Chapter Summaries

Zhou Chun refused True Person Heavenly Mirror’s first demands to oppose the Moon Wheel Sect, but later accepted a revised bargain for the Zhou Family to gain the Green Lotus Mountain Range. As the allied army prepared to withdraw and end the war, Zhou Chun headed to the Moon Wheel Sect to seek its response.

• True Person Heavenly Mirror demanded that Zhou Chun make the Zhou Family Jing Kingdom’s foremost power and curb the Moon Wheel Sect, but Zhou Chun refused despite offers of Heavenly Mirror’s relics and inheritance.
• After the allied army halted its advance for half a year, True Person Heavenly Mirror told Zhou Chun that the army would soon withdraw and that the Green Lotus Mountain Range’s future could no longer be delayed.
• True Person Heavenly Mirror offered to help the Zhou Family claim the Green Lotus Mountain Range in exchange for Zhou Chun performing an unspecified task after forming his Nascent Soul, which he could refuse if it involved attacking a Moon Wheel Sect Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Zhou Chun accepted the revised condition on behalf of the Zhou Family and agreed to ask the Moon Wheel Sect’s sect master for support.
• Zhou Chun traveled alone to the Moon Wheel Sect mountain gate to raise the matter with its sect master.

Zhou Chun sought the Moon Wheel Sect’s support for the Zhou Family to take control of the recovered Green Lotus Mountain Range. True Person Silver Moon agreed in principle but demanded supervision and tributes for the Moon Wheel Sect and Blazing Sun Sect, and Zhou Chun left to tell Zhou Mingde and prepare to deal with the Green Lotus Temple remnants.

• Zhou Chun arrived at the damaged Moon Wheel Sect and asked True Person Bai Yue to support the Zhou Family’s claim to the Green Lotus Mountain Range.
• Zhou Chun argued that the Zhou Family could recruit cultivators and rely on the Mysterious Pearl Palace to help guard the recovered territories.
• Zhou Chun told True Person Bai Yue that he could invite True Person Heavenly Mirror to station himself in the range, prompting Bai Yue to consult True Person Silver Moon.
• True Person Silver Moon agreed that the Zhou Family could take control only if Moon Wheel Sect disciples supervised them and the Zhou Family paid thirty percent of the range’s output to Moon Wheel Sect and twenty percent to Blazing Sun Sect.
• Zhou Chun accepted the conditions, then left for the Su Family mountain gate to inform Zhou Mingde and arrange an investigation of the surviving Green Lotus Temple cultivators.

After the Beast Tide ended, Zhou Chun learned the extent of the Zhou Family’s losses and counted his gains, including twelve fourth-tier Demonic Beast Cores. The Zhou Family secured approval to take control of the Green Lotus Mountain Range, and Zhou Chun prepared to travel to Great Zhou Country to find a Formation Master for its defenses.

• Zhou Mingde celebrated the prospect of the Zhou Family taking control of the Green Lotus Mountain Range, while Zhou Chun urged secrecy and continued searching for Green Lotus Temple remnants.
• True Person Heavenly Mirror warned Zhou Chun not to attack the Green Lotus Temple yet because old ghost Qingxiao’s agreement still obligated the Moon Wheel Sect and Blazing Sun Sect to protect it.
• After the allied army disbanded, Zhou Chun returned to Tu Yun Ridge, learned that the Beast Tide had killed seven Foundation Establishment clan members and more than eighty percent of the Zhou Family’s ordinary people, and visited the injured Zhou Zhengyong and his son.
• Zhou Chun counted his Beast Tide spoils, including twelve fourth-tier Demonic Beast Cores, seven fourth-tier Demonic Beast corpses, and twenty-three third-tier Demonic Beast Cores, then fed cores to four of his Spirit Pets.
• The Blazing Sun Sect agreed to let the Zhou Family take control of the Green Lotus Mountain Range, on condition that it become independent, accept sect supervisors, and provide Foundation Establishment Pills to Rogue Cultivators.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Mingde chose to hire a Formation Master from Great Zhou Country to build the mountain’s protective formation, and Zhou Chun set out to consult True Person Heavenly Mirror before traveling there.

After the Beast Tide, Zhou Chun returned to Sky Abyss Immortal City, reunited with Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Zhiying, and arranged cultivation pills and other support for the Zhou Family. Seeking a Formation Master to secure the Green Lotus Mountain Range, he approached the Gongsun Family and asked Gongsun Xuanlu for help.

• Zhou Chun recalled signs that True Person Heavenly Mirror’s life might be under the Moon Wheel Sect’s control as he traveled to Great Zhou Country.
• Zhou Chun reunited with Zhou Daoyi and Zhou Zhiying, recounted the war and the Zhou Family’s losses, and announced that the family had taken control of the Green Lotus Mountain Range.
• Zhou Chun explained the family’s need for a Forbidden Grand Formation, arranged for Zhou Daoyi to buy cultivation pills for attracting Rogue Cultivators, and gave Zhou Zhiying a Wind Attribute Third-tier Demonic Beast Core for Little Feather.
• Zhou Chun visited Luo Qingni, discussed refining cultivation pills from Demonic Beast Cores, and agreed to offer the Jade Dew Golden Radiance Pill formula to an Alchemy Grandmaster in exchange for having pills refined.
• Luo Qingni recommended the Gongsun Family as a source of skilled Formation Masters, so Zhou Chun visited its mountain gate and asked Gongsun Xuanlu to help deploy formations for the Zhou Family’s mountain gate reconstruction.

Zhou Chun secured the help of Gongsun Yuanji and his injured sister Gongsun Yuanzhi to plan a Mountain Protecting Grand Formation for the Zhou Family, then returned to Jing Kingdom with them. After arranging a survey of the Green Lotus Mountain Range, he learned that Qing Weizi had visited the Moon Wheel Sect and that a Green Lotus Temple disciple had appeared in Joy Kingdom.

• Gongsun Xuanlu refused to send Formation Masters to Jing Kingdom, but Gongsun Yuanji intervened and offered to recommend his talented sister, Gongsun Yuanzhi.
• Gongsun Xuanlu expelled Gongsun Yuanji from the family after he invoked its ancestral precepts, and Zhou Chun escorted him away from the Gongsun Family mountain gate.
• Gongsun Yuanji explained that Gongsun Yuanzhi had been injured and expelled after losing the family’s Formation Dao Treasure; Zhou Chun agreed to take the siblings to Jing Kingdom, and Yuanzhi promised to help despite her injury and family restrictions.
• Zhou Chun spent a million Spirit Coins on basic formation materials in Sky Abyss Immortal City, while Luo Qingni secured Jade Dew Golden Radiance Pills and entered seclusion to refine them.
• Zhou Chun returned to Jing Kingdom with the Gongsun siblings, gave them the Green Lotus Mountain Range map, and arranged for Zhang Liang and the Fire God Jackal to accompany their survey.
• Zhou Mingde told Zhou Chun that Qing Weizi had visited True Person Bai Yue and that a suspected Green Lotus Temple disciple had fought someone in Joy Kingdom; Zhou Chun ordered the family to keep gathering intelligence until the two-hundred-year period ended.

After the Beast Tide ended, Zhou Chun returned to the Wilderness Expanse and began organizing the Zhou Family’s development of Green Lotus Mountain Range. He chose the Azure Wood Coiling Dragon Formation as a practical first defense, gathered its materials, and returned with pills and plans for the family’s spirit beasts.

• Zhou Chun visited Caiyu Mountain, told Xu Fu that the Beast Tide had ended, and ordered him to resume production and explore for resources.
• After surveying Green Lotus Mountain Range, Gongsun Yuanji and Gongsun Yuanzhi recommended the powerful Wood Stone Spirit Locking Formation, but Zhou Chun judged its nine Fourth Rank Stone Heart Woods too difficult to obtain.
• Gongsun Yuanzhi told Zhou Chun that the Earth Mother Sect controlled a secret realm rich in Stone Heart Wood, and Zhou Chun instructed the siblings to prepare the Azure Wood Coiling Dragon Formation instead.
• Zhou Chun obtained a Fourth Rank Dragon Blood Wood by trading the horn of a fourth-tier mid-grade Blue Flood Dragon, then bought the remaining formation materials in Great Zhou Country.
• Luo Qingni gave Zhou Chun six Jade Dew Golden Radiance Pills along with batches of Essence Replenishing Pills and Dragon Spirit Pills, and told him Grandmaster Xu needed another year or two to prepare his pills.
• Zhou Chun gave Zhou Zhiying pills, agreed that Zhou Daoyi’s Azure Flood Dragon Qingqing could return to Green Lotus Mountain Range after advancing to Fourth Rank, and considered building proper habitats for his other spirit pets.

Zhou Chun completed the Zhou Family’s new mountain defenses and began rebuilding its holdings, then used a rare pill to accelerate his cultivation toward Nascent Soul Formation. He left for Dragon Abyss Marsh to make the Black Spear Tribe’s High Priest retrieve an item, despite the danger from newly expanded patrols.

• Zhou Chun distributed Jade Dew Golden Radiance Pills, helped complete the Azure Wood Coiling Dragon Formation, and paid the Gongsun siblings with three thousand-year Spirit Medicines.
• Zhou Chun invited the Gongsun siblings to serve as Zhou Family guest elders, but Gongsun Yuanzhi refused because she feared the family wanted their formation legacy; Gongsun Yuanji agreed to stay nearby and seek more commissions to support her.
• Zhou Chun organized the Zhou Family’s reconstruction of Green Lotus Mountain Range, assigned its Spirit Pets places to live, and settled into cultivation on Green Lotus Peak.
• Luo Qingni delivered eight Huan Zhen Pills to Zhou Daoyi, and Zhou Chun refined one in seclusion for ten months, gaining cultivation equivalent to about twelve years of meditation.
• Zhou Chun calculated that he might begin forming Nascent Soul in under two hundred years if his plans succeeded.
• Zhou Chun summoned Bahar and ordered him to retrieve an item from Dragon Abyss, and Bahar agreed despite warning that Dragon Court Soldiers now patrolled farther into the marsh.

Zhou Chun retrieved the sealed Ice Prison Sect assassin, who had become a fourth-tier Spirit-Communing Zombie, and left it with Zhou Daoquan despite the risks so his granduncle could try to refine it into an avatar. A year later, after Lin Hongyu advanced to the mid Golden Core stage, Gongsun Yuanji asked Zhou Chun to rescue his younger sister, and Zhou Chun agreed to pay her ransom in exchange for the siblings working for the Zhou Family.

• Bahar returned the Soul Sealing Coffin from Dragon Abyss Marsh, and Zhou Chun rewarded him with an additional fifty Black Lotus Pills.
• Zhou Chun opened the coffin with Zhou Daoquan and discovered that the sealed Ice Prison Sect assassin had become a fourth-tier Spirit-Communing Zombie.
• Zhou Daoquan sealed the zombie's consciousness and asked to refine it into a corpse-servant avatar; Zhou Chun agreed to leave it with him, while recognizing that ghost cultivation had changed his granduncle's temperament.
• Zhou Chun examined the assassin's Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal Flying Sword and concealed-aura robe, then later returned to the Green Lotus Mountain Range.
• Lin Hongyu emerged from seclusion after successfully advancing to the mid Golden Core stage, and Su Yuzhen moved to the Green Lotus Mountain Range to cultivate with Zhou Chun.
• Gongsun Yuanji asked Zhou Chun to rescue his younger sister from the Wei Family of Cangzhou, and Zhou Chun agreed to pay the compensation in exchange for both siblings working for the Zhou Family until the debt was repaid.

Over the years after the Beast Tide, Zhou Chun oversaw the Zhou Family’s recovery, gained a stronger Spirit Pet, and supported new family legacies while focusing on his own cultivation. The chapter ends with the Zhou Family successfully cultivating a second-rank Phoenix Blood Demonic Beast, while four mysterious silkworms hatched and remained under Zhou Chun’s watch.

• Zhou Chun arranged for Gongsun Yuanji to bring Gongsun Yuanzhi back from the Wei Family, then assigned the siblings to work under Zhang Liang until they repaid their debt to the Zhou Family.
• As Jing Kingdom rebuilt and newcomers arrived, the Zhou Family recruited many Rogue Cultivators; ten years after the Beast Tide, the Green Lotus Mountain Range had largely recovered and the family began using its new generation names.
• Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai broke through to the Fourth-tier mid-grade, prompting Zhou Mingde to discuss a proposal to use Zhou Chun’s Fire Phoenix vital blood to develop the family’s Five-Colored Fire Pheasants.
• Zhou Zhiqian returned after opening his Violet Palace, and Zhou Chun promoted him to Family Elder and gave him the promised Sword-Grinding Stone.
• Four small white insects hatched from suspected Six-Winged Ice Silkworm eggs, and Zhou Chun observed their unusual attachment to the Pure Spirit Immortal Osmanthus stump.
• After Zhou Chun supplied Fire Phoenix vital blood, Zhou Gaoping cultivated the second-rank Five-Colored Phoenix-Tailed Pheasant, adding Phoenix Blood Demonic Beasts to the Zhou Family’s beast-taming efforts.

Zhou Chun prepared to reclaim Green Lotus Temple’s secret vault after its protection period ended, then secretly traveled to Tongmu Ridge and launched a surprise assault on the Green Lotus Temple remnants. He broke through their mountain-protecting formation and began slaughtering the cultivators inside while calling for Qing Weizi.

• Zhou Chun rewarded Zhou Gaoping with a Foundation Establishment Pill for discovering Fire Phoenix-blooded Demonic Beasts, and reaffirmed that clansmen would be recognized for great contributions.
• The Gongsun siblings left the Zhou Family, and Gongsun Yuanzhi sent the family a formation textbook to support its Formation Masters.
• Zhou Chun oversaw the Zhou Family’s expansion into Misty Prefecture and Lotus Prefecture, including rebuilding market towns and accepting local forces as vassals.
• After True Person Heavenly Mirror reminded Zhou Chun that the two-hundred-year protection period had passed, Zhou Chun quietly left the Green Lotus Mountain Range with Stonehead and Mu Sang.
• Zhou Chun infiltrated Tongmu Ridge by breaking through its formation with his barrier-breaking secret art and Stonehead’s help.
• Zhou Chun summoned his Demonic Beasts and Spirit Pets, charged into Tongmu Ridge, and began killing Green Lotus Temple cultivators while demanding that Qing Weizi face him.

Zhou Chun led his Spirit Pets in an assault on Tongmu Ridge and fought Qing Weizi and Qing Lingzi, who deployed Green Lotus Temple’s powerful treasures and a Fifth Rank Talisman. Qing Lingzi died, Qing Weizi took his own life after the battle left him gravely wounded, and Zhou Chun survived but was badly injured as Tongmu Ridge burned.

• Zhou Chun’s Spirit Pets disrupted Tongmu Ridge’s formation and slaughtered Green Lotus Temple disciples as Zhou Chun faced Qing Weizi and Qing Lingzi.
• Qing Weizi attacked Zhou Chun with the Azure Profound Seal, but Zhou Chun transformed into a Taiyin Moon Toad and resisted its attacks.
• Qing Lingzi immobilized Zhou Chun with a silver mirror, but Stonehead and Bai Bai helped him break free, and Zhou Chun reflected the mirror’s power to seal Qing Lingzi’s spiritual power.
• Bai Bai killed Qing Lingzi, while Zhou Chun and his Spirit Pets forced Qing Weizi to use a Fifth Rank Talisman against them.
• Zhou Chun reflected part of the talisman’s fireball back at Qing Weizi, and the explosions badly injured Zhou Chun, damaged his Spirit Pets, and devastated Tongmu Ridge.
• Qing Weizi destroyed his storage bag and killed himself rather than be captured, while Zhou Chun vowed that Green Lotus Temple’s remaining disciples would not defeat the Zhou Family.

After destroying the Green Lotus Temple’s remaining lineage at Tongmu Ridge, Zhou Chun escaped to the Caiyu Mountain stronghold to recover and assess his spoils. The Moon Wheel Sect and Blazing Sun Sect demanded an explanation, and Zhou Chun offered each a Supreme-grade Magic Treasure to settle the matter while he remained in hiding.

• A black-robed crone investigated the ruined Tongmu Ridge, guessed Zhou Chun’s identity, and failed to track him after he fled Joy Kingdom.
• Zhou Chun reached the Caiyu Mountain stronghold, where he treated his severe injuries and suppressed the lingering fire aura with the Moon Toad Treasure Bead.
• Zhou Chun inventoried the treasures taken from Tongmu Ridge, including numerous Magic Treasures, Spirit Medicines, Spirit Coins, and the later inheritance of the Heart Lotus True Method.
• Envoys from the Moon Wheel Sect and Blazing Sun Sect sought Zhou Chun, and their leaders sent letters demanding that he explain the destruction of the Green Lotus Temple.
• Zhou Mingde received no help from True Person Heavenly Mirror, so Zhou Chun wrote to both sects, defended his revenge, and offered each a Supreme-grade Magic Treasure as compensation.

After recovering from his battle with the Green Lotus Temple, Zhou Chun settled matters with the Moon Wheel Sect and Blazing Sun Sect, then returned to the Zhou Family to distribute his spoils. He left for Great Zhou Country to trade surplus treasures and visit his disciple, Zhou Zhiying.

• Zhou Chun recovered at the Caiyu Mountain stronghold while mastering the fourth layer of the Heart Lotus True Method, and his Golden Winged Tiger advanced to fourth-tier mid-grade.
• Zhou Chun met True Person Silver Moon and True Person Bai Yue, denied knowing the Azure Lotus Tribulation Armor’s whereabouts, swore an oath, and offered the Moon Wheel Sect compensation.
• Zhou Chun visited the Blazing Sun Sect, where True Person Ziyang forced him to hand over his memory of Qing Weizi’s suicide before accepting his explanation.
• Zhou Chun returned to the Green Lotus Mountain Range and presented Qing Weizi and Qing Lingzi’s heads to True Person Heavenly Mirror.
• Zhou Chun gave Su Yuzhen the Two Dragons Flipping Sea Bottle and Zhou Mingde a fourth-tier mid-grade Golden Tiger Puppet, then placed other spoils in the family treasury and Scripture Repository.
• Zhou Chun left for Great Zhou Country to trade unneeded items and visit his disciple, Zhou Zhiying.

Zhou Chun visited Zhou Daoyi and Luo Qingni in Sky Abyss Immortal City, where he learned of Luo Qingni’s rare Wood Essence Core and discussed their plans to obtain ingredients for the Four Spirits Barrier Breaking Pill. He traded her a High-grade Magic Treasure for the Secret Realm Island passage token, intending for Zhou Zhiying to use it in the future.

• Zhou Chun praised Zhou Zhiying’s mid Violet Palace Stage cultivation and learned that her travels under Lin Hongyu’s protection had matured her character.
• Zhou Chun visited Zhou Daoyi and Lin Hongyu, gave them a Golden Tiger Puppet and a High-grade Magic Treasure, and entrusted Qing Jiao Qingqing to Zhou Daoyi.
• Luo Qingni told Zhou Chun that she had refined a Wood Essence Core she obtained at an exchange gathering seven years earlier.
• Luo Qingni revealed that a mature Turtle Yuan Ganoderma belonged to the Huangfu Family and was unlikely to be exchanged, so they discussed finding a major-sect partner for the Four Spirits Barrier Breaking Pill refinement.
• Zhou Chun asked Luo Qingni to refine pills for the Zhou Family and offered her a wooden spear High-grade Magic Treasure in exchange for her Secret Realm Island token.
• Luo Qingni accepted the exchange after Zhou Chun explained that he intended to send Zhou Zhiying to the island and secure future benefits for the Zhou Family.

Zhou Chun helped Bai Zhiqing secure a Golden Core formation spiritual item, privately guided promising Zhou Family juniors, and nurtured his newly transformed Six-Winged Ice Silkworms. The Zhou Family displayed its growing strength through a major auction and a successful beast hunt, while Zhou Xin Yan rewarded an outstanding young clansman.

• Zhou Chun failed to exchange for cultivation resources, then acquired Golden Core formation items for Zhou Family juniors and helped Bai Zhiqing complete an exchange so she could prepare for Core Formation.
• Zhou Chun privately shared news of the Golden Core formation items with promising juniors and began feeding the four transformed Six-Winged Ice Silkworms Frosty Cold Bees.
• The Zhou Family held an Auction Conference at Hundred Beasts Market, drawing many cultivators and selling treasures including a Low-grade Magic Treasure.
• The Zhou Family led affiliated forces in a three-month beast hunt that killed three third rank demonic beasts, more than fifty second rank demonic beasts, and over twenty thousand first-tier Demonic Beasts.
• Zhou Xin Yan rewarded Zhou Yuanxin with a Thunder Lizard Beast Egg for his performance in the hunt and urged him to raise it well.

Mad Thunder True Person came to Green Lotus Mountain Range to avenge Wang Jun and attack Zhou Chun, but True Person Heavenly Mirror protected Zhou Chun and drove Mad Thunder away. Afterward, Zhou Chun offered Heavenly Mirror a Ghost Cultivation legacy as payment for his help escaping the restraints on his Divine Soul, and Heavenly Mirror kept the Ghost Face Token.

• Mad Thunder True Person revealed that he had come from Thunder Cliff Valley to confront Zhou Chun over Wang Jun’s death and the fourth-tier Thunder Flood Dragon.
• Zhou Chun asked True Person Heavenly Mirror to protect him, promising a method to help Heavenly Mirror break free of his restraints.
• Mad Thunder True Person attacked Zhou Chun, but True Person Heavenly Mirror intercepted the strike and declared that he was the Zhou Family’s Guest Elder Grand Elder.
• True Person Heavenly Mirror and Mad Thunder True Person fought, and Heavenly Mirror forced Mad Thunder to retreat from Jing Kingdom after the battle moved to the Nine Heavens of Azure Firmament.
• Zhou Chun gave True Person Heavenly Mirror the Ghost Face Token containing a Ghost Cultivation legacy, which Heavenly Mirror accepted as payment for his assistance.

After Zhou Zhiying reached the late Violet Palace Stage, Zhou Chun revealed that he hoped she would inherit the Secret Realm Cave Abode and lend him its Nascent Soul formation treasures first. He prepared her for the inheritance, then traveled with her to the Dolan Grasslands, where the Multi-Winged Tribe’s Sacred Eagle detected him and Grand Mage Banglu resolved to pursue him.

• Zhou Chun learned that Zhou Zhiying had reached the late Violet Palace Stage and hurried to Sky Abyss Immortal City to meet her.
• Zhou Chun told Zhou Zhiying about the Secret Realm Cave Abode and asked her to let him use its Nascent Soul formation treasures before she did; she agreed.
• Zhou Chun trained Zhou Zhiying, equipped her with treasures and talismans, and continued making preparations for their expedition.
• After six years in Sky Abyss Immortal City, Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhiying left for the Dolan Grasslands.
• The Sacred Eagle statue in the Multi-Winged Tribe’s Spirit Wind Tribe sensed Zhou Chun, and Grand Mage Banglu identified him as the cultivator who had killed Grand Mage Ban’erwa and prepared to hunt him.

Zhou Chun discovered that the Spirit Wind Tribe had tracked him across the Dolan Grasslands and sent Zhou Zhiying onward while he confronted Grand Mage Banglu and his allies. He killed several of the pursuing mages, and the battle ended with Grand Mage Banglu impaled and under attack from the Golden Winged Tiger.

• Grand Mage Banglu and three allied Grand Mages pursued Zhou Chun and Zhou Zhiying across the Dolan Grasslands using the Vengeful Blood Eagle.
• Zhou Chun gave Zhou Zhiying the Secret Realm Island token and his Spirit Beast Pouch, then flew off to intercept the pursuers.
• Zhou Chun attacked the four Grand Mages with his Spirit Pets and killed one mid-tier Grand Mage with the Lightning Sword Dragon.
• Grand Mage Banglu used the Spirit Wind Tribe's quasi-sacred artifact, but Stonehead blocked its strike and Grand Mage Tumen began urging a retreat.
• Zhou Chun's Spirit Pets and divine attacks overwhelmed the pursuers, killing another mid-tier Grand Mage and wounding Grand Mage Banglu.
• Zhou Chun's Heavenly Gang Soul Extinguishing Spear pierced Grand Mage Banglu's heart, and the Golden Winged Tiger attacked him with its Demonic Core.

After killing Grand Mage Banglu and escaping the Dolan Grasslands, Zhou Chun returned to Sky Abyss Immortal City and waited while Zhou Zhiying pursued the Secret Realm inheritance. Zhou Zhiying passed the tests and became the inheritor of True Man Xuanfeng, receiving instructions to cultivate his legacy and seek the treasures he left behind.

• Zhou Chun killed Grand Mage Banglu, but Grand Mage Tumen escaped through the Nine Heavens of Azure Firmament; Zhou Chun fled underground to the Great Zhou Country and later returned to Sky Abyss Immortal City with valuable spoils.
• Zhou Zhiying reached the Secret Realm Island, entered Wind Origin Hall, and passed the will test on her final attempt before receiving the Taiyi Two-Part Divine Sense Technique as her comprehension test.
• Zhou Zhiying cultivated for more than two years, split her Divine Soul, and passed the comprehension test; the Snakefolk Puppet recognized her as heir to True Man Xuanfeng.
• Zhou Chun sold many Multi-Winged Tribe spoils through Zhou Daoyi and waited in Sky Abyss Immortal City while Bai Zhiqing formed her Golden Core and set off on further travels.
• The Snakefolk Puppet led Zhou Zhiying to the inheritance site, explained how to cultivate the Nine Heavens Wind Profound Scripture and access the cave residence, then fell silent after entrusting her with True Man Xuanfeng’s legacy.

Zhou Zhiying inherited Senior True Man Xuanfeng’s cultivation method and explored the treasures of his Secret Realm Island before returning toward Zhou Chun. After Zhou Chun rescued her from two cultivators, she brought him an inventory of the island’s astonishing resources, including powerful Nascent Soul formation aids.

• Zhou Zhiying cultivated the Nine Heavens Wind Profound Scripture using the Azure Sky Pill, advanced her method to the Violet Palace Stage, and refined the island’s formation access token.
• Zhou Zhiying explored the Secret Realm Island, brought in Thunder Flood Dragon Bai Bai and Wood Sprite Mu Sang, and spent a year cataloging its treasures and spirit medicines.
• Zhou Zhiying left the island with the two spirit beasts, and Zhou Chun went to meet her after sensing them drawing closer.
• Two Golden Core cultivators from Yellow Dragon Fortress attacked Zhou Zhiying, but Zhou Chun intervened, wounded one, and secured their apology and a gift for her.
• Zhou Zhiying explained her journey and presented Zhou Chun with her inventory, revealing Xuanfeng’s extensive treasures, inheritances, and spiritual items that could greatly improve her chances of forming a Nascent Soul.