Chapter Summaries

Yu Qiangwei learned that the Zhang Family would reserve Demon-Seeking Pearls for future auctions, then Zhang Detian and Zhang Xuance hunted down a second-stage Demonized Creature in Black Pool. Zhang Detian killed the demonized female cultivator and collected her corpse for Xuanjing.

• Yu Qiangwei asked Zhang Detian to sell him a Demon-Seeking Pearl, but Zhang Detian explained that the Zhang Family would auction them in major immortal cities once more were available.
• Zhang Detian told Yu Qiangwei where to find a second-stage Demonized Creature in Black Pool, then he and Zhang Xuance flew there to hunt it.
• The demonized female cultivator detected Zhang Detian and Zhang Xuance and tried to flee, but Zhang Detian used Form-Transposition Shadow Shift to surround her.
• Zhang Detian wounded the demonized female cultivator with his sword techniques, and she tried to seduce him to escape being killed.
• Zhang Detian beheaded the demonized female cultivator, crushed her corpse, and packed it into a stone box for Xuanjing; Zhang Xuance teased him about rejecting her offer.

Zhang Detian and Zhang Xuance discussed the demonized creature they had killed and returned to the clan after leaking word of the Demon-Seeking Pearl. A month and a half later, the Zhang Family advanced Xuanxiao Mountain’s spirit vein to fourth-tier peak grade, triggering powerful spiritual energy feedback as factions across the Western Border watched.

• Zhang Detian teased Zhang Xuance about the demonized creature, and Zhang Xuance warned that it could have escaped if he had not been there.
• Zhang Xuance and Zhang Detian arranged to tell Yu Weiqiang about the Demon-Seeking Pearl before returning to the clan.
• Zhang Xuanchen gathered the Zhang Family, their generals, Zhuge Qingrou, and their demonic beasts at Xuanxiao Mountain to receive spiritual energy feedback.
• Meng Ting activated the Myriad Sources Spirit-Gathering Vein-Nurturing Formation, and the spirit vein advanced from third-tier top grade to fourth-tier peak grade.
• The spirit vein released immense spiritual energy feedback, which the gathered cultivators began refining as factions across the Western Border observed the event.
• In the Azure Nether Mountain Range, a qilin-like beast named Luni looked toward Xuanxiao Mountain, and a vast blood-gold eye asked what was wrong.

Luni warned her father that the Xuanxiao Zhang Clan’s fortune was immense and that mutated demon beasts threatened the demon race, then pleaded to visit the human world. A month after the Zhang Clan’s spirit vein advanced, its members and lands were transformed by the spiritual energy, and Zhang Xuanchen broke through to perfected Golden Core peak.

• Luni told her father that the Xuanxiao Zhang Clan’s fortune surpassed every faction in the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain and urged him to reconsider the beast tide and purge mutated demon beasts.
• Luni pleaded to visit the human world, and her father agreed to discuss it with the other demon lords while forbidding her from leaving the Azure Nether Mountain Range’s core.
• Over the following months, Qi Refining cultivators left the spirit vein’s nourishing area as their cultivation reached its limits.
• Zhang Xuntong reached Foundation Establishment middle stage, Zhang Xuanlong reached Foundation Establishment late stage peak, and Zhang Xuance and Zhang Xuanming reached Foundation Establishment peak.
• Zhang Detian advanced his Divine Dragon Tyrant Body to the second revolution late stage, while Xuanxiao Mountain, Moon Gazing Lake, and the Zhang Family’s spirit fields grew and improved under the spirit vein’s nourishment.
• Zhang Xuanchen shattered the barrier between late Golden Core and peak and reached perfected Golden Core peak.

Zhang Chongxian broke through to the late Nascent Soul stage as Great Sage and the Abyssal Snapping Turtle prepared to face their tribulations. Great Sage began his fourth-stage breakthrough at Panyang Ridge, tempering his body and Golden Cudgel with lightning while Zhang Xuanchen’s group guarded him.

• Zhang Xuanchen and several others advanced their cultivation while Zhang Chongxian absorbed spiritual energy to break through to the late Nascent Soul stage.
• Great Sage announced that he was facing a lightning tribulation, while Zhang Guangxin and Zhang Hongqing prepared to break through to Golden Core and the Abyssal Snapping Turtle prepared to reach the fourth stage.
• Zhang Xuanchen divided the group to protect Great Sage and the Abyssal Snapping Turtle, and the others guarding the Fourth Elder and the Horizon Restaurant guard captain.
• Zhang Chongxian carried the slow-moving Abyssal Snapping Turtle toward Panyang Ridge, while Great Sage began his tribulation fifty li away.
• Great Sage activated his Indestructible Battle Body and used successive lightning bolts to temper his body and Golden Cudgel.
• Shuoxing explained that Zhang Xuanchen’s human body could not withstand the tribulation as Great Sage did, then said he had recovered to fifth-grade mid-rank; Zhang Xuanchen asked whether he could withstand a Nascent Soul tribulation.

Zhang Xuanchen discussed how Luo Lingshuang would endure her tribulation, while the Beast King of the Azure Nether Mountain Range learned of the newly awakened monkey demon’s overwhelming bloodline and ordered Azure Lion to approach it. The chapter ended with Azure Lion setting out to recruit the monkey demon, with permission to attack only if the circumstances and chances of success warranted it.

• Shuoxing explained that he could not take Luo Lingshuang’s place in her tribulation, and Zhang Xuanchen agreed to find her a defensive spirit tool while Luo Lingshuang said she could rely on herself and Little Lotus.
• The Beast King told Luni that the monkey demon breaking through on the Penglai Islands possessed bloodline pressure greater than his own.
• The Beast King summoned Azure Lion and ordered him to invite the monkey demon to join the demon race, promising it the future kingship of the Azure Nether Mountain Range if it reached the fourth-stage peak.
• The Beast King told Azure Lion to conceal any anger if the demon refused and warned him not to attack if the Zhang Clan’s Formation Master was still present.
• The Beast King authorized Azure Lion to attack only if the Formation Master had left and success was certain, and Azure Lion departed to carry out the order.

The Great Sage and the Abyssal Snapping Turtle survived their tribulations and broke through to the fourth and third stages, respectively, while Zhang Xuanchen’s cultivation neared a Nascent Soul breakthrough. The Zhang Clan celebrated the gains from the spiritual energy feedback, and Luni’s request to join the Beast King’s trip was refused.

• Luni demonstrated that her concealment could hide the azure lion’s demonic aura, but the Beast King still refused to let her go until he consulted the Lord of Purple Clouds and the others.
• The Great Sage endured the final heavenly lightning bolts, broke through to early fourth-stage Yao Sect, and gained a stronger Golden Cudgel, a third-level Indestructible Battle Body, and two divine abilities.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang healed the injured Great Sage, then went with him to check on the Abyssal Snapping Turtle after its tribulation ended.
• Zhang Chongxian brought the gravely injured Abyssal Snapping Turtle to them, and Xuanjing explained that it had fallen asleep to recover from its injuries.
• Zhang Xuanchen returned to the clan with the others and led the Zhang Clan in a celebratory toast to its rise.

After the Zhang Family celebrated its rise as a Nascent Soul clan, Zhang Xuanchen rewarded the formation experts and Zhuge Qingrou for their help. Zhuge Qingrou and her companions departed, and the chapter ended with Zhang Dexiao asking Zhang Xuanchen for spirit stones to visit the Heavenly Fragrance Tower.

• Zhang Xuanchen abolished the rule barring Golden Core cultivators from becoming elders and assigned them new roles as elders or Supreme Elders.
• Zhang Xuanchen gave Meng Ting and Zhuge Qingrou taiyin xihe jade and paid the three Formation Grandmasters with valuable treasures.
• Gong Jun agreed to work with the Zhang Family on formation projects and said he would return to the Penglai Islands in a year.
• Zhuge Qingrou, Meng Ting, and the other visitors left after saying they had been at the Zhang Family for seven years.
• Zhang Xuanchen hit Zhang Dexiao after he welcomed his parents back, then learned that he wanted a thousand low-grade spirit stones to visit the Heavenly Fragrance Tower.

Zhang Xuanchen disciplined Zhang Dexiao for wanting to visit the Heavenly Fragrance Tower, then prepared to enter secluded cultivation and entrusted the Zhang Family to Zhang Detian. As the clan elders accepted Zhang Detian’s leadership, Xuanjing warned Zhang Xuanchen that two late fourth-stage Yao Sect beasts were approaching Xuanxiao Mountain.

• Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang beat Zhang Dexiao after he announced that he wanted to visit the Heavenly Fragrance Tower, while Zhang Deling recorded the scene.
• Little Flame watched the beating, decided to visit Wuxin in the Western Wasteland Gobi, and flew away in his true-dragon form.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Luo Lingshuang he planned to enter secluded cultivation within a month to reach nascent soul, and she agreed to watch over their children.
• Half a month later, Zhang Xuanchen formally entrusted the Zhang Family’s affairs to Zhang Detian, who pledged to serve the clan.
• Xuanjing warned Zhang Xuanchen that two late fourth-stage Yao Sect beasts were racing toward Xuanxiao Mountain.

Two demon sovereigns, Azure Lion and Hu Yuanyuan, arrived at the Zhang Family to recruit Great Sage, but Zhang Xuanchen’s group confronted them. After Silent Void True Lord demonstrated his strength, Great Sage rejected Azure Lion’s offer and defended his life with the Zhang Family.

• Zhang Xuanchen learned that two late Fourth Stage demon sovereigns were approaching and ordered the Clan Protection Array activated.
• Zhang Detian activated the Myriad Swords Annihilating Evil Formation and Mystic Yellow Mountain-Suppressing Formation around Xuanxiao Mountain.
• Azure Lion and Hu Yuanyuan reached the Zhang Clan, where Silent Void True Lord struck Azure Lion with a sword phantom and forced him back.
• Azure Lion told Zhang Xuanchen he had come to recruit Great Sage for the Azure Nether Mountain Range and offered him the chance to become the next Beast King.
• Great Sage rejected Azure Lion’s appeal, saying he had advanced to the early Fourth Stage while living with the Zhang Family, and insulted Hu Yuanyuan.

Azure Lion and Hu Yuanyuan tried to recruit Great Sage for the Azure Nether Mountain Range, but he mocked their offer and angered them into leaving. Afterward, Zhang Xuanchen asked whether Great Sage would really go there once he reached the peak of the Fourth Stage.

• Great Sage insulted Azure Lion and Hu Yuanyuan and refused to enter the Azure Nether Mountain Range, while Hu Yuanyuan threatened him with the Demon Race's army.
• Hu Yuanyuan tried to attack Great Sage, but Azure Lion stopped her and reminded her that their mission was not to cause trouble.
• Azure Lion offered Great Sage a territory and the chance to become Beast King, but Great Sage said he would only go after reaching the peak of the Fourth Stage and take the position directly.
• Azure Lion left in anger, and Hu Yuanyuan warned Great Sage that he would regret his decision before vanishing in pink smoke.
• Zhang Xuanchen praised Great Sage for provoking the visitors, and Great Sage argued with Little Peach before Zhang Xuanchen asked if he truly planned to go to the Azure Nether Mountain Range.

After the crisis passed, Feng Linger left the Zhang Family to search for her brother Feng Xiao, while Zhang Xuanchen prepared to enter seclusion. A month later, Wen Qingya set out for Xuanxiao Mountain ahead of her wedding to Zhang Detian.

• Zhang Xuanchen told the Zhang Family that Qingming and Purple Cloud were unlikely to invade again soon and sent everyone to consolidate their cultivation.
• Feng Linger decided to travel in search of Feng Xiao, recorded a message for him, and left the Zhang Family after Zhang Xuanchen agreed not to stop her.
• Zhang Xuanchen entrusted the Lineage to Zhang Detian, and Zhang Chongxian agreed to fetch Zhang Detian's bride from the Wen Family.
• Zhang Xuanchen returned to the Profound Heaven Villa with Luo Lingshuang and entered seclusion, vowing not to emerge until he reached Nascent Soul.
• A month later, Wen Qingya announced that she was leaving for Xuanxiao Mountain, six months before her wedding.

Wen Qingya rejected the Wen Family elders’ claim that she owed the lineage and refused to be used in a marriage alliance. As Wen Huaming tried to cripple her cultivation, Zhang Chongxian arrived and defended her as the Zhang Family’s future matriarch.

• Wen Huahai and the elders questioned why the Zhang Family had not sent anyone for Wen Qingya and blamed her for the Wen Family’s prospects.
• Wen Shaohua sided with the lineage, prompting Wen Qingya to accuse him of ingratitude and insist she had earned her cultivation without the Wen Family’s help.
• Wen Yanran offered to escort Wen Qingya to the Zhang Family, but Wen Huaming invoked the clan rules and attacked her dantian.
• Zhang Chongxian froze Wen Huaming, struck Wen Huahai down, and seized Wen Huaming by the throat.
• The Wen Family’s Seven Golden Core Ancestors arrived and apologized to Zhang Chongxian, who angrily refused to pardon them for threatening Wen Qingya.

Zhang Chongxian intervened when the Wen Family mistreated Wen Qingya, punished Wen Huaming, and took her away with the Zhang Family’s betrothal gifts. At the East Sea Dragon Court, Long Xuan revealed how Zhang Xuanchen’s family rose from a Golden Core clan to a Nascent Soul clan, leaving Long Zhantian shaken by the revelation.

• Zhang Chongxian rejected the Wen elders’ apology and asked Wen Qingya how Wen Huaming should be punished.
• Wen Qingya chose to have Wen Huaming’s cultivation crippled, and Zhang Chongxian pierced his dantian with a sword phantom.
• Zhang Chongxian presented the Wen Family with the betrothal gifts and departed with Wen Qingya, who said she had nothing more to say to her family.
• Zhang Chongxian told Wen Qingya that Zhang Xuanchen had personally asked him to bring her to the Zhang Family, then explained that his family was imposing only around outsiders.
• At Zhantian Palace, Long Xuan told Long Zhantian that Zhang Xuanchen’s family was the Xuanxiao Zhang Clan, a Nascent Soul clan on the Penglai Islands.
• Long Xuan explained that Zhang Chongxian had broken through to Nascent Soul after surviving Sky Scar Apex, putting the Nine Splendor Sword Sect’s dominance in the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain at risk.

Long Zhantian learned how powerful the Xuanxiao Zhang Clan had become and argued that the East Sea Dragon Court should avoid attacking or opposing it. He warned that the mountain ranges were pushing for a beast tide, then urged his father to focus on the growing threat of demonized creatures and merging secret realms.

• The Turtle Prime Minister told Long Zhantian that the Zhang Family had gained a peak fourth-tier spirit vein, several powerful cultivators, and two new Nascent Soul combatants.
• Long Xuan asked Long Zhantian to state his position on the Zhang Family, warning that it might eventually threaten the East Sea Dragon Court.
• Long Zhantian argued that attacking the Zhang Family would force the Dragon Court’s army through human territory, while friendship was unnecessary as long as they remained neutral.
• Long Zhantian deduced that the Azure Nether Mountain Range and Purple Cloud Mountain Range wanted the Dragon Court to share the risk of an early beast tide against the Zhang Family.
• Long Zhantian said demonized creatures were growing more cunning and proposed that secret realms were merging with the Xuanqiong Cultivation World.
• Long Zhantian urged Long Xuan and the Turtle Prime Minister to avoid further bloodshed and find a way to stop the rapidly advancing demonized creatures.

Long Xuan and Long Zhantian argued over who had come up with their insights, then Long Xuan urged his son to cultivate before Zhang Xuanchen caught up with him. The Turtle Prime Minister revealed that he had only about fifty years left and set out on a perilous journey; half a year later, Zhang Detian welcomed Wen Qingya at their wedding.

• Long Xuan admitted he had no intention of cooperating with the Azure Nether Mountain Range and the Purple Cloud Mountain Range because demonized creatures and a weakening secret-realm barrier threatened the Xuanqiong Cultivation World.
• Long Zhantian accused Long Xuan of passing off the Turtle Prime Minister's insights as his own, and Long Xuan ordered him to focus on cultivation and reach the fourth transformation before Zhang Xuanchen advanced further.
• Gui Ming noticed the Turtle Prime Minister's failing condition, and the Turtle Prime Minister told Long Xuan that his lifespan was down to about fifty years after years of costly divinations.
• The Turtle Prime Minister gave Long Xuan parting advice and vanished from the Main Hall to gamble on a journey that could end in his death.
• Half a year later, Zhang Detian met Wen Qingya outside the courtyard gate as she arrived for their wedding at Xuanxiao Mountain.

Zhang Detian and Wen Qingya headed to their wedding after agreeing to let Wen Yanran and Wen Shaohua attend. At the mountain gate, Jun Xiaoyao humiliated Wen Shaohua and warned Wen Yanran that her son’s arrogance could destroy the Wen Family.

• Zhang Detian asked Wen Qingya whether her relatives should be allowed to attend, and she agreed so Wen Shaohua could see her happiness.
• Jun Xiaoyao blocked Wen Shaohua at the mountain gate and rebuked him for his ingratitude toward Wen Qingya and the Zhang Family.
• Wen Shaohua released his seventh-level qi-refining pressure, but Wen Yanran slapped him and ordered him to apologize instead of provoking the Zhang Family.
• Jun Xiaoyao revealed his foundation-establishment middle-stage cultivation, leaving Wen Shaohua shocked and Wen Yanran apologetic.
• Jun Xiaoyao told Wen Yanran that Wen Shaohua’s conduct could bring about the Wen Family’s destruction, and warned her of the consequences of provoking the Zhang Family.

Jun Xiaoyao let the Wen Family attend the Zhang Family wedding, while Wen Shaohua became fixated on marrying Zhang Deling to gain access to the Zhang Family’s blessed grounds. A Zhang Family disciple, Zhang Desheng, rebuked him and revealed he was one of the Zhang Family’s Ten Heroes.

• Jun Xiaoyao warned Wen Qingya that the Wen Family should change its ways and reminded her that a Nascent Soul breakthrough involved an inner demon tribulation.
• Li Qing questioned Jun Xiaoyao about Wen Shaohua’s slap mark, and Jun Xiaoyao denied striking him before urging Li Qing to pursue Foundation Establishment.
• Wen Shaohua apologized to Wen Yanran and said he wanted to marry Zhang Deling so his father-in-law, Clan Leader Zhang, might improve the spirit vein at White Eagle Ridge.
• Zhang Desheng overheard Wen Shaohua’s marriage plan, mocked his reputation and qualifications, and tried to lead Wen Qingya and Wen Shaohua to the Ancestral Hall.
• Wen Shaohua challenged Zhang Desheng to give his name, and Zhang Desheng identified himself as a seventeen-year-old member of the Zhang Family’s Ten Heroes.

At the Zhang Family wedding, Zhang Desheng exposed Wen Shaohua’s arrogance and overwhelming cultivation, while Wen Shaohua left without causing further trouble. Six months later, Zhang Detian approved auctions of the Demon-Seeking Pearls across the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain, and Jun Xiaoyao entered the Main Hall.

• Wen Shaohua challenged Zhang Desheng, who revealed his eighth-layer Qi refining cultivation and rebuked Wen Shaohua before leaving for the wedding ceremony.
• Wen Yanran and Wen Shaohua attended Zhang Detian and Wen Qingya’s wedding, then returned to White Eagle Ridge after the celebration.
• The Zhang Family spread word about the Demon-Seeking Pearls through disciples and contacts in the immortal cities.
• Zhang Hongkai reported that the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain’s powers, including the Demon Race, wanted to buy the pearls and proposed auctioning one thousand of them.
• Zhang Detian ordered auctions in the major immortal cities in three days, and Jun Xiaoyao entered the Main Hall as Zhang Hongkai left.

Li Xiao reported Hai Lao Er’s arrival with seven captured Jiang Family remnants, and Zhang Detian agreed to shelter the Hai Family at Blackstone Basin. Hai Lao Er waited at the Zhang Clan’s gate, convinced his family’s future was secure, while his son doubted his story about meeting Zhang Chongxian.

• Li Xiao told Zhang Detian that Hai Lao Er had captured seven Jiang Family remnants and wanted to move his sixteen-member family to the Penglai Islands under Zhang protection.
• Zhang Zujun confirmed that Zhang Chongxian had visited the Dragon Mountain Range, and Zhang Detian approved Blackstone Basin as the Hai Family’s new home with ten years free of tribute.
• Zhang Detian urged Jun Xiaoyao to cultivate and offered him command of the White Tiger Army Corps, but Jun Xiaoyao declined and left.
• Hai Lao Er waited outside the Xuanxiao Zhang Clan’s mountain gate, recalling how he had gathered wanted Jiang Family remnants before bringing his family there.
• Hai Lao Er scolded his son for questioning whether he had truly met Zhang Chongxian, insisting that the True Lord’s breakthrough had made him look younger.

Hai Lao Er secured the Zhang Family’s protection and Blackstone Basin as a home for his family. Three days later, the Zhang Family’s auctions began across the Heavenly Dragon Sea Domain, drawing powerful factions and overflowing crowds.

• Zhang Delin confirmed the Hai Family’s account and granted them Blackstone Basin, with ten years free of tribute.
• Hai Lao Er pledged the Hai Family’s loyalty to the Zhang Family, and the family bowed in thanks.
• Hai Lao Er handed over Jiang Family remnants and a demonized creature’s carcass, which Zhang Delin sent to the Enforcement Hall with Li Qing.
• Zhang Delin warned Hai Lao Er that affiliated forces must not betray the Zhang Family or commit abuses, then took the Hai Family to Blackstone Basin.
• Three days later, the Xuanxiao Merchant Guild’s auctions began, drawing factions from three sea regions and filling the immortal cities.
• The Xuanxiao Merchant Guild sold out its three-year stockpile of goods as shops, inns, and restaurants enjoyed a surge in business.