Chapter Summaries

Wang Tianxin led the cultivators of Celestial Whirl City to Blood Vine City for a decisive battle against the foreign races. The fighting began, and Shen Long, Chu Buyu, and Li Dong joined forces against a group of six foreign cultivators.

• Liu Xin ordered Shen Long and the other cultivators to fight together and prioritize their safety, while Wang Tianxin prepared the forces for battle.
• Wang Tianxin promised rewards for the cultivators who killed the most enemies and led hundreds of thousands of cultivators aboard the Golden Dragon Boat toward Blood Vine City.
• Wang Tianxin and Wang Yuanlin attacked Blood Vine City, prompting Teng Ying and the foreign cultivators to fly out and meet them.
• Shen Long, Chu Buyu, and Li Dong confronted six foreign cultivators, including two Late Void Refining opponents, and the groups exchanged attacks.
• Shen Long summoned his spirit beasts while Chu Buyu launched fire and puppet-beast attacks against Bian Hai and his companions.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu used a Puppet Shadow Talisman and the Five-Tailed Spirit Fox’s illusion to evade the Blood Vine Race cultivators’ first trap, but a Ghost Race elder captured them in the Thousand Ghost Bead. The gold-shirted man and four others entered the bead to kill Shen Long and his allies.

• The gold-shirted man trapped Chu Buyu, the Yellow Giant Ape, and their companions in a Golden Giant Tower while Li Dong and the Wind Flood Dragon fought off attacks.
• Shen Long struck down the gold-shirted man’s false body, revealing that he had used a Puppet Shadow Talisman to create a decoy.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu reappeared with the Five-Tailed Spirit Fox, whose illusion had fooled the attackers into mistaking false creatures for real ones.
• Bian Hai unleashed Heavy Water in the form of a Blue Water Dragon, which withstood Chu Buyu’s flames and Shen Long’s punch.
• A Grey-Robed Elder of the Ghost Race incapacitated Shen Long, Chu Buyu, and the Five-Tailed Spirit Fox with a Ghost Wail and swept them into the Thousand Ghost Bead.
• The Grey-Robed Elder led the gold-shirted man and four others into the Thousand Ghost Bead to attack Shen Long and his companions.

Shen Long, Chu Buyu, and Shen Jiu broke through the ambush inside the Thousand Ghost Bead, defeating the ghost creatures and the attackers. The Grey-Robed Elder and the surviving foes remained under pressure as Shen Jiu swallowed the Gold-Shirted Man’s Nascent Soul.

• Shen Long emerged behind Bian Hai and his companions, shattered their water shield, killed Bian Hai and three others, and captured their Nascent Souls.
• Bian Hai revealed himself with a Life-Substitution Treasure, while Chu Buyu and Shen Jiu stood unharmed after resisting the Mysterious Yin Seal.
• Chu Buyu used the Heavenly Thunder Bead against the Gold-Shirted Man’s golden fists, and Shen Jiu swallowed a hidden Void Refining Ghost.
• The Grey-Robed Elder released thousands of ghost creatures, but Shen Jiu swallowed several thousand of them as Chu Buyu froze a massive wave and Shen Jiu petrified a giant brick.
• Shen Long defeated the Gold-Shirted Man, and Shen Jiu swallowed the man’s Nascent Soul despite his plea for help.

Shen Long and his allies defeated Bian Hai and the Grey-Robed Elder, who used a secret technique to raise his strength to Void Refining Great Perfection. Shen Long destroyed the elder’s body and seized his Nascent Soul to search its soul.

• Shen Jiu killed Bian Hai, destroying his defenses and swallowing his Nascent Soul.
• Shen Lie broke the Grey-Robed Elder’s teleportation, and Shen Long beheaded him, but the Five-Petal Jade Lotus revived him by spending a petal.
• Shen Lie prevented the Grey-Robed Elder from teleporting again as Shen Long and his allies attacked him.
• The Grey-Robed Elder used Ten Thousand Ghosts Devour Body to reach Void Refining Great Perfection, while Shen Peng revealed his Thunder Peng form.
• Shen Long struck the Grey-Robed Elder with Soul-Destroying Mystic Light, smashed his head, and seized his Nascent Soul to search its soul.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu escaped the Thousand Ghost Bead, helped kill the Blood-Robe Man, and joined the battle elsewhere. Wang Tianxin killed Teng Ying, prompting Blood Vine Race cultivators to flee toward Blood Vine City.

• Shen Long explained that the Grey-Robed Elder had been a Ghost Race ascender, then praised Shen Peng, Shen Jiu, and Shen Lie for their help.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu escaped the Thousand Ghost Bead and joined Li Dong and their companions in attacking the Blood-Robe Man.
• Shen Long, Chu Buyu, Li Dong, and their allies broke through the Blood-Robe Man's defenses and killed him; Chu Buyu searched his Nascent Soul before the Iron Tail Scorpion devoured it.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu followed Li Dong toward the other battle, while their spirit beasts came after them.
• Wang Tianxin killed Teng Ying and announced his death, spurring Human Race cultivators to intensify their attacks as Blood Vine Race cultivators fled toward Blood Vine City.

Human Race forces pursued the fleeing Blood Vine Race and defeated twelve Void Refining Cultivators, but Yun Ji and Crystal Race reinforcements arrived to stop the battle. After Wang Yuanlin reported new information, Wang Tianxin ordered the Human Race, Spirit Clan, and Snow Race to withdraw to Celestial Whirl City.

• The Human Race ambushed the fleeing Blood Vine Race cultivators, captured ten Void Refining Cultivators in a Red Pagoda, and killed the golden-skirted woman and Red-Shirted Man.
• Human Race cultivators won further fights, though some Foreign Cultivators used secret techniques to die alongside their opponents.
• Yun Ji arrived at Blood Vine City with eight other Body Integration Cultivators and demanded that Wang Tianxin end the battle.
• Wang Tianxin attacked Yun Ji, but the green-shirted youth intercepted his Golden Rainbow with a Cyan Giant Fist.
• Wang Yuanlin spoke to Wang Tianxin, who ordered the Human Race, Spirit Clan, and Snow Race to retreat to Celestial Whirl City; the Blood Vine Race withdrew into Blood Vine City.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu exchanged Merit Points for captured enemies at the Azure Mystic Tower, while Ni Tianyao and Chen Bing also reported their battle results. In Blood Vine City, Teng Bai reviewed the Blood Vine Race’s heavy losses and thanked Yun Ji for the Crystal Race’s intervention.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu arrived at the Azure Mystic Tower and exchanged their enemies’ tokens and ten living prisoners for Merit Points.
• Ni Tianyao and Ni Tianting presented nine prisoners, and Wang Changxian credited Ni Tianyao with Merit Points after their identities were verified.
• Chen Bing submitted twenty-six enemies’ tokens and received Merit Points from Wang Changxian.
• Ni Tianyao invited Shen Long and other cultivators to a banquet at Donghua Garden, and they later departed for home.
• Xiao Yue reported the Blood Vine Race’s losses to Teng Bai, and Yun Ji criticized the race for not inviting the Crystal Race before the battle.
• Teng Bai thanked Yun Ji for the Crystal Race’s help, and Yun Ji left Blood Vine Hall.

The Human Race and allied cultivators assessed the casualties and achievements from the war against the Blood Vine Race, while Wang Tianxin explained that they had obtained the Golden Blazing Blade. The chapter ended with Wu Xuan asking whether Li of the Great White Sword Sect held the treasure.

• Teng Bai told Ba Xin and Gu Yun that the Blood Vine Race had started the war to obtain the Golden Blazing Blade, but the mission party had died and the treasure had likely fallen to Human Race cultivators.
• Teng Bai revealed that Golden Qiu had brought the Golden Blazing Blade from the Myriad Spirit Cave Heaven, leading the assembled cultivators to suspect that the Human Race had obtained a Myriad Spirit Token.
• Wang Changying reported that the Human Race had lost three Body Integration Cultivators and suffered heavy Void Refining casualties, then listed the cultivators who had distinguished themselves in battle.
• The cultivators praised Ni Tianyao and Shen Long for their victories, while Liu Xin and Han Huang exchanged sharp remarks about the younger generation’s methods.
• Wang Tianxin told the allied cultivators that the Crystal Race had attacked three cities and that the Human Race had withdrawn because it had obtained the Golden Blazing Blade.
• Wu Xuan asked whether Li of the Great White Sword Sect held the Golden Blazing Blade.

The Wang Clan secured the Golden Blazing Blade after Wang Tianyang defeated foreign cultivators, and Wang Tianxin told the allied factions the clan would stop fighting if its enemies withdrew. Wang Yunsong revealed that the recovery had been orchestrated through a spy, Wang Changruo’s divination, and a staged explanation, while Changruo recuperated from the backlash.

• Wang Tianxin told the allied cultivators that Wang Tianyang had recovered the Golden Blazing Blade and that the Wang Clan would continue fighting only if the Blood Vine Race and Crystal Race did.
• Wang Tianxin ordered Wang Changying to identify the most meritorious fighter and announced that he would present the reward in three days.
• Wang Yunsong explained to Wang Tianyang that a spy’s warning and Wang Changruo’s divination had helped the clan locate Teng Hao and the Golden Blazing Blade.
• Wang Tianyang realized Wang Tianxin’s account was intended to mislead Blood Vine Race spies about how the Wang Clan had found its enemies.
• Wang Yunsong warned Wang Tianyang to keep their discussion secret and then contacted the injured Wang Changruo to check on her recovery.

After the final battle, Shen Long and Chu Buyu assessed their spoils while the surviving cultivators discussed the war’s end and their newfound reputations. At a gathering in Donghua Garden, Gu Xiao sought information about his clansmen’s remains, while Ni Tianyao explained that her injured niece was recovering.

• Liu Xin said the Wang Clan and Blood Vine Race were unwilling to continue fighting, praised Shen Long and Chu Buyu for their merits, and told the cultivators they would be rewarded.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu sorted the spoils from nineteen Storage Bracelets, including spirit treasures, Spirit Stones, spirit herbs, and medicinal pills, and planned to use the wealth to support their Spirit Beasts.
• Bian Feng and Yin Yue discussed Shen Long’s strength and decided to defer their revenge until they had an opportunity to settle accounts with him.
• Cultivators across the city discussed the final battle’s results and praised the accomplishments of Shen Long, Chu Buyu, and other prominent fighters.
• Gu Xiao joined the gathering at Donghua Garden and asked Lin Yinyin whether Ba Lu’s Storage Bracelet contained the remains of his clansmen, then went with Lin Yinyin and Chen Le to speak privately.
• Ni Tianyao told Wang Yue that her niece could not attend because she was recovering from severe injuries.

Shen Long negotiated with Ni Tianyao to trade a fifth-rank Mirage Butterfly and an attempt to hatch her Seven-Star Jade Silkworm eggs for two Shadow Beasts. He accepted the deal after finding the eggs’ vitality extremely faint, leaving their hatching uncertain.

• Ni Tianting, Bai Yushuang, and Wang Changxiao praised Shen Long’s spirit beasts and learned that he had mutated his Ice Flood Dragon with a Supreme Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Pill.
• Ni Tianyao offered two fifth-rank Shadow Beasts for spirit beasts, birds, or insects with powerful abilities or unusual bloodlines.
• Shen Long offered a Mirage Butterfly, and Ni Tianyao proposed adding a request to hatch her Seven-Star Jade Silkworm eggs.
• The cultivators traded resources, and Shen Long obtained five ten-thousand-year spirit medicines and pill-refinement materials.
• After the exchange meeting, Shen Long inspected Ni Tianyao’s seven eggs and found their vitality very faint.
• Ni Tianyao agreed to give Shen Long the Shadow Beasts first in exchange for his Mirage Butterfly while he tried to hatch at least one Seven-Star Jade Silkworm.

Shen Long received two Shadow Beasts from Ni Tianyao and hatched five Seven-Star Jade Silkworms in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower. As the Blood Vine Race searched for a suspected spy, Shen Long and Chu Buyu assigned their new spirit beasts to be raised and returned to their respective crafts.

• Ni Tianyao told Ni Tianting that she had given Shen Long the weakest Seven-Star Jade Silkworm eggs, hoping he could hatch them, and Ni Tianting recalled their lineage’s powerful silkworm silk.
• Teng Bai suspected a spy had exposed the Blood Vine Race’s operation and ordered Xiao Yue to investigate in secret.
• Li Dong gave Shen Long spirit herbs, including two ten-thousand-year Six-Leaf Golden Soul Lotuses, in exchange for help raising a Mutant Spirit Beast.
• Shen Long used the Ten Thousand Beast Tower to hatch five Seven-Star Jade Silkworms, then placed them in Shen Xiao’s care.
• Shen Long left the two Shadow Beasts with Shen Lie, who instructed them to address Shen Long as Honored Master.
• Chu Buyu began refining artifacts while Shen Long entered the Alchemy Room to refine pills.

After a century of peace, Shen Long and Chu Buyu prepared to leave Celestial Whirl City, trading pills and a puppet beast before returning to the Thousand Spirits Sect. There, Shen Long learned that Qingyangzi had destroyed the Qian Family, an affiliated faction of the Heaven Ghost Sect, for unknown reasons.

• Yang Tianshan, Qin Yuwei, and Wu Yunbai offered their clans’ support to Shen Long and Chu Buyu before departing.
• Lord of Hundred Poisons exchanged a Thunder-Absorbing Bead for a Supreme Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Pill and traded materials with Chu Buyu for a sixth order Puppet Beast.
• Shen Long advised Lord of Hundred Poisons on Spirit Beast mutation and raising techniques.
• Liu Xin led Shen Long and the Thousand Spirits Sect cultivators back to the sect aboard her seventh order Multi-Headed Python.
• Sun Lin told Shen Long that Qingyangzi had destroyed the Qian Family with the Azure lotus sword more than twenty years earlier.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu returned to cultivation while the Heaven Ghost Sect considered how to deal with Qingyangzi and the Qian Family’s destruction. A thousand years later, Shen Long emerged from seclusion and gave Nangong Zheng Six-Leaf Golden Soul Pills to treat Nangong Ming and his wife’s grievous soul injuries.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu planned to cultivate until Chu Buyu reached Mid-Stage Void Refining before heading to the Dry Thunder Continent.
• Qin Yao ordered a symbolic search for Qingyangzi but said she would kill him herself if her people found him, while a man within her demanded that she find him a physical body.
• A thousand years passed, and Shen Long emerged from seclusion still at Mid-Stage Void Refining, with his mana considerably improved.
• Nangong Zheng told Shen Long that Nangong Ming and his wife had been badly injured by an Eight-Winged Soul-Eating Centipede while seeking the Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus.
• Shen Long gave Nangong Zheng a bottle of Six-Leaf Golden Soul Pills so Nangong Ming and his wife could heal.

Shen Long checked the Spirit Beasts in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower and reunited with Chu Buyu after she advanced to Mid-Stage Void Refining. As the Thousand Spirits Sect prepared for Qin Han’s attempt to enter the Body Integration Realm, Shen Long left Golden Roc Peak to meet Su Qingyue with a mutated Crimson Fire Ape.

• Shen Long learned from Shen Lang that the tower held thirty sixth-order Spirit Beasts, with twelve at Bloodline Purity six, and collected silk from the Seven-Star Jade Silkworm.
• Shen Xin reported three mutated fifth-order Crimson Fire Apes, including one with a Divine Sense Attack, which Shen Long selected before leaving the tower.
• Chu Buyu emerged from seclusion at Mid-Stage Void Refining, and Shen Long gave her the silkworm silk for a future defensive inner vest.
• Su Changfeng and Lin Yutong visited after entering the Void Refining Realm and exchanged cultivation resources with Shen Long.
• Shen Long learned that Senior Brother Qin Han was attempting to enter the Body Integration Realm and that Su Qingyue had arrived to see him.
• Shen Long took the Crimson Fire Ape with the Divine Sense Attack and left Golden Roc Peak with Chu Buyu to meet Su Qingyue.

Shen Long delivered a mutated Crimson Fire Ape to Su Qingyue, tended to his spirit beasts, and exchanged Supreme Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Pills with Yuqin Qin. After learning that Qin Han was in secluded cultivation, Shen Long and Chu Buyu prepared to travel to the Dry Thunder Continent in search of Chu Buyu’s great opportunity.

• Shen Long gave Su Qingyue a Crimson Fire Ape whose mutated ability was a divine sense attack, and she left without entering the Thousand Spirits Sect.
• Shen Long fed a Sixth Order Spirit Flame to the Green Lotus True Flame, then gave Shen Peng resources for the Spirit Beast squad and heard his training report.
• Wang Yunsong learned that Qingyangzi had escaped the Qian Family and ordered severe punishment for cultivators who colluded with the Blood Vine Race.
• Yuqin Qin exchanged ores, Spirit Jade, and sixth order Demon Cores for five Supreme Seven-Leaf Jade Lotus Pills on Qin Han’s behalf, and told Shen Long that Qin Han was secluded.
• Shen Long gave Sun Lin cultivation resources and left the Thousand Spirits Sect with Chu Buyu to travel to the Dry Thunder Continent.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu traveled to Azure Xuan Market, where they bought tickets for a voyage to Dry Thunder Continent and reunited with Wu Xiao. The chapter leaves Shen Long negotiating an exchange for Supreme Pills that could heal Wu Xiao’s divine soul injuries.

• Shen Long gave Ni Tianting a Cyan Spirit Beast Bracelet containing an Insect Egg he had hatched for Ni Tianyao.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu bought two ship tickets to Dry Thunder Continent for one hundred million Spirit Stones each, with departure scheduled for a month later.
• Shen Long met Wu Xiao and Damir outside Azure Xuan Tower, and they went to a teahouse to speak privately.
• Wu Xiao asked Shen Long to sell him Supreme Pills for divine soul injuries, offering sixth order Seven-Star Jade Silkworm thread and alchemy materials in exchange.
• Shen Long offered to exchange two Supreme Six-Leaf Golden Soul Pills for Wu Xiao's materials.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu traded with Yao Fugui before arranging passage on the Azure Whirl Treasure Ship to the Dry Thunder Continent. They boarded the ship, which departed from the Marketplace.

• Shen Long gave Wu Xiao two Six-Leaf Golden Soul Pills, and Damir gifted him Golden Lotus Spirit Tea and offered to introduce a traveling trader.
• Yao Fugui met Shen Long and Chu Buyu, then traded two Fifth-Rank Hundred Sound Beasts for Chu Buyu’s two Fifth-Rank Flesh and Blood Spirit Puppets.
• Yao Fugui learned Chu Buyu came from the Divine Weapon Sect and asked about commissioning Sixth-Order puppets if he found Five-Colored Divine Mud.
• Wu Bin ordered Qi Yu to proceed with the Azure Whirl Merchant Alliance’s departure for the Dry Thunder Continent despite low ticket sales.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu presented their tickets, passed Qi Yu’s inspection, and boarded the Azure Whirl Treasure Ship.
• The Azure Whirl Treasure Ship departed, carrying Shen Long and Chu Buyu toward the Dry Thunder Continent.

The Azure Whirl Treasure Ship survived attacks from a Mirage Clam and took in two cultivators from the Lu Clan. At the Thousand Spirits Sect, True Monarch Spirit Control revealed plans to expand the sect’s territory before leaving to seek opportunities.

• The Azure Whirl Treasure Ship fought off attacks from two Seventh-Rank Monster Beasts as it crossed the sea.
• Shen Long spotted the illusion cast by a Late Sixth-Order Mirage Clam, and an unidentified Body Integration Cultivator killed it with a Red Giant Hand.
• Lu Qingqiao and Chen Xuemei identified themselves as members of the Lu Clan, and Wu Bin allowed them aboard the ship.
• True Monarch Spirit Control gave Qin Han a Profound Purple Jade Fruit after revealing that he had advanced to the Integrated Body Late Stage.
• True Monarch Spirit Control told Mo Bingbing to contact the Nine Flame Sect and the Li Clan about joining forces against the Yin Luo Sect, Blood Flame Sect, and Qi Clan.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu arrived at Green Plum Marketplace and visited Green Plum Tower to buy materials, sell their spoils, and obtain a map of the Human Race’s inland territory. After hearing accounts of powerful monsters and dangers inland, they left to look for shops selling Monster Beast Materials.

• Shen Long, Chu Buyu, and the other passengers disembarked from the Azure Whirl at Green Plum Marketplace, where Li Qing offered to guide them.
• Li Qing led Shen Long and Chu Buyu around the marketplace and introduced its major shops before taking them to Green Plum Tower.
• Shen Long bought two portions of sixth-order Snow-Eyed Ice Whale Ambergris and ten portions of each other requested material, while Ye Qingjing agreed to accept their goods toward sixty percent of the cost.
• Chu Buyu obtained a map of the Human Race’s inland territory, and Ye Qingjing told them about a seventh-order Flood Dragon and an eighth-order Monster Beast encountered inland.
• After confirming their purchased goods and paying the balance, Shen Long instructed Li Qing to take them to shops selling Monster Beast Materials.