Chapter Summaries

Wang Daoyuan refined reusable talismans for the Wang Clan and opened an Earth Fire Chamber beneath Jade Spring Peak. After assigning the remaining construction work to his clansmen, he left for Returning Goose Market to resume cultivation.

• Wang Daoyuan refined a Heavenly Fire Prairie Token after three failures, then made six more to accompany the Heaven Sealing Sword Prison Talismans.
• Wang Daoyuan summoned Twelfth Uncle and Third Brother, entrusted them with the talismans, and said he would build an Earth Fire Chamber before entering seclusion.
• Wang Daoyuan chose a site on Jade Spring Peak’s southeastern slope and excavated an underground space, finding that the lava below was no stronger than high-grade Third-order.
• Wang Daoyuan installed a Low-grade Fourth-order Fire Control Great Formation, broke through to the lava, and carved a circular corridor and small Earth Fire Chambers.
• Wang Daoyuan told Third Brother to have the Formation Hall clansmen finish channeling the earth fire and protecting the chambers, then left Jade Spring Peak for Returning Goose Market.

Wang Daoyuan stayed with Zhou Luan as she broke through to the Mid Golden Core stage and condensed the Crimson Luan Nirvana Fire. After she awoke, she explained its healing power and offered to help him create a Pseudo Spirit Fire with it.

• Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan discussed replacing aging Blood Shadow members with disciples from the Lineage's Dark Hall and moving her cultivation to Jade Spring Peak after she condensed a Spirit Fire.
• A year later, Zhou Luan began breaking through in her sleep, and Wang Daoyuan supported her by releasing Fire Attribute Spiritual Power.
• Zhou Luan reached the Mid Golden Core stage and condensed a Spirit Fire in the form of a Crimson Luan, which merged into her glabella when she awoke.
• Zhou Luan noticed Wang Daoyuan's Spirit Fire aura and learned that he had created the Crimson Sun True Fire from a Pseudo Spirit Fire.
• Zhou Luan offered to use her Crimson Luan Nirvana Fire, which could rapidly restore injuries through a nirvana secret art, to help Wang Daoyuan condense a Pseudo Spirit Fire.

Wang Daoyuan told Zhou Luan about the costs of her Nirvana Secret Technique and planned to move her to Jade Spring Peak. He then revealed his plan to take over two Blood Shadow branches and place Wang Clan cultivators inside them, leaving the clan to prepare recruits for the operation.

• Zhou Luan explained that using the Nirvana Secret Technique consumed true essence and blood essence, could damage the body and cultivation, and took years to recover from without special methods.
• Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan agreed to move to Jade Spring Peak, where he would tell the clan leaders about Blood Shadow and arrange for Zhou Luan to live in the Earth Fire Chamber.
• Wang Daoyuan told Twelfth Uncle and Third Brother that he planned to place the Wang Clan's Dark Hall cultivators in the Qingli and Northern Mountain Blood Shadow branches and turn them into Wang Clan branches.
• Third Brother proposed that capable cultivators from the Five Elements Secret Realm conceal their identities and join Blood Shadow, and Wang Daoyuan agreed.
• Wang Daochang brought Wang Daojian and six Foundation Establishment cultivators to Wang Daoyuan, who directed them to stay at the Immortal Welcoming Tower in Returning Goose Market and await further instructions.

Wang Daoyuan brought Zhou Luan from the Northern Mountain Branch to Jade Spring Peak and established a secluded cave dwelling for her near the lava. Zhou Luan began nurturing Crimson Luan Nirvana Fire there after learning the method for condensing Pseudo Spirit Fire.

• Wang Daoyuan arranged for Cui Ming to register the seven Wang Clan infiltrators in Blood Shadow and assigned them under Cold Crow.
• Wang Daoyuan asked Zhou Luan to leave the Northern Mountain Branch and become his Fortress Bride, and she agreed to return with him after packing her belongings and spirit plants.
• Wang Daoyuan introduced Zhou Luan to Fifth Uncle-Grandfather, Twelfth Uncle, and Third Brother, then brought her to pay respects to the ancestors and his parents.
• Wang Daoyuan built Zhou Luan a hidden cave dwelling at the bottom of the Earth Fire Chamber, completing its fire and water formations and restoring its furnishings.
• Zhou Luan studied the Record of Fire Control and placed a wisp of Crimson Luan Nirvana Fire in the Fire Eye to nurture it.

Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan prepared the Crimson Luan Nirvana Fire for future use and discussed ways to awaken Lesser Divine Abilities. Their private moment was interrupted by news that six refined corpses were heading east, and Wang Daoyuan checked Spirit Devourer's memories for information about the corpse refiners.

• Zhou Luan split part of the Crimson Luan Nirvana Fire's Fire Seed, and Wang Daoyuan stored it in the Meteorite Fire Control Gourd to nurture it into a Pseudo Spirit Fire.
• Wang Daoyuan considered using the Crimson Luan Nirvana Fire to nurture his Vermillion Bird Manifestation, following methods recorded in the Divine Ability Essentials.
• Zhou Luan gave Wang Daoyuan the Nirvana Secret Technique and Crimson Luan Fire Control Evasion, which could complement his existing evasion art.
• Zhou Luan reported that six refined corpses were heading east, and Wang Daoyuan said he could handle them and most Demon Beasts with his current abilities.
• Wang Daoyuan teased Zhou Luan about handing him the intelligence organization, but she accused him of pursuing other women and warned she would watch him more closely.
• Wang Daoyuan sensed that Spirit Devourer had entered his panoramic perception range and examined its memories for the corpse refiners' plans.

Wang Daoyuan learned that corpse refiners were recovering in Ghostly Soul Cave while Demon Beasts began troubling the Skyrend Mountain Range, so he strengthened his abilities and prepared for danger. When Gu Wangzong asked him to support the war at Wucheng Pass, Wang Daoyuan refused, citing the threat to Yannan Commandery.

• Spirit Devourer revealed that corpse refiners had defeated Demon Beasts near Ghostly Soul Cave, though the Black Flame Tiger wounded them before they escaped inside.
• Wang Daoyuan warned Wang Daochang to prepare Dragon Fall Ridge and spent a month learning the Nirvana Secret Technique and Crimson Luan Fire Control Evasion.
• Wang Daoyuan used spirit fire to strengthen all five divine beast manifestations, spending more than three months cultivating as Thunder Ape and Cloudwing handled minor Demon Beast trouble.
• Gu Wangzong arrived and asked Wang Daoyuan to send cultivators to support the Netherworld Sect at Wucheng Pass, where Song cultivators had breached three fortresses.
• Wang Daoyuan refused to leave Yannan Commandery, explaining that the recovering corpse refiners and scattered Demon Beasts threatened his clan’s lands.

Wang Daoyuan sold Golden Thunder Demon Extermination Talismans to Gu Wangzong and agreed to refine more for the Netherworld Sect as war loomed. He prepared the Wang Clan for possible upheaval, then learned that Shi Zhenbang had arrived as the Ninth Prince’s envoy.

• Gu Wangzong negotiated to buy Wang Daoyuan’s third-order high-grade Golden Thunder Demon Extermination Talismans and commission more, and Wang Daoyuan sold him fifty talismans for five million Spirit Stones.
• Wang Daoyuan warned Wang Mingshan to prepare the clan for a possible Beast Tide, recall clan members, protect those remaining, and stockpile spirit materials.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to his cave dwelling, cultivated his secret art, and refined talismans for more than a month.
• Third Brother reported that Shi Zhenbang had arrived from Green Willow Continent as an old acquaintance and the Ninth Prince’s envoy.

Wang Daoyuan met Shi Zhenbang to discuss the Ninth Prince’s plans for Zhao Kingdom’s war and offered conditional support based on the balance of power. Shi Zhenbang then presented cultivation treasures for Zhao Liang and Wang Daoshu, leaving Wang Daoyuan wary of the Ninth Prince’s intentions toward the Wang Clan.

• Wang Daoyuan met Shi Zhenbang in Mirror Iron Mountain and correctly inferred that the Ninth Prince wanted to recruit him for an uprising.
• Wang Daoyuan rejected the Long-legged Prince’s promises and said the Wang Clan would support the Ninth Prince only if his forces could contend with the Three Great Sects.
• Wang Daoyuan warned Shi Zhenbang that the Myriad Spirit Sect, Netherworld Sect, and Crimson Sun Palace each had hidden strength.
• Shi Zhenbang gave Wang Daoyuan Dragon Pearl Jade Marrow and Yin Yang Violet Jade for Zhao Liang and Wang Daoshu to improve their cultivation.
• Wang Daoyuan asked whether the Ninth Prince wanted Zhao Liang to return to the Zhao Clan or intended to replace the Wang Clan.

Wang Daoyuan rejected the Ninth Prince’s attempt to give Zhao Liang and Eighth Sister cultivation treasures directly, exchanging talismans for them to protect the Wang Clan’s authority. With war approaching, he began preparing the lineage and the Military Governor’s Mansion for battle by helping promising members open Violet Mansions and planning rewards to secure Yannan Commandery’s support.

• Wang Daoyuan told Shi Zhenbang that Zhao Liang’s line could only return to the Zhao Clan after the Zhao Clan restored the kingdom, then exchanged fifty Golden Thunder Demon Extermination Talismans for the Dragon Pearl Jade Marrow and Yin Yang Violet Jade.
• After Shi Zhenbang left, Wang Daoyuan judged that a battle was nearing and worried that the Returning Origin Sword Sect might attack Yannan Commandery from the north.
• Wang Daoyuan gave Zhao Liang and Eighth Sister the cultivation treasures he had obtained, explaining that he had exchanged for them and urging them to prepare to open their Violet Mansions.
• Wang Daochang told Wang Daoyuan that Wang Shouze and Wang Mingshan had not yet grasped the threshold of becoming Violet Mansion Cultivators.
• Wang Daoyuan went to Qingli Market to handle the Military Governor’s Mansion’s affairs and planned to use Foundation Establishment Pills, spirit veins, mines, and shops to win the loyalty of local lineages and Rogue Cultivators.

Wang Daoyuan prepared the Military Governor’s Mansion for an imminent conflict between the Zhao princes and helped four cultivators comprehend and open their Violet Mansions. The chapter ended with all four breakthroughs complete, though their Violet Mansion prototypes differed greatly in size and Wang Mingshan manifested a Jade Scale Flood Dragon.

• Wang Daoyuan ordered Wang Mingzhi to auction Foundation Establishment Pills and establish a Contribution Point system for the Military Governor’s Mansion.
• Wang Daoyuan told Fifth Uncle-Grandfather that he had pledged conditional support to the Ninth Prince, then arranged defenses and moved some Demon Slaying Division cultivators to Golden Goose City.
• After a year, Zhao Liang and Eighth Sister reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, and Wang Daoyuan used his Violet Mansion Phenomenon to help them and two others comprehend the Violet Mansion Realm.
• Wang Daoyuan learned that the Sixth Prince’s faction was gathering near the Returning Origin Sword Sect and sent the Netherworld Sect a warning and a request to support Golden Goose City.
• Zhao Liang, Eighth Sister, Wang Shouze, and Wang Mingshan opened their Violet Mansions on the same day under Wang Daoyuan’s protection.
• The four formed Violet Mansion prototypes, with Wang Mingshan’s the largest and accompanied by a jade-green Jade Scale Flood Dragon.

Wang Mingshan, Little Uncle, Eighth Sister, and Zhao Liang all broke through to the Violet Mansion Realm, though Zhao Liang struggled to overcome his heart demons. Wang Daoyuan then went to Returning Goose Market to confront Li Qingyuan, whose disrespectful words led to a violent clash.

• Wang Mingshan manifested a Jade Scale Flood Dragon Violet Mansion Phenomenon and reached the Violet Mansion Early Stage alongside Little Uncle and Eighth Sister.
• Zhao Liang endured a day of heart demons before entering his Violet Mansion, overcoming the tribulation and reaching the Violet Mansion Realm.
• Eighth Sister and Zhao Liang regained youthful appearances, and news of four Wang Clan Violet Mansion Cultivators spread throughout Yannan Commandery.
• Zhou Luan disguised herself as a young gentleman and offered to help Wang Daoyuan fend off enemies near Wanchuan Market.
• Lu Yuan informed Wang Daoyuan that Li Qingyuan wanted to meet him, so Wang Daoyuan rode to Returning Goose Market.
• Li Qingyuan invoked the Fierce Emperor's authority and angered Wang Daoyuan, who blasted him into a wall and threatened to kill him and destroy the Returning Origin Sword Sect if he showed further disrespect.

Wang Daoyuan rejected Long-legged Prince’s demands and prepared Golden Goose City for a possible attack while arranging for Zhou Luan to support him in secret. Half a month later, as the conflict began, Shen Zhaoxing reported that unidentified cultivators had appeared outside the city and requested reinforcements.

• Li Qingyuan told Wang Daoyuan that Long-legged Prince demanded the Wang Clan lead the assault on the Netherworld Sect and threatened to subjugate them if they refused.
• Wang Daoyuan sent a warning that the territory around Golden Goose City belonged to him and that he would kill any Golden Core Cultivators who entered it.
• Wang Daoyuan inspected Golden Goose City’s defenses, ordered Shen Zhaoxing to stay vigilant, and arranged reinforcements from Jade Spring Peak.
• Wang Daoyuan informed Luo Jiuyou of Long-legged Prince’s recruitment attempt, while Zhou Luan prepared to fight without revealing her clan’s inheritance.
• Half a month later, Zhou Luan reported that Returning Origin Sword Sect was assembling cultivators, and Shen Zhaoxing requested aid after unknown cultivators appeared outside Golden Goose City.

Wang Daoyuan suspected the attack on Golden Goose City was a ploy, so he scouted the area and unleashed his Soul Chasing Bees against the enemy cultivators. The swarm devastated the probing force, while the Zhao Clan’s larger scheme remained unknown.

• Wang Daoyuan warned Fifth Uncle-Grandfather to activate the market towns’ defensive formations, informed Luo Jiuyou of the Zhao Clan’s move, and told Zhou Luan to search for the Zhao Clan’s Golden Core Cultivators.
• Wang Daoyuan concealed himself near Golden Goose City and sent more than twenty thousand Soul Chasing Bees to scout and attack.
• Shen Zhaoxing stayed by Golden Goose City’s formation core while its defenders held the walls and cleared troublemakers inside the city.
• The Soul Chasing Bees ambushed more than a hundred Foundation Establishment Cultivators, killing or wounding nearly half before pursuing the fleeing survivors.
• The bees surrounded and killed an elderly Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer Cultivator, and the rest of the enemy force faced imminent defeat.

Wang Daoyuan and Long-legged Prince's forces clashed near Golden Goose City, while Zhou Luan tracked the Zhao family's Golden Core Cultivators. Wang Daoyuan ambushed the isolated Fire Attribute cultivator and captured him alive.

• Two Low-grade Third-order flying warships attacked the Soul Chasing Bees, forcing Wang Daoyuan to order the swarm to retreat toward Golden Goose City.
• Demon Extermination Crossbows drove the warships back, and Long-legged Prince's forces waited beyond the city's range for its defensive formation to weaken.
• Zhou Luan located three Zhao family Golden Core Cultivators and helped Wang Daoyuan choose the weaker Fire Attribute cultivator as their first target.
• Wang Daoyuan wore the Black Demon Robe and used the Five Elements Subduing Demon Seal to ambush the crimson-robed cultivator.
• The Demon Seal broke the cultivator's Natal Artifact and knocked him unconscious, leaving Wang Daoyuan with a living hostage.

Wang Daoyuan captured Zhao Lingyan and used him to force the Zhao Clan cultivators to negotiate rather than attack. He secured their promise to withdraw from Wang Clan territory and offered compensation, leaving the ransom terms under discussion.

• Wang Daoyuan burned the spiritual power from the unconscious Zhao Lingyan and sealed his Golden Core to prevent him from detonating it.
• A blue-robed Zhao Clan cultivator attacked Wang Daoyuan with Gui Water Divine Lightning, but Wang blocked the blast and threatened Zhao Lingyan’s life.
• The blue-robed cultivator demanded that Wang Daoyuan join the Zhao Clan’s campaign against the Netherworld Sect, and Wang refused, warning that the times had changed.
• A long-bearded Zhao Clan cultivator intervened to stop the fight, and Wang Daoyuan cited True Man Lei Yan’s impending arrival to discourage further aggression.
• The blue-robed cultivator offered five hundred High-grade Spirit Stones and a map of Skyrend Mountain Range mineral veins in exchange for Zhao Lingyan and promised to withdraw Zhao Clan forces from Wang Clan territory.

Wang Daoyuan accepted five hundred High-grade Spirit Stones and a mine vein map in exchange for releasing Zhao Lingyan, then drove the Zhao Clan cultivators from his territory. Back at Jade Spring Peak, he examined the map and found a huge Silver Light Profound Iron mine vein near the Wang Clan’s territory.

• Wang Daoyuan accepted the Spirit Stones and mine vein map after deciding not to risk angering the Zhao Clan cultivators.
• Wang Daoyuan removed the Crimson Luan Nirvana Fire from Zhao Lingyan and freed him after confirming the map was genuine.
• The long-bearded cultivator persuaded the blue-robed cultivator to withdraw, and they took the wounded Zhao Lingyan north.
• Zhou Luan reunited with Wang Daoyuan, and they went to Golden Goose City to handle the aftermath before returning to Jade Spring Peak.
• Wang Daoyuan studied the map and found a large Third-order Silver Light Profound Iron mine vein less than three hundred li south of Golden Tiger Mountain.

Wang Daoyuan considered how to secure a Silver Light Profound Iron mine and managed the unrest spreading across Yannan Commandery. After receiving a plea from Fierce Tooth King, he met the injured Black Flame Tiger Yan Hui to treat him.

• Zhou Luan suggested drawing a stronger spirit vein to the Silver Light Profound Iron mine, and Wang Daoyuan agreed to consider it after the demon beasts settled down.
• Wang Daoyuan gave Zhou Luan more than fifty jin of Soul Chasing Bee honey as her reward.
• Wang Daoyuan arranged for a few skilled rogue cultivators to join the Military Governor's Mansion and had his Soul Chasing Bees kill troublemakers in Yannan Commandery.
• Fierce Tooth King asked Wang Daoyuan to help Yan Hui, an injured high-grade Fourth-order Black Flame Tiger, whose wounds had worsened after a fight with a corpse-refining puppet.
• Wang Daoyuan went to meet Fierce Tooth King and Yan Hui while Zhou Luan secretly followed and waited more than a hundred li away.

Wang Daoyuan treated Yan Hui’s wounds, only to discover that Yellow Springs Water had entered his body and was weakening him from within. He found a dangerous droplet of it in Yan Hui’s heart and contained it with Life Spirit Fire.

• Wang Daoyuan recognized Yan Hui as the Black Flame Tiger who had fought the corpse puppet and agreed to help heal him.
• Wang Daoyuan used Life Spirit Fire to remove the death qi from Yan Hui’s wounds, leaving behind harmless Yin Energy.
• Yan Hui planned to return to Ghostly Soul Cave, but Wang Daoyuan and Fierce Tooth King persuaded him to recover and gather allies first.
• Yan Hui’s wounds reopened and began leaking Yellow Springs Water, so he trusted Wang Daoyuan to temper his body with Life Spirit Fire.
• Wang Daoyuan found a Yellow Springs Water droplet in Yan Hui’s heart that was absorbing his blood qi and true essence, and he contained it with Life Spirit Fire.

Wang Daoyuan removed the Yellow Springs Water Bead that was poisoning Yan Hui and destroyed the essence soul inside it. After Zhou Luan joined him and they headed south, the hidden old man behind the corpse puppets prepared another bead and vowed revenge.

• Wang Daoyuan used Life Spirit Fire to purge the Yellow Springs Water from Yan Hui's blood and revealed that a Yellow Springs Water Bead was lodged in his heart.
• At Yan Hui's direction, Wang Daoyuan moved the bead from his heart to his right arm, where Yan Hui cut it out.
• Wang Daoyuan tempered the bead with Life Spirit Fire and Crimson Luan Nirvana Fire, destroying its essence soul and freeing Yan Hui from the secret art.
• Ming Xin called to Wang Daoyuan, who quickly flew south; Zhou Luan joined him and teased him about his time with Ming Xin.
• Beside the Yellow Springs, a withered old man cursed Wang Daoyuan for ruining his plans and fused an essence soul into a new earth-yellow water bead.

Wang Daoyuan helped Twelfth Uncle prepare to form his core after he reached Violet Mansion peak and comprehended the Water Attribute Law. Twelfth Uncle began Core Formation at Jade Spring Peak, and a Golden Core phantom appeared as his heavenly tribulation gathered overhead.

• Wang Daoyuan learned that Twelfth Uncle had reached Violet Mansion peak and expected him to become the Wang Clan's next Golden Core Cultivator.
• Twelfth Uncle secluded himself beside the dragonfish corpse and comprehended the Water Attribute Law in one year.
• Wang Daoyuan gave Twelfth Uncle defensive magic tools and arranged for Jade Spring Peak's residents and spirit beasts to evacuate before Core Formation.
• Twelfth Uncle cultivated beside Jade Dragon Spring until a six-inch-eight-point Golden Core phantom appeared above him.
• A twenty-li-wide tribulation cloud formed over Jade Dragon Spring, while its area of heavenly might left the Earth Fire Chamber unaffected.