Chapter Summaries

Wei Yong forced Qing Weizi to resign as Green Lotus Temple's Lord Temple Master after exposing a captured traitor and leveraging the temple's vulnerability, then secured the Zhou Family's affiliation with the Moon Wheel Sect. Zhou Chun later surrendered a borrowed puppet and was surprised when his old friend Luo Qingni arrived at Tu Yun Ridge.

• Wei Yong presented Qing Weizi with evidence that Green Lotus Temple cultivators had collaborated with demonic cultivators, but the suspects had vanished or been killed.
• Wei Yong interrogated Zeng Shiming, who confessed to letting demonic cultivators pass; Qing Weizi killed him to prevent a soul search, and Wei Yong used the incident to pressure Qing Weizi into resigning and accepting a fifty-year retreat.
• Wei Yong told Qing Weizi that the Moon Wheel Sect would accept the Zhou Family as an affiliate, and explained to Junior Martial Brother Xu that weakening Green Lotus Temple was the sect's goal.
• Wei Yong visited Zhou Chun, shared news of the Zhou Family's new affiliation, and promised to ask the Moon Wheel Sect to help protect Tu Yun Ridge from the Dragon Transformation Sect.
• Qing Lingzi retrieved the Fourth-Tier Giant Tiger Puppet from Zhou Chun, who later welcomed an unexpected visitor: the Golden Core Alchemy Master Luo Qingni.

After the war, Zhou Chun agreed to help Luo Qingni retrieve an alchemy furnace and inheritance from a secret realm, while she agreed to refine his Sacred Spirit Blood Pill and assist the Zhou Family. He assessed the clan’s postwar needs, arranged protection and supply purchases, and began reviewing his rewards, leaving him considering how to use his battle merits, Spirit Coins, and Demon Slaying Tokens.

• Luo Qingni found Zhou Chun after learning of his identity and asked him to enter a secret realm before forming his Golden Core to retrieve an alchemy furnace and inheritance; she offered a Lower Fourth Rank puppet and other support.
• Zhou Chun agreed to help Luo Qingni and asked her to refine his Sacred Spirit Blood Pill; she accepted, then agreed to stay at Nine Peaks Ridge and guide the Zhou Family’s alchemists.
• Zhou Chun reviewed the Zhou Family’s postwar personnel and finances, resolved to help Zhou Zhengyuan and Zhou Zhengyong pursue Violet Palace breakthroughs, and sent Luo Qingni with Lin Wan'er to buy supplies in Great Zhou Country.
• A Golden Core cultivator from Heavenly Mirror Villa delivered communications that would let the Zhou Family call for protection, and Zhou Chun speculated that True Person Heavenly Mirror had joined Moon Wheel Sect.
• Zhou Chun received the first merit-reward plan, rejected sect admission and personal-use inheritances, and considered exchanging his battle achievements, Spirit Coins, and thirteen Demon Slaying Tokens for Golden Core formation resources.

Zhou Chun investigated the slaughter of the Scale Frog tribes and discovered that the Five Demonic Sects of Yuanmo had established a base at the abandoned Blood Dragon Branch Altar with the Dragon Transformation Sect’s help. After capturing demonic cultivators, he learned they planned to transform the local Spirit Vein into a Yin Vein, leaving him to decide how to stop their growing threat.

• Zhou Chun reviewed the Heavenly Spirit Alliance’s exchange list, selected cultivation resources and possible family estates, and learned that key spiritual items would require years or even a century of waiting.
• Demonic cultivators began attacking cultivators and slaughtering mortals, while Zhou Chun arranged the Zhou Family’s production and responded to High Priest Ukulu’s report of mass killings among the Scale Frog tribes.
• Zhou Chun traveled secretly to the Wilderness Expanse and confirmed that the Five Demonic Sects of Yuanmo were behind the attacks and had established a base at the Blood Dragon Branch Altar old site.
• Zhou Chun tracked the demonic cultivators to their base and captured two Foundation Establishment demonic cultivators after the Wood Sprite ambushed their squad.
• The captives revealed that five Golden Core demonic cultivators and thousands of others occupied the base, and Zhou Chun learned that they were collecting corpses to transform the Spirit Vein into a Yin Vein.

After discovering that Dragon Transformation Sect had sheltered Yuanmo demonic cultivators in the Wilderness Expanse, Zhou Chun secretly passed the information to the Su Family, helping the Heavenly Spirit Alliance destroy the stronghold. With the threat removed, he secured Bamboo Leaf Island as a Zhou Family refuge and began rewarding longtime clan members with resources to advance their cultivation.

• Zhou Chun and Lin Hongyu confirmed through soul-searching that Dragon Transformation Sect had helped the Five Demonic Sects of Yuanmo establish a base, and Zhou Chun chose the Su Family to report the discovery so the Zhou Family’s Wilderness Expanse arrangements stayed concealed.
• Zhou Chun gave the Su Family Ancestor four Demon Slaying Tokens to help Su Yuzhen obtain a Water Origin Precious Pill, and the ancestor returned the blue-black flag magic treasure he had previously received from Zhou Chun.
• The Moon Wheel Sect verified the demonic stronghold and led a swift assault that killed thousands of demonic cultivators, including five Golden Core fiends and the blood-robed middle-aged man.
• Lin Wan'er returned with supplies bought in Great Zhou Country, and Zhou Chun later chose Bamboo Leaf Island in Joy Kingdom as a new Zhou Family stronghold and sent Zhou Daoquan and other clansmen to occupy it.
• Zhou Chun gave Zhou Zhengyong a Violet Dust Pill to help him attempt to open his Violet Palace, assuring him that the Zhou Family would also provide cultivation resources to other deserving senior clansmen.

Zhou Chun managed the Zhou Family’s recovery after the war, rejected Li Jingxuan and You Jingxuan’s proposal to reclaim Three Immortals Mountain, and reopened the family’s delivery business after Green Lotus Temple closed its gates. Three years after the war, he sensed unusual spiritual energy around Zhou Zhengyong’s secluded cave, signaling that Zhou Zhengyong was breaking through.

• Zhou Chun oversaw the restoration of the family’s beast production and personally protected Zhou Yuanlian as she began cultivating the True Scripture of Ten Thousand Poisons.
• Li Jingxuan and You Jingxuan invited the Zhou Family to help exchange for Three Immortals Mountain, but Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde refused.
• Zhou Chun sold the Zhou Family’s Green Lotus Temple Ascension Tokens and trained Zhou Xinyi to help manage clan affairs.
• After Green Lotus Temple closed its gates, Zhou Chun reopened the Zhou Tong Tianxia delivery business and sent third-rank spirit pets to protect its transportation teams from demonic cultivators.
• Zhou Chun praised Zhou Zhengyuan and Zhou Xinlan for their progress studying alchemy under Luo Qingni, then visited Zhou Yuanlian.
• Three years after the war, Zhou Chun sensed unusual spiritual energy around Zhou Zhengyong’s secluded cave and realized he was on the verge of a breakthrough.

Zhou Zhengyong opened his Violet Palace, and the Zhou Family celebrated his breakthrough. After the festivities, Zhou Chun proposed forming his Golden Core inside the Secret Realm Island to gain access to its treasures, and Luo Qingni warned him of the dangers before agreeing to stay at Nine Peaks Ridge for a few more years.

• Zhou Zhengyong emerged from seclusion after successfully opening his Violet Palace, and Zhou Chun helped him settle his disbelief.
• Zhou Chun held a modest Violet Palace celebration, where Luo Qingni judged the Zhou Family’s younger cultivators comparable to ordinary Golden Core Families of Great Zhou Country.
• After the celebration, Luo Qingni asked when Zhou Chun would travel with her to Great Zhou, and he privately proposed forming his Golden Core inside the Secret Realm Island.
• Luo Qingni warned that the island’s Turbid Fiendish Energy could cause qi deviation and permanently taint Zhou Chun’s Golden Core, but he claimed he had ways to counter it.
• Zhou Chun asked Luo Qingni to remain at Nine Peaks Ridge while he prepared to form his Golden Core in three to five years, and she agreed to stay while advising him to reconsider.

Zhou Chun arranged for the Zhou Family to strengthen its ties with the Moon Wheel Sect and bring veteran cultivators home, while confronting Xu Fu for defying his wishes. Xu Fu returned to Tu Yun Ridge chastened, and Zhou Chun resolved to learn the Great Soul Control Method after forming his core.

• Wood Sprite advanced to third-tier middle-grade after absorbing the spiritual power of Green Pear Wood, and Zhou Chun gave the Greenwood Spirit Ape a third-tier Demonic Core to consume.
• Zhou Chun learned that Li Qinyang had formed his core and considered the Heavenly Spirit Alliance's call for demon-extermination teams an opportunity to bring Zhou Daoyi and other family cultivators home.
• Zhou Chun selected ten young Zhou Family members to enter the Moon Wheel Sect, escorted them to its mountain gate, and agreed with True Person Bai Yue on the family's future tribute, including annual Flood Dragon Spirit Blood.
• Zhou Daoyi, Zhou Xin Yan, Zhou Xintie, and other Zhou Family cultivators retired and returned, but Xu Fu chose to remain in the army to earn military achievements for a Violet Palace-opening spiritual item.
• Zhou Chun arranged for Xu Fu to be transferred near Tu Yun Ridge, warned him not to forget his place in the Zhou Family, and decided to master the Great Soul Control Method after forming his core.

Zhou Chun prepared to enter the Secret Realm Island in Muli Lake, hoping to form his Golden Core and obtain the treasure Luo Qingni needed. He activated her jade talisman and arrived safely on the island, where he began preparing to explore.

• The Greenwood Spirit Ape failed to evolve after consuming the Green Crested Ape's Demonic Core, and Zhou Chun left the Wood Sprite to help it recover.
• Luo Qingni finished studying the Sacred Spirit Blood Pill formula and agreed to refine it after Zhou Chun retrieved a suitable alchemy furnace in Great Zhou.
• Zhou Chun reached the limit of his magical power, prepared his Spirit Pets and magic treasures, and secretly left to travel with Luo Qingni to Great Zhou.
• Zhou Chun and Luo Qingni reached Sky Abyss Immortal City, gathered supplies and information, then traveled to the Secret Realm Island in Muli Lake.
• Luo Qingni gave Zhou Chun a jade talisman, a puppet, talismans, pills, and her exploration notes before he activated the talisman and entered the island.
• Zhou Chun appeared on the Bluestone Plaza, inspected Luo Qingni's supplies, and began binding the puppet while studying her map and notes.

Zhou Chun explored Secret Realm Island, where most valuable areas remained inaccessible, and gathered his companions to attack the Fourth-Tier Puppets guarding the Core Elixir Hall. He damaged the blade-wielding Puppet, but the fire from his attack also thawed its archer companion, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Zhou Chun sent Wood Sprite Mu Sang to absorb the island's Wood Spirit Power and collect spirit medicines.
• Zhou Chun entered the orchard but retreated when its Five-Colored Dragonfish attacked, then found the flower garden stripped of valuable plants and collected seeds and roots.
• Zhou Chun reached the Core Elixir Hall and released his Spirit Pets, Frosty Cold Bees, Giant Ape Puppet, and Talismans to attack its two warrior Puppets.
• Zhou Chun's Frosty Cold Bees froze the archer Puppet while his Giant Ape Puppet and Spirit Pets fought the blade-wielding Puppet.
• Zhou Chun used a fourth-tier mid-grade Talisman to break the blade-wielding Puppet's shield and crack its body, but the resulting flames began freeing the archer Puppet from the ice.

Zhou Chun defeated the two Fourth Rank warrior puppets, explored the Core Elixir Hall, and discovered that its crimson-gold alchemy furnace could not be taken without Golden Core cultivation. He notified Luo Qingni that he would form his core on the Secret Realm Island, spent three years repeatedly condensing his virtual Core, and then ate the Five Elements Spirit Fruit to begin the next stage.

• Zhou Chun and his Spirit Pets destroyed the shield-wielding puppet and captured the bow-and-arrow puppet largely intact, though Stone and the Giant Ape Puppet were badly damaged.
• Zhou Chun broke through the Core Elixir Hall's fiery barrier and found that its medicine cabinets and pill bottles held mostly useless remains, while he salvaged lotus seeds, research notes, and other items.
• Zhou Chun could not move the crimson-gold alchemy furnace; when the Giant Ape Puppet tried to lift it, the furnace's flames badly damaged the puppet before Zhou Chun and the Frosty Cold Bees extinguished them.
• Zhou Chun activated both message talismans to tell Luo Qingni he would enter seclusion, then settled in the garden with his Spirit Pets.
• Zhou Chun condensed and dispersed his virtual Core more than eight hundred times over three years, then ate the Five Elements Spirit Fruit.

Zhou Chun completed Core Formation on the Secret Realm Island, overcame successive heart-demon illusions, and was forced to choose between an impossible trial and a limited reward. He learned how someone else could still claim the island’s legacy, then returned to his garden and began refining treasures, including the Moon Toad Treasure Bead.

• Zhou Chun absorbed the Five Elements Spirit Fruit and spent a hundred days turning his virtual Core into a solid Golden Core while resisting heart-demon illusions.
• Zhou Chun saw through visions of his past life and imagined disasters threatening the Zhou Family, then successfully merged his Divine Soul with his Golden Core.
• Zhou Chun’s Spirit Pets congratulated him after his Golden Core formed, but a silver formation transported him to a Quiet Room where he learned he could either attempt an overwhelmingly difficult trial or take medicinal garden and Treasure Pavilion rewards.
• Zhou Chun learned the requirements for inheriting the island’s legacy and realized he might cooperate with Luo Qingni or another qualified cultivator to claim it.
• Zhou Chun returned to his garden, refined the Earthen Adamant Vajra Shield and Azure Wood Divine Fiend Banner, and prepared to refine the Moon Toad Treasure Bead.

After forming his Golden Core, Zhou Chun refined the Moon Toad Treasure Bead and awakened the ancient Heaven and Earth Purifying Divine Jar, learning their powers and the burden of nourishing his treasures. He then entered a hidden medicinal garden on the island and discovered a mountain of ancient spiritual medicines, including a Spirit Tea Tree bearing fifteen Jade Marrow Ganoderma.

• Zhou Chun mastered the Moon Toad Treasure Bead’s Spiritually Connected Treasure Art, refined it, and learned its three great divine abilities from the artifact spirit.
• Zhou Chun fed his magic power into the Purification Stone Jar, awakening it and learning that it was the Heaven and Earth Purifying Divine Jar, an ancient Human Race divine artifact.
• Zhou Chun learned that the jar could produce Essence Purifying Spirit Water and, if he reached Nascent Soul, World Purifying Holy Water, though nourishing his many treasures strained his resources.
• Zhou Chun used a jade talisman to enter a hidden medicinal garden and found rare spiritual medicines aged for thousands of years across the mountain.
• Zhou Chun discovered a Fourth Rank Spirit Tea Tree bearing fifteen Jade Marrow Ganoderma, including seven older than a thousand years and one older than three thousand years.

Zhou Chun harvested the medicine garden, retrieved an alchemy furnace for Luo Qingni, chose the Blazing Flame Gauntlets, and stole the Five-Colored Dragonfish from the secret realm. On his journey toward the Great Zhou Country, he encountered an attacking Multi-Winged Archmage and froze him with the Supreme Yin Annihilation Divine Light.

• Zhou Chun harvested the Jade Marrow Ganoderma and other rare Spirit Medicines, cleared the garden of competing plants, and recorded what remained for future harvests.
• Zhou Chun used the Moon Toad Treasure Bead to withstand the pill furnace's defenses, subdued it, and stored it for Luo Qingni.
• Zhou Chun chose the Blazing Flame Gauntlets from the Treasure Pavilion and left after confirming he could not take a second treasure.
• Zhou Chun used the Golden Winged Tiger to approach the Five-Colored Dragonfish, froze it with the Supreme Yin Annihilation Divine Light, and was teleported out with its corpse.
• Zhou Chun traveled toward the Great Zhou Country and fought an eight-winged Multi-Winged Archmage, stunning him with the Sword of Slaying Gods and freezing him with the Supreme Yin Annihilation Divine Light.

Zhou Chun fled the Dolan Grasslands after killing Ban'erwa, but Banggelu pursued him and nearly killed him before Shen Jianxing intervened. After reaching Great Zhou Country, Zhou Chun repaid Shen with Thousand-Year Golden Sword Bamboo, received a Sword-Grinding Stone in return, and continued toward Sky Abyss Immortal City.

• Zhou Chun killed Ban'erwa with the Supreme Yin Annihilation Divine Light, collected his belongings, and fled toward Great Zhou Country as the Multi-Winged Tribe raised the alarm.
• The Vengeful Blood Eagle tracked Zhou Chun, and Banggelu caught up to him and damaged his Earthen Adamant Vajra Shield with repeated arrows.
• Zhou Chun used Luo Qingni's Void Spirit Talisman to evade Banggelu's White Bone Arrow, while Shen Jianxing arrived and drove Banggelu off.
• Zhou Chun crossed into Great Zhou Country, met Shen Jianxing at the border, and learned that Shen was an elder of the Nine Yuan Sword Sect.
• Zhou Chun gave Shen Jianxing a Thousand-Year Golden Sword Bamboo, and Shen returned a Sword-Grinding Stone containing remnants of his sword intent.
• Shen Jianxing departed using Sword Escape, and Zhou Chun flew toward Sky Abyss Immortal City.

After recovering in Sky Abyss Immortal City, Zhou Chun sorted the spoils from his battle and visited the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion to obtain materials for his Natal Artifact. He left with two Magic Treasure Spirit Materials and an agreement to return in half a month for higher-quality Metal element essence.

• Zhou Chun rented a cave abode, recovered from his injuries, and examined the Multi-Winged Archmage Ban'erwa's storage artifact and the Five-Colored Dragonfish's remains.
• Zhou Chun tested the sword intent on Shen Jianxing's whetstone, suffered a minor spiritual sense injury, and resolved to cultivate the Heart Lotus True Method more diligently.
• Zhou Chun disguised himself as Zhang Liang and visited the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, where shopkeeper Sun Yuanjing received him.
• Zhou Chun exchanged prepared spirit objects for Heavenly Profound Gold Sand and Gold Star Stone, then inspected samples of Metal element essence.
• Sun Yuanjing agreed to find higher-quality Metal element essence for Zhou Chun, who departed with the two materials and planned to return in half a month.

Zhou Chun secured Grand Unity Profound Gold Qi through the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, exchanged with Luo Qingni for the Secret Realm Island jade talisman, alchemy resources, and help with a damaged puppet, then traveled across the Great Zhou Country to trade for materials. At Xuanqing Market, he recognized the Zhou Family traitor Yu Jinghua by his voice, despite Yu Jinghua’s changed appearance.

• Zhou Chun agreed to leave a Fourth Rank green feather fan as a deposit while Sun Yuanjing gathered Grand Unity Profound Gold Qi within twenty-five years.
• Zhou Chun showed Luo Qingni the magic-treasure pill furnace and alchemy classics from the Secret Realm Island, then recounted his experiences there.
• Luo Qingni gave Zhou Chun the jade talisman, promised to introduce Master Thousand Mechanisms to repair his puppet, provided pill formulas, and agreed to refine the Sacred Spirit Blood Pill.
• Zhou Chun traveled through markets across the Great Zhou Country, selling goods and collecting Spirit Medicines and a Spirit Material for his plans.
• At Xuanqing Market, Zhou Chun recognized Yu Jinghua by his voice as the Zhou Family traitor, and Shopkeeper Ma asked whether he knew him.

Zhou Chun obtained a Sacred Spirit Blood Pill for Zhou Mingde and returned to Tu Yun Ridge after successfully forming his Golden Core, restoring the Zhou Family to the ranks of Golden Core families. As the family prepared his Golden Core Ceremony, Zhou Mingde began considering an attempt to form his own Core.

• Zhou Chun hired the Heavenly Knowledge Tower to investigate Hua Feng and learned that he was Yu Jinghua, a mid Golden Core cultivator and elder of the Spirit Taming Sect who had joined using the Zhou Family's beast-taming inheritance.
• Luo Qingni completed the Sacred Spirit Blood Pill, which Zhou Chun collected before setting out for Tu Yun Ridge.
• Zhou Chun returned to Tu Yun Ridge, where Zhou Mingde, Lin Hongyu, and the Zhou Family elders welcomed him as a newly formed Golden Core cultivator.
• Moved by the Zhou Family's restoration, Zhou Mingde considered using the available resources, including the Sacred Spirit Blood Pill, to attempt forming his own Core after Zhou Chun's ceremony.
• Su Yuzhen congratulated Zhou Chun and vowed to form her own Core, while Zhou Chun promised to protect her through the attempt.
• Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family set his Golden Core Ceremony for his two-hundred-and-tenth birthday and began preparing invitations and celebrations.

After returning to the Zhou Family, Zhou Chun planned to deal with the traitor Yu Jinghua, strengthened the family’s ties and resources, and prepared for his Golden Core Ceremony. The ceremony began at Tu Yun Ridge as the bells rang twenty-four times.

• Zhou Chun and the family elders condemned Yu Jinghua for betraying the Zhou Family and discussed gathering allies to kill him, while Zhou Chun urged Zhou Mingde to pursue Golden Core formation.
• Zhou Chun gave the family beast eggs, talismans, healing pills, and alchemy recipes, then summoned Zhou Siyu to learn about a promising lake site for a Flood Dragon’s Lair.
• Zhou Chun inspected the lake, returned the Frosty Cold Bees to the Wilderness Expanse, revealed his Golden Core cultivation to Ukulu, and visited True Person Bai Yue and his relatives at the Moon Wheel Sect.
• Zhou Chun and the Zhou Family prepared for his Golden Core Ceremony, while Zhou Xinyi managed the growing list of supplies and arrangements.
• Zhou Mingde ordered the Foundation Establishment cultivators to patrol around Tu Yun Ridge, and the ceremony began with twenty-four bell chimes.

Zhou Chun’s Golden Core Ceremony drew a crowd of cultivators and prominent guests, and he made a grand entrance on Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai. During the banquet, he revealed that he had killed a fourth-tier Demonic Beast, leaving several Golden Core guests alarmed by his strength.

• Cultivators from across the region arrived at Tu Yun Ridge and presented gifts, while Zhou Zhengyong announced the arrivals and Lin Hongyu received the Golden Core guests.
• The Jiangzhou Su Family offered an especially lavish gift, and the Su Family Ancestor attended with Su Yuzhen and other family cultivators.
• At noon, Zhou Chun rode Bai Bai to Yellow Dragon Peak, greeted the guests, and recounted his cultivation journey before opening the banquet.
• The Golden Core guests recognized the banquet’s fish dishes as meat from a fourth-tier fish demon, and Zhou Chun confirmed that he had killed the beast by taking advantage of an opportunity.
• Wang Qingyun and the other Golden Core guests grew wary of Zhou Chun’s strength, while Zhou Chun urged them to finish the fish before it spoiled.

Zhou Chun’s Golden Core Ceremony showcased the Zhou Family’s strength and ended with him agreeing to help Su Yuzhen attempt Core Formation. Just after the guests departed, Black Dragon Hall Master Di Long ambushed Zhou Chun, but an unknown cultivator interrupted the fight.

• Zhou Chun served fourth-tier Five-Colored Dragonfish and divine-sense-enhancing Spirit Tea at his ceremony, and the guests named the tea Azure Wave Heart Cleansing Tea.
• Zhou Chun taught cultivation techniques, watched the Zhou Family’s younger generations spar, and ended the five-day ceremony with a sale of family specialties.
• The Su Family Ancestor asked Zhou Chun to use a dual cultivation secret technique to help Su Yuzhen form her Golden Core, and Zhou Chun agreed.
• After the guests left, Di Long broke through Zhou Chun’s protective restrictions and attacked him, but Zhou Chun used his treasures and the Nine Palaces Yellow Dragon Grand Formation to survive until Lin Hongyu joined the fight.
• Di Long revealed himself as Black Dragon Hall Master and transformed with the Dragon Transformation Secret Manual, but an unknown cultivator mocked the Dragon Transformation Sect and interrupted the battle.