Chapter Summaries

Ji Haoyuan and Ice Fire True Person secured Heaven Piercing Valley by rebuilding its spiritual energy and setting up the Kunwu Canglong Formation. Months later, two Golden Core cultivators arrived seeking a place to establish their sect and discovered that someone had already claimed the valley.

• Ji Haoyuan and Ice Fire True Person repaired the Earth Vein and spiritual energy, then established the Kunwu Canglong Formation using Kunji Pagoda as its Formation Base.
• Ji Haoyuan and Ice Fire True Person cleared the nearby Demon Beasts, after which Ice Fire True Person left for Sword Emperor City.
• Several months later, Dust-Whisk Elder and Green-Robed Man traveled toward Heaven Piercing Valley to find a spirit land for their sect.
• Dust-Whisk Elder told Green-Robed Man that a Tier 3 Moon-Worshipping Silver Wolf had once occupied the valley, but they believed they could drive it away together.
• Near the valley, the two Golden Core cultivators noticed that Demon Beast activity had vanished and realized someone had claimed the spirit land.
• Dust-Whisk Elder and Green-Robed Man spotted traces of a formation and decided to go investigate.

Ji Haoyuan faced two visiting Golden Core True Persons, Lou Chuanhai and Chu Tenglong, while guarding the Third-Order Spirit Land in the absence of his elder sister. The two men considered seizing the land, and Ji Haoyuan stopped responding when Chu Tenglong asked to enter the formation.

• Lou Chuanhai and Chu Tenglong approached the Kunwu Canglong Formation and asked to speak with its resident.
• Ji Haoyuan stayed silent at first, then claimed he had been in seclusion and said his elder sister, the land's Golden Core protector, was away.
• Lou Chuanhai and Chu Tenglong weighed the risks of taking the Spirit Land against the threat posed by the formation and Ji Haoyuan's elder sister.
• Chu Tenglong asked Ji Haoyuan to let them enter and wait for his elder sister to return.
• Ji Haoyuan recognized their unsavory intentions and refused to answer further.

Ji Haoyuan defended his sister’s cultivation ground from Lou Chuanhai and Chu Tenglong, who attacked the Kunwu Canglong Formation with a Third Grade Barrier Breaking Bead. The formation revealed an Azure Dragon Projection and a third-grade magic treasure as its Formation Base, and the two Golden Core True Persons joined forces to attack it.

• Lou Chuanhai’s silver whisk threads struck the Kunwu Canglong Formation but failed to penetrate it.
• Ji Haoyuan warned Lou Chuanhai and Chu Tenglong to leave, but they refused and Chu Tenglong produced a Third Grade Barrier Breaking Bead.
• Ji Haoyuan reinforced the formation with hand seals and Spirit Stones, summoning an Ink Azure Dragon Projection above it.
• Chu Tenglong activated the Barrier Breaking Bead, and the Azure Dragon Projection’s light began to fade before a yellow light curtain and Towering Pagoda appeared.
• Lou Chuanhai and Chu Tenglong recognized that the formation used a third-grade magic treasure as its Formation Base, then attacked it with their own magic treasures.

Ji Haoyuan used his formation to repel Lou Chuanhai and Chu Tenglong, then deliberately made it seem close to breaking so he could keep them there until Ice Fire True Person returned. When the two Golden Core cultivators decided to retreat, Ji Haoyuan activated her third-grade sword talisman and sent a frost-and-flame sword strike at them.

• Lou Chuanhai and Chu Tenglong attacked Ji Haoyuan’s formation with their artifacts and a Third Grade Barrier Breaking Bead, but Ji Haoyuan strengthened the formation and drove the artifacts back.
• Ji Haoyuan learned from Ice Fire True Person that she was returning to Heaven Piercing Valley, so he held the formation and pretended it was close to collapsing.
• After several days, Lou Chuanhai and Chu Tenglong suspected Ji Haoyuan had deceived them and decided to abandon their attempt to seize the Third-Order Spirit Land.
• Ji Haoyuan summoned Ice Fire True Person’s third-grade sword talisman and unleashed a frost-and-flame Sword Light at the retreating cultivators.

Ice Fire True Person killed Lou Chuanhai and Chu Tenglong after they attacked Ji Haoyuan, then gave Ji Haoyuan a Golden Core Pill and a Tribulation-Avoiding Thunder Fruit. Six months later, Ji Haoyuan began forming his Golden Core in his cave mansion.

• Lou Chuanhai and Chu Tenglong tried to flee after Ji Haoyuan’s Third Grade Sword Talisman left them battered, but Ice Fire True Person appeared and attacked them.
• Ice Fire True Person froze and slew Lou Chuanhai and Chu Tenglong, then gave their Storage Pouches to Ji Haoyuan.
• Ice Fire True Person presented Ji Haoyuan with a Golden Core Pill and a Tribulation-Avoiding Thunder Fruit, and agreed to guard him during core formation.
• Half a year later, Ji Haoyuan cultivated fire and earth intents into Volcano Intent and began condensing his Liquid Mana into a Golden Core.

Ji Haoyuan used spiritual treasures and spirit stones to form an eleventh-grade Golden Core and comprehended a trace of Immortal True Meaning. His breakthrough triggered the Golden Core Heavenly Tribulation, and the first lightning bolt destroyed his Kun Luo Spirit Umbrella.

• Ji Haoyuan swallowed a Golden Core Pill and True Spirit Golden Bamboo Shoot, forming an eight-pattern Golden Core.
• He consumed more Golden Core-assisting treasures and formed a ninth Dao Pattern, entering enlightenment and comprehending a trace of Immortal True Meaning that granted him Limb Regeneration.
• The Three Weapons Intent appeared behind Ji Haoyuan, and he used a hundred High-grade spirit stones to complete an eleventh Dao Pattern.
• Ji Haoyuan summoned the Golden Core Heavenly Tribulation and flew from his Cave Mansion as Ice Fire True Person watched from within the grand formation.
• Ji Haoyuan raised the Kun Luo Spirit Umbrella against the first lightning strike, but the bolt shattered it and burned it to ash.

Ji Haoyuan faced the Heavenly Tribulation brought on by his Eleventh Grade Golden Core and used its power to temper his Flowing Flame Profound Yellow Spear. After the Du'e Profound Jade absorbed part of the lightning and shattered, he braced for the remaining tribulation with his Third Order Star Battle Body and Treasure Embryo.

• Ji Haoyuan used his flying swords, spiritual artifacts, and hazy yellow hand to weaken the first bolt of lightning.
• Ji Haoyuan split the second bolt with the Third Order Great Sun Heaven-Slaying Sword Art.
• Ji Haoyuan used the Third Order Wave-Chasing Sky-Burning Seal and another sword strike against the third bolt, but his Spiritual Artifact Flying Sword snapped.
• Ji Haoyuan summoned the Flowing Flame Profound Yellow Spear and let the residual lightning temper it, driving out impurities.
• Ji Haoyuan activated the Du'e Profound Jade to draw in the fourth bolt, but the jade shattered after absorbing more than half the tribulation's power.
• Ji Haoyuan unleashed his Third Order Star Battle Body and held the Flowing Flame Profound Yellow Spear across his chest as the remaining lightning engulfed them.

Ji Haoyuan endured a fifth Heavenly Tribulation, comprehended Wood Heavenly Lightning, and advanced to Golden Core with a twelve-grade super-grade Golden Core. After the tribulation clouds dispersed, heaven and earth restored him, and he emerged with mana approaching that of an ordinary mid Golden Core cultivator.

• Ji Haoyuan swallowed the Tribulation-Avoiding Golden Fruit as the fifth Heavenly Tribulation struck, then endured its remaining force as his body was ravaged.
• Near death, Ji Haoyuan comprehended Wood Heavenly Lightning and formed a twelfth Dao Pattern on his Golden Core.
• The brewing sixth Heavenly Tribulation dispersed, and Seven-Colored Rosy Clouds released Spiritual Light Rain Dew that healed Ji Haoyuan and completed his Golden Core breakthrough.
• The Flowing Flame Profound Yellow Spear returned to Ji Haoyuan, who recognized that he would eventually need Killing Intent crystals to refine it into a Lifebound Artifact.
• Ji Haoyuan absorbed the Spiritual Light Rain Dew and realized that his mana already approached that of an ordinary mid Golden Core cultivator.

Ji Haoyuan consolidated his Golden Core cultivation, refined the Yuan Chen Sword, and returned with Ice Fire True Person to the Crimson Cloud Sect after she sensed trouble. They arrived to find the sect trapped in a blood-red formation as True Person Yan Huo used a demonic art to drain the lives of its inhabitants.

• Ice Fire True Person gave Ji Haoyuan the Yuan Chen Sword as a gift for reaching the Golden Core realm and told him to consolidate his cultivation.
• After a year of seclusion, Ji Haoyuan had refined the sword and perfected his techniques when Ice Fire True Person warned him of troubling news from the sect.
• Ji Haoyuan reinforced the concealment restrictions around his formation, then flew with Ice Fire True Person toward the Crimson Cloud Sect.
• They found the sect sealed by blood-red light, where blood threads drained fleeing cultivators until they turned to ash.
• True Person Yan Huo devoured the victims' blood qi with the Blood Burning Life-Taking Art and announced that he would absorb his disciple Zhang Zhilong's Heavenly Spiritual Root.
• Zhang Zhilong tried to flee, but a thick blood-red thread descended upon him.

True Person Yan Huo drained Zhang Zhilong’s life to restore his youth and revealed that he had betrayed the Crimson Cloud Sect to practice the Blood Demon Sect’s life-snatching art. He trapped Ice Fire True Person and Ji Haoyuan inside his formation, then attacked Ji Haoyuan with a net of blood-red threads.

• True Person Yan Huo drained Zhang Zhilong’s qi and blood until Zhang Zhilong withered away, restoring Yan Huo’s youth and lifespan.
• Ice Fire True Person and Ji Haoyuan returned to the Crimson Cloud Sect and were ensnared by blood-red threads that sought to drain their qi and blood.
• Ice Fire True Person recognized the threads as a demonic bloodstained secret art, and True Person Yan Huo arrived to reveal his betrayal and his resentment toward her.
• True Person Yan Huo explained that he had used the Bloodstained Life-Snatching Secret Art and trapped them inside the Blood Demon Heavenly River Grand Formation, where they could not draw spiritual energy from outside.
• Ji Haoyuan deduced that Yan Huo had obtained the art by chance, prompting Yan Huo to threaten him and summon a blood-red net to attack him.

Ji Haoyuan revealed that he had broken through to Golden Core and joined Ice Fire True Person in confronting True Person Yan Huo, who activated the Blood Demon Heavenly River Grand Formation. Trapped in the formation, they fought its regenerating Blood Demon as Yan Huo’s attack continued.

• Ji Haoyuan tore apart True Person Yan Huo’s blood-colored net and struck back with the Great Sun Heaven-Slaying Sword Art.
• Ice Fire True Person refused Ji Haoyuan’s offer to clear out the sect for her and chose to fight True Person Yan Huo herself.
• True Person Yan Huo vanished and activated the Blood Demon Heavenly River Grand Formation, which pulled at Ji Haoyuan and Ice Fire True Person’s blood while preventing them from replenishing their mana.
• A Third Order Blood Demon emerged, and Ice Fire True Person cut it into fragments, but it reformed inside the formation.
• Ice Fire True Person unleashed the Wave-Chasing Sky-Burning Seal, and the Blood Demon’s spear was stopped and shattered by cold qi before it could reach her.

Ji Haoyuan broke the Blood Demon Heavenly River Grand Formation, allowing Ice Fire True Person to strike down True Person Yan Huo. When Yan Huo’s Substitution Art revealed he had survived the sword strike, Ji Haoyuan killed him with Wood Heavenly Lightning, and the two sensed something afterward.

• Ji Haoyuan used Formation Flags and a Formation Plate to break the Blood Demon Heavenly River Grand Formation and destroy its blood demon.
• With her mana restored and Yan Huo exposed, Ice Fire True Person cut him in two with her merged Flying swords.
• Ji Haoyuan seized Yan Huo’s hidden true body with the Mountain Shattering Seizing Seal and Wood Heavenly Lightning after detecting his Substitution Art.
• Ji Haoyuan’s lightning consumed Yan Huo, ending his life, and he explained that he had acted to prevent Yan Huo from escaping.
• Ice Fire True Person said her sword strike had freed her from the shackles on her heart, then she and Ji Haoyuan sensed something and turned toward it.

After Ji Haoyuan and Ice Fire True Person rescued the Crimson Cloud Sect survivors, they discussed his future and the Ji Family’s prospects. Ice Fire True Person proposed that some of the family’s younger members join the sect, leaving Ji Haoyuan to consider her offer.

• Lin Qingwu and the surviving Crimson Cloud Sect cultivators thanked Ji Haoyuan and Ice Fire True Person for saving them.
• Ji Haoyuan offered True Person Yan Huo’s Storage Ring to Ice Fire True Person, but she told him to keep it and handle the Blood Demon Sect’s remnants cautiously.
• Ice Fire True Person asked Ji Haoyuan about his plans, and he considered whether to upgrade the Ji Family’s Spiritual Vein or relocate the family to Heaven Piercing Valley.
• Ice Fire True Person proposed that some Ji Family youths join the Crimson Cloud Sect as a way to support the sect and give the family another option.
• Ice Fire True Person assured Ji Haoyuan that she would accept the consequences if the Ji Family eventually gained influence in the sect, then asked what he thought.

Ji Haoyuan chose the Daoist title Nanhua and returned to Ganyang Mountain as a Golden Core True Person. He told the Ji Family about the Third-Order Spirit Land in Heaven Piercing Valley and outlined plans to bring some family members there while retaining Ganyang Mountain.

• Ji Haoyuan agreed to let family members choose for themselves whether to join the sect or accompany him to Heaven Piercing Valley, and Ice Fire True Person suggested recruiting others to help open the land.
• Ji Haoyuan named himself Nanhua True Person and declined to hold a Golden Core celebration.
• Ji Haoyuan arrived at Ganyang Mountain, where Ji Bochang, Ji Yunfan, Ji Yunshan, Ji Qingfei, and the others celebrated his breakthrough to Golden Core.
• Ji Haoyuan praised Ji Yunshan's Foundation Establishment cultivation and encouraged Ji Qingfei, who had reached Qi Refining Great Perfection.
• Ji Haoyuan told the Ji Family about the Third-Order Spirit Land in Heaven Piercing Valley and explained his plan to retain Ganyang Mountain while bringing some family members to Heaven Piercing Valley.

After advancing to Golden Core, Ji Haoyuan prepared to lead the Ji Family and allied cultivators to reclaim the wilderness at Heaven Piercing Valley. He awakened and named the Jade Flame Lamp, left Ji Yunfan to oversee Ganyang Mountain, and departed with the others aboard flying boats.

• Ji Haoyuan announced plans for the Ji Family’s branch courtyards and invited talented descendants to train at Heaven Piercing Valley, prompting families across the region to offer their support.
• Ji Haoyuan studied the Blood Demon Sect’s secret art and formation, then awakened a wickless Tier 3 Jade Lamp with his Earth Spirit Flame and named it the Jade Flame Lamp.
• Ji Haoyuan arranged for Ji Yunfan to remain at Ganyang Mountain and gave him cultivation resources while Ji Bochang prepared to accompany the expedition.
• Ji Haoyuan and the Ji Family cultivators boarded flying boats with allied families and set off for Heaven Piercing Valley beyond the Hongduan Mountain Range.

Nether Shadow True Person and Wan Changkong ambushed Ji Haoyuan and the cultivators traveling with him, hoping to punish him for the deaths in the Thousand Streams Secret Realm. Ji Haoyuan countered their attacks with a Jade Lamp’s Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire, leaving the two Golden Core True Persons shocked by its power.

• Nether Shadow True Person and Wan Changkong conspired to attack Ji Haoyuan and target the low-level cultivators accompanying him.
• Wan Changkong raised a Sky-Sealing Restriction as the Flying Boats approached, and he and Nether Shadow True Person launched artifacts and Third-Order Spells at Ji Haoyuan.
• Ji Haoyuan sensed the restriction and ordered the Flying Boats to turn back before they were trapped inside it.
• Ji Haoyuan recognized Nether Shadow True Person and invoked an orange flame from his Jade Lamp to form a Flame Flood Dragon.
• Ji Haoyuan’s Flame Flood Dragon swallowed the attackers’ spells and struck their artifacts, revealing itself as Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire.

Ji Haoyuan used the Jade Flame Lamp and Yuan Chen Sword to defeat and kill Nether Shadow True Person and Wan Changkong. He fled with the flying boat’s cultivators, and two powerful figures arrived at the battlefield shortly afterward.

• Ji Haoyuan unleashed the Jade Flame Lamp’s flames and attacked Nether Shadow True Person and Wan Changkong as they tried to retreat.
• Ji Haoyuan’s Yuan Chen Sword broke Nether Shadow True Person’s Nether Shadow Dharma Ring, then beheaded him and destroyed his Golden Core.
• Ji Haoyuan used the Rainbow Transformation Spear Kill Technique to pierce Wan Changkong’s head and annihilate his soul.
• Ji Haoyuan collected the two men’s Storage Magic Treasures and ordered the flying boat’s cultivators to leave Changhe Sect territory.
• Two powerful figures appeared at the battlefield about an incense stick after Ji Haoyuan and his group departed.

Ji Haoyuan arrived at Heaven Piercing Valley with the Ji clan and allied families to establish a frontier settlement, while the Changhe Sect’s remaining Golden Core cultivators plotted retaliation but delayed their pursuit. After taking stock of his spoils and the resources he still needed, Ji Haoyuan sensed a disturbance in the spiritual energy around the settlement.

• Senior Brother Xu warned Junior Brother Chen that Ji Haoyuan was too dangerous to pursue until Xu broke through to mid Golden Core, and ordered the sect to kill members of the Ji Family and Crimson Cloud Sect if they were found.
• Ji Haoyuan arrived at Heaven Piercing Valley with several flying boats and assessed the risks and resources of reclaiming the demon-beast frontier.
• Ji Haoyuan assigned Cave Mansions to Ji Bochang, Ji Yunshan, Ji Qingfei, and others, then left them to handle the settlement’s affairs.
• Ji Haoyuan broke the seals on Nether Shadow True Person’s and Wan Changkong’s Storage Rings, finding little of value but discovering Wan Changkong’s Origin Law Pill formula.
• Ji Haoyuan considered the many resources he still needed and continued cultivating and improving his spells.
• About half a year later, Ji Haoyuan sensed an unusual disturbance in the spiritual energy around the spiritual land and recognized what was happening.

Ji Qingfei successfully reached Foundation Establishment and received gifts from Ji Haoyuan. Meanwhile, Lin Qingwu’s land-reclamation team encountered a Tier 3 Lightning Patterned Leopard carrying an unknown person, leaving them in mortal danger.

• Ji Haoyuan, Ji Bochang, and Ji Yunshan sensed Ji Qingfei complete his Foundation Establishment breakthrough.
• Ji Haoyuan gave Ji Qingfei a cultivation pill and a defensive spirit artifact before Ji Qingfei returned to consolidate his cultivation.
• Ji Haoyuan asked Ji Bochang and Ji Yunshan about the land reclamation, which had proceeded without major obstacles.
• Lin Qingwu led Crimson Cloud Sect cultivators clearing a forest and killed a Second Order Demon Beast blocking their path.
• A frightened white fox emerged, and Lin Qingwu sensed danger, ordered an evacuation, and sent a high-level distress signal.
• A roar from a Tier 3 Lightning Patterned Leopard killed six or seven Qi Refining cultivators, and the survivors saw a person riding on the leopard’s back.

A black-robed man riding a Lightning Patterned Leopard captured the Treasure-Seeking Spirit Fox and attacked Lin Qingwu and the surviving Crimson Cloud Sect cultivators. Ji Haoyuan intervened, but the rider threatened his family and sect, leaving the two Golden Core cultivators poised to fight.

• The Lightning Patterned Leopard struck the fleeing Snow-White Fox, injuring it, and its rider seized the fox with true essence.
• The rider ordered the leopard to kill Lin Qingwu and the survivors, dismissing her warning that the Crimson Cloud Sect and Ji Family had powerful backers.
• As the leopard lunged, Ji Haoyuan's Sword Light forced it to retreat and clash with him in a burst of lightning that destroyed the surrounding area.
• Ji Haoyuan rescued Lin Qingwu and the survivors with magic power, then demanded an explanation for the rider killing his people.
• The rider offered to make Ji Haoyuan his servant and threatened his family and sect, so Ji Haoyuan ignited flames in his eyes and prepared to fight.