Chapter Summaries

As the family prepared for the black-robed figures' attack, Mu Chen helped uncover and activate an ancient sword by combining star power, an incantation, and compatible soul power. He trained to master its abilities, leaving the family more confident as they prepared for battle.

• An elder revealed that the family had a powerful secret weapon sealed in its forbidden grounds, and Mu Chen went with the elders to find it.
• Mu Chen noticed the sword's runes resonated with star power and helped the elders locate an ancient incantation in the family archive.
• Mu Chen channeled star power, recited the incantation, and harmonized his soul power with the sword, activating it.
• Mu Chen and the elders discovered that the sword could unleash spiritual and soul attacks and absorb surrounding energy, while Mu Chen began training to wield it.
• The family grew more confident in resisting the black-robed figures, and Mu Chen accepted the responsibility of using the sword to protect them.

Mu Chen and his companions searched the family’s ancient texts for a way to activate its secret weapon and discovered that it required the five elements, the Spiritual Thought Key, and the Star Guidance. They succeeded in making the weapon blaze with power, but Mu Chen realized they still had to learn to control it before the battle against the Black-Robed People.

• Mu Chen gathered Tan Qingshan, Tang Qian'er, and other companions to search the Library Pavilion for clues about activating the secret weapon.
• Mu Chen found an ancient account stating that the weapon needed the five elements, the Spiritual Thought Key, and the Star Guidance.
• Mu Chen and the family members with the five elemental attributes channeled their spiritual energy into the blade, making its runes flicker briefly.
• Mu Chen trained to turn his conviction into soul power and channeled it into the weapon, causing it to shine brighter.
• Mu Chen drew starlight into his star power and channeled it into the weapon, which blazed with light and activated.
• Mu Chen and his companions continued researching and training to control the secret weapon for the coming battle.

Mu Chen and his companions searched the clan’s ancient texts for more information about activating the secret weapon and learned it required a Heaven and Earth Spirit Root. Mu Chen’s team found the root in a guarded spiritual energy vortex and returned to the clan with it, bringing them closer to awakening the weapon against the Black-Robed People.

• Tang Qian'er read an ancient text suggesting that mastering a divine artifact required more than strength, and Mu Chen urged the group to keep searching.
• Mu Chen and his companions found a legend stating that a Heaven and Earth Spirit Root was needed alongside Five Elements Power, the Spiritual Thought Key, and Star Guidance.
• Mu Chen’s team discovered a spiritual energy vortex in the eastern mountains, where wolf-like guardian beasts attacked them.
• Mu Chen severed the beasts’ connections to the vortex, and his companions followed suit until they drove the beasts back.
• Mu Chen and his companions found and harvested the five-colored Heaven and Earth Spirit Root at the vortex’s center, then returned to the clan.

Mu Chen and his companions found the spirit eye in the forbidden grounds and used the heaven and earth spirit root to reveal memories of the ritual that had once activated the secret weapon. They completed the ritual and awakened the weapon, then began preparing to control it against the Black-Robed People.

• Mu Chen and his companions returned to the forbidden grounds with the heaven and earth spirit root and searched for the spirit eye described in the ancient text.
• Tang Qian'er spotted an eye-shaped pattern on the wall, and the group followed its direction through spiritual energy traps until Mu Chen found a pulsing, rune-covered circle.
• Mu Chen and his companions channeled the five elemental energies into the spirit eye, causing the spirit root to form a pillar of light and reveal memories of an ancient activation ritual.
• The group retrieved matching magical treasures from the clan's treasury and imitated the ritual shown in the visions.
• Mu Chen and his companions channeled their soul power into the secret weapon, awakening it and shaking the forbidden grounds.
• Mu Chen and his companions continued studying the weapon to prepare for battle against the Black-Robed People.

After activating the secret weapon, Mu Chen and his companions faced a deadly restriction and fought a three-headed guardian beast in the forbidden grounds. They defeated it, but the ancient restrictions remained dangerous, and they searched for a safe exit while protecting the weapon.

• Mu Chen warned his companions that activating the secret weapon might have altered the forbidden grounds and drawn guardian beasts.
• An ancient Spiritual Power Prison Net trapped their path, but Mu Chen and his companions broke through it with a combined attack.
• Tan Qingshan and the others prepared for battle when a three-headed guardian beast appeared and attacked with fire, ice, and vines.
• Mu Chen spotted a brief weakness where the beast’s three heads joined, and the group struck the junction together.
• Mu Chen and his companions exploited the beast’s weaknesses and defeated it, though its rampage damaged the forbidden grounds.
• Mu Chen and the others searched the wreckage for a safe exit while keeping the secret weapon secure.

Mu Chen and his companions navigated the Forbidden Grounds’ shifting restrictions and traps, using star power and teamwork to reach the exit. They escaped with the secret weapon and headed back to prepare to use it against the Black-Robed People.

• Mu Chen noticed the restriction beams paused in a seven-star pattern and used star power to guide the group through them.
• The beams shifted into a vortex and closed in, but Mu Chen and his companions weakened the pull and blasted a temporary passage through a weak intersection.
• After entering a rune-trap area, Mu Chen shielded a companion from a blast and led the group along paths of weak spiritual energy.
• Mu Chen and his companions attacked the final curtain of spiritual energy until it shattered.
• The group left the Forbidden Grounds with the secret weapon and set off toward their family to prepare for the Black-Robed People.

Mu Chen and his companions fought and defeated a powerful guardian beast in the Forbidden Grounds. After recovering the secret weapon, they left to protect their family and prepare to face the Black-Robed People.

• A qilin-like guardian beast attacked Mu Chen and his companions with five-colored spiritual energy, and Tan Qingshan was knocked down when his axe failed to pierce its scales.
• Mu Chen noticed openings in the beast’s defenses, while Tang Qian’er healed him and Tan Qingshan with her support skills.
• Mu Chen led a coordinated assault on the beast’s exposed belly, breaking several scales, but the enraged beast took to the air and rained spiritual energy blades on them.
• At Mu Chen’s direction, Tang Qian’er created an interference field that disrupted the beast’s flight, allowing the group to bring it crashing to the ground.
• Mu Chen, Tan Qingshan, and their companions targeted the beast’s leg joints and defeated it after a grueling battle.
• After a brief rest, Mu Chen and the others left the Forbidden Grounds with the secret weapon and headed to protect their family from the Black-Robed People.

Mu Chen and his companions found the key item needed to activate the clan’s secret weapon in a hidden chamber in the Forbidden Grounds. They activated the weapon and began studying how to use it before facing the Black-Robed People.

• Tang Qian'er spotted a glowing stone platform, and Mu Chen found a recess in it while Tan Qingshan discovered a mural showing a sphere being placed there.
• Mu Chen followed the mural’s star patterns and led the group through traps and spiritual energy arrows to a hidden chamber.
• Mu Chen solved the chamber door’s rune puzzle using the stars and five elements, revealing the glowing sphere they sought.
• A spiritual energy cage trapped the group when Mu Chen reached for the sphere, but they broke it by attacking its weak convergence point.
• Mu Chen placed the sphere in the stone platform’s recess, activating the secret weapon and causing it to transform.
• Mu Chen and his companions gathered around the weapon to learn how to control it for the battle against the Black-Robed People.

Mu Chen activated the clan’s secret weapon and learned to control it by combining spiritual energy with soul power. He demonstrated its attacks and shield, then organized the clan’s defenses and training as they prepared for the Black-Robed People to return.

• The sphere resonated with the secret weapon, awakening its power and filling the Forbidden Grounds with dazzling light.
• Mu Chen connected with the weapon, learned techniques from its memories, and controlled it using both soul power and spiritual energy.
• Mu Chen demonstrated the weapon’s attack and shield to the clan members, who gathered with renewed hope.
• Mu Chen organized combat training and adjusted the clan’s fortifications to work with the weapon.
• Mu Chen discovered the weapon could connect the clan members’ spiritual energy into a network, and the clan prepared for another attack.

Mu Chen and the clan used their secret weapon to launch a counterattack against the Black-Robed People and drive them from the clan’s territory. The clan celebrated its victory but prepared for the enemy’s return.

• The Black-Robed People appeared at the clan’s border, and Mu Chen rallied the clan around the secret weapon.
• Mu Chen fired a powerful pillar of spiritual energy at the Black-Robed People’s shield while the clan attacked together, breaking through their defenses.
• The Black-Robed leader summoned black skulls and charged Mu Chen, but Mu Chen blocked him and trapped him in a spiritual energy vortex.
• Mu Chen ordered the clan to attack the trapped leader, weakening him until he broke free and fled with the remaining Black-Robed People.
• The clan celebrated, tended to the wounded, and reviewed the battle as Mu Chen warned that the enemy would return.

Mu Chen and the clan fought off a stronger return attack by the Black-Robed People, with Mu Chen using the secret weapon to wound their leader and force a retreat. The clan survived but suffered many casualties, and its members prepared for another battle.

• The Black-Robed People returned in greater numbers, and Mu Chen used the secret weapon to reinforce the clan's defensive shield.
• Mu Chen ordered Tan Qingshan to defend the flank while the clan's ranged squad counterattacked.
• Mu Chen unleashed the Star-Shattering Sky Slash, killing many Black-Robed People, before clashing with their leader.
• Tang Qian'er created a temporary Spiritual Energy Shield and recovery zone as Tan Qingshan's squad suffered casualties.
• Mu Chen dodged the leader's attack, struck his soul with the secret weapon, and wounded him with a follow-up slash.
• The leader ordered the Black-Robed People to retreat, and the clan mourned its dead while preparing for the next battle.

After realizing the Black-Robed People had used their attack to conceal a ritual, Mu Chen uncovered an array meant to open a passage to a dark world and began destroying it. The Black-Robed People’s leader arrived with reinforcements just as the array was weakening, leaving Mu Chen and the family’s fighters to face a new battle in the cave.

• Mu Chen recalled that the Black-Robed People had coordinated their attack to draw the family’s defenses away from its rear territory.
• Mu Chen led Tan Qingshan, Tang Qian'er, several elders, and elite fighters to a hidden cave, where they broke through a black spiritual energy barrier.
• Mu Chen and the others found an array channeling sinister spiritual energy into a chest, and an Ancient Scroll revealed that the ritual would open a passage for dark creatures.
• Mu Chen damaged an energy-core crystal with the secret weapon, then ordered the elite fighters to attack the remaining crystals together.
• The leader of the Black-Robed People arrived with a group of fighters as Mu Chen and the others continued trying to destroy the array.

Mu Chen and the clan fought the Black-Robed People while destroying the spiritual energy formation. They defeated the attackers and thwarted their plot, but the wounded clan members knew more challenges awaited.

• Mu Chen used the Star Shield to block the Black-Robed leader while the clan's fighters battled the other Black-Robed People and Tang Qian'er healed the wounded.
• Mu Chen struck an undamaged crystal, and the leader transformed using a forbidden evil spiritual technique before attacking the clan.
• Tang Qian'er helped stabilize the clan's defensive shield, and Mu Chen and Tan Qingshan worked together to expose the leader's weak point.
• Mu Chen struck the leader's back with Star Annihilation Slash, leaving him badly wounded and throwing the Black-Robed People into disarray.
• Mu Chen led the clan in destroying every crystal, causing the formation to collapse and the Black-Robed People to flee; the clan won the battle but suffered many wounds.

After fighting the Black-Robed People, the clan’s young members improved their combat skills and grew closer as a team. With the elders’ guidance and resources, they trained further and proved their progress in a mock battle, leaving them determined to defend the clan against future threats.

• Tan Qingshan refined his Heavy Axe techniques by weaving spiritual energy into each strike, while Tang Qian'er developed faster and more versatile support skills during the battle against the Black-Robed People.
• The other young clan members improved their defenses, ranged attacks, and close-combat teamwork, and overcame some of their fear through repeated battles.
• After the battle, the young members shared their experiences, and the elders created individualized training plans and provided cultivation resources for them.
• Tan Qingshan strengthened his axe attacks, Tang Qian'er advanced her support techniques, and the other young members improved through cultivation and mock battles.
• During an internal mock battle, Tan Qingshan's team used a feint and Tang Qian'er's concealment and enhancements to coordinate a ranged assault before breaking through the opposing team's defenses.
• The young members recognized their progress and became more confident and determined to protect their clan from the Black-Robed People.

After Mu Chen's family repelled the Black-Robed People, the Lin Family, Ye Family, and Su Family joined them in an alliance, combining their defensive, intelligence, and medical strengths. The families organized joint command, battle plans, and training as they prepared for a decisive clash with the Black-Robed People.

• The Lin Family envoy proposed an alliance and offered defensive formations and fighters skilled in spiritual energy control.
• The Ye Family envoy offered to share intelligence and battlefield analyses, and both families agreed on secure information-sharing measures.
• The Su Family offered healers, medical supplies, and potions to support the allied families in battle.
• Mu Chen proposed a joint command center, and the representatives assigned each family duties based on its strengths.
• The allied families trained together, improving their defenses, intelligence methods, and healing skills as they prepared for a larger battle.

The allied families met in Mu Chen's family's Strategy Hall to organize their campaign against the Black-Robed People. They finalized a joint battle plan and resource system, then began training and preparations for the coming fight.

• The Lin Family proposed defensive checkpoints at key mountain passes, while the Ye Family planned an intelligence network and the Su Family offered medical stations and a Spiritual Power Recovery Potion.
• Mu Chen said his family would guard key positions with its secret weapon and provide disciples for flexible battlefield support.
• The families divided the allied army into frontline defense, mobile support, and logistical support forces, combining their formations, intelligence, combat skills, and healing methods.
• The families established a Joint Resource Repository and agreed on alliance rules and rewards for contributions.
• After several days of preparation, the families began training and readied themselves to fight the Black-Robed People.

The families completed a joint defense system to resist the Black-Robed People. Its checkpoints, aerial shields, medical stations, and communications network stood ready to protect their territories.

• The Lin Family led the construction of defensive formations at key routes, while the Su Family added healing crystals and the Ye Family installed concealment mechanisms.
• Mu Chen's family linked their secret weapon's spiritual energy to the formations so they could retaliate against powerful attacks.
• The families built aerial Spiritual Energy Shields and used harmonizing devices to stabilize the different spiritual energies.
• The Su Family established temporary medical stations to treat wounded fighters and restore their strength.
• The families connected their checkpoints and support units through a communications network of spiritual energy signal towers.
• After intensive construction, the families completed the joint defense system and prepared to face the Black-Robed People.

The Black-Robed People attacked the families’ joint defenses with spiritual energy disruption devices and evil-energy-controlled magical beasts. As the checkpoints struggled to hold, a Lin Family elder identified the devices’ interference and sent fighters to find and destroy them.

• The Black-Robed People’s leader approved a strategist’s plan to exploit differences between the families’ spiritual energies with disruption devices.
• The Black-Robed People activated the devices at a checkpoint, weakening its Defensive Formation and disrupting the families’ coordination before launching an assault.
• The Black-Robed People attacked another checkpoint with magical beasts strengthened by evil spiritual energy, while the families could not get timely reinforcements.
• A Lin Family elder detected the disruption devices’ unusual frequencies and led some family members out to search for and destroy them as the others held the line.

Mu Chen and his allies countered the Black-Robed People's interference devices and turned their controlled magical beasts against them, forcing the attackers to retreat from the defensive checkpoint. Afterward, the families strengthened their defenses in preparation for another battle.

• Mu Chen and the family representatives organized search squads to locate the Spiritual Energy Interference Devices, and his squad fought off Black-Robed People guarding one device.
• Mu Chen's squad broke the device's barrier and destroyed its spiritual energy core, while the other squads disabled the remaining devices and restored the Defensive Formations.
• Tang Qian'er and the Su Family used the Spiritual Energy Pacification Art to free some magical beasts from the Black-Robed People's control.
• Mu Chen, Tan Qingshan, and fighters from the families counterattacked as the beasts turned on the Black-Robed People, forcing their leader to order a retreat.
• The families reviewed the battle and improved their joint defense system to prepare for future attacks.

The families and their allies faced a larger Black-Robed People assault, with black lightning and Rock Golems battering their damaged defenses. With the Su Family healers supporting the frontline, the defenders held their ground, and the battle ended in a stalemate.

• After the Black-Robed People retreated, the families repaired damaged defenses and treated their wounded before the enemy attacked again a few days later with a larger force.
• The Lin Family strengthened the Defensive Formations, while Ye Family intelligence personnel relayed the enemy’s attack directions to the defenders.
• Mu Chen, Tan Qingshan, and other close-combat fighters attacked the Rock Golems as ranged troops from the families struck the Black-Robed People.
• As the defensive line began to give way, Su Family healers joined the battle, shielding and healing frontline fighters so they could keep fighting.
• The Black-Robed People failed to break through, and the battered defenders held their positions as both sides remained locked in a stalemate.