Chapter Summaries

Bai Jingran rewarded Zhang Xuanchen with a protective scale before Zhang returned to Yunhua Immortal City and prepared to refine Xuanjing’s Original Body Fragment. In the city, Zhang watched the Zhang Family Law Enforcement Team confront a violent young man riding a Fire-Patterned Tiger.

• Bai Jingran gave Zhang Xuanchen a Reverse Scale that could protect him from a Nascent Soul Late Stage attack and summon Bai Jingran for help.
• Zhang Xuanchen merged the scale into his chest, then flew back toward Worry-Free City instead of pursuing a distant spirit herb.
• Seven days later, Zhang Xuanchen entered the Myriad Spirit Ring, where Xuanjing prepared to refine an Original Body Fragment and the Yin Yang Two-Headed Python neared its tribulation.
• Zhang Xuanchen took Little Peach and Little Star into Yunhua Immortal City, where he saw a young man riding a Fire-Patterned Tiger drive through the crowd and lash pedestrians.
• A Zhang Clan law-enforcement youth shielded a little girl from the tiger, and three more law-enforcement youths arrived to face its rider.

Zhang Xuntong punished Luo Zhan for letting his tiger run wild in Yunhua Immortal City and reassured the crowd that the city's rules applied to everyone. Zhang Xuanchen reunited with Zhang Xuntong and Little Peach at the Xuanxiao Merchant Guild, where Zhang Xuantao showed off her knowledge to a customer.

• Luo Zhan offered Zhang Xuntong a Storage Bag as an apology, but Zhang Xuntong killed the Fire-Patterned Tiger and had Luo arrested for violating the city's prohibitions.
• Zhang Xuntong promised the stall owner full compensation and warned the gathered cultivators to obey Yunhua Immortal City's rules.
• Zhang Xuanchen brought Zhang Xuntong to the Xuanxiao Merchant Guild, where Little Peach greeted her fourth brother.
• Little Peach introduced herself as Zhang Xuantao and challenged a Foundation Establishment Late Stage customer to ask her about the Yellow Blood Flower.
• Zhang Xuanfeng saw Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Xuntong arrive and invited them upstairs.

Zhang Xuanchen learned that the Zhang Family had purged the three major forces’ territories, relocated mortals, and issued a bounty for the escaped Jiang Family. He asked Zhang Xuntong about the Black Tortoise Army, whose first recruitment batch would number two thousand.

• Zhang Xuanchen asked Zhang Xuanfeng to arrange for two outgoing people to show Little Peach around the city and gave Xiao Ya a Storage Bag to pass to her for purchases.
• Zhang Xuanfeng reported that the Zhang Family had purged the territories of Ninglu Sect, Cloud Mountain Sword Sect, and the Jiang Family, but Jiang Family heirs had escaped west with inherited methods and spells.
• Zhang Xuanfeng said the Zhang Family had issued a kill order and high-level bounty for the Jiang Family remnants and was relocating one hundred thousand mortals to each of its three great spiritual lands.
• Zhang Xuanchen worried that the Wang Family’s silence might conceal plans to strike the Zhang Family at a favorable moment.
• Zhang Xuntong explained that he had become an instructor to overcome his cultivation bottleneck and said the first Black Tortoise Army recruitment batch would take two thousand people.

Zhang Xuanchen explained the Trial Tower’s rules, costs, rewards, and challenges to the Zhang Family, prompting several disciples to prepare for trials. He then learned that extracting a drop of True Dragon Essence Blood from the Fire Dragon Egg would delay its hatching by two years, to about four years from now.

• Zhang Xuanchen explained that the Trial Tower offered rewards for cleared trials, but imposed age limits, three entries per realm, and entry fees.
• He warned that challengers faced opponents at their own cultivation level whose combat power increased with each victory, and announced extra rewards for the first to clear seven-star and eight-star difficulties.
• Zhang Xuntong, Zhang Xuanli, and Zhang Xuan Ce decided to prepare for their first trials, while Zhang Xuanming, Zhang Xuanlong, and Zhang Xuanxue chose to wait.
• Zhang Xuanchen entered the Myriad Spirit Ring and asked Shuoxing whether extracting True Dragon Essence Blood would harm the Fire Dragon Egg.
• Shuoxing said the extraction would not cause lasting harm, but would delay the egg’s hatching from two years away to about four years away.

Zhang Xuanchen began drawing a drop of essence blood from the fire dragon egg, sealing its true dragon pressure with Shuoxing. Meanwhile, Zhang Xuntong entered the Lingxiao Trial Tower and battled a powerful Lava Fire Python after clearing the first two trials.

• Zhang Xuanchen prepared to take one drop of essence blood from the fire dragon egg so he could teach Zhang Tian the Divine Dragon Tyrant Body when his Spiritual Root awakened.
• The fire dragon egg released powerful true dragon pressure, and Shuoxing sealed the area within ten li to contain it.
• Seven days later, Zhang Xuntong entered the Lingxiao Trial Tower as the clan gathered to watch his challenge.
• Zhang Xuanlong predicted Zhang Xuntong would clear four stars, while Zhang Xuance warned that the tower's opponents were formidable.
• After Zhang Xuntong cleared one and two stars, he faced a Lava Fire Python atop stone pillars over a sea of molten lava.
• Zhang Xuntong pierced the python's flesh but failed to penetrate its skull, and the enraged beast began slamming its body against his pillar.

Zhang Xuntong defeated the Fire Python at three-star difficulty but was soon overwhelmed by a Miasma Flesh Mass at four stars. After he returned, Zhang Guangyao identified the monster and explained its origins and weaknesses.

• Zhang Xuntong killed the Fire Python with a sword strike to its vital point and entered the next Trial Tower stage, where a Miasma Flesh Mass attacked him.
• The Miasma Flesh Mass formed a humanoid monster from rotten flesh and bones, and Zhang Xuntong was defeated in fewer than ten moves.
• Outside the Trial Tower, Zhang Xuntong was recorded as having cleared three stars and told the others about the monster and his plan to study strange beasts and improve his Sword Momentum.
• Zhang Xuntong revealed that he had obtained a second-grade low-tier Sword Flower, exciting the gathered sword cultivators.
• Zhang Guangyao identified the monster as a Miasma Flesh Mass, described how it formed, and said flames could defeat it while pure yang blazing fire could erase it completely.

Zhang Xuanchen emerged from seclusion to witness Zhang Tian’s spirit-root awakening, which revealed exceptional Water and Fire Spiritual Roots. Just as Zhang Tian was welcomed into the De Generation, he collapsed in pain.

• Zhang Guangyao urged Zhang Family disciples to study records of strange creatures and the Clan Leader’s books about dangerous people.
• The South Sea Immortal Continent descended into turmoil as major powers fought over secret realms and hunted unaffiliated Heavenly Talents, while the Zhang Family remained largely overlooked.
• After a year in seclusion, Zhang Xuanchen returned to witness Zhang Tian and three other children awaken their spirit roots.
• Zhang Tian awakened Dual Water and Fire Spiritual Roots and was welcomed as the sixth member of the De Generation.
• Zhang Tian suddenly toppled backward in pain, and Zhang Xuanchen caught him as he cried out that his chest hurt.

Zhang Xuanchen used Dragon Qi and the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art to suppress the Xiantian Wisdom Bone’s backlash and save Zhang Detian. After two months of cultivation, Zhang Detian emerged with the danger preliminarily resolved, while Feng Xiao announced he would leave the Zhang Family to explore the Xuanqiong Cultivation World.

• Zhang Xuanchen used his Dragon Qi to suppress the Xiantian Wisdom Bone’s backlash in Zhang Detian and took him to Profound Heaven Villa.
• Zhang Xuanchen gave Zhang Detian the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art and True Dragon Essence Blood, instructing him to endure the pain and cultivate.
• For two months, Zhang Xuanbing, Su Muyan, and the others waited at Profound Heaven Villa while Zhang Detian cultivated.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Detian emerged after the Xiantian Wisdom Bone’s threat had been preliminarily resolved, and Su Muyan thanked Zhang Xuanchen.
• Feng Xiao told Zhang Xuanchen he planned to leave the Zhang Family to experience the Xuanqiong Cultivation World, while Feng Linger would stay behind.

Feng Xiao left the Zhang Family to seek experience in the wider cultivation world, while Zhang Xuanchen prepared to enter seclusion. Two years later, True Monarch Yu Hua imprisoned Chu Zhiwei over her insistence that Zhang Chongxian was alive and sent Dugu Jian to the Zhang Family, putting the family in danger.

• Feng Xiao explained that he wanted to seek breakthroughs through firsthand experience, and Zhang Xuanchen gave him a Thousand Illusion Mask before he departed.
• Feng Xiao urged Feng Linger to remain with the Zhang Family, while Zhang Xuanchen assigned the clan a mission to retrieve a Three-Star Lotus from the Azure Nether Mountain Range.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Luo Lingshuang that he planned a long seclusion to improve his cultivation art and Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art.
• Two years later, True Monarch Yu Hua restrained Chu Zhiwei and insisted that Zhang Chongxian had died at Sky Scar Apex, but she refused to believe him.
• True Monarch Yu Hua revealed that he had sent Dugu Jian to verify Zhang Chongxian's death, and the hostile Dugu Jian posed a threat to the Zhang Family.

Dugu Jian set out to destroy the Zhang Family while Zhang Chongxian struggled through the Evil-Breaking Heavenly Venerate’s final inheritance trial. Just as Zhang Chongxian neared death, Life Spirit Liquid containing the Dao Principles of Life saved him, and the Heavenly Venerate’s master appeared and struck the Heavenly Venerate for nearly killing him.

• Dugu Jian resolved to wipe out the Zhang Family and flew toward the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain on the Green-Feathered Roc.
• Zhang Chongxian endured the Life-and-Death Annihilation Trial after passing the first two trials, but Abyss Demonic Beasts left him near death with only a hundred meters remaining.
• Zhang Chongxian fought the Abyss king with his final strength and despaired as his life began to fade.
• The Evil-Breaking Heavenly Venerate noticed the Dao Principles of Life surrounding Zhang Chongxian and was astonished that a Golden Core Peak cultivator possessed them.
• The Heavenly Venerate’s master recognized the aura of an immortal-grade Myriad Manifestations Returning Origin Peach Tree and slapped the Heavenly Venerate for tormenting Zhang Chongxian.

Evil-Breaking Heavenly Venerate sacrificed his spirit body to help Zhang Chongxian form a Sword Core and undergo the Nascent Soul tribulation, while Zhang Xuanchen completed his own cultivation art. The chapter ended with Zhang Xuanchen learning that Zhang Chongxian had been trapped near death for six months.

• The eyes ordered Evil-Breaking Heavenly Venerate to transfer his remaining power to Zhang Chongxian and help him break through.
• Evil-Breaking Heavenly Venerate merged into Zhang Chongxian, whose Sword Heart had formed after Little Peach’s Life Spirit Liquid revived him, and helped him condense a Sword Core.
• Zhang Chongxian began the Nascent Soul tribulation as hundreds of thousands of sword forces poured into him.
• The eyes praised Zhang Chongxian’s resolve, then vanished after bidding farewell to Evil-Breaking Heavenly Venerate.
• Half a year later, Zhang Xuanchen finished creating the Star River Burning Wind Myriad Transformations Art with Shuoxing’s help.
• Zhang Zujun told Zhang Xuanchen that Zhang Chongxian was trapped in a hopeless situation, and showed him the cracked Soul Fire Life Tablet that had remained on the brink of shattering for six months.

After emerging from seclusion, Zhang Xuanchen learned that Zhang Chongxian’s life was in danger and vowed to destroy the Feather Immortal Sect if the Immortal Ancestor fell. He reviewed the Zhang Family’s progress, ordered more support for its struggling halls, and proposed a new list of nine elders.

• Zhang Xuanchen saw that Zhang Chongxian’s Soul Fire Life Tablet was nearly shattered and blamed the Feather Immortal Sect for the crisis.
• Zhang Xuanchen convened the elders and hall masters to hear reports on the Zhang Family’s halls, Lingxiao Immortal City, and Xuanxiao Merchant Guild.
• The hall masters reported strong growth in several branches, while Spirit Talisman Hall and Array Hub Hall lacked talented successors.
• Zhang Xuanchen increased support for Spirit Talisman Hall and Array Hub Hall and tasked their leaders with finding promising young cultivators to train.
• Zhang Guangxin reported the merchant guild’s expansion, Lingxiao Immortal City’s income, and the Black Tortoise Army’s weak loyalty.
• Zhang Xuanchen proposed a new list filling all nine elder seats and asked whether anyone objected.

Zhang Xuanchen promoted several Zhang Family members and reassured the elders that Zhang Chongxian would likely survive, then confirmed that Little Peach had saved him with Life Spirit Liquid. Shuoxing then warned that a Golden Core Peak cultivator was approaching Xuanxiao Mountain on an Azure Roc.

• Zhang Xuanchen promoted Zhang Guangli, Zhang Guangxin, Zhang Xuanbing, and Zhang Hongxi, and the newly appointed elders accepted their duties.
• Zhang Xuanchen told the Zhang Family elders that Zhang Chongxian would most likely be fine, easing their fears before the meeting ended.
• Zhang Xuanchen visited the Great Sage’s Cave Mansion, where Wuxin and the Great Sage were drinking Monkey Wine with Little Peach.
• Zhang Xuanchen showed Little Peach Zhang Chongxian’s shattered Soul Fire Life Tablet, and she revealed that she had saved him with a drop of Life Spirit Liquid.
• Little Peach explained that she had sensed Zhang Chongxian was heading into danger and prepared the safeguard before he left.
• Shuoxing reported that a Golden Core Peak cultivator riding a late Third Stage Azure Roc was only one hundred and thirty-four li from Xuanxiao Mountain.

Dugu Jian of the Feather Immortal Sect attacked the Zhang Family, but Great Sage and Zhang Xuanchen overwhelmed him. Dugu Jian was trapped inside Zhang Xuanchen’s Starry Realm, and Zhang Xuanchen ordered his execution despite Dugu Jian invoking Chu Zhiwei.

• Great Sage volunteered to fight the Golden Core Peak intruder while Zhang Xuanchen stayed back to watch for an escape attempt.
• Dugu Jian arrived on a colossal Azure Roc and was stunned to find the Zhang Family’s strength far greater than he expected.
• After Dugu Jian identified himself as a Peak Master of the Feather Immortal Sect, Zhang Xuanchen ordered Great Sage to kill him.
• Great Sage killed the Azure Roc and forced Dugu Jian to survive behind a Fourth-grade Spirit Talisman.
• Zhang Xuanchen trapped Dugu Jian inside the Starry Realm after he tried to escape with a Teleportation Talisman.
• Dugu Jian pleaded that he was Chu Zhiwei’s friend and had come to investigate Zhang Chongxian, but Zhang Xuanchen ordered Great Sage to kill him anyway.

The Great Sage killed Dugu Jian and destroyed his divine soul, while the Feather Immortal Sect learned of the death. True Monarch Yu Hua blamed the Zhang Family and vowed revenge.

• The Great Sage defeated Dugu Jian, crushed his head, and burned his divine soul to ashes.
• The Great Sage told Zhang Xuanchen that he believed he could challenge a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator with help from Zhang Xuanchen and Little Peach.
• An elder discovered that Dugu Jian's Soul Fire Life Tablet had shattered and hurried to report his death.
• Luo Mingyu told True Monarch Yu Hua that Zhuge Qingrou and Yan Ruyu had taken a large share of the Black Origin Secret Realm's resources.
• True Monarch Yu Hua said Zhu Shou's treasures had helped him approach the Nascent Soul Peak and considered promoting him as the Feather Immortal Sect's young sect master.
• Li Chen reported Dugu Jian's death to True Monarch Yu Hua, who blamed the Zhang Family and vowed to make them pay.

True Monarch Yu Hua planned to avenge Dugu Jian by attacking Xuanxiao Mountain after reaching the Nascent Soul peak, while Chu Tianxiong used Dugu Jian’s death to turn Chu Zhiwei against the Zhang Family. Chu Zhiwei began to believe that the Zhang Family had become her enemy, though Zhang Chongxian’s fate remained uncertain.

• True Monarch Yu Hua learned that Dugu Jian had died, blamed the Zhang Family, and planned to lead an attack on Xuanxiao Mountain after breaking through in a year.
• Luo Mingyu secretly welcomed Dugu Jian’s death, while True Monarch Yu Hua praised him and promised he might obtain the sect’s final Nascent Soul Pill.
• Chu Tianxiong showed Chu Zhiwei Dugu Jian’s shattered Soul Fire Life Tablet, and she guessed that Zhang Chongxian might still be alive.
• Chu Tianxiong claimed that Zhang Chongxian was dead and that the Zhang Family considered Chu Zhiwei an enemy, then used beguiling arts to strengthen his accusations.
• Chu Zhiwei began to accept that the Zhang Family had no place for her and that her grandfather was her only remaining blood relative.

Chu Zhiwei accepted Chu Tianxiong’s promise to help her investigate the Zhang Family after a year, while Zhang Xuanchen arrived in Lingxiao Immortal City and reunited with Yin Qianbao under his Su Qingchen disguise. He began apologizing for his long absence as Yin Qianbao welcomed him.

• Chu Zhiwei agreed to verify Chu Tianxiong’s claims about the Zhang Family after he reached the peak of the Nascent Soul realm, and he promised to save her the sect’s Nascent Soul Pill.
• Zhang Xuanchen, Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, and Little Peach entered Lingxiao Immortal City through Li Gate, where the Lingxiao Guards welcomed them.
• A-Yuan told his lame grandfather that he would join the Lingxiao Guard so he could avenge his parents.
• Zhang Xuanchen sent Luo Lingshuang and the others to explore while he headed to the Yuzhi Shop to meet Yin Qianbao.
• Zhang Xuanchen disguised himself as Su Qingchen, and Yin Qianbao greeted him warmly and invited him to celebrate.

Zhang Xuanchen, posing as Su Qingchen, asked Yin Qianbao about the Feather Immortal Sect after the Zhang Clan’s conflict with it. Yin revealed the sect’s overwhelming strength and advised the Zhang Clan to seek help from the Nine Splendor Sword Sect, but Zhang remained confident that the Feather Immortal Sect would not risk an all-out war.

• Zhang Xuanchen reassured Yin Qianbao that a Five-element Spiritual Root could still reach powerful realms, though Yin doubted his chances of attaining Golden Core.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked Yin about the Feather Immortal Sect and admitted that the Zhang Clan had become its enemy after killing Dugu Jian at Xuanxiao Mountain.
• Yin Qianbao, pleased that the Zhang Clan opposed a rival power, shared the Feather Immortal Sect’s strength: five Nascent Soul True Lords, four Half-step Nascent Souls, and a vast force of lower-ranked cultivators.
• Yin Qianbao advised the Zhang Clan to seek aid from the Nine Splendor Sword Sect and Qingming True Lord.
• Zhang Xuanchen thanked Yin and privately judged that the Zhang Clan’s resources could force the Feather Immortal Sect to back down rather than risk its foundation.
• Yin Qianbao asked why Zhang Xuanchen was not afraid of death after learning how powerful the Feather Immortal Sect was.

Zhang Xuanchen learned that the Feather Immortal Sect could threaten the Zhang Family, but he rallied his allies and prepared the clan for battle. Seven months later, Zhang Chongxian broke through to Nascent Soul, claimed a sword from the Divine Temple, and returned to the Zhang Family.

• Zhang Xuanchen won Yin Qianbao's trust and planned to use the Yin Family as a potential ally against the Feather Immortal Sect.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, and Zhang Hongkai about the Feather Immortal Sect's strength, and they pledged to defend the Zhang Family together.
• Zhang Xuanchen and the clan's leaders trained in the Lingxiao Trial Tower while the Zhang Family prepared for the Feather Immortal Sect's attack.
• Zhang Chongxian awakened in the Divine Temple after breaking through to Nascent Soul and named his gray-gold sword Evil-Breaking.
• Zhang Chongxian left the Divine Temple and announced that he had returned to the Zhang Family.

Zhang Chongxian returned from Sky Scar Apex as a Nascent Soul cultivator and began eliminating those who had waited to ambush him. Two months later, True Monarch Yu Hua and Blue Soul approached the Zhang Family, where Yu Hua’s suspicions about its rapid rise left him anxious.

• Zhang Kuang recognized Zhang Chongxian’s Nascent Soul aura and rushed toward him, but Zhang Chongxian cut off his head while True Person Martial Tyrant fled.
• Zhang Chongxian caught True Person Green Snake and killed her despite her attempt to distract him, then pursued the remaining enemies.
• Two months later, Blue Soul questioned why Chu Tianxiong had hurried toward the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain to attack the Zhang Family.
• Chu Tianxiong explained that the Zhang Family’s strength had surged repeatedly under pressure and suspected it possessed a powerful opportunity, possibly tied to Zhang Xuanbing.