Chapter Summaries

Zhou Chun captured the Frosty Cold Bees and their Queen, then discovered that their nest sat atop a Cold Jade Ore Vein. After taking the bees, larvae, and a large piece of Thousand Year Cold Jade, he found Fu Changqing waiting outside Snow Valley and confronted him.

• Zhou Chun followed the bees to their nest, captured the drones and Queen Bee with the Moon Toad Treasure Bead, and collected the larvae.
• Zhou Chun discovered the nest was built around a large piece of Thousand Year Cold Jade and confirmed that a Cold Jade Ore Vein lay beneath it.
• Zhou Chun packed away the nest, bees, and cold jade, mined some ore for the bees, and left Snow Valley with the Golden Winged Tiger.
• Zhou Chun spotted Fu Changqing hiding in the snow and questioned why he had stayed behind.
• Fu Changqing denied any ill intent, and Zhou Chun revealed his discovery of the ore vein before ordering him to return to the outpost.

Zhou Chun killed Fu Changqing after he tried to flee and sell the secret of the Cold Jade Ore Vein, then returned to the Zhou Family with a giant piece of Thousand Year Cold Jade and a swarm of Frosty Cold Bees. He brought Zhou Xindie to the ice cavern in the Wilderness Expanse to prepare a formation for taming the bees.

• Zhou Chun tracked Fu Changqing to a forest, killed him when he tried to reach for his Storage Bag, and found more than sixty-five thousand Spirit Coins among his belongings.
• Zhou Chun told Lin Wan'er about Fu Changqing's death, asked her to watch over Hongyu Peak Stronghold, and returned to the Lineage.
• Zhou Chun explained his Great Zhou Country expedition to Zhou Mingde, Zhou Daoyi, and the others, including his encounter with a powerful cultivator from Thunder Cliff Valley and his capture of suspected Frosty Cold Bees.
• Zhou Chun showed Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi the giant piece of Thousand Year Cold Jade and explained why he intended to use it to raise the bees.
• Zhou Chun deposited seventy thousand Spirit Coins in the Lineage treasury and took Zhou Xindie to the ice cavern to arrange a Thick Earth Demon Sealing Formation for taming the Frosty Cold Bees.

Zhou Chun raised and subdued a swarm of Frosty Cold Bees in the Cold Spring Ice Cavern, then honored Lu Ran’s final wish by burying him near the ruins of the Red Dragon Hall. Back at Nine Peaks Ridge, he discovered that Bai Bai had awakened with a silver horn.

• Zhou Chun inspected the Frosty Cold Bees, confirmed their queen was genuine, built a hive above the Cold Spring, and contracted the young bees.
• Zhou Chun repeatedly defeated the Queen Bee and took away young bees until it feared him, then used the Moon Toad Treasure Bead to incapacitate it and successfully contracted it.
• Zhou Chun used the Queen Bee to contract the rest of the swarm and learned that the sixteen-striped bees would mature into genuine Frosty Cold Bees.
• Zhou Chun received Lu Ran’s magical artifacts from Fellow Daoist Ukulu and promised to bury Lu Ran where he had been born.
• Zhou Chun buried Lu Ran near the former ruins of the Red Dragon Hall and returned to Nine Peaks Ridge.
• Zhou Chun found Bai Bai awake, with a silver horn where the lump on its head had been.

Zhou Chun returned to the family after subduing the Frosty Cold Bees and discovered that Bai Bai had gained a Flood Dragon Horn and a powerful new spell. While seeking a suitable magic tool, Zhou Chun asked the Su Family Ancestor about the conflict between the Sky Mirror Sect and the Green Lotus Temple, and was warned that the Zhou Family might face danger if Yu Jinghua survived until True Person Qingxiao died.

• Zhou Chun tested Bai Bai's new Sky Thunder Slash and learned that the thunder python could now kill ordinary late Foundation Establishment cultivators with a single strike.
• Zhou Mingde advised Zhou Chun to exchange Lu Ran's magic tools for one suited to him, but the Li Family had no suitable treasure available.
• Zhou Chun visited the Su Family with Su Yuzhen, and the Su Family Ancestor said he lacked a suitable magic tool but suggested asking Yuzhen's aunt in the Moon Wheel Sect for help.
• Zhou Chun asked the Su Family Ancestor about the Sky Mirror Sect and Green Lotus Temple conflict, and the Ancestor predicted that the fighting would likely remain below the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The Su Family Ancestor warned Zhou Chun that the Zhou Family could be in danger if Yu Jinghua survived until True Person Qingxiao passed away, and urged him to prepare.

Zhou Chun traded for two magic tools suited to his cultivation, while the conflict between the Sky Mirror Sect and Green Lotus Temple stalled after allied families sealed their mountain gates. During the lull, Zhou Xin Yan began Foundation Establishment, and Zhou Chun secured Lin Hongyu’s help for his plan to obtain the Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass.

• Su Yuzhen brought Zhou Chun to meet her aunt, Su Yunniang, at the Moon Wheel Sect, where he exchanged the Crimson Dragon Dagger and Qingni Bracelet for the Golden Rainbow Sword and Golden Dry Ring.
• Zhou Chun returned to the Zhou Family and refined both magic tools, while Cultivation Families across Mausoleum Prefecture sealed their strongholds and halted the campaign against one another.
• Zhou Chun granted Zhou Xin Yan a Foundation Establishment Pill, and Zhou Xin Yan entered seclusion to establish his foundation.
• Zhou Chun offered Lin Hongyu the opportunity to profit from a Cold Jade Ore Vein in exchange for her help obtaining the Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass.
• Lin Hongyu agreed to draw away the Flood Dragon and engage it while Zhou Chun pursued the grass.

While Lin Hongyu traveled to the Yang Kingdom, Zhou Chun guarded the Caiyu Mountain stronghold, promoted Xu Fu in principle, and tested his newly mastered Concentric Golden Lock on a third-tier Green Scaled Dragon Fish. After killing it, he discovered a large Water Essence Jade Ore Vein and a piece of Water Essence Jade Mother in its lair.

• Zhou Chun learned that Xu Fu had reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and offered to make him a Zhou Family Honorary Elder once Xu Fu could train a replacement.
• Zhou Chun sent the Wood Sprite, Silver Horned Thunder Python Bai Bai, Golden Winged Tiger, and Golden Armor Rock Turtle out to gather spiritual medicine while he cultivated at the stronghold.
• Zhou Chun used Concentric Golden Lock to restrain a Green Scaled Dragon Fish as Bai Bai wounded and killed it with Sky Thunder Slash and Lightning Flash.
• Zhou Chun collected the Green Scaled Dragon Fish's valuable remains and stored its Flood Dragon-bloodline Inner Core for a future Dragon Spirit Pill commission.
• Zhou Chun followed Bai Bai into the fish's underwater lair and found a Water Essence Jade Ore Vein, dozens of fine jade pieces, and a piece of Water Essence Jade Mother.

Zhou Chun evaluated the Water Essence Jade Ore Vein and his Concentric Golden Lock Secret Technique, then helped Zhou Xin Yan choose a top-grade cultivation method after he established his Foundation. Zhou Xin Yan chose the demanding Profound Technique of Wood, leaving with its Foundation Establishment method to study.

• Zhou Chun returned to the Caiyu Mountain stronghold with the Green Scaled Dragon Fish’s remains, fed its flesh to his Spirit Pets, and refined its eyes before reviewing the battle and his secret technique.
• Lin Hongyu returned with the materials for her Natal Artifact and entered a two- or three-year seclusion, while Zhou Chun later told Zhou Mingde about Xu Fu’s promotion and the Water Essence Jade Ore Vein.
• Zhou Mingde advised Zhou Chun to delay mining the ore vein and tested the Concentric Golden Lock Secret Technique, which restrained him for about ten breaths and the Fire God Jackal for fifteen.
• Zhou Chun took Zhou Xin Yan to the family secret treasury and explained the advantages and drawbacks of three top-grade Wood Element cultivation techniques.
• Zhou Xin Yan chose the Profound Technique of Wood, and Zhou Chun gave him its Foundation Establishment method and told him to learn the Dao Script.

Zhou Chun raised the Golden Armor Rock Turtle to second rank High-grade and received Green Lotus Temple’s edict granting the Zhou Family disciple positions and a Talisman Treasure. He arranged a competition to select candidates for the positions, which ended with two female cultivators and one male cultivator winning the inner sect slots.

• Zhou Chun used Earth Origin Spirit Milk to help the Golden Armor Rock Turtle advance to second rank High-grade, strengthening its defenses.
• An envoy from Green Lotus Temple announced an edict granting the Zhou Family one Talisman Treasure, three inner sect disciple positions, and ten outer sect disciple positions.
• Zhou Chun, Zhou Mingde, and Zhou Daoyi agreed to select candidates, favoring female cultivators where possible, and Zhou Chun collected forty-two applicants for the inner sect positions.
• Zhou Chun held a Daoist martial arts competition, subsidizing talismans for several female contestants who promised to marry Green Lotus Temple Foundation Establishment disciples if they advanced.
• Two female cultivators and one male cultivator won the three inner sect disciple positions.

Zhou Chun delivered thirteen Zhou Family youths to Green Lotus Temple and received a powerful Talisman Treasure from Qing Weizi, whose questions about Bai Bai’s potential transformation into a Flood Dragon left him suspicious. Zhou Chun and the elders resolved to pursue Bai Bai’s transformation regardless, while the family prepared for future conflict and learned Lin Hongyu had emerged from seclusion.

• Zhou Chun selected three inner disciples and ten young outer disciples, then escorted them to Green Lotus Temple.
• Qing Weizi questioned Zhou Chun about Bai Bai’s possible transformation into a Flood Dragon and gave him a Golden Light Alms Bowl Talisman Treasure.
• After returning home, Zhou Chun told Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi about Qing Weizi’s probing and his suspicions.
• Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi backed Zhou Chun’s plan to help Bai Bai transform and discussed the Zhou Family’s options if Green Lotus Temple weakened.
• Zhou Chun added two Foundation Building Fruits to the family’s exchange list to reassure clansmen who had not joined the sect.
• News arrived that Lin Hongyu had emerged from seclusion, prompting Zhou Family Violet Palace cultivators to visit the Wilderness Expanse.

Lin Hongyu demonstrated the overwhelming power of her newly refined Blazing Dragon Ring and gave Zhou Chun two valuable artifacts, while postponing her help in obtaining the Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass. Green Lotus Temple then ordered the Zhou Family to join a campaign against Sky Mirror Sect-aligned families, and Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun led a squad assembled from allied clans.

• Lin Hongyu showed the Zhou Family cultivators her Blazing Dragon Ring and destroyed most of a mountain peak with its Blazing Dragon True Fire.
• Zhou Chun extinguished the resulting fire, and Lin Hongyu said she needed another three to five years before helping him seize the Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass.
• Lin Hongyu gave Zhou Chun a Decapitation Blade and a Dragon Scale Token, and Zhou Chun accepted them as gifts from his grandmother.
• On the way back, Zhou Chun told Xu Fu that the family had agreed to make him an Honorary Elder, and Xu Fu gratefully pledged his loyalty.
• Green Lotus Temple ordered the Zhou Family to send two Violet Palace cultivators and three Foundation Establishment cultivators to suppress rebellious families in Mausoleum Prefecture.
• Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun arrived with three Zhou Family Foundation Establishment cultivators and found allied families gathered in a squad led by the Zhou Family.

Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun led Misty Prefecture cultivators to attack the Tu Yun Ridge Guo Family under Green Lotus Temple’s order, while the Guo Family refused to surrender and prepared to fight. As the siege began, Yu Jinghua suspected True Person Heavenly Mirror might be willing to let Green Lotus Temple destroy the families under Sky Mirror Sect.

• Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun learned that Green Lotus Temple had ordered them to exterminate the Tu Yun Ridge Guo Family and gathered their assigned cultivators.
• Zhou Mingde led the force to Tu Yun Ridge and declared that the Guo Family would be destroyed under the Upper Sect’s decree.
• Guo Tong asked whether his family could survive by abandoning its mountain gate, but Zhou Mingde said the order allowed only extermination.
• Guo Tong rallied the Guo Family to fight, and Zhou Mingde urged his allies to attack the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation.
• Zhou Chun and the others assaulted the formation while other Mausoleum Prefecture clans were surrounded and sent emergency messages to Sky Mirror Sect.
• Yu Jinghua wondered whether True Person Heavenly Mirror intended to let Green Lotus Temple eliminate the old families and cultivate new loyal ones.

Yu Jinghua concluded that True Person Heavenly Mirror was sacrificing Mausoleum Prefecture’s cultivation clans and possibly hiding another force, so he began considering a way to protect himself. At Tu Yun Ridge, the Zhou forces destroyed the Guo Family’s formation, killed Guo Tong, and hunted the fleeing Guo cultivators, ending the Guo Family’s rule there.

• Yu Jinghua questioned True Person Heavenly Mirror about the clans under attack, and Heavenly Mirror told him to ignore their distress and guard Sky Mirror Sect.
• Yu Jinghua suspected Heavenly Mirror planned to replace the old clans with loyal vassals and might have another hidden force, so he decided to find a way out for himself.
• After Sky Mirror Sect failed to send aid, Guo Tong and the Guo Family prepared to flee with their valuables while the Zhou forces battered their formation.
• When the formation fell, Guo Tong feinted at Zhou Mingde and fled as the other Guo cultivators scattered in several directions.
• Zhou Chun intercepted Guo Tong, and Zhou Mingde killed him with his spear, declaring the Guo Family of Tu Yun Ridge finished.

After the Guo Family was annihilated, Zhou Chun returned home and watched the Green Lotus Temple drive the Sky Mirror Sect’s allies from Mausoleum Prefecture while the Zhou Family gained new Foundation Establishment cultivators and stronger spirit beasts. The chapter ended with True Person Heavenly Mirror challenging True Person Qingxiao to a duel under a wager that could decide the fate of the Sky Mirror Sect and several prefectures.

• Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun’s forces destroyed the Guo Family, then reported their victory to the Green Lotus Temple envoy and divided the captured spoils.
• Zhou Mingde pressed the envoy for permission to leave, and Daoist Master Qing Weizi allowed Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun to return home while keeping three Foundation Establishment cultivators on standby.
• Zhou Chun learned that the Green Lotus Temple had driven most of Mausoleum Prefecture’s cultivation families and rogue cultivators away as the Sky Mirror Sect remained inactive.
• Zhou Xinjian and Zhou Xinhe succeeded in Foundation Establishment, while Zhou Xinlan failed; the Zhou Family also gained a Unicorn Dragon Lizard, a Cloud Treading Dragon Colt, and Toad Venom from its Black Jade Toads.
• True Person Heavenly Mirror challenged True Person Qingxiao, wagering that victory would force the Green Lotus Temple to seal its mountain gate and cede Misty Prefecture and Cloud Prefecture, while failure would make him dissolve the Sky Mirror Sect.

Green Lotus Temple and True Person Heavenly Mirror negotiated the terms of their decisive battle, leaving the Zhou Family to prepare for either outcome. A month later, True Person Qingxiao and True Person Heavenly Mirror began fighting under the supervision of True Person Silver Moon and True Person Ziyang.

• Qing Weizi persuaded Green Lotus Temple’s elders and True Person Qingxiao to accept a battle while demanding revised conditions.
• True Person Heavenly Mirror remained silent before traveling to Green Lotus Temple, where he and True Person Qingxiao agreed to fight one month later under an eight-hour endurance wager.
• Zhou Mingde and Zhou Chun arranged to learn the battle’s outcome quickly and discussed where the Zhou Family would retreat if True Person Qingxiao lost.
• True Person Qingxiao and True Person Heavenly Mirror arrived at the battlefield with their allies, while True Person Silver Moon and True Person Ziyang agreed to supervise the wager.
• True Person Silver Moon declared the battle underway, and True Person Qingxiao and True Person Heavenly Mirror charged into the sky to attack.

True Person Qingxiao and True Person Heavenly Mirror fought a fierce Nascent Soul battle, with Qingxiao initially gaining the advantage through his Void Manifestation. Heavenly Mirror then revealed True Person Profound Mirror’s clone technique and stabilized the fight, leaving the two locked in a contest of endurance.

• True Person Qingxiao attacked True Person Heavenly Mirror with his Flying Sword, azure lotus, and treasured seal, while Heavenly Mirror defended with his golden and silver mirrors.
• Qingxiao trapped Heavenly Mirror with Void Manifestation, but Heavenly Mirror broke free and suffered damage to his golden treasured mirror from Qingxiao’s sword strike.
• True Person Silver Moon told True Person Ziyang that Heavenly Mirror might possess True Person Profound Mirror’s mirror-clone divine ability.
• Heavenly Mirror created eight indistinguishable selves and used the clones to evade Qingxiao’s attacks and counterattack, replenishing them even after Qingxiao destroyed several.
• Qingxiao challenged Heavenly Mirror to endure the costly technique for eight hours, while Silver Moon and Ziyang discussed the Azure Lotus Tribulation Armor and Qingxiao’s eventual successor.

True Person Qingxiao broke through True Person Heavenly Mirror’s incarnation defense by letting his Nascent Soul leave his body and using Teleportation to destroy Heavenly Mirror’s physical body. Their Nascent Souls chased each other away from the battlefield, while Yu Jinghua fled toward the Sky Mirror Sect’s mountain gate.

• The watching Golden Core cultivators debated whether True Person Qingxiao could defeat True Person Heavenly Mirror before their eight-hour wager ended.
• True Person Qingxiao destroyed five incarnations, then sent out his Nascent Soul, which used Teleportation to cut down the remaining incarnations.
• True Person Qingxiao’s Nascent Soul pierced True Person Heavenly Mirror’s head with its Flying Sword, destroying his physical body.
• True Person Heavenly Mirror’s Nascent Soul escaped and threatened to slaughter the Green Lotus Temple, but True Person Qingxiao pursued him through the air.
• True Person Silver Moon and True Person Ziyang stayed behind as the Green Lotus Temple cultivators guarded True Person Qingxiao’s body.
• Yu Jinghua panicked and fled toward the Sky Mirror Sect’s mountain gate, planning to take treasury supplies and trusted followers with him.

True Person Qingxiao returned from the battle with True Person Heavenly Mirror's Nascent Soul captured alive, leaving himself severely weakened but victorious. The Su Family Ancestor brought the news to the Zhou Family and hinted that they should prepare to claim territory as Green Lotus Temple redistributed Mausoleum Prefecture.

• Li Jingxuan and the You Family Ancestor discussed Yu Jinghua's escape and condemned his betrayal of the Zhou Family.
• True Person Qingxiao returned carrying True Person Heavenly Mirror's sealed Nascent Soul and collected his opponent's headless corpse before meeting True Person Silver Moon and True Person Ziyang.
• True Person Qingxiao, True Person Silver Moon, and True Person Ziyang flew to Green Lotus Temple, while Green Lotus Temple's five Golden Core cultivators headed for Sky Mirror Sect.
• The Su Family Ancestor left the battlefield and flew to Nine Peaks Ridge to tell the Zhou Family that True Person Qingxiao had won and Yu Jinghua had returned to Sky Mirror Sect.
• The Su Family Ancestor told the Zhou Family that Sky Mirror Sect might soon disappear and urged them to prepare for Green Lotus Temple's redistribution of Mausoleum Prefecture.

Zhou Chun persuaded Zhou Mingde not to pursue a first-rate spiritual land, warning that the Zhou Family needed to keep its secrets and stay restrained. Meanwhile, True Person Qingxiao confronted True Person Silver Moon and True Person Ziyang over their support for True Person Heavenly Mirror, then offered them two plans for guarding the Jing Kingdom’s southern border after his death.

• Zhou Chun convinced Zhou Mingde that the Zhou Family should seek only a decent spiritual land and avoid attracting attention to its underground waterway.
• The Intelligence Hall reported that Yu Jinghua had fled the Sky Mirror Sect with its treasury’s treasures before the Green Lotus Temple arrived, and Zhou Chun considered settling their score if he found him.
• True Person Silver Moon accused True Person Qingxiao of crossing a line by claiming territory, and True Person Qingxiao defended the Green Lotus Temple’s right to rule in the Jing Kingdom.
• True Person Qingxiao accused True Person Silver Moon and True Person Ziyang of leaking his dwindling lifespan to True Person Heavenly Mirror, and they admitted they had done so.
• True Person Silver Moon asked how True Person Qingxiao would deal with True Person Heavenly Mirror’s captured Nascent Soul and who would guard the southern border after his death, and True Person Qingxiao offered two plans for them to consider.

True Person Qingxiao negotiated with True Person Silver Moon and True Person Ziyang over True Person Heavenly Mirror’s fate, then refrained from refining him into a Saint Infant Pill. Half a year later, True Person Heavenly Mirror returned to the Sky Mirror Sect, and Zhou Chun helped the Zhou Family secure Tu Yun Ridge as its territory.

• True Person Qingxiao proposed controlling True Person Heavenly Mirror with the Divine Sealing Technique or using his Nascent Soul to complete a Fifth-Rank Spirit Puppet, and True Person Silver Moon and True Person Ziyang chose the first solution.
• True Person Qingxiao considered secretly refining True Person Heavenly Mirror’s Nascent Soul into a Saint Infant Pill but rejected the plan because of its risks and harmful effects.
• After half a year, True Person Heavenly Mirror returned to the Sky Mirror Sect, prompting Zhou Chun to suspect he had seized a new body.
• Green Lotus Temple renamed the Sky Mirror Sect Heavenly Mirror Villa, granted True Person Heavenly Mirror a five-hundred-li dojo, and allocated the remaining spiritual lands in Mausoleum Prefecture.
• Zhou Chun arranged for the Zhou Family to acquire Tu Yun Ridge and its surrounding hundred-li territory for two hundred thousand Spirit Coins, payable over forty years.
• The Zhou Family began preparing to rebuild Tu Yun Ridge and relocate demonic beasts and mortals there.

Zhou Chun arranged for a defensive grand formation at Tu Yun Ridge and oversaw the Zhou Family’s new estate as it took shape. After two years, he had settled into his new dwelling when Zhou Daoyi arrived with news that Hongyu had emerged from seclusion.

• Zhou Chun learned that True Person Heavenly Mirror had brought two Golden Core cultivators and a large force to Heavenly Mirror Villa, which established the Sky Mirror Pavilion and offered a bounty for Yu Jinghua.
• After Heavenly Mirror Villa expelled Jiang Chuanxiong from its market, Zhou Chun sent Zhou Zhengyong and the Golden Winged Tiger to kill him.
• Zhou Chun hired a You Family Formation Master to establish the Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Grand Formation at Tu Yun Ridge, using substitute materials until the Zhou Family could obtain enough Yellow Dragon Stone.
• Zhou Chun mobilized the family to gather formation materials, including the Earth Origin Crystal Jade already stored in its vault.
• Two years later, the Tu Yun Ridge estate and its simplified formation were complete, and Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde moved there while Zhou Daoyi remained at Nine Peaks Ridge.
• Zhou Daoyi visited Zhou Chun and told him that Hongyu had emerged from seclusion.