Chapter Summaries

Wang Qingqi passed responsibility for the Wang Family’s alchemy work to Wang Tianbei before entering secluded cultivation. In the Coral Sea Region, Wang Qingqing and her companions used coordinated puppet formations to defeat a group of Stone Fish Beasts.

• Wang Tianbei successfully refined True Essence Pills, and Wang Qingqi judged his work sufficient to take over alchemy duties.
• Wang Qingqi gave Wang Tianbei his notes on refining Second-Grade Medicinal Pills and left to cultivate in hopes of advancing to the Ninth Layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Wang Qingqing and her companions lured dozens of Stone Fish Beasts onto a beach and trapped them inside a Yellow Light Barrier.
• Wang Qingqing ordered eighteen Second Order Puppet Beasts into a Six Unities Demon Slaying Formation, combining ranged, aerial, and close-combat attacks.
• The puppet formations killed all the Stone Fish Beasts in less than half a quarter of an hour, and Wang Qingqing praised how much easier the hunt had become.

The Wang Family continued hunting Demon Beasts with its newly devised Puppet Array, while Huang Fugui met with Huang Youxin before fleeing toward the Northern Frontier. Wang Qingshan and ten Wang Family disciples reached the hidden entrance to Azure Carp Island to attend Zhang Wuchen’s Birthday Celebration.

• The Wang Family members praised the Puppet Array’s ability to reduce casualties, then cleaned the battlefield and set traps to lure more Demon Beasts.
• Huang Youxin met Huang Fugui in a hidden Cave and told him the Taiyi Immortal Sect would not make trouble for him.
• Huang Fugui gave Huang Youxin two Storage Pearls and left for the Northern Frontier.
• Wang Qingshan and ten Wang Family disciples traveled to the Red Moon Sea Region to attend Zhang Wuchen’s Birthday Celebration.
• Zhang Zhiyang inspected Wang Qingshan’s Invitation and led the group through the restrictions to Azure Carp Island.

Wang Qingshan and the Wang Family arrived at Azure Carp Island for Zhang Wuchen’s Birthday Celebration, and Wang Qingling became engrossed in the island’s beast-fighting matches. After winning a contest with her Icewind Python, she accepted a Zhang Family disciple’s challenge to fight Spirit Insects.

• Zhang Zhiyang guided Wang Qingshan and the Wang Family to Phoenix Tree Courtyard and told them to stay in the guest area until the Birthday Celebration began.
• Wang Qingling watched Spirit Beasts fight and learned that contestants wagered items against one another.
• Wang Qingling entered a match against a Yellow-Shirted Youth, and her Icewind Python defeated his Fire Eel Beast.
• Wang Qingling accepted an Azure Skirt Woman’s challenge and sent her Gold-Striped Flame Bugs against the woman’s White Scorpions.

Ye Yunhai planned to exploit Zhang Wuchen’s birthday celebration to attack the Wang Family, while Wang Changsheng reunited with Wang Ruyan and discussed the family’s future. The chapter ended as Ye Lin cried out during a conversation about Wang Changyue’s cultivation.

• Ye Yunhai and the Purple Cloud Pavilion elders decided to attack Red Lotus Island while the Wang Family attended Zhang Wuchen’s birthday celebration, leaving Sun Lei behind to guard the sect.
• Wang Changsheng finished an early stage of refining the orb that would become the Mountain-Sea Pearl and reunited with Wang Ruyan after she came out of seclusion.
• Wang Ruyan explained that Wang Bingbing had reached Core Formation and had gone to Sea Cucumber Island to deliver a gift and publicize the news.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan discussed the need for another Wang Family Core Formation Cultivator and Qingqi’s attempt to advance his cultivation.
• Wang Changyue refused to pursue a breakthrough because she wanted to preserve her remaining time with Ye Lin, who asked Wang Changsheng to persuade her.
• Ye Lin let out a sudden, shrill cry before Wang Changyue finished speaking about their daughter Yutong.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan joined forces to defend Red Lotus Island against Ye Yunhai and the Purple Cloud Pavilion cultivators. Their coordinated techniques held off the attackers and trapped several Foundation Establishment Cultivators in Wang Ruyan’s illusion, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ye Lin detected three Core Formation Cultivators and a group of Foundation Establishment Cultivators approaching Red Lotus Island, and Wang Changsheng told his brother-in-law to control the Formation while he and Wang Ruyan went to meet them.
• Ye Yunhai led the attackers in a strike against Red Lotus Island, but the island’s defenses summoned mist serpents, whirlpools, and a blue barrier around them.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan appeared atop a water wall, and Wang Ruyan’s pipa sound wave split Ye Yunhai’s Purple Fire Cloud before Song Fei destroyed the wave.
• Ye Yunhai and the other Core Formation Cultivators attacked the couple, but Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan evaded their strikes and remained unharmed.
• Wang Ruyan’s pipa trapped Foundation Establishment Cultivators in a battlefield illusion, causing five Purple Cloud Pavilion disciples to attack their companions before the others killed them.
• Ye Yunhai and the other two Core Formation Cultivators struggled to harm Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan as Wang Changsheng protected his wife while she played.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan fought off an attack by the Purple Cloud Pavilion, killing two Core Formation Cultivators while Ye Yunhai escaped. Wang Changsheng returned to Red Lotus Island with no trace of Ye Yunhai, and the couple wondered how many enemies the Purple Cloud Pavilion really had.

• Ye Yunhai and his companions tried to retreat as Wang Ruyan's pipa song overwhelmed their disciples and trapped them in illusions.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan attacked the fleeing cultivators with Magic Treasures, sound waves, and water dragons.
• Song Fei and another Core Formation Cultivator fell to the attacks, while Ye Yunhai escaped through the Blue Water Curtain using a Purple Mirror.
• Wang Changsheng pursued Ye Yunhai, but Ye Yunhai vanished with a high-grade escape technique, leaving Wang Changsheng unable to sense him.
• Wang Changsheng returned to Red Lotus Island, where Wang Ruyan showed him the Purple Cloud Pavilion identity token she had found among the corpses.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan discussed the Wang Family’s defenses, resources, and concerns about Purple Cloud Pavilion and the Zhang Family’s celebration. Meanwhile, Wang Qingling befriended fellow Spirit Beast enthusiasts at Azure Carp Island.

• Wang Ruyan suggested withdrawing the Wang Family’s personnel from Red Lotus Island, but Wang Changsheng decided to keep watch over both islands and have Wang Qingshan guard Sea Cucumber Island when he returned.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan discussed Wang Qingqing’s cultivation, Wang Ruyan’s lack of a Lifebound Treasure, and plans to refine one using Golden Jade Silkworm silk and Thunder Apricot Spirit Wood.
• Wang Changsheng worried that Zhang Wuchen’s Birthday Celebration and the attack by Purple Cloud Pavilion might be connected, so he told Wang Qiuhong to restrain the clansmen and asked Wang Tianqi to monitor Purple Cloud Pavilion.
• At a gathering of Foundation Establishment Cultivators in Azure Carp Island, Wang Qingling made friends with Zhang Family disciples after defeating two of them in Spirit Beast battles.
• Wang Qingling and the other Spirit Controllers discussed differences in South Sea and Eastern Wasteland Spirit Beast cultivation, including the importance the South Sea placed on bloodlines.

Wang Qingling traded for Violet Lightning Mantis eggs at a gathering focused on Spirit Beasts and Spirit Insects. Meanwhile, the Zhang Family ordered Wang Qingshan to destroy Purple Cloud Pavilion within a month, and he set out with reinforcements.

• A cultivator asked how to advance his Spirit-Devouring Insect, and Wang Qingling learned that Ten Thousand Beasts Island's Nurturing Spirit Pills could improve its chances.
• Zhang Guangfeng organized an exchange gathering, where Wang Qingling traded for two pairs of Violet Lightning Mantis eggs.
• Zhang Zhiyang ordered Wang Qingshan to destroy Purple Cloud Pavilion before Zhang Wuchen's birthday, offering the Wang Family an island with a Third-Order Spirit Vein as a reward.
• Wang Qingshan agreed and asked to bring a friend as reinforcement, which Zhang Zhiyang allowed.
• Two Azure Carp Beasts carried Wang Qingshan and his companions away from Azure Carp Island.

Wang Changsheng joined Zhang Zhiqin and the Zhang Family’s forces in a campaign to destroy Purple Cloud Pavilion, after learning that Wang Qingshan had brought them to Red Lotus Island. Disguised in Purple Cloud Pavilion’s clothing and led by Zhao Yang, the group infiltrated the pavilion and confronted Ye Yunhai and Sun Lei.

• Wang Ruyan warned Wang Changsheng that Wang Qingshan had returned with two Zhang Family Core Formation Cultivators, who planned to destroy Purple Cloud Pavilion.
• Zhang Zhiqin offered Wang Changsheng’s family an island with a Third-Order Spirit Vein in exchange for joining the campaign, and Wang Changsheng agreed after presenting the corpses of two Purple Cloud Pavilion cultivators he had killed.
• Wang Changsheng traveled with the Zhang Family’s forces toward Purple Cloud Island, where Zhang Zhiyang arranged for Zhao Yang and other Purple Cloud Pavilion disciples to help them enter.
• Wang Changsheng questioned Zhao Yang, Song Fei’s disciple, about his defection, but Zhang Zhiyang urged him to proceed before Ye Yunhai noticed anything amiss.
• Ye Yunhai and Sun Lei discussed their plans to remain on the island and use their Teleportation Array if attacked, unaware that Zhao Yang had led Wang Changsheng and the others into Purple Cloud Hall.

Wang Changsheng and his allies attacked Purple Cloud Pavilion after Zhao Yang betrayed Ye Yunhai and Sun Lei, killing both leaders and capturing the pavilion. The Zhang Family installed Zhao Yang as pavilion master, and the group entered the treasury to claim a limited number of treasures.

• Zhao Yang’s betrayal left Purple Cloud Pavilion’s defensive formation useless, and Wang Changsheng, Lu Qin, Zhang Zhiyang, Zhang Zhiqin, and Wang Qingshan attacked Ye Yunhai and Sun Lei.
• Zhang Zhiyang used the Spirit Suppression Bell to halt Ye Yunhai and Sun Lei, while the others pressed their attacks.
• Wang Changsheng’s forces killed Ye Yunhai, and Wang Qingshan killed Sun Lei with the Azure Glass Sword.
• Zhang Zhiyang declared that Zhao Yang would become Purple Cloud Pavilion’s master and ordered him to lead the group to the treasury.
• The group entered the treasury, where Zhang Zhiyang allowed Wang Changsheng to choose three items and Lu Qin to choose two.

Wang Changsheng and his allies agreed to join the Zhang Family and Hai Lan Sect in their campaign against the Whale Ocean Sect, then traveled to Mist Sea Island to seize it. They found the island abandoned, with its buildings and metal ore vein intact.

• Wang Changsheng and Wang Qingshan selected treasures from Purple Cloud Pavilion, including Red Dust Bamboo, Nurturing Spirit Pills, and an Azure Shield.
• Zhang Zhiyang revealed that the Zhang Family and Hai Lan Sect planned to destroy the Whale Ocean Sect, and Wang Changsheng and Lu Qin agreed to help.
• Zhao Yang purged Purple Cloud Pavilion of Ye Yunhai's supporters and became its new pavilion master.
• Zhang Zhiyang led the group and more than three hundred cultivators from Purple Cloud Island toward Mist Sea Island, where they planned to attack the Whale Ocean Sect's branch.
• Wang Changsheng's group reached Mist Sea Island and found that its defenders had withdrawn, leaving the island's buildings and metal ore vein behind.

Wang Changsheng and the others discovered that Hai Lan Sect and the Whale Ocean Sect had trapped the Zhang Family, then fought their way through a formation. Wang Changsheng escaped the formation and appeared above Sea Mist Island, while the others’ fate remained unknown.

• Zhang Zhiyang realized the Whale Ocean Sect had abandoned Mist Sea Island in an orderly retreat, suggesting the Zhang Family had fallen into a trap.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Qingshan attacked a hidden presence, and nine Core Formation Cultivators led by Lei Yunzi and a blue-robed old woman emerged to surround them.
• Lei Yunzi revealed that Hai Lan Sect and the Whale Ocean Sect had joined forces to attack the Zhang Family, and the blue-robed old woman trapped the group inside a formation.
• Zhang Zhiqin found two Formation Eyes, so Wang Changsheng and Wang Qingshan attacked one while Zhang Zhiyang, Zhang Zhiqin, and Lu Qin targeted the other.
• Wang Changsheng used the Purple Cloud Mirror to stop a whirlpool, then attacked the formation with his treasures and appeared above Sea Mist Island.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Qingshan fled a battle in the Red Moon Sea Region, then stopped on a desolate island to confront the three cultivators pursuing them. Wang Changsheng’s Gold Devouring Ants overwhelmed and killed the red-robed woman’s Purple Cloud Ant Queen, while the fight against the remaining enemies continued.

• Wang Changsheng and Wang Qingshan used their treasures and attacks to cover their escape as the opposing Core Formation Cultivators pursued them.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Qingshan stopped above a desolate island and attacked the three cultivators chasing them.
• The red-robed woman released her Purple Cloud Ants, and Wang Changsheng countered with his Gold Devouring Ants.
• The Gold Devouring Ants overcame the Purple Cloud Ants, killing the Purple Cloud Ant Queen despite losing many of their own.
• Wang Changsheng attacked the red-robed woman with a Blue Water Flood Dragon and Yellow Seal while Wang Qingshan fought the other two cultivators.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Qingshan fought a group of powerful cultivators, using their spirit insects and Magic Treasures to kill the red-skirted young woman. After surviving her attack with the Turtle Scale Art, Wang Changsheng pursued the two fleeing Core Formation Cultivators.

• Wang Changsheng sent his Gold Devouring Ants against the red-skirted young woman, whose Crimson Dragon destroyed several hundred ants with its flames.
• Wang Changsheng trapped the battlefield inside the Illusory Water Banner while Wang Qingshan fought two Core Formation Cultivators.
• The red-skirted young woman and her allies trapped Wang Changsheng in a Blue Capturing Demon Net and struck him with a Crimson Sun.
• Wang Qingshan attacked the red-skirted young woman, and Wang Changsheng emerged from the Crimson Sun alive in his Turtle Scale Art armor.
• A Purple Cloud Light immobilized the red-skirted young woman, and a streak of Crimson Light killed her.
• The two Core Formation Cultivators fled, and Wang Changsheng fired four Golden Arrows at them, but they blocked the arrows with defensive Magic Treasures.

Wang Changsheng defeated two attackers before flying to Red Lotus Island, where Zhou Family forces were struggling to break the Wang Family’s powerful defenses. Wang Ruyan’s musical techniques and the island’s formation repelled Zhou Family’s assault, leaving its leaders shocked by the strength of the defenses.

• Wang Changsheng killed the blue-robed elder, drove off the middle-aged man, collected their belongings, and flew toward Red Lotus Island.
• Two Core Formation Cultivators and over a hundred Foundation Establishment Cultivators from Zhou Family attacked Red Lotus Island but failed to breach its formation.
• Wang Ruyan used the Flowing Sound Formation and her Pipa to block Zhou Family’s spells, fireballs, and sword attacks while Ye Lin and the Formation Masters maintained the defenses.
• The middle-aged beauty empowered her six Crimson Flying Swords with Essence Blood, but Wang Ruyan destroyed three giant swords and the island’s formation withstood the rest.
• Zhou Family’s leaders saw their strongest attack barely shake the formation and realized Wang Family’s defenses rivaled a Tier 3 Mid-Grade Defensive Formation.

Wang Changsheng returned to Red Lotus Island after using techniques that could expose the Wang Family, then went to the Thousand Puppets Sect to consult Purple Moon Fairy. He learned the Zhang Family had allied with the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and was preparing a counterattack, and the chapter ended as he entered the Council Hall and saw Zhang Guangyang.

• The Middle-Aged Beauty received a warning that Wang Family reinforcements were coming and withdrew from Red Lotus Island.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Qingshan arrived at Red Lotus Island, where Wang Changsheng told Wang Ruyan that his exposed Spiritual Arts meant the Wang Family could no longer remain in the Red Moon Sea Region.
• Wang Changsheng decided to seek Purple Moon Fairy’s plans and left Wang Ruyan and Wang Qingshan to guard Red Lotus Island.
• Zhang Guangyang told Purple Moon Fairy that the Zhang Family had anticipated the Hai Lan Sect and Whale Ocean Sect’s scheme and would counterattack with support from the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and allied forces.
• Purple Moon Fairy invited Wang Changsheng to the Council Hall, where he arrived and found Zhang Guangyang and two other Core Formation Cultivators.

Wang Changsheng agreed to join the Zhang Family’s counterattack and set out with Zhang Guangyang and other cultivators to attack the Zhou Family. Meanwhile, the Zhang Family’s enemies attacked Azure Carp Island, where a hidden trap forced their Nascent Soul leaders to retreat.

• Zhang Guangyang told Wang Changsheng that the teleportation arrays were closed and asked him to help the Zhang Family, and Wang Changsheng agreed to bring Wang Ruyan.
• Wang Changsheng and Purple Moon Fairy supported striking the Zhou Family before attacking another target, and Wang Ruyan arrived the next day with fifty clansmen.
• Zhang Guangyang led six Core Formation Cultivators and five hundred low-level cultivators toward the Zhou Family as fighting spread throughout the Red Moon Sea Region.
• Three Nascent Soul Cultivators’ forces looted Azure Carp Island and failed to break the Zhang Family treasury’s restriction, even with an Ancient Treasure.
• Thick fog covered Azure Carp Island, and the Nascent Soul Cultivators realized they had fallen into a trap and fled with their surviving forces.

Zhang Wuchen’s ambush devastated the Hai Lan Sect and Whale Ocean Sect forces, though several enemy leaders escaped using powerful treasures and a Qilin-blooded beast. With the enemy weakened, Zhang Wuchen sent allies to attack the Hai Lan Sect Headquarters and ordered her clansmen to collect the spoils.

• Zhang Wuchen’s hidden forces trapped the retreating cultivators behind a Blue Water Curtain while a Fourth-Order Blue Octopus attacked them.
• The blue-robed elder froze the Blue Octopus and tried to escape, but Zhang Wuchen’s forces captured him and froze many cultivators with Blue Rosy Cloud.
• Madam Sun escaped through a hole in the Blue Water Curtain using the Spirit Piercing Shuttle, while Daoist Liu fled on the Hai Lan Sect’s Qilin-blooded Guardian Spirit Beast.
• The Blue Octopus broke free and slaughtered cultivators still trapped in the formation as Zhang Wuchen and four other Nascent Soul Cultivators left Azure Carp Island.
• Zhang Wuchen revealed that the ambush had weakened the Hai Lan Sect and Whale Ocean Sect, and said she had already sent forces to counterattack the Hai Lan Sect Headquarters.
• Yellow Dragon True Person and two other Nascent Soul Cultivators departed to pursue the attack, while Zhang Wuchen ordered her clansmen to salvage the battlefield.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan led the attack on North Profound Island, where Zhou Ziyang and the Zhou Family defenders were overwhelmed. After the Zhou Family’s traps caused heavy casualties, the attackers abandoned searching buildings, felled the Violet Gold Wood, and burned the island.

• Zhou Ziyang learned that more than a hundred cultivators, including members of the Thousand Puppets Sect, had attacked North Profound Island and ordered the defenders to call for reinforcements.
• Wang Qingjun led the attackers as they overwhelmed the Zhou Family cultivators and began looting the island.
• Fire Burst Formations, mechanical traps, and poisonous fog killed or injured attackers, while Zhou Ziyang was killed by a golden spear that transformed into Gold Devouring Ants.
• Wang Changsheng ordered the attackers to burn the buildings and focus on harvesting the Violet Gold Wood rather than searching for valuables.
• Wang Qingjun's group felled the island's Violet Gold Wood, and the attackers set North Profound Island ablaze before leaving.

Zhou Shengtao recognized that the Zhou Family was being drawn into a trap and ordered a retreat from its outlying islands while keeping its Rank 4 Puppet Beast secret. Wang Changsheng and his allies rejected Zhang Guangyang’s plan to attack Jade Spring Island and instead split forces to strike Jade Void Island and Zi Yang Island.

• Zhou Shengtao concluded that Zhang Wuchen had turned the Hai Lan Sect and Whale Ocean Sect’s scheme against them, and ordered the Zhou Family to withdraw its people and portable resources to four Medium Islands.
• Zhou Shengtao sent Tianyuan to teleport Zesheng and others to safety and warned her not to reveal the family’s Rank 4 Puppet Beast.
• Wang Changsheng and his allies celebrated after plundering resources from the Zhou Family’s peripheral islands.
• Zhang Guangyang proposed that Wang Changsheng’s group attack Jade Spring Island while he attacked Zi Yang Island, but Wang Changsheng objected to risking the Zhou Family’s headquarters.
• Wang Ruyan backed Wang Changsheng’s proposal to attack Jade Void Island and Zi Yang Island instead, and Purple Moon Fairy and Zhang Guangyang agreed to the revised plan.
• Zhang Guangyang led most of the troops toward Zi Yang Island while Wang Changsheng, Wang Ruyan, and Purple Moon Fairy took the remaining forces toward Jade Void Island.