Chapter Summaries

Wang Ping and the Dao Palace cultivators confronted two Fourth Realm Fire Spirits falling toward Northern Continent, while the True Sun Sect arrived to claim them. Wang Ping helped Lord Rongyang fight Xu Yang, and Daoist Gong Wu appeared as the struggle for the fire spirits continued.

• Wang Ping ordered Ao Hong and Lord Rongyang to capture the two Fire Spirits while he and Lord Liuyun held the line.
• Lord Rongyang struck one Fire Spirit, while Ao Hong restrained the other and sealed it in a crystal.
• Master Kaiyun and Bu Qiong arrived, followed by Xu Chun and Xu Yang, who brought the True Fire Banner and Glazed Lamp into the battle.
• Xu Chun fought one Fire Spirit as Xu Yang clashed with Lord Rongyang, and Master Kaiyun gathered materials from the blazing battlefield.
• Wang Ping used the Cave Heaven Mirror and talismans to extinguish the flames around Xu Yang and attack him, allowing Lord Rongyang to charge toward Xu Chun.
• Daoist Gong Wu arrived while Wang Ping and Lord Rongyang continued fighting the True Sun Sect cultivators.

Wang Ping and the other Dao Palace cultivators ended their battle with the Sun Sect without destroying it, then sought the True Lords’ ruling on the two Fourth Realm advancement slots. The True Lords granted one slot exclusively to the Sun Sect and made the other open to sect nominations, leaving Wang Ping with three candidates to raise at the next Second Seat meeting.

• Daoist Gong Wu joined Wang Ping and Lord Rongyang against Xu Chun, while Wang Ping weakened Xu Yang’s Heart Fire and stopped him from casting spells.
• Xu Chun used the True Fire Banner to force an end to the fighting, and the gathered cultivators agreed not to destroy the Sun Sect.
• Xu Chun and Xu Yang returned to the Sun Sect, secured the True Fire Banner and Glazed Lamp, and discussed seeking alliances to win approval for their slot.
• At Thousand Wood Temple, Wang Ping handed Lord Rongyang the captured Fourth Realm Fire Spirit, and Ao Hong urged the group to ask the True Lords to allocate the advancement slots.
• The True Lords decreed that the Sun Sect would receive one exclusive slot and that the other would go to a sect-nominated disciple who would serve at the front line for one thousand years.
• Lord Rongyang and Daoist Gong Wu put forward Hua Yun, Dansha, and Ji He as candidates, and Wang Ping agreed to raise their names at the next Second Seat meeting.

Wang Ping discussed the hidden political currents behind the world’s apparent peace with Ao Hong, then continued developing Star God Puppets capable of cultivating. He sent a newly awakened Puppet to seek Ao Hong’s cooperation and received a coded warning from Lord Liuyun about coming unrest along Haizhou Road.

• Ao Hong told Wang Ping that the world’s calm concealed greater upheavals, urged him to focus on present affairs, and advised him to be patient about confronting True Monarch Huishan.
• Wang Ping agreed to act discreetly, planned to visit Yulian’s parents in Hushan Kingdom, and transferred most of his Puppets there.
• Six months later, Wang Ping successfully tested Star God Puppets that absorbed spiritual energy, but one Puppet shattered when a Bing Talisman rapidly powered it up.
• Wang Ping cultivated another Star God Puppet, planted a Wood Spirit Spiritual Meridian in its core, and sent it to Ao Hong to seek cooperation involving Outer Realm energy.
• A Disciple delivered Wang Ping a coded letter from Lord Liuyun, warning that his plan for Third Realm positions would cause unrest along Haizhou Road and asking Wang Ping to placate the factions.

Wang Ping used the Fortune Array to foresee an Earth Vein cultivator secretly reaching the Fourth Realm and being hunted, then challenged a proposal to send five Second Seat members to search for Wei Kong. After learning Daoist Cang Yue might attack the Yuqing Sect, Wang Ping left with Yulian to consult Ao Hong.

• Wang Ping’s enhanced calculations revealed that an Earth Vein cultivator would secretly advance to the Fourth Realm, usually be killed by the Dao Palace Second Seats, and only rarely escape.
• At the Second Seat meeting, Mansu proposed sending five Fourth Realm cultivators to find Wei Kong, but Wang Ping questioned the deadline and argued against removing so many Second Seat members at once.
• Wang Ping’s proposal to conscript Cang Yue and send him to search for Wei Kong passed, as did the other routine agenda item; Cang Ji urged Wang Ping to act against Cang Yue, while Rongyang, Ao Hong, and Bu Qiong warned him to be careful.
• Dong Can told Wang Ping that First Day had reported Cang Yue was preparing to attack the Yuqing Sect, though the intelligence could not be confirmed.
• Wang Ping summoned Yulian and traveled to Linshui Prefecture to discuss the matter with Ao Hong, while Hu Qianqian and Hu Lin wondered about Wang Ping after he left.

Wang Ping met Ao Hong at his island dojo and discussed the threat Cang Yue posed to Yuqing Sect, along with suspicions about Liuyun’s plans. After arranging to watch events from hiding, Wang Ping traveled toward Sea City and warned Daoist Zhi Gong that Liuyun was making moves.

• Ao Hong welcomed Wang Ping to his dojo, where Yulian explored the pool and the group shared wine and fruit while discussing an ancient giant beast.
• Wang Ping told Ao Hong that Daoist Cang Yue intended to attack Yuqing Sect and raised concerns about Liuyun’s plan for Haizhou Road and Mansu’s unusual proposal.
• Wang Ping and Ao Hong agreed that Wang Ping would feign ten years of secluded cultivation, monitor Yuqing Sect in secret, and avoid revealing himself unless necessary.
• Ao Hong contacted Cang Ji and Bu Qiong to arrange a meeting on Anmu Island, while Wang Ping departed for Hushan Kingdom with Yulian.
• Wang Ping reached a road near Sea City, paid two Pig Yaos for lodging, and sent Daoist Zhi Gong a message warning that Liuyun was making moves.

Wang Ping deduced that Cang Yue would cause the Yuqing Sect's mountain to collapse but could not learn how the attack would unfold. Cang Yue attacked the sect to seize its hidden Netherworld Body, but the body vanished and the sect's powerful cultivators stopped him.

• Wang Ping used the Fortune Array to learn that the Yuqing Sect's mountain would collapse, recorded the result on the Sky-Veiling Talisman, and meditated with Yulian asleep on his knees.
• Cang Yue entered Sea City disguised as a drunken cultivator, met Young Master Li, and agreed to attack the Yuqing Sect during a disturbance in exchange for help taking Xuanqing's spiritual body.
• Cang Yue used the Yin Thunder Art to destroy the Yuqing Sect's main hall, then entered the underground cavern and broke the seals holding a Netherworld Body.
• The Netherworld Body disappeared before Cang Yue could collect it, and Prefect Yuxing confronted him with Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.
• Bu Qiong and Lord Liuyun contained the destruction and rescued falling Disciples, while Ao Hong and Cang Ji blocked Cang Yue's escape.
• Cang Yue defended the name his master had given him, and Ao Hong demanded to know why he had attacked the Yuqing Sect.

Cang Yue accepted a thousand-year sentence of service on the front lines after explaining that he had attacked the Yuqing Sect to recover his Master's remains. Meanwhile, Wang Ping examined the Netherworld Body he had taken and decided to seal it for later study before heading with Yulian to Gray Water Pool.

• Cang Yue told Ao Hong and the others that he had attacked the Yuqing Sect to reclaim his Master's body, which had been used as the Yuqing Sect's formation core.
• Prefect Yuxing dismissed the dispute as an affair from an ancient era, and Ao Hong increased Cang Yue's front-line sentence from five hundred years to one thousand.
• Ao Hong asked Lord Liuyun whether something had gone wrong when Changqing absorbed Outer Realm energy, then reported the interrogation to Wang Ping.
• Wang Ping and Yulian discussed why Cang Yue had not exposed the Transfer Talisman and considered the Netherworld Body's possible use for Daoist Tongyu.
• Wang Ping removed the Yuqing Sect's seals from the Netherworld Body, replaced them with a Wood Spirit Sealing Array, and set off with Yulian for Gray Water Pool after she stopped to eat fresh shrimp.

Wang Ping and Yulian visited Zizhu and Lanyang at Gray Water Pool, where Yulian challenged her mother for the right to become queen of the Spirit Serpent Clan and lost. Zizhu revealed that Yucheng had promised to shelter the clan once Wang Ping reached the Fourth Realm, and the chapter ended as a young Spirit Serpent called out to Yulian.

• Zizhu sensed Yulian approaching and roused Lanyang, who recognized Wang Ping as Prefect Changqing.
• Yulian challenged Zizhu to a physical fight for the position of queen, but Zizhu defeated her.
• Lanyang hosted Wang Ping and discussed their former home in Sanhe Prefecture and the missing Southern Sea Daoist.
• Zizhu told Wang Ping that Yucheng had promised to shelter the Spirit Serpent Clan after Wang Ping advanced to the Fourth Realm.
• Wang Ping welcomed the clan's planned move to Sanhe Prefecture, and a young Spirit Serpent called out to Yulian.

Wang Ping learned that Yulian needed to fuse with the Spirit Serpent ancestor’s inner core to gain a true bloodline and advance beyond the Third Realm. Meanwhile, Cang Yue searched the asteroid belts, met a Star God Alliance contact, and sent his life-bound Puppet to visit Prefect Changqing at Thousand Wood Temple.

• Zizhu told Wang Ping that the Spirit Serpent ancestor possessed the inner core needed for Yulian’s bloodline inheritance and had asked them to bring Wang Ping and Yulian to him.
• Wang Ping noticed that the Sky-Veiling Talisman’s fusion progress had risen to (6/100), which he linked to his deduction of Cang Yue’s fate.
• Cang Yue followed clues through the asteroid belts and met a young cultivator, who said Wei Kong’s location would take about ten years to find and urged him to focus on other matters.
• Cang Yue returned toward the Moon, summoned his life-bound Puppet, and sent it to visit Prefect Changqing at Thousand Wood Temple with a jade slip and calling card.

Wang Ping met Xin Shi, who revealed that Ancestor Yuxiao had been trapped in a formation in Azure Hall after an expedition to the Misty Sea. Xin Shi said Yuxiao had ordered a future Fourth Realm successor to find him, leaving Wang Ping to consider whether he would go.

• Zizhu, Lanyang, Wang Ping, and Yulian entered the palace to meet Xin Shi, who asked about his grilled fish and recognized Wang Ping as Thousand Wood Temple's successor.
• Xin Shi explained that he had formed a soul contract with Yuxiao and recounted how Yuxiao had secretly schemed after reaching the Third Realm.
• Xin Shi said Yuxiao took him to the Misty Sea, where a brilliant pillar of light destroyed Yuxiao's spirit body and Physical Body and left his Primordial Spirit locked to a formation in Azure Hall.
• Xin Shi relayed Yuxiao's instruction for a future Fourth Realm successor to find him, but said the successor should first reach strength comparable to Yuxiao's.
• Xin Shi described Yuxiao's formidable power and his view that Vajra Temple and the Taiyin Sect upheld the world's old covenant, prompting Yulian to ask whether Yuxiao had chosen tradition or a new path.

Wang Ping helped Yulian receive Xin Shi’s inner core, beginning her gradual path toward the Fourth Realm, and then discussed moving the Spirit Serpent Clan to Sanhe Prefecture. He settled in a nearby city while the clan prepared for a secret relocation that would take months.

• Xin Shi gave Yulian his detached inner core and explained that fusing with it would take a Hundred Years, with advancement requiring a further three hundred years and caution around the True Lords.
• Yulian swallowed the inner core, which connected with the one in her Qi Sea, while Xin Shi returned to his pool and accepted that his strength and lifespan would decline.
• Wang Ping returned to the courtyard, where Lanyang, Zizhu, Yulian, and Yuanyuan shared a meal before discussing the Spirit Serpent Clan’s relocation.
• Zizhu proposed that the clan travel quietly along the seabed, and Wang Ping offered his transfer formation as a faster route to Sanhe Prefecture.
• The clan discovered that moving its herbs, dismantling its formations, and waiting for its incubating next generation would take months, so Wang Ping settled in a nearby city.

As conflict gathered around Cloud Sparrow Mountain, Wen Hai followed Thousand Wood Temple’s instructions and met Dong Can in Twin Woods Town to pursue a Third Realm advancement qualification. Dong Can brought Wen Hai to watch a battle, where Wu Quan was trapped beneath a Life and Death Light Screen and invoked his pact with Prefect Changqing to deter his attackers.

• A rumor that an extraterritorial Fourth Realm True Spirit would descend at Cloud Sparrow Mountain drew cultivators to Cloud Sparrow Prefectural City and Shanguang County.
• A Thousand Wood Temple messenger warned Wen Hai to leave his estate and avoid the coming conflict, so Wen Hai traveled to Twin Woods Town.
• At the Yang Residence banquet, Dong Can told Wen Hai that he would help him obtain a Third Realm advancement qualification and warned him to stay out of the fighting.
• When Earth Vein spells shook the area, Dong Can took Wen Hai to a mountain overlooking a battle involving Li Miaolin and a monkey demon.
• A Third Realm cultivator trapped beneath a Life and Death Light Screen declared that he had a pact with Prefect Changqing; Wen Hai recognized the speaker as Wu Quan.

Wen Hai witnessed the Dao Palace envoys rescue Wu Quan and capture a Third Realm cultivator’s Primordial Spirit, while their remarks revealed that Lord Liuyun’s plans involved advancement slots in the Earth Cave Sect. The chapter ended when a 'Power Pill' destroyed the Inspiration World around Cloud Sparrow Mountain, leaving the Third Realm slots open to everyone.

• A giant tower rose near Cloud Sparrow Mountain, splitting the ground and unleashing a flood as cultivators rushed toward the fighting.
• The Monkey Demon, Li Miaolin, and Dong Can intervened in the battle, captured an Earth Vein cultivator’s Primordial Spirit, and freed Wu Quan from the Life and Death Light Screen.
• Dong Can gave Wen Hai the sealed Primordial Spirit and sent him back to the Mozhou Road border through Li Miaolin’s transfer array.
• Dong Can and Li Miaolin warned Wu Quan against invoking Prefect Changqing’s name and explained that he needed a Fourth Realm cultivator’s nomination to advance.
• Wu Quan agreed to investigate Lord Liuyun’s actions after Li Miaolin and Dong Can suggested that the chaos might serve a larger purpose.
• A 'Power Pill' exploded at Cloud Sparrow Mountain, collapsing the Inspiration World in the blast zone; Dong Can identified it as Prefect Changqing’s, and Li Miaolin said the Third Realm slots might now be open to everyone.

After the destruction of Cloud Sparrow Mountain, Daoist Wanzhi and Liu Shuibin discussed Liuyun’s plans and the danger surrounding a senior disciple’s advancement. Years later, Wang Ping helped the Spirit Serpent Clan settle in Sanhe Prefecture, then reactivated his communication signal and learned that Moon Outpost had found traces of Wei Kong.

• Daoist Liu Shuibin learned that at least fourteen Mystic Sect cultivators had remained on Cloud Sparrow Mountain and that Liuyun had likely intervened during the explosion.
• Daoist Wanzhi ordered Liu Shuibin to investigate and monitor the recipients of Liuyun’s Third Realm slots, and warned him not to let Changqing intervene personally.
• Wang Ping learned that Liuyun had given two Taiyan Third Realm slots to Liu Shuang, while the Cloud Sparrow Mountain disaster gradually faded from public memory.
• The Spirit Serpent Clan completed its relocation to Sanhe Prefecture, named its new home Bright Moon Pool, and continued establishing formations to protect its descendants’ spiritual awareness.
• Wang Ping brought Lanyang and Zizhu to Thousand Wood Temple to discuss contracts with Liu Shuang, then reactivated his Communication Token after ten years of secluded cultivation.
• Wang Ping learned that the True Sun Sect’s two attempts to advance to the Fourth Realm had failed and that Moon Outpost had found traces of Wei Kong.

Wang Ping placed the Netherworld Body with Daoist Tongyu, then learned that Wei Kong had been spotted and that the search was closing in. As the dispute over True Sun Sect’s Fourth Realm slot intensified, Wang Ping received competing requests from First Day and Lord Rongyang and began divining the truth behind Rongyang’s proposal.

• Wang Ping asked Guan Qi to keep investigating Wei Zun’s disappearance and traveled with Yulian to replace Daoist Tongyu’s Physical Body with the Netherworld Body, which Tongyu’s Primordial Spirit repeatedly tried to devour.
• A Star God Alliance liaison officer told Wang Ping that Wei Kong’s traces had been found two months earlier and that Predecessor Mansu expected the encirclement to take shape soon.
• Yulian told Wang Ping that clan members would attempt contracts with disciples at Bright Moon Pool in one month, followed by newly born Little Fellows if the first attempts failed.
• Ke Yue asked Wang Ping to support neither side in the Second Seat meeting over True Sun Sect’s Fourth Realm slot, offering to clear Taiyan Sect’s debt to Great-Grandmaster He Feng; Wang Ping agreed.
• Daoist Hua Yun presented Lord Rongyang’s proposal to eradicate First Day strongholds for ten years, and Wang Ping began a Fortune Array deduction after reading it.

Wang Ping considered proposals from True Sun Sect, Vajra Temple, and Taiyin Sect while reflecting on his isolation and visiting Hu Qianqian’s settlement at Baishui Lake. After returning to the Mountain Top Dojo, he learned from Liu Shuang that Zhao Yu'er had passed away in meditation.

• Wang Ping agreed to circulate True Sun Sect’s proposal but said its master would have to present it himself, and he maintained that the proposal to change Fourth Realm slots would not be overturned.
• Wang Ping accepted Master Kaiyun’s proposal to raise the value of gold and passed it to Liu Shuang, then agreed with Ao Hong to give Taiyin Sect verbal support for intervening in Yuqing Sect’s conflict, provided the fighting stayed in the Third Realm.
• Wang Ping visited Hu Qianqian’s dojo at Baishui Lake, spoke with her Disciple Hu Lin, and spent the day fishing with Yulian.
• Liu Shuang informed Wang Ping that Zhao Yu'er had passed away in meditation.

Wang Ping learned of Zhao Yu'er's death and examined the secret method and Star God core she left behind. Liu Ling returned from centuries of Secluded Cultivation, learned Zhao Yu'er had died, and began abandoning her cultivation; Wang Ping and Yulian tried to awaken her as her life rapidly faded.

• Liu Shuang told Wang Ping that Zhao Yu'er had died after trying to fuse the powers in her body, and gave him her Star God core and recorded secret method.
• Wang Ping judged Zhao Yu'er's method viable and told Liu Shuang to have Disciples study it and seek Daoist Yuanzheng's help refining the core into a treasure for Yu'er's lineage.
• Liu Ling arrived at the sect after centuries of Secluded Cultivation and asked where Zhao Yu'er was, then learned that her old rival had died.
• Liu Ling recalled waiting for Zhao Yu'er to return and fight her, then announced she would go back to Secluded Cultivation.
• Liu Ling began abandoning her spiritual meridians and rapidly withered, while Wang Ping and Yulian tried to stop her and awaken her will to live.

Wang Ping tended to the aftermath of Liu Ling’s death, continued guiding his disciples, and learned that Zi Luan had returned to seek an audience. Zi Luan and Qin Zifeng arrived at Thousand Wood Temple, where Zi Luan saw how much the temple had changed and how many powerful cultivators gathered there.

• Wang Ping restored Liu Ling’s appearance and told Liu Shuang to wash and change her, while Yulian urged Liu Shuang to steady herself for Yang Rong’s sake.
• Wang Ping meditated beneath the Old Huai Tree, sealed a dying sapling in a crystal, and checked the progress of Xia Weny, Xuan Ling, and Shen Xiaozhu.
• Liu Shuang visited Wang Ping, reported her plans for Liu Ling’s and Zhao Yu’er’s legacies, and received his instruction to reserve a Third Realm slot for Xiao Zhu.
• Liu Shuang brought Wang Ping a calling card from the Six Hearts Sect and told him that Zi Luan had returned and wanted to visit.
• Zi Luan discussed Thousand Wood Temple’s rise with Qin Zifeng in Zhonghui City, then went with him to the temple after learning they could submit a formal calling card.
• Zi Luan and Qin Zifeng reached the Ascension Platform, where Zi Luan saw the crowds of cultivators and recognized how insignificant he was.

Zi Luan returned to Thousand Wood Temple and met Wang Ping, who assigned him to oversee the merger of Six Hearts Sect into Thousand Wood Temple as part of rebuilding Taiyan Sect. Zi Luan shared what he knew about Thousand Wood Temple’s destruction and offered Wang Ping Taiyan Sect inheritances, including a secret method and formation flags.

• Qin Zifeng delivered Zi Luan’s calling card, and Thousand Wood Temple disciples escorted them to the front hall, where Zi Luan offered incense with Liu Shuang.
• Liu Shuang led Zi Luan to Wang Ping, and Zi Luan formally greeted him and Yulian before sharing tea.
• Wang Ping tasked Zi Luan with merging Six Hearts Sect into Thousand Wood Temple to support Taiyan Sect’s restoration.
• Zi Luan described the Baishui Lake case, Bai Zhuo, and the Star God Alliance’s search of Thousand Wood Temple, then insisted that Six Hearts Sect’s inheritance be preserved.
• Zi Luan presented Wang Ping with the Art of the Colossus secret method and three Command Flags for a formation used by Lord Xiaoshan.

Wang Ping examined the Command Flags and activated an array that revealed Lord Xiaoshan’s projection, which gave him the Wood Spirit Origin and warned him about the dangers of Fourth Realm politics. After absorbing the Origin, Wang Ping considered the looming siege of Wei Kong in outer space, then received news that Daoist Cang Yue had sent a calling card through Dong Can.

• Wang Ping studied the Art of the Colossus and gave Guan Qi a list of materials needed for its arrays.
• Wang Ping activated the three Command Flags, discovered they formed an array tied to a Fourth Realm Wood Spirit, and used the Fortune Array to confirm it was safe before sitting at its core.
• Lord Xiaoshan’s projection appeared, gave Wang Ping the Wood Spirit Origin, answered questions about Ancestor Yuxiao and the moon, and warned him to act decisively while guarding against losing his humanity.
• Wang Ping swallowed the Wood Spirit Origin and sensed that his Wood Spirit would take thousands of years to digest it, then considered the risks surrounding the coming siege of Wei Kong in outer space.
• Dong Can came to report that Daoist Cang Yue had sent a calling card through a Disciple.