Chapter Summaries

Wang Youcai convinced the Wang family head to expand the auction and was appointed to oversee the Wang Family’s businesses in Lingnan City. Wenlong prepared rare pills for the auction and taught Wang Youcai how to promote them and drive up their prices.

• The Wang family head questioned Wang Youcai about charging admission, then ordered him to expand the venue and sell seven hundred more tickets at one thousand Spirit Crystals each.
• Wang Youcai proposed holding another auction, and the Wang family head appointed him to oversee all the Wang Family’s businesses in Lingnan City.
• Wenlong refined Realm-Breaking Pills and decided to auction only half of his scarce Beauty-Preserving Pills and Life-Extending Pills.
• Wenlong chose Wang Youcai to serve as auctioneer and explained how to promote the pills and use a shill to raise the bids.
• Wang Youcai agreed to spend two days learning auctioneering from Wenlong.

Wang Youcai conducted a packed Wang Family auction, selling pills for soaring prices and announcing another auction in three days. The Ice-Driving Spell manual sold for three million spirit crystals, leaving the crowd wondering whether the consignor had driven up its price.

• Wang Youcai followed Wenlong’s advice, stayed composed at the auction, and drew praise for his clear opening speech.
• Wang Youcai gave a City Lord’s Residence disciple a Human Immortal-grade Realm-Breaking Pill, and the disciple broke through instantly.
• The Wang family head objected to selling the pills, but Wang Youcai calmed the crowd and began the bidding.
• Bidders drove the Realm-Breaking, Beauty-Preserving, and Life-Extending Pills to increasingly high prices, with the Life-Extending Pills reaching two million spirit crystals each.
• Wang Youcai announced another auction in three days before the Ice-Driving Spell manual sold for three million spirit crystals.

Wenlong learned that the Ice-Driving Spell he bought had drawn attention because it might help people reach the fire spirit marrow inside a deadly volcano. Wang Youcai warned him that powerful figures were searching for Wenlong, leaving him to consider the danger surrounding the spell and the marrow.

• Wenlong won the Ice-Driving Spell at auction, then returned to find Yuan Jing had reached the Human Immortal realm and learned the Fire Control Art from Yue Ming.
• Wenlong taught Yuan Jing alchemy and supplied more pills to the Wang Family Pill Hall, while Wang Youcai later brought him the auction proceeds.
• Wang Youcai warned Wenlong that a mysterious, powerful black-robed man had shown interest in him, and Wenlong strengthened the courtyard's defenses and kept Wang Youcai from visiting openly.
• Wenlong cultivated in seclusion for over a month but failed to break through to the Heavenly Immortal realm, then began studying the Ice-Driving Spell.
• Wang Youcai told Wenlong that people were searching for the Ice-Driving Spell because they believed it could help them reach fire spirit marrow inside a deadly volcano a thousand li away.

Wenlong absorbed the ice spirit marrow and was confronted by the Black-Robed Man, who took Yue Ming away. After arranging protection for Yuan Jing and learning the martial arts Yue Ming left him, Wenlong departed for Flame Mountain, unaware that several flying craft were pursuing him.

• Wenlong repeatedly endured the ice spirit marrow's cold until he absorbed it into his dantian, then began recovering from the ordeal.
• The Black-Robed Man arrived and overwhelmed Wenlong with his aura; Yue Ming asked him to spare Wenlong, kissed him goodbye, and left with the man for the immortal city.
• Yuan Jing gave Wenlong the two martial arts Yue Ming had left: Blazing Fire Burns the Heavens and the Mountain-Splitting Sword Art.
• Wenlong arranged for Wang Youcai's people to protect Yuan Jing and told her to seek the Wang Family's help if trouble arose.
• Wenlong said farewell to Yuan Jing and set out for Flame Mountain, while several flying craft followed the craft carrying him.

Wenlong killed the five Heavenly Immortals who followed him, then defeated an Eagle Sect ambush while traveling toward Flame Mountain. After resting and taking the cultivators’ valuables, he continued his journey with a fortune in Spirit Crystals and several technique manuals.

• Wenlong lured five pursuers into the mountains, incapacitated them, learned Flame Mountain lay nearly two thousand li to the east, and burned them to death.
• Wenlong spent more than a month practicing, reaching major accomplishment in the Heaven-Splitting Sword Art before setting off again.
• Cultivators from the Eagle Sect surrounded Wenlong with an ice trap, but he killed their leader and several others with his sword, fire technique, and Shadowless Needles.
• Wenlong captured the last fleeing cultivator, learned the Eagle Sect had arranged the ambush after receiving a message from a senior sect brother, and killed him.
• Wenlong searched and burned the cultivators, rested to recover, and left with flying craft, technique manuals, and more than a hundred million Spirit Crystals.

Wenlong reached Flame Mountain with a young monk and a young Daoist, but the heat inside forced him to rescue them. Relying on the ice spirit marrow, he plunged alone into the magma to search for the fire spirit marrow.

• Wenlong stopped using the Flying Saucer near Flame Mountain and met a young monk on the way there.
• Wenlong impressed the monk with his Buddhist knowledge, then joined him and a young Daoist as they traveled toward the mountain.
• After following their predecessors’ route for a month, Wenlong and the two companions entered Flame Mountain, where the heat overwhelmed the monk and the Daoist.
• Wenlong shielded the monk and the Daoist with cold air and escorted them out of the crater.
• Wenlong used the ice spirit marrow to endure the magma’s heat, then leaped into the magma to seek the fire spirit marrow.

Wenlong endured the clash between the ice and fire spirit marrows, broke through to the Heavenly Immortal realm, and finally absorbed the fire spirit marrow. After forging the Godslayer Sword, he returned to Lingnan City and prepared to support Wang Youcai’s auction while seeking seeds to cultivate Flame Mountain.

• Wenlong spent more than a month acclimating to the fire spirit marrow, then broke through to the Heavenly Immortal realm and absorbed it after suppressing its fight with the ice spirit marrow.
• Wenlong collected heat-resistant diamonds from the chamber and spent more than ten days forging them into his treasured sword, which he named Godslayer.
• Wenlong left Flame Mountain and flew back to Lingnan City, where Yuan Jing welcomed him and told him about Wang Youcai’s upcoming auction.
• Wang Youcai asked Wenlong to support the auction, and Wenlong agreed to attend and provide pills.
• Wenlong planned to have Wang Youcai buy plant seeds so he could grow bamboo and trees on Flame Mountain.

Wenlong prepared pills for Wang Youcai’s auction and reunited with Ancestor Long Zhang, who revealed his difficult life in the Immortal World. Wenlong won the Heaven-Cleaving Saber Techniques for Long Zhang, while the auction continued.

• Wenlong and Yuan Jing refined pills for the auction, and Wang Youcai collected them before the event began.
• Wenlong spotted Ancestor Long Zhang at the auction and invited him to private box number five.
• Long Zhang told Wenlong that the Dragon Family had offered him no support, so he left and struggled to earn enough spirit crystals for cultivation resources.
• Long Zhang said he wanted a Realm-Breaking Pill and the Heaven-Cleaving Saber Techniques, and Wenlong offered to help him bid.
• Wenlong bid six million spirit crystals and won the Heaven-Cleaving Saber Techniques, leaving Long Zhang astonished at his wealth.

Wenlong prepared to establish a force on Flame Mountain, gathering resources and inviting Sister Wang’s family to join him. After the group set out, Eagle Sect cultivators ambushed them, prompting Wenlong to capture them and head for the sect.

• Wenlong supplied Long Zhang and Yuan Jing with pills and spirit crystals, and both emerged from seclusion as Earth Immortals.
• Wenlong invited Sister Wang and her family to move to Flame Mountain, bought grain and seeds with Wang Youcai’s help, and promised to support the children’s cultivation.
• After the New Year, Wenlong, Long Zhang, Yuan Jing, and Sister Wang’s family left Lingnan City aboard the Flying Saucer.
• Eagle Sect cultivators surrounded the travelers near a town, and Wenlong immobilized them with the Shadowless Needle.
• Wenlong ordered Long Zhang to cripple the captives’ cultivation, learned the Eagle Sect’s location, and took the prisoners along as he headed there.

Wenlong defeated the Eagle Sect, freed its captives, and brought its people and supplies to Flame Mountain to establish a settlement. After arranging its defenses and resources, he decided to test his strength in the Dreamscape Region, hoping his psychic ability would help him survive.

• Wenlong froze and immobilized the Eagle Sect disciples, had their cultivation crippled, freed the hostages, and killed the sect master and his henchmen.
• Wenlong led the survivors and seized supplies to Flame Mountain, where he settled everyone in caves and arranged for the young women to train and guard the slaves.
• Wenlong searched for bamboo seeds and timber, then returned to Flame Mountain after more than a month of errands.
• Wenlong asked Long Zhang about places to train, and Long Zhang described the dangers of four ancient sites.
• Wenlong chose to visit the Dreamscape Region, hoping his psychic ability would help him face its dangers.

Wenlong left Flame Mountain in Long Zhang’s care and traveled to the Dreamscape Region, where its deceptive illusions nearly lured him to his death. After resisting the hallucinations, he covered his eyes and ears and continued deeper using his Divine Sense.

• Wenlong distributed spirit crystals, supplies, pill materials, Flying Crafts, and cultivation methods to Long Zhang, Yuan Jing, and Sister Wang, and urged them to protect Flame Mountain and keep cultivating.
• Wenlong departed Flame Mountain in a Flying Saucer and reached the outskirts of the Dreamscape Region after nearly ten days of travel.
• Wenlong entered the region and became entranced by an illusion of his mother, wives, and son, but a corpse at his feet jolted him back to awareness.
• Wenlong resisted another illusion of Ruan Qianqian by reciting the Pure Heart Formula, then drove off nearby wolf-like beasts with the Godslayer Sword.
• Wenlong buried the victim whose remains had twice warned him of danger, gathered the dead travelers’ belongings, and continued onward with his eyes covered and ears plugged, navigating by Divine Sense.

Wenlong broke through the Dreamscape Region’s deadly formation and discovered the tomb of Yuan Tiancheng, a Great God of the Boundless Realm. After accepting Yuan Tiancheng’s legacy, Wenlong stayed in the tomb to study his formations.

• Wenlong realized he was trapped in a formation and burned a path through the circling terrain toward its center.
• Wenlong reached a huge tomb, broke through its protections with spiritual fire, and carefully cleared its traps.
• Wenlong drew a Space Ring away from Yuan Tiancheng’s body and found an animal hide offering the man’s formation legacy.
• Wenlong read Yuan Tiancheng’s journal and learned that the Dreamscape Region had changed over countless ages after its creator returned to a ruined homeland.
• Wenlong gathered the tomb’s weapons and chose to remain there to study Yuan Tiancheng’s formations.

After studying Yuan Tiancheng’s formations, Wenlong returned to Flame Mountain and began securing and expanding the settlement. He finished its protective formation and forged new divine artifacts, leaving him better equipped to build Dragon City and eventually bring his family across the Chaotic World.

• Wenlong left the Dreamscape Region after repairing Yuan Tiancheng’s tomb and restoring its formations, then returned to Flame Mountain.
• Wenlong met with Long Zhang, Yuan Jing, Sister Wang, and the others, gave Long Zhang a hundred million spirit crystals to distribute, and planned a larger Dragon City.
• Wenlong completed a protective formation around Dragon City and taught Long Zhang how to activate it.
• Wenlong gave Long Zhang the divine Godslayer Sword and said he planned to remake the Flying Saucer so it could cross the Chaotic World.
• Wenlong spent more than two months forging the Flying Saucer into a divine artifact and made two additional divine swords.
• Wenlong gave one of the swords to Yuan Jing, who declared that she would stay by his side forever.

Wenlong returned from New Dragon City in his Flying Saucer, crossed the Chaotic World, and arrived safely at his family’s home in Dragon City. His reunion with his parents, wives, and sons left him wondering why his younger brother and his family were absent.

• Wenlong named his swords the Heavenbreaker Divine Sword and the Water-Pattern Divine Sword, then left New Dragon City and headed west in his Flying Saucer.
• Wenlong tricked a bandit craft into pursuing him and destroyed it by ramming it with the Flying Saucer.
• Wenlong cultivated during the journey, then crossed the Chaotic World by smashing through the Rubble Current and reached the skies above the Endless Abyss.
• Wenlong flew on to Dragon City, where Huang Jinlian embraced him and his family welcomed him home.
• Wenlong greeted Liuliu, Qianqian, Wenwen, and Wuwu, then asked about his younger brother and told Wen Tiancheng to have the family move back home.

Wenlong returned to honor his ancestors and invited the patriarchs and the Liu Family to join him in going to the Immortal World, giving Divine Realm cultivators pills to help them break through. At Wen Family Village, Wen Tiancheng learned that his son Wen Tie and his wife had died, and demanded to know who had killed them.

• Wenlong told Liuliu and Qianqian to discuss with their families who wanted to travel to the Immortal World, then invited Long Zhantian and the other patriarchs to join him.
• The seven patriarchs agreed to go, and Wenlong gave them Realm-Breaking Pills and Qi-Attracting Pills to aid their cultivation.
• Wenlong and Liuliu visited the Liu Family, where he gave three Realm-Breaking Pills and Qi-Attracting Pills to her Divine Realm relatives.
• Wenlong's family traveled by Flying Saucer to the Myriad Crowds Sect, where Qianqian discussed the journey with her family before they continued toward Wen Family Village.
• Wen Tiancheng found his grandsons kneeling outside the family home and learned that Wen Tie and his wife had died.
• Wen Tiancheng grieved over Wen Tie's death and demanded that Wenzhuzi, Wenye, and Wen Hua tell him who had killed his son.

Wenlong attended the ancestral rites in Wen Family Village and learned that Daniu, Erniu, Linzi, and Shitou had killed Wen Tie and taken control of Brightlight City and Tai'an City. He confronted the City Lord of Brightlight City and found the gang in Tai'an City, where he faced Shitou and the others.

• Seventh Uncle told Wenlong that Daniu, Erniu, and Linzi had abducted Shitou's family and killed Wen Tie and his wife, and Wenlong promised to make them pay.
• Wenlong joined his family and the clanspeople for the ancestral rites, mourned at his grandmother's spirit tablet, and reassured his sisters.
• Wenzhuzi told Wenlong that Daniu and his gang had ties to Brightlight City, so Wenlong flew there to confront its City Lord.
• Wenlong forced the City Lord to reveal that Daniu's group controlled both Brightlight City and Tai'an City, then ordered him to seek forgiveness from the Huaxia Sect.
• Wenlong found Daniu, Erniu, Linzi, and Shitou in a Tai'an City courtyard, killed the guards with his Shadowless Needle, and watched the old men kneel for mercy.

Wenlong avenged Wen Tie, gathered relatives and allies from several places, and brought them through the Chaotic World to New Dragon City. There, he arranged homes for the newcomers and planned an academy and a campaign against nearby bandits to supply labor for the city.

• Wen Cai and Wen Fu killed Shitou's family to avenge their father, while Wenlong ordered the other accomplices to lose an arm and left the remaining judgment to Seventh Uncle.
• Wenlong and Wen Tiancheng prepared to leave Wen Family Village, and Wenzhuzi and Zhao Xuan chose to join them on their travels.
• Wenlong gathered Qianqian's family, the ancestors, and members of the Liu Family, then led everyone across the Endless Sea and through the Chaotic World to the Immortal World.
• Long Zhang welcomed the group to New Dragon City and assigned residences to the Liu, Ruan, and Wen families and the elders.
• Wenlong proposed building an academy and capturing nearby bandits for labor, so Long Zhang sent Long Zhantian and others to join Wenlong in clearing the roads.

Wenlong and Yuan Jing captured the bandits threatening timber convoys near Flame Mountain and cleared their stronghold, rescuing prisoners and gathering supplies. Back in New Dragon City, he organized cultivation and recruitment efforts, then planned transport points and hired protection to bring new settlers safely to the city.

• Wenlong sent Yuan Jing to fight the bandits attacking a timber convoy while secretly using his Shadowless Needle to bring down the Heavenly Immortal and the rest of the gang.
• Wenlong learned the bandits’ hideout location, sent Ancestor Zhantian back to New Dragon City with the captured bandits, and flew there with Yuan Jing.
• Wenlong rescued Yuan Jing from the bandit chief, froze and killed him, then captured the remaining bandits, freed their hostages, and gathered the stronghold’s valuables and grain.
• Elder Wang, Elder Liu, and Sister Wang took charge of construction and workshops while Ancestor Long Zhang and Yuan Jing began cultivating in seclusion.
• Wenlong offered rewards for reports about bandits and referrals of skilled craftsmen, prompting timber haulers to leave their jobs to seek bonuses.
• Wenlong decided to establish pickup points around Flame Mountain and ask Wang Youcai to recommend Earth Immortal Realm cultivators to transport and protect newcomers.

Wenlong returned to Lingnan City to recruit experts and agreed to help Wang Youcai leave the Wang Family Trading House by supplying pills and spirit-breaking stone for two auctions. After returning to Dragon City, he offered Sister Wang’s family a large courtyard and encouraged her to build up the Yang Family lineage.

• Wenlong visited Wang Youcai and learned the Wang Family Trading House had lost business and planned to replace him.
• Wang Youcai promised to bring his lineage, including Heavenly Immortals, to Dragon City if Wenlong helped him leave the trading house.
• Wenlong agreed to provide pills and two pieces of spirit-breaking stone for two auctions, and Wang Youcai secured the family head’s approval.
• Wenlong refined the auction goods, handed them to Wang Youcai, and left for Dragon City without attending the auctions.
• Wenlong returned to Dragon City and offered Sister Wang’s family a large courtyard, telling her to find her son more wives.

Wenlong expanded Dragon City’s strength and prepared to bring Wang Youcai’s lineage there, then examined the strange illness of Chen Li, a former Heavenly Immortal. He found tiny worms in Chen Li’s dantian meridians and agreed to take the Chen Family to Dragon City for treatment.

• Sister Wang learned that her birth family could move to Dragon City, while Long Zhang and Yuan Jing both reached the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Wenlong led Yuan Jing and the five ancestors to clear another Bandit Den, adding more than two hundred slaves to Dragon City as Elder Wang arranged for them to grow crops.
• After the ten-day wait, Wenlong traveled with Long Zhang and Yuan Jing to meet Wang Youcai, who gave him nearly two hundred million spirit crystals from the auction and confirmed that willing relatives were ready to leave.
• Wang Youcai brought Wenlong to examine Chen Li, whose son Chen Ke explained that his father had wasted away since returning from the Mist Swamp two years earlier.
• Wenlong discovered tiny worms in the meridians leading to Chen Li’s dantian, agreed to take the Chen Family to Dragon City, and left them a Life-Extending Pill to help keep Chen Li alive.