Chapter Summaries

Zhou Chun watched the auction price the Violet Palace treasures beyond his means, while Lin Hongyu secured the materials she needed for Core Formation with his financial support. The auction continued into its latter half, where a powerful magic treasure set a new transaction record.

• Zhou Chun gave up bidding on the Soul Stabilizing Pill at 120,000 Spirit Coins, and another bidder bought it for 150,000.
• Zhou Chun bid 200,000 for the Silver Star Soul Jade and Enlightenment Vermillion Fruit but stopped as the price rose, and they sold for 243,000 Spirit Coins.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi watched as Golden Core cultivators competed for rare treasures, then Lin Hongyu focused on the three items that could aid her Core Formation.
• Lin Hongyu asked Zhou Chun for more funds, and he offered her the 150,000 Spirit Coins he could access; she won the three items for 815,000 Spirit Coins.
• Lin Hongyu thanked Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi and promised to help the Zhou Family in the future if she formed a Golden Core.
• Liu Mengyan auctioned the Qian Yuan Golden Light Ring, which sold for 1,270,000 Spirit Coins and broke the Auction Conference's transaction record.

After the auction, Lin Hongyu rented a cave abode in Xiandu Market to prepare for forming her Golden Core, while Zhou Chun bought goods to bring back to the Zhou Family. Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi returned safely to Nine Peaks Ridge, where Zhou Chun learned bad news upon arriving.

• Lin Hongyu inspected and paid for the Extreme Yang Fire Spirit Liquid, Extreme Cold Ice Marrow Liquid, and Profound One Qi Unification Pill.
• Lin Hongyu decided to remain in Xiandu Market and prepare for Golden Core formation, while Zhou Daoyi agreed to protect her and Zhou Chun planned to return home.
• Lin Hongyu rented a cave abode, and Zhou Chun preordered three Foundation Establishment Pills and purchased Dolan Grasslands goods and reference books.
• After two months, Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi left Xiandu Market and traveled back to Nine Peaks Ridge without being attacked.
• Zhou Chun arrived at the family mountain gate and learned bad news.

Zhou Chun learned of Zhou Daoquan’s injury, helped advance the Zhou Family’s plans in Dragon Rise Valley, and navigated growing uncertainty over Green Lotus Temple’s future. When Lin Wan’er reported that rogue cultivators were threatening the Yang Kingdom outpost, Zhou Mingde decided Zhou Chun should go there to restore order.

• Zhou Daoquan told Zhou Chun how a Four-Eared Fox Monkey and its hidden Many-Transform Spirit Lizard had injured him and his Vermilion Flame Crane while they tried to steal Purple Moon Fruits.
• Zhou Zhengyong asked Zhou Chun to approve bringing three spiritually gifted children from a protected mortal tribe to Dragon Rise Valley, and Zhou Chun agreed and arranged for Xin Die to inspect possible outpost sites.
• Over the following half-year, Zhou Daoyi returned to protect Lin Hongyu as she prepared to form her Golden Core, and Zhou Chun ordered a Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation for the new outpost in exchange for part of the family’s ore-vein share.
• After rumors spread that True Person Qingxiao was nearing the end of his life, Zhou Mingde advised Zhou Chun to avoid taking sides as families defected from Green Lotus Temple to the Sky Mirror Sect.
• Lin Wan’er arrived with Earth Origin Crystal Jade ore and warned Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde that Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivators were threatening the Yang Kingdom outpost.
• When Zhou Chun suggested asking Zhou Daoyi to go to the Yang Kingdom, Zhou Mingde refused and persuaded Zhou Chun to go himself; Zhou Chun agreed.

Zhou Chun traveled alone through the Shen Kingdom on his way to the Yang Kingdom, where he learned of a Wood Sprite in the Thousand Leaf Forest. After giving Zhang Liang a reward for the information, Zhou Chun departed, leaving the Wood Sprite and the Yellow Family’s hunt as the next potential complication on his journey.

• Zhou Chun handed family responsibilities and the Dragon Rise Valley task to Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Jiahe before setting out alone for the Yang Kingdom.
• Zhou Chun killed Wang Hu with Bai Bai’s lightning after Wang Hu threatened him, saving the fleeing Zhang Liang.
• Zhou Chun questioned Zhang Liang, who revealed that a second-rank Wood Sprite had reportedly appeared in the Thousand Leaf Forest of the Shen Kingdom.
• Zhang Liang explained that the Yellow Family’s Violet Palace cultivator and six Foundation Establishment cultivators had gone to capture the Wood Sprite, while the family Patriarch stayed behind.
• Zhou Chun rewarded Zhang Liang with a magic tool and pills, then rode away on Bai Bai without revealing his name.

Zhou Chun tracked the Wood Sprite in the Thousand Leaf Forest and learned that the Yellow Family had not found its true body. When the Yellow Family set fire to the forest to flush it out, the Green Deer appeared and carved a firebreak, and Zhou Chun stopped just as he prepared to capture it after noticing something astonishing.

• Zhou Chun used his Demonic Insects and Blue Moon Butterfly to track Yellow Family cultivators and overheard that the Wood Sprite was a powerful deer whose true body remained undiscovered.
• Zhou Chun searched for the Wood Sprite's true body by having his Mysterious Armor Golden Feather Demonic Insects bite ancient trees.
• The Yellow Family set fire to the Wood Sprite's hunting grounds, and Zhou Chun challenged a cultivator who claimed the blaze would soon be controlled.
• Zhou Chun returned to watch the fire and saw forest beasts fighting the flames until the Wood Sprite appeared as a green-and-blue Green Deer.
• The Green Deer drained the plants along its path to create a long firebreak, and Zhou Chun halted his attempt to capture it after making an astonishing discovery.

Zhou Chun watched the Green Deer’s power surge as it fought Huang Boxiong, then used the Yellow Family cultivators’ separation from their Grand Elder to launch a surprise attack. He killed the three Foundation Establishment cultivators and fled with their corpses and artifacts while Huang Boxiong remained elsewhere in the forest.

• Zhou Chun realized the Green Deer had temporarily gained third-tier strength by absorbing the life essence of plants and trees, and hid while the Yellow Family gathered.
• Huang Boxiong ordered his cultivators to set more fires, prompting the enraged Green Deer to kill Dehai and attack another cultivator before the others retreated.
• Huang Boxiong lured the Green Deer toward scorched earth, escaped its pursuit, and returned to fight it while Zhou Chun abandoned his plan to capture the spirit.
• Zhou Chun scouted the Yellow Family Foundation Establishment cultivators and attacked them, releasing his Spirit Pets and Demonic Insects as they tried to flee.
• Zhou Chun and his creatures killed all three Yellow Family Foundation Establishment cultivators, collected their corpses and dropped artifacts, and hurried away.

Zhou Chun killed three Huang Family Foundation Establishment cultivators, then hid from Huang Boxiong while the Green Deer escaped. He searched the burning forest and found a strange ancient tree that might be the Wood Sprite’s true body.

• Zhou Chun’s spirit pets and Demonic Insects killed the three Huang Family cultivators, and he fled before Huang Boxiong could reach them.
• The Green Deer trapped Huang Boxiong’s magical artifacts, endured his Flying Sword, then escaped after healing inside a tree.
• Huang Boxiong found the dead cultivators and pursued Zhou Chun’s golden trail, but Zhou Chun concealed himself beneath Blue Moon Butterflies in an underground burrow.
• After waiting, Zhou Chun returned to the forest and searched for the Wood Sprite while Huang Boxiong set fires across the area.
• Zhou Chun’s Demonic Insects found a concealed ancient tree that trapped and killed them, leading Zhou Chun to suspect it was the Wood Sprite’s true body.

Zhou Chun fought the weakened Wood Sprite at its ancient-tree true body, using his Demonic Insects and Spirit Pets to overwhelm it. He trapped the Green Deer in his Silver Net of Heaven, but Huang Boxiong arrived as Zhou Chun secured his prize.

• Zhou Chun damaged the ancient tree and tried to persuade the Wood Sprite to come with him, but it rejected his offer and buried the three Yellow Family corpses.
• Zhou Chun unleashed thousands of Mysterious Armor Golden Feather Demonic Insects, then joined his three Spirit Pets in attacking the Wood Sprite’s true body.
• The Wood Sprite’s defenses weakened as the insects gnawed through the tree, so it revealed its Green Deer form and tried to escape.
• The Golden Armor Rock Turtle and Silver Lightning Thunder Python Bai Bai trapped and struck the Wood Sprite, allowing Zhou Chun to capture it in his Silver Net of Heaven.
• Huang Boxiong rushed toward the battle, and Zhou Chun noticed him approaching from the sky.

Zhou Chun escaped Huang Boxiong with the Wood Sprite and sealed it away before reaching the Yang Kingdom. There, he discovered Lin Wan'er was missing from the stronghold and learned from her hidden contact that she had been confined and had prepared a token and plans to help him rescue her.

• Zhou Chun fled Huang Boxiong by using a Thousand Li Escape talisman to travel downstream, then forced the Green Deer to parasitize a branch and sealed it in a Dark Iron box.
• Zhou Chun traveled through the Great Cloud Country to the Yang Kingdom and used a Zhou Family Signal Flare outside Lin Hongyu's stronghold, but Lin Wan'er did not come out to investigate.
• Zhou Chun concluded Lin Wan'er was likely dead or being held captive and went to a nearby Rogue Cultivator stronghold to contact one of Lin Wan'er's hidden allies.
• The middle-aged cultivator told Zhou Chun that Lin Wan'er had left a letter and jade box five days earlier, instructing him to wait for Zhou Chun.
• Zhou Chun read Lin Wan'er's letter and learned she expected to be confined, had halted mining of the Earth Origin Crystal Jade ore vein, and had left him a token that let him pass through the stronghold's formation.

Zhou Chun infiltrated Hongyu Peak to rescue Lin Wan'er, while she was threatened by Tian Fengyi after he drugged and immobilized her. The chapter ended with Tian Fengyi waiting for the pill to take effect as Zhou Chun prepared to approach her cave residence.

• Zhou Chun hid the Wood Sprite under the guard of his Mysterious Armor Golden Feathers and Golden Armor Rock Turtle, then sealed his cultivation to pass as a Qi Refining cultivator.
• Zhou Chun entered Hongyu Peak, slipped out of the Cultivation District with the help of Blue Moon Butterflies, and used Lin Wan'er's token to reach the white mist region.
• Zhou Chun reached the foot of Lin Wan'er's mountain residence and began breaking his cultivation seal before attempting the rescue.
• Tian Fengyi visited Lin Wan'er, revealed his plan to take advantage of her sealed cultivation, and immobilized her.
• Tian Fengyi forced a Chastity Pill on Lin Wan'er and rejected her offer of a treasure trove, then waited for the pill to take effect.

Zhou Chun rescued Lin Wan'er from Tian Fengyi and exposed the stronghold cultivators’ treachery. After defeating the three cultivators who tried to stop him, he faced the remaining leaders, who chose to surrender and return authority to Lin Hongyu.

• Tian Fengyi drugged and immobilized Lin Wan'er, but Zhou Chun broke into the courtyard, killed him, and gave Lin Wan'er an Ice Dew Pill.
• Zhou Chun carried Lin Wan'er outside as the stronghold’s cultivators confronted him and accused him of trespassing and kidnapping her.
• Zhou Chun summoned the Golden Winged Tiger, the Flying Fire Scorpion, and Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai, then killed the three cultivators who fled to attack him.
• Fu Changqing and the other remaining leaders, shaken by Zhou Chun’s strength, agreed to return authority to Lin Hongyu and surrender.

Zhou Chun rescued Lin Wan'er, forced the remaining cultivators at Hongyu Peak Stronghold to surrender, and learned that Huo Yang Sanren had helped orchestrate the takeover. After Lin Wan'er entered seclusion to recover, Zhou Chun took control of the stronghold and began auditing its records and property.

• Zhou Chun accepted Fu Changqing and the other two cultivators' surrender after Lin Wan'er demanded that Fu Changqing be imprisoned.
• Fu Changqing removed Lin Wan'er's seal, and Zhou Chun questioned him until he revealed Huo Yang Sanren's role in the plot.
• Zhou Chun ordered Fu Changqing confined and Lin Wan'er entered seclusion after suppressing the Chastity Pill's effects.
• Zhou Chun brought back the Golden Armor Rock Turtle and the Wood Sprite, then warned the remaining cultivators not to challenge the Zhou Family's authority.
• Zhou Chun inspected the stronghold's records, recovered goods taken from Lin Wan'er, and began inventorying the belongings of Tian Fengyi and the other slain cultivators.

Zhou Chun counted the spoils from defeating the cultivators at Hongyu Peak Stronghold and warned Huo Yang Sanren against interfering. After Huo Yang demanded an apology, Zhou Chun followed Lin Wan'er's advice and decided not to yield, leaving Huo Yang's next move uncertain.

• Zhou Chun inventoried the Storage Bags he had taken from the Yellow Family cultivators and found more than seventy-six thousand Spirit Coins and numerous treasures.
• Zhou Chun sent Yang Jincai to Huo Yang Sanren with a letter explaining the Zhou Family's strength and warning him not to meddle at Hongyu Peak Stronghold.
• After hearing Yang Jincai's account of Zhou Chun's victory, Huo Yang Sanren demanded that Zhou Chun apologize in person within half a month or face his visit.
• Zhou Chun declined to answer Huo Yang's demand and waited at Hongyu Peak Stronghold instead of going to apologize.
• After Lin Wan'er emerged from seclusion, she advised Zhou Chun that yielding would embolden Huo Yang, and Zhou Chun decided to wait and see whether he would come.

Zhou Chun bought a formation to contain the Wood Sprite and spent more than a year trying to tame it while overseeing Hongyu Peak Stronghold. When rogue cultivators began leaving to hunt Snow Crystal Worms for Snow Soul Palace’s bounty, he offered higher subsidies and warned them how difficult the insects were to catch.

• After Huo Yang Sanren failed to appear, Zhou Chun had Lin Wan'er resume mining the Earth Origin Crystal Jade vein and left her in charge while he traveled to Great Cloud Country.
• Zhou Chun bought a Minor Eight Gates Golden Light Formation for fifteen thousand Spirit Coins and used it to confine the Wood Sprite as he tried to tame it.
• Over the following year, Zhou Chun kept the stronghold stable, raised the rogue cultivators’ compensation, and continued tormenting the Wood Sprite, which refused to submit.
• After Lin Wan'er transported the stockpiled ore to the Zhou Family, Zhou Chun took over the stronghold’s daily management.
• Zhou Chun learned that many rogue cultivators wanted to leave and hunt Snow Crystal Worms for Snow Soul Palace’s Foundation Establishment Pill bounty.
• Zhou Chun told Fu Changqing and the others to warn the cultivators that Snow Crystal Worms were nearly impossible to catch and offered an extra five Spirit Coins per month to those who stayed.

Zhou Chun’s Wood Sprite finally submitted after more than two years, and he tested its healing, medicine-finding, and combat abilities. When the Snow Soul Palace raised its Snow Crystal Worm bounty to include a pill that assisted with opening the Violet Palace, Zhou Chun left for the Snowfield to investigate and hunt for the worms.

• Zhou Chun ordered the Hongyu Peak Stronghold staff to improve recruitment benefits while he investigated the Snow Crystal Worm’s habits.
• Lin Wan'er returned with Zhou Jiarui’s letter, which reported the Zhou Family’s move to Caiyu Mountain, Zhou Zhengbai’s marriage alliance, and Green Lotus Temple’s new tax levy.
• After another five months, the Wood Sprite yielded to Zhou Chun, who contracted it as his fourth Spirit Pet and tested its abilities in the forest.
• The Wood Sprite quickly recovered by absorbing the vitality of ancient trees and found Zhou Chun numerous valuable spiritual medicines.
• Lin Wan'er told Zhou Chun that the Snow Soul Palace was offering a Snow Soul Pill for a Snow Crystal Worm King, and he decided to pursue the bounty.
• Zhou Chun traveled to the Snowfield and sought out a Snow Soul Palace purchasing station to learn about the Snow Crystal Worm.

Zhou Chun changed his search for Snow Crystal Worms after buying information from a Snow Soul Palace elder, eventually collecting two worms over three months. After helping a Snow Soul Palace cultivator drive off an Ice Armor Bear, he learned that ordinary worms would soon no longer be accepted for Foundation Establishment Pills, while the Snow Crystal Worm King could still be exchanged for Snow Soul Pills.

• Zhou Chun waited through blizzards for Snow Crystal Worms, then paid a Snow Soul Palace elder for information about where they appeared.
• Following the elder’s advice, Zhou Chun found and captured a Snow Crystal Worm on a snowy mountainside, then searched ice caves and caverns for more.
• Over three months on the snowfield, Zhou Chun collected two Snow Crystal Worms while exploring the shifting ice caves.
• Zhou Chun joined a Snow Soul Palace female cultivator in driving away an Ice Armor Bear, and she paid him with a Snow Crystal Worm.
• The female cultivator warned Zhou Chun to exchange ordinary Snow Crystal Worms soon because the Snow Soul Palace had enough, but confirmed that the Snow Crystal Worm King could still be traded for Snow Soul Pills.
• Zhou Chun headed for a nearby market town to exchange his worms, while the female cultivator privately remarked that even Violet Palace cultivators struggled to catch the Worm King.

Zhou Chun searched the Snowfield for Snow Crystal Worms after exchanging for a Foundation Establishment Pill, then found a permanent ice cave beneath the ice near Sun Sinking Lake. There, the Jade Pearl saved him from a powerful Salamander Demonic Beast, which fled after a strange roar sounded from within him.

• Zhou Chun exchanged three Snow Crystal Worms for a Foundation Establishment Pill and returned to the Snowfield after Snow Soul Palace canceled its bounty.
• Zhou Chun captured two more Snow Crystal Worms while searching semi-permanent ice caves, then fell into a deep collapse and discovered an underground passage near Sun Sinking Lake.
• Zhou Chun dug through an exceptionally thick ice layer and found a permanent ice cave, where he captured several Snow Crystal Worms.
• A third-rank Salamander Demonic Beast froze Zhou Chun and lunged to swallow him, but the Jade Pearl absorbed the chill and freed him.
• A strange roar sounded from within Zhou Chun, frightening the Salamander Demonic Beast into fleeing through the ice cave.

Zhou Chun explored deeper into the ice cavern, endured a Salamander Demonic Beast’s attack, and eventually found and captured the Snow Crystal Worm King. He left the worm’s icy nest carrying it safely, intent on returning to Snow Soul Palace to claim a Snow Soul Pill.

• Zhou Chun discovered that the jade bead in his dantian could automatically protect him, then continued deeper into the ice cavern despite the Salamander Demonic Beast’s threat.
• After reaching a dead end, Zhou Chun spent seven days recovering from his injuries, then searched the cavern and captured seventeen Snow Crystal Worms.
• Zhou Chun spent weeks excavating through the ice wall and emerged into a much larger cavern filled with Snow Crystal Worms.
• Zhou Chun found the Snow Crystal Worm King among more than a hundred Snow Crystal Worms and immobilized it with a Mystic Light Immobilization Talisman.
• Zhou Chun dug the immobilized worm out of the ice, sealed it in a specially prepared box, and headed back toward the surface to exchange it for a Snow Soul Pill.

Zhou Chun returned from the Yang Kingdom with the Snow Crystal Worm King, traded it to the Snow Soul Palace for a Snow Soul Pill, and told Zhou Mingde that his Jade Pearl was likely a spiritual treasure. He decided to attempt opening his Violet Palace with the pill, though he still needed to prepare for the dangerous process.

• Zhou Chun returned to the Hongyu Peak Stronghold, left Lin Wan'er a letter, and carried the accumulated Earth Origin Crystal Jade ore back to the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Mingde examined Zhou Chun's Green Deer and agreed that the Jade Pearl was likely a spiritual treasure whose secret had to be guarded.
• A blue-robed Snow Soul Palace cultivator exchanged the Snow Crystal Worm King for a Snow Soul Pill and bought Zhou Chun's forty Snow Crystal Worms for forty thousand Spirit Coins.
• Zhou Chun persuaded Zhou Mingde that the Snow Soul Pill was suitable for attempting to open his Violet Palace.
• Zhou Chun promised to stop if he could not safely continue and planned further preparations before entering seclusion.

Zhou Chun prepared for and successfully opened his Violet Palace at the Su Family mountain gate, becoming a Violet Palace cultivator. His breakthrough let him unlock the jade bead’s secrets, revealing it as the Moon Toad Treasure Bead and exposing two techniques he could not yet cultivate.

• Zhou Chun gathered high-quality Metal Qi, then traveled with Su Yuzhen to the Su Family mountain gate to enter seclusion while Zhou Mingde guarded the Zhou Family’s interests.
• After repeated visualization attempts, Zhou Chun awakened his soul, used the Snow Soul Pill, and forced open his Niwan Palace with his mana.
• Zhou Chun’s soul transformed into a Divine Soul, completing his breakthrough to the Violet Palace Stage and greatly strengthening his Spiritual Sense.
• Zhou Chun used his stronger Spiritual Sense to penetrate the jade bead and received the Moon Toad Treasure Bead’s sacrificial refinement formula and the Sacred Spirit Nine Transformations: Moon Toad Chapter.
• Zhou Chun learned that both the treasure bead’s refinement formula and the secret technique required at least Golden Core stage cultivation, and that the technique also required Taiyin Moon Toad spirit blood or related essence blood.