Chapter Summaries

Zhang Lingshan killed Quiet Thunder Dharma Master and the Twelve Venerables, removed a hidden Buddha Light Mark, and gathered allies and treasures to rescue his father from Golden Light Temple. At the temple, he spotted a restless bronze man whose back looked like Zhang Zhongcheng.

• Zhang Lingshan used the Profound Gold Intent to kill Quiet Thunder Dharma Master and the Twelve Venerables, then discovered and burned away the Buddha Light Mark hidden on his foot.
• Zhang Lingshan told Kong Dagui that Zhang Zhongcheng had been taken to Golden Light Temple, and Cang Changzhen supplied three treasures for their journey.
• Zhang Lingshan recruited Xiahou Ge, Zhao Huanyang, and Celestial Crane Daoist, then left Jiang City with Kong Dagui and the others.
• While they traveled, Zhang Lingshan gave Celestial Crane Daoist a Storage Bag to examine and asked him to conceal it with a talisman.
• Zhang Lingshan reached Golden Light Temple and noticed one of its eighty-one bronze men squirming; he suspected the figure was his father, Zhang Zhongcheng.

Zhang Lingshan reunited with his father, Zhang Zhongcheng, inside Golden Light Temple and learned that his family might descend from the powerful Central Province Zhang Family, though his father warned that their ancestors had fled after a crime that could still endanger them. Xiahou Ge found a possible way to break the temple’s formation by turning Zhang Zhongcheng into a Vajra Body, and Zhang Lingshan offered Storage Bags that left Kong Dagui alarmed by the scale of his power.

• Zhang Zhongcheng recognized Zhang Lingshan, warned him about Golden Light Temple, and was dragged back to chanting by the Bronze Men.
• Xiahou Ge identified the temple’s influence as the surviving heretical methods of Paradise Mountain and suspected Zhang Zhongcheng’s bloodline let him resist the formation.
• Kong Dagui connected Zhang Lingshan’s family to the Central Province Zhang Family, but Zhang Zhongcheng warned that their ancestors had fled a grave crime and must not return.
• Xiahou Ge deduced that the formation’s Array Eye lay beneath the Great Buddha Statue and proposed training Zhang Zhongcheng with a Buddhist vajra body-tempering method so he could move it.
• Zhang Lingshan offered Storage Bags belonging to fallen enemies, and Kong Dagui recognized the South Sea Merchant Guild marks and realized Zhang Lingshan had been behind the auction disturbance.

Zhang Lingshan perfected the Nine Yin Mysterious Art and discovered how it complemented the Three Yang True Scripture, but its Abyssal Momentum overwhelmed everyone nearby. After Kong Dagui explained Domain Power, Zhang Lingshan set aside the breakthrough and tried to open a Storage Bag.

• Kong Dagui pledged to keep Zhang Lingshan’s secret and agreed to call him Old Kong outside the Demon Suppression Division.
• Zhao Huanyang recited the Nine Yin Mysterious Art, and Zhang Lingshan used the Panel to cultivate it to Perfection.
• Zhang Lingshan used Mystic Tortoise Transformation to master the Nine Yin Mysterious Art’s Abyssal Momentum, which swept the others off their feet.
• Zhang Lingshan combined the Nine Yin Mysterious Art with the Three Yang True Scripture and realized the arts complemented each other, though the Panel warned that advancing the Three Yang True Scripture required a stronger body.
• Celestial Crane Daoist reported that Zhang Lingshan’s cultivation had dragged everyone around him down, and Kong Dagui explained that Zhang Lingshan had comprehended Domain Power.
• Zhang Lingshan called Domain Power a minor path and picked up a Storage Bag to test whether he could corrode its restriction.

Zhang Lingshan unlocked the Storage Bags and discovered a hidden Golden Light Body Protection Divine Art inside a Buddha statue. He began cultivating it in seclusion, enduring a devastating transformation as his body was reforged.

• Zhang Lingshan used the Nine Yin Mysterious Art mixed with the Three Yang True Scripture to open the Storage Bags, and everyone searched their contents for a Buddhist body-tempering method.
• Xiahou Ge found a gold Buddha statue and identified the Golden Light Body Protection Art written inside, while Zhang Lingshan used his Heavenly Eye to uncover the more powerful Golden Light Body Protection Divine Art hidden within it.
• Zhang Lingshan entered an underground hole to cultivate, perfected the Golden Light Body Protection Art, and used it as a foundation to advance the divine art to Greater Accomplishment.
• Zhang Lingshan spent another 100 million Energy Points and endured his flesh boiling away as his heart, blood vessels, and bones transformed into gold and vajra jade.
• Zhang Lingshan's golden heart began growing new flesh, and he swallowed ordinary qi-and-blood pills to speed his body's rebirth.

Zhang Lingshan completed his transformation, gained layered defenses, and prepared to continue rescuing his father after interrogating a captured monk. He discovered that the Paradise Mountain expert who had arranged the formation wielded a form of Cutting Intent that could split a tree while preserving its vitality.

• Zhang Lingshan recovered his body, found that Protective Golden Light could stack with the Violet Gold Body Shield, and concealed its glow with the Nine Yin Mysterious Art.
• Zhang Lingshan checked his Panel, saw that he had more than fifty million Energy Points left, and decided he would need to visit the Mist Realm later to gain more.
• Zhang Lingshan emerged from the underground cave, gave Zhao Huanyang Essence Blood, and explained how the Nine Yin Mysterious Art supported the Three Yang True Scripture.
• Zhao Huanyang reported that the captured Buzz-Cut Monk was a low-ranking Paradise Mountain heretic, and Zhang Lingshan forced the monk to describe the expert who had arranged the formation.
• Zhang Lingshan examined a tree cut by the expert and realized the expert's Cutting Intent had preserved or restored the tree's vitality.

Zhang Lingshan discovered how the Golden Light Temple’s bronze men absorbed corpses as golden-powder nourishment and taught Zhang Zhongcheng the Golden Light Body Protection Art to strengthen him. Zhang Zhongcheng grew powerful enough to fight the bronze men, but attempts to move them or the Great Buddha triggered explosions, leaving him to keep cultivating before he could break the array.

• Zhang Lingshan tested his Cutting Intent, then fed Buzz-Cut Monk’s remains and one of Ye E’s shoulders into the Buddha Hall to observe how the bronze men absorbed them.
• Zhang Lingshan taught Zhang Zhongcheng the first two circulation routes of the Golden Light Body Protection Art, and Zhang Zhongcheng absorbed Ye E’s golden-powder nourishment and fought off the bronze men.
• Over six days, Zhang Lingshan taught Zhang Zhongcheng all twelve routes and fed him corpses from the Golden Light Sect and Dao Light Sect, greatly increasing his strength.
• Zhang Zhongcheng threw a bronze man out of the Buddha Hall, but it bounced off the entrance barrier and exploded; Zhang Lingshan concluded they could not leave without breaking the array.
• Zhang Zhongcheng pressed a bronze man against the Great Buddha statue, but the man exploded on contact, so Zhang Lingshan urged his father to absorb the gold dust and gave him Buddha Pity’s corpse to refine.

Zhang Lingshan used his Jade Bone Vajra blood to cultivate Zhang Zhongcheng to the Five Viscera Realm, enabling him to smash the Buddha statue in Golden Light Temple. The group discovered a Seven Aperture Exquisite Stone and learned that the formation had been designed to gather a person’s vitality into it, leaving Zhang Lingshan worried that his father was the intended vessel.

• The Bronze Men exploded one after another, and their nourishment raised Zhang Zhongcheng to the Viscera Refining Realm.
• Zhang Zhongcheng tried to smash the Buddha statue but was thrown back by its strange force, so Zhang Lingshan fed him small amounts of Jade Bone Vajra blood to strengthen him.
• After ten days, Zhang Zhongcheng reached the Five Viscera Realm and smashed the Buddha statue with the Profound Silk Treasure Hammer.
• Zhang Zhongcheng found a golden stone with seven connected holes, and Xiahou Ge identified it as the Seven Aperture Exquisite Stone.
• Xiahou Ge explained that the formation was meant to gather a person’s vitality into the stone and asked whether the Celestial Crane Daoist could draw a Vitality Talisman.

Zhang Lingshan used a Vitality Talisman and his father’s blood to transform the Seven Aperture Exquisite Stone into a heart, then absorbed it into his own heart. After burning Golden Light Temple and heading for Jin City, the story shifted to Jade City, where Cang You'er reacted to the stone’s change while visiting Cang Changzhen.

• Xiahou Ge arranged for Celestial Crane Daoist to draw a Vitality Talisman on Zhang Lingshan using Zhang Zhongcheng’s blood, and Celestial Crane Daoist fainted after completing it.
• Zhang Lingshan picked up the Seven Aperture Exquisite Stone, which grew heavier as wind and then his blood flowed into it; Zhang Zhongcheng’s blood steadied the process.
• The stone became a Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart, and Zhang Lingshan placed it in his chest for his own heart to refine and absorb.
• Zhang Lingshan ordered the others to burn Golden Light Temple, then set off with them for his home in Jin City.
• In Jade City, Cang You'er sensed something amiss while visiting Cang Changzhen, who told him about an upcoming Demon Suppression Envoy selection and a promising newcomer returning to the city.

Zhang Lingshan reunited with his family in Jin City, began restoring his brother Zhang Lingchuan with the White Magnolia Flower, and assembled the Wordless True Scripture for his companions to comprehend. Cang You'er discovered that his Golden Light Temple and Seven Aperture Exquisite Stone were gone and threatened his captive master into helping him find them.

• Cang You'er learned that Zhang Lingshan had gone to save his father, then left Jade City with a sealed wine jar and flew toward Golden Light Temple on his Golden-Backed Divine Eagle.
• Zhang Lingshan returned to Jin City, reunited with his family, and brought out Zhang Lingchuan's Spirit Child General bones to attempt his revival.
• Du'e Zen Master and the others set up a formation, and Zhang Lingshan used the White Magnolia Flower, his blood, and vitality talismans to restore vitality to Zhang Lingchuan's bones.
• Zhang Lingshan summoned his family and trusted companions and used Heavenly Eye to piece together the eighty-one slabs of the Wordless True Scripture, sending everyone except himself into comprehension.
• Cang You'er found Golden Light Temple destroyed and the Seven Aperture Exquisite Stone missing, then threatened the Bald Head captive in his wine jar to make him divine where the thief had gone.

Zhang Lingshan discovered a mental cultivation method and hurried to move his family from Jin City before the Wordless True Scripture attracted more attention. After entrusting his family to trusted allies, he reached Jade City with Kong Dagui to pursue the Demon Suppression Envoy selection.

• Cang You'er ignored Bald Head's warning to avoid a deadly calamity, spotted golden light from Jin City, and flew there on his Golden-Backed Divine Eagle, but left after sensing Zhang Lingshan's power.
• Zhang Lingshan studied the Jade Emperor Fetal Respiration Scripture, felt his spiritual power increase, and decided to leave Jin City because the Wordless True Scripture's aura could attract danger.
• Zhang Lingshan gathered his family and allies, chose the Sandalwood Sect as their destination, and received the Black Box from Hong Zhengdao before setting out with them.
• On the road, Zhang Lingshan refined the Spirit Severing Silver Bone Bow, then parted from the group with Kong Dagui to hurry to Jade City for the Demon Suppression Envoy selection.
• At Jade City's gate, Zhang Lingshan and Kong Dagui met Ma Dongge and Zhu Hao, who reported that He Qianshou had disappeared in Jiang City.

Cang Changzhen took Zhang Lingshan to the Demon Suppression Envoy selection’s preliminary screening, where Wang Chong tested his age and physique. Zhang Lingshan passed as sixteen and refused to change his name, while Wang Chong hoped he or Cang You'er would qualify and help him return to Jade Province.

• Cang Changzhen brought Zhang Lingshan through the Eight Directions Divine Pillars into the Mist Realm and warned him that an age discrepancy could ruin his eligibility.
• Zhang Lingshan told Cang Changzhen he had entered the Mist Realm before through a hidden sect’s Mountain God Temple.
• Wang Chong tested Zhang Lingshan with medicinal powder and a Detection Stone, which first showed one year old before changing to sixteen.
• Wang Chong suggested Zhang Lingshan change his name to avoid offending the Central Province Zhang Family, but Zhang Lingshan refused.
• Wang Chong tested Zhang Lingshan again, confirmed his age as sixteen, and examined his exceptional physical constitution.

Zhang Lingshan stayed in the Mist Realm and discovered that a Caterpillar from Hong Zhengdao's Black Box attracted monsters he could kill for Energy Points. After the Star Moon Relic drew a powerful Black Fur to Wang Chong's thatched cottage, Zhang Lingshan learned how dangerous it was and began considering how to hunt one in the future.

• Wang Chong sent a message to summon the Demon Bull, while Cang Changzhen left and agreed to bring Cang You'er back in seven days.
• Zhang Lingshan stayed with Wang Chong, took a Road Guide Jade Talisman, and explored the Mist Realm during the day.
• Zhang Lingshan released a Caterpillar from Hong Zhengdao's Black Box, attracting monsters that he killed for sixty million Energy Points.
• Zhang Lingshan took out the Star Moon Relic, which drew a Black Fur that chased him back to Wang Chong's formation.
• Wang Chong drove the Black Fur away, accepted a Six Leaf Lotus Birth Pill from Zhang Lingshan, and explained that Black Fur was formed from negative emotions left by the dead in the Mist Realm.
• Zhang Lingshan realized Black Fur could yield many Energy Points and resolved to hunt one once he grew stronger.

Zhang Lingshan improved the Flowing Cloud Art, gained the Blood Burning Divine Art and a Wind Immobilizing Banner, and prepared for the Demon Suppression Envoy selection while building a friendship with Wang Chong. When Cang Changzhen arrived with Cang You'er, Zhang Lingshan sensed that Cang You'er harbored deep hatred toward him.

• Zhang Lingshan mastered the Blood Burning Divine Art and advanced the Flowing Cloud Art, gaining stronger speed, clones, and aerial movement.
• Wang Chong mistook Zhang Lingshan's injuries for the Blood Burning Divine Art's side effects, then grew closer to him over meals and gave him a Wind Immobilizing Banner for the trial grounds.
• Zhang Lingshan hunted Mist Realm beasts with Wang Chong, used the Jade Emperor Fetal Respiration Scripture to raise his mental power, and amassed five hundred million Energy Points over seven days.
• Zhang Lingshan planned to break through the Three Yang True Scripture once the Wind Immobilizing Banner could protect him in the trial grounds.
• Cang Changzhen arrived at the encampment with Cang You'er, and Zhang Lingshan recognized him from their past encounter above Jin City.
• Zhang Lingshan detected Cang You'er's unusual hostility and realized that he deeply hated him.

Zhang Lingshan and Cang You'er traveled toward the Central Province Demon Suppression Division, where they were sent across the Courage Testing Bridge. Zhang Lingshan used the bridge’s Black Abyss as an opportunity to devour its evil spirits, leaving the guide alarmed and demanding he stop.

• Cang Changzhen taught Zhang Lingshan and Cang You'er the Control and Battle Six Senses joint technique before the Demon Bull Transport Envoy carried them away.
• Zhang Lingshan secretly perfected the technique through the Panel and realized he could combine it with his clone, while Cang You'er continued to act friendly despite Zhang Lingshan’s suspicions.
• After three days of travel, the Demon Bull Transport Envoy dropped Zhang Lingshan and Cang You'er off near the Central Province Demon Suppression Division.
• A middle-aged guide led them to the Courage Testing Bridge and told them to jump into the Black Abyss below; Cang You'er leapt first, and Zhang Lingshan followed after preparing himself.
• Zhang Lingshan used the Nine-Headed Xuanwu's Mystic Tortoise Transformation and Abyssal Momentum to devour nearly half the evil spirits and Yin spirits in the Black Abyss.
• The guide shouted at Zhang Lingshan to stop destroying the bridge’s trial creatures.

Zhang Lingshan met Fei Xue and Fei Xia after they crossed the Courage Testing Bridge, and the four travelers prepared to search for the exit of the next trial. They set out together, while Zhang Lingshan kept quiet about having weakened the bridge’s evil spirits.

• Zhang Lingshan withdrew his powers and left the Courage Testing Bridge after reducing its evil spirits, then Fei Xue and Fei Xia arrived from the Spirit Province.
• Fei Xue and Fei Xia crossed the Black Abyss safely, met Zhang Lingshan, and greeted Cang You'er.
• Fei Xue explained that the second trial required finding an exit and that the Four Small Provinces might work together, unlike the proud Five Great Provinces.
• Zhang Lingshan agreed with Fei Xue that their group should search immediately rather than wait for more arrivals.
• Fei Xia joked about Zhang Lingshan's mature appearance, and Zhang Lingshan told Fei Xue she did not need to be so reserved.

Zhang Lingshan and his companions found the exit from the second trial and fell into an underground chamber filled with other candidates. Cang You'er tried to turn the crowd against Zhang Lingshan, leaving him facing a choice over how to respond to the assembled elites.

• Fei Xia used a talisman to lead the group, but they returned to their starting point, so Cang You'er and Fei Xue used their magical artifacts to locate the exit underground.
• Zhang Lingshan broke through the ground with his fists, fell into the passage, and Fei Xia, Fei Xue, and Cang You'er followed him down.
• Fei Xue greeted the gathered candidates, but most ignored her, while six people from the Four Small Provinces returned her salute.
• Cang You'er loudly warned Zhang Lingshan not to act arrogant and demanded that he pay his respects, putting him in a difficult position before the crowd.

Zhang Lingshan faced hostility from the Central Province Zhang Family after Zhang Xiujie demanded that he change his name, but he refused. At the Testing Platform, the candidates’ records revealed the strength gap between the provinces, and Cang You’er surprised everyone by testing at Five Viscera Realm Peak.

• Hu Yanfei provoked Zhang Diqi by joking about Zhang Lingshan’s family seniority, and Zhang Diqi attacked him before Zhang Xiujie froze Zhang Diqi and ordered Hu Yanfei to stop pursuing the feud.
• The crowd learned that Zhang Xiujie had helped destroy the Dream Immortal Sect, and Zhang Lingshan refused when Zhang Xiujie told him to go by Shan.
• The candidates entered the Testing Platform, where Zhang Lingshan saw Zhang Xiujie ranked first at Five Viscera Realm Perfection and noted the weaker cultivation levels of candidates from the Four Small Provinces.
• Hu Yanfei mocked the low-ranked candidates from the Four Small Provinces, while Cang You’er comforted Fei Xue and tested at Five Viscera Realm Peak, surprising the crowd.

Zhang Lingshan shocked the candidates by revealing that he had reached Five Viscera Realm Perfection, then learned that the selection would take place in a dangerous, three-layer Trial Land. As the candidates entered, Fei Xia suspected Cang You'er had marked him with a tracking aura, and the chapter ended with the Assessment Elder advising him to stay calm and wait for an unexpected gain.

• Fei Xue celebrated Cang You'er's Five Viscera Realm Peak cultivation and warned Fei Xia to follow him and avoid Zhang Lingshan.
• Zhang Lingshan stepped onto the Testing Platform and was revealed to be at Five Viscera Realm Perfection, prompting the Assessment Elder to examine him for Mysterious Gold.
• The Assessment Elder explained the three-layer Trial Land selection, where candidates had three months to retrieve a Jade Talisman and return safely.
• Cang You'er gave Fei Xue and Fei Xia Jade Pendants, then persuaded Fei Xue to enter the third layer with him.
• Fei Xia noticed the aura in his pendant had vanished and feared Cang You'er had secretly marked him, so Zhang Lingshan took the pendant and entered the Trial Land.
• Fei Xia asked to withdraw from the selection, but the Assessment Elder refused and advised him to follow Zhang Lingshan's suggestion to sit and regulate his breathing.

Zhang Lingshan entered the Trial Land, collected unusual creatures, and roasted them to lure more prey, while Hua Wuyue and Chen Guangtuo approached the disturbance for their own reasons. The mountain god rushed toward Zhang Lingshan’s camp as Hua Wuyue began gathering Flower Province participants.

• Fei Xia realized the jade pendant’s strange aura had vanished and entered the Trial Land, hoping Zhang Lingshan would protect his sister from Cang You'er.
• Zhang Lingshan landed in a corrosive lake, found a Seven-Colored Clam and a Parasitic Snake, then killed a ghost that tried to enter his mind.
• Zhang Lingshan roasted the Parasitic Snake while wearing Fei Xia’s jade pendant, and he concluded that Cang You'er could use its stored vitality to track him.
• Zhang Lingshan cut down a Demon Eagle attracted by the cooking and began roasting it, spreading enticing smoke through the Trial Land.
• Hua Wuyue used the commotion to gather Flower Province participants, while Chen Guangtuo set out to fight a mountain god and claim its Mountain God Crystal.
• A mountain god formed and charged toward Zhang Lingshan’s location, and Hua Wuyue met Gan Lu as they anticipated gathering more of their group.

Zhang Lingshan killed Hu Yanfei, then drew out a mountain god to claim its Mountain God Crystal. As Zhang Lingshan fought the mountain god, Chen Guangtuo and Hua Wuyue arrived, and Chen teased her about the fighter’s identity without revealing his name.

• Zhang Lingshan killed Hu Yanfei after his poisonous bees failed to hurt him, then took his Storage Bag and other belongings.
• Zhang Lingshan finished the Parasitic Snake, stored the Demon Eagle, and prepared to fight the mountain god he had lured with a fire.
• Zhang Lingshan attacked the mountain god but found that it rapidly repaired its body by drawing on the earth’s energy.
• Chen Guangtuo failed to hurt the mountain god and injured himself against its protective energy while Zhang Lingshan continued fighting it.
• Hua Wuyue arrived, asked who was fighting the mountain god, and heard Chen Guangtuo claim that the fighter’s name would frighten her.