Chapter Summaries

Ye Haitang lured three Core Formation Cultivators pursuing her into a series of Formations near the Townsea Sect ruins and killed them. After collecting their valuables, she flew onward, resolute after her first victory using Formations against cultivators.

• Three cultivators ambushed Ye Haitang as she emerged from the depths of the Myriad Ghosts Sea Region, but she escaped in a cloud of black mist.
• Ye Haitang led her pursuers to a desolate island and trapped them in the Formations she had prepared there.
• Bone Corpses and two Third-Order Puppet Beasts attacked the trapped cultivators while the Formations battered them.
• As the Red-Robed Man tried to use a Golden Lightning Demon Slayer Talisman, a ghostly attack killed him and took the talisman.
• The Thousand Lightning Demon Slayer Array struck down the two fleeing Core Formation Cultivators.
• Ye Haitang collected the cultivators' valuables, burned their corpses, and flew away.

Wang Jiyu got drunk while Fang Tianyuan arranged for his nieces to bring him into a compromising situation, and Wang Mingren sought Xu Zihua’s advice about attempting Nascent Soul Formation. Xu Zihua warned that unresolved guilt and attachment could become inner demons, leaving Wang Mingren uncertain whether he could overcome his own.

• Fang Tianyuan brought Fang Yufei and Fang Yuruo to drink with Wang Jiyu, hoping they would secure a marriage alliance with him.
• Wang Jiyu boasted that Wang Qingqi might someday refine Nascent Soul Pills, and Fang Tianyuan suspected the Wang Family possessed an Infant Spirit Fruit or tree.
• After Wang Jiyu passed out, Fang Tianyuan sent Fang Yufei and Fang Yuruo to take him inside and left them with him.
• Wang Mingren and Ximen Feng asked Xu Zihua for guidance before Wang Mingren attempted Nascent Soul Formation.
• Xu Zihua explained that inner demons arise from what a cultivator values and admitted his fear of death had kept him from advancing.
• Xu Zihua told Wang Mingren that Chen Xiang'er would certainly become his inner demon because of the wrongs he had done her.

Wang Mingren received Xu Zihua’s treasured Nascent Soul resources but chose to enter seclusion despite his doubts. At Kyoto Market, Wang Qingling and Wang Qiuming reunited with Wang Tianwen, who had risen to deputy commander of a thousand, and asked him to investigate Golden Fiend Devil Monarch.

• Xu Zihua advised Wang Mingren that spiritual treasures could not make up for an unsteady Dao heart and discouraged him from attempting the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Xu Zihua gave Wang Mingren a Spirit Infant Fruit and half a stick of Three-Yuan Spirit Stabilizing Incense, and Wang Mingren vowed to remember his kindness.
• Wang Mingren refused to reconcile with Chen Xiang'er and told Ximen Feng he would enter seclusion to cultivate.
• Wang Qingling and Wang Qiuming arrived at Kyoto Market for its auction and met Wang Tianwen at Hundred Beast Pavilion.
• Wang Tianwen told them he had become deputy commander of a thousand, then asked Wang Qiuming to repair three damaged Third-Order Puppet Beasts.
• Wang Qingling asked Wang Tianwen to investigate Golden Fiend Devil Monarch, who had come from the Thousand Calabash World.

Wang Tianwen investigated a suspicious watcher near Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan’s residence in the Kyoto Market while Wang Qingling and Wang Qiuming settled in nearby. In the South Sea, Zhang Wuchen arrived at Azure Lotus Island, believing Wang Changsheng was connected to the Townsea Sect and seeking his help against Yellow Dragon Island.

• Wang Tianwen agreed to search ancient records for information about the Golden Fiend Devil Monarch and learned that Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan were staying at the Gathering Immortals Pavilion.
• Wang Tianwen confronted Li Feng, who claimed he was waiting on his mistress Song Yuning’s orders to invite Wang Changsheng as a guest.
• Wang Tianwen left after questioning Li Feng and sent Wang Changsheng a Sound Transmission Talisman to ask about Golden Mirror Celestial.
• Wang Qingling and Wang Qiuming found lodging in the Kyoto Market, where Wang Qiuming planned secluded cultivation and Wang Qingling planned to fight beasts.
• Zhang Wuchen concluded that Wang Changsheng likely descended from the Townsea Sect after tracing Yellow Dragon Island’s attack on the Wang Family and recalling the Azure Lotus Couple’s Combined Attack Technique.
• Zhang Wuchen arrived at Azure Lotus Island, and Wang Mengfen welcomed her and escorted her inside to meet Wang Changsheng.

Zhang Wuchen warned the Wang Family that Yellow Dragon Island cultivators were searching for Grand Vast True Person, while Purple Moon Fairy arranged precautions and a warning for Wang Changsheng. Wang Qingqing later found her descendant Wang Yinghao refining cleverly disguised puppet beasts and urged him to keep cultivating.

• Zhang Wuchen told Wang Mengfen that Yellow Dragon Island cultivators were asking about Grand Vast True Person and warned that the Wang Family’s survival was at stake.
• Purple Moon Fairy emerged from hiding, ordered the Wang Family to investigate suspicious people, and sent a coded message to Wang Changsheng in the Northern Frontier.
• Purple Moon Fairy wondered whether Zhang Wuchen had detected her through the Purple Cloud Veil because of unusually powerful divine sense.
• Wang Yinghao finished an ape puppet and revealed that he had noticed Wang Qingqing’s arrival, then showed her a tortoise, a golden giant ape, and an azure python disguised as courtyard features.
• Wang Qingqing praised Wang Yinghao’s puppet-making skill, cautioned him to cultivate diligently, and continued teaching him.

After thirty years of recovery and cultivation, Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan prepared to seek the Six Roots Pure Bamboo at Fallen Immortal Cave. They found Wang Qingling battling spirit beasts at the Myriad Treasures Pagoda, where she won another match.

• Wang Changsheng used up his Kui Yin Cold Water and found that it had strengthened his magic power and added a chill to his attacks.
• Wang Ruyan emerged from seclusion with her injuries fully healed, while the Townsea Ape remained asleep with grievous wounds.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan decided to travel to Fallen Immortal Cave to obtain the Six Roots Pure Bamboo and bring Wang Qingling and Wang Qiuming along.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan discovered that Wang Qingling was battling beasts at the Myriad Treasures Pagoda and went to watch her.
• Wang Qingling's Earth Dragon Worm trapped a red giant serpent, and the Green-Shirted Youth admitted defeat.

Wang Qingling won another beast battle before reporting to Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan, who learned that Yellow Dragon Island might have uncovered Wang Changsheng's role in Yuan Gang's death. Fearing an attack on Azure Lotus Island, Wang Changsheng decided to return to the South Sea and sought Murong Bo's help to travel faster.

• Wang Qingling defeated Daoist Sun's Li Fire Serpent with her Earth Dragon Worm and challenged the other Core Formation Cultivators, but none accepted.
• Wang Qingling and Wang Qiuming met Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan and reported that the Wang Family was doing well.
• Wang Changsheng interpreted Purple Moon Fairy's intelligence as a warning that Yellow Dragon Island might know he killed Yuan Gang and reasoned that it could attack Azure Lotus Island while he was away.
• Wang Changsheng decided to return to the South Sea and deal with Yellow Dragon Island, despite the trouble in the Great Qin Dynasty delaying their route.
• Wang Qingling suggested borrowing Murong Bo's low-grade Fourth Order Lion Roc, and Wang Changsheng invited Murong Bo to visit the South Sea.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan arranged for Murong Bo to travel with them back to the South Sea, while Ye Haitang fled into the depths of the Myriad Ghosts Sea Region to escape Zheng Guqi. There, she encountered a Nascent Soul Realm Ghost who appeared before her in the form of a green-skirted woman.

• Wang Ruyan invited Murong Bo to accompany the Wang Family to the South Sea, and he agreed to depart the next morning.
• Murong Bo showed Wang Changsheng and the others his Fourth Order Lion Roc, then carried them away from Kyoto Market.
• Ye Haitang fled across the Myriad Ghosts Sea Region while Zheng Guqi pursued her and demanded that she surrender an item.
• A Core Formation Stage Ghost attacked Ye Haitang, but her Golden Jade Buddha Amulet drove it back and helped her pass through a lightning restriction.
• Zheng Guqi realized the amulet could let him enter the depths of the Myriad Ghosts Sea Region, but he stayed behind as Ye Haitang landed on a desolate island.
• A Nascent Soul Realm Ghost appeared before Ye Haitang as a green-skirted woman, and an ancient Myriad Ghosts token materialized nearby.

Ye Haitang battled Zhao Meier, the Nascent Soul Realm Ghost King bound to the Myriad Ghosts Token, while trying to seize control of the artifact. Wang Changsheng’s Protective Spirit Talisman rescued her from Zhao Meier’s attack, but neither could destroy the token, and Zhao Meier proposed a mutual Life-Bound Curse.

• Zhao Meier demanded that Ye Haitang take her out of the restricted place, but Ye Haitang deduced she was an Artifact Spirit and refused to submit.
• Zhao Meier attacked Ye Haitang with yin qi, but Ye Haitang used Yellow Springs Divine Light to counter the illusion and revealed she cultivated the Yellow Springs Manual.
• Ye Haitang used the Golden Buddha Bell to trap Zhao Meier in Buddhist flames, but the bell shattered when Ye Haitang tried to seize the Myriad Ghosts Token.
• Zhao Meier attacked Ye Haitang, but Wang Changsheng’s Protective Spirit Talisman appeared and blasted Zhao Meier away with a thunder palm.
• Ye Haitang retrieved the Golden Jade Buddha Amulet, raised a lightning formation, and tried to refine the Myriad Ghosts Token with her Core Fire, but Zhao Meier’s Ghost Wail interrupted her.
• Zhao Meier proposed that she and Ye Haitang each place a Life-Bound Curse on the other.

Ye Haitang forced Zhao Meier to accept mutual Life-Bound Curses and additional Restrictions after exposing her attempt to deceive her. With both now bound together, Ye Haitang began healing her injuries while Zhao Meier urged her not to remain long.

• Zhao Meier summoned a towering mountain of black seawater and pressured Ye Haitang into negotiating over the Golden Jade Buddha Amulet.
• Ye Haitang agreed to mutual Life-Bound Curses but detected Zhao Meier's first curse was an illusion and threatened to destroy the Buddhist treasure.
• Zhao Meier admitted she had been testing Ye Haitang, and Ye Haitang demanded genuine curses and additional Restrictions.
• Ye Haitang and Zhao Meier placed Life-Bound Curses on each other, and Ye Haitang added Restrictions that caused Zhao Meier pain when tested.
• Zhao Meier said the Myriad Ghosts Sect's treasures had been lost or destroyed, and Ye Haitang began cultivating to heal her injuries.

Ye Haitang escaped the spatial rift storm with Zhao Meier concealed in the Myriad Ghosts Token, intending to return to Azure Lotus Island and hand the token to Wang Changsheng. On the way, Zhao Meier killed Zheng Guqi, leaving Ye Haitang resolved not to release her casually again.

• Ye Haitang and Zhao Meier fled as a spatial rift storm swept across the Black Sea, with Ye Haitang using the Golden Jade Buddha Amulet to shield them from Silver Lightning.
• Ye Haitang decided to return to Azure Lotus Island and give the Myriad Ghosts Token to Wang Changsheng so Zhao Meier could be sealed away.
• Zheng Guqi ambushed Ye Haitang, but Zhao Meier emerged from the token and overwhelmed him with ghost arts.
• Zhao Meier pierced Zheng Guqi's chest, seized and swallowed his Miniature Nascent Soul, then took his valuables.
• Ye Haitang recalled Zhao Meier into the token and flew outward, determined not to release her casually.

During Wang Mingren’s Nascent Soul tribulation, he endured an Inner Demon Trial that confronted him with his selfish treatment of Wang Qingling and Wang Qiuming and then returned him to memories of his wedding to Chen Xiang’er. The trial continued as he promised to treat his bride well and closed the bridal chamber door.

• Wang Mingren faced the Inner Demon Trial while Xu Zihua and Ximen Feng watched the thunderclouds gathering for his Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation.
• In the trial, Wang Mingren, Wang Qingling, and Wang Qiuming defeated a Red-Robed Elder, and Wang Mingren urged them to help him capture another cultivator.
• Wang Qiuming and Wang Qingling condemned Wang Mingren for making them hunt Heretical Cultivators instead of cultivating, and Wang Mingren recognized his selfishness and apologized.
• Wang Mingren promised to obtain Core Formation Spiritual Objects for them and swore a Heart Demon Oath, after which Wang Qingling and Wang Qiuming vanished.
• Wang Mingren found himself at his wedding to Chen Xiang’er, promised never to betray her, and entered the bridal chamber with her.

Wang Mingren faced his Inner Demon Trial as he attempted to form a Nascent Soul, reliving the harm his selfish choices had caused. He failed, his Golden Core shattered, and his body rapidly aged.

• Wang Mingren’s Inner Demon showed him killing Chen Xiang'er and a child before revealing that he was actually in a Stone Chamber with Chen Xiang'er confronting him about visiting a fox spirit.
• Wang Mingren relived a confrontation in which Liu Jin blamed him for Wang Qingshan’s death and confined him, while Wang Changsheng accused him of selfishness and attacked him.
• Wang Mingren awakened from the visions, spat blood, and watched his Golden Core shatter as his hair turned gray-white.
• Wang Mingren’s Inner Demon proved to be his selfishness, weak Dao Heart, and desire for status and comfort, and he failed to enter the Nascent Soul Realm.

Wang Mingren refused the life-extending pill and spent his final moments asking forgiveness and entrusting his family to Ximen Feng. Chen Xiang'er forgave him before he died, and more than a thousand Taiyi Immortal Sect disciples later mourned him.

• Xu Zihua offered Wang Mingren a Three-Origin Heart-Protecting Pill, but Wang Mingren refused it and asked that his ashes and Nascent Soul Forming Treasures be returned to his family without seeking Merit Points.
• Wang Mingren asked Ximen Feng to care for Xu Zihua and Changjie, apologize to Xiang'er and his kin, and investigate who had attacked the family's three strongholds.
• Ximen Feng pleaded with Xu Zihua to honor Wang Mingren's wish, and Xu Zihua finally agreed not to seek a way to prolong his life.
• Chen Xiang'er visited Wang Mingren, and after hearing Ximen Feng's plea, she forgave him before he died.
• Seven days later, Ximen Feng and Chen Xiang'er held a mourning hall, where more than a thousand Taiyi Immortal Sect disciples paid tribute to Wang Mingren.

Ye Haitang returned to Azure Lotus Island seeking Wang Changsheng’s help with her Life-Bound Curse, but learned he was away; meanwhile, Yellow Dragon True Person weighed whether the Wang Family could be attacked and remained wary of their strength and hidden allies.

• Ye Haitang returned to Azure Lotus Island and witnessed Wang Qingling’s python survive its tribulation and become a Third-Order Flood Dragon.
• Ye Haitang learned Wang Changsheng and his wife were away, chose to wait for his return, and asked whether Wang Qingshan had formed his Nascent Soul; Wang Mengfen said he was still in seclusion.
• Zhao Meier warned Ye Haitang that the Life-Bound Curse would not be easily undone, and Ye Haitang ordered her to remain inside the Myriad Ghosts Token.
• Yellow Dragon True Person discussed Wang Changsheng’s killing of Yuan Gang with Evolving Water True Person and reviewed conflicting intelligence about the Azure Lotus Couple’s whereabouts.
• Yellow Dragon True Person concluded that the Wang Family still had two Nascent Soul cultivators and might possess allies or a Rank 4 Puppet Beast, so he could not safely assume Azure Lotus Island was undefended.

Yellow Dragon True Person planned an assault on Azure Lotus Island with four other Nascent Soul Cultivators, while Evolving Water True Person hesitated to commit the Lu Family. After learning the Wang Family had raised a Third-Order Flood Dragon, Yellow Dragon secured Lu Hengbin’s support and finalized a swift attack, aiming especially to kill Wang Qingshan.

• Yellow Dragon True Person pressed Evolving Water True Person to honor the plan to attack Azure Lotus Island, but Evolving Water demanded a greater share because the Lu Family risked a lasting feud with the Wang Family.
• Yellow Dragon explained that he had already recruited two Nascent Soul rogue cultivators and paid them heavily, leaving him unable to call off the operation without consequences.
• Lu Hengbin reported that the Wang Family had raised a Third-Order Flood Dragon, and Yellow Dragon ordered him to keep watch on the family.
• Yellow Dragon agreed to proceed if Evolving Water held Guangdong Ren back, while Evolving Water warned that the Ye Family might send reinforcements.
• Yellow Dragon and Evolving Water settled the operation’s timing and contingencies, and Yellow Dragon left White Crane Island determined to target Wang Qingshan.

Fang Tianyuan persuaded Wang Jiyu to receive two visiting friends, while Guangdong Ren was drawn into a battle with Lu Yongyi as the Lu Family targeted Golden Lotus Island. The attack on the Wang Family’s holdings continued, leaving Guangdong Ren occupied and unable to rush to Azure Lotus Island.

• Fang Tianyuan asked Wang Jiyu to bring his two friends onto Azure Lotus Island, and Wang Jiyu agreed.
• Wang Qingqing served Guangdong Ren a feast on Golden Lotus Island, but an attack interrupted their meal.
• Guangdong Ren ordered Golden Lotus Market’s residents to return home and its Enforcement Team to patrol for attackers.
• Guangdong Ren recognized that Lu Yongyi was keeping him from reaching Azure Lotus Island while other forces attacked it.
• Guangdong Ren and Lu Yongyi exchanged powerful fire and water attacks as she kept him occupied.

Yellow Sand True Person and Jin Yu infiltrated Azure Lotus Island with Fang Tianyuan’s help, posing as guests of Wang Jiyu. Wang Mengfen suspected they were enemies and trapped them in a yellow desert formation, while Wang Jiyu remained outside it.

• Yellow Sand True Person and Jin Yu entered Azure Lotus Island’s mist-shrouded barrier with Wang Jiyu and Fang Tianyuan, claiming they wanted Wang Jiyu to refine Purple Dew Pills.
• The city guards checked the visitors with Wang Youwei and then Wang Mengfen before allowing them into Azure Lotus Immortal City.
• As the group approached the inner city, Wang Mengfen activated a formation that trapped Yellow Sand True Person, Jin Yu, and Fang Tianyuan in a yellow desert, leaving Wang Jiyu outside.

Yellow Sand True Person and Jin Yu launched an attack on Azure Lotus Island, forcing Purple Moon Fairy and the Wang Family to activate their formations while reinforcements struck from outside. Ye Haitang negotiated with Zhao Meier for help, but the battles remained unresolved.

• Fang Tianyuan exposed Yellow Sand True Person and Jin Yu as infiltrators, and they attacked Wang Mengfen’s defenses before the island’s lightning formation struck them.
• The alarm sounded across Azure Lotus Island, and Wang Youwei organized the clan’s defenses and called for reinforcements.
• Purple Moon Fairy activated the island’s Fourth Order Formations, trapping the attackers as Yellow Dragon True Person, Madam Golden Butterfly, and Liu Haodong arrived to break through the barriers.
• Wang Mengfen learned that Guangdong Ren was occupied by another Nascent Soul Cultivator attacking the Market, leaving him unable to assist the island.
• Ye Haitang agreed to gather information on the Four Seasons Sword Master and the Taiyi Immortal Sect in exchange for Zhao Meier helping repel the invaders.

Yellow Dragon True Person and the other attackers battered Azure Lotus Island’s Clan Protection Formation while Purple Moon Fairy struggled to control it. The formation finally broke, leaving Yellow Sand True Person badly wounded and Zhao Meier attacking him from behind.

• Yellow Sand True Person and Jin Yu unleashed their treasures against the Clan Protection Formation, and their attacks devastated the outer city and killed several Wang Family cultivators.
• Ye Haitang sent a Nascent Soul Realm Ghost to assist Purple Moon Fairy, who drove the formation’s lightning at Yellow Sand True Person and Jin Yu.
• The Formation Plates shattered, and Yellow Dragon True Person used the Yellow Dragon Seal to break through the formation.
• Zhao Meier appeared behind the wounded Yellow Sand True Person and attacked while her Ghost Wail dazed him and the other cultivators.