Chapter Summaries

Chu Tianxiong prepared the Feather Immortal Sect’s forces to destroy the Zhang Family before turning to threats from the Yin Family and Azure Nether Mountain Range. After learning the Zhang Family faced invasion, Hua Shisan decided to go aid them himself while keeping the Nine Splendor Sword Sect’s other members at home.

• Chu Tianxiong told Blue Soul that the Feather Immortal Sect would attack the Zhang Family with a large force before addressing Yin Yuanzhen and the beast in the Azure Nether Mountain Range.
• Hua Shisan comforted Zhu Jingyi, promised to seek a way to restore her body, and learned from Zhou Tianjian that the Feather Immortal Sect was heading for Xuanxiao Mountain.
• Zhou Tianjian reported that the Zhang Family’s killing of Dugu Jian had helped provoke the Feather Immortal Sect’s invasion.
• Hua Shisan concluded that Zhang Xuanchen’s talent and Luo Lingshuang’s standing made the Zhang Family worth supporting.
• Hua Shisan decided to go aid the Zhang Family alone and ordered the rest of the Nine Splendor Sword Sect to stay behind.

Hua Shisan decided to execute two Nine Splendor Sword Sect disciples possessed by evil entities, then ordered Zhou Tianjian to kill anyone with similar symptoms. Meanwhile, Zhang Xuanchen watched the Yin Yang Two-Headed Python begin its transformation into a flood dragon and rushed to an uninhabited island.

• Hua Shisan explained why he would confront Feather Immortal Sect alone and learned that Ji Ling and Jia Gang had been overtaken by evil entities.
• Hua Shisan executed Ji Ling and Jia Gang despite the grief of the Great Elder and Third Elder, then instructed Zhou Tianjian to execute any other afflicted disciples.
• Zhang Xuanchen reflected on his failed attempts at seven-star Trial Tower difficulty and his need for Sword Intent Grass from the Yunjin Barren Ruins.
• Zhang Xuanchen sensed the Yin Yang Two-Headed Python gathering demonic aura and developing a bulge on its forehead as it began transforming into a flood dragon.
• Zhang Xuanchen flew toward an uninhabited island beyond the Penglai Islands to meet the transforming python.

Zhang Xuanchen helped Ao Tun survive its lightning tribulation and transform into a Yin Yang Two-Headed Flood Dragon, then learned that the Feather Immortal Sect was approaching Xuanxiao Mountain. He assured Zhang Hongqing that the Zhang Family had prepared for the coming battle and gave him resources to attempt a Golden Core breakthrough.

• Zhang Xuanchen brought the injured Yin Yang Two-Headed Python to an uninhabited island, where Great Sage knocked out the roaring Abyssal Snapping Turtle.
• Ao Tun endured its lightning tribulation and swallowed a Blood Flood Dragon Pattern Grass, breaking through to the third order peak before transforming into a two-headed flood dragon.
• Great Sage drove off the cultivators who tried to take advantage of Ao Tun's tribulation, and Zhang Xuanchen healed Ao Tun and stored him and the Abyssal Snapping Turtle in the Myriad Spirit Ring.
• Zhang Hongqing intercepted Zhang Xuanchen and reported that the Feather Immortal Sect was approaching Xuanxiao Mountain aboard a Fourth-grade Low-tier Flying Boat.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Zhang Hongqing that the Zhang Family had evacuated nearby people and resources, then gave him a Golden Core Pill and Thousand-year Stone Milk to help him break through.

Zhang Xuanchen prepared the Zhang Family for Feather Immortal Sect’s arrival, strengthening Xuanxiao Mountain’s defenses and rallying its forces. As Chu Tianxiong’s army confronted the Zhang Family, he recognized Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Xuanbing as hidden Golden Core talents and demanded their Dao titles.

• Zhang Hongqing accepted a Golden Core Pill from Zhang Xuanchen and promised to keep building the Zhang Family’s Dark Hall while protecting his own life.
• Zhang Hongqing told Zhang Xuanchen about Shen Ci, the woman he had saved and hoped to bring back to the family after the crisis.
• Forty days later, Zhang Xuanchen gathered the Zhang Family’s eight Golden Cores, elders, fighters, and spirit beasts to face Feather Immortal Sect.
• Zhang Xuanchen activated the Starry Tower and Minor Celestial Star Array, shielding Xuanxiao Mountain within a fifty-li radius.
• Chu Tianxiong arrived with Feather Immortal Sect’s forces, accused the Zhang Family of killing Dugu Jian, and asked Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Xuanbing for their Dao titles.

Zhang Xuanchen and the Zhang Family fought the Feather Immortal Sect outside Xuanxiao Mountain as the attackers gained ground. Xuanchen used the Starry Tower and spirit talismans to turn the battle around, then confronted Chu Zhiwei over her betrayal, while the clashes between the Nascent Soul powers continued.

• Zhang Xuanbing and Zhang Xuanchen announced their Daoist titles as Cold Firmament and Blazing Firmament, and Chu Tianxiong attacked Xuanchen.
• Wu Tianlei’s Nascent Soul Peak Dharma body intercepted Chu Tianxiong, who used Burn Spirit to charge at it and vowed to destroy the Zhang Family.
• Great Sage fought Blue Soul while Zhang Xuanchen summoned nine Golden Dragons and used the Starry Tower to suppress the Feather Immortal Sect’s forces.
• The Zhang Family unleashed thousands of spirit talismans, killing most of the sect’s Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment cultivators and blasting five Golden Core cultivators to death.
• Zhang Xuanchen accused Chu Zhiwei of helping attack the Zhang Family and reminded her that Zhang Chongxian had sought to prove himself worthy of her; Chu Zhiwei answered that she loved Zhang Chongxian, not the Zhang Family, and wanted the clan destroyed.

Zhang Xuanchen and the Zhang Family fought desperately against the Feather Immortal Sect as Chu Tianxiong and Blue Soul pressed their attack. After Luo Lingshuang’s talisman assault badly injured Blue Soul, Chu Tianxiong threatened to exterminate the Zhang Clan, but a powerful voice challenged him from afar.

• Zhang Xuanchen rebuked Chu Zhiwei for doubting the Zhang Family, while she realized she knew little about the Feather Immortal Sect’s true strength.
• Chu Tianxiong broke through Wu Tianlei’s defense and struck the Minor Celestial Star Array with his Vast Sky Sword Art, severely injuring Zhang Xuanchen and weakening the formation.
• Luo Lingshuang unleashed successive secret arts and the Luo Star Tide Prison, trapping the Feather Immortal Sect disciples in a barrier filled with attacking Water Dragons.
• Blue Soul and Chu Zhiwei shattered Luo Lingshuang’s barrier, but Luo Lingshuang retaliated with six fourth-grade spirit talismans that destroyed Blue Soul’s Western Wasteland Cauldron and severely wounded him.
• Zhang Xuanchen caught the unconscious Luo Lingshuang and returned her to the Zhang Family, while Chu Tianxiong destroyed Wu Tianlei’s Dharma Manifestation and vowed to exterminate the clan.
• A distant voice warned Chu Tianxiong that he was courting death.

Zhang Chongxian returned to the Zhang Family and overwhelmed the Feather Immortal Sect, killing Blue Soul and capturing Chu Zhiwei. He confronted Chu Tianxiong, who admitted regretting that he had not killed Zhang Chongxian earlier.

• Zhang Chongxian returned to the battlefield, apologized to the wounded Zhang Family, and was welcomed as their Immortal Ancestor.
• Zhang Xuanchen trapped Chu Tianxiong with Spirit Talismans while Zhang Chongxian attacked Blue Soul.
• Zhang Chongxian used his Nirvana sword techniques to kill Blue Soul and store his corpse.
• Zhang Chongxian rebuked Chu Zhiwei, killed many Feather Immortal Sect cultivators, sealed her dantian, and sent her into Zhang Family custody.
• Zhang Chongxian asked Chu Tianxiong if he regretted his past actions, and Chu Tianxiong said he regretted not killing him.

Chu Tianxiong overwhelmed Zhang Chongxian and the others, then revealed that he planned to sacrifice Chu Zhiwei and the fallen Feather Immortal Sect disciples for his own gain. As Chu Tianxiong prepared to destroy Xuanxiao Mountain, Zhang Chongxian swallowed a Golden Silk Blood Bodhi to increase his strength.

• Chu Tianxiong struck Zhang Chongxian, Great Sage, and Zhang Xuanchen with his Nascent Soul Dharma Idol, while Little Peach’s soul attack failed against his Soul-Suppressing Bell.
• Chu Tianxiong announced that refining Little Peach could extend his lifespan and that Chu Zhiwei’s death, along with the other casualties, would benefit the sect, leaving Chu Zhiwei devastated.
• Chu Tianxiong summoned the Myriad Feather Heaven-Suppressing Sword Seal and prepared to attack the Minor Celestial Star Array over Xuanxiao Mountain.
• Zhang Chongxian told Zhang Xuanchen to use his Fourth-grade Spirit Talismans if an opportunity arose and prepared to fight Chu Tianxiong to the death.
• Zhang Xuanchen gave Zhang Chongxian a Golden Silk Blood Bodhi, which Zhang Chongxian swallowed as its powerful vitality surged through his body.

Zhang Chongxian fought Chu Tianxiong above Xuanxiao Mountain, while the Zhang Family struggled to maintain its formation. Just as Chu Tianxiong prepared to kill Zhang Chongxian, Hua Shisan arrived and protected him with the Green Lotus Sword Art.

• Zhang Chongxian absorbed the energy Xuanchen had saved for him, rapidly advanced his cultivation, and battled Chu Tianxiong to expend the surging power.
• News of the Zhang Family’s resistance shook the South Sea factions, and True Person Fentian ordered the Wang Family never to provoke the Zhang Family if it survived.
• Chu Tianxiong grievously wounded Zhang Chongxian and battered the Minor Celestial Star Array, forcing Zhang Xuanchen to give the five remaining Fourth-grade Spirit Talismans to Great Sage, Wuxin, Zhang Xuanbing, Zhang Zujun, and Lin Wanqing.
• Zhang Chongxian tried to break through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage as Chu Tianxiong sealed his body and sent a spiritual-power sword down to kill him.
• Hua Shisan appeared and shielded Zhang Chongxian with Green Lotus Protection, making Chu Tianxiong lose his composure.

Hua Shisan intervened to protect Luo Lingshuang and the Zhang Clan, while Zhang Chongxian broke through to Nascent Soul Middle Stage. Chu Tianxiong retreated after deciding a prolonged fight would endanger the Feather Immortal Sect, and Zhang Xuanchen collapsed once the battle ended.

• Hua Shisan refused Chu Tianxiong’s threats and stood between him and the Zhang Clan to protect his disciple, Luo Lingshuang.
• Zhang Chongxian broke through to Nascent Soul Middle Stage, then thanked Hua Shisan for saving his life.
• Chu Tianxiong attacked Zhang Chongxian and Hua Shisan with seven sword-qi tornadoes, but withdrew rather than risk grave injuries and retaliation from other forces.
• Hua Shisan and Zhang Chongxian destroyed the tornadoes and let Chu Tianxiong escape without pursuing him.
• The Minor Celestial Star Array shattered, and Zhang Xuanchen fell from the sky after exhausting himself.

After the Zhang Family survived Chu Tianxiong’s assault, Hua Shisan praised its unity and departed on good terms with Luo Lingshuang, while Jun Xiaoyao sensed the beginning of the world’s ascension. One year later, powerful cultivators across the Central Land witnessed the ascension as Secret Realms began merging with the Xuanqiong Cultivation World.

• Zhang Chongxian carried the unconscious Zhang Xuanchen away to recover, while Luo Lingshuang ordered the Zhang Family to honor the fallen and heal their injuries.
• Luo Lingshuang remained with Hua Shisan, who praised the Zhang Family’s courage and unity and agreed not to make an enemy of it.
• Luo Lingshuang condemned Chu Zhiwei’s choices, and Hua Shisan left after assuring her that he had come to plant a good cause.
• Jun Xiaoyao sensed changes in the world’s spiritual power and declared that the world’s ascension had begun.
• One year later, peak cultivators across the Central Land sensed the world’s ascension as Secret Realms began merging with the Xuanqiong Cultivation World.

As the Xuanqiong Cultivation World began ascending and the path beyond Spirit Transformation opened, Luo Taifu emerged from seclusion to warn the Luo Clan that a new golden age would reorder the powers. He ended by confronting Luo Yichen over his tenth-place rank on the Hidden Dragon List.

• Luo Taifu praised Luo Zelong for leading the Luo Clan and confirmed that the path beyond Spirit Transformation had opened.
• Luo Taifu warned that the coming century would overturn the cultivation world's powers and threatened to punish clan members who needlessly harmed others.
• Luo Taifu ordered the clan not to underestimate anyone favored by fortune, declaring that even Luo Yichen would face death if he provoked such a person.
• Luo Taifu assessed Luo Yichen's cultivation and asked his Hidden Dragon List rank.
• Luo Yichen knelt and admitted he ranked tenth, saying he had brought shame upon the clan.

After Luo Yichen explained Luo Lingshuang’s marriage to Zhang Xuanchen and praised his talent, Luo Taifu and the Luo Clan’s ancestors approved the match and issued a public edict. The proclamation made Zhang Xuanchen’s name known across the Central Land, while Luo Taifu prepared to enter seclusion and ordered the clan to upgrade its spirit vein.

• Luo Yichen recounted his hard-won tenth place on the Hidden Dragon List, and Luo Taifu reassured him that he had done enough.
• Luo Taifu asked about Luo Lingshuang, and Luo Yichen explained that she had married Zhang Xuanchen, a Golden Core cultivator and Profound Dragon Venerable’s successor.
• Luo Yichen described Zhang Xuanchen’s talent and asked the ancestors to approve the marriage; Luo Taifu and the other seven Spirit Transformation Venerables agreed.
• Luo Taifu and the seven ancestors jointly issued an edict approving Luo Lingshuang and Zhang Xuanchen’s marriage, drawing alarm and interest from Central Land powers and rival talents including Sheng Yifei.
• Luo Taifu returned to the Divine Temple and ordered the clan to gather spirit stones and Formation Masters to raise the Divine Mountain’s Spirit Vein to Rank Six before he entered seclusion.

Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang recovered as the Luo Goddess Edict spread their marriage across the Central Lands, while Zhang Chongxian encouraged Zhang Xuntong and agreed to meet Chu Zhi. The chapter ended with Zhang Chongxian preparing to settle the matter that had been approaching.

• The Luo Clan issued the Luo Goddess Edict for Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang, drawing the attention of Central Lands talents and strengthening the Zhang Family’s fortune.
• Zhang Xuanchen reassured Luo Lingshuang that he would defeat anyone who challenged him, then carried her to their room as they hoped to conceive a child.
• Zhang Xuntong asked Zhang Chongxian whether someone with his modest aptitude could accomplish great things, and Zhang Chongxian urged him to pursue the Dao fearlessly.
• Zhang Xuntong told Zhang Chongxian that Chu Zhi was demanding a meeting, and Zhang Chongxian agreed to go and bring the matter to an end.

Zhang Chongxian rejected Chu Zhiwei’s plea to reconcile, telling her he could not forgive her role in the attack on the Zhang Family. After she took her own life, he buried her beneath the flowers at Moon Gazing Lake and vowed to kill Chu Tianxiong.

• Zhang Chongxian brought Zhang Xuntong to meet Chu Zhiwei alone in the quiet chamber.
• Chu Zhiwei asked Zhang Chongxian if they could start over, but he refused and condemned her for joining the attack on his family.
• Chu Zhiwei cut her neck with a shard of porcelain and died while Zhang Chongxian waited outside without intervening.
• Zhang Chongxian carried Chu Zhiwei’s body to Moon Gazing Lake and buried her in a pink jade coffin beneath a sea of flowers.
• Zhang Chongxian sealed the burial site and vowed to personally kill Chu Tianxiong before returning to Peach Garden.

Zhang Chongxian watched Zhang Detian and the other children try to befriend the Azure Gold Profound Monkey cubs, then encouraged them to accept whatever outcome came. After cheering the children, he went to the courtyard where Great Sage, Wuxin, Little Peach, and Lin Wanqing were drinking together.

• Zhang Detian offered food to a red-furred monkey and claimed it possessed the Crimson Firmament Heaven-Burning Monkey Bloodline, while explaining his own cultivation and trying to recruit it as a companion.
• The red-furred monkey ate the food but left with the other Azure Gold Profound Monkey cubs without agreeing to follow Zhang Detian.
• Zhang Detian urged the other children to keep trying to befriend the cubs without developing negative emotions, and Zhang Chongxian praised their patience and counseled them to accept gains and losses calmly.
• The children excitedly greeted Zhang Chongxian, who encouraged them to cultivate, enjoy their childhood, and trust that he would protect the family.
• Zhang Chongxian left the children and found Great Sage, Wuxin, Little Peach, and Lin Wanqing drinking and chatting in a wooden courtyard.

Zhang Xuanchen celebrated Luo Lingshuang’s pregnancy with his family, then proposed a small force to punish the Wang Family for its role in attacking the Zhang Family. Zhang Chongxian agreed to destroy the Wang Family, and Zhang Xuanchen named the group that would accompany him.

• Zhang Chongxian emerged from seclusion with his injuries more than half healed, drank with the family, and agreed to spar with the Great Sage.
• A month later, Zhang Xuanchen announced that Luo Lingshuang was pregnant, drawing the family to Profound Heaven Villa to celebrate.
• Zhang Chongxian and Zhang Zujun advised Zhang Xuanchen to stay out of seclusion and spend time with Luo Lingshuang and their child.
• Zhang Xuanchen called for the Zhang Family to punish the Wang Family for secretly inciting the Ninglu Sect, Cloud Mountain Sword Sect, and Yunmeng Jiang Clan to attack them.
• Zhang Chongxian volunteered to destroy the Wang Family, while Zhang Xuanchen warned of hidden trump cards and proposed taking a small group to confront them.

Zhang Xuanchen prepared to destroy the Wang Family and use Wang Yu's public confession to rally the forces of Fentian Island against them. He also discovered a high-grade opportunity at Flame-Burning Volcano, where the Wang Family's elders were hiding, and planned to investigate after the clan's destruction.

• Zhang Xuanchen ordered Zhang Hongzhan to build Skyward Hall as the Zhang Clan's grand reception hall.
• Zhang Xuanchen discovered information about Fire Evil Dao Venerable's inheritance and a sixth-rank, peak-grade Moonflare Begonia Tree at Flame-Burning Volcano.
• Zhang Xuanchen named Flame-Burning Volcano and Firecloud Dao Venerable to Wang Yu, whose reaction revealed that the Wang Family's elders were hiding there.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Zhang Chongxian and the others they would investigate the volcano after destroying the Wang Family, and Zhang Chongxian agreed to lead the way.
• Zhang Xuanchen explained that Wang Yu's public confession would give the forces harmed by the Wang Family a reason to join the fight against it.
• Faced with a threat of a hundred years of torture, Wang Yu agreed to confess in exchange for a quick death.

The Zhang Family attacked Fentian Immortal City and accused the Wang Family of aiding an assault on their clan and using a demonic cultivation art to abduct female cultivators. True Person Fentian denied the charges, but Zhang Xuanchen revealed Wang Yu as the supposedly dead Wang Family ancestor True Person Yuyan and challenged him to expose the clan’s demonic art.

• Zhang Chongxian killed a Wang Family Golden Core elder and slaughtered the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refinement cultivators who accompanied him.
• Silent Void True Lord announced the Zhang Family’s accusations and declared that the Fentian Wang Clan would be destroyed.
• True Person Fentian arrived with five other cultivators, denied the charges, and claimed the Zhang Family was bullying the Wang Family to unite the region.
• Zhang Xuanchen dragged Wang Yu before the crowd and identified him as True Person Yuyan, who had secretly supported the Ninglu Sect’s attack on the Zhang Family.
• Zhang Xuanchen affirmed the demonic-art accusation and ordered Wang Yu to demonstrate the art before the crowd.