Chapter Summaries

After his parents were poisoned by a Jiang Family cultivator, Zhou Chun kept the suspicion quiet, protected his siblings, and postponed revenge. More than half a year later, the Vajra Monkey completed its evolution, demonstrated its powerful new abilities, and Zhou Chun prepared to give it a name.

• Jiang Shicheng discovered that a middle-aged Jiang Family cultivator had poisoned Zhou Chun's parents, imprisoned him, and resolved to settle the Jiang Family's internal problems.
• Zhou Chun called off Zhou Daoquan's unsuccessful stakeout and arranged for his brothers and sisters to live secretly in another city.
• Shi Tou informed Zhou Chun that the Vajra Monkey had completed its breakthrough and evolved into a second-rank demon beast.
• The Vajra Monkey described its four new spells, including a soul attack, and Zhou Chun took it to the martial arena to test its strength against Shi Tou.
• The Vajra Monkey broke Shi Tou's shield, then escaped its Gravity Cage after defending against a Golden Light Blade, and Zhou Chun said he had chosen a name for it.

Hou Dali evolved into a Vajra Spirit Monkey, while Green Lotus Temple rewarded the Zhou Family and confined Zhou Chun to Daoist Mingxia’s cave dwelling for his safety. After Zhou Daoyi secretly opened his Violet Palace and war approached, Zhou Chun was allowed to return home, where Liu Shiyun revealed her affection in a farewell.

• Zhou Chun named the evolved Vajra Spirit Monkey Hou Jingang, with the nickname Dali, and sent Hou Dali to study with the Giant Green-Haired Ape in the Book Repository.
• Daoist Mingxia delivered three Third-tier Low-grade Talismans and Jade Lotus Pills to the Zhou Family as a reward, then took Zhou Chun to Green Lotus Temple for his protection.
• Zhou Chun stayed confined in the Green Frost Cave Dwelling, where Liu Shiyun visited him regularly and Zhou Mingde sent news of the family.
• Zhou Mingde told Zhou Chun that Zhou Daoyi had secretly opened his Violet Palace and should remain in seclusion until the battle began.
• Daoist Mingxia released Zhou Chun as war approached, and Liu Shiyun escorted him from Green Lotus Temple before calling him Big Brother Zhou and bidding him farewell.

After returning to the Zhou Family, Zhou Chun learned that the Three Great Sects had mobilized Jing Kingdom for war against the Dragon Transformation Sect, and he joined the family’s conscripted cultivators at the Yunzhou border. Under Daoist Mingjing’s command, the allied force attacked White Fang Outpost, where the Dragon Transformation Sect’s Guardian Formation broke under their first assault.

• Zhou Chun returned to Nine Peaks Ridge and learned that the Zhou Family had completed its preparations for the coming war.
• News that the Dragon Transformation Sect had fed humans to flood dragons spread through Jing Kingdom and nearby kingdoms, sowing panic within the sect.
• Zhou Chun led Zhou Chongshan and the other Zhou Family Foundation Establishment cultivators toward the Yunzhou border, where Zhou Mingde joined them and explained their mission.
• Zhou Mingde said the allied family cultivators would attack Dragon Transformation Sect border strongholds under Daoist Mingjing’s command, and the group waited at Qingmang Stronghold for orders.
• Daoist Mingjing led the assembled force to White Fang Outpost, where Zhou Mingde and the other cultivators attacked and shattered its Guardian Formation.

Daoist Mingjing split the forces attacking the Dragon Transformation Sect’s outposts into four routes, while the Moon Wheel Sect began its assault on the Red Dragon Branch Altar. Lin Hongyu sent Lin Wan’er to ask Zhou Daoyi for help escaping the Sect’s control, and Zhou Daoyi agreed to send a message to the front lines with Lin Wan’er as guide.

• Daoist Mingjing divided the coalition into four teams and assigned commanders, then sent each route to attack a Dragon Transformation Sect outpost.
• The Moon Wheel Sect and fifteen Golden Core cultivators attacked the Red Dragon Branch Altar, whose defenses were weakened because its Hall Master and Crimson Fire Flood Dragon had left for the main altar.
• Lin Hongyu, newly advanced to the late Violet Palace Stage, awaited Zhou Daoyi’s response to her request for help breaking free of the Dragon Transformation Sect.
• Lin Wan’er arrived at the Zhou Family with Lin Hongyu’s letter and treasures, and Zhou Daoyi learned that Lin Hongyu offered to serve as an inside contact and help kill the Crimson Fire Flood Dragon.
• Zhou Daoyi weighed the risks of exposing the Zhou Family’s dealings with Lin Hongyu against the offered rewards, then agreed to send Lin Wan’er with a message to the front lines.

Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun discussed Zhou Daoyi’s secret proposal concerning Lin Hongyu and decided to feign agreement while waiting for the battle at the Red Dragon Branch Altar to determine their next move. The chapter ended with the altar’s protective formation unleashing devastating attacks before collapsing, as the escaping Dragon Transformation Sect cultivators faced a fierce pursuit.

• Zhou Jiasheng delivered Zhou Daoyi’s restricted jade slip to Zhou Mingde, and Zhou Chun read its contents and warned that openly helping Lin Hongyu could cost the Zhou Family the Three Great Sects’ trust.
• Zhou Mingde proposed concealing Lin Hongyu’s identity and eventually bringing her into the Zhou Family, while Zhou Chun suggested waiting to learn whether the Crimson Fire Flood Dragon and Lin Hongyu survived the battle.
• Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun agreed to pretend to accept Lin Hongyu’s request, and Zhou Mingde had Lin Wan'er carry their reply to her while explaining that the Zhou Family could not act immediately.
• Zhou Mingde told Daoist Mingjing that Zhou Daoyi had emerged from seclusion after opening the Violet Palace, and Daoist Mingjing congratulated him without asking further questions.
• The Red Dragon Branch Altar’s formation fired eighteen scarlet divine rays, then shattered; the rays killed dozens of Moon Wheel Sect cultivators as Dragon Transformation Sect forces broke out and fled.
• Moon Wheel Sect cultivators recovered from the attack and pursued the fleeing Dragon Transformation Sect forces, intercepting them with overwhelming numbers.

After the Red Dragon Branch Altar fell, Zhou Chun and the others were ordered to reinforce the siege of the Black Dragon Branch Altar, whose formidable formation resisted the attacking Jing Kingdom forces. Lin Hongyu survived her escape but remained bound to the Dragon Transformation Sect and headed for the Blood Dragon Branch Altar, while the chapter left Zhou Chun’s group preparing for the next assault.

• The Moon Wheel Sect captured the Red Dragon Branch Altar, killing most of its defenders, while Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun worried about whether Lin Hongyu had survived.
• Daoist Mingjing received orders to lead his group to the Black Dragon Branch Altar, and Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun left a letter so Lin Wan'er could find them.
• Zhou Chun and the others reached the Black Dragon Branch Altar, where Green Lotus Temple forces had surrounded the sect’s reinforced stronghold but could not break its protective formation.
• Lin Hongyu expelled the spiritual power that had wounded her, then headed toward the Blood Dragon Branch Altar because the Dragon Soul Heart Seed and the war compelled her to return to the sect.
• Zhou Chun and the other cultivators joined the assault on the Black Dragon Branch Altar, and Zhou Chongshan warned that the defenders might be sustaining the powerful formation with their combined strength.
• Zhou Mingde told the Zhou Family members to take pills and keep their magical power above eighty percent.

The Jing Kingdom Allied Forces intensified their assault on the Black Dragon Branch Altar, and more than twenty Golden Core cultivators broke through its protective formation. Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family followed the order to storm the mountain gate, where a brutal battle began.

• Zhou Mingde urged the Zhou Family to use Essence Restoration Pills as the assault dragged on, and the sects later ordered everyone to attack the formation at full strength.
• Di Long recognized that the allied forces had found a way to break the formation and persuaded the Dragon Transformation Sect’s Golden Core cultivators to prepare a counterattack.
• More than twenty Jing Kingdom Golden Core cultivators struck the barrier together, blinding Zhou Chun and other lower-ranked cultivators with the burst of spiritual light as they tore open a huge gap.
• Daoist Mingjing ordered the remaining attackers to enter through the gap and destroy the formation cores, and Zhou Mingde led the Zhou Family into the charge.
• Zhou Chun explained to Zhou Jiarui that the Golden Core cultivators had concealed the plan so the Dragon Transformation Sect would not have time to replenish its magic power.
• The Zhou Family and allied cultivators charged into the mountain gate, where Black Dragon Hall defenders intercepted them, and Zhou Mingde headed toward a guarded formation node with Fire God Jackal.

Zhou Chun led the Zhou Family team to raid a medicine garden at the Black Dragon Branch Altar, where they harvested many old Spirit Medicines while fighting off pursuing Black Dragon Hall cultivators. After the battle, a captured cultivator offered information about a nearby thousand-year Spirit Medicine to save his life.

• Zhou Chun led four Zhou Family elders to an undefended medicine garden instead of pursuing the guarded formation cores.
• Zhou Chongshan, Zhou Jiarui, and Zhou Jiapeng broke the garden’s formation and hurriedly harvested its many Spirit Medicines, though it contained no thousand-year specimens.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoquan intercepted four pursuing Black Dragon Hall cultivators while the Zhou Family elders gathered the medicines.
• Zhou Chun and his Spirit Pets killed one mid Foundation Establishment pursuer, and Zhou Daoquan’s group captured another after the remaining enemies fled.
• Zhou Chun demanded a reason to spare the surrendering cultivator, who claimed he knew the location of a nearby thousand-year Spirit Medicine.

Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family seized a thousand-year Water Jade Lingzhi Mushroom and other Spirit Medicines from Black Dragon Hall, then were intercepted by Dragon Transformation Sect cultivators while trying to regroup. Zhou Chongshan was badly wounded, but Zhou Chun used a third-rank talisman to help him kill his attacker.

• A surrendered Dragon Transformation Sect cultivator told Zhou Chun where a thousand-year Water Jade Lingzhi Mushroom grew, and Zhou Chun took him and Zhou Chongshan to Muyu Peak.
• The Zhou Family broke the formation protecting Muyu Peak, harvested the Water Jade Lingzhi Mushroom and nearby Spirit Medicines, then returned to the Spirit Medicine Garden and gathered their haul.
• Zhou Chun spared the surrendered cultivator and led the Zhou Family toward the breach to regroup with the main force.
• A squad of Dragon Transformation Sect cultivators intercepted the Zhou Family, and Zhou Chun killed one attacker with his Flowing Light Golden Rainbow as they tried to retreat.
• A late Foundation Establishment Dragon Transformation Sect cultivator badly wounded Zhou Chongshan, so Zhou Chun unleashed a third-rank talisman that crippled the attacker.
• Zhou Chongshan finished off his wounded opponent with an ocher stone mace.

After Zhou Chun’s group fought their way through the Black Dragon Branch Altar, they aided Wang Zhixiong and Sun Zhongping’s forces before heading to support Zhou Mingde at a formation foundation. The black barrier protecting its formation flag was finally broken, leaving the flag exposed to attack.

• Zhou Chongshan, badly wounded, withdrew from the battle under Zhou Jiarui’s escort while Zhou Chun, Zhou Daoquan, and Zhou Jiapeng continued onward.
• Zhou Chun’s group joined Wang Zhixiong and Sun Zhongping’s forces, killed three Dragon Transformation Sect cultivators, and received two enemy corpses as thanks.
• Wang Zhixiong invited Zhou Chun to investigate a nearby cave dwelling, but Zhou Chun declined and led his companions away.
• Zhou Chun decided to check on Zhou Mingde, whose group was struggling to break the barrier protecting a formation flag.
• A distant explosion weakened the formation flag, and attacks from talismans and a Flying Sword Talisman Treasure shattered the black barrier.

After a chaotic retreat cost the Jing Kingdom forces many lives, they renewed their assault on the Black Dragon Branch Altar under strict orders and destroyed the Dragon Transformation Sect’s three defensive formations. Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family advanced with the main force and reached a Golden Core cultivator’s cave abode, where the fleeing defenders took shelter behind its Guardian Formation.

• Dragon Transformation Sect protectors used the Dragon Ascension Art to attack Jing Kingdom Foundation Establishment cultivators, prompting the Violet Palace cultivators to abandon their advance and retreat to rescue them.
• Daoist Mingjing investigated the muddled retreat and identified Zhou Chongshan and Zhou Jiarui among those who had returned early, but he spared them and gave Zhou Chongshan a healing spirit pill.
• Wang Zhixiong told Zhou Chun that he regretted joining the raid on a cave abode, where the Wang and Sun Families lost seven of their eight Foundation Establishment cultivators, including Sun Zhongping.
• After the Golden Core battle ended with the Dragon Transformation Sect retreating, Daoist Mingjing relayed an order requiring all but the severely wounded to attack again and forbidding further retreat.
• The Jing Kingdom forces destroyed all three formations at the breach, then stormed the Black Dragon Branch Altar with Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family staying close to Daoist Mingjing.
• Zhou Chun’s group fought through the altar and reached a Golden Core cultivator’s cave abode, where the surviving Dragon Transformation Sect cultivators retreated behind its Guardian Formation.

Jing Kingdom’s forces destroyed the Black Dragon Branch Altar, though the Golden Core cultivator’s dwelling held no treasures because its owner had already fled with them. The Zhou Family counted its spoils and expected the windfall to help secure the spiritual item Zhou Daoquan needed to open the Violet Palace.

• Daoist Mingjing led the cultivators away from the Golden Core dwelling at first, directing them to fight across the branch altar until most Dragon Transformation Sect defenders were dead or hiding.
• Daoist Mingjing and a Moon Wheel Sect team broke into the dwelling, harvested its Spirit Medicines, and promised the family cultivators battle merits in exchange for handing over the spoils.
• Daoist Mingjing overcame the dwelling’s forbidden arts, but Zhou Mingde and the others found its treasure vault, book repository, and rooms completely emptied by the fleeing owner.
• Jing Kingdom’s forces swept the mountain gate through the night, while its Golden Core cultivators drove off the Dragon Transformation Sect’s forces and pursued them until reinforcements arrived.
• The Zhou Family counted seventeen Storage Bags and other spoils worth at least one hundred thousand Spirit Coins, leading Zhou Mingde to say the family could gather Zhou Daoquan’s Violet Palace-opening item.

After the Black Dragon Branch Altar fell, Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family were sent to reinforce the White Dragon Sub-altar, where a decisive battle seemed imminent. Lin Wan'er brought Lin Hongyu’s warning that the altar might be bait and that the Dragon Transformation Sect’s reinforcements could carry deadly Poison Dragon Cone-like treasures, leaving Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun to report the danger and guess at the enemy’s true plan.

• The Dragon Transformation Sect’s reinforcements arrived inside the White Dragon Sub-altar, and the Three Great Sects ordered their forces, including Zhou Chun’s group, to reinforce the siege.
• Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun discussed the coming assault and learned that the Dragon Transformation Sect was concentrating its forces while the Corpse Demon Sect attacked the Azure Dragon Branch.
• Lin Wan'er delivered Lin Hongyu’s warning that the White Dragon Sub-altar might be bait because two powerful fourth-tier Flood Dragons were elsewhere.
• Lin Wan'er also warned that the main altar’s reinforcements might carry Poison Dragon Cone-like Talisman Artifact secret treasures, and Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun promised to be cautious.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde considered possible objectives behind the suspected trap but reached no conclusion, deciding that Zhou Mingde would alert Daoist Mingjing.

Zhou Mingde warned the commanders that the Dragon Transformation Sect might be using the White Dragon Sub-altar as a feint, but the Jing Country Allied Forces attacked it anyway and suffered heavy casualties. After five assaults, Lin Wan'er brought Zhou Mingde news that the Flood Dragon clan had launched a beast tide toward both the White Dragon Sub-altar and Jing Kingdom’s Cloud Prefecture and Misty Prefecture.

• At a war council, Zhou Mingde suggested that the Dragon Transformation Sect might be baiting the allied forces at the White Dragon Sub-altar while plotting elsewhere.
• Liu Yiping, Jin Chixuan, and Daoist Nun Qingsu ordered the attack, and the Jing Country Allied Forces began testing the sub-altar’s defenses before launching a full assault.
• The Dragon Transformation Sect’s demonic beasts restrained the allied forces’ Golden Core cultivators as repeated battles against the formation caused heavy casualties and growing war-weariness.
• After five attacks, Liu Yiping ordered another assault, while Zhou Chun visited the wounded Zhou Jiarui and learned how exhausted the Zhou Family cultivators had become.
• Lin Wan'er rushed to Zhou Chun with intelligence from her godmother that the Flood Dragon clan had unleashed a two-pronged beast tide toward the White Dragon Sub-altar and Jing Kingdom’s Cloud Prefecture and Misty Prefecture.

Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun learned that the Flood Dragon clan had unleashed a beast tide, so they passed the warning to Liu Yiping while concealing its true source. After Daoist Nun Qingsu confirmed the approaching threat, Liu Yiping contacted the Silver Moon Ancestor for orders on whether to fight or retreat.

• Lin Wan'er told Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun that the Flood Dragon clan had joined the battle and that Lin Hongyu wanted Zhou Mingde to help slay the Red Fire Flood Dragon.
• Zhou Chun proposed crediting Lu Ran with the warning, and Zhou Mingde arranged for Li Jingxuan to relay the news to Liu Yiping.
• Liu Yiping summoned Jin Chixuan and Daoist Nun Qingsu, who agreed to investigate the beast tide and prepare for a possible retreat.
• Daoist Nun Qingsu confirmed that tens of thousands of Demonic Beasts, including two fourth-tier Flood Dragons, would reach the White Dragon Sub-altar within two days, while the main force was likely heading toward Jing Kingdom's homeland.
• Liu Yiping contacted the Silver Moon Ancestor and asked for instructions on whether the forces should continue fighting or withdraw to defend Jing Kingdom.

Nine Nascent Soul cultivators besieged the Dragon Transformation Sect’s Main Altar as True Person Silver Moon revealed that the Flood Dragon clan had unleashed a beast tide against Jing Kingdom. At the White Dragon Sub-altar, Liu Yiping’s forces launched a desperate assault, shattered its protective formation, and charged inside.

• True Person Silver Moon told the other Nascent Soul cultivators that the Flood Dragon clan had unleashed a beast tide, and they agreed to keep the Main Altar sealed for another day while Liu Yiping’s forces attacked the White Dragon Sub-altar.
• Daoist Mingjing announced that the attackers could keep the spoils, raising morale, while Zhou Chun realized Liu Yiping intended to break through the sub-altar before the beast tide arrived.
• Liu Yiping used a replica Moonlight Treasure Bead to unleash Moonfall · Starburst against the White Dragon Sub-altar’s Mountain Protecting Grand Formation.
• The blast destroyed much of the formation and killed many Dragon Transformation Sect cultivators; Di Long escaped the worst of it by severing his connection to the formation.
• Jin Chixuan ordered the allied forces to charge, and Zhou Mingde, Zhou Chun, and the other cultivators entered the unprotected White Dragon Sub-altar.

Zhou Chun led the Zhou Family to seize the White Dragon Sub-altar’s Beast Garden, capturing dozens of Dragon-blooded Demonic Beasts and several Dragon Transformation Sect cultivators. After the battle seemed to end, an Earth-yellow Giant Elephant crashed into the mountain gate, forcing Zhou Mingde and the others to flee as the impact killed many cultivators.

• Zhou Chun led Zhou Mingde, Zhou Daoquan, and Zhou Jiapeng to the Beast Garden and ordered the Dragon Transformation Sect cultivators there to surrender and help capture the Demonic Beasts.
• Zhou Mingde killed the cultivators who refused to surrender, then recovered Steward Wang’s beast tokens so the captives could collect the beasts into Spirit Beast Pouches.
• The Zhou Family captured most of the Beast Garden’s Demonic Beasts, filling fifty-seven Spirit Beast Pouches, and kept three experienced beast tamers while driving the other surrendered cultivators away.
• Zhou Mingde and the Zhou Family held the Beast Garden, capturing or killing Dragon Transformation Sect cultivators who came there as the fighting continued elsewhere.
• When the Zhou Family went to search the White Dragon Sub-altar after the battle, an Earth-yellow Giant Elephant struck the main peak, and Zhou Mingde fled with his family as the shockwave killed numerous cultivators.

The Jing Country Allied Forces defeated the Dragon Transformation Sect at the White Dragon Sub-altar, but suffered heavy casualties before retreating ahead of the approaching beast tide. The Zhou Family returned to the Immortal Cloud Market with valuable captured beasts, where Zhou Daoyi joined them after opening his Violet Palace and prepared to protect the family from anyone coveting its gains.

• Liu Yiping and the other Golden Core cultivators routed the Dragon Transformation Sect forces, killing four Golden Core cultivators and the Earth Splitting Dragon Elephant while the Zhou Family survived with only two wounded.
• Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun helped collect the dead before Liu Yiping led the allied forces back to the Immortal Cloud Market as the beast tide approached.
• Li Qinghe envied the Zhou Family's captured beasts, while Zhou Mingde promised the Li Family priority if the Zhou Family bred a herd of them.
• Li Jingxuan intervened when Yu Jinghua showed interest in the Zhou Family's gains, and Zhou Chun remained wary of the Spirit Beast Manor's leader.
• Liu Yiping ordered the cultivators to resupply and await orders, and Zhou Mingde took Zhou Chongshan home while Zhou Chun stayed in the market with the others and the captured beasts.
• Zhou Daoyi arrived with Zhou Mingde after opening his Violet Palace, thanked the family members for their efforts, and vowed to deal with anyone who tried to prey on the Zhou Family.

After Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Mingde led the Zhou Family home, Zhang Shi'an and Fu Mingtao ambushed them to demand their captured mount Spirit Beasts. The Zhou Family defeated the attackers and returned to Nine Peaks Ridge with Zhang Shi'an as a prisoner, while the Azure Flood Dragon's existence was exposed to watching cultivators.

• Zhou Mingde refused to sell the Zhou Family's mount Spirit Beasts, and Zhang Shi'an and Fu Mingtao attacked the returning party.
• Zhou Daoyi released Azure Flood Dragon Qingqing, and the Zhou Family drove Fu Mingtao away and captured Zhang Shi'an.
• Zhang Shi'an revealed that Fu Mingtao of the Fu Family had persuaded him to join the ambush, and Zhou Mingde took him toward the Zhou Family.
• Watching cultivators discovered that the Zhou Family had a third-tier Azure Flood Dragon, and Zhou Chun's party returned safely to Nine Peaks Ridge.
• Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi took Zhang Shi'an to Pagoda Peak for questioning, while Zhou Chun assigned the others to settle the Demonic Beasts and care for Zhou Daoquan.

The Zhou Family demanded a ransom from the Zhang Family for the captured Zhang Shi'an, while the Zhang Family reluctantly gathered the payment after learning of the Zhou Family’s third-tier Green Flood Dragon. Daoist Mingxia then investigated the Green Flood Dragon and ordered the Zhou Family to limit its trade with Lu Ran and prioritize Green Lotus Temple when selling aquatic treasures.

• Zhou Chun delivered Zhang Shi'an’s jade slip to the Zhang Family, and Zhou Daoquan told Zhang Kaida that the Zhang Family had five days to pay the ransom or Zhang Shi'an would be executed.
• Zhang Kaida convened the Zhang Family elders, who agreed to redeem Zhang Shi'an after learning that the Zhou Family possessed a third-tier Green Flood Dragon.
• Zhang Kaida gathered the demanded items within three days and personally brought the ransom to Nine Peaks Ridge.
• Daoist Mingxia questioned Zhou Daoyi about the Green Flood Dragon, and Zhou Daoyi explained that his Azure Cloud Python had evolved after refining a treasure.
• Zhou Chun admitted that Lu Ran had given him the Dragon Transformation Sect’s Foundation Conversion Art, and Daoist Mingxia instructed the Zhou Family to limit its dealings with Lu Ran, offer aquatic treasures to Green Lotus Temple first, and assist with the beast tide.