Chapter Summaries

Han Changming, Ye Xin, and Han Debiao escaped a late third-rank flood dragon and opened a hidden cave estate. They discovered Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and a Ten-Thousand-Year earth-attribute gourd, then headed for the spirit herb garden.

• Lin Xuan and Azure Flame True Person left a pavilion with treasures and a map, but two late third-rank Cyan Giant Vultures attacked and drove them to flee.
• Han Debiao broke through a restriction in a valley and found a hidden stone door, but a late third-rank flood dragon pursued Han Changming and Ye Xin to him.
• Han Changming, Ye Xin, and Han Debiao escaped the flood dragon by hiding beneath a bamboo forest as a Nascent Soul cultivator arrived and chased the beast.
• Han Changming gave Han Debiao a Blood Essence Fruit and Crimson Scale Gauntlets, which helped him build strength and open the stone door.
• The three found Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and a Ten-Thousand-Year earth-attribute gourd with its vine inside the cave, collected them, and left for the spirit herb garden.

Han Changming and his companions outwitted a fourth-rank demon beast and broke into a protected courtyard, where they found five Infant Spirit Fruits. After escaping underground, they decided to hide because Liu Huan and other powerful cultivators were nearby.

• Liu Huan killed a fourth-rank Demon Python and harvested four Golden Marrow Fruits from a spirit herb garden.
• Han Changming found a fourth-rank red tiger guarding a mountain garden and arranged with Ye Xin and Han Debiao to lure it away while they investigated.
• Ye Xin discovered a sealed courtyard, and Han Debiao failed to break its Four Seas Cloud-Turning Array before the tiger escaped its restraints.
• Han Changming trapped the red tiger in the Demon-Locking Tower while the group attacked the array and opened the courtyard.
• Ye Xin harvested five Infant Spirit Fruits, but Han Changming sensed Liu Huan approaching, so the three fled underground.
• Liu Huan arrived and fought the freed red tiger as Han Changming, Ye Xin, and Han Debiao tunneled away to hide.

Han Changming and his companions searched Flying Immortal Island for a way out, found the Flying Immortal Hall’s control hub, and learned that another formation was needed to escape. While Han Changming and Han Debiao searched for it, they spotted Cheng Guangbei fighting two Joyous Union Sect cultivators.

• A middle-aged Daoist defeated a crimson flood dragon and forced it to submit before pursuing a distant battle.
• Han Changming, Ye Xin, and Han Debiao decided to search for Cheng Guangbei rather than wait underground for the island’s restrictions to release them.
• Han Changming encountered Lin Xuan and Azure Flame True Person fighting Joyous Union Sect cultivators, then accepted Lin Xuan’s Storage Bag as the group joined forces to drive off their opponents.
• Azure Flame True Person and Lin Xuan betrayed Han Changming’s group at the Flying Immortal Hall, trapping them behind a cyan barrier before fleeing.
• Han Changming, Ye Xin, and Han Debiao opened the hall and activated its control formation, but Ye Xin concluded that a second hub was needed to escape.
• Han Changming and Han Debiao searched for the second hub, then flew toward a battle and saw Cheng Guangbei fighting two Joyous Union Sect cultivators.

Han Changming, Han Debiao, and Cheng Guangbei defeated two Joyous Union Sect cultivators who had found Flying Immortal Island’s control formation. After they divided the spoils, Liu Huan arrived and attacked Han Changming as the group tried to escape.

• Cheng Guangbei warned Han Changming that the Joyous Union Sect cultivators wanted to seize the control formation of Flying Immortal Island.
• Han Changming, Han Debiao, and Cheng Guangbei fought the two Joyous Union Sect cultivators, and Han Changming killed the burly man in blue robes with his combined attacks.
• The woman in the red dress fled after her companion died, but Han Changming and his allies stopped and killed her.
• Han Changming gave Cheng Guangbei two magic treasures, and Cheng Guangbei gave Han Changming five spirit herbs over eight hundred years old.
• Han Changming warned that a Nascent Soul Cultivator was approaching, and the group fled toward the river; Liu Huan arrived, struck Han Changming with a crimson giant hand, and unleashed his golden seal.

Han Changming escaped Flying Immortal Island with Han Debiao and reunited with Ye Xin, while Liu Huan seized Lin Xuan and Azure Flame True Person’s loyalty and began hunting for the other cultivators. Back on Purple Moon Island, the Han Clan investigated a Glazed Water Ore Vein and planned how to deal with the Song Clan and the White Sand Sect.

• Han Changming trapped Liu Huan’s skeleton guardian, broke through the manor’s barrier, and activated the formation that transported him, Han Debiao, Liu Huan, and other cultivators away from Flying Immortal Island.
• Han Changming found Han Debiao and later reunited with Ye Xin beneath the sea; they hid while Han Debiao recovered and examined their treasure, including an unknown golden Spirit Beast Egg.
• Liu Huan took Lin Xuan and Azure Flame True Person’s Primordial Spirits as leverage, ordered them to investigate the three unfamiliar Golden Core cultivators, and sent them away as Joyous Union Sect guest elders.
• Han Zhangxiang, Han Benfu, and Ye Xue helped the Zhu Clan repel more than a dozen second-rank demonic beasts attacking Purple Sun Island.
• Zhu Zijie revealed that the Song Clan might be targeting the Zhu Clan to seize a Glazed Water Ore Vein, and Han Zhangxiang assigned Han Changjun to investigate while Liu Weiwei approached the White Sand Sect about joint development.

White Sand Rogue Sha Tianmo agreed to jointly develop the Glazed Water ore vein with the Han Clan, with the winning side of three sparring matches receiving seventy percent. The matches began on Purple Moon Island, leaving Han Benfu facing Zheng Hai as he launched his first attacks.

• Liu Tianhe rejected his disciples’ demands to seize the Glazed Water ore vein outright, but Liu Weiwei and Han Benmin arrived to confront the White Sand Sect over the Song Clan’s attack on the Zhu Clan and propose joint mining.
• Zheng Hai denied the Han Clan’s accusations and refused to share the ore vein until White Sand Rogue Sha Tianmo arrived and learned that Han Changming was a third-rank alchemist.
• Sha Tianmo agreed that three Foundation Establishment cultivators from each side would spar, with the winner receiving seventy percent of the ore vein.
• Sha Tianmo traveled to Purple Moon Island, met Han Zhangxiang, and watched the two sides send out Ye Xue, Han Benfu, and Han Benmin against three White Sand Sect cultivators.
• Han Benfu and Zheng Hai began their match by casting defensive spells, and Zheng Hai attacked with blue water blades as Han Benfu raised a wall of flames.

Han Benfu and Han Benmin helped the Han Clan win its contest against the White Sand Sect, securing a favorable share of a Glazed Water Ore Vein. Han Zhangxiang then traded two mid-grade Seven Stars Restoration Pills for rare materials from White Sand Rogue, who left with medicine for his injured Golden Core cultivator.

• Han Benfu overwhelmed Zheng Hai with rapid fire spells until he conceded, while Ye Xue defeated the red-robed young man with her eleven Ice Soul Flags.
• Han Benmin nearly defeated the blue-skirted young woman, but conceded after Han Daojing instructed him to spare the White Sand Sect some face and protect his spirit birds.
• White Sand Rogue agreed that the Han Clan would receive seventy percent of the Glazed Water Ore Vein and asked to meet Han Changming, who Han Zhangxiang said was in seclusion.
• White Sand Rogue offered two third-rank mid-grade Golden-Eyed Beast cores, two five-hundred-year spirit herbs, and two pieces of Yellow Sand Crystal in exchange for two mid-grade Seven Stars Restoration Pills.
• White Sand Rogue returned with the agreed materials, received the pills from Han Zhangxiang, and departed Purple Moon Island.

Han Changming and Ye Xin returned to Purple Moon Island after spending more than a year helping Han Debiao recover, finding the Han Clan prospering. They revealed that their adventures had brought them into conflict with the Joyous Union Sect, and Han Changming proposed building ties with the Righteous Path Alliance to protect the clan.

• Ye Xue, Han Changxin, Liu Weiwei, and Han Changjun reported the Han Clan’s growing population, businesses, and income to Han Daojing.
• Han Changming and Ye Xin returned to Purple Moon Island, relieving Han Benfu, Ye Xue, and Han Daojing of their worries.
• Han Daojing learned that Han Changming and his companions had provoked the Joyous Union Sect and suggested killing Cheng Guangbei to prevent him from exposing them.
• Han Changming refused to betray Cheng Guangbei, who had once saved him and his wives, and suggested cultivating connections with the Righteous Path Alliance’s Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Han Changming explained that Cheng Guangbei might already have prepared for trouble and that a powerful ally could deter the Joyous Union Sect from attacking the Han Clan.

Han Changming planned to secure Lingxiao True Person’s guidance to protect the Han Clan and explain his alchemy talent, then refined fifteen portions of Golden Core Jade Liquid. He left Purple Moon Island with Liu Weiwei for Vast Righteous City, while the clan prepared for future cultivation and dangers.

• Han Changming proposed using spirit herbs and undiluted Spirit Water to seek Lingxiao True Person’s alchemy instruction, and Han Zhangxiang ordered the clan to keep its Inner Sea origins and Flying Immortal Island discoveries secret while building more teleportation arrays.
• Han Changming gave Han Zhangxiang a Red Scale Treasure Armor, and Ye Xin gave Han Daojing a Blue Bead; Han Zhangxiang said he could not yet refine a high-grade natal magic treasure from Han Changming’s ten-thousand-year earth-attribute gourd.
• Han Zhangxiang gave Han Changming two Golden-Eyed Beast inner cores in exchange for his Seven Stars Restoration Pills, and Han Changming discussed family affairs and Golden Core Jade Liquid with Ye Xin, Ye Xue, Han Benfu, and Liu Weiwei.
• Han Changming entered the Vermilion Bird Space, tended his spiritual herbs, and refined fifteen portions of Golden Core Jade Liquid after four failed batches.
• Han Changming visited his granddaughter Han Duanrong, advised her to appreciate her mother, and then left Purple Moon Island with Liu Weiwei for Vast Righteous City.

Han Changming met Azure Lotus Fairy and traded aged spirit herbs for Golden Core resources before asking Lingxiao True Person for alchemy instruction. Lingxiao True Person gave him guidance and accepted four thousand-year Golden Moon Ginseng plants, leaving Han Changming with new alchemical knowledge and a connection to the renowned cultivator.

• Lin Youguang proposed that the Han Clan supply the Lin Clan with fifty second-rank Puppet Beasts each year, but Han Benzhi could not decide whether to accept.
• Han Changming rejected the Puppet Beast contract as impractical and told Han Benzhi to explore other forms of cooperation with the Lin Clan.
• Han Changming contacted Azure Lotus Fairy and traded her twenty aged spirit herbs for two Essence Condensation Pills.
• Han Changming asked Azure Lotus Fairy to introduce him to Lingxiao True Person, who arrived and recognized that Han Changming had recently formed pills.
• Han Changming offered Lingxiao True Person four thousand-year Golden Moon Ginseng plants in exchange for alchemy guidance, and Lingxiao True Person answered his questions before accepting the herbs.

Han Changming used his connection to Lingxiao True Person to build the Han Clan’s reputation, then returned to Purple Moon Island and prepared Han Benfu and Ye Xue to attempt the Golden Core stage. Ye Xue entered seclusion, while Han Benfu prepared to temper her mana before doing the same.

• Han Changming told Han Benzhi and Liu Weiwei to spread word that Lingxiao True Person had instructed him, then spent a month visiting prominent alchemists and artifact refiners in Vast Righteous City.
• Han Changming sought hatching liquid for his long-unhatched spirit beast egg at Golden Flood Dragon Pavilion, where Han Linlang invited him to the Golden Flood Dragon Island Han Clan patriarch’s birthday celebration in eight years.
• After returning to Purple Moon Island, Han Changming gave Han Benfu three Golden Core spiritual items and the Spirit Eye Jade, and told her to prepare for her breakthrough by tempering her mana.
• Han Changming spent the evening with his family, and Ye Xin treated Han Duanrong after she fell while playing on the beach.
• Han Changming gave Ye Xue three Golden Core spiritual items and arranged a Spirit Gathering Array and the Spirit Eye Spring for her; Ye Xue then entered seclusion to attempt the Golden Core stage.

Seven years later, Han Changxin tested Han Duanrong and the other children on spiritual herbs as two Golden Core lightning tribulations appeared over Purple Moon Island. Ye Xue and Han Benfu both survived their tribulations and entered the Golden Core stage, forming mid-grade and high-grade Golden Cores respectively.

• Han Changxin taught the Han Clan children about spiritual herbs, and Han Duanrong correctly identified nearly all seven hundred varieties.
• Two spiritual energy vortices and thunderclouds formed over Purple Moon Island as Ye Xue and Han Benfu attempted to reach the Golden Core stage.
• Han Changming and Han Daojing watched the tribulations and hoped the breakthroughs would strengthen the Han Clan.
• After the lightning tribulations ended, Ye Xue emerged with a mid-grade Golden Core, and Han Changming went to check on Han Benfu.
• Han Benfu also succeeded, forming a high-grade Golden Core, and spoke with Han Daojing.

Han Benfu advanced to the Golden Core stage, and the Han Clan agreed to cooperate with Ocean Listening Pavilion on a pill shop. The chapter ended with Han Changshuo asking the clan for help attempting the Golden Core stage and receiving a portion of Golden Core Jade Liquid.

• Han Benfu told Han Changming and Han Daojing that she had formed a high-grade Golden Core, and Han Changming gave her the Snow Glaze Pearl to refine as a magic treasure.
• Han Benyong arrived from the Inner Sea after reaching Foundation Establishment Late Stage, and Han Changming told him that Han Benfu had formed her Golden Core.
• Han Changming received Wu Xueli, who proposed that the Han Clan and Ocean Listening Pavilion cooperate to open a larger pill shop; Han Daojing agreed to the arrangement.
• Wu Xueli invited Han Changming to Shen Tianming's Golden Core celebration, but Han Changming declined because he planned to attend the Golden Flood Dragon Island Han Clan patriarch's birthday celebration.
• Han Changshuo asked Han Daojing and Han Changming for Golden Core spiritual items, and Han Daojing offered him a portion of Golden Core Jade Liquid.

Han Changshuo returned to the Han Clan, received Golden Core Jade Liquid, and agreed to repay the clan if he formed a Golden Core. In Vast Righteous City, Han Duanyu met Liang Qingfeng of the Glazed Island Liang Clan, who asked him to find a pill that could improve a child’s innate constitution.

• Han Changshuo thanked Han Daojing and Han Changming for the Golden Core Jade Liquid, offered the clan several items, and agreed to its merit-point repayment rules.
• Han Changming advised Han Changshuo to temper his magic power and gain combat experience before attempting to form a Golden Core, and Han Changshuo planned to buy a Second-Rank High-Grade Puppet Beast.
• Han Changming inspected Han Changshuo’s fire-attributed Spirit Beast Egg and an enigmatic golden jade box with his Golden-Eyed True Pupil, but could not identify what was inside the box.
• Han Duanyu declined his companions’ matchmaking suggestions and learned that Cold Moon Fairy of the Glazed Island Liang Clan had risen to thirty-eighth on the Hundred Flowers Register.
• Liang Qingfeng told Han Duanyu that he sought a pill to improve a child’s innate constitution, and Han Duanyu agreed to ask his grandfather about it.

Liu Weiwei and Han Duanyu were attacked at sea but were rescued by Liang Youshan and escorted to Purple Moon Island by the Liang Clan, who hoped to meet Han Changming. Meanwhile, Han Debiao emerged from seclusion and was assigned to attend Shen Tianming’s Golden Core ceremony, and the chapter ended as the Han family went to welcome the Liang Clan visitors.

• Liu Weiwei corrected Han Benzhi’s outdated puppet-beast price, then took Han Duanyu back toward Purple Moon Island to help with a matter involving Liang Qingfeng.
• A blue shark ambushed Liu Weiwei and Han Duanyu at sea, injured the Blue Cloud Sparrow, and forced them to flee.
• Liang Youshan killed the blue shark with her flying swords, and Liang Youhai offered Liu Weiwei and Han Duanyu a ride to Purple Moon Island so he could meet Han Changming.
• Han Debiao emerged from seclusion stronger after consuming a Blood Essence Fruit, then met Han Changming and Han Daojing.
• Han Daojing assigned Han Debiao to represent the Han Clan at Shen Tianming’s Golden Core ceremony while Han Changming planned to attend the Golden Flood Dragon Island Han Clan patriarch’s birthday celebration.
• Han Changjun reported that the Liang Clan had arrived with Liu Weiwei and Han Duanyu, and Han Daojing led Han Changming and Han Debiao to greet them.

Han Debiao sparred with Liang Youshan and defeated her, earning the Liang Clan cultivators’ respect before they departed. Back on Purple Moon Island, Han Changming planned to send Liang Qingfeng a marital-aid spiritual liquid after admitting he had no pills to improve descendants’ aptitude.

• Liang Youshan asked to spar with Han Zhangxiang, but Han Debiao volunteered after learning the clan head was in secluded cultivation.
• Liang Youshan used her Drifting Snow Sword Formation against Han Debiao, who broke it with his body-cultivation strength and nearly struck her with his staff.
• Liang Youhai intervened, and Liang Youshan accepted her defeat and promised to challenge Han Debiao again.
• Liang Youhai declined Han Daojing’s invitation, then left with Liang Youshan aboard the Seven-Colored Glazed Treasure Ship as Liu Weiwei and Han Duanyu returned to Purple Moon Island.
• Han Changming told Han Daojing he had no pills to improve descendants’ aptitude and proposed sending Liang Qingfeng a spiritual liquid that aided marital relations.

Han Changming strengthened his spirit beasts and traveled to Vast Righteous City, where he accepted Lingxiao True Person’s offer of support for the Han Clan. Shen Qinghuan gave him a confidential list of materials to gather, leaving the clan tied to Lingxiao True Person’s faction.

• Han Changming refined a Nine Yang Jade Elixir and fed Spirit Water to a golden Spirit Beast Egg, whose flames made him suspect it might be a Golden Crow descendant.
• Han Changming fed the Void Origin Insect golden fruits and tested its improved ability to open a spatial rift, which remained open for nearly two quarters of an hour.
• Han Changming traveled to Vast Righteous City with Liu Weiwei and Han Duanyu, then met Shen Qinghuan at Soaring Sky Tower.
• Shen Qinghuan offered the Han Clan guidance and a connection to Lingxiao True Person, and Han Changming agreed to assist them when needed.
• Shen Qinghuan gave Han Changming a jade slip listing materials for the Han Clan to seek discreetly.

Han Changming strengthened the Han Clan’s connections in Vast Righteous City and agreed to refine Blood Moon Pills for Tan Mingyu. He took three sets of materials and planned to meet Tan Mingyu again in half a month.

• Shen Qinghuan introduced Han Changming to Zhou Wenbo, and Han agreed to buy Qi Refining spirit herbs from the Zhou Clan.
• Zhou Wenbo invited Lingxiao True Person to the White Wind Island clan head’s four-hundredth birthday, and Shen Qinghuan said he would pass along the invitation.
• Han Changming met Tan Mingyu at Vast Righteous Tower, where Tan gave him two Beast Nurturing Pills.
• Tan Mingyu asked Han Changming to refine Blood Moon Pills, which temporarily increased mana but left the user weak and without mana afterward.
• Han Changming accepted three sets of materials and arranged to meet Tan Mingyu again in half a month.

Han Changming investigated Tan Mingyu’s motives, refined Blood Moon Pills, and gave the formula to Shen Qinghuan, who warned that a force was spreading similar recipes. After visiting his spirit insects and preparing for a clan celebration, Han Changming left Purple Moon Island with more than ten Han Clan members bound for Golden Flood Dragon Island.

• Tan Mingyu told Han Changming that the Myriad Dharma Sect had placed a one-million-spirit-stone bounty on Golden Crow Recluse and that Clear Wind Daoist’s cave abode had been discovered.
• Han Changming suspected Tan Mingyu had powerful backing and that someone was spreading the Blood Moon Pill formula, so he refined six pills and kept three.
• Han Changming delivered the formula to Shen Qinghuan, who said he had received a nearly identical formula and gave Han Changming a Fujin Fruit.
• Han Changming returned to Purple Moon Island, agreed to bring Han Benfu to the Han Clan of Golden Flood Dragon Island’s birthday celebration, and learned that the Amethyst Flying Scorpion had advanced to mid-grade third rank.
• Han Daojing advised Han Changming to bring younger clan members along, and Han Changming departed Purple Moon Island with more than ten Han Clan members for Golden Flood Dragon Island.

While traveling to the Han Clan of Golden Flood Dragon Island, Han Changming witnessed Jiang Ruoshui capture Golden Crow Recluse with a spirit treasure. He then arrived at the Han clan’s island for the patriarch’s birthday celebration and settled into the guest quarters, where the Amethyst Flying Scorpion sensed a powerful demonic insect.

• Jiang Ruoshui and the Myriad Dharma Sect cultivators captured Golden Crow Recluse with the Sea-Subduing Tower, while Han Changming and his group stayed out of the fight.
• Han Changming encouraged Han Benyong and Han Benfu to cultivate diligently after watching Jiang Ruoshui depart.
• Han Caiying welcomed Han Changming and his group to Golden Flood Dragon Island, where they met Lin Yunxiao and Fan Tingting of the Heavenly Treasure Commerce Association.
• Han Wenbin led the guests through the golden flood dragon array entrance and showed them to their accommodations.
• Han Changming settled his group in Green Cypress Tower, where the Amethyst Flying Scorpion stirred inside its Spirit Beast Bag.