Chapter Summaries

Wang Daoyuan upgraded his Natal Artifacts and broke the defensive formation around the seventh courtyard, then sent Devour Spirit into the hall to investigate. There he discovered the dried corpse of a Mirage Dragon, a powerful spirit beast whose remains still produced dense clouds and mist.

• Wang Daoyuan raised all five of his Natal Artifacts to top-grade Fourth-order and used the Vermilion Bird Fan’s Gui Water Nether Flame to clear the mist around the defensive barrier.
• He used the Ghost Soul Compass to locate the barrier’s weakness, then shattered it with the White Tiger Blade and ten sword shadows.
• Wang Daoyuan sent Soul Chasing Bees into the courtyard, but they recoiled from a powerful presence within the main hall.
• He had Devour Spirit enter the hall under the protection of the Black Tortoise Bright Light Armor and Black Tortoise Shield, and found a motionless dragon-shaped corpse.
• Wang Daoyuan identified the dried corpse as a Mirage Dragon whose body still emitted spiritual power and Law Power, evidence that it had once been at least a Fifth-order spirit beast.

Wang Daoyuan searched the Myriad Beast Valley branch hall for its hidden vault and discovered that its hall master, Long Yuntian, had survived as an unusually intelligent refined corpse. The chapter ended with Long Yuntian recognizing Wang Daoyuan’s beast-taming art and asking whether he was a Myriad Beast Valley disciple.

• Wang Daoyuan found a hidden door beneath the hall and burned through its stone cover and artifact door with the Dust Returning Flame.
• Spirit Devourer’s probe was destroyed by a force below the hidden door, and Long Yuntian emerged after Wang Daoyuan sent both flames into the opening.
• Long Yuntian identified himself as the hall master of the Myriad Beast Valley Purple Gold River Branch Hall and attacked Spirit Devourer.
• Wang Daoyuan and Spirit Devourer concealed themselves, while Long Yuntian failed to locate them and stayed in the great hall.
• Wang Daoyuan summoned the Crimson Feather Crow, and Long Yuntian recognized his beast-taming art as a Myriad Beast Valley inheritance.

Wang Daoyuan fought Long Yuntian, a powerful refined corpse guarding the Purple Gold River branch, and wore him down with his artifacts and formations. Long Yuntian fled southeast, and Wang Daoyuan pursued him to eliminate the threat to the Lineage.

• Wang Daoyuan revealed the Golden Roc Phantom, and Long Yuntian recognized Divine Monarch Golden Roc's inheritance before questioning how Wang Daoyuan had reached the hidden valley.
• Long Yuntian saw through Wang Daoyuan's story and attacked him with streams of black qi, forcing Wang Daoyuan to fight back with Feather Blades.
• Wang Daoyuan concealed himself and used the Crimson Feather Crow and Vermilion Bird Fan to exhaust Long Yuntian, while discovering Pure Yin Energy in the refined corpse's black qi.
• Wang Daoyuan trapped Long Yuntian at the main hall's entrance with a defensive formation, then weakened him with the Five Elements Subduing Demon Seal and the Kirin Evil Suppressing Art.
• Long Yuntian escaped southeast instead of self-destructing, and Wang Daoyuan pursued him while leaving Devour Spirit to search for spiritual treasures.

Wang Daoyuan defeated Long Yuntian, the Corpse guarding Myriad Beast Valley’s Purple Gold River branch hall, and heard his final request before killing him. He scattered Long Yuntian’s ashes into the river and headed back to investigate the branch hall’s underground vault.

• Wang Daoyuan chased Long Yuntian through the mist and fought him with the Crimson Gold Flame until Long Yuntian’s defenses failed.
• Long Yuntian struck Wang Daoyuan with a punch, but Wang Daoyuan recovered and sent the Crimson Feather Crow after him.
• Long Yuntian asked Wang Daoyuan to deliver his Identity Token and the branch hall’s history to Myriad Beast Valley if the sect still existed, and to scatter his ashes into the Purple Gold River.
• Wang Daoyuan let the flames consume Long Yuntian, collected his Corpse Core and ashes, and agreed to honor his final request.
• Wang Daoyuan scattered Long Yuntian’s ashes into the river, then returned to the branch hall to investigate its underground cavern.

Wang Daoyuan and Devour Spirit explored the Purple Gold River branch hall’s underground vault, recovered its treasures, and discovered a rich collection of inheritances. The chapter ended with Wang Daoyuan storing the valuable records, including the Myriad Beast Secret Codex and True Dragon Body Tempering Art.

• Devour Spirit searched the underground vault and found Yin Yang Violet Jade, beast-control rings, and other surviving materials.
• Devour Spirit discovered a hidden chamber containing a Pure Yin spirit spring, Long Yuntian’s Identity Token, and a Golden Book about defending the branch hall.
• Wang Daoyuan shut down the branch hall’s formations and stored the mirage dragon corpse and vault treasures in the Spirit Pearl Space.
• Wang Daoyuan examined the inheritances and found the fifth-order Myriad Beast Secret Codex and the True Dragon Body Tempering Art, which Long Yuntian had cultivated.
• Wang Daoyuan stored the inheritances and continued reading the branch hall’s records, including the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Record.

Wang Daoyuan discovered that Cloud Wing carried the bloodline of a Soul Devouring Nether Tiger and learned how Yin Energy could help it grow. He cultivated the True Dragon Body Tempering Art, strengthened his body, repaired the Purple Gold River branch’s formation, and set out for Jade Spring Peak.

• Wang Daoyuan found in the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Record that Cloud Winged Tigers carried Soul Devouring Nether Tiger bloodline and needed Yin Energy to develop their unusual traits.
• Wang Daoyuan stored the books and bookshelves in the Spirit Pearl Space, then began cultivating the True Dragon Body Tempering Art with Dragon Qi from the Azure Dragon Pearl.
• After half a year of cultivation, Wang Daoyuan greatly strengthened his physical body and learned supplementary spells that imitated true dragons in battle.
• Wang Daoyuan repaired the seventh courtyard’s Defensive Formation and assigned Zheng Ping to guard the Purple Gold River branch.
• Wang Daoyuan left for Jade Spring Peak to test the results of his body tempering.

Wang Daoyuan returned from the Purple Gold River branch hall with valuable inheritances and the Corpse Core of Long Yuntian, then traveled to Treasure Cauldron Mountain to give the core to True Man Lei Yan. His master refused it, urging Wang Daoyuan to use it to pursue his own future.

• Wang Daoyuan brought the Mirage Dragon’s pearl and horn back from the branch hall and told Zhou Luan that he had killed Long Yuntian, who had survived as a refined corpse.
• After more than a month at Jade Spring Peak, Wang Daoyuan set out for Treasure Cauldron Mountain while Zhou Luan stayed behind to avoid exposing her location to Blood Shadow Headquarters.
• Wang Daoyuan traveled through the Zheng Kingdom in disguise and arrived at Treasure Cauldron Mountain, where he met True Man Lei Yan and Wang Mingting.
• Wang Daoyuan gave True Man Lei Yan Long Yuntian’s Corpse Core and explained that it could help a cultivator break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• True Man Lei Yan refused the Corpse Core, telling Wang Daoyuan to use it himself because his future was bright and his master had little time left.

Wang Daoyuan persuaded True Man Lei Yan to use the Corpse Core and other spiritual objects to prepare for forming a Nascent Soul, while assuring him that he had a way to leave the Northern Abyss Cultivation World. True Man Lei Yan arranged for Daoyin’s future and gave Wang Daoyuan a Pseudo Spirit Fire to nurture.

• Wang Daoyuan showed True Man Lei Yan True Man Ten Thousand Corpses' Sea Sightings Record and explained how he acquired the inheritance and that True Man Ten Thousand Corpses controlled the corpse refiners from the Yellow Springs Secret Realm.
• Wang Daoyuan convinced True Man Lei Yan to use the Corpse Core, and True Man Lei Yan explained that its Water Attribute spiritual power and Yin Energy could help balance the materials needed for his Nascent Soul.
• True Man Lei Yan left to obtain Metal Attribute spiritual objects from Junior Brother Yunhe, while Wang Daoyuan cut a small piece of Wutu Essence for him.
• True Man Lei Yan returned with a golden pearl and said he had arranged for Daoyin to move to Qingli Market and wanted Wang Daoyuan to pass on the Violet Lightning Divine Flame if he failed his tribulation.
• Wang Daoyuan gave True Man Lei Yan True Lord Hundred Spirits' secret art, and True Man Lei Yan created a Pseudo Spirit Fire and entrusted it to Wang Daoyuan to nurture.

Wang Daoyuan guarded True Man Lei Yan as he attempted to form his Nascent Soul in Heavenly Tribulation Valley, stopping rivals from disrupting the breakthrough. True Man Lei Yan successfully formed a three-inch Nascent Soul, while Wang Daoyuan remained wary of the Divine Weapon Pavilion’s internal divisions.

• True Man Lei Yan told Wang Daoyuan he was ready to attempt Nascent Soul formation, and they traveled to Heavenly Tribulation Valley instead of using the family’s secret realm.
• True Man Lei Yan refined and swallowed the Corpse Core, Wutu Essence, and a golden bead, then shattered his Golden Core to begin the breakthrough.
• True Man Xuanyan approached during True Man Lei Yan’s vulnerable moment, but Wang Daoyuan trapped him with Black Tortoise Purgatory and blocked another cultivator’s attempt to interfere.
• A black-robed Half-step Nascent Soul cultivator attacked Wang Daoyuan, but Wang Daoyuan’s sword phantoms dispersed the black light, and True Man Yunhe persuaded the cultivator to stand down.
• True Man Lei Yan’s divine soul absorbed the Golden Core and Violet Mansion fragments, merged with Violet Lightning Divine Flame, and became a three-inch Nascent Soul.

True Man Lei Yan endured the Five Elements Lightning Tribulation and the Divine Ability Tribulation, leaving him alive but unconscious as the Heaven and Earth Boon gathered. Wang Daoyuan confronted True Man Mo Yang when he tried to strike, and Mo Yang backed down and departed.

• True Man Lei Yan used the Violet Gold Exquisite Pagoda to withstand the Five Elements Lightning Tribulation and absorb its spiritual energy.
• True Man Lei Yan endured the Divine Ability Tribulation with his Violet Lightning Divine Flame, but his Nascent Soul was left charred and unconscious.
• The tribulation cloud turned violet-gold, signaling that True Man Lei Yan had overcome the tribulation and that the Heaven and Earth Boon was imminent.
• True Man Mo Yang prepared to attack the injured True Man Lei Yan, but Wang Daoyuan summoned his divine abilities and several flames to block him.
• True Man Mo Yang acknowledged that he could not defeat Wang Daoyuan quickly and left for Treasure Cauldron Mountain.

True Man Lei Yan completed his Nascent Soul tribulation, and Wang Daoyuan absorbed the remaining Heaven and Earth Boon. After Lei Yan explained the Divine Weapon Pavilion’s history, he agreed to exile True Man Xuanyan and the others to the Southern Wilderness, where True Man Yunhe confirmed that exile was already the greatest mercy.

• True Man Lei Yan’s Nascent Soul absorbed the purple-gold tribulation light and returned to his body, completing his breakthrough as Wang Daoyuan took in the remaining Heaven and Earth Boon.
• Wang Daoyuan strengthened his Golden Core and body while True Man Lei Yan regained his youthful appearance and vitality.
• True Man Xuanyan accepted his defeat and begged Lei Yan to spare his branch’s inheritance, and Lei Yan said the Divine Weapon Pavilion would decide their punishment under its rules.
• True Man Lei Yan explained how the Divine Weapon Pavilion was formed and why his branch retained special status despite its decline.
• Wang Daoyuan proposed sending the hostile Golden Core Cultivators to the Southern Wilderness, and Lei Yan agreed to exile them to redeem their crimes through meritorious service.
• True Man Yunhe said sect rules called for Xuanyan and the others to die, making exile the greatest mercy.

Wang Daoyuan helped host True Man Lei Yan’s Nascent Soul Ceremony at Treasure Cauldron Mountain, where leaders from across the Northern Abyss Cultivation World gathered to congratulate the new Nascent Soul Cultivator. The chapter ends as True Man Lei Yan begins explaining his breakthrough to the assembled Golden Core Cultivators.

• Wang Daoyuan stayed with True Man Lei Yan for three months to seek cultivation guidance before the ceremony was held at Treasure Cauldron Mountain.
• Wang Daoyuan received visiting cultivators and dignitaries, including Song Yan, the Sixth Prince, and representatives from the Zhao, Qin, and Zhou Kingdoms.
• King Linjiang proposed that Wang Daoyuan take Zhou Jingyan as a princess consort, and Wang Daoyuan privately revealed that his dao companion was already from a distant branch of the Zhou Clan.
• True Person Wujian and Kui Jian arrived from the Taiyi Sword Sect, bringing a reproduced Taiyi Divine Sword Diagram as their gift.
• True Man Lei Yan welcomed the more than one hundred Golden Core Cultivators and began expounding on his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm.

After True Man Lei Yan’s lecture, Song Yan sought permission for the Song Family to trade with the Divine Weapon Pavilion, while True Person Wujian discussed threats in the Southern Wilderness and the restoration of the Taiyi Divine Sword. Wang Daoyuan agreed to help when his Grand Unity Golden Flame became powerful enough, and Lei Yan gave him first choice of the gifts he had received.

• Song Yan asked True Man Lei Yan and Wang Daoyuan to let the Song Family trade with the Divine Weapon Pavilion, and Lei Yan approved after Wang Daoyuan supported the request.
• True Person Wujian told Lei Yan that Devil Race remnants and Yin Demon Devil Cultivators had grown more active around Absolute Heaven Abyss, and Lei Yan proposed using Blood Demon Devil Cultivators to draw out their hidden leaders.
• True Person Wujian asked Wang Daoyuan about his Grand Unity Golden Flame and explained that it might help restore the Taiyi Divine Sword.
• Wang Daoyuan said his flame was not yet strong enough to smelt Taiyi Divine Gold, but agreed to help when it had advanced further.
• Lei Yan gave Wang Daoyuan two storage rings of gifts and told him to take what he wanted before sharing the rest with his fellow disciples.

Wang Daoyuan inspected the gifts from his Nascent Soul ceremony and obtained valuable sword and Golden Roc inheritances. After leaving most gifts for his fellow disciples, he returned to Qingli Commandery with his master’s support and new treasures.

• Wang Daoyuan studied True Person Wujian’s Taiyi Divine Sword Diagram and found its artistic conception differed from his own copy.
• Wang Daoyuan examined the Zhou Clan’s five-page Golden Roc Subdues Dragon Technique, which included improved Feather Blade, Dragon Seizing Claw, Wing Blade, and escape techniques.
• Wang Daoyuan told True Man Lei Yan that Zhou Luan’s situation had made him Zhou Jingyuan’s bargain uncle-in-law, and Lei Yan gave him secret Dual Cultivation arts.
• Wang Daoyuan claimed the Taiyi Divine Sword Diagram, the Golden Roc inheritance, and three Demonic Beast Golden Cores, leaving the other gifts for his fellow disciples.
• Wang Daoyuan gave True Man Lei Yan a Jade Slip and a Pseudo Spirit Fire of Violet Lightning Divine Flame, then left Treasure Cauldron Mountain while keeping Zhou Luan’s identity concealed.

Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan planned their future together, and Zhou Luan became pregnant while preparing to consolidate her Lineage’s influence over Blood Shadow. The chapter left them awaiting their child as aquatic Demon Beasts grew restless in the Wan Chuan River.

• Back at Jade Spring Peak, Wang Daoyuan reassured Zhou Luan that he had refused King Linjiang of Zhou’s marriage proposal and discussed making her identity public, but she chose to wait until Elder Xu died and aimed to take control of Blood Shadow Headquarters.
• Zhou Luan said she would stay in the Northern Abyss Cultivation World to protect their Lineage while Wang Daoyuan traveled beyond it, and insisted they leave two children to inherit Blood Shadow and Qingli Commandery.
• Wang Daoyuan gave Zhou Luan advanced Dual Cultivation techniques, and she broke through to the late Golden Core realm within half a year.
• After another year, Zhou Luan discovered she was pregnant, and Wang Daoyuan supplied her with life force and spirit fruits to nourish the child.
• Zhou Luan warned that her phoenix blood might make the pregnancy last one or two years, while Wang Daoyuan offered to manage her intelligence network and she rejected his offer.
• Twelfth Uncle reported that fourth-rank aquatic Demon Beasts had begun appearing in the Wan Chuan River, though they had not attacked Wanchuan Market.

Wang Daoyuan lost a batch of Golden Core Pills when Lu Yuan reported that demon beasts were threatening Qingli Commandery, then continued refining and made one pill. When the beasts attacked Returning Goose Market, Wang Daoyuan killed a black bear and subdued the others, demanding to know why they had come.

• Wang Daoyuan began refining Golden Core Pills after raising his Marrow Foundation Cultivation Pill success rate to sixty percent.
• A message from Lu Yuan distracted Wang Daoyuan and ruined a batch of pills; Lu Yuan reported that demon beasts threatened a Beast Tide unless humans helped them.
• Wang Daoyuan told Lu Yuan to warn the demon beasts that Qingli Commandery would not aid them and would exterminate their clans if they attacked.
• Wang Daoyuan successfully refined one Golden Core Pill and received another message that demon beasts were causing trouble at Returning Goose Market.
• Wang Daoyuan went to the market with his pill furnace, killed a black bear with the White Tiger Blade, and frightened the remaining demon beasts into submission.

Wang Daoyuan drove Cold Flood Dragon and the Demon Race from Returning Goose Market after refusing to help them fight corpse refiners, then returned to Jade Spring Peak to stabilize his Golden Core Pill. Two months later, he completed the pill, giving the Wang Clan a path toward becoming a first-rate power.

• Wang Daoyuan demanded the black bear's corpse as compensation, rejected Cold Flood Dragon's request for help against the corpse refiners, and threatened the Demon Race with True Man Lei Yan's backing.
• Cold Flood Dragon withdrew with the other Demon Race members, and Wang Daoyuan returned to Jade Spring Peak after telling Lu Yuan to manage Returning Goose Market as usual.
• Wang Daoyuan stabilized the Golden Core Pill in his furnace while Zhou Luan praised him and ate the black bear paw prepared by Eighth Sister.
• Two months later, Wang Daoyuan completed the Golden Core Pill and recognized that his alchemy could help the Wang Clan become a first-rate power.

Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan welcomed their son in the Underground Cave Mansion, where he used his abilities to make the place safe for the birth. They discovered the baby had a single Fire Spiritual Root, named him Wang Mingchen, and Zhou Luan explained why she feared losing the family she had found.

• Zhou Luan went into labor, and Wang Daoyuan summoned Eighth Sister to help deliver the baby.
• Wang Daoyuan transformed the cave’s fire spiritual energy and set up protections while Eighth Sister delivered the child.
• Eighth Sister brought Wang Daoyuan his newborn son, and he secretly asked her not to reveal Zhou Luan’s identity.
• Wang Daoyuan moved Zhou Luan and the baby to a cave beside Jade Dragon Stream and confirmed the child had a single Fire Spiritual Root.
• Wang Daoyuan named the boy Wang Mingchen and joked about giving him the childhood name Dogzi.
• Zhou Luan told Wang Daoyuan that her losses and isolation made her afraid of being abandoned, so she kept watch over him.

Wang Daoyuan learned that a Spiritual Energy Tide was expected in the Hidden Dragon River, drawing many fourth-order Demon Beasts upstream, and went to Wanchuan Market to guard against them. After several days waiting outside the market, he spotted a mid-grade fourth-order giant crab repeatedly prowling nearby.

• Wang Daoyuan comforted Zhou Luan over her jealousy, and their son Wang Mingchen grew unusually strong and became fascinated with the Earth Fire Chamber.
• Twelfth Uncle reported that fourth-order Demon Beasts had appeared in the Wan Chuan River, and Zhou Luan linked their movements to the approaching Spiritual Energy Tide in the Hidden Dragon River.
• Wang Daoyuan decided to seek fifth-order spiritual energy and Law Power, then left his family to go to Wanchuan Market.
• Wang Daoyuan found the market locked down under its Defensive Formation and concealed himself outside to intercept Demon Beasts without drawing a larger group.
• After waiting for several days, Wang Daoyuan encountered a mid-grade fourth-order giant crab that kept wandering near Wanchuan Market.

Wang Daoyuan killed a fourth-order middle-grade crab threatening Wanchuan Market and returned home to Zhou Luan and their son, Wang Mingchen. After learning that Zhou State needed help against a gathering of powerful aquatic Demon Beasts, he traveled to the mouth of the Hidden Dragon River, where his master had already arrived.

• Wang Daoyuan lured the giant crab into attacking Wanchuan Market, trapped it in Black Tortoise Purgatory, and burned it to death.
• Wang Daoyuan warned the aquatic Demon Beasts away from Wanchuan Market, then gave Twelfth Uncle three Marrow Foundation Cultivation Pills and returned home with the crab claws.
• Wang Daoyuan visited Zhou Luan and Wang Mingchen, then learned that Zhou State had requested aid against the Demon Beasts gathering near the Hidden Dragon River.
• Wang Daoyuan delayed a few days at home before traveling upstream, passing Wanchuan Market and continuing toward the Hidden Dragon River.
• Wang Daoyuan reached the crowded river mouth and sensed that his master had already arrived.