Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuanchen returned to Xuanxiao Mountain and learned how the Zhang Family had fared during his absence, then reassured its elders that the family could withstand a possible threat from the Feather Immortal Sect. He suspected the Wang Family of Fentian Island was secretly backing the forces plotting against the Zhang Family.

• Zhang Guangyao recounted four years of events, including the Fourth Elder's death, the purge of traitors, and the family's growing business income.
• Zhang Hongzhan told Zhang Xuanchen that Zhang Chongxian's Soul Fire Life Tablet remained intact, easing fears that the Immortal Ancestor had died.
• Zhang Zujun urged the clan to send talented juniors away in case the Feather Immortal Sect attacked, but Zhang Xuanchen said he had means to repel even a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Zhang Xuanchen questioned why the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and the Yunmeng Jiang Clan followed the weaker Ninglu Sect, and concluded that a powerful force was behind the plot.
• Zhang Xuanchen identified the Wang Family of Fentian Island as a likely hidden instigator because it resented the Zhang Family's unification of the Penglai Islands.

Zhang Xuanchen prepared the Zhang Family for war against the three great forces while promising Golden Core Pills to qualified elders. He and Luo Lingshuang then revealed a vast collection of cultivation inheritances, leaving the assembled family members stunned by the mountain of rare techniques and treasures.

• Zhang Xuanchen warned that the Wang Family's secrecy made it suspicious and ordered the Zhang Family to investigate the upper ranks of the Ninglu Sect.
• Zhang Xuanchen directed Zhang Guangxin to prepare the War Hall and subordinate forces for a war in one month, ordered the Dark Hall to prevent leaks, and instructed the elders and hall masters to buy supplies.
• Zhang Xuanchen showed the elders six fine-grade Golden Core Pills and cautioned them to stabilize their foundations before attempting breakthroughs.
• Zhang Xuanchen brought out thousands of cultivation texts and insights, and Luo Lingshuang added tens of thousands of inheritances from the Starry Emperor Sovereign's Storage Ring.
• Lin Wanqing identified a seventh-tier cultivation method, and the others eagerly examined the mountain of techniques, pill formulas, and higher-tier inheritances.

Zhang Xuanchen arranged for the Zhang Family to preserve and study their newly acquired cultivation arts, then learned that Zhang Xuanbing had found a supreme treasure in the Bihan Secret Realm. The Linkong Myriad Manifestation Crystal promised to greatly strengthen Zhang Xuanbing, while Zhang Xuanchen reassured him that the family would continue supporting Xiao Tian.

• Zhang Zujun led the Zhang Family members in swearing a Heavenly Dao Oath after they saw the Ninth Stage Heavenly Cycle Starry Art.
• Zhang Xuanchen introduced Shuoxing and directed the clan to transcribe the cultivation arts, while advising them to choose methods suited to their abilities.
• Zhang Xuanbing reported that Xiao Tian's Xiantian Wisdom Bone required increasingly frequent medicinal baths, and Zhang Xuanchen insisted the family would cover the cost.
• Zhang Xuanbing showed Zhang Xuanchen a mysterious Ice Crystal he had obtained in the Bihan Secret Realm.
• Mystic Mirror identified the crystal as the Linkong Myriad Manifestation Crystal, a supreme treasure containing ice and space laws that could help Zhang Xuanbing become a mighty cultivator.

Zhang Xuanchen brought Feng Xiao and Feng Linger to live with the Zhang Family, then took them to the Spirit Medicine Garden. Meanwhile, Jun Xiaoyao realized the Spirit Realm was falling to Outer Realm Evil Demons and went to confront a threat near the Dark Abyss.

• Zhang Xuanchen introduced Feng Xiao and Feng Linger to the Zhang Family elders, who welcomed the siblings into the family.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang reflected on their relief at returning home, and Feng Linger admired the human buildings.
• Jun Xiaoyao assessed the fallen realm lords and the Spirit Realm's danger, then sensed a trick near the Dark Abyss and set out to slay demons.
• Zhang Xuanchen brought Feng Xiao and Feng Linger to the Spirit Medicine Garden to plant medicines from the Secret Realm.
• Zhang Xuanchen found Little Peach pretending to sleep and gave her rare spirit fruits, which she eagerly grabbed and ate.

Zhang Xuanchen appeased Little Peach by promising her new foods, then asked her to assess a Golden Silk Blood Bodhi Tree. She confirmed it could survive, but its spiritual-energy demands left him considering how to supply enough power without damaging Xuanxiao Mountain’s Spirit Vein.

• Little Peach cried and scolded Zhang Xuanchen for leaving her behind, but Luo Lingshuang soothed her with a promise of delicious food.
• Zhang Xuanchen promised to make spicy strips and spirit-fruit cream cakes, then asked Zhang Xuanlong to fetch fresh spirit cow’s milk and gather the clansmen for the evening.
• Zhang Xuanlong set off with Lion One, Lion Two, and Thor to milk cows.
• Zhang Xuanchen gave Little Peach the Golden Silk Blood Bodhi Tree, and she confirmed it could live if he supplied thirty Low-grade Spirit Stones each day.
• Zhang Xuanchen weighed building a Spirit Gathering Array or using the Spirit Guiding Meridian Controlling Method to bring more Spirit Veins to Xuanxiao Mountain.

Zhang Xuanchen planted a tree that required thirty Low-grade Spirit Stones a day, then learned that the Silver Water Moon Flood Dragon had been injured and dropped scales near Bird Head Mountain. He welcomed Zhang Xuanli and her husband Ren Shian, giving Ren a Fourth-grade Alchemist Inheritance while warning him not to share it with the Xuandan Sect.

• Zhang Xuanchen planted the tree in the deepest part of the grounds and used Little Peach’s life force and thirty Low-grade Spirit Stones to sustain it.
• Zhang Xuanchen received information that the injured Silver Water Moon Flood Dragon had dropped three scales near Bird Head Mountain, and decided to investigate the conflict among the demon forces.
• Zhang Xuanli arrived with Ren Shian and greeted Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang, who gave her a Third-grade Top-tier Green Spirit Tree Demon crystal.
• Zhang Xuanchen learned that Zhang Xuanli and Ren Shian were married and gave Ren a Fourth-grade Alchemist Inheritance, forbidding him from sharing it with the Xuandan Sect.
• Ren Shian promised to remain loyal to the Zhang Family and teach its members what he learned.

After returning to the Zhang Family, Zhang Xuanchen assigned care of the Golden Silk Blood Bodhi Tree and a tour of the clan to Zhang Xuanli and Ren Shian, then tended the Spirit Medicine Garden with Little Peach. He reviewed four years of clan records, including Lingxiao Immortal City's construction, the Dark Hall's growth, and the family’s rising young cultivators.

• Zhang Xuanchen welcomed Ren Shian into the Zhang Family, instructed Zhang Xuanli on caring for the Golden Silk Blood Bodhi Tree, and asked her and Ren Shian to show Feng Xiao, Feng Linger, and Luo Lingshuang around the clan.
• Zhang Xuanli took Feng Linger, Feng Xiao, and Luo Lingshuang away to explore the clan, while Zhang Xuanchen reminded them to gather at the family square that evening.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Little Peach planted Second Stage and Third Stage spirit plants in the Spirit Medicine Garden, and Zhang Xuanchen watered them with the perfected Cloud Rain Technique.
• Zhang Xuanchen reviewed records showing Lingxiao Immortal City had consumed over four million Low-grade Spirit Stones and the Dark Hall had grown to more than five hundred members, with its surveillance covering the Penglai Islands and over three hundred factions.
• Zhang Xuanchen read the Zhang Family Grand Competition Ten Prodigies list and noted that six of the young cultivators had Four Spiritual Roots and potential for Foundation Establishment.

Zhang Xuanchen reviewed the Zhang Family’s rankings and considered boosting childbirth rewards to grow the clan. After testing Zhang Xuance’s swordsmanship, he agreed to let him join the campaign against the three great forces a month later.

• Zhang Xuanchen saw that the Zhang Family had too few cultivators and decided to raise the reward for each child born in the clan from one thousand to two thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhang Xuance arrived to bring Zhang Xuanchen to the square, and the two exchanged sword moves outside the courtyard.
• Zhang Xuanchen stopped Zhang Xuance’s sword with two fingers and told him to commit fully to decisive sword strikes rather than holding back.
• Zhang Xuance asked to join the campaign against the three great forces to avenge the clansmen who died fighting over the Yaoyang Sword Leaf Grass.
• Zhang Xuanchen agreed that Zhang Xuance could join the campaign despite the clan’s rule against sending those under eighteen to war.

Zhang Xuanchen gathered the Zhang Family clansmen for a lively food-making banquet, encouraged the children to live up to the clan’s name, and explained the revised childbirth policy. After the gathering, he filed intelligence about Flood Dragon Scales as a mission and returned home, where Luo Lingshuang pulled him into their room.

• Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Xuance went to the square, where Zhang Xuanchen reassured the gathered clansmen that he had called them together to share new delicacies.
• Zhang Xuanchen greeted the children, praised Zhang Lei, and led them in shouting that the Zhang Clan descendants should be like dragons and make the clan’s name resound throughout the heavens.
• Zhang Xuanchen taught the clansmen to prepare spicy strips and Cream Cake, and he explained the revised policy encouraging childbirth while Luo Lingshuang helped knead dough.
• Zhang Xuanchen entered information about Flood Dragon Scales into the Mission Hall, received three thousand three hundred Contribution Points, and assigned the mission to Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Zhang Xuanchen returned to his courtyard, where Luo Lingshuang pulled him into their room and pushed him onto the bed.

Zhang Xuanchen led the Zhang Family’s forces toward Ninglu Sect to avenge their fallen clansmen, while Wang Yu warned Li Qingrou of the attack and prepared her for the coming battle. The chapter ended with Wang Yu handing her two powerful spirit talismans as reinforcements from the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan were expected to arrive.

• Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang spent the night together, then twenty-seven days later Zhang Xuanchen gathered the Zhang Family’s forces for war.
• Zhang Guangxin reported that the Zhang Family’s vassals had already set out for Ninglu Sect, and Zhang Xuanchen ordered his troops to board the Azure Cloud.
• Zhang Xuanchen left Zhang Hongzhan and four Foundation Establishment deputy hall masters behind to guard the clan, then led the others toward Ninglu Sect.
• Wang Yu arrived at Li Qingrou’s cultivation chamber and warned her that more than three thousand Zhang Family cultivators were heading for Ninglu Sect.
• Li Qingrou prepared to summon the sect’s leaders, but Wang Yu reassured her that he had sent letters to the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan.
• Wang Yu gave Li Qingrou a Third-grade Top-tier offensive Spirit Talisman and a Third-grade Top-tier defensive Spirit Talisman.

Wang Yu gave Li Qingrou two powerful spirit talismans and urged her to prepare for the Zhang Family’s attack, while secretly plotting to exploit her Pure Yin Spirit Essence. As Zhang Family forces traveled toward the Ninglu Sect, Lin Feng warned True Person Cang Ming about the possibility of a Fourth-tier talisman, but Cang Ming trusted his shield and expected the Zhang Family to target Li Qingrou.

• Wang Yu insisted that Li Qingrou accept two Third-grade Top-tier Spirit Talismans to prepare for the battle against the Zhang Family.
• Li Qingrou agreed to help annihilate the Zhang Family, and Wang Yu spent three days with her before telling her to observe the situation and prepare.
• Wang Yu left Li Qingrou and secretly regretted not absorbing her Pure Yin Spirit Essence, planning to target Zhang Family women if his scheme succeeded.
• Lin Feng and True Person Cang Ming traveled with four hundred people toward the Ninglu Sect aboard a spirit boat.
• Lin Feng warned Cang Ming that the Zhang Family might use a Fourth-tier Low-grade Spirit Talisman, but Cang Ming believed it would target Li Qingrou and trusted his Third-grade Top-tier Angry Scale Blood Shield.

True Person Cang Ming explained that the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect faced a fight for its survival and committed to using the Zhang Family’s resources to strengthen Lin Feng and prepare Li Yuan for a Golden Core breakthrough. As Zhang Xuanchen’s forces arrived near the Ninglu Sect, Mystic Mirror revealed a hidden Golden Core Peak cultivator, whose identity remained unknown.

• True Person Cang Ming told Lin Feng that the sect’s aging leaders had few successors and that defeating the Zhang Family was its only chance to endure.
• Cang Ming said he would risk his life to help Lin Feng and Li Yuan escape if the coming battle went badly.
• Jiang Ji confirmed that Jiang Ang and eleven talented disciples had been sent to safety, while the Jiang clan prepared to fight alongside its allies.
• Three days later, Zhang Xuanchen arrived near the Ninglu Sect with more than eleven hundred Zhang and Su Family elites and ordered them to prepare for battle.
• Mystic Mirror warned Zhang Xuanchen of a hidden Golden Core Peak cultivator, and Zhang Xuanchen asked Zhang Zujun and Su Zhengyi if they recognized him.

Zhang Xuanchen identified the Wang Family as the force secretly backing the alliance against the Zhang Family and assured Su Zhengyi that Wang Yu was the only hidden expert he had sensed. The Azure Cloud reached the Ninglu Sect’s mountain gate, where Zhang Xuanchen prepared to attack while the sect waited for reinforcements.

• Zhang Zujun identified the phantom as Wang Yu, the Wang Family Old Ancestor believed to have died decades earlier.
• Zhang Xuanchen concluded that the Wang Family had concealed its strength and orchestrated the alliance of the Ninglu Sect, Cloud Mountain Sword Sect, and Yunmeng Jiang Clan.
• Su Zhengyi urged caution, but the Great Sage threatened him until Zhang Xuanchen explained that Su had only been warning about a possible ambush.
• Zhang Xuanchen said he had sensed Wang Yu hiding nearby but no other experts, and that the Wang Family intended to exhaust the Zhang Family’s Fourth-tier Low-grade Spirit Talismans through the battle.
• Su Zhengyi rallied the Su Family disciples and vowed to follow the Zhang Family, believing Zhang Xuanchen was an ancient power reincarnated.
• The Azure Cloud reached the Ninglu Sect’s mountain gate without being attacked, while the sect stayed behind its formation and waited for the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan.

Zhang Xuanchen’s forces attacked the Ninglu Sect, destroyed its protective formation, and slaughtered its cultivators. Zhang Xuance distinguished himself in the battle, killing more enemies than Zhang Xuanming.

• Li Qingrou mocked Zhang Xuanchen from behind the Ninglu Sect’s formation, and Zhang Xuance responded with insults.
• Zhang Xuanchen used a Fourth-tier Low-grade Bathing Fire Explosive Flame Talisman to weaken the Black Water Spirit Control Array.
• Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, Wuxin, Zhang Xuanbing, Lin Wanqing, Zhang Zujun, and Su Zhengyi unleashed their hidden strength and shattered the formation.
• The Zhang Family forces stormed the Ninglu Sect, and the formation’s collapse and ensuing battle killed thousands of cultivators.
• Zhang Xuance fought with fierce enthusiasm and killed more enemies than Zhang Xuanming, earning praise from his allies.

Zhang Xuanchen concealed his forces and prepared to attack Wang Yu while the Zhang Family kept the Ninglu Sect’s Golden Cores occupied. He revealed himself to Wang Yu as the Zhang Clan leader, setting up their confrontation.

• Wang Yu watched the battle and realized Zhang Xuanbing had an ice-attribute Variant Spiritual Root and had reached Golden Core Mid Stage, while hoping the Ninglu Sect would hold out for reinforcements.
• Zhang Xuanchen ordered Luo Lingshuang and the others to keep Li Qingrou, Zhou Li, and Zhang Shikai surrounded until reinforcements arrived, and they weakened their attacks to encourage the trio to form the Three Talents Formation.
• Li Qingrou, Zhou Li, and Zhang Shikai formed the Three Talents Formation, raising Li Qingrou to Golden Core Peak as the battle remained deadlocked.
• Zhang Xuanchen sent Xiao Mo, Monkey Two, five hundred Azure Gold Profound Monkeys, and more than ten thousand Jadeite Beetles to guard the forest and attack outsiders.
• Zhang Xuanchen tracked Wang Yu with the Three Lives Samsara Mirror and approached him under concealed auras, then crushed Wang Yu’s spiritual-power attack and revealed his Late Golden Core cultivation.
• Zhang Xuanchen introduced himself to Wang Yu as the Clan Leader of the Zhang Clan of Xuanxiao Mountain.

Zhang Xuanchen defeated and captured Wang Yu, then watched the battle at Ninglu Sect while preparing for the arriving reinforcements. As the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan approached, he ordered Shuang'er and Great Sage to attack.

• Wang Yu mistook Zhang Xuanchen for a Heavenly Spirit Root genius, but Zhang Xuanchen overwhelmed him with the Starry Tower and a sword strike.
• Zhang Xuanchen sealed Wang Yu's cultivation, took his Storage Ring, and put him in the Myriad Spirit Ring for Little Peach to keep alive and question.
• Zhang Xuanchen returned to the battle and aided Zhang and Su cultivators, giving them combat advice as the fight continued into the night.
• Xuanjing reported that Third-tier Flying Boats from the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan were nearing Ninglu Sect, with Golden Core cultivators following them.
• Li Qingrou urged True Person Cang Ming and True Person Golden Blade to attack, and they charged toward Ninglu Sect after sensing the fighters' exhaustion.
• As the reinforcements came within ten li, Zhang Xuanchen ordered Shuang'er and Great Sage to strike with all their strength.

Li Qingrou and the other Ninglu Sect Golden Cores were killed, and the Zhang Family confronted the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan after defeating the Ninglu Sect. Zhang Xuanchen warned away hidden observers and accepted a Spirit Talisman discount token from True Person Chifu, leaving the rival factions facing the Zhang Family’s strength.

• Luo Lingshuang and the others attacked as Li Qingrou realized the Zhang Family had lured the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan into a trap.
• Li Qingrou burned her origins and tried to self-detonate, but Luo Lingshuang’s Tidal Lotus Lamp suppressed her while Wuxin, Zhang Xuanbing, and Great Sage attacked Zhou Li, Zhang Shikai, and Li Qingrou.
• Great Sage’s Heaven-Breaking Strike killed Li Qingrou, Zhou Li, and Zhang Shikai, while the Zhang and Su Clan disciples finished slaughtering the Ninglu Sect disciples.
• Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, and the other Zhang Family Golden Cores blocked the approaching Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan forces as the surviving battle continued.
• Zhang Xuanchen warned the hidden cultivators not to prey on the battle, and most of them left after acknowledging they had no intention of opposing the Zhang Family.
• True Person Chifu offered Zhang Xuanchen a Heavenly Talisman Sect token for a fifteen percent discount on Spirit Talismans, and Zhang Xuanchen accepted it.

Wuxin rejected True Person Fragrant Buddha’s offer to return to Tianluo Temple, and Zhang Xuanchen refused to let him threaten the Zhang family. The Zhang family and its allies then killed True Person Cang Ming and the other Golden Core cultivators with the Starry Tower, leaving them with the spoils and a powerful new weapon.

• Wuxin insulted True Person Fragrant Buddha and rejected his invitation to return to Tianluo Temple, demanding that the temple’s wicked disciples be executed first.
• Zhang Xuanchen denied that Wuxin’s actions represented the Zhang family, while Great Sage drove True Person Fragrant Buddha away rather than risk an immediate fight with Tianluo Temple.
• True Person Cang Ming begged Zhang Xuanchen to spare the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Jiang Family, offering his life and their treasures, but Zhang Xuanchen ordered the Starry Tower to suppress them.
• True Person Cang Ming burned his Golden Core to help Lin Feng escape, but the tower left them helpless against Luo Lingshuang and the others’ attacks, which killed Cang Ming and the other four Golden Cores.
• Little Peach retrieved the four Storage Rings, and Shuoxing explained that the damaged Ninth-Rank Imperial Artifact could suppress Golden Core cultivators and weaken even a Half-step Nascent Soul.

Zhang Xuanchen reassured Wuxin and urged him, Luo Lingshuang, and Great Sage to strengthen themselves while the Zhang Family dealt with the remnants of its defeated enemies. As Zhang Xuanchen’s forces split up to eliminate survivors, two Jiang Clan disciples fleeing through Luyu Mountain were devoured by Jadeite Spirit Insects.

• Zhang Xuanchen explained that the Starry Tower could suppress even a Half-step Nascent Soul and said it might grow stronger after absorbing more artifacts.
• Zhang Xuanchen reassured Wuxin that Tianluo Temple would not deter the Zhang Family’s expansion and urged him to master his inheritance.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Wuxin, Luo Lingshuang, and Great Sage to cultivate while rival forces reassessed the Zhang Family’s strength.
• Zhang Xuanchen ordered his forces to eliminate the remaining enemies and sent groups to clear out the remnants at Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and the Yunmeng Jiang Clan.
• Two Jiang Clan disciples fleeing through Luyu Mountain were surrounded and devoured by Jadeite Spirit Insects.

After the Zhang Family took control of the Ninglu Sect's territory, Zhang Xuanchen planned to turn Luyu Mountain into a spirit medicine island and asked Shuoxing how the family should manage its new lands. Shuoxing proposed building an army from elite disciples of other factions, and Zhang Xuanchen began outlining terms that could make the arrangement acceptable to them.

• Zhang Xuanchen designated Luyu Mountain as a spirit medicine island, ordered the transfer of alchemists and Spirit Planters, and planned to send clansmen and Family Generals to manage it.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked Xuanjing and Shuoxing how the Zhang Family should take over the Cloud Mountain Sword Sect and Yunmeng Jiang Clan territories and develop its power.
• Shuoxing said the Zhang Family should build an army by selecting elite members of other factions and training them under experienced Zhang Family War Hall members.
• Shuoxing warned that future family expansion could lead to disloyalty and internal conflict, making a loyal army necessary to secure the Zhang Family's rule.
• Zhang Xuanchen agreed with the army plan and proposed fixed service terms, with the Zhang Family using resources from the factions to train recruits who could later return with greater strength.