Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ming learned that the East Sea Alliance had only twenty days of supplies left and promised Wan Tianren he would find a way to break the Wuyue Cult’s Crimson Blood Red Sand Array. After gathering intelligence from Yan Siyun, he went to inspect the array himself.

• Wan Tianren explained that the Wuyue Cult’s array and soul cultivators gave it the advantage, while Hou Chou mocked Yuan Ming for having no strategy.
• In private, Wan Tianren told Yuan Ming the alliance could hold out for at most twenty days, and Yuan Ming promised to find a way to break the array before then.
• Yuan Ming met Yan Siyun, learned she had reached the Core Formation Stage, and heard why she had brought supplies and intelligence to Zinan Island.
• Yan Siyun showed Yuan Ming records describing the array’s deadly effects and the alliance’s failed attempts to locate its Array Eyes.
• Yuan Ming took Yan Siyun’s map, traveled north, and found the location of the Crimson Blood Red Sand Array.

Yuan Ming and Xiying discovered how to break the Crimson Blood Red Sand Array, but the plan required four Array Eyes to be destroyed at once. Wan Tianren asked Yuan Ming to persuade Jin Chao to help, and Jin Chao agreed to act in exchange for the Nine Palaces Cold Moon Ring after Yuan Ming rejected his proposal that he marry Jinyun.

• Yuan Ming used the Void Transformation Art to enter the Crimson Blood Red Sand Array and had Xiying inspect nearby islands.
• Xiying determined that destroying any four of the array's eight Array Eyes would disrupt the formation, though coordinating the attacks would be difficult.
• Yuan Ming returned to Zinan Island and told Wan Tianren about the plan and its obstacles.
• Wan Tianren used a fiery feather to contact Jin Chao and asked Yuan Ming to persuade him to intervene.
• Jin Chao proposed that Yuan Ming become Dao companions with Jinyun, but Yuan Ming refused because he already belonged to someone else.
• Jin Chao agreed to help in exchange for the Nine Palaces Cold Moon Ring, and Wan Tianren began arranging a war council.

Fairy Jinyun resolved to make Yuan Ming recognize her through her own strength, while the East Sea Alliance gathered to plan an assault on the Wuyue Cult’s array. Yuan Ming’s plan met resistance from Hou Chou, and the chapter ended with Hou Mo proposing that they compete in killing enemy disciples while working together to destroy an Array Eye.

• Fairy Jinyun told Jin Chao she would become someone Yuan Ming and others had to respect, then ask Yuan Ming whether she alone could make him regret rejecting her.
• Wan Tianren secretly summoned the East Sea Alliance’s Nascent Soul Cultivators to Zinan Island for a decisive-battle meeting.
• Yuan Ming explained how to break the Crimson Blood Red Sand Array and distributed a map of its Array Eyes.
• Hou Chou and several others questioned Yuan Ming’s intelligence and ability, but Wan Tianren said Jin Chao would join the operation, winning their acceptance of the plan.
• Yuan Ming said he, Jin Chao, and another unnamed Return to Void senior would each destroy an Array Eye, while the gathered cultivators handled the fourth together.
• Hou Chou challenged Yuan Ming’s ability, and Hou Mo proposed that Hou Chou and his clan’s Ancestor Ape accompany Yuan Ming and compete with him in counting their Wuyue Cult kills.

Yuan Ming exposed Chen Yunqian as a Wuyue Cult spy by recording his report to Venerable White Bone and captured him before he could self-detonate. The East Sea Alliance learned the spy had revealed its plan to attack four islands in ten days, and Wan Tianren ordered Chen Yunqian imprisoned while the alliance prepared for battle.

• Yuan Ming accepted Hou Mo's proposal to join the attack on the Array Eye, and the East Sea Alliance scheduled its departure for ten days later.
• Yuan Ming told Wan Tianren he suspected a spy and arranged to record the suspect's communications.
• Chen Yunqian reported the alliance's attack plans to Venerable White Bone using a token, unaware Yuan Ming was recording him.
• Yuan Ming confronted Chen Yunqian in his cave, restrained him, and showed the recording to Wan Tianren and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Chen Yunqian tried to self-detonate, but Yuan Ming trapped him in a nightmare; Yuan Ming then found that a restriction prevented him from searching Chen Yunqian's soul.
• Wan Tianren ordered Chen Yunqian imprisoned, and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators dispersed to prepare for the coming battle.

Yuan Ming and Hou Chou attacked Fanyun Island, where the Wuyue Cult guarded an Array Eye, but the Crimson Blood Red Sand Array proved far stronger there than expected. As Jiang Lu and Qing Xu realized the intruders had reached the Array Eye, Yuan Ming and Hou Chou faced the array’s consuming red sand with their power tied up in defense.

• Yuan Ming let Hou Chou lead the assault, and Hou Chou summoned the Ancestor Ape with the completed Tiger Tally.
• The Ancestor Ape battered Fanyun Island’s protective array with water spears and shattered it with a fist.
• The Crimson Blood Red Sand Array filled the area with red sand, transforming the Ancestor Ape into a Blood Ape and forcing Yuan Ming and Hou Chou to defend themselves.
• Hou Chou urged a retreat, but Yuan Ming located the Array Eye and flew there, with Hou Chou following.
• Yuan Ming and Hou Chou reached the plaza and found Jiang Lu and Qing Xu presiding over the array as Jiang Lu recognized their target.

Yuan Ming used a sleep-inducing divine ability to incapacitate the Wuyue Cult cultivators maintaining the Crimson Blood Red Sand Array, allowing the Array Eye on Fanyun Island to fall. With the other Array Eyes destroyed and the formation broken, the East Sea Alliance counterattacked, broke the Wuyue Cult’s encirclement, and spread stories of Yuan Ming’s role and the Nether Moon God’s favor.

• Yuan Ming realized the array depended on cultivators maintaining its Array Eyes and put the Wuyue Cult cultivators on Fanyun Island to sleep, causing the formation to collapse there.
• Jiang Lu and Qing Xu fled, while Hou Chou pursued Jiang Lu and Ancestor Ape chased Qing Xu; Yuan Ming reported that Fanyun Island had been taken.
• Fairy Jinyun defeated two Wuyue Cult Nascent Soul Cultivators on Hongguang Island after hearing Yuan Ming’s report, and Jin Chao destroyed their escaping Nascent Souls.
• Elder Sanjue reported Cuilin Island taken, while Wan Tianren’s group destroyed the Array Eye on Chishan Island and killed the black-robed Wuyue Cult cultivator.
• With the Crimson Blood Red Sand Array broken, Luo Duo led the East Sea Alliance army against the Wuyue Cult, which swiftly lost its defensive line and its encirclement of the sea route.
• Stories spread that Yuan Ming had been favored by the Nether Moon God and had saved the East Sea Alliance.

After advancing to the mid-stage of the Sleeping Shaman realm, Yuan Ming learned that Jin Chao and Fairy Jinyun were leaving and that the Wuyue Cult planned to attack. The chapter left Yuan Ming warned by Yan Siyun that the attack was imminent.

• Yuan Ming absorbed the faith gathered after the battle and advanced to the mid-stage of the Sleeping Shaman realm.
• Jin Chao told Yuan Ming that he and Fairy Jinyun were leaving, and Fairy Jinyun expressed hope that she and Yuan Ming would become confidants in the future.
• Venerable White Bone rejected Ni Mu’s advice to wait and ordered the Wuyue Cult to attack the East Sea Alliance.
• Yan Siyun cast a divination, foresaw an imminent Wuyue Cult attack, and contacted Yuan Ming with the warning.

The East Sea Alliance ambushed the Wuyue Cult army with weather-altering formations, and Yuan Ming struck down what he thought was Venerable White Bone. The real Venerable White Bone escaped with the White Bone Palace, leaving Yuan Ming and the Alliance to destroy the remaining Wuyue Cult forces.

• Li Wu reported that the East Sea Alliance had abandoned Zinan Island, and Venerable White Bone ordered the Wuyue Cult army to pursue them.
• A sudden storm, freezing snow, and falling fire disrupted the Wuyue Cult army as East Sea Alliance forces appeared on both flanks and attacked.
• Yuan Ming used the Void Transformation Art to approach Venerable White Bone and deliver a powerful sword strike, only to discover he had attacked a skeleton puppet.
• Venerable White Bone's Nascent Soul Cultivators surrounded Yuan Ming while the White Bone Palace began activating its spatial displacement formation.
• Yuan Ming escaped the palace just before it vanished with Venerable White Bone and most of his forces, then asked Wan Tianren to eliminate the Wuyue Cult troops left behind.
• Yuan Ming realized Yan Siyun's warning and the Thousand Dragon Island cultivators' weather formation had enabled the ambush, but remained wary of Venerable White Bone's hidden intentions.

After the East Sea Alliance’s victories, Yuan Ming investigated the Wuyue Cult’s retreat and its mass gathering of souls and corpses while preparing new Black Incense. Xi Ying emerged from seclusion with improved formation knowledge, and the alliance leaders came to Yuan Ming to debate their next move against the Wuyue Cult.

• Yuan Ming received a large new wave of faith after the alliance’s victory, noticed the White Jade Lotus Platform had gained golden layers, and told Long Chong that Qiong Yun was still alive on the Three Immortal Islands.
• Yuan Ming learned from Yan Siyun that the Wuyue Cult was plundering islands, killing people, gathering souls and corpses, and concentrating its forces on Fusang Island.
• Yuan Ming asked Yan Siyun to investigate the Wuyue Cult’s purpose and its possible reinforcements, then mixed Green Phoenix Pine into a new batch of Black Incense.
• Xi Ying emerged from seclusion, said her formation attainments had advanced, and asked Yuan Ming to obtain formation implements and diagrams for her to study.
• Wan Tianren and the other alliance leaders visited Yuan Ming to discuss whether to divide their forces or concentrate them against the Wuyue Cult, and Wan Tianren favored keeping the alliance’s strength together.

Yuan Ming led the East Sea Alliance to attack Fusang Island, where the Wuyue Cult had withdrawn behind a powerful defensive array. As both sides prepared for a siege, Ni Mu witnessed the terrifying refinement of the Ghostly White Bone Banner beneath the island.

• Yuan Ming persuaded Wan Tianren and the East Sea Alliance to strike Fusang Island, then received array diagrams and tools from the alliance for Xi Ying to study.
• The East Sea Alliance set out for Fusang Island, and scouts reported that the Wuyue Cult had raised a powerful Wood Attribute array around it.
• Yuan Ming and the other Nascent Soul Realm cultivators arrived and found the island sheltered by a vast array powered by the Giant Fusang Tree.
• Ni Mu reassured the Wuyue Cult cultivators that the Life Creation Array could hold off the alliance until Venerable White Bone completed his preparations.
• Ni Mu visited the underground chamber where Venerable White Bone was refining a treasure and saw human bones merge into its bone-white light.
• Ni Mu recognized the treasure as the Ghostly White Bone Banner and believed it could sweep across the Yunhuang Continent if fully restored.

Yuan Ming helped the East Sea Alliance test the green grand array around Fusang Island and rescued Hou Chou’s vanguard when Wuyue Cult cultivators ambushed them. After the array’s defenses proved difficult to overcome, Yuan Ming sealed himself inside a silver barrier to consult Lord Nether Moon God about breaking it.

• Wan Tianren agreed to let Hou Chou lead a vanguard into the green grand array while array experts investigated its defenses.
• Hou Chou’s group advanced through the array, but its growing resistance and restraining force slowed them and forced them to retreat.
• Li Wu and Wuyue Cult cultivators ambushed the retreating group, and Yuan Ming used Dream Butterfly Illusion to freeze them and help Hou Chou escape.
• Yuan Ming’s illusion killed most of the attackers and grievously wounded Li Wu, who escaped; Yuan Ming noted that his technique could not yet kill a Nascent Soul opponent outright.
• Black Bamboo Old Man and the other investigators returned with limited findings, which Yuan Ming collected to seek Lord Nether Moon God’s advice.
• Yuan Ming entered a flying vessel and raised a silver barrier around it, while Wan Tianren ordered the alliance not to disturb him as he consulted the god.

Yuan Ming learned from Xi Ying that the Life Creation Great Array protecting Fusang Island drew its power from the Giant Fusang Tree, and he began a plan to weaken it. As the East Sea Alliance launched a full-scale assault, Yin Kong infiltrated the array while Yuan Ming prepared to use Black Incense to possess someone and sabotage its core.

• Wan Tianren ordered the East Sea Alliance to divide into ten forces and harass the Life Creation Great Array while Yuan Ming sought Xi Ying's advice.
• Xi Ying identified the barrier as the Life Creation Great Array and explained that damaging its core patterns inside the Giant Fusang Tree would greatly weaken it.
• Xi Ying gave Yuan Ming the core array patterns and the Yin Kong Tree Demon, while privately severing her connection to the Five Elements Creation Tree and accepting that her Gou Mang Spiritual Art cultivation had failed.
• Yuan Ming ordered Wan Tianren to launch a full-scale assault, and the East Sea Alliance's attack shook the array and tore away its green spiritual light.
• Yuan Ming sent Yin Kong, carrying Flower Branch, to infiltrate Fusang Island; Yin Kong used his Spatial Escape Technique but struggled against the array's spatial restraints.
• Yuan Ming prepared the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and Black Incense, intending to possess someone and destroy the Life Creation Great Array.

Yuan Ming possessed Venerable White Bone and left her chamber after disrupting the refinement of the Ghostly White Bone Banner. He reached the Giant Fusang Tree, where he tried to pass the yellow mist array by claiming spies were threatening the Life Creation Array, but Ni Mu arrived and questioned his report.

• Yuan Ming used the Black Incense to possess Venerable White Bone and found her refining the Ghostly White Bone Banner.
• Yuan Ming accidentally stirred the banner's power, then opened the artifact furnace to make it collide with the chamber's yin flames.
• Yuan Ming left the chamber, ordered the guards to keep others out, and flew openly toward the Giant Fusang Tree.
• Lord of Qionghai Island and a glamorous female cultivator blocked Yuan Ming at the yellow mist array, but he invoked Venerable White Bone's authority and pressured them to move.
• Ni Mu arrived, asked whether the banner had been refined, and heard Yuan Ming claim spies were planning to sabotage the Life Creation Array.

Yuan Ming possessed Venerable White Bone and sabotaged the Life Creation Array, weakening Fusang Island’s defenses before the possession ended and the resulting wounds rebounded onto him. Venerable White Bone regained control amid the fighting, unaware of what she had done, and faced Ni Mu’s attack.

• Yuan Ming used Venerable White Bone’s Bone Killing Sword to sever two sections of the Life Creation Array’s core, weakening the island’s defenses and allowing the East Sea Alliance to intensify its assault.
• Ni Mu used the Dust Assimilation Puppet to destroy the Bone Killing Sword and strike Venerable White Bone with a beam that forced Yuan Ming out of possession.
• Yuan Ming discovered that Venerable White Bone’s chest wound had rebounded onto his own body, treated himself with a healing pill and the Undying Tree, then flew toward Fusang Island with Thunder Rain.
• Venerable White Bone regained consciousness as Ni Mu, Lord of Qionghai Island, and the glamorous female cultivator attacked her, and Ni Mu accused her of betraying the Wuyue Cult and damaging the array.
• Venerable White Bone found her Bone Killing Sword destroyed and defended herself from the Dust Assimilation Puppet’s golden attacks with her giant white bone cage.

Yuan Ming arrived during the battle on Fusang Island and destroyed the Life Creation Array’s final core, breaking the Wuyue Cult’s defenses. Venerable White Bone transformed into a powerful bone dragon and attacked Yuan Ming, but his Immortal Slaying Sword shattered part of her body.

• Yin Kong and Flower Branch reached the Giant Fusang Tree, and Flower Branch burrowed into it while Yin Kong headed for the Life Creation Array’s core.
• Yuan Ming arrived, trapped Ni Mu in an illusion, and attacked Venerable White Bone with the Spirit-Rumbling Cone and Thunder God’s Hammer.
• Yuan Ming destroyed the Life Creation Array’s final core, and Flower Branch and Yin Kong set off on the tasks he assigned them.
• The broken array sent Wuyue Cult forces into disarray, while Wan Tianren ordered the East Sea Alliance to defeat them and accept surrenders.
• Venerable White Bone transformed into a White Bone Dragon and charged Yuan Ming, but his Immortal Slaying Sword struck her and blasted apart one foreclaw and half her body.

Yuan Ming defeated the White Bone Dragon, but Venerable White Bone escaped death by possessing the thick-browed man with the Ghostly White Bone Banner. She unleashed the banner’s power across Fusang Island and the nearby sea, leaving bones throughout the area trembling and drawing bones toward her.

• Xi Ying gave up pursuing the Gou Mang Spiritual Art and used the Soul Suppressing Pot to envelop Ni Mu in black clouds while Yuan Ming pursued the wounded White Bone Dragon.
• Yuan Ming restrained the White Bone Dragon with the Undying Tree roots and split its head with the Immortal Slaying Sword, but Venerable White Bone’s Nascent Soul escaped.
• The thick-browed man intervened with the bone-white banner, allowing Venerable White Bone’s Nascent Soul to possess him and transform him into a woman resembling her.
• Yin Kong arrived wounded and warned Yuan Ming that the banner had devoured a woman and bitten off his arm.
• Venerable White Bone blocked Yuan Ming’s lightning with the Ghostly White Bone Banner and caused bones across Fusang Island and the nearby sea to tremble and surge toward her.

Yuan Ming helped the East Sea Alliance defeat the Wuyue Cult on Fusang Island, but the immense wish power generated by the victory destabilized his soul. He went into seclusion to address the problem as the alliance began planning celebrations and further efforts to spread the Nether Moon God’s faith.

• Yuan Ming stopped Venerable White Bone from recovering her bone dragon corpse, transformed to resist her banner, and helped Elder Sanjue kill her.
• Ni Mu escaped with Lord of Qionghai Island and the glamorous female cultivator, while Xi Ying and Flower Branch let them go.
• Yuan Ming announced Venerable White Bone’s death and the Heavenly Puppet Venerable’s flight, prompting the Wuyue Cult forces to surrender or be defeated.
• The East Sea Alliance secured Fusang Island, and Yuan Ming absorbed the cultivators’ gratitude as wish power, advancing to the late stage of the Sleep Witch Realm before his soul became unstable.
• Yuan Ming stopped absorbing wish power and went into seclusion, while Wan Tianren and Gu Xuanyang agreed to hold celebrations in his name and promote the Nether Moon God.

Yuan Ming stabilized the excessive power of faith in his sea of consciousness and claimed Venerable White Bone’s resources, pills, Bone Emperor Art, and Ghostly White Bone Banner. He arranged with Qi Ye to create an Artifact Spirit for the banner and ended by bringing out Venerable White Bone’s still-living body.

• Yuan Ming used the Nether Moon Art to refine the power of faith already within his soul and let the excess return to the White Jade Lotus Platform.
• Yuan Ming searched Venerable White Bone’s Storage Artifact, took its resources, and kept three bottles of Snow Soul Pills and a fragment recording the Bone Emperor Art.
• Yuan Ming refined the Ghostly White Bone Banner and learned that the spirit treasure could control bones and corpses but lacked an Artifact Spirit.
• Qi Ye explained how the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram could prepare a Demonic Soul to become the banner’s Artifact Spirit, and Yuan Ming agreed to accept the method’s drawbacks.
• Qi Ye drew the Ghostly White Bone Banner into the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram, while Yuan Ming planned to hunt a powerful demonic beast for its soul.
• Yuan Ming summoned Venerable White Bone’s body and discovered that she still had a faint breath.

Yuan Ming learned that the Wuyue God was gathering souls to recover and had sent Ni Mu to obtain the Undying Immortal Fruit. After resolving a crisis involving his treasures and refining Venerable White Bone into the Blood Puppet Armor, Yuan Ming stabilized his soul as faith power continued to pour in.

• Yuan Ming searched Venerable White Bone's damaged memories and learned that the Wuyue God needed souls to recover and had ordered Ni Mu to obtain the Undying Immortal Fruit.
• The Ghostly White Bone Banner devoured the Blood Slaves inside the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram, and Qi Ye calmed it by refining Elder Sanjue's soul into its Artifact Spirit.
• Yuan Ming accepted Qi Ye's explanation, refined the restored Ghostly White Bone Banner, and discovered that most of the Blood Slaves had been consumed.
• Yuan Ming refined the dying Venerable White Bone into the Blood Puppet Armor, giving it the power of a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.
• Yuan Ming's soul loosened when celebrations after the Wuyue Cult's defeat sent a surge of faith power into his sea of consciousness, so he stored the excess in the White Jade Lotus Platform.
• Half a month later, Yuan Ming's soul had stabilized, while the flow of faith power had become less violent.

Yuan Ming decided to leave the East Sea with Xiao Ying to seek a Word Shaman cultivation method and return her borrowed body to the Xiao family. The Heaven-Stealing Cauldron then sealed his souls inside a faith-filled space, where they could not escape but grew stronger through repeated injury and healing, and Yuan Ming prepared to study formations to find a way out.

• Yuan Ming awoke from seclusion and told Xiao Ying that his soul was mostly recovered, but he needed another cultivation method and planned to leave the East Sea.
• Xiao Ying invited Yuan Ming to travel with her to Southern Frontier and explained that she intended to return her borrowed body to Red Lotus Island.
• The Heaven-Stealing Cauldron pulled Yuan Ming's main soul and two Split Souls into itself, sealed its inner space, and left Yuan Ming unable to enter it.
• Yuan Ming found his souls trapped behind a white fire web in a faith-filled space; the flames injured them, but pure faith power restored them and refined their soul power.
• Xiao Ying suggested Yuan Ming study restrictions and formations to refine the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, gave him formation manuals, and the two began arranging their departure from the East Sea.