Chapter Summaries

After the battle with the Heaven Origin Race, Shen Long refused to accompany Huo Tianxing to the Yin Underworld Realm and returned to recover. He took stock of the spoils and fed the Iron Tail Scorpion a Fifth-Rank Demon Core and Heart-Severing Grass.

• Huo Tianxing and the golden-robed youth met Shen Long after the battle, and Shen Long said he had used an Immortal-Slaying Pearl to kill Bian Xiao, Yin Shi, and the Fifth-Rank Ice Flood Dragon.
• Shen Long declined to join Huo Tianxing on the trip to the Yin Underworld Realm, citing his injuries, and Huo Tianxing asked him to watch for the wounded Yin Hao and Yin Yue.
• Yin Hao and Yin Yue reported to Bian Ji that Big Dipper Pavilion cultivators were searching for Cai Lei and that the Yin Underworld Grotto-Heaven might hold clues to his whereabouts; Yin Hao gave Bian Ji the realm's coordinates.
• Shen Long estimated he would need forty or fifty years to recover, then examined his spoils and found nine Fifth-Rank Demon Cores.
• Shen Long fed the Iron Tail Scorpion a yellow Demon Core and a five-thousand-year-old stalk of Heart-Severing Grass.

Shen Long nurtured his Spirit Beasts, hatched a Water Lie Beast descended from the Cilie Beast, and began recovering from his injuries. Meanwhile, ten Heaven Origin Race cultivators arrived in the Yin Underworld Realm, including Bian Xin, who vowed to kill Shen Long.

• Shen Long fed the Green-Eyed Spirit Fox a Fifth-Rank Silver-Eyed Illusion Fox corpse and a ten-thousand-year-old Seven Rosy Jade Lotus, then gave the Fire Qilin Beast and Ice Flood Dragon resources to digest.
• Shen Long placed a demonic-qi-corrupted Spirit Beast Egg in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower's Spirit Control Pool, where it hatched into a Water Lie Beast with Bloodline Purity of four.
• The Ten Thousand Beast Stele identified the Water Lie Beast as a descendant of the Cilie Beast, and Shen Long settled it on an island rich in water spiritual qi.
• Shen Long rewarded Thunder Peng with the Fifth-Rank Thunder-Winged Flame Lion's corpse and Demon Core, then left the tower to heal his injuries.
• Ten Heaven Origin Race Spirit Transformation cultivators arrived in the Yin Underworld Realm, and Bian Xin declared that he would kill Shen Long to avenge his younger brother Bian Xiao.

After recovering for sixty years, Shen Long watched the Iron Tail Scorpion and Ice Flood Dragon undergo tribulations and advance to the fifth rank. He reunited with Chu Buyu, learned the Heaven Origin Race had been routed, and left with her and a mysterious Golden Jade Box.

• The Iron Tail Scorpion began its fifth-rank tribulation, and Shen Long sent the Ice Flood Dragon away to undergo its own advancement.
• Shen Long sent the Four-Tailed Spirit Fox and Tree Man to guard the area, then flew to help Chu Buyu, who killed two Thunder Roar Race cultivators and captured their Nascent Souls.
• Chu Buyu told Shen Long that the Heaven Origin Race had been routed and gave him a Golden Jade Box and a Nascent Soul; Shen Long gave her pills and a Fifth-Rank Defense Talisman in return.
• The Iron Tail Scorpion and Ice Flood Dragon survived their tribulations and advanced to the fifth rank, after which Shen Long gave them spiritual herbs and put them away.
• Shen Long suspected the Golden Jade Box was connected to Cai Lei, then met up with Chu Buyu and left the area.

Shen Long reunited with Yuan Rui in Ganyang City and learned that the missing cultivators had gone to the Yin Underworld Realm to find Gui Xuzi. After opening Yi Shan’s Golden Jade Box, Shen Long discovered the Myriad Spirit Token and learned from Cai Lei’s recording that it was the key to entering the Myriad Spirit Cave Heaven.

• Yuan Rui welcomed Shen Long and learned that Huo Tianxing and the others had gone to the Yin Underworld Realm to search for Gui Xuzi.
• Shen Long showed Yuan Rui the Heaven Origin Sword, received seized alchemy materials, and gave him fifth rank Giant Strength Ape Essence Blood.
• Yuan Rui told Shen Long that his master had gone out to eliminate foreign cultivators while struggling with a cultivation bottleneck.
• Shen Long used a Seven Star Soul-Burst Talisman to break the restrictions on Yi Shan’s Golden Jade Box and found a yellow crystal sphere and the Myriad Spirit Token.
• Shen Long viewed Cai Lei’s recorded message, which revealed that the Myriad Spirit Token opened the Myriad Spirit Cave Heaven and that Cai Lei had used a Blood Spirit Puppet to mislead Senior Brother Liu.

Shen Long studied Cai Lei’s history and drank the Essence Blood of a fifth-rank Great Strength Golden-Backed Ape, while Huo Tianxing survived a battle in the Yin Underworld Realm and returned to the Lingxu Realm. The chapter ended with Big Dipper Pavilion learning that Cai Lei had refined multiple Avatars and ordering a search to exterminate him.

• Shen Long considered whether the Myriad Spirit Token was the treasure Huo Tianxing sought, then drank the Great Strength Golden-Backed Ape Essence Blood and began transforming.
• Huo Tianxing survived a fierce battle with Heaven Origin Race cultivators, learned that the Ancient Cultivator Cave Abode belonged to Hundred Beasts Divine Lord’s avatar, and escaped toward the Lingxu Realm.
• Bian Ji reported the losses and the avatar’s identity to Yin Xin, who ordered Yin Xiao and the other survivors to return rather than continue fighting in the Lower Realm.
• Huo Tianxing told Yu Shanshan that he had failed to find the Myriad Spirit Token, and Liu Dong explained that Cai Lei had created multiple independent Avatars.
• Yu Shanshan dismissed Huo Tianxing to treat his injuries and ordered Liu Dong to find and exterminate Cai Lei’s Avatars.

Shen Long learned that the Heaven Origin Race cultivator Bian Shang had attacked Human Race cultivators near Ganyang City and tracked him down. He killed Bian Shang and searched his Nascent Soul, discovering that Bian Shang had been investigating Ganyang City.

• The Fire Qilin Beast survived three bolts of Three-Colored Divine Lightning and advanced to the fifth rank, raising its Bloodline Purity to five.
• Xu Yang told Shen Long that the Heaven Origin Race cultivator Bian Shang had appeared and that Fairy Chihong had advanced to the Spirit Transmutation Realm.
• After Bian Shang attacked Human Race cultivators near Ganyang City, Shen Long left to hunt him down and used the Four-Tailed Spirit Fox to track him.
• Shen Long found Bian Shang in a mountain valley and, with help from the Iron Tail Scorpion and his other spirit beasts, trapped and killed him.
• Shen Long captured Bian Shang's Nascent Soul, searched it, and learned that Bian Shang had been investigating Ganyang City.

Shen Long killed Bian, learned that the Heaven Origin Race might still threaten Ganyang City, and agreed to help Wu Xiao bring Barbarian Race clansmen from the Green Plum Realm to the Heaven Origin Realm. He left Ganyang City with disciples to gather scattered Human Race cultivators and planned to seek a route back to the Green Plum Realm.

• Shen Long killed Bian, took the Eight-Gate Silence Array, and learned that the Heaven Origin Race cultivators had divided resources without keeping in contact.
• Shen Long told Fairy Chihong and Yuan Rui that he planned to investigate the Spatial Node to the Green Plum Realm and leave the Heaven Origin Realm if he could.
• Wu Xiao and Bi Shan arrived, and Wu Xiao said the Barbarian Race would remain in the Heaven Origin Realm while the Human Race returned to the East Hua Cultivation World.
• Wu Xiao gave Shen Long Dragon-Suppressing Stones, refining materials, and Sea-Suppressing Ape Essence Blood in exchange for a weight-type Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure and help bringing Barbarian Race clansmen from the Green Plum Realm.
• Shen Long agreed to help after they left the Heaven Origin Realm and asked Wu Xiao and Bi Shan to guard Ganyang City against a possible return by Yin Hao and Yin Yue.
• Shen Long left Ganyang City with disciples and sent more people to gather scattered Human Race cultivators.

Shen Long returned to the Gan Yang Realm with his disciples after arranging for the Green Plum Realm and Gan Yang Realm to share the Heaven Origin Realm with the Barbarian Race and other realms. Back at the Spirit Control Sect, he began cultivating while the sect prepared to occupy its expanded territory and recruit disciples.

• Shen Long met Jiang Xueying and Xu Qingyun in the Green Plum Realm, learned that Huo Tianxing had returned to the Lingxu Realm, and agreed that the Green Plum Realm and Gan Yang Realm would each receive thirty percent of the Heaven Origin Realm.
• Wu Xiao agreed to help Lei Ting revisit a dangerous cave abode after Lei Ting threatened to end their alliance, provided they retreated if the restrictions proved too dangerous.
• Shen Long returned to the Spirit Control Sect with over a thousand cultivators, ordered Xu Yang to take over the Barbarian Race's former territory, and assigned Qian Dafu to arrange settlers for the Heaven Origin Realm.
• Shen Long settled at Golden Roc Peak and consumed fifth-rank Sea-Suppressing Ape essence blood to cultivate, while Chu Buyu prepared to attempt Spirit Transformation.
• Xu Yang ordered the Spirit Control Sect to recruit disciples to guard its vastly expanded territory, as Shen Long prepared to cultivate toward Spirit Transmutation Mid-Stage.

Sixty years later, Shen Long had reached Spirit Transmutation Mid-Stage and the Spirit Control Sect had grown into the Gan Yang Realm’s dominant force. Yuan Rui returned with the badly injured Han Feng, who agreed to refine Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures for Shen Long and Yuan Rui.

• Lin Sen told Shen Long that Chu Buyu had entered the Spirit Transmutation Realm and invited him to a celebration, and Shen Long agreed to attend.
• Lin Sen reported Yuan Rui’s return with Han Feng, whose left arm was missing and whose vitality had been badly damaged.
• Han Feng explained that Yin Yue had gravely injured him and thanked Shen Long for the Purple Marrow Essence-Lingering Pill that helped him survive.
• Shen Long gave Han Feng five Golden Coral Pills and asked him to upgrade the Dragon-Slaying Saber and refine more Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures in exchange for pills.
• Yuan Rui also asked Han Feng to upgrade his Life-Bound Dharma Treasure, and Han Feng agreed.

Shen Long visited friends, tended to his spirit beasts, and refined pills while preparing for his next steps. In the Thunder Roar Realm, Lei Ting and Wu Hao set out with seven Spirit Transformation cultivators to explore the Myriad Thunder Ruins again.

• Han Feng recalled the Spirit Controller who had killed Mo Wuya, and Shen Long said he had avenged Mo Wuya after using a Life-Substitution Treasure and spending decades recovering.
• Yuan Rui gave Shen Long Purple Orchid Grasses and Nine Flames Fruits he had traded for, and Shen Long gave him a bottle of Nine Flames Pills and took back the Heaven Origin Sword.
• Shen Long visited Ice Silkworm Peak, learned that Master Ice Silkworm and Han Yuwei had gone traveling to overcome bottlenecks, and spoke with Lin Yutong.
• Shen Long fed demon cores and spirit herbs to his beasts in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower, then returned to refine pills with the Dry Sun Cauldron.
• Lei Ting, Wu Hao, and seven other Spirit Transformation cultivators departed Thunder Roar Garden for the Myriad Thunder Ruins, agreeing to retreat if they encountered danger.

Shen Long prepared the Spirit Control Sect for his ascent to the Lingxu Realm by distributing resources and preaching to its disciples. Meanwhile, seven cultivators entered the Myriad Thunder Ruins, where a Lingxu Realm cultivator possessed Lei Ting and emerged alone.

• Shen Long gave Su Changfeng cultivation resources and a Seven Treasures Glazed Pill, answered his questions, and asked him to invite the sect disciples to a public sermon.
• Han Feng delivered Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures to Shen Long, who said he would leave some behind to protect the Spirit Control Sect.
• Shen Long preached for three days, helping some disciples gain enlightenment or break through bottlenecks, then departed with Su Changfeng, other disciples, and Han Feng.
• Lei Ting and six others crossed the lightning-filled Myriad Thunder Ruins, navigating moving spatial rifts and using defensive treasures to reach a cave.
• The seven entered the cave to break its formation, but screams sounded inside; Lei Ting later emerged alone, revealing that a Lingxu Realm cultivator had possessed his body and planned to settle accounts after returning to the Lingxu Realm.

Shen Long ascended from the Gan Yang Realm and arrived safely at the Nine Flames Sect’s Ascension Platform on Green Lotus Continent. He learned that the Thousand Spirits Sect was founded by True Monarch Spirit Control, who might be his own sect’s Grandmaster, and Su Qianqian went to report the connection.

• Shen Long entrusted Yuan Rui with the Spirit Control Sect and ascended using the Five-Colored Cloud Ladder while Master Ice Silkworm watched from hiding.
• Shen Long arrived at the Nine Flames Sect’s Ascension Platform, where Su Qianqian used a communication bead to speak with him.
• Shen Long confirmed he had landed in Human Race territory and learned that Green Lotus Continent was home to many races, including the Human Race and its Mahayana cultivator.
• Su Qianqian told Shen Long that True Monarch Spirit Control had founded the Thousand Spirits Sect, and Shen Long said his own Grandmaster bore the same title.
• Su Qianqian began reporting Shen Long’s connection to the Spirit Control Sect to a visiting Thousand Spirits Sect senior.

Shen Long proved that he was a descendant of True Monarch Spirit Control and was welcomed into the Thousand Spirits Sect, while Bian Ting learned that Shen Long had killed Bian Xiao and vowed revenge. The sect’s leaders confirmed Shen Long’s origins, though True Monarch Spirit Control had not yet returned to hear the news.

• Su Qianqian brought Shen Long to meet Wang Yuyan and a Nine Flames Sect cultivator, and Wang Yuyan verified his grandmaster’s portrait before taking him to the Thousand Spirits Sect headquarters.
• Bian Ting questioned Yin Hao and Yin Yue about Bian Xiao’s death, obtained Shen Long’s portrait, and threatened to take revenge if Shen Long ascended to the Lingxu Realm.
• Wang Yuyan brought Shen Long to the Thousand Spirits Sect headquarters, where Mo Bingbing and Huang Lei learned he had ascended from the Spirit Control Sect.
• Wang Yuyan reported that the sect had used its Spirit Testing Array to confirm Shen Long’s origins and that the Spirit Control Sect had become the foremost sect in the Gan Yang Realm.

Shen Long met Mo Bingbing and Huang Lei after ascending to the Lingxu Realm, then chose a cultivation method and settled at Golden Roc Peak. He activated the peak’s restrictions and began his new life in the Thousand Spirits Sect.

• Mo Bingbing told Shen Long that the sect’s Grandmaster was cultivating in seclusion and instructed Huang Lei to arrange better treatment for him as an ascended disciple from the Spirit Control Sect.
• Wang Yuyan reported that the Big Dipper Pavilion and Heaven Origin Race were searching for Cai Lei, but Mo Bingbing decided the sect should stay out of the matter.
• Huang Lei brought Shen Long to the Scripture Depository, where Shen Long chose the Hundred Beasts Precious Canon after asking Liu Xuan for a transformation method.
• Huang Lei took Shen Long to Golden Roc Peak, where Shen Long accepted the cave dwelling and was told he would receive his entrance benefits the next day.
• Shen Long placed High-Grade Spirit Stones in the formation at Golden Roc Pavilion and used a Golden Token to activate Golden Roc Garden’s restrictions.

After ascending to the Lingxu Realm, Shen Long received his Thousand Spirits Sect identity token and unusually generous joining benefits, then learned about the Green Lotus Continent and the sect’s place among its factions. Lin Huahua agreed to arrange help for his Spirit Fields and gather materials he requested, and Shen Long ended the chapter taking a Dust-Cleansing Pill.

• Shen Long met Lin Huahua, who delivered his identity token and joining benefits, including two Low-Grade Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures and eight million Spirit Stones.
• Shen Long registered his identity and learned that the Green Lotus Continent was one of the Lingxu Realm’s five regions and that the Human Race had one Mahayana cultivator, Five Thunders Divine Monarch.
• Lin Huahua explained the strength and specialties of the Thousand Spirits Sect and other major factions after Shen Long asked about Supreme Pill alchemists and the Big Dipper Pavilion.
• Lin Huahua offered to prepare plans for disciples to tend Shen Long’s Spirit Fields, and Shen Long asked her to collect materials for the Hundred Beasts Precious Canon.
• After Lin Huahua left, Shen Long returned to his Cultivation Room and took a Dust-Cleansing Pill.

Shen Long learned more about Thousand Spirits Sect and the Lingxu Realm from Li Tianxue, who brought him gifts and offered to help with his alchemy examination. He traveled with her to Golden Flame Peak to take the examination.

• Shen Long fed Dust-Cleansing Pills to his Spirit Beasts and decided to make more himself after becoming a sect alchemist.
• Li Tianxue visited Shen Long and explained Thousand Spirits Sect's history, its strength, and the difficulty of descending to the Lower Realm.
• Li Tianxue gave Shen Long a Life-Extending Fruit, a Yang-Increasing Fruit, and a Myriad Insect Catalog.
• Shen Long accepted Li Tianxue's offer to take him to the alchemy examination, and they flew toward Golden Flame Peak on her Seven-Colored Spirit Butterfly.

Shen Long took the Thousand Spirits Sect’s alchemy assessment and spent three years refining Snow Ganoderma Pills, earning certification as a fifth rank alchemist. He returned to Golden Roc Peak with an alchemy assignment and found dozens of new disciples there to help manage his Spirit Fields.

• Shen Long and Li Tianxue flew past Green Flood Dragon Peak, where Ye’s Green Flood Dragon sensed the overwhelming bloodline pressure of a powerful relative.
• Shen Long told Chen Nan he could refine Snow Ganoderma Pills, received materials for five batches, and entered Alchemy Room Twenty-Five to begin the assessment.
• Huo Tianxing told Wang Yuling that Shen Long had killed Bian Xiao and vowed to avenge Wang Yuli by making the Heaven Origin Race pay.
• Three years later, Shen Long emerged from Golden Flame Hall after refining 120 Snow Ganoderma Pills and passed the assessment as a certified fifth rank alchemist.
• Shen Long accepted an alchemy assignment to earn Merit Points and returned to Golden Roc Peak, where several dozen disciples had arrived to manage his Spirit Fields.

Shen Long organized the Golden Core disciples on Golden Roc Peak, selected five alchemy apprentices, and accepted an invitation to travel to Golden Cicada Marketplace with Li Tianxue and two fellow Spirit Transformation cultivators. The group left the Thousand Spirits Sect on a Seven-Colored Spirit Butterfly.

• Shen Long summoned the Golden Core disciples on Golden Roc Peak, questioned them about their skills, and asked five cultivators to recommend Third Rank alchemists.
• Sun Lin and four others brought Shen Long five Golden Core cultivators, and Shen Long assigned them alchemy materials to process.
• Li Tianxue invited Shen Long to join her, Zhao Tianhu, and Lin Yan on a trip to Golden Cicada Marketplace.
• Shen Long met Zhao Tianhu and Lin Yan at Green Butterfly Garden and told them he had passed the alchemy assessment as a fifth rank alchemist.
• Li Tianxue, Zhao Tianhu, Lin Yan, and Shen Long departed the Thousand Spirits Sect on a Seven-Colored Spirit Butterfly.

Shen Long and his companions crossed the Scorpion Desert, where Lin Yan’s Diamond Insects defeated a swarm of Yellow Demon Ants. They reached the Golden Cicada Marketplace, where Shen Long hired Chen Yue as a guide and entered the Thousand Demon Pavilion to buy fifth-rank Demon Cores.

• Lin Yan sensed approaching Demon Ants, and her Diamond Insects defeated the swarm and killed its queen while her Six-Winged Golden Cicada consumed the ants’ Essence Souls.
• Shen Long traded Snow Ganoderma Pills to Lin Yan for five fifth-rank Demon Ants and several hundred Fourth Rank Demon Ant corpses.
• After leaving the Scorpion Desert, Shen Long and his companions arrived at the Golden Cicada Marketplace and parted ways there.
• Shen Long hired Chen Yue to guide him to the Thousand Demon Pavilion, where he asked to buy fifth-rank Demon Cores.
• A golden-shirted shop attendant welcomed Shen Long and led him upstairs to see a new shipment of Demon Cores.

Shen Long traded a Four-Winged Golden Crow corpse, its Essence Blood, and Snow Ganoderma Pills for forty Fifth-Rank Demon Cores, then exchanged ten-thousand-year Soul-Nourishing Wood for a Five Flame Stone. A Spirit Transmutation Late-Stage cultivator arrived to claim the stone after Shen Long had already bought it.

• Shen Long purchased forty Fifth-Rank Demon Cores from Mu Hongyu by offering the Four-Winged Golden Crow's corpse and Essence Blood along with two bottles of Snow Ganoderma Pills.
• Shen Long asked Mu Hongyu about Fifth-Rank Monster Ape Essence Blood with a Mountain Giant Ape bloodline, but she said it might only appear at an Auction.
• Shen Long left Thousand Demon Pavilion, visited a spirit herb shop, and later browsed stalls at Bluestone Square.
• Shen Long traded ten-thousand-year Soul-Nourishing Wood to the Red-Robed Elder for a Five Flame Stone.
• Fairy Chen arrived with what the Red-Robed Elder had wanted, but he told her that he had already traded the Five Flame Stone to Shen Long.