Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan joined Red Leaf Fairy’s inspection party as she arrived in grand state and prepared to travel by warship to worship the ancestors. He boarded her vessel, staying close so he could protect her as the fleet set out.

• Lin Xuan waited with the Nascent Soul cultivators for Red Leaf Fairy to arrive.
• Red Leaf Fairy arrived by Beast Carriage with attendants and soldiers, then greeted the gathered cultivators.
• Elder An urged Red Leaf Fairy to depart for the Old Island Master's resting place, and she ordered everyone aboard the ships.
• Lin Xuan boarded Red Leaf Fairy’s large central warship and examined its unfamiliar propulsion formation.
• The five warships rose into the air and began their journey.

Lin Xuan and Red Leaf Fairy's group sailed toward True Person Withered Wood's burial place, but millions of Silver Fish-Birds pursued their warships. With escape no longer possible, the cultivators prepared to fight.

• Lin Xuan meditated aboard the Ancient Warship and later chatted with Elder Cai on deck.
• Lin Xuan spotted a vast swarm of Silver Fish-Birds approaching, and Elder Cai warned that they left neither people nor beasts alive.
• Red Leaf Fairy ordered the warships to turn away and forbade anyone from attacking the Silver Fish-Birds.
• The Silver Fish-Birds followed every change of direction and began to overtake the warships.
• Red Leaf Fairy's group faced the prospect of battle against millions of Silver Fish-Birds, and someone ordered the Crystal Might Cannons prepared.

Lin Xuan and the cultivators aboard the Ancient Warship fought off the pursuing Silver Fish-Birds with Crystal Might Cannons, but the Beast Tide kept closing in. As the danger mounted, Elder An threw three fleeing cultivators into the swarm, where they detonated their Golden Cores and destroyed thousands of beasts.

• The warship’s Crystal Might Cannons unleashed beams of varied attributes, killing tens of thousands of Silver Fish-Birds but failing to halt the tide.
• Lin Xuan judged that he might protect himself, though he doubted he could protect Red Leaf Fairy or save his plans as the beasts caught up.
• Three Core Condensation cultivators fled the warship, and Elder An seized them with a cyan hand and hurled them toward the Silver Fish-Birds.
• The beasts swallowed the three cultivators, who detonated their Golden Cores and destroyed the surrounding Silver Fish-Birds.

Lin Xuan and the cultivators aboard the Ancient Warship fought off a massive Silver Fish-Bird attack as Elder An proposed using Emerald Berry extract to lure the birds away. The chapter ended with the cultivators hearing that the plan required a volunteer who might not escape.

• Elder An executed three cultivators who tried to flee, deterring the others from abandoning the warship.
• Lin Xuan and the cultivators attacked the Silver Fish-Birds, briefly stopping the advancing swarm as the birds battered the warship’s protective barrier.
• Red Leaf Fairy used Kui Water Divine Thunder to destroy the birds attacking the barrier, but she warned that the swarm would soon overwhelm them.
• Elder An revealed that Silver Fish-Birds were especially attracted to Emerald Berries and showed Red Leaf Fairy a bottle of extract from thousand-year-old berries.
• Elder An proposed sending someone with the extract to lure the birds away, admitting that the volunteer might be unable to escape, and the cultivators overheard him.

Lin Xuan volunteered to lure the Silver Fish-Birds away from the Ancient Warship, reassuring Red Leaf Fairy that he could escape. After he released the bottle’s enticing fragrance and drew the beast tide after him, the others fled while Red Leaf worried about his safety.

• Lin Xuan volunteered for the dangerous task, and the Nascent Soul elders quickly urged Red Leaf Fairy to accept his offer.
• Lin Xuan privately reassured Red Leaf Fairy that his escape abilities would keep him safe, and she publicly entrusted him with the mission.
• Elder An handed Lin Xuan the emerald-green Jade Bottle, and the cultivators opened a passage through the Silver Fish-Birds for him.
• Lin Xuan flew away from the Ancient Warship and released the fragrance from the bottle, drawing most of the Silver Fish-Birds after him.
• The cultivators fled aboard the Ancient Warship, while Red Leaf Fairy looked back anxiously after Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan tried to escape a vast flock of Silver Fish-Birds, but their numbers and coordinated flying formation repeatedly thwarted him. He kept using the Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to get away, yet the birds continued pursuing him and draining his magic power.

• Tens of millions of Silver Fish-Birds pursued Lin Xuan and devastated the sea creatures in their path, wiping out a colony of demon turtles.
• Lin Xuan revealed his Lihe Realm cultivation, but the birds ignored his spiritual pressure and continued chasing him toward the Emerald Berry he carried.
• Lin Xuan sped up with his escape light and briefly widened the gap, but the Silver Fish-Birds formed a flying formation that more than doubled their speed.
• Lin Xuan used the Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to pull away, then switched back to ordinary escape light, only for the birds to catch up again.
• Lin Xuan repeatedly used the Nine Heavens Micro-Steps at great cost to his magic power, and his patience began to wear thin.

Lin Xuan encountered a Sea Race woman he had rescued before while fleeing the Silver Fish-Birds, and he killed the two Ten Thousand Beasts Island cultivators who were attacking her. As the birds caught up, he carried the woman away with Nine Heavens Micro-Steps, leaving her to warn that even a Lihe Realm cultivator might struggle to escape them.

• Lin Xuan spotted the Sea Race woman fighting two Foundation Establishment cultivators and recognized her as someone he had rescued before.
• The two men identified themselves as Ten Thousand Beasts Island cultivators and asked Lin Xuan to capture the woman, but he chose to kill them because they served its ruler.
• Lin Xuan killed one man, captured the other, used Soul Searching Technique to learn that Ten Thousand Beasts Island was nearby, and burned him to ash.
• The Silver Fish-Birds caught up, and Lin Xuan grabbed the woman and repeatedly used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to gain distance before flying onward.
• The woman recognized Lin Xuan as a Lihe Realm cultivator and warned that the Silver Fish-Birds’ innate gifts would make escaping them difficult.

Lin Xuan led the pursuing Silver Fish-Bird toward Ten Thousand Beasts Island and found Wan Menghao in White Tiger City, where he struck him and prompted him to call for help. The chapter left the bird still approaching as Wan Menghao’s signal burst above the city.

• Lin Xuan used what he had learned to redirect the Silver Fish-Bird toward Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts’s territory.
• The chapter described White Tiger City’s harsh laws and Wan Menghao’s habit of abducting beautiful women, despite his father’s absence.
• Wan Menghao rode through the city looking for a woman to seize while Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts and several trusted subordinates were away.
• Lin Xuan arrived ahead of the Silver Fish-Bird, recognized Wan Menghao, and slapped him across the face.
• Wan Menghao shielded himself and sent a brilliant signal into the sky to summon help.

Lin Xuan subdued Wan Menghao, coated him with Emerald Berry juice to draw the pursuing Silver Fish-Bird, and escaped before the island’s guards arrived. Wan Menghao reunited with his powerful allies and set out to capture Lin Xuan, unaware of the danger the scent brought.

• Wan Menghao threatened Lin Xuan and mistook his restraint for weakness as the island’s soldiers and Nascent Soul Realm elders rushed to his aid.
• Lin Xuan smashed Wan Menghao’s shield with a punch, sealed his magic power, and poured some Emerald Berry juice over him.
• Lin Xuan sealed the remaining juice in its bottle, released Wan Menghao, and fled as the other cultivators approached.
• Wan Menghao discovered the juice had not harmed him, then gathered courage when several Nascent Soul Realm cultivators and hundreds of armored soldiers arrived.
• Wan Menghao ordered his allies to capture Lin Xuan alive.

Wan Menghao ordered his subordinates to capture Lin Xuan and the woman with him, but a Silver Fish-Bird Beast Tide forced the cultivators to retreat to White Tiger City. The survivors reached the city wall and activated its defenses as the birds began attacking, while Wan Menghao was left humiliated by his terror.

• Wan Menghao ordered his cultivators to pursue Lin Xuan and capture the woman, but the gray-robed Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator warned that Lin Xuan seemed to be Lihe.
• The Silver Fish-Bird Beast Tide appeared, and the gray-robed cultivator carried Wan Menghao toward White Tiger City as the others fled.
• The birds swallowed more than two hundred armored soldiers and several cultivators before a few survivors reached the city wall.
• Wan Menghao was revealed to have soiled himself from fear, and the survivors activated White Tiger City's restrictions as the Silver Fish-Birds attacked the barrier.
• The barrier's lightning killed thousands of birds, but the vast flock continued surging forward over the bodies of its dead.

As White Tiger City battled the Silver Fish-Birds, Wan Menghao deserted the defenders, while Lin Xuan used the chaos to target the City Lord's Mansion and Marketplace. He killed the soldiers guarding the Marketplace and flew inside to loot it.

• Cultivators and city residents rallied to defend White Tiger City against the Silver Fish-Birds as the barrier shook under successive attacks.
• Wan Menghao claimed he was ill and fled to the City Lord's Mansion, but Zhang rallied the defenders and their morale recovered.
• Lin Xuan stayed in the city after deducing that Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts was absent, intending to exploit the Beast Tide and plunder the city's treasures.
• Lin Xuan reached the Marketplace, where armored soldiers challenged him and recognized that he was a Lihe Realm cultivator.
• Lin Xuan ordered the soldiers to kill themselves, then burned the guards who resisted or fled and entered the Marketplace.

Lin Xuan looted Chen's Shop and realized his Instantaneous Bag could not hold everything he wanted from the marketplace. Dongfang Mingqi, daughter of the Giant Whale King, offered a solution and revealed her connection to the Sea Race's Six Kings.

• Lin Xuan entered Chen's Shop and swept its cultivation materials, rare herbs, medicines, and Spirit Stones into his Instantaneous Bag.
• Lin Xuan worried that his bag could not hold the marketplace's treasures and rejected taking only the most valuable items.
• Dongfang Mingqi told Lin Xuan she had a method to help him take everything.
• Lin Xuan questioned Dongfang Mingqi after she recognized his Instantaneous Bag.
• Dongfang Mingqi introduced herself as the daughter of the Giant Whale King, one of the Sea Race's Six Kings, and Lin Xuan recalled that the kings were powerful Dongxuan Realm cultivators.

Lin Xuan learned from Dongfang Mingqi how to pack Storage Bags inside his Instantaneous Bag and plundered White Tiger City's shops while the city faced a Beast Tide. He then reached the City Lord's Mansion, where Wan Menghao was arguing with a loyal captain about retreating from the crisis.

• Dongfang Mingqi told Lin Xuan he could put Storage Bags inside his Instantaneous Bag, and Lin Xuan tested the method successfully.
• Lin Xuan swept the valuables from Chen Shop into Storage Bags and stored them inside his Instantaneous Bag.
• Lin Xuan looted nearly a hundred shops, intending to let Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts take the blame, then flew toward the City Lord's Mansion.
• At the City Lord's Mansion, Lin Xuan overheard Uncle Li urging Wan Menghao to help defend the city, while Wan Menghao insisted on returning to the residence.
• Wan Menghao and Uncle Li remained deadlocked until Wan Menghao flew into a rage.

Lin Xuan looted Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts’ residence and freed the women Wan Menghao had seized, then joined Dongfang Mingqi at White Tiger City’s walls as the Silver Fish-Birds’ final assault shattered the city’s barrier.

• Lin Xuan revealed his Lihe cultivation, killed the City Lord’s Mansion guards, and forced Wan Menghao to lead him inside.
• Wan Menghao confessed where his father had hidden his treasures, and Lin Xuan looted them before making him release several hundred captive women.
• Lin Xuan spared Wan Menghao and left the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Lin Xuan reassured Dongfang Mingqi that they could escape the encirclement and flew with her toward the city wall.
• The Silver Fish-Birds broke through White Tiger City’s last remaining barrier.

Lin Xuan escaped the Silver Fish-Birds’ Bloodlust Technique and fled with Dongfang Mingqi to an uninhabited island. He prepared to leave her and reunite with Red Leaf Fairy, but Dongfang Mingqi stopped him to offer a parting gift.

• The Silver Fish-Birds broke free, activated the Bloodlust Technique, and killed a cultivator who tried to flee.
• Lin Xuan destroyed the birds attacking him, shielded himself, and carved a path through the Beast Tide with a hurricane of wind blades.
• Lin Xuan used Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to escape far from Ten Thousand Beasts Island and landed on an uninhabited island with Dongfang Mingqi.
• Lin Xuan decided not to silence Dongfang Mingqi and advised her to return to the Undersea Immortal City.
• As Lin Xuan prepared to leave and find Red Leaf Fairy, Dongfang Mingqi offered him the Giant Whale King's Command Token as a parting gift.

Lin Xuan reunited with Red Leaf after escaping the Beast Tide, then accompanied her fleet to True Person Withered Wood’s burial island. When he spotted Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts’ concealed ambush, Red Leaf ordered the warships to bombard the island.

• Lin Xuan accepted the Giant Whale King’s Command Token from the girl and hurried to meet Red Leaf.
• Lin Xuan found Red Leaf’s five warships at the agreed meeting place, and she welcomed him back before he rested.
• The fleet set sail for True Person Withered Wood’s burial site, and Lin Xuan recovered his strength during the journey.
• Lin Xuan spotted a concealed restriction on the island and realized Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts had set an ambush there.
• Red Leaf ordered the five warships to fire their Crystal Might Cannons at the island, lamenting that she had no other choice.

Red Leaf Fairy’s forces ambushed Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts on Ten Thousand Beasts Island, and Lin Xuan revealed that he had reached the Lihe Realm before confronting him. The battle turned in Red Leaf’s favor, but Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts summoned two powerful beasts and created two identical doubles to face Lin Xuan.

• Red Leaf’s warships fired repeated volleys, destroying the island’s formation and forcing Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts’ hidden forces into the open.
• Lin Xuan challenged Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts and smashed his demonic blade with a single punch, revealing Lihe Realm spiritual pressure.
• Red Leaf Fairy ordered the warships to attack, while Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts rallied his forces with rewards for capturing or killing her.
• Lin Xuan taunted Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts about his supposed hundred million Spirit Stones, having already looted his island and Marketplace holdings.
• Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts summoned a middle-Lihe-stage Demon Crocodile and Ox-headed Snake-bodied Monster, then produced two identical doubles of himself.

Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts turned two Lihe Realm demons into External Incarnations and unleashed them against Lin Xuan as the battle between the two sides erupted. Lin Xuan evaded their attacks and struck at the Demon Crocodile, while the Ox-headed Snake-bodied Monster launched another assault.

• Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts sent two Void Shadows into the Demon Crocodile and the Ox-headed Snake-bodied Monster, turning them into his External Incarnations.
• Red Leaf Fairy ordered the Crystal Might Cannons to fire, but the Ox-headed Snake-bodied Monster blocked their volley with a sound wave, and the Demon Crocodile destroyed an Ancient Warship with a giant pair of Crocodile Scissors.
• The cultivators of both sides joined battle as Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts and his two incarnations attacked Lin Xuan with claw beams and the monster's tongue.
• Lin Xuan evaded the attacks with an afterimage, appeared above the Demon Crocodile, and swung his Spirit-Communicating Buddhist Treasure Zen Staff at its head.
• The Ox-headed Snake-bodied Monster opened its monstrous mouth and shot its tongue, covered in eyeballs and straw-like tendrils, toward Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts’ forces with his Dharma Idol, killing the Demon Crocodile and destroying the old monster’s incarnation. As Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts sent corpse crows and the Ox-headed Snake-bodied Monster against him, Lin Xuan countered their attacks and brought out a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure.

• Lin Xuan blocked the Demon Crocodile’s tongue and battered the beast with his Spirit-Communicating Buddhist Treasure, then manifested a giant nine-headed, eighteen-armed Dharma Idol.
• Lin Xuan used the Demon Crocodile as a shield against Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts’ Long Spears before tearing the beast apart and destroying the old monster’s Void Shadow incarnation with a Little Sword.
• Lin Xuan restored his strength with Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and withdrew his Dharma Idol as Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts summoned nearly a thousand Flame Corpse Crows from a Banner Flag.
• The Ox-headed Snake-bodied Monster launched its scales with the corpse crows’ wind blades, but Lin Xuan used his Black Gold Dragon Scale Shield and Green Flame Qilin Armor to withstand the assault.
• Lin Xuan coated his armor in three-colored flame, which swallowed the crows’ corpse fire, then revealed an ancient purple bell that Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts recognized as a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure.

Lin Xuan used the Hundred Spirit Bell to capture Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts’ Corpse Crows and turned aside his attacks. After Ten Thousand Beasts escaped with illusions, Lin Xuan discovered him sneaking toward Red Leaf Fairy and rushed to stop him.

• Lin Xuan used the Hundred Spirit Bell’s sound waves and purple net to seize nearly a thousand Corpse Crows from Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts.
• Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts attacked Lin Xuan with blood-red Flying Daggers while his Ox-headed Snake-bodied Monster released poison, but Lin Xuan blocked them with the Nine Heavens Bright Moon Ring and resisted the poison.
• Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts created several identical illusions and fled, while Lin Xuan used the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Eye to search for him.
• Lin Xuan spotted Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts approaching Red Leaf Fairy under a concealment art while she fought a Demon Cultivator.
• Lin Xuan used the Nine Heavens Micro-Steps to pursue Ten Thousand Beasts, who abandoned concealment and raced toward Red Leaf Fairy.