Chapter Summaries

Shen Long and Shen Hai escaped an ambush in the Secret Realm with a trove of Spirit Herbs, while the Nine Flames Sect, Thousand Spirits Sect, Yin Luo Sect, and Qi Clan fought a deadly battle. Xu Wei and the Iron Tail Scorpion killed two opponents, and the fighting continued.

• The red-skirted woman’s group tried to ambush Shen Long and Shen Hai, but failed and lost a black-robed elder whose corpse the Nine-Headed Ghost Dove ate.
• The Nine-Headed Ghost Dove told Shen Long that Xu Wei led the Yin Luo Sect and wielded the Thousand Ghost Chart; Shen Long collected the fallen items and left with Shen Hai on the Blue Flying Boat.
• Outside the Secret Realm, Li Wanyue, Li Dong, Zhao Yan, and other Void Refining Cultivators speculated about Feather Flying True Lord’s treasure and the contents of the Secret Realm.
• Zhao Yuqian and Li Changqing led an attack on their opponents as the Nine Flames Sect, Thousand Spirits Sect, Yin Luo Sect, and Qi Clan fought near a Heaven-Propping Giant Peak.
• Xu Wei trapped the gold-shirted man in the Thousand Ghost Chart, where Ghost Creatures killed him and devoured his Nascent Soul.
• A Yellow Giant Ape and an Iron Tail Scorpion attacked the White-Skirted Woman; the sound waves shattered her organs, and the scorpion devoured her Nascent Soul.

Shen Long and his allies fought Chen Qian’s group near the likely location of the Control Hub, using puppets, transformations, and coordinated attacks. Chen Qian’s group escaped a thunderous blast with Life-Substitution Treasures, but the Ice Flood Dragon froze them, and a Silver Thunder Pillar shattered the ice, forcing their five Nascent Souls to flee.

• Shen Long arrived to help the injured Green-Shirted Big Man, but Xu Wei’s Blood Giant Palm struck him and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Zhao Yuqian released five fifth-rank Puppet Beasts, while Chen Qian’s group countered with a combined attack and destroyed one Giant Bear Puppet Beast.
• Xu Wei trapped Shen Long in the Thousand Ghost Chart, but Shen Long destroyed its ten Spirit Transmutation Realm Ghost Creatures and escaped as Li Changqing attacked Xu Wei with a sword formation.
• Chen Qian’s group targeted the Yellow Giant Ape, but Shen Long’s Four-Tailed Spirit Fox distracted them and his Heavy Water Thunder Pearl exploded nearby; they survived with their Life-Substitution Treasures.
• Zhao Yuqian and the Ice Flood Dragon attacked Chen Qian’s group, and a golden talisman immobilized them as the dragon froze them in a huge ice sculpture.
• A Silver Thunder Pillar shattered the ice sculpture, and Chen Qian’s group’s five Nascent Souls fled in different directions.

Shen Long and his allies defeated Chen Qian’s group and discovered that a powerful restriction concealed the Control Hub on a mountain. Shen Long reached Flying Feather Hall, where an inscription revealed part of Feather Flying True Lord’s story but did not say where he had gone.

• Shen Long captured Chen Qian’s nascent soul and helped kill the remaining members of Chen Qian’s group, while Li Changqing and Liu Yuan dealt with their opponents.
• Shen Long introduced himself to Zhao Yuqian and Li Changqing, collected Storage Bracelets from the fallen cultivators, and joined them in investigating a mountain that Zhao Yuqian suspected contained the Control Hub.
• Zhao Yuqian, Liu Yuan, Shen Long, and Li Changqing attacked the mountain, revealing cyan stone steps and a powerful restriction that slowed climbers and summoned silver lightning.
• Zhao Yuqian’s Giant Ape Puppet Beast and Liu Yuan’s transformed Cyan Giant Ape could not climb far, but Shen Long transformed into a Yellow Giant Ape and pushed through the restriction toward the summit.
• Shen Long reached Flying Feather Hall, opened its doors, and found a statue, a battle mural, and an inscription recounting Feather Flying True Lord’s life without revealing where he had gone.

Shen Long explored the hidden chambers beneath Flying Feather Hall and uncovered valuable treasures, including an ancient Dragon Fruit Tree and a Mid-Grade Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure. After learning how to control the secret realm’s Formation, he gathered the remaining Top-Grade Spirit Stones and headed for the exit.

• Shen Long broke through a mural to reveal a corridor leading to four secret chambers.
• He found a Formation powered by five Top-Grade Spirit Stones and transplanted a Dragon Fruit Tree bearing more than fifty fruits.
• Shen Long discovered a wounded avatar of Feather Flying True Lord hiding in a skeleton, and the Nine-Headed Ghost Dove swallowed its Remnant Soul.
• He collected Feather Flying True Lord’s Storage Bracelet and Jade Slips, learning how to control the secret realm’s Formation.
• Shen Long found a completed Mind-Expanding Pearl in the Artifact Refining Room and took it along with the Golden Cauldron.
• He removed the four remaining Top-Grade Spirit Stones and walked toward the hall’s exit.

Shen Long took control of the Secret Realm and shared some of its resources with Liu Yuan, Zhao Yuqian, and Li Changqing before arranging their departure. The rival sects withdrew, Thousand Spirits Sect prepared to guard the entrance, and Ning Sheng reported the outcome to Blood Flame Sect master Liu Hong.

• Shen Long gave Liu Yuan, Zhao Yuqian, and Li Changqing Storage Bracelets containing portions of the resources he had obtained.
• Shen Long used the Control Hub to teleport the other cultivators out, and Liu Yuan later confirmed to the assembled elders that Shen Long controlled the Secret Realm.
• Xu Jiaojiao and Ning Sheng withdrew with their disciples after confirming the Thousand Spirits Sect had taken control, while Li Dong arranged to guard the entrance.
• Shen Long was teleported out, gave Storage Bracelets to Li Dong and Martial Aunt Lin, and Liu Dong ordered Liu Yuan and Zhao Tianhu to enter and guard the Secret Realm.
• Ning Sheng returned to Blood Flame Sect and told sect master Liu Hong that their disciples had gained resources, including a twenty-thousand-year Blood Lizard Wood.

Ning Sheng and the Blood Flame Sect elders discussed the deaths of Chen Qian and his companions, while Mo Bingbing learned Shen Long had found no Soul-Destroying Mirror in Flying Feather Hall. Back at Golden Roc Peak, Shen Long considered handing over the Dragon Fruit Tree and took stock of the treasures he had won, including a Twenty-Thousand-Year Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Seed.

• Ning Sheng, Liu Hong, and Wang Yue discussed the loss of Chen Qian and four other disciples and agreed to investigate their nearly simultaneous deaths.
• Shen Long reported to Mo Bingbing and Li Dong that the Soul-Destroying Mirror was not in Flying Feather Hall and that Feather Flying True Lord had gone to the Ten Thousand Spirit Tomb.
• Mo Bingbing used a Heart-Examining Pearl to confirm Shen Long was telling the truth and said the spirit fruit tree or Spirit Wood he had found was his due reward.
• Mo Bingbing instructed Li Tianxue to tell Shen Long to stay put and cultivate, and Shen Long agreed to follow her advice.
• Shen Long reviewed the treasures he had brought back and revealed a Twenty-Thousand-Year Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Seed.

Shen Long gave the Thousand Spirits Sect a Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Seed to be refined into pills and was rewarded with a chance to study alchemy under Qin Yan. After returning to Golden Roc Peak, he began refining Spirit Enlightenment Pills.

• Shen Long asked Mo Bingbing to protect his Ice Flood Dragon and invited Li Dong and Lin Xiang to discuss an important matter.
• Shen Long revealed the Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Seed and asked that a sixth-order alchemist refine it into pills for the group.
• Mo Bingbing arranged for Qin Yan to refine the pills and offered Shen Long alchemy guidance in recognition of his service to the sect.
• Qin Yan examined the seed, confirmed its age, and gave Shen Long her alchemy insights before leaving to refine the pills.
• Shen Long returned to Golden Roc Peak, sat on the Mind-Focusing Cattail Mat, and began refining Spirit Enlightenment Pills.

After learning that True Monarch Golden Lotus would attend a Nine Flames Sect celebration, Shen Long visited his spirit beasts in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower. He discovered that the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada had awakened with a new ability that weakened fifth-rank formations, then checked on his other beasts.

• Sun Lin told Shen Long that Grandmaster Li would lead a delegation to the Nine Flames Sect's Void Refining Celebration, and Wang confirmed True Monarch Golden Lotus would attend.
• Shen Long visited the Crimson Fire Apes and reassured the Fire Qilin Beast that its treatment would remain better than theirs.
• Shen Long fed ore and Beast-Nurturing Pills to the Golden-Winged Fire Ant Queen and twelve Four-Winged Fire Ants, who had all advanced to fifth rank.
• Shen Long found that the Iron Tail Scorpion had advanced to the fifth-rank mid-stage and that the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada had awakened after consuming a Supreme Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Pill.
• Shen Long tested the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada's new Golden Cicada Divine Light and discovered it could weaken fifth-rank formations.
• Shen Long visited the Water Lie Beast and noted that it had reached the Late Fourth Rank.

Shen Long inspected the Ten Thousand Beast Tower’s habitats and discussed his plans to build an army of Spirit Beasts, then received two Ice Vultures with faint Ice Phoenix bloodlines. He left them in the tower to test whether they could evolve toward Ice Phoenixes.

• Shen Long checked the Ten Thousand Beast Stele, reviewed the tower’s cultivation resources, and considered the cost of raising a Spirit Beast army.
• Shen Long visited the Ice Flood Dragon on the tower’s snowy fifth floor and promised to raise more creatures there to keep it company.
• Shen Long answered Sun Yao and Chen Yang’s questions about cultivation and alchemy.
• Yang Shenghai delivered two Ice Vultures with thin Ice Phoenix bloodlines and offered spirit herbs and a Fifth-Rank Wood Demon Crystal Core for Shen Long to refine Golden Jade Soul Nourishing Pills.
• Shen Long examined the Ice Vultures’ bloodline purity and brought them to the tower to test whether they could evolve toward Ice Phoenixes.

Shen Long tended his ice-type spirit birds and refined pills, while Chu Buyu completed a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure for Yuan Rui. Shen Long then joined Li Dong and a group of cultivators departing the Thousand Spirits Sect.

• Shen Long activated the Eight-Gate Mystic Ice Formation around the Ice Moon Palace, filling the area around the Ice Vultures with White Cold Qi, then went to refine pills.
• Chu Buyu successfully refined the Low-Grade Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure Li Fire Blade and handed it to Yuan Rui.
• Yuan Rui told Chu Buyu that Fairy Chihong had stayed in the Fire Yang Realm and that he had no news of Shen Long.
• Shen Long rewarded Sun Lin with resources and set out from Golden Roc Peak with Wang Yunlong.
• At the Thousand Spirits Platform, Shen Long and over a hundred Spirit Transmutation cultivators boarded the Cyan Flood Dragon under Li Dong's command.

Li Dong and Wang Ruobing brought Li Clan and Thousand Spirits Sect cultivators to the Nine Flames Sect for a Void Refining celebration, where they met True Monarch Golden Lotus and other guests. Shen Long attended a gathering hosted by Zhao Yuqian, tasted spirit tea that strengthened his divine sense, and met Chen Yu, whom Li Changqing asked about her divination skills.

• Li Yuntao and Lin Zheng arrived at the Nine Flames Mountain Range with Li Dong and Wang Ruobing, and Chen Yican welcomed them to the celebration.
• Chen Yican arranged lodging for the visiting cultivators, while True Monarch Golden Lotus told Chen Yu to mingle with guests and seek out what he wanted.
• Liu Wei led the Thousand Spirits Sect cultivators to a gathering beneath a Golden Flame Tree, where Zhao Yuqian served Mystic Fire Robe tea.
• Shen Long drank the tea and felt his divine sense strengthen as the guests introduced themselves.
• Li Changqing asked Chen Yu whether she was also a diviner.

Shen Long and the other cultivators discussed divination, alchemy, and spirit-beast bloodlines before trading cultivation resources. Shen Long acquired two Sea-Treading Turtle eggs and offered Spirit Enlightenment Pills, drawing eager offers from the group.

• Chen Yu modestly acknowledged her divination training under Senior Song as the cultivators praised her abilities.
• Shen Long discussed the difficulty of refining Supreme Pills and the challenges of raising spirit beasts to True Spirit bloodlines.
• The cultivators exchanged resources, and Shen Long traded Golden Jade Soul Nourishing Pills to Chen Yu for two Sea-Treading Turtle eggs.
• Shen Long inspected the eggs and confirmed their thin Black Tortoise bloodlines.
• Shen Long offered items for trade, including five Spirit Enlightenment Pills sought by several cultivators.
• Li Yunxiang and other cultivators sent Shen Long offers for the Spirit Enlightenment Pills.

Shen Long traded for rare materials, raised two Sea-Treading Turtles in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower, fed a Nine-Color Ant to his Golden-Winged Fire Ant Queen, and strengthened his Green Lotus True Flame. Elsewhere, Xu Sheng and Zhao Yan spoke with Ning Yao, whose divination had revealed a small opportunity connected to the Golden Lotus Token.

• Shen Long traded Spirit Enlightenment Pills with Li Yunxiang and Chen Yu, receiving Fifth Rank Spirit Flame and the remains of a Nine-Color Ant.
• Chen Yu told Li Changqing and Zhao Yuqian about crossing the sea to the Dry Thunder Continent aboard the Flowing Cloud Boat.
• Shen Long traded a Spirit Enlightenment Pill to Wang Yulong for a Fifth-Rank Wood Demon Crystal Core and five ice-attribute Fifth-Rank Demon Cores.
• Shen Long hatched two Sea-Treading Turtles, released them into a lake in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower, and named the island Black Tortoise island.
• Shen Long gave the Nine-Color Ant's remains to the Golden-Winged Fire Ant Queen, then had his Green Lotus True Flame consume a cluster of Fifth Rank Spirit Flame.
• Xu Sheng and Zhao Yan asked Ning Yao about her divination, and she said it had revealed a small opportunity with clues already discovered.

During Xu Sheng’s Void Refining Ceremony, Shen Long met True Monarch Golden Lotus and received clues to a tremendous opportunity. True Monarch Golden Lotus then agreed to receive Fairy Wang, a disciple of the powerful Wind Spirit.

• Shen Long discussed his mutated fifth-rank Flood Dragon and other spirit beasts with Zhao Yuqian, Chen Qinglin, Li Yunxiang, Chen Yu, and the other cultivators.
• Shen Long gave Chen Yu a Spirit Enlightenment Pill and Golden Lotus Token to secure an introduction to True Monarch Golden Lotus, then accepted a Green Yu Token in exchange for the pill.
• True Monarch Golden Lotus divined Shen Long’s opportunity and gave him a Golden Jade Slip containing clues, warning that others might reach it first.
• True Monarch Golden Lotus initially refused another visitor, but agreed to meet Fairy Wang after Zhao Yan explained that she was Wind Spirit’s disciple.

Shen Long pursued clues to his great opportunity, which might be tied to a woman named Buyu, and decided to investigate distant Human Race islands. Meanwhile, Lei Ting ascended into the Lingxu Realm and was received by the Blood Vine Race.

• Shen Long suspected his great opportunity might involve Chu Buyu, but reminded himself that another cultivator named Buyu could be the clue since he could not reach the Lower Realm.
• True Monarch Golden Lotus told Chen Yu that Shen Long had a great opportunity, but warned that someone else might find it first; Wang Bingbing declined Zhao Yan’s invitation to stay for Xu Sheng’s celebration.
• Xu Sheng held his Void Refining Celebration, where guests offered gifts and toasted him before Shen Long returned to the Thousand Spirits Sect.
• Shen Long researched the Human Race islands in the Scripture Depository, then left the Thousand Spirits Sect to search for his opportunity.
• Lei Ting ascended onto a platform in Blood Vine territory, and Teng Qing introduced the Blood Vine Race before leading him to register.

Shen Long explored the Green Lotus Marketplace, trading pills and wine for rare materials and two Seven-Star Flat Peaches. He then asked a stallholder about a Heavenly Puppet Talisman, whose price remained unsettled.

• Shen Long parted from Shen Hai after they arrived at the Green Lotus Marketplace, with Shen Hai shopping for supplies and Shen Long gathering information.
• Shen Long traded Apricot Moon Drunk to Bai Wei for Fifth-Rank Sea-Suppressing Ape Essence Blood and five Thunder Demon Cores.
• Shen Long traded Snow Ganoderma Pills to Qin Jun for five ice-attribute Fifth-Rank Demon Cores, then exchanged a Golden Jade Soul Nourishing Pill for two Seven-Star Flat Peaches.
• Shen Long asked a Blue-Skirted Matron what she wanted for her Heavenly Puppet Talisman, and she said she preferred pills of equal value.

Shen Long traded for a Heavenly Puppet Talisman, then watched Xu Yingying of the Four Seas Sect acquire a Treasure-Seeking Rat with Heaven-Swallowing Rat bloodline. After Shen Hai brought him alchemy materials and sea charts, Shen Long settled into Green Gourd Pavilion, while Xu Yingying questioned the rat about its past.

• Shen Long exchanged a Spirit Enlightenment Pill for a Heavenly Puppet Talisman.
• Shen Long offered Golden Jade Soul Nourishing Pills for the injured fifth-rank Treasure-Seeking Rat, but the Red-Shirted Man refused; Xu Yingying then bought the rat with a pill bearing Twelve Pill Patterns.
• Shen Long visited Listen to the Sea Pavilion, where Shen Hai delivered alchemy materials, two three-thousand-year Golden Jade Soul Nourishing Grasses, and sea charts.
• Shen Long and Shen Hai moved into the rented Green Gourd Pavilion, and Shen Long gave Shen Hai a Seven-Star Flat Peach.
• Xu Yingying asked the Treasure-Seeking Rat whether it had gained the ability to speak after swallowing a Spirit Enlightenment Pill in an Ancient Cultivator Cave Abode in the Sky Rainbow Realm.

Xu Yingying learned that a Spirit Enlightenment Pill and a cultivator from the Lingxu Realm might be connected to the Sky Rainbow Realm, while Shen Long and Shen Hai set out to sea in search of Golden Birch Wood. After killing a Golden-Winged Thunder Eagle and helping Qin Yang’s group capture a Blood Shark Beast, Shen Long learned that volcanic islands lay to the southwest.

• The Treasure-Seeking Rat told Xu Yingying how it had reached the Lower Realm, and she sent Junior Brother Xu word to investigate a possible Spirit Enlightenment Pill on Seven Rainbow Island.
• A month later, Shen Long and Shen Hai left the marketplace aboard the Cloud Sea Boat to search the overseas regions for opportunities.
• Shen Long and Shen Hai killed a Fifth-Rank Early-Stage Golden-Winged Thunder Eagle, but it had neither a Thunder-Guiding Bead nor a Thunder-Absorbing Bead.
• The pair encountered a Blood Shark Beast being hunted by a Swallowing Sea Whale and helped Qin Yang’s group defeat it.
• Shen Long asked Qin Yang about Golden Birch Wood, and Qin Yang directed him toward volcanic islands in the southwest.
• Shen Long and Shen Hai flew southwest while Qin Yang’s group collected the Blood Shark Beast’s corpse and departed.

Ten years later, Shen Long and Shen Hai discovered a hidden cave abode in the Red Sea Area and found treasures left by a Fire Rong Clan cultivator. When a Void Refining cultivator approached, Shen Long escaped with the Thunder Peng, while the stranger left after receiving word that his companions had found something.

• Shen Long and Shen Hai landed on an island where the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada broke through a concealed barrier and revealed a cave abode.
• The Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada shattered a Fifth-Rank Formation, and Shen Hai recovered treasures including a Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Pill from the remains inside.
• Shen Hai identified the dead cultivator as a Fire Rong Clan member who had likely perished after fighting over Thousand Poison True Lord's cave abode.
• The Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada spotted approaching foreign cultivators, and Shen Long sensed that one was a Void Refining cultivator.
• Shen Long hid Shen Hai and the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada, merged with the Thunder Peng, and escaped more than eight hundred miles with a burst of golden thunder.
• The blue-robed Void Refining cultivator Hu Hai failed to catch Shen Long, then departed after a companion told him they had found something.

Shen Long and Shen Hai reached Green Butterfly Marketplace after escaping danger, where Shen Long began secluded cultivation to advance to the Spirit Transmutation Late-Stage. Meanwhile, Chu Buyu finished refining a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure and agreed to join Yuan Rui and Lu Yun in investigating a possible spirit realm cultivator’s cave abode in the Fire Yang Realm.

• Shen Long and Shen Hai arrived at their rented residence in Green Butterfly Marketplace, and Shen Long dismissed the cave abode they had escaped from as an unlikely great opportunity.
• Shen Long fed the Supreme Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Pill to his Spirit-Tracking Beast and decided to cultivate in seclusion until he advanced to the Spirit Transmutation Late-Stage.
• Chu Buyu completed the Golden Glass Needle, a Low-Grade Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure made with Golden Glass Crystal.
• Yuan Rui and Lu Yun told Chu Buyu that Fairy Ye had found a likely Ascension Cave Abode in the Fire Yang Realm, where its restrictions had badly injured her and killed another cultivator.
• Chu Buyu agreed to accompany Yuan Rui and Lu Yun to the Fire Yang Realm and asked Yuan Rui for more Fifth-Rank materials so she could refine additional treasures.