Chapter Summaries

True Person Qingyang battled the Blood Demon Asura, suppressing it with the Five Elements Spirit Fire Seal Great Formation, but discovered that the monster was connected to a vast sea of blood and a mountain crowded with Demonic Beasts. When he met the gaze of another Asura there, his thoughts began to fade as the mysterious aura over the Lingnan Great Land dissipated.

• True Person Qingyang attacked the Asura with Great Sun True Flame, but the monster seized the flame and cursed him through their connection.
• The Asura endured Qingyang's attacks, corrupted his Dao Domain, and charged through his defenses until Qingyang trapped it with a flame avatar.
• True Person Qingyang formed the Five Elements Spirit Fire Seal Great Formation and crushed the Asura beneath five Flame Spirit mountains.
• Crimson blood seeped out from beneath the mountains, and Qingyang's divine sense revealed an endless sea of blood and a demonic mountain covered with Demonic Beasts.
• A figure resembling the Asura met Qingyang's gaze from the mountain, freezing his thoughts as the mysterious aura above the Lingnan Great Land dissipated.

Grandmaster Taixuan and Tianjizi discussed the Immortal Alliance’s weakening strength and the threat posed by the Heavenly Demon Cult. When they detected an Asura Clone in a forbidden southeastern region, Grandmaster Taixuan activated the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation to stop it.

• Grandmaster Taixuan and Tianjizi discussed the decline of the Immortal Alliance’s Spirit Transformation cultivators and the unexplained disappearance of the Nanhua Dream Sect.
• Grandmaster Taixuan proposed resolving the visible threat and provoking hidden enemies to reveal themselves.
• Tianjizi reported that he still could not locate the escaped Asura Clone, but both men sensed its aura moments later.
• Grandmaster Taixuan used the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation to pinpoint the clone in the Land of Fallen of two cultivators.
• Grandmaster Taixuan learned that the clone seemed to be summoning the power of the Demon Mountain Space and activated the great formation to stop it.

The Demon Court learned of a Starfall in the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation and debated whether to intervene despite the danger it posed. Mountain Lord ordered nearby forces to watch the region, leaving the deeper cause of the disturbance under scrutiny.

• Mountain Lord and Elder Bai discussed the East Sea Dragon Palace’s request for the Demon Court to activate the Myriad Demons Great Formation against the Immortal Alliance’s Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation.
• A message from the Spirit Eye Bright Colt clan reported a Starfall in the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation, and Mountain Lord and Elder Bai recognized its immense power.
• Mountain Lord weighed the risks of entering the dangerous Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation and worried that the Immortal Alliance might exploit his absence to attack the Demon Court.
• Mountain Lord ordered the Spirit Eye Bright Colt clan to send elites to observe the region and instructed the Phoenix Clan Leader and Black Flood Dragon King to monitor it as well.

A vast sea of blood and its curse engulfed the Azure Cloud Sect’s territory, leaving Lin Chen and True Person Qingyang struggling to survive. A mysterious giant hand destroyed the Asura’s avatar, but the Immortal Alliance Leader, Grandmaster Taixuan, then sealed the entire Lingnan Cultivation World.

• Blood Shadows filled the Azure Cloud Sect’s territory, and Lin Chen could not activate his Instant Thousand Mile Talisman as their curses attacked him.
• Lin Chen resisted the curse with darkness from his memories and held on, expecting Zhang Hao’s fate to trigger a change.
• True Person Qingyang resisted the Blood Shadows and realized the Asura had borrowed power from a distant place.
• A reflection spread across the sky to encompass the Lingnan Cultivation World, and a giant hand froze everyone before crushing the Asura’s avatar.
• The reflection and blood-red world vanished, and Grandmaster Taixuan used the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation to seal Lingnan.

After True Person Qingyang’s breakthrough to Nascent Soul helped repel the demonic cultivators, the Azure Cloud Sect faced widespread destruction and the looming threat of the Blood Demon faction. As Lingnan’s survivors celebrated Qingyang’s achievement despite the array sealing their land, Lin Chen wondered whether he could use the crisis to escape.

• True Person Qingyang assessed the vast array sealing Lingnan and realized that the Azure Cloud Sect had become entangled in a conflict involving powerful Spirit Transmutation cultivators.
• True Person Qingyang treated True Person Jian Xuan’s severe injuries, then confirmed to True Ancestor Changqing and True Person Zhen Tian that he had broken through to the Nascent Soul realm.
• True Person Qingyang said the Blood Demon faction had to be destroyed and predicted that whoever sealed Lingnan would make their next move.
• News spread that True Person Qingyang had become Lingnan’s first Nascent Soul Cultivator, giving the exhausted survivors hope even as the array prevented anyone from entering or leaving.
• Lin Chen, still injured after the battle, studied the array and considered whether he could use the opportunity to leave Lingnan.

Lin Chen considered the obstacles to leaving the Lingnan Great Land and realized the Central Lands Immortal Alliance’s response to the Blood Demon could give him a way out. After the battle, he entered a Blood Pool to heal while awaiting the outsiders’ arrival.

• Lin Chen reviewed the difficulties of reaching the Central Lands, concluding that finding a safe route past the Ten Thousand Monster Royal Court was the greatest obstacle.
• Lin Chen recognized that the Central Lands Immortal Alliance’s effort to eradicate the Blood Demon might reveal a safe route into or out of Lingnan.
• Lin Chen returned to his Cave Mansion to recover from the battle without relying on spirit pills that could leave hidden injuries.
• Lin Chen entered the Blood Pool and used fetal breathing to begin healing, planning to wake every two hours and check his surroundings.
• Ripples began stirring in the Central Lands in response to the events in Lingnan.

Grandmaster Taixuan and Tianjizi decided the Immortal Alliance should send Elder Jian to destroy the weakened Asura Clone in Lingnan, with Yue Ling’s clone accompanying him. Elder Jian departed the Taiyi Immortal Sword Sect, unknowingly beginning a journey that would usher in a turbulent era and reveal mysteries at the heart of cultivation.

• Grandmaster Taixuan refused to destroy Lingnan because doing so would ruin the chance that one of its two fallen Spirit Transmutation Celestial Venerables could return stronger and advance toward Void Refinement.
• Grandmaster Taixuan and Tianjizi discussed how to destroy the Asura Clone, whose Blood God Sons made ordinary attacks insufficient, and considered using the Death River Cult before deciding against it.
• Tianjizi proposed sending Gu Jiancheng, but Grandmaster Taixuan judged him insufficient, so Tianjizi said Elder Jian would act despite being near the end of his lifespan.
• Grandmaster Taixuan arranged for the Hunyuan Five Elements Sect to restrain the Demon Court and for Yue Ling of the Sun Moon Immortal Palace to send a clone with Elder Jian.
• Elder Jian received the order at the Taiyi Immortal Sword Sect, left the Ancient Sword Pool, and set out for the Lingnan Cultivation World.

After Qingyang’s ascension to Nascent Soul, the trapped Mysterious Yin Gate and weakened Blood Demon sought ways to survive and strike back. Lin Tianhang and the Heavenly Demon possessing Lin Tianhao discussed the Immortal Alliance’s formation, whose existence itself was uncertain to them.

• Old Demon Taiyin decided that the Mysterious Yin Gate would ally with the Blood Demon faction to oppose Qingyang and seek a chance to survive.
• The weakened Blood Demon ordered its Golden Core Blood Shadow to find more Blood Food, and the Blood Shadow turned its hatred toward the Mysterious Yin Gate.
• Lin Tianhang confronted the Heavenly Demon possessing Lin Tianhao and learned that it had guided him before he fell to demonic cultivation.
• Lin Tianhang and Lin Tianhao discussed the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation, which Lin Tianhao said could not be broken and might not even truly exist.

Lin Tianhao explained that the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation had no discoverable foundation or power source, and revealed that the Lingnan Plan aimed to sever the Immortal Alliance’s link to it through a great catastrophe. As the Azure Cloud Sect rebuilt after the battle, Lin Chen and True Person Zhen Tian investigated the barrier over Lingnan and found it strange.

• Lin Tianhao told Lin Tianhang that their forces could find no formation base, runes, or energy supply for the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation.
• Lin Tianhao said the dream realm let them resist the Immortal Alliance and revealed that the Lingnan Plan would begin with an unprecedented great catastrophe.
• True Lord Qingyang recalled cultivators and mortals to rebuild the Azure Cloud Sect, relaxed recruitment requirements, and opened the sect treasury.
• Zhang Mengyao and Zhang Hao surveyed the ruins and discussed the sect’s casualties, destroyed spirit veins, and the devastation across Lingnan.
• Zhang Mengyao told Zhang Hao that the Patriarchs and Senior Brother Lin had gone to investigate the formation sealing Lingnan rather than restore the spirit veins.
• Lin Chen and True Person Zhen Tian examined the golden barrier and concluded that the formation sealing Lingnan was very strange.

Lin Chen and the others examined the barrier sealing Lingnan and found that it appeared to have no foundation or power source, while distorting space. Lin Chen suspected that ancient cultivators had created it, and the group turned to rebuilding Lingnan after the battle.

• True Person Zhen Tian and Lin Chen explained that the barrier lacked the foundation, energy source, and ordinary manifestation expected of a formation.
• Lin Chen reached through the golden curtain, and his hand emerged from an unexpected position, leading True Ancestor Changqing and True Lord Qingyang to suspect spatial distortion.
• Lin Chen argued that the Central Land Immortal Alliance was unlikely to have created the formation and speculated that top-tier Ancient Cultivators were responsible.
• True Lord Qingyang cautioned that the formation's origins were beyond their reach, while True Ancestor Changqing said the Blood Demon forces were hiding and the Mysterious Yin Gate had suffered heavy losses.
• True Ancestor Changqing identified rebuilding the shattered Lingnan Great Land as their most urgent task.

Lin Chen and True Lord Qingyang surveyed the devastation left by Planetary Devastation and learned that Azure Cloud Sect lacked the resources to rebuild its territory. With the sect needing to restore production quickly, Lin Chen proposed turning the perilous land into a blessed one rather than restoring it to its original state.

• True Lord Qingyang and Lin Chen inspected the shattered Lingnan Great Land and recalled the immense impact of Planetary Devastation.
• True Ancestor Changqing reported severe losses among Azure Cloud Sect's cultivators, spirit mountains, spirit veins, and formations, and estimated that repairs would cost at least one hundred million Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• True Lord Qingyang said the sect would need to draw resources from the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation, arguing that the weakened Blood Demon would not attack soon and that rebuilding could not wait.
• True Ancestor Changqing questioned how they could rebuild spirit veins in land that was close to breaking apart.
• Lin Chen offered to restore the land by adapting to its terrain and nurturing a blessed land from the perilous realm.

Lin Chen proposed restoring Lingnan by adapting to its ruined conditions rather than rebuilding the land outright. True Lord Qingyang and the others approved his plan and pledged the sect’s full support.

• Lin Chen explained that Lingnan’s dead, unstable terrain made conventional restoration too slow and costly.
• Lin Chen proposed building high mountain settlements and using soil and volcanic ash from the haze to create fertile fields.
• Lin Chen suggested replacing broken earth veins with the sect’s Tail Wind Path to circulate spiritual qi between mountain peaks and form spirit mountains.
• Lin Chen proposed filling the central meteorite pit with seawater to create a vast hot spring lake for spirit fish.
• True Lord Qingyang endorsed Lin Chen’s strategy and promised the sect would spare no cost to rebuild Lingnan.

Lin Chen joined True Lord Qingyang and True Person Zhen Tian in using the Azure Cloud Sect’s formation to restore the devastated Lingnan Great Land. The region began developing new resources and habitats, though mortals would live on high mountains and the land’s accumulated foul qi would be put to use.

• Zhang Hao watched the sky-shaking power of the reconstruction and asked Tree Elder about the Azure Cloud Sect’s plans.
• True Lord Qingyang, True Person Zhen Tian, and Lin Chen merged their divine souls with the sect formation to reshape the land around the sect.
• Lin Chen discharged residual power from the earth’s crust, raised volcanic mountains, and brought underground cultivation resources to the surface.
• Lin Chen filled a vast impact pit with rainwater and introduced microorganisms and spirit fish that could adapt to its harsh environment.
• Lin Chen moved high mountains into place as future settlements, cleared the gray haze, and used spiritual energy and fertile ash to encourage plant growth.
• Lin Chen established a trade wind path to nurture spirit mountains and gathered the region’s foul qi into a formation for raising corpses and ghosts.

Lin Chen, True Lord Qingyang, True Person Zhen Tian, and Azure Cloud Sect’s formation masters began refining the origin of the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation to restore Lingnan. True Lord Qingyang entered the canyon to intensify the struggle between the fallen Spirit Transmutation powers, while Lin Chen began forming a vast array to channel their released spiritual energy through the thousand-mile Tail Wind Path.

• True Lord Qingyang brought Lin Chen, True Person Zhen Tian, and Azure Cloud Sect’s formation masters to the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation, where spiritual energy surged from the canyon as rain and tides.
• Lin Chen tested the spiritual energy tide and found that it could quickly transform into rare Heaven and Earth Spiritual Items.
• True Lord Qingyang explained that they could not directly refine the fallen Spirit Transmutation powers and would instead use his Nascent Soul Dao Domain to intensify their struggle.
• True Lord Qingyang unleashed his Flame Dao Domain and flew into the canyon, transforming spiritual energy across the surrounding thousand miles into fire-attributed energy.
• Lin Chen and True Person Zhen Tian arranged spiritual items for the Spirit-Luring Vein-Creation formation, and Lin Chen commanded the Primordial Creation Myriad Spirit Great Formation to rise.

Lin Chen and the Azure Cloud Sect guided the spiritual energy released by the battle inside the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation onto the thousand-li Tail Wind Path. The energy reached the sect’s territory and began restoring its lands and spirit veins, while Lin Chen continued preparing for his future Golden Core breakthrough.

• True Lord Qingyang’s intervention intensified the battle between the two Spirit Transformation remnants, and Golden Flame helped the treants overwhelm the Mysterious Yin Gate’s Corpse Tide.
• Lin Chen and the Azure Cloud Sect formation cultivators activated a grand formation to capture the erupting spiritual energy and guide it onto the Tail Wind Path.
• Lin Chen secretly cultivated Yin Yang Five Elements spiritual objects, absorbed their energy, and further solidified his illusory Golden Core.
• Azure Cloud Sect cultivators established Spirit Gathering Arrays along the Tail Wind Path, channeled the incoming energy into their mountains, and planted modified Dandelion Grass to reduce its loss.
• The spiritual energy reached the Azure Cloud Sect, where it nourished more than a thousand spirit mountains and began transforming the sect’s spirit veins.

Gu Jiancheng, a peak Nascent Soul sword cultivator from the Taiyi Immortal Sword Sect, forced his way through the Ten Thousand Monster Mountain Range and fought the Five-tailed Fox Demon guarding the route. He escaped toward Lingnan after severing her tails, while the wounded Four-tailed Fox Demon vowed to kill him.

• Gu Jiancheng broke into the Ten Thousand Monster Mountain Range through the territory guarded by the Five-tailed Fox Demon.
• The Five-tailed Fox Demon tried to stop him with seductive illusions, but Gu Jiancheng wounded her with a single sword stroke.
• The Five-tailed Fox Demon opened her Mirror Domain and began drawing Gu Jiancheng's reflection into it.
• Gu Jiancheng unleashed his Sword Domain and struck with countless sword shadows, killing creatures across the surrounding area and severing the Fox Demon's tails.
• Gu Jiancheng fled toward Lingnan, and the Four-tailed Fox Demon appeared and swore he would not leave alive.

Gu Jiancheng entered Lingnan to investigate the place where two Spirit Transmutation Celestial Venerables had fallen and found a devastated land being gradually restored by its cultivators. He reached a thriving mountain range and recognized the Azure Cloud stele as the inheritance sect of a former Heavenly Lord of the Hunyuan Five Elements Sect, leaving him concerned.

• Gu Jiancheng used an ancient compass to locate Lingnan and passed through the Immortal Alliance's Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation.
• He surveyed Lingnan's ruined landscape and sensed powerful cultivators transforming the land despite its devastation.
• Gu Jiancheng observed Tail Wind Paths carrying spiritual energy, along with constructed mountains and volcanoes that were helping restore the region.
• He flew down to a vibrant thousand-li mountain range where spiritual energy flowed through the peaks.
• Gu Jiancheng saw the Azure Cloud stele and recognized the site as the inheritance sect of a former Heavenly Lord of the Hunyuan Five Elements Sect.

Gu Jiancheng arrived at Azure Cloud Sect to investigate the reincarnated Spirit Transmutation Celestial Venerables, but his legacy token did not react and Lingnan’s protective repulsion had weakened. Meanwhile, Azure Cloud Sect’s leaders discussed rebuilding and managing the Tail Wind Path’s spiritual energy, then turned to the threat of the Demonic Cultivators before True Lord Qingyang sensed an intrusion.

• Gu Jiancheng found that his legacy token showed no reaction at Azure Cloud Sect and wondered whether the two Heavenly Lords had reincarnated elsewhere or already returned from their tribulations.
• Gu Jiancheng sensed that Lingnan’s repulsive force had nearly vanished and silently sent a subtle fluctuation toward Azure Cloud Sect.
• True Ancestor Changqing reported that Lin Chen’s plans had restored shelter and resource production across Azure Cloud Sect’s territory, and True Lord Qingyang praised Lin Chen.
• True Person Zhen Tian warned that the Tail Wind Path had changed how spiritual energy flowed and proposed restrictions to control its use.
• True Person Jian Xuan raised the unresolved threat of the Demonic Cultivators, and True Lord Qingyang said Azure Cloud Sect had to wait for help from the Central Lands.
• True Lord Qingyang insisted that the sect’s grand formation stay active, then abruptly sensed something and changed expression.

True Lord Qingyang met Gu Jiancheng, a Taiyi Immortal Sword Sect cultivator sent to kill the Blood Demon Asura Clone, and agreed to help draw it out. Gu Jiancheng suspected the two reincarnated Spirit Transmutation Celestial Venerables had met with trouble.

• True Lord Qingyang sensed a Nascent Soul-level presence and prepared Azure Cloud Sect for a possible attack.
• Gu Jiancheng appeared, stopped Qingyang’s fire attack, and revealed that he had come from the Central Lands to kill the Blood Demon Asura Clone.
• Qingyang recounted the war between the two sects, and Gu Jiancheng deduced that the demon had tried to sacrifice Lingnan’s people and connect with the Demon Mountain Space.
• Gu Jiancheng asked Qingyang to lure out the demon or discover its hiding place, proposing that Lingnan’s remaining cultivators and mortals be gathered as bait.
• Qingyang agreed to help, and Gu Jiancheng concluded that the two reincarnated Spirit Transmutation Celestial Venerables had likely encountered trouble.

Gu Jiancheng learned that Lingnan’s cultivators were believed to be derivatives of two fallen Spirit Transmutation Celestial Venerables, whose reincarnations the Immortal Alliance had been monitoring. After finding no trace of their power in True Lord Qingyang, he suspected that the reincarnated Celestial Venerables had been trapped or harmed in a dream and reached for Grandmaster Taixuan’s token.

• Gu Jiancheng recalled how Celestial Venerable Taiyin fell to demonic corruption and later met Celestial Venerable Yimu Qingxuan in a fatal battle over Lingnan.
• Gu Jiancheng remembered that Grandmaster Taixuan suspected the two Celestial Venerables might return through reincarnation and had secretly barred other Spirit Transformation cultivators from entering Lingnan.
• Gu Jiancheng realized the Immortal Alliance believed Lingnan’s cultivators were derivatives of the two Celestial Venerables, destined to become provisions if either returned to advance.
• Gu Jiancheng found no trace of the Celestial Venerables’ power in True Lord Qingyang and suspected that the reincarnated beings had encountered trouble.
• Gu Jiancheng considered that a dream might conceal the trouble from the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation, and he suspected the Heavenly Demon Cult before revealing Grandmaster Taixuan’s token.