Chapter Summaries

Ling Pengyun tracked the Crimson Feather Immortal Sect’s surviving Void Refinement cultivator to a hidden spirit land and slaughtered him and the sect’s elite disciples. After claiming the spirit land and its riches, Ling Pengyun set off to hunt the White Water Immortal Sect’s surviving Void Refinement cultivator.

• The Crimson Feather Immortal Sect’s Void Refinement cultivator brought hundreds of cultivators and the sect’s treasury to a concealed underground refuge.
• Ling Pengyun followed the cultivator to the cavern, sealed the area with his Nether Void Domain, and attacked its grand formation.
• The sect’s cultivators rallied behind their grade six grand formation, but Ling Pengyun overwhelmed them and killed everyone inside.
• Ling Pengyun collected the grand formation, spirit vein, treasures, primordial spirit, and the sect’s stockpile of resources.
• Ling Pengyun departed to pursue the White Water Immortal Sect’s surviving Void Refinement cultivator, who had taken his disciples to a nearby marketplace for refuge.

Ling Pengyun found that the White Water Immortal Sect’s remaining Void Refinement cultivator was hiding in Yellow Sand Marketplace and negotiated with its guardian, Yellow Ape Old Heavenly Lord, for permission to kill him. The Yellow Sand Immortal Sect agreed, provided Ling Pengyun handled the matter quietly.

• Ling Pengyun approached Yellow Sand Marketplace after sensing the hidden White Water Immortal Sect cultivator there.
• Yellow Ape Old Heavenly Lord intercepted Ling Pengyun and asked him to register his information before entering the marketplace.
• Ling Pengyun identified himself as Lingxiao, revealed his target’s presence, and offered valuable spiritual goods while displaying his formidable aura.
• Yellow Ape Old Heavenly Lord grew wary of Ling Pengyun and consulted the Yellow Sand Immortal Sect’s leaders.
• The Yellow Sand Immortal Sect allowed Ling Pengyun to kill the White Water Immortal Sect cultivator on the condition that he caused no public disturbance.

Ling Pengyun secured Yellow Ape Old Heavenly Lord’s help to trap and conceal the White Water Immortal Sect’s remaining Void Refinement cultivator inside Yellow Sand Marketplace. Ling Pengyun began attacking the cave abode, leaving his target trapped and alarmed.

• Yellow Ape Old Heavenly Lord offered to use the marketplace formation to trap Ling Pengyun’s target and hide the disturbance, while leaving the kill and its spoils to Ling Pengyun.
• Ling Pengyun accepted, followed the restriction he had planted to locate the White Water Immortal Sect cultivator, and found him in a cave abode with elite disciples.
• Yellow Ape Old Heavenly Lord used the formation to surround the cave abode with a trapping barrier and Concealing Cloud Mist.
• Ling Pengyun entered the mist, armed himself with his spirit treasures, sealed the cave abode inside his Nether Void Domain, and launched a Five Elements Thunder Flood Dragon attack.
• The White Water Immortal Sect cultivator sensed the attack, realized the marketplace formation had trapped him, and feared Yellow Sand Marketplace was helping Ling Pengyun.

Ling Pengyun killed the last Void Refinement cultivator of the White Water Immortal Sect and seized the sect’s wealth. After declining Yellow Ape Old Heavenly Lord’s invitation to join the Yellow Sand Immortal Sect, he asked whether the elder would teach his son Ling Cheng Mie beast taming.

• Ling Pengyun trapped and killed the White Water Immortal Sect cultivators, preserving their leader’s Primordial Spirit and taking their wealth.
• Ling Pengyun thanked Yellow Ape Old Heavenly Lord, who praised his strength and invited him to become a Guest Elder of the Yellow Sand Immortal Sect.
• Ling Pengyun declined the invitation, explaining that he planned to conquer the lands of the Crimson Feather Immortal Sect and the White Water Immortal Sect and establish his own force.
• Ling Pengyun asked Yellow Ape Old Heavenly Lord to consider taking Ling Cheng Mie as a disciple and teaching him beast taming.

Ling Pengyun agreed to send Ling Cheng Mie to study Beast Taming under Yellow Ape Old Heavenly Lord in exchange for future aid to the Yellow Sand Immortal Sect. He then joined Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch at the besieged Crimson Feather Small Mountain Range, where the two began attacking its defenses together.

• Ling Pengyun agreed to send Ling Cheng Mie to Yellow Sand Marketplace within a year to learn Beast Taming from Yellow Ape Old Heavenly Lord and other high-ranking Beast Tamers.
• Yellow Ape Old Heavenly Lord informed the Yellow Sand Immortal Sect, which arranged for several high-ranking Beast Tamers to travel to Yellow Sand Marketplace.
• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch continued attacking the Crimson Feather Small Mountain Range’s sect-protecting formation while his subordinates watched the White Water Small Mountain Range.
• Ling Pengyun arrived undetected, thanked Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch for besieging the Spirit Lands, and offered him thirty percent of the benefits from the Crimson Feather Small Mountain Range.
• Ling Pengyun joined Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch in attacking the formation, and Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch marveled at his concealed methods and generosity.

Ling Pengyun and the Old Heavenly Lord of Primordial Unity broke through the Crimson Feather Immortal Sect’s defenses and seized the Crimson Feather Small Mountain Range. Ling Pengyun claimed its valuable formation and powerful Grade Six Low-Rank Spirit Vein, leaving the Old Heavenly Lord envious but unwilling to challenge him.

• Ling Pengyun showed the Old Heavenly Lord of Primordial Unity the souls of the two Void Refinement criminals he had killed, then joined him in attacking the Crimson Feather Small Mountain Range’s protective formation.
• Ling Pengyun and the Old Heavenly Lord broke open the formation and killed the ordinary Crimson Feather Immortal Sect cultivators guarding the range.
• Ling Pengyun claimed the array plate for the Crimson Feather Fire Sparrow Great Formation and learned that the damaged formation could be restored.
• Ling Pengyun and the Old Heavenly Lord found the range’s Spirit Lands intact after the sect’s remaining Void Refinement cultivator had taken its valuables and left.
• Ling Pengyun anticipated using Crimson Feather Small Mountain’s exceptional Grade Six Low-Rank Spirit Vein to establish his clan in the Clear Mist Realm, while the Old Heavenly Lord briefly considered attacking him but abandoned the idea.

Ling Pengyun received the promised treasures and inheritances from the Primordial Unity Lineage, then helped seize most of the Spirit Lands belonging to the Crimson Feather Immortal Sect and White Water Immortal Sect. His spirit vein reserves surpassed the Primordial Unity Lineage’s, and he planned to bring family members and allies to the Clear Mist Realm to manage his new territories.

• Old Heavenly Lord Primordial Unity congratulated Ling Pengyun and gave him the promised precious iron, spiritual items, and inheritance manuals.
• Ling Pengyun and Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch spent several months helping seize Spirit Lands from the Crimson Feather Immortal Sect and White Water Immortal Sect.
• Ling Pengyun acquired nearly seventy percent of the two powers’ Spirit Lands, their Grade Six Low-Rank spirit veins, and several realms, greatly increasing his reserves.
• Ling Pengyun inspected the Grade Six Low-Rank spirit vein and damaged sect-protecting formation in White Water Valley.
• Ling Pengyun planned to use cross-realm teleportation formations to bring family members and familiar powers from the Heaven River Realm to help manage his territories.

Ling Pengyun used the White Water Immortal Sect’s teleportation network to secure Bai Yuan Minor Realm and distribute cultivators to tend its spirit lands and the former sects’ holdings. He returned to the Ghost Dao battlefield, where the allied forces kept advancing against the Black Snake Evil Ghost Clan’s minor realm.

• Ling Pengyun opened the Grade Six Low-Rank teleportation array in White Water Valley and traveled to Bai Yuan Minor Realm.
• Finding the minor realm without cultivators to care for its spirit lands, Ling Pengyun gathered manpower from the Azure Profound Realm and Heaven River Realm and sent groups to manage the lands, watch over the mortals, and serve throughout the Clear Mist Realm’s minor realms.
• Ling Pengyun returned to the Ghost Dao battlefield to guard Yan Siyi, Star Sea Old Ancestor, and the other allied cultivators against a concealed Ghost Dao Void Refinement cultivator.
• Ling Pengyun told Yan Siyi and the others that the White Water Immortal Sect and Crimson Feather Immortal Sect had been destroyed.
• Yan Siyi and the allied forces continued assaulting the Black Snake Evil Ghost Clan’s minor realm, while Yan Siyi and the others were astonished by Ling Pengyun’s achievements and strength.

After learning that Ling Pengyun had destroyed the White Water Immortal Sect and the Crimson Feather Immortal Sect, the Black Snake Ghost Monarch ordered its forces to abandon the contested Ghost Dao Minor Realm. Ling Pengyun suspected that Ghost Traitors were leaking intelligence from the Clear Mist Realm, while the allied forces seized the emptied realm and divided its resources.

• The Black Snake Ghost Monarch learned of Ling Pengyun’s victories and feared he would target the Black Snake Evil Ghost Clan, so it ordered its troops to withdraw from the Ghost Dao Minor Realm.
• Ling Pengyun noticed the retreat and suspected that Ghost Traitors in the Clear Mist Realm had passed news to the Black Snake Evil Ghost Clan; he let the withdrawal proceed under the rules set by the top Ghost Dao forces.
• Ling Pengyun resolved to deal with the Black Snake Evil Ghost Clan during the coming Realm Chaos, when those rules would temporarily lapse.
• The Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch told Ling Pengyun that his earlier victories had frightened the Black Snake forces into retreating, and Ling Pengyun modestly dismissed the praise.
• The allied armies breached the unattended guardian array, destroyed the teleportation formation’s core, took control of the Ghost Dao Minor Realm, and divided its resources according to their agreement and military achievements.

Ling Pengyun and the Lingxiao forces profited from their victories, turning the conquered ghost realm and former sect territories into productive holdings. As Ling Pengyun advanced his inheritances in seclusion, an uninvited guest arrived at the clan’s new headquarters.

• Ling Pengyun learned that the Lingxiao Business Alliance had gained ghost veins and battle experience from the Ghost Dao Minor Realm, and he approved of its share of the spoils.
• The Primordial Unity Lineage refined the minor realm’s ghost veins into spirit veins, and the powers developed it as a resource realm named Hunling Realm.
• The clan established the Lingxiao Ling Clan in the territories of the Crimson Feather Immortal Sect and White Water Immortal Sect, earning substantial yearly profits from their spirit veins.
• Ling Pengyun used the clan’s gains to activate the Five Elements Primordial Scripture and rapidly perfected several natal inheritances to the mid-grade level.
• An uninvited guest arrived at Crimson Feather Small Mountain less than half a year later.

Ling Pengyun received Liu Dongfang, an elder of the Sun Moon Immortal Sect, after anticipating that the regional hegemon would approach him following the destruction of two subordinate sects. Liu Dongfang proposed that the Ling Clan become a subordinate and pay annual tribute, leaving Ling Pengyun to consider the offer.

• Liu Dongfang arrived at the Ling Clan's new grounds and asked to meet Ling Pengyun.
• Ling Pengyun learned of the visit and concealed his five-element Void Refinement foundation before going to receive Liu Dongfang.
• Ling Pengyun welcomed Liu Dongfang with ten Sixth-tier Spirit Crystals, and Liu Dongfang praised the strength of his apparent foundation.
• Liu Dongfang explained the Sun Moon Immortal Sect's benefits and asked whether the Ling Clan would become its subordinate in exchange for thirty Sixth-tier Spirit Crystals in annual tribute.

Ling Pengyun accepted the Sun Moon Immortal Sect’s generous affiliation offer and used its discounted pills to advance from the peak of the first layer of Void Refinement to the second layer. He then turned his attention to earning Spirit Crystals and studying artifact refinement and spirit plants.

• Liu Dongfang explained that the Sun Moon Immortal Sect offered Ling Pengyun unusually generous pill discounts because it wanted to win his aid in the approaching inter-realm conflict, and Ling Pengyun agreed to help.
• Ling Pengyun signed a Primordial Soul Contract with Liu Dongfang and entrusted him with over a hundred Sixth-tier Spirit Crystals to buy pills.
• Half a month later, Liu Dongfang delivered the pills, and Ling Pengyun entered seclusion to cultivate with them.
• After several months, Ling Pengyun gathered a thousand strands of Void Refinement Spiritual Power Origin and advanced to the second layer of Void Refinement, greatly increasing his strength.
• Ling Pengyun decided to earn more Spirit Crystals and devoted most of his attention to studying artifact refinement and spirit-plant inheritances.

Ling Pengyun advanced his artifact-refining and spirit-plant skills, then reforged the Five Elements Dharma Bead after two failed attempts. The bead successfully advanced, and a powerful five-element spirit treasure tribulation gathered over Crimson Feather Small Mountain.

• Ling Pengyun spent half a year gaining introductory mastery of artifact refining and spirit-plant cultivation, then reached minor accomplishment in both disciplines over the next two years.
• Ling Pengyun gathered five-element materials and spirit treasures, including the Crimson Feather Flying Sword, to reforge the Five Elements Dharma Bead.
• Ling Pengyun's first reforging attempt failed early and damaged the bead, but he repaired it and gained valuable experience.
• Ling Pengyun's second attempt failed near completion, and his third attempt successfully reforged the Five Elements Dharma Bead.
• The Five Elements Dharma Bead released a powerful aura as a vast five-element tribulation cloud formed over Crimson Feather Small Mountain, and Ling Pengyun prepared to help it endure the lightning.

Ling Pengyun’s Spirit Treasure refinement summoned a powerful tribulation cloud over Crimson Feather Small Mountain, stunning his Lineage and impressing Heavenly Star Dao Lord. As the first bolt descended, Ling Pengyun sent the Five Elements Dharma Bead up to meet it with his Five Elements Thunder Flood Dragon divine ability.

• Ling Pengyun sent Communication Talismans to evacuate his Lineage members from Crimson Feather Small Mountain before the tribulation cloud endangered them.
• Yan Siyi sensed the cloud, admired Ling Pengyun’s refining skill, and led the Lineage members away from the mountain.
• Heavenly Star Dao Lord watched the disturbance, accepted that Ling Pengyun had surpassed him, and prepared rare treasures as congratulatory gifts.
• The first bolt of five-element Spirit Treasure tribulation lightning struck toward Ling Pengyun’s cave abode.
• Ling Pengyun transformed the Five Elements Dharma Bead into a thunder flood dragon, which charged into the descending lightning.

Ling Pengyun reforged the Five Elements Dharma Bead, the Black Flood Dragon Armor, the Primal Chaos Axe, and the Nether Void Blade into top-tier Grade Six Low-Rank Natal Spirit Treasures, greatly increasing his strength. After celebrating with his allies and guiding several cultivators, he began refining ordinary Grade Six Low-Rank treasures to sell for profit.

• The Five Elements Dharma Bead absorbed its tribulation lightning and Great Fortune Sweet Dew, becoming a top-tier Grade Six Low-Rank treasure with the power of a veteran Void Refinement Mid-Stage cultivator.
• Ling Pengyun reforged the Black Flood Dragon Armor, the Primal Chaos Axe, and the Nether Void Blade, giving each a top-tier Void Refinement spirit treasure foundation.
• Ling Pengyun emerged from seclusion, celebrated with Yan Siyi, the Primordial Unity Dao Lord, and others, and guided Yan Siyi, the Star Sea Old Ancestor, and Ling Lihao in their cultivation.
• Ling Pengyun decided to use his remaining materials to refine flying swords and Wu Tu Dharma Shields for sale, then entered seclusion to begin crafting them.

Ling Pengyun successfully forged a Wu Tu Dharma Shield, bringing his total to three grade six low-rank Spirit Treasures, and arranged to auction them at the Lingxiao Marketplace. The auction drew many cultivators and Void Refinement experts, and all three treasures sold for strong prices, leaving Ling Pengyun ready to seek more artifact-refining materials and commissions.

• Ling Pengyun forged a grade six low-rank Wu Tu Dharma Shield, raising his recent output to three Spirit Treasures from six sets of materials.
• Ling Pengyun decided to auction the shield and two Flying Cloud Treasure Swords at the Lingxiao Marketplace and use the proceeds to seek more artifact-refining materials and commissions.
• Ling Pengyun and the Lineage publicized the auction and his advancement to a grade six low-rank Artifact Refiner, drawing many cultivators, including seven or eight Void Refinement cultivators.
• The Wu Tu Dharma Shield sold for 510 sixth-tier spirit crystals, while the two Flying Cloud Treasure Swords sold for 295 and 305 sixth-tier spirit crystals.

Ling Pengyun attended the Void Refinement Trading Conference after collecting the proceeds from auctioning his Spirit Treasures. He traded a large assortment of goods for grade six low-rank artifact-refinement materials, leaving with enough for at least a dozen sets.

• Ling Wantong gave Ling Pengyun 1,110 sixth-tier spirit crystals from the auction and asked whether he would attend the trading conference; he agreed.
• Ling Pengyun joined the small gathering of powerful cultivators, where the Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch and others congratulated him on becoming a grade six low-rank Artifact Refiner.
• When guests asked about high-quality sixth-tier Spirit Treasures, Ling Pengyun said he could not yet refine them and promised to offer them at a low price if he became capable.
• Ling Pengyun opened the conference by offering spirit crystals, Gathering Yuan Pills, talismans, and spiritual plants in exchange for grade six low-rank artifact-refinement materials at a thirty-percent premium.
• The Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch and other guests traded their materials with Ling Pengyun, who collected enough to form at least a dozen sets for artifact refinement.

Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch, unable to find Void Refinement Spiritual Items for Hunwen Dao Lord, proposed that Ling Pengyun join him in exploring a hidden minor realm inhabited by Void Refinement demon beasts. Ling Pengyun agreed and arranged a contracted expedition with trusted members of his family, while Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch gathered Hunwen Dao Lord and other members of his lineage.

• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch failed to acquire Void Refinement Spiritual Items at the trade fair and worried that Hunwen Dao Lord would not break through in time for the great chaos of the realm.
• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch decided to recruit Ling Pengyun to explore a minor realm of Void Refinement demon beasts and obtain their souls for refining spiritual items.
• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch privately told Ling Pengyun about the minor realm and offered him seventy percent of the other gains, with the demon-beast souls divided equally.
• Ling Pengyun accepted, requiring a Primordial Soul Contract and Heavenly Dao Oath, and summoned Yan Siyi, Star Sea Old Ancestor, Ling Lihao, and other trusted family cultivators.
• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch gathered Hunwen Dao Lord and other core members of his lineage, then he and Ling Pengyun's group signed the contract and swore the oath.

Ling Pengyun and his companions traveled with Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch to a Demon Race minor realm containing Void Refinement cultivators. They found it protected by a crude Grade Six Guardian Realm Array, but Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch revealed that a hidden positioning talisman let him track the realm wherever it moved.

• Yan Siyi and the others prepared to help Ling Pengyun explore the Demon Race minor realm and share in its treasures.
• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch led the group through the void, using a Grade Six flying vessel to reach the realm after more than ten days.
• Ling Pengyun examined the realm’s Guardian Realm Array and noticed that its construction was crude despite its high grade.
• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch explained how the array sealed space, shifted the realm, and concealed its aura.
• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch revealed that he had secretly placed a Grade Six mid-rank positioning talisman inside the realm so he could always locate it, and Ling Pengyun praised his foresight.

Ling Pengyun and Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch entered the Demon Race realm through a Space Channel and discussed which force to attack. They chose the Yellow Sand Rat Clan, whose Void Refinement demon lord had once nearly killed Primordial Unity, and set out to target its territory.

• Ling Pengyun opened a Space Channel with his Nether Void Blade and led Yan Siyi, the others, and Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch into the Demon Race realm.
• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch identified their location near the Extreme Cold Ice Sparrow Clan's territory and explained why attacking the clan would be unwise.
• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch recommended targeting the Yellow Sand Rat Clan for its wealth, its relatively weak Void Refinement cultivator, and the suitability of that cultivator's soul for refining a spiritual item.
• Primordial Unity Heavenly Monarch revealed that the Yellow Sand Rat Clan's demon lord had nearly killed him in the past and that he still wanted revenge.
• Ling Pengyun agreed to help attack the Yellow Sand Rat Clan and said he was interested in its mineral veins.