Chapter Summaries

Long Xuan used a doctored recording of the Bai Clan’s plot to turn the Long Family overseers against them. Long Gang decided to use the recording as cover for an ambush, and the Long Family began preparing to outnumber the Bai Clan’s six Spiritual Sea Stage Gu Masters.

• The Flame Clone returned with the cave residence’s treasures, including three cultivation manuals and Soul-Nourishing Wood, and Long Xuan sent it to transplant the wood in his Medicine Garden.
• Long Xuan told Long Gang, Long Zhan, and Long Xunhuan that the Bai Clan had secretly dug a passage into their mining area and gave them an edited Image-Recording Gu.
• Long Gang, Long Zhan, and Long Xunhuan watched the recording and discovered the Bai Clan’s plan to kill the geniuses and overseers, then blame the Great Yin Dynasty.
• Long Gang refused to take the evidence to the city lord and proposed using it to justify killing the Bai Clan in self-defense and seizing their treasures.
• Long Gang arranged to hide the Image-Recording Gu and summon nine allies, planning to ambush the Bai Clan’s six Spiritual Sea Stage Gu Masters with twelve fighters.

Long Xuan predicted that the Bai Clan would raid the Long Family camp after discovering the cave abode had been looted. The Bai Clan launched its attack that night, setting off a large-scale battle that threatened to shake Blackstone City.

• Long Xuan had his farsight Image-Recording Gu confiscated and concluded the Long Family overseers intended to quietly kill the six Bai Clan Spiritual Sea Stage Gu Masters.
• Long Xuan expected the Bai Clan to act that night, planned to mine Geng Metal Essence in their territory afterward, and went to rest.
• Bai Haoran and the five other Bai Clan Spiritual Sea Stage Gu Masters entered the cave abode and found its formation broken and every treasure missing.
• The Bai Clan Gu Masters blamed the Long Family overseers and decided to raid the camp, kill its miners, and seize its Geng Metal.
• Bai Ye led hundreds of armed Bai Clan Gu Masters toward the Long Family camp, where fierce fighting began.

The Long Family ambushed and annihilated the Bai Clan force that attacked its Geng Metal Ore Vein, then planned to exploit the victory and expose the raid. Long Qian also revealed that the clan might issue Blood Dragon Battle Gu to more experts as war approached.

• Bai Ye and five Bai Clan Spiritual Sea Stage Gu Masters stormed the overseers’ quarters, where twelve Long Family experts were waiting to spring a trap.
• The Long Family activated the Ore-Guarding Grand Formation and used armored Earthworkers to slaughter the Bai Clan invaders trapped inside the camp.
• Long Qian transformed with the Blood Dragon Battle Gu and helped defeat the six Bai Clan leaders, killing Bai Yu and then Bai Ye; none of the attacking Bai Clan Gu Masters survived.
• Long Qian ordered the Long Family miners to abandon their own vein and mine the Bai Clan’s territory while the enemy had no one there to stop them.
• Long Qian told Long Gang and the others that the Lineage might issue Blood Dragon Battle Gu on credit to experts who reached Spirit Sea Peak.
• Long Qian ordered the group to keep the Thatch Gu and Blood Dragon Battle Gu secrets, retrieve the Bai Clan’s Geng Metal, and send recorded footage of the raid to the Lineage for public use.

After returning footage of the mine incident to Long Qian, Long Xuan studied True Soul Transformation and began creating a powerful soul-refining technique. He outlined Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Art and two accompanying soul arts, then stayed up to develop them further.

• Long Xuan transferred the mine footage to Long Qian, who hurried back to the Long Family with the evidence.
• Long Xuan read True Soul Transformation and conceived Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Art, which would multiply his split souls as he advanced.
• Long Xuan calculated that his unusual soul could produce up to 1,280 split souls at his current realm and decided to have Flame Clone cultivate the dangerous technique.
• Long Xuan designed Annihilation Finger-inspired abilities, including Heavenly Demon Soul-Devouring Art for controlling enemies and Soul Library for speeding up research.
• Long Xuan saw progress on his Soul Library concept and began working through the night on Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Art.

Long Yuanshan used edited footage of the Bai Clan's raid to convince Yan Pojun that the Long Family had suffered heavy losses. Yan ordered the Bai Clan to compensate them with a Mithril Ore Vein, while Long Yuanshan secretly welcomed the windfall and hinted that his clan might act after the war.

• Long Yuanshan presented Yan Pojun with footage showing the Bai Clan plotting and attacking the Long Family camp, but omitting what happened afterward.
• Bai Zhan arrived to accuse the Long Family of slaughtering the Bai Clan at the Geng Metal Ore Vein, and Yan Pojun angrily confronted him with the footage.
• Yan Pojun ordered the Bai Clan to cede a Mithril Ore Vein to the Long Family and warned them not to challenge his judgment.
• Bai Zhan left, deciding to delay compliance until the Great Yin Dynasty's invasion distracted the city.
• Long Yuanshan assured Yan Pojun that the Long Family would not retaliate for now, while privately celebrating the compensation.
• Yan Pojun told Long Yuanshan he could act as he wished after the war and promised to turn a blind eye.

Long Xuan learned that the Great Yin Dynasty had invaded Western Land and that the Long Family Alliance would have to fight, forcing him to abandon plans to keep mining. At Blackstone City, the Great Yin Dynasty’s enormous Blackfire Legion gathered outside the walls, leaving the defenders facing a dire siege.

• Long Xuan finished clearing the surface Geng Metal Essence from the Bai Clan mine and watched his Thatch Gu build a Geng Metal House.
• Long Xuan checked the Medicine Gu refining progress and estimated it would take about two hundred and fifty days to finish.
• Long Qilin and Long Ruoxue revealed that the Great Yin Dynasty had invaded Western Land through a Teleportation Array and was targeting Blackstone City and the Geng Metal Ore Vein.
• Long Xuan decided to flee the mine, but Long Ruoxue told him the Far West Long Family had joined the Long Family Alliance and would have to fight.
• Yan Pojun and the Blackstone City Gu Kings saw the Blackfire Legion assembled outside the city, while Yao Chen warned that its vast numbers and equipment made the siege difficult.

Yan Pojun tried to reassure Blackstone City as the Great Yin Dynasty began bombarding its barrier, while the Geng Metal Ore Vein came under attack. Long Xuan’s Blade Gu proved its strength in the ensuing battle, then killed the Saber Tyrant in their first clash.

• Yan Pojun urged Blackstone City’s defenders to hold out for reinforcements and threatened to unleash the plague he had secretly preserved if the city was about to fall.
• The Great Yin Dynasty fired thousands of Spirit Stone Cannons at Blackstone City, battering its protective barrier toward collapse.
• Long Gang led the Long Family Gu cultivators out to stop a formation master from breaking the Geng Metal Ore Vein’s defensive formation, and Long Xuan joined the melee with his Blade Gu.
• Long Xuan’s Blade Gu cut down body cultivators and fought ten Marrow Cleansing Stage opponents at once, drawing the attention of the Saber Tyrant.
• The Saber Tyrant challenged the Blade Gu, but their first exchange ended with the Blade Gu killing him and sending his head flying.

Blade Gu and Long Gang helped the Long Family repel an assault on the Geng Metal Ore Vein, but repeated attacks gradually weakened its defenses. Long Xuan hid in his wooden house until Long Ruoxue warned him that the mine could no longer be held and told him to escape.

• Blade Gu slaughtered the enemy body cultivators, while Long Gang’s Blood Dragon Battle Gu broke through the formation master’s barriers and killed him.
• Long Gang ordered the Long Family forces to retreat behind their formation, and both sides withdrew as Long Xuan collected a renowned blade and storage bag.
• Long Ruoxue questioned Long Xuan about Blade Gu’s materials, then discussed the Ten-Blade Style with Long Dan, who said opponents should avoid contests of weapons with it.
• The enemy body cultivators continued attacking the formation, forcing the Long Family to sortie repeatedly and suffer mounting losses as Blade Gu gained a fearsome reputation.
• Long Xuan kept his main body hidden in the wooden house while sending out his clone to fight, until Long Ruoxue burst in and ordered him to escape using the Thatch Gu House.

Long Xuan escaped the besieged Geng Metal Ore Vein through a Thatch Gu House and reached Blackstone City, where the new teleportation technology forced the Great Yin Dynasty to abandon its assault. The enemy’s commanders devised a new campaign against the Western Land, while Long Xuan settled in Blackstone City and avoided the coming fighting.

• Long Gang, Long Xunhuan, and Long Zhan organized the retreat from the Geng Metal Ore Vein, using Thatch Gu Houses to evacuate the surviving Gu cultivators while worrying that the technology would be exposed.
• Long Xuan teleported through a Thatch Gu House and found himself amid explosions at Blackstone City, where the bombardment soon stopped.
• Long Yuanshan concluded that Blackstone City’s new reinforcements made it impossible to capture, and the Great Yin Dynasty’s army withdrew from the city.
• Long Xuan found a house in Blackstone City and resumed practicing the Soul Refining Technique, intending to leave any combat missions to his clone.
• General Yang proposed dividing the Great Yin Dynasty’s army to attack cities and resource sites across the Western Land, while Supervisor Wang worried that the campaign would delay their search for the Living Wood.
• General Yang insisted that the army must first destroy Western Land forces and plunder resources while developing ways to counter the Long Family’s teleportation Gu.

As the war spread across Western Land, Long Xuan completed the Medicine Gu and continued developing his cultivation arts while his clones earned him fame as one of the Ten Great Monsters. After receiving a Long Family Alliance mission to help seize a mithril mine, he joined the force preparing to attack and was tasked with defeating Great Yin prodigy Ye Xiu.

• Long Xuan completed the first layer of the Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Art and the Soul Library, then sent Flame Clone to cultivate the dangerous soul art beside the Soul-Nourishing Wood.
• Long Xuan completed the Medicine Gu, which produced Heavenly Creation Elixir to accelerate the growth of spiritual herbs, and sent it to the Medicine Garden.
• Long Dan became the highest-ranked of the Ten Great Monsters of Western Land, while Long Xuan ranked seventh because his clones repeatedly defeated opponents in battle.
• Long Xuan received a Long Family Alliance mission to help reclaim the Bai Clan's Mithril Ore Vein and decided to join personally to search for Mithril Essence.
• Long Xuan assembled with nearly a thousand Long Family Gu cultivators, where Long Qian ordered him to defeat Ye Xiu, Great Yin's fifth-ranked prodigy.

Long Qian led the Long Family in a surprise assault on the Great Yin Dynasty’s Mithril Ore Vein, where Ye Xiu’s Myriad Poison Pearl inflicted heavy losses on both sides. Long Xuan recognized Ye Xiu as his assigned opponent and charged in to draw him away from the battlefield.

• Long Qian explained the assault plan and used the Long Family’s Thatch Gu Houses to teleport the force to a hidden cave near the Mithril Ore Vein.
• Long Qian led the Long Family through the cave entrance, and his formation expertise let them break the Ore-Guarding Grand Formation and catch the Great Yin Dynasty defenders by surprise.
• Long Family and Great Yin Dynasty Gu cultivators fought across the Spiritual Sea, Marrow Cleansing, and Spirit Gathering stages, but the Great Yin Dynasty’s large numbers kept the battle at a stalemate.
• Ye Xiu stormed out of his house and released the Myriad Poison Pearl’s lethal mist, killing cultivators from both sides and driving nearby fighters away.
• Long Xuan recognized Ye Xiu and the Myriad Poison Pearl, then charged forward to stop Ye Xiu from slaughtering more fighters and draw him away from the battlefield.

Long Xuan lured Ye Xiu away from the battlefield and used the Myriad Poison Pearl to defeat him. After killing Ye Xiu and claiming his storage bag, Long Xuan headed back toward the fighting.

• Ye Xiu chased the Dragon Gu away from the battlefield after it stole his Myriad Poison Pearl, and Long Xuan followed them.
• Ye Xiu filled the area with poisonous gas, but Long Xuan and the Dragon Gu resisted it using Soul Armor and poison resistance.
• Ye Xiu summoned three supreme-grade Gu worms to attack Long Xuan, who sent out his own Gu worms to fight them.
• Long Xuan used the Myriad Poison Pearl to absorb the poison and Poison Spiritual Power from Ye Xiu and his Gu worms, leaving them powerless.
• Long Xuan's Gu worms killed Ye Xiu's three supreme-grade Gu worms, and the Blade Gu beheaded Ye Xiu.
• Long Xuan took Ye Xiu's storage bag and walked back toward the battlefield.

Long Xuan killed Ye Xiu, forcing the Great Yin Dynasty to retreat and allowing the Long Family to seize the Mithril Ore Vein. Ten days later, the Long Family had fortified the site with a massive Cement City Wall, while Long Xuan secretly mined Mithril Essence and expanded his network of Thatch Gu Houses.

• Long Xuan used the Myriad Poison Pearl after killing Ye Xiu, and the Great Yin Dynasty retreated rather than continue fighting for the Mithril Ore Vein.
• Long Qian ordered the Long Family to build defensive fortifications and a Cement City Wall while preparing a Vicious Formation.
• Long Xuan left a clone above ground to receive praise while he secretly entered the mine to gather Mithril Essence.
• The Long Family completed an enormous Cement City Wall in ten days, and the Bai Clan protested losing the ore vein but could not reclaim it.
• Long Xuan cleared out the easily mined Mithril Essence, left ordinary mithril for the Thatch Gu, and continued placing Thatch Gu Houses near resource sites and cities.

Long Xuan began developing an enormous Gu Recipe using the Myriad Poison Pearl as its main material, then entered the Soul Library to work on it. Six months later, his fame had risen while Long Ziyan had become a feared Spiritual Sea Stage fighter who slaughtered Great Yin cultivators across the battlefield.

• Long Xuan wrote a premise for the Calamity Poison Gu, which devoured poisons and could eventually produce a deadly mist made from every poison in the world.
• The recipe’s progress indicator showed it was feasible and suggested it required over one hundred thousand materials.
• Long Xuan entered the Soul Library to grind out the vast Gu Recipe using his accumulated knowledge.
• Over the following six months, news of Long Xuan killing Ye Xiu spread, and his ranking on the Western Land Prodigy Ranking rose to fifth.
• Long Ziyan killed more than ten Great Yin Spiritual Sea Stage Gu cultivators, terrifying her enemies and earning a reputation as a battlefield killing star.
• Long Xuan realized that Long Ziyan’s ability to comprehend countless Sword Intents was an extraordinary feat no ordinary cultivator could reproduce.

Long Xuan completed the Calamity Poison Gu Recipe, gathered its rare materials, and began refining it in a poisonous valley while he researched the second layer of his soul art. As the Western Land war dragged on, his clones handled dangerous missions, killing Yu Chao and raising Long Xuan to third on the Monstrous Geniuses Ranking.

• Long Xuan submitted the human Longevity Gu Recipe, earning another two hundred million contribution points and helping revive three Long Family ancestors, who were secretly declared dead to serve as hidden Gu King forces.
• Long Xuan used his contribution points and the Long Family’s resource network to gather the materials needed for the Calamity Poison Gu, then started refining it with the Myriad Poison Pearl and venomous insects in a poisonous valley.
• After more than thirty attempts, Long Xuan triggered the Gu refinement and left the insects to fight until a surviving insect could become the Calamity Poison Gu.
• Long Xuan spent a year and a half researching the second layer of the Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Art and its accompanying soul technique while the Western Land war continued.
• The Flame Clone lured Yu Chao into an ambush, where Long Xuan’s five clones killed him, raising Long Xuan to third on the Western Land’s Monstrous Geniuses Ranking.

The Great Yin Dynasty disabled spatial teleportation across the Western Land by detonating a Boundary Pearl, forcing the Long Family to slow its operations. With fewer missions, Long Xuan advanced his soul arts and received the completed Calamity Poison Gu, then planned to test whether he could create plutonium as poison for its evolution.

• The Great Yin emperor detonated a Boundary Pearl in a spatial rift, making teleportation dangerous across the Western Land and nearby regions.
• With the Thatch Gu unusable, Long Xuan had fewer missions and developed the second layer of the Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Art and the Heavenly Demon Soul-Devouring Art for his clones.
• The Flame Clone gave Long Xuan the completed Calamity Poison Gu and explained that the Myriad Poison Pearl had become its powerful but vulnerable inner core.
• Long Xuan considered how the Calamity Poison Gu could evolve by consuming increasingly toxic poisons and looked for a way to avoid spending years inventing poison formulas.
• Long Xuan decided to use the Eye of Heavenly Secrets and his soul power to try making elemental poisons, beginning with plutonium.

After the Calamity Poison Gu fell into a coma from eating plutonium, Long Xuan went to Blackstone City's marketplace to clear his head and unexpectedly reunited with Old Daoist Li. Old Daoist Li explained how he, Little Apothecary, and Di Xin had ended up in the Western Land, while Long Xuan noticed a rare spirit herb in Old Daoist Li's possession.

• Long Xuan found the Calamity Poison Gu still unconscious a month after it ate plutonium, then went to the marketplace to clear his head.
• The Treasure-Seeking Rabbit led Long Xuan to Old Daoist Li's stall, where Long Xuan recognized his old friend and spotted a valuable spirit herb in his storage bag.
• Old Daoist Li explained that City Lord Yan had drawn forces from barren regions into the alliance against the Great Yin Dynasty, bringing him into the war.
• Old Daoist Li said Little Apothecary had reached Marrow Cleansing Peak and left to follow a mysterious voice calling from the east.
• Old Daoist Li recounted how Di Xin had angered and been hunted by major forces across the Far West and Western Land, then continued fleeing east.

Long Xuan traded an Eight-Hundred-Year Longevity Gu to Old Daoist Li for nearly every treasure on his table, including two mysterious seeds. Old Daoist Li then invited Long Xuan to join him for another fortuitous encounter tomorrow, leaving Long Xuan wary of being dragged into danger again.

• Old Daoist Li took Long Xuan to a private room and showed him his treasures, including three mysterious seeds that excited the rabbit in Long Xuan's Insect-Rearing Pouch.
• Long Xuan recognized that two seeds had enormous progress bars and decided he wanted the seeds and the five Top-Grade Spirit Stones for his Five-Element Reversal Grand Formation.
• Long Xuan offered Old Daoist Li an Eight-Hundred-Year Longevity Gu and demanded either a hundred billion or everything on the table.
• Old Daoist Li accepted the deal, and Long Xuan collected the treasures while leaving him the dead seed as agreed.
• Old Daoist Li invited Long Xuan to join a great fortuitous encounter the next day, and Long Xuan feared another dangerous trip with him.

Long Xuan considered joining Old Daoist Li on a dangerous expedition after hearing that Li’s premonitions promised survival, then followed Long Dan’s invitation to a gathering of top geniuses. Long Dan revealed that Qin Tian had disclosed a mysterious divine tree bearing thirty-six fruits in the Black Wind Kingdom’s royal garden, but had not yet explained what the tree was.

• Long Xuan questioned Old Daoist Li about his past expedition, and Li explained that his instincts predicted danger and opportunities while ensuring that Long Xuan would not die if he joined the next mission.
• Long Xuan received Long Dan’s invitation to discuss a treasure hunt and decided to attend to learn whether it was the expedition Old Daoist Li had mentioned.
• Long Xuan and Old Daoist Li arrived at Qian Clan Tavern, where they found Long Dan, four other top-ranked geniuses, and around thirty renowned experts gathered.
• Long Dan explained that he had assembled the group because Qin Tian revealed a secret before dying: a divine tree bearing thirty-six fruits stood in the Black Wind Kingdom’s royal garden.
• Bai Youran urged Long Dan to identify the divine tree, noting that he must already know its origin.

Long Dan revealed that Black Wind Kingdom held the Heaven-Mending Tree, whose fruit could raise aptitude, and proposed a risky raid with the Western Land clans. He laid out a plan to teleport into the imperial capital, seize the fruit within half an hour, and escape, leaving the gathered geniuses to weigh the risks.

• Long Dan identified the divine tree in Black Wind Kingdom as the Heaven-Mending Tree and explained that its fruit could raise aptitude by one grade.
• Bai Youran questioned why Long Dan had invited outsiders, and Long Dan said the information had come from Qin Tian, whom he had killed, and might be a trap.
• Lei Shun demanded details, and Long Dan described Black Wind Kingdom, its defenses, and his Thatch Gu Hut's ability to teleport the group to the imperial capital.
• Long Xuan asked about mortal kingdoms, and Long Dan explained that Black Wind Kingdom had many weak Gu cultivators and body cultivators but few formidable defenders.
• Long Dan presented a plan to use the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains Formation, raid the imperial palace, seize the Heaven-Mending Fruits, and escape within half an hour.