Chapter Summaries

The Golden Armored Mountain-Bearing Turtle Stone endured its Heavenly Dao Lightning Tribulation and became the Zhou Family’s third Beast King. After Zhou Chun named him Lord Mountain-Bearer, his formidable abilities established him as the family’s ultimate mountain-gate guardian.

• The Golden Armored Mountain-Bearing Turtle Stone survived three rounds of increasingly destructive Tribulation Lightning by combining its innate defenses, divine abilities, and magic treasures.
• The Stone Turtle passed the final lightning bolt, absorbed the abundant Imperial Flow Nectar, and returned to Green Lotus Peak to recover and consolidate its cultivation.
• News spread that Zhou Chun now had three Fifth-Rank Beast Kings, prompting cultivators to wonder how he had cultivated such rare potential in his Spirit Pets.
• The Golden Armored Mountain-Bearing Turtle Stone appeared in human form, and Zhou Chun bestowed on him the title Lord Mountain-Bearer.
• Zhou Chun assessed Lord Mountain-Bearer’s newly awakened abilities and concluded that his defense and escape skills made him an exceptional guardian for the Zhou Family’s mountain gate.

After Lord Mountain-Bearer reached the Fifth Rank, Zhou Chun traveled to Bingyi Country to seek Ice Moon Toad blood and pursue revenge against the Ice Prison Sect. Flying Snow Palace refused to trade him any toads, but he obtained blood essence and began planning to acquire a toad by other means before summoning an Ice Prison Sect envoy.

• Zhou Chun left Lord Mountain-Bearer with Luo Qingni to guard the mountain gate and traveled to Flying Snow Palace in Bingyi Country.
• Fei Baiyun refused Zhou Chun's offer to trade for Ice Moon Toads, but agreed to sell him thirty drops of Fourth-Rank blood essence for three Thousand-Year Treasure Medicines.
• Zhou Chun refined the blood essence at Snow Dragon Ridge and confirmed it could advance his Moon Toad cultivation, then decided to seek an Ice Moon Toad through other means.
• Zhou Chun avatar activated an Ice Prison Sect communication token and waited on a snowy mountain for an envoy.
• After half a day, a white-robed figure emerged from the snow and landed several hundred zhang from Zhou Chun avatar.

Zhou Chun tracked down an Ice Prison Sect stronghold and negotiated compensation for its past assassination attempt against him, settling on two live Ice Moon Toads. Five years later, the sect delivered them, and Zhou Chun secretly placed them in the Wilderness Expanse while the Zhou Family began gathering materials for his Ancient Dust Pill.

• Zhou Chun captured an Ice Prison Sect envoy, learned about the sect's teleportation network, and followed him to a hidden stronghold in the Ice Plains.
• Zhou Chun and the Silver Dragon Lord drew out an Ice Prison Sect Nascent Soul True Person, and Zhou Chun demanded compensation for the earlier assassination attempt.
• Zhou Chun agreed to end the feud if the Ice Prison Sect obtained two live Ice Moon Toads, then used the Mysterious Nether Water Eye to replenish his avatar, Moon Toad Treasure Bead, and Six-Winged Ice Silkworms.
• Five years later, an Ice Prison Sect Golden Core cultivator delivered two male Ice Moon Toads to the Zhou Family, and Zhou Chun secretly settled them in the Wilderness Expanse.
• Zhou Chun assigned his avatar to watch over the Ice Moon Toads, while Zhou Family cultivators began searching for materials needed to refine the Ancient Dust Pill.

Zhou Chun prepared to attend Tianyi Sect’s Dharma Assembly after gathering pills for his Ice Moon Toad, and his invitation sparked rumors that a Spirit Transformation Venerable secretly backed him. After three years, he set out for the assembly and encountered the Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator Nangong Wuqing, who invited him to travel together.

• Zhou Chun gathered materials to refine three batches of Ancient Dust Pills, producing twenty-four pills for his Ice Moon Toad’s future breakthrough.
• Yi Shaofeng delivered Tianyi Sect’s invitation to Zhou Chun and explained the Dharma Assembly’s ceremonies, exchanges, and rules.
• Zhou Daoyi learned that Zhou Chun and Moon Wheel Sect were the only invitees from Jing Kingdom, and Zhou Chun agreed that the invitation could raise the Zhou Family’s morale.
• Rumors spread that Zhou Chun was a nominal disciple of a Spirit Transformation Venerable, so Zhou Chun ordered a public clarification to stop the story.
• Three years later, Zhou Chun left for the Great Zhou Country with his spirit pets and rare treasures, then met Nangong Wuqing, who invited him to travel together.

Zhou Chun traveled to Great Zhou Country aboard Nangong Wuqing’s pleasure boat, learned that rumors of Venerable Tianyi attending the Tianyi Dharma Assembly were circulating, and joined a Nascent Soul cultivator exchange meeting. The chapter ended with an elderly cultivator offering to trade for Zhou Chun’s two mature stalks of Longevity Grass.

• Nangong Wuqing invited Zhou Chun aboard his Bliss Pleasure Boat, where they discussed cultivation and introduced Silver Dragon Lord and Phoenix Origin Lord to each other.
• Nangong Wuqing told Zhou Chun that Venerable Tianyi might attend the Tianyi Dharma Assembly and asked him to consider cooperating if a major crisis arose.
• At Xiandu Market, Huangfu Tianming confirmed that rumors of Venerable Tianyi’s attendance were circulating and later arranged an exchange meeting for Nascent Soul cultivators.
• At the exchange meeting, Huangfu Tianming traded Taixuan True Gold, while Nangong Wuqing sought items that could help him break through to the late Nascent Soul realm.
• An elderly cultivator asked Zhou Chun to trade for a life-extending item, and Zhou Chun offered two mature stalks of Longevity Grass.

Zhou Chun attended an exchange gathering, traded for rare medicines, and learned of True Person Guhong’s efforts to preserve his sect’s inheritance. He then witnessed the Tianyi Sect’s blessing ceremony and its Spirit Transformation methods, before arriving at Lingxiao Hall for the upcoming Treasure Exchange Conference.

• Zhou Chun exchanged his Fifth-Rank Ox Horns and Fifth-Rank Dragon Scales for medicines that replenished vital energy.
• Huangfu Tianming introduced Zhou Chun to the gathered cultivators, and True Person Guhong befriended him and offered to seek the Jiazi Longevity Pill formula.
• Zhou Chun entered the Tianyi Sect and was astonished by its spiritual energy and the strength of its disciples.
• The Tianyi Sect’s blessing ceremony produced Five-Colored Sweet Dew that improved the disciples’ cultivation, and the Tianyi Seven Sons lectured them afterward.
• Zhou Chun met Huangfu Tianming and Nangong Wuqing at Lingxiao Hall, where they discussed the ceremony before the Treasure Exchange Conference.

At the Tianyi Dharma Assembly’s Treasure Exchange Conference, Zhou Chun traded Longevity Grass for Geng Metal and sought a Heavenly Infant Fruit with his Spirit Treasure, but another cultivator secured it first. He then displayed his own rare treasures and offered them for vital-energy-replenishing medicines, Geng Metal, or Star Moon Orchid.

• True Person Tianxuan began the exchange conference, and Junior Sister Qin presented the Tianyi Sect’s treasures for trade.
• Nascent Soul cultivators exchanged the sect’s items for Infant Transformation Pill ingredients, life-extending items, rare medicines, and Water attribute materials.
• A silver-haired great cultivator failed to find a suitable life-extending item, while Zhou Chun traded two Longevity Grasses with True Person Xuanzhen for Geng Metal.
• A blue-robed cultivator offered a Heavenly Infant Fruit for a Spirit Treasure or a Supreme-grade Space Attribute Magic Treasure, but Zhou Chun’s offer of the Blazing Sun Mirror did not meet his needs and another cultivator completed the exchange.
• Zhou Chun traded for a vital-energy-replenishing medicine and two smaller pieces of Geng Metal, then displayed seven or eight rare items in exchange for vital-energy medicines, Geng Metal, or Star Moon Orchid.

At the Tianyi Dharma Assembly, Zhou Chun made valuable exchanges before Venerable Tianyi revealed that the Turbid Fiendish Energy was gradually disappearing and could vanish within a thousand years. He warned that this change could reshape the Cultivation World and spark war with the Other Races, then promised the Deity Transformation Venerables would defend the Human Race if war broke out.

• Zhou Chun exchanged rare treasures for a five-thousand-year-old Blood Essence Grass, three pieces of Geng Metal, and an ingredient for refining the Purple Splendor Crimson Pearl Pill.
• As the Treasure Exchange Conference concluded, True Person Tianxuan summoned the Heavenly Unity Divine Venerable before the gathered Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Venerable Tianyi announced that the Turbid Fiendish Energy was dissipating and might disappear from the world within a thousand years.
• Venerable Tianyi warned that the change could transform the Human Immortal Cultivation World and lead the Other Races to launch a preemptive attack.
• True Person Xuanzhen asked whether the Deity Transformation Venerables would aid the Human Race in a large-scale invasion, and Venerable Tianyi promised they would defend it.
• Venerable Tianyi teleported away, and True Person Tianxuan declared the Tianyi Dharma Assembly over.

Zhou Chun agreed to a temporary truce between the Zhou Family and Moon Wheel Sect after True Person Xuanzhen mediated, then learned from Nangong Wuqing how Turbid Fiendish Energy first entered the world. They speculated that its disappearance might eventually make ascension possible again, though they would need to advance their cultivation before that mattered.

• True Person Xuanzhen urged Zhou Chun and True Person Silver Moon to reconcile, and Zhou Chun agreed not to demand Moon Wheel Sect's submission until he could match a late Nascent Soul stage cultivator.
• True Person Silver Moon accepted the arrangement, and Xuanzhen promised to contact Zhou Chun personally if his help was needed.
• Nangong Wuqing offered to trade Geng Metal spiritual materials for one of Zhou Chun's remaining stalks of Longevity Grass.
• Nangong Wuqing explained that Upper Realm powers had caused Turbid Fiendish Energy to flood into the world more than thirty thousand years earlier, and that they later contained the breach and created the Spirit Cleansing Array.
• Zhou Chun and Nangong Wuqing speculated that Turbid Fiendish Energy's disappearance might change the difficulty of ascending to the Upper Realm, but acknowledged they first had to reach the next major realm.

Zhou Chun reconciled with the Spirit Taming Sect and returned to the Zhou Family with compensation, then warned the clan that the Turbid Fiendish Energy would eventually disappear and urged preparations. As Spirit Coins rapidly lost value and a currency crisis spread, True Person Xuanzhen summoned Zhou Chun to Sky Abyss Immortal City to discuss a new currency system.

• Zhou Chun told Huangfu Tianming he would settle the Zhou Family’s grudge with the Spirit Taming Sect if it surrendered its Beast Taming Skill inheritances, paid three Golden Core formation spiritual items, and stopped using Zhou Family techniques.
• The Spirit Taming Sect accepted Zhou Chun’s conditions, apologized, and delivered the compensation, after which Zhou Chun left Xiandu Market for home.
• Zhou Chun informed Zhou Mingde, Zhou Daoyi, and Luo Qingni that the Turbid Fiendish Energy would disappear in more than a thousand years and warned them to prepare for war and changes to Spirit Coins.
• Zhou Chun told Zhou Mingde that he had reconciled with the Spirit Taming Sect and asked Luo Qingni to refine pills using materials and formula progress he had obtained.
• The major powers bought supplies and hoarded resources as Spirit Coins lost purchasing power, prompting cultivators to refuse them and causing a currency crisis.
• True Person Xuanzhen summoned Zhou Chun to Sky Abyss Immortal City to discuss redrawing the Cultivation World’s currency system with Nascent Soul cultivators from other countries.

Zhou Chun attended a vast assembly of Nascent Soul cultivators to find a replacement for Spirit Coins as the Turbid Fiendish Energy dissipated. After three days of failed proposals, True Person Huayang called for factions to resume accepting Spirit Coins while they continued searching for a long-term substitute.

• Zhou Chun arrived at Sky Abyss Immortal City and tried to learn what preparations the other cultivators had made for the currency assembly.
• True Person Huayang opened the assembly by explaining that Spirit Coins would lose their usefulness as the Turbid Fiendish Energy dissipated and that a replacement needed practical value.
• Several cultivators proposed Spirit Metal coins, cultivation-enhancing pills, and blank Talisman Paper, but True Person Huayang and True Person Tianxuan rejected their ideas as impractical.
• Zhou Chun recognized that some proposals would chiefly benefit the factions that offered them, while more than a hundred cultivators debated without finding a workable solution.
• After consulting privately with True Person Tianxuan, True Person Xuanzhen, and other great cultivators, True Person Huayang proposed reopening markets to Spirit Coins and guaranteeing their future exchange for a replacement currency.

Zhou Chun helped restore confidence in Spirit Coins, secured the Zhou Family’s issuance quota, and strengthened his own cultivation over several years. When True Person Xuanting returned, Zhou Chun honored their agreement by providing the dragon scales and asked for the complete Universe Spirit Shifting Art.

• True Person Huayang persuaded the Nascent Soul cultivators to keep Spirit Coins legal and reduce future issuance by about thirty percent, while Zhou Chun secured four issuance quotas for the Zhou Family.
• Zhou Chun and True Person Silver Moon launched a market rescue in Jing Kingdom, and the factions’ efforts gradually eased cultivators’ distrust of Spirit Coins.
• Moon Wheel Sect delivered the Zhou Family its first batch of 1.2 million Spirit Coins as Zhou Chun cultivated his Formless Geng Metal Divine Light and nurtured the Ice Moon Toad.
• True Person Xuanting visited Zhou Chun to continue their long-delayed transaction, and Zhou Chun agreed to honor their original terms.
• Silver Dragon Lord shed exactly seventy-two scales, bringing the total to eighty-one, and Zhou Chun asked True Person Xuanting to hand over the complete Universe Spirit Shifting Art.

Zhou Chun studied the Imperial Spirit Sect techniques and formulas he obtained from True Person Xuanting, then supported Zhou Zhiying’s decision to travel and temper her state of mind. Later, True Person Guhong sought his help refining the Jiazi Longevity Pill, and Zhou Chun offered at most two stalks of Longevity Grass in exchange for the pill formula.

• Zhou Chun obtained and examined the original Universe Spirit Shifting Art, discovering its short duration, activation requirements, and other limitations.
• Zhou Chun studied the Mystic Spirit Beast Armor, the Hundred Beast War Puppet, and three mutated Demonic Beast formulas, deciding to restrict access to the war puppet technique.
• After Zhou Zhiying broke through to the late Golden Core stage, Zhou Chun advised her on preparing for Nascent Soul formation, and she left to travel.
• True Person Ziyang sent Zhou Chun a confidential letter urging him to hunt the Two-Headed Black Flood Dragon, but Zhou Chun brushed him off.
• True Person Guhong visited Zhou Chun after obtaining the Jiazi Longevity Pill formula and gathering its other ingredients, proposing that they refine the pill together.
• Zhou Chun offered to provide at most two stalks of Longevity Grass if True Person Guhong gave him the Jiazi Longevity Pill formula.

Zhou Chun secured the Jiazi Longevity Pill formula and a successfully refined pill, which he gave to Zhou Mingde to extend his life. After years in seclusion and a celebration showcasing the Zhou Family’s promising younger generation, Zhou Chun was urgently summoned when Zhou Daoyi reported that Xiao Lian’s Soul Token had shattered.

• Zhou Chun and True Person Guhong agreed to exchange Longevity Grass for the Jiazi Longevity Pill formula and pills, and Guhong successfully refined one after a failed attempt.
• Luo Qingni reported that two transplanted stalks of Longevity Grass had survived, and Zhou Chun gave the Jiazi Longevity Pill to Zhou Mingde despite his initial refusal.
• Zhou Chun cultivated in seclusion while Zhou Daoyi celebrated his eight-hundredth birthday and promising young cultivators, including Zhou Baichuan, displayed their skills.
• Zhou Daoyi urgently roused Zhou Chun after Xiao Lian’s Soul Token shattered, and Zhou Chun reacted with shock.

After Zhou Yuanlian's Soul Token shattered, Zhou Chun chose to wait for news from Wu Yuzhu rather than risk investigating the Yuanmo Realm himself. The Zhou Family celebrated Zhou Zhiqian's independent Core Formation, while Moon Wheel Sect discovered the family's Wilderness Expanse operations and secretly planned to attack its strongholds.

• Zhou Chun, Zhou Mingde, and Zhou Daoyi saw Zhou Yuanlian's shattered Soul Token and decided to ask Wu Yuzhu's family whether her Soul Token remained intact.
• Xu Fu returned with news that Wu Yuzhu's Soul Token was safe, and Zhou Chun kept Zhou Yuanlian's death secret while waiting for her to return.
• Zhou Zhiqian returned as a Golden Core stage cultivator, and Zhou Chun praised him, gifted him the Profound Ink Sword, and arranged a grand celebration through Zhou Daoyi.
• Nangong Wuqing brought Zhou Chun the final ingredient needed for the Purple Splendor Crimson Pearl Pill, and Zhou Chun exchanged a remaining stalk of Longevity Grass for it.
• True Person Bai Yue reported that the Zhou Family controlled an Underground Waterway and had built strongholds in the Wilderness Expanse, and True Person Silver Moon ordered a covert raid to destroy them and seize witnesses.

Moon Wheel Sect branch cultivators attacked the Zhou Family’s Caiyu Mountain stronghold, forcing Zhou Yuanliang to call for help. Zhou Chun’s avatar arrived with four Six-Winged Ice Silkworms and turned the battle around, leaving the attackers facing his lethal counterattack.

• True Person Bai Yue summoned leaders of several Moon Wheel Sect branches and sent them to attack the Zhou Family’s stronghold at Caiyu Mountain.
• Renyue Sanren led the branch cultivators into the Underground River and launched an assault on the stronghold’s Mountain Protecting Grand Formation.
• Zhou Yuanliang activated three Thousand-Li Transmission Talismans and urged the stronghold’s cultivators to hold out until help arrived.
• Zhou Chun’s avatar received the distress signals and rushed from the ice cavern to the stronghold.
• Zhou Chun’s avatar unleashed four Six-Winged Ice Silkworms, which sliced apart four Violet Palace cultivators and shocked the attackers.
• Renyue Sanren attacked one silkworm with a crimson firebird, but Zhou Chun’s avatar extinguished it and sent nine invisible ice needles toward the three Golden Core cultivators.

Zhou Chun's avatar defeated the Moon Wheel Sect's attackers at the Caiyu Mountain stronghold and confirmed their likely allegiance before his main body confronted True Person Xuanzhen. He demanded an oath from True Person Silver Moon that the Moon Wheel Sect would stop interfering with the Zhou Family's interests in the Wilderness Expanse, or face war.

• Zhou Chun's avatar killed Renyue Sanren, saved two Golden Core attackers from the cold poison, and entered the stronghold after Zhou Yuanliang verified his Elder Token.
• Zhou Chun searched the captives' souls, found Nascent Soul-level restrictions, and inferred that the Moon Wheel Sect was behind the attack.
• Zhou Chun killed the blue-robed woman and the long-faced old man after the restrictions destroyed the woman's Divine Soul and the man's reaction confirmed Zhou Chun's guess.
• Zhou Chun considered whether to withdraw the Zhou Family's personnel from the Wilderness Expanse, then decided to seek help from True Person Xuanzhen.
• Zhou Chun told True Person Xuanzhen about the attack and demanded that True Person Silver Moon swear the Moon Wheel Sect would stop interfering with the Underground Waterway and Zhou Family strongholds, or face a declaration of war.

After True Person Xuanzhen mediated, True Person Silver Moon agreed to leave the Zhou Family’s Wilderness Expanse stronghold and underground waterway alone. Zhou Chun strengthened the family’s defenses and considered killing True Person Silver Moon, while preparing Wood Sprite Mu Sang to attempt its tribulation; Wu Yuzhu returned with news about Zhou Yuanlian’s death.

• Zhou Chun persuaded True Person Xuanzhen to mediate with True Person Silver Moon, citing the strategic danger of exposing the underground waterway to the Dragon Abyss Marsh demons.
• True Person Xuanzhen warned True Person Silver Moon, who promised not to interfere with the Zhou Family stronghold or underground waterway.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi investigated the leak, discovered that a maternal relative had enchanted her Dao companion to learn the stronghold’s secret, and ordered stronger security measures and counterespionage.
• Zhou Chun developed killing intent toward True Person Silver Moon and considered raising Wood Sprite Mu Sang to the Fifth Rank, though Mu Sang’s tribulation prospects remained poor without better defensive treasures.
• Zhou Chun returned with three High-grade Magic Treasures for Mu Sang and found Wu Yuzhu waiting; she had formed Golden Core and brought news about Zhou Yuanlian’s death.

Wu Yuzhu revealed that Zhou Yuanlian had died during the True Lord of Ten Thousand Poisons’ inheritance trial, and Zhou Chun learned more about the Yuanmo Realm before arranging for Mu Sang to undergo its tribulation. The chapter ended with Mu Sang beginning its Heavenly Dao Lightning Tribulation in Blackwood Forest.

• Wu Yuzhu told Zhou Chun that Zhou Yuanlian had died inside the Secret Realm of Ten Thousand Poisons after entering alone to seek the complete poison arts inheritance.
• Wu Yuzhu vowed to inherit Zhou Yuanlian’s wish, and Zhou Chun granted her Zhou Yuanlian’s cave dwelling and permission to seek his cultivation advice.
• Wu Yuzhu described the Yuanmo Realm’s powerful but divided demonic factions, the Ten Great Demon Lords, and their wars with the Giant God Clan.
• Zhou Chun sent Wu Yuzhu to meet the Zhou Family’s higher-ups, while the clan announced Zhou Yuanlian’s death without revealing its cause.
• Zhou Chun took Mu Sang and the Phoenix Origin Lord to Blackwood Forest, where Mu Sang’s Heavenly Wood Dao Soldiers drove a Wood Spirit tribe from its settlement.
• Mu Sang occupied the settlement and triggered the Heavenly Dao Lightning Tribulation.

Wood Sprite Mu Sang endured an extraordinarily powerful Heavenly Dao Lightning Tribulation with Zhou Chun’s support and a collection of treasures, Dao Soldiers, and its innate abilities. After the final lightning strike severed Zhou Chun’s spiritual connection to Mu Sang, a daylight moon appeared, signaling that Mu Sang had survived.

• Zhou Chun watched Mu Sang face a tribulation so powerful that he feared it had almost no chance of survival, while sixteen Heavenly Wood Dao Soldiers and several magic treasures stood ready to help.
• Mu Sang used its shields, Dao Soldiers, Azure Profound Seal, and Life's Blessing to survive the first two rounds, restoring itself by draining the vegetation across several dozen miles.
• The third round shattered the Dao Soldiers’ umbrella-shaped shield and damaged Mu Sang, forcing it to rely on the Azure Profound Seal, Lord Mountain-Bearer’s Mysterious Spirit Wutu Banner, and the Heavenly Gang Thunder Slaying Sword.
• Mu Sang burned its origin and struck the final lightning dragon with the Heavenly Gang Thunder Slaying Sword, after which a vast sea of lightning engulfed the area and its spiritual connection to Zhou Chun vanished.
• Zhou Chun searched the crater for Mu Sang, but Phoenix Origin Lord noticed a silver-white moon in the daylight, revealing that Mu Sang had survived and earned the Heavenly Dao’s reward.