Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun continued fulfilling the Primordial Unity Lineage’s order while preparing to attend its trade fair in disguise. He arrived at Primordial Unity Immortal City as powerful cultivators gathered at Primordial Unity Restaurant, where the fair was being held.

• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Wantong high-level cultivation resources and discussed the alliance’s affairs, then handed Yan Siyi the Lineage’s cooking ingredients and began refining its spirit materials.
• Several years later, Ling Pengyun successfully refined a Fifth Rank Superior Grade flying-sword artifact and judged that he could finish the Lineage’s order within a dozen years.
• Ling Pengyun refused Yan Siyi’s request to accompany him to the trade fair, concealed his appearance and aura, and left Black Stone Valley for Primordial Unity Immortal City.
• Yan Siyi returned to her cave residence and entered seclusion to weaken her cultivation bottleneck before attempting another breakthrough.
• Ling Pengyun reached Primordial Unity Immortal City and found powerful cultivators gathering at Primordial Unity Restaurant, the venue for the trade fair.

Ling Pengyun attended the Primordial Unity Trade Fair, where the Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch offered three rare treasures in exchange mainly for Void Refinement resources. Ling Pengyun bid for the Rock Treasure Iron, while competing offers for the captured Blazing Flame Demon Tiger began driving its price up.

• Ling Pengyun entered the trade fair and saw that more than fifty powerful cultivators had gathered, including Void Refinement cultivators and the Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch.
• The Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch presented Rock Treasure Iron, a living Purple Firmament Spirit Bamboo, and a captured Blazing Flame Demon Tiger, seeking Void Refinement resources in exchange.
• Ling Pengyun offered three fifth-grade peak Spirit Treasures and thirty fifth-grade peak cultivation pills for the Rock Treasure Iron.
• The Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch invited further offers, and cultivators competed for the Blazing Flame Demon Tiger with talismans, pills, and spirit crystals, sending its price soaring.

Ling Pengyun traded for Rock Treasure Iron and offered Spirit Treasures in search of rare artifact-refining materials, drawing Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch's interest in recruiting him. Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch offered valuable materials and a friendly Guest Elder arrangement, leaving Ling Pengyun to consider the proposal.

• Ling Pengyun traded three Fifth Grade Peak Spirit Treasures and cultivation pills to Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch for Rock Treasure Iron.
• Ling Pengyun offered several Spirit Treasures for high-grade Five Elements or spatial materials and other rare treasures.
• The gathering's cultivators suspected Ling Pengyun was a high-grade Artifact Refiner, while Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch examined his treasures but could not identify his techniques.
• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch privately offered Mysterious Void Treasure Iron and Crimson Flames Treasure Iron in exchange for Ling Pengyun's Spirit Treasures.
• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch explained that he hoped to befriend or recruit Ling Pengyun, offering a stipend and access to discounted materials if he refined one Fifth Grade Peak Spirit Treasure every ten years.

Ling Pengyun agreed to become an artifact-refining Guest Elder of the Primordial Unity Lineage, securing access to discounted high-rank materials in exchange for refining a Fifth Grade Peak spirit treasure every ten years. After gaining materials at the trade fair, he returned to the Heaven River Realm, where his family was.

• The Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch offered Ling Pengyun a Guest Elder position and discounted five-element and spatial spirit materials in return for refining one Fifth Grade Peak spirit treasure every ten years.
• Ling Pengyun accepted, signed a Primordial Soul Contract, and received three sets of materials for Fifth Grade Peak flying swords.
• Ling Pengyun promised to return with a finished treasure within ten years and asked the Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch to prepare more high-rank materials for him to buy.
• Ling Pengyun traded for materials at the fair, gathering enough to reforge his Nether Void Blade and several sets for his natal Spiritual Power Spirit Treasure.
• After the trade fair ended, Ling Pengyun left the immortal city, traveled through the Extreme Cold Immortal Sect’s transmission hall, and returned to the Heaven River Realm.

Ling Pengyun returned to the Cold Spirit Small Realm and met Old Dao Lord Bingqiu, who told him how much the Tide Moon Immortal Sect had grown with the Ice Profound Lineage’s support. Ling Pengyun then visited Old Dao Lord Tide Moon and reassured him that he was thriving at the Ice Profound Lineage’s headquarters.

• Ling Pengyun arrived at the Teleportation Hall, where the stationed disciples recognized him as an Ice Profound Lineage Guest Elder.
• Old Dao Lord Bingqiu welcomed Ling Pengyun, praised his achievements, and received two Fifth Rank Superior Grade Spirit Treasures as gifts.
• Old Dao Lord Bingqiu described the Tide Moon Immortal Sect’s rapid growth under his support and Ling Pengyun’s resources, including its many Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Ling Pengyun pledged the Tide Moon Immortal Sect’s continued service to the Ice Profound Lineage, then left for the sect’s headquarters.
• Ling Pengyun reunited with Old Dao Lord Tide Moon and showed him his powerful aura, easing his former master’s worries.

Ling Pengyun gave Old Dao Lord Tide Moon two Fifth Grade Peak spirit treasures and exchanged cultivation insights with him before returning to Star Talisman Island. He found that the Surging Waves Immortal Sect had upgraded the island’s Spirit Vein, then headed toward Star Talisman Mountain to visit Star Sea Old Ancestor, Li Hao, and the others.

• Ling Pengyun presented Old Dao Lord Tide Moon with the Moonshadow Flying Sword and Moonshadow Spell Shield, and persuaded him to accept them for the sect’s protection and growth.
• Old Dao Lord Tide Moon promised to use the treasures to strengthen Tide Moon Immortal Sect, and he and Ling Pengyun exchanged insights on spirit planting and cultivation.
• Ling Pengyun returned to his residence, cultivated in seclusion for nearly half a year, and decided to visit Star Sea Old Ancestor, Li Hao, and the others.
• Ling Pengyun used the Nether Void Blade to open a Space Channel and arrived unnoticed on Star Talisman Island in the Cold Spirit Sea Region.
• Ling Pengyun observed that the Surging Waves Immortal Sect had raised Star Talisman Mountain’s Spirit Vein from Fifth Grade Mid-Rank to Fifth Grade High-Rank, then headed toward the mountain.

Star Sea Old Ancestor and Ling Lihao advanced their cultivation and skills while secretly building identities within the Surging Waves Immortal Sect. Ling Pengyun visited them, heard of their gains, and they resolved to repay the sect for its support.

• Star Sea Old Ancestor mastered the Surging Waves Great Divine Ability and considered how it could strengthen his combat power and Star Sea Dharma Seal.
• Ling Lihao successfully drew another Fifth Grade Peak Surging Waves Spirit Talisman and reflected on the resources and inheritances he had gained as a sect elder.
• Ling Pengyun arrived at their cave abodes using his spatial escape technique, bypassing the sect's Fifth Grade High-Rank formation.
• Ling Pengyun, Star Sea Old Ancestor, and Ling Lihao reunited and discussed the progress Star Sea Old Ancestor and Ling Lihao had made.
• Star Sea Old Ancestor and Ling Lihao decided they should repay the Surging Waves Immortal Sect for its support.

Ling Pengyun arranged for Star Sea Old Ancestor, Ling Lihao, and other family cultivators in the Cold Spirit Small Realm to cleanse their identities and travel to the Clear Mist Realm to support the Lingxiao Business Alliance. He left expecting their arrival to strengthen the alliance and help it expand beyond Primordial Unity Immortal City.

• Ling Pengyun told Star Sea Old Ancestor and Ling Lihao about the Lingxiao Business Alliance and asked them to cleanse their identities and go to the Clear Mist Realm.
• Ling Pengyun gave Star Sea Old Ancestor cultivator souls to refine into high-grade Boundary Breaking Spirit Items and gave Ling Lihao materials to make high-grade talismans.
• Star Sea Old Ancestor and Ling Lihao agreed to help and presented Ling Pengyun with valuable gifts in gratitude.
• Ling Pengyun visited other family cultivators in the Cold Spirit Small Realm, asked about their progress, and instructed them to cleanse their identities.
• Ling Pengyun anticipated that the cultivators' support would give the business alliance the strength to expand into other regions.

Ling Pengyun returned to Azure Profound Mountain, gave Ling Yunhong three Ice Profound Longevity Pills, and learned how the family and Azure Profound Lineage had grown stronger. He left considering whether to trade spare high-grade Boundary Breaking Spirit Items to the Shining Star Immortal Sect.

• Ling Pengyun returned to Azure Profound Mountain and reunited with Old Clan Head Ling Yunhong, who asked after Si Yi and the others still in the Clear Mist Realm.
• Ling Pengyun gave Ling Yunhong three Ice Profound Longevity Pills to extend his lifespan, and Ling Yunhong insisted on giving him a large batch of pills in return.
• Ling Yunhong told Ling Pengyun that the family had prospered in Heaven River Realm, cultivated new high-grade Spirit Veins, and might establish another Fifth Grade Peak Spirit Vein within several hundred years.
• Ling Yunhong reported that the Azure Profound Lineage had six Spirit Transformation Full Completion combatants, while the Shining Star Immortal Sect had submitted and paid annual tribute.
• Ling Pengyun considered selling spare high-grade Boundary Breaking Spirit Items to the Shining Star Immortal Sect in exchange for cultivation pills and other resources.

Ling Pengyun checked on the Lineage’s development, rewarded Ling Penglin, and proposed sending her to the Clear Mist Realm to pursue greater mastery. He also learned of the Ancient Ghost Domain’s powerful new Spirit Ghosts before returning to Lingxiao Valley, where Ling Chengyuan asked after Wan Tong.

• Ling Pengyun learned that Ling Penglin had reached the Spirit Transformation Late Stage and become a seasoned Fifth Grade High-Rank Array Formation Master, then rewarded her with materials for her bonded array.
• Ling Pengyun proposed that Ling Penglin establish a clean identity in the Cold Spirit Small Realm before entering the Clear Mist Realm, and she agreed.
• Ling Pengyun surveyed the thriving Ancient Ghost Domain, where the Ghost Immortal Lamp had developed the Panshi Blood Demon Spirit Ghost Inheritance and raised three promising Spirit Transformation Late Stage ghosts.
• Ling Pengyun returned to Lingxiao Valley and found its Spirit Vein and cultivation environment greatly improved.
• Great Elder Ling Chengyuan greeted Ling Pengyun and asked whether Wan Tong had caused trouble in the Clear Mist Realm.

Ling Pengyun returned to Lingxiao Valley, told Ling Cheng Yuan about Ling Wantong’s achievements, and strengthened his Five Elements Dharma Bead and Nether Void Blade. After both treasures advanced, he tested their power and gained confidence in fighting early-stage Void Refinement cultivators.

• Ling Pengyun told Ling Cheng Yuan how Ling Wantong had developed the Lingxiao Business Alliance and passed along the cultivation resources she had sent.
• Ling Pengyun refined Five Elements spirit materials into the Five Elements Dharma Bead, bringing its foundation to its peak and testing its ability to become a powerful Five Elements flood dragon.
• Ling Pengyun reforged the Nether Void Blade with spatial spirit materials, and it advanced to Fifth Grade Peak after surviving heavenly tribulation lightning.
• Ling Pengyun used the Nether Void Blade to unleash the Nether Void Domain, a spatial technique capable of trapping powerful opponents, and judged that his treasures might let him trap and kill an ordinary early-stage Void Refinement cultivator.

After reaching the peak of Spirit Transformation Full Completion, Ling Pengyun collected powerful Boundary Breaking Spirit Items from Star Sea Old Ancestor and prepared to seek the Ice Profound Lineage’s support for his Void Refinement attempt. He distributed the high-rank items to cultivators in his Lineage while Star Sea Old Ancestor returned to strengthen Star Sea Pavilion.

• Ling Pengyun reached the peak of Spirit Transformation Full Completion after five years of seclusion and planned to return to the Ice Profound Lineage for support in attempting Void Refinement.
• Ling Pengyun met Star Sea Old Ancestor, who gave him three Fifth Grade Peak Boundary Breaking Spirit Items and twenty-one exceptional Fifth Grade High-Rank items.
• Star Sea Old Ancestor explained that he had made the three Peak items using Illusory Soul Old Dao Lord’s soul and gave Ling Pengyun the surplus to support his breakthrough.
• Ling Pengyun decided to use the twenty-one High-Rank items to help Yan Siyi and four other veteran Spirit Transformation Late Stage cultivators attempt Full Completion.
• Star Sea Old Ancestor returned to the Heaven River Realm and Azure Profound Realm and gave Star Sea Pavilion nine extra High-Rank items to strengthen its foundations.

Ling Pengyun supplied Ling Pengxing with boundary-breaking spirit items, allowing him to break through to spirit transformation full completion and demonstrate the power of his Ghost Immortal Flying Sword. His breakthrough drew the attention of Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch, who traveled to the Purple Extreme Ghost Sword Sect to see him.

• Ling Pengxing gratefully received three high-grade boundary-breaking spirit items from Ling Pengyun and decided to attempt his breakthrough at the Purple Extreme Ghost Sword Sect.
• Ling Pengyun shared breakthrough advice and departed, while Ling Pengxing entered seclusion and consumed his boundary-breaking items.
• Ling Pengxing broke through to spirit transformation full completion and used his Ghost Immortal Flying Sword to overcome the heavenly tribulation.
• Ling Pengxing tested his increased strength and concluded that he could defeat or hold off ordinary cultivators at his new cultivation stage.
• Evil Mountain Dao Lord noticed Ling Pengxing's breakthrough, and Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch arrived at Blood Origin Small Mountain before heading secretly toward the Purple Extreme Ghost Sword Sect.

Ling Pengxing was attacked in his cave abode, but repelled the strike and discovered Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch was behind it. Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch offered him a Void Refinement Boundary Breaking Spirit Item to secure his help in the coming war against the Wujia Spirit Ghost Clan, leaving Ling Pengxing tempted to accept.

• Ling Pengxing sensed danger as a powerful ghost-dao flying dagger shot at him inside his cave abode.
• Ling Pengxing summoned his Ghost Immortal Flying Sword, clashed with the dagger, and called the family ghost cultivators guarding outside.
• Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch appeared and praised Ling Pengxing’s strength after his breakthrough.
• Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch renewed his offer to recruit Ling Pengxing, adding a Void Refinement Boundary Breaking Spirit Item as the conflict with the Wujia Spirit Ghost Clan approached.
• Ling Pengxing considered the generous offer and thought that working for Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch might be possible.

Ling Pengxing agreed to serve under Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch, secured a Ghost-path treasure, and returned to the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan as tensions with the Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan escalated. After the Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan launched an invasion and seized border lands, Evil Artifact Heavenly Monarch asked Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch to lead a surprise attack.

• Ling Pengxing signed a Primordial Soul Contract with Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch, who gave him Ghost Origin Treasure Liquid in exchange for his service.
• Ling Pengxing informed Ling Pengyun of the agreement, then returned to the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan's headquarters.
• The Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan launched an assault with four Spirit Transformation cultivators and began taking the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan's border ghost lands.
• At the frontline, Evil Artifact Heavenly Monarch asked Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch to lead a force around the enemy army and strike newly seized lands or the Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan's heartland.

Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch assembled his trusted subordinates, including Ling Pengxing, for a covert strike into Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan territory. After they prepared his powerful Annihilation Battle Array, they set out aboard a concealed flying vessel.

• Evil Artifact Heavenly Monarch offered Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch rare talismans, cultivation resources, and support to draw enemy Void Refinement cultivators away from the core territory.
• Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch recruited his trusted direct subordinates for the dangerous operation, and Ling Pengxing agreed to join.
• Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch distributed the Annihilation Battle Array's flags among his subordinates and ordered them to refine the flags and keep the mission secret.
• Ling Pengxing and the others finished refining their flags before Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch led them away from the main army aboard a top-tier flying vessel.
• Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch concealed the vessel with his Ghost Night Concealment Technique as they headed toward Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan territory.

The Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan lured the Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan’s forces into a two-front crisis, trapping their frontline army while Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch attacked their inner territory. As Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch tried to evacuate his remaining forces, Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch moved to intercept him.

• Evil Artifact Heavenly Monarch arranged for an impostor to pose as Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch at the frontline while the real Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch led a surprise attack into Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan territory.
• The Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan launched another assault, then its frontline Void Refinement cultivators learned that Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch was raiding their inner territory and ordered a retreat.
• Evil Artifact Heavenly Monarch and the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan’s forces trapped the retreating army with numerous enemy-trapping talismans.
• Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch’s force broke through a Fifth Grade Peak ghostland’s defenses, killed many Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan powerhouses, and forced Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch and the survivors to flee.
• Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch pursued Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch, determined to stop the newly advanced Void Refinement cultivator from escaping.

Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch and Ling Pengxing overwhelmed Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch with their attacks and the support of Ghost Night’s subordinates. The fight ended when Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch blasted Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch’s head apart.

• Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch suppressed Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch, who lacked a Grade Six Ghost Treasure, and prepared to deliver a killing blow.
• Ling Pengxing sent the Ghost Immortal Flying Sword to aid Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch, forcing Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch to defend against another powerful attack.
• Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch recognized Ling Pengxing as Ghost Immortal Dao Lord and privately resolved to report him to his clan and seek his death.
• Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch ordered his hesitant direct subordinates to join the battle, and they activated the Soul Severing Battle Array with Ling Pengxing.
• The Soul Severing Array Blade struck at Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch, worsening his predicament, and Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch blasted his head apart with the Ghost Night Flying Daggers.

Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch and Ling Pengxing led a raid that killed Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch and looted the Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan’s strongholds and ancestral valley. After earning valuable spiritual items and materials, Ling Pengxing returned to the front and began secluded cultivation.

• Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch’s forces captured Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch’s primordial spirit, killed the surrounding Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan powerhouses, and Ghost Night awarded Ling Pengxing the ghost god treasure liquid for his service.
• Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch led Ling Pengxing and the others to Wu Tu Ghost Valley, where they broke through its grand array, killed its defenders, and looted its Primordial Chaos Ghost Fruit Trees and other spiritual plants.
• Ling Pengxing exchanged battle merits for Ghost Dao plants, sword-technique inheritances, azure nether ghost iron, and five-element ghost iron intended for Ling Pengyun.
• The raiding party looted more Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan strongholds, then returned to the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan when its forces could no longer hold the front.
• The Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan rewarded the raiders, and Ling Pengxing withdrew to a secluded place near the front to cultivate.

The Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan returned to find Wu Tu Ghost Valley and its surrounding territories plundered, and Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch and other clan members dead. Their Old Ancestor resolved to risk a new attack on the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan to kill Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch, and the clan army departed for the front lines as the other two Void Refinement cultivators feared for his life.

• The Wu Earth Spirit Ghost Clan's army returned to find its territories stripped of treasures and Wu Tu Heavenly Monarch and other defenders slain.
• The clan's powerhouses searched for Ghost Night Heavenly Monarch, Ling Pengxing, and their allies, but discovered they had already fled.
• The Old Ancestor proposed attacking the Evil Eye Spirit Ghost Clan to avenge the dead and prevent Ghost Night from growing stronger with the stolen resources.
• The other two Void Refinement cultivators agreed to the plan but urged the Old Ancestor not to sacrifice himself.
• The Old Ancestor gathered the army and headed back to the front lines, leaving Spirit Transformation powerhouses to guard Wu Tu Ghost Valley.