Chapter Summaries

Zhou Chun investigated the Flying Snow Palace’s closely guarded Ice Moon Toads and learned that obtaining a fourth-tier one was too dangerous, so he searched for other ways to cultivate the Moon Toad Chapter. A lead brought him to Wu Yishan and his daughter Wu Yuzhu, whose Fire Poison Zhou Chun temporarily purged with Essence Purifying Spirit Water, leaving Wu Yishan eager to serve him in exchange for continued treatment.

• Zhou Chun learned that the Flying Snow Palace guarded its Ice Moon Toads closely, and third-tier blood could confirm their Taiyin Moon Toad lineage but could not initiate his secret technique.
• Zhou Chun spent two years seeking other related Demonic Beasts and investigating rumors, then decided not to risk stealing a fourth-tier Ice Moon Toad.
• A white-robed cultivator told Zhou Chun about a possible fourth-tier toad at Fish-Eye Ice Lake and introduced him to Wu Yishan, who might guide him there.
• Zhou Chun examined Wu Yishan’s daughter, Wu Yuzhu, and offered to treat the Fire Poison in her body with Essence Purifying Spirit Water.
• Zhou Chun purged Wu Yuzhu’s Fire Poison temporarily, but it began to return because it had fused with her bloodline.
• Wu Yishan offered to become Zhou Chun’s servant if Zhou Chun would continue relieving Wu Yuzhu’s Fire Poison every few years.

Zhou Chun gave Wu Yuzhu a poison cultivation technique as payment for Wu Yishan guiding him across the Ice Plains, hoping it would help her resist the Fire Poison in her blood. After Wu Yuzhu survived her first medicinal-bath trials, Zhou Chun and Wu Yishan journeyed toward Fish-Eye Ice Lake, where a blizzard and a sudden Ice Crystal Snow Wolf attack left them in danger.

• Zhou Chun refused Wu Yishan's offer to become his servant but offered the True Scripture of Ten Thousand Poisons in exchange for guidance through the Ice Plains.
• Wu Yuzhu chose to risk poison cultivation, and Wu Yishan agreed after Zhou Chun explained how the technique might help her overcome the Fire Poison.
• Wu Yuzhu endured three rounds of poisonous-water medicinal baths, and Wu Yishan later led Zhou Chun into the Ice Plains without requiring collateral.
• Wu Yishan guided Zhou Chun through the Ice Plains as they crossed into the fourth- and fifth-section regions and approached Fish-Eye Ice Lake.
• Zhou Chun pressed into a blizzard, but Wu Yishan realized they might have lost their way and advised them to land and shelter.
• An Ice Crystal Snow Wolf ambushed Zhou Chun and Wu Yishan as Zhou Chun began digging an ice cave, and Zhou Chun detected the beast despite its invisibility.

Zhou Chun killed an Ice Crystal Demon Wolf, endured months of blizzards with Wu Yishan, and eventually reached Fish-Eye Ice Lake to hunt a fourth-tier toad for its Taiyin Moon Toad bloodline. After a fierce underwater battle, the wounded White Giant Toad fled into unusually dark, freezing water that did not ice over, and Zhou Chun continued pursuing it warily.

• Zhou Chun lured the invisible Ice Crystal Demon Wolf into an ambush, wounded it with the Golden Gang Soul-Extinguishing Spear, and had Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai pursue and kill it.
• Zhou Chun and Wu Yishan waited out a month-and-a-half blizzard, spent nine days finding their bearings, and reached Fish-Eye Ice Lake after more than eight months of travel.
• Zhou Chun gave Wu Yishan talismans and pills so he could return to Bingyi Country, then settled by the lake and waited for the fourth-tier toad.
• After about sixteen months, Zhou Chun spotted a White Giant Toad eating Red-Clawed White Geese and attacked it while merged with Bai Bai, using the Two Dragons Flipping Sea Bottle to inflict severe wounds.
• The White Giant Toad resisted the Moon Toad Treasure Bead's Supreme Yin Annihilation Divine Light, forcing Zhou Chun and Bai Bai to pursue it underwater for several thousand miles.
• Zhou Chun followed the exhausted White Giant Toad into a region where the lake water turned black and remained unfrozen despite its extreme cold.

Zhou Chun defeated the White Giant Toad and followed a voice to the Mysterious Nether Water Eye, where Grandmaster Artifact Refiner True Person Yan Cang was trapped in black ice. Yan Cang asked Zhou Chun to sacrifice two of the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix’s true feathers to free him, but Zhou Chun refused and prepared to leave, prompting Yan Cang to call him back.

• Zhou Chun, Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai, and the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix killed the White Giant Toad and secured its Demonic Soul, Demonic Core, and remains.
• Zhou Chun investigated the voice claiming to offer a Nascent Soul formation opportunity and learned that its speaker was True Person Yan Cang, a Grandmaster Artifact Refiner trapped in the Mysterious Nether Water Eye.
• Zhou Chun traveled through increasingly frigid waters and reached the black ice sealing Yan Cang, who explained that a dying Profound Nether Water Python had trapped him there.
• Yan Cang asked Zhou Chun to use the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix’s true feathers to weaken the ice, but Zhou Chun refused to risk harming his Spirit Pet and offered to notify Yan Cang’s allies instead.
• Yan Cang offered Zhou Chun a High-grade Magic Treasure and a custom-refined magic treasure, but Zhou Chun rejected the deal and started to leave.
• After seeing Zhou Chun’s High-grade Magic Treasure and fearing what he might bring back, Yan Cang urgently called him back to negotiate.

Zhou Chun negotiated with True Person Yan Cang for compensation in exchange for helping him escape the Profound Nether Cold Qi, then bound him with a Nether Soul Contract. The contract’s power gave Zhou Chun the confidence to reveal the Moon Toad Treasure Bead as a safer way to free Yan Cang, leaving Yan Cang shocked and resigned to Zhou Chun’s terms.

• Zhou Chun offered to help True Person Yan Cang if Yan Cang compensated the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix and refined artifacts for him.
• True Person Yan Cang offered a five-thousand-year-old Fire Origin Immortal Ganoderma and three artifact-refining opportunities, including an attempt to repair Zhou Chun’s damaged High-grade Magic Treasure.
• Zhou Chun used the Ghost Face Token and sacrificed part of his Soul power to make Yan Cang sign a binding Nether Soul Contract promising compensation and forbidding betrayal or revenge.
• After the contract bound Yan Cang, Zhou Chun realized its punishment could deter him from coveting the Moon Toad Treasure Bead and decided to use it to help him escape.
• Zhou Chun revealed the Moon Toad Treasure Bead, which absorbed the Profound Nether Cold Qi, and Yan Cang recognized it as an intact Spirit Treasure and angrily accepted that he could not break their contract.

Zhou Chun cultivated the Moon Toad secret art, transformed into a powerful Taiyin Moon Toad, and helped True Person Yan Cang escape the Mysterious Nether Water Eye, where an unknown presence lurked. After Yan Cang gave him a token and departed, Zhou Chun found Wu Yuzhu near death and told her that her father was likely dead, then promised to search for him before his tracking art failed.

• Zhou Chun cultivated the Moon Toad secret art to minor accomplishment and discovered that Moon Toad Possession turned him into a powerful fourth-tier mid-grade Taiyin Moon Toad, though staying transformed too long harmed him.
• Zhou Chun returned to the Mysterious Nether Water Eye and used the Moon Toad Treasure Bead to absorb its cold while True Person Yan Cang burned through the Profound Nether Ice and escaped.
• A powerful presence in the water eye reclaimed the Profound Nether Ice and released a surge of cold, forcing True Person Yan Cang to flee with Zhou Chun.
• True Person Yan Cang brought Zhou Chun to Bingyi Country, gave him a Sky Fire Token, and asked him to visit the Heavenly Fire Sect in ten years so he could fulfill his promises.
• Zhou Chun found Wu Yuzhu unconscious from her Fire Poison, treated her, and told her that Wu Yishan had likely died on the Ice Plains.
• Wu Yuzhu begged Zhou Chun to search for her father, but his tracking art failed, so he concluded Wu Yishan was probably dead and headed for the market town's free-trade district.

Zhou Chun persuaded Wu Yuzhu to keep living by forging Wu Yishan's final message, then brought her with him while he investigated a mysterious cocoon in Bingyi Country. After learning it might contain a Six-Winged Ice Silkworm, he left the marketplace and prepared to open it under heavy protection.

• Zhou Chun gave Wu Yuzhu fabricated relics and a recording of Wu Yishan's supposed final words, and she agreed to leave Bingyi Country with him.
• Zhou Chun brought Wu Yuzhu to a larger marketplace, where his Frosty Cold Bees led him to a concealed cocoon hidden in a piece of spirit wood.
• Zhou Chun won two types of Magic Treasure Spirit Material and an Ice Soul Returning Pill at auction, then recovered half of the Soul power he had spent.
• After investigating for more than five months, Zhou Chun learned from a late Violet Palace cultivator that the cocoon might belong to a powerful Six-Winged Ice Silkworm.
• Zhou Chun went into the wilderness, layered several defenses around himself, and began cutting open the cocoon with the Great White Dragon Slaying Sword.

After returning from Bingyi Country, Zhou Chun consulted Zhou Daoquan about the Nether Soul Contract, entrusted him with researching the Six-Winged Ice Silkworm eggs, and raided Thunder Lizard Island for breeding stock. He learned that a powerful Thunder Flood Dragon protected the island, then returned home and focused on his family, where Zhou Zhiying advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage and Wu Yuzhu achieved Foundation Establishment.

• Zhou Chun returned to Tu Yun Ridge with Wu Yuzhu, introduced her to Zhou Yuanlian, and asked Zhou Yuanlian to look after her.
• Zhou Daoquan warned Zhou Chun that the Nether Soul Contract had likely branded his Divine Soul and advised him to avoid using Ghost Cultivation techniques; he agreed to study four of the suspected Six-Winged Ice Silkworm eggs.
• Zhou Chun transformed into a Moon Toad, took eighteen Thunder Lizard Beast eggs and killed two high-grade third-rank Thunder Dragon Lizards on Thunder Lizard Island.
• A high-grade fourth-rank Thunder Flood Dragon chased Zhou Chun but lost his trail, and Wood Sprite Mu Sang reported the encounter to Zhou Chun.
• Zhou Chun gave the eggs to Zhou Xin Yan, the Demonic Cores to Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai, and the remaining materials to Zhou Mingde; he later sent Zhou Zhiying to the Wilderness Expanse after she reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Wu Yuzhu successfully achieved Foundation Establishment with Zhou Yuanlian's help, improving her ability to withstand the Fire Poison.

Zhou Chun entered the Sinister Spirit Canyon on his journey to Huoluo Country, testing Essence Purifying Spirit Water against its Evil Fiendish Energy before setting out with a dubious map. After fighting qi-formed Demonic Beasts and realizing a powerful creature might be generating them, he discovered Golden Core cultivators were tracking him and prepared to face them.

• Zhou Chun confirmed Essence Purifying Spirit Water cleared the Evil Fiendish Energy but sought a map after realizing his supply could not sustain a crossing.
• Zhou Chun bought a route map from an old cultivator who had once crossed the Sinister Spirit Canyon.
• Zhou Chun and the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix defeated swarms of strange insects and bats, including a bat that advanced to Fourth Rank, but the creatures left no Demonic Cores.
• Zhou Chun fought a flock of black birds and realized their corpses returned to qi, leading him to suspect a Seventh-Rank demonic creature lurked beneath the canyon.
• Zhou Chun burned a swarm of black poisonous bees after sensing someone watching him, then challenged the hidden observers to reveal themselves.
• A black-robed mid Golden Core cultivator and a burly early Golden Core cultivator emerged, intending to attack Zhou Chun while he was worn down.

Zhou Chun defeated the bandit cultivators Dan Tianlong and Dan Meng in Sinister Spirit Canyon, discovered their hidden refuge and the Pure Spirit Immortal Osmanthus, then carried the severed stump into Shayan Country. After recovering, he assessed his spoils and found the stump could still aid cultivation despite the tree’s destruction.

• Zhou Chun fought Dan Tianlong and Dan Meng, killed Dan Meng, and learned their refuge’s location through a soul search.
• Zhou Chun found Dan Tianlong healing beside the Pure Spirit Immortal Osmanthus, pursued and killed him after Dan Tianlong severed the tree, then removed its stump as the valley succumbed to Evil Fiendish Energy.
• Zhou Chun crossed Sinister Spirit Canyon into Shayan Country and settled in a temporary dwelling to recover.
• Zhou Chun inventoried the brothers’ magic treasures, spirit materials, spirit medicines, books, and unorthodox cultivation methods, deciding not to let Zhou Family cultivators practice those methods.
• Zhou Chun examined the Pure Spirit Immortal Osmanthus stump and discovered it could gather spiritual energy, calm the mind, and potentially retain other useful properties.

Zhou Chun traveled through the Far West, explored its markets, and acquired supplies before intervening in a clan battle to obtain poison-cultivation manuals and materials. He continued toward Huoluo Country with plans to adapt the techniques for Zhou Yuanlian.

• Zhou Chun visited Jinzhou Market, learned about Shayan Country’s cultivation world, and purchased a detailed map before departing for the Far West’s largest market.
• At Sun Radiance Market, Zhou Chun rejected custom Magic Treasure commissions because they required a Dao Heart Oath and a favor, then bought ten years’ worth of Metal Qi and several Magic Treasure materials.
• While crossing a desert, Zhou Chun found Gong Yunxing attacking Xie Sanniang’s clan and forced Gong Yunxing to withdraw by revealing his Golden Core-level presence.
• Zhou Chun accepted Xie Sanniang’s poison manuals, cultivation insights, and clan materials in exchange for two High-grade Third-tier Talismans.
• As he traveled onward, Zhou Chun studied Xie Sanniang’s poison arts and considered gathering Far West poisons to help Zhou Yuanlian strengthen her cultivation and form Golden Core.

Zhou Chun traveled through the Flowing Fire Sand Sea toward the Heavenly Fire Sect, surviving a Sand Bandit ambush and a Quicksand Fire Ant swarm while obtaining an Insect Core. He reached Sky Fire Peak, presented the Sky Fire Token to Sect Master Jin Xinglie, and began a visit with the sect as he awaited True Person Yan Cang.

• Zhou Chun joined a merchant caravan disguised as a late Foundation Establishment cultivator and learned about the dangers of the Flowing Fire Sand Sea from Fellow Daoist Cen.
• Zhou Chun used a Divine Soul attack to drive off the Yellow Wind Bandits, whose leader mistook his power for that of a powerful Golden Core cultivator.
• Zhou Chun detected Quicksand Fire Ants surrounding the caravan, helped cover its retreat with the Golden Winged Tiger and Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix, and killed the Ant Queen to obtain an Insect Core.
• Zhou Chun left the caravan, used its map to reach the Basin Oasis, and approached the Heavenly Fire Sect's mountain gate at Sky Fire Peak.
• Zhou Chun showed the Sky Fire Token to Jin Xinglie, entered the sect, and accepted a cup of Fire Dragon Fierce Liquor that began burning fiercely inside him.

Zhou Chun waited at the Heavenly Fire Sect while Patriarch Yan Cang recovered, trading rare resources, arranging a treasure repair, and recruiting Bai Zhiqing to gather local goods. After Yan Cang emerged from seclusion, Zhou Chun chose the Dragon Tiger Gold Rings and presented his artifact and materials for Yan Cang to inspect.

• Jin Xinglie welcomed Zhou Chun with Fire Dragon Fierce Liquor, then arranged for him to stay at the sect until Yan Cang emerged from seclusion.
• Zhou Chun exchanged rare water-, wood-, and ice-attribute resources for refined artifact materials, and Jin Xinglie arranged for a grandmaster to repair Zhou Chun's Flame Treasure Bead.
• Bai Zhiqing brought Zhou Chun Fire Jade Red Lotus and Purple Sun Sunflower seeds; Zhou Chun gave her a Water-attribute Spirit Pearl and paid her to collect regional resources.
• After spending two and a half years at the sect, Zhou Chun saw the Heavenly Fire Divine Pearl's fire-dragon manifestation above the volcanic crater and learned how the sect controlled the volcano.
• Yan Cang emerged from seclusion, offered Zhou Chun a choice between two high-grade magic treasures, and Zhou Chun selected the Dragon Tiger Gold Rings.
• Zhou Chun showed Yan Cang the Two Dragons Flipping Sea Bottle and his refining materials, prompting Yan Cang to react to the fifth-tier Thunder Flood Dragon's tooth and demon soul.

Zhou Chun arranged for True Person Yan Cang to repair his Two Dragons Flipping Sea Bottle and refine two new treasures, while the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix gathered Fire Essences at the Heavenly Fire Sect. He later attended a Golden Core exchange meeting at Sky Net Oasis, made several trades, and realized why Huoluo Country’s cultivators welcomed outsiders.

• Zhou Chun showed True Person Yan Cang rare Thunder Flood Dragon materials and other spirit objects, and asked him to repair the Two Dragons Flipping Sea Bottle and plan two offensive and defensive treasures.
• Zhou Chun sent the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix into the Spirit Spring Fire Eye, where it gathered Fire Essences that could advance its bloodline, and spent months refining the Dragon Tiger Gold Rings and repaired Two Dragons Flipping Sea Bottle.
• After waiting five years without news of the new treasures, Zhou Chun accepted Jin Xinglie’s invitation to a Golden Core exchange meeting at Sky Net Oasis.
• At the exchange meeting, Xue Yan welcomed Zhou Chun and the other visiting cultivators, and several newcomers exchanged spirit objects for items that Zhou Chun judged to be worth far more.
• Zhou Chun traded a Spirit Pearl for Xue Yan’s Insect Core and exchanged his Ice Crystal Demonic Wolf core with a damaged Earth core plus a Wind core offered by a cultivator surnamed Lou.
• Xue Yan displayed valuable treasures but sought Nascent Soul-level items, and Zhou Chun saw that the early generous trades explained why Huoluo Country’s cultivators eagerly welcomed outsiders.

Zhou Chun exchanged Essence Purifying Spirit Water for a Crimson Lotus Earth Fire Seed by curing Tang’s nephew, then left Sky Net Oasis for the Heavenly Fire Sect. In the sea of sand, a Fourth-tier Abyssal Giant Beast ambushed him, and Zhou Chun suspected someone might be controlling it.

• At the exchange meeting, Zhou Chun privately offered Tang a way to cure his nephew’s Turbid Fiendish Energy, then discussed the Gold Evasion Technique with another cultivator during the Dao-discussion gathering.
• Du tried to trade information about Imperial Flow Nectar for Zhou Chun’s rare spirit medicines, but Zhou Chun rejected the deal and forced him to leave.
• Zhou Chun purified Tang’s nephew with Essence Purifying Spirit Water, and Tang gave Zhou Chun the Crimson Lotus Earth Fire Seed in return.
• After touring Sky Net Oasis and leaving Sky Net Market, Zhou Chun traveled toward the Heavenly Fire Sect with the Golden Winged Tiger as his mount.
• During a sandstorm, a Fourth-tier mid-grade Abyssal Giant Beast attacked Zhou Chun from beneath the sand and damaged his Mountain Yue Shield.
• Zhou Chun blocked the beast’s next attack with his silver-ring magic treasure and flew above the sandstorm, wondering whether the Abyssal Giant Beast was being controlled.

Zhou Chun received two refined magic treasures from True Person Yan Cang, settled their remaining exchange, and prepared to leave the Heavenly Fire Sect for Great Zhou. As he crossed the Flowing Fire Sand Sea, Xue Yan and two Golden Core cultivators ambushed him, revealing that he had been pursued since his earlier journey.

• Zhou Chun escaped the sandstorm by flying through the Nine Heavens Azure Firmament, while the black-robed Han and the yellow-robed Du discussed their failed ambush and continued monitoring him.
• True Person Yan Cang gave Zhou Chun the Heavenly Gang Thunder-Slaying Sword, the Five-Colored Dragon Scale Armor, and a five-thousand-four-hundred-year-old Fire Origin Immortal Ganoderma, then agreed to exchange the Nether Soul Contract for Nascent Soul cultivation insights.
• Zhou Chun refined and tested both magic treasures, then bid farewell to Jin Xinglie and left the Heavenly Fire Sect to return to his Lineage.
• Xue Yan pursued Zhou Chun beneath the sand with an Abyssal Giant Beast and, near the edge of the Flowing Fire Sand Sea, ordered his two companions to attack.
• Zhou Chun dodged the Abyssal Giant Beast's earthen-yellow attack, recalled the Golden Winged Tiger, and recognized Xue Yan, Du, and a red-robed woman as the cultivators surrounding him.

Zhou Chun was ambushed by Xue Yan and Sacred Fire Sect allies in the Flowing Fire Sand Sea, but killed one elder, defeated Xue Yan, and captured Du. He collected the spoils and fled toward the sand sea’s edge before the sect could send a Nascent Soul True Person after him.

• Xue Yan attacked Zhou Chun with the help of Du, a red-robed beauty, and the Abyssal Giant Beast, while Zhou Chun summoned the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix and fought back with his treasures.
• Zhou Chun killed the red-robed beauty with the Heavenly Gang Thunder Slaying Sword, then unleashed a Lightning Sword Dragon that defeated Xue Yan’s flame Suanni and forced him to flee using a vitality-draining escape art.
• Zhou Chun killed the Abyssal Giant Beast and captured Du after breaking through his defenses, while the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix pursued the fleeing elder.
• Zhou Chun salvaged the beast’s Demonic Core and hide, collected the red-robed beauty’s belongings, and left the Flowing Fire Sand Sea with Du as his captive before the Sacred Fire Sect could pursue him.

After nine years abroad, Zhou Chun returned to the Zhou Family with mid Golden Core cultivation, valuable spoils, and news of growing instability in the Jing Kingdom. He discussed the family’s prospects and possible ambitions with Zhou Mingde, then visited the Wilderness Expanse and agreed to let Zhou Zhiying return to Jing Kingdom.

• Zhou Chun searched the unconscious Du surnamed cultivator’s soul, learned that the Sacred Fire Sect was preparing to help its Calamity Fire Divine Crow cross the Heavenly Dao Lightning Tribulation, then killed Du and burned his corpse.
• Zhou Chun inspected his battle spoils, including several Magic Treasures, and took a long detour around the Sinister Spirit Canyon before returning to the Jing Kingdom after nine years away.
• Zhou Mingde told Zhou Chun that Zhou Zhiying and Zhou Simiao had opened their Violet Palaces, bringing the Zhou Family’s total to ten Violet Palace cultivators, and praised Zhou Chun for helping the family prosper.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde discussed the Moon Wheel Sect Master’s death during Nascent Soul formation and considered how conflict between major sects might create an opportunity for the Zhou Family to pursue the Green Lotus Mountain Range.
• Zhou Chun gave Zhou Mingde a repaired Flame Treasure Bead and received a Bronze Beast containing the Heavenly Annihilation Four Symbols Formation, which could unite four different fourth-tier Demonic Beasts in battle.
• Zhou Chun visited the Caiyu Mountain stronghold, praised Zhou Zhiying for opening her Violet Palace, and agreed to let her return to Jing Kingdom if she kept her cultivation and behavior in check.

Zhou Chun distributed treasures and resources among the Zhou Family, reviewed the Wilderness Expanse’s development, and reunited with his dao companion and Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai. He returned to Tu Yun Ridge after arranging cultivation plans for Zhou Yuanlian and others, while the insect eggs remained unhatched.

• Zhou Chun gave Lin Hongyu two magic treasures, and she accepted them before entering seclusion to refine them.
• Zhou Chun heard Xu Fu report on the Wilderness Expanse’s mines, resource sites, and cultivators, then promised to request supplies to reward meritorious cultivators.
• Zhou Chun recovered the unhatched insect eggs from Zhou Daoquan and returned to Tu Yun Ridge with Zhou Zhiying, to whom he gave the Hundred Illusions Pearl.
• Zhou Chun arranged for the Fire Jade Red Lotus and Purple Sun Sunflower to be cultivated, and planned to let the Blazing Hell Fire Phoenix refine the Crimson Lotus Earth Fire Seed after it advanced.
• Zhou Chun visited the Su Family, reunited with Bai Bai, and promised the Su Family Ancestor that he would support Su Yuzhen and the family.
• Zhou Chun gave Zhou Yuanlian a poison cultivation technique and poisons, promised her a Golden Chalice Poison Dragon Fruit if she reached the late Violet Palace Stage, and urged her to protect her health.

Zhou Chun discovered that the Pure Spirit Immortal Osmanthus stump was transforming into a Spirit Eye Item, then traveled to Misty Immortal Ridge to retrieve Stone. Demon King Chong Xuan agreed to let Stone leave but demanded Zhou Chun fulfill their wager, and Zhou Chun asked to postpone the task until he reached the late Golden Core stage.

• Zhou Mingde lent Zhou Chun his cave dwelling so Zhou Chun could cultivate while the stump absorbed the Spirit Eye Spring's spiritual power.
• After more than a year of observation, Zhou Chun suspected the stump was transforming into a Spirit Eye Tree and resolved to seek a better cultivation site.
• Zhou Chun traveled to Misty Immortal Ridge, where he learned Stone had completed the Mountain Bearing process and was ready to leave with him.
• Demon King Chong Xuan brought Zhou Chun to its underground palace, and Zhou Chun speculated that the demon might be a legendary Mountain Essence or Stone Monster.
• Demon King Chong Xuan agreed to let Stone go but demanded compensation for the rare spiritual items it had fed the turtle.
• Zhou Chun agreed to fulfill the message-delivery task from their wager but asked to wait until he reached the late Golden Core stage.