Chapter Summaries

After hiding from Green Lotus Temple and completing his bloodline transformation, Zhou Chun joined Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi to help Lu Ran seize the Thousand Year Grass from an Azure Flame Dove. They found the herb and an Azure Haze Lingzhi in the dove’s nest while the others fought to hold the beast off.

• Qing Weizi praised Daoist Mingxia for obtaining intelligence on the Dragon Transformation Sect, and Daoist Mingxia concealed that Zhou Chun had not returned to the sect.
• Zhou Mingde learned Daoist Mingxia had come to silence the Zhou Family, then kept Zhou Chun hidden while he cultivated for six months and transformed his dragon-blood attribute into Qingqing’s Azure Flood Dragon bloodline.
• Daoist Mingxia paid Zhou Mingde the promised thirty thousand Spirit Coins and agreed to have Liu Shiyun guard the Zhou Family while Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi searched for Zhou Chun.
• Zhou Chun, Zhou Mingde, and Zhou Daoyi met Lu Ran near Dragon Abyss Marsh and revealed their third-rank Fire God Jackal and Azure Flood Dragon as allies against the Azure Flame Dove.
• Lu Ran and Zhou Mingde, aided by the Fire God Jackal and Azure Flood Dragon, fought the Azure Flame Dove while Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi slipped into its nest.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi found the Thousand Year Grass and an Azure Haze Lingzhi estimated to be five or six hundred years old.

After the Zhou Family helped Lu Ran obtain the Thousand Year Grass, he gave them the promised Silver Star Soul Jade and led them to his underwater secret mansion. He admitted the Foundation Building Fruit Tree was guarded by a powerful Thunder Lizard tribe, then offered the Zhou Family thirty water-domain treasures as compensation, leaving them to choose from his collection.

• Zhou Chun handed Lu Ran the Thousand Year Grass, and Lu Ran gave him the Silver Star Soul Jade for Zhou Daoyi.
• Lu Ran revealed that the Foundation Building Fruit Tree was guarded by two third rank Thunder Dragon Lizard Beasts and dozens of second rank Thunder Lizard Beasts, angering the Zhou Family.
• Lu Ran led Zhou Chun, Zhou Mingde, and Zhou Daoyi through an underwater cavern to his secret mansion using a Water Repelling Bead.
• Lu Ran increased the Zhou Family's allowance from ten water-domain treasures to thirty, and Zhou Mingde agreed on their behalf.
• Zhou Daoyi initially declined to choose treasures, but Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde persuaded him to take his share.
• Lu Ran fed the Spirit Clams and Spirit Shellfish in his treasure room, revealing that they stored spirit pearls, and the Zhou Family asked to inspect them.

After the Zhou Family traded with Lu Ran and chose a concealed valley for a frontier outpost, Zhou Chun returned to Nine Peaks Ridge and resumed control of the family. He began ordering supplies and preparations for the family’s future plans while keeping their purpose secret.

• The Zhou Family agreed to trade aquatic treasures with Lu Ran for Spirit Wine, Spirit Tea, pills, and weapons.
• Zhou Mingde, Zhou Chun, and Zhou Daoyi chose a concealed valley with a Spirit Vein and named it Dragon Rise Valley as a future outpost.
• The three returned to Nine Peaks Ridge, where Liu Shiyun greeted Zhou Chun, revealed her feelings through her disappointment, and departed with his letter for Daoist Mingxia.
• Daoist Mingxia accepted Zhou Chun’s assurances that he would keep his infiltration of the Dragon Transformation Sect secret and focus on family affairs.
• Zhou Chun took back authority from Zhou Daoyi, who secretly brought Zhou Chongshan to Dragon Rise Valley to plan its formation.
• Zhou Chun ordered family members to acquire Spirit Wine and Spirit Tea, recruit cultivators, purchase weapons and pills, and prepare healing medicines.

After the Three Great Sects announced the Hundred Clans Assembly, Zhou Chun and the Zhou elders prepared to compete for a Top 30 ranking despite the Zhou Family’s slim chances. Zhou Daoquan returned to help, then asked the family to avenge a Violet Palace family in Joy Kingdom that had stolen a tomb excavation and nearly killed his Earth Armored Bear.

• Zhou Chun judged the Hundred Clans Assembly to be a mobilization effort for a coming war against the Dragon Transformation Sect, and Zhou Mingde agreed that the Zhou Family should compete for the Top 30.
• Zhou Chun consulted Wang Zhixiong and learned that seventeen Golden Core Families and dozens of Violet Palace Families would make the competition fierce.
• The Three Great Sects announced team-based rules for the assembly, and Zhou Daoyi urged the Zhou Family to prepare fully, including recalling Zhou Daoquan and seeking a Purple-Patterned Golden Peach from Lin Hongyu.
• The Zhou Family replaced participants’ magic tools and sold the old ones as cultivators across Jing Kingdom began preparing for the competition.
• Zhou Daoquan returned to Nine Peaks Ridge and agreed to help the Zhou Family compete, then asked it to avenge his Earth Armored Bear and the theft of a tomb excavation in Joy Kingdom.

The Zhou Family finalized its lineup for the Hundred Clans Assembly, gained two new second-tier Demonic Beasts, and traveled to Cloud Peak Mountain Range to compete. On the way, the cultivators witnessed the power of a Golden Core expert and learned about another prominent family, leaving them more cautious as the assembly approached.

• Zhou Daoquan asked the Zhou Family to help him avenge a grudge, offering information about his enemy's strength and a thousand-year-old Yin Lingzhi Mushroom in their ancestor's tomb, and Zhou Mingde agreed to help after the assembly.
• The Zhou Family finalized its teams for the Hundred Clans Assembly, and Zhou Jiapeng's Iron Feather Eagle evolved into a second-tier Golden Winged Iron Feather Eagle while a second Fragrant Spirit Musk Deer awakened as a Demonic Beast.
• Zhou Chongshan stayed behind to guard the clan after completing the Dragon Rise Valley formation foundations, while Zhou Mingde and the rest of the Zhou Family party rode Eight-horned Water-repelling Deer toward Cloud Peak Mountain Range.
• The Zhou Family's distinctive mounts drew attention, and Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Mingde advised the juniors to learn about other powerful families and avoid underestimating them.
• The party saw a yellow-robed Golden Core cultivator flying on a magic treasure stele, then spotted Phoenix Feather Stone Vultures carrying cultivators whom Zhou Chun identified as people from the Cangzhou Yan Family.

The Zhou Family arrived at the Hundred Clans Assembly, where cultivators from Jing Kingdom’s Golden Core Families and Three Great Sects gathered. After the organizers announced the rules and assigned the Zhou Family to Group C, the assembly began with a match between the Cloud Prefecture Fang Family and the Blazing Prefecture Kong Family.

• The Zhou Family claimed a mountain peak for their camp, built stone houses, and learned that eight Golden Core Families had arrived ahead of the assembly.
• Golden Core Families arrived with their cultivators, followed by the Three Great Sects and their leaders Bi Qiuyue, Zhen Bingyang, and Shanyangzi.
• Shanyangzi announced the assembly rules, including a ban on talismans and a five-group format, and the Zhou Family’s Zhou Mingde drew Group C, which had the fewest families.
• The Three Great Sects prepared three arenas and a Spirit Cleansing Array, and Shanyangzi declared the assembly open.
• The Cloud Prefecture Fang Family and Blazing Prefecture Kong Family began Group A’s first match as spectators discussed their cultivation techniques.

Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family watched the Hundred Clans Assembly, where the Jiang Family of Ling Province faced the Wang Family of Tanzhou and revealed its strength despite losing. As Group A’s battles continued, the Jiang Family’s secret arts became clearer to the Zhou Family, who prepared to face their enemy in the future.

• Zhou Chun reflected that the assembly’s consecutive battles tested combat will and could reveal which cultivators were fit for the campaign against the Dragon Transformation Sect.
• The Zhou Family discussed countermeasures after a Foundation Establishment cultivator used a gong-shaped artifact to disrupt his opponents’ souls and divine senses.
• The Wang Family of Tanzhou fought the Jiang Family of Ling Province, but the Jiang Family’s Violet Palace cultivators held their own against stronger opponents.
• Zhou Daoyi noticed that the Jiang Family’s Foundation Establishment cultivators were conserving their secret arts, and Zhou Chun said the later battles would force them to reveal their strength.
• The Jiang Family lost all three stages to the Wang Family, but its Violet Palace cultivators fought for an hour before admitting defeat.
• As Group A’s matches continued, the Jiang Family revealed its secret arts, allowing the Zhou Family to learn more about its enemy’s capabilities.

The Zhou Family easily defeated the Cai Family and several other opponents at the Hundred Clans Assembly, drawing attention after Zhang Kaida spread information about their past. By their eighth battle, they faced the Zheng Family of Yue Province, a Golden Core Family, setting up their toughest test yet.

• Zhou Mingde released the third-rank Fire God Jackal and defeated Cai Dongsheng, while Zhou Chun, Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Daoquan, and their Spirit Pets overwhelmed the Cai Family in the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining stages.
• Spectators learned that the Zhou Family had once been a Golden Core Family with a thousand-year heritage, and some Jing Kingdom families resented the outsider clan's success.
• Zhang Kaida revealed that he had spread information about the Zhou Family to provoke hostility, and Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Chun dismissed his scheme.
• The Zhou Family won its second and third battles across all three stages, then lost the Violet Palace match in its fourth battle while still winning overall.
• By the Zhou Family's eighth battle, it was matched against the Zheng Family of Yue Province, prompting spectators to anticipate a contest between a Golden Core Family and the Zhou Family's people-and-pets tactics.

The Zhou Family defeated the Zheng Family in the Foundation Establishment arena through coordinated tactics and spirit pets, drawing the attention of other Golden Core Families. The Zhang and Jiang Families, both enemies of the Zhou Family, reacted with alarm and considered how to deal with its growing strength.

• Zhou Mingde conceded his Violet Palace bout, and the Zhou Family sent Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Daoquan, and Zhou Chun to face the Zheng Family’s Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators.
• Zhou Chun used the Golden Armor Rock Turtle’s defenses to withstand his opponent, then redirected attacks to help eliminate two Zheng Family cultivators while Zhou Daoquan was badly injured.
• The Zhou Family overwhelmed the remaining Zheng Family fighters and won the arena battle, prompting a Golden Core cultivator to recognize that Zhou Chun practiced a top-tier cultivation technique.
• Zhang Kaida agreed to keep a lower profile after a Zhang Family Violet Palace cultivator warned him that the Zhou Family was stronger than they had realized.
• Jiang Family cultivators discussed attacking the Zhou Family while Daoist Mingxia was in seclusion, despite one of them regretting that the family had refused an earlier chance to settle their grudge.

The Zhou Family advanced to the finals after placing second in its group, then drew its opening match against the Cangzhou Yan Family with three points apiece. The finals continued with the two families’ Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining battles tied, leaving their contest unresolved.

• The Zhou Family finished the group stage with only one loss in each arena and advanced with the second-highest total score.
• Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Chun, and the others studied the other advancing families and planned to use their demonic beasts to protect Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Jiapeng.
• After three days of rest, the Zhou Family was matched against the Cangzhou Yan Family in the first final match.
• Zhou Mingde conceded the Violet Palace stage match to the Yan Family’s late Violet Palace cultivator.
• Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family’s spirit pets disrupted the Yan Family’s tactics, defeated several Foundation Establishment opponents, and forced the remaining Yan Family cultivators to concede.
• The Zhou Family won the Qi Refining stage match, leaving the two families tied at three points each.

The Zhou Family faced the Jiang Family at the Hundred Clans Assembly and decisively won the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining contests after Zhou Mingde withdrew from the outmatched Violet Palace fight. As the finals neared their end, Zhou Mingde won a crucial Violet Palace match, leaving the Zhou Family one Foundation Establishment victory away from securing a Top 30 place.

• Zhou Mingde withdrew from the Violet Palace match against the Jiang Family rather than risk fighting two opponents at once.
• Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Chun, and the other Zhou Family cultivators defeated the Jiang Family in the Foundation Establishment arena, and the Zhou Family also won the Qi Refining stage.
• After seven days and twenty-six battles, Zhou Mingde urged the exhausted Zhou Family members to win their last three matches and secure a place among the thirteen qualifying families.
• Zhou Mingde used the Fire God Jackal's Inner Core to catch a mid Violet Palace opponent off guard and force him to surrender.
• The Zhou Family won the Qi Refining stage of its penultimate match, leaving them needing to avoid defeat in the final Foundation Establishment arena to enter the Top 30.

The Zhou Family defeated the Lu Family and secured twelfth place in the Hundred Clans Assembly, earning a place among the top thirteen. As the Three Great Sects began a trading convention in Immortal Cloud Market, Zhou Chun heard an argument near a forest and went to investigate.

• Zhou Chun revealed Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai, then helped Zhou Jiarui eliminate a Lu Family cultivator and led the Zhou Family to victory over the Lu Family.
• The Zhou Family won its Qi Refining stage battle despite Zhou Cheng's Spirit Pet dying, confirming its place among the top thirteen.
• The final rankings placed the Zhou Family twelfth by one point, while the Jiang Family missed the top thirteen and the Yan Family qualified.
• Shanyangzi ended the assembly and announced a trading convention and auction, then privately summoned representatives of the top thirty families.
• Zhou Mingde went to meet the Three Great Sects' Golden Core cultivators while Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Chun, and the others explored the trading convention.
• After finding nothing to buy, Zhou Chun heard an argument near a forest and hurried toward the crowd gathered there.

Zhou Chun acquired a seven-hundred-year-old Golden Ginseng at the Immortal Cloud Market and learned that the Three Great Sects planned to reward the Top 30 families with rights to establish frontier outposts in the Wilderness Expanse after the Southern campaign. The chapter ended with Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun urging Zhou Daoyi to use their pooled savings to compete for a Violet Palace-opening treasure.

• Zhou Chun traded the Dragon Scale Golden Shield and seven hundred Spirit Coins for the Golden Ginseng, intending to help the Golden Winged Tiger advance to the second rank.
• Zhou Mingde told Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi that the Hundred Clans Assembly was a mobilization conference for the Southern campaign against the Dragon Transformation Sect.
• Zhou Mingde revealed that the Three Great Sects planned to let the Top 30 families establish frontier outposts in the Wilderness Expanse after the campaign.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi discussed how the Zhou Family could use the outpost rights to develop resources and strengthen its position, while agreeing they needed to win the campaign and watch the Jiang and Zhang Families.
• Zhou Mingde proposed pooling their savings to buy a Violet Palace-opening treasure for Zhou Daoyi, but Zhou Daoyi objected and suggested prioritizing Zhou Chun instead.

The Zhou Family gathered Spirit Coins to buy an auxiliary spiritual item for Zhou Daoyi’s attempt to open the Violet Palace, while deciding not to prioritize the Crimson Sun Flowing Pearl Pill for Lin Hongyu. At the Auction Conference, bidding on useful pills and treasures drove prices high, and the chapter ended as Zhou Mingde decided to pursue an Ice Jade Soul Silkworm for Zhou Daoyi.

• Zhou Daoyi reluctantly agreed to raise funds for an auxiliary spiritual item, and Zhou Mingde, Zhou Chun, and Zhou Daoyi gathered more than ninety-three thousand Spirit Coins.
• Zhou Chun persuaded Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi to prioritize Zhou Daoyi’s Violet Palace breakthrough over buying the Crimson Sun Flowing Pearl Pill for Lin Hongyu.
• The Zhou Family cultivators entered the Auction Conference, where Su Yunniang warned attendees of her beguiling voice and began the bidding.
• The first five auction items were useful cultivation pills, and bidders drove the price of the first bottle of Spirit Replenishing Pills to five thousand Spirit Coins.
• Bidders competed fiercely for third-rank talismans, while two third-rank magical artifacts went unsold.
• A box of Soul Guiding Incense sold for forty-three thousand five hundred Spirit Coins, and Zhou Mingde decided the Zhou Family would bid for the Ice Jade Soul Silkworm.

At the Auction Conference, Zhou Mingde outbid a Golden Core cultivator to secure an Ice Jade Soul Silkworm for the Zhou Family. The family then watched the Jiang Family buy a breakthrough pill and began planning how to delay its use, as the conference ended with the unveiling of a Detachment Pill.

• Zhou Mingde bid against a Golden Core cultivator and won the Ice Jade Soul Silkworm for ninety-one thousand Spirit Coins.
• Zhou Chun learned why the auctioned Talisman Treasure sold for less than the silkworm as the auction continued.
• The Jiang Family's mid Violet Palace cultivator bought a Crimson Bright Flowing Pearl Pill, prompting Zhou Chun to propose involving Lin Hongyu to thwart his breakthrough.
• Zhou Mingde agreed to find a way to delay the Jiang Family cultivator from taking the pill, and the three Zhou Family members discussed possible schemes.
• Su Yunniang presented the final treasure, a Detachment Pill capable of assisting someone in forming a Golden Core.

At the auction, a Detachment Pill sold for 350,000 Spirit Coins, while Zhou Mingde secretly negotiated with the Jiang Family to delay their plans against the Zhou Family. After returning toward Misty Prefecture under Li Jingxuan’s protection, Zhou Chun witnessed a Golden Core cultivator’s speed and dreamed of forming a Golden Core himself.

• Su Yunniang auctioned the Detachment Pill to Senior Wei for 350,000 Spirit Coins after Violet Palace and Golden Core cultivators competed for it.
• Zhou Mingde arranged a private meeting with the Jiang Family’s Violet Palace elder and offered to transfer the Zhou Family’s frontier stronghold benefits in exchange for delaying his breakthrough attempt.
• The Jiang Family elder accepted the proposal, intending to demand a formal transfer before deciding whether to act against the Zhou Family, while the Zhang Family waited for an explanation.
• Zhou Mingde told Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi that the plan depended on Lin Hongyu taking the bait, and Zhou Chun noted that Zhou Daoyi’s successful Violet Palace breakthrough could also protect the family.
• Li Jingxuan carried the Zhou and Li Families from Immortal Cloud Market toward Misty Prefecture on his Crimson Gold Gourd, and Zhou Chun measured its flight speed at 1,500 li per hour.
• After Li Jingxuan set him down, Zhou Chun marveled at Golden Core cultivators’ power and yearned to form a Golden Core and travel the world.

After the Dragon Transformation Sect issued a Class A bounty to capture Zhou Chun, Lin Hongyu warned the Zhou Family and hurried to Jing Kingdom. Zhou Chun rejected the plan to hide and insisted on turning the hunt into an ambush, while Zhou Daoyi proposed using Dragon Abyss Marsh and Lu Ran.

• Zhou Chun reflected on the power of Golden Core cultivators, and Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Mingde encouraged him to pursue cultivation diligently.
• The Dragon Transformation Sect recognized Zhou Chun from an intelligence report and issued a Class A bounty to capture him alive.
• Lin Hongyu received the bounty notice, accepted a separate mission that let her travel to Jing Kingdom, and warned the Zhou Family about the threat.
• Zhou Mingde urged Zhou Chun to stay inside the mountain gate, but Zhou Chun argued that they should lure the enemy into an opportunity to kill him.
• Zhou Chun pointed out that Zhou Mingde would soon leave for Green Lotus Temple, leaving the family exposed, and insisted on confronting the attacker.
• Zhou Daoyi proposed a plan involving Dragon Abyss Marsh and Lu Ran.

Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family lured a Dragon Transformation Sect protector into an ambush with help from Lu Ran, the Azure Flood Dragon, and the Fire God Jackal. The Black Dragon Protector was killed, giving the Fire God Jackal its first Violet Palace Stage kill.

• Zhou Daoyi persuaded Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun to recruit Lu Ran, and then secretly brought him from Dragon Abyss Marsh to the ambush site.
• Zhou Chun left Nine Peaks Ridge as bait while a hidden observer followed him; the Black Dragon Protector attacked him less than three hundred miles from the family.
• Zhou Chun used a top-grade third rank defensive talisman to withstand the protector’s assault, while the Azure Flood Dragon and Lu Ran arrived with Zhou Daoyi.
• Zhou Daoyi used an Azure Treasure Mirror to impede the Black Dragon Protector’s escape, and the Azure Flood Dragon, Lu Ran, and Fire God Jackal attacked him together.
• Zhou Mingde arrived as the Black Dragon Protector tried to kill Zhou Daoyi, but the Azure Flood Dragon knocked him back and Lu Ran stabbed him with the Crimson Dragon Dagger.
• The Fire God Jackal struck the Black Dragon Protector’s head and killed him, then howled in triumph.

Zhou Mingde reported the Zhou Family’s killing of a Dragon Transformation Sect protector to Green Lotus Temple and avoided suspicion over the Jiang Family cultivator’s ambush. After returning home, he learned that Lin Hongyu had killed the Jiang cultivator, while Zhou Daoyi prepared to begin opening his Violet Palace.

• Zhou Mingde thanked Lu Ran for helping the Zhou Family, and they agreed Lu Ran could visit the underground waterway again.
• Zhou Mingde disguised the Black Dragon Protector’s death as a joint victory for himself and the Fire God Jackal, then took the corpse to Green Lotus Temple to claim merit.
• Qing Weizi accepted Zhou Mingde’s account, promised a reward, and warned him to keep Zhou Chun from disrupting the sect’s plans.
• Qing Weizi told Zhou Mingde that a Red Dragon Guardian had ambushed the Jiang Family’s mid Violet Palace cultivator, and Zhou Mingde returned home without arousing suspicion.
• Zhou Mingde learned from Lin Hongyu’s letter that the Jiang cultivator had been killed, and Zhou Daoyi agreed to enter secluded cultivation and open his Violet Palace.

Zhou Chun gave the Vajra Monkey a Purple-Patterned Golden Peach to help it break through, then learned that his mortal parents had died suddenly and investigated their deaths. He suspected the Jiang Family had poisoned them and planned to have the murderer watched while postponing any retaliation.

• Zhou Chun gave the Vajra Monkey a Purple-Patterned Golden Peach and asked Golden Armor Rock Turtle Stone to watch over it as it absorbed the peach’s power.
• Zhou Chun learned his parents had died together, questioned his siblings and household staff, and found that they had suffered nightmares and declining spirits before their deaths.
• Zhou Jiawei concluded that Zhou Chun’s parents had likely been killed by Nightmare Spider Venom, possibly mixed with Bliss Flower Pollen.
• Zhou Chun told Zhou Mingde that the Jiang Family was his leading suspect, citing its prior use of Purple Crow Snake Venom.
• Zhou Chun proposed having Third Elder secretly monitor his parents’ residence in case the murderer targeted his siblings, and Zhou Mingde agreed to the plan.