Chapter Summaries

Wang Daoyuan cultivated the Azure Dragon Pearl and refined Earth Vein Spirit Milk over five years, stopping just short of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer. He left seclusion to guard Wang Zhian as his Violet Mansion breakthrough approached, bringing spiritual items to improve his chances.

• Wang Daoyuan mastered the Azure Dragon Pearl, testing its ability to drain a Fierce Blood Pig’s life force and rapidly heal another pig’s wound.
• Wang Daoyuan worried that Green Willow Continent might enter the war and threaten the Wang Clan, making relocation to the Five Elements Secret Realm urgent.
• Wang Daoyuan spent five years refining Earth Vein Spirit Milk and reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment Sixth Layer, with one drop remaining.
• Wang Shouye summoned Wang Daoyuan to Jade Spring Peak to control the Black Tortoise Water Control Array while Wang Zhian prepared to open his Violet Mansion.
• Wang Daoyuan offered Wang Zhian twenty Ink Jade Nether Lotus seeds and one hundred Dragon Heart Fruits to strengthen his divine sense and body, then proposed using the Azure Dragon Pearl as well.

Wang Zhian began opening his Purple Mansion while Wang Daoyuan activated the Black Tortoise Water Control Array to protect Jade Spring Peak. Liang Liang arrived and tried to force the Wang Clan to lower its defenses, but Wang Daoyuan stalled him and challenged his authority.

• Wang Daoyuan used the Azure Dragon Pearl to strengthen Wang Zhian's body, and Wang Zhian then refined an Ink Jade Nether Lotus seed to strengthen his soul.
• Great-Grandfather retrieved a section of thousand-year Purple Cloud Wood from beneath the ancestral shrine's offering table, and Wang Daoyuan activated the Black Tortoise Water Control Array.
• After a day of silence, Wang Zhian began opening his Purple Mansion, and Wang Daoyuan used the formation to kill a Second-Order Mid-Grade Demonic Bird that approached Jade Spring Peak.
• Liang Liang arrived claiming he had come to pay a visit, but Wang Daoyuan refused to lower the formation and had Wang Shouye protect Wang Zhian's cave abode with water barriers.
• Liang Liang embedded a sonic attack in his roar, and Wang Daoyuan countered by questioning whose orders Liang Liang was following.

Wang Zhian opened his Violet Mansion while Yang Yong and Liang Liang waited outside Jade Spring Peak’s formation. After overcoming the Heart Demon Tribulation and transforming his soul into a divine soul, he became a Violet Mansion Cultivator, making the Wang Clan a Violet Mansion lineage.

• Liang Liang tried to enter Jade Spring Peak, but Wang Daoyuan refused and warned him not to interfere with Wang Zhian’s breakthrough.
• Yang Yong arrived to stand guard, and Liang Liang agreed to wait outside the formation.
• Wang Zhian manifested a dragonfish Violet Mansion Phenomenon and faced the Heart Demon Tribulation.
• Wang Zhian passed the tribulation, formed his Violet Mansion, and transformed his soul into a divine soul.
• Wang Zhian completed his cultivation breakthrough and invited Yang Yong and Liang Liang inside, but Liang Liang left in anger.

Wang Zhian received his Netherworld Sect investiture as a Violet Mansion elder, and the Wang Clan held a celebration attended by families from across the region. Wang Daoyuan advanced his cultivation and wondered why unfamiliar families had brought lavish gifts, while Wang Daolong and his master arrived with a substantial gift from the Netherworld Sect.

• Yang Yong told Wang Zhian to stay home while he recommended him to the Netherworld Sect, and Wang Daoyuan returned to Linzhi Mountain to cultivate.
• Wang Daoyuan advanced to the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer after refining Earth Vein Spirit Milk, and Wang Zhian returned from the Netherworld Sect with his investiture.
• Wang Daoyuan helped receive guests at the Wang Clan's Violet Mansion celebration, where the Liang Family and Huang Family were absent.
• Families from central Qingli Commandery arrived with lavish gifts, and Wang Daoyuan suspected they wanted Wang Zhian's help clearing Demon Beasts from Hundred Spirits Mountain.
• Wang Daolong arrived with his master, Luo Xuanming, who greeted Wang Zhian as an equal, and Wang Shoujiang announced the Netherworld Sect's gifts.

At Wang Zhian’s celebration, Yi Changsheng delivered extravagant gifts from True Man Lei Yan and reported that Wang Daoyin had reached Foundation Establishment and become a Low-grade Second-order Artifact Refiner. After the celebration, lineages from central Qingli Commandery asked Wang Daoyuan to eliminate the Demon Beasts occupying Hundred Spirits Mountain, offering cinnabar ore and help with the Wang Clan’s business in return.

• Yi Changsheng presented gifts from True Man Lei Yan and told Wang Daoyuan that Wang Daoyin had reached Foundation Establishment and advanced in artifact refinement.
• Wang Zhian and Luo Xuanming gave a Dao exposition before the visiting cultivators departed.
• Qin Yuansheng and the Shen Family head explained that Demon Beasts in Hundred Spirits Mountain had driven nearby lineages from their holdings and continued attacking them.
• The central Qingli Commandery lineages asked Wang Daoyuan to clear out the Demon Beasts, offering Third-order Cinnabar Ore and support for the Wang Clan’s trade.

Wang Shouye agreed that the Wang Clan would help suppress the Demon Beasts at Hundred Spirits Mountain, though the timing would depend on Wang Zhian’s cultivation. Wang Daoyuan then discovered that Wang Daoyin had secretly sent him the core components for a flying boat and a replacement suit of armor, and arranged with Zhao Liang to build the boat in secret.

• Wang Shouye told the Hundred Spirits Mountain lineages that Wang Zhian would help clear out Demon Beasts when his cultivation allowed, and the Shen Family Patriarch accepted the uncertain timing.
• Wang Daoyuan opened Wang Daoyin’s storage bag and found formation-inscribed flying boat components, a Jade Slip, and Mystic Jade Golden Silk Armor.
• Wang Daoyuan learned that Wang Daoyin had secretly sent the flying boat’s core components and the armor to help the Wang Clan and replace his ruined Alligator Dragon Armor.
• Wang Daoyuan summoned Zhao Liang, who confirmed that the components could form a flying boat once an outer shell was added.
• Wang Daoyuan instructed Zhao Liang to build a boat resembling the Wave Chaser Flying Boat and to claim it was a repair, and he promised to obtain spirit wood for the keel.

Wang Daoyuan arranged for Zhao Liang to build a flying boat at the Spirit Spring Cave Mansion and went to Dragon Fall Ridge to find high-grade spirit wood for its keel. He discovered a forest of Jade Bone Pine and sent Soul Chasing Bees to search for the tallest trees.

• Wang Daoyuan told Wang Shouye that the flying boat's core components had arrived, and Wang Shouye brought the damaged Wave Chaser Flying Boat to Zhao Liang as a model for the new boat.
• Wang Daoyuan revealed his Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer cultivation, then took Zhao Liang and the lineage's Iron Parsley Wood to the Spirit Spring Cave Mansion.
• Wang Daoyuan gave Zhao Liang the flying boat components and Spirit Spring Pearl, then headed to Dragon Fall Ridge to find high-grade Second-order spirit wood for the keel.
• Wang Daoyuan found Jade Bone Pine in a forest on Dragon Fall Ridge and released more than a hundred Soul Chasing Bees to locate the tallest trees.

Wang Daoyuan used his soul-attacking, icy Water Spiritual Power to hunt Bloodthirsty Wolf Spiders in Dragon Fall Ridge’s pine forest. He discovered several high-grade Jade Bone Pines, but a powerful spider broke free of his trapping spell and continued attacking him.

• Wang Daoyuan found that Soul Chasing Bees sent into the pine forest were being killed, so he used the Rain Transformation Spell to draw out their attacker.
• A second-order mid-grade Bloodthirsty Wolf Spider emerged from a Jade Bone Pine, and Wang Daoyuan killed it with Water Dragon Prison.
• Wang Daoyuan discovered several second-order high-grade Jade Bone Pines near the forest’s center and coated the area in fine, icy rain.
• A second-order high-grade Bloodthirsty Wolf Spider leapt from a pine and attacked Wang Daoyuan.
• The spider broke through Wang Daoyuan’s Water Dragon Prison and evaded his two black water dragons by moving through the air on strands of spider silk.

Wang Daoyuan killed a powerful Bloodthirsty Wolf Spider and searched its pine forest for Jade Bone Pine to use as flying-boat dragon bone. He harvested three suitable trees and returned to Linzhi Mountain, leaving the near-Third-order ancestor tree standing.

• Wang Daoyuan used three Wutu Divine Thunders to break the Bloodthirsty Wolf Spider’s blood-colored shield, then killed it with the Myriad Sword Art and Water Dragon Prison.
• He sent more than a hundred Soul Chasing Bees to check the area and found no living creatures within five li.
• Wang Daoyuan discovered a Jade Bone Pine nearing the Third-order threshold and decided to preserve it for future cultivation.
• He used a compressed Heaven Severing Sword to fell three other upper-grade Second-Order Jade Bone Pines suitable for dragon bones.
• Wang Daoyuan cut the trees into sections, stored them in a large Spirit Beast Bag, and rode back to Linzhi Mountain.

Wang Daoyuan prepared Jade Bone Pine materials for Zhao Liang to refine a flying boat, then cleared the western pine forest of Dragon Fall Ridge and claimed it as Jade Pine Mountain. He began looking for a defensive formation to secure the territory and settled on the Five Elements Dragon Locking Formation.

• Wang Daoyuan gave Zhao Liang the Jade Bone Pine trunks and explained that a larger pine forest awaited once Zhao Liang became a high-rank artifact refiner.
• Wang Daoyuan cut nearly three hundred boards, shaped a keel, carved its mortises, and engraved the Size As You Wish Formation before leaving Zhao Liang to finish the flying boat within a year.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to Dragon Fall Ridge and used Soul Chasing Bees to lure and kill more than thirty Bloodthirsty Wolf Spiders in the Jade Bone Pine forest.
• Wang Daoyuan named the cleared mountain range Jade Pine Mountain and considered how to establish a foothold there.
• Wang Daoyuan searched for a suitable defensive formation and chose the Five Elements Dragon Locking Formation because its Formation Eyes did not need to be evenly distributed.

Wang Daoyuan planned a Five Elements Dragon Locking Formation to protect Jade Pine Mountain and reported the materials and Magic Tools it required to Wang Shouye. Wang Shouye supplied five Second-grade High-rank Magic Tools, leaving the Wang Clan ready to gather the remaining materials and build the formation.

• Wang Daoyuan studied the formation’s design and concluded that its six core formation eyes needed second-grade materials and a Magic Tool to suppress the formation.
• Wang Daoyuan left Soul Chasing Bees to monitor the area, returned to Jade Spring Peak, and told Twelfth Uncle what he needed.
• Wang Shouye rejected the plan to use Second-Order Mid-Grade Magic Tools and offered high-rank tools and materials from the Wang Clan’s resources.
• Wang Shouye gave Wang Daoyuan the Golden Fiend Soul Severing Sword, Blazing Flame Gourd, Thick Earth Shield, Mist God Restraining Net, and Five Poisons Pearl.
• Wang Daoyuan and Wang Shouye determined that the Wang Clan could readily obtain the formation-eye and connecting materials from its mines and Forest Farms.

Wang Daoyuan completed the Five Elements Dragon Locking Formation on Jade Pine Mountain and tested its powers against an Earth Armor Pig. The formation proved strong enough to kill the beast with ease, leaving Wang Daoyuan confident it could handle most second-grade high-rank Demon Beasts.

• Wang Daoyuan had Bai Sheng analyze five second-order magic tools and learned that the Five Poisons Pearl concealed poison sacs inside its spiritual jade.
• Wang Daoyuan spent a year arranging the Five Elements Dragon Locking Formation on Jade Pine Mountain, using more than three times the expected materials.
• Wang Daoyuan activated the formation and tested its five magic tools, finding that they could strengthen the barrier, generate mist, unleash Sword Qi, create flames, and spread poison.
• Wang Daoyuan lured an Earth Armor Pig into the formation after failing to draw out a second-grade high-rank Demon Beast.
• Wang Daoyuan used the formation's mist, Sword Qi, poison, and flames to weaken the Earth Armor Pig, then beheaded it with the Golden Fiend Soul Severing Sword.

Wang Daoyuan welcomed Wang Shouye and a group of Wang Clan cultivators to Jade Pine Mountain, where he was tasked with teaching his newly returned uncle Wang Shouze and training five younger clansmen to operate the formation. The Netherworld Sect had allowed the Wang Clan to build restricted flying boats, while the wider sects remained at peace, leaving the clan time to relocate its people and develop Dragon Fall Ridge.

• Wang Daoyuan showed Wang Shouye the Earth Armor Pig's ashes, and Wang Shouye judged that the formation could kill a Second-Order High-Grade Demon Beast.
• Wang Shouye brought five Garrison Hall cultivators, workers from the Spirit Plant Hall and Spirit Wood Hall, and Wang Shouze for Wang Daoyuan to teach and train.
• Wang Shouye explained that the Netherworld Sect allowed the Wang Clan to build flying boats under limits on their size, speed, use, and possible requisition.
• Wang Shouye reported that the Netherworld Sect had reduced its attention to the north and that the Three Great Sects were at peace, while Wang Daoyuan welcomed the stability as the clan relocated its people.
• Wang Daoyuan assigned the newcomers their duties, taught Wang Shouze about formations, and trained the five Garrison Hall cultivators to control the formation.
• Wang Daoyuan observed that Wang Daojian's cultivation and aptitude suited sword cultivation and considered passing on the Returning Origin Sword Sect's inheritance if he achieved Foundation Establishment.

Wang Daoyuan left seclusion after learning that his parents were near death and returned to Qingxi Village, where he and his brothers were present when they passed away. After a grand funeral attended by cultivators from many powers, their parents were cremated and buried at Jade Spring Peak, with their tablets honored in the ancestral temple.

• Wang Daoyuan spent four years mastering artifact refining to Second-Order Mid-Grade before news arrived that his parents were dying, and he returned to Qingxi Village.
• Wang Daoyuan used the Azure Dragon Pearl to sustain his parents briefly, and Wang Daoyin arrived in time to see them before Wang Fu and Madam Wang passed away.
• Wang Meng presided over the funeral rites as relatives and cultivators from the Wang Clan, the Yang family, surrounding families, the Netherworld Sect, and the Divine Weapon Pavilion came to mourn.
• After the seven-day wake, Wang Daoyuan cremated his parents, and he and Wang Daoyin carried their ashes to Jade Spring Peak for burial.
• The Wang Clan placed the elders' ancestral tablets alongside those of cultivator clansmen of the Shou generation and entered their names into the genealogy.

After mourning the two elders, Wang Daoyuan discovered that his great-grandson had exceptional spiritual roots and brought him into the clan as Wang Mingshan. True Man Lei Yan’s gifts also prompted Zhao Liang to prepare for Foundation Establishment, and he decided to bring Dao Shu along to try as well.

• Wang Daoyuan tested Wang Meng’s ten-year-old great-grandson, found he had three spiritual roots with a primary root of seven inches and six tenths, and took him back to Jade Spring Peak.
• Wang Daochang arranged the boy’s return-to-clan ceremony, naming him Wang Mingshan and assigning him to the Ming Generation as its thirtieth member.
• Wang Daoyin delivered True Man Lei Yan’s gifts and instructions to Zhao Liang and Wang Daoyuan, including artifact-refining experience for Wang Daoyuan and a Foundation Establishment Pill for Zhao Liang.
• Wang Daoyuan showed Zhao Liang his nearly flawless Second-Order Mid-Grade sword, impressing him and prompting Zhao Liang to open his gift from True Man Lei Yan.
• Zhao Liang began preparing for Foundation Establishment at Jade Pine Mountain, and, after receiving four Foundation Establishment Pills, asked Wang Daoyuan to bring Dao Shu there to attempt it too.

Wang Daoyuan helped the Thunder Ape defeat a group of Demon Beasts attacking Jade Pine Mountain, then guarded Zhao Liang as he attempted Foundation Establishment. Zhao Liang’s breakthrough failed, and Wang Daoyuan rushed into the cave residence to protect him from the backlash.

• Wang Daoyuan saw the Thunder Ape fighting five Demon Beasts near Jade Pine Mountain and attacked them with the Golden Roc Subdues Dragon Technique.
• Wang Daoyuan’s Feather Blades overwhelmed the Demon Beasts, and the Thunder Ape killed the two Golden Striped Tigers with its staff.
• Wang Daoyuan brought Zhao Liang and Eighth Sister to his cave residence, where Zhao Liang began attempting Foundation Establishment.
• Wang Daoyuan had the clan members activate the Five Elements Dragon Locking Formation to protect Zhao Liang from outside interference.
• Zhao Liang’s Spiritual Qi Vortex vanished, signaling that his Foundation Establishment attempt had failed.
• Wang Daoyuan rushed into the cave residence to protect Zhao Liang’s meridians and dantian while Eighth Sister waited anxiously outside.

Wang Daoyuan helped Zhao Liang survive a failed Foundation Establishment attempt and traded artifact-refining notes for Zhao Liang's Bifang spell. After Wang Daoshu successfully established her foundation, Wang Daoyuan relocated and focused on refining artifacts and learning the new spell.

• Wang Daoyuan suppressed Zhao Liang's rampaging spiritual power and told him to expend the excess by casting a powerful spell.
• Zhao Liang released a Bifang Divine Bird phantom that burned the cave, and Wang Daoyuan extinguished the flames with the Water Dragon Technique.
• Zhao Liang explained that a heart demon from witnessing his family's deaths had disrupted his Foundation Establishment, then exchanged his Bifang spell for Wang Daoyuan's artifact-refining cultivation experience.
• Zhao Liang gave Wang Daoshu the resources to attempt Foundation Establishment, and she succeeded after a Spiritual Qi Vortex formed above the cave.
• Wang Daoyuan left Zhao Liang and Wang Daoshu at the cave, opened a new one on Jade Pine Mountain's northern side, and sent the thunder ape to occupy the Golden Striped Tigers' former territory.
• Wang Daoyuan began practicing artifact refinement and the Bifang spell as he worked toward repairing the Wave Chaser Flying Boat and making flying boats for the lineage.

Wang Daoyuan learned the Divine Fire Burning Heaven Art and discovered that its Bifang phantom could greatly amplify his spirit fires, giving him a powerful new attack. He then spent months improving his artifact refining, reaching Second-grade High-rank and crafting weapons from demon-beast fangs.

• Wang Daoyuan learned to condense the Bifang phantom and tested its control over his spirit fires, finding that it greatly strengthened the Dust Returning Flame.
• Wang Daoyuan used the flame essence to strengthen his Earth Attribute Spiritual Power Seed and decided to focus on improving his artifact refining rather than rushing to break through to Purple Mansion.
• Wang Daoyuan spent more than half a year refining twenty daggers from demon-beast claw tips, including five Second-grade High-rank daggers.
• Wang Daoyuan forged Blood Pattern Steel hilts onto four demon-beast fangs and engraved tool patterns to make Flying Swords.
• Wang Daoyuan finished the four fang weapons after more than four months; two became Second-grade High-rank magic tools and two became Second-Order Mid-Grade tools.

Wang Daoyuan repaired the Wave Chaser Flying Boat and forged two new flying boats, Linzhi and Jade Pine, for the Wang Clan’s transport routes. He assigned routes and installed defenses on all three vessels before they began operating.

• Wang Daoyuan named his new artifacts the Tiger Fiend Sword and Tiger Claw Blade, then dismantled the damaged Wave Chaser Flying Boat and replaced its hull and ribs.
• Wang Daoyuan repaired the Wave Chaser’s core and began forging a new metal core from Star Steel, with Zhao Liang preparing materials for the hull.
• After nearly a year, Wang Daoyuan completed the new core and built the Jade Pine flying boat, while the repaired Wave Chaser became the Linzhi.
• Wang Daoyuan assigned the Wave Chaser to the Qingli River and Qingxi route, the Linzhi to trips between Jade Pine Mountain and Jade Spring Peak, and the Jade Pine to the route from Qingli Market to Heyun Lake Market.
• Wang Daoyuan added offensive and defensive formations and installed artifacts that could cast second-tier spells to protect the flying boats from attackers and thieves.

Wang Daoyuan oversaw the flying boats’ growing success, completed the larger Jade Spring, and prepared spare components before leaving the lineage to seek a way to obtain Purple Mansion-opening resources. He headed toward Returning Goose Market, where the situation had changed amid tensions between the Netherworld Sect and Returning Origin Sword Sect.

• The Jade Pine’s formations killed two Foundation Establishment Middle Stage robbers and badly wounded a Foundation Establishment Late Stage robber, ending attacks on Wang Clan flying boats.
• The flying boats became a major source of income for Wang Clan, and the Transportation Hall rose to match its other profitable Branch Halls.
• Wang Daoyuan and Zhao Liang refined the Jade Spring for the proposed Hundred Spirits Mountain Market, then Wang Daoyuan prepared spare keels and flying boat components.
• Wang Daoyuan left the lineage to prepare for opening his Purple Mansion, planning to obtain Yin Yang Violet Jade through his Blood Shadow avatar, Wu Yi.
• Wang Daoyuan traveled north on foot, crossed Return Goose Mountain, and continued west toward Returning Goose Market.