Chapter Summaries

After three years of cultivation, Shen Long returned to the Thousand Spirits Sect and reunited with Su Changfeng, who had ascended to the Lingxu Realm. He honored his late master and provided resources to Su Changfeng, Yuan Rui, and Yang Shenghai before asking Yang Shenghai to seek several needed materials.

• Shen Long left Green Lotus Marketplace after learning that the Four Seas Sect had investigated a Cold Flame Bamboo sale and announcing that he had been ordered to leave the archipelago.
• Wang Changlei and Wang Changwei concluded that someone had taken their great opportunity in the Secret Realm and decided to return to the mainland.
• Shen Long reunited with Su Changfeng and Yuan Rui at Purple Scorpion Valley, learned of Master Ice Silkworm's death, and paid respects to his spirit tablet.
• Shen Long gave Su Changfeng cultivation resources and presented Yuan Rui with a Supreme Grade Purple Mysterious Pill.
• After returning to Golden Roc Peak, Shen Long sent two Supreme Grade Purple Apricot Jade Essence Pills to Yang Tianshan through Yang Shenghai and asked Yang Shenghai to search for needed resources.

Shen Long met True Monarch Spirit Control, handed over the Mystic Soul Manual, and asked him to propose marriage to Fairy Chu. Three days later, they arrived at the Divine Weapon Sect, where its Sect Master came to meet them.

• Shen Long went to Spirit Control Peak after Mo Bingbing summoned him, and True Monarch Spirit Control praised his efforts for the Spirit Control Sect.
• True Monarch Spirit Control explained that the sect lacked a Seven Apertures Exquisite Stone for a Realm-Breaking Disk and promised to acquire the Purple Toad Mountain Range for future ascenders.
• Shen Long handed over the first volume of the Mystic Soul Manual and asked True Monarch Spirit Control to propose marriage to Fairy Chu at the Divine Weapon Sect.
• True Monarch Spirit Control agreed to Shen Long's request and said they would leave in three days.
• Teng Guang reported to the Yellow-Robed Elder that he had not obtained the items in the Control Hub and that Human Race cultivators had spread rumors to provoke the minor races.
• True Monarch Spirit Control and Shen Long reached the Divine Weapon Sect, where Grandmaster Ye escorted them to meet the Sect Master.

True Monarch Spirit Control offered Murong Shuo Nine-Color Divine Mud to repair the Golden Flood Dragon Drum and asked him to approve Shen Long’s marriage to Chu Buyu. Murong Shuo made approval conditional on Shen Long defeating Wang Teng in a spar, and the two entered the Thousand Forest Painting to fight.

• True Monarch Spirit Control gave Murong Shuo Nine-Color Divine Mud in exchange for repairing the Golden Flood Dragon Drum, then proposed Shen Long’s marriage to Chu Buyu.
• Murong Shuo agreed to consider the marriage and arranged lodging for True Monarch Spirit Control and Shen Long.
• Xu Yingying, Xu Xu, and Lin Tao discussed Golden Qiu’s Ascension Cave Abode and speculated about Qingyangzi’s whereabouts.
• After nearly half a month, Murong Shuo told True Monarch Spirit Control that Shen Long had to defeat Wang Teng for the Divine Weapon Sect to approve the marriage.
• Shen Long and Wang Teng entered the Thousand Forest Painting to spar while True Monarch Spirit Control, Murong Shuo, and Ye waited outside.

Shen Long fought Wang Teng inside the Thousand Forest Painting and defeated him after overcoming his spirit treasures and Dharma Aspect. Wang Teng conceded and emerged with Shen Long, admitting his loss to Murong Shuo.

• Wang Teng transformed into a Crimson Flood Dragon and attacked Shen Long, who countered in the form of a Yellow Giant Ape and battered him with overwhelming strength.
• Wang Teng summoned a Humanoid Projection, Crimson Fire Spears, a Red Giant Blade, and a bell that disoriented Shen Long, allowing the blade to sever Shen Long's arm.
• Shen Long regrew his arm, summoned a Cyan Fire Phoenix, and destroyed Wang Teng's Humanoid Projection while the Phoenix weakened Wang Teng's Golden Light Screen.
• Shen Long burst from underground and shattered Wang Teng's Golden Light Screen, then struck his head and triggered Wang Teng's Five-Petal Jade Lotus Life-Substitution Treasure.
• Wang Teng reappeared a hundred li away, conceded, and returned with Shen Long from the Thousand Forest Painting, where he told Murong Shuo that he had lost.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu’s marriage was agreed upon after Shen Long defeated Wang Teng, and the couple returned to the Thousand Spirits Sect to prepare for their Dual Cultivation Ceremony. Meanwhile, Wang Yuanlin investigated why the Blood Vine Race had gone to the Green Lotus Archipelago, and Shen Long sent invitations to his acquaintances.

• Shen Long’s victory over Wang Teng led Murong Shuo to agree to his marriage with Chu Buyu, and True Monarch Spirit Control presented the Divine Weapon Sect with a valuable betrothal gift.
• Wang Yuanlin learned that Blood Vine Race cultivators had taken the opportunity Wang Changlei and Wang Changwei had pursued, then ordered an investigation into their motives.
• True Monarch Spirit Control returned to the Thousand Spirits Sect with Shen Long and Chu Buyu, where Mo Bingbing agreed to host Chu Buyu until the ceremony.
• True Monarch Spirit Control ordered invitations to be distributed for Shen Long and Chu Buyu’s Dual Cultivation Ceremony.
• Shen Long sent invitations to Han Feng at the Big Dipper Pavilion and Ni Tianting of the Ni Family.

Ten years later, Shen Long refined Supreme Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Pills and met with True Monarch Spirit Control and Liu Xin ahead of his wedding. He then visited the Ten Thousand Beast Tower, where Shen Lang taught fifth-rank Spirit Beasts basic cultivation knowledge as part of Shen Long’s plan to build a Spirit Beast Legion.

• Shen Long refined twenty-four Supreme Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Pills and learned from Sun Lin that Han Feng had arrived, while Ni Tianting had not.
• Shen Long gave pills to True Monarch Spirit Control and Liu Xin, who gifted him two Fifth-Rank Five-Colored Insects; True Monarch Spirit Control said he would preside over Shen Long’s wedding.
• True Monarch Spirit Control gave Liu Xin a Profound Purple Jade Fruit, which could extend her lifespan by ten thousand years.
• Shen Long entered the Ten Thousand Beast Tower and watched Shen Lang teach fifth-rank Spirit Beasts how to recognize and respond to Talismans.
• Shen Lang explained the Spirit Beasts’ examination system, which rewarded those who passed with Supreme Beast-Nurturing Pills and punished repeated failures.

Shen Lang put the intelligent Spirit Beasts through practical combat training, testing how well they used their abilities and avoided common traps. The beasts earned scores and reviewed their performance, then continued training in coordinated teams.

• Shen Lang warned the Ice Vultures that another failed assessment would cost them their next salary, and the Crimson Fire Apes, Sea-Treading Turtles, Wind Thunder Centipedes, and Ice Vultures volunteered to spar in turn.
• Shen Lang fought the Crimson Fire Apes while Shen Peng recorded the match, and the apes used teamwork, defensive attacks, and Fire Escape Technique to avoid his treasures.
• The Crimson Fire Apes countered Shen Lang’s hidden flying needle and lightning bead instead of taking the attacks head-on, earning seven points from him.
• The Sea-Treading Turtles, Wind Thunder Centipedes, and Ice Vultures sparred with Shen Lang in pairs, dodging or retreating when injured rather than fighting recklessly.
• The beasts sparred against one another for a Fifth-Rank Demon Core, reviewed their strengths and mistakes with Shen Lang, and practiced fighting together in coordinated groups.

Shen Long established the Spirit Beast Hall, trained newly awakened Five-Colored Insects, and welcomed Ni Tianting and Lin Yuyuan to his Dual Cultivation Ceremony. The chapter left him greeting the guests at the Golden Roc Garden.

• Shen Lang explained Dharma Aspects, bloodline purity, and the path to becoming a True Spirit as the spirit beasts watched Shen Peng defeat the two Golden Blaze Lions.
• Shen Long established the Spirit Beast Hall, appointing Shen Peng as Hall Master and the Nine-Headed Ghost Dove, Iron Tail Scorpion, and others as deputy hall masters.
• Shen Long awakened two Five-Colored Insects with Supreme Spirit Enlightenment Pills and assigned Shen Lang to house and train them.
• Shen Long received Sun Lin's message that Ni Tianting had arrived, then went to the Golden Roc Garden to greet Ni Tianting and Lin Yuyuan.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu held their Dual Cultivation Ceremony, attended by honored guests and True Monarch Spirit Control, who gave them wedding gifts. After the celebrations, they paid respects to their masters and began their married life together.

• Ni Tianting asked Shen Long to hatch blood-beset Eight-Winged Soul-Eating Centipede eggs, and Shen Long used the Spirit Control Pool to hatch eight of them.
• Chu Feng learned that Shen Long was True Monarch Spirit Control's grand-disciple and instructed Zhang Mei to watch for news of Seventh-Order Thunder-Absorbing Beads and Seventh-Order Nine-Color Divine Mud.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu held their ceremony at the Thousand Spirits Sect, where True Monarch Spirit Control attended and gave them Storage Bracelets.
• The guests offered wedding gifts, and Yang Tianshan presented Shen Long with two Fifth-Rank Spirit-Seeking Rats carrying the Heaven-Swallowing Rat bloodline.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu paid respects to their masters' Spirit Tablets, declared their devotion to each other, and went to the inner chamber together.

After receiving wedding gifts and giving Ni Tianting two hatched Eight-Winged Soul-Eating Centipedes, Shen Long showed Chu Buyu the Ten Thousand Beast Tower and its many floors of Spirit Beasts. Chu Buyu identified it as an extraordinary Chaos Treasure, and the Tower's Artifact Spirit appeared to confirm its existence.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu collected their wedding gifts, consumed the Profound Purple Jade Fruits, and gained ten thousand years of lifespan each.
• Shen Long gave Ni Tianting two female Eight-Winged Soul-Eating Centipedes, and Lin Yuyuan thanked him with Five-Colored Divine Mud.
• Shen Long brought Chu Buyu into the Ten Thousand Beast Tower and introduced her to his Spirit Beasts and Spirit Insects across its floors.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu found that the Ten Thousand Beast Stele had added Chu Buyu as his Dao Companion, and Chu Buyu concluded the Tower was a Chaos Treasure or something even higher.
• The Artifact Spirit of the Ten Thousand Beast Tower appeared as a blue-skirted young girl and introduced herself to Shen Long and Chu Buyu.

Shen Long learned that the Ten Thousand Beast Tower housed a congenital artifact spirit, named her Shen Yuling, and began cultivating with Chu Buyu. Meanwhile, Yin Hao and Yin Yue discussed Shen Long’s growing reputation and new reports concerning Golden Qiu and Qingyangzi.

• Shen Long questioned the blue-skirted girl and learned she was a congenital artifact spirit whose fate and the Tower’s inhabitants were bound to his; he named her Shen Yuling.
• Shen Yuling explained that the Ten Thousand Beast Tower could hatch eggs and help spirit beasts and insects improve their bloodlines, while Chu Buyu warned that making her drive the treasure could damage her vitality.
• Shen Long subdued two fifth-rank spirit-seeking rats and had Shen Lang settle them before leaving the Tower with Chu Buyu to cultivate.
• Shen Long gave Chu Buyu materials to practice the Mystic Soul Manual, then consumed a true dragon pill and began refining its energy.
• Yin Hao told Yin Yue that True Monarch Spirit Control had proposed marriage for Shen Long and that Human Race agents were investigating Golden Qiu and Qingyangzi.
• Yin Yue assigned the investigation to the Intelligence Hall, while Yin Hao vowed to kill Shen Long if he encountered him again.

After Lin Yutong ascended to the Lingxu Realm, Yuan Rui brought her to Thousand Spirits Sect, where Shen Long welcomed her and gave her cultivation resources. Shen Long, now at Mid-Stage Void Refining, then went with Chu Buyu to meet True Monarch Golden Ape, a visiting disciple of a powerful rogue cultivator.

• Yuan Rui learned that Lin Yutong had ascended and brought her from Purple Toad Mountain Range to Thousand Spirits Sect.
• Chu Buyu and Wang Ruobing discussed Chu Buyu's quick repair of Wang Ruobing's treasure while Shen Long remained in seclusion.
• Shen Long emerged at Mid-Stage Void Refining, greeted Lin Yutong, and took her to pay respects at the tablets of Master Ice Silkworm and Song Lianyue.
• Chu Buyu and Shen Long gave Lin Yutong storage bracelets containing resources to help her cultivation.
• Sun Lin reported that True Monarch Golden Ape had arrived alone to meet Shen Long, and Shen Long and Chu Buyu flew out to see him.

Shen Long met Wu Yuan for a wagered physical spar and learned that Wu Yuan also cultivated the Ten Thousand Beasts True Scripture. After Wu Yuan lost and handed over the stakes, Shen Long returned to the Ten Thousand Beast Tower to gather his advanced spirit beasts.

• Wu Yuan offered Shen Long a ten-thousand-year-old Six-Leaf Golden Soul Lotus and a sixth-order Nine-Color Ant corpse and Demon Core as stakes in a spar.
• Shen Long and Wu Yuan discovered they both cultivated the Ten Thousand Beasts True Scripture, but neither revealed the full extent of his cultivation art.
• Wu Yuan proposed a one-punch contest based only on physical strength, and Shen Long knocked him down with their simultaneous clash.
• Wu Yuan accepted his defeat and gave Shen Long the wager before leaving; Shen Long and Chu Buyu suspected Wu Yuan had deliberately lost and agreed to be cautious.
• Shen Long entered the Ten Thousand Beast Tower, learned that several of his spirit beasts had advanced to the sixth order, and asked Shen Mei to summon Shen Jiu and Shen Lie.

Shen Long assigned management duties and training responsibilities to his transformed spirit beasts, establishing a ranked assessment system with rewards and penalties. After accepting an invitation to Li Yunpeng’s Dual Cultivation Ceremony ten years later, Shen Long began refining pills to obtain resources for his growing Spirit Beast Legion.

• Shen Long assigned Shen Xin, Shen Xiao, Shen Jiu, Shen Lie, Shen Ao, and Shen Peng responsibility for managing different spirit beast tribes and warned them not to fight among themselves.
• Shen Long ordered Shen Peng and the others to study cultivation and coordinated combat under Shen Lang, then teach the creatures under their management.
• Shen Long established assessments every hundred years, ranking the managers by their tribes’ strength and training, with cultivation resources as rewards and penalties.
• Shen Zhan asked for a management role, and Shen Long told him to study until the Spirit-Tracking Beast and Tree Demon reached the sixth order and he passed an assessment.
• Li Tianxue invited Shen Long to Li Yunpeng’s Dual Cultivation Ceremony, scheduled for ten years later, and thanked him for the pill that helped her Golden-Winged Wind Owl mutate.
• Shen Long entered his Cultivation Room and began refining pills to acquire resources for cultivating his spirit beasts.

Wu Yuan and Su Yuxue searched for the complete Ten Thousand Demons True Scripture, while seven years later Shen Long traded for rare treasures and joined Thousand Spirits Sect’s leaders after a warning summoned them. Mo Bingbing revealed that the Wang Clan had issued a Conscription Order, raising fears of a Race War.

• Wu Yuan and Su Yuxue worried that they needed the complete Ten Thousand Demons True Scripture to satisfy the Crystal Race and avoid losing access to Nine Yang Pills, so they considered searching the Green Lotus Archipelago.
• Seven years later, Wang Shuhan offered Shen Long a sixth order Wood Demon Crystal Core and additional treasures in exchange for a Supreme Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Pill, which he accepted.
• A Dragon-Tiger Phantom appeared above Thousand Spirits Sect, and Shen Long, Chu Buyu, and more than forty Void Refining Cultivators gathered in the Council Hall.
• Mo Bingbing displayed a Ten Thousand Trees token marked with Conscription, and Wu Yingyue asked whether a Race War had begun.

The Wang Clan conscripted the Thousand Spirits Sect, Yin Luo Sect, and other factions to reinforce the Human Race’s war against the Blood Vine Race. Shen Long and Chu Buyu joined the expedition, and the chapter left them arriving by teleportation at Celestial Whirl City.

• Mo Bingbing announced that the Thousand Spirits Sect had to send cultivators to the front lines, and Liu Xin selected He Zixiao, Wu Yingyue, Qin Yan, and others to join her team.
• Chu Feng ordered the Yin Luo Sect to send sixty Void Refining Cultivators and said he would lead them personally.
• At the Divine Weapon Marketplace, Wu Xuan and Chen Shen told Liu Xin and Chu Feng that the Blood Vine Race was fighting the Human Race near Celestial Whirl City, while smaller races harassed the coast.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu met Li Yunpeng and Lin Wan before joining the cultivators gathering at the Hundred Weapons Hall.
• Wu Xuan led the assembled cultivators through the teleportation array, and Shen Long and the others arrived at a hall in Celestial Whirl City.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu arrived in Celestial Whirl City, registered for the race war, and explored the enormous city and its markets. The chapter left them at Drunken Immortal Pavilion after Zhang Zhanyun named rare treasures needed to obtain a jar of Nine Essence Jade Brew.

• Wang Lian led Shen Long and the others out of the Teleportation Hall and to the registration square.
• Shen Long registered as a mid-stage Void Refining cultivator and sixth-order alchemist, received an Identity Token, and went with Chu Buyu to Thousand Spirits Garden.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu left their residence to explore Celestial Whirl City and encountered Ni Tianting and Mu Xiao.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu visited Drunken Immortal Pavilion, where manager Zhang Zhanyun offered to sell them Nine Essence Jade Brew in exchange for several rare treasures.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu visited the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, where they traded Four Symbols Pills for spirit wine and learned about the Race War from Zhang Yiming. They left with useful battlefield intelligence and a promise to seek Five-Colored Phoenix Butterflies for him.

• Shen Long offered Zhang Zhanyun a bottle of top-quality Four Symbols Pills in exchange for sixth-order spirit wine that could strengthen the body and divine sense.
• Zhang Yiming recognized Shen Long from a ceremony held centuries earlier and invited him and Chu Buyu upstairs to talk.
• Zhang Yiming served Shen Long and Chu Buyu Green Soul Tea and asked them to find adult Five-Colored Phoenix Butterflies, or larvae if adults were unavailable.
• Zhang Yiming explained the Blood Vine Race's Blood Vine Divine Light and warned them about its subordinate races and their abilities.
• Zhang Zhanyun brought Shen Long a jar of Seven Star Soul Nourishing Jade Liquid and a jar of Blood Berry Brew, and Shen Long and Chu Buyu left the pavilion.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu searched Celestial Whirl City for materials and spirit beasts while Human Race leaders discussed reinforcements and the Blood Vine Race’s unknown war objective. In Blood Vine City, Teng Ying kept that objective secret as reinforcements from other races arrived.

• Zhang Yiming told Zhang Zhanyun that Five-Colored Phoenix Butterflies were scarce and advised him to trade with newly arrived cultivators.
• Shen Long bought ores from a shop and visited Celestial Moon Pavilion with Chu Buyu before suggesting they inspect the spirit beast shop.
• Wang Yuanlin and Wang Tianxin discussed Human Race reinforcements, the Blood Vine Race’s campaign, and their failure to uncover its strategic objective.
• Teng Ying told Teng Xiao to avoid killing allied reinforcements, explaining that they were needed to wear down the Human Race.
• Teng Ying refused to reveal the war’s objective because a spy from the previous war remained undiscovered, then sent Teng Xiao to receive newly arrived allied forces.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu traded with Yan Que for Seven Flame Stone and met Han He, who sought help hatching a Spirit Beast Egg. After trading Silver Essence True Water for rare herbs, they wondered whether the egg came from a Foreign Cultivator and whether they might encounter old acquaintances in the war.

• Chu Buyu spotted Seven Flame Stone at Yan Que's stall, and Shen Long traded a Ren Water Green Berry Fruit for one piece.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu arranged further trades with Yan Que, exchanging Blood Ganoderma Golden Scale Pills for two more pieces of Seven Flame Stone and giving him a communication mirror.
• Han He met Shen Long and Chu Buyu, then asked for help hatching a weak Spirit Beast Egg.
• Shen Long traded Silver Essence True Water to Han He for two Seven-Colored Jade Marrow Flowers over ten thousand years old.
• After Han He left, Shen Long and Chu Buyu speculated that the egg might have come from a Foreign Cultivator and wondered if they would meet old acquaintances in the war.