Chapter Summaries

The Heavenly Saber Sect formed the Luozhen Conquest Alliance after the Departing Fire Sect pushed it to exploit the Luozhen Sect’s resources. As seventy-two sects joined, the Immortal Alliance cleared the Luozhen Sect of wrongdoing and threatened sanctions against the alliance.

• Wang Qianxue revealed that the Heavenly Saber Sect and Departing Fire Sect had spread rumors accusing the Luozhen Sect of colluding with the Demon Race.
• Fang Hexuan warned that the Departing Fire Sect was likely preparing a larger attack, and the next day Wan Tianshu called for a Luozhen Conquest Alliance.
• Wan Tianshu told Heavenly Saber Sect elders that the Departing Fire Sect had offered territory and mineral veins to secure their leadership, while promising reinforcements for the attack.
• Sects from the other four prefectures joined the alliance, and seventy-two sects signed on within ten days, while top-tier powers stayed silent.
• Zhang Jianchen announced the Immortal Alliance’s findings: the Luozhen Sect had not betrayed humanity, and the alliance must disband or face severe sanctions.

The Daozhen Sect joined the Luozhen Conquest Alliance under the decree of Immortal Lord Qingxu, threatening war against the Immortal Alliance and leaving the Luozhen Sect without its protection. Zhang Jianchen revealed that an upper-realm patriarch had ordered the Immortal Alliance to stay out of the conflict in exchange for three immortal mines, and he withheld the patriarch’s identity from Li Yunjing.

• Wan Tianshu rejected the Immortal Alliance’s findings and vowed that the Luozhen Conquest Alliance would continue its campaign against the Luozhen Sect.
• The Daozhen Sect joined the alliance and threatened to raze Immortal Alliance Mountain if the Immortal Alliance helped the Luozhen Sect.
• After the Immortal Alliance remained silent, Mo Xuan, Nangong Chengyu, Li Yunjing, and Fang Hexuan discussed the threat inside Luozhen Grand Hall.
• Zhang Jianchen arrived and told Li Yunjing that Immortal Lord Qingxu had traded three immortal mines for a patriarch’s order barring the Immortal Alliance from the war.
• Zhang Jianchen said Qingxu had acted because he dreamed someone from the Luozhen Sect would kill him, but he refused to name the patriarch until Li Yunjing ascended.

Zhang Jianchen gave Li Yunjing private aid and a secret refuge option, but the Immortal Alliance could not intervene because upper-realm True Immortals were watching. As the Luozhen Conquest Alliance tightened its blockade and crippled the sect’s supply and intelligence routes, Li Yunjing ordered preparations to fight and vowed to defend the Great Wilderness.

• Zhang Jianchen gave Li Yunjing ten million High-Grade Spirit Stones, pills, Law Treasures, and a letter offering secret aid from the Jade Saint Dao Palace.
• After Zhang Jianchen left, Li Yunjing told Fang Hexuan and the others that the Immortal Alliance could not openly help, then ordered the sect to prepare for war and organize allied armies.
• Li Yunjing declared that the Luozhen Sect would defend its territory against the Departing Fire Sect, Heavenly Saber Sect, Daozhen Sect, and the Luozhen Conquest Alliance.
• Mo Xuan reported that the blockade had sealed supply routes, intercepted most transport teams, deterred smugglers, and cut off much of the sect’s intelligence network.
• Li Yunjing ordered the sect to conserve resources and said the Great Wilderness’s resources and two Dao Realms could help them endure the blockade.

Xie Zheng killed Elder Chihuo while defending the Luozhen Sect’s last secret passage, and the Luozhen Conquest Alliance learned that he wielded a Seven Treasures Sect weapon from the Mysterious Female Dao Realm. Wan Tianshu suspected the Luozhen Sect had found a way to travel between Dao Realms, while True Lord Chiyan pushed for an immediate all-out attack.

• Li Yunjing told Mo Xuan that reinforcements and supplies from the Mysterious Female and Chenwei Dao Realms could sustain the Luozhen Sect while it established resource extraction in the Great Wilderness.
• The Luozhen Conquest Alliance discovered the passage at Severed Cloud Gorge and attacked the Luozhen Sect disciples guarding it.
• Xie Zheng used his black longsword’s secret method to overwhelm Elder Chihuo’s flames and kill him, then ordered the surviving disciples to return to the sect.
• An unseen point of light recorded Xie Zheng’s victory, and news of the battle reached the Luozhen Conquest Alliance’s headquarters.
• True Lord Liehuo identified Xie Zheng’s sword as resembling a Seven Treasures Sect supreme treasure described in his master’s diary and suggested Xie Zheng came from the Mysterious Female Dao Realm.
• Wan Tianshu realized the Luozhen Sect might have access to another Dao Realm, while True Lord Chiyan urged him to launch an all-out attack.

The Departing Fire Sect spread a rumor that the Luozhen Sect controlled a passage to another Dao Realm, drawing more factions into the Luozhen Conquest Alliance. As the Luozhen Sect prepared for war, Wan Tianshu approved True Lord Chiyan’s plan to release and temporarily control the Blackwater Mystic Serpent’s soul to disrupt its defenses.

• Wan Tianshu ordered the news about the Luozhen Sect and another Dao Realm spread across the five provinces to pressure neutral factions into joining the alliance.
• The Myriad Gu Sect and several Devil Dao Sects joined the Luozhen Conquest Alliance, bringing its membership from seventy-two sects to one hundred and twenty-six in three days.
• Mo Xuan, Fang Tong, and Li Yunjing discussed the growing threat at the Luozhen Sect and resolved to fight rather than retreat.
• True Lord Chiyan told the Departing Fire Sect’s Dao Union True Lords that the Blackwater Mystic Serpent’s soul was sealed in the Azure Jiao Marsh and could disrupt the Luozhen Sect’s earth-vein defenses.
• Wan Tianshu assigned True Lord Chiyan to release the serpent’s soul using a Method Formula to control it temporarily.

True Lord Chiyan crushed the talisman seal that held the Blackwater Mystic Serpent, freeing its soul to attack Azure Jiao Marsh and the Luozhen Island Grotto-Heaven. Fang Hexuan confronted the serpent and trapped its poison bead in a domain of purple lightning.

• True Lord Chiyan found and crushed the talisman seal in his grandmaster’s cave abode, hoping to see how the Luozhen Sect would respond.
• The Blackwater Mystic Serpent’s soul emerged from a palace beneath Azure Jiao Marsh and unleashed poisonous waters that ravaged the marsh’s veins and surroundings.
• Li Yunjing joined Fang Hexuan and the others at the Stargazing Platform as Azure Jiao explained how a human fire cultivator had once defeated and sealed the serpent.
• The Blackwater Mystic Serpent struck the Luozhen Island Grotto-Heaven’s mountain-protecting formation, and Fang Hexuan flew out to stop it.
• Fang Hexuan restrained the serpent’s tail with golden threads and blasted it with purple divine lightning, but the serpent retaliated with its natal poison bead.
• Fang Hexuan opened the Divine Firmament Lightning Domain and trapped the poison bead inside a net of purple lightning.

Fang Hexuan killed the Blackwater Mystic Serpent but suffered injuries from using his Divine Ability. After learning that the Luozhen Sect had thwarted their plot, the Luozhen Conquest Alliance ordered an all-out assault in three days, and Li Yunjing prepared to defend Luozhen Island Grotto-Heaven.

• Fang Hexuan destroyed the Blackwater Mystic Serpent with the Divine Firmament Evil-Slaying Sword and collected its purified poison pearl.
• Li Yunjing supported the injured Fang Hexuan, who said the serpent’s appearance was likely connected to the Luozhen Conquest Alliance.
• Wan Tianshu and the Departing Fire Sect’s Dao Union True Lords received intelligence that nothing had happened at Azure Jiao Marsh and realized their plan had failed.
• True Lord Chiyan urged an immediate change of strategy, and Wan Tianshu ordered the alliance to launch an all-out assault on the Luozhen Sect in three days.
• Li Yunjing learned of the coming assault and vowed to defend Luozhen Island Grotto-Heaven with the Luozhen Sect’s disciples.

With the Luozhen Conquest Alliance approaching, Li Yunjing began activating the Flying Dragon Ascension to Immortality Formation to help the Northern Dark True Spirit advance into an Ancestral Vein. The first signs of the transformation shook the Tianyuan Continent, but the advancement had only just begun as the enemy army neared.

• Fang Hexuan warned that the Luozhen Sect was badly outnumbered by the Luozhen Conquest Alliance's Dao Union True Lords.
• Li Yunjing returned from Flying Dragon Ridge and revealed that the Northern Dark True Spirit could advance into an Ancestral Vein using the formation there.
• Li Yunjing tasked Fang Hexuan and the others with defending the sect while he activated the formation at Flying Dragon Ridge's main peak.
• Li Yunjing fused the Earth Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal with the formation, causing black light and a dragon silhouette to appear as the ridge trembled.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit sensed its chance to advance, and Li Yunjing restored himself with the Transcendence and Ascension to Immortality Instruction before continuing to activate the formation.

The Northern Dark True Spirit enlisted the other nine Ancestral Vein True Spirits to help him withstand the Heavenly Dao’s tribulation and advance. An Ancestral Dragon phantom appeared, allowing him to become Tianyuan’s tenth Ancestral Vein and leaving the continent with the potential to become an Immortal Realm.

• The Northern Dark True Spirit told Li Yunjing that he needed the other Ancestral Vein True Spirits’ support, and all nine arrived at Flying Dragon Ridge.
• The nine Ancestral Vein True Spirits poured their origin power into the Northern Dark True Spirit, causing Spiritual Qi across Tianyuan to triple and many cultivators to break through.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit faced a deadly lightning tribulation, but an Ancestral Dragon phantom appeared and dispelled the black clouds.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit successfully became the tenth Ancestral Vein, and Li Yunjing gained command over the power of its ten-thousand-li territory.
• The Hengshan Black Tortoise True Spirit said the other Ancestral Veins might need Li Yunjing’s help in the future before the nine True Spirits departed.
• The Luozhen Sect disciples felt their cultivation rise and celebrated the change in the grotto-heaven.

The Luozhen Conquest Alliance invaded Luozhen Island, only to find Li Yunjing had turned Azure Jiao Marsh into the Northern Darkness Ancestral Vein’s core domain. The alliance suffered devastating losses as Fang Hexuan and Mu You confronted its leaders, and the battle continued.

• Wan Tianshu led the Luozhen Conquest Alliance into Azure Jiao Marsh and threatened the Luozhen Sect, while Fang Hexuan ordered the mountain-protecting formation opened.
• The alliance landed on Luozhen Island, where the grotto-heaven entrance closed and the Northern Darkness Ancestral Vein sealed the entire territory, suppressing the invaders’ cultivation.
• Li Yunjing revealed that the Northern Dark Earth Vein had ascended into the tenth Ancestral Vein, and the Northern Darkness True Dragon killed more than half the alliance’s cultivators with a single strike.
• The Northern Darkness True Dragon shattered the Departing Fire Sect patriarch’s flame giant and gravely wounded him with a Water Dragon Cannon.
• Fang Hexuan confronted Wan Tianshu, while Mu You engaged two other Dao Union Perfection cultivators.

Li Yunjing and the Luozhen Sect defeated the Luozhen Conquest Alliance, killing its leaders and sparing coerced cultivators on condition that they serve the sect for fifty years. News of the victory and the awakened Northern Darkness Ancestral Vein spread across Tianyuan Continent, leaving rival sects seeking the Luozhen Sect’s favor.

• Li Yunjing killed the Daozhen Sect's grand elder, while Fang Hexuan destroyed Wan Tianshu's Li Fire Treasure Fan and the Northern Dark True Spirit crushed him.
• Li Yunjing ordered the execution of the alliance's chief culprits and let ordinary cultivators surrender, while the Northern Dark True Spirit killed the remaining core leaders.
• Li Yunjing ordered captured cultivators who had killed Luozhen Sect disciples to be beheaded and made the remaining captives serve the Luozhen Sect for fifty years.
• The Luozhen Sect defeated the alliance, and Li Yunjing returned to his cave abode to cultivate toward the Dao Union realm.
• News of the victory and the awakened Northern Darkness Ancestral Vein spread across Tianyuan Continent, prompting former alliance members to beg forgiveness and neutral sects to seek friendly ties.

Li Yunjing entered secluded cultivation in the Northern Darkness Ancestral Vein, relying on the Northern Dark True Spirit, abundant Spiritual Qi, and Earth Vein Essence to advance his cultivation and master the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture. With the support of ten Ancestral Veins, he shattered the barrier to the Dao Integration Realm, leaving his breakthrough underway.

• Li Yunjing began secluded cultivation with the Northern Dark True Spirit's help, drawing Spiritual Qi from the Northern Darkness Ancestral Vein.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit gathered more than ten thousand pieces of Earth Vein Essence for Li Yunjing to refine and strengthen his body and soul.
• Li Yunjing advanced the Supreme Unity Pure Subtlety Scripture from its sixth level to its twelfth, reaching great mastery and sensing an opportunity to break through.
• Li Yunjing began assailing the Dao Integration Realm barrier as the Northern Dark True Spirit and nine other Ancestral Vein True Spirits lent him power.
• Ten Ancestral Veins illuminated the Tianyuan Continent, and Li Yunjing shattered the Dao Integration Realm barrier with his Primordial Spirit.

Li Yunjing emerged from two years of seclusion after reaching the Dao Union Initial Realm and receiving the Heavenly Dao’s blessing. He explored the newly built Luozhen Immortal City, then reunited with Shui Yao, who told him how long he had been away.

• Li Yunjing broke through to the Dao Union Initial Realm, and the Heavenly Dao’s merit blessing strengthened him and the Luozhen Sect’s territory.
• Li Yunjing thanked the Northern Dark True Spirit for its help and left his cave abode to see how the sect had changed.
• Li Yunjing discovered the bustling Luozhen Immortal City and explored its commercial, cultivation, residential, and teleportation districts.
• Li Yunjing considered making the city’s trial tower an upgradeable sect building.
• Shui Yao greeted Li Yunjing and told him he had been in seclusion for two years.

Li Yunjing toured Luozhen Immortal City while Shui Yao explained Luozhen Sect’s expanded disciple system and the changes brought by the Northern Dark True Spirit’s advancement into an Ancestral Vein. The sect’s territory had become a superb cultivation ground, attracting Rogue Cultivators seeking refuge.

• Shui Yao told Li Yunjing that Grandmaster Fang had built Luozhen Immortal City after the Northern Dark Earth Vein advanced into an Ancestral Vein.
• Shui Yao explained Luozhen Sect’s new four-rank disciple system, improved curriculum, special classes, and regular competitions.
• Shui Yao introduced several of the sect’s eighteen True Disciples, including Qin Feng, Lin Wan'er, and the Demon Race disciple Mo Jiao.
• Shui Yao reported that the Northern Dark True Spirit had transformed the sect’s ten-thousand-li territory into a Blessed Land with richer Spiritual Qi, more Spirit Veins, and new resources and special cultivation sites.
• Shui Yao told Li Yunjing that Luozhen Sect’s territory had become one of Tianyuan Continent’s rare cultivation grounds, drawing Rogue Cultivators seeking refuge.

After breaking through to the Dao Integration Realm, Li Yunjing learned how the Luozhen Sect had expanded during his seclusion and set ambitious goals for its next five years. He left the sect resolved to eventually destroy the Daozhen Sect and oversee the Luozhen Sect’s further growth.

• Shui Yao told Li Yunjing that the Northern Darkness Ancestral Vein had turned the sect into a Blessed Land and that the Great Wilderness Reclamation Corps had secured mines, a spirit medicine garden, an ancient secret realm, and allied tribes.
• Alligator Dragon and Fire Dragon congratulated Li Yunjing on his breakthrough and reported that the Ancestral Vein had strengthened their cultivation and bloodlines.
• Fang Hexuan, Nangong Chengyu, Wang Qianxue, and other senior members gathered to celebrate Li Yunjing’s successful entry into the Dao Integration Realm.
• Li Yunjing recalled the Daozhen Sect’s role in the Luozhen Sect’s past decline and vowed to settle their grudge in the future.
• Li Yunjing ordered the sect to expand its territory to one hundred thousand li and build its defenses and ranks of cultivators over the next five years.

Li Yunjing learned that the Savage Wilderness Supreme, an ancient being sealed after trying to sacrifice Tianyuan, had escaped the Ten Thousand Spirits Forbidden Zone. As the Supreme attacked Luozhen Immortal City, Li Yunjing and the Northern Dark True Spirit fought to defend it.

• Li Yunjing used the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal to restore earth veins, while the Northern Dark True Spirit warned him about the sealed Savage Wilderness Supreme.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit revealed that the Savage Wilderness Supreme had once survived an assault by Tianyuan's greatest powers and been sealed instead of killed.
• The seal shattered, and the Savage Wilderness Supreme emerged from the Ten Thousand Spirits Forbidden Zone as millions of vicious beasts surged across Tianyuan.
• The Savage Wilderness Supreme sent an axe beam toward Luozhen Immortal City, and Li Yunjing and the Northern Dark True Spirit intercepted it.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit's tail barely hurt the Savage Wilderness Supreme, who struck the dragon with his massive axe.

The Northern Dark True Spirit battled the Savage Wilderness Supreme, whose apparent immortality came from the Indestructible Scripture and a heart hidden away from his body. Guided by the Five Spirits Lord, Li Yunjing reached the heart in the Ten Thousand Spirits Forbidden Zone and fought his way toward it, but the heart unleashed a powerful shock wave.

• The Northern Dark True Spirit crushed the Savage Wilderness Supreme's head, but the Supreme regenerated and wounded the dragon with his axe.
• As the Northern Dark True Spirit weakened, the Five Spirits Lord told Li Yunjing that the Supreme's life depended on his hidden heart and marked its location on the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal.
• Li Yunjing followed the seal into the Ten Thousand Spirits Forbidden Zone while the Northern Dark True Spirit held the Supreme back.
• Li Yunjing found the Supreme's enormous heart floating in a blood pool and cut through its attacking tentacles with Seven Slaughters Sword Intent.
• When Li Yunjing approached the heart, it beat violently and sent a powerful shock wave toward him.

Li Yunjing shattered the Savage Wilderness Supreme’s heart, killing him and ending the savage beast tide. The Northern Dark True Spirit absorbed the Savage Wilderness Ancestral Vein’s remnant soul, grew vastly stronger, and asked to merge with the Luozhen Sect’s karmic fortune as its Karmic Fortune Divine Beast.

• Li Yunjing used the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal to crack the Savage Wilderness Supreme’s black heart, then restored himself and struck again as the Supreme rushed to stop him.
• Li Yunjing shattered the heart, causing the Savage Wilderness Supreme to crumble into ash and die.
• Fang Hexuan organized Luozhen Sect disciples to counterattack after the savage beast tide fell into chaos.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit absorbed the Savage Wilderness Ancestral Vein’s remnant soul and increased its strength more than tenfold.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit told Li Yunjing it could now fight a Loose Immortal on its own territory and proposed becoming the Luozhen Sect’s Karmic Fortune Divine Beast.

Li Yunjing agreed to make the Northern Dark True Spirit the Luozhen Sect’s Karmic Fortune Divine Beast and ordered the construction of a Karmic Luck Pavilion. After the sect expanded and grew stronger, the pavilion was completed and registered as an upgradable building, though it still required the sect’s founding token to be enshrined before it could be upgraded.

• Li Yunjing agreed to prepare for the Northern Dark True Spirit to become the Luozhen Sect’s Karmic Fortune Divine Beast and decided to build a new sect building for karmic fortune.
• Li Yunjing returned to Luozhen Immortal City with the Northern Dark True Spirit, where Mo Xuan and the others welcomed him after the Savage Wilderness Supreme’s death and the fighting ended.
• Li Yunjing ordered the construction of a Karmic Luck Pavilion with a statue of the Northern Dark True Spirit, then directed the sect to rest and recuperate.
• Over the next half year, the Luozhen Sect expanded its territory, gathered the Savage Wilderness Supreme’s resources, strengthened its ancestral vein, and improved its cultivation and training systems.
• The Northern Dark True Spirit expanded the Northern Darkness Ancestral Vein, and Li Yunjing advanced to the Dao Union Middle Stage as the sect’s disciples and city prospered.
• After the Karmic Luck Pavilion was completed, Li Yunjing registered it as an upgradable building and learned that its upgrade required the sect’s founding token to be enshrined there.

Li Yunjing learned that the Karmic Luck Pavilion required the Luozhen Sect's founding token, a sword lost when the sect left Black Mountain. After discovering the sword was in the sect's hidden cache, he arranged for Fang Tong to retrieve the cache's inheritances and bring them back to Azure Jiao Marsh.

• Li Yunjing asked Nangong Chengyu about the founding token, and Nangong Chengyu said it was a bonded Law Treasure sword that vanished when the Luozhen Sect left Black Mountain.
• Li Yunjing realized the sword might be among the Luozhen Sect's inheritances in the hidden cache on Black Mountain.
• Li Yunjing found Fang Hexuan fishing at the Jin Household, and Fang Hexuan confirmed the founding token was in the hidden cache but badly damaged and without spirituality.
• Li Yunjing asked Fang Tong to lead a group to Black Mountain and bring back the hidden cache's contents.
• Fang Tong agreed, and Li Yunjing told him to deploy Fleet No. 1 for the mission.