Chapter Summaries

Lin Changheng used Su Shuangjiang and himself as bait to lure True Person Shattered Calamity away from his lair, then trapped and killed the Core Formation demon cultivator in a prepared valley. The chapter left Lin Changheng victorious but drained after proving he could defeat a seasoned True Core opponent.

• Lin Changheng killed the black market’s scar-faced Foundation Establishment guardian and two fleeing demon cultivators while Yellowbrow hid and later falsified his report.
• Lin Changheng and Su Shuangjiang killed the demon cultivators aboard a pleasure boat, and Lin sent Su fleeing when True Person Shattered Calamity arrived.
• Lin Changheng used an afterimage to draw True Person Shattered Calamity away from Su and led him to a valley, where he revealed his ambush.
• Lin Changheng battled True Person Shattered Calamity with his swords, artifacts, spells, and a formation, eventually killing him with eight sword images and three-colored flames.
• Lin Changheng recovered his treasures and reflected that he had defeated a seasoned Core Formation Early Stage cultivator, though the battle had consumed considerable energy.

After killing True Person Shattered Calamity, Lin Changheng assessed his spoils, strengthened his Heaven-in-a-Pot blessed land and sword embryo, and planned to gather water-aspected resources in Yue Kingdom. In Righteousness Immortal City, he joined the process of qualifying for a joint hunt of a suspected mid-third-tier flood dragon, while Su Shuangjiang learned that Shattered Calamity had died.

• Lin Changheng searched True Person Shattered Calamity's memories, learned of the Blood Moon Demon Cult leader's upcoming birthday celebration, and buried the corpse and gathered the remaining spoils before fleeing.
• Lin Changheng planted the Spirit Eye Herb in Heaven-in-a-Pot, tested the Bone Chain Treasure Artifact, studied the ancient bronze mirror, and used damaged artifacts to strengthen his third Myriad Manifestations Origin Sword.
• Lin Changheng planned to collect water demon beast essence blood, seek resources for the Black-Armored Earth Turtle, and gather materials for an imitation River-Calming Pearl; Su Shuangjiang began searching for essence blood and overheard rumors that True Person Shattered Calamity had been killed.
• Lin Changheng reached Righteousness Immortal City and bought available materials from the Vast Righteousness Tower, whose steward Zhao Minghe offered to introduce him to a team organizing a flood dragon hunt near Golden Sand Beach.
• Lin Changheng agreed to undergo a combat assessment for the hunt and waited half a year for an invitation to meet the organizer and other participants at the Listening to the Waves Hall.
• Lin Changheng completed his auxiliary materials for the imitation River-Calming Pearl and considered a shopkeeper's suggestion to feed the Black-Armored Earth Turtle higher-tier earth demon cores as a last-resort way to help it advance.

Lin Changheng attended the Vast Righteousness Sect’s dragon-hunt gathering and defeated True Person Crossing Crane in a brief spar, earning a place in the hunting party. The four participants agreed on how to locate the flood dragon and divide its spoils, then began planning the expedition.

• Lin Changheng learned that the deaths of Calamity-Shattering and Red Soul had heightened defenses because the Blood Moon Demon Cult might retaliate against the righteous sects.
• True Person Pine Waves explained why True Person Crossing Crane had been added to the selection, and the group chose a spar between Crossing Crane and Lin Changheng to judge their abilities.
• Lin Changheng overwhelmed Crossing Crane with his Myriad Manifestations Origin Swords and Light-Splitting, Shadow-Transforming Sword Manual, securing the dragon-hunt position while Pine Waves offered to repair Crossing Crane’s damaged shield.
• Lin Changheng asked about the flood dragon’s location and the division of spoils; Pine Waves identified the Reef-Strewn Sea, described his tracking method, and claimed the creature’s essence blood for refining pills.
• Lin Changheng agreed to the spoils arrangement, intending to claim the flood dragon’s demon core, and joined Pine Waves, True Person Listening Pavilion, and True Person Purple Jade in planning the hunt.

Lin Changheng enhanced his Cloud-Concealment Otherworldly Art, prepared for the flood dragon hunt, and joined the party as they traveled into the Reef-Strewn Sea. After True Person Pine Waves began tracking the flood dragon, Lin Changheng secretly set up additional escape and concealment measures, then hurried back when Pine Waves sent a signal.

• Lin Changheng collected Little Qing’s essence blood and used a fifth-level Azure Sky White Tiger Treasure Seed to raise his Cloud-Concealment Otherworldly Art to Transcendent Mastery.
• Lin Changheng stocked up on third-tier elixirs and advanced the Blood-Transforming Demon Blade, developing a flame-based version called the Radiant Flame Blade.
• Lin Changheng joined True Person Pine Waves, True Person Listening Pavilion, True Person Purple Jade, and True Person Sacred Heart, and the group planned how to trap and attack the flood dragon.
• Lin Changheng sensed something suspicious near True Person Listening Pavilion or True Person Sacred Heart and resolved to stay alert during the hunt.
• The five traveled into the Reef-Strewn Sea, where True Person Pine Waves used a Flood Dragon Shard Scale and a Geomancy Compass to search for the beast.
• While guarding the island, Lin Changheng secretly deployed a concealment formation and Nether Abyss Icefire, then returned after receiving a signal from True Person Pine Waves.

Lin Changheng and four Core Formation cultivators tracked an Azure-Scaled Serpent Flood Dragon to its lair and lured it into an ambush, but True Person Sacred Heart betrayed them and shattered their formation. Lin Changheng helped True Person Songtao escape, then fled after striking the wounded beast, while True Person Purple Jade and True Person Listening Pavilion remained trapped in the battle.

• True Person Songtao used a tracking treasure and secret art to lead Lin Changheng, True Person Purple Jade, True Person Sacred Heart, and True Person Listening Pavilion to the flood dragon's territory, where they found its lair and prepared an ambush.
• The group lured the Azure-Scaled Serpent Flood Dragon into the Three Powers Gui Water Sea-Covering Formation, then weakened it with True Person Purple Jade's ice technique, True Person Sacred Heart's needles, and Lin Changheng's swords.
• True Person Sacred Heart suddenly withdrew her power, collapsing the formation and injuring True Person Listening Pavilion; the freed flood dragon tore off True Person Songtao's arm.
• Lin Changheng interrupted the flood dragon's breath attack with his Radiant Flame Blade and urged True Person Songtao to flee, allowing Songtao to escape with his life-saving secret art.
• Lin Changheng struck the flood dragon's wounds again from a distance and fled, while True Person Purple Jade tried to escape and a blackish-purple demonic saber blocked her path.

Lin Changheng returned from hiding and helped bring down the Azure-Scaled Serpent Flood Dragon after it killed True Person Listening Pavilion, True Person Purple Jade, and the demonic cultivator Shengxin Yanren. He harvested the dragon’s valuable materials and extracted its spirit veins before returning to Righteousness Immortal City, where he met the badly injured Master Songtao.

• True Person Sacred Heart revealed herself as the demonic cultivator Shengxin Yanren, and the Azure-Scaled Serpent Flood Dragon killed True Person Listening Pavilion and True Person Purple Jade.
• Shengxin Yanren used a strange talisman to boost her power and pursued the wounded flood dragon, but Lin Changheng ambushed her and the dragon’s frost breath killed her.
• A demonic apparition emerging from the talisman recognized Lin Changheng, who then killed the exhausted Azure-Scaled Serpent Flood Dragon.
• Lin Changheng collected the cultivators’ belongings and harvested the flood dragon’s core, blood, scales, and other materials.
• Lin Changheng spent weeks extracting the two spirit veins from the dragon’s territory, leaving the area spiritually barren.
• Half a year later, Lin Changheng returned to Righteousness Immortal City and met Master Songtao in Listening to the Waves Hall.

Lin Changheng gave True Person Pine Waves evidence that Sacred Heart was a Blood Moon Demon Cult infiltrator, then received an ancient five-element cultivation inheritance and Pine Waves’s geomancy compass in return. After restoring Pine Waves’s hope of regrowing his arm with a pill formula, Lin Changheng prepared to leave the Yue Kingdom before the righteous and demonic factions plunged it into greater conflict.

• Lin Changheng showed True Person Pine Waves an Image-Recording Jade proving Sacred Heart had revealed her demonic nature, and Pine Waves realized the evidence could explain the deaths of Tingxuan and Purple Jade.
• Lin Changheng asked for a five-element cultivation art, and Pine Waves brought his senior sister, Daoist Liuquan, who lent Lin Changheng the Tortoise Mystery Scripture of the Five Qi Returning to the Origin for thirty years.
• Lin Changheng reviewed his gains from the Reef-Strewn Sea, including flood dragon materials, three treasure artifact swords, and the wealth from three dead Core Formation cultivators.
• Lin Changheng noticed Liuquan’s concealed test for demonic influence, while she confirmed he was not a demon cultivator and gave him the ancient cultivation method.
• Pine Waves gave Lin Changheng his geomancy compass, and Lin Changheng gave him a Limb-Restoring Pill formula that could help regrow his severed arm.
• Lin Changheng attended Pine Waves’s banquet and planned to see Su Shuangjiang before leaving the Yue Kingdom ahead of the coming righteous-demonic conflict.

Lin Changheng reunited with Su Shuangjiang, warned her of the impending righteous-demonic war, and respected her choice to remain in the Yue Kingdom. After returning to Origin Immortal City, he mastered the Five-Qi Turtle Scripture of Returning to the Origin and, following years of secluded cultivation, reached the second level of Core Formation.

• Lin Changheng found Su Shuangjiang at a floating market, where she negotiated a long-term supply of Moonlight Crab Demon essence blood with Zhao of the Green Crocodile Gang.
• Su Shuangjiang gave Lin Changheng nearly five hundred drops of Wave-Turning Thorn Puffer essence blood and explained the demon beast's three innate talents.
• Lin Changheng warned Su Shuangjiang that war between the righteous and demonic factions was imminent and offered to take her to the Yuanshan Kingdom, but she chose to stay in Yue Kingdom and continue collecting essence blood.
• Lin Changheng gave Su Shuangjiang a Mysterious Water Turtle Spirit Shield and upper-grade second-tier talismans before leaving for the Yuanshan Kingdom; the righteous-demonic war erupted less than half a year later.
• Lin Changheng returned to Origin Immortal City, studied the Five-Qi Turtle Scripture of Returning to the Origin, and spent seven or eight years switching cultivation methods in seclusion.
• Lin Changheng successfully cultivated the Five-Qi Turtle Scripture and advanced to the second level of Core Formation, nearing the third level.

Lin Changheng completed his switch to the Five-Qi Turtle Scripture of Returning to the Origin, gained powerful water and eye techniques, and agreed to help the Great Shun Merchant Association face rival associations. At the Moon-Exploring Tower, he arrived with True Person Dong for a hostile trade meeting and faced the stronger Nine Rivers and Four Seas representatives.

• Lin Changheng completed his cultivation breakthrough and used Wave-Turning Pufferfish essence blood to gain Water-Control Otherworldly Art, combining it with his fire and earth abilities through the five-element method.
• Lin Changheng decided to return to the Song Region, then visited the Great Shun Merchant Association and collected the promised Wind-Splitting Falcon essence blood from True Person Dong.
• True Person Dong asked Lin Changheng to deter the Nine Rivers and Four Seas Merchant Associations, and Lin Changheng agreed after learning about their Core Formation attendants.
• Lin Changheng refined Blue-Eyed Insight from the Wind-Splitting Falcon bloodline and integrated it into his Four-Colored Divine Light, greatly improving his perception and extending his divine sense beyond twenty li.
• True Person Dong received an aggressive meeting invitation from the Nine Rivers Merchant Association, and Lin Changheng prepared for the confrontation while completing his Wind-Splitting Falcon spirit seizure.
• Lin Changheng and True Person Dong entered the Moon-Exploring Tower, where True Person Chen welcomed them with pressure as the rival associations' representatives watched.

At a gathering of the five great merchant associations, Lin Changheng revealed his overwhelming strength, secured the Great Shun Merchant Association’s trade interests, and acquired the essence of profound underworld heavy water. He left Origin Immortal City for the Song Region, but Daoist Mo Gu pursued him near the border.

• President Chen and True Person Wangshi pressured True Person Dong to surrender profitable trade routes and challenged Lin Changheng to a contest with a wager.
• Lin Changheng demanded the essence of profound underworld heavy water or the nine-aperture mystic stone as stakes, and President Chen produced the heavy water.
• Lin Changheng defeated True Person Wangshi with a swift sword strike, then held the gathering at swordpoint until the Nine Rivers and Four Seas Merchant Associations conceded to True Person Dong’s revised trade proposals.
• Lin Changheng accepted the heavy water and attended a banquet where the assembled cultivators treated him with deference, earning the name Old Devil Fang among them.
• After meeting privately with True Person Dong the next morning, Lin Changheng departed Origin Immortal City toward the Song Region.
• Near the kingdom border, Lin Changheng detected three pursuing escape lights and Daoist Mo Gu called for him to wait.

Lin Changheng defeated the three Core Formation cultivators who ambushed him at the border, then let two witnesses escape and inadvertently made the Fang Yuan identity notorious across the region. He crossed into the Song Region under his Pill Master Lin identity and headed for Floating Life Immortal City to strengthen his standing as a Core Formation cultivator and Third-Tier Pill Dao Master.

• Daoist Mo Gu and two allies cornered Lin Changheng at the border and demanded his treasures, but Lin declared that he had surrounded them.
• Lin Changheng killed the tall, fat cultivator, gravely wounded the scrawny old man, and then slew Daoist Mo Gu and the surviving attacker.
• Lin Changheng captured the three cultivators' souls with True Person Sacred Heart's soul banner, while two Foundation Establishment witnesses fled back to Origin Immortal City.
• The witnesses' account spread, and Origin Immortal City's merchant guild leaders recognized the feared Old Devil Fang as Fang Yuan; reports of Fang Yuan's earlier aid to the righteous factions further confused his reputation.
• Lin Changheng left the border under his Pill Master Lin identity and set course for Floating Life Immortal City to bolster his status as a Core Formation cultivator and Third-Tier Pill Dao Master.

Lin Changheng returned to Floating Life Immortal City, reunited with Bai Hengwan after her Core Formation, and arranged to publicly establish his own Core Formation identity at her ceremony. After gaining a new Dao Fruit and meeting Azure Mist Rogue Person, he offered flood-dragon essence blood to the latter’s bonded spirit beast and prepared to accept a reward.

• Lin Changheng learned that Bai Hengwan had formed her core and was preparing for a Core Formation ceremony, then visited her and revealed that he had also reached Core Formation.
• Bai Hengwan agreed to arrange for Lin Changheng to undergo a public Core Formation display at Floating Life Lake, and the two shared a meal while discussing cultivation.
• Lin Changheng absorbed a hundred portions of Azure Sky White Tiger essence blood, witnessed a vision of a tiger-type Heaven and Earth True Spirit, and gained the fifth Dao Fruit, whose Divine Ability True Intent was Mist Spreading.
• Bai Hengwan brought Lin Changheng to Feather Immortal Island, where Azure Mist Rogue Person granted him a talisman to create convincing celestial phenomena for his planned public breakthrough.
• Azure Mist Rogue Person’s bonded spirit beast, Qingli, detected pseudo-flood-dragon essence blood on Lin Changheng; Lin offered twelve drops of Green-Scaled Frost Flood Dragon essence blood, and Azure Mist Rogue Person invited him to name a reward.

At Bai Hengwan’s Core Formation celebration, Lin Changheng rebuffed recruitment by the Purple Pole Sect and the Extreme South Palace, while his ties to Yun Zhi and the Ten-Thousand-Sword Yun Family resurfaced. After the celebration, he confronted Senior Sister Yang about her past actions, then encountered Huang Mingde at Yellow Millet Abode, who begged him to save Cook Zeng from the Huang Household’s Clan Prison.

• True Person Xuanji invited Lin Changheng to join the Purple Pole Sect, but he privately cited Xu Yongzhen’s stolen Foundation Establishment Pill as a reason to hesitate and prompted her to investigate the sect’s wrongdoing.
• Lin Changheng recognized Yun Zhi at Bai Hengwan’s celebration, while her Treasure Artifact Sword Embryo resonated strangely with him; Yun Ze urged her to renew their acquaintance, and Lin agreed to visit the Yun Family.
• Bai Hengwan announced her Daoist title as True Person Evening Radiance, and Lin Changheng decided he would use the title True Person Ten Thousand Longevity.
• Lin Changheng declined the Extreme South Palace’s recruitment, then confronted Senior Sister Yang about a demon cultivator’s curse and leaked information; True Disciple Wu intervened, and Lin let the leak go while privately retaining his grudge over the curse.
• After visiting Yellow Millet Abode, Lin Changheng heard Huang Mingde plead for help, explaining that Cook Zeng had been imprisoned on a fabricated charge of subversion and quoting the clues: “A cuckoo usurps the magpie’s nest; possessing jade becomes the crime.”

Lin Changheng agreed to visit the Huang Household after learning that True Person Lie Shan had seized control and imprisoned Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu. At the household, Lin Changheng used a forged concubine contract bearing Huang Lingsu’s genuine essence blood to demand her release, and Lie Shan challenged him to a duel; Lin Changheng began negotiating the stakes.

• An old confidant of Cook Zeng explained how a returning Core Formation cultivator, Lie Shan, took over the Huang Household, imprisoned Zeng, and confined Huang Lingsu, then offered Lin Changheng a Lifespan-Extending Pill in exchange for help.
• Lin Changheng agreed to investigate, returned the pill, and arranged supplies before leaving Floating Life Immortal City; he also gave Elder Kong a third-tier water-method Pill Dao legacy.
• Lin Changheng arrived at the Huang Household, where its former grand elder escorted him to meet Lie Shan, now the patriarch, and Lin learned that Cook Zeng was supposedly reflecting in seclusion.
• Lin Changheng demanded the demon-beast essence blood the Huang Household had promised him and announced that he would take Huang Lingsu away as his concubine.
• Lin Changheng presented a forged Concubine Contract authenticated with Huang Lingsu’s genuine essence blood, leaving Lie Shan without an easy way to refute his claim.
• Lie Shan proposed a duel with Huang Lingsu and Cook Zeng’s freedom at stake, and Lin Changheng countered by asking him to return their Storage Bags intact as an additional condition.

Lin Changheng defeated True Person Lieshan in a duel, freed Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu, and received the Supreme Yin Soul-Nourishing Wood before taking them toward the Xu Family. After Lieshan’s master took over his body and reversed the Huang Household’s policies, Lin Changheng arrived at the Xu Family Base and found it preparing for an unknown celebration.

• Lin Changheng and True Person Lieshan signed a Magic Contract, then Lin Changheng wounded Lieshan with a three-colored flame blade and won the duel.
• Lin Changheng released Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu from their restraints, and True Person Lieshan expelled them from the Huang Household’s genealogy as they departed.
• Cook Zeng gave Lin Changheng the Supreme Yin Soul-Nourishing Wood and agreed with Huang Lingsu to help hunt the Torch Yin Vine Matriarch; Lin Changheng supplied them with elixirs and brought them toward the Xu Family.
• True Person Lieshan’s demonic master destroyed his consciousness, took control of his body, and ordered the Huang Household to restore its former leadership and avoid conflict.
• Lin Changheng, Cook Zeng, and Huang Lingsu reached the Xu Family Base, where they found cultivators arriving for a festive gathering whose purpose they did not know.

The Xu Family faced a power grab by six allied lineages, but Lin Changheng returned and defeated them before they could seize control. After reuniting with Xu Hanji and Tantai Feiyue, he learned Tantai Feiyue was nearing the end of her life and considered using a baleful core method to extend it.

• Luo Tianxiong and five other lineage heads demanded that the Xu Family share control of the Flying Cloud Trade Alliance, while Xu Wenyuan refused to fight against the Xu Family.
• Luo Tianxiong launched a lethal surprise attack on Xu Hanji, but Tantai Feiyue’s puppet blocked his flying sword until Lin Changheng’s Red-Gold Flying Sword shattered it.
• Lin Changheng entered the hall, crippled five challengers, killed Luo Tianxiong, and ordered the surviving lineage heads to apologize to the Xu Family in three days.
• Lin Changheng reunited with Xu Hanji and Tantai Feiyue, learned Yan Mingyi was in seclusion, and gave Xu Bazheng elixirs to treat her injuries.
• Xu Bazheng told Lin Changheng that her father, Xu Fugui, had died more than twenty years earlier, and Lin Changheng realized Tantai Feiyue’s life was also nearing its end.
• Lin Changheng considered using the Dark Nether Baleful Art to help Tantai Feiyue form a baleful core that could extend her life by around eighty years.

Lin Changheng returned to Flying Cloud Valley as a Core Formation True Person, helping the Xu Family expand its power while tending to his companions and honoring old friends. Over five years, Yan Mingyi emerged as a Quasi-Third-Tier Puppet Master, the Xu Family defeated the Chou Family, and Lin Changheng began advancing in artifact refining as his supply of five-element cultivation materials ran low.

• Lin Changheng introduced Cook Zeng and Huang Lingsu to Xu Hanji, Tantai Feiyue, and Xu Bazheng, who welcomed the two cultivators to Flying Cloud Valley.
• At a banquet, Xu Hanji revealed Lin Changheng's Core Formation breakthrough, and the Xu Family honored him as True Person Lin while announcing plans to strengthen the lineage.
• Lin Changheng stayed with Xu Hanji and Tantai Feiyue, then reunited with Yan Mingyi when she emerged from seclusion as a Quasi-Third-Tier Puppet Master and asked her to complete a Hundred-Grievance Blood Corpse.
• With Lin Changheng's backing, the Xu Family defeated the Chou Family, took control of resources, and secured its status as a dominant power in the northwestern Song Kingdom.
• Lin Changheng improved his artifact-refining skills, visited Xu Fugui's grave to honor his old friends, and helped Tantai Feiyue clear pill toxins and excess elixir residue.
• Lin Changheng found that his five-element cultivation materials had run out, but nearly thirty second-tier spirit herbs in his Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land had reached a hundred years old.

Lin Changheng left the Xu Family to meet Ye Qingwu, who had formed a false core and gathered the Cavern-Ore Golden Turtle essence blood he needed. They exchanged information about Purple Pole Sect cultivators and the Savage Wastes expedition, while Lin Changheng learned that the Gu-Surnamed False Core Cultivator tied to Xu Yongzhen’s case was also connected to a Red-Eyed Fire Ogre.

• Lin Changheng inspected the [Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land] and found that the [White Jade Spider Demons] had grown stronger through cannibalism while the [Soul-Eroding Miasma Insects] had split into an original colony and a fiercer, blood-patterned colony.
• Lin Changheng waited seven days for Tantai Feiyue and Xu Hanji to return, then left the Xu Family after Yan Mingyi and the other women saw him off with supplies, puppets, talismans, and spirit wine.
• Lin Changheng sensed Ye Qingwu traveling with a Purple Pole Sect expedition and pursued her toward the Savage Wastes, where she revealed she had formed a false core.
• Ye Qingwu gave Lin Changheng more than three hundred portions of Cavern-Ore Golden Turtle essence blood and told him that Elder Liu, who had harmed Zhaoli, was leading the other expedition team into the Savage Wastes.
• Ye Qingwu told Lin Changheng that Grand Elder Cloud Crane had prevented True Person Xuanji from severely punishing the Gu-Surnamed False Core Cultivator who had deprived Xu Yongzhen of a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Lin Changheng asked Ye Qingwu about a cultivator who had owned a Red-Eyed Fire Ogre, and Ye Qingwu said that the senior brother had also been surnamed Gu.

Lin Changheng refined the Gold-Devouring Demonic Art with golden turtle essence blood and Crimson Sun Star Metal, greatly strengthening his body-tempering attacks. In the Savage Wastes, he killed a Purple Pole Sect False Core elder while framing Mo Zhaoli, then began hunting demon beasts for more essence blood.

• Lin Changheng refined two Cavern-Ore Golden Turtle treasure seeds and awakened the Gold-Devouring Demonic Art, which let him consume Low-Grade Third-Tier Crimson Sun Star Metal.
• Lin Changheng layered the new art with his body-tempering techniques, destroyed a peak with one punch, and tested the limits of the enhancement.
• A Purple Pole Sect party led by the False Core Cultivator surnamed Liu entered the Savage Wastes to explore a valley, where Lin's mist and miasma insects disoriented the group.
• Lin used the Azure Thunder Bow Talisman Treasure to kill the False Core Cultivator surnamed Liu and altered his memories so he believed Mo Zhaoli had killed him.
• Lin searched the elder's memories and arranged the evidence to frame the foreign lightning cultivator, then killed an ambushing Iron-Clawed Wind-Splitting Crane and collected its essence blood.
• Lin shared the roasted crane with Xiao Hei and Little Qing, then set out laterally through the Savage Wastes to hunt more demon beasts for essence blood.

Lin Changheng hunted several third-tier demon beasts in the Savage Wastes, escaped a powerful Wood-Armored Dragon Lizard, and returned to Floating Life Immortal City to collect the Huang Household’s promised essence blood. He also arranged for Bai Hengwan to buy cultivation materials, chose the Daoist title Ten Thousand Longevity, and declared he would hold no ceremony until he reached the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Lin Changheng killed a Wood-Armored Dragon Lizard and took its wood-aspect demon core and essence blood, then escaped its much stronger elder using layered defenses and Fire and Earth Escape.
• Lin Changheng cautiously hunted a Crimson Flame Ground-Scuttling Scorpion and a Cold Yin Forest Anaconda, collecting their demon cores, essence blood, and valuable materials.
• Lin Changheng returned to Floating Life Immortal City, where a Huang Household steward delivered the promised six hundred drops of Mystic Spirit-grade essence blood and confirmed that Senior Zeng had safely taken Huang Mingde away.
• Lin Changheng gave Bai Hengwan scaled hide from an Azure-Scaled Serpent Flood Dragon and asked her to sell his surplus items and buy materials for his cultivation.
• Lin Changheng told Bai Hengwan he would use the Daoist title Ten Thousand Longevity and would hold no Core Formation Ceremony, saying he would celebrate only after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Bai Hengwan asked whether Lin Changheng intended to follow the example of the master of the Extreme South Palace.