Peak Frost Spirit Fruit.
• Old Dao Lord Bing Qiu invited Ling Pengyun to join the Frost Immortal Sect, promising support for both his cultivation and the Tide Moon Immortal Sect.
• Ling Pengyun and Old Dao Lord Tide Moon questioned Bing Qiu’s motives, and he explained the rival factions within the Frost Immortal Sect and his loyalty to the Ice Profound Lineage.
• Old Dao Lord Bing Qiu said the Ice Profound Lineage could provide resources and Void Refinement-level Boundary Breaking Spirit Items if Ling Pengyun swore a Heavenly Dao Oath and signed a Primordial Soul Contract.
• Old Dao Lord Bing Qiu offered to send Ling Pengyun to the Clear Mist Realm if he refused, while Ling Pengyun and Old Dao Lord Tide Moon absorbed the unexpected revelations.

Ling Pengyun agreed to join the Ice Profound Lineage and entered seclusion after promising to support the Tide Moon Immortal Sect. In the Clear Mist Realm, Ling Wantong and Yan Siyi pursued a lease on a fifth rank superior grade Spirit Land and met Dao Lord Hun Jin.

• Ling Pengyun accepted Old Dao Lord Bingqiu's offer to join the Ice Profound Lineage and postponed traveling to the Frost Immortal Sect for several decades.
• Old Dao Lord Tide Moon promised the sect would continue supporting Ling Pengyun, who vowed not to forget the Tide Moon Immortal Sect before entering seclusion.
• Ling Wantong told Yan Siyi that a fifth rank superior grade Spirit Land lease was becoming available because its former cultivator had died.
• Yan Siyi agreed to pursue the lease with Ling Wantong, and they went to the Primordial Unity City Lord Manor to meet Dao Lord Hun Jin.

Yan Siyi and Ling Wantong secured a sublease for Black Stone Valley, a Fifth Grade High-Rank Spirit Land, with Dao Lord Hun Jin’s help. The valley became territory of the Ling Clan, and Hun Jin led its former residents to a Fifth Grade Low-Rank Spirit Land.

• Yan Siyi offered Dao Lord Hun Jin cultivation medicinal cuisine and promised more if he helped them rent Black Stone Valley.
• Dao Lord Hun Jin accepted the offer and accompanied Yan Siyi and Ling Wantong to Black Stone Valley.
• Hun Jin introduced Yan Siyi and Ling Wantong to the two Spirit Transformation Early-Stage cultivators who managed the valley, then offered them a Fifth Grade Low-Rank Spirit Land in exchange for subleasing Black Stone Valley.
• The two cultivators agreed to sublease the valley, and Yan Siyi and Ling Wantong signed a sublease contract and a hundred-year lease with Hun Jin.
• Yan Siyi gave Hun Jin the promised medicinal cuisine, and Hun Jin escorted the valley’s former residents to their new Spirit Land.

Yan Siyi established Black Stone Valley as a new base for the Primordial Unity Lineage, rewarded Ling Wantong, and checked on her sons and their fellow explorers. Decades later, Ling Pengyun received an increased stipend from the flourishing Tide Moon Immortal Sect, while Old Dao Lord Tide Moon explained why he was focused on expanding the sect rather than attempting a breakthrough.

• Yan Siyi rewarded Ling Wantong with medicinal dishes and promised him a Boundary Breaking Spirit Item for helping secure Black Stone Valley.
• Yan Siyi installed a powerful defensive array, planted spirit-plant seeds, and settled into Black Stone Valley while Ling Wantong returned to manage the Lineage's business in Primordial Unity Immortal City.
• Yan Siyi contacted Ling Chengxia and Ling Cheng Mie, learned that they and the wandering clansmen were progressing through dangerous work, and invited them to visit her at Black Stone Valley.
• Yan Siyi asked Ling Wantong to seek protective and healing spirit items for her sons and spirit herbs for her medicinal cuisine.
• Decades later, Old Dao Lord Tide Moon gave Ling Pengyun a greatly increased annual stipend and credited his presence with helping the Tide Moon Immortal Sect expand.
• Ling Pengyun urged Old Dao Lord Tide Moon to pursue Spirit Transformation Full Completion, but Old Dao Lord Tide Moon said he lacked the aptitude and resources for the attempt and preferred to invest in the sect's future.

Ling Pengyun accepted his master Tide Moon’s talismans and left the Cold Spirit Small Realm with Bingqiu to join the Ice Profound Lineage in the Clear Mist Realm. He arrived at the Frost Immortal Sect’s Teleportation Hall, where the guards questioned Bingqiu about bringing a Spirit Transformation Full Completion cultivator with him.

• Ling Pengyun told Tide Moon he planned to join the Ice Profound Lineage, and Tide Moon gave him the sect’s talisman reserves for protection while promising to continue his stipend.
• Ling Pengyun and Tide Moon went to the Cold Spirit Marketplace and met Bingqiu at Cold Spirit Mountain; Bingqiu noticed Ling Pengyun’s cultivation progress.
• Ling Pengyun confirmed he intended to join the Ice Profound Lineage, and Bingqiu eagerly led him and Tide Moon to the cross-realm Teleportation Hall.
• Bingqiu activated the array, transporting himself and Ling Pengyun from the Cold Spirit Small Realm to the Frost Immortal Sect in the Clear Mist Realm while Tide Moon returned to the sect.
• A Frost Immortal Sect guard greeted Bingqiu and asked why he had brought Ling Pengyun, a Spirit Transformation Full Completion cultivator, back with him.

Ling Pengyun reached the Frost Immortal Sect’s Teleportation Hall with Old Dao Lord Bingqiu and established a friendly relationship with Dao Lord Binghua, its powerful guardian. After they departed, Binghua reflected on the Ice Profound Lineage’s suspected plans for Ling Pengyun and returned to cultivating.

• Old Dao Lord Bingqiu presented Ling Pengyun’s credentials, and Dao Lord Binghua verified them and welcomed him to the hall.
• Bingqiu explained Binghua’s influential position in the Frost Immortal Sect and his ties to the Ice Profound Lineage.
• Ling Pengyun offered Binghua a Fifth Grade High-Rank Tide Moon Flower and a Cold Spirit Flying Sword, and Binghua reciprocated with a Small Spirit Gathering Array.
• Ling Pengyun and Bingqiu exchanged Communication Talismans with Binghua, then left for the Frost Forest.
• Binghua suspected the Ice Profound Lineage had a hidden purpose for recruiting Ling Pengyun, but decided not to interfere and returned to his quiet chamber to cultivate.

Old Dao Lord Bingqiu brought Ling Pengyun to the Ice Profound Lineage’s base and introduced him to Ice Profound Celestial Monarch, who offered him a contract as a potential core Guest Elder. Ling Pengyun signed the contract, agreeing to serve the lineage if he reached Void Refinement.

• Old Dao Lord Bingqiu showed Ling Pengyun the Ice Profound Mountain Range and described the lineage’s many high-rank Spirit Veins and cultivation sites.
• Old Dao Lord Bingqiu brought Ling Pengyun to meet Ice Profound Celestial Monarch at the Grade Six Low-Rank cultivation haven.
• Ice Profound Celestial Monarch examined Ling Pengyun and said he qualified to become a core Guest Elder if he advanced his cultivation within a thousand years.
• Ice Profound Celestial Monarch presented Ling Pengyun with a Grade Six Low-Rank Primordial Soul Contract, which set terms for his appointment and future service.
• Ling Pengyun accepted the contract and signed it, becoming a potential core Guest Elder of the Ice Profound Lineage.

Ling Pengyun joined the Ice Profound Lineage as a Guest Elder, received a cultivation base and work tending spirit plants and refining artifacts, and began cultivating in Maple Leaf Valley. He later visited the Affairs Hall to seek rare cultivation and crafting resources, learning that most of the items he wanted were unavailable.

• Ice Profound Celestial Monarch accepted Ling Pengyun as a Guest Elder and assigned Old Dao Lord Bingqiu to arrange his cultivation in the lineage.
• Old Dao Lord Bingqiu took Ling Pengyun to the Affairs Hall, where he collected a Frost Spirit Fruit, cultivation pills, and a spirit land in Maple Leaf Valley.
• Ling Pengyun accepted the duties of tending spirit plants and refining artifacts, demonstrated his skills, and asked Old Dao Lord Bingqiu to protect the Tide Moon Immortal Sect.
• Old Dao Lord Bingqiu assured Ling Pengyun that the Tide Moon Immortal Sect would be looked after, then returned to the Cold Spirit Small Realm while Ling Pengyun began cultivating in seclusion.
• Ling Pengyun consumed the Frost Spirit Fruit and found that it greatly accelerated his cultivation, then visited the Affairs Hall to seek more fruits and rare weapon-refinement materials.
• Ice Marrow Dao Lord told Ling Pengyun that the lineage had only a few ice-attribute materials and lower-grade Frost Spirit Fruits available, and suggested posting missions to seek the other items.

Ling Pengyun sold high-rank spirit treasures to the Ice Profound Lineage and used the proceeds to buy cultivation resources, artifact-refining materials, and items for his family and the Tide Moon Immortal Sect. After ten years of work and cultivation in Maple Leaf Valley, he had built a foothold in the lineage and was progressing quickly toward Spirit Transformation Perfection.

• Ling Pengyun sold several Fifth Grade spirit treasures to Old Ice Marrow Dao Lord and bought Frost Spirit Fruits, Snow Origin Spirit Iron, and other resources from the Affairs Hall.
• Ling Pengyun posted purchase tasks and bought additional materials and cultivation items, intending to send most of the surplus to his family and some to the Tide Moon Immortal Sect.
• Old Ice Marrow Dao Lord approved of Ling Pengyun’s loyalty and diligence, then returned to his cultivation grounds to refine pills and help address the lineage’s resource demands.
• Ling Pengyun used the Snow Origin Spirit Iron to temper the Five Elements Dharma Bead, strengthening it and improving its effects.
• Over the next ten years, Ling Pengyun refined three batches of spirit treasures, succeeded with two, and earned additional rewards and resources from the Ice Profound Lineage.
• Ling Pengyun’s cultivation and the Five Elements Dharma Bead advanced rapidly, and he planned to send surplus resources back to his family and wives.