Chapter Summaries

Zhou Ling used a simulated Golden Core Tribulation to comprehend the Eight Extremes Immortal Thunder Art and condense its first layer, then welcomed Qingyun Immortal City’s elite to his Golden Core Ceremony. The chapter ended with guests offering congratulations while Wang Qingshang appeared uneasy.

• Zhou Ling activated [Illusionary Realm Deduction Simulation] and used the Purple Thunder Stone’s recorded inheritance to study the Eight Extremes Immortal Thunder Art amid simulated Tribulation Heavenly Thunder.
• Zhou Ling condensed a fist-sized cyan lightning vortex, achieving the art’s first layer and gaining power he believed could kill an early Golden Core cultivator, though the effort badly depleted his divine soul.
• Zhou Ling swallowed a Soul Origin Pill and spent the following days recovering as preparations for his Golden Core Ceremony brought many guests to the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Ling welcomed the family patriarchs, academy officials, Dean Gong, and Wang Qingshang, whose expression seemed unnatural to him.
• Zhou Ling thanked the assembled guests as they offered congratulations on his advancement to the Golden Core Realm, accepting their toasts one by one.

At his Golden Core Ceremony, Zhou Ling announced that he was Fairy Zi Ling’s disciple and the thirty-sixth sect master of the Lingxiao Sect, which he planned to rebuild in Qingyun Immortal City. He left recruitment plans undecided but accepted Dean Gong as the sect’s first prospective guest elder.

• He Lingyun, He Yunjian, and the guests marveled at Zhou Ling’s Heaven-Grade Five Elements Golden Core and his growing fame.
• Zhou Ling announced that he would rebuild the Lingxiao Sect in Qingyun Immortal City and revealed that he was Fairy Zi Ling’s personal disciple.
• City Lord Weng asked to meet Fairy Zi Ling, but Zhou Ling said she was in seclusion, while family heads congratulated the sect and asked when it would accept disciples.
• Zhou Ling said recruitment would wait until the sect was ready, and several families pledged to send their disciples when it began accepting them.
• Dean Gong asked about becoming a guest elder, and Zhou Ling welcomed her because she had comprehended the Four Realms of Swordsmanship.

At Zhou Ling’s Golden Core celebration, Chen Zhanglei revealed that Zhou Ling had been appointed a Patrolling Steward and presented him with a Fourth-Order Purple-Gold Thunder Seal. Zhou Ling began testing whether he could control it, and the thunder source power started to calm as he absorbed it.

• Chen Zhanglei arrived at Zhou Ling’s celebration and praised Zhou Ling’s talent and conduct before presenting him with a Purple-Gold Thunder Seal.
• Chen Zhanglei revealed that the seal was Zhou Ling’s jade seal as a Patrolling Steward, shocking the guests with Zhou Ling’s new position.
• Chen Zhanglei explained that Zhou Ling’s merits in the beast disaster had led him to recommend Zhou Ling to the Inspection Division, and asked him to demonstrate control of the seal.
• Zhou Ling sent Zhou Shan and Li Ru to another table, then reached for the Fourth-Order Purple-Gold Thunder Seal as violent lightning erupted from it.
• Zhou Ling absorbed the thunder source power, causing the seal’s raging power to gradually calm.

At his Golden Core Ceremony, Zhou Ling demonstrated that he could control the Fourth-Order Purple-Gold Thunder Seal, and Chen Zhanglei recruited him to help fight a deadly beast calamity in Five Spirits Immortal City. Zhou Ling fused with the seal in one night, strengthening his body and thunder arts as he prepared to depart in three days.

• Zhou Ling controlled the Purple-Gold Thunder Seal with ease, astonishing the guests and earning Chen Zhanglei's praise.
• Chen Zhanglei told Zhou Ling that a beast calamity in Five Spirits Immortal City had killed a Nascent Soul Cultivator and asked him to help suppress it in exchange for further battle merit toward becoming an Inspection Division Steward.
• Zhou Ling told his family he would travel with Chen Zhanglei, then began fusing the Purple-Gold Thunder Seal in the Cultivation Room.
• Zhou Ling endured the seal's violent lightning as it fused with his Lightning Attribute golden core, improving his physique, dharma power, and Eight Extremes Immortal Thunder Art.
• After a day, Zhou Ling completed the fusion and summoned a sea of lightning, discovering that the seal's power could let him contend with Nascent Soul cultivators.

Zhou Ling formally established the first generation of Lingxiao Sect disciples and learned that Zi Ling had been gravely injured fighting a Sixth-Tier Demonic Dragon at Five Spirits Immortal City. He departed with Chen Zhanglei for the city, where its vast defenses and battle-hardened cultivators revealed the grim scale of the threat.

• Zhou Ling named Bai Ji, Song Yue, Luo Xuan, and Weng Lanyue as Lingxiao Sect’s thirty-seventh-generation Yun disciples, assigned their seniority, and gave them sect rules and cultivation arts.
• Zi Ling said she had been injured by an Early Sixth-Tier Demonic Dragon at Five Spirits Immortal City, and Zhou Ling vowed to avenge her while Wang Xin worried about his journey.
• Zi Ling told Zhou Ling to accompany her to the Purple Sky Sect in three months to obtain the next portion of the Five Elements Qianyuan True Art.
• Chen Zhanglei gave Zhou Ling and Wang Xin’s daughter a Fourth Order Pure Spirit Jade Tablet, then departed with Zhou Ling for Five Spirits Immortal City.
• Zhou Ling and Chen Zhanglei arrived at Five Spirits Immortal City and saw its extensive defenses and the grim, battle-hardened cultivators stationed there.

Zhou Ling accompanied Chen Zhanglei to view the battle at Five Spirits Immortal City, where he witnessed the city’s warship formations repel a vast Demon Beast army despite the Purple Cauldron Warship sustaining severe damage. Chen Zhanglei brought Zhou Ling to a gathering of powerful cultivators and introduced him as a new Steward, surprising them with his achievements and connection to Fairy Zi Ling.

• Zhou Ling and Chen Zhanglei reached the outer city wall and saw countless Demon Beasts attack Five Spirits Immortal City while warships fought them in battle formations.
• Zhou Ling observed that the Purple Cauldron Warship was strained and damaged, then watched it destroy two Fourth-Tier Demon Beasts before the enemy army retreated.
• Chen Zhanglei took Zhou Ling to the Immortal City Grand Hall, where Soul Transformation and Nascent Soul cultivators had gathered.
• Chen Zhanglei invited Zhou Ling to sit among the senior cultivators and revealed that Zhou Ling had killed two Fourth-Tier Demonic Beasts during the Anyang Immortal City Beast Tide.
• Chen Zhanglei identified Zhou Ling as Fairy Zi Ling’s personal disciple and the Sect Master of Lingxiao Sect, leaving the assembled cultivators astonished.

Zhou Ling faced objections to taking a seat among Five Spirits Immortal City’s leaders, but his artifact-refining ability won their recognition. When he revealed that the Purple Cauldron Warship was badly damaged, he offered to try repairing it, leaving the city’s leaders astonished.

• Gu Xingdao backed Zhou Ling’s right to sit with the leaders, while Hu objected that he had earned no battle merits; Gu Xingdao said Zhou Ling would need to prove his strength.
• After learning Zhou Ling was a Fifth-Grade Artifact Refiner, the leaders agreed to test his abilities, and Zhou Ling said he could forge a Fourth-Tier Warship in about half a month.
• Zhou Ling warned Ji Siqing that the Purple Cauldron Warship’s array plate was damaged, prompting Ji Siqing to admit that it could not safely fight again and that his injuries would prevent him from repairing it soon.
• Gu Xingdao and Ji Siqing discussed seeking help from an experienced warship refiner, but the available specialists were stationed elsewhere and summoning one would take too long.
• When Ji Siqing asked whether Zhou Ling knew a suitable expert, Zhou Ling said he did not and offered to try repairing the Purple Cauldron Warship himself; the leaders were astonished.

Zhou Ling examined the damaged Purple Cauldron Warship using his Observation and Analysis talents, despite doubts about whether a Golden Core cultivator could repair a fifth-tier warship. He identified five damaged areas and learned how to fix them, leaving the warship’s repair as the next step.

• Chen Zhanglei warned Zhou Ling that the Purple Cauldron Warship was too important to risk, while Zhou Ling said he would inspect it and act only with Ji Siqing’s approval.
• Ji Siqing supported letting Zhou Ling examine the warship because Zhou had noticed damage that the others had missed, and Gu Xingdao agreed to give him a try.
• Ji Siqing explained the Purple Cauldron Inscription’s structure and gave Zhou Ling pills before Gu Xingdao raised a barrier to keep him undisturbed.
• Zhou Ling used his Observation and Analysis talents to inspect the formation plate and discovered that damaged inscription chains had become tangled.
• When the formation plate released purple lightning, Zhou Ling’s Five Elements Thunder Gang talent absorbed it, and the gathered cultivators feared the warship might be beyond repair.
• After half a day of inspection, Zhou Ling identified five damaged areas, including two critical tangled chains, and obtained methods to repair them.

Zhou Ling inspected the Purple Cauldron Formation Plate, identified five damaged areas, and undertook its repair aboard the warship. He restored the engravings with lightning and two spirit flames, completing the inscription but exhausting his soul in the process.

• Zhou Ling identified three damaged Purple Light Engravings and two collapsed inscription chains on the formation plate.
• Ji Siqing and Gu Xingdao agreed to let Zhou Ling attempt the repairs, and Gu Xingdao supplied him with pills and materials.
• Zhou Ling repaired the three damaged engravings with lightning magical power, then took a pill to recover.
• Zhou Ling used Dry Yang True Fire and Earth Spirit Land Fire to guide and restore the tangled inscription chains.
• Zhou Ling completed the Purple Cauldron Inscription and took a pill before sitting down to recover from the strain on his soul.

Zhou Ling repaired the Purple Cauldron Formation Plate and earned the respect of Five Spirits Immortal City's leaders, who then discussed the approaching demon beast army. The chapter ended with Zhou Ling being asked to try controlling the Purple Cauldron Warship and Chen Zhanglei revealing that he was also a fourth-grade Beast Tamer.

• Zhou Ling repaired and reinforced the Purple Cauldron Formation Plate with his spirit flame, restoring it to about ninety percent of its original power.
• Gu Xingdao and Ji Siqing praised Zhou Ling, and Five Spirits Immortal City's leaders welcomed him at a feast before discussing the demon beast army led by the Late Fifth-Tier Lightning Horn Dragon.
• Chen Zhanglei revealed that he had a treasure to help him and Gu Xingdao confront the Lightning Horn Dragon, while Yu Gan was chosen to control the Purple Cauldron Warship if Zhou Ling could not.
• Ji Siqing asked Zhou Ling to try controlling the Purple Cauldron Warship the next day, and Zhou Ling agreed despite fearing that he might have to face a Fifth-Tier Demon King.
• Chen Zhanglei revealed that Zhou Ling was a fourth-grade Beast Tamer whose talent had helped defeat a Fifth-Tier Demon King at Anyang Immortal City, surprising the other leaders.

Zhou Ling analyzed the Fifth-Tier Demon Kings for Five Spirits Immortal City, then recovered and mastered the Purple Cauldron Warship’s formation plate. As the demonic beast army advanced again, he helped prepare the city’s warship formations for battle and set out with the fleet toward the outer sea.

• Zhou Ling identified the strengths and weaknesses of several Fifth-Tier Demonic Beasts, giving Gu Xingdao and the other cultivators a basis for planning their defenses.
• Gu Xingdao gave Zhou Ling Glazed Jade Leaves and a Haoyuan Pill; after consuming a leaf, Zhou Ling entered a brief sword dao enlightenment and deepened his Falling Wood Sword Intent.
• Several days later, Zhou Ling mastered the Purple Cauldron Formation Plate and demonstrated that he could control the Purple Cauldron Warship.
• Gu Xingdao told Zhou Ling that the demonic beast army was advancing again, while Chen Zhanglei warned that the beasts might target the Purple Cauldron Warship.
• Gu Xingdao gave Zhou Ling Earth Grade Spirit Stones, and Zhou Ling powered up the warship as the fleet of several hundred ships headed toward the outer sea.

Zhou Ling used the Purple Cauldron Warship, Dry Yang True Fire, and Earth Spirit Land Fire to withstand the Fifth-Tier Fire Dragon Sparrow’s attacks as the demon beast army battled the human fleet. He broke through the Sparrow’s fire domain and gained the upper hand by exploiting its impure bloodline.

• The demon beast army emerged from the sea, and five Fifth-Tier Demon Kings led more than a hundred thousand beasts toward the assembled warships.
• Chen Zhanglei and Gu Xingdao engaged the Thunder Horn Demon King while Ji Siqing directed the fleet against the other Demon Kings.
• The Fire Dragon Sparrow attacked Zhou Ling’s Purple Cauldron Warship with its fire domain, but Zhou Ling poured Dry Yang True Fire into the formation and shattered the domain.
• The Fire Dragon Sparrow sent a flaming dragon at the warship, and Zhou Ling blocked it with the Purple Thunder Greatsword while enduring the domain’s pressure.
• Zhou Ling added Dry Yang True Fire and Earth Spirit Land Fire to his counterattack, severed the flaming dragon, and continued attacking after identifying the Sparrow’s impure bloodline as a weakness.

Zhou Ling destroyed the Fifth-Tier Fire Dragon Sparrow and subdued its Demon Core with the Purple Cauldron Warship, his Spirit Flames, and the Purple-Gold Thunder Seal. As the other battles remained evenly matched, Ji Siqing announced Zhou Ling’s victory across the battlefield, boosting the human cultivators’ morale.

• The Fire Dragon Sparrow unleashed its Demon Core’s flames, forcing Zhou Ling to pour his remaining Earth Grade Spirit Stones into the Purple Cauldron Warship’s formation.
• Zhou Ling endured the Fire Dragon Sparrow’s demon domain, empowered the warship with his Five Spirit Flames, and struck the weakened beast with the Purple-Gold Thunder Seal.
• Zhou Ling used the Five Elements Spirit Flame and Beast Pressure to suppress the Fire Dragon Sparrow’s weakened Demon Core, then stored it in his Beast Bag.
• Ji Siqing told Zhou Ling to recover while the remaining warships continued fighting the other Demon Kings.
• Ji Siqing announced that Zhou Ling had slain the Fifth-Tier Fire Dragon Sparrow, raising the human cultivators’ morale and strengthening the three Fifth-Tier Warships.

After Five Spirits Immortal City defeated the demon army, Zhou Ling refined the Fifth-Tier Fire Dragon Sparrow’s Demon Core and fused it into his fire meridians. He completed a Fire Origin Meridian, advanced his body to late Third Order, and gained the Fire Dragon Sparrow’s powerful fire domain.

• After Zhou Ling killed the Fire Dragon Sparrow, Chen Zhanglei and Gu Xingdao used a thunder array and sword attack to fight the Thunder Horn Demon King while Zhou Ling recovered aboard the Purple Cauldron Warship.
• Several days later, the human cultivators defeated the demon army, and Zhou Ling recovered from his injuries in Five Spirits Immortal City.
• Zhou Ling used Dry Yang True Fire and Beast Pressure to erase the Fire Dragon Sparrow Demon Core’s demon consciousness and prepare it for fusion.
• Zhou Ling absorbed the Demon Core into his fire meridians, and his Stronger from Adversity talent helped him withstand the flames as the essence transformed his meridians.
• Zhou Ling completed his Fire Origin Meridian, advanced his physical body to late Third Order, and condensed a Fire Dragon Sparrow fire domain powerful enough to rival a Nascent Soul cultivator’s domain.

After fusing with the Fire Dragon Sparrow Demon Core, Zhou Ling gained a fire-attribute Origin Vein and three powerful divine abilities, then tested the Void Sparrow Eye. He earned official Inspector status and major rewards for killing the Fire Dragon Sparrow, and prepared to return to Qingyun Immortal City.

• Zhou Ling learned that the Fire Dragon Sparrow Demon Core granted him Sparrow Dragon Soul Seize, Fire Dragon Flame Domain, and Void Sparrow Eye, though he still needed True Dragon Essence Blood to use the Flame Domain.
• Zhou Ling activated the Void Sparrow Eye and observed Five Spirits Immortal City's formations, spirit veins, cultivators, and the weaknesses of its protective array from as far as fifty li.
• Zhou Ling decided to return to Qingyun Immortal City to see his child and prepare for his master's planned trip to the Purple Sky Sect.
• Two days later, Gu Xingdao and the other leaders thanked Zhou Ling for his role in the battle, and Chen Zhanglei awarded him twelve thousand military merits, formal Inspector status, and the right to choose a Fifth-Tier Treasure.
• Chen Zhanglei warned Zhou Ling that Dao Alliance leaders would likely summon him after he returned, and Zhou Ling wondered how powerful those higher-ups were.

Zhou Ling secured Dao Alliance support for the Zhou Family Workshop to repair Five Spirits Immortal City's warships, then returned to Qingyun Immortal City to plan the workshop's expansion. He agreed to establish a separate warship workshop while preserving the family's existing business.

• Gu Xingdao asked Zhou Ling to repair Five Spirits Immortal City's damaged warships and offered to make the Zhou Family Workshop a Dao Alliance exclusive workshop with materials and resources supplied by the Heavenly Crafts Division.
• Ji Siqing lent Zhou Ling warship-refining methods and his personal insights, and Zhou Ling agreed to repair the Purple Cauldron Warship and five Fourth-Order Warships in a little over a month.
• Zhou Ling collected the damaged warships, left Five Spirits Immortal City with Chen Zhanglei, and returned to Qingyun Immortal City.
• Zhou Ling told the Zhou Family that its workshop would become Five Spirits Immortal City's main warship supplier and would receive Dao Alliance support.
• Song Yue proposed building a second workshop devoted to warships, Yuan Hu supported the idea, and Zhou Ling agreed to preserve the existing workshop while expanding.

Zhou Ling learned that Lingxiao Sect would challenge the Purple Firmament Sect to reclaim its techniques and treasures, then attended a gathering where Envoy Wang announced Qingyun Immortal City’s promotion to a Fifth-Grade Immortal City. Zhou Ling’s role in slaying the Fire Dragon Sparrow was credited as the decisive merit behind the city’s elevation.

• Fairy Zi Ling told Zhou Ling that his two senior sisters would soon return to Lingxiao Sect and that he would join them in a contest against the Purple Firmament Sect to recover the sect’s techniques and treasures.
• Fairy Zi Ling explained that Zhou Ling and his two senior sisters would each face a Purple Firmament Sect cultivator in a best-two-out-of-three contest, and Zhou Ling promised not to lose.
• Yuan Hu delivered City Lord Weng’s formal invitation, and Zhou Ling went to the City Lord’s Grand Hall, where Envoy Wang and Qingyun Immortal City’s senior officials had gathered.
• Envoy Wang praised Zhou Ling for killing the Fifth-Tier Fire Dragon Sparrow, while Zhou Ling clarified that he had relied on the Purple Cauldron Warship.
• Envoy Wang announced that Qingyun Immortal City had been elevated to a Fifth-Grade Immortal City, largely because Zhou Ling’s feat supplied the merit needed for promotion.

After Zhou Ling’s feat of killing a Fifth-Tier Demon King helped Qingyun Immortal City advance to Fifth Grade, Envoy Wang announced that the Dao Alliance had appointed him its new City Lord. Zhou Ling accepted the jade seal and arranged for City Lord Weng to continue managing the city, while preparing to report to Tianxia Immortal City and oversee the city’s upgrades.

• City Lord Weng and the other cultivators praised Zhou Ling for helping Qingyun Immortal City advance to Fifth Grade by killing a Fifth-Tier Demon King.
• Envoy Wang announced that the Dao Alliance had appointed Zhou Ling as Qingyun Immortal City’s new City Lord and gave him the city’s jade seal.
• Envoy Wang explained that Zhou Ling would need to report to Tianxia Immortal City, arrange the Fifth-Tier Spirit Vein upgrade, and claim Fifth-Tier Treasures.
• Zhou Ling asked City Lord Weng to keep managing the city’s affairs, and City Lord Weng agreed to assist him.
• Envoy Wang departed after reminding Zhou Ling to visit Tianxia Immortal City as soon as possible.

Zhou Ling took charge of Qingyun Immortal City, organized its leadership for the coming upgrade to a Fifth-Grade Immortal City, and learned that his achievement also elevated the Zhou Family to a Fifth-Grade Noble Family. His family and associates celebrated his appointment, while Zhou Ling recognized that the people around him needed to grow stronger to keep pace with him.

• City Lord Weng briefed Zhou Ling on Qingyun Immortal City's resources, City Guard Army, and domains, and Zhou Ling told him to keep managing the city as before.
• Zhou Ling invited Dean Gong to command the City Guard Army and Dean Zhong to help manage relations among the noble families; both accepted, and Dean Gong negotiated a twenty-percent stipend increase for the army.
• Zhou Ling discussed the city's grand formation and celebration arrangements with the new leadership.
• Zhou Ling told Li Ru and Zhou Shan that he had become Qingyun Immortal City's City Lord and that the Zhou Family had become a Fifth-Grade Noble Family; Zhou Shan lit incense for the ancestors.
• Yuan Hu, Chu Xing, the He Family Siblings, and Zhou Ling's disciples congratulated him, while Zhou Ling credited his victory over the Fire Dragon Sparrow to luck and the Fifth-Tier Warship.
• Zhou Ling asked Yuan Hu to arrange a family celebration and reflected that his relatives and disciples were falling behind his rapid cultivation, while he awaited the arrival of his two senior sisters.

After becoming City Lord of Qingyun Immortal City and receiving a Fifth-Grade Spirit Vein Seal, Zhou Ling watched Fairy Zi Ling merge its spirit vein into the Zhou Family’s underground vein and reveal the Divine Wood Thunder Array. The spirit vein was successfully established, giving the Zhou Family and Lingxiao Sect a powerful new source of spiritual energy, while Fairy Zi Ling began recovering there and Zhou Ling’s senior sisters arrived.

• Fairy Zi Ling was surprised that the Dao Alliance had made Golden Core Zhou Ling the City Lord of Qingyun Immortal City, and Zhou Ling showed her the City Lord's Seal and Fifth-Grade Noble Family Jade Seal.
• Fairy Zi Ling explained that the seals contained a Fifth-Tier Spirit Vein and the Divine Wood Thunder Array, then offered to use her Spirit Vein Merging Method to install them.
• At the Zhou Family’s spirit vein source, Fairy Zi Ling activated the array and began drawing the Fifth-Tier Spirit Vein from the jade seal while Zhou Ling barred others from the area.
• After three days, Fairy Zi Ling completed the merge, transforming the Zhou Family’s territory and creating a Fifth-Tier Spirit Vein that could support both the Zhou Family and Lingxiao Sect.
• Fairy Zi Ling said the new spirit vein could aid her recovery, returned the jade seal to Zhou Ling, and went to rest as his two senior sisters arrived by purple warship.