Chapter Summaries

Lin Ke reunited with Shen Wei and Dongfang Yao, revealed his Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation, and agreed to help them complete their sect mission at a Dragon Cultivator’s cave. The three set out for the cave near the Ten-Thousand Longevity Eternal Spring Garden, with Lin Ke preparing Shen Wei and Dongfang Yao to attempt breakthroughs.

• Mo Qi Qi sensed many cultivators approaching, abandoned the Golden Wing Sect cultivators, and flew toward the Ten-Thousand Longevity Eternal Spring Garden.
• Lin Ke released Shen Wei and told him he was a spy for Supreme Elder Hua, then found that Dongfang Yao’s ankle had healed.
• Lin Ke revealed his Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation, astonishing Shen Wei and Dongfang Yao, and gave them Breath-Concealing Pills.
• Lin Ke killed a Dragon Louse, allowing Dongfang Yao to feed its dragon blood to his silverfish and strengthen it.
• Shen Wei gave Lin Ke the sect’s Archives, which showed their mission was at a Dragon Cultivator’s cave guarded by a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Demon Beast.
• Lin Ke gave Shen Wei and Dongfang Yao Cold-Congealing Jade Leaves and promised them Crimson Tendon-Tempering Pills so they could attempt their breakthroughs on the way.

Lin Ke entered the Dragon Cultivator's hidden residence and found that someone had already killed its Hell Hound guardian. He confronted Mo Qi Qi and the Imperial Clan cultivator accompanying him, and Mo Qi Qi accepted Lin Ke's challenge to fight without the Royal Family crossbow.

• Lin Ke brought Shen Wei and Dongfang Yao to the mountain boundary and sent them to cultivate while he investigated the Dragon Cultivator Cave Abode.
• Lin Ke passed through the illusion barrier with the Centipede Dragon Cultivator's help, while Shen Wei and Dongfang Yao failed to break through it.
• Lin Ke discovered that the Hell Hound guardian had been killed and its nascent soul removed.
• Mo Qi Qi and Wan Mengdie confronted Lin Ke and demanded that he return the Dragon Pearl.
• Lin Ke challenged Mo Qi Qi to summon the Dragon Pearl, and Mo Qi Qi agreed to fight without using the Royal Family artifact.

Lin Ke used the Dragon Pearl’s size-changing ability to block the Imperial Clan’s crossbow bolts and pierce Mo Qi Qi, who could not control the artifact. Mo Qi Qi then wounded Lin Ke with a Hidden Arrow and trapped him in a spatial formation, leaving Lin Ke battered by shards of space.

• Lin Ke learned from the Centipede Dragon Cultivator how to change the Dragon Pearl’s size while Mo Qi Qi failed to command it.
• Fang Mengdie ordered the Imperial Clan cultivators and Mo Qi Qi to fire at Lin Ke, but he enlarged the Dragon Pearl to block their bolts.
• Lin Ke shrank the Dragon Pearl and sent it through Mo Qi Qi’s body, then prevented Mo Qi Qi from retrieving it.
• Mo Qi Qi accused Lin Ke of placing a Forbidden Curse on the Dragon Pearl and used a Hidden Arrow to pierce his shoulder.
• Mo Qi Qi activated the Second Stage of the Formless Shifting Formation, trapping Lin Ke as spatial fragments cut into him.

Lin Ke broke free of Mo Qi Qi’s shifting formation, reclaimed control of the Dragon Pearl, and unleashed a devastating attack on the attackers. With Mo Qi Qi and several Imperial Clan cultivators badly burned or dead, Fang Mengdie tried to bargain for her life by offering Lin Ke a treasure.

• Lin Ke used the Dragon Pearl and the Dream-Eating Gecko’s psychic power to escape the spatial fragments and repel the female cultivators’ crossbow attack.
• Lin Ke persuaded the Dragon Cultivator to help him reclaim the Dragon Pearl, then shed his Essence Blood onto it as Mo Qi Qi forced him back into the formation.
• The formation collapsed, and Lin Ke appeared amid crimson flames with centipede legs extending from his back.
• Lin Ke used the Dragon Pearl’s source power to summon a molten meteor that devastated the Quadrangle Courtyard, badly injuring Mo Qi Qi and killing several female cultivators.
• Fang Mengdie begged Lin Ke to spare her, then offered him a treasure as he prepared to kill her.

Lin Ke spared Fang Mengdie after she offered Royal Family secret arts, a Dragon Cultivator Secret Treasury, and her knowledge of Mo Qi Qi’s formations in exchange for her life. He recovered his sect’s jade pendant from the Dragon Cultivator Cave Abode and left with Fang Mengdie for the Ten-Thousand Longevity Eternal Spring Garden under threat of the gu insect.

• Fang Mengdie tried to save herself by offering secret arts, cultivation pill methods, and the location of a Dragon Cultivator Secret Treasury, then revealed she knew Mo Qi Qi’s spell arts and formations.
• Fang Mengdie claimed she had memorized the Royal Family techniques and offered to recite them, so Lin Ke used the Purple Mansion Insect to place her soul under his control.
• Lin Ke searched the ruined Dragon Cultivator Cave Abode and found little of value among the wreckage Mo Qi Qi had left behind.
• Fang Mengdie searched the ashes and found the jade pendant shown in Lin Ke’s mission Archives, allowing him to complete his task.
• Lin Ke ordered Fang Mengdie to accompany him to the Ten-Thousand Longevity Eternal Spring Garden and warned that he would kill her with the gu insect if she acted suspiciously.

Lin Ke set out with Dongfang Yao and Fang Mengdie to rescue Shen Wei, who had been captured by Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators during his tribulation. Zong Ya and Nan Shang ambushed the captors, but Shi Yuan survived their opening attacks and recognized Zong Ya's God-Tier Spirit Artifact.

• Dongfang Yao told Lin Ke that Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators from the Illusionless Gu Sect had abducted Shen Wei during his tribulation.
• Lin Ke headed toward Shen Wei with Dongfang Yao and Fang Mengdie, while Fang Mengdie misrepresented her status and Lin Ke ordered her to stop.
• Shi Yuan and his allies overwhelmed Shen Wei, killed his moth fly Spirit Insects, and demanded information about Lin Ke.
• Zong Ya and Nan Shang attacked the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators with flaming arrows, Supreme Yang Crystals, a Three-Eyed Fire Arquebus, and Bone Nails.
• Shi Yuan used a fellow cultivator as a shield, devoured his nascent soul, and took two shots from Zong Ya's God-Tier Spirit Artifact.

Shi Yuan used the Myriad Spirits Unification Technique and Witch Gu Poison to attack Zong Ya and Nan Shang, but Lin Ke arrived and turned the battle against him. Shi Yuan retained control of Nan Shang and brought him beside himself, asking how to deal with the sect traitor.

• Shi Yuan unleashed the Myriad Spirits Unification Technique, and Zong Ya and Nan Shang defended themselves with a core-flame barrier, fire arrows, Bone Nails, and gunfire.
• Shi Yuan used Witch Gu Poison to control Nan Shang, who warned Zong Ya before she pushed him away to keep him from harming her.
• Shi Yuan attacked Zong Ya, but Lin Ke struck him down with the Northern Frontier Sea-Calming Seal and joined the fight.
• Lin Ke summoned the Golden-Armored Rhinoceros and used Dragon Pearl fire to destroy the yin souls, while Shi Yuan’s spear was damaged and the other Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators recovered.
• Shi Yuan kept control of Nan Shang and brought him beside himself, then asked Lin Ke how he should deal with the sect traitor.

Shi Yuan used Nan Shang as a hostage and demanded that Lin Ke surrender Shen Wei, but Dongfang Yao and then Fang Mengdie offered themselves in exchange. Fang Mengdie took Nan Shang’s place, leaving Lin Ke to catch the wounded Nan Shang as Shi Yuan held Fang Mengdie captive.

• Shi Yuan held Nan Shang at daggerpoint and ordered the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators to destroy Lin Ke’s golden-armored rhinoceros with Soul-Destroying Pills.
• The cultivators detonated their witch gu qi, destroying the rhinoceros and knocking Shi Yuan and the others to the ground.
• Lin Ke tried to rescue Nan Shang, but Shi Yuan drove the dagger into Nan Shang’s neck and demanded Shen Wei in exchange for him.
• Dongfang Yao offered himself for Shen Wei, swallowed Shi Yuan’s Witch Gu Poison Core, and was captured by the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators.
• Fang Mengdie offered to exchange herself for Nan Shang, swallowed a poison pill, and took Nan Shang’s place in Shi Yuan’s grasp.
• Lin Ke caught Nan Shang as he flew toward him while Shi Yuan held Fang Mengdie at daggerpoint.

Lin Ke improvised a blood transfusion to save Nan Shang after he lost a dangerous amount of blood. Nan Shang woke safely, while Shen Wei remained unconscious after Lin Ke repeatedly knocked him out to keep him from seeing the procedure.

• Lin Ke treated Nan Shang's neck wound, then decided to transfuse him when Spiritual Qi could not replace his lost blood.
• Lin Ke found that Zong Ya's blood was unsuitable and identified Shen Wei's type O blood as a donor source.
• Lin Ke made a transfusion tube from a spirit beast's meridian and a Black Ice Centipede leg, then raised Shen Wei above Nan Shang to make the blood flow between them.
• Nan Shang regained color as Shen Wei began to wake, so Lin Ke knocked Shen Wei unconscious again.
• Nan Shang woke, saw the meridian attached to him, and asked Zong Ya what had happened; Lin Ke removed the tube and healed the wounds.

Nan Shang warned Lin Ke and Zong Ya that Shi Yuan was cultivating a dangerous fierce spirit with the souls of the dead, and they planned to draw high-tier spirit beasts to a fortified base to hinder him. The group headed for the Dragon Cultivator Cave Abode, where Shen Wei identified their jade pendant as the wrong one for the sect’s mission.

• Nan Shang told Lin Ke and Zong Ya that Shi Yuan’s fierce spirit could devour the departed souls and explode, killing cultivators throughout the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm.
• Lin Ke proposed using the Ten Thousand Beasts Returning to the Mountain Grass to lure high-tier spirit beasts to Lou’s Quadrangle Courtyard, where the group could trap and kill them while preparing for a defensive battle.
• Zong Ya and Nan Shang planned to use the spirit beasts for alchemy and gu cultivation, while Lin Ke explained that Shi Yuan held Dongfang Yao and Fang Mengdie hostage.
• Shen Wei woke up with a sore forehead and joined Lin Ke, Zong Ya, and Nan Shang as they flew toward the Dragon Cultivator Cave Abode.
• Shen Wei checked the sect’s Archives and told Lin Ke that their five-pattern jade pendant was not the six-pattern token needed to enter Cloud Dragon Hall.

Lin Ke and Shen Wei reached the barrier to the Dragon Cultivator Cave Abode, and Lin Ke planned to wait for rival factions to weaken one another before acting. He learned more about the Imperial Clan's origins and checked the mechanical insect production, which had yielded over two thousand Black Ice Centipedes but had a serious unresolved problem.

• Lin Ke realized Fang Mengdie had taken the jade pendant's sixth dragon marking, and he and Shen Wei discussed finding another pendant or waiting for the other factions to fight.
• Lin Ke opened the barrier with the Centipede Dragon Cultivator's power, told his companions to prepare for tribulations and formations, and asked Shen Wei to focus on reaching the nascent soul realm.
• Lin Ke asked the Centipede Dragon Cultivator which spirit beasts might be drawn by his thousand-year-old grass, and learned that the Imperial Clan had descended from the Dragon Clan's servants.
• The Centipede Dragon Cultivator assured Lin Ke that the Dragon Pearl could handle most attacking beasts within the formation, while Lin Xuanyuan offered to help if needed.
• Lin Ke inspected the blade spirits' mechanical insect production and learned they had made 139 nascent soul early-stage insects, 351 near-nascent-soul insects, and 1,599 juveniles, but Blade Spirit One reported a serious problem.

Lin Ke learned that Blade Spirit One had driven several blade spirits to exhaustion through his production rankings, then promised to free him while secretly arranging to test his loyalty with Gu Poison. After the Centipede Dragon Cultivator entered the blade spirit world, Lin Ke returned to find Shen Wei preparing for his tribulation and the others readying supplies for the coming battles.

• Blade Spirit One explained that a shortage of Spirit Stones had led him to rank blade spirits by mechanical insect output, causing several to work themselves to death.
• Lin Ke decided to capture Demon Beast divine souls to replenish the blade spirits and learned that Blade Spirit One had gathered enough Spirit Stones to be reborn.
• Lin Ke weighed the risks of freeing Blade Spirit One and promised to release him from the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm, while replacing him with Blade Spirit Two as foreman.
• Lin Ke sent the Centipede Dragon Cultivator into the blade spirit world and secretly had the Purple Mansion Insect poison him with Witch Gu Poison.
• Lin Ke opened his eyes to find Shen Wei preparing for his tribulation, Nan Shang coating Bone Nails with Witch Gu Poison, and Zong Ya making Healing Pills and Gathering Spirit Pellets.

Lin Ke and his companions used the Ten Thousand Beasts Returning to the Mountain Grass to lure Demon Beasts into their barrier and fought off the ensuing horde. As a terrifying Illusory Heart Forest Demon approached, Lin Ke spotted a Four-Legged Withered Tree above Nan Shang and warned him to watch his back.

• Lin Ke planted the Ten Thousand Beasts Returning to the Mountain Grass and watered it with Grain Rain Dragon Pearl Spirit Liquid, causing it to grow a crimson fruit that drew nearby Demon Beasts.
• Shen Wei began undergoing a Heavenly Tribulation while Lin Ke, Zong Ya, and Nan Shang prepared their defenses.
• A horde of Demon Beasts charged the barrier, and Lin Ke ordered his companions to kill them while directing their flesh and blood inside.
• Lin Ke, Zong Ya, and Nan Shang attacked the beasts with their weapons as swarms of Spirit Beasts and insects clashed around the barrier.
• Lin Ke sensed an Illusory Heart Forest Demon approaching and warned Nan Shang after spotting a Four-Legged Withered Tree crawling onto the barrier above him.

Lin Ke and his companions destroyed the Illusory Heart Forest Demon and fought off the Three-Eyed Wolf Demons, protecting Shen Wei inside the barrier. Just as the wolves began to fall back, a blood moon emerged over the Mountain Range.

• Lin Ke attacked the Illusory Heart Forest Demon while Zong Ya shot its weak point and Nan Shang defended Shen Wei and the barrier.
• Nan Shang reinforced the damaged barrier with Supreme Yang Crystals as Black Ice Centipedes self-destructed to kill Spirit Beasts that had broken through.
• Lin Ke burned the Illusory Heart Forest Demon from within, but the Three-Eyed Wolf Demons flooded into the barrier and multiplied through their howls.
• Lin Ke explained that the wolves' extra eyes were their weak points and that they struggled to see attacks from both sides, so Zong Ya and Nan Shang pierced their eyes.
• Lin Ke, Zong Ya, and Nan Shang fought beside Shen Wei and began gaining ground against the wolves, until a howl from the Mountain Range brought a blood moon into view.

Lin Ke fought through the Three-Eyed Wolf Demons toward their Wolf King, while his saber grew stronger from absorbing fragments of their divine souls. Elsewhere, Shi Yuan tried to lure spirit beasts with Dragon Saliva Incense, but his plan faltered, and a hidden divine sense began forming beneath the ashes of the Quadrangle Courtyard.

• Lin Ke learned that the wolves would keep attacking until their Wolf King died, then left Shen Wei under protection and charged toward the Wolf King.
• Lin Ke killed Three-Eyed Wolf Demons and absorbed their divine-soul fragments, raising the Windglow Cloud Dragon Saber to Origin Tier Mid-Grade.
• A hidden divine-soul fragment gathered wolf blood, spiritual blood, and Dragon Clan essence blood beneath the Quadrangle Courtyard ashes until a strand of divine sense formed.
• The Wolf King sent coordinated packs to stop Lin Ke, who defended himself with the Sect Master Armor and the Golden Flying Sword.
• Shi Yuan wondered why Dragon Saliva Incense was failing to attract beasts, while Dongfang Yao mocked him and was struck by a cultivator.
• Shi Yuan set the incense beside a Six-Tailed Squirrel's hollow, but the squirrel retreated after peeking out.

Shi Yuan’s hunt for spirit beasts was repeatedly disrupted, leading him to suspect Lin Ke was using a rare herb to lure them. As his party neared Lin Ke’s territory, Shi Yuan revealed his plan to sacrifice Fang Mengdie and the others to complete the Myriad Spirits Unification Technique.

• Shi Yuan killed the Six-Tailed Squirrel, then wounded a Yellow-Haired Giant Bear that fled toward the Illusory Heart Forest.
• Shi Yuan and his party chased the Yellow-Haired Giant Bear for more than half a day, losing his black spear in a ravine as the bear continued running.
• Shi Yuan concluded that Lin Ke was luring high-tier spirit beasts with the Ten Thousand Beasts Returning to the Mountain Grass, then killed an Illusionless Gu Sect disciple who had failed to read the sect archives.
• Shi Yuan told his remaining followers that rushing toward Lin Ke would play into his hands, then threatened to use Fang Mengdie and the Golden Wing Sect cultivator’s divine souls to complete his technique.

Fang Mengdie used enchantment to seize control of Shi Yuan and the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators, but Dongfang Yao’s surprise attack broke her hold before she could secure the black spear. As Fang Mengdie and Dongfang Yao fled toward Lin Ke, Lin Ke remained locked in combat with the Three-Eyed Wolf Demon King.

• Fang Mengdie enchanted Shi Yuan and the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators, persuading Shi Yuan to offer her a cultivation pill and the black spear.
• Dongfang Yao broke free using a cockroach’s ability, struck Shi Yuan with a stone pillar, and disrupted Fang Mengdie’s enchantment.
• Fang Mengdie trapped Shi Yuan with Plum Blossom Thorns, then fled with Dongfang Yao as the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators pursued them.
• Lin Ke fought the Three-Eyed Wolf Demon King on a snowy peak, blocking its repeated claw attacks and devising a countermeasure.

Lin Ke fought the Three-Eyed Wolf King until it spoke and offered treasures in exchange for leaves from the Ten Thousand Beasts Returning to the Mountain Grass. After learning the Wolf Demons could survive their apparent deaths under the Blood Moon, Lin Ke gave the Wolf King the leaves and let the clan take the remaining Demon Beasts away.

• Lin Ke adapted his attacks to counter the Wolf King's moves, wounding it through more than a hundred exchanges.
• The Wolf King stopped Lin Ke and explained that the Three-Eyed Wolf Demons had attacked to obtain grass leaves that could help their cubs survive Rot Lice.
• The Wolf King offered Secret Treasuries and rare medicinal treasures, including Dreamstone Grass, Dragon Claw Bamboo, and Silver Moon Frost Snow Shoal, in exchange for Lin Ke's help.
• The Blood Moon faded, and the supposedly slain Three-Eyed Wolf Demons revived, revealing their bloodline's temporary immortality.
• Lin Ke gave the Wolf King the grass's leaves and fruit, stored its remaining stalk and roots, and used the Myriad Transformations Profound Nether Bell to keep the arriving Demon Beasts away.

Lin Ke stopped the Three-Eyed Wolf King from accidentally poisoning herself and learned that the Ten Thousand Beasts Returning to the Mountain Grass could let an intelligent Spirit Beast take human form. The Wolf King transformed into a woman, and she and Lin Ke reaffirmed their agreement of fair trade and mutual benefit.

• Lin Ke knocked the fruit from the Wolf King's throat and warned her that it could kill Demon Beasts.
• The Wolf King explained that the fruit let sufficiently intelligent Spirit Beasts transform early, while those lacking the required intelligence perished.
• The Wolf King swallowed the fruit again, endured a painful transformation, and became a woman.
• Lin Ke gave the Wolf Queen his clothes, and Zong Ya helped her dress while Nan Shang and Lin Ke looked away.
• The Wolf Queen confirmed she led the three-eyed wolf pack and restated her agreement with Lin Ke to trade fairly and avoid conflict.

Lin Ke’s group reached Wolf King Valley, where the wolf queen began healing Dongfang Yao and Fang Mengdie and explained the trials of the Cold Moon Pavilion. As they prepared to enter, Mo Tianji arrived and asked to join them.

• The wolf queen agreed to lead Lin Ke and the others to the Cold Moon Pavilion, but Fang Mengdie returned carrying the gravely ill Dongfang Yao and asked them to save him.
• Lin Ke gave Dongfang Yao and Fang Mengdie Jade-Renewing Pills, and the group flew with them to Wolf King Valley.
• The wolf queen placed the injured pair in the Moonlight Essence Soul Grand Array, which began restoring their health and divine souls.
• The wolf queen explained that the five-floor Cold Moon Pavilion tested cultivators with Heart-Testing Mirrors, and warned that forcing higher trials could drive them mad.
• The wolf queen said an old prophecy seemed to fit Lin Ke, prompting him to wonder whether the connection was truly absurd.
• Mo Tianji appeared at the valley entrance, introduced himself as a student of cause-and-effect divination, and asked to enter the Cold Moon Pavilion; the wolf queen agreed to let him join.