Chapter Summaries

Zhou Chun sorted the spoils from the demonic cultivators he had killed, then visited Su Yunniang to seek her help and apologize to Su Yuzhen for concealing Bai Bai’s transformation. He met True Person Bai Yue and pleaded for help removing his Blood Soul Mark and protecting the Zhou Family, leaving his fate in Bai Yue’s hands.

• Zhou Chun discovered valuable treasures among the green-haired Demonic Cultivator’s spoils, including Extreme Yang Fire Spirit Liquid and a spirit fruit, which he fed to the Golden Winged Tiger; he also gave demonic cores to Stone and Bai Bai.
• Zhou Chun found Spirit Coins, pills, talisman treasures, and other items in Yan Wuji’s Storage Bag, while the two Yuanmo Realm cultivators’ bags held mostly unusable demonic items.
• Zhou Chun traveled in disguise to the Moon Wheel Sect, presented Su Yunniang’s token, and offered Extreme Yang Fire Spirit Liquid as an apology to Su Yuzhen for concealing Bai Bai’s transformation.
• Su Yunniang urged Zhou Chun to apologize to Su Yuzhen in person and agreed to deliver his request for help to True Person Bai Yue, who agreed to meet him.
• Zhou Chun recounted his escape from the Spirit-Severing Desert and his actions against the demonic cultivators, earning praise from True Person Bai Yue.
• Zhou Chun asked True Person Bai Yue to remove his Blood Soul Mark and accept the demonic cultivators’ corpses and artifacts, then begged him to save Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family from their perilous position.

Zhou Chun sought the Moon Wheel Sect’s protection for the Zhou Family, but True Person Bai Yue refused to accept their allegiance while the sects were united against the demonic invasion. He instead offered to remove Zhou Chun’s Blood Soul Mark, and the chapter ended with Zhou Chun undergoing the Moonlight Purifying World ritual as his Moon Toad Treasure Bead secretly absorbed some of the moonlight.

• Zhou Chun offered the Zhou Family’s beast-raising skills and future Demonic Beast supplies in exchange for the Moon Wheel Sect accepting their allegiance, but True Person Bai Yue declined because doing so could disrupt unity among Jing Kingdom’s sects.
• True Person Bai Yue agreed to help remove Zhou Chun’s Blood Soul Mark and arrange for Wei Yong to look after him on the battlefield.
• Su Yunniang explained that the Moonlight Purifying World could cleanse afflictions, hidden injuries, and pill toxins, and that True Person Bai Yue would use it on Zhou Chun that night.
• True Person Bai Yue performed the Moonlight Purifying World ritual on the mountaintop altar, cleansing Zhou Chun’s Divine Soul while Zhou Chun cultivated the Heart Lotus True Method.
• The Moon Toad Treasure Bead secretly siphoned moonlight from Zhou Chun, causing the ritual’s light to fade quickly; True Person Bai Yue noticed but let Zhou Chun continue cultivating.

After cleansing his hidden ailments and resolving the Moon Wheel Sect’s concerns about the Dragon Transformation Secret Manual, Zhou Chun apologized to the Su Family and returned to the battlefield. He received the title Young Master Dragon Tamer and powerful rewards, then followed Wei Yong’s advice to feign injury and lie low while his merits were tallied.

• Su Yunniang’s Moonlight Purifying World cleansed Zhou Chun’s demonic contamination and hidden ailments, and True Person Bai Yue warned him not to spread the Dragon Transformation Secret Manual through the Zhou Family.
• True Person Bai Yue examined Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai, and Zhou Chun explained how Bai Bai had transformed into a four-clawed flood dragon.
• Zhou Chun apologized to the Su Family Ancestor and Su Yuzhen with Extreme Yang Fire Spirit Liquid, earning the Su Family Ancestor’s promise of assistance.
• Zhou Chun returned to the battlefield, where Wei Yong welcomed him and announced his commendation as the fifth of the Seven Heroes of Tianling, titled Young Master Dragon Tamer, with a fourth-tier talisman and a Talisman Treasure.
• Wei Yong told Zhou Chun that many Violet Palace cultivators had died or been injured in the Spirit-Severing Desert and advised him to feign injuries; Zhou Chun agreed and moved into a cave abode at headquarters.
• Zhou Chun sent talismans and two Talisman Treasures to Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Zhengyong, while the Merit Reward Department tallied his battle merits and arranged his remaining rewards.

Zhou Chun received generous rewards for his battlefield achievements and spent six months recovering in seclusion as the war turned against the Yuanmo Legion. His Golden Winged Tiger evolved to the third rank, awakening spatial abilities, and Zhou Chun left seclusion ready to return to the battlefield.

• The Merit Reward Department awarded Zhou Chun four Demon Slaying Tokens and, at his request, a Blazing Sun Divine Ray Talisman for killing Yan Wuji.
• Zhou Chun cultivated in seclusion while the Heavenly Spirit Legion counterattacked and reclaimed territory from the weakened Yuanmo Legion.
• The Golden Winged Tiger completed its evolution, and Zhou Chun discovered that its wings had vanished into a spatial pouch-like ability.
• The Golden Winged Tiger told Zhou Chun that it had formed a distinct bloodline, awakened the Space Attribute, and gained several powerful new abilities.
• After the Golden Winged Tiger awoke, Zhou Chun gathered his Spirit Pets and announced that his injuries had healed, ending his seclusion to return to the battlefield.

After returning to the First Brigade, Zhou Chun sent Cheng Zhiming to lead half the troops to battle, leaving the station open to an attack by Yin Shaotian's demonic cultivators. As the formation faltered, Zhou Chun killed Deputy Commander Yue Feng, then fled to draw the attackers away, but Yin Shaotian and a Golden Core cultivator tracked him into the mountains.

• Zhou Chun returned to the First Brigade and, after half a month, ordered Cheng Zhiming to lead half the forces to support an assault while he stayed at the station.
• Yin Shaotian learned that Zhou Chun was vulnerable and led more than a hundred demonic cultivators, including Ge Changsheng and the Leopard Tail Demoness, to attack the station.
• As the attackers battered the formation, Yue Feng urged Zhou Chun to leave; Zhou Chun accused him of possible treachery, and killed him after Yue Feng refused his command and summoned his weapon.
• Zhou Chun announced that he would break out to draw the demonic cultivators away, escaped using the Blood Escape Technique, and blocked the Golden Core cultivator's first attack with a talisman.
• Zhou Chun hid underground in a mountain valley, but Yin Shaotian and the Golden Core cultivator used an Earth Peeking Compass to locate his direction and resumed the pursuit.

Zhou Chun survived Yin Shaotian and the Yin Ghost Sect Golden Core cultivator’s attacks underground, then helped stop their escape with Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai. As Zhou Chun pursued Ge Changsheng, the White-Haired Blood Demon summoned five Blood Fiends that drove Bai Bai berserk and continued to obstruct both of them.

• The Golden Core demonic cultivator tracked Stone underground, where his attacks led a Soul-Snatching Malevolent Ghost to possess Zhou Chun, but Zhou Chun destroyed it with the Sword of Slaying Gods.
• A Heavenly Spirit Legion Golden Core cultivator arrived, forcing the demonic cultivator to retreat with Yin Shaotian and Ge Changsheng.
• Zhou Chun released Bai Bai, who caught up with the escaping demonic cultivators and used Heavenly Gang Divine Thunder to interrupt their flight.
• The Golden Core demonic cultivator stayed behind to face the pursuing cultivator while Yin Shaotian and Ge Changsheng fled in different directions.
• Zhou Chun sent Bai Bai after Ge Changsheng, who burned his vital essence to summon five Blood Fiends that wounded Bai Bai and drove it into a berserk state.

Zhou Chun captured the weakened Ge Changsheng and returned to find the First Brigade base destroyed and its cultivators dead. After the old man in red joined him, they planned to question Ge Changsheng for information about how the demonic cultivators found the base.

• Zhou Chun defeated the five Blood Demons, helped Bai Bai recover, and pursued Ge Changsheng with the Golden Winged Tiger until Ge Changsheng collapsed from exhaustion.
• Zhou Chun captured Ge Changsheng alive and returned to the battlefield, where the red-robed old man drove off Yin Shaotian after gaining the upper hand.
• Zhou Chun found the First Brigade base in ruins and vowed to avenge the fallen, including Boyi.
• Deputies from the Third Brigade and Fifth Brigade arrived late, and Zhou Chun rebuked them for taking so long to answer his distress message.
• The red-robed old man returned and explained that Wei Yong had asked him to protect Zhou Chun, then agreed to search Ge Changsheng's Divine Soul for information.

After the betrayal that led to the First Brigade’s destruction, Zhou Chun survived an investigation that punished only a few suspects and spent three years serving as an inspector while his family grew stronger. As the war reached a stalemate, the Heavenly Spirit Legion’s Nascent Soul cultivators debated whether to launch a decisive attack on the malfunctioning spatial passage bringing Yuanmo reinforcements.

• Liu Boyang searched Ge Changsheng’s Divine Soul and confirmed that someone had secretly revealed Zhou Chun’s whereabouts and let the demonic cultivators through the defenses, though Ge Changsheng could not identify who was responsible.
• Zhou Chun found two survivors from the First Brigade, and Wei Yong supported his account, arranged for him to become a main-camp inspector, and backed an investigation into the betrayal.
• The investigation named three suspected Violet Palace cultivators; one was executed, while the other two lost their positions, and Zhou Chun received a Demon Slaying Token as compensation.
• Over the next three years, Zhou Chun’s Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai advanced, Lin Wan'er opened her Violet Palace, and Zhou Mingde broke through to the late Violet Palace Stage; Zhou Chun hoped Zhou Mingde would attempt Core Formation.
• At a meeting in the Jingyang Sect, the Nascent Soul cultivators argued over whether to risk a major assault or wait for the spatial passage to fail, and True Person Kunxu said its interference might make it vulnerable to an attack.

Zhou Chun joined the Heavenly Spirit Legion’s assault on Yin Xuan Cave, where he hunted Blood Bone Gate cultivators as the stronghold’s formation fell. When a flood of ghosts and corpses plunged the battlefield into chaos, Wei Yong ordered Zhou Chun to take command, and Zhou Chun led a force to confront Yin Shaotian’s Myriad Ghosts Slaughtering Immortal Formation.

• True Person Kunxu proposed that the Nascent Soul cultivators destroy the spatial teleportation passage, but the alliance leaders dispersed to discuss the dangerous plan before deciding.
• Wei Yong briefed Zhou Chun on the attack against Yin Xuan Cave and tasked him with capturing Yin Shaotian, promising to deal with any Blood Soul Mark.
• The Heavenly Spirit Legion’s five camps besieged Yin Xuan Cave, shattered its protective formation, and attacked as the demonic cultivators attempted to break out.
• Zhou Chun and his spirit beasts killed several Blood Bone Gate cultivators while other demonic cultivators fled, but ghosts and refined corpses surged from beneath the stronghold and threw the battlefield into chaos.
• Yin Shaotian and seventeen Yin Ghost Sect cultivators formed the Myriad Ghosts Slaughtering Immortal Formation, killing hundreds of Heavenly Spirit Legion soldiers, and Wei Yong ordered Zhou Chun to command the army.
• Zhou Chun gathered Violet Palace and Foundation Establishment cultivators to confront Yin Shaotian and released his Lower Fourth Rank puppet.

Zhou Chun helped the Heavenly Spirit Legion destroy Yin Xuan Cave’s formation and drove off its defenders, then used the battle’s spoils to nourish a rare insect that could aid Zhou Mingde’s Core Formation. The chapter ended with Zhou Chun hoping the Sacred Spirit Blood Leech would mature and improve Zhou Mingde’s chances.

• Zhou Chun rode the Giant Tiger Puppet into the Myriad Ghosts Slaughtering Immortal Formation and fought off its evil ghosts while Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai prepared its attack.
• Zhou Chun endured the formation’s yin rain and soul-attacking ghost explosions, then used the Fire Lin Sword to wound one of Yin Shaotian’s evil ghosts.
• Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai struck the formation with lightning, allowing Zhou Chun and the Heavenly Spirit Legion cultivators to break it, but Yin Shaotian and the Yin Ghost Sect cultivators escaped using puppet decoys and imitation flags.
• Zhou Chun helped rout the Yin Xuan Cave defenders, personally killing six Violet Palace-stage demonic cultivators before the battle ended.
• Zhou Chun fed the Sacred Spirit Blood Leech the blood essence of six Violet Palace cultivators and hoped it had matured enough to be refined into a Sacred Spirit Blood Pill for Zhou Mingde’s Core Formation.

After Zhou Chun’s victory at Yin Xuan Cave, he gained wealth and rank while the Heavenly Spirit Legion prepared for a major offensive. True Person Qingxiao secured an Infant Transformation Pill and guarantees for Green Lotus Temple, and the chapter ended as the Legion launched a vast attack across the front.

• Zhou Chun received battle commendations and rewards for the victory at Yin Xuan Cave, rising to third among the Seven Heroes of Tianling, and Wei Yong warned him to stay within the stronghold.
• The Yuanmo Legion launched several attacks over the next six months, including one against Zhou Chun’s stronghold, but the Heavenly Spirit Legion held its advantage.
• True Person Qingxiao demanded a two-hundred-year guarantee for Green Lotus Temple and an Infant Transformation Pill in exchange for his sacrifice, and True Person Kunxu agreed to his conditions.
• The Heavenly Spirit Legion strengthened its battalions and trained new recruits, while Zhou Chun warned Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Zhengyong, and the others to prepare for a major battle.
• Wei Yong led Zhou Chun’s battalion toward Yuanmo Legion territory as hundreds of Heavenly Spirit Legion flying boats attacked along the front, targeting six strongholds and sweeping aside smaller ones.

The Heavenly Spirit Legion’s full-scale offensive against Chunyang Valley served as a diversion while True Person Kunxu led nineteen Nascent Soul cultivators across the Spirit-Severing Desert to attack the demon cultivators’ spatial gate. Their approach was discovered, and the chapter ended with True Person Kunxu and the Blood Infant Ancestor clashing while sixteen Nascent Soul-stage Old Devils gathered around them.

• Wei Yong ordered three battalions to launch a full-scale attack on Chunyang Valley, but the powerful Guardian Formation withstood their assaults for several days.
• True Person Kunxu led a nineteen-person Nascent Soul strike team through the Spirit-Severing Desert, concealed by True Person Liuyun’s Taiyi Cloud Smoke Net.
• The strike team reached the ancient battlefield and spotted the demon cultivators’ enormous space-transmission gate.
• True Person Kunxu ordered True Person Liuyun to approach the gate, but a blood-colored demonic light struck and exposed the group.
• The Blood Infant Ancestor confronted True Person Kunxu as sixteen Nascent Soul-stage Old Devils arrived to defend the gate.
• True Person Kunxu and the Blood Infant Ancestor unleashed their life-bound treasures and collided in a battle whose shockwaves threatened nearby cultivators.

True Person Qingxiao sacrificed himself to destroy the Demonic cultivators’ stable spatial teleportation passage, cutting off their reinforcements and escape route. Afterward, True Person Kunxu led the Tianling cultivators toward the Feng Kingdom front line as the enraged Devils attacked.

• True Person Qingxiao used Sword Qi Manifesting Rainbow to kill a Fifth Rank Corpse King, then tried to destroy the light gate with a spatial talisman.
• The Blood Infant Ancestor’s second Nascent Soul avatar intervened, and Qingxiao used a secret technique to strengthen his Nascent Soul and fight it with Nascent Soul Sword Control.
• Qingxiao drew the avatar away, flew near the light gate, and self-destructed his Nascent Soul, destroying the stabilized passage and dying in the blast.
• The Tianling cultivators celebrated Qingxiao’s sacrifice, while the Devils realized they had lost their supply route and the retreat of their forces in Feng Country.
• The Blood Infant Ancestor ordered the Devils to attack, and True Person Kunxu led the Tianling cultivators toward the front line rather than prolonging the battle.

The Heavenly Spirit Legion launched its final assault on Chunyang Valley after learning Yuanmo Realm’s supply passage had been destroyed, and Zhou Chun helped break through the grand formation. He rampaged through the valley with his spirit beasts before the Fire Lin Crown Prince, Qin Yan, arrived to challenge him.

• Wei Yong announced that the Nascent Soul True Persons had destroyed Yuanmo Realm’s spatial transmission passage and ordered the Heavenly Spirit Legion to attack Chunyang Valley.
• Wei Yong and the Golden Core cultivators sent War Beasts into the grand formation, while Zhou Chun entered disguised and defended himself with the other soldiers.
• Zhou Chun revealed his identity when he used his spirit beasts, puppet, and Fire Lin Sword Talisman Treasure to break the formation’s inner barrier.
• Zhou Chun, Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai, and the Golden Winged Tiger charged into Chunyang Valley and slaughtered hundreds of demonic cultivators.
• Qin Yan, the Fire Lin Crown Prince and leader of the Seven Fiends of Yuanmo, arrived and challenged Zhou Chun to a fight.

Zhou Chun and his Spirit Pets fought Qin Yan, the powerful “Fire Lin Crown Prince,” to a standstill before Chunyang Valley’s protective formation collapsed and Qin Yan withdrew. After Zhou Chun helped wipe out the remaining demonic cultivators, Wei Yong led him and a small force toward another stronghold.

• Zhou Chun and his Spirit Pets attacked Qin Yan, but he repelled their assaults, endured Bai Bai’s Heavenly Gang Divine Thunder, and broke free from Zhou Chun’s Concentric Golden Lock Secret Technique.
• Zhou Chun struck Qin Yan with the Sword of Slaying Gods and sent the Golden Winged Tiger to attack with hidden Frosty Cold Bees, but Qin Yan escaped using the Fire Evasion Technique.
• The Azure Cloud Rhinoceros destroyed a main formation foundation, and Wei Yong and the other Golden Core cultivators broke Chunyang Valley’s protective formation.
• Qin Yan withdrew from Chunyang Valley, and Zhou Chun and his Spirit Pets slaughtered the demonic cultivators left behind as the remaining Golden Core demonic cultivators fled.
• Wei Yong assembled the cultivators still able to fight, and Zhou Chun joined the force that traveled to another demonic-cultivator stronghold.

Zhou Chun joined the assault on Youquan Lake, helped break the Nine Nether Demonic Flame Formation, and killed the demoness Qin Miaoyin. He then watched Li Qinyang battle Yin Shaotian and prepared to intervene before Yin Shaotian could escape.

• Wei Yong explained that the Heavenly Spirit Legion would weaken the Nine Nether Demonic Flame Formation through sustained attacks, and Zhou Chun joined the assault.
• After half a month, Zhengyang Palace cultivators tore open the weakened formation with a golden-red pillar of flame, and the Heavenly Spirit Legion charged into Youquan Lake.
• Zhou Chun agreed to let Li Qinyang fight Yin Shaotian first, then left to battle Qin Miaoyin and killed her with help from his puppet, pets, and poisoned needle.
• With the stronghold’s defenders overwhelmed, Zhou Chun sent the Golden Winged Tiger to protect Zhou Zhengyong and went to watch Li Qinyang’s fight with Yin Shaotian.
• Li Qinyang unleashed a Dragon-Patterned Flying Sword alongside his own sword, nearly killing Yin Shaotian, who sacrificed his Steel Fork Malevolent Ghost to survive and reached for his own trump card.

Zhou Chun and Li Qinyang fought Yin Shaotian and his Fourth Rank Red-Haired Ghost King at Youquan Lake, but the ghost turned on its master and devoured him. After a Zhengyang Palace Golden Core cultivator drove the ghost into the lake, Zhou Chun asked Li Qinyang for permission to inspect Yin Shaotian’s Storage Bag for evidence of a traitor.

• Yin Shaotian released the Red-Haired Ghost King, which clashed with Li Qinyang until Zhou Chun and Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai attacked Yin Shaotian.
• Zhou Chun and Bai Bai overwhelmed Yin Shaotian, but he transferred the damage from Bai Bai’s Heavenly Gang Divine Thunder to a Poison Fire Malevolent Ghost and survived.
• Yin Shaotian used a blood talisman to force the Red-Haired Ghost King to attack Zhou Chun, then detonated his Yin Soul Banner and escaped into Youquan Lake.
• Bai Bai pursued Yin Shaotian underwater while Zhou Chun helped Li Qinyang fight the Red-Haired Ghost King, which soon dove into the lake as well.
• Yin Shaotian emerged from the lake begging for help, but the Red-Haired Ghost King pounced on him and devoured him before a Zhengyang Palace Golden Core cultivator drove it away.
• Zhou Chun asked Li Qinyang to let him inspect Yin Shaotian’s Storage Bag for evidence that Yin Shaotian had been communicating with a traitor.

After Yin Shaotian’s death, Zhou Chun and Li Qinyang uncovered evidence of traitors and divided his belongings, then joined the hunt for demonic cultivators escaping the Corpse Demon Sect. Zhou Chun returned to Wei Yong’s garrison and learned that True Person Qingxiao had fallen, news that filled him with joy.

• Zhou Chun persuaded Li Qinyang to let him inspect Yin Shaotian’s belongings, and they found a secret record of the demonic cultivator’s correspondence with Heavenly Spirit Legion members.
• Zhou Chun and Li Qinyang agreed to give the secret record to their commanders and split Yin Shaotian’s remaining valuables.
• Zhou Chun and Li Qinyang returned to the front line and helped suppress corpse servants unleashed from Youquan Lake.
• The Zhengyang Palace elders ordered the Violet Palace cultivators to pursue demonic cultivators fleeing the Corpse Demon Sect’s headquarters, and Zhou Chun accepted the mission.
• Zhou Chun gave Zhou Zhengyong the Golden Winged Tiger for safekeeping, then used the Wood Sprite to track and kill more than a hundred demonic cultivators over seven or eight days.
• Zhou Chun returned to Wei Yong’s garrison intending to submit the secret record, but learned that True Person Qingxiao had fallen and felt delighted.

After learning that True Person Qingxiao had fallen, Zhou Chun felt the Zhou Family was no longer at Green Lotus Temple’s mercy and prepared to return home after the war. On the journey, he visited Three Immortals Mountain with Zhou Zhengyong, found surviving Zhou Family descendants, and agreed to try to save the wounded Lian'er.

• Zhou Chun gave Wei Yong a secret manual taken from Yin Shaotian, and Wei Yong said he would submit it to Silver Moon Ancestor.
• Wei Yong explained that the Heavenly Spirit Legion would remain active to hunt hidden Demonic cultivators, while cultivators with outstanding merit could retire; Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong qualified to return home.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong visited Three Immortals Mountain, their family's former homeland, and a Golden Core cultivator surnamed Lu suggested the Zhou Family might reclaim it.
• The two brothers found the nearby Zhou Family settlements destroyed, then rescued a Heavenly Spirit Legion squad from Demonic cultivators and met surviving mortals who identified themselves as Zhou Family descendants.
• The survivors pleaded for Zhou Chun to save Lian'er, a wounded Zhou Family cultivator who had endured the demons' abuse to protect them, and Zhou Chun agreed to try.

Zhou Chun rescued Zhou Xiaolian from the aftermath of demonic cultivator abuse and persuaded her to live so she could cultivate and hunt demons. After returning to Tu Yun Ridge, he survived an ambush by a Golden Core demonic cultivator and agreed to remain in the mountain while the Zhou Family prepared for threats after the war.

• Zhou Chun healed Lian'er, and when she tried to kill herself, he and Zhou Zhengyong persuaded her to live and fight demonic cultivators instead.
• Zhou Chun disguised Zhou Xiaolian's departure as her death, then crippled her demonic cultivation and chose the True Scripture of Ten Thousand Poisons for her future training.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhengyong parted ways in Cloud Prefecture, with Zhou Xiaolian accompanying Zhou Zhengyong to Nine Peaks Ridge while Zhou Chun rode toward Tu Yun Ridge.
• A blood-robed Golden Core cultivator ambushed Zhou Chun outside Tu Yun Ridge, but the Golden Winged Tiger, Zhou Chun's talisman and puppet, and Lin Hongyu's intervention helped him reach safety.
• Lin Hongyu treated the Golden Winged Tiger, and Zhou Mingde urged Zhou Chun to remain at Tu Yun Ridge until he formed his Core.
• Zhou Chun warned the Zhou Family about possible retaliation from the demonic sects and other powers, while Lin Hongyu volunteered to report the ambush to the alliance and legion.