Chapter Summaries

Wang Changsheng registered three Mystic Grade Cultivation Methods in the Wang Family’s Scripture Pavilion and visited Peach Mountain with Wang Ruyan. There, they learned about Han Yuexin’s marriage proposal to Wang Qingshan and heard Wang Mingren’s request for help hunting Heretical Cultivators so he could earn sect contributions and compete to become one of the Five Heroes of Taiyi.

• Wang Changsheng registered three Mystic Grade Cultivation Methods in the Scripture Pavilion and spent dinner with Wang Ruyan and their descendants.
• Wang Qingqing and Zhao Zheng asked to develop in the South Sea, and Wang Changsheng agreed.
• Wang Qingjun told Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan that Han Yuexin had proposed marriage to Wang Qingshan, who remained in seclusion.
• Wang Mingren asked Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan to help capture wanted Heretical Cultivators and handed over a list of their identities.
• Wang Mingren explained that he wanted to earn sect contributions and become one of the Five Heroes of Taiyi to improve his chances of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan gathered Wang Family cultivators and brought them to Sea Cucumber Island to establish a South Sea stronghold. They began upgrading its Spirit Vein and constructing defenses and a Medium Teleportation Array.

• Wang Changsheng agreed to help Wang Mingren search for heretical cultivators and urged him to prioritize his cultivation.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan visited Wang Qingling, watched her Spirit Beasts hunt, and reminded her to cultivate diligently.
• Wang Changsheng left Spirit Stones with the clansmen and told Wang Qingjun to send Wang Qingshan to the South Sea if he emerged from seclusion.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan gathered Wang Qingqing, Mo Caiyun, Ye Lin, and other clansmen at Chongyang Market and transported them to the South Sea.
• Wang Changsheng brought the clansmen to Sea Cucumber Island, where they began developing the settlement and preparing to upgrade its Spirit Vein.
• Ye Lin and Wang Changyue completed a Medium Teleportation Array, then Ye Lin gave Wang Changsheng the Formation Plate for upgrading the Spirit Vein.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan established their family on Sea Cucumber Island and Giant Crab Island, setting up formations and a Teleportation Array before arranging for their clansmen to develop the islands. After Chen Yilong advised them on gathering local support, Purple Moon Fairy arrived to congratulate them and examined the hidden formation around Sea Cucumber Island.

• Wang Changsheng advanced Sea Cucumber Island’s Spirit Vein and set up two Third Order Formations, while he and Wang Changyue and Ye Lin established a Teleportation Array and a Defensive Formation on Giant Crab Island.
• Wang Changsheng assigned Mo Caiyun and Wang Qingqing to guard the two arrays, then arranged for clansmen to farm, raise Spirit Fish, and repair buildings across the islands.
• Chen Yilong and Chen Yue visited to congratulate the Wang Family, and Chen Yilong explained how to recruit local cultivators and take nearby families as vassals.
• Wang Tianqi reported that Purple Moon Fairy had arrived, and Wang Ruyan went out to welcome her.
• Purple Moon Fairy studied Sea Cucumber Island’s hidden formation and suspected that Wang Changsheng had bought a powerful Third Order Formation.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan confronted Purple Moon Fairy about her connection to the Townsea Sect, and she invited Wang Changsheng to help open its underwater ruins. Wang Changsheng hesitated over her offer, while Purple Moon Fairy offered the Heavenly Sound Sea-Turning Art as an incentive.

• Purple Moon Fairy visited Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan, and she and Chen Yilong discussed Magic Treasure refining with Wang Changsheng for three days and nights.
• After Chen Yilong left, Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan questioned Purple Moon Fairy about the Townsea Sect and suspected her of being connected to it.
• Ye Lin warned them that a Core Formation Cultivator of at least Layer 6 was lingering near Sea Cucumber Island, and Purple Moon Fairy revealed that she wanted Wang Changsheng’s help opening the Townsea Sect ruins.
• Wang Changsheng declined the invitation, but Purple Moon Fairy urged him to reconsider and offered the first eight layers of the Heavenly Sound Sea-Turning Art.
• Purple Moon Fairy explained that the Heavenly Sound Sea-Turning Art and the Kui Water True Scripture were matching Earth-Grade techniques that could potentially let Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan contend with a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

Wang Changsheng agreed to join Purple Moon Fairy in exploring the Townsea Sect ruins, while Wang Ruyan decided to change to the Heavenly Sound Sea-Turning Art and return to the Eastern Wasteland to cultivate. As Wang Changsheng entered seclusion, his family began collecting protection fees from nearby cultivation families, whose own subordinates faced further demands.

• Wang Changsheng agreed to treasure hunt with Purple Moon Fairy on the condition that Wang Ruyan could come, and Wang Ruyan received the first eight layers of the Heavenly Sound Sea-Turning Art.
• Wang Ruyan decided to change cultivation methods and return to the Eastern Wasteland to cultivate the new art, while Wang Changsheng entered seclusion with the Azure Tide Moonstone and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Water.
• Wang Qiuyan, Zhao Zheng, and Qingyun visited the Chen Family on Gold Radiance Island to establish a protection-fee arrangement.
• Zhao Zheng and Chen Wenming agreed that the Chen Family would provide 6,000 jin of First Grade Lower Rank Spirit Grain each year to the Wang Family.
• Chen Wenming decided to demand 3,000 jin of Spirit Grain each from the Zhao, Li, and Sun Families, passing the Wang Family's levy down to his own subordinate forces.

Wang Qingqi refined Foundation Establishment Pills while Wang Qingkai urged him to keep producing them and train other alchemists for the Wang Family’s expansion into the South Sea. There, Mo Caiyun and her companions trapped a group of Turtle-shell Beasts and began attacking them.

• Wang Qingqi refined five Foundation Establishment Pills and gave Wang Qingkai thirteen pills from his recent batches.
• Wang Qingkai gave Wang Qingqi ten Third Order Demon Cores from Wang Ruyan and explained the Family’s plan to send more cultivators to the South Sea.
• Wang Qingqi agreed to keep refining pills and teach Wang Tianfeng, while Wang Qingkai planned to help three First Grade High Rank Alchemists establish their foundations.
• Mo Caiyun, Zhao Zheng, Wang Qingqing, and Wang Qiuyan used a female Turtle-shell Beast to lure dozens of Turtle-shell Beasts ashore and trap them in an Earth Force Warrior Formation.
• Mo Caiyun and the others activated the formation’s attack, but the Turtle-shell Beasts withdrew into their shells, which the Yellow Giants’ hammers could not break.

Wang Qingqing’s group defeated a pack of Turtle-shell Beasts and set off for Sea Cucumber Island, but seven Heretical Cultivators ambushed them after landing. The attackers’ formation came under heavy assault from the group’s many Tier 2 Puppet Beasts and Talismans, and the Bald Headed Man prepared a Third Grade Talisman in response.

• Wang Qiuyan used the Crimson Eagle Banner to heat the Turtle-shell Beasts until they exposed their heads, allowing the Yellow Giants to kill them without damaging their shells.
• Mo Caiyun withdrew the Formation, and the lineage members collected the beasts before Wang Qingqing took them toward Sea Cucumber Island on an Azure Flying Boat.
• Wang Qingqing’s group changed course and landed on an island after a Blue Escape Light pursued them, then faced seven Foundation Establishment Cultivators led by a Bald Headed Man.
• The Bald Headed Man’s group attacked with Golden Flying Needles, Dharma Artifacts, and a defensive formation, while Mo Caiyun and the others raised their own defenses.
• Wang Qingqing’s group unleashed twenty-eight low-grade Tier 2 Puppet Beasts and numerous Talismans, damaging the attackers’ Yellow Light Shield.
• The Bald Headed Man produced a Third Grade Talisman as the attackers’ Formation Plates began to crack.

Mo Caiyun and her companions survived a Third Grade Talisman attack and defeated the Heretical Cultivators with their Mystic Treasure Embryo and Puppet Beasts. Elsewhere, Wang Mingren, Wang Qingling, and Wang Qiuming captured Chen Feng, though Wang Qingling’s Rotbone Crocodiles tore him apart.

• The Bald Headed Man used a Third Grade Talisman, but Wang Qingqing protected the group with her Tide Cloud Bowl, which sustained several cracks.
• Mo Caiyun, Wang Qingqing, Zhao Zheng, Wang Qiuyan, and the Qi Refining Cultivators used their Puppet Beasts to break the Heretical Cultivators’ formation and kill all seven enemies.
• The group recovered on the island, then left by Azure Flying Boat for Sea Cucumber Island.
• In the Yellow Maple Mountain Range, Wang Mingren confronted Chen Feng, who denied harming his fellow disciples and tried to escape.
• Wang Qingling’s Rotbone Crocodiles attacked Chen Feng and tore him in half while Wang Mingren and Wang Qiuming joined the assault.
• Wang Qingling apologized for making Chen Feng difficult to identify, and the three Wang family members left after dealing with his corpse.

After more than twenty years in seclusion, Wang Qingshan reached the Ninth Layer of Foundation Establishment and learned that his family had expanded into the South Sea. In the Coral Sea Region, Mo Caiyun discovered an Inheritance Shell revealing the location of the Azure Cloud Hermit's cave, and she hoped its treasures would let her form a core before Wang Qingshan.

• Wang Qingshan emerged from seclusion, learned about the family's South Sea holdings, and prepared to return to Azure Lotus Estate.
• Wang Qingjun told Wang Qingshan that Han Yuexin had repeatedly proposed marriage; Wang Qingshan said his feelings could not be forced.
• Wang Qingshan learned that Wang Changsheng planned to help him break through to Core Formation in the South Sea.
• Mo Caiyun returned from a hunt, examined a strange Cyan Shell, and discovered that it was an Inheritance Shell.
• Mo Caiyun learned that the shell led to the Azure Cloud Hermit's Seated Immortal Cave and hoped its legacy would help her reach Core Formation.

Mo Caiyun secretly followed the Inheritance Shell's map to Azure Cloud Hermit's Seated Immortal Cave and uncovered several preserved Mystic Treasure Embryos. She found Azure Cloud Hermit's remains behind a powerful barrier, but her Talisman Treasure failed to break through it.

• Mo Caiyun decided to seek Azure Cloud Hermit's legacy alone and left a record of the cave's location for the Wang Family in case she did not return.
• Mo Caiyun recognized the Sea Chart's island as a place she had passed before, then traveled northwest from Sea Cucumber Island and reached it three months later.
• Mo Caiyun explored the cave, broke through a yellow barrier, and found nine ruined High Grade Dharma Artifacts, spoiled pills, and two well-preserved Mystic Treasure Embryos.
• Mo Caiyun entered another chamber and found Azure Cloud Hermit's skeleton behind a Five-Color Light Barrier.
• Mo Caiyun used a Talisman Treasure to attack the Five-Color Light Barrier, but the barrier withstood its strikes.

Mo Caiyun discovered that the supposed Ancient Cultivator Abode was a trap set by a Blood-Robed Man, who forced her to lure treasure seekers for him. After ten years of secluded cultivation, Wang Changsheng advanced to Core Formation Layer 4 and learned about the Wang Family’s affairs in the Coral Sea Region.

• Mo Caiyun tried to break the Five-Color Light Barrier, but a Blood-Robed Man emerged and seized her Blue Flying Sword as a group of Foundation Establishment Cultivators arrived.
• Chen Bin revealed that he had led the cultivators into the trap, and the Blood-Robed Man’s Blood Shark swallowed them all.
• The Blood-Robed Man forced Mo Caiyun to accept his poison and a blood-shark restriction, then took her treasures and Inheritance Shell in exchange for her life.
• Mo Caiyun refused Chen Bin’s offer to work together and flew away from the cave.
• Wang Changsheng emerged from ten years of secluded cultivation having advanced to Core Formation Layer 4, fed his Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat, and summoned Wang Qingqing, Zhao Zheng, and Wang Qiufeng.
• Wang Qiufeng reported that the Wang Family had opened a puppet shop and a Raw Material Acquisition Shop in the Spirit Turtle Market.

Wang Changsheng heard about the Wang Family’s South Sea businesses and cultivation plans, then reunited with Wang Changyue, Ye Lin, and the ten-year-old Ye Haitang. The chapter ended with him asking what cultivation method Haitang was practicing.

• Wang Qiufeng explained the Wang Family’s two South Sea shops, their staffing limits, and efforts to train more Second Order Alchemists.
• Wang Changsheng praised the family’s progress and instructed Wang Qiufeng to leave Wang Qingqi time to cultivate and gain experience.
• Wang Changsheng learned that Mo Caiyun had been hunting Demon Beasts and told Zhao Zheng to lead the next hunt so she could cultivate in seclusion.
• Wang Qingqing tried to contact Mo Caiyun, but the Message Disk received no response.
• Wang Changsheng visited Wang Changyue and Ye Lin, met Ye Haitang, and learned that Wang Changyue was pregnant.
• Wang Changsheng asked which cultivation method Ye Haitang was practicing.

Wang Changsheng discussed Ye Haitang’s formation technique with Ye Lin, then prepared to refine a Magic Treasure before Wang Qingqing summoned him. Mo Caiyun claimed a Heretical Cultivator had poisoned and coerced her into luring Foundation Establishment Cultivators to him, leaving Wang Changsheng suspicious as she begged him for help.

• Ye Haitang asked Wang Changsheng about the power of her Earth-Rank 'Myriad Formations True Scroll,' and Ye Lin explained that it relied on formation comprehension rather than special Cultivation Resources.
• Wang Changsheng returned home and prepared to upgrade the Black Flood Dragon Banner, but Wang Qingqing urgently summoned him because something had happened to Mo Caiyun.
• Mo Caiyun told Wang Changsheng that a Core Formation Stage Heretical Cultivator had trapped her, placed a Restriction on her, poisoned her, and ordered her to lure Foundation Establishment Cultivators to him.
• Wang Changsheng doubted Mo Caiyun’s account and questioned her about the island and the circumstances of her encounter with the Heretical Cultivator.
• Mo Caiyun said the island was northwest of Sea Cucumber Island and begged Wang Changsheng to save her from the poison and Restriction.

Wang Changsheng realized Mo Caiyun had lied about how she was trapped, and decided to help her only with the restriction and poison, not her future Core Formation. He and Ye Lin traveled to the desolate island, where Ye Lin used his Golden Moon Spirit Eyes to reveal the defenses and the Core Formation Cultivator guarding it.

• Wang Changsheng suspected Mo Caiyun had found an Ancient Cultivator Abode and gone treasure hunting alone, but he examined the Blood Shark restriction on her arm without confronting her about the lie.
• Wang Changsheng warned Mo Caiyun and Wang Qingqing about the Heretical Cultivator, then told Wang Changyue and Ye Lin what had happened.
• Ye Lin could not identify the restriction but proposed killing the Heretical Cultivator, and Wang Changsheng agreed to investigate the island with him.
• Wang Changsheng and Ye Lin secretly flew to the desolate island, where Ye Lin used his Golden Moon Spirit Eyes to see through its formations.
• Ye Lin reported that one Core Formation Layer 3 Cultivator lived on the island, which was protected by warning formations and a third-grade lower-rank formation.

Wang Changsheng and Ye Lin infiltrated the island to kill the Blood Path Cultivator and obtain Mo Caiyun’s antidote. Ye Lin broke the Blood Formation at great cost to his vitality, and Wang Changsheng’s attacks left the enemy’s Blood Shark trapped and frozen as a Blue Giant Palm descended.

• Ye Lin used the Golden Moon Spirit Eyes to open a gap in the island’s Third Order Warning Formation, sacrificing years of lifespan.
• Wang Changsheng gave Ye Lin a Third Grade Defense Talisman and entered the cave with him to confront the Heretical Cultivator.
• The Blood-Robed Man trapped them in a Blood Formation, but Ye Lin located and destroyed its Formation Plate.
• Wang Changsheng attacked the Blood-Robed Man’s Blood Shark with lightning, ice, and summoned beasts while fending off five Blood Wheels.
• Wang Changsheng’s Yellow Sand Flood Dragon and White Snow Eagle froze the Blood Shark again, and a Blue Giant Palm emerged from a vortex to strike it.

Wang Changsheng and Ye Lin killed the Blood-Robed Man, but Ye Lin’s use of a lifespan-burning technique left him unconscious and gravely depleted. After returning to Sea Cucumber Island, Wang Changsheng sought help and discovered that Mo Caiyun’s Blood Shark Mark could be sensed within a certain range and that its poison had no antidote.

• Wang Changsheng survived the Blood-Robed Man’s attacks with the Turtle Scale Art while Ye Lin distracted the enemy with an Eye Technique.
• Wang Changsheng struck the Blood-Robed Man with Spirit Severing Palm and killed him, then endured the dying man’s Blood Fiend True Flame arrow with a protective talisman.
• Wang Changsheng found Ye Lin unconscious with white hair and severely depleted vital essence, and carried him to Sea Cucumber Island.
• Wang Changsheng had Wang Qiuyan examine Ye Lin and ordered her to gather resources that could restore qi and blood, while keeping Ye Lin’s condition from the pregnant Wang Changyue.
• Wang Changsheng examined the Blood-Robed Man’s shells and learned that Mo Caiyun’s Blood Shark Mark let its caster sense her nearby and that the poison had no antidote.

Wang Changsheng gave Mo Caiyun pills to delay her poison and urged her to embrace the Wang Family, while arranging to seek a Tier 3 Alchemist for her and Ye Lin. Meanwhile, Wang Qingshan set out for the South Sea with clan members, and Wang Tianfeng continued learning alchemy as the chapter ended with the author’s update note.

• Wang Changsheng examined the Golden Jade Pendant, then asked Wang Qiufeng to search for Su Bingbing and gave Mo Caiyun pills that would delay her poison for five or six years.
• Wang Changsheng warned Mo Caiyun against acting alone again, and she promised to remain with the Wang Family on Sea Cucumber Island.
• Wang Changsheng began preparing to refine a Magic Treasure after Mo Caiyun left.
• Wang Qingkai gave Wang Qingshan the Fu Jin Fruit and arranged for him to travel to the South Sea with thirty clan members.
• Wang Tianfeng failed to refine pills while Wang Qingqi taught him, and Wang Qingqi advised him to reflect on his mistakes.

Wang Changsheng celebrated refining the Black Flood Dragon Banner and visited Wang Changyue and Ye Lin after the birth of their son. Ye Lin revealed his injuries had cost him over ten years of lifespan and proposed using a fabricated Ancient Cultivator Abode to turn the Nine Serenities Sect against a hostile faction, while Wang Changsheng focused on finding a healer.

• Wang Changsheng finished refining the First Grade Lower Rank Black Flood Dragon Banner and planned to refine the Mountain-Sea Pearl before exploring the Townsea Sect ruins with Purple Moon Fairy.
• Wang Changsheng visited Wang Changyue and Ye Lin, met their newborn son, and learned that Ye Lin had lost more than ten years of lifespan using a Secret Art.
• Wang Changsheng promised to find a Tier 3 Alchemist to treat Ye Lin and restore as much of his lost lifespan as possible.
• Ye Lin proposed fabricating an Ancient Cultivator Abode containing the Nine Serenities Celestial Illusion Codex to lure the Nine Serenities Sect into eliminating a hostile faction.
• Ye Lin said only a Deity Transformation Cultivator or Shangguan Wei might restore his cultivation, and he expressed contentment with watching Haitang grow up.

Wang Changsheng decided to bring Wang Qingqi, Wang Qingjun, and Wang Qingling to the South Sea to support the family, and learned that Su Bingbing had been found at Spirit Turtle Market. He left for the market while Wang Qingshan stayed to oversee the clan.

• Ye Lin took his hungry son Yutong inside, and Wang Changsheng learned from Wang Qiufeng that Wang Qingshan had arrived.
• Wang Changsheng questioned Wang Qingshan about the family and criticized Wang Qingkai for having Wang Qingqi teach alchemy instead of focusing on cultivation.
• Wang Changsheng ordered Wang Qingqi, Wang Qingjun, and Wang Qingling summoned to the South Sea, while Wang Qiuling handled Peach Mountain's affairs.
• Wang Qiufeng reported that Su Bingbing had been found at Spirit Turtle Market, and Wang Changsheng prepared to go there.
• Wang Changsheng left Sea Cucumber Island with more than a dozen clansmen and told Wang Qingshan to oversee the family in his absence.

Wang Changsheng asked Lin Ruoyi to treat Mo Caiyun’s poison and restore Ye Lin, but Lin Ruoyi demanded a rare Tier 3 high-grade Thunder Demon Core or precious alchemy materials as payment. Wang Changsheng was left facing a difficult search for what she required.

• Lin Ruoyi agreed to meet Wang Changsheng after Su Bingbing and Liu Hongshang introduced him.
• Wang Changsheng offered Lin Ruoyi two Tier 3 low-grade Demon Cores and asked her to treat Mo Caiyun and Ye Lin.
• Lin Ruoyi examined Mo Caiyun and determined her poison could be dispelled, then used a Red Mirror to discover that Ye Lin was a Core Formation Cultivator whose cultivation had been suppressed.
• Ye Lin said he needed pills to replenish his qi, blood, and essence, while Lin Ruoyi warned that treating him would be extremely difficult.
• Lin Ruoyi agreed to help only if Wang Changsheng obtained a Tier 3 high-grade Thunder Demon Core or especially precious alchemy materials.