Chapter Summaries

Shen Long disguised himself to question the Han Clan about Jade Lotus Immortal and obtained the Qinglan Brush she had given them. After diviners used it to locate the Jade Lotus Realm, Shen Long and Chu Buyu descended into the Lower Realm to search for Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar.

• Han Yuhong and Han Qingzhen learned that Jade Lotus Immortal had been killed by Five Lights Clan cultivators and prepared to meet the challenger Yin Long.
• Shen Long used his Ice Flood Dragon’s True Dragon Dharma Aspect to overwhelm Han Hongyu’s Flood Eagle, then asked what Jade Lotus Immortal had requested from the Han Clan.
• Han Hongyu revealed that Jade Lotus Immortal had commissioned sixth-order talismans and an Early Void Refining Talisman Soldier, and traded the Qinglan Brush to Shen Long for pills and a spirit treasure.
• Shen Long had two Void Refining Diviners use the Qinglan Brush to deduce the talismans’ whereabouts, leading them to the Jade Lotus Realm.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu tore through the realm barrier and set out to find Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar without alerting Li Yu.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu tracked a suspicious target in the Jade Lotus Realm and found the Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar hiding in the Qingyang Sect. Chu Buyu captured the avatar and Ye Yang, leaving the Jade Lotus Immortal in her custody.

• Shen Long learned that the Qingyang Sect was the suspicious target and immediately went to join Chu Buyu.
• In the Purple Hao Realm, Mo Xin and Zhu Qing recognized doubts surrounding the war between the Five Lights Clan and the Yaksha Clan and temporarily withdrew their forces.
• The gold-skirted girl sensed danger and prepared to leave the Qingyang Sect using a false body, while her real body remained in Qingyang Hall.
• Chu Buyu used a spirit-seeking rat to locate the real body and sent a Spirit Transmutation Realm talisman soldier to attack Ye Yang.
• The dry fire tower captured the gold-skirted girl, and the golden giant tower captured Ye Yang.
• Chu Buyu used the mirage butterfly to restore the gold-skirted girl’s awareness and greeted her as the Jade Lotus Immortal.

Chu Buyu captured Lin Lian and discovered that she carried a Heavenly Object, which she and Shen Long brought to safety. Meanwhile, Mo Xin and Zhu Qing suspected that a powerful cultivator had provoked conflict between their clans and agreed to report their findings and seek the culprit.

• Chu Buyu used the Mirage Butterfly to capture Lin Lian with a Spirit Sealing Talisman and discovered a Heavenly Object during a soul search.
• Chu Buyu spared Lin Lian but refused to let her leave, then departed the Qingyang Sect with her and the Mirage Butterfly.
• Mo Xin and Zhu Qing questioned the cultivators with a Heart-Questioning Disk and concluded that Zhu Yue was likely involved in a plot against their clans.
• Mo Xin proposed that the Five Lights Clan and Yaksha Clan work together to find the culprit, while Zhu Qing said he would report the matter to his clan.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu examined the Heavenly Object and decided to keep Lin Lian in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower to cultivate.

Zhu Shan and Tao Rong investigated the war between the Yaksha Clan and the Five Lights Clan and learned that Zhu Yue had been controlled to provoke the conflict. As rumors about Jade Lotus Immortal’s powerful treasures spread, Shen Long and Chu Buyu settled in Seven Mysteries Marketplace to cultivate while Shen Lang and Chu Yun gathered resources.

• Tao Rong told Zhu Shan that the True Word Formation confirmed Zhu Yue had incited the war after someone controlled her, and Zhu Shan ordered an investigation into possible infiltration of the Yaksha Clan.
• Tao Rong reported rumors that Jade Lotus Immortal possessed an eighth order Thunder-Absorbing Bead and materials for a top-grade Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, and Zhu Shan ordered Spirit Transformation cultivators to search for her avatar.
• Ye Yuntao heard the rumors and ordered Ye Yulan to investigate Jade Lotus Immortal’s background and birth details.
• Shen Lang and Chu Yun brought Shen Long and Chu Buyu to Purple Light Pavilion in Seven Mysteries Marketplace, where Shen Long assigned them to gather information and cultivation resources while the pair hid their identities.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu entered the Ten Thousand Beast Tower, kept Lin Lian confined on Jade Lotus Island, and began cultivating in seclusion.

After two thousand years, Shen Long emerged from seclusion as a Late Void Refining cultivator and learned that factions were still searching for Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar. He and his companions set out for the Dry Azure Dharma Assembly to seek opportunities to exchange for treasures.

• Mo Sen ordered Wu Yuzhu to send more people to find Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar, after most of their agents in Human Race territory died or disappeared.
• Shen Lang reported that several factions had sent cultivators to the Lower Realm, Jade Lotus Immortal’s friends had been targeted, and the Han Clan had been wiped out by an unknown expert.
• Shen Long emerged from seclusion after advancing to Late Void Refining, and Shen Lang gave him a bracelet filled with traded Spirit Beasts, Spirit Birds, and Spirit Insects.
• Chu Yun told Shen Long about the Dry Azure Dharma Assembly and the Jiang Family’s planned attendance.
• Shen Long decided to attend the assembly at Dry Azure Marketplace, entered the Green Lotus Diagram, and left with Chu Yun and Shen Lang on a Red Flying Boat.

Mo Bingbing learned that He Zixiao was attempting to break through to the Body Integration Realm while Shen Long and Chu Buyu returned to Dry Azure Marketplace. There, they met Jiang Zishan, accepted an invitation to a gathering, and traded for Ambergris with Yao Fugui’s help.

• Mo Bingbing ordered the Thousand Spirits Sect to secure its grounds while He Zixiao attempted to reach the Body Integration Realm.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu arrived at Dry Azure Marketplace and encountered Shangguan Zilong and Jiang Zishan, who invited them to a gathering at Nine Yuan Garden.
• Shen Long traded five Blood Ganoderma Golden Scale Pills and Green Pattern Gold Lang Stone for a portion of Ambergris.
• Yao Fugui approached Shen Long and Chu Buyu and asked to speak with them somewhere private.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu traded a sixth order Flesh and Blood Spirit Puppet and a mutant Sea-Treading Turtle to Yao Fugui for rare treasures, then discussed preparing for the Dry Azure Dharma Assembly. At Dry Azure Garden, Li Wanqing and Han Yan worried that the Five Lights Clan might have obtained a Heavenly Object, and invited the diviner Mystic Mechanism Master to meet them.

• Yao Fugui traded a cluster of Sixth Order Spirit Flame for one of Chu Buyu's sixth order Flesh and Blood Spirit Puppets.
• Shen Long traded a fifth-rank mid-stage Sea-Treading Turtle for Yao Fugui's sixth order Thunder-Absorbing Bead and told him its Bloodline Purity was five.
• Yao Fugui told Shen Long that Spiritual Elixirs for breaking through to the Body Integration Realm would be sold at the Dry Azure Dharma Assembly.
• Shen Long warned Chu Buyu that Yao Fugui might be connected to a major faction, so they should avoid trading their most precious items with him.
• Li Wanqing and Han Yan discussed the missing Jade Lotus Immortal's avatar and feared the Five Lights Clan might have obtained a Heavenly Object.
• Li Wanqing learned that Mystic Mechanism Master was in the marketplace and ordered him invited to Dry Azure Garden.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu settled in the Dry Azure Marketplace and joined cultivators from several powerful factions for a gathering at Nine Yuan Garden. The discussion turned to Jade Lotus Immortal’s missing avatar and the reported discovery of True Spirit Remains in the Kaiyang Realm.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu rented Clear Wind Pavilion, traded for a second sixth order Thunder-Absorbing Bead, and hoped to find Body Integration breakthrough elixirs at the auction.
• Jiang Yihong, Jiang Tianshuo, and Jiang Tianbai discussed Jade Lotus Immortal and learned that Mystic Mechanism Master had arrived at the marketplace.
• Song Cheng sent a cultivator to wait outside Dry Azure Garden and invite Mystic Mechanism Master to meet him.
• Seven days later, Shen Long and Chu Buyu met Shangguan Zilong, Wang Long, and Wang Hu, then joined Jiang Zilei and other Void Refining Cultivators at Nine Yuan Garden.
• Yin Xiao and Xuan Lin arrived, and the gathered cultivators discussed Jade Lotus Immortal’s pursuit and whether anyone had found her avatar.
• Yin Xiao asked Jiang Zilei about the reported discovery of True Spirit Remains in the Kaiyang Realm, shocking the Void Refining Cultivators.

At the Dry Azure Dharma Assembly, the cultivators discussed True Spirit remains and exchanged rare treasures. Shen Long traded his Golden Thunder Bamboo to Jiang Zilei for two Thunder-Absorbing Beads, then promised Wang Hu he would try to obtain more.

• Jiang Zilei and the others discussed Heavenly Treasures, True Spirit remains, and the difficulty of cultivating True Spirit descendants.
• Jiang Zishan proposed exchanging cultivation resources, and Jiang Zilei displayed many items, including three of the Ten Great Spirit Fruits.
• Shen Long exchanged Six Roots Purity Bamboo for two Seven-Leaf Jade Lotuses, while Chu Buyu traded for Thunder-Absorbing Beads and other materials.
• Chu Buyu exchanged a Flesh and Blood Spirit Puppet for Wang Long's two Fifth Rank Late Stage Nine Yang Deer and two pieces of Green Pattern Gold Lang Stone.
• Shen Long traded his two sections of Golden Thunder Bamboo over forty thousand years old to Jiang Zilei for two sixth order Thunder-Absorbing Beads.
• Shen Long told Wang Hu he would contact the cultivator from whom he had obtained the bamboo and try to acquire more, and Wang Hu agreed to wait one day.

Shen Long fought several cultivators in the Green Moon Landscape Painting, defeating Wang Long and Wang Hu with his physical strength and Five-Tailed Spirit Fox. He then accepted Zhang De’s challenge to pit the Fire Qilin Beast against the Jade Water Golden Qilin Beast.

• Jiang Zilei brought Shen Long and the others into the Green Moon Landscape Painting to spar for rare items.
• Shen Long transformed into a Yellow Giant Ape and defeated Wang Long, winning a bottle of Supreme Dry Steel Pills.
• Shen Long defeated Wang Hu after his Five-Tailed Spirit Fox’s illusion arts disrupted the other onlookers, and Wang Hu gave him the Thunder-Containing Wood.
• Zhang De challenged Shen Long to a Spirit Beast fight and offered Azure Mystic Body-Tempering Pills as the wager.
• Shen Long released his Fire Qilin Beast to face Zhang De’s Jade Water Golden Qilin Beast, and the two beasts began their clash.

Shen Long sparred with Zhang De, Yin Xiao, Shangguan Zilong, and Jiang Zilei, demonstrating the strength of his Spirit Beasts, Spirit Insects, and physical body. Jiang Zilei defeated him with a True Spirit Dharma Aspect, but afterward warned Jiang Zishan that Shen Long might have held back his Life-Bound Spirit Bird.

• The Fire Qilin Beast defeated Zhang De’s Jade Water Golden Qilin Beast, and Zhang De conceded the match to Shen Long.
• Yin Xiao’s black toad fought Shen Long’s Iron Tail Scorpion to a draw, and Shen Long then defeated Shangguan Zilong in a contest of physical strength.
• Jiang Zilei summoned a Nine-Headed Bird True Spirit Dharma Aspect and defeated Shen Long, who conceded after the bird claw pierced his transformed ape fist.
• Shen Long gave Jiang Zilei the Six Roots Purity Bamboo, and Jiang Zilei led the group out of the Green Moon Landscape Painting.
• After the others departed, Jiang Zilei cautioned Jiang Zishan that Shen Long might not have used all his abilities because he never released his Life-Bound Spirit Bird.

After conceding his spar with Jiang Zilei, Shen Long healed his injured hand and refined the Dry Steel Pill he had won from Wang Long. A month later, Shen Long and Chu Buyu attended the Dry Azure Sect’s auction, where bidding opened on ten top-grade Golden Velvet Pills.

• Jiang Zilei and Jiang Zishan speculated that Shen Long had hidden a powerful Life-Bound Spirit Bird and gained unusual resources through a fortuitous opportunity.
• Shen Long healed his injured hand with the Regrowth of Severed Limbs technique, then consumed the Dry Steel Pill he had won from Wang Long.
• Wang Long and Wang Hu discussed Shen Long’s quick surrender and the strength of his Spirit Beasts and Spirit Insects.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu entered Dry Azure Tower, paid the admission fee, and settled into a private room to watch the auction.
• Wang Dong opened the auction by offering ten top-grade Golden Velvet Pills, which could help Void Refining Cultivators advance to the Body Integration Realm.

At the Dry Azure Marketplace Auction, Shen Long and Chu Buyu bought Golden Velvet Pills and powerful treasures, then sold materials to afford another weapon. They left the Marketplace with their purchases and set off to refine them while traveling across the Dry Thunder Continent.

• Shen Long spent 1,320 Top-Grade Spirit Stones on two Golden Velvet Pills, which Chu Buyu received from a Green Lotus Merchant Alliance courier.
• Shen Long bought a Golden Armor Guard Talisman and won the Top-Grade Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure Golden Xuan Staff for 3,800 Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Shen Long sold seventh-order materials for 1,000 Top-Grade Spirit Stones, then spent 2,900 Top-Grade Spirit Stones to acquire the Mystic Fire Blade Chu Buyu wanted.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu used the room's random Teleportation Array to leave the Dry Azure Marketplace and arrived among cyan mountains.
• Chu Buyu summoned the Dry Fire Boat, and she and Shen Long flew away to refine their treasures and continue traveling across the Dry Thunder Continent.

A thousand years later, Shen Long and Chu Buyu traveled the Golden Boar Mountain Range, training their Spirit Beast team as they hunted Monster Beasts and collected resources. At Golden Rainbow Marketplace, they reunited with Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing, who invited them to join a search for another Ascension Cave Abode.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu’s Spirit Beasts defeated a pack of tens of thousands of Cyan Demon Wolves, while Shen Long and Chu Buyu gathered resources nearby.
• Chu Buyu recalled the Spirit Beasts into the Green Lotus Diagram, and she and Shen Long flew to Golden Rainbow Marketplace aboard the Dry Fire Boat.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu went to Golden Rainbow Pavilion to buy cultivation resources and sell unneeded materials.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu ran into Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing, who invited them to meet at Quiet Moon Tower.
• Zhang Shuo asked Shen Long and Chu Buyu to help search for another Ascension Cave Abode of a Body Integration Cultivator.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu agreed to join Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing in breaking the restrictions around an unknown Body Integration Cultivator’s Ascension Cave Abode. Meanwhile, Mo Sen learned that the Five Lights Clan had found evidence of Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar in the Lower Realm and sent people to search Human Race territory for her.

• Zhang Shuo explained that the cave abode was protected by a Seventh Order Eight-Gate Mystic Light Formation that might require eight Void Refining Cultivators to break, and Shen Long and Chu Buyu agreed to join the expedition.
• Shen Long warned Zhang Shuo not to reveal their true origins, then he and Chu Buyu prepared while waiting for Xu Dong and the others to gather the remaining cultivators.
• Zhang Shuo told Shen Long that Xu Dong and his companions had found the needed friends, and Shen Long and Chu Buyu changed their appearances before meeting the group at the Marketplace exit.
• Xu Dong introduced himself as a Late Void Refining Cultivator and carried the group away from the Marketplace on a Black Flying Boat.
• Wu Yuzhu reported that only one of more than a hundred Spirit Transformation Cultivators had survived an attempt to explore a Lower Realm cave abode containing an Echo Projection Bead linked to Jade Lotus Immortal’s avatar.
• Mo Sen suspected the avatar had staged her death and sent people into Human Race territory with the Blood Vine Spirit-Fixing Disk to locate her using her Nascent Soul.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu uncovered an ambush at the Ascension Cave Abode and defeated the Void Refining Cultivators who attacked them. They escaped as Five Lights Clan cultivators arrived and began pursuing them.

• Shen Long used the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada to detect an ambush at the Ascension Cave Abode, and he and Chu Buyu fled before the attackers sprang their formation.
• Xu Dong and the green-skirted woman attacked Shen Long and Chu Buyu while Zhang Shuo and Zhang Qing were killed by the ambushers.
• Shen Long shattered the Yellow Light Screen, and he and Chu Buyu destroyed the attackers with the Golden Xuan Staff and Soul-Devouring Bell.
• Shen Long collected eight Storage Bracelets as Chu Buyu took them away on the Dry Fire Boat after he sensed approaching Void Refining Cultivators.
• A golden-shirted man led five other Five Lights Clan cultivators in pursuit and ordered his group to alert nearby patrolling clansmen.

Chen Liang learned that Shen Long and Chu Buyu had escaped a Five Lights Clan pursuit into Fallen Immortal Ruins, while Shen Long hid with Chu Buyu and Shen Peng in a temporary space. Mo Sen ordered reinforcements sent after Shen Long to capture his sixth-order Thunder Peng.

• Chen Liang concealed himself in Yellow Mist as a wounded Thunder Peng flew past, then captured the injured golden-robed Five Lights Clan cultivator who returned from the chase.
• Chen Liang searched the golden-robed elder's soul, learned that Shen Long had escaped into Fallen Immortal Ruins with a sixth-order Thunder Peng, and decided to sell the information to the Eight Directions Pavilion.
• Shen Long recovered from his injuries inside a temporary space with Shen Peng and the Five-Colored Phoenix Butterfly, and Chu Buyu emerged from the Green Lotus Diagram to join him.
• Shen Long told Chu Buyu that they would hide in the space to evade the Five Lights Clan Body Integration Cultivator pursuing them.
• Wu Yuzhu reported Shen Long's escape to Mo Sen, who ordered several Body Integration Realm clan members to support Mo Xiao and bring back the sixth-order Thunder Peng.

Shen Long hid in the Fallen Immortal Ruins, used a thousand years of seclusion to reach Void Refining Great Perfection, and emerged as Human Race cultivators approached his cave. The story leaves him preparing to identify the five newcomers.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu sorted the spoils from Blood River Son and his companions, including a Nine-Color Jade Lang Fruit, then decided to hide and cultivate inside the Ten Thousand Beast Tower.
• Shen Long began refining a True Dragon Pill in the tower while Chu Buyu and the others guarded the cave outside.
• Li Tianxue learned from Ye Qinglong that Shen Long and Chu Buyu had last been seen in Dry Azure Marketplace, and Ye Qinglong heard that a Five Lights Clan Body Integration Cultivator had failed to catch a Human Race cultivator with a Sixth-Order Thunder Peng.
• A thousand years later, Mo Sen ordered Wu Yuzhu to keep searching for Shen Long and to bring back the Thunder Peng.
• Shen Chan detected five approaching Human Race cultivators, and Shen Long emerged from seclusion at Void Refining Great Perfection.

Shen Long stayed hidden in the Fallen Immortal Ruins after defeating a group of Five Lights Clan cultivators, then entered seclusion in the Ten Thousand Beast Tower to break through to the Body Integration Realm. Two hundred years later, the breakthrough phenomenon appeared, and Shen Long began his attempt.

• Chu Buyu advanced to Late Void Refining, and Shen Long prepared to enter seclusion but went with her to confront four Five Lights Clan cultivators pursuing humans.
• Shen Long and Chu Buyu defeated the four cultivators and captured them with the Dry Fire Tower, then returned to their cave and decided to remain in the ruins until Shen Long advanced.
• Shen Long entered the Ten Thousand Beast Tower to cultivate, while Mo Bingbing, Su Changfeng, and Li Dong discussed his and Chu Buyu's absence at the Thousand Spirits Sect.
• Two hundred years later, Chu Buyu sensed the Ten Thousand Beast Tower tremble as Shen Long began charging into the Body Integration Realm.
• Five-Colored Auspicious Clouds gathered above Ten Thousand Beast Island and poured into Shen Long's chamber, after which storms and enormous waves erupted around the island.

Shen Long survived his Body Integration Realm tribulation with Shen Peng’s help, then settled into seclusion after assigning the Ten Thousand Beast Tower’s newly opened seventh floor to Shen Jiu. Meanwhile, Mo Sen ordered the Five Lights Clan to withdraw its search party from the Fallen Immortal Ruins.

• Shen Long endured the Seven-Nine Lightning Tribulation, including two bolts of Eight-Colored Divine Thunder, and advanced to the Body Integration Realm while Shen Peng advanced to late-stage Void Refining.
• Shen Long explored the seventh floor of the Ten Thousand Beast Tower and assigned Shen Jiu to live there and cultivate Yin-attribute spirit herbs and fruits.
• Shen Long reunited with Chu Buyu, told her he would enter secluded cultivation, and agreed that they should soon leave the Dry Thunder Continent.
• Wu Yuzhu told Mo Sen that a seventh-order Thunder Peng had appeared in Yaksha Clan territory and reported the Five Lights Clan’s losses in the Fallen Immortal Ruins.
• Mo Sen ordered the Five Lights Clan to withdraw its people from the Fallen Immortal Ruins.