Chapter Summaries

Wang Daoyuan left the Northern Mountain Branch after helping Zhou Luan take control, then returned to Jade Spring Peak and mourned Great-Grandfather. He began forging the White Tiger Blade, shaping it into a sword embryo and starting to inscribe and nurture it.

• Wang Daoyuan comforted Zhou Luan, exchanged gifts with her, and gave her a communication jade talisman before departing the branch.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to Jade Spring Peak, learned that Great-Grandfather had died, and paid his respects at the ancestral temple and grave.
• Wang Daoyuan resolved to fulfill Great-Grandfather’s wish by helping the Lineage regain its former glory.
• Wang Daoyuan spent two months burning Blood Dragon Wood charcoal to forge the White Tiger Blade from Grand Unity Essence Gold and Heavenly Fiend Gold.
• Wang Daoyuan drew the sword embryo into his dantian and began inscribing artifact patterns and nurturing it with spiritual power and true essence.

Wang Daoyuan refined third-order Vein Protecting Pills and Talismans, fulfilling Ninth Uncle-Grandfather’s dying wish before heading to Dragon Fall Ridge to cultivate the White Tiger Sword Art. He began learning to control the White Tiger Blade and studied the Returning Origin Sword Canon, finding its Sword Intent inheritance incomplete but its sword spells useful.

• Wang Daoyuan stopped activating the White Tiger Blade after its fused killing auras unleashed overwhelming pressure across the mountain.
• Wang Daoyuan refined Vein Protecting Pills and raised his success rate for low-grade third-order pills to forty-five percent.
• Wang Daoyuan learned to refine third-order Talismans, paid respects at Ninth Uncle-Grandfather’s grave, and placed dozens of finished Talismans in the Lineage treasury.
• Wang Daoyuan went to Dragon Fall Ridge and began cultivating the White Tiger Sword Art, soon controlling the White Tiger Blade in flight and slicing through rock.
• Wang Daoyuan studied the Returning Origin Sword Canon, judged its Sword Intent guidance incomplete, and found the Sword Qi Manifestation Technique among its useful sword spells.

Wang Daoyuan abandoned the ineffective Sword Qi Manifestation Technique and trained Cloudwing by having it fight the Thunder Ape. A Third-Order Golden Striped Tiger appeared near the clan’s mountains, and Wang Daoyuan confronted it to protect the nearby clan members and industries.

• Wang Daoyuan spent months testing the Sword Qi Manifestation Technique, found that its manifested Sword Qi had no power, and stopped cultivating it.
• Wang Daoyuan decided to study the Demon Subduing Sword Bell and Boundless Sword Sea while developing his sword intent and White Tiger bearing in Dragon Fall Ridge.
• Wang Daoyuan ordered Cloudwing to stop eating roasted meat and had the Thunder Ape train it in combat, where Cloudwing was repeatedly defeated.
• A powerful tiger roar came from the east, and Wang Daoyuan sent Cloudwing and the Thunder Ape back to Jade Pine Mountain before flying to meet the threat.
• Wang Daoyuan encountered a Low-grade Third-order Golden Striped Tiger and exchanged attacks with it, realizing it was too dangerous to let the battle reach Jade Pine Mountain or Golden Tiger Mountain.

Wang Daoyuan fought a Golden Striped Tiger east of Baichuan Lake and used the battle to gain insight into the White Tiger Sword Intent. He killed the tiger before other powerful Demon Beasts could arrive.

• Wang Daoyuan lured the pursuing Golden Striped Tiger south to a place east of Baichuan Lake, away from the Demon Race and half-demons.
• The Golden Striped Tiger resisted Wang Daoyuan’s Heaven Severing Sword with its phantom tiger head and fought his White Tiger Blade dharma manifestation to a stalemate.
• Wang Daoyuan sensed the tiger’s bearing through the battle and gained a sliver of insight into the White Tiger Sword Intent.
• After hearing a monkey’s cry and a wolf’s howl from the east, Wang Daoyuan used the Soul Annihilation Bell to weaken the Golden Striped Tiger.
• Wang Daoyuan rang the bell repeatedly until the tiger could no longer resist, then killed it with Sword Qi through its mouth.

Wang Daoyuan comprehended the initial form of White Tiger Sword Intent after entering seclusion, while Netherworld Sect learned that he had opened his Violet Mansion and planned to confer an elder title upon him. When he returned to Jade Spring Peak, he learned Twelfth Uncle was preparing to break through and gave him treasures to aid the breakthrough.

• Wang Daoyuan returned to his cave dwelling and entered seclusion to contemplate White Tiger Sword Intent after killing the Golden Striped Tiger.
• Yang Yong visited Jade Spring Peak, learned from Fifth Uncle-Grandfather why Wang Daoyuan had not reported his breakthrough, and said the sect would confer an elder title upon him.
• Wang Daoyuan formed an embryonic White Tiger Sword Intent and tested it with the White Tiger Blade, whose aura frightened clansmen and Yunyi.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to Jade Spring Peak and learned Twelfth Uncle might soon attempt a Violet Mansion breakthrough.
• Wang Daoyuan handed Twelfth Uncle the Yin Yang Violet Jade and Mysterious Ice Jade Marrow to help him through the breakthrough and Heart Demon Tribulation.

Wang Shouye successfully opened his Violet Mansion while Wang Daoyuan guarded Jade Spring Peak from Demon Beasts and onlookers. The chapter ended with Yang Yong and Yang Yulin entering the mountain to congratulate him.

• Wang Daoyuan accepted the Yin Yang Violet Jade and Mysterious Ice Jade Marrow from Wang Shouye, then guarded his Violet Mansion opening beside Jade Dragon Spring.
• Wang Daoyuan killed an approaching High-grade Second-order Demon Bird with a single Sword Light and warned trespassers away from Jade Spring Peak.
• Yang Yong and Yang Yulin arrived to stand guard as Rogue Cultivators watched from outside the array.
• Wang Shouye formed a seven-and-a-half-inch Violet Mansion embryonic form, manifested a black water dragon, and passed the Heart Demon Tribulation with little difficulty.
• Wang Shouye completed his breakthrough, and Yang Yong brought Yang Yulin down to Jade Dragon Spring after the Rogue Cultivators departed.

Wang Daoyuan and the Yang family arranged a marriage between Yang Yuqing and Wang Daochang, while Wang Shouye successfully opened his Violet Mansion. The chapter ended with the Wang elders sensing a dragon fish respond to Shouye’s black dragon phenomenon.

• Wang Daoyuan, Fifth Uncle-Grandfather, and Twelfth Uncle welcomed Yang Yong and Yang Yulin, and Twelfth Uncle promised that the Wang Clan would remain loyal to the Yang family.
• Yang Yong proposed that Yang Yuqing marry Wang Daoyuan, but Daoyuan declined and suggested his Third Brother, Wang Daochang, instead.
• Yang Zhiyuan brought Yang Yuqing to meet Wang Daochang, and both appeared willing to marry; the families agreed to settle the match alongside upcoming clan ceremonies.
• After the Yang family departed, Wang Shouye gave Wang Daoyuan the Mysterious Ice Jade Marrow and Yin Yang Violet Jade, boasting about his Violet Mansion and black dragon phenomenon.
• Wang Daoyuan revealed that a Second-Order Clear River Carp had leaped from the water and bowed to Shouye’s black dragon phantom, prompting Fifth Uncle-Grandfather and Twelfth Uncle to probe Jade Dragon Spring with their divine senses.

Wang Daoyuan and Wang Shouye traveled to the Netherworld Sect and were invested as elders after the Sect Master praised their Violet Mansion phenomena. Wang Daoyuan was assigned to take an official post in the Artifact Refining Hall, but an elderly cultivator objected before he could respond.

• Wang Daoyuan, Fifth Uncle-Grandfather, and Twelfth Uncle captured a variant Clear River Carp, and Twelfth Uncle used a secret art to make it pledge allegiance.
• Fifth Uncle-Grandfather took Wang Daoyuan and Wang Shouye to the Netherworld Sect's mountain gate to receive their investiture.
• Luo Jiuyou praised Wang Shouye's black dragon phenomenon and Wang Daoyuan's five Demigod Beast phenomena before investing both as sect elders.
• Luo Jiuyou granted Wang Shouye and Wang Daoyuan elder tokens and Low-grade Third-order Flying Swords.
• Luo Jiuyou told Wang Shouye to nurture his Natal Artifact and ordered Wang Daoyuan to take up an official post in the Artifact Refining Hall.
• An elderly cultivator rose and objected to Wang Daoyuan's appointment.

At a sect meeting, Wang Daoyuan avoided being required to serve in the Artifact Refining Hall and proposed allowing clans to refine Foundation Establishment Pills under sect regulation. Luo Jiuyou approved the policy and compensated the Wang Clan by lifting restrictions on its flying boats, leaving the clan free to expand its business.

• Elder Jin argued that Wang Daoyuan should serve as an idle elder and later as a Garrison Envoy before becoming a hall steward, prompting elders to oppose his exceptional promotion.
• Wang Daoyuan and Hall Master Gu gave Luo Jiuyou a compromise: Wang retained the Artifact Refining Hall steward title but did not have to take up duties there.
• Wang Daoyuan asked permission to refine Foundation Establishment Pills from a Golden Striped Tiger Demonic Core and proposed that clans sell two pills from each batch to the sect at market price.
• Luo Jiuyou established that clans could refine Foundation Establishment Pills but had to sell the sect two pills per batch for fifty thousand Spirit Stones each and could not refine secretly.
• Luo Jiuyou compensated the Wang Clan by allowing it to refine flying boats up to twenty zhang long without speed restrictions, while forbidding Flying Warships and sales to other factions.

Wang Daoyuan refined seven Foundation Establishment Pills and exchanged them with the Netherworld Sect and several visiting family heads. The final pill remained unclaimed as Shen Hongchuan offered the Shen Family’s third-order Golden Thunder Demon Extermination Talisman method in exchange.

• Luo Jiuyou granted Wang Daoyuan and Twelfth Uncle sect elder tokens and Low-grade Third-order Flying Swords, and the group returned to Jade Spring Peak.
• Wang Daoyuan processed the Golden Striped Tiger’s inner core and refined seven Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Yang Yong collected two pills for the Netherworld Sect, while Yang Zhiyuan and Liang Jiaxing exchanged Spirit Stones for two more.
• Wang Daoyuan offered the final pill to the visiting family heads, but their artifacts, Talismans, spells, and materials did not interest him.
• Shen Hongchuan offered the Shen Family’s Golden Thunder Demon Extermination Talisman refining method for the remaining pill.

Wang Daoyuan traded a Foundation Establishment Pill for the Golden Thunder Demon Extermination Talisman method, refined the powerful talismans, and attended the Wang Clan’s Violet Mansion ceremony. A Divine Weapon Pavilion disciple revealed that True Man Lei Yan considered Wang Daoyuan half a disciple and invited him to visit, raising concerns among Netherworld Sect elders that he might leave their sect.

• Wang Daoyuan traded Shen Hongchuan a Foundation Establishment Pill for the Golden Thunder Demon Extermination Talisman method and agreed to sell the Shen family five talismans.
• Wang Daoyuan agreed to refine Foundation Establishment Pills for cultivators who supplied the materials, taking at most five pills per batch and including the Netherworld Sect’s two purchases among them.
• Wang Daoyuan refined a Golden Thunder Demon Extermination Talisman and tested it, finding that its lightning could threaten Violet Mansion Early Stage Cultivators and kill Foundation Establishment Peak Cultivators.
• Wang Daoyuan attended the Wang Clan’s Violet Mansion ceremony as guests from across the region, including Netherworld Sect elders, presented gifts.
• He Yuanqing arrived on behalf of True Man Lei Yan and said Lei Yan regarded Wang Daoyuan as half a disciple, then invited him to visit the Divine Weapon Pavilion when Wang Daoyin opened his Violet Mansion.
• Zhou Qi and Luo Xuanming worried that Wang Daoyuan might join the Divine Weapon Pavilion, weakening the Netherworld Sect’s influence over Qingli Commandery.

Wang Daoyuan and Wang Shouye celebrated their Violet Mansion breakthroughs as the Wang Clan held a wedding and patriarch succession ceremony. After the guests departed, Netherworld Sect elder Luo Xuanming discussed the sect’s concerns about the Wang Clan’s growing influence and delivered new instructions from the sect master.

• Wang Daoyuan agreed to visit the Divine Weapon Pavilion, and the Wang Clan held a Violet Mansion ceremony for him and Wang Shouye.
• Wang Daochang returned with his bride, completed the wedding rites, and received the patriarch’s token and seal from Twelfth Uncle.
• Luo Xuanming warned Zhou Qi that the Wang Clan’s growth and Wang Daoyuan’s possible apprenticeship to True Man Lei Yan could put the sect’s influence in Qingli Commandery at risk.
• Luo Xuanming asked Wang Daoyuan not to sell Golden Thunder Demon Extermination Talismans freely, and Wang Daoyuan agreed to restrict their sales.
• Wang Daoyuan gave Luo Xuanming the Golden Striped Tiger’s corpse and soul for three hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Luo Xuanming received a new message from the sect master and said another matter had to be discussed with Wang Daoyuan.

Wang Daoyuan rejected the idea of joining the Divine Weapon Pavilion and affirmed his loyalty to the Netherworld Sect. At the Wang Clan’s leadership handover, he reviewed the lineage’s rapid growth and reforms, then recommended Ninth Aunt for the vacant Great Elder position.

• Wang Daoyuan told Luo Xuanming that he would remain in the Netherworld Sect rather than join the Divine Weapon Pavilion, and Luo promised to relay his answer to the Sect Master.
• The Wang Clan’s old and new patriarchs handed over their records, and Twelfth Uncle departed to continue refining his Natal Artifact.
• Wang Daochang reported that the lineage had grown to over three hundred cultivators, expanded its industries and branch halls, and increased its annual income to 270,000 Spirit Stones.
• Wang Daoyuan praised the reforms and suggested Ninth Aunt for the vacant Great Elder position because she had experience managing lineage affairs.
• Ninth Aunt expressed surprise at the recommendation and said she had only managed the Garrison Hall.

Wang Daoyuan left the clan after Ninth Aunt became Great Elder and went to Dragon Fall Ridge to improve his alchemy and capture demon beasts alive. He forged a Monster Capturing Gourd, captured a Black Armored Golden-Toothed Crocodile, and fled in case the bell had alerted nearby beasts.

• Wang Daochang and the elders persuaded Ninth Aunt to become Great Elder, and she accepted the position.
• Wang Daoyuan left Jade Spring Peak for Dragon Fall Ridge, where he planned to refine Violet Rhyme Pills and forge a Monster Capturing Gourd.
• Wang Daoyuan forged a Low-grade Third-order Monster Capturing Gourd using Heavenly Fiend Gold and set out to find a suitable demon beast.
• Wang Daoyuan used Soul Chasing Bees to locate a Black Armored Golden-Toothed Crocodile and approached it at a nearby lake.
• Wang Daoyuan used the Soul Annihilation Bell to overcome the crocodile's resistance and capture it in the gourd, then hurried away in case other demon beasts had heard the bell.

Wang Daoyuan traded a living Black Armored Golden-Toothed Crocodile to Hall Master Gu for Contribution Points, then used his sect access to refine pills and choose new spells. He left the Merit Hall with the Soul Slaying Blade and Flame Wave Slash selected for study.

• Wang Daoyuan brought the living Black Armored Golden-Toothed Crocodile to Hall Master Gu, who subdued it, extracted its soul, and awarded him seven hundred thousand Contribution Points while returning its Demonic Core.
• Wang Daoyuan refined Foundation Establishment Pills at the Pill Hall, handed over two, and received one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Wang Daoyuan went to the Merit Hall to find a powerful divine-sense attack spell and another spell he could use openly.
• Wang Daoyuan selected the Soul Slaying Blade, which could breach a Violet Mansion and harm an opponent's soul without risking backlash.
• Wang Daoyuan also selected Flame Wave Slash, a Fire Attribute spell whose layered waves of flame could combine with his Divine Fire Burning Heaven Art.

Wang Daoyuan mastered new spells, reorganized his Spirit Fields, and improved his Violet Rhyme Pill alchemy before meeting Zhou Luan to learn what she had discovered about dragonkind. He received her records and was left considering why dragonkind so often appeared near Jade Spring Peak.

• Wang Daoyuan mastered the Soul Slaying Blade and Flame Wave Slash, then replaced old Spirit Plants in his Spirit Pearl Space with materials for higher-grade cultivation and alchemy.
• Wang Daoyuan spent months refining pills until he could produce Violet Rhyme Pills with a thirty-percent success rate and reduced Pill Toxin.
• After a year of cultivation, Wang Daoyuan met Zhou Luan at their old meeting place, where she surprised him with a disguised attack.
• Wang Daoyuan gave Zhou Luan twenty Violet Rhyme Pills and two hundred jars of Spirit Peach Dew, and she handed him records of dragonkind sightings from the past ten thousand years.
• Zhou Luan pointed out that dragonkind had appeared repeatedly near Jade Spring Peak, while Wang Daoyuan remained unable to explain the place’s connection to the dragon race.

Wang Daoyuan learned where dragonkind could be found and focused on strengthening himself and nurturing the White Tiger Blade. After seven years, he achieved a connection of hearts and minds with the sword.

• Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan drank together through the night, and he asked her to find information about fire-related Ancient Cultivators and their sites.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to Jade Pine Mountain and had Li Qingquan examine Zhou Luan's records of dragonkind sightings.
• Wang Daoyuan identified the Hidden Dragon River as the most practical place to seek dragonkind, but decided to improve his strength before attempting it.
• Wang Daoyuan cultivated with Violet Rhyme Pills and kept the White Tiger Blade in his Violet Mansion to nurture it beside his divine soul.
• After seven years, Wang Daoyuan could control the White Tiger Blade without consuming divine sense and sensed it as part of his body.

Wang Daoyuan mastered controlling the White Tiger Blade with spiritual power and learned that his brother Wang Daoyin had opened a powerful Violet Mansion. As preparations began for Daoyin’s ceremony at the Divine Weapon Pavilion, the Netherworld Sect warned Daoyuan that rival factions might target his brother and urged him to accept True Man Lei Yan as a master without joining the Pavilion.

• Wang Daoyuan tested the White Tiger Blade and successfully cast several sword spells using spiritual power alone, though he could not yet cast his most demanding techniques.
• Yi Changsheng invited Wang Daoyuan to Wang Daoyin’s Violet Mansion ceremony, revealing that Daoyin’s Violet Mansion Phenomenon was Violet Lightning Divine Flame and measured seven inches and eight fen.
• Wang Daoyuan accepted the invitation, learned that Zhao Liang and his family were also invited, and offered incense to his parents at the Lineage cemetery.
• Hall Master Gu told Wang Daoyuan that the Netherworld Sect supported him accepting True Man Lei Yan as his master while remaining a member of the Netherworld Sect.
• Hall Master Gu warned that disciples of True Person Xuanlei, True Person Ningshuang, and possibly True Person Kui Tian might challenge Wang Daoyin at the ceremony.

Wang Daoyuan traveled with his family and Hall Master Gu to the Divine Weapon Pavilion for a gathering and sparring matches. At Treasure Cauldron Mountain, he reunited with Wang Daoyin, who took him to meet his master, who planned to accept Wang Daoyuan as a registered disciple.

• Wang Daoyuan discussed the visiting sects’ disciples with Hall Master Gu, who offered to help if anything came up.
• Wang Daoyuan, Zhao Liang, Eighth Sister, and their child boarded a Divine Weapon Pavilion flying boat with Hall Master Gu and traveled toward the pavilion’s mountain gate.
• After more than twenty days, the group arrived at Treasure Cauldron Mountain, the Divine Weapon Pavilion’s artifact-refining center.
• Wang Daoyin greeted Wang Daoyuan and Zhao Liang, then explained that his master planned to accept Wang Daoyuan as a registered disciple.
• Wang Daoyin led the group to the summit and pointed out his master’s cave abode beneath a towering crimson tree in the basin below.

Wang Daoyuan visited True Man Lei Yan at Treasure Cauldron Mountain, where Lei Yan explained why he wanted him as a nominal disciple. Wang Daoyuan accepted so he could protect Wang Daoyin, and Lei Yan planned to announce the decision at Daoyin’s Violet Mansion ceremony.

• Wang Daoyin piloted Wang Daoyuan and the others to True Man Lei Yan’s cave abode beneath the fiery-red spirit tree, explaining Treasure Cauldron Mountain’s formations and declining spirit vein.
• True Man Lei Yan greeted Zhao Liang’s young son, named him Wang Mingting, and invited the group into his cave abode.
• True Man Lei Yan told Wang Daoyuan that he wanted to take him as a nominal disciple to protect Daoyin and the inheritance after Lei Yan’s death.
• Wang Daoyuan explained that joining Divine Weapon Pavilion could bring trouble to the Netherworld Sect and the Wang Clan, but Lei Yan assured him that he need not join the Pavilion.
• Wang Daoyuan accepted Lei Yan as his master to protect Daoyin, and Lei Yan said he would announce the matter at Daoyin’s Violet Mansion ceremony.