Chapter Summaries

The White-Clad Spear King, a Half-Step Heavenly Monarch, appeared during the battle and went straight to Chen Changqing. He took Chen Changqing’s Heavenly Thunder Twin Swords, fused them into the Heavenly Thunder Sword, and examined its blade without explaining why.

• The White-Clad Spear King appeared, and Hua Xing, Long Ao, Bai Suxin, and the other cultivators recognized his immense power and reputation.
• The White-Clad Spear King fixed his gaze on Chen Changqing and appeared before him in an instant, leaving everyone wondering about their connection.
• The White-Clad Spear King took the Heavenly Thunder Twin Swords from Chen Changqing and fused them into the Immortal Artifact, the Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• The White-Clad Spear King stroked the Heavenly Thunder Sword’s blade as thunder Dao intent swirled around his finger, while Chen Changqing wondered how he knew the weapon.

Chen Changqing discovered that the White-Clad Spear King was his Mount Shu martial uncle, a Half-Step Heavenly Monarch, turning the confrontation in his favor. The White-Clad Spear King then seized Old Ancestor Blood River for attacking Chen Changqing.

• The White-Clad Spear King learned that Chen Changqing was Chen Yuan’s disciple and revealed that he was also from Mount Shu and Chen Yuan’s peer.
• Chen Changqing bowed to the White-Clad Spear King as his martial uncle, while the onlookers realized the alliance had changed the situation.
• Hua Xing felt relieved, while Long Ao, Bai Suxin, Zhu Xiao, Hua Qianmei, and Old Ancestor Blood River reacted with unease or relief over the White-Clad Spear King’s arrival.
• The White-Clad Spear King explained that he had sensed a Mount Shu disciple nearby and come to investigate.
• The White-Clad Spear King pressed Old Ancestor Blood River to his knees, lifted him by the throat, and condemned him for trying to kill a Mount Shu disciple.

The White-Clad Spear King stopped Old Ancestor Blood River from attacking Chen Changqing, but Chen asked to kill the helpless elder himself and claimed the reward. Afterward, the White-Clad Spear King warned the gathered cultivators, leaving Long Ao and Bai Suxin too frightened to challenge Chen Changqing.

• The White-Clad Spear King held Old Ancestor Blood River helpless and began to kill him, but Chen Changqing told his master uncle to wait.
• Chen Changqing explained that he wanted to end Old Ancestor Blood River's life himself, and the White-Clad Spear King tossed the wounded elder to the ground.
• Chen Changqing killed Old Ancestor Blood River with the Heavenly Thunder Sword, earning 200,000 AFK Points.
• The gathered cultivators were terrified by Chen Changqing's killing, especially Long Ao, Bai Suxin, Zhu Xiao, and Hua Qianmei.
• The White-Clad Spear King asked whether anyone still intended to attack, and Long Ao and Bai Suxin hurriedly bowed and said they would not dare.

After the White-Clad Spear King rescued Chen Changqing, he left him with a cryptic message for Chen Yuan before departing. Chen Changqing and Hua Xing returned safely to Medicine God Valley, where Hua Yao eagerly welcomed Chen Changqing and Hua Xing announced that they had retrieved everything he needed.

• Si Youyou bid Chen Changqing farewell and left with Gu Qing after the other cultivators fled.
• The White-Clad Spear King told Chen Changqing to ask Chen Yuan about his identity and deliver a message, then vanished.
• Hua Xing explained that he knew the White-Clad Spear King's reputation but had not known he came from Mount Shu.
• Chen Changqing and Hua Xing returned to Medicine God Valley several days later, where Hua Yao embraced Chen Changqing.
• Hua Xing told Hua Gu and the others that Chen Changqing had brought back everything he needed, then left Chen Changqing and Hua Yao alone.

Chen Changqing recounted his perilous Immortal Mountain Secret Realm journey to Hua Yao and drew her into his embrace. At the Medicine God Valley, Hua Xing confirmed Chen had brought back the needed herbs and ordered Hua Gu and Hua Lixuan to hasten Chen and Hua Yao's marriage before anyone else could claim him.

• Chen Changqing teased Hua Yao about becoming her future husband, then told her about his battles and dangers in the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm.
• Hua Yao praised Chen Changqing's strength and faith in his future, and Chen Changqing pulled her into his embrace.
• Hua Xing told the Medicine God Valley elders that Chen Changqing had gathered all the herbs needed for the Longevity Immortal Pill.
• Hua Xing announced he would enter seclusion to refine the pill and ordered Hua Gu to manage the valley while he was away.
• Hua Xing told Hua Gu and Hua Lixuan to hurry Chen Changqing and Hua Yao's marriage so no one else could get to Chen first.

Chen Changqing returned from Medicine God Valley toward Mount Shu, eager to compete in the Seven Peaks Grand Competition. On the way, he found the town where Xiaoqian had lived devastated and sealed by a Buddhist formation, then discovered Buddhist disciples restraining her.

• Chen Changqing said goodbye to Hua Yao and left Medicine God Valley for Mount Shu ahead of the Seven Peaks Grand Competition.
• As he flew toward Mount Shu, Chen Changqing stopped near the town where he had once left Xiaoqian to cultivate.
• Chen Changqing found the town sealed by a Buddhist formation, cut an opening in it, and entered without destroying the barrier.
• Chen Changqing saw that the town had been reduced to ruins and its residents lay dead, and he wondered whether Xiaoqian was responsible.
• Chen Changqing heard a Buddhist chant and a scream, then rushed toward the town square.
• Dozens of Buddhist disciples bound and suppressed Xiaoqian with golden chains while she struggled as ghostly Qi burned around her.

Chen Changqing discovered that the Buddhist monks had slaughtered the town’s people and falsely accused Xiaoqian, who was fighting them. As the White-Browed Monk attacked her with a formation and soul-suppressing chants, Xiaoqian resisted, but he brought a golden seal down toward her.

• The White-Browed Monk accused Xiaoqian of killing the town’s people, but Xiaoqian revealed that the Buddhist monks had slaughtered them.
• The White-Browed Monk justified using the townspeople as cultivation resources, and Chen Changqing realized he had wrongly suspected Xiaoqian.
• The White-Browed Monk attacked Xiaoqian, who broke the Buddha Light Chains and met his strike with Ghost Qi.
• The White-Browed Monk ordered the Buddhist disciples to activate the Vajra Demon-Subduing Formation and unleash soul-suppressing Sanskrit chants.
• Xiaoqian resisted the chants with Ghost Qi and the townspeople’s Incense and Fire Prayer Power, but the White-Browed Monk sent a golden Buddhist seal crashing toward her.

Chen Changqing watched as the White-Browed Monk and his disciples tried to seize Xiaoqian’s Merit Golden Lotus, despite her resistance. Just as they were about to take it, Chen Changqing intervened and descended before them.

• The White-Browed Monk trapped Xiaoqian with the Great Sun Tathagata Seal, but she resisted it with a Merit Golden Lotus.
• The White-Browed Monk ordered his disciples to activate the Demon Refining and Karma Transforming Array, which began stripping Xiaoqian of her merit.
• Xiaoqian tried to detonate her origin, but the White-Browed Monk sealed her power and moved to take her Merit Golden Lotus.
• Chen Changqing’s sword strike destroyed the Buddhist attack and restraints, shattered the formation, and sent the White-Browed Monk and disciples reeling.
• Chen Changqing descended before the shocked monks and Xiaoqian.

Chen Changqing arrived in time to save Xiaoqian from White-Browed Monk and the Great Thunder Sound Temple disciples, whom he killed with a single sword strike. After giving Xiaoqian a pill to heal her injuries, he asked what had happened, and she looked over the ruined town with tears in her eyes.

• Chen Changqing appeared before Xiaoqian and shielded her from White-Browed Monk and the monks.
• White-Browed Monk claimed the monks were trying to subdue Xiaoqian and asked Chen Changqing to judge them fairly.
• Chen Changqing rejected White-Browed Monk's explanation and killed the monks with one sweep of the Heavenly Thunder Sword.
• Chen Changqing gave Xiaoqian a medicinal pill and asked what had happened.
• Xiaoqian looked at the destroyed town, her eyes filling with tears.

Chen Changqing brought Xiaoqian, a ghost cultivator, back to Mount Shu after learning that monks had massacred the town she protected. He arrived at the Outer Sect Disciple Competition with Xiaoqian as the Seventh Courtyard’s Lin Yuan faced the First Courtyard, and his Spirit Transformation Realm aura stunned the crowd.

• Xiaoqian told Chen Changqing that the White-Browed Monk and other monks had massacred the townspeople after trying to seize her merit power.
• Chen Changqing invited Xiaoqian to return to Mount Shu with him and promised to protect her; she agreed to call him Young Master.
• After several days, Chen Changqing and Xiaoqian reached Mount Shu, where a gatekeeping disciple told him Lin Yuan was competing in the Outer Sect Disciple Competition.
• Chen Changqing and Xiaoqian arrived above the arena as Lin Yuan and the Seventh Courtyard faced the First Courtyard.
• Chen Changqing let his Spirit Transformation Realm aura descend over the arena, shocking the disciples below.

Chen Changqing offered the Frost-Condensing Sword as the prize for the Outer Sect Disciple Competition, and Lin Yuan faced Xue Feng in the final. Though badly wounded and outmatched, Lin Yuan found an opening with a desperate counterattack.

• Chen Changqing presented the Top-grade Spirit Treasure Frost-Condensing Sword as the competition prize, drawing the attention of Xue Feng and Lin Yuan.
• True Person Tianbo began the final match, and Lin Yuan attacked Xue Feng with Meteor Chasing the Moon.
• Xue Feng overpowered Lin Yuan with the Mountain-Severing Broadsword, leaving him wounded as the crowd doubted his chances.
• Xue Feng unleashed a powerful finishing slash, but Lin Yuan twisted aside and let it tear through his left shoulder.
• Lin Yuan endured the injury and thrust his Cyan Steel Sword at Xue Feng in a swift, precise counterattack.

Lin Yuan defeated the stronger Xue Feng in the Outer Sect Disciple Competition and won first place for the Seventh Courtyard. Chen Changqing returned to Evergreen Peak with Xiaoqian, where his disciples and subdued demons welcomed him back.

• Lin Yuan endured grave injuries and defeated Xue Feng with a decisive sword strike, stunning the spectators.
• Chen Changqing gave Lin Yuan a healing pill and the Frost-Condensing Sword, then left with Xiaoqian after reminding him of their agreement.
• True Person Tianbo announced Lin Yuan as the competition's first-place winner, and Lin Yuan resolved to report to Evergreen Peak.
• Chen Changqing and Xiaoqian arrived at Evergreen Peak, where Black Bear and Mystic Serpent greeted Chen Changqing as their master.
• Ran Hua and the others welcomed Chen Changqing back to Evergreen Peak.

After breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, Chen Changqing returned to Evergreen Peak with Xiaoqian and distributed Quasi-Immortal Artifacts to his companions. He then visited his master Chen Yuan at Seven Stars Peak and began recounting his experiences in the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm.

• Liu Mu and the others were shocked to learn Chen Changqing had advanced from Half-Step Spirit Transformation to the Spirit Transformation Realm, and Chen Changqing introduced Xiaoqian as a new cultivator on Evergreen Peak.
• Chen Changqing distributed Quasi-Immortal Artifacts to Wang Yang, Ran Hua, Shi Tian, Liu Mu, Little Black, Black Bear, the Mystic Serpent, and Xiaoqian.
• Chen Changqing told Ran Hua to find Xiaoqian a place to cultivate, then set off for Seven Stars Peak after Little Black teased him about taking Xiaoqian as a concubine.
• Chen Yuan was astonished by Chen Changqing’s breakthrough, then asked him to describe what he had experienced in the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm.
• Chen Changqing briefly recounted his experiences in the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm to Chen Yuan.

Chen Changqing told Chen Yuan how Bai Wuya saved him from the powerful enemies waiting outside the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm. Chen Yuan revealed that Bai Wuya was his fellow disciple and, like him, had once lost to the Human King in love, leaving Chen Changqing wondering how powerful his future father-in-law was.

• Chen Changqing told Chen Yuan that two True Lords and several Tribulation Transcendence experts had ambushed him after he left the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm.
• Chen Changqing explained that a Half-Step Heavenly Monarch wounded Old Ancestor Blood River, whom Chen Changqing then killed, frightening the other enemies into retreating.
• Chen Changqing revealed that his rescuer came from Mount Shu and belonged to Chen Yuan's generation, prompting Chen Yuan to identify him as the White-Clad Spear King, Bai Wuya.
• Chen Yuan told Chen Changqing to call Bai Wuya Martial Uncle and revealed that Bai Wuya had once been involved with the Human King.
• Chen Yuan admitted that he and Bai Wuya had both lost to the Human King, leaving Chen Changqing astonished by his future father-in-law's strength.

Chen Changqing visited Mount Shu’s Scripture Repository to find a spear technique for the Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear and selected the Eight Desolations Spear Technique. He returned to Evergreen Peak to study its eight forms and learned it could lead to the realm of the Spear Immortal.

• Chen Yuan urged Chen Changqing to prepare for Mount Shu’s Seven Peaks Grand Competition, and Chen Changqing passed on Bai Wuya’s message that he would return after enjoying himself outside and told Chen Yuan to take care of his health.
• Chen Changqing went to Mount Shu’s Scripture Repository to find a spear technique for an avatar wielding the Dragon-Patterned Sky-Splitting Spear.
• After rejecting other spear manuals, Chen Changqing chose the Eight Desolations Spear Technique from an ancient Jade Slip.
• The repository elder copied the technique for Chen Changqing, who returned to Evergreen Peak and examined its eight forms and their combined ultimate move.
• Chen Changqing read that the technique could reach the origin of the spear path and the realm of the Spear Immortal, then relied on his AFK Cultivation System to handle its demands.

Chen Changqing began cultivating the Eight Desolations Spear Technique at hundredfold AFK speed as he prepared for the Seven Peaks Grand Competition. He took Little Black for a walk through Mount Shu's Inner Sect, where onlookers criticized him for neglecting his training.

• Chen Changqing spent 500,000 AFK Points to cultivate the Eight Desolations Spear Technique at hundredfold speed.
• Chen Changqing left his cave dwelling and met Little Black, asking why the demon still could not take human form.
• Little Black explained that he needed to reach the Demon Emperor level and lacked the flesh and blood he needed to advance.
• Chen Changqing promised to take Little Black along on future outings or bring back nourishment from his kills.
• Chen Changqing walked Little Black around Mount Shu's Inner Sect, prompting disciples to mock him for relaxing before the Seven Peaks Grand Competition.

Chen Changqing continued to spend his days relaxing instead of cultivating, and Chen Yuan decided to let him follow his own methods. Lin Yuan arrived at Evergreen Peak after entering the Inner Sect, and Chen Changqing welcomed him as a disciple there.

• Chen Changqing spent his days sleeping, basking in the sun, and strolling with Little Black, while Chen Yuan wondered about his lack of cultivation.
• Chen Yuan recalled that Chen Changqing had behaved similarly before and told Mo Tianji not to interfere.
• Lin Yuan arrived at Evergreen Peak and was stopped at the gate by Black Bear and Mystic Serpent, who let him enter after he explained his connection to Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing met Lin Yuan by a stream and welcomed him to cultivate at Evergreen Peak.
• Liu Mu gave Lin Yuan Evergreen Peak robes and a token, and told him he would receive cultivation resources each month without other assignments.

Chen Changqing decided to expand Evergreen Peak by recruiting subordinates, setting standards that valued talent, character, and potential while giving ordinary disciples a chance. News of the recruitment spread through Mount Shu's Inner Sect, leaving disciples eager to join his peak.

• Lin Yuan thanked Liu Mu, pledged himself to Chen Changqing, and was sent to find Ran Hua for a place to cultivate.
• Chen Changqing told Liu Mu that Evergreen Peak needed more followers, and Liu Mu revealed that talented Inner Sect disciples had already asked to serve him.
• Chen Changqing set recruitment standards that considered aptitude and character while also welcoming promising ordinary disciples.
• Liu Mu agreed to create assessment standards and enlist Wang Yang, Ran Hua, and others to help if needed.
• Evergreen Peak announced its recruitment, and Inner Sect disciples grew eager to join Chen Changqing's peak.

As Chen Changqing prepared to recruit subordinates for Evergreen Peak, several Holy Sons began watching his move and considering their own responses. Meanwhile, Chen Changqing asked Little Black about the Heavenly Demon Clan, and Little Black admitted he wanted to return but said the time was not right.

• Luo Qingyi learned that Chen Changqing was recruiting subordinates and decided Green Wood Peak needed to make moves of its own.
• Xiao Li reacted with interest and hostility to Chen Changqing’s recruitment plans.
• Xuan Hao questioned whether Chen Changqing’s Spirit Transformation cultivation would make him a serious contender among the Holy Sons.
• Ji Changkong ordered a subordinate to watch Evergreen Peak and report who joined Chen Changqing’s ranks.
• Liu Mu continued drafting recruitment plans that considered character and gave ordinary disciples opportunities.
• Chen Changqing asked Little Black about the Heavenly Demon Clan, and Little Black said it was in the Demon Domain’s core region but that he could not return yet.

Rujie arrived at Evergreen Peak to seek Chen Changqing’s help, and was astonished to learn that Chen had advanced to the Spirit Transformation Realm. Rujie admitted he had a favor to ask, but the chapter ended before he explained what it was.

• Ran Hua told Chen Changqing that Rujie from Heaven Sound Temple was waiting outside Evergreen Peak, and Chen invited him in.
• Rujie waited at the gates under the watch of Black Bear and Mystic Serpent, claiming he and Chen were brothers who had braved life and death together.
• Ran Hua escorted Rujie to Chen, where Rujie noticed Chen’s Spirit Transformation cultivation and marveled at how quickly he had advanced.
• Chen asked why Rujie had come, and Rujie confessed that he needed a favor and asked Chen to help him.