Chapter Summaries

Shen Long and Chu Buyu searched for a place connected to their foretold opportunity while settling in Green Plum Marketplace and making contacts. Five years later, Ye Qinglong named several locations containing “qilin,” including Purple Sky Mountain Range, the headquarters of Purple Sky Palace.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu rented Green Cicada Pavilion and planned to ask local cultivators about places with “qilin” in their names.
• Shen Long used ambergris from a sixth order Snow-Eyed Ice Whale to refine Thousand Beast Incense in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower.
• Wu Bin asked Ye Yuntao for help investigating the deaths of two Green Plum Merchant Alliance Body Integration Cultivators on the Dry Thunder Continent.
• After five years, Shen Long and Chu Buyu asked Ye Qinglong about locations containing “qilin” in their names.
• Ye Qinglong listed several inland locations, including Purple Sky Mountain Range, and warned Shen Long and Chu Buyu not to enter the Purple Sky Palace headquarters recklessly.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu traded with the Zhang brothers before traveling into the Red Qilin Mountain Range to investigate places with “Qilin” in their names. There, they spotted a Void Refining Cultivator being hunted by a Golden Thunder Falcon and decided to rescue him for information.

• Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing offered dragon materials and other treasures for four top-grade Six-Leaf Golden Soul Pills, while Shen Fu memorized their soul and divine sense fluctuations.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu traveled with Shen Chan to Red Qilin Marketplace, bought maps of the Red Qilin Mountain Range, and flew into the mountains aboard the Dry Fire Boat.
• Shen Chan detected an early sixth order Chameleon Lizard, but Shen Long declined to pursue it because they had important business.
• Shen Chan spotted a Void Refining Cultivator being hunted by a Golden Thunder Falcon, and Shen Long ordered Chu Buyu to speed up and save him.

Shen Long and his companions rescued Chen Bai, learned of a strange cave in the Red Qilin Mountain Range, and discovered that its Void Refining ghost creature preyed on Spirit Transformation cultivators. Meanwhile, Wu Bin learned that two Green Plum Merchant Alliance elders had followed Fairy Xuanbing and Blood Witch True Lord, and decided to seek intelligence from Eight Directions Pavilion.

• Chu Buyu captured the golden falcon with the Dry Fire Tower while Shen Long rescued Chen Bai, who gave them a map marking a cave where Ghost Wails were heard.
• Shen Chan spotted a Void Refining ghost creature in the cave, and Shen Jiu defeated it and reported that it ambushed Spirit Transformation cultivators while avoiding stronger opponents.
• Shen Long told his companions to keep searching other locations across the Dry Thunder Continent, and Chu Buyu piloted the Dry Fire Boat away from the cave.
• Ye Yuntao told Wu Bin that two Green Plum Merchant Alliance elders had followed Fairy Xuanbing and Blood Witch True Lord, both Integrated Body Middle Stage cultivators.
• Wu Bin decided to visit Seven Mysteries Marketplace and pay Eight Directions Pavilion to investigate the two cultivators’ whereabouts.

After three hundred years of traveling the Dry Thunder Continent, Shen Long and Chu Buyu arrived at Purple Sky Marketplace to attend a major auction. They exchanged healing pills with Zhang Qing, while Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing considered recruiting them to face a dangerous enemy, and the chapter ended as Shen Long and Chu Buyu settled into a private room at the auction.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu arrived at Purple Sky Marketplace with Zhang Weidong and Zhang Weiyue, whom they had rescued from a Mountain-Shaking Bear, then parted ways to explore.
• Zhang Qing met Shen Long and Chu Buyu and traded Seven Haze True Water and sixth-order Seven-Star Jade Silkworm thread for five Supreme Blood Ganoderma Golden Scale Pills.
• Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing discussed whether to recruit Shen Long and Chu Buyu to help them confront a Mutant Blood-Eyed Strength Ape before Essence Fire Tribe cultivators found their target.
• A month later, Shen Long and Chu Buyu paid to enter Purple Cloud Tower and waited in a fourth-floor private room for the auction to begin.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu attended an auction, where Shen Long bought Blood Origin Pills, traded for sixth-order Golden-Eyed Flood Dragon essence blood, and acquired a Green Plum Token. After the auction, Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing invited Shen Long to explore an Ancient Cultivator Cave Abode with them.

• Chen Guang auctioned pills, talismans, spirit treasures, and spirit beasts, and Shen Long bought two Blood Origin Pills for one hundred thirty million Spirit Stones.
• Shen Long traded a section of Six Roots Purity Bamboo for essence blood from a late sixth-order Golden-Eyed Flood Dragon.
• The Three-Headed Jiao and Golden Moon Banners went unsold, while a Flesh and Blood Spirit Puppet sold for two hundred twenty-five Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Shen Long spent thirty Top-Grade Spirit Stones to buy a Green Plum Token from the buyer of the puppet.
• After the auction, Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing caught up with Shen Long and Chu Buyu and invited Shen Long to search an Ancient Cultivator Cave Abode with them.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu agreed to help Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing search Poison Dragon Valley for a rumored Ascension Cave Abode, after securing an oath against betrayal. Two years later, their group reached the valley, with the cave abode and its dangers still ahead.

• Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing told Shen Long and Chu Buyu about the cave abode, the late Sixth-Order Blood-Eyed Force Ape guarding it, and the possible threat from Essence Fire Tribe cultivators.
• Chu Buyu consulted Zhang Weidong, who confirmed the history of the Azure Kirin Xu Family and described the Essence Fire Tribe.
• Shen Long agreed to join the expedition but required Zhang Shuo to swear an oath on the Cyan Lotus Prohibition Book; Zhang Shuo accepted after Shen Long warned that the group might be watched.
• Shen Long, Chu Buyu, Zhang Shuo, and Zhang Qing left the Marketplace aboard the Dry Fire Boat and searched for pursuers during their journey.
• Two years later, the group arrived above Poison Dragon Valley, where Zhang Shuo explained that the surrounding miasma covered a vast area inhabited by venomous creatures.

Shen Long, Chu Buyu, Zhang Shuo, and Zhang Qing crossed Poison Dragon Valley, killed the Blood-Eyed Force Ape, and broke into an ancient cultivator’s cave abode. Shen Long claimed the cave’s treasure, including a storage bracelet whose contents revealed a Top-Grade Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu used their spirit treasures and beasts to cross the valley, while the Iron Tail Scorpion killed a Rot Bone Toad and drove off other venomous creatures.
• The Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada detected five cultivators lying in ambush, but Shen Long confirmed they were hunting beasts, and Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing persuaded them to leave.
• Shen Long, Chu Buyu, Zhang Shuo, and Zhang Qing attacked the Blood-Eyed Force Ape, and Shen Long and Chu Buyu quickly killed it by exploiting its weakness to soul attacks and strikes to its eyes.
• The group reached the ancient cultivator’s cave abode and broke the Seventh Order Seven Star Earth Guard Formation after nearly half an hour of attacks.
• Shen Long burned the poisoned skeleton, took its Cyan Storage Bracelet, and revealed a cache of treasures, including a Jade Ruler that Chu Buyu recognized as a Top-Grade Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu acquired the Dry Sun Ruler and other treasures from Qing Yuzi’s Ascension Cave Abode, then reunited with Shen Lang and Chu Yun at Red Qilin Marketplace. Shen Long began refining True Dragon Pills while the group settled in to cultivate.

• Chu Buyu chose the Top-Grade Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, while Shen Long took two Green Lotus Fruits, and the group divided the remaining wealth with Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing.
• Shen Long asked Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing to keep the treasure discovery secret, then he and Chu Buyu left and disguised themselves for the rest of their journey.
• Wu Bin learned that Five Lights Clan Cultivators might have killed the two Green Plum Merchant Alliance elders and taken their Myriad Spirit Token, but he decided not to pursue the matter.
• Chu Yun brought Shen Long and Chu Buyu out of the Green Lotus Diagram at Red Qilin Marketplace, where the group settled into Green Bamboo Pavilion.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu discussed how the Dry Sun Ruler could break realm barriers and agreed to focus on secluded cultivation.
• Shen Long began refining True Dragon Pills from the essence blood of a Sixth-Order Golden-Eyed Flood Dragon.

After two thousand years, Su Changfeng welcomed Wang Xin, a newly ascended Spirit Control Sect cultivator, and learned that the sect in the Lower Realm had suffered a major loss of disciples and had few Seven Treasures Glazed Pills left. Meanwhile, Shen Long and Chu Buyu found a route to the Lower Realm and prepared to send a temporary avatar there with cultivation resources.

• Su Changfeng successfully refined twenty-four twelve-pattern pills and learned that Wang Xin had ascended from the Lower Realm.
• Wang Xin told Su Changfeng that Martial Uncle Xu and his companions had vanished while traveling between realms, and that only four Seven Treasures Glazed Pills remained.
• Su Changfeng took Wang Xin to the General Headquarters and explained that Shen Long was traveling in the Void Refining Realm.
• Shen Long emerged from seclusion and learned from Chu Buyu that a route to the Lower Realm had been found in the Red Qilin Mountain Range.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu traveled to a secluded valley, where Shen Long set up a formation before preparing to send a temporary avatar to the Lower Realm.

Shen Long’s soul avatar descended to the Gan Yang Realm, where he inspected the Spirit Control Sect and ordered reforms to how it awarded Seven Treasures Glazed Pills. In the Lingxu Realm, the Ye Family spread word that Jade Lotus Immortal had fled into the Fallen Immortal Ruins, while the Five Lights Clan secretly mobilized to recover an item she possessed.

• Li Yu confirmed that Shen Long’s visitor was his avatar, and Shen Long revealed his treasures and fifth-rank spirit creatures before entering the Spirit Control Sect.
• Li Yu told Shen Long that the sect had depleted its Seven Treasures Glazed Pills and that Senior Brother Wang had ascended; Shen Long ordered the pills reserved for Thousand Beast Tower graduates and disciples with great merit.
• Ye Yuntao learned that seven Five Lights Clan cultivators had pursued Jade Lotus Immortal into the Fallen Immortal Ruins and ordered Ye Yulan to spread the news to complicate the clan’s efforts.
• Mo Sen ordered Wu Yuzhu to send reinforcements to retrieve Jade Lotus Immortal’s item, keep the matter secret, and publicly accuse Jade Lotus Immortal of killing Five Lights Clan members.

Jin Hao and his companions continued pursuing the wounded Jade Lotus Immortal through Fallen Immortal Ruins despite the deadly restrictions. In the Lower Realm, Shen Long secured resources and protections for the Spirit Control Sect and Sun and Moon Palace before setting out to gather resources in other realms.

• Jin Hao, Mo Shan, and two other Five Lights Clan cultivators decided to keep chasing Jade Lotus Immortal through Fallen Immortal Ruins, despite losing three clansmen to its restrictions.
• Li Yu reported that the Spirit Control Sect's three Secret Realms had been renovated and fortified with fifth-rank formations, and Shen Long told her that guarding the keys was enough.
• Shen Long explained that he had supplied the Spirit Control Sect with resources and established a Thousand Beast Tower trial for Spirit Transformation cultivators seeking to ascend to the Lingxu Realm.
• Shen Long instructed Li Yu to help the Sun and Moon Palace establish formations and preserve its inheritance, maintaining the alliance between the two sects.
• Shen Long declined Li Yu's offer to send companions and departed Spirit Control Island to travel through other realms and gather cultivation resources.

Mo Sen ordered the Five Lights Clan to send cultivators to the Lower Realm to find Jade Lotus Immortal's avatar and recover a mysterious item, while Shen Lang informed Chu Buyu about the pursuit and the rumored seventh order Thunder-Absorbing Bead. Chu Buyu sent a puppet avatar through a realm passage, and the chapter ended with Shen Long facing a defeated woman in the Qinghua Realm.

• Wu Yuzhu reported that Jade Lotus Immortal's avatar had used a Big Dipper Realm-Crossing Talisman to descend to the Lower Realm after her body was destroyed and her Nascent Soul captured.
• Mo Sen ordered five Spirit Transmutation Mid-Stage cultivators to descend under the public pretext of delivering resources to lower-realm clansmen.
• Shen Lang told Chu Buyu about the Five Lights Clan's pursuit of Jade Lotus Immortal and the rumor that she had acquired a seventh order Thunder-Absorbing Bead.
• Chu Buyu sent a Red-Skirted Maiden puppet avatar carrying her divine soul and a storage bracelet through a passage to the Lower Realm.
• In the Qinghua Realm, a yellow-skirted woman emerged from a red mushroom cloud and conceded defeat to Shen Long.

Shen Long traded Supreme Pills and fifth rank Puppet Beasts for the Li Family’s forty-thousand-year Golden Thunder Bamboo, then the Five Lights Clan began organizing its Lower Realm clansmen to search for Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar. The clan planned to raise more Spirit Transmutation cultivators and establish communication arrays across other realms.

• Shen Long used five fifth rank Puppet Beasts to persuade Li Yunhua to trade the Li Family’s Golden Thunder Bamboo, then gave her two Puppet Beasts and five Supreme Pills for it.
• Li Yunhua warned her clansmen not to provoke powerful outsiders after Shen Long departed on an Ice Vulture.
• Mo Xin told the Five Lights Clan’s Spirit Transmutation cultivators to distribute resources and cultivate more Spirit Transmutation cultivators for their Lower Realm mission.
• Mo Xin assigned Mo Hai, Mo Yue, and two other cultivators to establish Inter-Realm Communication Arrays and secretly investigate Jade Lotus Immortal’s whereabouts.
• Mo Lei agreed to introduce Mo Xin’s group to the Five Lights Clan’s Lower Realm clansmen so they could coordinate and deploy them.

Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar hid in the Qingyang Sect and began cultivating, while Shen Long wiped out the Golden Rainbow Clan in the Golden Rainbow Realm. After learning that Jade Lotus Immortal possessed a Seventh-Order Thunder-Absorbing Bead, Shen Long and Chu Buyu left to pursue their next lead.

• Ye Yang returned to the Qingyang Sect, where Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar used a Fifth-Order Body-Controlling Insect to control him and began cultivating in seclusion.
• Shen Long attacked the Golden Rainbow Clan, whose members had exterminated the Human Race cultivators in the Golden Rainbow Realm.
• Shen Long and his spirit beasts killed a returning Spirit Transmutation cultivator, and Shen Long learned through soul-searching that the man had visited the Yaksha Realm.
• Shen Long’s spirit beasts killed and devoured the Golden Rainbow Clan cultivators, then Shen Long looted the mountain range and stored the beasts away.
• Chu Buyu arrived as a Flesh and Blood Spirit Puppet and told Shen Long about Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar and the Seventh-Order Thunder-Absorbing Bead.
• Chu Buyu suggested the Five Lights Clan might search the Lower Realm for Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar, and Shen Long left the Golden Rainbow Realm with her.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu captured Zhu Shuo and learned that Yaksha Clan cultivators had gone to the Azure Cloud Realm to retrieve Blood Weeper’s hidden resources. They infiltrated Raksha Island and ambushed the returning group as it emerged from a spatial passage.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu captured the wounded Yaksha cultivator Zhu Shuo and learned that eight Spirit Transformation cultivators had gone to the Azure Cloud Realm to break Blood Weeper’s restrictions.
• Shen Long decided to ambush the Yaksha cultivators on their return route through Raksha Island rather than attack the Yaksha Clan’s empty stronghold.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu controlled a Yaksha cultivator to infiltrate Raksha Island, where the Spirit-Seeking Rat watched the island’s formations.
• After half a month, the Spirit-Seeking Rat alerted Shen Long and Chu Buyu that the returning cultivators had crossed the realm barrier.
• Zhu Yang and six companions emerged from the spatial passage, and Chu Buyu’s dragon roar triggered an illusion as lightning and elemental attacks struck the Yaksha Clan cultivators.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu ambushed the Yaksha Clan on Raksha Island, killed its cultivators, captured Zhu Yue, and destroyed the island. In the Five Lights Realm, Mo Xin sent Mo Hai and Mo Yue to investigate the attack on a Five Lights Clan stronghold in the Purple Light Realm.

• Zhu Yang and seven other Yaksha Clan cultivators survived an initial ambush with their Life-Substitution Treasures, then fell into a second attack orchestrated by Shen Long and Chu Buyu.
• Shen Long's Shadow Beasts and golden Sand Arrows killed Zhu Yang, while Chu Buyu and the spirit beasts killed the other Yaksha Clan cultivators and devoured their Nascent Souls.
• The Mirage Butterfly trapped Zhu Yue in an illusion, and Chu Buyu used a Soul-Capturing Bead to control her.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu killed the remaining Yaksha Clan members, destroyed Raksha Island's Teleportation Array, looted the island, and burned it down.
• Mo Yue received news that an unknown force had wiped out a Five Lights Clan stronghold in the Purple Light Realm, including a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Mo Xin ordered Mo Hai and Mo Yue to investigate, and the Five Lights Clan dispatched cultivators to the Purple Light Realm.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu used the controlled Zhu Yue to convince the Yaksha Clan that the Five Lights Clan had stolen Blood Weeper’s hidden treasures and killed her companions. They set the clans on a path toward war while they remained concealed in Blood Luo Hall, ready to exploit the chaos.

• Zhu Yue told Tao Feng and the other Yaksha Clan leaders that Five Lights Clan cultivators had ambushed her group, killed six of them, and taken their treasures.
• Tao Feng and the others hesitated to confront the Five Lights Clan, but Zhu Yue gave them a Red Storage Bracelet containing Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures and urged them to reclaim the stolen items.
• Zhu Yue claimed a Soul-Devouring Toad had helped the Five Lights Clan defeat her group and promised to reward the leaders if they recovered the treasures.
• After the leaders left, Shen Long and Chu Buyu appeared from hiding and revealed that Chu Buyu had controlled Zhu Yue’s statements.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu discussed the wealth they had taken from Blood Weeper’s secret cache and planned to provoke war between the Yaksha Clan and the Five Lights Clan.

Mo Xin’s group struggled to identify who had attacked the Five Lights Clan when the Yaksha Clan launched a war against their realms. In the Lingxu Realm, Zhu Shan ordered a push to recover a Myriad Spirit Token after Tao Rong reported that the Five Lights Clan had seized it, while Zhu Yue’s deception went undetected.

• Wu Jiao reported that searches of the Purple Light Realm had found no Spirit Transformation cultivators, and Mo Xin ordered wider searches for Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar.
• Wu Jiao learned that the Yaksha Clan had attacked five realms under Five Lights Clan control and killed five clansmen, prompting Mo Xin to suspect someone was provoking a war.
• Tao Rong told Zhu Shan that Zhu Yue reported Five Lights Clan cultivators had seized Blood Weeper’s hidden Myriad Spirit Token and two seventh-order lightning treasures.
• Zhu Shan ordered Spirit Transformation cultivators sent to the Lower Realm to reclaim the Myriad Spirit Token, while Tao Rong explained that Zhu Yang’s group had been ambushed by a Five Lights Clan cultivator with a Soul-Devouring Toad.
• Tao Rong said Zhu Yue suspected a traitor had revealed the Yaksha Clan’s return route, and Zhu Shan vowed to punish the Five Lights Clan.

Mo Sen learned that the Yaksha Clan had launched a war against the Five Lights Clan and ordered reinforcements sent to the Lower Realm. Shen Long and Chu Buyu’s role in manipulating the conflict remained hidden as they left with Blood Weeper’s recovered resources to search for clues in the Lingxu Realm.

• Wu Yuzhu reported the Yaksha Clan’s attacks across more than sixty realms, and Mo Sen ordered Spirit Transformation cultivators and the Soul-Chasing Plate sent to the Lower Realm.
• Tao Feng told Zhu Qing that Zhu Yue had died after Mo Hai’s Soul-Devouring Toad injured her divine soul, and that her Nascent Soul had self-detonated and wounded Mo Hai.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu revealed that Chu Buyu had controlled Zhu Yue and arranged her death to inflame the war between the Yaksha Clan and the Five Lights Clan.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu decided to leave the Lower Realm with Blood Weeper’s recovered resources and seek clues about Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar in the Lingxu Realm.
• The golden-shirted Yaksha Clan cultivator flew Shen Long and Chu Buyu away in a Golden Flying Boat while they concealed themselves with Yellow Mist.

Shen Long sought information about Jade Lotus Immortal and prepared mutant spirit beasts to help locate her avatar in the Lower Realm. He learned that three Void Refining Cultivators who received treasures from her might know more, and set out with Chu Buyu to question them.

• Shen Long paid Xu Lin for information about Jade Lotus Immortal’s close associates while the Five Lights Clan and Yaksha Clan’s war spread across the realms.
• Shen Long selected ten mutant fifth rank spirit beasts, birds, and insects to help his avatar search the Lower Realm for Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar.
• Tao Rong told Zhu Shan that the Five Lights Clan had sent cultivators to find Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar, and Zhu Shan ordered more Yaksha Clan forces into the Lower Realm.
• Xu Lin gave Shen Long the information he had purchased, revealing that Jade Lotus Immortal had bestowed treasures upon three Void Refining Cultivators.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu changed their appearances and left Red Qilin Marketplace to seek out the three cultivators.