Chapter Summaries

Tu Shan Jun gave Miao Nightingale pills and a better cultivation method, helping her rapidly grow stronger as she drifted at sea. After reaching the Qi Refining Fifth Layer, Miao Nightingale approached a Song family ship to ask for passage ashore.

• Tu Shan Jun examined Miao Nightingale and promised to help her overcome her poor cultivation prospects, urging her to become strong for herself.
• Tu Shan Jun gave Miao Nightingale pills, taught her the Mystic Water Scripture, and concealed himself as a bracelet while warning her to keep him secret.
• Over the following months, Miao Nightingale used the pills and scripture to reach the Qi Refining Middle Stage and then the Qi Refining Fifth Layer, gaining a mid-grade artifact sword.
• After Tu Shan Jun said their supplies were running low, Miao Nightingale signaled a Song family ship and asked its merchant convoy for passage, offering a Spirit Stone.
• Steward Song suspected a pirate trap and refused to approach, but Miao Nightingale flew to the ship on her sword and repeated her request.

Miao Yeying boarded a Song family merchant ship and cultivated under Tu Shan Jun’s guidance during the voyage. When the ship stopped, she learned that a fleet led by Golden Core Grandmaster Xu Ze had intercepted them to requisition supplies for the Star Luo Resistance Army.

• Miao Yeying paid Manager Song a mid-grade Spirit Stone for passage and received a quiet bunkroom aboard the ship.
• Tu Shan Jun taught Miao Yeying the Profound Water Scripture and explained that medicinal supplements could accelerate her cultivation.
• After three days at sea, the ship stopped amid an alarm, and Dayou reported that a Golden Core Grandmaster was blocking their way.
• Miao Yeying joined the passengers on deck and saw an armed fleet flying the Xu banner.
• Xu Ze identified himself as commander of the Star Luo Resistance Army and ordered Congmao to write promissory notes while they collected supplies or Spirit Stones from the passengers.

Miao Nightingale joined the Star Luo Sea Region’s army after a Golden Core commander called on cultivators to resist the Thousand Plains Region. As she traveled to the new recruit reception office, Tu Shan Jun urged her to avoid the front lines and taught her beginner alchemy, while she met a curious cultivator named Li Yiru.

• A Golden Core commander announced that cultivators would be conscripted, and Manager Song pleaded for the Song family’s traders to be spared.
• Guards seized the traders’ Spirit Stones in exchange for IOUs bearing Xu Ze’s name, while the commander explained the invasion and warned that surrender would lead to enslavement.
• The commander offered military resources and cultivation methods, but Miao Nightingale was the first to volunteer for the army.
• Miao Nightingale boarded the warship, and Tu Shan Jun warned her against the front lines and sent her novice alchemy formulas.
• Miao Nightingale met Li Yiru as the recruits traveled toward Yellow Leaf Plain for reassignment and training.

Miao Nightingale traveled with the recruits toward Yellowleaf Plain, learning that pills and military service could advance cultivation before an enemy attacked their ship near shore. The warship’s protective barrier was breached, leaving the recruits under assault from a Foundation Establishment cultivator and a powerful magical artifact.

• Marshal Xu Ze led the fleet away and sent Li Yiru back to Kun Yun Sect, while Miao Nightingale continued cultivating in secret.
• A Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivator explained Yellowleaf Plain, military rewards, and how joining the army could provide pills and a path to cultivation; Miao Nightingale realized the value of her Yin Soul Pills and her master's alchemy.
• Three days later, the recruits spotted the coastline and came out of their cabins as their ship neared shore.
• An enemy's sphere of light struck the warship, and the recruits learned that a Foundation Establishment cultivator had been waiting for them with a large combined magical artifact.
• The Foundation Establishment cultivator and the artifact broke through the warship's protective barrier before the ship could start up again.

Miao Yeying escaped a planned ambush on her ship, but Thousand Plains Domain pursuers caught up with her on shore. When one tried to seize her, she used a talisman to kill him, leaving the remaining three forming a battle formation against her.

• Tu Shan Jun realized spies had exposed the ship’s route and urged Miao Yeying to flee as Thousand Plains Domain forces attacked and captured or killed the recruits.
• Miao Yeying escaped underwater and, following Tu Shan Jun’s directions, headed inland toward a large city in Bao Province.
• A four-man squad caught up with Miao Yeying, and its members threatened her after discovering she was a woman.
• Miao Yeying activated a talisman as one pursuer charged, and its fire dragon reduced him to ash.
• The squad leader ordered the remaining three men to form the Three Talents Battle Formation, which strengthened their combined power.

Miao Nightingale killed three Thousand Plains Region cultivators, then reached Eastward City and began searching for Tu Shan Jun’s old fellow Daoist, Taiyi. As she gathered supplies and tried to restore the soul banner, Joyous Union Sect members arrived at her inn asking after someone in a portrait.

• Miao Nightingale used a hidden blue talisman to kill the Thousand Plains Region squad leader and his two subordinates, then collected their souls and Baleful Intent.
• After more than two months, Miao Nightingale reached Eastward City, where Tu Shan Jun told her to seek information about Taiyi.
• Miao Nightingale entered the city after a clerk’s bronze mirror exposed that she had changed her name, and Tu Shan Jun assured her that the Joyous Union Sect’s restriction had been erased.
• Miao Nightingale bought a guide to Treasure Province herbs, arranged with Ancient Immortal Tower to find souls and Baleful Intent, and fed Baleful Intent and broken artifacts to the soul banner.
• At Cloud Departure Inn, three Joyous Union Sect cultivators asked the accountant whether the person in their portrait was staying there.

Miao Yeying cultivated in seclusion for five months, advanced to the late Qi Refining stage, and remained unaware that the Hehuan Sect was watching for her. When she finally left the inn, its pursuers confronted her in Donglai City and threatened that their Hall Master would soon arrive.

• Innkeeper Liu Sanpang refused the sallow-faced Hehuan Sect deacon access to Miao Yeying's quiet room, so the deacon left two men to watch the inn.
• Miao Yeying spent more than two months cultivating while Tu Shan Jun devoured magical artifacts and magic treasures to restore the Soul Banner.
• Miao Yeying took a Barrier-Breaking Pill and broke through to the late Qi Refining stage, then chose to continue her seclusion.
• After five months of waiting, the deacon learned that Miao Yeying had left the inn and hurried to intercept her with two disciples.
• Miao Yeying denied being the fugitive, and the deacon held back from attacking because garrison cultivators were watching, but warned that the Hall Master was on the way.

Miao Nightingale killed three men who attacked her in East Arrival City, revealing that she had advanced to Foundation Establishment. After Heaven Roc Sect offered her a position, she decided to return home first, while the sect’s leaders focused on an impending invasion by Thousand Plains Domain.

• Miao Nightingale laughed at the men threatening her, then killed the blue-faced attacker and his two companions when one struck at her from behind.
• Miao Nightingale used her Foundation Establishment power to subdue the city guards, and steward Wei Xuncheng invited her to the City Lord’s Manor.
• Wei Xuncheng explained that the dead men had ties to the Hehuan Sect and offered Miao Nightingale a position with Heaven Roc Sect, but she said she had personal matters to handle first.
• Miao Nightingale asked about places with strong Baleful Intent and resolved to return home and relocate her family before joining Heaven Roc Sect.
• Wei Xuncheng and the Golden Core city lord discussed investigating Miao Nightingale, but the city lord refused because Thousand Plains Domain had breached Yellow Leaf Plain and threatened the city.

Miao Yeying bought a spirit vessel and unusual materials in Donglai City, then traveled for half a year to Chuanshui Island to visit Miao Family Village. After reaching the island, she learned that danger might await her family and set out with Tu Shan Jun’s support.

• Tu Shan Jun told Miao Yeying that a Golden Core Grandmaster of the Heavenly Roc Sect had been watching her, but he could now defend her against Golden Core cultivators.
• Miao Yeying bought the Spirit Turtle Vessel and several Baleful Intent-tainted treasures from the Ancient Immortal Tower, spending nearly ten thousand high-grade Spirit Stones.
• Miao Yeying left Donglai City and traveled by spirit vessel toward Chuanshui Island, recalling the home she had been taken from as a child.
• After half a year, Miao Yeying reached Chuanshui Island and gained permission to land by showing her recommendation token.
• Tu Shan Jun warned Miao Yeying to prepare for the possibility that her family had been exterminated, then promised that he would always be there for her.
• Miao Yeying summoned her flying sword and set off toward Miao Family Village.

Miao Nightingale returned to her old home and learned that her family had prospered and moved to Sishui City. She reached the Miao Residence and revealed herself to her father, Guangzheng, who recognized her as Little Ying.

• Miao Nightingale found her old home in Miao Family Village empty and learned from Gen San that her family had moved to Sishui City.
• Miao Nightingale flew Gen San to the city on a cloud, impressing him with her abilities as an Immortal Master.
• Gen San told Miao Nightingale that her family had become prosperous, with her brothers and sisters established in the city and prominent households.
• Miao Nightingale arrived at the Miao Residence with Gen San and waited while a servant fetched Guangzheng.
• Miao Nightingale removed her bamboo hat and told Guangzheng she had returned, and he asked if she was Little Ying.

Miao Nightingale returned to the Miao residence, where her reunion with her parents ended in betrayal when a Hehuan Sect attack revealed they had sold her years ago. After Tu Shan Jun destroyed the attackers, Miao Nightingale learned she had been sold because she alone had a spiritual root.

• Miao Nightingale reunited with Mother Miao and spent the evening with her family while her brothers and their wives showed little warmth.
• Tu Shan Jun warned Miao Nightingale that enemies had arrived, and more than ten Hehuan Sect Qi Refiners attacked her with a battle formation.
• Miao Nightingale summoned Tu Shan Jun, who appeared as a Golden Core True Person and destroyed the formation and its Qi Refiners.
• Miao Nightingale demanded to know how the Hehuan Sect had found her, and the surviving Foundation Establishment cultivator said the Miao household had summoned them with a communication talisman.
• Father Miao and Mother Miao admitted they had sold Miao Nightingale during a famine, and Father Miao said they chose her because she alone had a spiritual root.

Miao Yeying left her family after learning she had a spiritual root, refusing to punish them despite their betrayal and fleeing with Tu Shan Jun. At a mountain refuge, Tu Shan Jun discovered that her life force was rapidly fading and struggled to save her.

• Miao Yeying’s master confronted the Hehuan Sect pursuer, who begged for mercy and promised not to report her return.
• Miao Yeying’s family knelt and pleaded with her, but she chose to leave with Tu Shan Jun rather than seek revenge.
• The Hehuan Sect cultivator departed, reflecting that the Miao family had thrown away its chance to rise through Miao Yeying.
• Miao Yeying flew until she reached a mist-shrouded immortal mountain, where she rested beside the Soul Banner under a formation.
• Tu Shan Jun found Miao Yeying’s life force withering, gave her a life-saving pill, and watched her condition worsen.

Tu Shan Jun spent years preserving Miao Yeying while weighing the danger of entering her sea of consciousness, but she awakened with her life nearly spent and asked to see his true appearance. After she sent the Soul Banner away and died, a Fire Raging Sect cultivator seized it, setting the powerful treasure in the hands of a sect besieged by rival Golden Core cultivators.

• Tu Shan Jun hid Miao Yeying underground in a powerful formation and used pills to preserve her body while her shattered dao heart kept her unconscious.
• After years of waiting and searching for the missing demon, Tu Shan Jun watched Miao Yeying awaken and feared that she had awakened too late to survive.
• Miao Yeying asked to see Tu Shan Jun's appearance, learned his name and mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivation, and accepted her impending death.
• Miao Yeying threw the Soul Banner into the air and died as her yin spirit flew toward it, while Tu Shan Jun vowed to become stronger.
• A Fire Raging Sect Golden Core cultivator seized the Soul Banner, returned to his sect, and ordered its protective formation raised as four Golden Core grandmasters arrived.

Zhou Wensong tried to refine a mysterious soul banner, whose powerful presence offered him cultivation treasures in exchange for his Yin Spirit after death. He refused the bargain, and a thunder tribulation began over the distant Ghost Sea as the banner shrank and fell silent.

• Golden Core patriarchs from nearby sects learned that Zhou Wensong had obtained a powerful treasure and discussed attacking the Fireblaze Sect, while the Refining Truth Sect recruited the witness as a guest elder.
• Zhou Wensong struggled to refine the cracked soul banner and worried that he could not maintain the Fireblaze Sect’s mountain-protecting formation.
• The banner unfurled into a horned face and offered Zhou Wensong cultivation resources in exchange for his Yin Spirit after death.
• Zhou Wensong refused, explaining that he would rather live out his life than surrender his chance at reincarnation.
• Thunder sounded over the distant Ghost Sea, and Zhou Wensong discovered that the soul banner had shrunk and no longer responded to his efforts.

The Fire Blazing Sect faced a siege by the Refining Truth Sect, Thick Earth Sect, and Jade Sword Sect, and Zhou Wensong led its defense until the attackers broke through. After Zhou Wensong detonated his Golden Core and Yin God, a barefoot man appeared before Tu Shan Jun’s soul banner and claimed he had come to welcome his sect’s Supreme Elder back.

• The Refining Truth Sect, Thick Earth Sect, and Jade Sword Sect arrived with a fleet of spirit vessels and demanded Zhou Wensong hand over the black demon.
• Zhou Wensong refused, and the Fire Blazing Sect fought back with its formation, spirit vessels, and combined magical artifacts.
• Tu Shan Jun offered to repel the enemy in exchange for Zhou Wensong’s Yin God, but Zhou Wensong declined.
• After half a month of fighting, the sect’s resources ran low and its protective formation shattered, allowing the enemy forces to storm the mountain gate.
• Surrounded by three Golden Core masters, Zhou Wensong detonated his Golden Core and Yin God, creating a black sun and injuring the enemy cultivators.
• Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi moved to seize the black sun, but a barefoot man in white appeared and said he had come to welcome back his sect’s Supreme Elder.

Taiyi True Lord arrived at Fireblaze Mountain, rescued Tu Shan Jun, and helped him recover the Soul Banner. The two began recruiting cultivators for their newly founded sect, leaving fighters and locals to consider joining.

• Taiyi True Lord froze the battlefield and revealed himself as a Nascent Soul True Lord, ending the fighting.
• Taiyi True Lord restored Tu Shan Jun and his Soul Banner, then returned the bound devil to him.
• Tu Shan Jun and Taiyi True Lord discussed recruiting capable people to staff their new sect.
• Taiyi True Lord invited cultivators from the four factions to register, promising resources and the chance to become his disciples.
• Cultivators in the city and marketplace considered joining, including a Lineage youth, an elderly rogue cultivator, and a married pair of fighters.

True Lord Taiyi offered cultivators from the defeated sects a place in his new sect, and his colossal puppet-powered warship persuaded many to join. As the vessel departed, it gathered the Earththick Sect, Jade Sword Sect, and Artifact Refining Sect, whose leaders and disciples prepared to become part of Taiyi Sect.

• True Lord Taiyi invited the Fireblaze Sect and local Rogue Cultivators to join his sect, citing its fourth-rank top-grade main spirit vein and other benefits.
• The Fireblaze Sect's affairs head let people choose whether to leave, while Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi hesitated over surrendering their authority.
• True Lord Taiyi unveiled a colossal warship controlled by puppets, and the sight convinced Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi to join.
• The Fireblaze Sect packed up and boarded the warship, while some cultivators chose to remain behind.
• Xu Zhao and Zhang Dezi brought the Earththick Sect and Jade Sword Sect into Taiyi Sect, and the Artifact Refining Sect's Golden Core cultivator also agreed to join.

Qian Fei and the others left Yunji Great Island aboard Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi’s skyship, which was headed for the lawless Ghost Sea Region as the base for their new sect. When the ship crossed Heaven Roc Sect territory, True Lord Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun confronted Golden Feather after his disciple ordered them to halt.

• Qian Fei and Xu Zhao learned from Zhang De that the group was traveling to the Ghost Sea Region.
• True Lord Taiyi explained to Tu Shan Jun that the Ghost Sea was barren and lawless, but offered the safest place to establish their sect without provoking the Star Luo Sea Region’s great powers.
• The skyship alarmed sects along its route, and Heaven Roc Sect’s External Affairs Hall traced its approach toward Heavenfeather Sea.
• A Golden Core disciple of Heaven Roc Sect ordered the ship to stop, but True Lord Taiyi continued forward and Tu Shan Jun revealed his mid-stage Nascent Soul pressure.
• Golden Feather apologized on behalf of Heaven Roc Sect, and True Lord Taiyi introduced himself and asked to pass through on their way to the Ghost Sea Region.

True Lord Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun reached the Netherghost Sea to establish their sect, while the Heavenly Roc Sect and Kun Cloud Sect plotted to drive them away. As they began assessing the land for their mountain gate, Tu Shan Jun discovered that the man calling himself True Lord Taiyi looked exactly like a Nascent Soul Yin God in his soul banner.

• True Lord Golden Feather met True Lord Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun, warned that other Stellar Sea factions might object to their settlement, and agreed to convene a sect law conference.
• True Lord Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun bluffed True Lord Golden Feather and continued toward the Netherghost Sea aboard their warship.
• The Heavenly Roc Sect leaders planned to stir up opposition and pressure the newcomers, while a Nascent Soul True Lord of the Kun Cloud Sect ordered his disciples to drive them out.
• After five days, True Lord Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun reached the Netherghost Sea and found that their island lacked enough land for a top-grade fourth-rank spirit vein.
• True Lord Taiyi offered Tu Shan Jun the Bearing Mountains divine ability, but Tu Shan Jun summoned a Nascent Soul Yin God with the same face and challenged True Lord Taiyi's identity.

Tu Shan Jun learned the Shouldering Mountains divine ability and used it to lift an island toward the sect’s chosen territory. The cultivators aboard the great ship watched in amazement as the patriarchs began moving land to make room for a spirit vein.

• Tu Shan Jun questioned True Lord Taiyi about A'Fu, accepted that A'Fu had died in the heavenly tribulation, and received the sect’s divine ability inheritance.
• Tu Shan Jun learned that the chosen territory could not house a fourth-grade spirit vein, so he decided to use Shouldering Mountains to move an island there.
• Xu Zhao, Zhang Dezi, and Qian Fei discussed the possibility of conflict over better land while the cultivators waited aboard the great ship.
• After several days of meditation, Tu Shan Jun completed his study of Shouldering Mountains and received mana support from True Lord Taiyi.
• Tu Shan Jun used ten small banners and the Soul Banner to lift an island, prompting the cultivators aboard the great ship to erupt in celebration.