Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ming left the East Sea and tracked down Li Zhui and Ling Songhua, who were hiding with their daughter and Fire Greedy from cultivators seeking the creature’s awakened spiritual flame bloodline. The pursuers approached their valley with Yuan Ming concealed among them, leaving his old friends in danger.

• Yuan Ming left Flower Branch to protect his parents, then warned Wan Tianren that the Nether Moon God would enter seclusion and urged the East Sea Alliance to remain independent.
• Yuan Ming traveled to Southern Border and found that Li Zhui and Ling Songhua had left their old home and Jade Luo Cave.
• Li Zhui and Ling Songhua lived in secluded Wangyou Valley with their daughter Li Yu and Fire Greedy, while Li Zhui’s cultivation continued to decline.
• Ling Songhua worried that pursuers wanted Fire Greedy’s awakened spiritual flame bloodline, but Li Zhui refused to abandon the creature.
• Yuan Ming used Black Incense to possess Li Zhui and locate the valley, then disguised himself with an illusion and joined the group pursuing the family.

Yuan Ming rescued Li Zhui, Ling Songhua, their daughter Li Yu, and Fire Greedy by killing the Shi Chuan Rogue Alliance group threatening them. After learning that Jade Luo Cave had fallen to the alliance amid the Azure Rock Association’s rise, Yuan Ming offered to help Li Zhui reclaim it.

• Yuan Ming lured the rogue cultivators into revealing their plans for Ling Songhua and her family, then killed them with roots that burst from the earth.
• Li Zhui and Ling Songhua prepared to flee with Li Yu and Fire Greedy when Yuan Ming arrived at their courtyard.
• Yuan Ming reunited with the couple, met Li Yu, and shared a meal of Li Zhui’s fish soup.
• Li Zhui and Ling Songhua asked Yuan Ming to take Li Yu and Fire Greedy to the East Sea, but Yuan Ming revealed that he had already killed their pursuers.
• Li Zhui and Ling Songhua explained that the Azure Rock Association had expanded across southern Xinjiang and that the Shi Chuan Rogue Alliance occupied Jade Luo Cave.
• Yuan Ming offered to help Li Zhui reclaim Jade Luo Cave.

Yuan Ming restored Li Zhui’s vitality and learned that turmoil between Silkworm Island and the Senluo Sect threatened the Southern Region, though he still planned to go to Red Lotus Island. Before continuing there, he returned to the river where he had found the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and discovered something with his Spiritual Sense.

• Yuan Ming examined Li Zhui, used the Undying Tree’s Origin Power to restore his vitality, and offered to help him reclaim Jade Luo Cave, but Li Zhui chose to remain with his family.
• Ling Songhua told Yuan Ming that Silkworm Island and the Senluo Sect were fighting over a spiritual vein, and warned him that Red Lotus Island lay on Silkworm Island’s side of the conflict.
• Yuan Ming left Li Zhui’s family a storage bracelet filled with supplies and treasures, then set out with Xiying and Thunder Rain toward the Southern Region.
• Yuan Ming told Xiying that the river was where he had once found the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, and explained that he had returned to search for clues about why it had been there.
• Yuan Ming spread his Spiritual Sense through the valley and river, then opened his eyes with a flash of delight after finding something.

Yuan Ming and Xi Ying found a skeleton and a token marked “Twin Immortals” near the place where Yuan Ming had discovered the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, then continued to Xi Ying’s family stronghold in Southern Frontier. After settling into the manor, Yuan Ming tried to refine the cauldron’s inner restrictions but found himself blocked at the White Jade Lotus Platform.

• Yuan Ming found a skeleton and a golden token marked “Twin Immortals” and “Katu” in the river near the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s former resting place.
• Xi Ying identified the Twin Immortals as a Southern Frontier cultivation religion, and she and Yuan Ming planned to investigate it after their business on Red Lotus Island.
• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying arrived at the Xi Family’s herb-growing manor, where Xi Ying reunited with her Second Uncle, Xi Dongliu.
• Xi Dongliu arranged a guest room for Yuan Ming, who sealed it and began cultivating in seclusion.
• Yuan Ming attempted to refine the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, entered a strange white space, and tried to infuse the White Jade Lotus Platform with magical power.
• A force blocked Yuan Ming’s attempt to refine the lotus platform, preventing him from advancing.

Yuan Ming refined the first restriction inside the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and then met Xi Dongliu, who tried to test his cultivation with Two Poles Immortal Brew. Yuan Ming drank the entire pot without showing any harm, leaving Xi Dongliu furious and still unaware of his true abilities.

• Yuan Ming transformed into the Undying Tree and refined the White Jade Lotus Platform's golden runes, revealing a vast illusory space filled with thousands of restrictions inside the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• Yuan Ming spent five more days working on the first restriction before Xi Dongliu arrived at his guest room with a pot of Two Poles Immortal Brew.
• Xi Dongliu warned Yuan Ming that the wine could destroy cultivators below the Nascent Soul Realm, but Yuan Ming eagerly drank his first cup in one gulp.
• Yuan Ming endured the wine's opposing cold and heat without visible effect, then drank the rest of the pot while Xi Dongliu watched in alarm.
• Xi Dongliu discovered the pot was empty and left in a fury, while Yuan Ming's flushed face returned to normal and he wondered why Xi Dongliu had tested him.

Xi Ying emerged from seclusion and went to find Yuan Ming, but her father, Xi Zheng, stopped them before they could leave for Red Lotus Island. Xi Zheng welcomed Ximen Rui and arranged for him to spend time with Xi Ying, while Yuan Ming watched with growing dislike.

• Ximen Rui learned that Yuan Ming had drunk nearly all the Two Poles Immortal Brew and judged him to be a formidable cultivator.
• Xi Ying emerged from seclusion, ignored Ximen Rui’s gift, and asked Xi Dongliu where Yuan Ming was staying.
• Xi Ying found Yuan Ming and asked him to go with her to Red Lotus Island.
• Xi Zheng intercepted Xi Ying and Yuan Ming, then summoned them to the guest hall where Xi Dongliu and Ximen Rui were waiting.
• Xi Zheng praised Ximen Rui, discussed a future meeting between Xi Ying and Ximen Rui’s father, and told the pair to get along; Yuan Ming grew displeased with Ximen Rui.

At the Xiao Family’s Red Lotus Island residence, Yuan Ming and Xiao Ying restored a woman’s memories and sent her home, then recognized Tuya, Hagon’s daughter, and discovered she bore a Spirit Locking Array. They secretly entered the residence to find her and overheard Xing Rong pressuring Tuya to travel with him.

• Xi Zheng confronted Xiao Ying over refusing a marriage alliance with the Ximen Family, but she argued that the Xi Family needed to break free of the Wuyue Cult and left with Yuan Ming.
• About a month later, Xiao Ying awakened the woman she had prepared with woven memories and watched her return to the Xiao Family residence.
• Yuan Ming recognized a familiar aura in a passing Southern Frontier woman, and Xiao Ying identified a Spirit Locking Array on her body.
• Yuan Ming recognized the woman as Tuya, Hagon’s daughter, and he and Xiao Ying used the Divine Concealment Lamp to enter the Xiao residence.
• Yuan Ming and Xiao Ying found Tuya in a courtyard as Xing Rong tried to persuade her to travel with him, but Tuya resisted.

Yuan Ming and Xi Ying reunited with Tuya at the Xiao residence, where they learned she was being harassed by Xing Rong and discovered a Spirit Locking Array and a rare Dao Pattern Spirit Bone within her. They went to investigate Xing Rong, finding him in a secret chamber beneath a formation array eye in a secluded lake.

• Tuya refused Xing Rong’s advances and warned him that she would tell her master if he continued pestering her.
• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying bypassed Tuya’s doorway formation and revealed themselves to her; she recognized Yuan Ming as the benefactor who had saved her and her mother.
• Tuya explained that her mother had died, that she was studying formations under the Xiao Family Ancestor, and that her master was the Senluo Sect’s Third Elder.
• Xi Ying gave Tuya a formation disk, and Tuya admitted that she had set her doorway formation to guard against Xing Rong’s unwanted advances.
• Xi Ying discovered that Tuya possessed a Dao Pattern Spirit Bone and that someone had planted a Spirit Locking Array in her body, possibly targeting that bone.
• Yuan Ming located Xing Rong with his Spiritual Sense, and he and Xi Ying entered the lake beneath the Xiao residence’s array eye to investigate the secret chamber.

Yuan Ming possessed Xing Rong and learned that Xing Rong and the Xiao Family Ancestor planned to kill Tuya and take her Dao Pattern Spirit Bone. Yuan Ming and Xi Ying broke into the Xiao family courtyard, where the Xiao Family Ancestor and Xing Rong confronted them as the Yin Kong Tree Demon joined the fight.

• Yuan Ming possessed Xing Rong and overheard him and the Xiao Family Ancestor discussing their plan to exploit Bamboo Sea Market and transplant Tuya's Dao Pattern Spirit Bone.
• Yuan Ming told Xi Ying what he had learned, and they decided to break into the courtyard and protect Tuya.
• Xi Ying used the Chaos Star Disk to disrupt the courtyard's arrays, allowing her and Yuan Ming to enter unseen.
• The Xiao Family Ancestor trapped Yuan Ming and Xi Ying in a fiery array, but Xi Ying scrambled its spatial directions and turned the fire pythons aside.
• The Xiao Family Ancestor and Xing Rong confronted Yuan Ming and Xi Ying, and the Yin Kong Tree Demon appeared with a sword array and wine vapor.

Yuan Ming and Xi Ying defeated the Xiao Family Ancestor and Xing Rong, then learned that the Wuyue Cult planned to expand its influence across the Southern Frontier and that Xi Ying’s father was involved. Yuan Ming decided to oppose the cult and began refining his captives into Undying Tree Puppets.

• Yuan Ming’s sword formation overwhelmed the Xiao Family Ancestor while Xing Rong remained trapped in a nightmare, and Yuan Ming bound them both.
• Xi Ying searched Xing Rong’s soul and discovered that the Senluo Sect’s Flower Transferring Willow Technique came from the Flower Between Sect and that a Five Elements Spiritual Vein containing Spiritual Marrow might be nearby.
• Xi Ying learned from Xing Rong’s memories that the Wuyue Cult, through Void Trap Venerable—her father—planned to destroy Silkworm Island and take control of the Southern Frontier.
• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying agreed that they would oppose the Wuyue Cult, and Yuan Ming planted Soul Descent Runes in the Xiao Family Ancestor and Xing Rong.
• Yuan Ming transformed into a giant black tree and enclosed both captives in cocoons, beginning to replace their vital blood with Undying Tree sap.

Yuan Ming refined the Xiao Family Ancestor into a tree puppet, then helped him break through to the Nascent Soul Realm and gained new insights into array formations. Meanwhile, Xing Rong returned to the Senluo Sect and reported that Xiao Fangcheng had agreed to help with their plan, though Xi Zheng warned that Silkworm Island might have hidden safeguards.

• Yuan Ming's tree puppet severed the Xiao Family Ancestor's arm, which regrew from vines, and the Undying Tree explained how it could replace his body while retaining control of his divine soul.
• After absorbing the Undying Tree's Origin Power, the Xiao Family Ancestor used a Five Elements Nascent Soul Condensing Pill and Yuan Ming's mana to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, while Yuan Ming comprehended the Way of Array Formations through their linked divine senses.
• Yuan Ming studied the array insights, refined ten restrictions in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, and formed an Eight Directions Fire Dragon Array before he and Xi Ying departed for Bamboo Sea Market on their way to Little Silver Mountain.
• Xing Rong returned to the Senluo Sect and told Luo Yongqi that Xiao Fangcheng had agreed to their demands in exchange for the Flower Transferring Willow Technique.
• Xi Zheng warned Luo Yongqi that Silkworm Island might have hidden contingencies, but Luo Yongqi trusted Xiao Fangcheng's skill in array formations to overcome them.

Venerable Evil Eye warned Ximen Rui that Xing Rong had been controlled and the plan against Silkworm Island might be exposed, then asked him to help investigate the Xi Family’s ties to the Mingyue Cult. A month later, Yuan Ming and Xi Ying accompanied Xiao Fangcheng to Bamboo Sea Market, where he gained control of the market’s formation.

• Venerable Evil Eye told Ximen Rui that Xing Rong was likely controlled and their plan had probably been exposed, while Ximen Rui decided they could let Xi Zheng take the blame if the mission failed.
• Venerable Evil Eye showed Ximen Rui a Nether Moon God idol and asked about Yuan Ming, whom Ximen Rui suspected was connected to Xi Ying and the Mingyue Cult.
• Ximen Rui offered to help Venerable Evil Eye capture Yuan Ming, asking that Yuan Ming be handed over to him after the investigation.
• One month later, Xiao Fangcheng arrived at Bamboo Sea Market with Yuan Ming and Xi Ying disguised as Core Formation disciples.
• Black Tiger welcomed Xiao Fangcheng, transferred the market’s formation-control methods to him, and left to patrol the area.
• Xiao Fangcheng handed the formation-controlling compass to Yuan Ming and Xi Ying, but Xi Ying declined to manage the formation.

Yuan Ming and Xiao Ying sent Yin Kong and the Five Elements Child to secretly retrieve the Five Elements Spiritual Marrow while Silkworm Island and the Senluo Sect negotiated over the vein. As Xiao Fangcheng warned Luo Zhu about the Senluo Sect’s plot, Yuan Ming noticed signs that she already knew more than she let on and was probing Xiao Fangcheng.

• Yuan Ming and Xiao Ying agreed to exploit the dispute over the Five Elements Spiritual Vein and sent Yin Kong and the Five Elements Child to find and hide its Spiritual Marrow.
• Luo Zhu arrived at Bamboo Sea Market with Silkworm Island’s forces as Luo Yongqi arrived with the Senluo Sect, and the two leaders agreed to discuss joint ownership the next day.
• Luo Zhu ordered Black Tiger and Black Panther to watch the Senluo Sect’s camp and asked Xiao Fangcheng to keep the market formation operating.
• Xiao Fangcheng met Luo Zhu at midnight and revealed that Xing Rong had tried to recruit him into a scheme to seize the formation and kill her, with the Wuyue Cult’s Void Trap Venerable behind it.
• Luo Zhu questioned Xiao Fangcheng’s motives and secretly sent a spider to bite him, but Xiao Fangcheng crushed it after Yuan Ming warned him; Yuan Ming then detected Luo Zhu probing him with concealed Spiritual Sense.

Yuan Ming revealed himself to Luo Zhu and proposed that Silkworm Island cooperate with the East Sea Alliance against the Wuyue Cult. Luo Zhu agreed if he killed Ximen Rui, then revealed that Ximen Rui, Void Trap Venerable, and Venerable Evil Eye were disguised among Luo Yongqi’s eight Core Formation Cultivators.

• Yuan Ming appeared beside Xiao Fangcheng and told Luo Zhu he had come from the East Sea to deal with the Wuyue Cult.
• Yuan Ming proposed that Silkworm Island join forces with the East Sea Alliance, and Luo Zhu demanded proof of his strength before agreeing.
• Luo Zhu revealed she already knew about the Senluo Sect’s plot and that Venerable Evil Eye was involved alongside Void Trap Venerable.
• Luo Zhu asked Yuan Ming to kill Ximen Rui, the son of Nine Yin Venerable, to avenge Silkworm Island’s murdered disciples, and Yuan Ming accepted.
• Luo Zhu disclosed that Ximen Rui, Void Trap Venerable, and Venerable Evil Eye were among the eight Core Formation Cultivators who had arrived with Luo Yongqi.

Yuan Ming learned that Xing Rong might have been exposed but continued with his plan to use the market’s paired Formation Disks against the Wuyue Cult. As Senluo Sect and Silkworm Island’s negotiations collapsed, Luo Yongqi launched an attack and Xing Rong activated Bamboo Sea Market’s grand formation against Silkworm Island.

• Luo Zhu warned Yuan Ming that the Wuyue Cult had discovered Xing Rong was being controlled, and Yuan Ming agreed to proceed cautiously.
• Xing Rong summoned Xiao Fangcheng to Cloud Sea Tower and requested the restriction Formation Disk; Yuan Ming sent Xiao Fangcheng with the secondary disk and told him to test Xing Rong indirectly.
• Xiao Fangcheng reported that Xing Rong appeared normal and said Luo Yongqi had ordered him to bring the disk, but Yuan Ming kept his plans unchanged.
• Senluo Sect and Silkworm Island began negotiations over a spirit vein, where Xiao Yao’s relentless bargaining initially helped Silkworm Island before talks reached a deadlock.
• Luo Yongqi attacked Luo Zhu after she challenged him to settle the dispute by force, and Luo Zhu blocked his scorpion-tail strike with invisible threads.
• Luo Yongqi ordered Xing Rong to act, and Xing Rong activated Bamboo Sea Market’s grand formation, sending wind blades against the Silkworm Island cultivators.

Luo Zhu and Xiao Fangcheng turned the formation against the Senluo Sect, giving Yuan Ming a chance to attack Ximen Rui while the others fought. Yuan Ming pursued Ximen Rui beyond the formation and used their shared injuries to devastate his soul, while Xi Zheng intervened and mistook Yuan Ming for Silkworm Island’s ally.

• Luo Zhu, Xiao Fangcheng, Black Tiger, and Black Panther attacked the Senluo Sect cultivators with the formation and their magical treasures.
• Yuan Ming ambushed Ximen Rui with the Soul Annihilation Sword, disrupted his soul and blood with runes, and wounded him with a black root whisker, but Ximen Rui escaped through the formation restriction.
• Yuan Ming pursued Ximen Rui, while Xi Ying blocked Venerable Evil Eye and Silkworm Island’s forces gained the advantage in the battle.
• Yuan Ming confronted Ximen Rui again, but Xi Zheng appeared and shattered Yuan Ming’s curse with a bloody fist wind.
• Yuan Ming used Shared Life to link himself to Ximen Rui, then repeatedly burned his own main soul against white flames, causing Ximen Rui’s soul to suffer severe wounds.

Yuan Ming resisted Xi Zheng’s soul attacks, but Ximen Rui’s soul collapsed after the backlash from their shared-life connection. Yuan Ming defeated Xi Zheng’s emotion-devouring shadow and continued fighting the Void Trap Venerable, relying on the unfinished Hou Tu Mountain Suppressing Stone to block his ice attack.

• Yuan Ming broke free of Xi Zheng’s imperial-hall illusion with the Undying Tree’s Black Mist, while his main soul’s injury caused Ximen Rui’s soul to collapse.
• Xi Zheng tried to seize Yuan Ming, who escaped his ghost claws with Thunder Rain’s lightning movement before gray qi trapped them.
• Xi Zheng’s headless shadow drained Yuan Ming and Thunder Rain of their positive emotions, but the Undying Tree’s Black Mist shielded Yuan Ming and let him recover.
• Yuan Ming used the Soul Annihilation Sword to destroy Xi Zheng’s shadow, then attacked Xi Zheng with the sword and three runes.
• Xi Zheng evaded Yuan Ming’s rune attacks with a Silver Gate and countered with ice spikes, which Yuan Ming blocked using the Hou Tu Mountain Suppressing Stone.

Yuan Ming drove Xi Zheng away and learned that Venerable Evil Eye suspected his identity as the Nether Moon God. After returning to the marketplace, he discussed Xi Zheng’s abilities with Xi Ying and learned about the Blood Qi True Body.

• Yuan Ming overwhelmed Xi Zheng with soul attacks and magic treasures, forcing him to flee without pursuing him.
• Venerable Evil Eye appeared, failed to determine whether Yuan Ming was telling the truth, and left after hinting that he recognized Yuan Ming as the Nether Moon God.
• Yuan Ming returned to the marketplace, where Xi Ying reported that Silkworm Island had repelled the Senluo Sect and claimed the Little Silver Mountain spirit vein.
• Yuan Ming told Xi Ying that he had killed Ximen Rui and driven Xi Zheng away, and Xi Ying explained her father’s Heijialuo divine soul manifestation.
• Xi Ying explained that Xi Zheng’s Blood Qi True Body was a temporary form created with a strange treasure, and Yuan Ming asked Qi Ye whether the Myriad Manifestations Body could truly condense one.

Yuan Ming learned about the Blood Qi True Body and the incomplete Heavenly Son God Sealing Fist, then cultivated with Five Elements Spiritual Marrow after helping Silkworm Island secure a spiritual vein. Three months later, Luo Zhu revealed that the Wuyue God had descended and the Wuyue Cult had invaded the Central Plains and Western Regions.

• Qi Ye explained that body cultivators could condense a Blood Qi True Body, while Xi Ying described how the Heavenly Son God Sealing Fist borrowed the world's momentum to fight and break through realms.
• Xi Ying showed Yuan Ming an Imprint Talisman recording her battle with Venerable Evil Eye and explained that his Eye Demon had devoured other Soul Cultivators to gain their soul manifestations.
• Luo Zhu allied Silkworm Island with the Mingyue Cult and kept Yuan Ming and Xi Ying at the market to guard the captured Five Elements Spiritual Vein.
• Xi Ying and Yuan Ming collected Five Elements Spiritual Marrow from a cave in the vein, and Yuan Ming used a drop to greatly increase his spiritual energy absorption.
• After more than three months, Luo Zhu summoned Yuan Ming and Xi Ying and told them that the Wuyue God had descended and the Wuyue Cult had entered the Central Plains and Western Regions.

Yuan Ming learned that the Wuyue God had emerged and decided to focus on raising his strength rather than attend the alliance gathering himself. After accepting Qi Ye’s method of entering demonhood, he set out for Snake King Valley to seek demonic qi.

• Luo Zhu and Yan Siyun informed Yuan Ming that the major sects were organizing an alliance against the Wuyue Cult, but Yuan Ming deferred deciding whether to attend.
• Yuan Ming sent Xi Ying to the gathering with his Bloodbone Mask and Blood Puppet Armor, and Xi Ying left him the Heavenly Son God Sealing Fist technique.
• Yuan Ming planned to use the qi and blood in Asura Venerable’s corpse to advance his body cultivation, and Qi Ye proposed turning him into a Half-Demon Physique.
• Yuan Ming accepted the risks of entering demonhood but refused to use the Evil King Mirror as his source of demonic qi.
• After absorbing the last of the Five Elements Spiritual Marrow over seven days, Yuan Ming headed to Snake King Valley to seek demonic qi.