Chapter Summaries

Shen Long returned to Barbarian-Resisting City, reported for the coming decisive battle, and exchanged his merit for a Third-Order Spirit Flame. As the Human and Barbarian Races prepared for a final clash, Shen Long also acquired a Five-Colored Jade Ganoderma Fruit and began refining the flame.

• Xu Yang, Lin Yutong, and Wei Tianming met Shen Long at Xuanyu Marketplace, and he led them toward Barbarian-Resisting City.
• Shen Long reported to Liu Zi'an that his bottleneck had loosened after facing life-and-death danger, and Liu Zi'an told him to join the decisive battle.
• Shen Long exchanged his accumulated Merit Points for a Third-Order Spirit Flame at the General Affairs Hall.
• Mu Weiwei traded Shen Long a Five-Colored Jade Ganoderma Fruit for two Ice Snow Pills to treat her friend's fire poison.
• Shen Long refined the Third-Order Spirit Flame with his Red Lotus True Flame and sorted the spoils from his battles.
• Zhe Sen announced that the Barbarian Race would fight a decisive battle with the Human Race, with Witch Clan cultivators joining in exchange for help entering the Immortal Burial Mound.

Shen Long finished refining a batch of Golden Medicinal Pills before joining the Human Race forces as the decisive battle against the Barbarian Race began. He confronted Tu Xin, whose Red Fire Flood Dragon and Black Crow techniques drove Shen Long into a fierce fight.

• At a gathering in Barbarian-Resisting City, Shen Long learned about the Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven and exchanged pills for several old spirit herbs.
• Shen Long refined twenty-four Golden Medicinal Pills in three days, then received Master Ice Silkworm's message that the decisive battle had begun.
• Shen Long arrived at the city wall, where Lu Qingshan led more than fifty Nascent Soul Cultivators and the Human Race army out to meet Zhe Sen's advancing forces.
• Shen Long targeted Tu Xin of the Black Crow Tribe, who rode a Third-Rank Red Fire Flood Dragon and attacked him with flames, sound waves, and wind blades.
• Shen Long shattered Tu Xin's attacks with his dragon roar and claws, endured the incoming wind blades, and remained unharmed as their fight continued.

Shen Long and Master Ice Silkworm joined forces to kill Tu Xin and Tie Xiao, but a Witch Clan attack left them unable to move. Master Ice Silkworm took a blood-light strike meant for Shen Long as Wu Mountain approached.

• Shen Long summoned the Ice Flood Dragon and Golden-Winged Wind Peng, which helped him kill Tu Xin’s spirit beasts while he destroyed the Eight-Winged Thunder Fire Centipede.
• Shen Long killed Tu Xin with the Dragon-Slaying Saber after silver lightning and a Golden Spear struck him.
• Tie Xiao ambushed Shen Long, but Master Ice Silkworm and Shen Long fought back and killed him with lightning, ice, and silkworm silk.
• Master Ice Silkworm and Shen Long were paralyzed by a grating hiss, and Master Ice Silkworm shoved Shen Long aside to take a blood-light strike.
• Shen Long recognized Wu Mountain as a member of the Witch Clan as he flew toward them.

After the Human Race won the war, Shen Long learned that Master Ice Silkworm had been afflicted with the Witch Clan’s Blood-Decay Spirit-Extinguishing Curse and arranged for him to seek help in the Southern Border Cultivation World. The chapter left the Barbarian Race preparing to cede territory while searching for a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure to counter the Human Race’s Spirit Transformation cultivators.

• Wu Mountain attacked Shen Long and Master Ice Silkworm, but Han Yuwei and Shen Long helped kill him, and Shen Long collected his belongings and Essence Soul.
• Shen Long obtained a Green Lotus Yuan-Stagnating Talisman to delay Master Ice Silkworm’s curse, then found clues that Wu Mountain had visited the Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven.
• After the Human Race won the battle, Du Yinyin agreed to take Shen Long and Master Ice Silkworm to the Southern Border Cultivation World to find someone who could break the curse.
• Liu Zi'an explained that the Barbarian Race had accepted defeat after Spirit Transformation cultivators fought, and that the Human Race had gained a slight advantage.
• In Golden Crow City, Wu Yu ordered his people to search for a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure after the Golden Crow Tribe’s Spirit Transformation cultivator suffered a setback.

After the Human Race defeated the Barbarian Race, Lu Qingshan arranged compensation and territorial rewards while Mo Wuya discussed the enemy’s strength and past. Du Yinyin’s group set out for the Southern Border Cultivation World with Han Yuwei and Lin Yutong, while Wu Xian and Wu Yan discussed a dangerous search for treasure in the Immortal Burial Mound.

• Lu Qingshan told the Nascent Soul Cultivators that the Barbarian Race had sued for peace and promised territory, compensation, and punishment for those who had shirked battle.
• Mo Wuya told Lu Qingshan that the Barbarian Race might have lost its Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure when its previous Great Elder ascended, and that he had not been certain he could injure the Golden Crow Tribe’s Great Elder.
• Du Yinyin agreed to take Han Yuwei and Lin Yutong to the Southern Border Cultivation World after Han insisted on repaying her debt and following Du’s orders.
• Du Yinyin, Master Ice Silkworm, Shen Long, Xu Yang, Han Yuwei, and Lin Yutong departed Barbarian-Resisting City aboard the Red Flying Boat.
• Wu Xian recognized Shen Long in a portrait and vowed revenge, while he and Wu Yan discussed supporting the Barbarian Race and searching the Immortal Burial Mound for a treasure that might let their clan cultivate a Fifth-Rank Spirit Insect.

Shen Long and Lin Yutong set out to find a Third-Rank Yin-Evil Beast’s poison sac to help cure Master Ice Silkworm’s curse, while Du Yinyin and Song Xueqing planned to seek the other rare materials at an auction. Shen Long enlisted Qin Ming’s help and began refining pills as Lin Yutong gathered supplies and information for their expedition.

• Song Xueqing examined Master Ice Silkworm’s curse and identified three missing materials, including a Third-Rank Yin-Evil Beast’s poison sac, while noting that the Shangguan Clan’s upcoming Auction might offer them.
• Shen Long and Lin Yutong volunteered to search the Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven for a Yin-Evil Beast, and Song Xueqing gave Shen Long a Ghost-Seeking Disk.
• Shen Long visited Qin Ming, who could not provide a poison sac but agreed to investigate after Shen Long offered to refine pills for Qin Ming’s brother-in-law, who suffered from fire poison.
• Shen Long asked Lin Yutong to search Five Poisons Marketplace for poison sacs, grotto maps, and ghost-restraining items while he began refining healing pills.

Shen Long searched for a Third-Rank Yin-Evil Beast's Demon Core and learned that one might be found in Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven. After preparing with information and talismans, he and Lin Yutong left for the dangerous grotto-heaven.

• Shen Long encountered Qin Tianhe, a former acquaintance from Thousand Bamboo Valley, and met his master, Chu Shan.
• Qin Ming and Lin Lin told Shen Long that cultivators had encountered a Third-Rank Yin-Evil Beast in Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven and gave him a map and a Yin-Sensing Talisman.
• Qin Ming and Lin Lin warned Shen Long that Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven was deadly, but Shen Long insisted he needed the beast's Inner Core and asked them to keep searching for its Poison Sac.
• Shen Long learned that Lin Yutong had bought a Dry Thunder Talisman, and they decided to travel to Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven.
• Shen Long took Lin Yutong away from the Marketplace aboard the Sea-Crossing Boat.

Shen Long and Lin Yutong entered the Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven to search for a Third-Rank Yin-Evil Beast, battling ghost creatures and fleeing a Nascent Soul Realm threat. After encountering the wounded Zen Master Xinkong, Shen Long intervened when the Heaven Ghost Sect pursued him and refused to hand him over.

• Shen Long and Lin Yutong entered the Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven and used their treasures to defeat ghost creatures along the way.
• They searched the black mountain range for a Third-Rank Yin-Evil Beast but found none, then fled when a Nascent Soul Realm ghost creature attacked nearby cultivators.
• Seven days later, Shen Long and Lin Yutong spotted Zen Master Xinkong fleeing from the Heaven Ghost Sect and disguised themselves before he reached them.
• Shen Long intercepted an attack on Zen Master Xinkong, then refused the Heaven Ghost Sect elder's request to surrender him.

Shen Long and Lin Yutong escaped the Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven with Zen Master Xinkong and obtained an intact poison sac from a Third-Rank Yin-Evil Beast. They brought it to Golden Toad Marketplace, where Song Xueqing prepared to use it to remove Master Ice Silkworm’s curse.

• Shen Long and his companions fought the Black-Robed Elder and fled after a Yin-Sensing Talisman warned them that a powerful ghost creature was approaching.
• Shen Long, Lin Yutong, and Zen Master Xinkong left the Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven, and Zen Master Xinkong gave Shen Long the poison sac of a Third-Rank Yin-Evil Beast he had destroyed.
• Shen Long and Lin Yutong set out for Golden Toad Marketplace, while the wounded Black-Robed Elder escaped a Nascent Soul Realm ghost creature.
• At Golden Toad Marketplace, Du Yinyin and Song Xueqing discussed their search for the poison sac as Master Ice Silkworm’s curse worsened.
• Shen Long arrived with the poison sac, and Song Xueqing took it to remove Master Ice Silkworm’s curse.

Master Ice Silkworm survived the Blood-Decay Spirit-Extinguishing Curse and reunited with Han Yuwei and their daughter, Lin Yutong. After promising to make amends, he began recovering, while Shen Long used the Spirit Control Tower to identify a mysterious Spirit Bird Egg.

• Han Yuwei revealed that Lin Yutong was Master Ice Silkworm’s daughter, and Song Xueqing cured his curse with the Third-Rank Yin-Evil Beast’s poison sac.
• Shen Long told Du Yinyin and Xu Yang how he had obtained the poison sac, and Xu Yang gave him a drop of Ten Thousand Poison Paste.
• Lin Yutong learned that Master Ice Silkworm was her father, accepted his gift of Dharma Treasures, and received medicinal pills from Shen Long.
• Master Ice Silkworm promised Han Yuwei he would formally ask for her hand and make amends to her and Lin Yutong.
• Shen Long placed a mysterious Spirit Bird Egg in the Spirit Control Pool, then activated a black Demon Bird pattern in the Spirit Control Tower.

Shen Long hatched a high-purity Ghost Dove, examined treasures recovered from the Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven, and joined a gathering of Golden Core Cultivators. The chapter ended with him sharing his experience fighting Barbarian and Witch Clan cultivators.

• Shen Long hatched a Ghost Dove with Bloodline Purity of three, fed it Mysterious Yin Grass, and gave it a Five-Colored Jade Ganoderma Fruit in hopes it would mutate.
• Shen Long examined Jade Slips taken from two Storage Bags and found information about True Monarch Hundred Ghosts, the Hundred Ghosts Canon, and a map of the Mysterious Yin Grotto-Heaven.
• Xu Yang invited Shen Long to a Golden Core Cultivator gathering at Golden Cicada Garden, where Shen Long met Chu Shan and Shangguan Yunfei.
• Shangguan Yunfei challenged Shen Long to a one-move contest of physical strength, and Shen Long's fist forced Shangguan Yunfei back two steps.
• Shen Long introduced himself to the gathered cultivators and described the abilities of Barbarian cultivators, including the Witch Clan's curse arts.

Shen Long traded cultivation resources, refined a Blood Python Pill, and learned that Lu Xin and Xu Tong were considering reporting his killing of Witch Clan cultivators. After Du Yinyin and the others departed for the East Hua Cultivation World, Shen Long remained in the Southern Border to seek a breakthrough and set off on his own.

• Shen Long exchanged pills and Yin Beads with Shangguan Yunfei and other cultivators, then Shangguan Yunyu told her cousin that Shen Long had held back during their sparring.
• Shen Long consumed a Blood Python Pill and refined its energy in seclusion.
• Lu Xin and Xu Tong discussed reporting Shen Long to the Witch Clan, while Chu Shan questioned Qin Tianhe about Shen Long and promised to support Qin Tianhe if he advanced.
• After half a month, Lin Yutong summoned Shen Long to meet Du Yinyin, who said their group would return to the East Hua Cultivation World.
• Shen Long chose to stay in the Southern Border to overcome his bottleneck, and the others departed by flying boat before he left on his own.

Twenty years after failing to resolve his cultivation bottleneck, Shen Long hunted a Third-Rank Early Stage Red Fire Centipede and returned to Red Fire Valley. He traded with Wang Xiao for Ghost Creatures, fed them to his Ghost Dove, and then flew on his Late Third-Rank Golden-Winged Wind Peng.

• Shen Long killed a Third-Rank Early Stage Red Fire Centipede with the help of his Cyan Vines, Silver Thunder Pillar, and Golden Spear, and his Ghost Dove devoured its Essence Soul.
• Shen Long reflected on his travels across the Southern Border Cultivation World and his failure to overcome his Core Formation Mid Stage bottleneck.
• Shen Long met Wang Xiao at the Mystic Fire Pavilion and exchanged gathered items for a gourd containing more than a thousand Ghost Creatures.
• Shen Long fed over three hundred Ghost Creatures and two Spirit Feeding Pills to his Second-Rank Mid Stage Ghost Dove.
• Shen Long gave two top-grade Beast Rearing Pills to his Late Third-Rank Golden-Winged Wind Peng and rode it into the sky.

Shen Long discovered that the Spirit Infant Fruit would ripen in sixty years, then spent time cultivating and seeking Foundation Establishment Realm Ghost Creatures. When Lu Xin and Xu Tong invited him to help break into True Monarch Green Toad’s cave abode, Shen Long refused and prepared to track them cautiously.

• Shen Long checked the Spirit Infant Fruit Tree and saw that its fruit would ripen within sixty years.
• Shen Long asked Lu Xin to find Foundation Establishment Realm Ghost Creatures, then returned to Green Bamboo Pavilion and refined medicinal pills for seven days.
• Lu Xin and Xu Tong visited Shen Long and offered him a share of True Monarch Green Toad’s Ascension Cave Abode in exchange for helping break its Small Vajra Array.
• Shen Long suspected Lu Xin and Xu Tong might be setting a trap and refused their offer despite their improved terms.
• After Lu Xin and Xu Tong left, Shen Long had his Spirit-Tracking Beast memorize their divine-sense fluctuations and released the Green-Eyed Spirit Fox to learn their scents.

Shen Long uncovered a Witch Clan plot, killed the Golden Core cultivator sent after him, and learned of a Nascent Soul cultivator’s cave abode in Ten Thousand Poison Valley. He arrived at the dangerous mountain range and entered it with the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada.

• Lu Xin told Wu Mo that Shen Long had avoided their trap, then returned with Xu Tong to the marketplace in disguise.
• Shen Long detected the pursuers, killed a golden-shirted Witch Clan cultivator, and extracted information from Lu Xin’s soul.
• Master Ice Silkworm decided to enter seclusion and attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm despite Han Yuwei’s concerns.
• Shen Long learned that Lu Xin and Xu Tong had found a treasure map to a Nascent Soul cultivator’s cave abode in Ten Thousand Poison Valley.
• Shen Long arrived at Ten Thousand Poison Valley, protected himself and the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada with a Purple Light Screen, and entered the mountains.

Shen Long navigated Ten Thousand Poison Valley, avoided Lu Xin’s trap, and found a Nascent Soul Cultivator’s cave abode containing valuable treasures and the Nine-Leaf Golden Lotus Pill formula. Xu Tong and Wu Mo’s group arrived outside the cave, where the valley’s defenses attacked them as Shen Long prepared for their approach.

• Shen Long spotted hidden restrictions in a valley and destroyed Lu Xin’s soul after learning Lu Xin had sent him into a trap.
• Xu Tong, Wu Mo, Wu Qing, and two others entered Ten Thousand Poison Valley while Shen Long took a detour through its hazardous terrain.
• Shen Long safely crossed a lightning-struck wasteland and used puppet beasts to check a bamboo-lined valley and its cave.
• Shen Long broke the Mystic Turtle Array and found a poisoned skeleton, Soul-Calming Incense, a Millennial Nine-Leaf Golden Lotus, and the Nine-Leaf Golden Lotus Pill formula.
• Xu Tong’s group reached the valley and was attacked by cyan vines and a silver thunder pillar after Shen Long’s group was detected.

Shen Long lured Wu Mo into a lightning restriction and killed him with its power, then collected the spoils and returned to the valley to recover. As he refined a Golden Ganoderma Pill, he sensed that his bottleneck had loosened significantly and that he was nearing Core Formation Late Stage.

• Wu Mo ambushed Shen Long with a fourth-rank Red Flame Spirit-Extinguishing Talisman, but Shen Long survived and escaped while Xu Tong and the other three were killed.
• Shen Long lured Wu Mo into the wasteland’s lightning restriction, where the Thunder-Absorbing Bead and his allies helped him destroy Wu Mo and his Life-Bound Gu Insect.
• Shen Long collected Wu Mo’s Storage Bag and Essence Soul, had the Ice Flood Dragon devour his corpse, and then gathered the valuables and Essence Souls from Xu Tong and the others.
• Shen Long restored the Mystic Turtle Array around the valley and began refining a Golden Ganoderma Pill to heal his injuries.
• Shen Long sensed that his bottleneck had loosened considerably and that he was drawing closer to Core Formation Late Stage.

After recovering and advancing to Core Formation Late Stage, Shen Long encountered Master Purple Spider in Ten Thousand Poison Valley and attacked him. The battle left Master Purple Spider’s Life Spirit Insect dead and him injured, but he remained surrounded by Shen Long’s attacks.

• Wu Xian told Wu Yue that a Late Fourth-Rank Blood-Transforming Butterfly had killed Wu Yan and other cultivators in the Immortal Burial Mound, and that Wu Mo had died in Ten Thousand Poison Valley.
• Ten years later, Ye Yuqing and Qian Dafu discussed Shen Long’s absence while Ye Yutang remained unable to attempt another Golden Core breakthrough for thirty years.
• Shen Long emerged from seclusion in Ten Thousand Poison Valley after advancing to Core Formation Late Stage and set out for the East Hua Cultivation World.
• Shen Long spotted Master Purple Spider and attacked him and the Red-Shirted Man, killing the man and destroying Master Purple Spider’s Life Spirit Insect.
• Master Purple Spider survived the assault, but Shen Long’s Red Giant Brick, Golden-Winged Fire Ants, and Three-Colored Flame pressed their attack against his defenses.

Shen Long killed Master Purple Spider, escaped a Fourth-Rank demon insect, and spent thirty years refining the Purple Spider Blade and cultivating in Ten Thousand Poison Valley. After reaching golden core great perfection, he hid in a gravity-restricted cavern and began preparing to attempt the Nascent Soul Realm, while Master Ice Silkworm reached Nascent Soul and worried that Shen Long had not returned.

• Shen Long ambushed and killed Master Purple Spider, claimed the Purple Spider Blade, and fled from a Fourth-Rank Yellow Spider into a restricted valley.
• Shen Long set up the Mystic Turtle Array in a cavern and spent thirty years refining the Purple Spider Blade and cultivating.
• Qin Ming and Lin Lin learned that Wu Xian had placed a reward on Shen Long and arranged to warn him if they found him.
• Master Ice Silkworm survived the lightning and Inner Demon Tribulations and entered the Nascent Soul Realm, then asked whether Shen Long had returned.
• Shen Long reached golden core great perfection and, after escaping a Fourth-Rank Spirit Beast, returned to the gravity-restricted cavern to prepare for his Nascent Soul breakthrough.

Master Ice Silkworm searched the Southern Border Cultivation World for Shen Long, while Shen Long began breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm. The chapter ended with Shen Long forming a Nascent Soul and passing the first trial.

• Qin Ming told Master Ice Silkworm that the Witch Clan had placed a reward on Shen Long and that he had not heard from him in decades.
• Master Ice Silkworm and his companions decided to search the Southern Border Cultivation World before seeking help from the Han Clan in the North Sea Cultivation World.
• Twenty years later, Chu Shan and Qin Tianhe entered Ten Thousand Poison Valley with two companions to hunt Monster Beasts.
• Shen Long absorbed Five-Colored Raindrops, a Spirit Infant Fruit, and a Supreme Profound Jade Lotus seed to prepare his Golden Core for the breakthrough.
• Shen Long shattered his Golden Core and formed a miniature Nascent Soul, passing the first trial of the breakthrough.