Chapter Summaries

After emerging from Golden Core seclusion, Luo Qingni reunited with Zhou Chun, who gave her a Spirit Wood Core and asked her to arrange an exchange for the Mountain Soul Pearl. Three days later, he received the pearl and fed it to Stone to help it advance.

• Zhou Chun spent two years tempering his magic power and practicing Golden Gang Slash while waiting for Luo Qingni to emerge from seclusion.
• Luo Qingni invited Zhou Chun to Qingni Residence, where they discussed her Golden Core breakthrough, Yellow Dragon Fortress, and their future alchemy plans.
• Luo Qingni identified Zhou Chun's azure fruits as Jade Bodhi Fruits, and he gave her three in exchange for her help obtaining the Mountain Soul Pearl from Tian Zhi Sanren.
• Zhou Chun gave Luo Qingni a Spirit Wood Core as a congratulatory gift and asked her to recommend him to Master Ge Yun for Dragon Spirit Pills, but he later deferred that request.
• Luo Qingni accepted the Spirit Wood Core and arranged the Mountain Soul Pearl exchange, then personally delivered the pearl to Zhou Chun three days later.
• Zhou Chun examined the Mountain Soul Pearl and gave it to Stone to swallow so the Golden Armor Rock Turtle could advance.

Zhou Chun broke through to the mid Violet Palace Stage after years of secluded cultivation, while Stone entered a transformation inside a stone egg. He later met Lin Hongyu, who brought family letters and planned to seek a spiritual item for Wan'er to open the Violet Palace; Zhou Chun entrusted her with Foundation Establishment Pills for the Zhou Family.

• Luo Qingni refined three furnaces of Foundation Establishment Pills for Zhou Chun, producing twenty-five pills, then made seven Essence Replenishing Pills from a Snake Lizard Demonic Beast Core.
• Zhou Chun agreed to provide two Dragon-blooded Demonic Beast Demonic Cores so Luo Qingni could practice refining Dragon Spirit Pills, and she later obtained the pill formula and began gathering materials.
• After two more years of secluded cultivation, Zhou Chun broke through to the mid Violet Palace Stage and discovered that Stone had become a huge stone egg while evolving from the Mountain Soul Pearl.
• Zhou Chun consumed Jade Bodhi Fruits and Purple Crystal Bamboo Rice, finding that the fruit greatly aided his cultivation while the bamboo rice modestly advanced his cultivation and tempered his body.
• Lin Hongyu visited Zhou Chun, reported that the Zhou Family was well, and brought him family letters; Zhou Chun gave her twenty-five Foundation Establishment Pills to take back to the family.

After learning of growing threats in Jing Kingdom and Feng Kingdom, Zhou Chun sought Yellow Dragon Stone to complete the Zhou Family’s defensive formation. He accepted the Xiahou Family’s bounty on Murong Luo and entered the Black Mist Marsh to hunt him.

• Zhou Chun read letters from Zhou Mingde, Zhou Daoyi, and Su Yuzhen, learning that Su Yunniang had formed her Golden Core and Zhou Sizhen had won a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Zhou Chun learned that Green Lotus Temple was organizing a Joint Patrol Team and that the Blood Bone Gate had entered Feng Kingdom to aid the Corpse Demon Sect, prompting fears of a wider war.
• Zhou Chun asked Luo Qingni to help him acquire Yellow Dragon Stone, and she obtained two pieces through exchanges and offered him the Xiahou Family’s bounty mission for the remaining amount he needed.
• Zhou Chun learned that Murong Luo had fled into the Black Mist Marsh after killing a Xiahou Family cultivator, then accepted the Xiahou Family’s Spirit Contract to hunt him.
• Zhou Chun entered the Black Mist Marsh alone and wandered as though searching for treasure, hoping to draw out Murong Luo and his accomplices.

After months of searching Black Mist Marsh, Zhou Chun located Murong Luo and ambushed him as he left the Black Dragon organization’s lair. Zhou Chun and Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai defeated and captured Murong Luo, then hurried away before others could discover them.

• Zhou Chun disguised himself as Zhou Zhengbai and discovered that the Black Dragon bandits had a lair in an underwater cavern guarded by a powerful Flood Dragon.
• Zhou Chun waited outside the lair for more than seven months until he recognized Murong Luo by his magical power aura and followed him toward the marsh’s edge.
• Zhou Chun ordered Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai to attack Murong Luo, and the two fought while Murong Luo defended himself with powerful treasures and the God Slaying Sword secret technique.
• Zhou Chun recovered from Murong Luo’s Spiritual Sense attack, protected himself with the Golden Light Bowl, and helped Bai Bai overwhelm Murong Luo with lightning and other attacks.
• Zhou Chun restrained Murong Luo, took his Storage Bag and scattered artifacts, and left the battlefield with Bai Bai before others could arrive.

Zhou Chun opened Murong Luo’s restricted jade book and gained four powerful Divine Soul and Spiritual Sense techniques, including a method for certain possession. After helping Murong Luo possess a newly killed cultivator, Zhou Chun left him near a deadly Demonic Beast, then returned to Sky Abyss Immortal City to exchange Murong Luo’s corpse for Yellow Dragon Stone and check on Shi Tou.

• Zhou Chun forced Murong Luo to reveal the incantation for the jade book, which contained the Great God Slaying Method, the Great Soul Shifting Technique, the Split Soul Great Law, and the Great Soul Control Method.
• Zhou Chun found and killed a mid Foundation Establishment bandit cultivator, then let Murong Luo use the Great Soul Shifting Technique to possess the corpse.
• After Murong Luo successfully possessed the body, Zhou Chun took his original corpse and left him near a Third-tier Blackwater Poison Lizard, which Murong Luo realized Zhou Chun had arranged to kill him.
• Two months later, Zhou Chun returned to Sky Abyss Immortal City and arranged through Luo Qingni to exchange Murong Luo’s corpse for Yellow Dragon Stone from the Xiahou Family.
• Zhou Chun returned to his cave abode after learning that Shi Tou had awakened.

Zhou Chun traveled to Earth Dragon Mound to find a suitable place for Shi Tou to complete its evolution, and Shi Tou awakened the Mountain Bearing Turtle bloodline. After discovering Shi Tou’s powerful new abilities, Zhou Chun planned to return to Sky Abyss Immortal City to refine the Dragon Spirit Pill before going back to the Lineage.

• Zhou Chun learned that Shi Tou was holding back from breaking out of its stone egg because its evolution might cause trouble, then found information at the Heavenly Knowledge Tower linking the Mountain Soul Pearl to Earth Dragon Mound in Di Country.
• Zhou Chun traded Murong Luo’s damaged corpse to the Xiahou Family for the Yellow Dragon Stone, and Luo Qingni told him she was nearly ready to refine the Dragon Spirit Pill with him.
• After reaching Earth Dragon Mound, Zhou Chun questioned local cultivators and followed Wu Xi to the old battlefield where Tian Zhi Sanren had fought the Petrified Earth Dragon.
• Zhou Chun buried Shi Tou’s stone egg at the battlefield, where Shi Tou absorbed Earth Vein power, emerged as a gigantic turtle, and then shrank using the Size as Desired divine ability.
• Shi Tou told Zhou Chun it had awakened the Mountain Bearing Turtle bloodline and gained abilities including Golden Magnetic Aurora, Petrified Body, and Earth Evasion Technique.
• Zhou Chun considered his strengthened Spirit Pets and planned to return to Sky Abyss Immortal City to refine the Dragon Spirit Pill before returning to the Lineage.

Zhou Chun returned from Sky Abyss Immortal City with pills and supplies, while the Heavenly Spirit Legion began organizing reinforcements against the Yuanmo Realm’s invasion. He learned that Zhou Daoquan, Zhou Jiahe, and Zhou Jiapeng had been sent to the front, leaving the family’s situation uncertain.

• Luo Qingni refined two batches of Dragon Spirit Pills for Zhou Chun, producing only seven pills, then compensated him with materials and eight Essence Replenishing Pills.
• Zhou Chun bought pills and talismans, studied the Great God Slaying Method, bade farewell to Luo Qingni, and left Sky Abyss Immortal City for Jing Kingdom.
• Shanyangzi delivered Green Lotus Temple reinforcements to Jinchang Market, where Guo Shaokang assigned the newcomers to the Heavenly Spirit Legion and announced its rules.
• Zhou Daoquan, Zhou Jiahe, and Zhou Jiapeng received their military posts, with Zhou Daoquan serving as a large-unit Deputy Commander and the other two as small-unit captains.
• Zhou Chun returned to the family and learned that the Heavenly Spirit Alliance and Heavenly Spirit Legion had been established and several Zhou Family elders had been conscripted.

After returning to Nine Peaks Ridge, Zhou Chun prepared the Zhou Family for the war between the Tianling Realm and the Yuanmo Realm, then traveled through the Wilderness Expanse to secure Lin Hongyu’s help and bring Xu Fu back to Jing Kingdom. He left Tu Yun Ridge for Feng Kingdom to deliver supplies to Zhou Daoquan and observe the enemy cultivators.

• Zhou Chun arranged for pills and talismans to be distributed, asked Zhou Mingde to complete the Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Grand Formation, and ordered important family members moved to Tu Yun Ridge.
• Zhou Chun reviewed the Zhou Family’s growth, which included seventeen family Foundation Establishment cultivators and a total of twenty-two cultivators when affiliates and temple members were counted.
• Zhou Chun visited Su Yuzhen and her family, then asked Lin Hongyu to oversee Tu Yun Ridge after Lin Wan’er finished her secluded cultivation, and Lin Hongyu agreed.
• Zhou Chun promised Xu Fu that he would take him back to Jing Kingdom and later appointed him an Honorary Elder of the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Chun contracted eighteen Frosty Cold Bee eggs, increasing the swarm to 212 bees and twenty mature demon bees.
• Zhou Chun inspected the formation work and his Spirit Pets at Tu Yun Ridge, then set out for Feng Kingdom to deliver supplies to Zhou Daoquan and the others.

Zhou Chun entered the Feng Kingdom battlefield to deliver life-saving talismans to Zhou Jiapeng, Zhou Jiahe, and Zhou Daoquan, and witnessed several clashes between the Heavenly Spirit Legion and demonic sects. After giving Zhou Daoquan supplies, Zhou Chun secretly sent Stone underground to protect him as he went to reinforce a major battle.

• Zhou Chun obtained a Heavenly Spirit Legion certificate and entered Feng Kingdom, where he aided a skirmish by sending the Golden Winged Tiger against Yuanmo Legion cultivators.
• Zhou Chun delivered brocade boxes of life-saving talismans to Zhou Jiapeng and Zhou Jiahe at their stations.
• Zhou Chun observed a major battle and saw cultivators from Misty Love Valley and Beast Demon Palace display their unusual abilities.
• Zhou Chun encountered Zhou Daoquan heading to reinforce the battle and handed him talismans and a third-tier mid-grade defensive artifact.
• Zhou Chun released Stone and sent it underground to support Zhou Daoquan, then hid nearby to await news.

Zhou Chun rescued Zhou Daoquan from a disastrous defeat, then returned to Tu Yun Ridge after learning about the Demonic cultivators’ strength. The Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Grand Formation was completed, but Zhou Chun’s visit to the Wilderness Expanse brought news that Lin Wan'er had failed to open her Violet Palace, and he ended the chapter receiving a plea for help from High Priest Ukulu.

• A powerful Winged Demon killed three Heavenly Spirit Legion Violet Palace cultivators, turning the battle into a rout and forcing Zhou Daoquan to flee.
• Stone rescued Zhou Daoquan and brought him to Zhou Chun, who confirmed that Stone had awakened the Mountain Bearing Turtle bloodline.
• Zhou Chun returned to Jing Kingdom and cultivated for half a year before Master You completed the Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Grand Formation at Tu Yun Ridge.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde learned to control the formation and agreed to move the family's center of gravity to Tu Yun Ridge, with Zhou Chun tasked to fetch Elder Lin.
• At the Caiyu Mountain stronghold, Zhou Chun learned Lin Wan'er had failed to open her Violet Palace and given her a Spirit Recovery Pill through Lin Hongyu.
• Zhou Chun traveled to the Scale Frog alien tribe to ask High Priest Ukulu for spiritual objects to resist Misty Love Valley's Bewitching Demonic Sound, but Ukulu asked him for help first.

Zhou Chun tried to hunt a third-rank Mirage Demon that had been preying on the Scale Frog Tribe, but its illusions trapped him and it escaped. He returned to seek help from Su Yunniang, who lent him a treasure for countering illusions and taught him how to use it.

• High Priest Ukulu told Zhou Chun that a Mirage Demon had been eating Scale Frog spellcasters and that his own attempt to stop it had failed.
• Zhou Chun tracked the demon to a reef beach, waited for it to appear, and entered its phantom fog after sending Blue Moon Butterflies to investigate.
• The Mirage Demon trapped Zhou Chun in an illusion of a black dragon, then let him escape and fled before he could find its true body.
• Zhou Chun told Ukulu he needed to return and prepare, then traveled to the Jiangzhou Su Family to ask Su Yunniang for help.
• Su Yunniang lent Zhou Chun her Colorless Illusion Derivation Bead and explained how to use it and counter illusion techniques.

Zhou Chun failed to capture the Mirage Demon, but recovered its Spirit Pearl and had it refined into the Hundred Illusions Pearl, a magic artifact that could disguise his appearance, body shape, and aura. After leaving Su Yunniang’s cave residence with Su Yuzhen, Zhou Chun returned to his travels with a valuable new means of concealing his identity.

• Zhou Chun used the Colorless Illusion Derivation Bead, the Wood Sprite, and his Frosty Cold Bees to expose and freeze the Mirage Demon, but the demon escaped by sacrificing its Spirit Pearl as a decoy.
• Zhou Chun guarded the Scaly Frog tribe for half a month, then told High Priest Ukulu that the Mirage Demon was unlikely to return and left for Jing Kingdom.
• Su Yunniang recognized the Spirit Pearl as belonging to a Star Cloud Clam and arranged for a sect expert to refine it into a magic artifact.
• While Zhou Chun stayed with Su Yunniang, she taught him and Su Yuzhen a dual cultivation technique that improved their cultivation results.
• Su Yunniang gave Zhou Chun the completed Hundred Illusions Pearl, which let him alter his appearance, body shape, and aura, and Zhou Chun tested its power before leaving with Su Yuzhen.

Zhou Chun tested the Hundred Illusions Pearl on Bai Bai, prepared the Zhou Family to counter the demonic forces, and stayed out of the battle rankings. Years later, Zhou Jiahe and the defenders of Green Forest Valley faced certain defeat when Yan Wuji attacked, and they chose to burn their lives and fight back.

• Zhou Chun gave the Hundred Illusions Pearl to Bai Bai, confirming that the artifact could conceal the Thunder Flood Dragon’s true form even from Lin Hongyu.
• Zhou Chun ordered Xu Fu and Zhou Xinheng to secretly cultivate Rotten Corpse Moths and focused on strengthening his resistance to Misty Love Valley’s enchantments.
• As the Yuanmo and Heavenly Spirit Legions created rankings to reward their most successful fighters, Zhou Chun declined to compete and stopped Zhou Family Foundation Establishment cultivators from chasing battlefield fame.
• Ten years later, Zhou Jiahe defended Green Forest Valley as Demonic cultivators attacked, until Yan Wuji arrived and rapidly corroded the stronghold’s protective formation.
• Zhou Jiahe and the other defenders burned their essence blood and Divine Souls, choosing to fight at full strength rather than let the enemy capture their bodies and souls.

After Zhou Jiahe died fighting at Green Forest Valley, the Zhou Family mourned her and discussed how to preserve the rewards she had earned in the Heavenly Spirit Legion. The family leaders also planned to protect its elders at the front while urging Zhou Chun to focus on forming his Golden Core.

• Zhou Jiarui grieved over Zhou Jiahe’s death and brought the news to Zhou Chun, who ordered the funeral bell rung forty-nine times.
• Zhou Chun announced Zhou Jiahe’s death to the Zhou Family, ordered all clansmen to wear mourning clothes, and arranged the highest-standard funeral the Lineage could hold without inviting other families.
• Zhou Mingde warned that the Heavenly Spirit Legion would confiscate Zhou Jiahe’s unclaimed rewards unless the Zhou Family sent someone to continue her service, so Zhou Chun offered those rewards to any junior willing to take her place.
• Zhou Chun proposed giving the Mountain Bearing Turtle to Zhou Daoquan for protection, but Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi rejected the plan as too conspicuous and recommended sending him a Talisman Treasure and spirit talismans instead.
• Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi urged Zhou Chun not to risk himself for the elders and to cultivate toward Golden Core, while Zhou Chun lamented the war’s toll on the Zhou Family.

After the war escalated and strained the Zhou Family’s finances, Zhou Chun began mining a Water Essence Jade ore vein with the Scale Frog Tribe to create a new source of income. News that General Corpse Fiend Jiang Zhong had massacred five Cultivation Families in Cloud Prefecture left Zhou Chun certain that the war had entered a new stage.

• The Zhou Family sent Zhou Daoyi, Xu Fu, Zhou Xin Yan, and Zhou Xintie to serve in the Heavenly Spirit Legion, while Zhou Daoquan and Zhou Jiapeng returned from service.
• Zhou Chun reached the barrier before the late Violet Palace Stage and reviewed how war was hurting the Zhou Family’s income, but he refused to reduce the clansmen’s benefits as a first measure.
• Zhou Chun took High Priest Ukulu and Scale Frog Tribe miners to the Water Essence Jade ore vein, where they confirmed they could mine it in exchange for Zhou Family medicinal pills and magic tools.
• The Zhou Family began preparing mining tools as the Scale Frog Tribe started work at the ore vein.
• News arrived that General Corpse Fiend Jiang Zhong had massacred five Cultivation Families in Cloud Prefecture, and Zhou Chun recognized that the war had entered a new stage.

As demonic cultivators spread across Jing Kingdom, Zhou Chun protected the Zhou Family’s holdings and took charge of Nine Peaks Ridge, where he repelled several attacks. After hearing of the Wang Family’s destruction, he learned that a group of demonic cultivators had infiltrated the area, including a powerful late Violet Palace cultivator suspected to be one of the Seven Fiends of Yuanmo.

• The Heavenly Spirit Alliance offered bounties for demonic cultivators, including a Golden Core formation spirit item for killing one of the Seven Fiends of Yuanmo, while attacks forced the Zhou Family to suspend its trading company and cut clan benefits.
• Zhou Chun persuaded Zhou Mingde to let him guard Nine Peaks Ridge, then traveled there with several Spirit Pets and inspected the family’s Demonic Beast breeding grounds.
• Demonic cultivators attacked Nine Peaks Ridge and tried to draw out its defenders by killing Zhou Family mortals, but Zhou Chun used Stonehead and his Four Great Spirit Pets to defeat them.
• Zhou Chun learned that the Wang Family of Red Medicine Valley had been devastated, with only one Foundation Establishment cultivator and two children escaping.
• The Wood Sprite returned with news that demonic cultivators had infiltrated the area around Nine Peaks Ridge, including several Violet Palace cultivators and a late Violet Palace cultivator suspected to be one of the Seven Fiends of Yuanmo.

Zhou Chun lured the Demonic cultivators attacking Nine Peaks Ridge into an ambush, then revealed his hidden allies and strength when the “Corpse Fiend General,” Jiang Zhong, arrived. After Zhou Chun killed the Beast Demon Palace cultivator, Jiang Zhong released more than a hundred Ironclad Demonic Corpses to face him.

• Zhou Chun learned that Demonic cultivators were targeting Nine Peaks Ridge, notified Tu Yun Ridge, and left the ridge to draw out the attackers.
• A blood-robed Blood Bone Gate cultivator ambushed Zhou Chun, and two more Demonic cultivators joined the fight before Stonehead and Thunder Python Bai Bai revealed themselves.
• The Demonic cultivators summoned an evil ghost and refined corpses, but Bai Bai’s lightning injured their forces while Stonehead protected Zhou Chun.
• Jiang Zhong, the “Corpse Fiend General,” arrived with three refined corpses and offered to spare Zhou Chun if he joined the Yuanmo Legion.
• Zhou Chun transformed into a dragon-human, and his allies attacked; Bai Bai damaged Jiang Zhong and a refined corpse, Rotten Corpse Moths harried two others, and Zhou Chun froze and beheaded the Beast Demon Palace cultivator.
• Jiang Zhong shook his black gourd and released more than a hundred Ironclad Demonic Corpses to fight Zhou Chun.

Zhou Chun battled Jiang Zhong and his Corpse Refining Legion, using Bai Bai’s heavenly thunder to cripple Jiang Zhong and reveal a Fourth Rank Spirit-Communing Zombie. The zombie killed Jiang Zhong’s allies and nearly overwhelmed Zhou Chun, but Lin Hongyu arrived as Zhou Chun’s defenses began to fail.

• Jiang Zhong released more than a hundred Ironclad Demonic Corpses and used their battle formation to raise his power, while Zhou Chun held him off as Bai Bai summoned thunder.
• Bai Bai’s Heavenly Gang Divine Thunder destroyed more than twenty Ironclad Demonic Corpses and gravely wounded Jiang Zhong, who released a Fourth Rank Spirit-Communing Zombie from a Profound Yin Jade coffin.
• The Fourth Rank Spirit-Communing Zombie killed the grey-robed elder and the blood-robed middle-aged man, then rescued Jiang Zhong and restored some of his strength.
• The zombie attacked Zhou Chun, destroyed his Fire Flood Dragon Token and Blackwater Mysterious Turtle Shield, and forced him to rely on Stone and Bai Bai to endure its blows.
• Lin Hongyu arrived from Nine Peaks Ridge as Zhou Chun struggled to hold out against the Fourth Rank zombie.

Lin Hongyu arrived to battle the Fourth-tier Zombie while Zhou Chun hunted down the wounded Jiang Zhong underground. Zhou Chun tricked Jiang Zhong into surrendering his possessions, then broke his defenses and captured him frozen.

• Lin Hongyu used the Blazing Dragon Ring and a flaming-cone secret art to fight the Fourth-tier Zombie, which released its Corpse Pearl and broke free of the ring.
• Zhou Chun and his Spirit Pets defeated the remaining Corpse Refinings while Lin Hongyu kept the Fourth-tier Zombie occupied.
• Zhou Chun and Golden Armored Mountain-Bearing Turtle Stone tracked Jiang Zhong to an underground cavern and trapped him as Stone hardened and compressed the surrounding earth.
• Jiang Zhong offered Zhou Chun Spirit Coins and magic artifacts in exchange for his life, and Zhou Chun accepted the items while Stone stopped attacking.
• As Jiang Zhong swore a Heart Demon Oath, Stone, Zhou Chun, and the Frosty Cold Bees shattered the demonic cauldron’s barrier and froze Jiang Zhong.
• Zhou Chun had Stone carry the frozen Jiang Zhong back aboveground.

Zhou Chun killed Jiang Zhong and, with Lin Hongyu and Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai, defeated the Fourth-tier Zombie at Nine Peaks Ridge. He concealed evidence of the battle, gathered the spoils, and sent a report to the Green Lotus Temple, confident he could explain the clash.

• Zhou Chun drove his Golden Rainbow Sword through Jiang Zhong's skull and destroyed his Divine Soul, then took Jiang Zhong's treasures and corpse.
• Lin Hongyu suppressed the Fourth-tier Zombie, and Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai struck it with Heavenly Gang Divine Thunder, allowing Lin Hongyu to refine it into a black pearl.
• Lin Hongyu gave the black pearl to Zhou Chun, who arranged to hide the Heavenly Gang Divine Thunder's traces and collect the remaining enemies' corpses and belongings.
• Zhou Chun and Lin Hongyu returned to Nine Peaks Ridge, where the Wood Sprite reported killing the Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators hiding nearby.
• Zhou Chun counted his losses and spoils, then sent a handwritten report to the Green Lotus Temple.