Chapter Summaries

Xu Chunniang refused to join the Golden Core cultivators’ hunting teams and bought a comprehensive sea chart from the Sun Family. She set out alone toward a Gu Diao cave to test her strength, leaving the ship’s three-month return deadline behind her.

• Sun Muyun realized Xu Chunniang had seen through his intentions and decided to settle for his next-best option.
• Xu Chunniang rejected invitations from the Bearded Man and the other cultivators, choosing not to join a team.
• The Sun Family announced that its ship would return in three months, and the Golden Core cultivators formed five teams before heading out to sea.
• Xu Chunniang bought the Sun Family’s broader sea chart and compared it with her older West Sea Chart.
• Xu Chunniang flew alone toward a nearby Gu Diao cave, intent on testing her progress against the powerful sea demon beasts.

Xu Chunniang tested her body refinement against four Golden Core Gu Diao, defeating them without killing them before moving on to challenge a Peak Golden Core Mystic Ink Turtle. The turtle concealed itself in poisonous black water and drew her into a powerful vortex, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Xu Chunniang fought four Golden Core Gu Diao using only her body, injuring all of them and leaving them alive.
• Xu Chunniang traveled to a shallow seabed and found a Peak Golden Core Mystic Ink Turtle in its cave.
• The Mystic Ink Turtle concealed itself in poisonous black water and attacked Xu Chunniang with exploding water arrows, which the Primordial Heavy Water blocked.
• Xu Chunniang waited in the darkness and used the Nine Steps of Freedom to charge the turtle when it attacked again, but it escaped by spreading more black water.
• The Mystic Ink Turtle stirred the surrounding sea into a powerful vortex with Xu Chunniang at its center.

Xu Chunniang fought the peak Golden Core Mystic Ink Turtle to temper her newly strengthened body, eventually cracking its shell and driving it to flee. She let the turtle escape and remained in its vortex, considering how to grow stronger before attempting to form a Nascent Soul and face the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.

• The Mystic Ink Turtle approached the vortex, but Xu Chunniang broke free and struck its shell, then tested its strength with a series of increasingly powerful attacks.
• Xu Chunniang chased the fleeing turtle, honing her use of spiritual energy as her blows dented its shell and its pleas turned to curses.
• Xu Chunniang cracked the turtle's shell, prompting it to unleash a huge vortex and flee while she was swallowed by it.
• Xu Chunniang stayed inside the vortex and reflected on her coming Nascent Soul tribulation and the need to further temper her body after the Gu Diao had broken through her defenses.

Xu Chunniang deliberately entered a weakened Spiritual Qi Storm to temper her body and prepare to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm so she could cross the West Sea. After enduring the storm with help from her treasures, she remained inside and continued her dangerous attempt.

• Xu Chunniang decided to use a weakened Spiritual Qi Storm to strengthen her body and traveled to places where storms often appeared.
• Xu Chunniang encountered a storm and ignored the Bearded Man's warnings, choosing to face it while he and his companions fled.
• The storm swept Xu Chunniang into a vortex, where its spiritual qi pressure injured her and proved far stronger than the Heaven-grade Body Tempering Room.
• Xu Chunniang used the Primordial Heavy Water, then the Heartfall Flame, to shield herself while she circulated her cultivation technique and adjusted to the violent spiritual qi.
• Xu Chunniang endured the storm again, brought out the Mountain and River Diagram as she neared her limit, and swallowed a medicinal pill before continuing her body-tempering attempt.

Xu Chunniang missed the Sun Family fleet’s return after staying at sea to temper her body in increasingly powerful Spiritual Qi Storms. She faced a Nascent Soul Realm Serpent-transformation Beast and, after its attacks broke through her flame and armor, defended herself with a Taiji Diagram.

• The Sun Family fleet returned with only twenty-five of its original thirty-six Golden Core cultivators, while Brother Meng wondered whether the female cultivator he had encountered had survived the storm.
• Sun Muyun learned from Fifth Uncle that Fairy Xu had been swallowed by a storm and mourned her disappearance.
• Xu Chunniang continued tempering her body in stronger Spiritual Qi Storms until she encountered a Serpent-transformation Beast that tried to devour her.
• Xu Chunniang fled the Nascent Soul great demon, then used Primordial Heavy Water armor and Heartfall Flame to meet its waves head-on, but both defenses were destroyed.
• Xu Chunniang formed a Taiji Diagram with Innate Violet Qi, and it blocked the Serpent-transformation Beast’s waves while absorbing most of their force.

Xu Chunniang fought the Nascent Soul Realm Serpent-transformation Beast, using her unusual techniques and treasures to injure it despite being badly hurt herself. She broke through the ice wall and escaped with her last Teleportation Talisman, leaving the beast enraged.

• The Serpent-transformation Beast trapped Xu Chunniang in ice and attacked her with hurricanes, Water Chains, and a Water Net.
• Xu Chunniang detonated her Cloud-Glimmer Scarf to escape the net, then used the Taiji Diagram to drain some of the beast's life force.
• The Serpent-transformation Beast struck Xu Chunniang repeatedly, leaving her left arm limp and her body badly injured.
• Xu Chunniang enlarged and reversed the Taiji Diagram, whose explosion grazed and wounded the Serpent-transformation Beast.
• Xu Chunniang used her black tower to break a hole in the ice wall and escaped with her last Teleportation Talisman, enraging the beast.

After escaping the Serpent-transformation Beast, Xu Chunniang used a mystical branch to heal her grievous injuries and strengthen her Violet Core. With the return journey growing too dangerous, she decided to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm during the Spiritual Qi Storm’s weakened period.

• Xu Chunniang escaped the Serpent-transformation Beast with a Teleportation Talisman and hid beneath the sea until she reached a deserted island.
• Xu Chunniang found that her bones and internal organs were badly injured and realized medicinal pills could not heal her in time.
• Xu Chunniang used white qi from the Taiji Diagram to heal two broken bones, but her Violet Core could produce no more.
• Xu Chunniang activated the small branch in her dantian, and its blue-green qi healed her injuries, replenished her Essence Blood, and strengthened her Violet Core.
• Xu Chunniang decided to use the remaining weakened period of the Spiritual Qi Storm to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm.

Xu Chunniang used pill liquid to refine her form and successfully condensed a Nascent Soul while her awareness traveled across the West Sea. After glimpsing a colossal Kunpeng and a distant fishing boat, she resolved to cross the sea herself and search for her homeland.

• Xu Chunniang gathered Spirit Stones from her small world and began breaking apart her violet pill to form a Nascent Soul.
• Xu Chunniang followed newly revealed instructions to refine her form with pill liquid, entering a state of Heaven and Earth Resonance as her Nascent Soul took shape.
• Xu Chunniang's awareness traveled across the West Sea, where she saw West Sea Island and encountered a Kunpeng whose power nearly scattered her awareness.
• Xu Chunniang continued west until she spotted a mortal fishing boat, but an invisible force pulled her awareness back as her Nascent Soul formed.
• Xu Chunniang emerged from cultivation and resolved to cross the West Sea herself in search of her homeland.

Xu Chunniang endured the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, absorbing its lightning with the Five Elements Body Tempering method and forming a lightning pearl within her Primordial Spirit. After surviving all thirty-six bolts, she discovered that the tribulation clouds had not dispersed and prepared for an anomalous strike of golden lightning.

• Xu Chunniang reflected on her past and reaffirmed her Dao Heart as the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation gathered overhead.
• Xu Chunniang endured the first three rounds of lightning, using the Five Elements Body Tempering method to absorb its power and expand a purple lightning pearl within her Primordial Spirit.
• Xu Chunniang survived the fourth round's final bolt, but the tribulation clouds remained and continued gathering power.
• Xu Chunniang took pills, activated a formation, retrieved the Mountain and River Diagram and the black tower, and began condensing the Taiji Diagram.
• Xu Chunniang recognized that golden lightning was forming and activated the Taiji Diagram as the anomalous strike descended.

Xu Chunniang survived an unexpectedly powerful golden divine lightning bolt during her Nascent Soul tribulation, then recovered stronger than before. She suspected the Tai Xu Xiaoyao Heart Sutra caused tribulations to grow stronger and tested her new ability to draw on the surrounding heaven and earth.

• Xu Chunniang used her artifacts, Nascent Soul essence, Heartfall Flame, Primordial Heavy Water, and violet lightning bead to withstand the golden divine lightning.
• The lightning shattered Xu Chunniang's body and divine sense, but the violet lightning bead protected her heart meridians and dantian until the bolt dissipated.
• Auspicious rain and dew revived Xu Chunniang after the tribulation clouds dispersed, and she considered whether her cultivation technique had caused the extra lightning bolt.
• Xu Chunniang recovered and found her constitution and divine sense stronger than before.
• Xu Chunniang realized she could resonate with the local heaven and earth, then used its spiritual energy to raise waves and strengthen a water arrow.

After breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm, Xu Chunniang mastered new techniques and tempered her body in the Spiritual Qi Storm on her way to West Sea Island. There, she found Little Orange and Little White in danger and revealed herself to the cultivator trying to seize them.

• Xu Chunniang learned Nascent Soul teleportation, awakened the Taiji Diagram's Three Talents Formation, and practiced the third step of the Nine Steps of Freedom.
• Xu Chunniang entered the strengthened Spiritual Qi Storm, used it to temper her body for more than a month, and reached West Sea Island after traveling for over half a year.
• A gaunt young man tried to persuade Little Orange and Little White to contract with him, then seized Little White when they refused.
• Xu Chunniang severed the young man's arm with a wind blade before he could place a beast-controlling seal on Little White.
• The young man recognized Xu Chunniang as the beasts' master and wondered if she was a Nascent Soul True Lord.

Xu Chunniang confronted Zeng Zhiping for attacking Little White and erased his consciousness after he threatened her. She then fought Zeng Guangcheng, who fled toward the Western Sea and challenged her to follow.

• Zeng Zhiping identified himself as a member of the Zeng Household and accused Xu Chunniang of attacking him, but she struck again to free Little White.
• Little Orange brought Little White back to Xu Chunniang, who revealed that the spirit beasts belonged to her and condemned Zeng Zhiping for trying to erase Little White's consciousness.
• Zeng Zhiping demanded that Xu Chunniang sever one of her own arms, and she erased his consciousness with her divine sense before Zeng Guangcheng could stop her.
• Zeng Guangcheng attacked Xu Chunniang with the Mysterious Eagle Seven Transformations, but she outmatched him with her speed and strength.
• Zeng Guangcheng teleported toward the Western Sea and challenged Xu Chunniang to follow him.

Xu Chunniang lost Zeng Guangcheng after he fled, then built a formation-equipped wooden boat and traveled west across the Western Abyss. When she encountered the Serpent-transformation Beast again, she used its storm-strengthening ability to temper herself, and it trapped them both behind walls of ice before attacking.

• Zeng Guangcheng used repeated teleportation to escape Xu Chunniang and hid in the Western Abyss, while she abandoned the pursuit.
• Xu Chunniang built a small boat from Crimson Ning Wood and inscribed it with several Level 3 Formations.
• Xu Chunniang sailed west for more than five months, avoiding Spiritual Qi Storms and Nascent Soul great demons while studying formation manuals.
• Xu Chunniang encountered the Serpent-transformation Beast in a newly formed storm and let it believe the storm was harming her as it strengthened the winds.
• The Serpent-transformation Beast sealed the surrounding sea in towering ice walls and swam toward Xu Chunniang to attack.

Xu Chunniang defeated a Nascent Soul Serpent-transformation Beast and continued west through the Spiritual Qi Storms before narrowly escaping a Maelstrom of Yuan Magnetism. She entered her small world and looked over the Wing-concealing Insects’ nests.

• Xu Chunniang revealed her Nascent Soul cultivation, overpowered the Serpent-transformation Beast, and burned its body with the Heartfall Flame.
• Xu Chunniang caught and destroyed the Serpent-transformation Beast’s Nascent Soul with the Taiji Diagram, then broke through the ice wall and left the storm.
• Xu Chunniang traveled west, tempering her body in Spiritual Qi Storms and avoiding or fleeing Nascent Soul great demons.
• Xu Chunniang’s divine sense and wooden boat were pulled toward a Maelstrom of Yuan Magnetism, but she escaped after teleporting three times.
• Xu Chunniang entered her small world and saw the Wing-concealing Insects’ nests beneath Spiritual Veins Mountain.

Xu Chunniang used Wing-concealing Insects to scout the West Sea and avoid dangerous Maelstroms of Yuan Magnetism. She found Primordial Magnetic Profound Stones, but discovered that taking one caused a strand of Primordial Magnetic Divine Light to attack her, leaving her needing to subdue it.

• Xu Chunniang reasserted control over the Wing-concealing Insects and sent their queen and Foundation Establishment insects ahead to scout.
• Xu Chunniang protected the insects with Water Bind Techniques and used them to avoid Maelstroms of Yuan Magnetism and Nascent Soul great demons.
• Xu Chunniang approached scattered Primordial Magnetic Divine Light and found that it could shred divine sense and cut her finger.
• Xu Chunniang located Primordial Magnetic Profound Stones and tested how they absorbed divine sense and spiritual energy.
• Xu Chunniang picked up a Primordial Magnetic Profound Stone, dodged an attack with the Nine Steps of Freedom, and realized she had to subdue the Primordial Magnetic Divine Light it had produced.

Xu Chunniang learned to refine Primordial Magnetic Profound Stones to control their Divine Light and strengthen herself, then spent twenty-three years gathering them across the Western Sea. Now at the fourth layer of the Nascent Soul realm, she continued searching the deep sea for spiritual items with Little Orange and Little White.

• Xu Chunniang used the Heartfall Flame to release Primordial Magnetic Power from a Primordial Magnetic Profound Stone, refined it with the Five Elements Body Tempering method, and gained control of the Primordial Magnetic Divine Light.
• Xu Chunniang found six more nearby stones, absorbed their power, and gained control of seven strands of Primordial Magnetic Divine Light.
• Xu Chunniang traveled to an area with dozens of Divine Lights, refined five stones at once, and subdued all twelve strands under her control.
• Xu Chunniang spent twenty-three years traveling west and refining stones, increasing her controlled Divine Lights to three thousand six hundred and advancing to the fourth layer of the Nascent Soul realm.
• Xu Chunniang survived Maelstroms of Yuan Magnetism and Nascent Soul great demons, then dove into the deep sea with Little Orange and Little White to search for spiritual items.

Xu Chunniang traveled west across the Western Sea, gathered treasures for her sect, and unlocked the inherited records in a Jade Slip. After rescuing a fisherman, she learned she had reached Little Fishing Village, though he could not say which country it belonged to.

• Little Walnut absorbed five Spiritual Veins and a Primordial Magnetic Mountain, expanding Xu Chunniang’s little world and then falling asleep from the effort.
• Xu Chunniang spent seven years traveling west before dismantling the Spirit Locking Formations on an ancient array disk and a Jade Slip, revealing the Jade Slip’s writing.
• Xu Chunniang rescued an unconscious fisherman after Little Orange frightened him, and she told Little Orange and Little White to be more careful around mortals.
• The fisherman mistook Xu Chunniang for the Sea Goddess and told her he came from Little Fishing Village, about sixty or seventy li away.
• Xu Chunniang realized she had crossed the Western Sea after thirty years, but the fisherman could not identify which country Little Fishing Village belonged to.

After crossing the Western Abyss, Xu Chunniang reached Hibiscus Town and discovered that the Profound Immortal Sect was preaching to mortals under the guise of immortals. She suspected its leader was a heretical cultivator and remained to learn more as the crowd urged him to demonstrate his powers.

• Xu Chunniang left the fishing village and reached Hibiscus Town, where she heard that the Profound Immortal Sect was holding a public sermon.
• Xu Chunniang followed the townspeople to the Dharma altar and sensed that some of the gathered mortals bore signs of damaged lifespans.
• An elderly man from the Profound Immortal Sect arrived in a palanquin, and Xu Chunniang recognized him as a seventh-level Qi Condensation cultivator rather than an immortal.
• A burly attendant challenged Xu Chunniang and the other people who had not knelt, but the old man stopped him and claimed that they would be convinced after seeing his powers.
• A member of the crowd asked the old man to demonstrate his immortal arts for the newcomers, including Xu Chunniang.

Xu Chunniang questioned a Profound Immortal Sect elder about the sects in the region and brought him to the Profound Immortal Sect. After learning that the sect used sorcery on mortals, she asked the elder how he drew away their yang energy.

• The elder summoned wind and rain at a ritual in Hibiscus Town, but Xu Chunniang secretly sealed his dantian and Spiritual Veins.
• After the elder ended his sermon and left, Xu Chunniang met him outside town and questioned him about the Profound Immortal Sect and nearby sects.
• The elder revealed that the Profound Immortal Sect had four Foundation Establishment Cultivators and belonged to the Primordial Chaos Sect, which had four Nascent Soul Ancestors.
• Xu Chunniang released the elder’s restriction and took him by wooden boat to the Profound Immortal Sect.
• At the sect, Xu Chunniang asked the elder how he had drawn away the mortals’ yang energy, and he grew alarmed.

After returning to the Northwest Continent, Xu Chunniang discovered that evil cultivators had destroyed or subjugated most of the Five Great Sects, including the Carefree Sect. Learning that Carefree Sect survivors remained, she headed for its former mountain gate to find them and take revenge.

• Xu Chunniang killed the old man who had harmed mortals, then confronted the Profound Immortal Sect's sect master and demanded information about the Primordial Chaos Sect.
• The sect master revealed that Xu Chunniang was back in the Northwest Continent and boasted that the Carefree Sect's surviving members were being hunted.
• Xu Chunniang searched the sect master's soul and learned that evil cultivators had destroyed the Cold Mountain Sect, forced the Marvelous Pill Sect to submit, and driven the Carefree Sect from its mountain.
• Xu Chunniang learned that some Carefree Sect cultivators had survived, obtained a map from the sect master's memories, and set out for the sect's former mountain gate to kill its enemies.