Chapter Summaries

The war between the Human and Barbarian Races ended with Wu Xiao agreeing to cede territory after Mo Wuya and Qi Xiao pressured him. The Human Race celebrated its victory, while Wu Xiao ordered the Barbarian Race to rebuild and began recovering from Qi Xiao’s poison.

• Wu Xiao, Mo Wuya, and Qi Xiao negotiated a ceasefire, and Wu Xiao agreed to cede territory after they settled on a forty percent reduction in Qi Xiao’s demand.
• Mo Wuya announced the Human Race’s victory, ordered Lu Qingshan to tally contributions, and introduced Qi Xiao as a newly ascended Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Master Ice Silkworm and Du Yinyin returned to the Spirit Control Garden and waited for Shen Long to come back.
• Wu Xiao assigned Bi Xin to coordinate the territorial cession and gave Zhe Sen a Spirit Treasure for the Sky Wolf Tribe’s service.
• Wu Xiao ordered Bi Xin to search for Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures, then revealed that Qi Xiao’s Heavenly Corpse Palm had poisoned him and said he would force the poison out himself.

Shen Long returned to Barbarian-Resisting City after raiding the Barbarian Race’s rear, then discovered valuable treasures among Gu Yu’s belongings and began refining the Dry Sun Cauldron. Mo Wuya decided the Spirit Control Sect would receive a territory for its battle achievements, while Qi Xiao discussed Shen Long’s strengths and weaknesses.

• Shen Long told Du Yinyin and Master Ice Silkworm that his group had captured two Golden Ape Tribe strongholds before fleeing a Nascent Soul Late Stage Cultivator.
• Shen Long inspected Gu Yu’s belongings and found a Golden Soul Fruit, three pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Flame Jade, pill formulas, and other valuable items.
• Shen Long brought out the Dry Sun Cauldron and began refining it to improve his alchemy efficiency.
• Lu Qingshan reported that the Spirit Control Sect had killed eleven Nascent Soul Cultivators, including two credited to Shen Long under the rules.
• Mo Wuya ordered that the Spirit Control Sect receive a territory and said battle rewards would be distributed in one month.
• Qi Xiao said Wu Xiao had suffered losses from his Heavenly Corpse Palm and would need time to recover.

After refining a batch of High-Grade Golden Soul Pills, Shen Long learned of Xu Mei’s death and attended a gathering at the Barbarian-Resisting Hall. Mo Wuya and Qi Xiao rewarded him with a Spirit Treasure for his battlefield record, intending to publicize him as an example to other cultivators.

• Shen Long finished refining twenty-four High-Grade Golden Soul Pills and came out of seclusion to meet Qian Dafu and Ning Qianqian, who gave him a fourth rank Spirit-Tracking Beast Demon Core and a millennial spirit herb.
• Shen Long contacted Lin Qing and learned that Xu Mei had died covering Lin Qing’s escape from a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Barbarian Race cultivator.
• Qian Dafu told Shen Long that he, Du, and Lin had been summoned to the Barbarian-Resisting Hall, where more than fifty Nascent Soul Cultivators had gathered.
• Mo Wuya praised Shen Long for killing more Nascent Soul Cultivators than anyone else in the war and offered him a Spirit Treasure as a reward.
• Shen Long initially declined the reward and credited Lu Qingshan, Han Lun, Wang Yinghu, Su Susu, and Du for helping hold back the enemy’s elite, but accepted after Qi Xiao insisted.

After the war, Shen Long received a Spirit-Hiding Cloak and learned that he and the Spirit Control Sect were being rewarded as an example to inspire other factions. The sect planned a celebration to capitalize on its new prominence, while Shen Long chose a more discreet birthday banquet for Yuan Rui.

• Lu Qingshan presented Shen Long with a choice of three Spirit Treasures, and Shen Long chose the Spirit-Hiding Cloak.
• Mo Wuya awarded the Spirit Control Sect territory across six provinces and a Fourth-Rank Golden Jade Stone vein, while Lu Qingshan distributed other rewards.
• Lu Qingshan explained that Shen Long was singled out to encourage smaller factions after the war’s heavy losses, and told him the Barbarian Race had acquired an earth-attribute Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure.
• Master Ice Silkworm and Du Yinyin proposed holding a Nascent Soul Celebration for Shen Long, but Shen Long suggested a grand birthday celebration for Yuan Rui instead to avoid drawing too much attention.
• Shen Long and Du Yinyin left Barbarian-Resisting City with disciples to discuss the celebration with Yuan Rui, while Master Ice Silkworm stayed to take over the territory and mineral vein.

After returning from the war, Shen Long learned that the Spirit Control Sect had gained territory and helped prepare a Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony for True Man Red Flood Dragon. Meanwhile, Yin Shan plotted to spread exaggerated rumors about Shen Long to make other factions target him.

• Du Yinyin and Shen Long returned to the Spirit Control Sect and told Yuan Rui that Lin Sen was still in Barbarian-Resisting City receiving the newly awarded territory.
• Yuan Rui decided to hold a Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony for True Man Red Flood Dragon and assigned Li Rongrong to send invitations.
• Shen Long gave True Man Red Flood Dragon a Cyan Giant Axe, then gave Lin Sen a Cyan Flying Dagger after learning he had entered the Golden Core Realm.
• Shen Long began refining Golden Soul Pills to strengthen his divine soul for a future breakthrough to the Spirit Transmutation Realm.
• At the Hundred Ghosts Sect, Yin Shan learned of Shen Long's rewards and ordered Xu Li to spread rumors exaggerating Shen Long's powers and opportunities.

Shen Long helped the Spirit-Tracking Beast survive its advance to fourth rank, then accepted Fairy Skyfire’s request to refine Heaven Soul Pills for the injured True Monarch Xuanyang. He began refining the pills at Golden Roc Garden while the Spirit-Tracking Beast recovered.

• After consuming three Fourth-Rank Spirit-Tracking Beast Inner Cores and spirit herbs, the Spirit-Tracking Beast began its fourth-rank tribulation, and Shen Long went to protect it.
• Qian Dafu told Shen Long that Fairy Skyfire had arrived, so Shen Long left the tribulation site to meet her at the Reception Hall.
• Fairy Skyfire gave Shen Long a Fourth-Rank Wood Demon Crystal Core and asked him to refine ten top-grade Heaven Soul Pills from her ingredients.
• Fairy Skyfire revealed that True Monarch Xuanyang’s divine soul had been injured and said she would stay at the Spirit Control Sect until the pills were ready.
• The Spirit-Tracking Beast survived its tribulation, and Shen Long fed it a Mystic Ice Jade Lotus Pill before returning it to its Spirit Beast Bag.
• Shen Long entered an Alchemy Room at Golden Roc Garden and began refining the Heaven Soul Pills.

Shen Long delivered the Heaven Soul Pills to Fairy Skyfire and received a Dragon Scale Fruit from Master Ice Silkworm. After hearing warnings about rumors surrounding him and the Heaven Ghost Sect’s involvement with the Hundred Ghosts Sect, he welcomed Ye Hongyao, who had come to attend Han’s Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony.

• Shen Long gave Fairy Skyfire ten Heaven Soul Pills, then went to Ice Silkworm Valley at Master Ice Silkworm’s request.
• Master Ice Silkworm gave Shen Long a Dragon Scale Fruit recovered from an Ancient Cultivator Cave Abode discovered by Lin Yutong.
• Master Ice Silkworm warned Shen Long that rumors claimed he had inherited a great cultivator’s legacy or was a powerful cultivator who had seized a body and cultivated anew.
• Master Ice Silkworm told Shen Long that Heaven Ghost Sect cultivators had appeared in Zhao Kingdom and likely visited the weakened Hundred Ghosts Sect.
• Qian Dafu informed Shen Long that Ye Hongyao had arrived, and Shen Long welcomed her and arranged accommodations so she could attend Han’s Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony.

Yin Shan sought the Heaven Ghost Sect’s protection for the Hundred Ghosts Sect and help gathering information about the Immortal Burial Mound. After True Monarch Xuanyang woke and set out for the Spirit Control Sect’s celebration, Ye Hongyao openly confessed her interest in Shen Long, who politely declined to pursue romance.

• Yin Shan asked Su Sheng and Shen Yue to gather an Immortal Burial Mound map and proposed moving some Hundred Ghosts Sect disciples to the North Sea Cultivation World under the Heaven Ghost Sect’s protection.
• Yin Shan worried that Ye Hongyao’s visit to the Spirit Control Sect might strengthen its ties with Medicine King Valley, but Su Sheng promised the Heaven Ghost Sect would help if the Spirit Control Sect attacked.
• Fairy Skyfire told the recovered True Monarch Xuanyang about the losses among Nascent Soul Cultivators, and he decided to lead a delegation to True Man Red Flood Dragon’s celebration.
• At the Spirit Control Sect’s celebration, Tang Yunbing teased Shen Long about finding a Dao companion, and Ye Hongyao openly said she was interested in him.
• Shen Long tactfully told Ye Hongyao that he did not plan to consider romance for the time being.

At True Man Red Flood Dragon’s Nascent Soul Formation Celebration, Shen Long traded with Ye Hongyao and learned of her interest in him, while the Spirit Control Sect secured the support of the Mystic Yang Sect and other allies. Afterward, Shen Long fed captured Ghost Kings to the Nine-Headed Ghost Dove and began secluded cultivation to approach the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.

• Ye Hongyao traded five Golden Core Realm Ghost Kings for Shen Long’s two Fourth-Rank Azure Cloud Marten Demon Cores, and she later obtained Qin Lei’s Golden Thunder Bamboo.
• Ye Hongyao told Tang Yunbing she hoped to become Shen Long’s Dao Companion, while Shen Long told True Man Red Flood Dragon that he had no feelings for her.
• True Man Red Flood Dragon held his Nascent Soul Formation Celebration, where True Monarch Xuanyang thanked Shen Long and Ye Hongyao invited him to visit Medicine King Valley.
• True Monarch Xuanyang and other Nascent Soul Cultivators declared that their sects would follow the Spirit Control Sect’s lead, and Yuan Rui proposed that they cooperate as equals.
• Shen Long released the Ghost Kings in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower, where the late Third-Rank Nine-Headed Ghost Dove devoured them all.
• Shen Long returned to his cultivation chamber, took a Blood Flood Dragon Pill, and began cultivating in seclusion.

After advancing to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, Shen Long learned that the Immortal Burial Mound’s restrictions were weakening and gathered maps and intelligence about others seeking to explore it. He then placed an Amethyst Flying Scorpion egg in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower and began using the Spirit Control Pool.

• Shen Long and Shen Hai emerged from secluded cultivation, with Shen Long reaching the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and Shen Hai having entered the Golden Core Realm three years earlier.
• Lin Sen reported the Spirit Control Sect’s growth, while Shen Long learned that Lin Sen’s master had left the General Headquarters and other senior cultivators remained in seclusion.
• Qian Dafu presented maps of the Immortal Burial Mound and received a cyan Short Halberd from Shen Long.
• Liu Yuruo reported that the Hundred Ghosts Sect was also collecting maps and that its elite had moved to the North Sea Cultivation World; Shen Long gave her Beast Rearing Pills.
• Su Changfeng presented Shen Long with an Amethyst Flying Scorpion egg that could no longer hatch, and Shen Long placed it in the Spirit Control Pool before channeling Dharma power into an image of a Giant Scorpion.

Shen Long entered the Immortal Burial Mound in disguise, but shifting restrictions blocked his route through its depths. Meanwhile, Yin Shan and Su Sheng searched for a Golden Soul Fruit Tree after Shen Yue died in an encounter with powerful beasts.

• Shen Long tested an Amethyst Flying Scorpion, judged its bloodline barely acceptable, and stored it before leaving to seek an item at the Immortal Burial Mound.
• Su Sheng persuaded Yin Shan to join him and Shen Yue on a search for a Golden Soul Fruit Tree, while Liu Mei stayed behind to defend the Hundred Ghosts Sect.
• Shen Long entered the Immortal Burial Mound in disguise with the Iron Tail Scorpion and Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada, and collected a miniature lizard after the Iron Tail Scorpion killed its host.
• Shen Long sent Golden-Winged Fire Ants across an apparently empty area above a Black Lake, discovered hidden restrictions, and turned back to find another route.
• Yin Shan and Su Sheng escaped a lightning-filled Wasteland after three fourth rank Lion-Roar Beasts killed Shen Yue, then continued toward their destination.

Shen Long discovered Golden Flame Crystal, claimed Jade Flat Peaches after killing their guardian, and reached Thousand Herb Garden, where he found its treasures already taken. He explored Thousand Herb Hall and discovered a Formation Disk beside a skeleton and a Spirit Gathering Stone.

• Shen Long found a vein of Golden Flame Jade and recovered a millstone-sized piece containing Golden Flame Crystal.
• The Green-Eyed Spirit Fox led Shen Long to Jade Flat Peaches guarded by a Late Fourth Rank Great Strength Golden-Backed Ape, which he killed before collecting the fruit and transplanting the tree.
• Shen Long used the Magnetic Essence Bead to overcome the Gravity Restriction and entered Thousand Herb Garden, where he found no ancient herbs or fruit trees.
• Shen Long sent a Giant Ape Puppet Beast into Thousand Herb Hall and then explored its three Stone Chambers.
• Shen Long found a humanoid skeleton, a Formation Disk with eighteen grooves, and a Spirit Gathering Stone absorbing spiritual qi.

Shen Long discovered the inheritance of True Monarch Ganyang, obtained the Gold-Magnetic Formation and several treasures, and used them to defeat two Black Crow Tribe cultivators. After learning they had once accompanied Wu Yan on a mysterious mission, Shen Long returned to the Spirit Control Sect.

• Shen Long found True Monarch Ganyang’s remains and used the elder’s Shadow-Returning Crystal to learn about the Gold-Magnetic Formation and his final request.
• Shen Long claimed Ganyang’s treasures, including the Ganjin Needle and Formation Disk, then refined the needle and Spirit Beast Bracelet.
• Shen Long used the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada to locate two Black Crow Tribe cultivators and attacked them with the Gold-Magnetic Formation and his weapons.
• Shen Long killed the Black-Robed Man with the Ganjin Needle and captured the Purple-Skirted Woman’s Nascent Soul.
• Shen Long searched the captured Nascent Soul, learned the pair had accompanied Wu Yan on an important mission, collected the valuables and corpses, and returned to the Spirit Control Sect half a month later.

Shen Long learned that a Nascent Soul Realm Flower Demon in the Hengduan Mountains had nearly killed Liu Zi'an, and he began refining Golden Soul Pills before setting out to hunt her. Elsewhere, cultivators uncovered clues about the Green Plum Realm and investigated the foreign origin of Wu Xiao’s Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure.

• Shen Long gave the Tree Man a Fourth-Rank Wood Demon’s Crystal Core and gifted Su Changfeng a newly hatched Amethyst Flying Scorpion.
• After learning Liu Zi'an had returned gravely injured, Shen Long gave him a Blood Mushroom Pill and received a map to the Flower Demon’s location in the Hengduan Mountains.
• Liu Zi'an told Shen Long that the Flower Demon’s illusions had killed two of his companions and left him severely wounded while they gathered Golden Soul Fruits.
• Shen Long returned to Golden Roc Garden and began refining Golden Soul Pills before heading to the Hengduan Mountains to kill the Flower Demon.
• Su Sheng, Yin Shan, and Liu Mei discussed ancient cultivator records mentioning the Green Plum Realm, and Su Sheng invited Yin Shan to the North Sea Cultivation World.
• Mo Wuya ordered Qi Kexin to investigate foreign cultivators, damaged Spatial Nodes, and the origins of Wu Xiao’s Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure.

Shen Long traveled to the Hengduan Mountains, where he hunted powerful beasts and eventually located the Man-Eating Flower. He trapped it in the Gold-Magnetic Formation and crushed it, leaving behind its Crystal Core.

• Shen Long distributed his refined pills to the Spirit Control Sect and arranged for Lin Sen to connect Qian Yu with a talisman-making mentor.
• Wu Na ordered Bi Xin to continue searching for Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures despite the deaths of five Nascent Soul clansmen.
• Shen Long killed two crimson centipedes, harvested Purple Apricot Jade Fruits, and rescued Chen Yilei and Zhao Na from two Green Wind Pengs.
• Three days later, Shen Long and Shen Hai lured the Man-Eating Flower into the Gold-Magnetic Formation after it evaded Shen Hai's attacks with Wood Evasion Technique.
• Shen Long intensified the formation's gravity until the Man-Eating Flower split apart, leaving its golden-cyan Crystal Core.

Shen Long hunted several powerful creatures in the Hengduan Mountains and learned that Lin Feng had subdued a mutated Great Strength Golden-Backed Ape. He decided to head to the North Sea Cultivation World to replenish his Blood Flood Dragon Pills and help the Ice Flood Dragon advance.

• Shen Long killed an early Fourth-Rank flower demon with the Gold-Magnetic Formation and took its crystal core for the tree demon.
• Shen Long killed a Three-Tailed Spirit Fox, collected its essence soul, and harvested the Millennium Yellow Jade Ganoderma growing in its cave.
• Shen Long killed a Golden-Winged Thunder Eagle and a Red Giant Tiger, but found no Thunder-Guiding Bead or Thunder-Absorbing Bead in the eagle.
• Shen Long hid himself as Lin Feng and three Heaven Ghost Sect cultivators passed by after subduing a mutated Great Strength Golden-Backed Ape.
• Shen Long decided to travel to the North Sea Cultivation World because he was running low on Blood Flood Dragon Pills and needed to help the Ice Flood Dragon advance.

Shen Long returned to the North Sea Cultivation World, gathered news and alchemy materials from old acquaintances, and traveled with Shen Hai to a remote island. There, he prepared an ambush using Monster Luring Grass and concealed allies to lure out a powerful beast.

• Han Chuxi told Han Chuchu about Shen Long’s arrival, and Shen Long visited them to ask about fourth rank Flood Dragons and recent events in the North Sea Cultivation World.
• Shen Long met Song Yan and Liu Hao, paid respects to Sun Yiyue and Song Sen, and accepted alchemy materials and Golden Cicada Pavilion’s token from Song Yan.
• Shen Long fed a fourth rank ice attribute Demon Core to the Ice Flood Dragon, then spent a month cultivating before receiving alchemy materials from Song He and four companions.
• Shen Long met Shen Hai outside the marketplace, disguised himself with the Shape-Shifting Lock, and traveled with him by Sea-Crossing Boat to a remote island.
• Shen Long set up a formation, concealed himself and his spirit beasts, and used Monster Luring Grass as bait; a silver turtle surfaced and attacked a Gray Vulture with lightning.

Shen Long’s spirit beasts survived tribulations and advanced to the fourth rank, with their bloodline purity rising. After returning to Golden Flood Dragon Marketplace, he learned Ye Hongyao was looking for him and went to meet her.

• Shen Long killed a Black Vulture and a Silver Giant Turtle with the Ganjin Needle and collected their Essence Souls.
• Mu Shanshan entered the Nascent Soul Realm, while Chu Buyu refused to tell her companions about the Barbarian Race’s bounty.
• After twenty years, the Ice Flood Dragon, Nine-Headed Ghost Dove, and Tree Man advanced toward or entered the fourth rank, and the Nine-Headed Ghost Dove survived three bolts of Three-Colored Divine Lightning and gained a fourth head.
• Shen Long discovered that all his spirit beasts, spirit birds, and spirit insects had reached the fourth rank, and that the Golden-Winged Wind Peng and Nine-Headed Ghost Dove had bloodline purity of five.
• Shen Long returned to Golden Flood Dragon Marketplace and learned from Song Yan that Ye Hongyao wanted to see him.
• Ye Hongyao told Shen Long to visit her at Hongyao Garden because she had obtained something he would like.

Shen Long traded five Golden Soul Pills with Ye Hongyao for fourth rank Red Fire Flood Dragon Essence Blood, while firmly rejecting her romantic advances. After they exchanged materials and discussed alchemy, he returned to Golden Cicada Pavilion and began refining Blood Flood Dragon Pills.

• Ye Hongyao gave Shen Long the Red Fire Flood Dragon Essence Blood in exchange for five Golden Soul Pills and congratulated him on reaching the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Ye Hongyao confessed that she wanted Shen Long as her Dao companion, but Shen Long told her he had no romantic feelings and would not become her Dao companion.
• Ye Hongyao said she would continue pursuing her own happiness without pestering Shen Long, then exchanged materials with him and warned that Nascent Soul Cultivators had been disappearing.
• Shen Long and Ye Hongyao discussed alchemy before he left Hongyao Garden and returned to Golden Cicada Pavilion.
• Shen Long meditated in the Alchemy Room, then used the Red Fire Flood Dragon Essence Blood and other ingredients to begin refining Blood Flood Dragon Pills.

Shen Long traveled to Star-Moon Marketplace to ask Chu Buyu to upgrade his Dragon-Slaying Saber into a Spirit Treasure, then acquired Yin Beast Demon Cores for his Nine-Headed Ghost Dove. The chapter left Mu Shanshan suspecting Shen Long was the cultivator sought by the Barbarian Race and plotting to secure the Palace Master position and Senior Brother Xu.

• Mu Weiwei told Shen Long about Sun and Moon Palace’s upcoming Auction and gave him a thousand-year-old Seven-Star Spirit Nourishing Flower, while he gave her Monster Beast materials and a list of items to seek.
• Shen Long met Chu Buyu, who agreed to refine his Dharma Treasure into a Spirit Treasure within half a year and let him watch, in exchange for five Golden Soul Pills.
• At a stall, Shen Long traded five Blood Mushroom Pills to Lu Tong for two Fourth-Rank Yin Beast Demon Cores after True Monarch Golden Crow introduced them.
• Shen Long fed the Demon Cores to his Nine-Headed Ghost Dove and settled it on Mystic Yin Island, a Yin Qi-rich habitat he had prepared.
• Mu Shanshan learned that Shen Long had spent over an hour speaking with Chu Buyu and suspected he was the cultivator wanted by the Barbarian Race.