Chapter Summaries

Shen Long defeated True Monarch Li Huo in a sparring match and received a Fourth-Order Spirit Flame. The arrival of Spirit Transformation cultivators Ye Hongyao and Lin brought the gathering to an abrupt halt.

• True Monarch Li Huo defeated Chen Xin, who conceded and gave him the Heaven Soul Ghost Lotus.
• Shen Long and True Monarch Li Huo sparred, with Shen Long overcoming Li Huo’s sword arts and techniques.
• Shen Long stopped short of killing Li Huo, who conceded and gave him a Cyan Gourd containing a Fourth-Order Spirit Flame.
• Ye Hongyao and Lin arrived on a White Flying Boat, and Shen Long, Chu Buyu, and the others bowed to them.

After the Ten Thousand Swords Assembly, Shen Long joined fellow cultivators in exchanging treasures and resources, then returned to refine a fourth-rank Spirit Flame. He fed rare cores to his beasts and strengthened his divine sense, leaving his Green Lotus True Flame more powerful once it finished refining the flame.

• True Monarch Li Huo explained why he had not used his complete set of Spirit Treasures against Shen Long, and Green Lotus Sword Venerable urged Shen Long to spar with him again.
• Mo Wuya reunited with Green Lotus Sword Venerable and Fairy Xuanbing, while Shen Long and the others returned to Mysterious Ice Garden to chat.
• Lin Qian organized a resource exchange, where Shen Long traded pills for a fourth-rank Silver-Eyed Spirit Fox Demon Core, an Ice Flood Dragon Inner Core, and two Fire Qilin Beast Inner Cores.
• The cultivators discussed a dangerous Late Fourth Rank Red Fire Flood Dragon in the North Sea before the gathering ended.
• Shen Long fed the mid fourth-rank Ice Flood Dragon Inner Core to his Ice Flood Dragon and a Fire Qilin Beast Inner Core to his Fire Qilin Beast.
• Shen Long used the Green Lotus True Flame to devour a fourth-rank Spirit Flame, then took a Seven-Star Spirit Nourishing Pill to strengthen his divine sense.

Mo Wuya, Green Lotus Sword Venerable, and Fairy Xuanbing discussed the Barbarian Race threat, Ning’s ascension, and a request to avenge Mo Wuya’s disciple. Shen Long then asked Heavenly Mystery Rogue to divine an opportunity, learning it lay somewhere in the Southern Border’s volcanic region.

• Green Lotus Sword Venerable said Huang and Wang had eliminated the danger from Mysterious Yin Ghost Mother and sealed the Ten Thousand Ghost Mound.
• Green Lotus Sword Venerable told Mo Wuya and Fairy Xuanbing that Ning had ascended to the Lingxu Realm, disappointing their hopes of having him refine pills.
• Mo Wuya asked Green Lotus Sword Venerable to help find the killer of his youngest disciple, and Green Lotus Sword Venerable agreed.
• Ye Hai admitted Shen Long to the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion while turning away True Monarch Xuanyang and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Shen Long agreed to grant Heavenly Mystery Rogue a future favor in exchange for a divination.
• Heavenly Mystery Rogue divined that Shen Long had a great opportunity in the Southern Border’s volcanic region and said only Nine-Year-Old Rogue Cultivator and Fairy Chu had also received such a result.

Shen Long received news of a great opportunity in the Southern Border and met with several cultivators seeking to trade for his treasures. He exchanged the Mysterious Yin Staff and two clusters of Corpse Fire for valuable items, then declined Han Lun’s request to spar.

• Heavenly Mystery Rogue told Shen Long that his great opportunity lay in the volcanic region of the Southern Border and urged him to search for it quickly.
• Ximen Hao and Chen Ziyi offered treasures and two Fourth-Rank Green Wind Peng Demon Cores for Shen Long’s Mysterious Yin Staff, and he accepted their exchange for the Mysterious Jade Ruler and a Cyan Jade Box.
• Han Lun offered the Purple Sun Cauldron and a collection of materials in exchange for Shen Long’s Corpse Fire, but Shen Long said he had no interest in the cauldron.
• Shen Long revealed that he had two clusters of Corpse Fire and traded them to Han Lun for the Heavenly Monster Talisman, a Flower Demon Crystal Core, several Demon Cores, and other items.
• Han Lun asked Shen Long to spar, but Shen Long declined and said they could discuss it another time.

Ximen Jiao praised the Ximen Clan members for obtaining the Mysterious Yin Staff and warned them not to make an enemy of Shen Long. At Ten Thousand Swords Marketplace, Shen Long welcomed visitors, agreed to attend a Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony in the Southern Border, and learned that Green Lotus Sword Venerable would preach the next morning, prompting him to watch for signs of war.

• Ximen Jiao received the Mysterious Yin Staff, learned that Shen Long's ghost-tracking treasure had been destroyed, and told Ximen Hao and the others to befriend Shen Long rather than oppose him.
• True Man Red Flood Dragon and Master Ice Silkworm praised Shen Long's growing fame and the new trade agreements his strength had helped the Spirit Control Sect secure.
• Shen Long invited visitors from Mandala Villa and the Five Saints Sect to discuss business and the Spirit Control Sect's plans to establish branches beyond East Hua.
• Wang Xiu invited Shen Long to the Five Saints Sect's Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony, and Song Yutang and Wang Xiu asked him to refine pills; Shen Long agreed to both requests.
• Qian Dafu reported that Green Lotus Sword Venerable would preach at Ten Thousand Swords Marketplace, and Shen Long ordered Liu Yuruo to monitor the Five Great Powers for signs of impending war.

Wu Xiao ordered the Barbarian Race to prepare for the arrival of Green Lotus Sword Venerable and Fairy Xuanbing, while Green Lotus Sword Venerable preached at Ten Thousand Swords Marketplace and answered Shen Long’s questions about breaking through to Spirit Transmutation. The gathering ended without revealing whether the Human Race leaders planned to attack the Barbarian Race, and Shen Long returned to the Spirit Control Sect.

• Wu Xiao learned that Green Lotus Sword Venerable and Fairy Xuanbing had arrived in Ten Thousand Swords Marketplace and ordered the Barbarian tribes to increase their defenses and patrols.
• Green Lotus Sword Venerable preached to the gathered cultivators, recounting his cultivation journey and sharing insights into his realm.
• Green Lotus Sword Venerable answered Shen Long’s questions about the strength needed to break through to Spirit Transmutation, then addressed other cultivators’ doubts.
• Lu Qingshan told Shen Long and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators that he did not know whether Green Lotus Sword Venerable and Fairy Xuanbing intended to act against the Barbarian Race.
• The Nascent Soul Cultivators discussed the possibility of war and famous Spirit Transformation cultivators before Shen Long, Master Ice Silkworm, and True Man Red Flood Dragon returned to the Spirit Control Sect.

Shen Long left the Spirit Control Sect for the Southern Border with a group of disciples while Huangfu Lou captured Tai Shi Jin and recruited him to help open a passage to the Yin Underworld Realm. At Golden Toad Mountain, Shen Long was welcomed by Old Ancestor Jade Dragon’s representative, while the disciples were taken to their accommodations.

• Shen Long agreed to seek an opportunity in the Southern Border and told Master Ice Silkworm and True Man Red Flood Dragon to notify him if the war became severe.
• Huangfu Lou rescued Tai Shi Jin from Su Hailong, questioned him about the Yin Devil Realm, and learned he served True Monarch Seven Stars.
• Huangfu Lou soul-searched Tai Shi Jin, placed restrictions on him, and ordered him to help open a passage to the Yin Underworld Realm after recovering his cultivation.
• Shen Long brought Su Changfeng, Liu Yuruo, and more than a hundred cultivators to Golden Toad Mountain.
• Shangguan Yun Shuo invited Shen Long to meet Old Ancestor Jade Dragon, while a golden-skirted woman escorted the disciples to rest.

Shen Long sought Du Xiao’s help and information about Southern Border volcanoes, then sent his Golden Core disciples to investigate opportunities. Meanwhile, Chen Shiyu learned that a merchant caravan had been annihilated and that Senior Ning had ascended to the Lingxu Realm.

• Shen Long met Shangguan Yulong and Xue Xingyue, but learned that Du Xiao had gone to the North Sea and that the Witch Clan was embroiled in internal strife.
• Shen Long told them about the Green Lotus Sword Venerable’s preaching and asked for information on fire-attributed spirit herbs, Fourth-Rank Spirit Beasts, and volcanic regions.
• Shangguan Yulong offered to compile information about the Southern Border’s volcanoes, including the dangerous Fire Qilin Mountain Range.
• Shen Long instructed Su Changfeng and his companions to pursue their assignments investigating the Volcano Clusters and High-Level Cultivators.
• Chen Shiyu ordered the major North Sea factions to hunt down whoever had annihilated a Seven Clouds Merchant Alliance caravan and offer a heavy reward.
• Jin Bao told Chen Shiyu that Senior Ning had ascended to the Lingxu Realm after finding a Secret Realm, and Chen Shiyu ordered closer attention to unknown Secret Realms and high-year spirit herbs.

Shen Long searched the Fire Qilin Mountain Range for a great fortuitous opportunity, finding spirit resources and an ancient cultivator cave abode but no major treasure. After discovering a Fourth-Order Spirit Flame nearby, he encountered Chu Buyu as she captured it.

• Shen Long entered the Fire Qilin Mountain Range with his spirit beasts and spent months searching, defeating Monster Beasts and collecting a Red Sun Fruit tree.
• Shen Long's Spirit Ants fought a swarm of Four-Winged Fire Ants, killing the swarm and consuming their corpses.
• The Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada detected an ancient cultivator cave abode, where Shen Long found a Red Storage Bracelet containing two Spirit Treasures, more than two million Spirit Stones, and materials.
• The Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada detected Chu Buyu capturing a Fourth-Order Spirit Flame in a Golden-Glowing Jade Bottle.
• Shen Long arrived on the Fire Qilin Beast, and Chu Buyu greeted him in surprise.

Shen Long hunted down a Late Fourth Rank Three-Eyed Fire Toad in the Fire Qilin Mountain Range and gathered its Demon Core, corpse, and nearby Golden Lingzhi before continuing his search for opportunities. At Heavenly Witch Hall, Wu Chen ended the feud between Wu Xin and Wu Xian and ordered his people to search for the missing High Priest.

• Chu Buyu gave Shen Long a map to a Three-Eyed Fire Toad's nest and said the Seven Clouds Merchant Alliance was paying well for its Inner Core, then refused to join the hunt.
• Shen Long found the Three-Eyed Fire Toad in a mist-covered valley and sent the Ice Flood Dragon to fight it while he protected the Golden Lingzhi.
• The Ice Flood Dragon froze the Three-Eyed Fire Toad, and the Nine-Headed Ghost Dove extracted and swallowed its Essence Soul before Shen Long collected the Demon Core, corpse, and Golden Lingzhi.
• Shen Long headed toward a Red Wasteland to continue exploring the Fire Qilin Mountain Range for opportunities and cultivation resources.
• At Heavenly Witch Hall, Wu Chen ordered Wu Xin and Wu Xian to end their conflict, control their people, and make the Human Race cultivators leave their territory.
• Wu Chen ordered his subordinate to find the missing High Priest, dead or alive.

Shen Long attended Lin Dong’s Nascent Soul Formation Ceremony and presented an extravagant gift, then stayed at the Five Saints Sect to seek information about volcanoes and historical records. Wang Xiu agreed to give him access to the sect’s records, while Wu Xian learned that Shen Long had returned to the Southern Border and ordered him watched.

• Lin Dong and Xu Tong faced complaints from visiting Nascent Soul Cultivators because Shen Long had not arrived for Lin Dong’s ceremony, but Qin Ming soon announced his arrival.
• Shen Long reached the Five Saints Sect on a Fire Qilin Beast, apologized for being late, and presented Lin Dong with a lavish congratulatory gift through Su Changfeng.
• After the ceremony, Shen Long stayed at the Five Saints Sect, where Xu Tong helped him refine pills and Wang Xiu asked what he needed.
• Wu Xian learned that Shen Long was at the Five Saints Sect and ordered a subordinate to monitor his movements.
• Shen Long asked Wang Xiu for locations of Southern Border volcanoes and permission to consult the Scripture Depository, and Wang Xiu granted both requests.

The Green Lotus Sword Venerable investigated Fairy Lin’s murder and learned that the Su Family of Black Phoenix Island had been wiped out, while Shen Long spent decades cultivating in Southern Border and gathering resources. The chapter ended with Shen Long receiving the newly refined Soul-Devouring Bell from Master Ice Silkworm.

• The Blue-Skirted Matron told the Green Lotus Sword Venerable that Fairy Lin’s killer had left no clues and might have been passing through the North Sea.
• The Blue-Skirted Matron reported that the Su Family of Black Phoenix Island had been annihilated, and the Green Lotus Sword Venerable ordered a thorough investigation.
• Thirty years later, Shen Long killed a Late Fourth Rank Flower Demon in Ten Thousand Poison Valley and took its Crystal Core.
• Shen Long encountered Wu Jiao, vice palace master of Soul-Shattering Palace, as they traveled in opposite directions.
• Shen Long met Master Ice Silkworm and Han Yuwei at Spirit Control Garden, congratulated Han Yuwei on reaching the Nascent Soul Realm, and received the refined Soul-Devouring Bell.

Shen Long gave Master Ice Silkworm and Han Yuwei gifts before setting out with Shangguan Yulong and Xue Xingyue to ask Du Xiao to divine his fortuitous opportunity. Du Xiao agreed to help him, and the chapter left Shen Long following her to a courtyard prepared for divination.

• Shen Long gave Master Ice Silkworm pills and artifact-refining materials, then learned that Master Ice Silkworm and Han Yuwei planned to attend Wang Kun's Spirit Transmutation Ceremony in the North Sea.
• Shen Long accepted Shangguan Yulong's invitation to visit Du Xiao, fed a Late Fourth Rank Flower Demon's Crystal Core to the Tree Man, and meditated for the night.
• Shen Long traveled with Shangguan Yulong and Xue Xingyue to the Thousand Poisons Sect, where Wu Shen welcomed them and led them to Du Xiao and Li Ning.
• Shen Long asked Du Xiao to divine his fortuitous opportunity, and she agreed to take him to a courtyard whose Formation would assist her divination.

Shen Long learned that his great opportunity was linked to a foreign cultivator and searched Red Spider Marketplace for Fire Sun Race cultivators. He asked a Fire Sun Race girl to pass a message to her great-grandfather and arranged for Chu Shan and Qin Tianhe to monitor the race’s high-level cultivators.

• Du Xiao told Li Ning that Shen Long’s great opportunity was connected to someone of a different race, and warned her not to interfere.
• Wang He reported that major factions would attend Wang Kun’s Spirit Transmutation Ceremony, while Wang Kun ordered him to investigate the destruction of Black Phoenix Island.
• Tai Shi Jin cultivated in seclusion on a mist-shrouded Desolate Island after Huangfu Lou gave him divine-soul-strengthening Spiritual Elixirs.
• Shen Long went to Red Spider Marketplace after hearing that Fire Sun Race cultivators had appeared there, and Chu Shan led him to Fire Sun Pavilion.
• Shen Long asked Yan Yu to tell her great-grandfather that he wanted to speak with him.
• Shen Long paid Chu Shan and instructed him and Qin Tianhe to monitor the movements of high-level Fire Sun Race cultivators.

Shen Long searched for the cultivator associated with a strange beast and followed Chu Buyu into a secret realm, where he found Longevity Fruits and signs of True Monarch Purple Sun’s Daoist Field. He harvested the fruits and explored further as Mu Lang and Wu Jiao’s group also searched the realm for Purple Sun’s inheritance.

• Shen Long questioned Yan Feng about a strange beast, learned Yan Feng had never seen it, and asked Chu Shan to watch for news of it.
• Shen Long used the Spirit-Tracking Beast and Purple Pupil Bead to locate Chu Buyu entering a secret realm through a purple gate marked with a sun.
• Shen Long entered the realm, killed a Cyan Giant Lion, collected its essence soul, harvested the Longevity Fruits, and transplanted their tree.
• Shen Long released his spirit beasts and rode the Fire Qilin Beast into a bamboo forest after spotting signs of valuable spirit medicines and a Jade Nether Python.
• Mu Lang and Wu Jiao’s group harvested five Mystic Water Lotuses, then left to search for True Monarch Purple Sun’s inheritance before other cultivators arrived.

Chu Buyu defeated a Golden-Winged Thunder Eagle and entered a mysterious Daoist Field, while Shen Long confirmed that the ruined manor was True Monarch Purple Sun’s Daoist Field. After concealing the manor from Mu Lang’s group, Shen Long decided to search for the inheritance before them and ran northwest.

• Chu Buyu used her Fourth-Order Spirit Flame to freeze and kill a Golden-Winged Thunder Eagle, then sensed danger and escaped underground as a pack of Cyan Demon Wolves approached.
• Wu Yue and Wu Xian entered the Purple Light Gate, followed an hour later by Wu Tianxin and his group after they speculated the site might be True Monarch Purple Sun’s Daoist Field.
• Shen Long found Jade Slips identifying the manor as True Monarch Purple Sun’s Daoist Field and reasoned that the inheritance would be protected elsewhere.
• Shen Long had the Green-Eyed Spirit Fox conceal the valley as Mu Lang and four Soul-Shattering Palace cultivators arrived nearby, then watched them head into a forest without noticing the manor.
• Shen Long decided to find the inheritance before Mu Lang’s group and used the Purple Pupil Bead to scout as he ran northwest.

Wu Yue’s group and Shen Long encountered dangerous demon beasts while exploring the restricted land. After Shen Long reached a Crimson Mountain Range, he sent a Nascent Soul Realm Talisman Soldier into its restrictions as the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada searched for the formation eye.

• Wu Tianxin fought flaming meteors and giants within the mountain restrictions, but a rift swallowed him and he died.
• Wu Yue and four others killed two Late Fourth Rank Amethyst Flying Scorpions in a dense forest and continued onward.
• Shen Long found a dead Green Thunder Falcon, then defeated more than a thousand Howling Wind Wolves with the Soul-Devouring Bell and Mysterious Jade Ruler.
• The Nine-Headed Ghost Dove devoured the wolves’ Essence Souls, and Shen Long collected their corpses before traveling onward with his spirit beasts.
• Three days later, Shen Long reached the Crimson Mountain Range and sent a Nascent Soul Realm Talisman Soldier into its restrictions.
• The Talisman Soldier shattered incoming flaming meteors while the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada searched for the formation eye.

Shen Long searched through the formations of Purple Sun Garden, overcame a series of elemental prohibitions, and reached the manor he believed held True Monarch Purple Sun’s inheritance. He entered the garden and landed before Purple Sun Hall, finding its spirit fields empty.

• Shen Long used the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada to find a formation eye, then crossed a gravity and fire formation by breaking its attacks with sound waves and the Mysterious Jade Ruler.
• Shen Long destroyed an earthen slope with the Crimson Scale Gauntlet and Thunder-Guiding Bead, revealing the end of the formation’s attacks, then had the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada locate another prohibition.
• Shen Long sent the Talisman Soldier up a mountain to test its crimson lightning prohibition, then used the Thunder-Absorbing Bead to safely climb to the summit.
• Shen Long found Purple Sun Garden behind a crimson screen, broke through it with the Li Fire Staff and Thunder-Guiding Bead, and saw that its spirit fields were empty.
• Shen Long flew down to the entrance of Purple Sun Hall.

Shen Long broke into Purple Sun Hall and discovered rare treasures, including a Seven Treasures Glazed Fruit Tree, two Seven Rosy Jade Lotuses, Silver Moon True Water, and Six Roots Purity Bamboo. After deciding the discoveries fulfilled his second great opportunity, he fled when he sensed Witch Clan cultivators and a fifth-rank Monster Beast; elsewhere, a Fire Qilin Beast killed Wu Yue.

• Shen Long shattered Purple Sun Hall’s doors, disabled a formation in one chamber, and found Jade Slips containing information about the Gan Yang Realm, the Heaven Origin Realm, and two Fifth Rank Pill Formulas.
• Shen Long transplanted the Seven Treasures Glazed Fruit Tree and collected its fallen fruit pits.
• Shen Long found two Ten Thousand-Year Seven Rosy Jade Lotuses growing in Silver Moon True Water and collected them along with the water.
• Shen Long transplanted a Six Roots Purity Bamboo and concluded True Monarch Purple Sun had likely died before ascending to the Spirit Realm.
• After the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada detected Witch Clan cultivators and a fifth-rank Monster Beast, Shen Long hid his companions and escaped underground.
• A Fire Qilin Beast overwhelmed the wounded Wu Yue, swallowed her, and flew away.

Shen Long intervened when Mu Lang, Wu Jiao, and a Golden-Robed Elder attacked Chu Buyu over the Life-Prolonging Fruits. He killed Mu Lang’s spirit beasts and nearly killed Mu Lang, who survived with a Substitute Death Talisman and counterattacked with poison mist.

• Chu Buyu threatened to destroy the Life-Prolonging Fruits unless her attackers swore to spare her, and Shen Long emerged from underground to help her.
• Mu Lang attacked Shen Long as Wu Jiao and the Golden-Robed Elder continued fighting Chu Buyu, but Shen Long’s Red Sound Wave broke Mu Lang’s Green Giant Hand.
• Shen Long’s Fire Qilin Beast and Spirit Ants killed Mu Lang’s green Dove Bird and Golden Toad, while the Iron Tail Scorpion swallowed the dead Yellow Centipede.
• Shen Long froze Mu Lang with the Ice Soul Pouch and struck his head with the Sky-Clearing Giant Staff, but Mu Lang’s Substitute Death Talisman saved him.
• Chu Buyu killed the Golden-Robed Elder and fought Wu Jiao as Mu Lang used a Banana Leaf Fan to send a Green Poison Python at Shen Long.