Chapter Summaries

After the Liang Family attacked Azure Cloud Peak and destroyed the Meng Family’s defenses, Wang Daoyuan and Wang Shouye discussed how the massacre could let the Liang Family take Meng territory. Wang Daoyuan then joined Zhou Qi, Yang Yong, and Liang Jiaxing to investigate the deaths, and they headed to Azure Cloud Peak to examine the bodies.

• Wang Shouye told Wang Daoyuan that Liang Liang had gone alone to Azure Cloud Peak, and the Wang Clan’s Dark Hall later reported that five Liang Family Foundation Establishment Cultivators had broken through the Meng Family’s formation.
• Wang Daoyuan and Wang Shouye concluded that the Liang Family had arranged events to make Liang Liang’s death appear to justify destroying the Meng Family, and they discussed how the Netherworld Sect might respond.
• Yang Yong asked the Wang Clan to send someone to address the conflict, and Wang Daoyuan traveled to the Netherworld Sect’s garrison at Qingli Market.
• Liang Jiaxing claimed that Meng Changfeng had poisoned Liang Liang, who then killed Meng Changfeng before dying, while Wang Daoyuan pointed out the Meng and Liang Families’ history of conflict.
• Zhou Qi decided to inspect Liang Liang’s and Meng Changfeng’s bodies at Azure Cloud Peak, and Yang Yong took the group there by airship.

Zhou Qi investigated Liang Liang and Meng Changfeng’s deaths but found no way to establish the truth, and the Netherworld Sect ruled in the Liang Family’s favor. The Meng Family’s assets passed to the Liang Family, which later ceded territory to the Wang Clan and Yang Family, leaving the three families’ borders settled and northern Qingli Commandery at peace.

• Zhou Qi examined Liang Liang’s corpse and the shattered teacup, concluding that Heart-Corrosion Powder may have killed Liang Liang after he killed Meng Changfeng.
• With no witnesses or surviving Meng Family members, Zhou Qi left the judgment to the Netherworld Sect and allowed Liang Liang’s and Meng Changfeng’s remains to be collected.
• Half a month later, the Netherworld Sect ruled that the Meng Family had plotted against its elder and awarded the Meng Family’s assets to the Liang Family as compensation.
• Wang Shouye leaked that the Meng Family had returned the Wang Clan’s wedding gifts untouched, ending other families’ objections to the Wang Clan and Yang Family supporting the verdict.
• The Liang Family moved clansmen into the Meng Family’s territory and gradually handed assets to the Wang Clan and Yang Family, completing the division of territory after more than a year.

Wang Daoyuan helped the Wang Clan secure the Liang family's former territory, driving off rogue cultivators and claiming its spirit veins and industries. The clan began planning formations, relocating mortals, and producing three flying boats, while Wang Daoyuan and Zhao Liang faced the main burden of building them.

• Wang Daoyuan patrolled the territory on Cloudwing for more than a year, killing over a hundred rogue cultivators who tried to seize the Liang family's abandoned holdings.
• Wang Daoyuan's killings deterred further looting and earned him the title "that Senior" among rogue cultivators, while bringing him more than a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• The Wang Clan recovered numerous industries and spirit veins, including Qingyun Peak, and planned to relocate mortals to support population growth and restore production.
• Wang Daoyuan left management of the industries and relocation to the clan halls, while he and Wang Shouze took responsibility for protective formations.
• Wang Daoyuan determined that the Wang Clan needed three flying boats to serve its markets, territory, and transport needs, but only Zhao Liang could assist him with the artifact patterns.

Wang Daoyuan secured Qingyun Peak by setting up the Green Wood Illusory Cloud Formation, then led the Wang Clan in refining flying boats and developing its new territory. After completing urgent work, he finished upgrading the formation to restore its illusion abilities while keeping magical artifacts to strengthen its attacks and defenses.

• Wang Daoyuan chose the Green Wood Illusory Cloud Formation to protect Qingyun Peak and spent half a year connecting its framework to the spirit vein, then activated it with the Mysterious Tortoise Shield and six Flying Swords.
• The formation split a boulder with a wood-attribute Flying Sword, driving away cultivators who had been watching Qingyun Peak.
• Wang Daoyuan and Zhao Liang used Qingyun Wutong and Star Steel to refine three wide, ten-zhang flying boats with upgraded formation patterns and speeds capped at two thousand li per hour.
• Wang Shouze organized formations across the new territory as the Wang Clan completed most of its migration, expanded its businesses, and increased annual net income to more than one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Wang Daoyuan spent more than a year completing the Green Wood Illusory Cloud Formation, restoring its ability to confuse Violet Mansion Early Stage cultivators while retaining magical artifacts to support its offense and defense.

Wang Daoyuan refined two Artifact Nurturing Gourds and used them with the Mysterious Tortoise Shield to strengthen the Green Wood Illusory Cloud Formation. After half a year of cultivation and fighting demon beasts, Wang Daoxing visited Qingyun Peak, and Wang Daoyuan pressed him to explain his real reason for coming.

• Wang Daoyuan refined a Wood Attribute Artifact Nurturing Gourd and used it to nurture and control three Wood Attribute Flying Swords.
• Wang Daoyuan refined a Water Attribute Artifact Nurturing Gourd, then used both gourds and the Mysterious Tortoise Shield to suppress the Green Wood Illusory Cloud Formation.
• Wang Daoyuan cultivated on Qingyun Peak, fought high-grade Second-order Demon Beasts in the Skyrend Mountain Range, and brought their meat back to roast.
• Wang Daoyuan refined several spatial wine gourds from Second-Order Mid-Grade Mysterious Origin Gourds and, half a year later, roasted a wild boar he had killed.
• Wang Daoxing arrived claiming he had come on the clan head's behalf to inspect the formation, ate a pork leg, and Wang Daoyuan challenged him to reveal his real purpose.

Wang Daoyuan helped Wang Daoxing with his marriage and came up with a plan to increase the Wang Clan’s population of cultivators. He proposed distributing a restorative pill and rewarding clansmen who had children with spirit roots, and Twelfth Uncle invited the elders to share their opinions.

• Wang Daoxing asked Wang Daoyuan for advice about his marriage to Liang Ziyan, and Wang Daoyuan sent him home with roasted wild boar kidneys as a supposed way to develop a shared hobby.
• After Wang Daoxing left, Wang Daoyuan realized he could promote the Blood Strengthening and Qi Invigorating Pill to support the Wang Clan’s population growth.
• Wang Daoyuan refined Monster Capturing Gourds and batches of the pill, then presented his plan to Twelfth Uncle and the elders at Jade Spring Peak.
• Wang Daoyuan proposed growing the pill’s ingredients, distributing the pills to married clansmen, and rewarding those who had children with spirit roots.
• Twelfth Uncle supported the proposal and asked the elders for their opinions, noting that the Lineage had tens of thousands of surplus Spirit Stones each year.

Wang Daoyuan helped the Wang Clan address its shortage of cultivators by establishing a plan to increase births, then secluded himself on Qingyun Peak and reached the Foundation Establishment peak. He left to seek Yin Yang Violet Jade, checking his avatars near Returning Goose Market and finding them safe so far.

• Wang Daoyuan proposed a costly pill and resource plan to support clan members having children, then left Jade Spring Peak to cultivate on Qingyun Peak.
• Seven years later, Wang Daoyuan reached the Foundation Establishment peak, while the clan’s cultivator families had produced more than a hundred children and Wang Daoxing had a son and a daughter with Liang Ziyan.
• Wang Daoyuan decided not to open his Purple Mansion without Yin Yang Violet Jade or Purple Cloud Wood Heart to protect the Spirit Pearl Space in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Wang Daoyuan notified Twelfth Uncle, concealed his cultivation, and traveled north toward Returning Goose Market to obtain Yin Yang Violet Jade.
• Wang Daoyuan checked Bai Sheng, Wu Yi, and Lu Zong through his avatars and found no immediate problems; he judged Wu Yi, a direct subordinate of the Crimson Fox, to have the best chance of obtaining the jade.

Wang Daoyuan returned to Returning Goose Market and used Wu Yi to investigate how to obtain Yin Yang Violet Jade. Crimson Fox assigned Wu Yi and Lu Zong to kill a resource courier, then explained that opening his Violet Mansion could let Wu Yi become Deputy Hall Master.

• Wu Yi and Lu Zong gained influence and wealth under Crimson Fox, while Mysterious Sable's people bore the most dangerous missions.
• Wang Daoyuan confirmed that his three avatars were safe and returned to Returning Goose Market to prepare to exchange for Yin Yang Violet Jade.
• Crimson Fox gave Wu Yi a mission to ambush a resource courier traveling from Qingli Market toward Returning Goose Market.
• Wu Yi requested Lu Zong and their strongest Foundation Establishment Cultivators for the ambush, and Crimson Fox approved.
• Wu Yi asked how he could become Deputy Hall Master, and Crimson Fox said she could recommend him if he opened his Violet Mansion.

Crimson Fox promised Wu Yi the chance to redeem Yin Yang Violet Jade and become Deputy Hall Master if he completed a mission against King of Linhai's agent. After the target reached Golden Goose City, Wang Daoyuan organized an ambush on the two routes leading toward Returning Goose Market.

• Crimson Fox explained that an enemy at Blood Shadow Headquarters had ruined her prospects, then promised Wu Yi the Yin Yang Violet Jade if he completed the mission and served her loyally.
• Wu Yi left Crimson Fox's cave dwelling and met with Lu Zong, while Wang Daoyuan secretly decided to commit their trusted Foundation Establishment subordinates to the operation.
• Crimson Fox's intelligence reported that the target had left Qingli Market and reached Golden Goose City, where he checked into the Immortal Guest Tower.
• Wu Yi and Lu Zong gathered eleven cultivators, including two Foundation Establishment Peak Cultivators, to prepare for the interception.
• Wang Daoyuan assigned the two teams to ambush the separate routes to Returning Goose Market while Blood Shadow's intelligence personnel tracked the target.

Wang Daoyuan arranged two ambush teams to capture a Foundation Establishment peak cultivator carrying resources to the Returning Origin Sword Sect. The teams cornered and killed him, and Wu Yi searched his body for valuables.

• Wang Daoyuan positioned his two clones and their teams between Returning Goose Market and Golden Goose City, and the Zhuang brothers joined with their Demon Binding Ropes.
• Crimson Fox reported that the target had left Golden Goose City, and Wu Yi's lookout spotted him flying north along Returning Goose Valley.
• Wu Yi and Lu Zong's teams ambushed the bearded cultivator, but he used talismans to repel their Flying Swords and tried to escape south.
• The two lookouts blocked the bearded cultivator's path, and the pursuers surrounded him.
• Wu Yi attacked with the Myriad Sword Art as the Zhuang brothers bound the target with their Demon Binding Ropes.
• Thirteen Flying Swords killed the bearded cultivator, and Wu Yi found a Flying Sword, a storage ring, and two Storage Bags on his corpse.

Wu Yi received Yin Yang Violet Jade from Crimson Fox after the group seized valuable supplies from a Zhao family shipment. He left the Blood Shadow Northern Branch to open his Purple Palace at an Ancient Cultivator's Cave Mansion in the Skyrend Mountain Range.

• Wu Yi and the others returned to Returning Goose Market with the seized ring and Storage Bags, while Wang Daoyuan secretly escorted Wu Yi.
• Crimson Fox appraised the stolen supplies at more than one million Spirit Stones and awarded Wu Yi enough credit to exchange for Yin Yang Violet Jade.
• Crimson Fox gave Wu Yi the jade and her cultivation experience, then warned him that opening his Purple Palace would create visible violet light and draw danger.
• Wu Yi chose the Ancient Cultivator's Cave Mansion in the Skyrend Mountain Range as the place to open his Purple Palace, despite the risk of encountering third-rank Demon Beasts.
• Wu Yi handed over his Spirit Stones and Contribution Points to Green Wolf, then left the branch and exchanged greetings with Ghost Wolf.

Wang Daoyuan met Wu Yi to receive the Yin Yang Violet Jade, but Ghost Wolf followed them, hoping to seize the jade and the inheritance. Ghost Wolf identified Wang Daoyuan as Wu Chuan and revealed that he was Chen Ji, leaving the two cultivators facing off.

• Wang Daoyuan met Wu Yi near Returning Goose Market, and Wu Yi handed him the Yin Yang Violet Jade to store in the Spirit Pearl Space.
• Ghost Wolf realized Wu Yi had obtained the jade and followed him out of the market, while Green Wolf warned Crimson Fox that Ghost Wolf might attack him.
• Crimson Fox pursued the jade’s vanished divine sense mark, and Ghost Wolf caught up with Wang Daoyuan and Wu Yi on a flying artifact.
• Wang Daoyuan attacked Ghost Wolf with a Tiger Fiend Sword, and Ghost Wolf recognized him as Wu Chuan from Mirror Lake Oasis.
• Ghost Wolf revealed that he was Chen Ji and demanded the jade and inheritance, explaining that he had feared Zhou at Mirror Lake but no longer considered Wang Daoyuan a threat.

Wang Daoyuan battled Chen Ji at the edge of the Skyrend Mountain Range and killed him after overcoming his defensive magic tool and refined corpse. The chapter ended as Crimson Fox arrived and demanded to know who had killed her subordinate.

• Crimson Fox questioned a Qi Refinement cultivator, learned that the fighters had flown east, and pursued them.
• Wang Daoyuan and Wu Yi fought Chen Ji, with Wang Daoyuan shattering his shield phantom using the Heaven Severing Sword.
• Wang Daoyuan used the Bifang phantom to drain Chen Ji’s fire attacks while Wu Yi helped keep him under pressure.
• Chen Ji summoned a Low-grade Third-order refined corpse, but Wang Daoyuan crippled it with Wutu Divine Thunder.
• Wang Daoyuan recovered some spiritual power, attacked Chen Ji with more Wutu Divine Thunder, and killed him.
• Crimson Fox arrived and demanded to know who had killed her people.

Wang Daoyuan fled into the Skyrend Mountain Range with Wu Yi while Crimson Fox pursued him and attacked with her fire techniques and Flying Sword. He survived her Natal Artifact’s near-fatal strike, but Crimson Fox captured Wu Yi, leaving Wang Daoyuan wounded and escaping deeper into the mountains.

• Wang Daoyuan recognized Crimson Fox and fled with Wu Yi into the Skyrend Mountain Range, but she followed and sent a Flying Sword after them.
• Wang Daoyuan used the Bifang phantom and repeated bolts of Wutu Divine Thunder to knock back Crimson Fox’s Flying Sword, then provoked her with a taunt.
• Crimson Fox transformed into a Fire Phoenix and nearly caught Wang Daoyuan, but he detonated the Bifang phantom to disrupt her charge and used the Mysterious Ice Jade Marrow to extinguish her flames.
• Crimson Fox launched her powerful Natal Artifact, which pierced Wu Yi and Wang Daoyuan before the Mystic Jade Golden Silk Armor stopped its force from killing Wang Daoyuan.
• Crimson Fox pulled Wu Yi back with her Flying Sword, while the wounded Wang Daoyuan escaped farther into the mountains and recalled Zhou Xuan’s Peach Blossom Tribulation prediction.

Wang Daoyuan escaped the battle with Crimson Fox and made his way to the Five Elements Secret Realm to recover and prepare to open his Violet Mansion. After inspecting Chen Ji's belongings, he discovered a hidden ring in Chen Ji's boot.

• Wang Daoyuan fled east after hearing a third-order tiger Demon Beast, while Crimson Fox abandoned the pursuit and carried the dying Wu Yi away.
• Wang Daoyuan healed himself with the Azure Dragon Pearl and decided to recuperate and open his Violet Mansion in the Five Elements Secret Realm.
• At the secret realm's entrance, Wang Daoyuan recognized his younger brother Wang Daojian and gave him the Returning Origin Sword Sect's inheritance.
• Wang Daoyuan greeted Wang Daoheng and Wang Daoping, offered incense to True Man of Five Elements, and settled in the underground cave to recover.
• Wang Daoyuan examined Chen Ji's Storage Bags and found corpse puppets, the Blazing Plains Sword, a shield, and other supplies.
• Wang Daoyuan had Li Qingquan search Chen Ji's body and found a ring hidden in the sole of his boot.

Wang Daoyuan uncovered the contents of Chen Ji’s hidden Universe Ring, including a Yellow Springs Bead and records left by True Man Ten Thousand Corpses. The records revealed a route to the Seven Stars Sea Cultivation World and a secret crossing east of the Skyrend Mountain Range that could give the Wang Clan a path to expand.

• Li Qingquan opened the Universe Ring and found a Yellow Springs Bead, Ghost Path and Corpse Path tools, formation plates, and three Animal Hide Books.
• Wang Daoyuan began using the Life Spirit Fire to exhaust the death energy in the Yellow Springs Bead so he could later refine it into a Black Tortoise Shield.
• The Sea Sightings Record revealed that the Seven Stars Sea Cultivation World lay far east of the Northern Abyss Cultivation World and offered opportunities for a future Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Wang Daoyuan learned that True Man Ten Thousand Corpses had crossed the Skyrend Mountain Range north of Return Goose Mountain, revealing a possible secret route for the Wang Clan to settle and expand eastward.
• The Spirit Taming Record described the Spirit Taming Sect’s powerful inheritances and identified the Yellow Springs Willow as a material that could preserve souls inside high-level puppets.

Wang Daoyuan prepared to open his Violet Mansion by refining Soul Nurturing Pendants from Yellow Springs Willow and storing twenty Split Souls in them. After sensing his breakthrough opportunity, he connected his three Dantians, and purple qi formed in his Sea of Consciousness as violet light appeared across the Five Elements Secret Realm.

• Wang Daoyuan cut down the Yellow Springs Willow and refined twenty Soul Nurturing Pendants, preserving its roots to grow.
• He split off twenty one-percent Split Souls, stored them in the pendants, and recovered his soul with Ink Jade Nether Lotus seeds.
• After two years of effort, Wang Daoyuan sensed his opportunity to open his Violet Mansion and began connecting his upper, middle, and lower Dantians.
• He slowly opened the meridians between his middle and upper Dantians, then infused spiritual power into his upper dantian to strengthen his soul.
• A vortex formed in Wang Daoyuan's Sea of Consciousness and fused pure yin and pure yang energies into purple qi, causing violet light to blaze across the Five Elements Secret Realm.
• An hour later, a phantom purple sphere one inch in diameter appeared outside.

Wang Daoyuan successfully opened his Violet Mansion, overcame his Heart Demon Tribulation, and formed a divine soul. The spirit pearl then drained purple qi and attacked the Violet Mansion, eventually smashing a hole through it.

• Wang Daoyuan formed a nine-inch Violet Mansion embryonic form and produced five Divine Beast Phantoms, which the Five Elements Suppressing Heaven Seal transformed into protective patterns.
• Wang Daoyuan’s soul faced an illusion of his death by lightning in his previous life, overcame the Heart Demon Tribulation, and entered the Violet Mansion.
• Wang Daoyuan completed opening his Violet Mansion, while clansmen outside celebrated the Wang Clan gaining another Violet Mansion Cultivator.
• The spirit pearl became active, pushed aside the Soul Annihilation Bell, and began absorbing purple qi from the Violet Mansion.
• Wang Daoyuan used the Yin Yang Violet Jade to stabilize the Violet Mansion as the spirit pearl attacked, and his soul transformed into a divine soul.
• After the Yin Yang Violet Jade was drained, the spirit pearl struck the Violet Mansion three times and smashed a hole around three inches in diameter into it.

Wang Daoyuan witnessed the Spirit Pearl’s origins, from its formation in the Skyrend Mountain Range to its journey to Earth and its return with his soul. He realized the pearl was the same one in his Purple Mansion, but could not understand why it had brought him back when it had changed hands many times before.

• The Spirit Pearl entered Wang Daoyuan’s Purple Mansion, repaired its breach, and drew his soul into its space.
• Wang Daoyuan watched the land and its spirit veins form, followed by the emergence of humans and the rise of their civilization.
• The Devil Race invaded through a rift above the Skyrend Mountain Range, forcing humanity and the Demon Race to unite and fight back.
• A human cultivator fought five high-level devils in the decisive battle, and his sword strike split the Skyrend Mountain Range and cracked the Spirit Pearl.
• The cracked pearl fell through the Absolute Heaven Abyss and reached Earth, where it eventually came into Wang Daoyuan’s hands in his previous life.
• Wang Daoyuan realized the Spirit Pearl had returned his soul to the Northern Abyss Cultivation World, but could not explain why it had chosen him.

Wang Daoyuan witnessed the Spirit Pearl’s history and learned that its radiance was part of his soul, carried through his reincarnations and merged with him in the womb. After exploring the Spirit Pearl Space and discovering newly formed five-element spiritual veins, he returned to his Purple Mansion and began absorbing the secret realm’s spiritual qi.

• Wang Daoyuan saw how the Spirit Pearl’s radiance entered a primitive woman’s womb, then followed the shaman’s reincarnations as he repeatedly found the pearl and was struck by lightning.
• Wang Daoyuan recognized his former-life master as the Taoist who took the Spirit Pearl, and learned that he himself had been the shaman’s reincarnation adopted by an old Taoist.
• Wang Daoyuan saw how his soul entered the Spirit Pearl after his death and returned with it to Qingxi Village, where it merged with him in his mother’s womb.
• Wang Daoyuan understood that his soul was the Spirit Pearl’s original radiance, which had finally merged with his divine soul after his Purple Mansion breakthrough.
• Wang Daoyuan entered the Spirit Pearl Space and discovered newly formed spiritual veins of wood, earth, water, fire, and metal.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to his Purple Mansion, and a vast spiritual qi vortex drained the secret realm’s spiritual qi and the power from its five spiritual veins into him.