Chapter Summaries

Zhang Chongxian destroyed the Wang Family’s headquarters and killed the clansmen who had chosen to stay, while Great Sage executed two Golden Core cultivators who tried to loot the ruins. The Zhang Family moved on to deal with the Wang Family’s remaining survivors.

• Zhang Xuanchen and Great Sage joked about True Person Fentian’s death, and Little Peach explained that Great Sage had stayed calm because Zhang Chongxian was helping him improve his battle intent.
• Cultivators gathered outside the Wang Family’s Clan Protection Array to loot the headquarters, while the remaining Wang Family clansmen taunted them from within.
• Zhang Chongxian praised the Wang Family clansmen’s resolve, then used One Sword Severing Heaven and Earth to destroy their three grand arrays and kill those who stayed.
• Zhang Xuanchen reflected on the Wang Family’s loyal servants and accepted that the Zhang Family would hunt down the remnants who had fled.
• Great Sage killed two Golden Core cultivators with his Golden Cudgel after they ignored the Zhang Family’s warning and tried to loot the Wang Family headquarters.

Zhang Xuanchen killed three Golden Core cultivators who challenged the Zhang Family’s claim to the Wang Family’s spoils, then ordered his clansmen to take the Wang Family’s resources and develop Fentian Mountain. He planned to renovate Fentian Immortal City and build a Teleportation Array, but Zhang Chongxian explained that the required void stone and formation expertise were exceptionally difficult to obtain.

• Zhang Xuanchen accused a Golden Core cultivator of being possessed by a Devil Creature and killed him, leaving the remaining cultivators too afraid to dispute the Zhang Family’s claim to the Wang Family’s treasures.
• The two surviving Golden Core cultivators praised the Zhang Family’s deeds and fled, while the other cultivators followed their example.
• Zhang Xuanchen sent Zhang Chongxian and the others to search the Wang Family’s headquarters and proposed making Fentian Mountain an artifact-crafting base once his father advanced to Golden Core.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Chongxian discussed repairing Fentian Immortal City, hiring a formation grandmaster, upgrading the Zhang Family’s defenses, and building a Teleportation Array using void stone.
• Zhang Chongxian warned that void stone was rare and that connecting Yunhua Immortal City to Fentian Immortal City would likely require a fifth-grade Formation Master, prompting Zhang Xuanchen to ask how Yunhua’s array reached Black Dragon Immortal City.

Zhang Xuanchen learned that the ancient Teleportation Array required a powerful Formation Master to build, then led his clan toward Flame-Burning Volcano to seize the Wang Family’s remaining resources. Underground, Wang Qingrou ordered the Wang Family to stop beating their Zhang Family hostages and warned Wang Mingyu to release Zhang Xuanyun or risk developing an inner demon.

• Shuoxing explained that the Teleportation Array’s long range showed the Xuanqiong Cultivation World had once been powerful and that its strongest cultivators might now be attempting to reach Void Refinement.
• Zhang Xuanchen left Lin Wanqing in charge of Fentian Mountain and Fentian Immortal City, gave her five hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones, and sent his group to search the ruins.
• After gathering the Wang Family’s resources, Zhang Xuanchen and the others flew toward Flame-Burning Volcano aboard the Azure Cloud.
• Wang Chuhao and other Wang Family members beat Zhang Hongxin and two other Zhang Family women while blaming the Zhang Family for their downfall.
• Wang Qingrou stopped the abuse, ordered the Wang Family to disperse, and told Wang Mingyu to release Zhang Xuanyun, warning that the hostages would die if the Zhang Family did not find them within two years.

Wang Mingyu struggled between loyalty to the Wang Family and his love for Zhang Xuanyun after learning the Zhang Family had destroyed the Wang headquarters. He accepted that love and Lineage could coexist, while the two families’ conflict remained unresolved.

• Wang Qingrou learned that the Zhang Family had attacked Fentian Mountain and warned Wang Mingyu that she would kill him if he continued to side with Zhang Xuanyun.
• Wang Mingyu confronted Zhang Xuanyun for associating with Zhang Hongxin and pleaded with her to forget her Zhang Family ties.
• Zhang Xuanyun told Wang Mingyu she could die but could not betray her Lineage.
• Wang Mingyu realized he could not demand that Zhang Xuanyun make a choice he could not make himself, and said love and Lineage could coexist.
• Wang Mingyu comforted Zhang Xuanyun, while Wang Chuhao silently left without striking Zhang Hongxin.

Zhang Xuanchen and the Zhang Family found the Wang Family’s hidden stronghold beneath the volcano and launched an attack. Zhang Xuanyun pleaded with Zhang Xuanchen to spare Wang Mingyu, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Zhang Xuanchen led Zhang Chongxian and the others to the concealed underground palace beneath the volcanic magma.
• Wang Zhong and the other Wang elders realized the Zhang Family had found them, and Wang Zhong ordered them to help Wang Yaozhe escape while they held off the attackers.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions broke through the palace entrance and began slaughtering the Wang Family cultivators.
• Wang Chuhao and several disciples seized Zhang Hongxin and the other two Zhang captives, but Zhang Chongxian killed the would-be hostage-takers with invisible sword blades.
• Zhang Xuanchen saw Zhang Xuanyun shielding Wang Mingyu and heard her plead for him to spare Mingyu's life.

Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Chongxian destroyed the Fentian Wang Family, but Wang Mingyu and Zhang Xuanyun both died, leaving Zhang Xuanchen to carry their bodies as the survivors headed toward the palace’s deepest doors.

• Zhang Xuanchen used the Starry Tower to suppress the Wang Family while Zhang Chongxian killed its remaining fighters.
• Wang Qingrou killed Wang Yaozhe, then charged through the stone doors and was killed by a force beyond them.
• Wang Mingyu died after stabbing himself, and Zhang Xuanyun followed him by taking her own life despite Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Chongxian allowing her choice.
• Zhang Xuanchen wrapped Zhang Xuanyun and Wang Mingyu together in a Beast-hide Blanket and placed them in the Myriad Spirits Realm.
• Zhang Xuanchen left Zhang Hongxin and her companions outside and flew with Zhang Chongxian and the others toward the massive doors.

Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Chongxian defeated two fifth-grade puppets guarding the Spirit Puppet Sacred Sect’s treasure hall and discovered the sect’s puppetcraft legacy. They recovered fifty thousand top-grade spirit stones and other valuable materials, leaving the group with a vast trove to bring back to the Zhang Family.

• Shuoxing identified the two damaged fifth-grade puppets as Nascent Soul early-stage threats, and Zhang Xuanchen entered the hall to confront them with Zhang Chongxian.
• Shuoxing revealed the puppets’ Spirit Power Core locations, and Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Chongxian disabled them and removed their cores.
• Zhang Xuanchen learned the cores were powered by compressed top-grade spirit stones and stored the puppets and cores in the Myriad Spirit Ring.
• Zhang Xuanchen and the others opened 118 smaller chests and found fifty thousand top-grade spirit stones, along with a seventh-tier puppetcraft legacy and other puppet-refining materials.
• The group left one enormous chest unopened after discovering that the remaining herbs and pills had crumbled away and the chests held cultivation methods, spells, ores, cores, and demonic beast bones.

Zhang Xuanchen discovered a moonflare begonia tree and heard Firecloud Dao Venerable’s request to carry on the Spirit Puppet Sacred Sect’s legacy before leading everyone out of the volcano. More than twenty days later, the Zhang Family’s destruction of the Wang Family shook the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain, and the Qingyun Sect gathered to discuss the Zhang Family’s rise.

• Zhang Xuanchen found a sixth-grade moonflare begonia tree growing in blazing fire spirit soil inside a spatial treasure chest, and Firecloud Dao Venerable’s Dharma Body asked him to carry on the Spirit Puppet Sacred Sect’s legacy before vanishing.
• Shuoxing confirmed that Firecloud Dao Venerable was completely dead, and Zhang Xuanchen rewarded his companions with spirit stones before they left the volcano under the Starry Tower’s protection.
• Zhang Xuanchen noted that the hidden volcano had a fire spirit vein but could become a trap if enemies discovered it, then led the group back to the clan.
• More than twenty days later, news spread that the Zhang Family had wiped out the Wang Family for plotting against them and practicing a Demonic Cultivation Art, alarming the region’s established powers.
• Wei Wudao concluded that Zhang Xuanchen had killed his grandson and decided to avoid provoking the Zhang Family, while a blood-robed cultivator at a solitary peak planned to visit Xuanxiao Mountain and challenge Zhang Xuanchen.
• Dai Qingfeng convened the Qingyun Sect’s elders, who gathered with grave expressions as they faced the Zhang Family’s rapid rise.

Dai Qingfeng ordered the Qingyun Sect to give up its bid for dominance and release the territories and factions it had seized. At Xuanxiao Mountain, Zhang Xuanchen witnessed the Explosive Flame Fire Dragon hatch, named him Little Flame, and left him to eat his shell and grow.

• Dai Qingfeng told the Qingyun Sect elders to relinquish seized lands, free their subjugated factions, and focus on guarding their own territory and paying tribute.
• Zhang Xuanchen placed the chest containing the Moonflare Begonia Tree in the Spirit Medicine Garden without removing the tree from its spirit soil.
• Zhang Xuanchen entered the Myriad Spirit Ring and contained the flames spreading from the Fire Dragon Egg.
• Shuoxing explained that Little Peach's life essence had restored the hatchling's foundation, and the Explosive Flame Fire Dragon emerged at the early third stage.
• Zhang Xuanchen stopped Little Flame's Dragon Breath, rejected being called his dad, and agreed to the name Fire-Breathing Dragon while continuing to call him Little Flame.
• Little Flame began eating his shell as his cultivation rose, while Xiao Mo and Little Star declined Zhang Xuanchen's offer to go outside.

Zhang Xuanchen brought Little Fire to the Spirit Medicine Garden, where the newborn True Dragon revealed himself as a gluttonous chatterbox. After Little Fire greeted and teased the Zhang clan members, Zhang Xuanlong told Zhang Xuanchen he wanted to travel to the Azure Sea Domain to search for a Jade Ripple Water Nymph.

• Zhang Xuanchen fed Little Fire pills and warned him not to steal spirit herbs or leave Xuanxiao Mountain, and Little Fire agreed to stay hidden and safe.
• Little Fire left the Spirit Medicine Garden and greeted the Zhang clan members, jokingly claiming he would have formed contracts with Zhang Detian and Zhang Xuanlong if he were not already contracted to Zhang Xuanchen.
• Zhang Xuanchen slapped Little Fire away and told Zhang Detian and Zhang Xuanlong not to take the dragon's boasts seriously.
• Zhang Xuanlong told Zhang Xuanchen he wanted to gain experience in the Azure Sea Domain and search for a Jade Ripple Water Nymph to strengthen his beast-taming team.

Zhang Xuanlong prepared to search the Azure Sea Domain for a Jade Ripple Water Nymph or an Azure Sea Mote Spirit, while Zhang Xuanchen helped conceal his special constitution. At dinner, Luo Lingshuang revealed she was expecting twins, and the family planned to invite a fourth-stage formation grandmaster the next day.

• Zhang Xuanchen gave Zhang Xuanlong three Third-tier Spirit Talismans and asked Shuoxing to hide the aura of his constitution before Zhang Xuanlong left for the Azure Sea Domain.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Zhang Detian to arrange the relocation of Lineage members, Family Generals, and mortals to Fentian Island in three days.
• Luo Lingshuang told Zhang Xuanchen she was expecting two children, and he joyfully urged her to rest while Su Muyan offered to look after her.
• Little Flame interrupted the family gathering with his boastful introduction, and Zhang Xuanchen slapped him and sent him out of the courtyard.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his family agreed to visit the Horizon Restaurant the next day to invite a fourth-stage formation grandmaster.

Zhang Xuanchen left for the rear mountain after discovering an opportunity involving a Coldheart Lotus Platform, but found Little Fire encouraging the Zhang Family’s children with a staged dragon blessing. He approved of the hope Little Fire inspired and welcomed him as a member of the family, then praised Zhang Detian’s judgment.

• Zhang Xuanchen told Luo Lingshuang he was heading to Yunhua Immortal City and learned of a Coldheart Lotus Platform that would mature in twenty days at Nine-Bend Cold Pool Lake.
• Zhang Xuanchen saw Little Fire accepting food and patting the heads of Zhang Family children while promising them dragon fortune and urging them to persevere.
• A child led Zhang Xuanchen to Little Fire, and Zhang Xuanchen joined in the blessing before telling the children that hard work was necessary to attain immortality.
• Zhang Xuanchen introduced Little Fire as a new Zhang Family member and dismissed the children to their classes and cultivation.
• Zhang Detian explained that Little Fire’s antics restored the children’s confidence, and Zhang Xuanchen praised him as a natural clan leader.

Zhang Xuanchen arranged for the Immortal Ancestor to investigate the Coldheart Lotus Platform and sought a Fourth-tier Peak Grade Formation Master to upgrade the Zhang Family's spirit vein. Zhuge Qingrou agreed to visit Xuanxiao Mountain in three months after hearing his name, leaving Shopkeeper Yu astonished by Zhang Xuanchen's connections.

• Zhang Xuanchen told Zhang Detian he would consider passing on the Clan Leader position after the Lineage was stable and Zhang Detian reached Golden Core, then gave him a map of the Coldheart Lotus Platform and warned him about nearby Fourth Stage Yao Sect beasts.
• Zhang Xuanchen learned that Little Flame had only burned a little blood to bless the children, gave him pills and demonic beast meat, and left to handle business.
• Zhang Xuanchen visited the Horizon Restaurant and asked Shopkeeper Yu to contact Sister Yan about finding a Fourth-tier Peak Grade Formation Master to upgrade the Lineage's spirit vein.
• Shopkeeper Yu said Sister Yan was away but offered to contact Zhuge Qingrou, whose guardian was a Fourth-tier Peak Grade Formation Master.
• Zhuge Qingrou initially refused, but immediately agreed to visit Xuanxiao Mountain in three months after hearing that Zhang Xuanchen had made the request.

After refining a mirror fragment, Xuanjing awakened with two new divine abilities and discovered that Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang were expecting twins. The chapter left the family celebrating the children’s exceptional fortune as Zhang Xuanchen prepared to leave with Xuanjing.

• Manager Yu told Zhang Xuanchen that Zhuge Qingrou had agreed to arrive at Xuanxiao Mountain in three months, and Zhang Xuanchen returned home.
• Three months later, the Three Lives Samsara Mirror repaired thirty percent of its cracks, and Xuanjing awakened with memories of two new divine abilities.
• Xuanjing explained the Calamity-Crossing Rebirth Mantra’s severe backlash and Destiny Anchor’s ability to track a branded target without backlash.
• Xuanjing examined Luo Lingshuang and revealed that she carried fortunate twin spirit children, a boy and a girl.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang celebrated their twins’ extraordinary prospects and recalled their lucky days.

Zhang Chongxian revealed that Sky Scar Apex contained six dangerous inheritances and warned Zhang Xuanchen, Zhang Xuntong, and Zhang Xuance about the mortal risks of seeking them. Zhang Xuntong and Zhang Xuance both chose to go someday, leaving Zhang Xuanchen to accept their decisions and require them to report their departures to the Lineage.

• Luo Lingshuang took Xuanjing to the Lineage dining hall while Zhang Xuanchen stayed to speak with Zhang Chongxian.
• Zhang Chongxian brought Zhang Xuanchen to Zhang Xuance's courtyard, where Zhang Xuance and Zhang Xuntong had been sparring with swords.
• Zhang Chongxian told Zhang Xuanchen, Zhang Xuntong, and Zhang Xuance that Sky Scar Apex held six inheritances and warned them that its trials could be fatal.
• Zhang Xuntong declared that he would go to Sky Scar Apex to pursue the Great Dao, and Zhang Xuanchen told him to inform the Lineage before leaving.
• Zhang Xuance also resolved to seek an inheritance someday, and Zhang Xuanchen congratulated them in advance on returning with opportunities.

Zhang Xuanchen chose not to pursue the Sword Emperor's inheritance and received visitors from the Horizon Pavilion at Xuanxiao Mountain. Zhuge Qingrou arrived with Meng Ting, while Jun Xiaoyao concealed his ties to the Zhang Family and greeted them under his guard-duty identity as Li Xiao.

• Zhang Xuanchen decided the risks of seeking the Sword Emperor's inheritance above the Cloud Line outweighed its benefits.
• Jun Xiaoyao met Zhuge Qingrou and Meng Ting in Yunhua Immortal City, told Zhuge Qingrou he was now a Zhang Family General, and warned her not to reveal his identity or mention his connection to the Horizon Restaurant.
• Zhuge Qingrou abandoned her plan to visit the Horizon Restaurant and headed to the Zhang Family with Meng Ting.
• Shuoxing informed Zhang Xuanchen that two cultivators were approaching Xuanxiao Mountain, and Zhang Xuanchen recognized them as visitors from the Horizon Pavilion.
• Zhang Xuanchen urged Li Xiao to make a life beyond guarding the gate, but Li Xiao said he was content with his work.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Zhang Chongxian greeted Zhuge Qingrou and Meng Ting at the mountain gate, where Zhuge Qingrou remarked that even the Zhang Family's gatekeepers were Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Zhang Xuanchen negotiated with Meng Ting to upgrade the Zhang Family’s spirit vein and establish protective formations, then offered rare materials as payment. Meng Ting agreed to help recruit trusted Formation Grandmasters, while Zhang Xuanchen remained unaware of how much Jun Xiaoyao’s presence had helped prevent greed.

• Zhuge Qingrou accepted Zhang Xuanchen’s invitation to discuss the spirit vein and asked him to call her Sister Rou.
• Meng Ting estimated that upgrading the spirit vein and establishing two fourth-tier peak-grade formations would cost four million mid-grade spirit stones, plus her fee, and take twenty years.
• Zhang Xuanchen accepted Meng Ting’s terms but asked her to bring in trusted Formation Grandmasters to shorten the timeline.
• Zhang Xuanchen offered Meng Ting Taiyin Xihe jade, thunder dragon bonewood, and earth origin embryo stone as payment materials.
• Meng Ting asked to receive the Taiyin Xihe jade in exchange for her work, and Zhang Xuanchen agreed.
• Meng Ting said she knew several Formation Grandmasters who could assist her and save time.

Zhang Xuanchen arranged for Meng Ting and four formation grandmasters to build protective formations for the Zhang Family, trading pastry and juice recipes for materials and information. Five months later, as work began on a spirit-vein-nurturing formation, he anxiously waited outside a room with his family.

• Zhang Xuanchen asked Meng Ting to list the formation materials and agreed to purchase what the Horizon Restaurant had available.
• Jun Xiaoyao secretly instructed Meng Ting to credit Bai Zijing and Yan Ruyu for the Horizon Restaurant's help.
• Meng Ting agreed to trade materials and information for the Zhang Family's recipes, and Zhuge Qingrou accepted lodging on Xuanxiao Mountain.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked Xuanjing to conceal the Lineage's valuable locations while Meng Ting and four formation grandmasters began setting up the available formation.
• Five months later, Zhang Xuanchen paced anxiously outside a room until Zhang Hongzhan smacked him for making everyone restless.

Luo Lingshuang safely gave birth to a boy and a girl, bringing joy and relief to Zhang Xuanchen and the Zhang family. Xuanjing confirmed both children were healthy and unusually gifted, while the family celebrated around the newborns.

• The midwife told Zhang Xuanchen that Luo Lingshuang had safely delivered a boy and a girl, and he rewarded the midwives with spirit stones.
• Zhang Xuanchen entered the room, checked Luo Lingshuang’s condition, and held the newborns as the family gathered around them.
• The boy watched the people around him with a crooked smile, prompting Zhang Xuanchen and the elders to joke about his unusual expression and mischievous nature.
• Xuanjing told Zhang Xuanchen that both children had whole, flawless souls, and identified a strand of space-attribute energy in the boy and spiritual pivot dao eyes in the girl.
• Zhang Xuanchen praised his daughter’s looks, while Lin Wanqing told him she would take care of Luo Lingshuang herself.

Zhang Xuanchen named his newborn children Zhang Xiao and Zhang Ling, then planned to use their hundred-day banquet to establish the Zhang Family’s authority in the Western Border. As the summoned factions considered their response, the Xuandan Sect’s First Ancestor decided the sect would submit to the Zhang Family.

• Zhang Xuanchen named his son Zhang Xiao and his daughter Zhang Ling, while Little Flame’s joking alternative names earned him another punch.
• Zhang Xuanchen announced that the Zhang Family would summon the Western Border’s sects to Skyward Hall for the twins’ hundred-day banquet and to establish its rule.
• Zhang Xuanchen ordered the Dark Hall to spread the summons, and the region’s major factions began preparing their responses.
• At a Xuandan Sect meeting, Ren Danxiong urged submission, and First Ancestor Bai Jing agreed that the sect could not refuse a Nascent Soul clan.
• Bai Jing chose Wang Teng and Ren Danxiong to accompany him to Xuanxiao Mountain while the other elders guarded the sect.