Chapter Summaries

Lin Hongyu helped Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde lure a Fourth Rank Black Flood Dragon away from its lair so they could seize Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass. Zhou Chun escaped with three plants and several other treasures, while the Black Flood Dragon and its servants pursued him and Zhou Mingde.

• Zhou Daoyi told Zhou Chun that Lin Hongyu had completed her escape technique, and Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde set out with her for the Flood Dragon's Lair.
• Zhou Mingde gave Lin Hongyu a Spirit Crystal, and the three traveled to the lair before Lin Hongyu drew the Black Flood Dragon away.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde entered the lair, where Zhou Mingde fought a Dragon Scale Black Fish while Zhou Chun froze and passed two other Demonic Beasts.
• Zhou Chun reached the lair's depths, harvested three Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass plants, and took a black ore, a tortoise shell, and a blue horn.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde escaped separately, each taking additional Dragon Transformation Grass from outside the lair.

After the Zhou Family successfully stole the Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass, Zhou Chun decided to travel to Great Zhou Country to seek a pill refiner and opportunities for cultivation. Before leaving, he and Zhou Mingde went to a misty valley to help the Wood Sprite break through to the third rank.

• Lin Hongyu escaped the Black Flood Dragon, recovered with a Spirit Crystal, and returned to the Caiyu Mountain stronghold after helping Zhou Chun repay a debt of gratitude.
• The Black Flood Dragon returned to its robbed lair, failed to sense the thieves, and killed its third-tier upper-grade Dragon Scale Black Fish in anger.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde counted their gains at the stronghold, including three Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grasses and Heiyuan Sinking Iron, while Lin Hongyu refused the iron and entered seclusion to heal.
• Zhou Chun planned to take Bai Bai to Great Zhou Country to find someone who could refine Dragon Transformation Pills and to search for Yellow Dragon Stone; Zhou Mingde eventually agreed that he could go after making preparations.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde traveled to a misty valley where a pair of third-tier middle-grade demonic birds nested, intending to drive them away so the Wood Sprite could absorb the Fragrant Tower Wood's power and break through.

Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde drove off the Lion-faced Eagles so the Wood Sprite could absorb the Fragrant Tower Wood forest’s spirit power, then returned to Nine Peaks Ridge as the Zhou Family’s Dragon-blooded Demonic Beasts began advancing. Zhou Chun recruited Zhang Liang and prepared to launch letter and courier services across Jing Kingdom and neighboring territories.

• Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde protected the Wood Sprite as it absorbed the forest’s spirit power, then left with several hundred-year-old spirit medicines.
• Zhou Jiarui, Zhou Zhengyong, Zhou Xinlan, Zhou Xintie, and Zhou Zhengqing exchanged for Dragon Transformation Grass, and their five Dragon-blooded Demonic Beasts advanced to the second rank.
• Zhang Liang visited Zhou Chun to repay him for saving his life and presented him with a six-hundred-year-old Dragon Snake Root.
• Zhou Chun learned what had happened to the Yellow Family and offered Zhang Liang a long-term position working for the Zhou Family; Zhang Liang accepted.
• Zhou Chun planned letter and courier services using the Zhou Family’s mounts and manpower, with Zhang Liang managing couriers around a market town.

Zhou Chun launched Zhou Tong Tianxia, a courier service backed by the Zhou Family’s mounts, escorts, and guarantees, and its early success earned customers’ trust. After reviewing six months of promising results, he went to the Jiangzhou Su Family to seek the support of its Golden Core ancestor.

• Zhou Chun presented his courier business plan to the Zhou Family Elders, who unanimously approved it and began implementing it.
• At a Wilderness Expanse outpost, Meng Qing trusted Zhou Tong Tianxia to deliver a letter to his family and received his Dao companion’s reply twelve days later.
• Zhou Xinyan inspected the delivery, and Meng Qing praised the service, later sending money and another letter through the company.
• Meng Qing began recommending Zhou Tong Tianxia to his friends as the service spread among Rogue Cultivators and Cultivation Families.
• After reviewing six months of business data, Zhou Chun traveled to the Jiangzhou Su Family to discuss cooperation and seek public backing from a Golden Core cultivator.

Zhou Chun oversaw the rapid expansion of Zhou Tong Tianxia and learned how the Wood Sprite’s new abilities benefited the Zhou Family. The chapter ended with Golden Core Ancestor Zhu Wuya visiting to seek agency rights for the courier business in Blazing Sun Sect territory.

• Zhou Chun left Su Yuzhen a letter before she could emerge from seclusion, and the Su Family Ancestor agreed to cooperate with Zhou Tong Tianxia on a sixty-forty revenue-sharing basis.
• Zhou Chun spent six months expanding Zhou Tong Tianxia across the Moon Wheel Sect’s prefectures and carefully vetted families seeking to join the business.
• After two years, Zhou Tong Tianxia had become widely known and had essentially monopolized letter delivery, while Zhou Chun planned to travel to the Great Zhou Country after another year of observation.
• The Wood Sprite offered Zhou Chun a Spiritual Peach and demonstrated its new Sweet Dew Rejuvenation and Wood Transformation into Soldiers abilities, helping the Zhou Family produce thirty-two Foundation Building Fruits.
• Zhu Wuya, the Golden Core Ancestor of the Zhu Family, visited the Zhou Family and asked to obtain Zhou Tong Tianxia agency rights in Blazing Sun Sect territory.

Zhou Chun negotiated with Zhu Wuya to bring the Zhou Tong Tianxia trading company into the Blazing Sun Sect's territory, overcoming a shortage of courier mounts by leasing Spirit Beasts. Zhu Wuya then finished refining Zhou Chun's tortoiseshell into the Blackwater Mysterious Turtle Shield and explained its defensive abilities and limits.

• Zhou Chun told Zhu Wuya that the Zhou Family lacked spare mount Spirit Beasts, then proposed leasing them from other families to launch the trading company in the Blazing Sun Sect's territory.
• Zhu Wuya agreed to the plan and negotiated a partnership in which the Zhou Family took sixty percent of profits while the Zhu Family took forty percent and covered more early costs.
• Zhou Chun gave Zhu Wuya a Mysterious Turtle tortoiseshell and a piece of Heiyuan Sinking Iron to refine into a third-tier upper-grade artifact, and Zhu Wuya agreed to buy the unused iron.
• Zhou Chun leased eighty mount Spirit Beasts, allowing the Zhu Family to recruit couriers and open trading company branches throughout its territory.
• Zhu Wuya presented Zhou Chun with the Blackwater Mysterious Turtle Shield and explained that it could form a powerful barrier or summon a turtle image to withstand one attack from an ordinary early Golden Core cultivator's Magic Treasure.

After traveling across several countries, Zhou Chun arrived at Sky Abyss Immortal City under the disguise of Xu Fu to find an alchemist capable of refining the Dragon Transformation Pill. He learned more about Thunder Cliff Valley and narrowed his search to Master Ge Yun and Luo Qingni, while deciding to postpone his revenge on Wang Jun.

• Su Yuzhen broke through to the mid Violet Palace Stage, urged Zhou Chun to travel safely, and stayed with him before he left the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Chun spent nearly two years traveling through several countries, trading and purchasing pills and spiritual objects for the Golden Winged Tiger.
• Zhou Chun entered the Great Zhou Country disguised as Xu Fu, rented a cave in Sky Abyss Immortal City, and bought information on Thunder Cliff Valley and the city's alchemists.
• Zhou Chun learned that Wang Jun was the son of Thunder Cliff Valley's sect master and decided to wait until he was strong enough to take revenge.
• Zhou Chun selected Master Ge Yun and Luo Qingni as possible alchemists to approach about refining the Dragon Transformation Pill.

Zhou Chun hired Luo Qingni to refine a Dragon Transformation Pill and brought his rare ingredients to her residence two months later. Luo Qingni began the refinement while Zhou Chun recorded the process, leaving the pill’s success still unknown.

• Zhou Chun met Luo Qingni and learned that she knew the Dragon Transformation Pill formula, but had only one stalk of Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass and could offer no more than a fifty-to-sixty-percent success rate.
• Zhou Chun agreed to the commission, and Luo Qingni set her fee at one-tenth of the pill’s value if successful, plus five thousand Spirit Coins for auxiliary materials.
• Two months later, Zhou Chun visited Qingni Residence, signed an Alchemy Commission Spirit Contract with Luo Qingni, and entered her Alchemy Room.
• Zhou Chun handed Luo Qingni the Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass, Flood Dragon Vital Blood, and Spirit Coins, then watched and recorded as she began refining the pill.

Zhou Chun obtained a Dragon Transformation Pill from Luo Qingni and traveled to Black Mist Marsh, where he prepared a secluded cave for Silver Lightning Thunder Python Bai Bai to transform. After Bai Bai consumed the pill and slept for more than two months, it woke with an intense urge to go outside and soared into a stormy sky.

• Luo Qingni successfully refined the Dragon Transformation Pill, and Zhou Chun paid her before leaving Sky Abyss Immortal City under a new disguise.
• Zhou Chun traveled to Black Mist Marsh and killed the Snake Lizard Demonic Beast that ruled a secluded island, then collected its materials and the island's treasures.
• Zhou Chun established a guarded temporary cave abode and gave the Dragon Transformation Pill to Silver Lightning Thunder Python Bai Bai to consume.
• After more than two months, Bai Bai's aura grew restless and it urged Zhou Chun to release it from the cave abode.
• During rain and thunder, Bai Bai flew into the sky.

Zhou Chun protected Bai Bai as it completed the Fish Leaping Over Dragon Gate and transformed into a Thunder Flood Dragon, fighting off cultivators and Demonic Beasts drawn by the phenomenon. After the transformation finished, Zhou Chun had also gained a rare Thunder Earthworm Beast horn, while the Qinglan Li Family’s surviving cultivator escaped; the chapter ended with Bai Bai’s dragon’s roar announcing its successful evolution.

• Bai Bai endured heavenly lightning, broke through the Dragon Gate, and began its final transformation in a Seven-Colored Spirit Pool while Zhou Chun guarded the island.
• Zhou Chun captured approaching cultivators and fought two Violet Palace cultivators who suspected the Spirit Pool concealed a treasure; Wood Sprite and Frosty Cold Bees killed the green-robed swordsman, but the blue-robed man escaped.
• A Thunder Earthworm Beast tried to reach Bai Bai while Zhou Chun was away, but Wood Sprite trapped it, and Zhou Chun accepted its precious horn in exchange for sparing it.
• Zhou Chun burned the slain swordsman’s corpse and tampered Storage Bag items to avoid leaving evidence for the Qinglan Li Family.
• Bai Bai completed its evolution, and its clear dragon’s roar rang across the sky.

Zhou Chun witnessed Bai Bai transform into a powerful Four-Clawed Thunder Jiao, then recovered in Sky Abyss Immortal City after converting his cultivation foundation to the Thunder Flood Dragon bloodline. He joined an escort mission headed for the Dolan Grasslands and, at the departure point, encountered an unwanted acquaintance.

• Bai Bai transformed into a Third-tier lower-grade Thunder Flood Dragon with four claws, three toes, and powerful lightning abilities, including Heavenly Gang Divine Thunder.
• Zhou Chun tested Bai Bai's Heavenly Gang Divine Thunder and was badly injured, then recovered while considering his next cultivation goals.
• Zhou Chun returned to Sky Abyss Immortal City and spent over a year converting the foundation of his Dragon Transformation Secret Manual to Bai Bai's Thunder Flood Dragon bloodline.
• After Master Ge Lan could not accept his alchemy commission, Zhou Chun visited Sky Abyss Hall, accepted an escort mission to the Dolan Grasslands, and passed Yan Qiyang's combat test.
• Zhou Chun completed a separate collection task, received his reward, and met Yan Qiyang at the West City Entrance seven days later, where he encountered an acquaintance he did not want to see.

Zhou Chun joined Yan Qiyang and Luo Qingni, disguised as Meng Qingqing, on an escort mission across the Dolan Grasslands to Muli Lake. After reaching the destination and parting from the group, Zhou Chun received Luo Qingni’s message talisman and wondered whether to follow her secret plan.

• Zhou Chun recognized Luo Qingni at Sky Abyss Immortal City, and she promised by Heart Demon Oath to keep his Dragon Transformation Pill secret; he agreed to escort her and Yan Qiyang under the name Zhang Liang.
• Zhou Chun, Yan Qiyang, Luo Qingni, Lu Chong, and Xiao Jinlian traveled toward the Dolan Grasslands, where the hired cultivators agreed to handle threats along the route.
• The group encountered five Multi-Winged Tribe Intermediate Mages and killed them, then learned from Lu Chong that a Vengeful Blood Eagle might lead the tribe to their killers.
• Yan Qiyang switched the group to his Third-tier flying boat to flee, while two Multi-Winged Tribe mages discovered the dead and discussed reporting the incident to their Grand Mage.
• After a journey of more than ten days, the group reached Muli Lake, collected their rewards, and separated; Yan Qiyang and Luo Qingni descended beneath the lake on her giant tortoise.
• Zhou Chun released the Wood Sprite on the grassland and examined the message talisman Luo Qingni had secretly given him, unsure whether to follow her instructions.

Zhou Chun waited for Luo Qingni’s message talisman while searching around Muli Lake, as Luo Qingni and Yan Qiyang entered a hidden island to seize its Five Elements Spirit Fruits. Their assault broke through the guardian dragonfish’s defenses, and Luo Qingni’s puppet harvested all three fruits, leaving the sack flying toward them as all three parties watched.

• Zhou Chun wondered why Luo Qingni expected him to follow her arrangements, then searched Muli Lake for spirit herbs while waiting for her message talisman to react.
• Yan Qiyang and Luo Qingni used matching jade talismans to enter a hidden island protected by the Heaven and Earth Inversion Grand Formation.
• Yan Qiyang and Luo Qingni reached the Hundred Fruits Garden and found three Five Elements Spirit Fruits guarded by a fourth-tier Five-Colored Dragonfish.
• Luo Qingni deployed two third-tier upper-grade puppets while Yan Qiyang summoned two Corpse Refinements and a Talisman Treasure, and they launched a coordinated attack on the dragonfish.
• Yan Qiyang and Luo Qingni broke the dragonfish’s shield, allowing Luo Qingni’s warrior puppet to breach the fruit tree’s barrier and collect all three fruits.
• Luo Qingni’s puppet threw the sack of Five Elements Spirit Fruits out of the barrier, and Yan Qiyang, Luo Qingni, and the Five-Colored Dragonfish all watched it fly.

Luo Qingni escaped the Hundred Fruits Garden with the Five Elements Spirit Fruits, then lured Zhou Chun into an ambush that let Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai snatch one from Yan Qiyang. Zhou Chun and Bai Bai defeated Yan Qiyang, and Luo Qingni watched in shock as they approached her.

• Yan Qiyang tried to seize the cloth bag, but Luo Qingni’s hidden venomous snake stopped his Lightning Rat and let her claim the bag before she fled the Five-Colored Dragonfish.
• Luo Qingni escaped Yan Qiyang’s pursuit and activated a signal talisman, leading Zhou Chun to the hidden Secret Realm entrance at Muli Lake.
• Luo Qingni tossed Yan Qiyang one Five Elements Spirit Fruit, but Bai Bai shot from the lake and swallowed it before Yan Qiyang could take it.
• Bai Bai returned the fruit to Zhou Chun, who provoked Yan Qiyang and fought him while Luo Qingni recovered nearby.
• Yan Qiyang used the Stone Serpent petrification technique, but Zhou Chun’s Shadow of the Mysterious Turtle blocked it; Bai Bai then killed Yan Qiyang with Heavenly Gang Divine Thunder.
• Zhou Chun collected Yan Qiyang’s artifacts and rode toward Luo Qingni, who trembled in fear at Bai Bai’s power.

Zhou Chun and Luo Qingni hid beneath Muli Lake after their fight with Yan Qiyang, exchanged the Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass for pills, and learned that a new treasure phenomenon had appeared across the Dolan Grasslands. They fled toward Great Zhou Country, while a group of cultivators entered the newly revealed ocher vortex and left their cursed subordinates behind to guard it.

• Zhou Chun and Luo Qingni discussed Yan Qiyang's death and Secret Realm Island, and Luo Qingni explained how she had found the island and obtained the Five Elements Spirit Fruit.
• Zhou Chun refused to reveal his real name or appearance but agreed to exchange a stalk of Thousand-Year Dragon Transformation Grass, receiving two Essence Replenishing Pills and five Jade Crystal Pills from Luo Qingni.
• Zhou Chun and Luo Qingni spent seven days in the cavern before a powerful tremor shook it, then spotted multicolored clouds and decided to leave the Dolan Grasslands rather than risk confronting the Multi-Winged Tribe.
• A bald, red-robed Golden Core cultivator blamed the Formation Master after their formation failed to conceal the spiritual-energy phenomenon, and he and Elder Chen entered the ocher vortex to plunder what lay inside.
• The eight Violet Palace cultivators left outside were ordered to defend the site, and the black-robed Daoist recognized as Zhou Chun's former recruiter admitted they could not escape Old Monster Yuan's Heart Burning Curse.

Zhou Chun fled the pursuing Multi-Winged Tribe mages and hid beneath Muli Lake, where he cultivated in an ancient ruin for three years. When a teleportation array brought a cultivator to his refuge, Zhou Chun attacked, destroyed the array, and fled before the dead man’s sect could find him; he retrieved the abandoned Storage Bag a year later.

• Luo Qingni split from Zhou Chun and used the Wood Release Technique to escape, while Zhou Chun plunged into Muli Lake and evaded the Multi-Winged Tribe mages with Bai Bai’s help.
• Zhou Chun found an ancient human ruin beneath the lake, set up a waterless cultivation area, and secluded himself there as battles raged near the Seven-Colored Cloud Glow.
• After three years of cultivation, Zhou Chun prepared to leave but attacked and destroyed a teleportation array when it brought a cultivator into his refuge.
• Zhou Chun knocked the arriving cultivator unconscious, took his belongings, and hid the man’s remains and Storage Bag to avoid being traced by a Nascent Soul True Person.
• The cultivator’s sect searched Muli Lake without finding Zhou Chun, who stayed hidden on shore and retrieved the abandoned Storage Bag a year later.

Zhou Chun recovered the dead cultivator’s Storage Bag and discovered that its contents confirmed the man had come from an Ancient Ruins. After cataloging the valuable treasures, he returned to Great Zhou Country and learned that news of the ruins had spread.

• Bai Bai retrieved Zhou Chun’s discarded Storage Bag and damaged defensive magic tools from the bottom of Muli Lake without encountering anyone.
• Zhou Chun erased the Storage Bag’s spiritual sense imprint and found numerous magic tools, pills, talismans, spirit materials, and rare medicines inside.
• Zhou Chun discovered Fourth Rank spirit wood, Seven-Leaf Purple Bamboo Grass, other precious spirit medicines, a suspected Fifth Rank spirit-wood root, and a Fourth Rank Spirit Wood Core.
• Zhou Chun realized the treasures confirmed that the dead cultivator had emerged from an Ancient Ruins, though he could not determine why the man’s bag held no other major relics.
• Zhou Chun traveled discreetly across more than seven thousand li and returned to Great Zhou Country after a month and a half.
• Zhou Chun learned that news and rumors about the Ancient Ruins had spread widely.

Zhou Chun learned the truth about the ancient ruins and joined a masked exchange meet in Sky Abyss Immortal City. He traded rare ginseng for three Thousand-Year Jade Marrow Ganoderma, securing key ingredients for refining Foundation Establishment Pills.

• Zhou Chun heard rumors about the ancient ruins and suspected that a root in his Storage Bag came from the Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Mulberry Wood.
• He bought a Grade-A report from the Heavenly Knowledge Tower and learned the ruins had been the abandoned Xuantian Sect mountain gate, whose treasures had been largely plundered.
• Zhou Chun bought an invitation to the Heavenly Knowledge Tower's exchange meet and attended after three months, wearing a cloak and mask that concealed his identity and aura.
• Tian Zhi Sanren and Master Wu offered treasures for exchange, but Zhou Chun found nothing he needed among their items.
• Fairy Chen offered three Thousand-Year Jade Marrow Ganoderma for Spirit Ginseng aged at least three thousand years, and Zhou Chun traded her a three-thousand-year White Jade Ginseng and a fifteen-hundred-year Yellow Essence for all three.

Zhou Chun returned to the Zhou Family after the exchange meeting, where he entrusted the Five Elements Spirit Fruit to Zhou Mingde and showed the elders his Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai. He then arranged for the Wood Sprite to revive a Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Mulberry Wood root and headed to the Wilderness Expanse to check on the Frosty Cold Bees and seek Dragon-blooded Demonic Beasts.

• Zhou Chun traded for two needed thousand-year Spirit Medicines and a piece of Yellow Dragon Stone, but could not obtain Tian Zhi Sanren’s Mountain Soul Pearl.
• Zhou Chun evaded anyone who might be following him, returned to the Zhou Family, and recounted his journey to Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi.
• Zhou Chun showed the elders the Five Elements Spirit Fruit, and Zhou Mingde agreed to keep it safe for him.
• Zhou Chun released Bai Bai and watched it fly alongside Zhou Daoyi’s Azure Flood Dragon, Qingqing.
• Zhou Chun buried the Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Mulberry Wood root, and the Wood Sprite helped it sprout into a seedling.
• Zhou Chun took Bai Bai to the Wilderness Expanse to tend the Frosty Cold Bees and search for third-rank Dragon-blooded Demonic Beasts.

Zhou Chun hunted Dragon-blooded Demonic Beasts, escaped the danger of drawing a fourth-tier beast and stopped risking the Wilderness Expanse before setting out for Great Zhou Country. After helping Lin Wan'er leave Yang Kingdom, he reached Sky Abyss Immortal City to wait near Luo Qingni's cave dwelling, where a Golden Core formation phenomenon finally appeared.

• Zhou Chun found that the Frosty Cold Bees had matured further in the Ice Cavern, then hunted a Single Horn Dragon Crocodile and a Silver Armor Dragon Fish with Bai Bai, discovering that their cold and lightning could interrupt Demonic Core self-detonation.
• A fourth-tier Demonic Beast pursued Bai Bai after Zhou Chun and Bai Bai approached the Silver Armor Dragon Fish's nest, and Zhou Chun realized the hunt risked exposing Bai Bai to the Flood Dragon clan, so he stopped hunting in the Wilderness Expanse.
• After three years of seclusion and refining Yellow Crystal Pills, Zhou Chun sensed the barrier to the mid Violet Palace Stage and decided to travel to Great Zhou Country; he also considered paths for Shi Tou and the Golden Winged Tiger to advance.
• Zhou Chun visited Lin Wan'er in Yang Kingdom and ordered her to abandon the Hongyu Peak Stronghold rather than let Lin Hongyu join the Golden Light Sect; he escorted Lin Wan'er away before continuing his journey.
• Zhou Chun reached Sky Abyss Immortal City, rented a cave dwelling near Luo Qingni's, and cultivated while waiting for her; nearly two years later, a Golden Core formation phenomenon appeared above her cave dwelling.