Chapter Summaries

Xu Chunniang found Little Orange’s trail and confronted Jinlinglong, who refused to give Qiongqi back and ordered her captured. Xu Chunniang struck first, but Jinlinglong and the four Golden Snake Sea Clan cultivators counterattacked, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Little White sensed Little Orange nearby and warned Xu Chunniang that six powerful Sea Clan cultivators were with it.
• Xu Chunniang found Jinlinglong and demanded that she return Qiongqi, but Jinlinglong refused and ordered her attendants to capture Xu Chunniang.
• Xu Chunniang concealed Purple Intent Blades inside Spiritual Qi Bullets, catching the four attacking cultivators off guard.
• Xu Chunniang used her black tower against the maid’s golden snake artifact and immobilized the maid with the Soul Stabilizing Realm.
• Jinlinglong attacked with a rope as the four cultivators regrouped and launched killing moves at Xu Chunniang.

Xu Chunniang killed Xiaolian and used Soul Devouring Mist and the Five Elements Confinement Formation to fight Jinlinglong and the Golden Snake Clan cultivators. After slaying another opponent before the formation broke, she faced the remaining three and suspected the Sea Clan had been secretly directing attacks on human islands.

• Xu Chunniang killed Xiaolian with a Purple Intent Blade, provoking Jinlinglong to attack her with golden sand.
• Xu Chunniang released Soul Devouring Mist, concealed herself inside it, and set up the Five Elements Confinement Formation while the five opponents tried to avoid the mist.
• Xu Chunniang attacked Jinlinglong with the Mountain and River Diagram and Soul-Fixing Mirror, but Jinlinglong blocked both attacks.
• Xu Chunniang shifted her assault to a weaker cultivator, fixed his soul with the Soul-Fixing Mirror, and killed him with a Purple Intent Blade.
• Jinlinglong shattered the confinement formation, and Xu Chunniang suspected the Sea Clan was behind the sea demon attacks on human islands.

Xu Chunniang fought Jinlinglong and three Sea Clan cultivators who sought revenge for their slain kin and refused to surrender Qiongqi. After their attacks failed to stop her, Jinlinglong activated a scale imbued with her Nascent Soul Realm father’s divine ability, preparing to strike Xu Chunniang with a deadly move.

• Xu Chunniang demanded that Jinlinglong hand over Qiongqi, then dodged the attacks of Jinlinglong and the three Sea Clan cultivators with the Nine Steps of Freedom.
• Jinlinglong rejected a suggestion to lure Xu Chunniang toward the Yao Fish Clan and activated the Golden Snake Seal, summoning a golden snake phantom that constricted Xu Chunniang.
• Xu Chunniang burned the golden snake with the Heartfall Flame, escaped its coils, and used the Mountain and River Diagram to defend against the others’ attacks.
• Jinlinglong summoned a venomous jade-green snake, but Xu Chunniang burned it with the Heartfall Flame and escaped again, leaving the fight at a stalemate.
• Jinlinglong took out a golden scale given to her by her Nascent Soul Realm father and activated it to unleash his divine ability against Xu Chunniang.

Xu Chunniang used a life-saving Talisman Treasure to turn Jinlinglong’s attack back on her, killed her, and recovered Little Orange from a beast ring. Poisoned and pursued by the Sea Clan, Xu Chunniang escaped into her small world, where the venom stopped short of her dantian and reached a temporary balance.

• Xu Chunniang activated her life-saving Talisman Treasure, and the aged figure redirected Jinlinglong’s golden scale into Jinlinglong, fatally wounding her.
• Xu Chunniang took Jinlinglong’s earrings, found Little Orange unconscious inside a beast ring, and fled after the other Sea Clan members attacked and poisoned her.
• A Sea Clan cultivator reported Jinlinglong’s death to Young General Jinliu, who ordered the Sea Clan to capture Xu Chunniang before she left the sea.
• Xu Chunniang evaded her pursuers and Sea Clan patrols while the venom spread through her body, then entered her small world to treat it.
• The venom advanced toward Xu Chunniang’s dantian, but the little branch there trembled and stopped it, leaving the poison and her Spiritual Veins in temporary balance.

Xu Chunniang freed Little Orange’s Primordial Spirit from Qiongqi’s seal, and Little Orange expelled Qiongqi’s sleeping Primordial Spirit from the small world. After discovering Qiongqi’s stolen Sea Spirit Pearls, Xu Chunniang and her companions began absorbing them before their spiritual energy faded.

• Xu Chunniang found Little Orange’s sealed Primordial Spirit and wore away the seal while Qiongqi slept under the mirage demon’s Great Dream Technique.
• Little Orange broke free, found Qiongqi’s Primordial Spirit in its body, and tossed it out of the small world rather than killing it.
• Little Orange spat out dozens of Sea Spirit Pearls, and Xu Chunniang realized their spiritual energy would vanish within ten days.
• Little Orange disgorged more than a hundred Sea Spirit Pearls and other stolen materials, then began absorbing the pearls alongside Xu Chunniang.
• Little White tried to absorb a Sea Spirit Pearl, but its Foundation Establishment Perfection cultivation did not change.

Xu Chunniang absorbed Sea Spirit Pearls and, aided by a mysterious branch, broke through to Golden Core Layer Four and cured her snake venom. After leaving the small world, she encountered unnaturally united sea demon beasts and suspected a tide was threatening the nearby islands; the sight she saw on the distant horizon left her alarmed.

• Xu Chunniang and Little Orange consumed Sea Spirit Pearls and each advanced to Golden Core Layer Three, while Little Orange stopped absorbing them to protect its foundation.
• Xu Chunniang continued absorbing Sea Spirit Pearls, but the little branch drained their spiritual energy and produced a wisp of blue-green energy that enlarged her Purple Core.
• Xu Chunniang broke through to Golden Core Layer Four as the blue-green energy drove the snake venom from her Spiritual Veins and restored her left forearm.
• Xu Chunniang left the small world and encountered waves of unusually coordinated sea demon beasts, prompting her to suspect a sea demon beast tide.
• Xu Chunniang used the Nine Steps of Freedom to escape the sea demon beasts, then surfaced and saw a distant scene that made her heart sink.

Xu Chunniang arrived at Qionglin Island after its protection formation had fallen and joined the two surviving Golden Core cultivators against the sea demons. She killed one demon and faced the late Golden Core Crocodile Demon as the battle continued.

• Xu Chunniang saw the sea demons slaughtering Qionglin Island’s inhabitants and learned that six Golden Core demons had attacked, leaving only two human Golden Core cultivators alive.
• Xu Chunniang chose to help and used the Soul-Fixing Mirror to kill a sea demon preparing to ambush the island’s defenders.
• The old woman and pale-faced scholar rallied the island’s cultivators by announcing that reinforcements had arrived, while Xu Chunniang claimed more were on the way.
• The old woman and pale-faced scholar engaged four early Golden Core sea demons as Xu Chunniang confronted the late Golden Core Crocodile Demon.
• The Crocodile Demon evaded the Soul-Fixing Mirror and spat out corrosive water pellets, so Xu Chunniang countered with Heartfall Flame.

Xu Chunniang and the defenders of Qionglin Island killed the attacking sea demonic beasts and drove off the survivors. Reinforcements from Wind Thunder Island arrived after the battle and learned that an unknown Fellow Daoist Xu had turned the tide.

• Xu Chunniang bound the Crocodile Demon, wounded it with the Purple Intent Blade, and killed it with her black tower and a final strike.
• Xu Chunniang, the old woman, and the fair-faced scholar killed the remaining five Golden Core demonic beasts, and the old woman ordered the island's cultivators to hunt down the others.
• Xu Chunniang released Little White to fight Foundation Establishment beasts, and Little White cautiously ambushed and killed a weak toad from underground.
• The island's defenders purged the remaining sea demonic beasts as reinforcements from Wind Thunder Island finally arrived.
• The old woman credited Xu Chunniang with saving Qionglin Island, while the reinforcements said they had not traveled with anyone by that name.

Xu Chunniang learned that slaying four Golden Core sea demon beasts had earned her more than two thousand merit points, which could be exchanged for valuable resources as Yanzhou rallied cultivators against an unprecedented sea demon tide. After saving Qionglin Island, she learned that many other islands had already fallen, while the island’s destroyed teleportation formation left her and the reinforcements facing a delayed return.

• The Wind Thunder Island cultivators met Xu Chunniang and praised her for killing four Golden Core sea demon beasts to save Qionglin Island.
• Cultivator Zhou explained that Xu Chunniang had earned at least two thousand merit points, which could be exchanged for Spirit Stones and rare treasures, including Nascent Soul Pills.
• Xu Chunniang learned that several medium-sized islands and more than a dozen small islands in Xuanzhou had fallen to an unusually powerful sea demon tide.
• The old woman worried that sea demon beasts might attack Qionglin Island again, but Cultivator Zhou said they generally moved on after a failed assault.
• The old woman told Cultivator Zhou that Qionglin Island’s teleportation formation had been destroyed, so the Wind Thunder Island cultivators would have to take a longer route home.

Xu Chunniang chose to travel to Wind Thunder Island and fight sea demon beasts to earn merit points for cultivation resources and information about the Dead Sea. After arriving, she learned how to accept missions and examined the Merit Rankings before Zhou Xing offered to exchange soul signatures.

• Xu Chunniang declined the old woman's offer to stay on Qionglin Island and agreed to go with Zhou Xing to Wind Thunder Island.
• Xu Chunniang called back Little White, whose Storage Ring held five or six Foundation Establishment Realm sea demon beasts worth nearly two hundred merit points.
• Xu Chunniang and Zhou Xing traveled to Wind Thunder Island and went to the Merit Hall, where he explained the island-status display and how to accept missions.
• Xu Chunniang learned that the Merit Rankings granted rewards and discounts, and saw that Qin Yu led the Golden Core ranking with more than fifty thousand points.
• Zhou Xing introduced himself by name and offered to exchange soul signatures with Xu Chunniang so she could contact him for help.

Xu Chunniang joined Zhou Xing, Zhou Yu, and Chang Sheng on a rescue mission to Red Sand Island. They arrived as sea demon beasts threatened the island’s defensive formation, and Xu Chunniang realized the coming battle could be deadly for Golden Core cultivators.

• Xu Chunniang agreed to travel with Zhou Xing, his aunt Zhou Yu, and his cousin Chang Sheng after they met at the Merit Hall.
• The four chose a rescue mission to Red Sand Island, where six Nascent Soul Realm sea demon beasts and many lesser beasts were attacking.
• They teleported to Red Sand Island alongside other reinforcements and found its protective formation still holding against the sea demon beasts.
• Zhou Xing assessed that the beasts were probing the defenses, while Xu Chunniang worried that the Nascent Soul Realm beasts might be acting through an agreement with the Sea Clan.
• Xu Chunniang recognized that if the formation fell and a full battle began, even Golden Core cultivators would face mortal danger.

As the sea demon beasts attacked Red Sand Island’s formation, Xu Chunniang guarded its weak points while the island’s cultivators fought back. Zhou Yu realized Xu might be a skilled Formation Master and urged Chang Sheng to befriend her, but he resisted.

• The sea demon beasts launched their assault, and Island Lord Mo Ci ordered the cultivators to defend the formation.
• Xu Chunniang killed beasts near weak points in the formation, while Chang Sheng criticized her and Zhou Xing defended her.
• Mo Ci recognized Xu’s efforts, sent Mo Family disciples to guard the formation nodes, and arranged for them to help her if needed.
• Zhou Yu suspected Xu was a Formation Master and questioned Zhou Xing about her.
• Zhou Yu told Chang Sheng to befriend Xu for her formation skills, but Chang Sheng dismissed her as an unworthy Rogue Cultivator.

Chang Sheng tried to impress Xu Chunniang but failed to earn merit points, while a Nascent Soul great demon began attacking the island’s formation. Fellow Daoist Xie drew one demon away, and Mo Ci sent the other Nascent Soul Cultivators out to divide the remaining demons’ strength as the formation buckled.

• Chang Sheng accepted Zhou Yu’s plan to pursue Xu Chunniang and tried to impress her by killing a sea demon beast, but she continued collecting merit points on her own.
• Chang Sheng attacked a mid-Golden Core sea demon beast, but it evaded him, and he earned no merit points before finding that nearby Foundation Establishment beasts had already been killed.
• A Nascent Soul great demon attacked the formation, and Fellow Daoist Xie used her bell-shaped treasure to engage it outside the barrier.
• The other five Nascent Soul great demons struck the Island Protection Grand Formation together, causing it to cave in while Mo Ci began repairs.
• Mo Ci told the other two Nascent Soul Cultivators to leave the formation and draw away the remaining demons, though the old man feared being surrounded outside.

Red Sand Island’s defenders struggled to hold off the sea demon invasion as Mo Ci left the formation to draw the three remaining Nascent Soul great demons away. His repeated attacks and retreats finally made them abandon their assault on the formation and close in on him instead.

• The beautiful woman and an old man left the formation to draw away two Nascent Soul demons while Mo Ci and the defenders protected Red Sand Island’s formation from the others.
• A squad of elderly Golden Core cultivators attacked the sea demons with desperate resolve, and Elder Xue killed one demon before dying and having his Golden Core consumed.
• Mo Ci judged that the defenders could not keep holding the formation, handed his formation eye to a trusted subordinate, and went to engage the three Nascent Soul great demons.
• Mo Ci tried to lure the three demons eastward, but they repeatedly turned back to attack the formation, injuring the cultivator guarding its eye.
• Mo Ci continued harassing the demons until they decided to kill him first and surrounded him.

After Mo Ci lured away three Nascent Soul great demons, cultivators launched a desperate defense of Red Sand Island. Xu Chunniang killed a mid-Golden Core sea demon beast with one strike, while Zhou Yu grew wary of her strength; the battle continued for two days and nights.

• Mo Ci drew three Nascent Soul great demons east, prompting Red Sand Island’s cultivators to charge out and fight the sea demon beasts.
• Chang Sheng tried to protect Xu Chunniang but was burned by a mid-Golden Core sea demon beast and fled.
• Xu Chunniang killed the beast with a Purple Intent Blade and disappeared to find another target.
• Chang Sheng told Zhou Yu what Xu Chunniang had done, and Zhou Yu decided to investigate her strength before making plans.
• Zhou Xing asked Chang Sheng where Xu Chunniang was, then returned to fighting when Chang Sheng said she had vanished.
• Cultivators of all levels fought in shifts as the battle over Red Sand Island lasted two days and nights.

A seventh Nascent Soul great demon arrived at Red Sand Island, turning the battle sharply against the human cultivators and prompting debate over whether to flee. Zhou Xing, Zhou Yu, Chang Sheng, and Xu Chunniang disagreed about abandoning the island, and Zhou Xing learned that his father had instructed Zhou Yu to watch over him.

• A seventh Nascent Soul great demon reached Red Sand Island, killed cultivators with a wave of its tail, and waited for the other great demons to return before attacking the formation.
• The Mo family patriarch ordered the Mo Family disciples to defend the formation while worrying about the Old Ancestor, who was fighting three great demons alone.
• Some cultivators urged retreating through the transmission formation to Wind Thunder Island, while others insisted on defending Red Sand Island.
• Chang Sheng privately told Zhou Yu they might need to flee, and Zhou Yu urged Zhou Xing and Xu Chunniang to leave before the other great demons returned.
• Zhou Xing argued that abandoning Red Sand Island would leave Wind Thunder Island without aid in a future crisis, while Zhou Yu and Chang Sheng defended their wish to retreat.
• Zhou Xing told Zhou Yu to leave if she had made up her mind, and she reminded him that his father had instructed her to keep a close eye on him.

Zhou Xing stayed on Red Sand Island while Zhou Yu and Chang Sheng left, but the island’s defenders soon learned that a Nascent Soul elder had fallen and two great demons were attacking the formation. As sea beasts broke through, Xu Chunniang and the other cultivators fought to protect the island, while the Mo family patriarch strained to repair the failing formation.

• Zhou Xing refused to leave Red Sand Island, while Zhou Yu and Chang Sheng went to the teleportation hall and departed after waiting and paying to leave early.
• A bloodied great demon returned, and the Zhao family discovered that Great-Grandfather’s soul lamp had gone out.
• Two Nascent Soul great demons attacked the island’s formation, and Xu Chunniang tried to strike the injured demon with her Soul-Fixing Mirror and Purple Intent Blades.
• The formation cracked in several places, allowing sea beasts to breach it, and Red Sand Island’s cultivators gathered to defend the openings.
• The Mo family patriarch used pills and exhausted his divine sense to repair the formation, turning his black hair ash-gray as the breaches began to close.

The Mo family patriarch burned his divine soul to keep Red Sand Island’s formation intact, but a Nascent Soul great demon eventually broke through and attacked the island. Snow Sword Immortal arrived in time to kill the intruder and challenge the second demon, leaving the island’s fate in her hands.

• The Mo family patriarch burned his divine soul to repair the formation while the sea demons continued attacking Red Sand Island.
• The one-legged Nascent Soul great demon broke through the formation and unleashed a hurricane across the island.
• Xu Chunniang evaded the great demon’s attacks until Snow Sword Immortal ambushed it and killed it with her sword.
• Snow Sword Immortal stored the demon’s corpse and charged toward the remaining fish-shaped great demon.
• The cultivators cheered at Snow Sword Immortal’s arrival, and the Mo family patriarch smiled before fainting.

Snow Sword Immortal and Dao Yuan helped drive the sea demon beasts from Red Sand Island, where Mo Ci and the other Nascent Soul cultivators later returned safely. The leaders learned that the Sea Clan was preparing another major move near Wind Thunder Island, raising fears of a wider war.

• Snow Sword Immortal drove off the fish-shaped great demon and left Red Sand Island to help Mo Ci, while Dao Yuan stayed to guard the island.
• With the invading demons in disarray, Dao Yuan and the human cultivators slaughtered them and earned contribution points.
• Zhou Xing and Xu Chunniang prepared to leave after the island’s crisis had passed, but Mo Ci, two other Nascent Soul True Lords, and Snow Sword True Monarch returned.
• Snow Sword Immortal revealed that the Sea Clan’s activity near Wind Thunder Island had delayed the reinforcements to Red Sand Island.
• The cultivators discussed the Sea Clan’s past war with humanity and the Three Immortal Islands’ refusal to enter worldly conflicts, while Snow Sword Immortal urged them to face events as they came.

After Red Sand Island survived the attack, Mo Ci mourned Mo Qi and gave Xu Chunniang his formation insights. Snow Sword Immortal offered to teach Xu Chunniang the sword, but Xu Chunniang refused, and Mo Ci warned her and Zhou Xing about possible Sea Clan activity near Wind Thunder Island.

• Mo Ci found the dying Mo Qi, who said he had helped hold Red Sand Island and died without resentment toward his great-grandfather.
• Snow Sword Immortal accused Mo Ci of causing Mo Qi's death and condemned his decision to send Golden Core cultivators to protect the island.
• Mo Ci recognized Xu Chunniang's skill in formations and gave her a bone fragment containing his early formation insights.
• Snow Sword Immortal praised Xu Chunniang's decisive fighting and offered to accept her as a registered disciple if she abandoned formations to learn swordsmanship, but Xu Chunniang refused.
• Mo Ci told Xu Chunniang and Zhou Xing that the Sea Clan might be near Wind Thunder Island and warned them not to spread the unconfirmed news.