Chapter Summaries

After Zhao Sheng and Hai Lan'er feasted at a restaurant on Zhi Ao Island, Dong Zheng recognized Zhao Sheng's blue eyes as resembling those of the legendary man who caused Dragon Head Pass to fall. Dong Zheng and Li Ziqi planned to capture Zhao Sheng and his companions and deliver him to Star God Palace for rewards.

• Hai Lan'er pulled Zhao Sheng into a restaurant, where they ordered every dish and attracted the attention of the other diners with their appetite.
• Dong Zheng and Li Ziqi spotted Zhao Sheng and Hai Lan'er, and Dong Zheng faltered after seeing Zhao Sheng's blue eyes.
• Zhao Sheng noticed a faint yellow glow around Dong Zheng and Li Ziqi as they left, then paid a waiter to learn who they were.
• Dong Zheng told Li Ziqi that Zhao Sheng's blue eyes resembled those of the man who caused Dragon Head Pass to fall a thousand years earlier.
• Dong Zheng proposed capturing all seven people and presenting Zhao Sheng to Star God Palace, and Li Ziqi agreed to keep the plan secret.

Zhao Sheng discovered that two Foundation Establishment cultivators, Lord Dong and Lotus Moon, had come to capture him because of his blue eyes. After escaping their attacks with mist, talismans, and a blood-fueled burst of speed, he plunged into the sea to evade their pursuit.

• Zhao Sheng learned that the two cultivators he had seen earlier were the Dong Clan's young master and the island's favored disciple, then quietly stayed on guard.
• Zhao Sheng spotted Lord Dong and Lotus Moon concealed above the docks and identified them as Zhi Ao Island's Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Lord Dong and Lotus Moon attacked Zhao Sheng and revealed that his blue eyes were the reason they had come to capture him.
• Zhao Sheng covered the Great Fortune in mist, escaped Lord Dong's attacks, and used a Water Thunder Talisman to repel Lotus Moon's hairpin.
• Lord Dong unleashed his Divine Sense and attacks across the ship, but Zhao Sheng used his blue eyes and essence blood to flee in a streak of blood light.
• Zhao Sheng plunged into the sea as Lord Dong and Lotus Moon pursued him.

Zhao Sheng fled underwater from Lord Dong and Lotus Moon Hermit, using talismans and his speed to escape their attacks. Lord Dong planted a Soul Imprint on him, allowing him to track Zhao Sheng even after he vanished from Divine Sense, and Zhao Sheng sensed the pursuit and fled again just before Lord Dong reached his hiding place.

• Zhao Sheng transformed into a great fish and dived into the sea while Lord Dong and Lotus Moon Hermit pursued him.
• Zhao Sheng used Water Thunder Talismans, water walls, and his Turtle Shield to disrupt and block Lord Dong's attacks.
• Zhao Sheng outpaced the pursuers underwater and neared the edge of their Divine Sense range.
• Lord Dong planted a Soul Imprint on Zhao Sheng, sacrificing a wisp of his soul so he could continue tracking him.
• Zhao Sheng hid beneath the seafloor sand and concealed his aura, but his sense of danger warned him that he was still being followed.
• Zhao Sheng fled again, and Lord Dong arrived at his former hiding place less than twenty breaths later.

Zhao Sheng escaped Lord Dong’s pursuit by erasing the Soul Imprint, then settled on Bei Lu Island to hide and cultivate. Two years later, a sudden lightning tribulation appeared at sea, leaving the island’s cultivators unsure whether a human was forming a core or a sea beast was advancing.

• Zhao Sheng spent two months eroding the Soul Imprint with God Slaying Sword Intent until it shattered, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Zhao Sheng used Navigation Gold Plates to locate himself in the Outer Star Sea and chose Bei Lu Island as a hiding place.
• Zhao Sheng built a concealed underwater cave dwelling on Bei Lu Island and cultivated there for two years.
• A vast spiritual energy vortex and violent lightning storm formed at sea three hundred nautical miles from Bei Lu Island, signaling an impending core formation.
• Cultivators on Bei Lu Island wondered whether a human or demon beast was undergoing the tribulation, and some sailed toward the storm.

Zhao Sheng followed the Tribulation Qi to a vast Naha Shell beneath the sea, where he destroyed a guarding cultivator’s ghost skull and discovered a battle between Dry Bone Forefather and Zhen Yue. He intervened with lightning talismans, blasting apart Dry Bone Forefather’s skull swarm and leaving the fight unresolved.

• Zhao Sheng boarded a ship from Bei Lu Island and followed the remaining Tribulation Qi into a deep sea trench.
• Zhao Sheng found an ancient Naha Shell and entered its spacious interior, where a tall, thin old man attacked him with a Corrosive Fire Ghost Skull.
• Zhao Sheng destroyed the skull with lightning arts, learned that the old man’s martial uncle was Dry Bone Forefather, and killed the old man with stacked Water Arrow Talismans.
• Zhao Sheng entered the courtyard and saw Dry Bone Forefather’s Unicorn Ghost Skulls overwhelming Zhen Yue and her Golden Light Spirit Sword.
• Zhao Sheng struck Dry Bone Forefather’s skull swarm with two Water Thunder True Talismans, forcing Dry Bone Forefather to recall the scattered skulls into a green-fire skull cloud.

Zhao Sheng and Zhen Yue joined forces against Dry Bone Forefather, then followed him to a hall containing rare treasures and a deadly ancient painting. Dry Bone Forefather tried to seize the treasures, but the painting killed him before either cultivator could understand what had happened.

• Zhao Sheng appeared and teamed up with Zhen Yue to fight Dry Bone Forefather, using talismans while she attacked with her spirit sword.
• Zhao Sheng withdrew from the fight, prompting Dry Bone Forefather and Zhen Yue to stop battling and pursue him to the rear courtyard.
• The three discovered a charred corpse, a Five Fortunes Spirit Fish, a spirit pearl, and an ancient painting that Zhao Sheng sensed was deadly.
• Dry Bone Forefather and Zhen Yue each claimed a treasure, while Zhao Sheng claimed whatever remained; Zhen Yue demanded a Heart Demon Oath before Dry Bone Forefather entered the hall.
• Dry Bone Forefather evaded their objections, grabbed the bamboo basket, and tried to take the spirit pearl, but a fishing line and hook shot from the painting and killed him.

Zhao Sheng recognized that the Five-Colored Fish in the ancient painting matched the Five Fortunes Spirit Fish, while Zhen Yue suspected the painting was a Spirit Treasure Map. As Zhao Sheng and Zhen Yue focused on the grotto-heaven’s core, a swarm of Three Corpse Seven Absolutes Gu erupted from Dry Bone Forefather’s corpse and attacked them.

• Zhao Sheng collected the fallen Unicorn Ghost Skulls and asked Zhen Yue about the Five Fortunes Spirit Fish in the painting.
• Zhen Yue explained that the spirit fish carried a thread of the Innate Five Fortunes and could increase innate fortune when eaten.
• Zhen Yue suspected the ancient painting was a Spirit Treasure Map containing an ancient magic treasure, but Zhao Sheng examined Dry Bone Forefather’s corpse and identified the jade-white spirit pearl as the grotto-heaven’s core.
• Zhao Sheng and Zhen Yue turned their attention toward the spirit pearl as black insects poured from Dry Bone Forefather’s corpse and formed a swarm.
• Zhen Yue recognized the attacking insects as Three Corpse Seven Absolutes Gu.

Zhao Sheng entered Absolute Rationality to evade the Three Corpse Seven Absolutes Gu while Zhen Yue fought off the swarm with her Crimson Spirit Painting. After taking a treasure pearl and avoiding the bamboo basket and ancient painting, Zhao Sheng tried to leave, but Zhen Yue attacked him with her Golden Light Spirit Sword.

• Zhao Sheng used a talisman to surround himself with water and froze it into an ice sphere, while the Gu swarm turned on Zhen Yue.
• Zhen Yue unleashed crimson flame birds from her Crimson Spirit Painting, burning only a small portion of the Three Corpse Seven Absolutes Gu and using walls of fire to hold them back.
• Zhao Sheng emerged from the ice, unaffected by the gu insects because his Absolute Rationality suppressed his emotions and desires.
• Zhao Sheng took the treasure pearl but judged the bamboo basket and ancient painting too dangerous to touch.
• Zhen Yue sent a giant firebird at Zhao Sheng, but he moved toward the exit; she then launched her Golden Light Spirit Sword at his head.

Zhao Sheng killed Zhen Yue, refined the Spirit Pearl to take control of Bei Mansion, and discovered rogue cultivators fighting inside. He wiped them out, shrank the Naha Shell, and headed toward a shipping route to the Inner Star Sea.

• Zhao Sheng killed Zhen Yue with a thunder attack, while Gu Cloud was caught in the blast and destroyed.
• Zhao Sheng spent three days refining the Spirit Pearl with his essence blood until it entered his Dantian.
• Zhao Sheng entered Bei Mansion invisibly and found two groups of rogue cultivators fighting inside.
• Zhao Sheng unleashed thousands of Water Arrow Talismans, killing the cultivators, then used the Town Mansion Spirit Pearl to shrink the Naha Shell.
• Zhao Sheng took the miniature Naha Shell and swam toward a shipping route connected to the Inner Star Sea.

Zhao Sheng arrived at Windfire Island to sell unused magic tools, acquire cultivation supplies, and investigate the danger within Bei Mansion. He obtained a guarantee and invitation for an upcoming auction featuring a Foundation Establishment Pill, then returned to cultivate as more itinerant cultivators gathered on the island.

• Zhao Sheng reached Windfire Island and surveyed its bustling Market, noting the Windfire Sect's eerie Elite Armor Soldiers and many artifact-refining shops.
• Zhao Sheng sold unused magic tools over three days, earning more than eight thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhao Sheng offered a Unicorn Ghost Skull to Sun DeLu, who valued it at roughly nine thousand Spirit Stones and agreed to guarantee his entry to the auction.
• Zhao Sheng showed Sun DeLu Zhen Yue's Golden Light Spirit Sword and a spirit tool scroll, then received an invitation slip and more than two hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhao Sheng bought Yunling Pills but found no spirit medicine seeds, then returned to his residence to cultivate as news of the Foundation Establishment Pill drew more itinerant cultivators to Windfire Island.

Zhao Sheng attended Windfire Island’s auction, bought the Five Elements Talisman Disc, and sold his Spirit Tool scroll for a high price. Wang Yingling identified him as a likely member of her kin with a pure Saint Race bloodline, while the auction ended with bidders preparing to compete for three Foundation Establishment Pills.

• Zhao Sheng noticed the veiled Wang Yingling and felt a strange connection to her; she later told Worm Elder that Zhao Sheng appeared to be a high-purity member of their kin.
• The auction began under Flame-less True Person’s watch, and the Gengjin Flying Sword, Orange Gold Armor, and Mother-Child Spirit Shield were sold.
• Zhao Sheng won the Five Elements Talisman Disc for twenty thousand Spirit Stones, and his Spirit Tool scroll later sold for thirty-four thousand Spirit Stones.
• Wang Yingling bought the notorious White Spirit Turtle Shell for twenty-one thousand Spirit Stones as Flame-less True Person watched her.
• The auctioneer presented three low-grade Foundation Establishment Pills for open and sealed bidding, and a cold-faced old man opened the bidding at thirty-three thousand Spirit Stones.

Zhao Sheng won a Foundation Establishment Pill at auction by offering two cultivation arts, and Flame-less True Person also gave him a Five Elements Talisman Disc. After Wang Yingling and the demon Gui Wujiu exposed his Spirit Race Bloodline, Zhao Sheng learned that they belonged to the Ocean Demon Race and intended to take him to the Void Spirit Abyss.

• Zhao Sheng entered the sealed bidding with the Fire Offering Incantation and the Flame Separation Art, and won a Foundation Establishment Pill with bid number Gengzi.
• Flame-less True Person examined Zhao Sheng's Fire Offering Incantation, exchanged the pill and a Five Elements Talisman Disc for his manuals, and left.
• After days of being followed, Zhao Sheng waited in an inn room, where Wang Yingling arrived with a white tortoise and revealed that she also possessed Spirit Race Bloodline.
• Gui Wujiu broke Zhao Sheng's disguise, revealing his blue spirit eyes, and announced that Zhao Sheng would return with them to the Void Spirit Abyss.
• Wang Yingling explained that the Spirit Abyss was also called the Demon Ruins and that the human race called her people Ocean Demons, leaving Zhao Sheng alarmed by his connection to their feared race.

Zhao Sheng refused Wang Yingling’s offer to return to Void Spirit Abyss, but a Dui-Xun omen led Gui Wujiu to flee with them as three human Golden Core cultivators attacked. Gui Wujiu trapped the attackers and sent Zhao Sheng and Wang Yingling away in his shell, leaving Zhao Sheng captive as Wang Yingling described the Ocean Demon Race’s immense power.

• Zhao Sheng refused Wang Yingling’s invitation to return to Void Spirit Abyss, and Gui Wujiu revealed an omen warning them to leave.
• Gui Wujiu carried Zhao Sheng and Wang Yingling away, but Li Yan True Person, Flame-less True Person, and Gray Ghost True Person intercepted them in the sky.
• The three human cultivators tried to capture Wang Yingling and Zhao Sheng, while Gui Wujiu fought them and used his turtle shell to send the pair plunging into the sea.
• Gui Wujiu trapped the three attackers in the Spirit Suppression Eight Trigrams Array as Wang Yingling took control of the shell and fled underwater with Zhao Sheng.
• Wang Yingling questioned Zhao Sheng about his identity and explained the Ocean Demon Race’s powerful members, including its Grand High Priest.

Zhao Sheng escaped Wang Yingling’s attempt to take him to the Void Spirit Abyss, evaded her bloodline tracking arts, and returned to Bei Estate Grotto-Heaven ten days later. There, he sent a wooden puppet to retrieve a golden tablet from a charred corpse.

• Zhao Sheng demanded that Wang Yingling let him leave and threatened her with lightning spheres and the Five Elements Talisman Disc.
• Wang Yingling agreed to release Zhao Sheng, but he sealed the turtle shell’s openings with ice and escaped using a blood escape art.
• Wang Yingling tracked Zhao Sheng with a bloodline art, but he hid inside a Naha Shell in a spotted sea whale’s stomach, breaking her tracking spell.
• Wang Yingling failed to locate Zhao Sheng with her other tracking arts and vowed to remember him.
• Ten days later, Zhao Sheng returned to Bei Estate Grotto-Heaven and used a wooden puppet to take a golden tablet from a charred corpse.

Zhao Sheng investigated a mysterious Golden Tablet and examined the treasures and cultivation records taken from a charred corpse. He later advanced rapidly through Qi Refining and established his Foundation at twenty-nine, decades earlier than in his previous life.

• Zhao Sheng examined the Golden Tablet and repeatedly saw a platinum rune that erased itself and the memory of its appearance from his mind.
• Zhao Sheng searched the black Storage Bag and found three Spirit Tools, alchemy records, cultivation techniques, and a blurry image on a Jade Slip.
• Zhao Sheng decided not to cultivate the Soul Fusion Split Mind Art because he feared it had been tampered with, and he remained wary of the Golden Spirit Hundred Refinements Art as well.
• Zhao Sheng studied the blurry image, put away the Jade Slip, and cultivated with the Mystic Origin Heavy Water Art.
• Zhao Sheng reached Qi Refining Level Nine after two years and Qi Refining Great Perfection five years later.
• Zhao Sheng consumed a Foundation Establishment Pill and successfully established his Foundation at twenty-nine, thirty-three years earlier than in his previous life.

After leaving seclusion, Zhao Sheng used Xin Bu Hai to retrieve the Ancient Painting and bamboo basket, then traveled toward Nine Truths Island. There, he met Meng Qu Yi of the Spring and Autumn Alliance and sought a place to cultivate while concealing his identity and studying alchemy.

• Zhao Sheng arrived at Nam Ya Island, subdued Xin Bu Hai, and had him prepare meals and refine a wooden puppet.
• After three months, Xin Bu Hai used the puppet to remove the Ancient Painting and bamboo basket from the dangerous main hall without triggering its threat.
• Zhao Sheng left Xin Bu Hai a Storage Bag and the Golden Spirit Hundred Refinements Art, then set off for Nine Truths Island.
• Zhao Sheng encountered Meng Qu Yi of the Spring and Autumn Alliance at sea and accepted his invitation to travel aboard the alliance vessel.
• Zhao Sheng asked about renting a high-grade cave residence, and Meng Qu Yi offered him a place as a guest elder in the Spring and Autumn Alliance.

Zhao Sheng arrived at Nine Truths Island with Meng Qu Yi and agreed to join the Spring and Autumn Alliance as a Foundation Establishment guest elder. After negotiating his freedom to refuse missions and leave the alliance, he accepted Meng Qu Yi's invitation to the Outer Affairs Hall.

• Meng Qu Yi described the Spring and Autumn Alliance and the Shattered Star Sea's major powers, then invited Zhao Sheng to join the Outer Affairs Hall.
• Five days later, Meng Qu Yi flew Zhao Sheng to Nine Truths Island and brought him to the alliance's guest quarters.
• Qifeng True Person met Zhao Sheng, questioned his concealed appearance, and offered to negotiate his concerns about joining.
• Zhao Sheng asked whether guest elders had to fight and whether they could leave, and Qifeng True Person assured him that they could choose whether to accept missions and withdraw at any time.
• Zhao Sheng agreed to become a guest elder, then accepted Meng Qu Yi's invitation to join the Outer Affairs Hall after learning about the alliance's benefits.

Zhao Sheng joined the Spring and Autumn Alliance, refined the Sea Abyss Shield, and attended a meeting where the alliance debated its conflict with the Profound Sky Sect. The dispute over Seven Stars Reef was set to be decided by a wager duel in six months, leaving Zhao Sheng facing a possible role in the coming battle.

• Zhao Sheng joined the Spring and Autumn Alliance, chose a secluded grotto on Spring Autumn Island, and sealed its cultivation chamber for privacy.
• Zhao Sheng spent three days refining the Sea Abyss Shield, completing the refinement of all three spirit artifacts he had obtained from the Bei Mansion.
• After receiving a summons, Zhao Sheng went to Spring and Autumn Great Hall, where Meng Qu Yi introduced him to the alliance's elders and guest advisers.
• Long Sky True Person and Gu Yanqiu discussed the alliance's conflict with the Profound Sky Sect over the Seven Stars Reef spiritual vein.
• Gu Yanqiu proposed a wager duel in which each side would send three Foundation Establishment cultivators to fight for ownership of Seven Stars Reef, and Long Sky True Person agreed to hold it in six months.

Zhao Sheng witnessed Master Xu Chong join the Spring and Autumn Alliance as it prepared for a wager fight against the Profound Sky Sect, then went to the Alchemist Association seeking a high-grade pill furnace. He learned that spirit artifact-grade furnaces could only be obtained through barter and considered trading his alchemy manual for one.

• Chen Guanxi warned Zhao Sheng that the Profound Sky Sect's secret art made the alliance unlikely to win a wager fight, but Master Xu Chong arrived and declared that the alliance should accept the challenge.
• Xu Chong introduced his disciples Ge Chen and Chu Yao, Long Sky True Person's daughter, while Gu Yanqiu unsuccessfully tried to recruit the alchemy master before leaving to arrange the wager fight.
• After the guests departed, Long Sky True Person privately discussed alliance matters with Qifeng True Person, Red Kite True Person, and Xu Chong, then ordered Qifeng to investigate the leak about the spirit vein at Seven Stars Reef.
• Zhao Sheng visited Pill Fire Market on Rosy Cloud Island, bought medicinal herbs and seeds, and learned that the Alchemist Association controlled trade in spirit fires, pill formulas, and quality furnaces.
• At the Alchemist Association's Furnace Hall, Master Jin Ming explained that spirit artifact-grade pill furnaces were reserved for barter, and Zhao Sheng considered trading Can He Zi's alchemy manual for one.

Zhao Sheng traded an alchemy manual for the Nine Dragons Cauldron and arranged for Jin Ming to teach him alchemy. When Jin Ming’s disciple Jin Dancheng began tutoring him, Zhao Sheng’s accumulated knowledge and practiced skills quickly astonished them both.

• Zhao Sheng persuaded Jin Ming to exchange a Spirit Tool pill furnace and free alchemy lessons for the alchemy manual, then chose the Nine Dragons Cauldron.
• Zhao Sheng learned that he needed to join the Alchemist Association to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill formula and that he first had to qualify as a first-tier alchemist.
• Five days later, Zhao Sheng met Jin Ming and Jin Dancheng at Sunset Cloud Peak, where Jin Ming assigned Jin Dancheng to teach him alchemy foundations.
• Zhao Sheng demonstrated extensive knowledge of spiritual herbs while touring the storeroom at Precious Herb Pavilion, leaving Jin Dancheng shaken.
• The next day, Jin Dancheng taught Zhao Sheng to prepare medicinal materials, but Zhao Sheng handled a Sea Spirit Mushroom with seasoned skill and rapidly surpassed the lesson.
• After seven days of instruction, Jin Dancheng reported Zhao Sheng’s progress to Jin Ming, who was astonished that Zhao Sheng had learned it all again so quickly.