Chapter Summaries

Wang Tianwen rescued Zhao Feng and Sun Jiawen, then defeated the Heretical Cultivators with his Puppet Beasts and artifacts. After sharing the spoils and sending Zhao Feng back to report the victory, Wang Tianwen returned to his lodgings to inspect the Storage Pouches.

• Wang Tianwen used golden sword lights to deflect the Black Arrows aimed at Zhao Feng and Sun Jiawen.
• Wang Tianwen deployed a Tier 2 High Grade Puppet Beast and other weapons to kill the nine Heretical Cultivators.
• Zhao Feng thanked Wang Tianwen and explained that controlled Qi Refining Cultivators had turned against his group during the battle.
• Wang Tianwen searched the corpses and gave Storage Pouches to Zhao Feng and Sun Jiawen.
• Zhao Feng left with Sun Jiawen to report the incident, while Wang Tianwen reassured Liu Xian and returned to inspect the valuables.

Wang Tianwen decided to join the Myriad Immortals Bureau and traveled to the Prefectural Governor’s Mansion for the required background investigation. His examination took an unexpected turn when a Core Formation Cultivator recognized the name of his Seventh Great-Uncle, Wang Qingshan.

• Liu Feng invited Wang Tianwen to join the Myriad Immortals Bureau, and Wang Tianwen gave the silver he found to Liu Xian to settle his debts.
• Wang Tianwen decided to join the Bureau and met Sun Jiawen, who explained its background checks and revealed that his great-grandfather was the Prefectural Governor.
• Wang Tianwen traveled with Zhao Feng and Sun Jiawen to the Prefectural Governor’s Mansion.
• Two Core Formation Cultivators examined Wang Tianwen, and he agreed to cooperate and identified himself as a member of the Azure Lotus Wang Family of the Wei Kingdom.
• A Core Formation Cultivator recognized Wang Qingshan’s name, and Wang Tianwen revealed that Wang Qingshan was his Seventh Great-Uncle.

Wang Tianwen was accepted into the Myriad Immortals Bureau after officials learned of his ties to the Azure Lotus Wang Family and Wang Qingshan’s duel with Zhou Yunxiao. Meanwhile, Wang Mingren and Chen Xiang'er arrived at Fire Crow Market, where they settled into their new posts and resumed their uneasy marital routine.

• The Myriad Immortals Bureau officials questioned Wang Tianwen, verified his identity, and agreed to recruit him once his appointment document arrived.
• The officials discussed Wang Qingshan’s strength and hoped to meet him, while Wang Tianwen was escorted away to rest.
• Wang Mingren and Chen Xiang'er reached Fire Crow Market and met Senior Brother Song, who explained that Wang Mingren would oversee the Market.
• Wang Mingren and Chen Xiang'er settled into a cave abode, and Wang Mingren set up a Third-Order Spirit Gathering Formation for them.
• Chen Xiang'er teased Wang Mingren about being overly kind, and he angrily told her to stop suspecting him of infidelity.

During a Spirit Detection Assembly, Wang Bin was discovered to possess a Rare Lightning Spirit Root, prompting Wang Youwang to report the news to the Lineage. Meanwhile, a minor Beast Tide attacked Golden Sheep Island, where Ye Haitang and Ye Yutong fought the invading Demon Beasts as Wang Qiuhong sent reinforcements.

• Wang Youwang tested Wang Bin and discovered that he possessed a Rare Lightning Spirit Root.
• Wang Youwang promised to keep Wang Bin by his side and planned to report his aptitude to the Family Head.
• Wang Qiuhong learned that Tier 2 Demon Beasts were attacking Golden Sheep Island and sent Qiuxin and Tianbei with twenty Qi Refining Cultivators to help.
• Ye Haitang let the Demon Beasts through the Island Protection Formation and used her formation to trap them on the island.
• Ye Yutong planted Azure Thorn seeds in the sand pit while Ye Haitang and the other cultivators attacked the Demon Beasts.

Ye Haitang and the Wang Family cultivators repelled a Beast Tide on Golden Sheep Island, while reports showed Demon Beasts had attacked the Wang Family’s affiliates. Elsewhere, Wang Qingjun’s group clashed with Hai Lan Sect disciples, whom he killed with a Mystic Treasure Embryo Flying Needle.

• Ye Haitang used Golden Sheep Island’s Earth Attribute Formation to hold off more than a hundred Demon Beasts until Wang Qiuxin and his cultivators arrived, and together they killed every attacker.
• Ye Haitang explained that the island’s terrain made it well suited to an Earth Attribute Formation, then urged the Wang Family to reinforce its defenses and report the attack.
• Wang Qiuxin returned to Silver Serpent Island and told Wang Qiuhong that all the Wang Family’s affiliated Immortal Cultivation Families had been attacked by Demon Beasts.
• Wang Qingjun and his clansmen encountered Hai Lan Sect cultivators while hunting Demon Beasts, and the two groups fought on a desolate island.
• Wang Qingjun used his Mystic Treasure Embryo Flying Needle to kill the red-clad Hai Lan Sect leader and the other eight Foundation Establishment Cultivators, then ordered his people to clear the battlefield and return to the clan.

Wang Qingjun found an Inheritance Shell pointing to Old Man Celestial Illusion’s Seated Immortal Cave and reported it to the Wang Family. Wang Changsheng emerged from seclusion after refining Magic Treasures, and Wang Qiuhong told him about the cave, leaving the family to decide whether the inheritance was a trap.

• Wang Qingjun collected the red-robed man's valuables and left with his clansmen, while Yellow Dragon True Person arranged to lure Hai Lan Sect cultivators toward a false inheritance.
• Yellow Dragon True Person told Nephew Li to watch for the Hai Lan Sect treasure hunt and report back.
• Wang Qingjun found an Inheritance Shell in the red-robed man's Storage Pearls and learned it marked Old Man Celestial Illusion's Seated Immortal Cave.
• Wang Qingjun chose to report the discovery to the family, and Wang Qiuhong hurried to tell Wang Changsheng.
• Wang Changsheng emerged from seclusion after refining Mountain-Sea Pearls and Jade Void Flying Swords, then heard Wang Qiuhong's news.

Wang Changsheng investigated the Inheritance Shell and suspected the Ancient Cultivator Abode might be a trap, but he decided to investigate with Ye Lin and Ye Haitang. At the island, Ye Lin detected hidden cultivators, and Wang Changsheng attacked them, leaving the white-robed elder surrounded by his Magic Treasures.

• Wang Changsheng questioned Wang Qingjun and learned the Hai Lan Sect cultivators had attacked his group before they found the Inheritance Shell.
• Wang Qiuhong suspected the attacks on the Wang Family and its subordinate forces were part of a plan to lure Wang Changsheng into an ambush.
• Wang Changsheng decided to investigate the Seated Immortal Cave with Ye Lin and Ye Haitang, and Ye Lin agreed to help detect danger.
• Ye Lin found one Core Formation Layer 4 Cultivator and several Foundation Establishment Cultivators hidden beneath the island's seabed.
• Wang Changsheng attacked the hidden group with his Mountain-Sea Pearls, while the white-robed elder fled and the five Foundation Establishment Cultivators were struck by arrows.

Wang Changsheng and his companions broke into a hidden cave and found the belongings of a Nascent Soul Cultivator. Among them, Wang Changsheng discovered a shell containing the Nine Serenities Celestial Illusion Codex, which he had deliberately planted for Yellow Dragon Island.

• Wang Changsheng defeated the White-robed Elder, recovered the storage items of the slain cultivators, and found a token marked Yellow Dragon Island.
• Wang Changsheng, Ye Lin, and Ye Haitang broke through the restrictions on the island and entered a cave containing a skeleton and a Storage Pouch.
• Wang Changsheng smashed through the Four Symbols Adamantine Array after Ye Lin explained how such restrictions could be broken.
• Wang Changsheng returned to Silver Serpent Island and found Spirit Stones, treasures, pills, a Core Formation Spiritual Object, and jade slips in the pouch.
• Wang Changsheng examined a shell and realized that its so-called Celestial Illusion Great Art was the Nine Serenities Celestial Illusion Codex he had planted for Yellow Dragon Island.

Wang Changsheng decided to trade the dangerous Heaven-Grade Cultivation Art for a Core Formation Spiritual Object from the Zhang Family. He reached Azure Carp Island and asked to meet Zhang Wuchen, leaving Zhang Zhisheng to summon the Zhang Family’s Old Ancestor.

• Wang Changsheng worried that Yellow Dragon Island would retaliate after its Core Formation Cultivator escaped with news of the recovered cultivation art.
• Ye Lin advised Wang Changsheng to give the art to the Zhang Family in exchange for a Core Formation Spiritual Object, arguing that the Zhang Family would distrust an affiliated force offering such a rare inheritance.
• Wang Changsheng agreed that trading with the Zhang Family was safer than approaching the Taiyi Immortal Sect or the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, and prepared to answer truthfully if asked about the art’s origin.
• Wang Changsheng left Silver Serpent Island with Wang Qingjun and other clansmen and traveled to Azure Carp Island.
• Zhang Maoqing recognized Wang Changsheng as a marriage ally of the Zhang Family and escorted him to meet Zhang Zhisheng.
• Wang Changsheng asked Zhang Zhisheng to arrange a private audience with Zhang Wuchen, and Zhang Zhisheng went to summon the Old Ancestor.

Wang Changsheng presented Zhang Wuchen with the first half of what he believed was the Heaven-Grade Celestial Illusion Great Art in exchange for cultivation resources. Zhang Wuchen and Lin Yuzong uncovered the art’s true origin and discussed their hidden ties to the Sun Moon Palace and the destruction of the Townsea Sect.

• Wang Changsheng offered Zhang Wuchen a cyan shell containing the cultivation art and explained that Wang Qingjun had obtained it through an inheritance shell.
• Zhang Wuchen used a Secret Art to verify Wang Changsheng’s account, then agreed to give him one Core Formation Spiritual Object and three other items in exchange for the art.
• Zhang Wuchen met Lin Yuzong in a secret chamber, where he identified the art as the first half of the Nine Serenities Sect’s guardian cultivation art, the Nine Serenities Celestial Illusion Codex.
• Lin Yuzong and Zhang Wuchen concluded that Yellow Dragon True Person meant to use the art to provoke conflict between the Nine Serenities Sect and Hai Lan Sect while expanding his territory.
• Zhang Wuchen revealed that she was the Moon Palace’s vice palace master and explained that the Sun Moon Palace had destroyed the Townsea Sect to seize a rumored Treasure Art.

Wang Changsheng rewarded Wang Qingjun for revealing Old Man Celestial Illusion's Seated Immortal Cave and ordered him to escort a newly discovered Lightning Spirit Root cultivator to Silver Serpent Island. Meanwhile, Yellow Dragon True Person dealt with the failure of his cave-abode scheme and continued searching for Purple Moon Fairy Ziyue.

• Zhang Wuchen explained to Lin Yuzong that the Treasure Art had once been used by Ice Moon Immortal Lord against the Demon Race and could only be wielded by a Nascent Soul Seventh Layer cultivator.
• Wang Changsheng returned to Silver Serpent Island with a Core Formation Spiritual Object and refining materials, then praised Wang Qingjun and promised him resources when he reached the Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer.
• Wang Qingjun reported that a clan member in the Demon Subduing Kingdom had manifested a confirmed Lightning Spirit Root, and Wang Changsheng ordered him to bring the cultivator safely to Silver Serpent Island.
• Wang Changsheng considered the clan's shortage of Core Formation Spiritual Objects and prepared to refine a Lifebound Treasure for Wang Ruyan.
• Yellow Dragon True Person berated his followers after an unknown Core Formation Cultivator disrupted his plan, then ordered an investigation into the force that attacked them.
• Yellow Dragon True Person asked Yuxu about Purple Moon Fairy Ziyue, ordered him to have Nephew Li contact her, and privately regretted not using the Soul-Searching Art on her earlier.

After nearly two centuries of cultivation, Wang Qingqing survived her Core Formation tribulation and resolved to grow stronger and avenge her husband. Meanwhile, Wang Ruyan emerged from fifteen years of seclusion at Core Formation Layer 3, having also mastered a defensive Spirit Art.

• Wang Qiuling oversaw the Wang Family’s growing clan as its cultivators gathered for a tournament on Sea Cucumber Island.
• Wang Qingqing’s Core Formation tribulation struck her secluded valley, and Wang Qiuling ordered the clansmen to keep away.
• Wang Qingqing survived the lightning and entered the Core Formation Stage after using two Core Formation Spiritual Objects.
• Wang Qingqing asked Wang Qiuling to notify Tianqi and her parents, then set her sights on Yellow Dragon Island to avenge her husband.
• Wang Ruyan emerged from fifteen years of seclusion at Core Formation Layer 3 after cultivating the Glazed Golden Body, and her Azure-Eyed Silkworm had reached the third grade lower rank.

Wang Ruyan learned that the treasure hunt would be moved up to within the next few years while Wang Changsheng remained in seclusion. After Wang Changsheng finished practicing the Glazed Golden Body, he left his chamber as the family prepared for Core Formation attempts and passed on its pill-making knowledge.

• Wang Ruyan fed her Azure-Eyed Silkworm and learned from Wang Qiuhong that Wang Qingqi and Wang Qingjun planned to attempt Core Formation, while Wang Mengbin had a Rare Spirit Root.
• Wang Ruyan advised Wang Qingqi to purify his magical power, shared her Core Formation experience with him and Wang Qingjun, and met Wang Mengbin.
• The Purple Moon Fairy told Wang Ruyan that the treasure hunt had been moved forward to within the next few years, and Wang Ruyan agreed to notify her when Wang Changsheng emerged from seclusion.
• Wang Qingqi began teaching Wang Tianbei to refine Foundation Establishment Pills so the family would retain the skill if anything happened to him.
• Wang Changsheng completed his cultivation of the Glazed Golden Body and went to check on the sleeping Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat.

Wang Changsheng learned that the treasure hunt to Townsea Sect had been moved up and arranged for Wang Qingqing to guard Silver Serpent Island while he and Wang Ruyan went. He met with Tian Jiong and Purple Moon Fairy, agreed to meet them at Golden Dragon Island in half a year, and learned the Scripture Pavilion might not be where they expected.

• Wang Changsheng woke the Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat and learned from Wang Qiuhong that Wang Ruyan had emerged from seclusion, two relatives were preparing for Core Formation, and Purple Moon Fairy had visited.
• Wang Ruyan told Wang Changsheng the treasure hunt had been moved up and that Wang Qingqing had reached Core Formation; she planned to have Qingqing guard Silver Serpent Island.
• Wang Changsheng gave Wang Ruyan three magic treasures he had refined for her and then hurried to the Thousand Puppets Sect.
• Wang Changsheng met Purple Moon Fairy and Tian Jiong, who explained that the treasure hunt was scheduled for half a year later because the cultivator of the Heavenly Sound Sea-Turning Art had demanded it proceed sooner.
• Tian Jiong refused Wang Changsheng's request to bring Ye Lin, and Purple Moon Fairy gave him a Cyan Shell containing the location of Townsea Sect's Scripture Pavilion.
• Wang Changsheng agreed to meet Tian Jiong and Purple Moon Fairy at Golden Dragon Island in half a year, though he remained uncertain whether the Scripture Pavilion had moved.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan set out for the Townsea Sect ruins while Yellow Dragon True Person planned to follow them and seize the treasures. They reached Golden Dragon Island to meet Purple Moon Fairy, where Wang Changsheng discovered that his Soul-Devouring Golden Cicada had advanced to the Third Order and gained a golden-flame ability.

• Tian Jiong told Qing'er to take Wang Changsheng and the others by a detour, warning that the Townsea Sect treasure hunt called for caution.
• Yellow Dragon True Person sent Huang Yuxu and a blue-dressed woman to follow Wang Changsheng's group and gave them rare treasures and Fourth-Order Attack Talismans.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan left newly Core Formation-stage Wang Qingqing in charge of Silver Serpent Island and traveled through teleportation arrays to Golden Dragon Island.
• Purple Moon Fairy arranged to meet Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan and asked them to wait on Golden Dragon Island for a few days.
• Wang Changsheng's Soul-Devouring Golden Cicada advanced to the Third Order, devoured more than a hundred Demon Beast Essence Souls, and demonstrated a golden flame that burned a table to ash.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan traveled with Purple Moon Fairy across several sea regions while waiting to meet Tian Jiong and two other cultivators. Jin Lang tracked Tian Jiong through a Blood Yuan Insect and planned to seize the Townsea Sect ruins, and the two groups finally met in the Myriad Demon Sea Region.

• Purple Moon Fairy took Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan through the Teleportation Hall to a Market in the Blood Python Sea Region, where they waited for two people.
• Tian Jiong told Huang Yuxu and Li Xin that their contact would not come, then set off with them toward the ruins.
• Jin Lang revealed that he had planted a Blood Yuan Insect on Tian Jiong and had deliberately let him escape so he could lead Sun Moon Palace to the Townsea Sect ruins.
• Purple Moon Fairy guided Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan through several sea regions for over half a year before they reached the Myriad Demon Sea Region.
• After Wang Changsheng questioned the continued detours, Purple Moon Fairy said they would wait for Tian Jiong, who arrived seven days later with Huang Yuxu and Li Xin.
• Wang Changsheng introduced himself and Wang Ruyan under the surnames Wei, while Huang Yuxu presented himself as Chen.

Tian Jiong led Wang Changsheng, Wang Ruyan, and the others through a hidden Teleportation Array into the Myriad Demon Sea Region to reach the Townsea Sect ruins. Yellow Dragon True Person and Jin Lang pursued them, while the group reached a vast coral reef ten thousand zhang beneath the seabed.

• Tian Jiong led the group to a concealed Teleportation Array, and they teleported to a hidden Stone Chamber before he destroyed the Array.
• Purple Moon Fairy gave the group Water Avoidance Pearls and used a Yellow Jade Ruler to guide them through the seabed toward the ruins.
• Yellow Dragon True Person tracked Huang Yuxu to the hidden cave with a Thousand Cloud Butterfly, then continued searching after finding the destroyed Teleportation Array.
• Jin Lang brought sect disciples to the Myriad Demon Sea Region, split them into two groups, and sent them east and west to search for the others.
• Wang Changsheng and the others stopped before a vast, colorful Coral Reef while traveling beneath the seabed.

Tian Jiong, Wang Changsheng, Li Xin, and their companions used the Spirit Seeking Orb to locate and breach the Townsea Sect Ruins beneath the seabed. After they entered, the breach closed, while the pillar of light drew cultivators from across the region toward the ruins.

• Tian Jiong, Wang Changsheng, and Li Xin activated the Spirit Seeking Orb with their cultivation arts, creating a whirlpool that exposed the entrance to the Ruins.
• The Spirit Seeking Orb triggered the Townsea Cauldron's restriction, revealing a Blue Light Gate and sending a pillar of light into the sky as Tian Jiong and the others opened a breach.
• Purple Moon Fairy, Huang Yuxu, Wang Ruyan, Wang Changsheng, Tian Jiong, and Li Xin entered the Blue Light Gate in turn, and the breach sealed behind them.
• A Yellow-robed Man and a round-faced man stopped fighting a Blue-robed Demon Race cultivator after seeing the pillar of light, and the two men flew toward it.
• Cultivators across the surrounding sea saw the pillar and hurried toward its source or reported the phenomenon to their sects.

Separated after entering the ruins, Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan each followed a Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat in search of high-year spirit medicine. Wang Ruyan defeated a group of White Giant Rabbits, while Wang Changsheng reached a cave whose contents remained unknown.

• Wang Changsheng found himself alone in a bamboo grove, and his Sensing Pearl could not locate Wang Ruyan.
• Wang Changsheng released the Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat and Gold Devouring Ants, then followed the rat through the grove.
• Wang Ruyan fought off a group of White Giant Rabbits with her Golden Lotus Lyre and Azure Origin Talisman Soldier, killing the Tier 3 Rabbit King and collecting its Essence Soul, corpse, and Inner Core.
• Wang Ruyan fed her Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat a green fruit and followed it away from the snowy valley.
• Wang Changsheng reached a cave with his Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat, recalled the rat, and sent a Puppet Beast in ahead.

Wang Changsheng explored a hidden cultivator’s cave, killed the Black Python guarding two Black Lotuses, and broke into a sealed training chamber. He discovered a Spirit Eye Spring and several stored materials, leaving with the spring’s value revealed.

• Wang Changsheng searched the cave’s Refining Chamber and Beast-Nurturing Chamber, finding them mostly empty.
• He entered a chamber with a Black Pool, where a Black Python attacked him as he approached two Black Lotuses.
• Wang Changsheng used his techniques, Gold Devouring Ants, and Mountain-Sea Pearl to kill the Black Python, while the Soul-Devouring Golden Cicada devoured its spirit and strengthened his spiritual sense.
• He collected the pool water and both Black Lotuses, then broke open a sealed stone chamber.
• Wang Changsheng found a pool of pure spiritual energy and materials in the chamber, and recognized the pool as a Spirit Eye Spring after the Twin-Pupil Spirit Rat drank from it.