Chapter Summaries

Ji Haoyuan completed the Second Order Star Battle Body, then attended a wartime meeting where Yuan Shanglong announced that the Netherworld Sect was attacking the Crimson Jade Spirit Mine. A Black-Robed Youth began to report information, leaving Ji Haoyuan and his companions uneasy about what would follow.

• Ji Haoyuan completed the Star Battle Body, gaining powerful defenses, strength, and a brief ability to blind nearby enemies, but using up all his Stardust Sand.
• Ji Haoyuan received a summons from the Crimson Cloud Sect and went to Yuangguang City's City Lord's Grand Hall with Liu Hongyu, Feng Wanqing, and Qiu Zheyuan.
• Su Wenyuan warned Ji Haoyuan to be careful after asking whether he had offended Yuan Shanglong.
• Yuan Shanglong and Gu Zhengfei announced that the Netherworld Sect was attacking the Crimson Jade Spirit Mine and called for cultivators to reinforce it.
• A Black-Robed Youth who had accompanied Yuan Shanglong stood and said he had forgotten to report something about the attack.

At a meeting in Yuangguang City, Pan Yongshan revealed that he had sent Qi Refining cultivators from several families to the Crimson Jade Spirit Mine, pressuring their Foundation Establishment elders to provide support. Ji Haoyuan confronted Pan Yongshan over the scheme and, as the chapter ended, appeared ready to act.

• Pan Yongshan told Yuan Shanglong that he had dispatched Qi Refining cultivators to the Crimson Jade Spirit Mine in advance, and Yuan approved his decision.
• Liu Hongyu asked which cultivators Pan had sent, and Pan claimed that members of her family and those of Feng Wanqing, Qiu Zheyuan, and Ji Haoyuan were among them.
• Yuan redirected the meeting toward choosing who would support the mine, leaving the affected family elders pressured to go.
• Ji Haoyuan confronted Pan Yongshan for sending their family members without informing them and accused him of using them to force the elders to volunteer.
• Su Wenyuan urged Ji Haoyuan to sit down and discuss matters calmly, but Ji ignored him and began an icy threat toward Pan.

Ji Haoyuan attacked Pan Yongshan and overwhelmed Yuan Shanglong, demanding an explanation for their schemes. Yuan Shanglong persuaded Gu Zhengfei to activate the City Lord’s Grand Hall’s Third-Order Grand Array against Ji Haoyuan, and Gu Zhengfei agreed.

• Ji Haoyuan seized Pan Yongshan with a giant hand and defeated Yuan Shanglong’s Flame Greatsword attack.
• Pan Yongshan pleaded for help as Ji Haoyuan’s grip broke his bones, and Gu Zhengfei asked Ji Haoyuan to release him while they discussed the matter.
• Ji Haoyuan demanded a satisfactory explanation from Yuan Shanglong, who proposed that he and Gu Zhengfei activate the Third-Order Grand Array to kill Ji Haoyuan.
• Liu Hongyu and the others realized Yuan Shanglong had engineered the confrontation to create a reason to activate the array.
• Gu Zhengfei decided he had to side with Yuan Shanglong for the Crimson Cloud Sect’s sake and agreed to activate the array.

Ji Haoyuan and his companions faced the Crimson Cloud Sect’s Purple Sun Heavenly Fire Array after Yuan Shanglong and Gu Zhengfei activated it. Ji Haoyuan’s Guest Elder token made the array recognize him and halt its attack, leaving the confrontation unresolved and the situation out of control.

• Gu Zhengfei and Yuan Shanglong joined their jade talismans and activated the Third-Order Grand Array, while Yuan Shanglong blocked the hall’s exit.
• Yuan Shanglong threatened the families to discourage Ji Haoyuan’s companions from supporting him, but Qiu Zheyuan, Liu Hongyu, and Feng Wanqing backed Ji Haoyuan and said Pan Yongshan deserved to die.
• Gu Zhengfei and Yuan Shanglong unleashed the Purple Sun Heavenly Fire Array against Ji Haoyuan, summoning a pillar of fiery light toward him.
• Ji Haoyuan released his Guest Elder token, and the array recognized his status and scattered its Purple Sun True Fire before it could strike him.
• Yuan Shanglong, Gu Zhengfei, and Su Wenyuan were stunned by Ji Haoyuan’s status, and Gu Zhengfei realized the conflict had become difficult to control.

Ji Haoyuan killed Yuan Shanglong after declaring that he would spare the Crimson Cloud Sect from further losses. Ice Fire True Person did not intervene, and a vast Divine Sense descended upon the hall.

• Ji Haoyuan knocked Pan Yongshan unconscious and turned his killing intent toward Yuan Shanglong.
• Yuan Shanglong tried to flee, but Ji Haoyuan blocked him with the Law Sound Bell and attacked with Crimson Firmament Heavenly Thunder.
• Gu Zhengfei urged Ji Haoyuan to spare Yuan Shanglong, but Ji Haoyuan vowed to kill him and promised to bring back five Netherworld Sect elders' heads.
• Ji Haoyuan's lightning destroyed Yuan Shanglong's defenses and reduced him to ash while Ice Fire True Person remained silent.
• Gu Zhengfei, Su Wenyuan, and the others suspected that Ice Fire True Person and True Person Yan Huo were at odds.
• A vast Divine Sense descended upon the City Lord's Grand Hall.

Ji Haoyuan accepted Gu Zhengfei’s Cloud-Piercing Shuttle and led Liu Hongyu, Feng Wanqing, and Qiu Zheyuan toward the Crimson Jade Spirit Mine. They arrived to find the mine’s defensive formation close to collapse under a Netherworld Sect assault.

• A Golden Core True Person ordered Ji Haoyuan to take his people to the Crimson Jade Spirit Mine and kill the enemy cultivators.
• Gu Zhengfei offered Ji Haoyuan a Second Order flying spirit artifact, and Ji accepted his gesture of goodwill.
• Ji Haoyuan flew toward the mine with Liu Hongyu, Feng Wanqing, and Qiu Zheyuan, promising to help them in the future and instructing them to protect their clans during the battle.
• At the Crimson Jade Spirit Mine, Netherworld Sect cultivators used demonic energy and formation flags to weaken the defensive array.
• A gray-robed elder warned Junior Sister Lin that the mine’s formation could not hold much longer.

Zheng Guangyang and Lin Qingwu struggled to defend the Crimson Jade Spirit Mine as Black Fiend Daoist used a Thunder Fiend Bead to break its formation. Just as Lin Qingwu prepared to use her trump card, Ji Haoyuan struck from outside and killed Black Fiend Daoist with a spear thrust.

• Zheng Guangyang and Lin Qingwu discussed how little time remained before the formation failed and resolved not to let the Netherworld Sect take the mine.
• Black Fiend Daoist used a Thunder Fiend Bead and his Formation Plate to rapidly weaken the mine's protective formation.
• Zheng Guangyang and Lin Qingwu realized the formation would soon collapse, and Lin Qingwu prepared to use her trump card.
• Ji Haoyuan attacked Black Fiend Daoist with Crimson Thunder Light, severely wounding him through the outer formation.
• Ji Haoyuan pierced Black Fiend Daoist through the brow with a crimson spear, killing him in midair.

Ji Haoyuan joined the defense of the Crimson Jade Spirit Mine and effortlessly killed several Netherworld Sect cultivators, including three Foundation Establishment Late Stage elders. After the surviving enemies fled, he reunited with his clan and thanked Zheng Guangyang and Lin Qingwu for protecting them.

• Ji Haoyuan sent Liu Hongyu, Feng Wanqing, and Qiu Zheyuan into the formation to help Zheng Guangyang and Lin Qingwu stabilize it.
• Ji Haoyuan refused to enter the formation and declared that he had come for the demonic cultivators' heads, then killed a Netherworld Sect cultivator who tried to ambush him.
• Ji Haoyuan swiftly killed the Netherworld Sect elders Wei Qingping and Wen Ziyang, while Zheng Guangyang and Lin Qingwu watched in shock.
• Ji Haoyuan entered the formation after the Netherworld Sect cultivators had been killed or driven away.
• Ji Qingfei and Ji Yunshan greeted Ji Haoyuan and told him that Zheng Guangyang and Lin Qingwu had brought them into the formation.
• Ji Haoyuan thanked Zheng Guangyang and Lin Qingwu for protecting his great-grandson and clan members.

Ji Haoyuan thanked Zheng Guangyang and Lin Qingwu for helping his family’s cultivators, then learned about a Gold Essence Stone Mine guarded by a Netherworld Sect Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator. He planned to attack it to fulfill his promise to behead five such cultivators and asked the pair to arrange for Yuangguang City to take over the mine.

• Ji Haoyuan gave Zheng Guangyang and Lin Qingwu jade talismans containing Crimson Firmament Heavenly Thunder and his Message Jade Talisman, and they promised to repay his help.
• Ji Haoyuan asked Zheng Guangyang and Lin Qingwu about mines or Spiritual Veins guarded by Netherworld Sect Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators.
• Lin Qingwu told Ji Haoyuan about a Gold Essence Stone Mine in Nether Spring Valley, roughly eight hundred li away.
• Ji Haoyuan revealed that he had promised Ice Fire True Person to behead five Netherworld Sect Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivators and wanted to seize the mine as well.
• Ji Haoyuan asked Zheng Guangyang and Lin Qingwu to send a Message Talisman so Yuangguang City could dispatch people to take over the mine.

Ji Haoyuan planned to seize a Gold Essence Stone Mine for merit and resources, bringing Liu Hongyu, Feng Wanqing, Ji Qingfei, and Ji Yunshan while leaving Qiu Zheyuan to guard the Crimson Jade Spirit Mine. At Nether Spring Valley, Yu Changkong and Junior Sister Lan waited for the Golden Fiend Essence Fruit to ripen, until an unfamiliar presence reached their Spiritual Senses.

• Ji Haoyuan agreed to report the events at the Crimson Jade Spirit Mine to Yuangguang City and decided to bring Liu Hongyu and Feng Wanqing to seize the Gold Essence Stone Mine.
• Ji Haoyuan left Qiu Zheyuan, Zheng Guangyang, and Lin Qingwu to guard the Crimson Jade Spirit Mine, and brought Ji Qingfei and Ji Yunshan with him.
• At the Gold Essence Stone Mine in Nether Spring Valley, Netherworld Sect cultivators discovered a Primordial Fiend Golden Tree bearing Golden Fiend Essence Fruits.
• Yu Changkong and Junior Sister Lan anticipated the fruit's imminent ripening, and Yu Changkong promised her one fruit in exchange for her prepared gifts.
• An unusual sensation reached Yu Changkong and Junior Sister Lan's Spiritual Senses.

Ji Haoyuan and his companions arrived as the formation around the Gold Essence Stone Mine collapsed, revealing the Primordial Fiend Golden Tree and its Golden Fiend Essence Fruits. After defeating the mine’s defenders, Ji Haoyuan faced Yu Changkong’s Talisman Treasure, and their clash was left unresolved.

• The formation covering the Gold Essence Stone Mine collapsed, and Ji Haoyuan recognized the treasure hidden within it.
• Yu Changkong and the Alluring Female Cultivator attacked Ji Haoyuan’s group with the Netherworld Sword Fiend and the Demonic Shadow Illusory Sound.
• Ji Haoyuan shattered the demonic attack, wounded Yu Changkong with Crimson Thunder, and killed the Alluring Female Cultivator.
• Ji Haoyuan sent the Crimson Flame Pattern Spear after Yu Changkong, who activated an ink-black Talisman Treasure to strike back.
• Ji Haoyuan countered the Talisman Treasure’s second blade strike with a bolt of Crimson Thunder.

Ji Haoyuan defeated Yu Changkong’s final Talisman Treasure attack with the Star Battle Body, then helped eliminate the remaining Netherworld Sect cultivators. After recovering, he received the spoils and heard Feng Wanqing and Liu Hongyu report on the Gold Essence Stone Mine.

• Yu Changkong unleashed a third, devastating Ink Blade Qi, and Ji Haoyuan summoned the Star Battle Body to stop it at the cost of injuries to his fists.
• Ji Haoyuan killed Yu Changkong with a sword strike, while Sword Lights killed the remaining Netherworld Sect cultivators who had not escaped.
• Ji Haoyuan sat down to recover his mana as Feng Wanqing, Liu Hongyu, and the others handled the aftermath.
• After several hours, Ji Haoyuan had recovered and received the Storage Pouches containing the mined Gold Essence Stones and two portions of Gold Essence Spirit Marrow.
• Feng Wanqing and Liu Hongyu reported to Ji Haoyuan on the Gold Essence Stone Mine they had inspected.

Ji Haoyuan claimed the Golden Fiend Essence Fruits and arranged to transplant the Primordial Fiend Golden Tree before handing over the Gold Essence Stone Mine. Back in Yuangguang City, Ice Fire True Person accepted his explanation for killing Yuan Shanglong, praised his service, and offered him another reward.

• Ji Haoyuan took the Gold Essence Stones and Golden Fiend Essence Fruits, then prepared to transplant the Primordial Fiend Golden Tree to the Ji Family.
• Su Wenyuan and Song Yinchuan arrived to take over the mine, and Ji Haoyuan's group handed it over without dispute.
• After returning to Yuangguang City, Ji Haoyuan met Ice Fire True Person and presented the corpses of five Netherworld Sect Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators along with other items.
• Ice Fire True Person told Ji Haoyuan not to repeat his actions in the City Lord's Grand Hall and recognized his merit at the mine.
• Ice Fire True Person let Ji Haoyuan choose another reward, and he selected the third-tier Heavenfall Fire Crystal.

Ji Haoyuan chose the Heavenfall Fire Crystal to refine a Treasure Embryo and told Ice Fire True Person that he planned to craft it himself. After testing his skills, Ice Fire True Person gave him her artifact-refining legacy, leaving him better prepared to refine his own Treasure Embryo.

• Ji Haoyuan chose the Heavenfall Fire Crystal as the material for a Treasure Embryo that could later become his Lifebound Artifact.
• Ice Fire True Person asked who would refine the Treasure Embryo, and Ji Haoyuan said he intended to do it himself because he could refine Tier 2 high-grade spiritual artifacts.
• Ice Fire True Person gave Ji Haoyuan her Refining Furnace and second-order materials and asked him to demonstrate his artifact-refining ability.
• After about half a month, Ji Haoyuan produced a Tier 2 high-grade Flying sword with both frosty and scorching auras and presented it to Ice Fire True Person.
• Ice Fire True Person judged Ji Haoyuan capable of refining a Treasure Embryo and gave him a Jade Slip containing her artifact-refining legacy and personal insights.

Ji Haoyuan studied Ice Fire True Person’s Third-Order artifact refining legacy, reforged his spear into the peak Second-Order Flowing Flame Void-Splitting Spear, and advanced to Foundation Establishment Great Perfection. As the sect war wound down, he returned with the Crimson Cloud Sect, where he and Liu Hongyu noticed Zhang Xingde was missing.

• Ji Haoyuan thanked Ice Fire True Person for the artifact refining legacy and studied it until his theoretical attainment reached the Third Order.
• Ji Haoyuan spent more than half a year reforging the Crimson Flame Pattern Spear with Gold Essence materials and named the peak Second-Order spirit artifact the Flowing Flame Void-Splitting Spear.
• Ji Haoyuan reached Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, improved his spells, and created the Demonic Fire Thunder Fiend killing art.
• Ji Haoyuan completed several more missions while keeping a lower profile because he feared Nether Shadow True Person might attack him.
• The Crimson Cloud Sect ordered its cultivators to return, and Ji Haoyuan, Liu Hongyu, Feng Wanqing, Qiu Zheyuan, and others left Yuangguang City aboard the returning flying boat.
• Ji Haoyuan and Liu Hongyu noticed that Zhang Xingde was absent from those returning.

Ji Haoyuan and the returning cultivators reached the Crimson Cloud Sect, where True Person Yan Huo used Yang Donghuai’s accusation about Yuan Shanglong’s death to challenge Ice Fire True Person. She denied Ji Haoyuan’s involvement and blamed the Netherworld Sect, leaving Yan Huo’s challenge unanswered.

• Liu Hongyu learned that Zhang Xingde had died in the final battle and reflected on how Ji Haoyuan’s help had advanced her cultivation.
• True Person Yan Huo welcomed Ice Fire True Person and the returning cultivators at the Crimson Cloud Sect’s mountain gate.
• Yang Donghuai interrupted the welcome and accused Ji Haoyuan of killing Law Enforcement Hall Master Yuan Shanglong.
• True Person Yan Huo demanded that Ice Fire True Person bring Ji Haoyuan forward to answer for Yuan Shanglong’s death.
• Ice Fire True Person denied the accusation, said Yuan Shanglong had been killed by Netherworld Sect cultivators, and fixed her gaze on Yang Donghuai.

After returning to the Crimson Cloud Sect, Ji Haoyuan sought to exchange his war merits for the sect’s core inheritances, but the Affairs Hall steward hesitated to approve them. Lin Qingwu, newly appointed Hall Master, took over and told Ji Haoyuan he had to agree to a condition first.

• Ice Fire True Person avoided a debate with True Person Yan Huo, who agreed to punish Yang Donghuai and the others for spoiling her return.
• True Person Yan Huo invited Ice Fire True Person to discuss the Great War, and she accepted.
• Ji Haoyuan entered the Crimson Cloud Sect and tried to exchange his merits for the Crimson Cloud Blazing Sun Art and Wave-Chasing Sky-Burning Seal.
• The Affairs Hall steward hesitated to handle the request because the inheritances were beyond his authority and refusing Ji Haoyuan could displease Ice Fire True Person.
• Lin Qingwu arrived, revealed that she had broken through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage and become temporary Hall Master of the Affairs Hall, then told Ji Haoyuan the exchange required him to agree to a condition.

Ji Haoyuan swore not to share the Crimson Cloud Sect's foundational arts, exchanged for several items, and obtained the Crimson Cloud Blazing Sun Art and Wave-Chasing Sky-Burning Seal. A message from Old Ancestor revealed that Ji Bochang was near the end of his lifespan, so Ji Haoyuan hurried back to Ganyang Mountain with the Ji Family cultivators.

• Lin Qingwu required Ji Haoyuan to swear a Dao Heart Oath never to pass on the Crimson Cloud Blazing Sun Art or Wave-Chasing Sky-Burning Seal, and he agreed.
• Ji Haoyuan exchanged for a Foundation Establishment Pill formula, spirit herbs, Treasure Materials, a Jade Longevity Fruit for Ji Bochang, and a Fragment Map resembling the two he already possessed.
• Ji Haoyuan visited the Dharma Transmission Pavilion and obtained the two arts, then spent many days studying other inheritances and records.
• After receiving a message arrow, Ji Haoyuan gathered the Ji Family cultivators at the Guest-Welcoming Peak and led them back toward Ganyang Mountain.
• Ji Haoyuan told Ji Qingfei that Ji Bochang had reached the end of his lifespan and might die within days.

Ji Haoyuan and Ji Qingfei returned to Ganyang Mountain and found Ji Haohuan near death. After Ji Haohuan passed away recalling his youth and late wife, Ji Haoyuan arranged a simple burial and stayed with the Ji Family; several years later, he had upgraded the family’s Spiritual Vein.

• Ji Haoyuan told Ji Qingfei that Ji Haohuan was dying, and they hurried back to Ganyang Mountain.
• Ji Haoyuan and Ji Qingfei visited the gravely ill Ji Haohuan, who sat up to hear about their journey and reminisce about his youth.
• Ji Haohuan passed away while recalling his late wife and her cooking, leaving Ji Haoyuan and Ji Qingfei grieving.
• Ji Haoyuan instructed Ji Bochang to arrange a simple funeral and told Ji Qingfei to cultivate with him for the next few years.
• Over the following years, Ji Haoyuan used resources and the Primordial Fiend Golden Tree to upgrade Ganyang Mountain’s Tier 2 low-grade Spiritual Vein to Tier 2 high-grade.

Ji Haoyuan raised the Ji Family’s Spiritual Vein to Tier 2 high-grade, advanced his mastery of the Wave-Chasing Sky-Burning Seal, and prepared to refine Foundation Establishment Pills before pursuing a Cave Mansion ruin in the Chaotic Seal Forest. After three months of refining, a powerful pill fragrance emerged from his Cave Mansion, and he appeared before Ji Bochang, Ji Yunfan, and Ji Qingfei.

• Ji Haoyuan used the Primordial Fiend Golden Tree to raise the Ji Family’s Spiritual Vein to Tier 2 high-grade, sacrificing some of the tree’s grade in the process.
• Ji Family cultivators grew stronger, and the family expanded its influence beyond Nanning Prefecture by opening a shop in Crimson Cloud Immortal City under Ji Yunshan’s management.
• Ji Haoyuan mastered a modified version of the Third-Order Wave-Chasing Sky-Burning Seal and integrated the Crimson Cloud Blazing Sun Art into his Profound Fire Thick Earth Art.
• Ji Haoyuan completed a map pointing to Cave Mansion ruins in the Chaotic Seal Forest and decided to seek them after refining Foundation Establishment Pills for the Ji Family.
• After three months, Ji Bochang, Ji Yunfan, and Ji Qingfei smelled a strong pill fragrance outside Ji Haoyuan’s Cave Mansion, and Ji Haoyuan appeared before them.