Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu defeated Zhong Wuliang and recruited him as a servant, then sent the Rune Master and two Teleportation Pearls to the Ziwei Human Race. Years later, the Ji Commandery government began pressuring Eight-Faced Mountain to accept official posts, leaving Old Monk Wujing and Wang Yu facing a growing conflict.

• Xu Xiuzhi lured Zhong Wuliang out by claiming the Sect Master's hidden treasury held a Secret Treasure that could save people, but Zhong Wuliang remained suspicious.
• Wang Yu arrived and defeated Zhong Wuliang, who agreed to live and became Wang Yu's servant.
• Wang Yu learned that Zhong Wuliang was a Level Thirteen Rune Master and sent him with two Teleportation Pearls to the Ziwei Human Race.
• Wang Yu left Xu Xiuzhi outside Ji Commandery to build an intelligence network, then spent several years cultivating and searching for Spirit Beasts.
• Ji Commandery Government Army officials pressured Old Monk Wujing to consider giving the Buddhist Monastery's monks official posts and warned him to report Dragon Sparrow Gate remnants.
• Old Monk Wujing told Wang Yu that the new prefectural governor intended to control Ji Commandery's cultivation sects, and Wang Yu recognized the offer as recruitment into submission.

Wang Yu kept clear of the Prefectural Governor's Mansion's campaign to bring Ji Commandery's Cultivation World under control, while the Dragon Taming Gate faced a direct attack from Yan Chuanhu. The battle devastated Dragon Sparrow Mountain, and Wang Yu told Pu Yiqi to watch whether the sect would be forced to withdraw from Ji Commandery.

• Old Monk Wujing told Wang Yu that he might relocate the Eight-Faced Mountain Buddhist Monastery if the Prefectural Governor's Mansion's pressure became unbearable, and Wang Yu left the decision to him.
• Wang Yu warned Ma Wei and the other servants to keep a low profile, then went to Yongning Commandery's Hidden Vein Treasure Land to collect maturing Natural Treasures.
• The Prefectural Governor's Mansion recruited small sects, punished those who resisted, and shut down the Evergreen Sect after finding fugitives there.
• Yan Chuanhu arrived alone at Dragon Sparrow Mountain and smashed the Dragon Taming Gate's grand hall, prompting Sun You and Yang Enhua to fight him with their contracted Python Dragons.
• Pu Yiqi disguised himself and watched the battle from the clouds before sending Wang Yu a report; Wang Yu told him to follow events and leave with the Dragon Taming Gate if it withdrew from Ji Commandery.

After the Dragon Taming Gate was driven from Ji Commandery, Wang Yu withdrew most of his people and sent Gan Xing to investigate rumors of spirit beasts. Gan Xing found a lightning-wreathed island in North Sea, and Wang Yu discovered a Spirit Qi Medium within before deciding to wait rather than risk entering blindly.

• Yan Chuanhu killed one Dragon Taming Gate Sect Master and forced the surviving Sect Master and the sect out of Ji Commandery, leaving the Prefectural Governor's Mansion dominant.
• Old Monk Wujing and other cultivation forces left Ji Commandery or joined the Prefectural Governor's Mansion, while Wang Yu withdrew his servants and kept Ma Wei behind to gather intelligence.
• Gan Xing told Wang Yu that an island in North Sea was surrounded by powerful lightning and might shelter a spirit beast.
• Wang Yu traveled to the island, sensed a Spirit Qi Medium inside its lightning barrier, and chose to wait for more information before entering.

Wang Yu hunted down and killed a powerful Thunder Beast, obtained its Spirit Beast Bloodline, and returned to Yongning Commandery to begin evolving in a secluded tree hollow. As his strength began to rise, Xiao Yu reflected on how her view of serving him had changed.

• Wang Yu waited on Evergreen Island until the Thunder Beast appeared, then watched as it overwhelmed the Cultivators who attacked it and clashed with a powerful old monk.
• Wang Yu pursued the wounded Thunder Beast, defeated it at full strength, and took its corpse and Spirit Beast Bloodline.
• Wang Yu examined Treasure Island, found no notable Natural Treasures there, and returned to Yongning Commandery by a different route.
• Xiao Yu led Wang Yu to an ancient tree she had prepared as a secluded cultivation site, where he devoured the Thunder Beast's Spirit Beast Bloodline.
• As Wang Yu's aura strengthened inside the tree, Xiao Yu reflected that serving him might prove a blessing and anticipated his next increase in strength.

Wang Yu activated his fifth Star Seal, strengthened his Purple Lightning Fire, and entered seclusion, but ended it three years later when Ma Wei fled with five Teleportation Pearls and other treasures from the Prefectural Governor's Mansion. Ma Wei encountered Fairy Yun Yao in a border forest, where she defeated Li Yu but was surrounded by reinforcements, leaving Ma Wei trapped with her.

• Wang Yu fully activated all five Star Seals, discovered his Thunder Beast bloodline had greatly strengthened his Purple Lightning Fire, and ordered Xiao Yu to occupy the old tree.
• Wang Yu began secluded cultivation, while Ma Wei reported he could obtain five Teleportation Pearls from the Prefectural Governor's Mansion.
• Three years later, Ma Wei fled after stealing the five Teleportation Pearls and emptying a treasury, and Wang Yu ended his seclusion and ordered his servants to prepare for battle.
• Li Yu tracked Ma Wei into a forest, where Ma Wei encountered Fairy Yun Yao and begged her for help.
• Fairy Yun Yao attacked Li Yu and grievously wounded him, while Li Yu summoned reinforcements from the Prefectural Governor's Mansion.
• Yang Lu, Lin Hao, and other powerful fighters arrived and surrounded Fairy Yun Yao and Ma Wei.

Wang Yu arrived with Ma Wei and his allies, then fought Lin Hao after the Prefectural Governor's Mansion pursued them into Yongning Commandery. Wang Yu unleashed his fifth Star Seal and launched a devastating attack, while Yang Lu let Fairy Yun Yao escape to hurry to Lin Hao's aid.

• Yang Lu tried to capture Yun Yao as Lin Hao watched, while Chu Xie restrained Ma Wei and tried to learn where the stolen treasures were.
• Wang Yu and his purple-cloaked allies arrived, freed Ma Wei with a saber strike, and fled as Lin Hao and the Prefectural Governor's Mansion pursued them.
• Wang Yu and Ancestor Pingyao stopped in Yongning Commandery and fought Lin Hao while their respective allies clashed.
• Wang Yu activated his fifth Star Seal, and Lin Hao crushed a jade talisman to summon Yang Lu as Wang Yu attacked again with a powerful blade strike.
• Yang Lu chose to go to Lin Hao's aid instead of pursuing Yun Yao, who fled.

Wang Yu and his companions fled Qi Pan Kingdom after killing Lin Hao and feared the royal family would retaliate over Ma Wei’s theft of the Prefectural Governor’s Mansion treasury. They crossed the North Sea to the Lanhuang Dynasty, where Wang Yu began assessing the dangerous new land and considered whether it could shelter the Ziwei Human Race.

• Wang Yu, Ancestor Pingyao, and their allies killed Lin Hao, drove off the Prefectural Governor’s Mansion experts, and escaped while Yang Lu arrived too late to stop them.
• Ma Wei returned the stolen treasures to Wang Yu, and the group decided to leave Qi Pan Kingdom to avoid provoking its royal family.
• Yan Chuanhu told Yang Lu to postpone pursuing Wang Yu’s group while he prepared to break through to a higher realm.
• Wang Yu and his companions crossed the North Sea over several months, noting uninhabited islands that might eventually shelter the Ziwei Human Race.
• Ancestor Pingyao guided the group into the Lanhuang Dynasty and offered to take them to a cave dwelling he had kept there.
• Wang Yu used Starry Eyes to observe bloody territorial wars and sensed that the Lanhuang Dynasty might be too dangerous to remain in.

Wang Yu and his companions reached Ancestor Pingyao’s former fief and discovered that the Zhu Family had taken the Yao Family’s lands and reduced its descendants to servants. Ancestor Pingyao intervened to protect the Yao descendants, leaving Yao Chengkong hoping the powerful newcomer could free them.

• Old Monk Wujing said the Lanhuang Dynasty was descending into chaos, and Wang Yu let his retainers pursue opportunities as long as they stayed within their limits.
• Wang Yu’s group learned that the Rebel Army had begun a widespread war and crossed the troubled territories to reach Marquis Gaotian’s former fief.
• Ancestor Pingyao discovered that the Zhu Family occupied his former residence, defeated its guards, and learned that a Zhu household servant had once seized the Yao Family’s estate.
• At Zhu Family Town, Zhu Hengchun ordered a servant and his son taken away for spilling wine, and Yao servants rebelled to rescue them before Zhu’s Cultivators subdued them.
• Ancestor Pingyao descended into the courtyard, drove off the Zhu Family’s Cultivators, and asked the servants where the rest of the Yao Family were.
• Yao Chengkong realized that Ancestor Pingyao might give his family a chance to escape the Zhu Family’s control.

Ancestor Pingyao rescued the Yao Family from the Zhu Family and helped them reclaim their place, while Wang Yu gained the Zhu Family’s stolen treasury and secluded himself to cultivate. Twenty years later, the Lanhuang Dynasty was collapsing amid rebellion, and unrest was spreading into Marquis Gaotian’s fief.

• Ancestor Pingyao freed the imprisoned Yao Family descendants, seized Zhu Hengchun, and defeated Old Ancestor Zhu, while Wang Yu stopped Old Ancestor Zhu’s escape with a Purple Blade.
• The Yao Family reclaimed its property and began rebuilding, while Ancestor Pingyao pursued the forces behind its downfall and visited Marquis Gaotian.
• Wang Yu examined the treasures from the Ji Commandery Prefectural Governor’s Mansion and entered seclusion with Natural Treasures that could help him reach the Third-Stage Star Spirit Realm.
• Over the next twenty years, the Rebel Army battered the Lanhuang Dynasty, while Ma Wei, Zhong Wuliang, and Xiao Yu pursued different paths amid the upheaval.
• Ancestor Pingyao remained by Wang Yu’s side as unrest spread through Marquis Gaotian’s fief, where bandits and routed Rebel Army soldiers overwhelmed the efforts to suppress them.

Wang Yu and Ancestor Pingyao defeated a Rebel Army force that attacked Mount Yaojian for its supplies. Wang Yu chose to remain in seclusion there while watching for the Rebel Army’s Great Commander, Jiang Bang.

• Yao Daniu led the Rebel Army to besiege Mount Yaojian and demand its supplies, but Ancestor Pingyao confronted him.
• Yao Daniu and several generals attacked Ancestor Pingyao while the rest of the army tried to climb the mountain.
• Wang Yu unleashed Purple Lightning Fire, destroying most of the invading army and badly wounding Yao Daniu and the surviving generals.
• Yao Daniu and six generals fled a hundred miles, but Wang Yu and Ancestor Pingyao pursued them and wiped out the force.
• Wang Yu learned that Jiang Bang, a Third-Tier Star Spirit Expert, commanded the Rebel Army’s western region, then decided to stay at Mount Yaojian and resume secluded cultivation.

Wang Yu broke through to the Third-Stage Star Spirit Realm and survived an unusually fierce tribulation, then learned that Marquis Gaotian had fallen and prepared to leave Mount Yaojian. Before he could depart, Jiang Bang’s victorious army arrived at the mountain seeking to settle accounts over Yao Daniu’s disappearance, only to find it abandoned.

• Marquis Gaotian moved his supplies from Mount Yaojian, and the region enjoyed several years of peace while Wang Yu cultivated toward a breakthrough.
• Wang Yu used the Four Yuan Spirit Pill to complete his cultivation and broke through to the Third-Stage Star Spirit Realm.
• Wang Yu endured eighteen bolts of Heavenly Punishment, while Ancestor Pingyao watched and congratulated him after the tribulation ended.
• Ancestor Pingyao told Wang Yu that war had reached Marquis Gaotian’s territory, and Wang Yu learned that Xiao Yu had advanced rapidly amid the turmoil.
• Marquis Gaotian died in battle, his army was defeated, and Wang Yu decided to leave; Ancestor Pingyao said he had already moved the Yao Family away.
• Jiang Bang arrived at Mount Yaojian to seek vengeance over Yao Daniu and learned from a scout that the mountain was deserted.

Wang Yu and Ancestor Pingyao entered the Lanhuang Dynasty’s civil war to capture a powerful Rune Master for the Ziwei Human Race’s migration plans. After rescuing Master Lu from the Rebel Army, Wang Yu stayed behind to fight the traitor Bai Liao and began trying to capture him as well.

• Wang Yu identified Master Lu, a Level Thirteen Rune Master, on the battlefield and watched Bai Liao betray the imperial dynasty to capture him for the Rebel Army.
• Wang Yu and Ancestor Pingyao ambushed Bai Liao after he stopped to let Master Lu recover; Ancestor Pingyao knocked Master Lu unconscious and carried him away.
• Wang Yu blocked Bai Liao’s pursuit, then drew him away from the Rebel Army while Ancestor Pingyao took Master Lu to safety.
• Wang Yu revealed his full strength and exchanged powerful saber strikes with Bai Liao, whose attack was overwhelmed by Wang Yu’s thunderfire saber qi.
• Bai Liao charged back through the thunderfire, and he and Wang Yu continued fighting with their saber techniques.

Wang Yu defeated and bound Bai Liao, then recruited Master Lu, a level-fifteen Rune Master capable of opening a route to the Ancient Land for the Ziwei Human Race. As the Lanhuang Dynasty descended into chaos, Wang Yu pursued reports of spirit beasts and learned that reaching the Star King Realm required immense luck to temper his divine soul.

• Wang Yu activated all five Star Seals, critically wounded Bai Liao, and bound him with the Soul Binding Seal.
• Wang Yu met Ancestor Pingyao and bound Master Lu, who explained that he could break through the Immortal Emperor Realm's spatial barrier and create a route to the universe beyond the Ancient Land.
• Wang Yu ordered Bai Liao to infiltrate the Rebel Army and find powerful servants, then sent Master Lu with five Teleportation Pearls to help the Ziwei Human Race reach the Ancient Land.
• Wang Yu learned that Zhong Wuliang had died and Xu Xiuzhi had been badly wounded, so he recalled Old Monk Wujing and the others from the Rebel Army as the war worsened.
• After Xiao Yu reported possible spirit beasts in the dynasty's south, Wang Yu traveled west with Ancestor Pingyao and his servants and completed his derivation of the Third-Stage Star Spirit section of the Ziwei Star Canon.
• Wang Yu learned that reaching the Star King Realm required both cultivating the Spirit Seed and possessing immense luck to temper the divine soul to the Supreme King Realm.

Wang Yu learned that reaching the Supreme King Realm required fortune, which cultivators could build through rare techniques or seize from others, and he gained methods to perceive and plunder it. After spotting a powerful imperial general with purple fortune on a southern battlefield, Wang Yu waited for the fighting to end and watched the general pursue the defeated Rebel Army.

• Wang Yu asked Ancestor Pingyao how fortune affected reaching the Supreme King Realm, and Ancestor Pingyao explained that cultivators could cultivate acquired fortune or plunder it from others.
• Wang Yu contacted Bai Liao, learned techniques for plundering and perceiving fortune, and used the Heavenly Eye Technique to inspect his retainers’ fortune.
• Wang Yu and his retainers traveled south through the war-torn dynasty, where Wang Yu spotted an imperial general with Deep Crimson fortune and a trace of purple.
• The imperial army defeated the Rebel Army, largely because the general defeated several Third-Stage Star Spirit experts and killed one.
• The general led his forces in pursuit of the retreating Rebel Army while Wang Yu watched, considering whether he could seize fortune from the battlefield’s powerful figures.

Wang Yu and Ancestor Pingyao failed to kill Zheng Yuanlong after a man-eating flower helped him escape, so Wang Yu turned to seizing fortune from a Rebel Army general to begin cultivating his divine soul. The chapter leaves Wang Yu and Ancestor Pingyao exploring the beast-infested southern border of the Lanhuang Dynasty.

• Zheng Yuanlong drove back the Rebel Army, but Wang Yu and Ancestor Pingyao ambushed him and gravely wounded him before a man-eating flower swallowed him and gave him a chance to escape underground.
• Wang Yu destroyed the flower, but he and Ancestor Pingyao withdrew when dynasty reinforcements approached; Zheng Yuanlong later found traces of Wang Yu's Purple Lightning Fire and vowed to remember him.
• Wang Yu killed a Third-Stage Star Spirit Rebel Army general who refused to submit, then used Bai Liao's technique to seize part of the general's fortune and make divine-soul cultivation possible.
• Wang Yu and Ancestor Pingyao escaped the approaching Rebel Army pursuers, and Wang Yu refined the seized fortune while realizing that growing fortune would make him a target.
• Ancient Fierce Beasts poured across the Lanhuang Dynasty's southern border, overwhelming its armies and turning large parts of the region into a dangerous wilderness.
• Wang Yu and Ancestor Pingyao entered the southern border and found the area filled with fierce beasts, with signs that no one there might have survived.

Wang Yu hunted powerful beasts in the southern beast tide, absorbing ancient bloodlines that strengthened his body and gave him Black Feather Armor. After a flood dragon drove him back, he spotted several Spirit Elephants traveling with an elite beast horde, offering a chance to find the Spirit Beast bloodlines he sought.

• Wang Yu sent Ma Wei, Ancestor Pingyao, and the others away before fighting Black Birds and absorbing the third-stage Black Bird's bloodline, which gave him level-twelve Black Feather Armor.
• Wang Yu spent more than a month hunting fierce beasts and absorbing two additional third-stage bloodlines, strengthening his body to level twelve.
• Wang Yu destroyed the beasts remaining in a ruined territory after seeing traces of their slaughter, then continued deeper into the beast tide to prepare for the future.
• Wang Yu encountered an Azure White Flood Dragon beyond the dynasty's borders, but it pursued him until he escaped and noticed it was wary of something nearby.
• Wang Yu hid and watched an elite beast horde pass, then spotted several enormous White Jade Elephants that were Spirit Beasts.

Wang Yu avoided a herd of powerful White Jade Elephants and their mysterious riders, then killed Zheng Yuanlong during the renewed fighting between the Lanhuang Dynasty and the Rebel Army. After recovering from the battle, he learned that the Ziwei Human Race could migrate to the Ancient Land sooner than expected and began considering where they should settle.

• Wang Yu spotted five Star Spirit Third Stage White Jade Elephants carrying mysterious people in colorful clothes and chose not to approach them.
• The Lanhuang Dynasty's struggle against the southern beast tide gave the Rebel Army an opening to resume its war.
• Wang Yu fought Zheng Yuanlong, severed his arm, and ultimately killed him despite the intervention of Sky-Treading Oxen and dynasty experts.
• Wang Yu escaped with injuries and a period of weakness, gaining Zheng Yuanlong's purple fortune and increasing his Red Grade fortune.
• After more than half a year of recovery, Wang Yu learned that Master Lu's Rune Art had accelerated the Ziwei Human Race's migration plans.
• Wang Yu weighed offshore islands against mainland locations as possible homes for the Ziwei Human Race.

After more than ten years in the Beast Garden, Wang Yu drew a bounty that brought four powerful cultivators to attack him. He wounded Old Ancestor Chongjian and trapped Crimson Oil Old Monster as the fight continued.

• Wang Yu emerged from seclusion while the Lanhuang Dynasty continued to collapse and ambitious lords proclaimed themselves kings.
• Over the following years, the Rebel Army fractured, the Dynasty dwindled, and the former beast-tide region became known as the Beast Garden.
• Old Ancestor Chongjian, Crimson Oil Old Monster, Blacksmith, and Young Master Nangong found Wang Yu's hiding place and attacked him to claim his bounty.
• Wang Yu endured the Crimson Oil Old Monster's burning oil and the Blacksmith's exotic flames without suffering significant injury.
• Wang Yu counterattacked, wounded Old Ancestor Chongjian with a single exchange, and sealed Crimson Oil Old Monster inside a cage of lightning and fire.

Wang Yu unleashed his full bloodline-enhanced physical power, overwhelmed four Third-Stage Star Spirit experts, and tested a devastating Fire Seed attack. He captured all four and woke them in a cave, leaving them to face him as prisoners.

• Young Master Nangong and the Blacksmith attacked Wang Yu, but he broke the Blacksmith’s Twelve Exotic Fires array through brute force and shrugged off its flames.
• Wang Yu defeated Old Ancestor Chongjian, then fought Young Master Nangong while the Blacksmith trapped them in the Thunder Prison Spring Equinox Array.
• The Blacksmith’s accelerated spike-cones shattered against Wang Yu’s armor, and Wang Yu unleashed a purple lightning-fire attack that severely injured all four opponents.
• Wang Yu carried the four injured men away as cultivators identified the purple lightning fire as the Purple Sha Demon and spread word of his appearance.
• Old Ancestor Chongjian woke in a cave, and Wang Yu ordered the other three captives awakened before calmly facing them.

Wang Yu left the beast garden after subduing four powerful Cultivators, then killed five White Jade Spirit Elephants and absorbed their bloodlines. He unlocked his sixth and seventh Star Seals and learned that the Lanhuang Dynasty was nearing collapse, with its secluded protectors unlikely to intervene.

• Wang Yu made Old Ancestor Chongjian and the other three Cultivators accept Soul Binding Seals, then dismissed them as his servants.
• Wang Yu attacked the five spirit elephants, overcame their soul-shaking cries and fierce counterattacks, and stored their corpses before escaping the beast garden.
• The beast tide fell into disarray after the spirit elephants vanished, while their owner among the Persons in Colorful Clothes noticed Wang Yu but decided not to pursue him yet.
• Wang Yu left the Lanhuang Dynasty and spent several months refining the five spirit elephant bloodlines under the guard of Ancestor Pingyao and Xiao Yu, activating two more Star Seals.
• Ancestor Pingyao told Wang Yu that the Lanhuang Dynasty was nearing its end and that its secluded powers had likely severed ties with the Mortal Realm.