Chapter Summaries

Zhou Daoyi gave Zhou Zhiying a Skywind Thunder Eagle egg, while Zhou Chun expanded the Zhou Family’s development and sales efforts. The chapter ended with Zhou Zhiqian demonstrating his swordsmanship and Zhou Chun refusing his request to view the Sword-Grinding Stone for now.

• Zhou Daoyi explained that the egg he gave Zhou Zhiying was a rare Skywind Thunder Eagle, and Zhou Chun told her to accept it and care for it well.
• Zhou Chun guided Zhou Zhiying through acknowledging the eagle as her Spirit Pet, and Zhou Daoyi later returned to Sky Abyss Immortal City.
• Zhou Chun directed Xu Fu to expand the Zhou Family’s Wilderness Expanse exploration and mortal settlements, while warning him not to risk conflict with High-grade Demonic Beasts.
• Zhou Chun upgraded the Zhou Family’s businesses by bundling sales, using lotteries, and requiring group purchases to obtain popular Demonic Beast cubs.
• Zhou Zhiqian visited Zhou Chun to request access to the Sword-Grinding Stone after mastering the second layer of the Hanguang Sword Art.
• Zhou Zhiqian demonstrated the sword art’s Radiant Flash, and Zhou Chun praised his talent but said he was not yet ready to view the Sword-Grinding Stone.

Zhou Chun searched for Zhou Yuanlian after she went missing while gathering poison materials, eventually locating her at a hidden Blazing Sun Sect site. He captured the sect cultivator guarding the formation and entered the site, where he identified himself to its startled disciples.

• Zhou Chun advised Zhou Zhiqian to travel abroad to temper his swordsmanship and gave him Third-rank talismans for protection.
• Zhou Zhiqian left the Lineage to travel abroad, and Zhou Mingde later attended the You Family Ancestor's funeral and recounted Li Jingxuan's deference to the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Sihan failed to open her Violet Palace with the Spirit Opening Pill, damaging her Divine Soul and ending her prospects of trying again.
• After Zhou Yuanlian failed to return from her search for poisonous plants and creatures, Zhou Chun sent Zhou Xin Yan and other clansmen to look for her in Huochigu Valley.
• When the search found signs of Zhou Yuanlian's battle but no trace of her, Zhou Chun used her Soul Token to track her to a hidden formation near the Jinzhou-Yanzhou border.
• Zhou Chun captured a late Violet Palace Blazing Sun Sect cultivator who emerged to confront Zhou Xin Yan's group, entered the formation, and told the sect disciples he had come for a different purpose.

Zhou Chun rescued Zhou Yuanlian from a Blazing Sun Sect cultivator and learned that the man had captured her to cure his Blazing Prison Peacock poison and help him subdue the beast. Tempted by the chance to gain a powerful Spirit Pet, Zhou Chun agreed to cooperate and set terms for the hunt.

• Zhou Chun captured the Blazing Sun Sect cultivator who had imprisoned Zhou Yuanlian, then brought her out of hiding and checked that she was unharmed.
• Zhou Yuanlian explained that the cultivator wanted her to neutralize his Blazing Prison Peacock poison and help lure out and kill the beast.
• The cultivator revealed that he hoped to use a Phoenix Eye Fire Haze Grass to help the Blazing Prison Peacock reach the Fourth Rank, then contract it during its Fire Phoenix Nirvana.
• Zhou Chun inspected the cultivator's ancient book and judged that his account of subduing a Fourth Rank Blazing Prison Peacock could be true.
• Zhou Yuanlian said she could cure the cultivator after advancing her cultivation and refining the Hundred Poisons Treasure Pearl, and the cultivator agreed to pay her expenses and give her a Third-tier low-grade magic tool.
• Zhou Chun agreed to let the cultivator handle the aftermath and obtain the Phoenix Eye Fire Haze Grass before they searched for the Blazing Prison Peacock together.

Zhou Chun helped Qin Yang lure the Blazing Hell Peacock with Phoenix Eye Fire Haze Grass, but the beast vanished into the volcano and remained unfound. He then joined Luo Qingni in refining Jade Dew Golden Radiance Pills, helped the Zhou Family buy a shop in Sky Abyss Immortal City, and returned to test a pill’s effects.

• Qin Yang brought Zhou Chun to the Blazing Hell Peacock’s volcanic territory and arranged for a dying Foundation Establishment cultivator to carry the Phoenix Eye Fire Haze Grass as bait.
• The Blazing Hell Peacock killed the volunteer, swallowed the grass, and disappeared into the volcano; Zhou Chun and Qin Yang later found its nest empty.
• Qin Yang proposed searching hidden caverns for the beast, swore not to reveal its advancement, and continued the search after Zhou Chun returned to the Lineage.
• Luo Qingni refined six Jade Dew Golden Radiance Pills over eighty-one days and gave Zhou Chun four while keeping one for herself.
• Zhou Chun gave Zhou Daoyi one million Spirit Coins, and Zhou Daoyi purchased a shop in Sky Abyss Immortal City for the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Chun returned to the Lineage, eager to test the Jade Dew Golden Radiance Pill.

After refining a Jade Dew Golden Radiance Pill and arranging a convincing account of Zhou Daoyi’s death, Zhou Chun pursued the Blazing Hell Peacock while it underwent Nirvana. He waited for its rebirth and acted when the flaming egg began absorbing the magma’s spiritual energy.

• Zhou Chun emerged from sixty-seven days of seclusion after refining a Jade Dew Golden Radiance Pill and planned to temper his increased cultivation before taking another.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde staged Zhou Daoyi’s death, and Lin Hongyu later returned with an urn and the story that Zhou Daoyi had died attempting Core Formation.
• Xu Yang led Zhou Chun to the Blazing Hell Peacock’s hidden cavern, where Zhou Chun observed the bird in Nirvana and decided to wait until its rebirth before attempting a contract.
• Zhou Chun learned the Heavenly Net Mother-Child Synchronous Curse and returned to the cavern, where Qin Yang gained insight into his own Golden Core opportunity while watching the Nirvana.
• After waiting through the Blazing Hell Peacock’s final transformation, Zhou Chun saw its flaming egg draw in the magma’s Fire Attribute spiritual energy and seized the moment to act.

Zhou Chun subjugated the reborn Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix, then watched his disciple Zhou Zhiying establish her foundation before arranging her cultivation and traveling to the Great Zhou Country with Su Yuzhen and Zhou Family members.

• Zhou Chun used the Moon Toad Treasure Bead and the Heavenly Net Mother-Child Synchronous Curse to make the newly reborn Blazing Prison Peacock submit, then concealed its surviving poison-flame ability from Qin Yang.
• Zhou Chun refused Qin Yang's request for the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix's gallbladder bile, gave him the Phoenix Nest instead, and returned to the Zhou Family with his new Spirit Pet.
• Zhou Chun trained the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix and used his Jade Dew Golden Radiance Pills until he reached the bottleneck of the mid Golden Core stage, while Zhou Zhiying advanced to the twelfth layer of Qi Condensation.
• Zhou Zhiying successfully established her foundation before age twenty, and Zhou Chun told her to cultivate the Xun Feng Jue for now and keep her breakthrough secret.
• Zhou Chun traveled to the Great Zhou Country with Su Yuzhen, Family Elder Lin Wan'er, and other Zhou Family members to support the family's shops and tour the country.

Zhou Chun and Su Yuzhen attended True Person Jinlan’s Nascent Soul Ceremony at the Canglan Sect, where Zhou Chun shared his knowledge of demonic cultivators with the assembled guests. As Jinlan began to discuss the Dao, an unexpected challenger appeared outside the sect’s mountain gate.

• Zhou Chun arranged for Zhou Family members to run their shops in Sky Abyss Immortal City and then visited Luo Qingni with Su Yuzhen.
• Luo Qingni gave Zhou Chun two invitations to True Person Jinlan’s Nascent Soul Ceremony, and she entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to mid Golden Core stage.
• Zhou Chun and Su Yuzhen traveled to Yan Country and attended the ceremony as the Rogue Cultivator couple Yan Changfeng and Zhuo Yuzhen.
• Zhou Chun answered Xu Mao’s questions about demonic cultivators and discussed their methods and weaknesses with nearby Golden Core cultivators.
• True Person Jinlan arrived and began his ceremony speech, but a figure surrounded by scarlet flames appeared outside the Canglan Sect’s mountain gate and challenged him to discuss the Dao.

Zhou Chun attended Canglan Sect’s celebration, where True Person Fire Dragon’s challenge interrupted the ceremony before True Person Jinguang arrived and the exchange meet went ahead. After trading for several valuable treasures, Zhou Chun and Su Yuzhen left Yan Country, but two Golden Core cultivators from the gathering pursued them and forced them to prepare for battle.

• True Person Fire Dragon challenged Canglan Sect, and True Person Bihua fought him until True Person Jinguang arrived and the three Nascent Soul cultivators ended the confrontation.
• True Person Jinlan replaced his planned Dao lecture with instruction on Wind Attribute spells, then hosted a feast and an exchange meet.
• Zhou Chun exchanged Spirit Objects for a third-tier upper-grade Wind attribute demonic core and several other materials, then traded the white Treasure Mirror Magic Treasure for True Person Jinlan’s Mountain Yue Shield.
• Zhou Chun and Su Yuzhen left Canglan Sect and declined Xu Mao’s invitation, intending to depart Yan Country immediately.
• Zhou Chun sensed they were being followed, halted their flight, and recognized two Golden Core cultivators from the exchange gathering aboard a Silver-Green Flying Boat.

Zhou Chun and Su Yuzhen fought off two Golden Core cultivators who tried to rob them, and Zhou Chun pursued the hemp-clad elder after he revealed a damaged High-grade Magic Treasure. The chapter left Zhou Chun releasing Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai to catch the fleeing elder while Su Yuzhen and the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix held the black-clad man at bay.

• Zhou Chun summoned the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix and Wood Sprite Mu Sang after the hemp-clad elder and the black-clad burly man demanded his treasures.
• Zhou Chun, Su Yuzhen, and their spirit companions overwhelmed the two attackers, with the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix and Mu Sang focusing their attacks on the black-clad man.
• The hemp-clad elder used a damaged High-grade Magic Treasure to strike Zhou Chun, but Zhou Chun’s defensive treasures and abilities stopped the attack.
• The hemp-clad elder fled after Zhou Chun survived his attack, while the black-clad burly man failed to escape and surrendered to Su Yuzhen.
• Zhou Chun pursued the hemp-clad elder but could not catch him by flying alone, so he released Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai.

Zhou Chun and Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai killed Lin Canghai after he ambushed Zhou Chun and his wife, then Zhou Chun captured and interrogated Guo Kaitai. Guo revealed a hidden Formation Secret Realm in Di Country that might contain the legacy of ancient experts, leaving Zhou Chun with a new lead to investigate.

• Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai and Zhou Chun overwhelmed Lin Canghai, who fled across the border before Zhou Chun killed him with the Supreme Yin Annihilation Divine Light.
• Zhou Chun returned to find Guo Kaitai unconscious and poisoned, then revived him with the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix's blood and questioned him.
• Guo Kaitai identified himself as a Golden Core cultivator from Di Country and explained that the Thousand Spirits Sect had been destroyed by the Profound Spirit Sect.
• When Guo Kaitai offered insufficient compensation for his life, Zhou Chun pressured him until he revealed a secret Formation Secret Realm in Di Country.
• Guo Kaitai explained that the realm was near an ancient battlefield tied to a war from ten thousand years ago, and that he had sought Zhou Chun's Mountain Yue Shield to enter it.

Zhou Chun inventoried Lin Canghai’s treasures, learned two valuable secret techniques, and traveled with Su Yuzhen and Guo Kaitai to explore an underground Formation Secret Realm in Di Country. He broke through its deadly defenses and entered a ruined city of an extinct alien race, where his spiritual sense detected something unexpected.

• Zhou Chun found the Four Spirits Barrier Breaking Pill formula and many of its ingredients in Lin Canghai’s Storage Bag, along with valuable magic treasures and the Azure Sea Silver Boat.
• Zhou Chun gave Su Yuzhen Lin Canghai’s black saber, refined the Mountain Yue Shield and Two Dragons Flipping Sea Bottle, and studied Lin Canghai’s Thousand Illusions Treasure Codex and Lesser Five Elements Barrier-Breaking Profound Light.
• Zhou Chun traveled with Su Yuzhen and Guo Kaitai to Di Country, sent word to the Guo Family to prepare the ransom, and followed Guo Kaitai to the Formation Secret Realm beneath a ruined mountain range.
• Zhou Chun entered the secret realm with Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai, the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix, and later Wood Mulberry, enduring repeated attacks from its formation.
• Zhou Chun and his Spirit Pets battered one point of the formation until Bai Bai’s Heavenly Thunder Annihilation Slash opened a gap, then entered a ruined underground city belonging to an extinct alien race.
• Zhou Chun wondered how the city’s inhabitants had died despite the still-functioning protective formation, then sensed something with his Spiritual Sense.

Zhou Chun and his Spirit Pets fought through a Yin Fiend frenzy in the underground ancient city and confronted a Two-Headed Bone Giant that housed the souls of Pasitas and Profound Fiend True Person Li Xuangang. After merging with Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai to overcome the giant’s Yin Fiend python, Zhou Chun pressed the attack, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Zhou Chun found the glowing bones of a Nascent Soul True Person among the temple ruins, then faced a sudden surge of Yin Fiend Qi.
• The Yin Fiend Qi animated the ancient city’s corpses, and Zhou Chun sent the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix and Wood Sprite Mu Sang to destroy them.
• The Nascent Soul corpse attacked Zhou Chun before retreating into the ruins, where it joined with other bones to form a Two-Headed Bone Giant.
• The Two-Headed Bone Giant identified one head as Pasitas and the other as Profound Fiend True Person Li Xuangang, then attacked Zhou Chun with bone spears.
• Zhou Chun and his Spirit Pets discovered that Glazed Pure Fire could burn the giant’s soul, while its Yin Fiend python repeatedly recovered from damage.
• Zhou Chun merged with Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai as the Human-Faced Thunder Flood Dragon, destroyed the Yin Fiend python, and charged the weakened giant.

Zhou Chun and his spirit pets defeated the Two-Headed Bone Giant and exposed the Yin Spirit Malevolent Ghost inside, nearly losing Zhou Chun to its lethal attack. After purifying the Yin Fiend Qi and recovering, Zhou Chun recognized the ghost as the remnant soul of Profound Fiend True Person Li Xuangang, who offered to repay him before revealing that he was no ghost cultivator.

• Zhou Chun retreated from the Two-Headed Bone Giant, rested for more than half a month, then returned with his spirit pets and dismantled it after a prolonged battle.
• The Yin Spirit Malevolent Ghost emerged from the shattered puppet body and attacked Zhou Chun and his spirit pets with a soul-shaking wail and a black spike that pierced Zhou Chun's heart.
• Zhou Chun purified the Yin Fiend Qi with Essence Purifying Spirit Water, and Wood Sprite Mu Sang healed his heart while Bai Bai and the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix drove the ghost's power down.
• Zhou Chun stopped the attack and addressed the weakened ghost as Profound Fiend True Person; the ghost revealed his identity as Li Xuangang and asked how much time had passed since the Earth Dog Clan's destruction.
• Zhou Chun explained that more than ten thousand years had passed and showed Li Xuangang his broken Profound Fiend Soul Annihilation Spear; Li Xuangang offered to repay Zhou Chun, then denied being a ghost cultivator.

Zhou Chun learned Nascent Soul formation insights and several techniques from Profound Fiend True Person, then explored the ancient city and collected rare Yin-attribute treasures before returning to Great Zhou Country. After settling the ransom and arranging a burial for the fallen Human cultivators, he decided to travel with Su Yuzhen and exchange insights with other Golden Core cultivators.

• Zhou Chun received Profound Fiend True Person’s Nascent Soul formation insights, cultivation method, and four secret techniques before Profound Fiend True Person burned himself out.
• Zhou Chun searched the underground chamber and ancient city, finding a broken spearhead, a Soul-Nourishing Wood command token, and numerous rare Yin-attribute items.
• Zhou Chun warned Guo Kaitai that the Formation Secret Realm contained a dangerous Fourth Rank Yin Spirit Malevolent Ghost, then collected the Guo Family’s ransom and released him.
• Zhou Chun and Su Yuzhen buried Profound Fiend True Person and the other Human cultivators, then returned to Great Zhou Country.
• Zhou Chun left Luo Qingni a letter about the Canglan Sect and resolved to travel with Su Yuzhen, beginning their visits to Golden Core cultivators at Sky Abyss Immortal City.

Zhou Chun obtained a Ghost Cultivation legacy, helped Zhou Daoquan successfully become a ghost cultivator, and continued developing his arts as the years passed. After Zhou Xinyi died, Zhou Chun appointed Zhou Xin Yan as acting Patriarch on a three-year trial basis and began quietly assessing him.

• Zhou Chun cultivated Yin attribute magic power in the Valley of Resentful Souls and activated the Ghost Face Token, which revealed a complete Ghost Cultivation legacy and the True Spirit Undying Art.
• Zhou Chun shared the Ghost Cultivation methods with Su Yuzhen and persuaded Zhou Daoquan to attempt the transformation, then helped prepare the necessary site and spiritual materials.
• Zhou Daoquan completed his conversion to ghost cultivation at the former Blood Dragon Branch Altar, aided by Zhou Chun's Pure Yin Spiritual Liquid.
• The Golden-Winged Tiger advanced to third-tier upper-grade, while Zhou Chun focused on cultivating several secret arts and divine abilities.
• Seven years after Zhou Daoquan's conversion, Zhou Chun presided over Zhou Xinyi's funeral and praised his service to the family.
• Zhou Chun appointed Zhou Xin Yan acting Patriarch for a three-year assessment and secretly monitored his performance.

After Soul dual cultivation with Su Yuzhen helped loosen Zhou Chun’s Golden Core realm barrier, he learned of several Zhou Family gains and prepared to break through to the mid Golden Core stage. A summons from the dying Ukulu interrupted his plans, as the Scaly Frog High Priest arranged his succession and asked Zhou Chun to increase the Zhou Family’s supply of Black Lotus Pills.

• Zhou Chun mastered several secret arts during seclusion but remained troubled by the difficulty of advancing beyond the early Golden Core stage.
• Zhou Chun attended the Moon Wheel Sect’s leadership ceremony, where the former True Person Bai Yue entered seclusion to attempt Nascent Soul formation and a new sect master took his place.
• Su Yuzhen’s Desire Tribulation erupted, and Zhou Chun helped her through it; their Soul dual cultivation loosened his realm barrier.
• Zhou Mingde told Zhou Chun that the Fire God Jackal had reached the third-tier high-grade, Zhou Yuanlian had opened her Violet Palace, and Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai had created a Silver Lightning Dragon Turtle.
• After two years of attacking his loosened realm barrier, Zhou Chun was summoned to meet Ukulu, who revealed that a failed breakthrough had left him near death and that he wanted to appoint a successor.
• Ukulu asked Zhou Chun to increase the Black Lotus Pills in future exchanges, and Zhou Chun agreed to have the Zhou Family refine more, while warning that supplies were limited.

Zhou Chun discovered that the Black Lotus Pill could awaken spellcaster potential among the Scale Frog alien race, forcing him to renegotiate their trade and secure valuable materials. The chapter ended with Zhou Zhiying defeating a Su Family cultivator at a martial arts competition, while Zhou Chun concealed the reason for her rapid advancement.

• After secretly soul-searching a Black Spear Tribe spellcaster, Zhou Chun learned the Black Lotus Pill could strengthen Scale Frog bloodlines and help some clanspeople become spellcasters.
• Zhou Chun confronted Ukulu and Bahar about the pill’s true effect, then required the Scale Frog Tribe to offer rare treasures in exchange for Black Lotus Pills or lose access to them.
• Ukulu ordered Bahar to endure the Zhou Family’s demands and warned him that the tribe could not afford to offend the family before producing a Fourth-tier spellcaster.
• Six months later, Zhou Xin Yan presented Zhou Chun with a Mysterious Water Pearl offered by the Scale Frog Tribe, and he recognized it as a valuable material for his secret art.
• At the Zhou Family’s martial arts competition, Zhou Zhiying defeated a Su Family Foundation Establishment cultivator, and Zhou Chun gave the Su Family Ancestor a fabricated explanation for her rapid cultivation progress.

Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde discussed the Zhou Family’s succession and then heard why the Su Family Ancestor had come: Su Yunniang wanted their families’ support in becoming True Person Bai Yue’s Dao companion. Zhou Chun refused to involve the Zhou Family in the dangerous plan and suggested asking people experienced in love for advice.

• Zhou Mingde considered adding generation characters to the Zhou Family’s genealogy, while Zhou Chun left the decision to the elders.
• The Su Family Ancestor stayed with Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde for five days before revealing that Su Yunniang wanted their families to support her bid to become True Person Bai Yue’s Dao companion.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde privately agreed that the Zhou Family should not support Su Yunniang’s plan, and the Su Family Ancestor admitted he shared their concerns.
• The Su Family Ancestor explained that Su Yunniang mistook True Person Bai Yue’s hesitation for a need for greater backing, despite his concerns about the Qu Family and his former Dao companion’s family.
• Zhou Chun proposed turning Su Yunniang’s predicament into a story and asking people experienced in love for their advice.

After the Su Family Ancestor’s punishment ended Su Yunniang’s push to marry True Person Bai Yue, Zhou Chun broke through to the mid Golden Core stage and greatly strengthened his techniques and treasures. He then set out for Bingyi Country to seek a Taiyin Moon Toad, stopping in Great Zhou Country to visit Luo Qingni and share the Four Spirits Barrier Breaking Pill formula.

• The Su Family Ancestor chose to negotiate with True Person Bai Yue, but True Person Silver Moon soon confined him to the Su Family mountain gate for a hundred years, leaving Su Yunniang unsettled and still intent on pursuing her own plans.
• Zhou Chun cultivated the second layer of the Lesser Five Elements Barrier-Breaking Profound Light, broke through to the mid Golden Core stage, and mastered the Gold Evasion Technique while strengthening his other abilities and the Myriad Transformation Golden Cauldron.
• Zhou Chun told Zhou Mingde he planned to travel through Bingyi Country to find a demonic beast with Taiyin Moon Toad bloodline and obtain its essence blood, then departed with the Frosty Cold Bee swarm.
• Zhou Chun visited Luo Qingni at Qingni Residence, explained that soul dual cultivation had provided his breakthrough opportunity, and gave her the Four Spirits Barrier Breaking Pill formula and news that some of its ingredients had already been gathered.

Zhou Chun secured Luo Qingni’s promise to refine pills for the Zhou Family and teach its talented alchemists, then traveled to Bingyi Country to search for a Taiyin Moon Toad bloodline. Zhang Mengde pointed him toward Flying Snow Palace’s Ice Moon Toads, but warned that the sect was unlikely to sell them.

• Luo Qingni promised Zhou Chun a lifetime of free pill refinement and offered to teach future Zhou Family alchemists.
• Zhou Chun visited Misty Immortal Ridge and sensed that Stone had reached the Fourth Rank, but left without waking it.
• Zhou Chun traveled to Bingyi Country under the identity Zhang Liang and arrived at Snow Lotus Valley to seek information about the Taiyin Moon Toad.
• Zhang Mengde told Zhou Chun that Flying Snow Palace kept Fourth Rank Ice Moon Toads that absorbed moon essence and wielded cold abilities.
• Zhang Mengde warned Zhou Chun that Flying Snow Palace valued the Ice Moon Toads as a source of wealth and was unlikely to sell them; the two exchanged spirit items and cultivation insights.