Chapter Summaries

Yue Shuo reunited with his family and learned they had made little progress in cultivation during their journey. He established them as the Central Province Yue Family and began assigning roles and opportunities on his Spirit Peak.

• Gu Yang asked Yue Shuo for a Servant Disciple slot, and Yue Shuo agreed to help.
• Yue Shuo arranged places for Qi Xin, Fang Tong, Shi Heng, and Gu Yang, then sent four relatives to choose sites for temporary homes on the Spirit Peak.
• Yue Shuo questioned his family's slow cultivation progress, and Yue Qingxiao explained their journey and the family's troubles at the Yue Family in Sea Prefecture.
• Yue Shuo declared that they were now the Central Province Yue Family, and his family welcomed him as their head.
• Yue Shuo told his family about his Third-Tier Spiritual Vein and planned for Yue Gu, Zhu Ling, and Yue Tan to take the Outer Sect Entrance Examination, while he would use recommendation slots for his parents.

Yue Shuo arranged for his family to take the Outer Sect Examination and explained how discipleship could improve their standing. After helping his brothers finish a courtyard on Blazing Gold Peak, he prepared to register them as Servant Disciples of the Beast Taming Sect.

• Yue Qingxiao, Yue Da, Yue Tan, and Zhu Ling discussed taking the Outer Sect Examination, while Yue Shuo explained that Outer Sect status could protect and elevate their family.
• Yue Shuo reassured Madam Su, arranged for her to stay in a courtyard on Blazing Gold Peak, and asked Zhu Ling to care for her.
• Yue Shuo brought Yue Qingxiao and Yue Tan to check on the workers building wooden houses and reminded them that the Spirit Peak’s formation kept dangerous beasts away.
• Yue Shuo, Yue Qingxiao, and Yue Tan joined Shi Heng and the others to complete an elegant wooden courtyard.
• Yue Shuo told his brothers to recover before he took them to collect identity badges and register as Servant Disciples of the Beast Taming Sect.

Yue Shuo arranged for his household to take the Outer Sect Examination and hired Celestial Cranes to carry everyone to the Outer Sect Dao Registry Hall. On the flight, he befriended He Tian, a Third-Tier Spirit Bird disciple who supported his family by taking transport tasks, and He Tian asked whether Yue Shuo’s Spirit Peak needed Celestial Cranes.

• Yue Shuo accepted Spirit Pill tasks at Pill Peak and discussed his household arrangements with his master and martial uncle, who gave him two Outer Sect Disciple slots and helped him learn the examination date.
• Yue Shuo met six Celestial Cranes at the mountain foot and offered them Supreme-Grade Essence-Concentrating Pills to fly him and his companions to the Outer Sect Dao Registry Hall.
• When Yue Shuo needed a mount, one of the cranes called He Tian, a Third-Tier Celestial Crane, who accepted a Supreme-Grade Third-Tier Spirit Pill and carried Yue Shuo while his six children carried the others.
• Yue Shuo learned from He Tian that he was a free Spirit Bird disciple who took transport tasks to support his family, and that the six cranes flying behind them were his children.
• He Tian asked whether Yue Shuo had been assigned a Spirit Peak and whether it needed a few obedient Celestial Cranes.

Yue Shuo befriended He Tian while arranging to adopt a Celestial Crane, then recruited He Tian and his family to join him at Spirit Peak. He Tian was tempted by Yue Shuo’s generous Supreme-Grade Spirit Pills and contacted his mate to discuss the offer.

• Yue Shuo admitted he wanted a Celestial Crane but was unsure he could afford one, and He Tian assured him that his cranes were available.
• He Tian asked about Yue Shuo’s cultivation path and existing Spirit Bird contract, and Yue Shuo explained that he followed the main-contract lineage but might also cultivate the multi-contract path.
• Yue Shuo invited He Tian to bring his wife and children to Spirit Peak, and He Tian asked for two days to consider the offer.
• He Tian waited outside the Records Hall while Yue Shuo went inside, reflecting on the benefits of Yue Shuo’s Supreme-Grade Spirit Pills.
• He Tian contacted his mate and excitedly told her he had found a huge moneybag.

Yue Shuo registered his brothers and Gu Yang at the Outer Sect Dao Registry Hall, then tested his theory that Calamity Fortune stirred up trouble between people. When an Outer Sect Golden Core elder tried to seize the pills Yue Shuo had given Steward Guo, He Tian intervened and challenged him.

• Yue Shuo brought Qi Xin, Fang Tong, Shi Heng, and Gu Yang to the Records Hall, where Steward Guo registered them and arranged their benefits.
• Yue Shuo registered Gu Yang for the Servant Disciple minor competition and invited Steward Guo to visit Blazing Gold Peak.
• Yue Shuo rewarded Steward Guo with two Supreme-Grade Essence-Concentrating Pills, prompting a man in the queue to accuse the sect of taking bribes.
• An Outer Sect Golden Core elder arrived and tried to use Divine Thought to take the pills from Steward Guo, but Yue Shuo blocked him and contacted his martial uncle.
• He Tian appeared before Yue Shuo, revealed his Third-Tier Spirit Bird aura, and challenged the elder for trying to rob an Inner Sect Pill Peak alchemy master.

Yue Shuo’s gift to a junior in the Outer Sect drew the hostility of Elder Tie Xin, but He Tian and Uncle-Master Yan Ning intervened before the dispute could escalate. Yue Shuo handed out Spirit Pills to the other disciples, while Tie Xin realized he had mistaken Yue Shuo’s intentions and been set up.

• He Tian blocked Tie Xin’s attack and explained to Yue Shuo that Tie Xin openly targeted Inner Sect Direct Disciples.
• Uncle-Master Yan Ning arrived and used his pressure to subdue Tie Xin and flatten the other cultivators.
• Yue Shuo reassured Yan Ning, distributed High-Grade Essence-Concentrating Pills to the fallen cultivators, and fed He Tian a supreme-grade Third-Tier Spirit Pill.
• He Tian warned Yue Shuo to bring companions when he went out, and Yue Shuo gave him another pill to store for his companion.
• Tie Xin reconsidered Yue Shuo’s actions and realized that an Alchemy master with such wealth had no need to bribe a steward disciple, concluding that he had been set up.

Yue Shuo left the Outer Sect after accepting alchemy assignments and returned to Blazing Gold Peak with his companions. After his master and Martial Uncle Yan Ning reassured him about Gu Yang’s prospects, he asked whether they would attend the upcoming Outer Sect Entrance Examination.

• Yue Shuo ended his dealings with Elder Tie Xin, told Steward Guo to remember the next morning, and flew back to Blazing Gold Peak with He Tian and his companions.
• On the flight home, Yue Shuo heard Qi Xin, Fang Tong, and Shi Heng describe how high-level cultivators’ pressure had left them unable to move, and he considered training his people to withstand it.
• He Tian promised to bring his Celestial Crane family to Yue Shuo’s Little Spirit Peak once it opened, and Yue Shuo considered recruiting Spirit Beasts and cultivating spirit plants there.
• Yue Shuo thanked his martial uncle for protecting him, and Martial Uncle Yan Ning explained that Tie Xin would watch Gu Yang but would not break the rules or unfairly obstruct him.
• Yue Shuo said he planned to have three people from his household enter the Outer Sect Entrance Examination and asked whether his master and Martial Uncle Yan Ning would attend.

Yue Shuo learned how Spirit Peaks could be moved, strengthened, and refined, then asked Artifact Spirit Senior Ze to combine his two Little Spirit Peaks into twin peaks near Ning Xin's Blazing Gold Peak. The new peaks formed and connected to the inner sect's earth veins, and Yue Shuo was prompted to name them.

• Yue Shuo learned from Ning Xin and Yan Ning that Spirit Peaks could be relocated, strengthened with Spiritual Veins and treasures, and refined into Treasure Artifacts.
• Yan Ning shared stories about cultivators who had refined Spirit Peak Treasure Artifacts, while Yue Shuo studied the costs and benefits of strengthening his peaks.
• Yue Shuo visited his household, then asked Artifact Spirit Senior Ze to combine his two Little Spirit Peaks into twin peaks near Blazing Gold Peak.
• Senior Ze approved Yue Shuo's request, and two Spirit Peaks rose roughly fifty or sixty li from Blazing Gold Peak as spiritual radiance and formations settled around them.
• Senior Ze informed Yue Shuo that the new Spirit Peaks had connected to the inner sect's earth veins and asked him to name them.

Yue Shuo struggled to choose a name for his new Spirit Peak, learning that grand names like Chaos, Gods and Devils, and Stars had belonged to seniors who all died. After gathering unhelpful suggestions, he began refining the Spirit Peak Seal and learned that naming the peak would bind his Fortune more closely to the Beast Taming Sect.

• Yue Shuo considered peak names based on his cultivation, but Senior Ze warned him that peak names and Daoist titles echoed a cultivator's Fortune.
• Yue Shuo learned that the seniors who had named their peaks Chaos, Gods and Devils, and Stars had all died, so he decided to choose a more grounded name.
• Yue Shuo gathered suggestions from his master, martial uncle, friends, and family, but none of their proposed names satisfied him.
• Yue Shuo entered his new Twin Spirit Peak and began refining the white jade Spirit Peak Seal that controlled its formations.
• Yue Shuo learned that naming the peak would add it to the sect's Myriad Spirits Formation Diagram and establish him as an inner sect Spirit Peak Master.

Yue Shuo named his Twin Spirit Peak Taiyue Peak after arranging its cave abode and considering how to develop it. He studied the sect’s Spirit Peak map and realized it showed more than ten thousand Golden Cores.

• Yue Shuo explored his Twin Spirit Peak, planned its cultivation and settlement areas, and built a cave abode connected to its earth veins and formation.
• Yue Shuo examined the Spiritual Veins and exchange costs, then felt urgency to begin Alchemy and repay his debt.
• Yue Shuo chose Taiyue as his Daoist title and named his Twin Spirit Peak Taiyue Peak.
• Yue Shuo received an updated Identity Jade Token and a Myriad Spirits Formation Diagram showing the sect’s Spirit Peaks.
• Yue Shuo saw the many Spirit Peak lights on the diagram and exclaimed that the sect had more than ten thousand Golden Cores.

Yue Shuo planned how to use the Beast Taming Sect’s resources to strengthen himself and developed his territory between two Spirit Peaks. He released Ao Yi, Hai Sheng, Xie Jing, and the other Sea Folk into his new lake, where he intended them to cultivate aquatic spirit herbs and materials under a Restrictive Seal.

• Yue Shuo planned to earn contribution points through alchemy, study the sect’s teachings, and gradually wear away the remnants of the Eye of Heavenly Punishment.
• Yue Shuo widened a mountain spring into a pond and diverted water from both Spirit Peaks into a lake at their base.
• Yue Shuo tried to settle his nine little Spirit Turtles in the lake, but they clung to him, so he made them a small pool inside his cave abode instead.
• Yue Shuo decided that his little young snake was too small to attend lessons and kept Azure Feather by his side.
• Yue Shuo found the ornamental Sea Folk Bai Shen had given him and released Ao Yi, Hai Sheng, Xie Jing, and the others into the lake to cultivate aquatic spirit herbs and materials.
• Yue Shuo placed a Restrictive Seal on the Sea Folk to prevent them from harming the weak members of his Household.

Yue Shuo used the Longevity Technique to enrich his Spirit Peaks with wood-element vitality, then entered a sudden state of breakthrough. As the spiritual disturbance abruptly weakened, Ning Xin learned from Senior Ze that Yue Shuo was safe and merely cultivating, leaving Yan Ning astonished that he was not breaking through to Golden Core.

• Yue Shuo concealed the barren new lake and used the Longevity Technique to make the vegetation on his two Spirit Peaks flourish.
• Yue Shuo sensed that the peaks’ abundant wood spiritual energy nourished his body and vitality, then entered a deep state of resonance with the plants.
• Yue Shuo’s Spell Power began to condense as wood spiritual energy gathered around him, and Ning Xin and Yan Ning flew over to guard his Spirit Peak.
• Ning Xin believed Yue Shuo was attempting a Golden Core breakthrough and reassured Yan Ning that his sudden breakthrough opportunity could yield a high-grade result.
• Nearby elders sent congratulations after learning Yue Shuo was a personal disciple and Third-Tier Alchemist, but they grew concerned when the spiritual disturbance suddenly weakened.
• Ning Xin stopped himself from entering Yue Shuo’s Spirit Peak after Senior Ze confirmed Yue Shuo was safe and cultivating, and Yan Ning exclaimed in surprise.

After onlookers mistook Yue Shuo’s cultivation for a failed Golden Core breakthrough, Ning Xin agreed to hold a disciple-acceptance ceremony in three months. Unaware that rumors had spread about him, Yue Shuo continued cultivating and used the Phoenix Nirvana Tribulation-Transference Scripture to send his quasi-Golden Core through Nirvana.

• Yan Ning and Ning Xin explained that Yue Shuo was cultivating, not attempting a breakthrough, and the onlookers gradually left.
• Yan Ning agreed to organize a disciple-acceptance ceremony, and Ning Xin set it for three months later so Yue Shuo could represent Blazing Gold Peak at the year-end selection.
• Word spread through the sect that Yue Shuo was a Third-Tier Alchemist who had failed to break through and was Ning Xin’s sole Personal Disciple.
• Yue Shuo continued cultivating, having already met the requirements for a Golden Core breakthrough except for obtaining Spirit Essence.
• When enlightenment nearly caused him to form a Golden Core, Yue Shuo used the Phoenix Nirvana Tribulation-Transference Scripture to send his quasi-Third-Tier Spell Core through Nirvana and avoid the waiting Eye of Heavenly Punishment.

Yue Shuo adapted the Phoenix Nirvana Tribulation-Transference Scripture with his understanding of wood’s withering and flourishing, strengthening his foundation and forming a Mystic Ability Dao Seed. He emerged from his Spirit Peak to pay respects to his master and martial uncle after realizing he could cultivate a wood-element Divine Ability Dao Art ahead of his Golden Core breakthrough.

• Yue Shuo failed to shatter his powerful Spell Core with his Fourth-Tier Divine Soul and instead integrated the wood-element Dao of Withering and Flourishing into Nirvana Tribulation Transference.
• Yue Shuo turned his flourishing vitality into withering, transforming his Spell Power into a stronger foundation as plants across Great Yue Peak withered.
• Yue Shuo formed a rune in his dantian whose phantom stabilized his consciousness space and dantian, and recognized it as a Mystic Ability Dao Seed.
• Yue Shuo realized the Phoenix Nirvana Tribulation-Transference Scripture could grant him Innate Divine Ability seeds and let him cultivate Divine Ability Dao Arts before reaching Golden Core.
• Yue Shuo left his Spirit Peak and paid respects to his master and martial uncle, who had guarded outside.

Yue Shuo reassured Ning Xin and Yan Ning that his breakthrough had succeeded, and Yan Ning advised him on managing Blazing Gold Peak and finding help. As Steward Guo and He Tian’s Household arrived to meet him, Yan Ning promised to support him, while Ning Xin and Yan Ning considered how he could gain confidence and experience.

• Yue Shuo thanked Ning Xin and Yan Ning for guarding him, and they confirmed his breakthrough had not failed.
• Ning Xin urged Yue Shuo to consolidate his cultivation, while Yan Ning warned him not to rush because of rumors.
• Yan Ning advised Yue Shuo to find someone to handle sect affairs, and Yue Shuo asked her opinion of Steward Guo.
• Yue Shuo received messages that Steward Guo had arrived and He Tian had brought his Household to seek refuge, so he invited both parties to Great Yue Peak.
• Yan Ning promised to support Yue Shuo during the meeting, while she and Ning Xin considered whether he should train through sect competitions.

Yue Shuo welcomed He Tian and his enormous Celestial Crane family, then considered making He Tian his agent after Steward Guo hesitated to join him. He Tian remained committed to joining Yue Shuo, who invited his cranes onto his Spirit Peak while worrying that he had too few gifts for them.

• Steward Guo registered Yue Shuo's family and signed up three relatives for assessments, but hesitated when Yue Shuo offered to recruit him.
• He Tian arrived with more than eight hundred Celestial Cranes, and Yue Shuo warmly greeted him and climbed onto his back.
• He Tian told Yue Shuo that he and his mate had agreed to join him despite rumors that Yue Shuo had failed to break through to Golden Core.
• Yue Shuo invited He Tian's family to his Spirit Peak and considered giving gifts, but realized he had prepared too few First-Tier Spirit Pills.
• He Tian offered to bring only his Second-Tier crane children and let Yue Shuo choose which ones he wanted.

Yue Shuo welcomed He Tian’s enormous family of crane chicks to his Spirit Peak and discussed taking He Tian on as an Alchemy companion. After scattering Supreme-Grade Spirit Pills for the flock, Yue Shuo learned that He Tian’s older crane chicks were ready to take on duties, while the reason only the first twenty-eight had been summoned remained unanswered.

• Yue Shuo warmly invited He Tian and his several hundred crane chicks to stay at his Spirit Peak, despite his initial surprise at their numbers.
• Yan Ning and Elder Ning discussed He Tian’s kingly fortune and how his connection to Yue Shuo and Senior Dan Crane could benefit Yue Shuo’s Alchemy.
• He Qing'er stayed with the crane chicks while they explored the Twin Spirit Peak and reflected on her depleted Spiritual Vein and the family’s future.
• He Qing'er caught Supreme-Grade Spirit Pills scattered by Yue Shuo and saw the crane chicks happily catching them too.
• He Tian introduced the first twenty-eight crane chicks to Yue Shuo as ready to take on posts, and Yue Shuo asked why he had summoned only those chicks.

Yue Shuo learned that He Tian’s Celestial Cranes could form powerful bloodline-resonance arrays and persuaded He Tian to bring his entire household to Great Yue Peak. After completing his alchemy commissions, Yue Shuo began considering how a large Celestial Crane Guard could protect him, then went to see He Tian and the cranes’ new nesting site.

• He Tian explained that the Celestial Cranes could form arrays to fight above their tier and travel faster than ordinary spirit vessels.
• Yue Shuo persuaded He Tian to stay with his entire household, promising to provide resources and open Spirit Fields for medicinal herbs.
• Yue Shuo calculated the potential of a Celestial Crane Guard and resumed refining Spirit Pills, completing his commissions and making extra pills for later.
• Crane Seven and Crane Eight refused the Spirit Pills Yue Shuo offered, but accepted them after he explained they were gifts.
• Yue Shuo found He Tian and the Celestial Cranes nesting on a sheer cliff between two Spirit Peaks, and He Tian asked whether he was ready.

Yue Shuo proposed a Divine Soul Contract to He Tian, who accepted and experienced a powerful boost to his Divine Soul and a hint of bloodline evolution. Yue Shuo also received flight-related contract feedback, while He Tian entered meditation.

• Yue Shuo explained that he planned to sign a Divine Soul Contract with He Tian, and He Tian accepted solemnly.
• Yue Shuo formed the contract through Divine Soul Power without using a contract formation.
• He Tian felt his Divine Soul grow stronger and sensed a direction for his bloodline's evolution, then entered meditation.
• Yue Shuo received strange power through the contract that seemed to improve his ability to fly.

Yue Shuo formed Divine Soul Contracts with He Tian’s household and more than two hundred Second-Tier Celestial Cranes, planning to build a Thousand Crane Formation and rely on Spirit Beasts for his faction. He later summoned He Tian and learned that the cranes had inherited their habit of calling their lords “Master” from their bloodline or other Spirit Beasts.

• Yue Shuo reassured He Qing'er about her fall from Third-Tier to Second-Tier, then formed Divine Soul Contracts with her and the other Celestial Cranes.
• Yue Shuo contracted more than two hundred Second-Tier Celestial Cranes, accumulated origin feedback, and decided Spirit Beasts could supply the loyal manpower his faction needed.
• Yue Shuo found that the First-Tier Celestial Cranes were too weak to endure Divine Soul Contracts, so he fed them First-Tier Spirit Pills and left them guarding the sleeping flock.
• Yue Shuo returned to his cave abode to refine pills, considered acquiring a large Spirit Beast space, and sensed through the contracts when the cranes woke.
• Yue Shuo summoned He Tian and asked about his unsteady crane steps; He Tian called him Master and explained that the cranes had learned the traditional address from their parents and other Spirit Beasts.