Chapter Summaries

Shen Xuan tested his Size Manipulation talent, invested Dao Rhyme in his thunder-talisman skill, and later sought Lone Peak True Person’s support for plans on Little Solitary Peak. The chapter ended with Lone Peak True Person considering his unusual proposal to build a Lightning Attraction Grand Formation and make Positive Yang Heavenly Thunder Pearls.

• Shen Xuan tested Size Manipulation and found it could enlarge or shrink his whole body or a single part, with only modest increases to his strength.
• Shen Xuan spent his accumulated Dao Rhyme on Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talisman and planned to nurture new treasure talismans using Purple Yun Divine Wood Branches.
• Shen Xuan visited Liuguang Market Town, surveyed prices, and found that the sect’s Spirit Gathering Pill ingredients had run out.
• Shen Xuan gave Lone Peak True Person nine Purple Yun Divine Wood Spirit Branches and proposed growing the wood on Little Solitary Peak.
• Shen Xuan asked Lone Peak True Person to support a Lightning Attraction Grand Formation for making Positive Yang Heavenly Thunder Pearls, and she fell silent at the unexpected plan.

Shen Xuan designed and built a Lightning Attraction Grand Formation to harvest lightning and refine Positive Yang Heavenly Thunder Pearls in bulk, giving Little Solitary Peak a secret source of wealth. During the first test, his rocket drew a bolt of lightning into the Thunder Containing Divine Iron.

• Shen Xuan explained to Lone Peak True Person how the formation would channel lightning into Thunder Sound Bamboo Beads to refine Positive Yang Heavenly Thunder Pearls, and she agreed to keep the method exclusive to Little Solitary Peak.
• Shen Xuan decided the formation could provide Little Solitary Peak with an ongoing income and, ten days later, directed Lone Peak True Person and her disciples as they cleared the summit and assembled it.
• Shen Xuan prepared anti-lightning clothing for his six senior and junior sisters and brought them to the formation when a thunderstorm arrived two days later.
• Shen Xuan launched a Lightning Attraction Rocket toward the storm clouds, and lightning traveled down its Heavenly Crystal Gold Thread into the Thunder Containing Divine Iron.

Shen Xuan taught Lone Peak True Person and Little Solitary Peak’s disciples to make Positive Yang Thunder Spirit Pearls with his Lightning Attraction Formation. He and Lone Peak True Person agreed on production profits and resolved to keep the formation’s method secret as she prepared to negotiate with the sect.

• Shen Xuan demonstrated how to make a Positive Yang Thunder Spirit Pearl, and Lone Peak True Person confirmed its power.
• Shen Xuan used Anti-Lightning Clothing to protect Wu Yuting while she tried making a pearl, then helped Qin Yuehan succeed alongside him.
• Lone Peak True Person made nine pearls at once, and the rest of Little Solitary Peak’s Personal Disciples learned the process within an hour.
• Shen Xuan proposed using nine Lightning Attraction Platforms, and he and Lone Peak True Person discussed protecting the formation and setting the sect’s purchase price and profit split.
• Lone Peak True Person agreed to keep the Lightning Attraction Formation secret and planned to add nine more pieces of Thunder Containing Divine Iron.
• Shen Xuan returned to Water Moon Residence, exhausted, and hoped Lone Peak True Person would defend Little Solitary Peak at the True Persons’ Council Meeting.

Little Solitary Peak’s disciples began producing Positive Yang Thunder Spirit Pearls, and Lone Peak True Person brought their lightning-drawing method before Qingyun Sect’s council to seek Thunder Containing Divine Iron. The meeting ended with True Person Hanyu suggesting Shen Xuan be summoned, prompting Lone Peak True Person to insist that he would inherit her legacy.

• Little Solitary Peak’s senior and junior sisters drew down lightning on Thunderstorm Day and made Positive Yang Thunder Spirit Pearls, expecting a share of the profits.
• Qingyun Sect’s True Persons discussed the commercial conflict with Medicine God Valley and the Dao-Demon Conflict, then agreed to replace Tianzhang Prefecture’s commander, Lei Yaoyang.
• Lone Peak True Person showed the council seventeen pearls and said Little Solitary Peak produced eight hundred in a month, with tenfold output possible if she received Thunder Containing Divine Iron.
• True Person Lingxiao identified her method as drawing lightning from thunderclouds and storing it in Thunder Containing Divine Iron, and Lone Peak True Person explained that she used the lightning to make pearls.
• True Person Hanyu suggested summoning Shen Xuan so he could explain the method, and Lone Peak True Person declared that he was her Personal Disciple and future heir.

Shen Xuan explained the Lightning Spirit Pearl refining method to the Qingyun Sect’s True Persons, who agreed to observe a demonstration on the next Thunderstorm Day before discussing a purchase. The meeting then turned to a dispute over Shen Xuan’s lineage and his talent in Ice Methods.

• True Person Tianlei questioned Shen Xuan about the refining method, tested him with his spiritual sense, and learned that Shen Xuan cultivated the Absolute Lightning Dao Body.
• Shen Xuan estimated that the method could produce fifty thousand Lightning Spirit Pearls a year with sufficient materials, then explained how it worked to the True Persons.
• Mizong True Person deferred any decision about the sect purchasing the pearls until the True Persons could observe Shen Xuan refine them on a Thunderstorm Day.
• True Person Hanyu claimed that Shen Xuan originally belonged to the Hanyu Peak lineage through Yan Ruixue and Gu Hongtao, while Lone Peak True Person insisted that Shen Xuan was her Personal Disciple.
• True Person Hanyu said Shen Xuan had exceptional Ice Method talent and asked how his cultivation of the Ice Soul Cold Water Art was progressing.

After Shen Xuan revealed that he had reached great accomplishment in the Ice Soul Cold Water Art, the True Persons watched him demonstrate its power against True Person Hanyu. His display established him as an extraordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator, and Sect Leader Mizong kept Shen Xuan, Hanyu, and Lone Peak behind to mediate their dispute.

• True Person Hanyu claimed Shen Xuan as her Personal Disciple, while Lone Peak True Person objected and Mizong True Person asked Shen Xuan about his progress in the Ice Soul Cold Water Art.
• Shen Xuan told the True Persons that his Ice Soul Cold Water Art seemed to have reached great accomplishment, surprising Hanyu and the others.
• Mizong True Person led the True Persons and Shen Xuan to the Performance Stage, where Hanyu asked Shen Xuan to attack her with his Ice Method.
• Shen Xuan formed a powerful Ice Divine Dragon with the Bishui Sword, and Hanyu absorbed it with one finger after recognizing the attack’s extraordinary strength.
• The True Persons discussed Shen Xuan’s talent and possible ancestry, while Tianlei regretted refusing to take him as a disciple.
• Mizong dismissed the other True Persons and asked Shen Xuan, Hanyu, and Lone Peak to stay behind to discuss their conflict.

Shen Xuan defended his bond with Lone Peak True Person but privately recognized that joining True Person Hanyu’s lineage would best support his cultivation and the sect. Mizong True Person arranged for Shen Xuan to remain Lone Peak True Person’s disciple while also becoming True Person Hanyu’s Personal Disciple, and the chapter ended with Yun Chixin asking whether Lei Yaoyang had repeatedly made things difficult for Shen Xuan.

• Mizong True Person heard Shen Xuan reaffirm his loyalty to Lone Peak True Person and then discussed the sect’s interests with both women.
• Mizong True Person proposed that Shen Xuan remain Lone Peak True Person’s Personal Disciple and also join True Person Hanyu’s lineage, and Lone Peak True Person agreed after receiving the Nine Nether Soul Refining Flower for Yun Chixin.
• True Person Hanyu returned to Hanyu Peak and told Liu Bingyu that Shen Xuan would join her lineage, leaving Liu relieved that he would carry on the peak’s legacy.
• Shen Xuan privately resolved to change masters because True Person Hanyu could better support his pursuit of an Inner Core, while reminding himself not to forget Lone Peak True Person’s kindness.
• Lone Peak True Person told Yun Chixin about Shen Xuan’s dual discipleship and showed her the Nine Nether Soul Refining Flower.
• Yun Chixin asked Lone Peak True Person whether Lei Yaoyang of Sky Thunder Peak had repeatedly made things difficult for Shen Xuan.

Shen Xuan demonstrated how Little Solitary Peak could mass-produce Lightning Spirit Pearls, impressing the sect’s True Persons and strengthening the sect’s position in the Dao-Demon Conflict. He accepted dual tutelage under Lone Peak True Person and True Person Hanyu, while Little Solitary Peak secured the sect’s Heaven Thunder Pearl supply and Shen Xuan prepared to move to Hanyu Peak.

• Shen Xuan demonstrated the Lightning Attraction Formation and made a Lightning Spirit Pearl before more than a dozen True Persons, who praised his talent and recognized the formation’s value.
• Mizong True Person and Lone Peak True Person announced that Shen Xuan would remain Lone Peak’s Personal Disciple while also joining True Person Hanyu’s tutelage, and Shen Xuan accepted.
• News of Shen Xuan’s dual lineage and talent in the Ice Method spread throughout Qingyun Sect, while Qin Yuehan reacted with resentment to his departure.
• Lone Peak True Person assigned Yun Chixin to take charge of the Dao-Demon Conflict at Tianzhang Prefecture and granted her two hundred Heaven Thunder Pearls.
• Lone Peak True Person told her disciples to protect their Anti-Lightning Clothing and explained that Little Solitary Peak would supply all the sect’s Heaven Thunder Pearls in exchange for Thunder Containing Divine Iron.
• Shen Xuan began moving to Hanyu Peak to establish a new Cave Abode.

Shen Xuan moved from Water Moon Residence to Hanyu Peak and parted from Qin Yuehan, giving her a powerful Divine Thunder Treasure Talisman while refusing to answer her feelings. After he paid his respects, True Person Hanyu examined his Dharma Treasures and began reforging his Bishui Sword.

• Shen Xuan sold Water Moon Residence to Little Solitary Peak's administrative office for its original price and moved to Hanyu Peak with Su Xue'er, while Li Ruyi stayed behind as a Guest Elder.
• Qin Yuehan used Drunken Beauty Spirit Wine to express her feelings to Shen Xuan, but he gently rejected her and gave her a Divine Thunder Treasure Talisman capable of killing a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator.
• Shen Xuan left Qin Yuehan and went to pay his respects to True Person Hanyu the next day.
• True Person Hanyu asked to inspect Shen Xuan's Dharma Treasures and chose to reforge his Bishui Sword with her Core Breath.

True Person Hanyu reforged Shen Xuan’s sword, helped him refine the Purple Gold True Water Seal, and taught him the Cave True Ice Heart Art so he could advance toward condensing an Inner Core. Shen Xuan began cultivating in peace on Hanyu Peak, but Su Xue’er returned with news that Yun Chixin had broken Lei Yaoyang’s legs in a sect tournament.

• True Person Hanyu used her Life-Bound Core Essence to transform Shen Xuan’s Bishui Sword into the Ice Soul Sword and inspected his other treasures.
• True Person Hanyu explained the Purple Gold True Water Seal’s power, refined it with an Ice Method, and warned Shen Xuan to keep his Immortal Slaying Water Qi Art secret.
• True Person Hanyu taught Shen Xuan the Cave True Ice Heart Art and planted a Mysterious Ice Spirit Lotus in his dantian.
• Shen Xuan cultivated the new art and used it to strengthen the Ice Soul Sword’s speed and power.
• Su Xue’er returned from shopping and told Shen Xuan that Yun Chixin had broken both of Lei Yaoyang’s legs in the sect’s Challenge Arena Tournament.

Shen Xuan learned how Yun Chixin defeated Lei Yaoyang and denied making the rumored Lightning Protection Treasure Robes, while the sect spread gossip about the duel. He rewarded Lu Zhengying with cultivation resources and delegated outside affairs to him, then refined Color-changing Water Lizard Essence Blood and acquired the Color-changing Camouflage talent.

• Liu Bingyu told Shen Xuan that Yun Chixin had challenged Lei Yaoyang after his disastrous campaign, sealed her spiritual power to his level, and broken both his legs in the arena.
• Shen Xuan denied making Lightning Protection Treasure Robes when Liu Bingyu hinted that she wanted one, and the two discussed Ice Method Cultivation before she left.
• Stories about Yun Chixin's victory spread among Qingyun Sect's Foundation Establishment disciples, who criticized Lei Yaoyang and praised Shen Xuan's rise.
• Shen Xuan gave Lu Zhengying thirty Lightning Spirit Pearls and other cultivation resources, then entrusted him with managing the shop, purchases, and Shen Xuan's family affairs.
• Shen Xuan refined Color-changing Water Lizard Essence Blood, selected the Color-changing Camouflage talent, and gained 118 Dao Rhyme Points.

Shen Xuan attended the True Person Direct Disciple Small Gathering to trade for cultivation resources, where a dispute over the power of his Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talisman escalated. He ended by revealing a Flying Talisman Spirit Array of forty-nine Thunder Talismans to demonstrate their strength.

• Shen Xuan reviewed his cultivation progress and concluded that he needed high-grade Water Yao Essence Blood, which he would have to obtain himself.
• Liu Bingyu invited Shen Xuan to the True Person Direct Disciple Small Gathering at Tianfeng Peak, where he met Gu Jinqin and Qin Yuehan.
• Shen Xuan offered a Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talisman in exchange for the Huang Family Direct Disciple's Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk.
• A Ren Family Direct Disciple from Sky Thunder Peak challenged Shen Xuan's claim about the talisman's power, and Ye Lingfeng judged Shen Xuan's talisman nearly equal to a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Thunder Method strike.
• Shen Xuan answered the Ren Family Direct Disciple's continued objections by displaying forty-nine Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talismans in a Flying Talisman Spirit Array.

Shen Xuan demonstrated the power of his Flying Talisman Spirit Array, traded Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talismans for Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk, and sought rare Monster Beast Essence Blood. He found a potential trade for Ice Mountain Snow Ape Essence Blood and asked how many Lightning Spirit Pearls it would cost.

• Shen Xuan displayed his Flying Talisman Spirit Array and impressed Ye Lingfeng and the other True Person Direct Disciples, while the Ren Family Direct Disciple retreated.
• Shen Xuan traded twenty Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talismans with the Huang Family Direct Disciple for two bottles of Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk.
• Shen Xuan asked the gathering for Second-Order Upper Grade Water Yao Essence Blood or information about suitable beasts, but declined an offer of Earth Armor Dragon Essence Blood.
• A True Person Direct Disciple offered Shen Xuan Second-Order Middle Grade Ice Mountain Snow Ape Essence Blood, which Shen Xuan accepted as a possible source of Ice Method talent.
• Shen Xuan offered to trade spirit stones, Thunder Talismans, or Lightning Spirit Pearls for the Ice Mountain Snow Ape Essence Blood and asked how many pearls the disciple wanted.

At a sect gathering, Shen Xuan traded for Ice Mountain Snow Ape Essence Blood and learned where to find a Sky-reaching Water Rhinoceros, while helping Qin Yuehan and Liu Bingyu sell their wares. Back at Hanyu Peak, he chose the Four-eared Long-tongued Macaque’s Hear in All Directions talent, prepared for six months, and left the story ready to tell Master Hanyu he intended to hunt monsters outside the sect.

• Shen Xuan traded Lightning Spirit Pearls for Ice Mountain Snow Ape Essence Blood and bought information about a Sky-reaching Water Rhinoceros with two Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talismans.
• Qin Yuehan asked Shen Xuan to help sell her Yin Devouring Demonic Worms, and he divided them into lots that brought in more than thirty thousand spirit stones.
• Liu Bingyu sold all three hundred Ice Soul Needle Talismans, and Shen Xuan left early after Qin Yuehan glared at him.
• Shen Xuan chose the Four-eared Long-tongued Macaque’s Hear in All Directions talent and planned six months of cultivation and training before monster hunting.
• After six months of preparation, Shen Xuan informed Master Hanyu that he would go monster hunting outside the sect.

Shen Xuan reflected on Giant Furnace Alchemy’s impact on Medicine God Valley, then advanced his cultivation and prepared to visit Ding Yuyao for her seventieth birthday. At Shen Manor, two Daoists arrived with a birthday gift, and Junior Brother Yu learned that Shen Xiuyan was a cultivator whose marriage might help him build his Dao Foundation.

• Shen Xuan concluded that Giant Furnace Alchemy would weaken Medicine God Valley and eventually affect alchemy sects across the continent.
• Ten months later, Shen Xuan demonstrated the [Cave True Ice Heart Art] to True Person Hanyu and received her praise for mastering it in a year.
• Shen Xuan refined an Ice Mountain Snow Ape’s Essence Blood, gained [Demonic Blood Boil], invested Dao Rhyme Points in the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Talisman, and strengthened his body skills.
• Shen Xuan asked True Person Hanyu for permission to visit Ding Yuyao, then told Su Xue'er he would be away for three to five months and cautioned her to stay on Hanyu Peak.
• At Shen Manor, Senior Brother Xiao told Junior Brother Yu that Shen Xiuyan was the daughter of a great sect’s True Person and suggested that marrying her could offer a Foundation Establishment opportunity.

At Shen Manor, Ding Yuyao agreed to ask her absent husband to decide whether to help the Qinglong Bay Ding Family save Ding Yixuan, despite her children’s warnings. When an unknown transparent figure appeared in the inner quarters and resisted every attack, Ding Yuyao recognized it and called it her husband.

• Senior Brother Xiao and Yu Fangliang arrived at Shen Manor, where Shen Xiuxing explained that Shen Xiuyan was occupied and could not meet them yet.
• Ding Yitao delivered the Qinglong Bay Ding Family Head’s plea for Ding Yuyao to save the gravely wounded Ding Yixuan, and Ding Yuyao asked Steward Liu to send a letter to her husband for a decision.
• Shen Xiuxing and Shen Xiuyan warned Ding Yuyao against intervening in cultivators’ conflicts, but she chose to honor her old ties to the Ding Family.
• Shen Xiuyan sensed an intruder, and she, Shen Xiuxing, Steward Liu, and Ding Yitao attacked the transparent figure without effect.
• Shen Xiuyan unleashed the Purple Jade Bracelet’s powerful sword ray, but it also failed to affect the figure, and Ding Yuyao stepped forward and called it “Husband!”

Shen Xuan reunited with Ding Yuyao for her seventieth birthday and agreed to investigate the Ding family’s troubles at Qinglong Bay. After rescuing Ding Yitao from two Crimson Rainbow Sect cultivators, he suspected the Heavenly Skill Sect was using the conflict to destroy the Ding family.

• Senior Brother Xiao refused to investigate the spiritual-energy disturbance at Shen Manor, while Yu Fangliang reluctantly stayed with him.
• Shen Xuan comforted Ding Yuyao, promised to visit Qinglong Bay after her birthday banquet, and strengthened Shen Xiuyan’s Purple Jade Sword Heart Bracelet with nine powerful Sword Intents.
• Shen Xuan sent Shen Xiuyan and Shen Xiuxing to meet the Heavenly Skill Sect disciples and learn the sect’s attitude toward the Ding family.
• Two Crimson Rainbow Sect cultivators intercepted Ding Yitao outside Hongcheng County, but Shen Xuan appeared as a Dark Ice Fish and drove them away.
• The Crimson Rainbow Sect cultivators recognized Shen Xuan and returned to their sect to report, while Shen Xuan suspected the Heavenly Skill Sect was behind the Ding family’s predicament.

Shen Xuan arranged for Ding Yuyao and their children to move to Qingyun Immortal City, then traveled toward Qinglong Bay to deal with the Crimson Rainbow Sect. He confronted Ling Baoshi, a late Foundation Establishment cultivator and Core Formation Seed, and warned him against attacking.

• Shen Xuan decided to recruit the Ding Family's help and flew to Shen Manor during Ding Yuyao's Longevity Banquet.
• Shen Xuan told Ding Yuyao, Shen Xiuxing, and Shen Xiuyan to move to Qingyun Immortal City, and Steward Liu agreed to accompany them.
• Ding Yuyao spent the night in Shen Xuan's arms, remembered their life together, and watched the sunrise with him.
• Ten days later, Shen Xuan left Qingyun Immortal City on the Golden Claw Divine Eagle Corpse Beast and flew toward Qinglong Bay.
• Ling Baoshi of the Crimson Rainbow Sect's War Hall intercepted Shen Xuan, who warned that an attack could injure him and damage his Dao Foundation.

Shen Xuan returned to Qinglong Bay Market, where the struggling Ding Family welcomed him and asked him to treat Ding Yixuan’s severe injuries. The chapter ended with Shen Xuan guiding spiritual energy through Ding Yixuan’s body, beginning to repair his organs and meridians.

• Ling Baoshi tried to deter Shen Xuan from reaching Qinglong Bay, but backed down when Shen Xuan challenged him and then followed him there.
• Shen Xuan arrived at the Ding Family’s side of Qinglong Bay Market, where Ding Yijin and the remaining elders welcomed him before Heavenly Skill Sect cultivators Tan Xingkong and Hu Ningxiang arrived.
• Shen Xuan ignored Tan Xingkong and Hu Ningxiang, then went with Ding Yijin to visit the gravely injured Ding Yixuan.
• Ding Yijin kept Tan Xingkong and Hu Ningxiang outside the room while Shen Xuan examined Ding Yixuan’s injuries and began treating him with the Divine Treasure Canghai Technique.
• Shen Xuan guided spiritual energy through Ding Yixuan’s body, restoring his internal organs and rapidly healing his damaged meridians.

Shen Xuan healed Ding Yixuan and arranged for the Ding Family to leave Qinglong Bay and settle near Qingyun Sect, where some could serve as outer disciples. As the family prepared to depart, Tan Xingkong and Hu Ningxiang arrived and accused them of fleeing Heavenly Skill Sect.

• Shen Xuan restored much of Ding Yixuan’s health with his healing technique and a Nine-Turn Life-Prolonging Pill, and assured the family that his Dao Foundation Spirit Sea had recovered well.
• Shen Xuan rejected the Ding Family Ancestral Patriarch Seal and explained that he had intervened because of his wife, then learned Heavenly Skill Sect was abandoning the family.
• Shen Xuan offered to ask True Person Hanyu to accept some Ding Family members as outer disciples and help the rest establish themselves near Qingyun Immortal City, and Ding Yijin agreed.
• Three days later, the Ding Family gathered to leave Qinglong Bay Market aboard two flying ships, with Shen Xuan lending one to Ding Yixuan.
• Tan Xingkong and Hu Ningxiang intercepted the departing family and accused Ding Yijin of lying about Ding Yixuan’s condition and leading the family in flight from Heavenly Skill Sect.