Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ming refused Ancestor Mingquan’s demand to surrender Elder Sanjue, and the two avoided a fight. Luo Qi reconciled with Wu Yuezhi, whose eyes then showed signs of gray smoke, before Hou Yi’s Sun-Shooting Bow offered the group a reward.

• Ancestor Mingquan revealed that his jade ring detected Elder Sanjue’s Void Return aura in Yuan Ming and demanded that Yuan Ming return him to Changchun Temple.
• Yuan Ming rejected Mingquan’s appeal to righteousness, and Mingquan withdrew rather than risk a fight.
• Luo Qi confronted Wu Yuezhi and Ni Mu, then explained that Wu Yuezhi had stolen the Heavenly Star Chessboard to keep him from risking the Three Immortal Islands.
• Luo Qi forgave Wu Yuezhi, urged him to reach Nascent Soul within five years if he wished to follow Ni Mu, and asked him to visit; after Ni Mu turned away, gray smoke appeared in Wu Yuezhi’s eyes.
• Hou Yi’s Sun-Shooting Bow thanked the group for helping defeat the Undying Tree Demon and offered them a reward.

Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow gave Yuan Ming and the others passes to the overseas lands, but a possessed Wu Yuezhi attacked before they could leave. A mysterious giant tried to enslave Yuan Ming's mind, yet Yuan Ming resisted with the power of wishes and confronted him, preparing to strike back.

• Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow gave Yuan Ming and the others jade talismans that would let them travel to the overseas lands, one person per talisman.
• As Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow opened a portal to the coast, Wu Yuezhi attacked it with gray blades and tried to detonate the Heavenly Star Chessboard.
• Yuan Ming disrupted the attack with the Soul Annihilation Sword, while Luo Qi slowed the chessboard with the Great Luo Chessboard; the Heavenly Star Chessboard exploded before reaching the Great Desolate Star River Pearl.
• A gray-mist giant emerged from Wu Yuezhi's lifeless body and attempted to drain Yuan Ming's soul and spiritual power, but the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron's power of wishes helped Yuan Ming resist.
• Yuan Ming charged the giant and struck him with a powerful punch, but the blow did not harm the soul-bodied figure; as the giant prepared a technique, Yuan Ming warned that he would not let him take his life without paying a price.

Yuan Ming used the Shared Life fist intent and his power of faith to defeat the Wuyue God's Split Soul, which revealed that Wu Yuezhi had been controlled by the god. Wu Yuezhi confessed his role in the betrayals before his remnant soul faded, leaving Ni Mu and Luo Qi grieving and the group wary of the Wuyue God's strength.

• Yuan Ming repeatedly injured himself with the Soul Annihilation Sword, reflecting the wounds onto the Wuyue God's Split Soul until it dispersed.
• Yuan Ming confirmed the Shared Life fist intent had lost its target, then collapsed as Guoguo, Ni Mu, and the others woke.
• Ni Mu confirmed the giant figure was the Wuyue God, and Yuan Ming questioned what the god knew about Ni Mu and the Great Desolate Star River Pearl.
• Yuan Ming detected a remnant soul in Wu Yuezhi's corpse and revived it so Wu Yuezhi could speak with Ni Mu and Luo Qi.
• Wu Yuezhi admitted the Wuyue God had recruited him, ordered him to steal the Heavenly Star Chessboard, and sent him to the Three Immortal Islands.
• Wu Yuezhi warned them not to oppose the Wuyue God, apologized to Ni Mu and Luo Qi, and died as his remnant soul faded.

Yuan Ming and the others escaped Three Immortal Islands, and Yuan Ming removed the Undying Tree Demon's lingering power from four former tree-man puppets. After awakening Wan Tianren, Gu Xuanyang, and True Man Jinhua, he let them believe the Nether Moon God had saved them and slain the demon.

• Yuan Ming reflected on his growing power and resolve to seek freedom, while Ni Mu thanked him for Wu Yuezhi's death and Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow departed through a spatial passage.
• Yuan Ming and the others emerged from Three Immortal Islands into the Outer Sea, where Huanlingzi, Green Pupil, and Hou Santong also appeared; several cultivators then left, and Luo Qi departed with Jin Chao and Fairy Jinyun.
• Yuan Ming learned that Xue Jiao, Tusheng, and Zhong Ling had traveled with Luo Qi, then saw that True Man Jinhua, Wan Tianren, Gu Xuanyang, and Jia Sifang were being corrupted by the Undying Tree Demon's lingering power.
• Yuan Ming used the Undying Tree in his dantian to devour the demonic power in the four men, then awakened Wan Tianren, Gu Xuanyang, and True Man Jinhua with a soul cry empowered by the White Jade Lotus Platform.
• Yuan Ming claimed that the Nether Moon God had saved the three men, and his Split Soul spoke as the god, telling them that the Undying Tree Demon had been slain.

After escaping the Three Immortal Islands, Yuan Ming secured treasures and body-cultivation materials from several survivors while Nether Moon God promised protection to new followers. Yuan Ming revealed that the Wuyue Cult had attacked the Eastern Sea, and Wan Tianren saw proof that Fusang Island had been devastated.

• Wan Tianren and Gu Xuanyang surrendered the Banana Leaf Fan and Immortal Slaying Sword, while True Man Jinhua gave Yuan Ming body-cultivation materials instead of the Nine Dragon Pearl.
• Queen Mingkong and Myriad Flower Aunt pledged their clans and island to Nether Moon God, and Yuan Ming told the survivors that Tu Shixiong, Murong Yanyu, and Venerable White Scale had died.
• Long Chong asked whether anyone had seen Qiong Yun, and after everyone denied it, he feared that she had perished.
• Wan Tianren privately asked Yuan Ming about his connection to Nether Moon God and the unrest in the Eastern Sea.
• Yuan Ming explained that the Wuyue Cult had attacked Fusang Island and was assaulting other islands, then showed Wan Tianren an Imprint Talisman depicting Fusang Island in ruins.

Yuan Ming revealed how the Wuyue Cult had destroyed Fusang Island and recruited Wan Tianren and Gu Xuanyang into the Nether Moon Divine Cult. After the others departed for the Inner Sea aboard Wan Tianren’s flying shuttle, Yuan Ming stayed behind to investigate the Outer Sea with Guoguo.

• Yuan Ming explained that the Wuyue Cult had sealed the Three Immortal Islands’ secret realm, captured Fusang Island’s Nascent Soul cultivators, and destroyed Fusang Island’s foundation.
• Wan Tianren and Gu Xuanyang agreed to join the Nether Moon Divine Cult, and Gu Xuanyang learned that Golden Tortoise Island’s disciples would also need to believe in the cult for its protection.
• Wan Tianren revealed his Nine Heavens Flowing Light Shuttle and took the others toward the Inner Sea, while Yuan Ming asked him to investigate the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance and the Blood Demon Ancestor.
• Xiying reminded Yuan Ming of their plan to visit the Overseas World, so he and Guoguo mounted Thunder Rain and flew toward the Outer Sea frontier.

After the Undying Tree Demon’s defeat, Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow and the Great Desolate Star River Pearl prepared to venture into the Overseas World with Qiong Yun’s bloodline as their hope of passing Whale Calamity. Yuan Ming reached the Overseas World, sent Thunder Rain to cultivate in its thunderclouds, and possessed Wulu to investigate the corpse-refining runes transforming his body.

• Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow awakened the Great Desolate Star River Pearl and told her that outsiders had killed the Undying Tree Demon and taken the Evil King Mirror.
• Hou Yi's Sun-Shooting Bow revealed that Qiong Yun carried Azure Sea Blue Whale King bloodline power, and he and the Great Desolate Star River Pearl prepared to awaken it before setting sail.
• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying arrived at the Overseas World, where Thunder Rain flew into the thunderclouds with Thunder God's Spirit-Boom-Boom Hammer to absorb lightning.
• Xi Ying told Yuan Ming she needed Ghost Face Fish oil, and Yuan Ming sent Flower Branch to hunt the fish while he went underwater.
• Yuan Ming possessed Wulu and discovered eighty-one profound corpse-refining runes inside the blood-red jade chest, which were transforming Wulu's body.

Yuan Ming discovered that the Heaven-Escaping Stone Talisman was protecting Wulu while the Blood Demon Ancestor refined his body, then absorbed the Undying Tree Clone’s power and learned that reaching the fifth rank required insight into the Great Dao. After binding Qi Ye with the Six Souls Heart Curse, Yuan Ming investigated the Evil King Mirror, survived its terrifying curse, and began refining it cautiously.

• Yuan Ming failed to awaken Wulu through the Soul Imprint, but saw the Heaven-Escaping Stone Talisman protect Wulu’s soul from contamination as the Blood Coffin’s runes strengthened his body.
• Yuan Ming absorbed the Undying Tree Clone’s demon power, but Qi Ye explained that external power could not force a breakthrough into the Void Return Stage.
• Yuan Ming planted the Six Souls Heart Curse in Qi Ye after Qi Ye agreed to remain with him and asked to destroy the Evil King Mirror someday.
• Yuan Ming examined the Evil King Mirror, whose curse overwhelmed him until the first Split Soul struck the mirror away with the Soul Annihilation Sword.
• Yuan Ming began refining the damaged Evil King Mirror with the Asura Venerable’s secret technique, formed a slight connection with it, and cautiously tested it again through the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.

Yuan Ming controlled the Evil King Mirror’s curse with the Soul Annihilation Sword, then killed Jia Sifang and discovered how the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram could preserve the Blood Puppet Armor’s stored power. He received Xu Che’s report on the Mingyue Cult’s growth, provided resources for Xu Che’s future Core Formation, and assigned him to collect incense ash.

• Yuan Ming used the Soul Annihilation Sword’s Curse Runes to contain the Evil King Mirror’s curse briefly, then put the mirror away.
• Yuan Ming searched Jia Sifang’s memories, found little useful information, and learned the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance had received Blood Puppet Armor from Yuan Wuji.
• Yuan Ming turned Jia Sifang into a Blood Slave with the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram and discovered that the armor’s stored Nascent Soul Middle Stage mana remained intact after Jia Sifang’s death.
• Yuan Ming realized the diagram could prevent the Blood Puppet Armor’s stored mana from being replaced and considered giving the armor to a deathsworn for future use.
• Xu Che reported that the Mingyue Cult had expanded among Great Jin’s mortals and that he had obtained an Earth Dragon Stone that aided his cultivation.
• Yuan Ming gave Xu Che a Spirit Source Fruit and a Jade Slip for Core Formation, promised Pill Washing Spirit Liquid, and ordered him to collect old incense ash after forming his core.

Yuan Ming learned that the Wuyue Cult was rapidly expanding across the East Sea and left its defense to Wan Tianren and the others while he focused on his cultivation. After Flower Branch returned with Ghost Face Fish oil, Yuan Ming uncovered her hidden spore clone, gave her the Undying Tree Demon Clone, and found a Nine Rune black sword to strengthen his Soul Annihilation Sword.

• Yan Siyun told Yuan Ming that the Wuyue Cult had gained support across the East Sea and was besieging Golden Ao, Earth Splendor, and Ethereal Spirit Islands, so Yuan Ming sent word to Wan Tianren and the others.
• Yuan Ming confirmed that his parents on Evergreen Island were safe, then inspected Storage Artifacts from the lava cave battle and found only a few magic treasures inside.
• Flower Branch returned with five portions of Ghost Face Fish oil and asked Yuan Ming for a tangible reward after he praised Yan Siyun and Xu Che.
• Yuan Ming discovered Flower Branch's concealed spore clone in the Spirit Source Fruit tree and scolded her for spying on him, but gave her the Undying Tree Demon Clone after she admitted her mistake.
• Flower Branch merged with the Undying Tree Demon Clone, while Yuan Ming delivered the fish oil to Xi Ying and found Qi Ye's Nine Rune black sword among Flower Branch's treasures.
• Yuan Ming decided to fuse the black sword's Nine Netherworld Iron into his Soul Annihilation Sword and began considering which runes to inscribe.

Yuan Ming completed the Soul Annihilation Sword with the Frenzied Blood, Yin Lightning, and Shadow Transformation runes, then tested its abilities. The chapter ended with Flower Branch, now a middle-stage fourth-rank demon, hunting in the Outer Sea while waiting for Yuan Ming to visit.

• Yuan Ming chose the Yin Lightning and Shadow Transformation runes for the Soul Annihilation Sword, but abandoned Soul Dispersion because the sword lacked enough yin power.
• Yuan Ming spent more than a month refining the sword and tested its soul-piercing Yin Lightning and its ability to conceal itself and travel between shadows.
• Yuan Ming activated the Frenzied Blood rune, which disrupted Qi Ye's blood-path energy and soul body until Yuan Ming stopped it.
• Qi Ye warned Yuan Ming that Frenzied Blood could also restrain Body Cultivators, and Yuan Ming put away the sword before leaving the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• Flower Branch drained a giant sea beast with her roots, then rested on the surface after hunting nearly all the demon beasts nearby while missing Yuan Ming.

Yuan Ming helped Thunder Rain attempt to break through to Level Four by using the Rain Prayer Technique to gather lightning. When the lightning nearly destroyed Thunder Rain’s body, Yuan Ming used the Undying Tree and the Golden Sunflower Beast Taming Art to help it endure the breakthrough, gaining a new understanding of the beast-taming art.

• Yuan Ming discovered that Thunder Rain was attempting to break through to Level Four, and he allowed it to continue despite Flower Branch’s warnings.
• Yuan Ming used the Rain Prayer Technique to create vast rain clouds and lightning, which Thunder Rain’s purple Demonic Core absorbed repeatedly.
• Thunder Rain swallowed the lightning-filled Demonic Core, triggering a massive surge of lightning that formed a sphere around it.
• Yuan Ming saw that the lightning was tearing Thunder Rain’s body apart, so he used the Undying Tree’s roots to heal it and supplied Blood Source Power.
• Yuan Ming used the Golden Sunflower Beast Taming Art to help Thunder Rain operate the Demon Elephant Prison Suppressing Technique, and he gained an unprecedented understanding of the art.

Yuan Ming helped Thunder Rain survive its breakthrough to the fourth level, then recovered in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron. When he learned that the Wuyue Cult was attacking Evergreen Island and threatening his parents, he intervened remotely and clashed with Venerable White Bone.

• Yuan Ming realized how to draw out the borrowed powers of the Golden Sunflower Beast Taming Art, helping Thunder Rain break through and master Lightning Escape Technique.
• Yuan Ming sent Thunder Rain to stabilize its new realm, then recovered while Flower Branch hunted demonic beasts to replenish the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram.
• Yuan Ming's second Split Soul warned him that the Wuyue Cult was attacking Evergreen Island and searching for his parents.
• Yuan Ming used the White Jade Lotus Platform to attack the black-robed intruder's soul, but a powerful restriction repelled him.
• Venerable White Bone's ghost attacked the formations hiding Yuan Ming's parents, but Yuan Ming scattered it with Wan Tianren's imitation Banana Leaf Fan.
• Yuan Ming defied Venerable White Bone and unleashed the Banana Leaf Fan, devastating half the residence.

Yuan Ming fought Venerable White Bone to protect his parents, driving him off after weakening his sword strike and countering with the Immortal Slaying Sword. With Guli Town safe for now, Yuan Ming arranged for his stronger first Split Soul to continue guarding his parents.

• Yuan Ming used the Banana Leaf Fan and Thunder God's Hammer with the Spirit-Rumbling Cone to destroy Venerable White Bone's Yin Sha Ghost Mountain.
• Venerable White Bone revealed his Nascent Soul Realm strength and attacked Yuan Ming with the Bone Killing Sword, but Elder Sanjue's sword formation weakened the blow.
• Yuan Ming struck Venerable White Bone with the Immortal Slaying Sword, damaging his weapon and forcing him to retreat with the Wuyue Cult followers.
• Yuan Ming's parents emerged from the protective barrier, and Yuan Zuochong reassured his worried wife by expressing pride in their son.
• Yuan Ming sent his first Split Soul to replace the second Split Soul in Zuo Qinghui's body and continue protecting his parents.

Yuan Ming hurried to return to the Inner Sea after the Wuyue Cult targeted his parents, while Xi Ying arranged a faster journey and revealed why she had come to the Three Immortal Islands. The chapter left Yuan Ming examining a mysterious pitch-black object among the treasures Xi Ying had taken from Guanghan City.

• Yuan Ming sent his first Split Soul to escort his parents inland and ordered Thunder Rain and Flower Branch to rush back toward the Inner Sea.
• Xi Ying gave Yuan Ming the keys to her secret stronghold and sent the Yin Kong Tree Demon with the Silver Moon Flying Wheel to carry them back within a month.
• After learning his parents were nearing the stronghold without pursuers, Yuan Ming asked Xi Ying why she had come to the Three Immortal Islands.
• Xi Ying explained that she sought an Undying Fruit to make an Undying Immortal Pill for her sister, and revealed that the Five Elements Child had stolen five fruits and other treasures from Guanghan City.
• Yuan Ming asked whether mortals could take the pill, then spotted a coal-like object among the loot and lifted it into his hand.

Yuan Ming used a mysterious black lump to recreate the original Black Incense and possessed Wulu, discovering that the Blood Demon Ancestor was turning him into a puppet. After the possession ended, the Blood Demon Ancestor reported to the Devil Lord that the Evil King Mirror had been taken by someone else.

• Xi Ying gave Yuan Ming the black lump, which contained a unique power of the soul mixed with spiritual energy, as compensation for endangering her uncle and aunt.
• Yuan Ming used a piece of the lump to make ten sticks of Black Incense and successfully possessed Wulu inside a guarded black cave.
• Yuan Ming found an array blocking the cave and failed to locate Wulu before the Blood Demon Ancestor arrived and began transforming Wulu with demonic qi.
• After Yuan Ming's possession ended, the Blood Demon Ancestor left the cave with Wulu, whose body had become covered in Blood Puppet Armor and demonic features.
• The Blood Demon Ancestor reported to the Devil Lord that more powerful cultivators and demons had entered the Three Immortal Islands than expected and that someone else had taken the Evil King Mirror.
• The Devil Lord condemned the Blood Demon Ancestor and blasted holes through his chest with blood light, engulfing him in phantom blood flames.

Blood Demon Ancestor received new orders and demonic treasures from the Devil Lord, but Wulu stole one crystal and escaped. Yuan Ming returned to Pearl Island, reunited with his parents, and began gathering allies for a counterattack on Fusang Island.

• The giant face spared Blood Demon Ancestor, ordered him to recover the Evil King Mirror and find the Heaven-Connecting Demon Pillar near Southern Frontier, and gave him two Blood Soul Demon Crystals.
• Blood Demon Ancestor fused one crystal into his forehead, raising his cultivation to the Void Return Mid Stage, while Wulu stole the other and escaped through the blood-colored vortex.
• After a month of travel, Yuan Ming returned to Pearl Island, where Father Yuan and Mother Yuan had been waiting in Xi Ying's underwater stronghold.
• Yuan Ming reassured his parents, promised to keep them by his side, and resolved to punish those who had targeted them.
• Yuan Ming contacted Wan Tianren, Gu Xuanyang, and the others to gather forces and counterattack Fusang Island and Wuyue Cult.

Yuan Ming headed to Thousand Dragon Island to seek information and encountered a fleeing group of cultivators under attack by the Wuyue Cult. He rescued them, exposed the traitor Liu Si, and left him for Zhuang Lin to deal with.

• Yuan Ming searched for Yan Siyun through Miao Xian and learned that she was away from the Hundred Pills Workshop, then used Black Incense to locate her on Thousand Dragon Island.
• Yuan Ming left a Split Soul behind and flew toward Thousand Dragon Island on Thunder Rain.
• Zhuang Lin and several Core Formation Cultivators led a flying boat carrying Qiuxiang cultivators away from Wuyue Cult territory, but the Wuyue Cult trapped them in an illusion and revealed that their island master and Junior Brother Qiu had been killed.
• Zhuang Lin realized Liu Si had switched his jade pendant and sabotaged their escape plan, while the Wuyue Cult used illusions to make him appear to have betrayed his companions.
• Yuan Ming appeared, dispelled the illusion, killed the leading Wuyue Cult member, captured Liu Si, and handed him to Zhuang Lin to deal with.

Yuan Ming learned that the Wuyue Cult had seized much of the East Sea and that its siege had trapped the Yuzhu Three Islands and the East Sea Alliance. As he headed for Zinan Island, the alliance’s leaders argued over shortages and whether their own plundering was justified.

• Zhuang Lin and his junior sisters killed Liu Si, and Zhuang Lin thanked Yuan Ming for saving them.
• Zhuang Lin told Yuan Ming that the Wuyue Cult controlled nearly half the East Sea and described the East Sea Alliance’s formation and desperate position.
• Yuan Ming searched captured Wuyue Cult followers and learned that Venerable White Bone had trapped the Yuzhu Three Islands and the alliance between two formations.
• Yuan Ming flew toward Zinan Island after learning that the alliance was preparing for a decisive battle.
• At Zinan Island, Wan Tianren’s allies reported shortages of housing, pills, and supplies before arguing over counterattacks and plundering islands that had defected to the Wuyue Cult.

Yuan Ming arrived at the East Sea Alliance gathering and received an unusually warm welcome from Wan Tianren. After exposing Hou Chou’s questionable claim to the Water Ape clan’s marshal position, Yuan Ming turned to learning about the Alliance’s difficulties.

• Wan Tianren tried to settle disputes over resource shortages and told Hou Chou to stop his men from plundering islands and capturing cultivators.
• Gu Xuanyang reported that Long Wenyang had rebelled under the Wuyue Cult’s influence, while communication problems delayed news from Thousand Dragon Island.
• Yuan Ming arrived, and Wan Tianren welcomed him as timely help and seated him beside himself.
• Hou Chou challenged Yuan Ming’s place of honor, but Yuan Ming questioned his simultaneous control of the Water Ape clan’s chieftain and marshal positions.
• Hou Chou defended his temporary appointment, and Yuan Ming asked Wan Tianren to explain the East Sea Alliance’s situation.