Chapter Summaries

After Yue Shuo became Dao Child, he began receiving the Beast Taming Sect’s inheritances, astonishing Senior Ze with how effortlessly he stored them. Jiang Chen urged Senior Ze to invest in Yue Shuo and warned that Yue Shuo’s Qi Refining technique was holding back his rapid cultivation.

• Senior Ze teleported Jiang Chen away so the sect’s elders could discuss the new Dao Child, leaving Yue Shuo to study the sect’s inheritances.
• Yue Shuo copied and stored the inheritances with ease, prompting Senior Ze to privately ask Jiang Chen how many he had received at first.
• Jiang Chen told Senior Ze that Yue Shuo’s background made the inheritances a worthwhile investment and reminded him how Jiang Chen had helped the sect prosper.
• Senior Ze recalled that Jiang Chen had received six inheritances as a Golden Core cultivator, and Jiang Chen insisted that Yue Shuo should not be compared to an ordinary genius like him.
• Jiang Chen urged Senior Ze to watch the Outer Sect and questioned why Yue Shuo had been made to cultivate a Qi Refining technique that required Tribulation Aura.

After learning that the inter-sect competition had been moved up, Yue Shuo returned from the Inheritance Hall and reunited with his transformed Spirit Crane children and younger siblings. He prepared to make more Transformation Pills and Phoenix Blood Pills while considering how to develop his Grotto-Heaven.

• Elder Ze and Jiang Chen discussed Yue Shuo's lack of Tribulation Aura, and Yue Shuo chose a way to accumulate it before continuing to receive the inheritance.
• After three months in the Inheritance Hall, Yue Shuo learned he could lead talented disciples to other sects for a Central Province competition in three months.
• Yue Shuo returned to Great Yue Peak and found his five contracted Little Spirit Cranes transformed into toddlers alongside his fourth and fifth younger siblings.
• Yue Shuo learned the cranes had taken Transformation Pills before breaking through to the Third-Tier and concluded their youthful forms signaled strong potential.
• Yue Shuo considered refining more Transformation Pills and turning his Grotto-Heaven into an inner Minor World while he made pills and waited for He Tian and He Qing'er.
• Yue Shuo gave He Tian and He Qing'er Phoenix Blood Pills and urged them to reach the Fourth-Tier and transform.

Yue Shuo strengthened Azure Feather with Phoenix Blood Pills and Pseudo-Phoenix Essence Blood, triggering a bloodline transformation and Minor Heavenly Tribulation. He isolated the mountaintop and faced the incoming lightning with Azure Feather.

• Yue Shuo fed Azure Feather Phoenix Blood Pills and used Nirvana Fire to help him refine them, learning that bloodline purification could strengthen him even as his cultivation appeared to drop.
• Yue Shuo considered the long path of tempering a Spirit Bird’s foundation to achieve ancestral reversion, then spent all his sect points on materials to strengthen Azure Feather’s Phoenix Veins.
• Jiang Chen brought Yue Shuo several drops of Pseudo-Phoenix Essence Blood, and Yue Shuo resolved to help Jiang Chen and Senior Ze fulfill their wishes.
• Yue Shuo used Nirvana Fire to refine the Pseudo-Phoenix Essence Blood for Azure Feather, triggering a powerful bloodline transformation and summoning a Minor Heavenly Tribulation.
• Jiang Chen warned Yue Shuo that the tribulation would be stronger than usual, then left; Yue Shuo moved Azure Feather to the mountaintop, protected the other creatures, and isolated the area as the lightning descended.

Yue Shuo endured Azure Feather’s Minor Heavenly Tribulation and tried refining its lightning through Qi Refining, which strengthened his body but drew multiple tribulations to Great Yue Peak. He gathered six Celestial Cranes to cross the escalating tribulations with him, then discovered that Azure Feather’s transformation tribulation and his own Golden-Core tribulation had also arrived.

• Yue Shuo endured Azure Feather’s unusually powerful Minor Heavenly Tribulation and guided some lightning into Azure Feather to temper its bloodline.
• Yue Shuo began Qi Refining amid the lightning, drawing it into his body; Nirvana Fire healed his internal injuries as the lightning strengthened his Body Tempering.
• The tribulation cloud expanded toward Fourth-Tier strength, and Jiang Chen summoned Elder Ze, who sensed multiple breakthrough tribulations forming across Great Yue Peak.
• Yue Shuo gathered the six Celestial Cranes—He Tian, He Qing'er, and four young cranes—and gave them treasures, pills, and formation protection.
• Yue Shuo realized that Azure Feather’s transformation tribulation and his own Golden-Core tribulation had appeared, bringing the total to eight stacked Minor Heavenly Tribulations.

Yue Shuo absorbed the overlapping Minor Heavenly Tribulation’s lightning, gaining Tribulation Aura and cultivation while tempering his Spirit Cranes and practicing a Wind-Thunder Divine Ability Dao Art. He made the fading tribulation gather again by triggering breakthroughs in his Little Spirit Cranes as sect members watched from outside its range.

• Yue Shuo used his formation to distribute the heavenly lightning among himself, Azure Feather, and his Spirit Cranes while storing some and refining it for cultivation.
• Yue Shuo began cultivating a Wind-Thunder Divine Ability Dao Art so he could control Lightning Techniques and benefit from future Heavenly Tribulations.
• As the tribulation faded, Yue Shuo brought out ten Peak Second-Tier Little Spirit Cranes and helped one attempt a breakthrough, causing the Tribulation Cloud to gather again.
• The other nine Little Spirit Cranes entered Enlightenment and began emitting breakthrough auras, while Yue Shuo continued cultivating beneath the renewed lightning.
• Ning Xin and Yan Ning came to Great Yue Peak, and surrounding Spirit Peak masters gathered after seeing Jiang Chen and Senior Ze were present.

Yue Shuo underwent a powerful tribulation while Jiang Chen concealed the full situation and revealed more of Yue Shuo’s abilities to the onlookers. When Jiang Chen called Yue Shuo his junior brother, Ning Xin and Yan Ning realized their own seniority would make them call Jiang Chen their Martial Granduncle.

• Cultivators inferred that Yue Shuo was undergoing a Nascent Soul tribulation, and Jiang Chen told them Yue Shuo’s contracted Spirit Beast was also breaking through to the Fourth-Tier.
• The Star Formation withstood the torrent of tribulation lightning, and the onlookers learned that Yue Shuo had personally laid down the Fifth-Tier mountain-protecting formation.
• Yan Ning announced that Yue Shuo was a Fourth-Tier Alchemy Grandmaster who could create Fifth-Tier formations, and Jiang Chen confirmed Yue Shuo’s accomplishments.
• Jiang Chen referred to Yue Shuo as his junior brother, shocking the cultivators and prompting Ning Xin and Yan Ning to reconsider their titles and seniority.
• Ning Xin concluded that he and Yan Ning would have to call Jiang Chen their Martial Granduncle.

Ning Xin and Yan Ning agreed that Yue Qingxiao should become their disciple, and Jiang Chen approved the plan. As Yue Shuo's tribulation cloud gathered again, Jiang Chen said Yue Shuo was using the opportunity to help his contracted Spirit Beast break through and practice divine abilities, while Ning Xin and Yan Ning waited for him to emerge.

• Ning Xin told Yan Ning that they should keep calling Yue Shuo Shuo'er and support his future with the sect master as his mentor.
• Yan Ning proposed taking Yue Qingxiao as their disciple, and Ning Xin agreed because their cultivation technique suited Yue Qingxiao's Metal-Fire Dual Spirit Roots and Metal-Fire Physique.
• The Minor Heavenly Tribulation cloud gathered again, and Jiang Chen explained that Yue Shuo was letting his contracted Spirit Beast break through while practicing divine abilities.
• Yan Ning complained that Jiang Chen had taken their disciple, but Jiang Chen retorted that Ning Xin and Yan Ning lacked the resources to cultivate Yue Shuo well.
• Jiang Chen approved Ning Xin and Yan Ning taking Yue Qingxiao as their disciple, and said Yue Shuo would emerge when he no longer wanted to cultivate.

Yue Shuo ended his prolonged tribulation cultivation when his hungry younger siblings needed feeding, then reunited them with their parents at Yanjin Peak. After he announced he would soon leave again, Yue Qingxiao formally accepted Ning Xin as his master.

• Yue Shuo completed five rounds of Minor Heavenly Tribulations before stopping because the babies in his Grotto-Heaven were hungry.
• Yue Shuo collected the Tribulation Aura and lightning, thanked the sect cultivators who had guarded him, and offered them access to his alchemy and crafting services.
• Jiang Chen followed Yue Shuo as he carried the babies to Yanjin Peak, where Madam Su fed them and Yue Shuo reassured his parents and Yan Ning.
• Yue Shuo told his parents he would leave again soon, and Yan Ning raised the idea of Yue Qingxiao becoming Ning Xin's disciple.
• Yue Qingxiao bowed to Ning Xin and asked him to accept him as his disciple.

Yue Qingxiao learned that his son Yue Shuo had become an Ascension senior’s provisional disciple and outranked him by generations, while He Qing’er and the other little cranes completed Form Transformation with signs of greatly increased potential. The chapter ended as Ning Xin told Yue Shuo to stop calling him Master, leaving Yue Shuo to ask how he should address him instead.

• Yue Qingxiao became Ning Xin’s Personal Disciple and, believing himself the eldest disciple, worried that Yue Shuo would have to rank second.
• Yan Ning told Yue Qingxiao that Yue Shuo was a Dao Child provisionally accepted by an Ascension senior, so Yue Qingxiao would have to call him Grand Martial Granduncle on formal occasions.
• Yan Ning took Madam Su to choose a cave abode for the family, while explaining they could live in both locations.
• He Qing’er arrived with the little cranes, all of whom had completed Form Transformation, and Yan Ning realized He Qing’er’s youthful true form indicated a major increase in potential and grade.
• Yue Shuo arrived before Yue Qingxiao and bowed to Ning Xin, who told him not to call him Master anymore; Yue Shuo asked what he should call him instead.

Yue Shuo arranged cultivation tasks for his father, then formed a pact with Senior Ze’s true body to study its laws. After three rounds of comprehension, Senior Ze and Jiang Chen discussed the results of examining Yue Shuo’s mother and siblings, which Jiang Chen connected to Yue Shuo’s reincarnation arrangements.

• Yue Shuo assigned his father cultivation tasks and had transformed Little Spirit Cranes supervise him.
• Yue Shuo took his mother and Elder Yan to Senior Ze, who examined them and returned them to Blazing Gold Peak.
• Yue Shuo asked Senior Ze to teach him about teleportation and learned he could form a Spirit Treasure Pact with Senior Ze’s true body.
• Yue Shuo repeatedly imprinted his Primordial Spirit mark on the Immortal Palace Hall and comprehended Senior Ze’s laws three times before exhausting himself.
• Senior Ze and Jiang Chen watched Yue Shuo in the mirror, then discussed the examination results for Yue Shuo’s mother and the two infants.
• Jiang Chen realized the results might relate to Yue Shuo’s reincarnation arrangements, including his mother’s bloodline origins and a Grotto-Heaven in the Eastern Sea Region.

Yue Shuo spent three days digesting the law information he had gained, strengthening his law comprehension and sorting out his combat techniques. He arrived at the sect’s teleportation plaza to lead the competition team, where the gathered disciples greeted him with excitement and reverence.

• Yue Shuo secluded himself in the Inheritance Hall for three days and digested less than one-tenth of the law information he had received.
• Yue Shuo raised most of his law comprehension to Fifth-Tier, with spatial law and some Five Elements laws reaching Sixth-Tier.
• Yue Shuo reviewed the tiers of Divine Ability Dao Arts and recognized that his Wind-Driving Thunder Lightning Technique was unusually powerful and suited to be his primary combat art.
• Yue Shuo left the Inheritance Hall, contacted Senior Brother Jiang and Senior Ze, and tested his improved spatial teleportation within the sect.
• Yue Shuo arrived at the teleportation plaza, where the assembled Beast Taming Sect disciples greeted him as their Dao Child.

Yue Shuo led the sect’s disciples on a visit to other sects while Jiang Chen supplied him with ceremonial Spirit Treasures and offered guidance. When Yue Shuo asked what conduct was allowed on the trip, Jiang Chen warned him only not to wipe out an entire sect, leaving Yue Shuo to question his senior brother’s view of his strength and personality.

• Yue Shuo greeted the excited disciples and ordered them to set out aboard a flying cloud palace Jiang Chen provided.
• He Tian organized the participating disciples while Jiang Chen brought Yue Shuo to the palace’s central seat.
• Jiang Chen gave Yue Shuo luxurious ceremonial robes and other equipment, mostly Sixth-Tier mid-grade Spirit Treasures, which Yue Shuo refined and wore.
• Yue Shuo asked Jiang Chen to answer his cultivation questions and explain the limits of their visit to other sects.
• Jiang Chen told Yue Shuo not to wipe out an entire sect, and Yue Shuo asked whether his senior brother misunderstood his strength and personality.

Jiang Chen explained the Beast Taming Sect’s position and long-term plans to Yue Shuo, who reconsidered his interest in challenging other sects. When Yue Shuo asked about his mother’s spiritual-root test, Jiang Chen brought up the Sea Dragon Sect, hinting at a connection to her.

• Jiang Chen told Yue Shuo that the righteous and demonic paths were distinctions shaped by people and explained the Beast Taming Sect’s factions and strategy.
• Yue Shuo concluded that he could help the sect by training elites and making its name known, rather than swaggering into rival sects.
• Yue Shuo finished nurturing several dozen Supreme-Grade Spirit Pills and continued refining a new Fourth-Tier Spirit Pill.
• Yue Shuo asked Jiang Chen about the spiritual-root test results for his mother and two younger siblings.
• Jiang Chen asked whether Yue Shuo had heard of the Sea Dragon Sect, and Yue Shuo recognized it as a Nascent Soul sect from the Eastern Sea Region.

Jiang Chen explained that Yue Shuo's mother had a hidden bloodline that benefited cultivation but could attract Sea Beasts when awakened near the sea. He suggested Yue Shuo's parents have more children, and Yue Shuo decided to refine nourishing Spirit Pills for his father.

• Yue Shuo asked Jiang Chen how the Sea Dragon Sect was connected to his mother's talent.
• Jiang Chen explained that Yue Shuo's mother had a special bloodline that benefited cultivation, especially near water, but could provoke Sea Beast attacks when activated in the Sea Domain.
• Yue Shuo realized that seawater and cultivation breakthroughs had likely triggered the Sea Beast attacks he had experienced.
• Yue Shuo told Jiang Chen that he had sensed his mother's Spiritual Root through his own talent and instinct.
• Jiang Chen revealed that Yue Shuo's younger brother and sister had Hidden Spirit Roots and suggested his parents have more children while they were young.
• Yue Shuo said he would not interfere with his mother's choice but would refine Spirit Pills to nourish his father.

Jiang Chen explained Yue Shuo’s connection to the Sea Dragon Sect and why spatial transmission was harder in Central Province. Yue Shuo accepted the obstacle as another tribulation to turn into fortune and resolved to keep cultivating.

• Jiang Chen encouraged Yue Shuo to care for his biological parents and said the sect and Elder Ze would help raise the child.
• Yue Shuo asked Jiang Chen about his mother’s relationship with the Sea Dragon Sect, and Jiang Chen said they would soon reach the Heavenly Extreme Sect.
• Jiang Chen explained that unstable space had made transmission easier in the Eastern Sea Region, while Central Province’s space was harder to open.
• Yue Shuo sensed the difference and practiced opening and locking spatial coordinates despite the increased difficulty.
• Yue Shuo decided to draw in tribulations and further cultivate his Body Tempering and Lightning Technique before attempting to cultivate Taiji with the Chaos Sacred Body.

Jiang Chen explained the Sea Dragon Sect’s history and its ties to the Sea Folk, suggesting Yue Shuo’s mother might belong to the True Dragon’s final bloodline. He revealed that the sect had been destroyed by a beast tide amid a feud with the Outer Sea Flood Dragon clan, then gave Yue Shuo a jade slip about that enmity.

• Jiang Chen explained that the True Dragon had departed ten thousand years earlier, leaving barriers across the four seas to protect its final bloodline.
• Yue Shuo wondered whether his mother was the True Dragon’s last descendant, but his own bloodline remained identified as unknown.
• Jiang Chen said the Sea Dragon Sect had maintained friendly relations with the Sea Folk partly because it had many mixed-blood prodigies.
• Jiang Chen revealed that a beast tide had destroyed the Sea Dragon Sect while Central Province did not intervene, partly because of the sect’s feud with the Outer Sea Flood Dragon clan.
• Jiang Chen handed Yue Shuo a jade slip about the feud, and Yue Shuo read it and drew in a deep breath.

Yue Shuo learned the truth behind his unknown bloodline and the Sea Dragon Sect’s experiments, then considered how to protect and strengthen his family. After discussing Jiang Chen’s plans for tribulation crossing, Yue Shuo arrived with him at the Heavenly Extreme Sect.

• Yue Shuo read Jiang Chen’s jade slip and learned that the Sea Dragon Sect had conducted immoral experiments to breed descendants with concentrated True Dragon Bloodlines.
• Yue Shuo asked about the Outer Sea Flood Dragon Clan’s views on True Dragon Bloodline bearers, and Jiang Chen described its hostile and more peaceful factions.
• Yue Shuo worried that his mother’s inherited fertility talent might attract danger, and Jiang Chen assured him that she would be safe under the sect’s protection as long as she stayed away from the Outer Sea.
• Yue Shuo asked whether he needed to become sect master before Jiang Chen could Ascend, and Jiang Chen explained the danger of Heavenly Punishment during Tribulation Crossing.
• Jiang Chen and Yue Shuo traveled through a spatial rift to the Heavenly Extreme Sect, where Yue Shuo announced the Beast Taming Sect’s visit.

Yue Shuo arrived at the Heavenly Extreme Sect with the Beast Taming Sect’s elite disciples and urged them to act boldly, while Jiang Chen stayed concealed nearby. As Yue Shuo reflected on cultivation, He Tian reported that their disciples had clashed with others at the marketplace.

• Yue Shuo exchanged a few words with Jiang Chen, then led the Beast Taming Sect’s delegation into the Heavenly Extreme Sect, where their hosts received them courteously.
• Yue Shuo encouraged the visiting disciples to go out and cause trouble, and he handed them spirit talismans before they departed in groups.
• Three disciples stayed behind, but Yue Shuo comforted and advised them until they went into brief seclusion.
• Jiang Chen ate the welcoming spirit fruits and discussed the Dao Child’s duties with Yue Shuo, who began pondering what mattered most in cultivation.
• He Tian reported that Beast Taming Sect disciples had clashed with disciples from other sects at the Heavenly Extreme Sect marketplace.

Yue Shuo rushed to a marketplace where Beast Taming Sect disciples had clashed with disciples from other sects, intending to back his people. He left the gathered sect elders stunned after striking down several Nascent Soul cultivators and a Spirit Transformation Supreme Elder, and the other sects began to fear the Beast Taming Sect was rising again.

• Yue Shuo learned that trouble had come to the Beast Taming Sect disciples at the marketplace and traveled there with Jiang Chen and the others.
• Yue Shuo saw his sect’s Core Disciples winning a contest against disciples from other sects while elders watched from above.
• When an opposing elder moved to intervene, Yue Shuo struck him with lightning and then struck down his friends as they tried to act.
• Yue Shuo claimed he had spared the injured men for the Heavenly Extreme Sect’s sake, though the elders found them badly hurt.
• Yue Shuo struck down a Spirit Transformation Supreme Elder who protested, silencing the gathered sect elders.
• The elders from other sects watched Yue Shuo in fear and wondered whether the Beast Taming Sect was gathering strength again.

Yue Shuo protected his sect’s disciples in the market, but his overwhelming Tribulation Lightning left the other sects too frightened to cause more trouble. He returned with compensation and learned from Jiang Chen that lightning arts had made his opponents far less resilient than he expected.

• Yue Shuo stopped attacking after someone urged him to calm down, then asked Jiang Chen whether the other sects were always so cowardly.
• Yue Shuo descended to check on his disciples, heard their account of the market dispute, and secured compensation from the other sects and Heavenly Extreme Sect.
• The disciples who went out later returned unharmed, having received apologies and compensation whenever conflicts arose.
• Yue Shuo wondered why the other sects had stopped stirring up trouble, and Jiang Chen explained that Yue Shuo’s lightning had badly injured a Supreme Elder and terrified everyone.
• Yue Shuo admitted he had used full force because he doubted his lightning could affect a Spirit Transformation cultivator, and Jiang Chen explained that lightning arts were especially powerful and restrained other cultivators.