Chapter Summaries

Zhang Lingshan captured Bai Zhiyao’s senior sisters and persuaded Bai to accompany him to Snake Secluded Valley to treat Yao Ganlin. On the journey, Du Lao Jiu explained the Demon Suppression Alliance’s history and its connection to Zhang Wei Gang and the Zhang family, while Bai noticed Zhang Lingshan’s family ties.

• Zhang Lingshan resisted Bai Zhiyao’s Soul-Bewitching Incense, stopped Eldest Sister Yu from poisoning him, and made Bai agree to come save someone in exchange for sparing her.
• Bai Zhiyao asked Zhang Lingshan to spare Qing Chen if they met, and Zhang agreed to consider it in exchange for a future favor.
• Bai Zhiyao woke Du Lao Jiu and the others, recognized several companions, and joined them aboard the Flying Boat bound for Snake Secluded Valley.
• Du Lao Jiu told Zhang Lingshan that the Demon Suppression Alliance was led by Zhang Wei Gang and that Lao Yangqiu’s death may have been connected to him.
• Du Lao Jiu revealed that Lion Heart Sect Master Zhang Yanshi, also known as Zhang Xiaonu, had a Qi and Blood Fire Seed and ties to the Zhang family, and Zhang Lingshan said he would ask his family about him.
• Bai Zhiyao realized Zhang Lingshan belonged to the Zhang family and wondered why he differed from the Central Province Zhang family members he had expected.

Zhang Lingshan sent the recovered group to Jade Province and traveled toward Sea Province, while Zhang Yanshi visited the Zhang Family to find the man who had defeated Du Lao Jiu. After mistaking Zhang Lingzhi for that expert and striking her down, he demanded the identity of a man with a black cloth around his forehead.

• Bai Zhiyao guided Zhang Lingshan's life energy through his needles, curing Yao Ganlin and helping him recover.
• Zhang Lingshan sent Zhang Lingyu, Kou Guan, Du Lao Jiu, and the others to Jade Province while he continued toward Sea Province with Bai Zhiyao and Snake Zhengming.
• Zhang Yanshi arrived at the Zhang Family and asked Zhang Zhongzheng and Zhang Chengen about a prodigy who had opened the Heart Mansion.
• Zhang Chengen introduced Zhang Lingzhi, but Zhang Yanshi realized she was not the man who had fought Du Lao Jiu and knocked her into a wall with a sweep of his sleeve.
• Zhang Yanshi demanded that the Zhang Family identify the man with a black cloth around his forehead.

Zhang Yanshi searched the Zhang Family for the blindfolded young man he had encountered and identified him as Zhang Lingshan. After learning Zhang Lingshan’s lineage and power, Zhang Yanshi plotted to seize his body and headed for Jade Province to investigate further.

• Zhang Yanshi pressured Zhang Chengen, Zhang Zhongzheng, and Zhang Changqin to identify the blindfolded young man, threatening them when they could not answer.
• Zhang Zhongzheng and Zhang Changqin compiled a list of Zhang Family members with Qi and Blood Fire Seeds, then named Zhang Lingshan as the one who might have visited Flower Province.
• Zhang Yanshi recognized Zhang Lingshan in a portrait, tore it from the album, and gave the three elders Jade Stones that let him monitor them.
• Zhang Yanshi made Zhang Zhongzheng tell him everything he knew about Zhang Lingshan and learned that he was a descendant of Qu Yi with the Return to Ancestry Bloodline.
• Zhang Yanshi abandoned his plan to report Zhang Lingshan to Zhang Weigang and decided to travel to Jade Province to find a way to take his body.

Zhang Lingshan used his Life Essence and Bai Zhiyao’s medical skills to restore Xu Zhongyin’s legs and Cang Tianbai’s vitality, then learned Bai Zhiyao sought revenge for his master. After revealing that Fu Han had been killed, Zhang won Bai’s personal service by giving him Fu Han’s cultivation method, while Bai kept Medical Immortal Valley independent.

• Zhang Lingshan asked Bai Zhiyao to heal Xu Zhongyin, offering his Life Essence in exchange for Xu’s help building a movable city for his faction.
• Bai Zhiyao treated Xu Zhongyin with silver needles and Zhang Lingshan’s Life Essence, restoring his legs; the group then went to Cang Tianbai.
• Bai Zhiyao used Zhang Lingshan’s Life Essence to restore Cang Tianbai and realized that Cang was a white cloud who had attained the Dao, a member of the Spirit Race.
• Bai Zhiyao warned that someone with Heavenly Ear might overhear them, and Zhang Lingshan revealed that Fu Han had already been killed with Jin Tingchen’s help.
• Bai Zhiyao pledged to serve Zhang Lingshan personally for avenging his master, while refusing to merge Medical Immortal Valley into Zhang’s faction.
• Zhang Lingshan gave Bai Zhiyao the Seven Treasures Glazed Body Art, and Bai recognized it as his master’s cultivation method.

Zhang Lingshan and his companions went to retrieve Xu Zhongyin from the Demon Alliance, but Tiger Peak tried to hold him and Bai Zhiyao captive for a deal with Li Bufan. Tiger Peak trapped Snake Qingchan and Bai Zhiyao in a cage and unleashed a barrage of Black Gold Arrows as the others entered the hall.

• Bai Zhiyao told Zhang Lingshan that his master had received the Seven Treasures Glazed Body Art from a mysterious divine man who left by riding the clouds.
• Zhang Lingshan healed Snake Qingchan, and she agreed to leave with him and Snake Zhengming after Xu Zhongyin failed to return from notifying Tiger Peak.
• Zhang Lingshan led the group into the Demon Alliance Main Hall, where he killed one guard with a crushing force and cut another in half with blade aura.
• Tiger Peak revealed that he had been seeking to trade Bai Zhiyao to Li Bufan and accused Snake Qingchan of betraying the Demon Alliance.
• Tiger Peak trapped Snake Qingchan and Bai Zhiyao inside a sealed black cage, then ordered the Multi-Armed Ape Army to fire its Black Gold Arrows; Chen Xiangxue found that the arrows' black air suppressed her cultivation method.

Zhang Lingshan forced Tiger Peak to surrender and freed Xu Zhongyin, while Li Bufan taught Zuoqiu Jian the Profound Gold Control Method and sent him to test his new weapon on Zhang Chengen. Zuoqiu Jian disguised himself as Zhang Xiaonu and attacked the Zhang Family, where Zhang Chengen stood against him to protect the hidden genius Zhang Lingshan.

• Zhang Lingshan defeated Tiger Peak through sheer intimidation, took his testicles as leverage, and ordered him to remain obedient in the Demon Alliance.
• Zhang Lingshan freed Xu Zhongyin and left with his companions, while Tiger Peak resigned himself to waiting for his summons.
• Li Bufan taught Zuoqiu Jian the Profound Gold Control Method, and Zuoqiu Jian refined a piece of Mysterious Gold into a weapon he could control.
• Zuoqiu Jian and Li Bufan planned to kill Zhang Chengen and frame Zhang Xiaonu, using the attack to test the weapon and provoke the Zhang Family.
• Zuoqiu Jian disguised himself as Zhang Xiaonu and confronted Zhang Chengen and Zhang Lingzhi, demanding to know the Zhang Family's hidden genius.
• Zhang Chengen refused to reveal Zhang Lingshan's identity and challenged Zuoqiu Jian to kill him instead.

Zuoqiu Jian killed Zhang Chengen and slaughtered the Zhang Family in Zhang Family City, while Zhang Lingzhi and Zhang Yuming escaped into the Mist Realm. Zhang Lingzhi set out for Sea Province to find Zhang Lingshan, and Zhang Xianfeng learned of the Ancestor’s death and feared the enemy might target his branch next.

• Zuoqiu Jian used the Mysterious Gold Small Sword to fatally wound Zhang Chengen, who sent Zhang Lingzhi into the Mist Realm with instructions to find Zhang Lingshan.
• Zhang Changen burned himself to save Zhang Lingzhi, but Zhang Chengen died after the sword pierced his chest; Zhang Lingzhi escaped and Zhang Yuming also fled with Zhang Changqin’s help.
• Zuoqiu Jian unleashed the Mysterious Gold Small Sword on Zhang Family City, killing its residents as he practiced his Path of Slaughter.
• Zhang Lingzhi grieved in the Mist Realm, then resolved to reach Sea Province and seek Zhang Lingshan’s help; she grew jealous and resentful after imagining he had taken the Heart Inheritance she wanted.
• At Purple Cloud Ridge, Zhang Xianfeng learned that Zhang Chengen’s Essence Blood had vanished and concluded the Zhang Family had fallen; he and Pei Xingdou worried the enemy might come for their branch.

Zhang Lingshan’s family scattered to survive after Zhang Family City was destroyed, while Li Bufan and Zuoqiu Jian plotted to gather experts and condense the Profound Gold Intent. Suspecting Zhang Lingshan had fought Du Lao Jiu, Li Bufan ordered Mu Huanyue to bring him back to Central Province, though Zhang Lingshan’s ordinary appearance left Li Bufan uneasy.

• Zhang Xianfeng and Pei Xingdou agreed to hide the surviving members of the Zhang family and leave the Hammer-Wielding Hall to Guan Weigong.
• Zuoqiu Jian told Li Bufan he had destroyed Zhang Family City, and Li Bufan tasked him with gathering people skilled in the ten Profound Gold branch intents.
• Li Bufan revealed that Zhang Lingshan was eighteen and had likely reached the eighth level of Shattering Intent, prompting Zuoqiu Jian to suspect he might be the person who fought Du Lao Jiu.
• Li Bufan and Zuoqiu Jian reviewed Mu Huanyue’s memories and concluded Zhang Lingshan had left her before the clash with Du Lao Jiu.
• Li Bufan used their bloodline connection to influence Mu Huanyue to bring Zhang Lingshan back to Central Province, while Zuoqiu Jian departed to recruit the listed experts.
• Li Bufan watched Zhang Lingshan appear ordinary through Mu Huanyue’s vision, but he remained uneasy and decided to judge him in person.

Zhang Lingshan learned that Zuoqiu Jian had destroyed Zhang Family City and rushed to protect his Hammer-Wielding Hall at Purple Cloud Ridge. Before leaving, he revealed to Zhang Lingzhi that her Heart Inheritance came from his blood, but her fury over his failure to save the Zhang Family left her fate uncertain.

• Zhang Lingshan learned that Mu Huanyue’s bloodline let Li Bufan observe through her eyes and sent Bai Zhiyao’s group ahead to Purple Cloud Ridge.
• Zhang Lingshan waited for Feng Zhengfeng in Jianghai City while questioning Nan Shaoyin and Nan Shaole about their loyalty.
• Zhang Lingzhi arrived and attacked Zhang Lingshan, but he subdued her and learned that Zuoqiu Jian had destroyed Zhang Family City.
• Zhang Lingshan explained that Zhang Lingzhi had opened her Heart Mansion by absorbing his blood from the Heart Questioning Stele, then demonstrated control over her blood.
• Zhang Lingzhi accused Zhang Lingshan of selfishly failing to share his power with the Zhang Family, and he raised his hand to strike her.

Zhang Lingshan experimented with using his blood to strengthen and control others, then traveled through the Mist Realm toward Central Province. He arrived there with Zhao Taixuan, while Mu Huanyue and the Nan Shaoyin and Nan Shaole sisters continued separately toward headquarters.

• Zhang Lingshan absorbed Zhang Lingzhi's blood, then gave blood to Nan Shaoyin and Nan Shaole, strengthening them and gaining the ability to sense and control them.
• Zhang Lingshan gave Dang Zi'an a drop of Essence Blood and asked him to wait for Feng Zhengfeng before bringing him to Purple Cloud Ridge.
• Zhang Lingshan agreed to return to Central Province with Mu Huanyue, and Zhao Taixuan helped the group enter the Mist Realm after they found the Demon Suppression Division post station destroyed.
• Evil Beings attacked the group, and Zhang Lingshan drew them away while Nan Shaoyin and Nan Shaole escorted Mu Huanyue onward.
• Zhang Lingshan used his Mist Devouring Evil Art to attract and absorb Evil Beings, then followed Zhao Taixuan through the Mist Realm and reached Central Province in less than half a day.

Zhang Lingshan discovered that the Demon Suppression Division had surrounded Purple Cloud Ridge, avoided its sentries, and reunited with his allies in a mountain cave. After helping them grow stronger with his Essence Blood, he discovered the Star Shifting Technique on his panel and decided to invest his Energy Points in it.

• Zhang Lingshan disguised himself, spotted Demon Suppression Division experts watching Purple Cloud Ridge, and left without alerting them.
• Pei Xingdou and Zhang Xianfeng worried that Zhang Lingshan might walk into the Division's trap, but Zhang Lingshan arrived at their cave and revealed himself.
• Zhang Lingshan gave Pei Xingdou Essence Blood, helping his cultivation surge, then gave Zhang Xianfeng enough Essence Blood to attempt opening his Heart Mansion.
• Zhang Lingshan shared Essence Blood with Pei Tong and the others, and his panel recorded their cultivation methods.
• Zhang Lingshan found the Star Shifting Technique on his panel, saw that reaching Entry Level required one thousand trillion Energy Points, and decided to add points to it.

Zhang Lingshan mastered the Star Shifting Technique’s Mountain Shifting ability and developed powerful Star Light Arrows while waiting near the Demon Suppression Division. After learning that Zuoqiu Jian was gathering Jade Province Intent practitioners, he met Mu Huanyue and the Nan sisters as they emerged safely from the Mist Realm, then hurried with Mu to report in.

• Zhang Lingshan reached Entry Level in the Star Shifting Technique and tested how he could move himself and the land around him with Mountain Shifting.
• Zhang Lingshan created Star Light Arrows from ambient star power, then destroyed a small mountain with an arrow enhanced by qi and blood before hiding inside a mountain wall.
• Xiong Po and Pang Da Yuan investigated the blast, discussed Zuoqiu Jian’s gathering of Jade Province Intent practitioners, and returned to search the area before leaving again.
• Zhang Lingshan concluded that the Demon Suppression Division was far stronger than he had assumed and wondered whether Li Bufan wanted his Shattering Intent for a plan involving the Ten Great Intents.
• Zhang Lingshan sensed Nan Shaoyin and Nan Shaole returning with Mu Huanyue, rewarded the sisters with Divine Dew, and set off with Mu to report to the Demon Suppression Division.

Zhang Lingshan was rewarded with a chance to comprehend the Profound Gold Intent and joined six veterans in a formation meant to raise their Shattering Intent. He secretly used their resonating power to temper his Seven Treasures Glazed Body Art, while pretending to approach a breakthrough and urging them to keep helping him.

• Li Bufan sent Mu Huanyue to the Skill Transmission Pagoda and offered Zhang Lingshan a chance to comprehend the Profound Gold Intent if he advanced his Shattering Intent.
• Li Bufan brought Zhang Lingshan to Old Lu, Yin Zhen, and four other cultivators, and asked them to help him reach the peak of the Ninth Layer.
• Yin Zhen confirmed Zhang Lingshan was eighteen and at the middle stage of the eighth level after knocking him backward with a punch.
• Old Lu arranged the cultivators in a Magic Array that made their Shattering Intents resonate and strengthen Zhang Lingshan.
• Zhang Lingshan secretly absorbed the resonating Shattering Intent to temper his Seven Treasures Glazed Body Art, which rose from 10 trillion to 30 trillion in two days.
• When Old Lu questioned his slow progress, Zhang Lingshan claimed he was about to break through and urged the others to keep supporting him.

Zhang Lingshan helped the others advance their Shattering Intent while secretly benefiting from the Formation’s resonance, then used their need for his guidance to demand spiritual treasures. Lu Mingyan and the others reluctantly paid him, and the group prepared to resume their cultivation.

• Zhang Lingshan reached the Ninth Level of Shattering Intent, received Spirit Nourishing Pills from Old Lu, and discovered that Li Bufan had secretly placed a concealed mark on his shoulder.
• Old Lu arranged the Formation around Zhang Lingshan, whose Ninth Level Intent drew the others’ Shattering Intent toward him and increased his Seven Treasures Glazed Body Art progress.
• Yin Zhen and another middle-aged man broke through to the Ninth Level, followed by Old Lu and, several days later, the remaining three old men.
• Zhang Lingshan claimed the Spirit Nourishing Pills were ineffective and asked for better spiritual resources before continuing to guide the group.
• Lu Mingyan offered Spirit Wine, but Zhang Lingshan refused it and insisted on spiritual-type treasures; the others reluctantly gave him treasured items, including a Seven Stars Spirit Nourishing Lotus.

Li Bufan brought Zhang Lingshan and the other Intent cultivators to the Heaven Sect, where he trapped them in a formation that used their lives to condense Profound Gold Intent. Lu Mingyan and the others died in the Intent Vortex, while Zhang Lingshan endured it; as the Seven-Colored Divine Light emerged, Li Bufan prepared to seize the result and thanked him for his sacrifice.

• Lu Mingyan’s group won first place, and Li Bufan rewarded Lu Mingyan with an Ice Heart Snow Lotus before taking everyone aboard Flying Boats.
• Li Bufan led the group to the Heaven Sect, where the cultivators sensed their own Intents and Zhang Lingshan felt a mysterious force resonating with his Profound Gold Body.
• Li Bufan activated a formation centered on Lu Mingyan, whose head was crushed by the combined Intent Vortex before his body turned into Shattering Intent.
• The cultivators tried to withdraw their Intents but were restrained by cyan-black currents, and Li Bufan ordered Zhang Lingshan to take Lu Mingyan’s place at the formation’s core.
• Zhang Lingshan endured the Intent Vortex, took Lu Mingyan’s Storage Bag, and began emitting Seven-Colored Divine Light as Yin Zhen and the others were crushed into the formation.
• Li Bufan controlled the mark on Zhang Lingshan’s shoulder and prepared to seize the Profound Gold Intent, laughing that Zhang Lingshan’s sacrifice would spare his Hammer-Wielding Hall.

Zhang Lingshan revealed that he had broken free of Li Bufan’s restraints and attacked the Demon Suppression Division experts surrounding him. After killing several and shrugging off their attacks, he confronted Li Bufan, who trapped him beneath an enlarged Golden Small Pagoda.

• Zhang Lingshan mocked Li Bufan, then killed a Hidden Mansion Realm expert with one punch and devoured his Yin Spirit.
• Zhang Lingshan endured the other experts’ combined attacks with Seven-Colored Divine Light and blasted one of them to dust with a Star Light Arrow.
• Zuoqiu Jian’s Mysterious Gold Small Sword failed to pierce Zhang Lingshan, who crushed and swallowed it.
• Li Bufan ordered the surviving experts to retreat, but Zhang Lingshan pursued them and confronted Li Bufan directly.
• Li Bufan blocked Zhang Lingshan’s Star Light Arrows with magical treasures, then enlarged his Golden Small Pagoda and trapped Zhang Lingshan beneath it.

Zhang Lingshan defeated Li Bufan and his companions, then discovered a soul hidden inside a piece of Mysterious Gold in the Heaven Sect. He escaped just as Chen Youming and the others arrived, leaving them to realize they had become scapegoats.

• Zhang Lingshan broke free of Li Bufan’s Treasure Pagoda, killed Li Bufan, and swallowed his Yin Spirit.
• Zhang Lingshan killed Zuoqiu Jian and the remaining opponents, then collected their Storage Bags and swallowed the surviving Yin Spirits.
• Zhang Lingshan followed the resonance he sensed to a buried tower spire and uncovered Mysterious Gold containing a hidden soul.
• Zhang Lingshan seized the soul after it admitted it had lured him in hopes of taking over his Profound Gold Body.
• The Heaven Sect gates opened, and Zhang Lingshan slipped past Chen Youming and the others to escape.
• Chen Youming realized that he and his companions had become the ones taking the blame.

Chen Youming and Zhao Fengnian were blamed for the deaths of Li Bufan and the Demon Suppression Division experts, while Zhang Lingshan secretly held the Profound Gold Statue and interrogated its soul. The chapter ended with Zhang Lingshan demanding to know how to use the statue to improve his Profound Gold Intent and Profound Gold Body.

• Chen Youming recognized Zhang Lingshan as the likely killer but stopped his followers from confronting him or informing the Demon Suppression Sect.
• Tong Yangsheng and Yi Chen found the Heaven Sect's remains and decided to pressure Zhao Fengnian into dealing with Chen Youming and Netherworld.
• Tong Yangsheng threatened Zhao Fengnian with the Ghost Control Sect and asked him to destroy Netherworld, so Zhao Fengnian accepted a token while privately planning to protect Chen Youming.
• Zhao Fengnian celebrated Chen Youming's supposed victory, unaware that Chen Youming had been wrongly blamed for Li Bufan's death.
• Zhang Lingshan held the Profound Gold Statue and threatened its soul until it explained how to strengthen his Profound Gold Intent and Profound Gold Body.

Zhang Lingshan failed to refine the higher-grade Mysterious Gold, then infiltrated Zuoqiu Jian’s estate to find the treasures he had plundered. In the underground palace, he discovered imprisoned women and opened the first treasure door using Zuoqiu Jian’s corpse.

• Zhang Lingshan burned the soul until it vanished, then tried to refine the Profound Gold Statue but could not alter it and swallowed the Ice Heart Snow Lotus.
• After finding no useful spiritual-power treasures in more than sixty Storage Bags, Zhang Lingshan discovered that Zuoqiu Jian’s bag held only combat equipment and headed for the Zuoqiu Family estate.
• Zhang Lingshan used Observe Subtleties to find a flaw in the city’s Formation and entered Zuoqiu City with the Mountain Shifting Technique.
• Zhang Lingshan found Zuoqiu Jian’s Underground Palace, where Feng Sirui and many other women were bound, and told them Zuoqiu Jian was dead.
• Feng Sirui explained that the palace’s sixteen treasure doors required Zuoqiu Jian’s blood, so Zhang Lingshan used his corpse to trigger the first door and opened it.

Zhang Lingshan looted Zuoqiu Jian’s hidden treasury, recruited Feng Sirui to gather intelligence for him, and discovered that his Pouch Space expanded when it absorbed the treasury’s mechanism beads. After testing a Blood Crystal and collecting two legendary swords, he forced the Luminous Treasure Sword and Dark Nether Treasure Sword together and successfully fused them.

• Zhang Lingshan collected medicinal ingredients, refining materials, pills, and cultivation methods from Zuoqiu Jian’s treasure vaults while Feng Sirui explained what they were.
• Zhang Lingshan offered Feng Sirui a place under him gathering intelligence, and she accepted gratefully.
• Zhang Lingshan found that the round mechanism beads vanished inside his Pouch Space and opened up more of its previously inaccessible space.
• Zhang Lingshan crushed a Blood Crystal, swallowed the Ghastly Face it released, and then stored the remaining Blood Crystal Stones.
• Feng Sirui identified the Luminous Treasure Sword and Dark Nether Treasure Sword as a legendary pair, and Zhang Lingshan decided to fuse them despite her warning.
• Zhang Lingshan used Demon Arts and his strength to bring the two swords together, and they fused into one.