Chapter Summaries

Hua Wuyue explained the Central Province Zhang Family’s Heart, Intent, and Body bloodline inheritances as Zhang Lingshan defeated the Mountain God and claimed its crystal. He rejected her offer of Ten Thousand Flowers Bee King Honey, then asked whether she had anything that could improve mental power.

• Hua Wuyue told Chen Guangtuo that Zhang Lingshan’s powerful physique and fire-aura qi and blood marked him as a descendant of the Central Province Zhang Family, and explained the family’s inheritance and trials for returning descendants.
• Zhang Lingshan overwhelmed the Mountain God with a barrage of palm strikes, lifted it away from the ground, and destroyed it, obtaining the Mountain God Crystal.
• Hua Wuyue offered Zhang Lingshan a drop of Ten Thousand Flowers Bee King Honey in exchange for the crystal, but he refused because he had no use for it.
• Gan Lu criticized Zhang Lingshan for refusing the honey, and Hua Wuyue slapped her and apologized to him.
• Zhang Lingshan asked Hua Wuyue whether she had another valuable item that could improve mental power.

Zhang Lingshan formed a team with Hua Wuyue and Chen Guangtuo to search for the Enlightenment Land and spiritual treasures, while refining the Mountain God Crystal proved too slow to finish on the spot. Pei Tong joined them with his tracking skills and Star Dipper Compass, hoping to find a treasure that could heal his ailing grandfather, Star Dipper Mister.

• Hua Wuyue told Zhang Lingshan about the Enlightenment Land, and she and Chen Guangtuo agreed to cooperate with him under a contribution-based treasure-sharing arrangement.
• Zhang Lingshan asked them to watch over him while he refined the Mountain God Crystal and to alert him if they found Cang You'er; Hua Wuyue also explained that the crystal needed to be refined while connected to the earth.
• Zhang Lingshan stopped refining the crystal and proposed that the group travel while fighting demonic beasts and ask any intelligent ones for directions to the Enlightenment Land.
• Gan Lu detected Hu Yanfei's scent on Zhang Lingshan, so he burned away the lingering fragrance before the group encountered and questioned Pei Tong.
• Pei Tong revealed that he was Star Dipper Mister's grandson, showed them his grandfather's Star Dipper Compass, and asked to join their search for a cure for his grandfather.

Zhang Lingshan’s team fought off demonic beasts and ghosts in the Trial Land, while he captured a Gelsemium Beast and used its scales to treat Chen Guangtuo’s poisoning. Pei Tong found the direction of the Enlightenment Land, and Zhang Lingshan asked him to use the Star Dipper Compass to locate the owner of a jade pendant.

• Pei Tong joined Zhang Lingshan’s group and said he needed enlightened demonic beast blood to track the Enlightenment Land.
• Hua Wuyue killed the tiger that had eaten Liu Shimei, but her Flower Burial Art drained its essence before Pei Tong could collect useful blood.
• A Gelsemium Beast poisoned Chen Guangtuo, and Zhang Lingshan chased and captured it while Hua Wuyue and the others fought off beasts and ghosts.
• Zhang Lingshan swallowed or captured the attacking ghosts, killed the remaining beasts, and used the Gelsemium Beast’s scales to help treat Chen Guangtuo.
• Pei Tong used the demonic beast blood and Star Dipper Compass to find the Enlightenment Land about a thousand li away.
• Zhang Lingshan gave Pei Tong a jade pendant and asked him to locate its owner in exchange for credit for a great merit.

Zhang Lingshan’s group prepared a plan to trap and kill Cang You’er while sheltering in a cave, and Zhang Lingshan tried to refine a Mountain God Crystal. When Cang You’er finally arrived, he had four companions with him, including Fei Xue and Nantang Yu, the leader from Sea Province.

• Hua Wuyue identified the pendant’s vitality as man-made and deduced that Cang You’er had inherited Paradise Mountain’s Life Branch, then proposed waiting for Chen Guangtuo to recover before attacking.
• Pei Tong used the Star Dipper Compass to track the pendant toward the Enlightenment Land, and Zhang Lingshan’s group traveled with Gan Lu carrying it as bait.
• Hua Wuyue led the group to a cave for the night, where she set up protections and arranged rotating watches while Zhang Lingshan refined the Mountain God Crystal.
• Zhang Lingshan’s blood and qi helped form Mountain God Armor, but the crystal shattered before the armor could cover his whole body; Chen Guangtuo then woke and recovered fully.
• Hua Wuyue assigned roles for trapping Cang You’er, but Pei Tong sensed his arrival alongside several others.
• Cang You’er arrived with four companions, including Fei Xue and Nantang Yu of the South Sea Merchant Guild’s Nan Family.

Zhang Lingshan confronted Cang You'er after learning he might have killed Fei Xia, while Nantang Yu and Fei Xue sided with Cang You'er. As Zhang Lingshan pressed his attack, Cang You'er killed Fei Xue for her vitality, and a trapped jade pendant exploded with Flower Seeds that sprouted Jet-Black Flowers across Cang You'er's body as Zhang Lingshan advanced with a saber.

• Cang You'er claimed Zhang Lingshan had stolen Fei Xia's Jade Pendant and might have killed him, then revealed himself to Zhang Lingshan and the others.
• Gan Lu warned Nantang Yu that Cang You'er came from Paradise Mountain's Life Branch, but Nantang Yu dismissed her and ordered her away.
• Zhang Lingshan threw his jade pendant at Cang You'er, used a Soul Defense Petal to withstand Cang You'er's Soul Spike, and shattered Cang You'er's shield with his hammer.
• Nantang Yu attacked Zhang Lingshan, but Zhang Lingshan drove him back with a hundred-thousand-jin hammer strike.
• Cang You'er pierced Fei Xue and drained her vitality, then threw her body at Zhang Lingshan, where it exploded; Zhang Lingshan blocked the blast with a Golden Shield.
• Cang You'er reached for the jade pendant, but it exploded and scattered Flower Seeds that grew into Jet-Black Flowers across his right side as Zhang Lingshan charged with a saber.

Zhang Lingshan and his allies defeated Cang You'er and captured Nantang Yu after Hua Wuyue killed Cang You'er despite Nantang Yu's offer. Nantang Yu was stripped of his treasures and bound, and he tried to bargain for his freedom with promises of Sea Bottom Crystals.

• Zhang Lingshan struck Cang You'er with the Righteous Qi Blade, forcing his soul from his body, and Hua Wuyue trapped it in her Hundred Flowers Formation.
• Nantang Yu offered Hua Wuyue a Sea Bottom Crystal to release Cang You'er, but she deferred the decision to Zhang Lingshan.
• Zhang Lingshan attacked Nantang Yu after rejecting his attempt to settle their earlier clash with treasures, and he split Nantang Yu's reflecting stone block with the Evil Qi Blade.
• Nantang Yu trapped Zhang Lingshan beneath a Starfish Net and Life and Death Bell, then fought Chen Guangtuo while Hua Wuyue tightened the vines around Cang You'er.
• Hua Wuyue killed Cang You'er despite his pleas and offer to reveal Paradise Mountain's secrets, while Zhang Lingshan emerged and seized Nantang Yu.
• Zhang Lingshan's allies killed Nantang Yu's two subordinates, and Zhang Lingshan stripped and bound Nantang Yu before Nantang Yu offered each of them a Sea Bottom Crystal for his release.

Zhang Lingshan exposed Cang You'er's attempt to fake his death, broke open Nantang Yu's Storage Bag, and learned how the South Sea Merchant Guild's tracking marks could disappear. After Hua Wuyue brought him fragments of Paradise Mountain's Life Wheel cultivation method, the Panel offered to complete it for 100 million Energy Points, and Zhang Lingshan decided to add points.

• Pei Tong used the Star Dipper Compass to reveal that Cang You'er was still alive, and Hua Wuyue began interrogating him.
• Zhang Lingshan broke Nantang Yu's Storage Bag restriction and learned that the South Sea Merchant Guild marked its stolen goods.
• Zhang Lingshan confirmed that the marks on the Jade Province branch's goods had vanished after he killed Gong Xiping and Gu Jinghong.
• Nantang Yu explained that marks disappeared when the person who placed them died, after Zhang Lingshan cut off his hand and thumb.
• Hua Wuyue gave Zhang Lingshan a Jade Slip containing fragments of Paradise Mountain's Life Wheel method, and the Panel showed it could be completed for 100 million Energy Points.

Zhang Lingshan formed the Life Wheel, then entered the Dead Qi Pool while comprehending the Death Wheel. After Nantang Yu was pulled into the pool and drowned, Zhang Lingshan emerged with the Death Wheel formed, stunning Hua Wuyue and the others.

• Zhang Lingshan formed the Life Wheel, and a Dead Corpse Monkey attacked him, drawn by his vitality.
• Zhang Lingshan subdued the Dead Corpse Monkey and found the Death Branch cultivation method in Nantang Yu's Storage Bag.
• Zhang Lingshan began comprehending the Death Wheel and became trapped in the Dead Qi Pool, while Nantang Yu claimed he could save him.
• Hua Wuyue tied Nantang Yu to Zhang Lingshan with a red thread, and the connection dragged Nantang Yu's consciousness into the Dead Qi Pool.
• Nantang Yu tried to use Zhang Lingshan as a stepping stone to escape, but Zhang Lingshan repeatedly pulled him back and ultimately drowned him.
• Zhang Lingshan formed the Death Wheel and opened his eyes as Hua Wuyue, Chen Guangtuo, and the others saw what seemed like the sun and moon in them.

Zhang Lingshan subdued Nantang Yu, claimed his belongings, and used the Life and Death Bell to lead his companions toward the Enlightenment Land. The group reached the destination’s entrance, where Zhang Lingshan prepared to scout ahead.

• Zhang Lingshan turned Nantang Yu into a corpse, then divided the spoils from the Storage Bags with his companions while keeping the South Sea Merchant Guild’s marked belongings.
• Zhang Lingshan claimed the Life and Death Bell and tamed the Dead Corpse Monkey by offering it life energy.
• Pei Tong’s Star Dipper Compass and the Dead Corpse Monkey guided the group through the Trial Land as the monkey defeated demonic beasts for rewards.
• The Dead Corpse Monkey warned the group that venomous snakes lurked along a narrow path, so Zhang Lingshan used the Life and Death Bell to shield everyone as they crossed.
• Zhang Lingshan sensed the way forward through the Life and Death Bell and announced that they had reached the Enlightenment Land, then asked Hua Wuyue to scout with a flower branch.

Zhang Lingshan met Zhang Xiufeng at the Enlightenment Land and learned that their branches shared a deep family connection through Zhang Quyi. Zhang Xiufeng welcomed him as an honored relative, but Zhang Lingshan questioned the conflicting stories about why Zhang Quyi fled and whether another Zhang Family branch might also have reached Jade Province.

• Hua Wuyue used a seed to survey the area, and Zhang Lingshan recalled the Life and Death Bell after she reported that the nearby people and demonic beasts were not fighting.
• Zhang Lingshan reunited with Fei Xia and met Zhang Xiufeng, who asked for the name of Zhang Lingshan's ancestor.
• Zhang Lingshan revealed that his ancestor was Zhang Quyi and showed Zhang Xiufeng the family genealogy, prompting Zhang Xiufeng to recognize him as his granduncle.
• Zhang Xiufeng explained that Zhang Quyi had saved the Zhang Family and that his descendants had searched for him for generations, while Zhang Lingshan said his family had been taught that Zhang Quyi fled after committing a grave crime.
• Zhang Xiufeng said another Zhang Family branch might have gone to Jade Province to hunt Zhang Quyi, and Zhang Lingshan asked what would happen if he belonged to that branch instead.

At the Enlightenment Land, Zhang Lingshan discovered that cultivating the Jade Emperor Fetal Respiration Scripture rapidly increased his mental power, even without benefiting from the Enlightenment Wind. After four days of cultivation, his spiritual power exceeded the threshold for an upgrade, while he and the others prepared for the dangers beyond the land.

• Zhang Xiufeng told Zhang Lingshan that Ancestor Quyi had likely been pursued and injured, though the Zhang Family could not identify who had attacked him.
• During the Enlightenment Wind, Zhang Lingshan gained no insight from it, but found that reciting the Jade Emperor Fetal Respiration Scripture in the Enlightenment Land greatly accelerated his spiritual power growth.
• Zhang Xiufeng explained that the Enlightenment Land could hold only twenty-five humans and twenty-five demonic beasts, that they had twenty days left there, and that the Airflow Vortex would lead to the Second Layer Trial Land.
• Zhang Lingshan told Fei Xia that Cang You'er had killed Fei Xue, gave him her Storage Bag, and accepted it back when Fei Xia asked him to avenge her.
• Zhang Lingshan and the others resumed cultivation, and four days later his mental power reached 10048, prompting the Panel to offer an upgrade.

Zhang Lingshan cultivated the Jade Emperor Fetal Respiration Scripture in the Enlightenment Land, nurturing a spiritual fetus and greatly increasing his spiritual power before the land’s effect ended. As the group prepared to enter the dangerous second level, he agreed to help Pei Tong reach him there and then entered the Airflow Vortex, landing in an eerily quiet place.

• Zhang Lingshan discovered a beating spiritual fetus in his mind and found that his Spiritual Consciousness had reached the third level.
• Zhang Lingshan gained 38,400 spiritual power over fifteen days of comprehending the Jade Emperor Fetal Respiration Scripture before the Enlightenment Land’s effect faded.
• The demonic beasts left, and Zhang Xiufeng warned the group that the second level was dangerous as the Airflow Vortex appeared.
• Zuoqiu Wufeng insulted Zhang Xiufeng, then jumped into the vortex; Zhang Xiufeng explained that Zuoqiu Wufeng sought opportunities to kill and temper his path of slaughter.
• Zhang Lingshan agreed to take Pei Tong to the third level if Pei Tong could find him, and gave him a fingernail for his Star Dipper Compass.
• Zhang Lingshan entered the Airflow Vortex and landed safely in a place that was unnervingly quiet.

Zhang Lingshan raised his Profound Gold Intent to the fifth level in the Second Layer, then hunted for Energy Points and defeated a powerful Mountain God. After surviving a sneak attack and killing one of the two ambushers, he chased Zhang Difeng, who recognized him and begged for his life.

• Zhang Lingshan left the invisible-blade formation, used Stat Points to advance his Profound Gold Intent to the fifth level, and saw the Profound Gold Transformation spread across his upper chest and shoulders.
• Zhang Lingshan discovered that the Trial Land shared the Nine Provinces realm, then sent out the Dead Corpse Monkey to scout and killed a giant mantis for Energy Points.
• Zhang Lingshan defeated the Second Layer's Mountain God with the Profound Silk Treasure Hammer and claimed its Mountain God Crystal.
• Two candidates tried to kill Zhang Lingshan with a Thunder Blast Pellet, but his body quickly healed, and he killed one of them with a thrown hammer.
• Zhang Difeng fled and recognized Zhang Lingshan as the great-grandfather of the Ling generation, begging him to spare his life.

Zhang Lingshan hunted fiends and evil spirits on the Trial Land’s Second Layer, then raised his Profound Gold Intent to the sixth level while refining a Mountain God Crystal. A huge blue eye appeared in his cave and attacked him, but his transformed arms made it recoil as he fought to escape.

• Zhang Lingshan killed Zhang Difeng, collected the corpses and their Storage Bags, then killed the Invisible Dog that had been gnawing on another corpse.
• Zhang Lingshan swallowed a formless ghost formed from a Three-Headed Ghost and continued hunting until his Energy Points reached one billion.
• Zhang Lingshan lost his way back to the natural formation, carved a cave into a cliff, and raised his Profound Gold Intent to the sixth level.
• Zhang Lingshan refined the Mountain God Crystal for hours and formed Mountain God Armor across nearly his entire body.
• A huge blue eye appeared in Zhang Lingshan’s cave and trapped his consciousness with its eyelash tentacles.
• Zhang Lingshan unleashed the Blood Burning Divine Art and Profound Gold Intent, made the eye withdraw its tentacles, and discovered that his transformed arms made them recoil.

Zhang Lingshan survived the Big Eye Monster’s attack but suffered severe injuries, including a wound that disabled his Heavenly Eye. As he prepared to leave the cave, he discovered that his Profound Gold-transformed right hand had returned from the Profound Silk Treasure Hammer.

• Zhang Lingshan fused his Profound Gold-transformed right hand with the Profound Silk Treasure Hammer and used it to strike the Big Eye Monster, which injured him before retreating into the darkness.
• At dawn, Zhang Lingshan activated Wang Chong’s Wind Immobilizing Banner, blocked the cave entrance, and treated his injured legs with pills.
• Zhang Lingshan found lasting scars on his legs and a deep wound between his brows that prevented him from using Heavenly Eye or projecting his Spiritual Consciousness.
• Zhang Lingshan’s Mountain God Crystal shattered when he picked it up, and he prepared to leave once his legs had recovered enough.
• Zhang Lingshan touched the Profound Silk Treasure Hammer and drew his Profound Gold back into his right hand, discovering that his separated transformed flesh could return to him and merge with other weapons.

Zhang Lingshan advanced the Three Yang True Scripture to Greater Accomplishment, awakening a Qi and Blood Fire Seed, then hunted and ate his way across the Second Layer of the Trial Land. He encountered Zhang Diqi and discovered that the young family genius carried an illustrated guide that might identify a strange bamboo grove.

• Zhang Lingshan used the Wind Immobilizing Banner to protect himself in a wind blade formation and advanced the Three Yang True Scripture to Greater Accomplishment, transforming his Qi and Blood Long Rainbow into a Qi and Blood Fire Seed.
• Zhang Lingshan discovered that his mental strength had risen by 5,000 points and tested his new flame by roasting meat through the night.
• Zhang Lingshan hunted demonic beasts and other creatures for five days, raising his Energy Points above one billion before the prey began avoiding him.
• Zhang Lingshan gathered plants and investigated a grove whose purple-black bamboo sap differed from Violet Nether Bamboo Sap.
• Zhang Diqi arrived searching for his family members, attacked Zhang Lingshan with flame, then recognized him as a relative after seeing his Qi and Blood Fire Seed.
• Zhang Diqi gave Zhang Lingshan permission to take his flame and revealed that he carried an illustrated guide, which Zhang Lingshan seized to identify the bamboo.

Zhang Lingshan and Zhang Diqi harvested a bamboo grove before rescuing Pei Tong from four pursuers. Pei Tong gave Zhang Lingshan an Azure Faced Spirit Child Fruit, and Zhang Lingshan promised to protect him and help him search the Third Layer.

• Zhang Lingshan and Zhang Diqi harvested the Profound Root Violet Nether Bamboo, with Zhang Diqi working in exchange for Qi and Blood Flames.
• Pei Tong collapsed in front of Zhang Lingshan while fleeing four men who wanted his Star Dipper Compass.
• Zhang Lingshan ordered Zhang Diqi to kill the pursuers, then gave him a flame and used a Four Revolutions Nourishing Pill to help Pei Tong recover.
• Pei Tong told Zhang Lingshan he had waited for the Azure Faced Spirit Child Fruit to ripen so he could give it to him.
• Zhang Lingshan accepted the fruit, promised to protect Pei Tong and help him find treasures in the Third Layer, then ate it.

Zhang Lingshan refined the Azure Faced Spirit Child Fruit, recovering his Spiritual Consciousness and gaining fifty thousand points of mental power as a fissure appeared between his brows. Pei Tong suspected it marked the opening of Zhang Lingshan’s Heavenly Eye, and the group prepared to leave after Zhang Diqi revealed he had a bottle of Golden Lotus Spirit Pills.

• Zhang Lingshan refined the Azure Faced Spirit Child Fruit, restoring his Spiritual Consciousness and raising his mental power by fifty thousand points.
• Pei Tong warned Zhang Lingshan that the deep fissure between his brows resembled a precursor to Opening Heavenly Eye.
• Zhang Diqi tried to touch the fissure, so Zhang Lingshan kicked him away and gave him a wisp of Qi and Blood Flame.
• Zhang Lingshan speculated that the Big Eye Monster’s eyeball might help complete his Heavenly Eye, but decided to wait until he was stronger before confronting it.
• Zhang Lingshan checked the Profound Root Violet Nether Bamboo roots and the Storage Bags Zhang Diqi had taken from their four enemies.
• Zhang Diqi asked Zhang Lingshan for a reward and revealed that he had a bottle of Golden Lotus Spirit Pills.

Zhang Lingshan and Zhang Diqi traded for Golden Lotus Spirit Pills, then explored a blood-stinking cave and battled its Blood Geckos. Zhang Lingshan discovered a Crystal Coffin guarded by the geckos, accepted their Blood Pearl, and retreated; the group stayed among the remains of past trial candidates, aware that a powerful creature lay deeper inside.

• Zhang Diqi traded his Golden Lotus Spirit Pills to Zhang Lingshan for two and a half Qi and Blood Flames, and Pei Tong led them to a damp cave.
• Zhang Lingshan protected Pei Tong and used the Dead Corpse Monkey as a flaming decoy while he and Zhang Diqi fought the Blood Geckos.
• Zhang Lingshan entered a palace where humanlike Blood Geckos guarded a Crystal Coffin containing a half-human, half-gecko creature.
• An old Blood Gecko offered Zhang Lingshan a Blood Pearl, and he withdrew without disturbing the creature in the coffin.
• Zhang Lingshan returned to Zhang Diqi and Pei Tong, and they found old and fresh skeletons, including Zhang Family candidates, alongside Storage Bags.
• Zhang Lingshan warned them not to provoke the powerful creature inside, then the three settled in the outer cave for the night.

Zhang Lingshan fused the Life Wheel and Death Wheel with help from the Blood Pearl, discovering that the Life and Death Wheel could convert Death Qi into life force while the Life and Death Bell amplified both forces. After testing his new abilities, he found that the Blood Geckos and Crystal Coffin had vanished from the hall, leaving the group puzzled about whether a Teleportation Array was involved.

• Zhang Lingshan and Zhang Diqi buried the bones, opened the Storage Bags, and Zhang Lingshan used the mental-power pills and Golden Lotus Spirit Pills to raise his Spirit to 98,268.
• Zhang Lingshan used the Blood Pearl to reduce the risk of fusing the Life Wheel and Death Wheel, then combined them into the Life and Death Wheel.
• The Life and Death Wheel revived a withered bamboo stalk, while the Life and Death Bell released enough Death Qi to kill another stalk beyond recovery.
• Zhang Lingshan put away the Life and Death Bell at dawn, ate Blood Gecko meat, and noticed that the blood sealing the passage had lost its power.
• Zhang Lingshan, Zhang Diqi, and Pei Tong found the Blood Geckos and Crystal Coffin missing from the hall, and Pei Tong wondered whether a Teleportation Array had appeared.