Chapter Summaries

Lin Sheng advanced his Qingniao Chasing Star Finger while concealing his true progress, and learned that Wei Yun had broken through to the Bone Transformation realm. Qingniao Institute prepared for an urgent beast ore mining mission at Yunshui Mountain, while Zhao Kongfang reconsidered his idle habits after seeing his companions’ dedication.

• Lin Sheng broke through the third level of the Qingniao Chasing Star Finger and used its Star Chasing killing move, then advanced to the fourth level over the following month while hiding his progress.
• Xie Qingyun announced that Wei Yun had entered the Bone Transformation realm and urged her disciples to cultivate diligently.
• Xie Qingyun told the personal disciples that sect missions would begin early, including dangerous beast ore mining at Yunshui Mountain, and warned them to prioritize their safety.
• Lin Sheng learned that Zhao Kongfang had refined 201 bones and encouraged him, while Zhao described the difficulty of refining the final bones in the head.
• Zhao Kongfang invited Lin Sheng to the flower boats, but Lin Sheng declined to prepare for the mission; after seeing him leave, Zhao told his coachman to return home and buy bone-refining herbs.

Lin Sheng arrived at Great Cui Peak with a group of Qingniao Institute disciples and was assigned to guard its least productive mining area. After learning about the risks and rewards of mining fifty-thousand-year-old beast ore, he planned to use his spare time to cultivate.

• Lin Sheng led nine riders bearing Crimson Dragon Horses to Great Cui Peak and sent a signal announcing their arrival.
• Lu Tie greeted Lin Sheng, recognized that he had reached Blood Circulation, and brought the group to meet Yuan Zhongfei.
• Yuan Zhongfei dismissed Lin Sheng’s qualifications and assigned him to Area D2.
• Lu Tie explained that Area D had the lowest expected output but posed less danger than the other mining areas.
• Lin Sheng learned that rupturing mineral patterns in the beast ore could cause serious injuries and decided to use his free time to cultivate.

Lin Sheng took charge of the poor D2 mining area at Great Cui Peak and began cultivating while his companions surveyed for beast ore. Five days later, Mo Xing and Gou Donglai returned with a discovery estimated to yield eighty or ninety thousand jin of ore.

• Lu Tie showed Lin Sheng the remote D2 area, then hurried away to deal with injuries from an exploded mine vein.
• Mo Xing, Gou Donglai, and the other disciples arrived and realized Yuan Zhongfei had likely assigned them the poor area because of his conflict with the Qingniao Institute.
• Lin Sheng assigned Gou Donglai to oversee mining and inspected the area, noticing its proximity to Ghost Cry Peak.
• Over five days, Lin Sheng cultivated his martial arts and hunted a Black Rock Boa, while suppressing the physical changes caused by merging spirit beasts.
• Mo Xing showed Lin Sheng a piece of beast ore, and Gou Donglai estimated the scattered deposits could yield eighty or ninety thousand jin.

Lin Sheng broke through the Three Corpses Soul Severing Palm to the Blood Circulation realm, gaining a deadly fused poison. He then used Earth Affinity to uncover a large beast ore deposit, leaving Gou Donglai and the others astonished.

• Mo Xing and Gou Donglai excavated several modest beast ore deposits over half a month while Lin Sheng focused on cultivation.
• Lin Sheng cultivated the Three Corpses Soul Severing Palm to the Blood Circulation realm and tested its fused poison, which rapidly corroded plants, a tree, and the rock beneath it.
• Lin Sheng followed his senses to Gou Donglai's excavation team, who had found signs of a small beast ore deposit.
• Lin Sheng merged the Silver-patterned Black Crocodile and used Earth Affinity to detect a region of unusually thin earth power in the mountain wall.
• Lin Sheng blasted open the mountain wall and exposed a large mass of beast ore, which Gou Donglai confirmed was a deposit.

Lin Sheng discovered several beast ore deposits through his Earth Affinity and Da Huang, then cultivated Qi force while waiting for Spirit Beast Blood from Zhao Kongfang. When an Earth Armored Beast trapped Gou Donglai and the others in the mine, Lin Sheng arrived and struck it with a cyan-glowing hand, freezing it in place.

• Lin Sheng used his expanded perception to locate a rich beast ore deposit, and Gou Donglai, Mo Xing, and the others mined 160,000 jin of ore.
• Lin Sheng found two more deposits, then cultivated Qingniao Chasing Star Finger and condensed Qi force powerful enough to crack a deep pit into a rock wall.
• Du Yi delivered the Spirit Beast Blood Zhao Kongfang had purchased, and Lin Sheng absorbed it, bringing his Third Imprint's activation progress to sixty percent.
• An Earth Armored Beast attacked the miners, badly injuring Mo Xing and collapsing the cave entrance as Gou Donglai tried to lead the others to safety.
• The Earth Armored Beast pinned Gou Donglai and the others beneath its tail and lunged to devour them, but Lin Sheng burst through the cave wall and struck its head with a cyan-glowing hand, stopping it cold.

Lin Sheng killed an unusually powerful Earth Armored Beast and learned it had grown stronger by feeding on a Demon Beast Ore Seed. He searched the beast’s underground lair and found a dark-red stone that appeared to be the ore seed, but its properties remained unrevealed.

• Lin Sheng rescued Gou Donglai and the others, killed the Earth Armored Beast with Star Chasing Finger, and sent the injured Mo Xing for treatment.
• Gou Donglai told Lin Sheng that the Earth Armored Beast had attacked the group near the beast ore and had been far stronger than ordinary ones.
• Lin Sheng absorbed the beast, learned from his consciousness panel that it had fed on a Demon Beast Ore Seed, and used its remaining blood to raise the Third Imprint’s activation progress.
• Lin Sheng activated the Earth Armored Beast’s earth-digging talent and searched underground for the Demon Beast Ore Seed.
• Lin Sheng followed a tunnel to the Earth Armored Beast’s lair and found a damaged dark-red stone hidden in the wall.

Lin Sheng learned that the Mystic Eye Golden Centipede ore seed he found contained Demon Beast blood, which pushed his Third Imprint to 75%, and discovered how rare and valuable ore seeds were. Meanwhile, Fang Huajie reported that Ghost Cry Peak held multiple ore seeds, including a likely Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python seed, and Fang Huasheng reacted sharply.

• Lin Sheng absorbed the remaining blood from the Mystic Eye Golden Centipede ore seed, raising his Third Imprint's activation progress to 75%.
• Lin Sheng returned with the Earth Armored Beast, had Gou Donglai prepare it as food, and asked him about ore seeds, but Gou Donglai had never heard of them.
• Lin Sheng visited Wei Yun, who explained that ore seeds could preserve the essence blood of powerful Demon Beasts and were exceptionally rare and valuable.
• Lin Sheng returned to D-2, resolved to inspect future ore deposits carefully, and began cultivating.
• At Ghost Cry Peak, Fang Huajie told Fang Huasheng that scent mice had confirmed multiple ore seeds, likely including one containing Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python blood.
• Fang Huasheng abruptly sat upright when Fang Huajie mentioned the Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python.

Lin Sheng searched Area D2 and found two more Demon Beast Ore Seeds, discovering that the basin’s ore was unusually old and rich in energy. He suspected the ore beneath Ghost Cry Peak or Bai Peak was far older than Great Cui Peak’s, while Zong Shi guarded a hidden passage on Bai Peak.

• Fang Huajie told Fang Huasheng that the Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python’s ore seed was likely near Ghost Cry Peak, and Fang Huasheng ordered a secret search and a message to their father.
• Lin Sheng searched Area D2 for a month, found several beast ore deposits, and uncovered a damaged Demon Beast Ore Seed that barely increased his Third Imprint’s activation.
• Lin Sheng searched the basin and found another ore seed, then found a third whose absorption pushed his Third Imprint past eighty percent and whose surrounding ore seemed unusually old and rich.
• Lin Sheng asked Wei Yun whether anyone else had found ore seeds, learned that Great Cui Peak’s excavated ore was consistently fifty-thousand-year ore, and kept his discoveries secret.
• Lin Sheng suspected that older beast ore lay beneath Ghost Cry Peak or Bai Peak, while Zong Shi ordered elite Crimson Whale Hall disciples to guard Bai Peak and revealed a hidden passage beneath a hut.

Zong Shi reported to Red Hair that Crimson Whale Hall’s secret mining operation remained undetected, and Red Hair ordered him to speed up the search for the Ancient Beast Ore Seed beneath Yunshui Mountain. Meanwhile, Lin Sheng found an unusually old ore deposit near Bai Peak and uncovered another depleted ore seed, bringing his Third Imprint close to full activation.

• Zong Shi visited Red Hair in the underground chamber, where Red Hair transformed from a withered elder into a vigorous man after absorbing the blood in his pool.
• Zong Shi reported that Wei Bo and the other factions had shown no unusual activity, and Red Hair ordered him to watch Wei Bo and bring in more people to find the Ancient Beast Ore Seed within a month.
• Lin Sheng reached Ghost Cry Peak’s territory without finding the ore seed, then continued searching underground toward Bai Peak.
• Lin Sheng discovered a dark, unusually old beast ore deposit near Bai Peak and fought through several powerful ore-pattern explosions to reach its center.
• Lin Sheng found a larger ore seed but discovered that its essence blood was almost entirely depleted; after absorbing what remained, he advanced his Third Imprint’s activation progress by ten percent.

After activating his Third Imprint, Lin Sheng tested his new strength and planned to focus on cultivation while keeping the older beast minerals near Bai Peak secret. Meanwhile, Fang Huajie and Uncle Wang led Crimson Whale Hall disciples beyond Ghost Cry Peak to locate a mineral deposit near Great Cui Peak.

• Mo Xing and Gou Donglai recognized that Lin Sheng’s newly found deposit held over a million catties of beast minerals nearing eighty thousand years old, and they began excavating it.
• Lin Sheng absorbed a mineral seed, activated his Third Imprint, and tested the power and speed gained from fusing three exotic beasts.
• Lin Sheng found that his cultivation efficiency had improved, planned to advance the Star Chasing Finger, and decided to send Gou Donglai’s group back to the basin after they finished mining the border deposit.
• A black bird watched Great Cui Peak before flying toward Bai Peak, while a similar bird passed overhead in the opposite direction.
• Fang Huajie ordered Uncle Wang to follow the Scent-Tracking Rat beyond Ghost Cry Peak’s boundary, and the rat led the Crimson Whale Hall group to a mineral deposit near Great Cui Peak.

After reaching the edge of a breakthrough in his cultivation, Lin Sheng learned that Fang Family disciples had attacked Gou Donglai’s group over a mineral deposit. Fang Huajie defeated Gou Donglai and ordered his people to finish off the Qingniao Institute disciples, but Lin Sheng arrived as they moved to attack.

• Lin Sheng completed his cultivation session and decided to check on Gou Donglai and the others at the mineral deposit.
• Two female disciples fled to Lin Sheng and told him that Gou Donglai’s group was in trouble, so he carried them toward the deposit.
• Fang Huajie demanded that Gou Donglai’s group abandon the deposit, claiming the Fang Family had a right to it, and Gou Donglai refused to retreat.
• Fang Huajie defeated Gou Donglai with his Azure Python bloodline and poisoned him, then ordered his followers to surround Mo Xing and the injured disciples.
• As the Fang Family disciples prepared to attack, Lin Sheng appeared nearby.

Lin Sheng rescued Gou Donglai and defeated Fang Huajie and his men, then drove off the survivors. Fang Huajie used a secret pill to regenerate his severed limbs, but Lin Sheng appeared before him again in the forest.

• Lin Sheng arrived at the mining site and broke Fang Huajie's arms and legs after resisting his attack.
• Lin Sheng killed six Fang Family disciples, spared two, and ordered them to carry Fang Huajie away.
• Lin Sheng forced the poison out of Gou Donglai and sent the injured disciples back up the mountain.
• Fang Huajie escaped into the forest with two disciples, took a secret pill, and regenerated his arms and legs.
• Fang Huajie ordered his men to return and swore revenge on Lin Sheng and the Qingniao Institute, but Lin Sheng appeared before him again.

Lin Sheng killed Wang Hai after learning that the Fang Family had come to find the Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python's ore seed. He discovered a vast cavern deep beneath the mine deposit, found the ore seed, and fled into the wall when a rumbling sounded nearby.

• Lin Sheng killed the three Fang Family men and tortured Wang Hai until he revealed the Fang Family's search for the Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python's blood essence.
• Lin Sheng learned that a Scent-Tracking Rat had helped the Fang Family locate the ore seed, then killed Wang Hai.
• Lin Sheng searched deeper beneath the mine deposit at Great Cui Peak and discovered that it extended far beyond its apparent size.
• Lin Sheng broke through into a hot underground cavern and found a large blue-black ore seed belonging to the Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python.
• Lin Sheng kept the ore seed for later and hid inside the cavern wall when a rumbling came from the other side.

Lin Sheng escaped an erupting underground magma flow with three intact ore seeds containing the essence blood of the powerful Blazing-Eyed Flame Dragon. Unable to integrate them yet, he hid them at his residence and began planning how to handle the Fang Family’s pursuit of the Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python ore seed.

• Lin Sheng spotted three crimson ore seeds in the magma and used Beast Ores as footholds to retrieve them before they flowed into a deep pit.
• Lin Sheng identified the ore seeds as Blazing-Eyed Flame Dragon remains and glimpsed the enormous skeleton in the magma lake below.
• Lin Sheng confirmed all three seeds came from the same Demon Beast, but realized he lacked the Constitution and Clear Mind required to integrate them.
• Lin Sheng carried the seeds to his residence beneath Great Cui Peak and hid them under the floorboards.
• Lin Sheng considered the Fang Family’s likely investigation over the Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python ore seed and decided to make a larger move to shake off suspicion.

Fang Huasheng tracked the Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python Ore Seed beyond Ghost Cry Peak and encountered Lin Sheng, who revealed the Ore Seed and challenged him. After Lin Sheng shrugged off Fang Huasheng’s attacks, the two began a fight that remained unresolved.

• Fang Huasheng found the Scent-Tracking Rat had returned alone and followed it toward the Ore Seed’s location beyond Ghost Cry Peak.
• Fang Huasheng sent a message to his father, then continued onward with the Scent-Tracking Rat; an unseen attacker destroyed the messenger bird.
• Lin Sheng confronted Fang Huasheng, revealed that he knew about the Ore Seed, and showed him the Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python Ore Seed.
• Lin Sheng tested the Three Corpses Soul Severing Palm’s poison on Fang Huasheng, but Fang Huasheng’s bloodline resistance quickly neutralized it.
• Lin Sheng transformed into a crimson giant and blocked Fang Huasheng’s Azure Scale Demon Blast without injury.
• Fang Huasheng used Azure Dragon Gangsha and followed with Azure Dragon Three Severing Fiends, while Lin Sheng countered with Chasing Star.

Lin Sheng killed Fang Huasheng after pursuing him from Ghost Cry Peak, then escaped before Fang Jinping and Fang Jinmei arrived. He returned to Great Cui Peak with Fang Huasheng’s belongings, including silver and unidentified pills.

• Lin Sheng discovered Fang Huasheng had left behind a decoy and chased his fleeing true body toward Ghost Cry Peak.
• Fang Huasheng used a jade pendant and a second-layer secret art to summon help and increase his speed, but Lin Sheng caught up and used Heart Ape Deterrence to disrupt his mind.
• Fang Huasheng crashed into Lin Sheng, who killed him and dissolved his body before taking his belongings and fleeing.
• Fang Jinping and Fang Jinmei arrived at the scene, found Fang Huasheng’s bone fragments in corrosive black liquid, and Fang Jinping vowed revenge.
• Lin Sheng returned to Great Cui Peak and inspected his spoils, including fifteen thousand taels of silver, two bottles of pills, and a motionless golden-furred rat.

Lin Sheng killed the Scent-Tracking Rat and learned that it possessed Intermediate Danger Sense, while Fang Jinping used a bloodline tracking art to pursue the killer and the Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python. Elsewhere, Wei Bo investigated Crimson Whale Hall’s secret activity, and Fang Jinping confronted the Seven Forms Sect, where his tracking serpent found no trace of his family’s blood.

• Lin Sheng killed the Scent-Tracking Rat, discovered it was a pseudo Spirit Beast with Intermediate Danger Sense, and began cultivating Star Chasing Finger.
• Fang Jinping used the Bloodline Manifestation Method to track Fang Huasheng’s killer and search for the Bone-Piercing Azure Fiend Python, while Fang Jinmei returned to the Fang Family.
• Wei Bo learned that Crimson Whale Hall had secretly stationed deathsworn on Bai Peak and suspected that Red Hair was pursuing a breakthrough to the Divine Form realm.
• Fang Jinping stormed Great Cui Peak and demanded an explanation from Yuan Zhongfei for the disappearance of Fang Family members.
• Fang Jinping’s blood-colored serpent searched Yuan Zhongfei and the Seven Forms Sect disciples but found no Fang Family blood on them.

Fang Jinping accused the Seven Forms Sect of causing his sons’ deaths, but Lin Sheng’s account and Yuan Zhongfei’s intervention defused the confrontation. Five days later, the assignment ended early, and Lin Sheng returned to Qingniao Institute with generous rewards and money from Xie Qingyun, leaving him ready to prepare for the Blazing-Eyed Flame Dragon.

• Fang Jinping searched the Bone Transformation martial artists at Great Cui Peak, but his blood-red serpent showed no reaction until he reached Lin Sheng and the other disciples.
• Lin Sheng claimed Fang Family disciples had attacked them first, and Yuan Zhongfei shielded the group from Fang Jinping’s pressure and challenged the accusation.
• Yuan Zhongfei and Fang Jinping left to investigate the beast ore site, and Lin Sheng returned to cultivation, expecting them to find the underground cave empty.
• Five days later, the Fang Family received the high-year beast ore site, and Lin Sheng’s garrison assignment ended early with generous rewards.
• Xie Qingyun gave Lin Sheng a hundred Azure Feather Pills and one hundred thousand taels, prompting him to consider preparing for the Blazing-Eyed Flame Dragon.

Lin Sheng bought Spirit Beasts for his plans to grow stronger, then broke through Qingniao Chasing Star Finger's fifth level and entered the Blood Circulation realm. A summons from Xie Qingyun revealed that Crimson Whale Hall had been destroyed after the Imperial Court intervened, leaving Lin Sheng and Zhao Kongfang stunned by the scale of the upheaval.

• Lin Sheng paid Yang Niu a deposit to obtain three defensive Spirit Beasts and asked him to find avian Spirit Beasts as well.
• Lin Sheng returned to his residence and entered seclusion to break through Qingniao Chasing Star Finger's fifth level.
• Lin Sheng succeeded, entered the Blood Circulation realm, and gained one point each in Strength, Agility, Constitution, and Perception.
• Xie Qingyun sent Lin Sheng an urgent message ordering him to return to the sect because of a sudden upheaval in Wanhua City.
• Xie Qingyun told Lin Sheng and Zhao Kongfang that Crimson Whale Hall had been wiped out after Gold Badge Divine Constable Zhang Songbai killed its master, Crimson Hair, and other members.

After the Crimson Whale Hall was destroyed, Lin Sheng learned that its remnants were terrorizing Wanhua City and that the Imperial Court had seized control of the city’s affairs. He discovered the Crimson Whale Hall had sought an Ancient Beast Ore Seed, while the Seven Forms Sect was forced to abandon its mining operations on Yunshui Mountain, leaving its leaders furious and powerless.

• Xie Qingyun warned Lin Sheng and Zhao Kongfang that Wanhua City would descend into chaos and advised them to avoid conflict with the Imperial Court.
• Lin Sheng visited Lin Hong and Xie Guilan, saw Lin Hong’s leg had improved, then returned to the city to cultivate and prepare for trouble.
• Zhao Kongfang told Lin Sheng that Crimson Whale Hall remnants were robbing merchants and revealed that the hall had secretly raised many elite disciples.
• Zhao Kongfang explained that the Divine Seed at Bai Peak was an Ancient Beast Ore Seed that could help someone break through to the Divine Form realm.
• Zhao Kongfang told Lin Sheng that the Imperial Court had ordered everyone to withdraw from Yunshui Mountain, ending the sect’s mining operations.
• At the Seven Forms Sect council hall, Yuan Zhongfei angrily protested the Imperial Court’s order while Ouyang Bing and the other leaders remained silent.