Chapter Summaries

After returning from the Clear Abode, Chen Shuangbai settled the jade spirit Changming by his cold pool and learned Changming could gather lunar essence through jade. Chen Shuangbai carved and purified two divine forms, then brought Changming to see Lu Zhiyuan with a request.

• Chen Shuangbai hid the abandoned Clear Abode with Fang Xiao’s help, then sent Mystic Light Illuminating Life Pills to Gaohe Ridge and received spirit medicines in return.
• Chen Shuangbai met the jade toad Changming, who explained his talents for sensing jade and earth veins and his ability to gather lunar essence through a jade disc or suitable jade.
• Chen Shuangbai obtained high-quality jade and carved two divine forms, purifying them with Law Power until they carried the essence of the Supreme Yin.
• Chen Shuangbai took Changming to the Expenditure Hall and told Lu Zhiyuan he had something to trouble him with.

Chen Shuangbai chose Jade Screen Peak as the site for a separate abode and inspected its spiritual veins. He discovered a burrow with traces of Demon Power and sent Changming inside to catch the demon.

• Chen Shuangbai asked Lu Zhiyuan for records of suitable sites and selected Jade Screen Peak from the geomantic map.
• Lu Zhiyuan found a box of Chen Shuangbai's incense pills after seeing him off and put it away to share with Huang Shanglan.
• Chen Shuangbai and Changming arrived at Jade Screen Peak, where Chen Shuangbai examined its spiritual energy and earth veins.
• Chen Shuangbai found a concealed burrow at the formation's southwestern corner and detected Demon Power inside.
• Changming volunteered to catch the burrowing demon, and Chen Shuangbai let it enter the tunnel.

Chen Shuangbai chose Cloud-Resting Terrace on Jade Screen Peak for his separate abode and used the Jade Spring Sect’s resources and his own work to develop the peak. After completing the mountain’s defenses and a tower adorned with moon-god images and prayer pillars, he finished establishing his residence.

• Changming captured the red fox that had dug its burrow, and Chen Shuangbai had it released in a distant forest before sealing the burrow.
• Chen Shuangbai explored Jade Screen Peak, added the [Six Directions Primordial Light Formation] as an outer defense, and chose Cloud-Resting Terrace for his abode.
• Chen Shuangbai spent Merit Points on materials, while Yi Chongyue and the sect helped arrange renovations to Green Vine Grotto and commissioned Qiu Du to design the [Cloud-Water Azure Vine Earth-Covering Grand Formation].
• Chen Shuangbai had Feiguang and Gray Ball gather old trees, refined them into a three-story tower, and placed a jade disk at its entrance.
• Chen Shuangbai carved twelve prayer pillars for the lunar phases and set the two Moon Lord Divine Manifestations atop their corresponding pillars.

Chen Shuangbai and Changming completed an ancient moon-worshipping ritual at Cloud-Resting Terrace, gathering Essence of the Moon and establishing a repeatable source of power for the Great Yin Dao Fruit.

• Chen Shuangbai arranged a moon-worshipping formation using twelve lunar pillars, jade statues, and spiritual materials, guided by Changming’s inherited memories.
• Changming explained the Jade Spirit Clan’s ancient history, and Chen Shuangbai added the jade horn left by the Clear and Bright Jade Venerable to the cold pool.
• Under the full moon, Changming chanted the ancient incantation while Chen Shuangbai conducted the ritual and the formation linked them to the moon above.
• Moonlight gathered over the cold pool as Essence of the Moon, while Feiguang and Gray Ball fell into a comfortable sleep.
• After the ritual, Changming collected the lunar pearls and presented them to Chen Shuangbai, who planned to repeat the rite on every first and fifteenth day.

After Feiguang learned to speak and take human form, Chen Shuangbai invited friends and family to celebrate his new residence at Cloud-Resting Terrace. The guests began arriving, and the gathering continued with his sect elders and fellow disciples.

• Feiguang unexpectedly learned human speech and transformed into a feather-robed boy attendant, explaining that he wanted to help Chen Shuangbai.
• Chen Shuangbai sent Feiguang to deliver invitations and reflected on how many friends and family he had in the sect.
• Chen Shuangbai absorbed the lunar essence he had gathered into the [Great Yin Dao Fruit] while waiting for the guests.
• Fu Qianlan and He Qi arrived first, bringing spirit wine and fragrant herb seeds as gifts.
• Yi Chongyue, Peng Yu, and several disciples arrived and praised Chen Shuangbai's new residence.
• Yuan Bikong and Han Su arrived on Shi Yubai's behalf, congratulating Chen Shuangbai and bringing fruit from the peak.

Chen Shuangbai hosted a residence-opening banquet for friends, fellow disciples, and elders, who celebrated together as Peng Yu named his new home the Moon-Gazing Pavilion. After the guests departed, Wei Mingdang stayed behind and begged Chen Shuangbai to save her father's life.

• Lu Zhiyuan, Huang Shanglan, Lu Songting, and Lu Xiangyuan arrived with a pair of Jade-Plumed Sparrows and household supplies, followed by Chen Shuangbai's fellow disciples bearing gifts.
• Wei Mingdang arrived and presented Chen Shuangbai with a congratulatory gift, then joined the guests inside.
• Uncle Zhong presided over the banquet, where the guests shared food and conversation without discussing cultivation or past affairs.
• Peng Yu proposed the name Moon-Gazing Pavilion, and Chen Shuangbai inscribed it on a jade plaque and hung it above the entrance.
• Yi Chongyue reminded Chen Shuangbai that he would always be his first disciple, and Chen Shuangbai promised to remember his master's words.
• After the other guests left, Wei Mingdang asked Chen Shuangbai to save her father's life.

Wei Mingdang asked Chen Shuangbai to save her father, Wei Chengfeng, whose body was sealed in powerful cold after a past treasure expedition. Chen discovered that his Yin Lightning Seed could absorb the cold, and prepared to try to rescue Wei Chengfeng.

• Wei Mingdang told Chen Shuangbai that her father’s cold poison had worsened until he became trapped in ice, and asked him to help.
• Chen agreed to repay his remaining debt to Wei Chengfeng and traveled with Wei Mingdang to the Wall Reef Water Manor.
• Chen and Wei Mingdang found Wei Chengfeng alive but frozen inside an ice block in his bedchamber.
• Chen touched the ice and discovered that the cold entered his body and was absorbed by his Yin Lightning Seed.
• Chen explained that the cold could nourish the Yin Lightning Seed, and Wei Mingdang urged him to proceed with the rescue.

After Chen Shuangbai cured Wei Chengfeng by absorbing his cold poison, Wei Chengfeng explained that it came from an ancient underwater battlefield and recounted how Han Qianren betrayed their group. Chen Shuangbai learned that the battlefield’s Profound Yin Absolute Baleful Intent might help him advance his Yin Thunder Method, and the story left him considering a plan.

• Wei Chengfeng thanked Chen Shuangbai for saving his life, and Chen Shuangbai explained that his Yin Thunder Method could use the cold poison to nurture Yin Lightning.
• Wei Chengfeng recounted how he and several companions entered an ancient battlefield beneath the sea at Han Ren’s invitation and broke through the Profound Yin Absolute Baleful Intent surrounding its core.
• Wei Chengfeng said the core held an ancient cultivator’s corpse and a Profound Yin Ice Soul Pearl, along with rare spiritual materials.
• Wei Chengfeng revealed that Han Qianren betrayed the group with the secret technique 'Seize Foundation and Transform Baleful Intent,' killing two companions and gravely wounding him and his wife.
• Wei Chengfeng said his wife used a forbidden technique to hold off Han Qianren and push him out of the core area, sacrificing herself to save him.
• Wei Chengfeng identified the Profound Yin Absolute Baleful Intent as the source of his cold poison, and Chen Shuangbai began forming a plan.

After returning to Jade Screen Peak, Chen Shuangbai transformed a demonic ghost banner into a peak-guarding treasure and examined another artifact he had taken from Fang Yan. He gave Wei Mingdang’s aura-concealing robe to Feiguang, while Wei Mingdang prepared to pursue Foundation Establishment now that her father had recovered.

• Wei Mingdang accepted Chen Shuangbai’s offer to refine Green Wood Transforming Rain Pills for Wei Chengfeng and chose three treasures to send him.
• Wei Chengfeng urged Wei Mingdang to return to the sect and prepare for Foundation Establishment now that he had recovered.
• At Jade Screen Peak, Chen Shuangbai dismantled Fang Yan’s ghost banner and refined it into the Transforming Baleful Intent and Transmuting Spirit Banner to guard the peak.
• Chen Shuangbai studied Fang Yan’s invisible veil but could not find a way to refine or control it.
• Chen Shuangbai gave Feiguang the Aura-Concealing Feather Robe Wei Mingdang had sent, and Feiguang refined it until his presence became difficult to detect.

After four years of cultivation on Jade Screen Peak, Chen Shuangbai advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage and condensed a third Moon Lord Divine Manifestation. He consolidated his new strength as Feiguang delivered sect business and a summons from Deer Deep Waters Peak.

• Chen Shuangbai broke through to Foundation Establishment Late Stage during a moon-worship ritual, becoming the Jade Spring Sect’s youngest cultivator at that stage.
• Chen Shuangbai reflected that his next Divine Aspect should be the Lord of the Twelfth Month and focused on consolidating his cultivation.
• Feiguang reported that Wei Mingdang had stabilized her Foundation Establishment cultivation and planned to visit Chen Shuangbai to thank him.
• Feiguang told Chen Shuangbai that a flying letter from Deer Deep Waters Peak had asked him to return.
• Feiguang reported that the sect had sent Chen Shuangbai crystal sand, water moon jade crystal, and other cultivation resources, while True Person Bo’s letter asked whether he wished to accept disciples and contribute an account of his cultivation insights.

Chen Shuangbai visited Yi Chongyue and met his junior martial brother, Tang Yu, while discussing the possibility of taking disciples. He remained open to teaching disciples but asked his master to help find candidates with steadfast Dao hearts and upright character.

• Chen Shuangbai’s Jade Screen Peak grew into a superior spirit peak, attracting disciples who hoped to become his students.
• After handling Evil Hunting Hall business, Chen Shuangbai visited Yi Chongyue, who praised his cultivation and encouraged him to advance boldly.
• Yi Chongyue introduced his new disciple, Tang Yu, a talented young cultivator suited to pill refining.
• Chen Shuangbai praised Tang Yu and gave him a high-grade Law Artifact as a first-meeting gift.
• Chen Shuangbai told Yi Chongyue he might take disciples but wanted candidates with steadfast Dao hearts and upright character, and asked his master to help vet them.

Yi Chongyue told Chen Shuangbai that the Dark Crow Tribe had found a fourth-tier treasure and that True Person Bo had selected him to join the Jade Spring Sect’s trade delegation into Great Li Mountain. Chen Shuangbai arrived at the True Disciple Hall with Wei Zheng and Yan Heng, where two Golden Core True Persons approached.

• Yi Chongyue explained the border trade fairs and revealed that the Dark Crow Tribe had obtained a fourth-tier heavenly material or earthly treasure.
• Yi Chongyue said the Dark Crow Tribe had not identified the treasure and wanted to negotiate for talismans, pills, or Law Artifacts.
• Chen Shuangbai realized the treasure might help the Jade Spring Sect gain another Nascent Soul True Lord and resolved to secure it.
• The next day, Chen Shuangbai went to the True Disciple Hall with Wei Zheng and Yan Heng, who had both advanced in their cultivation.
• Wei Zheng greeted Chen Shuangbai and praised his progress to the late Foundation Establishment stage.
• Two Golden Core True Persons approached the hall.

Chen Shuangbai and his companions prepared for a secret journey to the Dark Crow Tribe in Great Li Mountain to obtain a fourth-tier treasure. True Person Mei transported the party away from the Jade Spring Sect, leaving them on their way to Jade Mountain City.

• True Person Bo introduced Ren Zisu and Heiming Xuanzhao as elders accompanying Chen Shuangbai, Wei Zheng, and Yan Heng, and Heiming Xuanzhao gave each junior a crow feather to guide them and identify members of the Dark Crow Tribe.
• True Person Bo explained that True Person Mei would take the group to Jade Mountain City, while the juniors would travel into Great Li Mountain to reach the Dark Crow Tribe; he warned them to put their lives before the treasure.
• Chen Shuangbai visited Yi Chongyue, received pills, and then returned to Jade Screen Peak to arrange for Changming and Gray Ball to guard the peak and maintain its moon-offering ritual.
• Chen Shuangbai returned to the sect, and two days later the five travelers departed secretly with True Person Mei, who carried them away at great speed.

Chen Shuangbai traveled with True Person Mei and the others to Jade Mountain City, where they received an urgent message from the Dark Crow Tribe. True Person Mei arranged a secret mission into Great Li Mountain and divided the group, leaving Chen Shuangbai, Wei Zheng, and Heiming Xuanzhao to enter with caravans.

• True Person Mei carried Chen Shuangbai and the others to Jade Mountain City using Golden Core powers that made the journey feel like shrinking the land to inches.
• Su Lang welcomed the group and delivered a confidential letter from the Dark Crow Tribe, which True Person Mei read and burned.
• True Person Mei explained that the Dark Crow Tribe’s great shaman was pressing urgently, while Su Lang reported no unusual activity in Jade Mountain City.
• True Person Mei ordered Su Lang to arrange three caravans as cover for a secret journey into Great Li Mountain, assigning Chen Shuangbai, Wei Zheng, and Heiming Xuanzhao to go.
• True Person Mei kept Ren Zisu and Yan Heng in Jade Mountain City as support and warned the others to put their lives before the fourth-tier spiritual object.
• Ren Zisu regretted being unable to visit the Dark Crow Tribe’s great shaman, and Heiming Xuanzhao teased her that he would tell the old man about her regret.

Chen Shuangbai and Wei Zheng noticed the apparent affection between Ren Zisu and Heiming Xuanzhao, then heard amusing stories about their elders from Yan Heng. While the elders gathered news, the disciples explored Jade Mountain City’s Hundred Barbarian Market, where Wei Zheng bought a Demon Beast spine.

• Ren Zisu left to visit acquaintances and gather news, while Heiming Xuanzhao went to ask the Ancient People about conditions in the mountains.
• Wei Zheng teased Heiming Xuanzhao about Ren Zisu, and Yan Heng enthusiastically shared gossip about the elders with Wei Zheng and Chen Shuangbai.
• Yan Heng obtained spiritual materials and medicinal herbs to refine pills against poison and miasma, while Wei Zheng and Chen Shuangbai set out with A Shi to explore Jade Mountain City.
• A Shi led Wei Zheng and Chen Shuangbai through the Hundred Barbarian Market and warned them about dishonest sellers.
• Wei Zheng bought a fiery Demon Beast spine from an Ancient People stallholder.

Chen Shuangbai and Wei Zheng toured Hundred Barbarian Market, where Wei Zheng bought demonic materials and A Shi introduced them to local stone gambling. After Wei Zheng tried his luck at the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, the group left near dusk and headed back.

• Wei Zheng collected a Purgatory Ancient Serpent backbone while he and Chen Shuangbai followed A Shi through the market.
• Chen Shuangbai released Feiguang, who had recently assumed human form, and Wei Zheng praised the Snow-Plumed Eagle's talent.
• A Shi explained that Jade Mountain City's stone gambling involved meteorites from a fallen star and recommended the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.
• Wei Zheng went to open stones while Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang browsed the pavilion, where Chen Shuangbai bought Feiguang a rare tail feather.
• Wei Zheng emerged looking pleased, and Chen Shuangbai saw that his fellow sect member remained clear-headed before leading the group back.

Ren Zisu and Heiming Xuanzhao told Chen Shuangbai’s group that the Wrathful Plume Dark Eagle’s worsening temper made travel through Great Li Mountain dangerous. After Su Lang arranged a caravan, Chen Shuangbai, Wei Zheng, and Heiming Xuanzhao disguised themselves and entered the mountains, where Chen Shuangbai felt unexpectedly at ease.

• Ren Zisu reported that demons had grown more aggressive during their breeding season and that major tribes had withdrawn into Great Li Mountain.
• Heiming Xuanzhao warned that the late-Golden-Core Wrathful Plume Dark Eagle was attacking tribes as its lifespan dwindled, and the group discussed the Dark Crow Tribe’s concerns and its great shaman’s condition.
• True Person Mei gave Su Lang a Green Wood Transforming Rain Pill after he confirmed that the caravan was ready to enter the mountains once the miasma thinned.
• Chen Shuangbai, Wei Zheng, and Heiming Xuanzhao disguised themselves and joined Su Lang’s caravan as it left Jade Mountain City for Great Li Mountain.
• The caravan dealt with insects and beasts along the ancient road, while Chen Shuangbai observed the wild surroundings and found that his strength was not suppressed.

Chen Shuangbai traveled with the caravan through Great Li Mountain, trading with the Marsh Lizard Tribe before reaching the Dark Crow Tribe with Heiming Xuanzhao and Wei Zheng. The Dark Crow Tribe’s Great Shaman welcomed them and invited them inside.

• The caravan traded pills for Blackwater Mystic Lotuses and other goods from the Marsh Lizard Tribe.
• The Marsh Lizard Tribe’s Ancient Shaman told the caravan leader that cries, lightning, and thunder came from Weeping Blood Peak at night, and Demon Beast corpses fell from the peak.
• The caravan traded with several more tribes before reaching the Dark Crow Tribe’s territory.
• Heiming Xuanzhao identified himself to the Dark Crow Tribe, whose members welcomed him and his companions into their settlement.
• The Dark Crow Tribe’s Great Shaman greeted Heiming Xuanzhao in Jing Kingdom’s official language and invited Chen Shuangbai and Wei Zheng inside.

Chen Shuangbai and Wei Zheng accompanied Heiming Xuanzhao to meet the Dark Crow Tribe’s great shaman, where the Jade Spring Sect exchanged gifts for a fourth-tier Jade Parasol Tree spirit seed. After the exchange, the great shaman warned them that a cursed Demon Eagle had grown increasingly bloodthirsty and advised them to leave by the western forest path.

• The great shaman questioned Heiming Xuanzhao about the Jade Spring Sect, then received the sect’s congratulatory gifts and displayed the tribe’s Jade Parasol Tree spirit seed.
• Heiming Xuanzhao gave the great shaman a jade bottle in exchange for the seed, then carefully sealed the jar and stored it away.
• Chen Shuangbai asked about the seed’s origins, and the great shaman said it came from a secret treasure site in the mountains.
• Wei Zheng asked about the old eagle, and the great shaman warned that his Shaman Incantation had left the Demon Eagle in agony, weakened and increasingly bloodthirsty.
• The great shaman advised the visitors to take the western forest path and promised to send people to escort them out.

Chen Shuangbai sensed someone watching the caravan as it left the Dark Crow Tribe, while Heiming Moulisha plotted to exploit the Great Shaman's trade of the [Jade Parasol Tree]. Gu Du uncovered Moulisha's involvement, leaving the caravan's danger unresolved.

• Heiming Xuanzhao, Wei Zheng, and Chen Shuangbai left the Dark Crow Tribe with the [Jade Parasol Tree], and Chen Shuangbai sensed an unseen presence watching them.
• Heiming Xuanzhao told Ya Wu about Chen Shuangbai's warning, and Ya Wu changed their route to a more remote trail.
• Heiming Moulisha learned that the Great Shaman had traded the treasure to the Jade Spring Sect and plotted to alert a rival who would covet it.
• Gu Du knocked out a tribesman, extracted information about Moulisha, and realized the Third Elder was behind the scheme.