Chapter Summaries

Wang Yan controlled Lingyunzi as Martial Uncle Ye summoned them to help rescue the Five Sects’ trapped army from Black Evil Kings inside the formation. Martial Uncle Ye asked what divine ability Lingyunzi had used against a Black Evil King, leaving Wang Yan struggling to answer.

• Martial Uncle Ye questioned Lingyunzi about destroying a Black Evil King, then ordered him to leave at once for a dangerous mission.
• Wang Yan insisted on accompanying Lingyunzi so he could keep the puppet within his control, and Martial Uncle Ye took them away.
• Martial Uncle Ye gave Lingyunzi a Myriad Spirits Return-Origin Pill and explained that they were going to rescue the Five Sects’ trapped army.
• Martial Uncle Ye revealed that four or five Black Evil Kings had attacked the trapped forces and that the Five Sects needed someone who could deal with them.
• Martial Uncle Ye asked Lingyunzi what divine ability he had used against the Black Evil King, leaving Wang Yan at a loss for an answer.

Wang Yan and Lingyunzi joined five Nascent Soul Cultivators from the great sects as they prepared a secret rescue mission against the Black Evil King. After planning and setting out at night, the group reached the guarded restriction array where their trapped allies were held.

• Wang Yan claimed his sharp gold body protected him from the Black Evil King's soul attacks, helping him conceal his real abilities from Martial Uncle Ye.
• Martial Uncle Ye brought Wang Yan and Lingyunzi to a hidden cave abode, where he introduced them to True Lord Ziyang, Fairy Wuhua, Sword Lord Wuyue, and the Spirit-Driving Wanderer.
• The five Nascent Soul Cultivators discussed the worsening situation and helped Lingyunzi recover some of his strength with pills.
• Wang Yan proposed several rescue plans, and True Lord Ziyang announced that the group would set out that night.
• True Lord Ziyang led the concealed group toward the restriction array, where they spotted numerous gray- and black-robed guards and prepared to attack.

Wang Yan secretly relied on Card Fairy’s formation knowledge to lead the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators underground and break through the outer Detection Formation. The group reached the immense formation trapping the Five Sects Coalition, where Fairy Wuhua asked Wang Yan to identify it.

• Wang Yan urged the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to use Earth Escape and offered to break the outer restrictions, claiming only thirty or forty percent confidence.
• True Lord Ziyang gave Wang Yan two hours while the Spirit-Driving Wanderer carried the group underground to the formation.
• Wang Yan stalled while pretending to study the restrictions, then used Card Fairy’s method to open a small passage through the formation.
• The cultivators passed through the opening and stealthily traveled dozens of miles toward the formation enclosing the Five Sects Coalition.
• Fairy Wuhua asked Wang Yan whether he could identify the immense gray formation.

Wang Yan persuaded the Nascent Soul cultivators to let him use an underground route and break through the restriction array, then led them toward the formation trapping the Five Sects' allied army. The group reached the enormous barrier, where Fairy Wuhua asked Wang Yan to identify it.

• Wang Yan proposed that the cultivators travel underground and offered to break the restriction array, claiming he had a way through it.
• True Lord Ziyang gave Wang Yan two hours to unravel the array, and the Spirit-Driving Wanderer used earth-element magic to carry the group underground.
• Wang Yan pretended to study the array before using Card Fairy's method to open a temporary passage; Fairy Wuhua was surprised by his unfamiliar formation runes.
• The Spirit-Driving Wanderer brought the group through the passage, and they stealthily traveled several dozen li toward the formation holding the allied army.
• Fairy Wuhua flew to Wang Yan beside the vast gray barrier and asked him what formation it was.

Wang Yan and Lingyunzi destroyed the Black Evil Kings on the eleventh level, allowing the Five Great Sects’ forces to break through the formation’s final level. As the rescued cultivators began fighting their way out, Lord Illusion Spirit’s allies launched their next plan, and an arrogant voice challenged the escapees.

• Wang Yan and Lingyunzi used the Golden Gourd and Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda to destroy the Black Evil King, prompting True Lord Ziyang to lead the group toward the twelfth level.
• Wang Yan noticed the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators leaving gaps in his protection, while Ye Gen stayed close and shielded him.
• Jun Moxie and Dark Cyan Poison Venerable told Lord Illusion Spirit that the Black Evil Kings had been killed, and Lord Illusion Spirit ordered them to wait until the formation’s defenders were weakened.
• After the Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation shuddered, Lord Illusion Spirit sent his allies into action, and Flying Boats surrounded the formation.
• True Lord Ziyang and the other great Nascent Soul Realm cultivators joined the trapped Five Sects’ forces and led them toward the exit, but an arrogant voice challenged their escape.

Lord Illusion Spirit’s formation unleashed swarms of powerful ghost-demon beasts against the trapped cultivators, while Wang Yan returned to the Firecloud Sect’s forces to avoid fighting under the scrutiny of other Nascent Soul Realm cultivators. As the Five Great Sects split up to attack, Card Fairy advised Wang Yan to lead the Firecloud Sect toward the formation core, and the Nascent Soul Realm battle erupted.

• Lord Illusion Spirit intensified his formation, causing more than a thousand ghost-demon beasts to grow stronger and attack the cultivators.
• Wang Yan asked Ye Gen to let him and Lingyunzi return to help the Firecloud Sect, and Ye Gen agreed.
• Wang Yan and Lingyunzi rejoined Venerable Gray Three as seven or eight Nascent Soul Realm cultivators approached.
• True Lord Ziyang ordered the sects to split up and attack, and Venerable Gray Three gathered the Firecloud Sect forces.
• Card Fairy told Wang Yan that the formation core lay to the left and urged him to break out that way, but Venerable Gray Three objected that the route crossed more layers.
• The Nascent Soul Realm cultivators clashed, unleashing earthshaking explosions.

Wang Yan escaped the Firecloud Sect’s formation charge and followed Card Fairy’s guidance to the Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation’s core. Lingyunzi found the altar and its four spirit treasures, but a sudden blue attack struck as he prepared to act.

• Venerable Gray Three led the Firecloud Sect cultivators in an arrowhead charge through the demons, ghosts, and beasts, while some exhausted disciples fell behind and died.
• Card Fairy and Liu Xian'er told Wang Yan to leave the group and find the formation core, and Wang Yan escaped when Venerable Gray Three rushed to rescue Bing Ning.
• Card Fairy guided Wang Yan through the formation to a bare mountain where gray vapor poured from openings in its slope.
• Wang Yan sent Lingyunzi into a cave, where he found an altar covered in runes and four spirit treasures revolving around it.
• As Lingyunzi prepared to attack the altar’s formation with the Golden Light Bowl, a streak of blue light plunged toward his head.

Lingyunzi was ambushed by Fellow Daoist Yu and Fellow Daoist Earth Dragon while approaching the formation core, but his apparent death proved to be a counterambush. After injuring both cultivators with his Golden Sword-Rays and Golden Light Bowl, he fled into the passage, where red runes activated beneath his pursuers.

• Dark green vines trapped Lingyunzi, and blue beams struck him until he appeared dead.
• Fellow Daoist Yu and Fellow Daoist Earth Dragon revealed themselves and moved to loot Lingyunzi and take his Golden Light Bowl.
• Lingyunzi suddenly attacked Fellow Daoist Yu with Golden Sword-Rays, badly wounding him.
• The Golden Light Bowl unleashed sound waves that injured Fellow Daoist Earth Dragon as Lingyunzi staggered toward the passage.
• Fellow Daoist Yu and Fellow Daoist Earth Dragon pursued Lingyunzi, then sensed danger as red runes lit up across the passage floor.

Wang Yan used Lingyunzi as bait and unleashed a devastating Water-Fire Blast that killed Fellow Daoist Yu and Fellow Daoist Earth Dragon, though the strike nearly exhausted his magic power. He escaped the collapsing mountain with Lingyunzi and turned back to the formation core to collect the treasures and break the formation.

• Lingyunzi fought Fellow Daoist Yu and Fellow Daoist Earth Dragon after Wang Yan’s Fire Blast trap sent them flying through the passage.
• Wang Yan sprang an ambush from below with the Water-Fire Blast Card, killing both Golden Core Cultivators and blasting a fissure through the mountain peak.
• Wang Yan explained that he had hidden himself with the Invisibility Immortal Card and used Lingyunzi as bait to draw out the two guards.
• Wang Yan escaped the collapsing mountain with Lingyunzi, but the attack had consumed nearly all his magic power.
• Card Fairy urged Wang Yan to collect the four treasures and break the formation, and he flew back toward the cave.

Cloud Nation's reinforcements launched a surprise attack on Lin Nation's forces surrounding the Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation. As the formation began to collapse, the trapped Cloud Nation cultivators gained a chance to escape, while Lord Illusion Spirit and Dark Cyan Poison Venerable realized the formation core had fallen.

• Lord Illusion Spirit and Dark Cyan Poison Venerable drove True Lord Ziyang back while Cloud Nation's trapped cultivators struggled against Lin Nation's superior numbers.
• Cloud Nation's reinforcements attacked Lin Nation's perimeter with flying boats and spirit cannons, catching its forces by surprise.
• Lin Nation's commanders tried to organize a counterattack as the Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation began to flicker and disappear.
• Dark Cyan Poison Venerable sensed that Yu's soul aura had changed, and Lord Illusion Spirit realized the formation was breaking.
• Gray storms swept through the formation, destroying its demons and ghosts and revealing the valley.

The Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation collapsed, turning the battle around as Cloud Nation’s trapped forces joined the relief army against Lin Nation. Wang Yan secretly destroyed the formation core, then returned to the battlefield to kill enemies and collect spoils.

• Lord Illusion Spirit discovered that the Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation had broken, and Cloud Nation’s relief army charged the Lin Nation forces surrounding the valley.
• True Lord Ziyang rallied the trapped cultivators of the Five Great Sects, who charged outward and attacked the Lin Nation forces from behind.
• Lord Illusion Spirit urged the Lin Nation Nascent Soul cultivators to kill their Cloud Nation opponents, but more than a dozen Cloud Nation Nascent Soul reinforcements arrived and shifted the battle’s advantage.
• Wang Yan slipped away from the formation core after destroying it and chose not to claim credit, wary of drawing attention to himself and the Four Spirit Treasures he had taken.
• Wang Yan returned to the Firecloud Sect army, released his five puppets, and began killing Lin Nation cultivators for merit points and spoils.

Cloud Nation turned the tide of the war after defeating Lin Nation at the Heaven-and-Earth Hell Demon Ring Formation, and Lingyunzi and Wang Yan received substantial rewards for their role. As the Vanguard Team continued winning battles, Wang Yan grew weary of war and sought time to advance his cultivation, but the team set out on another mission.

• Cloud Nation annihilated much of Lin Nation’s ambushing force, reversed its position in the war, and began reclaiming lost territory.
• The Five Great Sects rewarded the battle’s leading contributors, while Lingyunzi received major rewards from the allied army and the Firecloud Sect.
• Wang Yan, controlling Lingyunzi, kept the Vanguard Team together, and they earned the title of the Hundred-Kill Godslayer Vanguard through their battlefield operations.
• Wang Yan grew tired of the war and considered withdrawing to cultivate toward the golden core stage.
• Lingyunzi led Wang Yan, Ye Shisan, and the Vanguard Team aboard a Flying Boat to attack the Wicked Poison Sect’s supply cultivators and withdraw immediately.

Lingyunzi’s Vanguard Team ambushed a Wicked Poison Sect supply party that had been sent as bait to draw out the feared Slaughter Team. The attack began successfully, but a powerful Wicked Poison Sect cultivator intervened, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Wang Yan accepted the mission to intercept the Wicked Poison Sect supply party, while Lingyunzi warned the Vanguard Team to retreat if the fight turned dangerous.
• Seven Wicked Poison Sect cultivators flew through the mountains, discussing how their supply mission was bait intended to lure out the Slaughter Team.
• The Vanguard Team attacked the party in a barren gorge with golden sword-rays and an eruption of boulders.
• Two female cultivators launched enormous scissor treasures, but the Wicked Poison Sect senior brother knocked one aside with a ghost-head attack.
• A blue-and-red crescent blast killed one Wicked Poison Sect Core Condensation Realm cultivator, and a huge hand of dark green spiritual light descended toward the attackers.

Wang Yan and his Vanguard Team ambushed a Wicked Poison Sect transport squad, only to discover the squad had baited them into a trap led by Dark Cyan Poison Venerable. Lingyunzi helped the team evade the Nascent Soul cultivator’s attacks, and the chapter ended with Black Evil King shielding them from Dark Cyan Poison Venerable’s poison magic.

• Wang Yan led the Vanguard Team into an ambush, where Dark Cyan Poison Venerable appeared and struck at them with a giant hand of dark green light.
• Wang Yan and the two women escaped the strike with Lingyunzi’s Golden Light Thread as Dark Cyan Poison Venerable’s attack blasted a crater into the valley.
• Dark Cyan Poison Venerable revealed that the Wicked Poison Sect had leaked the transport squad’s route to lure the Vanguard Team into a trap.
• Lingyunzi’s spirit cannons struck the Wicked Poison Sect cultivators, breaking their formation and wounding one of them.
• Dark Cyan Poison Venerable attacked the Vanguard Team with Rose Poison Light, but Lingyunzi summoned Black Evil King to shield them from the blasts.

Wang Yan sent the Black Evil King to cover the group’s retreat from Dark Cyan Poison Venerable, but the Nascent Soul Realm pursuer broke past its attacks. Wang Yan left the puppet Lingyunzi behind to delay Dark Cyan Poison Venerable, and the chapter ended as the enemy’s flying knives mysteriously lost their power just before striking Wang Yan.

• Wang Yan summoned the Black Evil King and ordered the others to retreat while it attacked Dark Cyan Poison Venerable with Soul Attack.
• Dark Cyan Poison Venerable evaded the Black Evil King’s attacks and pursued Wang Yan’s group, intent on capturing Lingyunzi to learn how to control the Black Evil King.
• Dark Cyan Poison Venerable released Strange Demon Heads from his Dark Green Basin, and Wang Yan sent Lingyunzi back to hold him off while the others fled.
• Dark Cyan Poison Venerable pursued the group with flying knives, and Ye Shisan shattered his Earth Spirit Gold Staff trying to block them.
• The flying knives pierced Wang Yan’s Ironwood Shield, but dark green spiritual light flashed and caused them to lose their power before they struck him.

Wang Yan and the others escaped after Lingyunzi detonated himself to destroy the Dark Cyan Poison Venerable’s body. The Dark Cyan Poison Venerable survived as a nascent soul and ordered two Wicked Poison Sect cultivators to pursue the fleeing Vanguard Team.

• The Black Evil King’s soul attack disrupted the Dark Cyan Poison Venerable and the Wicked Poison Sect cultivators, allowing Lingyunzi to break free and charge at the Dark Cyan Poison Venerable.
• Lingyunzi detonated himself while grappling the Dark Cyan Poison Venerable, destroying his physical body and leaving only his nascent soul.
• Wang Yan led the others away as the Black Evil King vanished and the two Wicked Poison Sect cultivators recovered.
• The Dark Cyan Poison Venerable ordered the two cultivators to pursue the Vanguard Team, then flew away in anguish over his destroyed body.
• The two Wicked Poison Sect cultivators lost the trail, but one soon spotted the fleeing group.

Wang Yan killed two Wicked Poison Sect Golden Core Cultivators with the Black Evil King, concealed their supplies, and reported that Lingyunzi had died protecting the group. The report was interrupted when an enraged figure seized Wang Yan and accused him of lying.

• Wang Yan summoned the Black Evil King to kill the two Wicked Poison Sect Golden Core Cultivators, then took their Storage Bags and fled.
• Wang Yan Ziling hunted and devoured cultivators amid the war between the Lin Nation and the Cloud Nation, vowing revenge on Wang Yan.
• Wang Yan and the others told the gathered Golden Core Cultivators that Lingyunzi had detonated himself to stop the Dark Cyan Poison Venerable.
• A furious red-clad figure appeared, grabbed Wang Yan by the neck, and demanded to know how Lingyunzi could have chosen to detonate himself.

Flame Cloud Lion King dismissed the Vanguard Team after accepting that Lingyunzi had died, then revealed to the sect elders that the war was nearly over and their plan had succeeded. Afterward, Liu Wushuang privately confronted Wang Yan, suggesting he knew Wang Yan had been controlling Lingyunzi.

• Flame Cloud Lion King seized Wang Yan, then released him after hearing the others confirm that Lingyunzi had sacrificed himself with Dark Cyan Poison Venerable.
• Flame Cloud Lion King sent Wang Yan and the Vanguard Team away, then told the gathered elders that the war was almost over and their plan had succeeded.
• Wang Yan told the Vanguard Team that their mission had failed and that they should return to cultivation and await orders.
• Liu Wushuang asked Wang Yan to speak privately and led him to a quiet platform on the city wall.
• Liu Wushuang asked Wang Yan whether he had been controlling Lingyunzi all along.

Liu Wushuang offered Wang Yan a rare treasure in exchange for a way to regrow his severed arm, claiming it was what Lin Nation had invaded Cloud Nation to obtain. After Card Fairy urged Wang Yan to inspect it, he recognized the treasure, and Card Fairy encouraged him to make the trade.

• Liu Wushuang told Wang Yan he had noticed something suspicious about Wang Yan and Lingyunzi, but said he did not intend to use that knowledge against him.
• Liu Wushuang proposed trading a rare treasure for something that could heal his arm, and Wang Yan refused because he had no suitable remedy and did not trust him.
• Liu Wushuang claimed the treasure was the reason Lin Nation had invaded Cloud Nation, which made Wang Yan curious despite his continued reluctance.
• Card Fairy urged Wang Yan to inspect Liu Wushuang's Storage Bag, and Wang Yan agreed to take one look.
• Wang Yan recognized the treasure inside the Storage Bag, and Liu Wushuang explained that Lin Nation's Three Great Sects sought it after he learned of their plans from Infinite Measure Sect cultivators.
• Card Fairy urged Wang Yan to make the trade, and Wang Yan asked whether she knew what the treasure did.

Wang Yan agreed to help Liu Wushuang obtain a pill to regrow his destroyed arm after the Card Fairy urged him to claim a mysterious chest marked with Silver Tadpole Script. While sorting through seized spoils of war, Wang Yan considered the wealth and opportunities the conflict had brought him, and the Card Fairy warned him that he was wrong to dismiss his desire for the war to continue.

• The Card Fairy told Wang Yan that a chest bearing Silver Tadpole Script was valuable, so he agreed to help Liu Wushuang, who eagerly offered him a Storage Bag.
• Wang Yan asked the Purple Mountain Medicine Sage to make a pill to regrow Liu Wushuang's arm, and the sage promised to prepare it within a day or two.
• The Purple Mountain Medicine Sage asked Wang Yan to find rare medicinal ingredients and suggested trading extra pills for supplies.
• Wang Yan deployed a Restriction Array and sorted the Storage Bags seized from the Wicked Poison Sect, finding Spirit Stones, pills, weapons, and treasures belonging to two Golden Core Cultivators.
• The Card Fairy urged Wang Yan to repair his Immortal Card Artifacts and told him to identify the materials himself as practice.
• Wang Yan realized the war's spoils made him want the conflict to continue, and the Card Fairy began to warn him that his reasoning was mistaken.