Chapter Summaries

True Lord Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun moved Distant Mountain Island to the Pengyuan landmass and established Taiyi Sect around a top-grade fourth-rank spiritual vein. After the sect’s grand formation was completed, True Lord Golden Turtle arrived, furious that Taiyi had taken his territory.

• Tu Shan Jun and two Nascent Soul Yin Gods lifted Distant Mountain Island and carried it toward the Pengyuan landmass, exhausting Tu Shan Jun in the process.
• True Lord Taiyi revealed a top-grade fourth-rank spiritual vein and buried it beneath the land, creating Taiyi Peak and surrounding mountain ranges.
• True Lord Taiyi declared Taiyi Sect established, and its cultivators celebrated as the spiritual qi loosened bottlenecks and improved their cultivation.
• True Lord Taiyi gave Tu Shan Jun a fifth-rank grand formation, which Tu Shan Jun set up across the new sect’s territory.
• True Lord Taiyi ordered the sect to clear the Pengyuan landmass of its existing inhabitants unless they agreed to join, and True Lord Golden Turtle confronted him over Distant Mountain Island.

Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi confronted True Lord Golden Ao, who tried to claim their territory and sect. Tu Shan Jun struck first and revealed the Ten Directions Ghost King Life-Slaying Formation, surrounding Golden Ao as the battle escalated.

• True Lord Golden Ao demanded that True Lord Taiyi surrender Distant Mountain Island and proposed exchanging it for the barren Pengyuan lands, while Taiyi refused to give up his sect and spirit vein.
• Tu Shan Jun approached Golden Ao under the guise of conversation and struck him with the Soul Banner, beginning their fight.
• The clash sent both cultivators flying, and True Lord Taiyi shielded the Pengyuan lands from the battle’s shockwaves.
• Tu Shan Jun recovered from his injuries and revealed that he had secretly set up a formation around Golden Ao.
• Tu Shan Jun activated the Ten Directions Ghost King Life-Slaying Formation, surrounding Golden Ao with Yin gods and ghosts as Golden Ao recoiled in shock.

Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi used the Ten-Direction Ghost King Life-Slaying Formation to attack True Lord Golden Ao, who broke free by transforming into a gigantic turtle-dragon. Tu Shan Jun wounded him in a direct clash, but Golden Ao escaped, leaving the Taiyi Sect to prepare for whatever followed.

• True Lord Taiyi watched the surrounding powers while Tu Shan Jun and the Ghost Kings trapped True Lord Golden Ao in the grand formation.
• True Lord Golden Ao resisted the formation’s killing arts with his inherited abilities, but Tu Shan Jun added more attacks that ignited his mana and drew sinister thunderclouds overhead.
• True Lord Golden Ao transformed into a colossal turtle-dragon and tore apart the formation, forcing Tu Shan Jun to recall the Yin Gods into the Soul Banner.
• Tu Shan Jun revealed his Ghost King form and fought True Lord Golden Ao, striking him hard enough to send him crashing into the sea.
• True Lord Golden Ao fled underwater, and Tu Shan Jun admitted he could not kill him without risking his life.
• True Lord Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun returned to the Taiyi Sect, hoping Golden Ao’s defeat would deter other powers from attacking.

True Lord Taiyi formally welcomed Tu Shan Jun into the Taiyi Ascension Sect as his junior brother, granting him the Daoist title Tai Shi. As the sect began organizing its followers and rebuilding, True Lord Taiyi summoned the cultivators to a ceremony to establish the sect's foundations.

• True Lord Taiyi asked Tu Shan Jun to join the sect formally by accepting Lü Xuan as his master.
• True Lord Taiyi paid respects to the jade statue of Lü Xuan and accepted Tu Shan Jun as a disciple on his master's behalf.
• Tu Shan Jun completed the rites, received the Daoist title Tai Shi, and exchanged formal greetings with True Lord Taiyi as his senior brother.
• Tu Shan Jun accepted Nine Nether Profound Black Gold Iron as a gift and declined to take the three Golden Core masters as disciples.
• True Lord Taiyi summoned all cultivators of Qi Refining and above to Taiyi Peak's ceremonial grounds.
• True Lord Taiyi addressed the gathered cultivators and called Qian Fei, Xu Zhao, and Zhang Dezi forward.

True Lord Taiyi established the Taiyi Sect’s ranks, rules, and paths to advancement while taking Qian Fei, Xu Zhao, and Zhang Dezi as registered disciples. The ceremony ended with Tu Shan Jun asking the grieving Zhou Xinglie to become his registered disciple.

• True Lord Taiyi made Qian Fei, Xu Zhao, and Zhang Dezi registered disciples and promised to promote whoever first comprehended a Dharma Domain or reached the Golden Core Late Stage.
• True Lord Taiyi announced the Taiyi Sect’s nine ranks and set rules for leadership, authority, disciple admission, and discipline.
• True Lord Taiyi presented Elder tokens to the three new disciples, while Zhou Xinglie grieved over the diminished status of the former Fire Fiery Sect.
• Tu Shan Jun called out to Zhou Xinglie and asked whether he was willing to become his registered disciple.

True Lord Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun established the Taiyi Sect, registering thousands of cultivators and their skills before assigning them roles. The chapter ended with True Lord Taiyi declaring the sect’s founding at a banquet for its new disciples and followers.

• Tu Shan Jun named Zhou Xinglie an honorary disciple, and Zhou Xinglie accepted.
• True Lord Taiyi opened a protected registration formation, and Xu Zhao recorded the cultivators’ names, cultivation, skills, and sect duties as Zhang Dezi distributed sect tokens.
• The cultivators from the former sects and lineages were counted and assigned to the inner or outer sect, while ordinary mortals temporarily remained within the mountain gate.
• True Lord Taiyi provided a Nether Soul Sea Dragon Whale for a banquet attended by the newly gathered cultivators.
• True Lord Taiyi declared that the Taiyi Sect had been established and called the gathered people his disciples and followers.

True Lord Golden Turtle retreated after losing to the cultivators of the newly established Taiyi Sect and ordered his followers not to provoke them. As Taiyi Sect began developing its territory, the two great sects of the Ghost Sea and a Nascent Soul True Lord of Kun Cloud Sect considered how to respond to the newcomers.

• True Lord Golden Turtle recovered from his injuries, warned Golden Turtle Palace not to provoke the new sect, and told its assembly that he and True Lord Taiyi had fought together.
• A scholar-headscarf cultivator advised Golden Turtle Palace to wait, reduce its territory if necessary, and build relations with Taiyi Sect rather than risk an early clash.
• After the sect banquet, cultivators and new disciples reflected on their improved prospects, while elders warned them to commit to Taiyi Sect and prepare for frontier development.
• Before dawn, Xu Zhao confirmed the cultivators were assembled, and Tu Shan Jun sent twelve spirit boats out to begin clearing Taiyi Sect's territory.
• The Nascent Soul True Lord of Kun Cloud Sect heard that True Lord Golden Turtle had been defeated and said the outsiders would have to obey the Star Net Sea's rules; a transmission talisman then burned.

During Taiyi Sect’s land-clearing expedition, Zhang Dezi and the other Golden Core Grandmasters fought an armored corpse commander before discovering a powerful ancient tree demon hidden beneath a mountain. Tu Shan Jun intervened and persuaded the tree to join the sect as a guardian divine beast, then considered gathering other desolate beasts across Pengyuan.

• Taiyi Sect’s disciples swept through the sect grounds, burning vegetation and fighting desolate beasts as Tu Shan Jun tended the spirit ship’s Yin Spirit banner.
• Zhang Dezi, Xu Zhao, and Qian Fei confronted an armored figure commanding countless corpses, using spirit ships and their own attacks to defeat him.
• A concealed ancient tree demon emerged from beneath the mountain, trapped Qian Fei and Xu Zhao with its roots, and forced the disciples into peril.
• Tu Shan Jun arrived and offered the tree a place in the sect as a guardian divine beast, with elder treatment and resources for its cultivation.
• The ancient tree accepted, and Tu Shan Jun considered gathering the other desolate beasts of Pengyuan into a formidable force.

Taiyi Sect reclaimed its territory, welcomed the wilderness beast Banyan Tree King, and began building up its peaks while facing a food shortage. Tu Shan Jun warned True Lord Taiyi that the retreating East Sea defensive line could bring the Thousand Plains Region’s forces toward the Ghost Soul Sea, while Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi traveled to Myriad Scenery City to buy provisions.

• Tu Shan Jun disciplined the demon who had failed to watch over the sect disciples, then True Lord Taiyi welcomed the Banyan Tree King into Taiyi Sect and gave him Divine Tree Peak.
• The Banyan Tree King described nearby wilderness beasts and demonic creatures, and True Lord Taiyi planned to recruit them and move Cliff Mountain Grotto’s fire vein to Artifact Seat Peak.
• Taiyi Sect began constructing roads and facilities across its peaks, while True Lord Taiyi sent Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi to buy food and grain seeds after learning supplies would last only twelve days.
• Tu Shan Jun told True Lord Taiyi that the East Sea defensive line was contracting and warned that forces from the Thousand Plains Region might soon reach the Ghost Soul Sea.
• Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi reached Myriad Scenery City with one hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones, and Xu Zhao warned Zhang Dezi not to provoke the Wan family or delay their purchases.

Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi entered Wanjing City to buy food and spirit plant seeds, where the Wan Lineage and Jing Xiu eagerly courted them after hearing of the Taiyi Sect’s powerful ancestor. After hosting them and supplying their provisions, Wan Yuliang asked Xu Zhao to arrange an audience with the ancestor.

• Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi arrived at Wanjing City and told Wan Yuliang and Jing Xiu that they served the Taiyi Sect, whose ancestor had expanded the Pengyuan lands.
• Wan Yuliang offered to gather food and seeds for them, while Xu Zhao rebuked Zhang Dezi for speaking too bluntly to the local powers.
• Wan Yuliang and Jing Xiu privately suspected the visitors were not disciples of a great sect and discussed using their connection to approach the Nascent Soul ancestor.
• The Wan Lineage’s rush to buy grain drove up prices in Wanjing City, leaving Qi Refiners scrambling to purchase food.
• Wan Yuliang hosted Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi at a banquet and served them spirit beasts whose meat produced a powerful effect on Zhang Dezi.
• As Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi prepared to leave with the food and seeds, Wan Yuliang asked Xu Zhao to introduce him to the ancestor.

Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi brought Wan Yuliang and Jing Xiu to the Taiyi Sect, where Tu Shan Jun exposed Wan Yuliang’s crimes and killed him. After True Lord Jinyu delivered an invitation to a council of Xingluo Sea’s top powers, Taiyi True Lord ordered the sect to take over Wanjing City and prepare to unify Pengyuan Land.

• Xu Zhao explained that he and Zhang Dezi had brought Wan Yuliang and Jing Xiu to the sect so the patriarch could decide what to do with them.
• Tu Shan Jun exposed Wan Yuliang’s secret art, crushed his body, and searched his yin spirit, learning that the Wan family used children’s souls to raise desolate beasts for meat.
• Jing Xiu denied participating in the Wan family’s trade, and Taiyi True Lord accepted that he had not been involved.
• True Lord Jinyu gave Taiyi True Lord an invitation to the Xingluo Sect Council, scheduled to meet at Qiuniu Sea in half a year.
• Tu Shan Jun called the invitation a threat and said half a year should be enough to unify Pengyuan Land; Taiyi True Lord ordered Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi to gather the disciples and take over Wanjing City.
• Jing Xiu submitted to the Taiyi Sect, while Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi returned to mobilize its disciples.

Taiyi Sect mobilized its disciples and stewards to attack Wanjing City over the Wan family's use of children’s souls to raise savage beasts. As the spirit vessels prepared to depart, Zhou Xinglie showed off the Patriarch’s gifts and sold his Yin Soul Pill to Ji Bin.

• Xu Zhao announced the expedition against Wanjing City, and Zhang Dezi ordered the sect’s elders, Attendants, and stewards to join it.
• The Banyan Tree King and the fire wyrm agreed to accompany the sect, while cultivators and disciples boarded the spirit vessels.
• Foundation Establishment cultivators questioned Zhou Xinglie about Patriarch Taiyi’s teachings, and Zhou revealed his Soul Banner and Yin Soul Pill.
• Zhou Feng offered to buy Zhou Xinglie’s Yin Soul Pill, starting a bidding contest that ended when Ji Bin offered three thousand low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhou Xinglie transferred the pill to Ji Bin, and a Golden Core Grandmaster ordered the spirit vessels to ascend.

Taiyi Sect conquered the Wan Lineage’s holdings in Wan Jing City and renamed the city Cloudscape City. Back at the sect, Taiyi True Lord planned a gathering of Gold Core cultivators across Pengyuan while Tu Shan Jun continued experimenting with a Soul Banner.

• Xu Zhao told Jing Xiu that Taiyi Sect would leave the Jing Lineage’s holdings untouched and take over the Wan Lineage’s properties.
• Jing Xiu lowered Wan Jing City’s protective array, and Zhang Dezi announced that Wan Yuliang had been killed and the Wan Lineage would be eradicated.
• Taiyi Sect’s disciples attacked Wan Jing City, killed the Wan Lineage cultivators, and took control of its shops and territories.
• Taiyi Sect renamed Wan Jing City Cloudscape City and placed it under the sect’s rule.
• Tu Shan Jun showed Taiyi True Lord his unfinished Soul Banner, and Taiyi True Lord proposed refining a Yin Spirit into it.
• Taiyi True Lord decided to invite Gold Core cultivators from across the Land of Pengyuan to a gathering.

Taiyi Sect sent invitations across Pengyuan as True Lord Taiyi prepared to meet the region’s factions, while Tu Shan Jun gained a new enlightenment that strengthened his Dao and Dharma domain. The Yin Spirit Sect’s True Person Ouyang Yu arrived at Taiyi Sect’s mountain gate.

• A decayed-wood Daoist delivered Taiyi Sect’s invitation to the Yin Spirit Sect, whose leaders feared the consequences and learned they must attend within two months or leave Pengyuan.
• True Lord Taiyi invited Tu Shan Jun to meet Pengyuan’s faction leaders, but Tu Shan Jun declined and entered an unexpected state of enlightenment on Artifact Peak.
• Tu Shan Jun comprehended the second layer of true intent, completed his Dharma domain, and recognized that Taiyi Sect’s growing momentum had advanced his Dao Path.
• True Lord Taiyi congratulated Tu Shan Jun and said his new strength would help them negotiate with Pengyuan’s factions the following year.
• Zhang Dezhi announced the arrival of True Person Ouyang Yu of the Yin Spirit Sect at Taiyi Sect’s mountain gate.

Taiyi True Lord gathered Pengyuan’s Golden Core factions at the Taiyi Sect and demanded that they submit or leave. When several leaders invoked sect law and outside protection to resist, a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator appeared and attacked Ghost King Shashen, who claimed affiliation with the Heavenly Roc Sect.

• Ouyang Yu and five Foundation Establishment cultivators entered the Taiyi Sect and were stunned by its grand formation and spiritual energy.
• Over the next month, Golden Core Grandmasters from across Pengyuan arrived at the Taiyi Sect, and the sect arranged them in Jade Palace Hall.
• Taiyi True Lord offered the gathered factions a choice between submitting to the Taiyi Sect or leaving, and most initially raised their wine cups.
• Ghost King Shashen, Sikong Xingye, and True Person Zhongli refused to submit, cited sect law and outside protection, and persuaded many others to lower their cups.
• A red-haired mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator emerged and declared that those who would neither leave nor submit would die, then pinned Ghost King Shashen to a table.
• Ghost King Shashen struggled under the cultivator’s pressure and revealed that he was an Attendant of the Heavenly Roc Sect.

Tu Shan Jun killed Killing Body Ghost King and used his death to establish the Taiyi Sect’s authority over Pengyuan, renaming it Qianyuan. Taiyi True Lord offered the local powers a place under the sect and a deal to recruit twenty percent of the region’s new cultivators, while Tu Shan Jun was reminded of an old acquaintance.

• Killing Body Ghost King declared himself an Attendant of the Heavenly Roc Sect, but Tu Shan Jun killed him and captured his yin spirit in the Soul Banner.
• Sikong Xingye abandoned his plan to pressure the Taiyi Sect and stayed silent after seeing Tu Shan Jun’s strength.
• Tu Shan Jun renamed Pengyuan Qianyuan and declared that those who refused to submit must leave or be treated as enemies.
• Taiyi True Lord introduced Tu Shan Jun as True Lord Taishi Soul Banner and invited the local Golden Core masters to remain without merging their territories into the sect.
• Taiyi True Lord waived taxes but claimed first pick of twenty percent of suitable children and Rogue Cultivators entering the Dao Path in Qianyuan Land.
• Tu Shan Jun listened to Taiyi True Lord and thought of an old acquaintance.

True Lord Taiyi let factions choose whether to join the Taiyi Sect or leave Qianyuan, while Tu Shan Jun promised to contain the Baleful Intent. After many factions departed, Tu Shan Jun began preparing to upgrade the Soul Banner, leaving the chapter with True Lord Taiyi starting the artifact-refining process as Tu Shan Jun watched anxiously.

• True Lord Taiyi told intelligent beings they could join the sect and promised to address the Baleful Intent, which Tu Shan Jun agreed to contain.
• Sikong Xingye, True Person Zhongli, and several Golden Core grandmasters asked to leave Qianyuan, and True Lord Taiyi agreed to help them resettle.
• Ouyang Yu chose to become an affiliated force of the Taiyi Sect, while Sikong Xingye and True Person Zhongli discussed forming an alliance as they departed.
• Thirty-one factions remained after the Ghost King of Mortal Slaughter was killed; ten factions left with the Danding Sect and Hundred Refinements Sect, while nineteen stayed.
• Tu Shan Jun planned to fuse a spirit treasure and a supreme-grade dharma treasure into the Soul Banner, and True Lord Taiyi offered to provide materials for the upgrade.
• At Artifact Peak, True Lord Taiyi began raising the earthfire beneath the bronze furnace while Tu Shan Jun watched nervously.

Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi began refining the Soul Banner, melting down the man-slaying axe and White Bone Dragon-Binding Spear for materials before putting the banner into the furnace. Tu Shan Jun discovered he could remain lucid inside the artifact, but withdrew from the pain as True Lord Taiyi intensified the flames.

• Tu Shan Jun removed the formations inscribed on his body and returned to the Soul Banner while True Lord Taiyi prepared the refinement.
• True Lord Taiyi melted down the man-slaying axe and separated its materials.
• True Lord Taiyi spent forty-nine days melting the White Bone Dragon-Binding Spear into materials.
• Tu Shan Jun asked whether melting the Soul Banner could harm him, then agreed to watch its refinement.
• True Lord Taiyi placed the Soul Banner in the furnace, where Tu Shan Jun opened an eye and urged him to raise the temperature.
• Tu Shan Jun felt the flames' agony through the Soul Banner and withdrew, leaving True Lord Taiyi to continue refining it.

Tu Shan Jun endured earthfire refinement as the Soul Banner advanced into a top-grade spirit treasure, but a blood-jade gourd nearly drove him into madness during the process. The chapter ended with True Lord Taiyi revealing that the Soul Banner’s new spatial ability might let it store living things.

• Tu Shan Jun reopened the Soul Banner within the earthfire and endured its agonizing refinement while True Lord Taiyi warned him to proceed gradually.
• Tu Shan Jun nearly lost himself in an immortal-ascension illusion, so True Lord Taiyi sacrificed a half-finished Heavenly Eye World-Storing Pearl to steady him.
• Tu Shan Jun traced the strange influence to the blood-jade gourd, recognized the words “Primordial Saint Spirit Demon Immortal Ascension Method,” and ordered the old ape to guard it.
• After forty-nine days, True Lord Taiyi completed the refinement, and the Soul Banner reached the pinnacle of spirit treasures as a top-grade spirit treasure.
• Tu Shan Jun discovered the Soul Banner had gained the spatial divine ability Shoreless Return to Ruins, and True Lord Taiyi explained that the pearl behind it was an incomplete spatial spirit treasure.

Tu Shan Jun discovered that the Soul Banner’s new space could not sustain spiritual energy, then left seclusion to investigate the Baleful Intent in the Netherghost Sea. Months later, with Tu Shan Jun still missing, True Lord Taiyi departed to honor the Taiyi Sect’s appointment at the Xingluo Sea Sect Assembly.

• Tu Shan Jun learned that the Soul Banner had merged with Return to Ruin, but its space could not sustain spiritual energy or support living beings for long.
• Tu Shan Jun considered using the Soul Banner to trap and refine powerful enemies, then decided to prepare for the Xingluo Sect Assembly and asked the demon about the Baleful Intent.
• The demon reported that an ancient battle in the Netherghost Sea had left the region shrouded in Baleful Intent, and Tu Shan Jun set out to investigate the inner sea.
• True Lord Taiyi reviewed the sect’s expansion across Qianyuan and noted that local factions were waiting to see how Taiyi Sect fared at the Assembly.
• As the appointment arrived, True Lord Taiyi could not reach Tu Shan Jun and departed by flying shuttle, while the sect’s elders and disciples saw him off.