Chapter Summaries

Shen Long and Chu Buyu stole treasure from the Golden Ape Tribe and fought their way through an ambush led by Hao Hu. They escaped after injuring Hao Hu’s group, but the Barbarian Race spread the alarm and sent Nascent Soul Cultivators to hunt them down.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu fought off a Golden Ape Tribe cultivator and killed him, capturing his Nascent Soul and the Cyan Giant Crane’s spirit.
• Hao Hu arrived with three other Nascent Soul Cultivators, and Shen Long and Chu Buyu attacked before attempting to retreat.
• Chu Buyu turned back to help Shen Long, and the pair used a thunder bead and the Soul-Extinguishing Bead to injure Hao Hu’s group before escaping together.
• Hao Hu ordered the tribes to be notified and urged them to intercept Shen Long and Chu Buyu, prompting the Barbarian Race to send Nascent Soul Cultivators after them.

Wu Xiao returned to Golden Crow City and ordered the Barbarian Race to pursue Shen Long and Chu Buyu while Wu Yan investigated a sealed site that might hold a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure. After Shen Long brought the wounded Chu Buyu to safety in Human Race territory, Qi Xiao and Mo Wuya agreed to plan another war against the Barbarian Race.

• Wu Yan ordered a Spirit Treasure reward for capturing Shen Long and Chu Buyu, but Wu Xiao told him to send other tribes’ High Priests instead.
• Wu Yan told Wu Xiao that a sealed site might contain a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, though taking it could allow cultivators from another world to enter.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu escaped the Barbarian Race’s pursuers and crossed into Human Race territory, where he offered to take her to the Spirit Control Sect to recuperate.
• Qi Xiao asked Mo Wuya whether Spirit Transmutation Mid-Stage cultivators could ascend to the Spirit Realm and proposed weakening the Barbarian Race through war.
• Mo Wuya agreed to plan the war gradually, and Qi Xiao left the Ten Thousand Swords Sect after they discussed its general direction.

Shen Long returned to the Spirit Control Sect with Chu Buyu and presented three-thousand-year Blood Scale Wood to Master Ice Silkworm to refine into Life-Substitution Beads. Meanwhile, the Ten Thousand Swords Sect learned that the Golden Crow Tribe had placed a bounty on Chu Buyu and a Body Cultivator carrying a powerful Spirit Treasure.

• Shen Long brought Chu Buyu to Golden Roc Peak and asked Lin Sen to host her, then went to Ice Silkworm Valley to meet Master Ice Silkworm and Han Yuwei.
• Shen Long gave Master Ice Silkworm Blood Scale Wood and fourth-rank artifact-refining materials, and received a Two-Tailed Spirit Fox Demon Core and Millennium Green Wind Grass in return.
• Shen Long fed the demon core to the Green-Eyed Spirit Fox, gave a Mystic Ice Jade Lotus Pill to the Golden-Winged Fire Ant Queen, and began refining a Blood Flood Dragon Pill.
• At the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, Lu Qingshan congratulated Lin Qing and Xu Mei on entering the Nascent Soul Realm and told them Shen Long and his master had also advanced.
• Lu Qingshan revealed that the Golden Crow Tribe had put a huge bounty on Chu Buyu and a Body Cultivator with a heavy Spirit Treasure, and that Barbarian cultivators had entered Human territory and been captured.

Shen Long received a Life-Substitution Bead, welcomed Su Changfeng as his first disciple, and began teaching him alchemy. The chapter ended with Shen Long quietly recording Su Changfeng’s first Beast Spirit Pill refining session.

• Wu Yan ordered the Barbarian Race to maintain the bounty on Chu Buyu and strengthen its defenses after learning she and Shen Long had entered its heartland seeking Master Yellow Sand’s cave abode.
• After three years of recovery, Chu Buyu left the Spirit Control Sect in disguise and promised to keep Shen Long’s identity secret.
• Master Ice Silkworm gave Shen Long a Life-Substitution Bead and said that he had refined a second one for himself.
• Shen Long held an apprenticeship ceremony for Su Changfeng after his disciple entered the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Shen Long began teaching Su Changfeng alchemy, recorded him refining Beast Spirit Pills, and watched as a medicinal fragrance emerged from the furnace.

Ten years later, Shen Long learned that the Ten Thousand Swords Sect had summoned the human factions to war against the Barbarian Race, while the Hundred Ghosts Sect and Barbarian leaders received their own calls to arms. The factions mobilized for the coming conflict as Wu Xiao learned that several Nascent Soul cultivators had gone missing.

• Shen Long reflected on his seven hundred drops of Essence Blood and received Chen Xiao’s report that the Ten Thousand Swords Sect had issued another summons.
• Shen Long met with Du Yinyin and Li Rongrong, and they decided that Shen Long and Du Yinyin would lead an expedition while Li Rongrong stayed at headquarters.
• Xu Li told Liu Mei and Su Xuan that the Nether Corpse Sect had summoned them to war, and they agreed to lead the Hundred Ghosts Sect’s expedition while remaining wary of the Spirit Control Sect.
• Bi Xin informed Wu Xiao that human forces were gathering for war and that the Life Soul Lamps of Wu Yan and two other cultivators had gone out.
• Wu Xiao ordered experts from twelve tribes to gather at Sky Wolf City and prepare to confront the human cultivators.

Du Yinyin and Shen Long arrived at Barbarian-Resisting City with reinforcements, where Shen Long met True Monarch Golden Crow and True Monarch Haoyang. He agreed to refine pills for Golden Crow, traded Ten Thousand Poison Paste for Demon Cores, and gave Haoyang a stick of Nine-Curve Monster Luring Incense.

• Du Yinyin and Shen Long led several hundred cultivators, including ten Golden Core Cultivators, into Barbarian-Resisting City and were welcomed by Qi Shan.
• Shen Long met True Monarch Golden Crow, who asked him to refine Three-Leaf Jade Spirit Pills in exchange for two fourth-rank Demon Cores, and Shen Long accepted.
• True Monarch Golden Crow asked Shen Long about increasing his Golden-Eyed Golden Crow’s Bloodline Purity, and Shen Long mentioned rumors of fourth-rank Black Phoenixes in the Hengduan Mountains.
• Shen Long met Fairy Qingmei and her great-grandfather, True Monarch Haoyang, who thanked him for saving her and invited him to talk.
• Shen Long traded Ten Thousand Poison Paste to True Monarch Haoyang for three Demon Cores and gave him a stick of Nine-Curve Monster Luring Incense.

Shen Long obtained two fourth-rank Silver-Eyed Spirit Fox Inner Cores from Fairy Chihong in exchange for five High-Grade Blood Mushroom Pills as he prepared for the war. The Barbarian Race prepared for a larger conflict under Wu Xiao’s command, while Shen Long gathered intelligence, trained his spirit beasts, and agreed to meet the elders of Tang Yilong and Qin.

• True Monarch Haoyang introduced Shen Long to Fairy Chihong, who traded him two Silver-Eyed Spirit Fox Inner Cores for five High-Grade Blood Mushroom Pills.
• Zhe Sen and the Barbarian Race leaders discussed the looming war, and Wu Xiao arrived to take command and threaten Bai Sheng over a past failure.
• Li Hua reported the Human Race’s forces and rewards to Du Yinyin and Shen Long, who ordered him to watch the Heaven Ghost Sect.
• Shen Long fed Demon Cores to the Green-Eyed Spirit Fox and Spirit-Tracking Beast at Golden Roc Courtyard.
• Shen Long told Qian Dafu to bring Tang Yilong’s elder and Qin’s elder to meet him.

Shen Long met Tang Yunbing and Qin Guanglin, accepted a gift from the Qin Family, and repaid them with healing pills. He then joined the Nascent Soul Cultivators gathering for the coming war against the Barbarian Race and was assigned to a team with Du Yinyin, while planning to keep his strength understated.

• Tang Yunbing and Qin Guanglin thanked Shen Long for saving their people, and Qin Guanglin gave him five Millennium Golden Flame Ginseng plants.
• Shen Long gave Qin Guanglin two High-Grade Blood Mushroom Pills in return, and the three exchanged cultivation insights before Tang Yunbing and Qin Guanglin departed.
• Over the next seven days, Du Yinyin brought Shen Long to Nascent Soul Cultivator gatherings, where he made acquaintances and traded for cultivation resources.
• Mo Wuya arrived with Lu Qingshan, announced that he would command the coming battle, and promised rewards for meritorious service and punishment for those who shirked.
• Lu Qingshan divided the Nascent Soul Cultivators into teams to face Barbarian Race experts, assigning Shen Long and Du Yinyin together.
• Shen Long accepted the assignment and decided to avoid drawing attention to himself at the front line.

Lu Qingshan organized the Human Race’s Nascent Soul Cultivators and prepared them for war against the Barbarian Race. The battle began at Barbarian-Resisting City, where Shen Long and Du Yinyin defeated Tali while fighting alongside their spirit companions, and the Human Race gained the upper hand despite casualties on both sides.

• Lu Qingshan assigned the Human Race teams and shared intelligence on Barbarian experts, then announced a Spirit Treasure reward for the first cultivator to kill a Nascent Soul opponent.
• Shen Long and Du Yinyin discussed battle tactics, and Du Yinyin explained that her Black Phoenix had advanced to the fourth rank.
• Wu Xiao and Mo Wuya exchanged challenges outside Barbarian-Resisting City, and both sides sent Nascent Soul Cultivators and lower-level forces into battle.
• Shen Long and Du Yinyin fought Tali with their spirit companions, and the Iron Tail Scorpion poisoned him before they defeated him and captured his Nascent Soul.
• Su Susu and four Heavenly Sound Sect cultivators used a combined attack to kill a Barbarian Nascent Soul cultivator, while a Black Crow Tribe expert killed a Blood-Robed Elder.
• Dozens of Nascent Soul Cultivators battled in the sky, and the Human Race held the advantage as both sides suffered casualties.

Shen Long and Du Yinyin fought the green-shirted big man, whose escape failed after the mutated poison scorpion’s venom weakened him. The first battle ended with greater losses for the Barbarian Race, boosting the Human Race’s morale.

• Shen Long and Du Yinyin combined their attacks against the green-shirted big man, while the Iron Tail Scorpion’s gravity and poison helped overwhelm him.
• The injured green-shirted big man escaped back to Wu Xiao’s side, where Tu Sen advised him to abandon his body; the poison soon turned it into black blood.
• Shen Long and Du Yinyin returned to Barbarian-Resisting City and were congratulated for their victory.
• Both sides sounded the retreat after the Human Race lost four Nascent Soul Cultivators and the Barbarian Race lost six.
• Su Susu’s group and Fairy Chihong scored major victories, while Chen Changsheng’s group only injured Hai Yunzhu and Xu Shan was badly wounded.

After the first battle, Shen Long and Du Yinyin received merit for killing Tali, while Wu Xiao ordered reinforcements and rewarded Zhe Lei. Liu Mei and Su Xuan failed to persuade Han Lun to help them seek revenge, leaving them to focus on surviving the war.

• Mo Wuya praised the cultivators' performance and let Su Susu choose a Spirit Treasure, which she took in the form of a white jade flute.
• Shen Long and Du Yinyin turned in Tali's Nascent Soul, received Merit Points, and divided his remaining belongings.
• Wu Xiao ordered the twelve major tribes to send reinforcements and gave Zhe Lei a Wolf Tooth Mace for killing a Nascent Soul Cultivator quickly.
• Han Lun refused to provoke the Ten Thousand Swords Sect on behalf of Liu Mei and Su Xuan, though he urged them to earn military merit in the war.
• Liu Mei and Su Xuan concluded that they could not rely on the Nether Corpse Sect or the distant Heaven Ghost Sect and hoped to survive the war.

Shen Long traded for alchemy materials at a gathering of Nascent Soul Cultivators, then discovered Silver-Lang Cyan-Veined Jade hidden inside a piece of Golden Jade Stone. He delivered the Three-Leaf Jade Spirit Pills to True Monarch Golden Crow and resumed cultivating.

• Lu Qingshan and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators discussed their battles, combined attack arts, and exchanged cultivation resources.
• Shen Long traded pills for Fourth-Rank Fire Qilin Beast Demon Cores, Millennium Golden Flame Ginseng, and other alchemy materials.
• Fairy Skyfire traded her damaged Monster Luring Grass to Ye Sen for a spiritual elixir to help the unconscious True Monarch Xuanyang.
• Shen Long fed a Demon Core and Millennium Golden Flame Ginseng to his Fire Qilin Beast, then discovered Silver-Lang Cyan-Veined Jade inside Golden Jade Stone with help from the Golden-Winged Fire Ant Queen.
• Shen Long gave True Monarch Golden Crow the Three-Leaf Jade Spirit Pills he had requested and then swallowed a Blood Flood Dragon Pill to cultivate.

After more than twenty years of war, Shen Long killed a sixth Nascent Soul Cultivator and helped his Green-Eyed Spirit Fox and Fire Qilin Beast attempt breakthroughs to fourth rank. In Sky Wolf City, Wu Xiao learned that Wu Yu had obtained a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure and sent him to recover.

• Shen Long defeated and killed the Yellow-Shirted Big Man, captured his Nascent Soul, and returned to Barbarian-Resisting City to claim Merit Points.
• Shen Long's Green-Eyed Spirit Fox and Fire Qilin Beast underwent lightning tribulations, and the Fire Qilin Beast successfully advanced to fourth rank.
• Wu Xiao received Wu Yu and Bi Xin in Sky Wolf Hall and praised Wu Yu for retrieving a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure despite losing five Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Wu Xiao sent the injured Wu Yu to recuperate and promised him a spiritual item if he reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection.

As the Human and Barbarian Races’ war dragged on, Shen Long accepted a dangerous mission to infiltrate the Barbarian heartland with Lin Qing, Xu Mei, and True Monarch Golden Crow. After preparing with several one-use treasures and recovering his Fire Qilin Beast, the group disguised themselves and left Barbarian-Resisting City.

• Wu Xiao and Bi Xin discussed the Barbarian Race’s heavy losses and resolved to investigate the Human Race’s true purpose before committing to battle.
• Mo Wuya and Qi Xiao planned to intensify attacks on the Barbarian tribes to force Wu Xiao into a confrontation, with Qi Xiao waiting to ambush him.
• Lu Qingshan assigned Shen Long, Lin Qing, Xu Mei, and True Monarch Golden Crow a confidential mission to attack strongholds and resources in the Barbarian heartland.
• Shen Long exchanged Merit Points for a Soul-Extinguishing Bead, while Du Yinyin gave him a Blood Pollution Bead and urged him to stay safe.
• Shen Long confirmed that his Fire Qilin Beast had recovered, fed it a thousand-year-old Golden Flame Ganoderma, and prepared it for battle.
• Shen Long and the others changed their appearances and left Barbarian-Resisting City to begin their mission.

Shen Long, True Monarch Golden Crow, Lin Qing, and Xu Mei raided a Golden Ape Tribe mine, destroyed its defenses, and killed its Nascent Soul guardian. They mined Golden Jade Stone ore before escaping, leaving the Golden Ape Tribe to discover the attack and the wider Barbarian Race tribes to reinforce their defenses.

• True Monarch Golden Crow and his companions attacked the Golden Jade Pavilion’s protective formation, prompting Elder Ye to order a call for reinforcements and an evacuation.
• Shen Long’s Iron Tail Scorpion stunned the defenders while the group’s combined attacks shattered the formation and destroyed the Communication Array and Teleportation Array.
• The group killed the gold-shirted Nascent Soul guardian, found two Storage Bags, and divided the captured wealth.
• Shen Long suggested mining ore before they left, and he released hundreds of thousands of Spirit Ants while hacking raw Golden Jade Stone from the mine walls.
• Shen Long and the others reunited and escaped after half a day; news of their raid spread, and the major Barbarian Race tribes strengthened their defenses.

Lu Qingshan’s teams raided Barbarian Race territory while Ji Zha and the other tribes struggled to identify and stop them. At the Golden Ape Tribe’s Spirit Herb Garden, True Monarch Golden Crow’s group defeated its defenders, took the herbs, and left without risking an attack on the tribe’s headquarters.

• Ji Zha killed the Purple-Skirted Woman, searched her Nascent Soul, and learned that Lu Qingshan had sent several independent teams to attack Barbarian Race strongholds.
• The Cyan-Skirted Woman told Ji Zha that attackers had wiped out the Golden Ape Tribe’s mine and that raids were causing losses across the Barbarian Race’s rear areas.
• True Monarch Golden Crow, Shen Long, Lin Qing, and Xu Mei defeated the golden-skirted defender of the Golden Ape Tribe’s Spirit Herb Garden and captured her Nascent Soul.
• Shen Long and Lin Qing learned that the Golden Ape Tribe’s High Priest was recovering from severe soul damage, but they rejected True Monarch Golden Crow’s proposal to attack the tribe’s headquarters.
• True Monarch Golden Crow’s group harvested the garden’s spirit herbs and fruits, divided the spoils, and left the mountain range.

Shen Long and his allies lay low after raiding two Golden Ape Tribe strongholds, then planned a new strike against an Ice Bear Tribe Spirit Herb Garden. As Shen Long set out to lure away the Barbarian Race’s high-level cultivators, Master Ice Silkworm arrived at the front lines and learned Shen Long was away on a dangerous mission.

• Wu Na ordered the major tribes to strengthen their defenses and form a team of Nascent Soul Cultivators to hunt Human Race intruders.
• Shen Long, True Monarch Golden Crow, Lin Qing, and Xu Mei agreed to lie low after raiding two Golden Ape Tribe strongholds and then spent more than half a year in secluded cultivation.
• Master Ice Silkworm arrived at Barbarian-Resisting City and learned from Du Yinyin that Shen Long had left on a confidential mission deep in Barbarian Race territory.
• Two Golden Core Barbarian Race cultivators searched the mountains for Shen Long’s group but avoided investigating closely, fearing they were being used as bait.
• Shen Long and his allies chose the remote Green Bamboo Mountain Range Spirit Herb Garden as their next target and planned to draw away its defenders.
• Shen Long volunteered to lure away the Barbarian Race’s high-level cultivators, while True Monarch Golden Crow and the others headed for the Green Bamboo Mountain Range.

Shen Long reunited with True Monarch Golden Crow, Lin Qing, and Xu Mei near the Spirit Herb Garden, but a Fourth-Rank Thousand-Mile Oriole exposed their hiding place to three powerful Barbarian Race cultivators. The group scattered under attack, and Shen Long was struck by the Cyan Thunder Dove’s lightning after its screech briefly stopped him from using magic power.

• Yi Ji learned that Red Centipede Tribe patrol members had died and ordered the tribe to strengthen its defenses against Human Race cultivators.
• Shen Long arrived at the Green Bamboo Mountain Range and told True Monarch Golden Crow, Lin Qing, and Xu Mei that he had killed a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator and let another escape to raise the alarm.
• Shen Long sensed approaching Nascent Soul Cultivators, and True Monarch Golden Crow concealed the group with a cyan mist.
• A Fourth-Rank Thousand-Mile Oriole discovered the hidden cultivators, and three Barbarian Race Nascent Soul Cultivators attacked them.
• True Monarch Golden Crow, Lin Qing, Xu Mei, and Shen Long fled in separate directions as their pursuers gave chase.
• The Cyan Thunder Dove caught up with Shen Long, silenced his magic power with its screech, and struck him with a bolt of silver lightning.

Shen Long fought the red-skirted maiden and her fourth-rank spirit beasts, insects, and bird, defeating them all before killing her. He learned through her Nascent Soul that she was Gu Bo’s descendant and took the Dry Sun Cauldron, then left the area.

• The red-skirted maiden summoned the Cyan Thunder Dove, Great Strength Golden-Backed Ape, and Six-Winged Frost Centipede to attack Shen Long.
• Shen Long revealed his identity and unleashed his spirit creatures, killing the maiden’s Amethyst Flying Scorpion, Six-Winged Frost Centipede, Great Strength Golden-Backed Ape, and Cyan Thunder Dove.
• The red-skirted maiden brought out the Dry Sun Cauldron, but Shen Long used his Li Fire Staff and a piercing screech to break her defenses and kill her.
• Shen Long captured the maiden’s Nascent Soul and learned she was Gu Bo’s descendant and that the Dry Sun Cauldron could collect high-rank Spirit Flames.
• Shen Long collected the Dry Sun Cauldron, searched the maiden’s storage bracelet, and left the area.

Shen Long escaped the Barbarian Race pursuers, found the wounded True Monarch Golden Crow, and fled with him while Gu Bo mobilized the Wind Falcon Tribe to find his missing granddaughter, Gu Yu. Meanwhile, the Barbarian Race launched its final battle, and Master Ice Silkworm killed a Nascent Soul opponent.

• A green-shirted youth arrived at the devastated battlefield and recognized Shen Long's escape technique, then left to report that Fairy Gu might have been lost.
• True Monarch Golden Crow hid in an underground cave after escaping his fight with a fourth-rank evasion talisman, and Shen Long found him by tracking his scent.
• Shen Long told True Monarch Golden Crow that he had escaped using a Demon Locking Talisman, then carried him underground on the Iron Tail Scorpion as they headed for the rear.
• Gu Bo learned that Gu Yu had gone missing and ordered Gu Jing to search for her, offering a Spirit Treasure as a reward for her rescue.
• During the final battle between the Human Race and the Barbarian Race, Master Ice Silkworm froze a gold-shirted Nascent Soul cultivator, destroyed his body, and captured his Nascent Soul in a gourd.