Chapter Summaries

Zhou Daoyi returned from his encounter with Lin Hongyu having lost a minor realm of cultivation but gained part of an Azure Flood Dragon’s corpse, and Zhou Mingde proposed using the remains to strengthen the Azure Cloud Python. Zhou Chun then told Zhou Daoyi about killing a Dragon Transformation Sect foundation establishment cultivator and presented records and pills he had taken from the man.

• Lin Hongyu subdued Zhou Daoyi after draining some of his cultivation, introduced herself, and let him take part of the Azure Flood Dragon’s corpse before he departed with the Azure Cloud Python and Fire God Jackal.
• Zhou Daoyi recounted his encounter to Zhou Mingde, who urged him to use the Flood Dragon corpse to prepare the Azure Cloud Python for its transformation and promised the Lineage would help restore Zhou Daoyi’s cultivation.
• Zhou Daoyi returned to Zhongping Hall, where Zhou Chun reported killing a Dragon Transformation Sect foundation establishment cultivator with his Xinjin Sword Qi.
• Zhou Chun gave Zhou Daoyi personal records taken from the Dragon Transformation Sect envoy and asked him to identify the pills from the envoy’s Storage Bag.

Zhou Chun brought information about the Dragon Transformation Sect’s converts to Liu Shiyun so she could submit it to Green Lotus Temple, while Zhou Daoyi rewarded him with Azure Flood Dragon materials for his Silver Lightning Thunder Python. Liu Shiyun then led Zhou Chun to her master’s Green Frost Cave Dwelling, where the chapter left him seeing the scale and security of her lineage’s cultivation home.

• Zhou Daoyi decided the Zhou Family could not safely submit the Dragon Transformation Sect information itself, so Zhou Chun agreed to deliver it to Liu Shiyun.
• Zhou Daoyi and the Zhou Family alchemists identified most of the pills from the black-robed old man’s Storage Bag, including cultivation and healing pills.
• Zhou Daoyi advised Zhou Chun to save the Dragon Blood Spiritual Items for the Silver Lightning Thunder Python’s breakthrough and later gave him Azure Flood Dragon blood and flesh to feed it.
• Zhou Chun traveled to Green Lotus Temple and paid five Spirit Coins to have his letter delivered to Liu Shiyun quickly.
• Liu Shiyun received Zhou Chun and invited him to her home, then guided him through the Green Lotus Mountain Range toward her master’s Green Frost Cave Dwelling.
• Zhou Chun learned that Green Frost Cave Dwelling housed fewer than thirty cultivators and was protected by a powerful Mountain Protecting Array.

Zhou Chun visited Liu Shiyun and Liu Qingshan at Green Frost Cave Dwelling, where they welcomed him with a lavish feast and wine. He gave Liu Shiyun records and account books tied to the Dragon Transformation Sect, and her master agreed to accept them and visit the Zhou Family, leaving Zhou Chun with a new connection between the two groups.

• Liu Shiyun led Zhou Chun into Green Frost Cave Dwelling, where Liu Qingshan greeted him and hosted him at a feast with spirit cuisine and Golden Liquid Jade Dew Wine.
• Liu Shiyun told Zhou Chun that Green Lotus Temple's seniors had wounded the Black Flood Dragon but failed to kill it, and she apologized that she could not obtain its blood and flesh for him.
• Zhou Chun gave Liu Shiyun records and account books concerning new members of the Dragon Transformation Sect, explaining that the Zhou Family could not safely turn them in itself.
• Liu Shiyun took the materials to her master, who agreed to accept them and later visit the Zhou Family with Liu Shiyun.
• Zhou Chun thanked Liu Shiyun and Liu Qingshan, asked them to treat him as a fellow Daoist rather than a benefactor, and left the cave dwelling.

After three years of cultivation and preparations for conflict with the Dragon Transformation Sect, Zhou Chun learned that an Underground Auction near Red Cliff Market would offer Foundation Establishment Pills and other rare treasures. Zhou Daoyi sent him to accompany Fourth Elder Zhou Jiarui, and they left for the auction’s gathering place.

• Zhou Chun sold accumulated magical artifacts at Red Cliff Market, advised Zhou Zhengqiang on the Zhou Family’s Despair’s Touch business, and returned to the Lineage with several hundred Spirit Coins.
• Over the next three years, Green Lotus Temple and the Dragon Transformation Sect clashed repeatedly, while the Zhou Family obeyed Temple orders and prepared for battle.
• Zhou Daoyi recovered to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, Zhou Daoquan’s Vermilion Flame Crane advanced, and Zhou Jiapeng brought a captured female Iron Feather Eagle into the family’s mountain gate.
• Zhou Chun reached Level 11 Qi Refining, his Rock Earth Turtle awakened Gravity Technique, and Bai Bai advanced to a First-grade High-tier Demonic Beast with six lightning spells.
• Zhou Daoyi told Zhou Chun that an Underground Auction would offer a Foundation Establishment Pill and other treasures, and asked him to accompany Zhou Jiarui.
• After about half a month, Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiarui left Nine Peaks Ridge for the auction’s gathering place near Red Cliff Market.

Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiarui attended an underground auction, where the first nine treasures were sold and the tenth item was revealed to be a Foundation Establishment Pill. The bidding for the pill had just begun when the chapter ended.

• Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiarui boarded a concealed flying tower ship with other masked cultivators and followed a passage to the underground auction hall.
• Auctioneer Jia Ming announced the rules and sold a Blue Moon Spirit Pearl for five hundred Spirit Coins.
• The Illusory Spirit Maze Formation sparked intense bidding and sold for one thousand four hundred and fifty Spirit Coins.
• Zhou Chun passed on a Blazing Vulture Egg and a Green Bat Wing as the auction sold several other treasures.
• Jia Ming presented a Foundation Establishment Pill, and Zhou Jiarui recognized it as bidding was about to begin.

Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiarui attended an underground auction where Foundation Establishment resources sold for steep prices, and Zhou Jiarui secured five Spirit Ascension Fruits with Zhou Chun’s help. The auction ended with a mysterious Heavenly Spirit Order for a trial expected to open within three years, whose purpose Zhou Jiarui did not know.

• Zhou Jiarui abandoned bidding on the first Foundation Establishment Pill after its price exceeded the family’s limit, and a second pill later sold for an even higher price.
• Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiarui watched bidders compete for a defensive inner armor and then for five Spirit Ascension Fruits, which Zhou Jiarui bought for 11,800 Spirit Coins after borrowing money from Zhou Chun.
• Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators drove the price of Soul Nurturing Jade to 30,000 Spirit Coins.
• The auctioneer presented a C-grade Heavenly Spirit Order that could carry one Qi Refining cultivator into the Heavenly Spirit Trial, expected to open within three years.
• Zhou Chun asked Zhou Jiarui about the trial, but Zhou Jiarui said he did not know and advised him to ask the patriarch after they returned.

Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Chun returned from the underground auction with five Spirit Ascension Fruits, then killed a masked cultivator who tried to steal them. Zhou Chun received the Wing Talisman as a reward from Grand Elder Zhou Mingde, learned about Talisman Artifact Crafting, and asked Zhou Daoyi about the Heavenly Spirit Trial.

• Zhou Jiarui and Zhou Chun were dropped from the auction ship in a forest, where a monkey-masked Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator demanded their Spirit Ascension Fruit.
• Zhou Jiarui released the Fire God Jackal, which killed the attacker, and the pair took his belongings before burning his corpse and returning to Nine Peaks Ridge.
• Zhou Daoyi approved Zhou Jiarui's purchase of five Spirit Ascension Fruits, examined the dead cultivator's belongings, and said the matter should be left alone.
• Zhou Daoyi gave Zhou Chun the Wing Talisman as a reward from Grand Elder Zhou Mingde for purchasing the Spirit Ascension Fruits for the lineage.
• Zhou Daoyi explained Talisman Artifact Crafting, Formation Talisman Crafting, and Talisman Treasures to Zhou Chun, who then asked about the Heavenly Spirit Trial.

Zhou Chun lent family Merit Points to Zhou Jiapeng and Zhou Jiahe so they could exchange for Spirit Ascension Fruits, while the Zhang Family learned that the Zhou Family had killed Zhang Yunjin. Zhang Kaida stopped his elders from confronting the stronger Zhou Family and vowed to wait for an opportunity to retaliate.

• Zhou Daoyi explained the history of the Heavenly Spirit Trial to Zhou Chun and urged him to focus on cultivation.
• After the Zhou Family made five Spirit Ascension Fruits available in exchange for Merit Points, Zhou Chun lent one thousand points to Zhou Jiapeng and six hundred and fifty to Zhou Jiahe.
• Zhou Jiapeng and Zhou Jiahe exchanged their borrowed Merit Points for Spirit Ascension Fruits, and the remaining fruit was soon claimed by another clansman.
• The Zhang Family discovered that their Second Elder, Zhang Yunjin, had been killed by the Zhou Family's Fire God Jackal during the Underground Auction trip.
• Zhang Kaida refused to lead the Zhang Family elders to confront the Zhou Family, citing their strength and alliances, but vowed to make them pay when an opportunity arose.

Zhou Chun joined a Zhou Family expedition into Misty Smoke Marsh to capture a herd of Eight-horned Water-repelling Deer. After the family subdued all fourteen, Zhou Jiarui returned with the sedated deer while Zhou Chun stayed behind to lead the group transporting the three strongest stags.

• Zhou Cheng led Zhou Jiarui, Zhou Chun, and five other Zhou Family cultivators into Misty Smoke Marsh to capture the herd he had discovered.
• Zhou Chun used the Silver Lightning Thunder Python to carry the group across the marsh to the island where the deer grazed.
• The Zhou cultivators waited through heavy rain, then spotted fourteen Eight-horned Water-repelling Deer arriving at the meadow.
• When the lead stag detected the approaching cultivators, Zhou Jiarui ordered the attack, and Zhou Chun used his Spirit Pets and Locking Gold Ring to restrain four deer.
• The Zhou Family captured all fourteen deer, and Zhou Jiarui took the sedated animals back while appointing Zhou Chun to lead the remaining group.

Zhou Chun lured a pockmarked Foundation Establishment cultivator away from his clansmen with a Wing Talisman, then stood his ground when his magic power ran low. He and his spirit pets struggled to withstand the enemy’s repeated attacks, and the fight remained unresolved.

• Zhou Chun kept the captured Eight-horned Water-repelling Deer secured on the island while his clansmen took turns keeping watch and searching nearby for spirit medicine.
• After a family cultivator sent a distress signal, Zhou Chun spotted a Foundation Establishment cultivator pursuing Zhou Cheng and ordered his clansmen to move the deer while he drew the enemy away.
• Zhou Chun activated his Wing Talisman and fled across the Misty Smoke Marsh, but the pursuer attacked him with a Blue-and-White Jade Bowl, injuring him and draining his magic power.
• When his magic power and Essence Restoration Pills ran low, Zhou Chun landed, released Bai Bai and the Rock Earth Turtle, and prepared to fight.
• Zhou Chun and his spirit pets weakened and blocked the enemy’s water attacks with lightning, talismans, and defensive spells, but the Foundation Establishment cultivator continued bombarding them.

Zhou Chun survived a battle with a Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator by wounding him with Xinjin Sword Qi and forcing him to flee, then recovered enough to reunite with Zhou Jiarui and the others. After learning how the Rogue Cultivators had captured Zhou Jiafei and Zhou Zhengtao, Zhou Jiarui vowed the matter would not end there.

• The pockmarked middle-aged man descended to conserve magic power, and Zhou Chun charged toward him with Bai Bai while the Rock Earth Turtle stayed behind.
• Zhou Chun struck the enemy with two beams of Xinjin Sword Qi, and Bai Bai followed with lightning, forcing the wounded cultivator to flee.
• Zhou Chun swallowed a Dragon Blood Replenishing Pill, hid on a small island in Misty Smoke Marsh, and resumed recovering.
• Zhou Jiarui sent up a Purple Orchid Cloud Smoke signal, and Zhou Chun joined him after recognizing it as a call for the scattered family members to gather.
• Zhou Jiarui confirmed that Zhou Zhengtao, Zhou Jiafei, and the other family members were safe, while Zhou Chun asked him to keep his clash with the Foundation Establishment cultivator secret.
• Zhou Cheng explained how the Rogue Cultivators had captured Zhou Jiafei and Zhou Zhengtao, and Zhou Jiarui vowed to pursue the enemy now that they knew his origins.

After Zhou Chun recovered from his injuries, the Zhou Family publicly displayed Shen Han’s corpse and rewarded Zhou Chun for his role in the mission. Zhou Chun traveled to Red Cliff Market to buy cultivation pills, where a woman who recognized him resolved to attack him with her husband’s help.

• Zhou Daoyi told Zhou Chun that Shen Han’s corpse would hang outside the mountain gate for a hundred days, then awarded Zhou Chun five hundred Merit Points, two second-grade low-tier talismanic seals, and a first-grade high-tier flying magic artifact.
• Zhou Chun recovered for about a month while Shen Han’s corpse intimidated Rogue Cultivators and Zhou Jiaqing’s failed Foundation Establishment attempt left him gravely injured.
• Zhou Chun left Nine Peaks Ridge on the Silver Rainbow Ruler and traveled to Red Cliff Market to buy pills for advancing his cultivation.
• At Li’s Medicine Shop, Zhou Chun learned that Li Siyuan had returned to his family to prepare for Foundation Establishment and bought a bottle of Golden Bud Pills from the new shopkeeper.
• A woman recognized Zhou Chun outside the shop and told her husband that she intended to attack him, while her husband urged caution before following her.

Zhou Chun was ambushed by three cultivators while traveling from the market town, but he and his Spirit Pets swiftly killed them. He learned that the surviving woman had sought revenge for a bandit cultivator he killed nine years earlier, then killed her and left the scene.

• Zhou Chun sensed he was being followed after leaving the market town and prepared for a confrontation.
• A masked man, a middle-aged beauty, and another masked cultivator arrived and attacked Zhou Chun.
• Zhou Chun released the Rock Earth Turtle and Silver Lightning Thunder Python, which helped him kill the two men and restrain the woman.
• The woman revealed that Zhou Chun had killed her former husband nine years earlier, and Zhou Chun recognized her as the bandit cultivator who had escaped then.
• Zhou Chun ordered Bai Bai to kill the woman, collected the three cultivators' belongings, burned their corpses, and left.

After returning to the Zhou Family with valuable spoils, Zhou Chun helped open a secret technique to ordinary clansmen and advanced to Level 12 Qi Refining, while learning the family might earn a Foundation Establishment Pill by fighting the Dragon Transformation Sect. He then explored deeper into an Underground Water Cave with Bai Bai and launched an attack on a school of Poison Thorn Fish.

• Zhou Chun inventoried the spoils from his recent kills, found the Spirit Seeking Eye secret technique, and decided it could benefit ordinary Zhou Family clansmen despite its long cultivation time.
• Zhou Chun returned to the Zhou Family, restored and replenished his Xinjin Sword Qi, and learned that Zhou Jiahe had successfully achieved Foundation Establishment.
• Zhou Chun presented the Spirit Seeking Eye to Zhou Daoyi, who opened it to the Lineage and rewarded him; six months later, Zhou Chun reached Level 12 Qi Refining.
• Zhou Daoyi told Zhou Chun that Green Lotus Temple might offer Foundation Establishment Pills as rewards for fighting the Dragon Transformation Sect, giving the Zhou Family a chance to obtain one.
• Zhou Chun returned to the Underground River to gather Poison Thorn Fish mucus, then ventured farther into the water cave with Bai Bai.
• Bai Bai stunned a charging school of Poison Thorn Fish with a Lightning Spell Orb and lunged into the weakened school.

Zhou Chun and Bai Bai defeated a school of Poison Thorn Fish and discovered a long-sealed underground hall containing the remains and legacy of a Dragon Transformation Sect evangelist. After identifying the valuable manuals and relics among the remains, Zhou Chun collected them, buried the skeleton, and left the hidden passage undisturbed.

• Bai Bai scattered and incapacitated dozens of Poison Thorn Fish while Zhou Chun watched, then returned to him for praise.
• Zhou Chun and Bai Bai found a Poison Thorn Fish breeding ground before following a land passage deeper into the cavern.
• Zhou Chun discovered a skeleton and opened its Storage Bag, finding a Heavenly Spirit Order, a silver-white metal foil, old Spirit Coins, magic tools, and numerous manuals.
• Zhou Chun read the skeleton's cultivation notes and learned that the deceased had been a late Foundation Establishment Dragon Transformation Sect evangelist who fled the sect's fall more than eight hundred years earlier.
• Zhou Chun suspected the metal foil contained the Dragon Transformation Secret Manual, collected the usable items, buried the evangelist's remains, and chose not to disturb the passage to the surface.

Zhou Chun returned to the Zhou Family with ancient cultivation-art inheritances and other treasures, earning the family's promise to support his Foundation Establishment and grant him major rewards. He kept the Heavenly Spirit Order and began preparing for the Heavenly Spirit Trial, learning that its multiplayer grounds could offer treasures but permitted lethal conflict.

• Zhou Chun met Zhou Zhengyong as Zhou Zhengxun tried to tame the lead Eight-horned Water-repelling Deer, then urged Zhou Zhengyong to keep cultivating alongside his breeding work.
• Zhou Chun handed Poison Thorn Fish corpses to Zhou Jiawei and presented his discoveries and recovered items to Patriarch Zhou Daoyi.
• After reviewing the ancient texts, Zhou Daoyi praised their valuable Pill, Artifact, Talisman, and Formation inheritances and took them to Grand Elder Zhou Mingde for inspection.
• Zhou Daoyi offered Zhou Chun family-backed Foundation Establishment and further rewards, and Zhou Chun accepted without objection.
• Zhou Chun chose to keep the Heavenly Spirit Order and prepared for the trial, while Liu Shiyun informed him that its multiplayer grounds contained treasures and could become deadly contests.

Zhou Chun prepared for the Heavenly Spirit Trial and traveled with Zhou Daoyi to the Heavenly Spirit Sect Ruins when his token activated. Inside the trial, he entered Fire Dragon Alley and struggled through the scarlet statue’s attacks, reaching the exit curtain.

• Zhou Chun prepared for the trial by obtaining talismans, magic tools, and Essence Restoration Pills while Green Lotus Temple offered Foundation Establishment Pills for aid against the Dragon Transformation Sect.
• Zhou Daoyi escorted Zhou Chun to the Heavenly Spirit Sect Ruins, where cultivators gathered with their tokens.
• The Heavenly Spirit Orders pulled their owners into a silver-white vortex, and Zhou Chun awoke in a sealed chamber inside the Trial Ground.
• Zhou Chun entered Fire Dragon Alley and defended himself against fireballs, pillars of flame, and a wall of fire without releasing the Rock Earth Turtle.
• Zhou Chun used his Bright Haze Pendant and a Water Spirit Protective Talisman to withstand the final flames and reach the exit curtain.

Zhou Chun passed the first three solo trials, then entered the Battle of the High Tower after recovering his magic power. While exploring the mountain forest for Heavenly Spirit Orders and resources, he encountered a Wolf Bear Mutant Beast just as another person spotted it too.

• Zhou Chun cleared Six Harmonies Alley with the Rock Earth Turtle and defeated the Puppet Automaton in the Battle Arena with the help of both Spirit Pets and more than ten spell talismans.
• Zhou Chun found no rewards for passing the first three stages, rested in the provided courtyard, and recovered his magic power by meditating.
• Zhou Chun entered the Battle of the High Tower, learned that participants needed seven Heavenly Spirit Orders to enter its central tower, and sent Bai Bai ahead to scout.
• Zhou Chun and Bai Bai killed a black spider demonic beast, and Zhou Chun collected Red Vine Heart Fruits before heading toward the tower.
• Zhou Chun spotted a Wolf Bear Mutant Beast raiding a poisonous-bee hive and prepared to kill it for its heart, but concealed himself when another person cried out at the sight of the beast.

Zhou Chun killed a cultivator to claim a Wolf Bear Mutant Beast heart and a powerful magic tool, then cautiously gathered more trial spoils. After spotting a scouting Green-tailed Wind Swallow, he met its gray-robed owner, who invited him to cooperate for a Soul Heart Fruit.

• A blue-robed old man killed the Wolf Bear Mutant Beast, but Zhou Chun ambushed and beheaded him, claimed the beast's heart and Heavenly Spirit Order, and refined the man's Twin-Pronged Fork.
• Other trial participants fought over spirit medicines and treasures, while two old men fled a group of Green-faced Ghost Apes.
• Zhou Chun collected spirit medicines and Ironback Centipede eggs while staying far from the mountain where the high tower stood.
• Zhou Chun recognized a Green-tailed Wind Swallow as a likely scouting Spirit Pet but continued onward, prepared for its owner to find him.
• A gray-robed old man approached Zhou Chun openly and proposed that they work together to obtain a Soul Heart Fruit.

Zhou Chun joined Fu and Jiang to attack the Green-faced Ghost Apes guarding a Soul Heart Fruit tree and claimed one ripe fruit. When Zhou Chun refused to keep cooperating with the two men, they turned hostile and threatened to force him to stay.

• After hearing that a Soul Heart Fruit grew in the valley, Zhou Chun agreed to help Fu obtain it and met Jiang, who had also been recruited.
• Zhou Chun, Fu, Jiang, and the Silver Lightning Thunder Python entered the Profound Yin Land and fought the Green-faced Ghost Apes, whose combined Soul Shriek briefly disrupted their attacks.
• The Silver Lightning Thunder Python jolted Zhou Chun back to his senses, breaking the apes' combined Soul Shriek and allowing the group to drive them deeper into the valley.
• Zhou Chun, Fu, and Jiang found five Soul Heart Fruits, three of them ripe, and each took one before storing it away.
• Fu and Jiang urged Zhou Chun to join them in hunting other cultivators, but Zhou Chun refused and prepared to leave.
• Fu and Jiang turned hostile, and Jiang declared that they intended to force Zhou Chun to stay.