Chapter Summaries

Zhang Lingshan used the Yellow Crane Heart Sutra to draw in nearly all the Vital Qi around the Yellow Crane Sect, leaving the sect unable to cultivate. As Huang Yuanhe faced the return of Immortal Master Yu Chen, Yu Chen sensed the person in the Sect Master Hall and prepared to confront them.

• Zhang Lingshan gave the White Tiger Great Demon Divine Dew, but the demon could not refine it and explained that it needed a Transformation Realm Cultivation Method to advance.
• Zhang Lingshan used Derive Myriad Techniques to comprehend the Yellow Crane Heart Sutra, then added points to it and absorbed the Vital Qi it drew in.
• Over the next month, Zhang Lingshan absorbed nearly all the Vital Qi around the Yellow Crane Sect, causing its disciples and elders to panic.
• Huang Yuanhe told an elder to flee with the disciples, but Immortal Master Yu Chen arrived and killed the elder for refusing to kneel.
• Immortal Master Yu Chen accused Huang Yuanhe of hiding a treasure that had drained the Vital Qi, then sensed Zhang Lingshan inside the Sect Master Hall and prepared to confront him.

Zhang Lingshan effortlessly defeated Immortal Master Yu Chen, who had attacked him over the drained Vital Qi and tried to invoke the Yu Family’s power. After capturing him, Zhang Lingshan learned that Yu Chen’s grandfather, Immortal Master Yu Yang, was in the True Essence Realm, and asked Yu Chen to explain what that realm meant.

• Immortal Master Yu Chen demanded Zhang Lingshan’s treasure and threatened him, but Zhang Lingshan claimed Immortal Master Yu Yang had once been his defeated foe.
• Zhang Lingshan swallowed Immortal Master Yu Chen’s Sword Shadow, then broke through his protective treasure and crushed the formation patterns he summoned.
• Immortal Master Yu Chen tried to flee with Iron Sand Mountain Pearls, but Zhang Lingshan redirected the hills, seized him, and slammed him into the ground.
• Immortal Master Yu Chen unleashed a Divine Consciousness attack, but Zhang Lingshan resisted it and restrained him with a Vitality Hand.
• Zhang Lingshan questioned Immortal Master Yu Chen about his grandfather’s realm, and Yu Chen explained that the True Essence Realm was above the Transformation Realm and involved refining one’s vitality into a purer power.

Zhang Lingshan learned about the Upper Realm’s cultivation stages and used his Rule of Death to kill Immortal Master Yu Chen after Yu Chen tried to curse him. He studied the curse mark and adapted it into his Life and Death Wheel, then decided to strengthen his cultivation before confronting Yu Yang.

• Immortal Master Yu Chen explained the Spirit Essence Realm, Dharma Aspect Realm, and the path to the Immortal Realm, while Zhang Lingshan learned that True Essence Realm cultivators could fully integrate into the Upper Realm.
• Zhang Lingshan questioned Yu Chen about the Yu Family’s True Essence Realm Cultivation Method, then used the Rule of Death to burn Yu Chen despite Yu Chen offering to arrange an exchange with Yu Yang.
• Yu Chen cursed Zhang Lingshan with a Black Mark, but Zhang Lingshan’s Xuantian Mirror stopped it, and Zhang Lingshan absorbed Yu Chen’s soul for Energy Points.
• Zhang Lingshan analyzed the Black Mark for three days and fused its formation patterns and Rule of Death into his Life and Death Wheel.
• Zhang Lingshan decided to reach the peak of the Transformation Realm and obtain a True Essence Realm Cultivation Method before seeking out Yu Yang.

Immortal Master Yu Yang discovered that Zhang Lingshan had appeared in his territory and prepared the Yu Family’s formations to capture him, but Zhang Lingshan vanished from his perception. Yu Yang eventually found him, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Immortal Master Yu Yang sensed that Yu Chen had consumed some of his formation patterns and sent Shadow to investigate the Yellow Crane Sect.
• Zhang Lingshan killed Shadow with a Heavenly Chasm Blade Intent, and the patterns released by Shadow’s corpse revealed Zhang Lingshan’s identity to Yu Yang.
• Yu Yang ordered the Yu Family’s clansmen and servants to reinforce formation nodes across his territory, then flew to the Yellow Crane Sect.
• Yu Yang found Sect Master Peak empty and failed to locate Zhang Lingshan anywhere on his formation map.
• Yu Yang sensed again, smiled, and announced that he had found Zhang Lingshan.

Yu Yang trapped Zhang Lingshan in the Yellow Crane Sect and tried to extort Destiny Gourds, but Zhang Lingshan used the bargain to contaminate Yu Yang’s formation plate with Death Qi and the Yu Family’s Curse Mark. Yu Yang resisted the attack by unleashing an Evil Ghost Yang Pattern, leaving Zhang Lingshan’s vision black.

• Yu Yang found Zhang Lingshan hiding underground in the Yellow Crane Sect and used his Array Disk to expose and suppress him.
• Zhang Lingshan offered Destiny Gourds in exchange for his freedom, and Yu Yang demanded deposits and an oath before agreeing to let him go.
• After Yu Yang released him, Zhang Lingshan attacked with the Hundred Worlds Blade, but Yu Yang blocked the strike with his formation plate.
• Zhang Lingshan revealed that he had used Yu Yang’s oath array patterns to contaminate Yu Yang’s formation plate and trigger Death Qi against him.
• Yu Yang activated the Evil Ghost Yang Pattern on his chest and abdomen, plunging Zhang Lingshan’s vision into darkness.

Zhang Lingshan captured Yu Yang and interrogated him about how he collected the Nine Provinces Continent’s destiny, learning that Yu Yang had opened a Divine Consciousness Space through his Mansion Treasury. Yu Yang offered to serve as Zhang Lingshan’s guide in the Mortal Realm, but Zhang Lingshan remained wary of his schemes and tested whether Yu Yang could absorb Divine Dew.

• Zhang Lingshan suppressed Yu Yang’s divine-consciousness attack, trapped him in the Heaven and Earth Furnace, and forced him to surrender.
• Yu Yang explained that a Mansion Treasury could be turned into a Divine Consciousness Space, and Zhang Lingshan correctly inferred how Yu Yang had stored destiny.
• Zhang Lingshan pretended to accept Yu Yang as a servant, while Zhang Zixin objected to keeping a dangerous enemy alive.
• Yu Yang described two ways to open a Divine Consciousness Space and tried to trick Zhang Lingshan into burning his divine consciousness with the Qi and Blood Fire Seed.
• Yu Yang offered to lead Zhang Lingshan to a surviving Zhang Family senior and explained why Immortal Artifacts were unusually common on the Nine Provinces Continent.
• Zhang Lingshan gave Yu Yang Divine Dew to see whether he could absorb it and restore his qi and blood.

Zhang Lingshan took Yu Yang’s cultivation method and Storage Bag, then used the Yu Family’s formation hub to cultivate and comprehend the Five Elements Rule from a multicolored stone. When a Thunder Tribulation formed after the land’s fortune was drained, he realized Yu Yang’s Formation was responsible and ordered him to destroy it and return the fortune.

• Zhang Lingshan failed to absorb Yu Yang’s Divine Dew, then demanded Yu Yang’s True Essence Realm Cultivation Method and Storage Bag.
• Yu Yang led Zhang Lingshan and the others to the Yu Family, where Zhang Lingshan discovered Yu Yang had used family members as Formation Living Stakes.
• Zhang Zixin trapped Yu Yang in the Heaven and Earth Furnace while Zhang Lingshan studied the Myriad Formation Scripture and cultivated in the family’s Vital Qi hub.
• Zhang Lingshan comprehended the Five Elements Rule inside a multicolored stone, which vanished after his long meditation.
• Zhang Lingshan noticed his Energy Points had risen sharply, then saw bloody thunderclouds gather and learned from Yu Yang that the land’s fortune had been ruined.
• Zhang Lingshan ordered Yu Yang to destroy his Formation and return the land’s fortune.

Zhang Lingshan survived the Thunder Tribulation and discovered that Yu Yang's Formation had devastated the surrounding region by draining its fortune. After reflecting on the damage, he returned to the Yu Family and entered the pavilion where Yu Yang's life-bound wife was imprisoned, leaving Yu Yang terrified that he had lost his usefulness.

• Yu Yang destroyed the Formation nodes, but the Thunder Tribulation intensified and blasted apart Zhang Lingshan's Stone Chamber; Zhang Lingshan absorbed some of the scattered lightning and gained Immortal Spiritual Body experience.
• Zhang Lingshan urged everyone to flee, kept Yu Yang behind, and endured a direct lightning strike that blasted him into a deep pit while formation patterns trapped Yu Yang underground.
• Zhang Lingshan healed with Cloud Life Essence, realized the Mortal Realm Thunder Tribulation could not seriously harm his Immortal Spiritual Body, and absorbed energy from the dispersing thunderclouds.
• Zhang Lingshan saw that the drained region had become a lifeless wasteland, regretted his earlier excitement over gaining energy, and decided to leave the area.
• Zhang Lingshan pulled Yu Yang from the ground and entered the pavilion holding Yu Yang's life-bound wife, making Yu Yang fear that she would reveal his secrets and replace him as Zhang Lingshan's guide.

Zhang Lingshan freed Xiao Chuxiao from Yu Yang’s prison and learned how Yu Yang had deceived and imprisoned her. After restraining Yu Yang and searching the Yu Family’s collection, Zhang Lingshan discovered that Cloud Life Essence had absorbed the Thunder Tribulation’s power, unlocking a new entry on his Panel.

• Zhang Lingshan rescued Xiao Chuxiao from a formation-sealed cage, and she explained that Yu Yang had stolen her dowry and imprisoned her.
• Yu Yang and Xiao Chuxiao argued over their past, then each offered to help Zhang Lingshan in exchange for survival.
• Xiao Chuxiao revealed that a Secret Technique linked her life to Yu Yang’s, so Zhang Lingshan compressed Yu Yang into a ball and stored him in a Spirit Beast Bag instead of killing him.
• Zhang Lingshan searched the Yu Family’s treasures with Immortal Divine Sense, but found that Yu Yang’s mind had collapsed and could no longer guide him.
• Zhang Lingshan noticed Thunder Tribulation lightning on Yu Yang and realized Cloud Life Essence had absorbed the lightning’s Rule of Life, causing his Panel to display Lightning Birth Tribulation.

Zhang Lingshan traveled toward Qingxuan City with Xiao Chuxiao and his companions, considering how to improve his Immortal Divine Sense and cultivate in the Upper Realm. After arriving, he ordered everyone to keep a low profile, but the Sea Demon King recognized someone at the city gate.

• Zhang Lingshan refused to spend 100 quintillion Energy Points upgrading the spherical Yu Yang and had Xiao Chuxiao refine her Emerald Jade Hairpin to carry the group.
• Xiao Chuxiao explained that pills to enhance Divine Sense were rare, and Zhang Lingshan tried using the Corrosion Method before beginning to stabilize his Divine Sense in the Wind Mansion.
• Zhang Lingshan stopped cultivating when the group reached Qingxuan City, where Xiao Chuxiao said they could find cultivation methods and rooms, but he warned everyone against spending Spirit Coins recklessly.
• Zhang Lingshan told Xiao Chuxiao to put away the Hairpin and keep a low profile, then the Sea Demon King pointed toward the city gate and exclaimed that he saw Nan Yu.

Zhang Lingshan entered Qingxuan City with Xiao Chuxiao after learning that Nan Yu had been captured and hung on the gate tower. He left Nan Yu waiting for rescue and took Xiao Chuxiao to the Rogue Cultivator Alliance to rent a cultivation room.

• Zhang Lingshan and the Sea Demon King and Sea Monster King found Nan Yu pinned naked to Qingxuan City's gate tower and decided to investigate before entering.
• Zhang Lingshan secretly contacted Nan Yu, who explained that the City Lord's grandson had seized him over his flying treasure and revealed that his remaining treasures, including a Five-Colored Stone, were stored in his Dantian Mansion.
• Zhang Lingshan gave Nan Yu a wisp of Life Essence and promised to return after finding a way to escape, then entered Qingxuan City with Xiao Chuxiao.
• Xiao Chuxiao admitted she had contacted the Xiao Family, but Zhang Lingshan warned her not to bring them against his companions and ordered her to guide him to a cultivation room.
• Xiao Chuxiao led Zhang Lingshan to the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, where he asked the receptionist to rent a cultivation room.

Zhang Lingshan rented a mid-grade cultivation room at the Rogue Cultivator Alliance, but after he absorbed its Vital Qi too quickly, an Alliance cultivator tried to seize him. He killed the man, broke the room’s Formation to absorb its stored energy, and prepared for the Alliance’s coming attack by advancing his cultivation and using treasures from the corpse.

• Zhang Lingshan paid one hundred Spirit Coins for a mid-grade cultivation room and began absorbing its Vital Qi with his Immortal Spiritual Body.
• When the room’s Vital Qi ran out after about fifteen minutes, a middle-aged Rogue Cultivator Alliance cultivator entered and attacked Zhang Lingshan, who killed him with Heavenly Chasm Blade Intent.
• Zhang Lingshan broke the cultivation room’s Formation, absorbed the Alliance’s stored Vital Qi, and spent 111 quintillion Energy Points to raise the Myriad Formation Scripture to Greater Accomplishment and advance to the late stage of the True Essence Realm.
• Zhang Lingshan absorbed the dead man with the Life and Death Wheel, consumed pills from his Storage Bag, and used an Eighteen-Star Spirit Nourishing Lotus to raise his Immortal Divine Sense to 18 gai.
• Zhang Lingshan found red grass in the man’s small gourd, discovered that it strengthened his flame power and body, and began refining its blades in preparation for the coming battle with the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.

Xiao Min arrived at the Rogue Cultivator Alliance and vowed to kill Zhang Lingshan for holding Xiao Chuxiao’s life hostage. Zhang Lingshan broke through the Alliance’s cultivation-room defenses, wounded Xia Shi with his perfected Heavenly Chasm Blade Intent, escaped the elders’ pursuit, and left himself badly injured in a mountain forest.

• Xiao Chuxiao reunited with her Third Aunt, Xiao Min, and explained how Zhang Lingshan held her life hostage through the Yu Yang Ball.
• Xiao Min promised to kill Zhang Lingshan when he left the cultivation room, while Xiao Chuxiao withdrew from the Alliance after a disturbance erupted nearby.
• Qiu Zhi, Xia Shi, and Bai Xia attacked Zhang Lingshan’s cultivation-room formation, but he reinforced it while absorbing Vital Qi and completed his Heavenly Chasm Blade Intent.
• Zhang Lingshan slashed open a spatial rift that destroyed Xia Shi’s right hand, then fled on the Xuantian Formation Plate as the three elders pursued him.
• Bai Xia, Qiu Zhi, and Xia Shi failed to stop Zhang Lingshan, who used the Star Shifting Technique to escape and fell injured in a mountain forest.

After the Rogue Cultivator Alliance issued a warrant for Zhang Lingshan, Xiao Min and Xiao Chuxiao found Zhang Zixin and the others and took them toward the Xiao Family. Zhang Lingshan used the time to refine a flame and discovered his soul had transformed into a growing Soul Tree that could improve his Immortal Divine Sense.

• The Rogue Cultivator Alliance issued a wanted notice for Zhang Lingshan after he escaped three Spirit Essence Realm elders and damaged its cultivation rooms.
• Xiao Min and Xiao Chuxiao decided to lure Zhang Lingshan to the Xiao Family by taking his younger siblings and beast pets there, then found them in a hidden cave using the Jade Hairpin’s mark.
• The Sea Demon King pretended to accept Xiao Chuxiao’s offer, and Xiao Min took Zhang Zixin and the others toward the Xiao Family.
• Zhang Lingshan learned from Zhang Zixin that they were being taken to the Xiao Family and felt reassured that Yu Yang’s presence would restrain Xiao Chuxiao.
• Zhang Lingshan refined the remaining Nine Red Grass Leaves and raised Avici Hellfire to Entry Level, causing his soul to leave his body.
• Zhang Lingshan discovered that his soul had become a growing Soul Tree and that its growth increased his Immortal Divine Sense.

Zhang Lingshan tested the Avici Hellfire, strengthened his Profound Gold Intent, and learned Xuantian Transformation before disguising himself and seeking information about nearby treasures. Miao Boyi led him toward Yellow Vine Mountain and brought him to meet Miao Shan, whose knowledge Zhang Lingshan hoped to use.

• Zhang Lingshan used the Avici Hellfire to kill five men who planned to capture him, then burned their bodies and took their Storage Bags.
• Zhang Lingshan spent 11 quintillion Energy Points to raise his Profound Gold Intent by two layers, then learned Xuantian Transformation from Little Xuan through the Xuantian Mirror.
• Zhang Lingshan changed into a white-faced scholar, asked a passerby for directions, and gave Miao Boyi a Blood Vitality Pill for information about Yellow Vine Mountain.
• Miao Boyi told Zhang Lingshan about the bounty for Zhang Lingshan and explained that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance was led by San Kuangsheng.
• Miao Boyi brought Zhang Lingshan to a rundown courtyard and called for Miao Shan, claiming Zhang Lingshan had pills that could cure his chronic ailment.

Zhang Lingshan discovered that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance drained the luck of failed recruits to strengthen Alliance Leader San Kuangsheng, and he restored Miao Shan by infusing him with destiny. He left with Miao Shan for Yellow Vine Mountain while Miao Boyi stayed behind to cultivate with the pills.

• Miao Shan revealed that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance had drained his destiny during a recruitment assessment, leaving him near death.
• Miao Shan explained his ability to identify scents and offered to guide Zhang Lingshan across Yellow Vine Mountain in exchange for help.
• Zhang Lingshan used the Destiny Gourd and Divine Dew Blood Membrane to help Miao Shan absorb fortune and recover.
• Miao Shan pledged loyalty to Zhang Lingshan, who left with him and told Miao Boyi that Miao Shan had died.
• Miao Boyi found the pills Zhang Lingshan had left and began cultivating in the closed courtyard.

Zhang Lingshan searched Yellow Vine Mountain with Miao Shan, devouring Yellow Heart Vines to gain Energy Points and provoking Song Wan, whose father was a Rogue Cultivator Alliance steward. After Song Wan summoned her father, Zhang Lingshan captured Brother Chu and used him to lure the steward toward them.

• Miao Shan led Zhang Lingshan to a high-grade Yellow Heart Vine, which Zhang ate and converted into 1 octillion Energy Points.
• Zhang Lingshan and Miao Shan encountered Song Wan and two companions; Song Wan threatened them with her father’s authority in the Rogue Cultivator Alliance.
• Zhang Lingshan devoured another Yellow Heart Vine, then slapped Song Wan when he ran into her again and disappeared with Miao Shan.
• Song Wan summoned her father and ordered Brother Chu to watch Zhang Lingshan, but Zhang captured Brother Chu and took his Storage Bag.
• Brother Chu admitted he served the steward as a private soldier, and Zhang Lingshan restrained him to use his aura to lure the steward over.

Zhang Lingshan found a Top-grade Yellow Heart Vine guarded by a Black Scaled Nether Snake and discovered that the snake’s venom greatly increased his Energy Points. He befriended the snake and chose to keep it as a source of venom rather than consume the vine, just as three figures crashed into the dry well.

• Miao Shan led Zhang Lingshan to a dangerous dry well, where his Qi and Blood Flame drove back the yellow vines.
• A Black Scaled Nether Snake bit Zhang Lingshan, but he recovered and gained Energy Points from its venom.
• Zhang Lingshan forced the exhausted snake to accept him as its big brother and learned that it wanted to eat the Top-grade Yellow Heart Vine to transform.
• The snake revealed the vine, and Zhang Lingshan detected Space Rule power in the black membrane shielding it.
• Zhang Lingshan decided to let the snake eat the vine so it could produce stronger venom, and three figures suddenly crashed into the dry well.

Zhang Lingshan killed Song Wan’s father and two Rogue Cultivator Alliance stewards, then helped the Black Scaled Nether Snake ripen the Top-grade Yellow Heart Vine. After it matured, he began extracting its medicinal liquid as the snake waited to devour it.

• Song Wan brought her father and two stewards to confront Zhang Lingshan, who killed the father with Avici Hellfire and destroyed the other two with his Heavenly Chasm Blade Mark.
• Zhang Lingshan absorbed the stewards’ remains, spent Energy Points to advance Xuantian Transformation, and reassured the Black Scaled Nether Snake that he would help it obtain the vine.
• Miao Shan arrived and explained that flesh and blood could accelerate the Top-grade Yellow Heart Vine’s ripening, so the Black Scaled Nether Snake dragged Song Wan’s group’s corpses to it.
• Zhang Lingshan cut the vine, which wrapped around and absorbed the corpses; after half a day, it matured and filled the well with golden light.
• The Black Scaled Nether Snake urged Zhang Lingshan to help it devour the vine, but he instead used flames to extract its medicinal liquid.

Zhang Lingshan struggled to stop a strange seed from taking root inside his body while Miao Shan and the Black Scaled Nether Snake absorbed the mist around the Dry Well and grew stronger. The seed finally retreated and fell from Zhang Lingshan's finger, leaving its nature and next danger unresolved.

• Zhang Lingshan sorted the three Rogue Cultivator Alliance stewards' Storage Bags, collected more than four hundred thousand Spirit Coins, and found a seed filled with energy.
• The seed split open and drove roots into Zhang Lingshan's finger, forcing him to battle it with his Qi and Blood Fire Seed as mist spread through the well.
• Miao Shan absorbed the mist under Zhang Lingshan's guidance and broke through to the Transformation Realm, easing some of Zhang Lingshan's strain.
• The Black Scaled Nether Snake finished refining the Top-grade Yellow Heart Vine, boasted of its strength, then began absorbing the mist after Zhang Lingshan explained its benefits.
• With Miao Shan and the Black Scaled Nether Snake drawing in the mist, Zhang Lingshan pushed the seed's roots out of his finger, and the seed fell to the ground.