Chapter Summaries

At the Hanhai City auction, Gan Hai outbid Lu Changsheng’s group for the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Staff Techniques by a single spirit stone to humiliate them. The next lot was revealed as a Martial Venerable Realm Heaven-Shaking Demon Bear corpse refined into a puppet.

• Bidders drove the Nine-Tailed Fox woman’s price to two hundred million spirit stones, and Gan Hai won her for the God Water Sect.
• A Sea Clan Martial Venerable bought the Heavenly Silkworm Holy Armor, and an old man in gray robes bought the Nine Heavens Heaven-Refining Furnace for ten million spirit stones.
• Lu Changsheng bid up to seventy million for the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Staff Techniques to help Shi Jingtian, but Gan Hai repeatedly outbid him by one spirit stone and won the scroll.
• Gan Hai boasted that he intended to keep Lu Changsheng’s group from winning any lots, while Lu Changsheng chose not to continue bidding.
• Xue Fei revealed a Martial Venerable Realm Heaven-Shaking Demon Bear corpse refined into a puppet and activated it inside its cage.

At the auction, Lin Qingxuan tricked Gan Hai into paying far too much for the Heaven-Shaking Demon Bear Puppet, while Lu Changsheng watched the later lots pass. The final item was one-fourth of a remnant map to the Sea Suppressing Divine Stele, the last Domain Artifact Lu Changsheng needed to find, and his reaction revealed how much was at stake.

• The Heaven-Shaking Demon Bear Puppet sparked fierce bidding until Gan Hai invoked God Water Sect’s influence and drove the price to two hundred and thirty million Spirit Stones.
• Lin Qingxuan bid against Gan Hai, then stopped at three hundred and twenty million; Shi Jingtian revealed that she had only been raising the price to make Gan Hai overpay, and Gan Hai won the puppet for three hundred and thirty million.
• Xue Fei sold the Spatial Bracelet to Turtle Spirit Island for one hundred and thirty million Spirit Stones and the Water-Phase Spirit-Nurturing Ganoderma to Azure Wave Palace for one hundred million.
• Xue Fei revealed that the auction’s final item was one-fourth of a remnant map to the Sea Suppressing Divine Stele, causing the auction hall to erupt.
• Lu Changsheng reacted intensely to the map because the Sea Suppressing Divine Stele was the last of the four Domain Artifacts he needed to find the sealed passage to the Immortal Realm and search for his parents.

Lu Changsheng and his companions watched Gan Hai win the Sea Suppressing Divine Stele fragment map for one billion spirit stones, then planned to seize it after he left Hanhai City. Gan Hai set off toward the God Water Sect with the map, and the four followed his carriage.

• Xue Fei revealed the fragment map of the Sea Suppressing Divine Stele, and Lu Changsheng recognized it as the final clue his group needed to find the domain artifact.
• The Sea Shark Clan, Holy Whale Clan, four great sects, Lu Changsheng, and Gan Hai competed for the map until Gan Hai won it with a one-billion-spirit-stone bid.
• Lu Changsheng told Lin Qingxuan that they could take the map after the auction, while Gan Hai celebrated his purchase and dismissed concerns about its cost.
• Elder Fang urged Gan Hai to prioritize escorting the map back to the God Water Sect, so Gan Hai abandoned his plan to confront Lu Changsheng and left in a Seahorse Carriage.
• Lu Changsheng drew the Sea God Halberd and led Shi Jingtian, Lin Qingxuan, and Tu Jiao after Gan Hai, intending to act once he left Hanhai City.

Lu Changsheng and his companions ambushed Gan Hai’s convoy to seize the Sea Suppressing Divine Stele remnant map, but Elder Fang and Gan Hai’s Heaven-Shaking Demon Bear Puppet turned the interception into a fierce battle. The chapter ended with Lu Changsheng breaking free of Elder Fang’s water prison with the Sea God Halberd.

• Gan Hai dismissed Elder Fang’s warning as his convoy crossed the Raging Waves Sea, but an explosion overturned his carriage and revealed that the guards had been killed.
• Lu Changsheng, Lin Qingxuan, Shi Jingtian, and a short-haired woman emerged from the water and confronted Gan Hai.
• Lu Changsheng fought Elder Fang while Lin Qingxuan, Shi Jingtian, and the short-haired woman restrained Gan Hai’s Heaven-Shaking Demon Bear Puppet.
• Elder Fang used the God Water Art to attack Lu Changsheng with massive water techniques, while Gan Hai ordered him to seize Lu Changsheng’s Sea God Halberd.
• Lu Changsheng unleashed the Boundless Ocean technique and pierced Elder Fang’s contracting water prison.

Lu Changsheng defeated Elder Fang’s suppression with the Creation Devouring Heaven Cauldron, swallowed the God Water Seal, and badly wounded him. Elder Fang escaped into the sea, leaving Gan Hai exposed as Lu Changsheng turned toward him.

• Lu Changsheng overwhelmed Elder Fang with the Sea God Halberd, forcing him to summon the God Water Seal.
• Elder Fang used the God Water Seal to suppress Lu Changsheng, while Lin Qingxuan remained trapped fighting the Heaven-Shaking Demon Bear Puppet.
• Lu Changsheng summoned the Creation Devouring Heaven Cauldron and swallowed the God Water Seal.
• Lu Changsheng shattered Elder Fang’s water shield with a Dragon Elephant Divine Fist and sent him fleeing into the sea with severe injuries.
• Gan Hai tried to call the Heaven-Shaking Demon Bear Puppet back to protect him, but Lin Qingxuan and the others kept it pinned down as Lu Changsheng faced him.

Lu Changsheng killed Gan Hai, claimed the Heaven-Shaking Demon Bear Puppet, and refused the freed Nine-Tailed Fox woman’s offer to serve him. After Lu Changsheng and his companions fled the sea region, Gan Lan learned of his son’s death and ordered a sweeping hunt for them.

• Gan Hai tried to flee and then ambushed Lu Changsheng, but Lu Changsheng crushed his arm and killed him with the Sea God Halberd.
• Lu Changsheng claimed the Heaven-Shaking Demon Bear Puppet by imprinting his divine soul on its core, then took Gan Hai’s Cosmic Bag.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox woman thanked Lu Changsheng and offered to serve him, but he told her to leave and cultivate freely.
• Lu Changsheng led Lin Qingxuan, Shi Jingtian, and Tu Jiao away from Hanhai City before the God Water Sect could respond.
• Gan Lan learned that Gan Hai’s Soul Tablet had shattered, and Elder Fang blamed the outsiders for the murder and theft of the auction treasures and remnant map.
• Gan Lan ordered the teleportation arrays around Hanhai City shut down, the surrounding sea sealed, and the outsiders hunted with the Azure Sea Chamber of Commerce.

Lu Changsheng and his companions recovered Gan Hai’s treasures on a deserted island, where Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao used the Heavenly Venerable Pill to break through to the Martial Venerable Realm. When God Water Sect pursuers approached, Lu Changsheng turned the brand on the God Water Seal into bait and concealed a Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Array around it, leaving the group ready to ambush them.

• Lu Changsheng opened Gan Hai’s Cosmic Bag and distributed the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Staff Techniques to Shi Jingtian and the Heaven-Shaking Demon Bear Puppet core to Lin Qingxuan, then stored the fragmentary map.
• Lu Changsheng gave Tu Jiao the Heavenly Venerable Pill, and Tu Jiao and Shi Jingtian split its medicinal power and cultivated for three days.
• Shi Jingtian and Tu Jiao both broke through to the Martial Venerable Realm.
• Lu Changsheng discovered that the God Water Seal carried a tracking brand that had led God Water Sect pursuers toward the island.
• Lu Changsheng removed the brand intact, planted it inside a boulder, and concealed a seventh-grade Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Array around it.
• Lu Changsheng, Lin Qingxuan, Tu Jiao, and Shi Jingtian hid among the rocks as several God Water Sect figures raced toward the island.

Lu Changsheng lured Elder Fang and the God Water Sect elders into a deadly thunder array, then escaped with his companions as they pursued. The group chose Dragon Snake Island as their next destination while planning to seek the remaining map fragments and news of Treading Snow and Rui'er.

• Elder Fang, Elder Wu, Elder Mo, and the God Water Sect disciples followed the God Water Seal’s tracking brand to a rocky island and triggered Lu Changsheng’s Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Array.
• The array killed the pursuing elite disciples and wounded the three elders, who joined forces to break free as Lu Changsheng and his companions fled.
• Lu Changsheng warned that the God Water Sect would continue pursuing them and outlined plans to leave its territory, find the other Sea Suppressing Divine Stele map fragments, and search for Treading Snow and Rui'er.
• Tu Jiao suggested Dragon Snake Island, and the four agreed to travel there to escape the God Water Sect’s influence.

Lu Changsheng and his companions crossed into Blood Shark Race territory to avoid God Water Sect’s pursuers, but Commander Mad Shark turned against them after learning they carried a remnant map of the Sea Suppressing Divine Stele. Lu Changsheng fought Commander Mad Shark while the Blood Shark warriors surrounded the group.

• Tu Jiao warned that the Blood Shark Race controlled the waters ahead, but Lu Changsheng rejected a three-day detour and led the group straight through.
• Dozens of Blood Shark warriors emerged from the sea, and Lu Changsheng offered Commander Mad Shark the God Water Seal in exchange for safe passage.
• Commander Mad Shark accepted the seal, but a warrior showed him wanted portraits identifying Lu Changsheng’s group and their Sea Suppressing Divine Stele remnant map.
• Commander Mad Shark demanded the remnant map, and Lu Changsheng refused, preparing to force a way through with Lin Qingxuan and the others.
• Commander Mad Shark’s warriors surrounded the group, and he attacked Lu Changsheng with the Mad Shark Axe.
• Lu Changsheng met the attack with the Sea God Halberd, and the two fought fiercely above the waves.

Lu Changsheng defeated Commander Mad Shark and led his companions out of the Blood Shark Race’s territory, only for them to enter the deadly Mist Dead Sea. They met Xiao Yi, a lost-looking little girl who revealed she was a pure-blood member of the powerful Spirit Trout Race.

• Lu Changsheng used the Sea God Halberd and five Strange Thunders to defeat Commander Mad Shark, who fled with the Blood Shark warriors.
• Lu Changsheng and his companions avoided pursuing the fleeing sharks and hurried out of the dark-red sea.
• The group entered the Mist Dead Sea, where Tu Jiao recognized the forbidden waters and warned that ships had been trapped there for centuries.
• The four camped aboard an abandoned merchant ship, and Lu Changsheng noticed a little girl walking across the water toward their fire.
• The girl introduced herself as Xiao Yi, said she had sneaked away from the Spirit Trout Race, and revealed that she was pure-blooded.

Xiao Yi led Lu Changsheng and his companions out of the Mist Dead Sea, then joined them on their journey to Dragon Snake Island. When they encountered a dangerous, turbulent stretch of ocean, she used her Deep Blue Bead to calm the sea and reveal a safe route.

• Xiao Yi promised to guide Lu Changsheng and the others through the mist after enjoying Shi Jingtian’s grilled fish.
• Xiao Yi led the group through the Mist Dead Sea, and they emerged safely the next morning.
• Lu Changsheng agreed to take Xiao Yi with them to Dragon Snake Island despite the danger of their being pursued.
• The group encountered enormous whirlpools, towering waves, and hidden reefs on the way to Dragon Snake Island.
• Xiao Yi used the Deep Blue Bead to still the waves and whirlpools and expose gaps through the reefs.

Lu Changsheng and his companions reached Dragon Snake Island and learned that Murong Taxue had been imprisoned by the Dragon Family Ancestor, who planned to marry her in three days. After Lin Qingxuan confirmed the danger and the Dragon Family’s strength, Lu Changsheng resolved to exploit the wedding rather than storm the clan directly.

• Xiao Yi used the Deep Blue Bead to calm the sea, and Lu Changsheng warned her to keep the valuable treasure hidden.
• The group arrived on Dragon Island and learned from a merchant that the Dragon Family Ancestor planned to marry a rescued woman named Murong in three days.
• Lu Changsheng recognized the woman as Murong Taxue from the description of her injuries and ice-blue sword sheath, and Lin Qingxuan went to investigate.
• Lin Qingxuan confirmed that Taxue was imprisoned in the Dragon Family’s rear-courtyard dungeon under heavy guard, while the Dragon Family had at least twenty Martial Venerable experts.
• After Lu Changsheng and Shi Jingtian reacted furiously, Lu Changsheng suppressed his anger and decided to use the wedding to find a way to reach Taxue.

Lin Qingxuan devised a plan to abduct Long Ming and use him to force the Dragon Family Ancestor to release Taxue. Lin Qingxuan and Tu Jiao captured Long Ming at Drunken Spring Pavilion and escaped with him, leaving the rescue plan underway.

• Lin Qingxuan proposed capturing Long Ming, the Dragon Family Ancestor's beloved grandson, to use as leverage at the wedding banquet.
• Lin Qingxuan and Tu Jiao disguised themselves to attract Long Ming's attention, while Lu Changsheng arranged covert support outside Drunken Spring Pavilion.
• Long Ming arrived at Drunken Spring Pavilion, where Lin Qingxuan and Tu Jiao drew the attention of the entire hall and impressed him with their compliments.
• Long Ming led Lin Qingxuan and Tu Jiao into a private room, where Tu Jiao knocked him unconscious.
• Lin Qingxuan stored Long Ming in a spirit beast pouch, and she and Tu Jiao escaped through the rear window.

Lu Changsheng’s group kidnapped Long Ming and learned the Long family’s strength and wedding plans, then decided to try trading him for Murong Taxue at the wedding banquet. At the Long estate, Murong Taxue endured Long Xiaotian’s abuse and resolved to hold on until Lu Changsheng came to save her.

• Lin Qingxuan and Tu Jiao brought the bound, unconscious Long Ming to Lu Changsheng and the others, and Shi Jingtian slapped him awake.
• Lu Changsheng questioned Long Ming and learned that Long Xiaotian was a peak Martial Venerable, the Long family had over twenty Martial Venerables, and guards would be concentrated at the wedding banquet.
• Lu Changsheng returned Long Ming to the Spirit Beast Bag and planned to attend the wedding in two days to bargain for Murong Taxue, despite the risk of fighting the Long family.
• At the Long estate, Murong Taxue threatened to kill herself when Long Xiaotian tried to touch her, but he slapped and assaulted her before leaving.
• Murong Taxue composed herself and waited for the wedding, hoping Lu Changsheng would arrive before it was too late.

Lu Changsheng and his companions crashed Long Xiaotian’s wedding banquet to rescue Murong Taxue, whom the Dragon Family Ancestor had taken as a concubine. They forced Long Xiaotian to release her and prepare a boat, but they had not yet escaped Dragon Snake Island.

• At Long Xiaotian’s wedding banquet, Murong Taxue prepared to kill herself rather than let him touch her, while Long Ming was dragged in beaten and bound.
• Lu Changsheng and his companions burst through the Dragon Family estate’s gates, and Shi Jingtian publicly condemned Long Xiaotian for forcing Murong Taxue into marriage.
• Lu Changsheng declared Murong Taxue was his woman and threatened Long Ming, while Lin Qingxuan wounded Long Ming to make Long Xiaotian yield.
• Long Xiaotian ordered his people to stand down, and Murong Taxue tore off her wedding robe and joined Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng demanded a boat and warned Long Xiaotian not to pursue them, and Long Xiaotian ordered an elder to prepare one.

Lu Changsheng escaped Dragon Snake Island with Murong Taxue and their companions, but learned that Rui'er had been scattered elsewhere by the Spatial Storm. With the Dragon Family and God Water Sect hunting them, the group followed Xiao Yi to seek refuge with the Spirit Trout Race, arriving at its magnificent underwater city.

• Lu Changsheng sailed away from Dragon Snake Island after threatening Long Xiaotian with the soul brand he had planted in Long Ming, and Long Xiaotian issued a bounty and ordered the Dragon Family to hunt them.
• Lu Changsheng treated Murong Taxue's injuries, and she revealed that the Spatial Storm had separated her from Rui'er.
• Lu Changsheng reassured the group that Rui'er might still be alive and planned to search for the Dark Gold Array Seal brand he had left on her.
• Lu Changsheng decided the group should seek shelter with the Spirit Trout Race after Xiao Yi offered to bring them to her underwater home.
• Xiao Yi led Lu Changsheng and the others through the sea to the Spirit Trout Race's vast coral city and Crystal Palace.

Lu Changsheng and his companions reached the Spirit Trout Race’s Crystal Palace with Xiao Yi, but Bai Ling accused Lu Changsheng of stealing the Sea God Halberd and attacked him. Xiao Yi intervened, and Elder Han arrived to hear Lu Changsheng explain the halberd’s origins.

• Xiao Yi brought Lu Changsheng and his companions to the Crystal Palace, where the gate commanders said they needed the clan chief’s permission to admit the humans.
• Bai Ling arrived with Golden Tiger Shark Race elders, spotted the Sea God Halberd, and falsely claimed it had been stolen from him.
• Lu Changsheng and his companions challenged Bai Ling’s accusation, but Bai Ling drew his sword and attacked Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng fought Bai Ling in the palace square and gained a slight advantage with the Sea God Halberd.
• Xiao Yi rushed out of the palace and defended Lu Changsheng, while Elder Han arrived and asked Lu Changsheng to explain the halberd’s origins.

Lu Changsheng proved the Sea God Halberd was bound to him when it rejected Bai Ling, then entered the Spirit Trout Race’s crystal palace with his companions and received Xuan Ming’s protection. The chapter ended with Xuan Lan challenging Lu Changsheng to a weapon spar.

• Lu Changsheng challenged Bai Ling to test the Sea God Halberd’s allegiance, and the weapon wounded Bai Ling before returning to Lu Changsheng.
• Elder Xuan Han confirmed the halberd was Lu Changsheng’s lifebound divine weapon, and Bai Ling retreated into the palace after offering a strained apology.
• Xuan Han welcomed Lu Changsheng and his companions into the crystal palace, where Xiao Yi treated them to Spirit Trout Race delicacies.
• Xuan Ming arrived, welcomed Xiao Yi’s friends, and promised they could remain under his protection from the God Water Sect and the Dragon Family.
• Xuan Lan challenged Lu Changsheng to spar with their Sea God Halberd and Sea God Fork, while Xiao Yi protested.

Lu Changsheng accepted Xuan Lan’s challenge and fought him at the First-Rank Martial Venerable level, with the Sea God Halberd overpowering the Spirit Trout Race’s Sea God Fork. Xuan Ming acknowledged Lu Changsheng’s strength, while Xuan Lan promised to challenge him again after recovering.

• Xuan Lan sealed his cultivation down to Lu Changsheng’s level and challenged him to a weapon-only duel, while Xuan Ming and Xiao Yi urged him to stand down.
• The Sea God Halberd awakened on its own and pointed toward Xuan Lan’s Sea God Fork, prompting Lu Changsheng to accept the duel.
• Lu Changsheng and Xuan Lan exchanged powerful techniques in the Ten Thousand Seas Ancestral Hall, damaging the floor, pillars, and dome as the elders protected the hall.
• Xuan Lan unleashed Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate, but Lu Changsheng answered with Water Dragon Roar and defeated him, widening the notch on the Sea God Fork.
• Xiao Yi celebrated Lu Changsheng’s victory, and Xuan Ming dismissed the duel’s damage and arranged for Xuan Lan’s treatment and another Ten Thousand Seas Banquet.

Lu Changsheng discovered that the Sea Suppressing Divine Stele map fragment was pointing toward a second fragment hidden in the Spirit Trout Race’s forbidden ground. He slipped past its guards, while Bai Ling saw his chance to frame him and seize the Sea God Halberd.

• After the banquet, Elder Xuan Han escorted Lu Changsheng and his companions to the Azure Water Cave, where Murong Taxue began healing with an Azure Sea Soul-Nourishing Pill.
• Lu Changsheng sensed the map fragment trembling, opened its box, and found its golden light pointing deeper into the sea.
• Following the fragment, Lu Changsheng reached the Spirit Trout Race’s forbidden ground, guarded by two powerful gray-robed elders.
• Lu Changsheng used a concealment spiritual formation to slip past the guards and enter the misty canyon.
• Bai Ling and three Golden Tiger Shark Race elders watched Lu Changsheng enter, then Bai Ling decided to accuse him to Patriarch Xuan Ming and claim the Sea God Halberd.