Chapter Summaries

Wang Lixian stopped her exam work to capture Zhen Sicong and Yu Nianyun, who claimed to be joining Wang Lici’s faction and were made to complete test papers. Her display of life-element power drew Azure Emperor Valley’s ancient spirit plants, and Great Toon recognized her as an Immortal Plant before Wang Shouzhe’s stern voice made her and Wang Lici return to their exams.

• Wang Ningxi caught Wang Lixian using many branches to write her test and scolded Wang Lici for consulting her snake, while encouraging Lingbo to keep working.
• Wang Lixian’s branches ambushed Zhen Sicong and Yu Nianyun as they spied on the exam, and she captured them after a fierce fight.
• Zhen Sicong claimed that he and Yu Nianyun wanted to join Wang Lici, so Wang Lici accepted them and assigned them test papers.
• Wang Lixian’s life aura reached Azure Emperor Valley’s ancient trees, and Great Toon and Peach Red Jade traveled to Eternal Spring Garden to investigate.
• Great Toon recognized Wang Lixian as an Immortal Plant and refused to rescue Zhen Sicong and Yu Nianyun when they appealed to him.
• Wang Shouzhe ordered Wang Lixian to stop, prompting her to act innocent while Wang Lici hurried back to her test.

Wang Shouzhe arrived at Eternal Spring Garden, disciplined Wang Lixian, and watched Great Toon and Peach Red Jade decide to leave incarnations with her. Months later, the War of the Holy Sons began, and Wang Shouzhe discovered that its trials used Divine Martial virtual-reality equipment.

• Wang Ningxi explained how Zhen Sicong and Yu Nianyun had been caught up in Wang Lixian’s classroom commotion, but Wang Shouzhe punished Lixian for disrupting her studies.
• Great Toon tried to defend Lixian from Wang Shouzhe, then agreed to leave an incarnation with her; Peach Red Jade also offered to leave an incarnation and serve as her cook.
• Wang Shouzhe and the others returned to studying, while Lixian worked through problems under the care of the two spirit plants.
• After several months, Jiang Zhencang announced the War of the Holy Sons and led the contenders and guests to the Trial Hall on Lingyun Sacred Mountain.
• Jiang Zhencang revealed that the Divine Martial Dynasty’s pods sent participants into a configurable virtual world for assessment and training, and Wang Shouzhe began considering how to borrow the equipment.

Wang Shouzhe attended the opening of Lingyun Sacred Land’s War of the Holy Sons, where the lineages introduced their candidates and traded boasts. The contest had not yet begun when True Person Zixiao revealed Dugu Feihong as a secret candidate, leaving everyone suspicious about the young man’s origins.

• Jiang Zhencang powered up the Trial Hall and said he would calibrate its equipment before starting the trials once everyone arrived.
• Xu Chuchu introduced herself to Wang Shouzhe, whose greeting to True Person Langya frightened her into silence.
• True Person Yunyang bragged about Wang Lici and insulted True Person Langya, while Wang Shouzhe encouraged Wang Luoqiu to show her abilities in the contest.
• Bao Bucheng announced that he would participate for the Mystic Pill Pavilion and joked that he would send combat-focused departments to reclaim wilderness if he became Holy Lord.
• True Person Zixiao arrived with Dugu Feihong, announcing that the Zixiao Lineage had secretly trained him as a candidate and prompting suspicions about his connection to Master Yaoguang.

At the opening of Lingyun Sacred Land’s War of the Holy Sons, the lineages revealed their hidden candidates and bloodline aptitudes, turning the competition into a scramble among Peerless Prodigies. The chapter ended with Wang Liyao announcing that she, too, was a Peerless Prodigy, leaving Lingyun and the gathered True Persons stunned by the four-way contest.

• Jiang Zhencang summoned the Lingyun Codex and its Artifact Spirit, Lingyun, to announce the War of the Holy Sons.
• Zhen Sicong and Yu Nianyun revealed that they were both Grade A candidates, while Gongyang Ce, Dugu Feihong, Wang Luoqiu, Bao Bucheng, and Shi Maotian disclosed even higher aptitudes.
• True Person Qingsong announced that Azure Emperor Valley had raised Peerless Luwei, prompting the other lineages to protest when Lingyun appeared ready to favor her.
• Jiang Zhencang revealed that Wang Yingxuan was also a Peerless Prodigy, and Wang Lici then declared that she shared that aptitude.
• Wang Liyao introduced herself as a D-grade mid-tier Peerless Prodigy at the mid-stage Purple Mansion Realm, leaving Lingyun and the True Persons reeling at the four candidates.

The War of the Holy Sons began with Lingyun assigning bloodline scores that gave Wang Liyao a major lead, but the four peerless candidates persuaded her to let every contender enter the costly trial. Wang Yingxuan started the Winter Is Coming scenario by organizing a starving stockade for survival, while the spectators watched her risky strategy unfold.

• Lingyun awarded Wang Liyao one hundred bloodline points, gave the other peerless candidates eighty, and assigned sharply lower scores to the remaining contenders.
• Wang Yingxuan and Wang Liyao argued that the sacred land should let everyone take part in the trial, and Lingyun agreed.
• Jiang Zhencang activated the trial pods, and the participants entered a simulated history of climate collapse, human defeat, and a coming winter.
• Wang Yingxuan arrived in Farming Stockade No. 9326 and learned that five hundred residents had only one hundred units of food.
• Wang Yingxuan ordered the stockade to train one hundred strong adults on triple rations while the others gathered vines and made baskets and stone spears.
• Jiang Zhencang worried that Wang Yingxuan was ignoring his cautious advice, while True Person Heavenly Fire opened bets on the candidates' other trial scores.

Wang Shouzhe declined to bet but lent Immortal Crystals to several True Persons as the Holy Son and Holy Maiden candidates began their trials. Wang Lici’s apparent recklessness turned into a huge advantage when her appetite strengthened her enough to feed and rally her village, and Jiang Zhencang decided to seek her a chance at an Immortal Palace inheritance.

• Wang Shouzhe refused to join the wagers but lent True Persons Tianhe, Yunyang, and Mingcheng Immortal Crystals for their bets, while True Person Qingsong hinted at his connection to Luwei.
• Wang Shouzhe studied the candidates’ trial performances, and the spectators watched Wang Lici consume thirty units of food before demanding a hundred villagers to accompany her hunting.
• Wang Lici led the villagers out of Farming Village No. 8305, leaving its remaining residents anxious as their food dwindled during her absence.
• Wang Lici returned with a huge haul of Fierce Beasts, then repeatedly hunted more prey as eating made her stronger and improved the village’s food supply and morale.
• After the spectators watched Wang Lici hunt Fierce Beasts with ease, Jiang Zhencang resolved to seek her admission to the Immortal Palace if she did not win the Lingyun Codex.

During the Trial Grounds assessment, Wang Yingxuan built an elite army and defeated a mountain bandit force, impressing the spectators with her command. As the other candidates quietly developed their settlements, Wang Shouzhe began winning over Sacred Land lineages, leaving Jiang Zhencang to wonder whether Shouzhe was already paving the way for the Wang Clan to govern the Holy Land.

• True Person Qingsong and Master Heavenly Fire discussed seeking codex inheritances at the Immortal Palace for Lingyun Sacred Land’s talented disciples, embarrassing Jiang Xingyuan with their comparisons.
• Wang Yingxuan trained a hundred soldiers, led them to hunt Fierce Beasts, and used the spoils to strengthen her army and settlement.
• After gathering intelligence and planting infiltrators, Wang Yingxuan launched a surprise attack on a mountain bandit stronghold, killed its chief, and absorbed its people and resources despite being wounded and losing thirty soldiers.
• The spectators praised Wang Yingxuan’s military talent, while True Person Mingcheng pointed out that Wang Liyao and Gongyang Ce were quietly building strength through careful management.
• True Person Langya thanked Wang Shouzhe for tempering Gongyang Ce, and the two men warmly discussed Wang Liyao’s potential and the future of the Sacred Land.
• Jiang Zhencang watched Wang Shouzhe win over True Person Langya and suspected that he might unite the Sacred Land’s nine lineages before the War of the Holy Sons ended.

Wang Longyan uncovered signs that the Yin Sha Sect and the states of West Jin and South Qin might be preparing for a national war, while Wang Anye returned to Xinping Harbor with the two commandery princesses. The chapter left Wang Longyan needing to warn the Wang Clan as the harbor celebrated Anye’s arrival.

• The candidates developed their own strategies in the trials as Wang Lici and Wang Yingxuan grew stronger through battle.
• Wang Longyan cultivated the Yin Sha Codex, improved her Ice-Sha Power, and gathered information about the sect’s activities from Wu Xinrui.
• Wu Xinrui revealed that West Jin had requested tens of thousands of corpse puppets and that the Yin Sha Sect was urgently stockpiling materials connected to the True Demon Hall.
• Wang Longyan suspected the sect was preparing to help West Jin and South Qin wage war against Great Qian and resolved to send the information to the Wang Clan.
• Zhuge Liangcai spotted Wang Anye and the two commandery princesses arriving at Xinping Harbor atop Zong Kun and sent word to the clan.

The Crimson Charm Demon Envoy and her disciples tried to infiltrate the Changning Wang Clan by seducing Wang Anye, but the clan’s patrols thwarted their schemes. After recognizing Wang Zongkun’s unusual potential, the Demon Envoy decided to pursue Wang Anye herself.

• The Crimson Charm Demon Envoy ordered Qing Ji to approach Wang Anye disguised as a delicate young woman in distress.
• Qing Ji’s attempt was interrupted by seven other women using the same ploy, and Zhuge Liangcai’s patrol registered and escorted them away.
• Wang Zongkun unloaded valuable seabed materials at the docks, and the Crimson Charm Demon Envoy suspected he had awakened Kun bloodline.
• Zi Ji tried to fake a carriage accident to get close to Wang Anye, but a crowd of women rushed the carriage and the patrol carried her off for treatment.
• The Crimson Charm Demon Envoy decided to make her own move against Wang Anye.

Crimson Charm Demon Envoy disguised herself as an Immortal Palace cultivator and infiltrated the Wang Clan by accepting Wang Anye’s invitation to stay. As she began to covet the clan’s riches, a terrifying powerhouse arrived at the Mission Hall to claim contribution points, leaving her stunned.

• Crimson Charm Demon Envoy and Yu Ji disguised themselves as white-robed immortals, and Crimson Charm revealed her Divine Ability Realm aura at Xinping Town’s harbor.
• Wang Anye and the Wang Clan’s Celestial Realm cultivators met Crimson Charm, who introduced herself as Jiang Qingxue from the Immortal Palace and claimed she wanted to take Wang Anye as her disciple.
• After Wang Anye declined, he invited Jiang Qingxue and Yu Ji to stay at the Wang Clan Main Residence, where they registered with the Artifact Spirit Xiao Xue.
• Wang Anye deposited valuable items from his Storage Ring and earned a large number of family contribution points, astonishing Crimson Charm with the Wang Clan’s wealth.
• A powerful figure descended upon the Mission Hall and demanded that Xiao Xue credit him for extracting a large high-grade spirit vein, startling Crimson Charm.

Wang Anye returned to the Wang Clan, where Emperor Longchang recruited the infiltrating Crimson Charm Demon Envoy and her disciple into a mahjong game. A secret order then sent Wang Anye to help Wang Zongchang search for Blood Venerable’s lair, while the chapter ended with Jiang Qingxue losing all her Immortal Crystals in Liu Ruolan’s courtyard.

• Emperor Longchang met Wang Anye, learned that Crimson Charm Demon Envoy was posing as Jiang Qingxue, and dragged her and Yu Ji off to play mahjong with Liu Ruolan.
• Wang Anye reunited with Wu Xuening and Wu Yiluo, then received Wang Zongchang, who delivered Wang Shouzhe’s secret order requiring him to have two more children and assist in locating Blood Venerable’s lair.
• Wang Anye and Wang Zongchang weighed possible search areas and chose the Wild Marsh in the southwest as their first direction of investigation.
• Wang Anye visited his elders and met his sons, Wang Ningyi and Wang Ningyao, who protested when their mothers offered to visit their workplaces and tutor them.
• Emperor Longchang asked Wang Anye to bring more Immortal Crystals to the mahjong game, while Jiang Qingxue realized she had lost every Immortal Crystal in her Storage Ring.

Wang Anye arranged funds for Emperor Longchang and learned that his family had identified Jiang Qingxue as a likely Demon Dynasty spy, then traveled to the Great Wild Marsh to address a dispute with the Primordial Water Azure Dragon lineage. Burdened by gambling debts, Crimson Charm Demon Envoy joined the mission as a paid attendant and realized it could lead her to the Blood Venerable Ruins.

• Wang Anye exchanged contribution points for three million-Immortal-Crystal checks and gave them to Emperor Longchang, Jiang Qingxue, and Wang Luoyi.
• Liu Ruolan concluded that Jiang Qingxue was likely a Demon Dynasty visitor and kept her under observation, while Emperor Longchang agreed to help extract a distant Spirit Vein.
• Wang Anye set out for the Great Wild Marsh with Wang Zongchang, Old Yao, and Crimson Charm Demon Envoy to handle the dispute with the Primordial Water Azure Dragon lineage and search for ruins.
• Crimson Charm Demon Envoy accepted paid work protecting Wang Anye to repay her mahjong debts, then recognized the mentioned Blood Venerable Ruins as the place she had been seeking.

Wang Anye arrived at the Great Wild Marsh to resolve the dispute between the Wang Clan and the Primordial Water Azure Dragons, where Wang Lilong was already fighting Ao Longtian. After Wang Anye’s healing ability helped Lilong overpower him, the ninth-rank dragon elders confronted the human side, and negotiations began with the dispute over Lilong’s place in the Wang Clan still unresolved.

• Wang Anye and his companions were welcomed to Wangxia Town by Wang Chiqun and Lei Zhengyi before heading to the development outpost.
• Wang Anxin told the supervisors that Wang Anye was coming to address the disruption caused by Wang Lilong’s regular fights with Ao Longtian.
• Wang Anye healed Wang Lilong during her fight with Ao Longtian, allowing her to pin the eighth-rank dragon down.
• Ao Juechen descended and challenged the humans, while Old Yao and the Crimson Charm Demon Envoy blocked his pressure.
• Wang Anye proposed negotiations, but Ao Longtian demanded that the dragon clan’s alleged traitor be dealt with first.
• Ao Jiuxiao agreed to hear Wang Anye out after learning that Wang Lilong had formally joined the Wang Clan and been entered into its genealogy.

Wang Anye and Wang Anxin negotiated with the Primordial Water Azure Dragon Clan over the Southern Wilderness Ancient Marsh, arguing that Wang Clan development could expand the food supply and help the dragons grow their population. The chapter left both sides discussing a concrete cooperation plan, while Ao Juechen began to accept the proposal for the clan’s sake.

• Wang Anxin arrived with Wang Clan supervisors, and he and Wang Anye discussed clan affairs while Ao Jiuxiao and the other dragons listened and grew exasperated.
• Seven or eight days later, Wang Anye’s party met the dragons for formal negotiations, where Ao Juechen took charge and Wang Lilong and Ao Longtian traded insults before being silenced.
• Wang Anxin used maps and population figures to explain the marsh’s changing water levels and the dragons’ dwindling numbers, then outlined how marsh development and animal breeding could greatly increase their food supply.
• The dragons ate a lavish meal of spirit cattle and Dragon Whale meat, and Ao Longtian and Ao Jiuxiao were astonished by Wang Lilong’s wealthy human lifestyle.
• Wang Anxin proposed that the Wang Clan manage marsh development and the dragons oversee Fierce Crocodile breeding, and the dragons began discussing the cooperation plan as Ao Juechen considered accepting it.

Wang Anxin’s team negotiated a development and alliance agreement with the Primordial Water Azure Dragon clan, and the old ancestor dragon arrived to approve it. Wang Anye then learned that the Blood Venerable Ruins lay beneath Dragon Marsh and received permission to explore them.

• Wang Anxin’s negotiating team bargained with Ao Juechen over the marsh profits and reached agreements giving the dragons forty percent of net profits and establishing an offensive and defensive alliance.
• Wang Lilong and the Wang Clan celebrated the deal while Ao Juechen believed the dragons had won favorable terms.
• The old ancestor dragon arrived, praised Wang Lilong and Wang Anye, approved the agreement, and signed the contract.
• Wang Anye proposed that the dragons expand into the East Sea and establish an East Sea Dragon Palace.
• The old ancestor dragon revealed that the Blood Venerable Ruins were buried beneath Dragon Marsh and allowed Wang Anye to explore them.

Wang Anye learned why the Primordial Water Azure Dragons feared the Blood Venerable Ruins and secured their permission to enter by promising them spirit oxen. Meanwhile, Wang Shouzhe learned that the True Demon Hall was pushing West Jin and South Qin toward war with Great Qian, and the chapter ended with Old Dragon Ancestor opening the ruins beneath Dragon Marsh.

• Old Dragon Ancestor explained that the Blood Venerable had imprisoned and tortured the Azure Dragon Ancestor, who made his descendants swear never to enter the ruins.
• Wang Anye promised the Primordial Water Azure Dragon Clan five hundred Snow-Pattern Spirit Oxen, to be delivered over twenty years, in exchange for their goodwill.
• Wang Lilong argued that she could enter the ruins because she had never sworn the dragons’ ancestral oath, and Old Dragon Ancestor agreed.
• Wang Shouzhe told Emperor Longchang and Jiang Zhencang that West Jin and South Qin were preparing for war at the True Demon Hall’s behest, then proposed a different strategy for Great Qian.
• Wang Anye and his companions reached Dragon Marsh, where Old Dragon Ancestor used Water Command to reveal the entrance to the Blood Venerable Ruins.

Wang Anye and his companions entered the Crimson Dawn Temple, where its Artifact Spirit revealed Blood Venerable’s history and the temple’s defenses. After Wang Anye gained the Artifact Spirit’s trust and a map of the ruins, the Crimson Charm Demon Envoy secretly awakened a blood cocoon and fled deeper into the temple to seize Blood Venerable’s legacy.

• Wang Anye decided to notify Great-Grandfather while leading a small team into the ruins to scout the entrance.
• Wang Anye’s group reached the Expedition Hall and found it filled with pulsing blood cocoons and a hostile defense system.
• Wang Anye spoke with the Artifact Spirit, who revealed that Blood Venerable had left to reinforce the battlefield and that the temple’s tenth batch of Blood Nest Warriors awaited an authorized commander.
• Wang Anye learned that the Artifact Spirit considered him and Wang Zongchang basic Crimson Dawn members, then obtained a map and warnings about forbidden areas.
• The Crimson Charm Demon Envoy struck a large blood cocoon, triggering its awakening, and fled deeper into the temple to pursue Blood Venerable’s legacy.

Wang Anye and the Wang Clan fought the Blood Nest Warriors in the Crimson Dawn Temple's Expedition Hall, killing them and collecting their Wedding Dress Blood Gu. Meanwhile, the Crimson Charm Demon Envoy infiltrated the Blood Venerable Research Base but accidentally awakened its blood cocoons.

• Old Yao restrained the Divine Ability Realm Blood Nest Warrior while Wang Anye and the Wang Clan prepared to fight the awakened Blood Nest Warriors.
• Wang Shouzu, Wang Zhan Three, Wang Shouzong, Wang Lilong, the Five Big Wolves, and Years helped the Wang Clan defeat the Spirit Platform and Celestial Realm warriors as Wang Anye collected their Blood Gu.
• The Wang Clan gathered one hundred and sixteen ordinary Blood Gu and seventeen Blood Gu Kings, then turned its attention to the four remaining Purple Mansion Realm warriors and the Divine Ability Realm warrior.
• The Crimson Charm Demon Envoy sneaked into the Blood Venerable Research Base, hoping to claim its inheritance and escape through its teleportation array.
• The Crimson Charm Demon Envoy accidentally pierced a blood vessel while crossing the hall, awakening the super-giant blood cocoon and stirring the other cocoons.

Crimson Charm Demon Envoy escaped a horde of Blood Nest Warriors by sealing herself inside the Crimson Sanctuary, while Wang Anye’s group cleared another warrior and entered Blood Venerable’s research chamber. There, they found equipment that could help save Ningxi and encountered the Holy Gu Codex, which claimed to be nearly an Immortal Scripture.

• Crimson Charm Demon Envoy fled the Blood Nest Warriors and shut herself inside the Crimson Sanctuary, where she realized she had no way out.
• Wang Anye and his companions killed a Divine Ability Realm Blood Nest Warrior and collected its high-grade Wedding Dress Blood Gu.
• The Temple Artifact Spirit revealed that Crimson Charm Demon Envoy was trapped behind a force of three Void Ascension Realm and sixteen Divine Ability Realm Blood Nest Warriors, so Wang Anye’s group entered the unguarded research chamber instead.
• Wang Anye’s group found preserved extraterrestrial demons and a shattered pillar and teleportation array that they believed had once held the Azure Dragon Ancestor.
• The Temple Artifact Spirit said the research chamber could extract Ningxi’s extra bloodline if someone inherited the Holy Gu Codex.
• The Holy Gu Codex appeared as a winged little girl, defended its status as a half-step Immortal Scripture, and eagerly asked to meet the Heavenly Silkworm.

Wang Anye’s group learned how the Holy Gu Codex came from the Crimson Dawn Temple and brought Wang Luojing to meet it. The codex accepted Luojing as its successor, and Wang Shouzhe then ordered the Wang Clan to strip the temple of anything useful.

• The Crimson Artifact Spirit explained that Blood Venerable’s disciple had pursued the escaped Primordial Water Azure Dragon and never returned, linking the Holy Gu Tribe’s inheritance to the Crimson Dawn Temple.
• Wang Anye led the group away to gather Wang Shouzhe, Wang Ningxi, Emperor Longchang, and Wang Luojing before returning to the temple.
• Wang Shouzhe and Emperor Longchang persuaded the Holy Gu Codex to accept Luojing despite her bloodline aptitude, and Luojing agreed to improve her aptitude before inheriting it.
• The Holy Gu Codex gave Luojing a list of Blood Venerable’s inheritance gifts, but Luojing handed the list to Wang Shouzhe for the clan to allocate.
• Wang Shouzhe declared the temple’s contents Wang Clan property and ordered Wang Zongchang to clear it out, while Wang Anye offered the Crimson Artifact Spirit a new home.