Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng refined the first Treasure Seal of the Void Snatching Basket and discovered it contained the supreme One True Water. After resolving a grain dispute for the Zhao Family, he searched West Jade Immortal Market for Core Formation Pills, Shell Pearls, and One Yuan Heavy Water, finding few suitable treasures.

• Zhao Sheng refined the Void Snatching Basket’s first Treasure Seal and learned that the treasure held eight seals and contained One True Water.
• Zhao Sheng discovered that the One True Water caused water vapor to fill his cabin, then drew it back into the basket when Zhao Dingda and Zhao Dali arrived.
• Zhao Sheng accompanied Zhao Dali to confront a dishonest grain merchant and forced the merchant to lower the price and replace spoiled grain.
• Zhao Sheng visited pill shops in West Jade Immortal Market, spreading word that he sought a Core Formation Pill while gathering supplies and information.
• Zhao Sheng bought one Shell Pearl over three thousand years old but found no older pearls or available One Yuan Heavy Water, then returned to the Sky Turtle Treasure Ship at night.

Zhao Sheng obtained a Core Formation Pill from Nine Obsessions True Person by signing a hundred-year Dao Protector contract, then used his alchemy skills to seek more supplies before returning safely to Sky Turtle Island. After half a month in seclusion, he heard Nine Obsessions summon him outside.

• Zhao Sheng met Nine Obsessions True Person at Rare Pill Pavilion, endured his test, and exchanged treasures and a hundred-year Dao Protector contract for a low-grade Core Formation Pill.
• Zhao Sheng refined pills aboard the Sky Turtle Treasure Ship, then visited West Jade Immortal Market shops and revealed that he could make Mid-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills while seeking Core Formation Pills and One Yuan Heavy Water.
• Zhao Sheng returned to the ship, and during the month-long voyage he drove off five sea-beast swarms before the vessel reached Sky Turtle Island.
• The Zhao Clan celebrated the treasure ship's return and relief from its food crisis, while Zhao Sheng went back to Eye-Dotting Estate and entered seclusion.
• Half a month later, Nine Obsessions spoke beside Zhao Sheng's ear and told him to come outside.

Nine Obsessions True Person exposed Zhao Sheng’s Spirit Race bloodline and took him toward Dragon Head Island on the orders of Old Ancestor Lingyuan. During the journey, Zhao Sheng learned about the Spirit Race and its connection to the Star God, then arrived at Dragon Head Island amid a vast gathering of sea demons.

• Nine Obsessions True Person revealed Zhao Sheng’s true appearance with his Nine Glazed Treasure Mirror and explained that he had come to bring him to Dragon Head Island, not capture him for the Star God Palace.
• Nine Obsessions True Person revealed that he was Spirit Race member Wang Jiu and said Old Ancestor Lingyuan had ordered him to bring Zhao Sheng along.
• Zhao Sheng left a Storage Bag at Ao Shou Cliff and flew away with Nine Obsessions True Person on a fifth-stage Tiger Owl; Zhao Yunxian later emerged and picked up the bag.
• During the three-day journey, Nine Obsessions True Person explained the Spirit Race’s bloodlines and customs, and told Zhao Sheng that the Star God was a strange being also known as the Sea God.
• Zhao Sheng connected the Star God to the Primordial Sea God mentioned by the Banished Immortal and arrived at Dragon Head Island as enormous sea demons gathered across the waters.

Zhao Sheng and Nine Obsessions True Person reached the Spirit Palace, where the Spirit Race’s ancestral remnants recognized Zhao Sheng and accelerated his cultivation. They met the Ice King, who tested Zhao Sheng with a crushing aura, and Zhao Sheng gave the name Zhao Chonghe.

• Zhao Sheng saw Dragon Head Island ravaged by the sea beast invasion and rejected Nine Obsessions True Person’s argument that the human deaths were deserved.
• Tiger Owl carried Zhao Sheng and Nine Obsessions True Person beneath the sea to the Spirit Palace, where Sea Giants Zhang Da and Zhang Er demanded Spirit Stones and learned they wanted an audience with the Ice King.
• Zhang Da and Zhang Er admitted Zhao Sheng and Nine Obsessions True Person to meet the Ice King after receiving a bribe of sea coral spirit branches.
• As Zhao Sheng walked through the palace, the ancestors’ remnant souls recognized his bloodline and empowered his cultivation, prompting Nine Obsessions True Person’s envy.
• The Ice King confronted Zhao Sheng with a powerful freezing pressure, and Zhao Sheng resisted before giving his name as Zhao Chonghe.

Zhao Sheng was claimed as a disciple by the Ice King, whose offer drew the attention of the Heaven River King and Star Dipper King before Zhao Sheng refused to learn the Eternal Ice Heart Art. Ten days later, Zhao Sheng had advanced to Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer and went to Refugee City, where Nine Obsessions True Person met him.

• The Ice King recognized Zhao Sheng as a Spirit Race descendant and offered to take him as a disciple and teach him the Eternal Ice Heart Art.
• The Heaven River King and Star Dipper King arrived to contest Zhao Sheng’s affiliation, and the Heaven River King deferred the decision to the elders while the Star Dipper King left with killing intent toward Zhao Sheng.
• Zhao Sheng refused the Eternal Ice Heart Art, and the Ice King briefly froze him before ordering Ice Maidens to house him near the Ice Palace as his personal disciple.
• Ten days later, Zhao Sheng advanced to Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer and left for Dragon Head Island on a Hump Mountain Turtle.
• Zhao Sheng reached Dragon Head Island and asked to go to Refugee City, where Nine Obsessions True Person arrived and spoke with him.

Zhao Sheng investigated Refugee City and suspected the Spirit Race was using its human prisoners as hostages while making deals with other factions. After crafting a Blood Soul Talisman, he was confronted by Wang Foyu and Wang Fochong, who claimed the Ice King had abandoned him.

• Nine Obsessions True Person accompanied Zhao Sheng to Refugee City, where Ice Maiden used the Ice King Token to send away the Sea Giant guards.
• Zhao Sheng found five hundred thousand human refugees living under confinement and learned that cultivators were imprisoned or forced to work in Spirit Mines.
• Zhao Sheng noticed Ancient Buddhism preaching in the city and suspected the Spirit Race was encouraging births in hopes of producing infants with spiritual roots.
• A silver-haired young man learned Zhao Chonghe's name, while a hidden black-armored man hired Skull Young Master to kill Zhao Chonghe within ten days.
• Zhao Sheng completed his Blood Soul Talisman after returning to cultivation, then emerged half a month later to meet Wang Foyu and Wang Fochong.
• Wang Foyu and Wang Fochong told Zhao Sheng that the Ice King had abandoned him and that his bloodline made him unworthy of being the Ice King's disciple.

Zhao Sheng rejected Wang Foyu and Wang Fochong’s attempt to stop him from becoming the Ice King’s disciple, then fought back when they attacked. He crippled Wang Foyu with the God-Slaying Sword Intent and faced Wang Fochong’s assault as their battle continued.

• Zhao Sheng told Wang Foyu and Wang Fochong he did not want to become the Ice King’s disciple and asked them to leave.
• Wang Foyu blocked Zhao Sheng and unleashed an Ice Dragon formed from an immense Ice Storm.
• Zhao Sheng used the God-Slaying Sword Intent to strike Wang Foyu’s soul, causing him to collapse in agony and the Ice Dragon to break apart.
• Wang Fochong transformed into an armored Body Cultivator and charged Zhao Sheng.
• Zhao Sheng activated nine Water Thunder Talismans, but Wang Fochong endured the lightning and launched a spike-shaped fist radiance.
• Zhao Sheng sent his Gold Essence Flying Sword to meet Wang Fochong’s attack.

Zhao Sheng defeated Wang Fochong and Wang Foyu in the Spirit Palace, then used the arrival of two Ice Maidens as an opportunity to leave. He later entered Ten Thousand Immortals Market on Dragon Head Island, where the foreign races’ new order had drawn demonic cultivators from across the Shattered Star Sea.

• Wang Fochong caught Zhao Sheng’s Gold Essence Flying Sword and attacked him with a barrage of fist-lights.
• Zhao Sheng evaded Wang Fochong’s assault and used the Five Elements Talisman Disc to defeat the two Wang clan members.
• Wang Fochong left with the injured Wang Foyu, while Zhao Sheng wondered who had arranged for their fight to go unchallenged in the Spirit Palace.
• Two Ice Maidens begged Zhao Sheng to forgive them for failing to welcome him after his seclusion, and he told them to get up.
• Zhao Sheng disguised himself in a hooded robe and traveled to Ten Thousand Immortals Market, one of several markets established on Dragon Head Island.
• Zhao Sheng paid one Low-Grade Spirit Stone and entered Ten Thousand Immortals Market.

Zhao Sheng entered the Scarlet Yin Sect’s Paradise Realm and resisted its seductive trials, reaching the Joyful World with Book-Loving Old Demon. There, monk Bu Jie welcomed them to a Dharma assembly and revealed a radiant female Bodhisattva whose appearance captivated the old monk.

• Zhao Sheng sensed hidden mental fluctuations in Ten Thousand Immortals Market, followed them to an underground plaza, and entered the Paradise Realm.
• Book-Loving Old Demon summoned his Poisonheart Toad to confront a wolf-headed demon threatening a group of children, but the Paradise Realm’s gate opened before a fight began.
• Zhao Sheng rejected the Scarlet Maidens’ seduction and passed through the Paradise Realm’s trials and desire-filled halls without losing himself.
• Zhao Sheng and Book-Loving Old Demon reached the Joyful World, where monk Bu Jie welcomed them and confirmed that it could provide a Core Formation Pill formula and a method of liberation.
• A procession carrying a radiant female Bodhisattva appeared in the mist, and Book-Loving Old Demon knelt before her in devotion.

Zhao Sheng witnessed Grand Vow Bodhisattva coercing the Book-Loving Old Demon into conversion and then trying to influence him, until a powerful voice in the mist intervened. The mist cleared to reveal a gathering of demonic cultivators, where Grand Vow Bodhisattva confronted Li Wufeng, the Blood Sea Ancestor.

• The Book-Loving Old Demon begged Grand Vow Bodhisattva to free him from the Soul Refining Old Demon’s control, and she marked him with a golden lotus after he agreed to take refuge in her Buddha.
• Grand Vow Bodhisattva tried to draw out Zhao Sheng’s wish, but he activated Absolute Rationality and resisted her influence.
• Old monk Bu Jie began transforming into a monstrous bird before a powerful voice from the mist forced him back into human form and challenged Grand Vow Bodhisattva.
• The mist dispersed, revealing Zhao Sheng and the others at a banquet in a miniature world alongside powerful demonic cultivators, including the insect woman he had seen before.
• Grand Vow Bodhisattva dismissed Li Wufeng’s claim over Zhao Sheng and taunted him about becoming the Blood God’s next spare body.

Zhao Sheng attended a trading fair crowded with powerful fiends and Nascent Soul cultivators, where his arrival attracted attention and a hostile Skeleton Child watched him. After the four Nascent Soul figures started the fair without waiting for Heavenly Wolf Arhat, Zhao Sheng displayed several items, including a sealed box of strange threadworms.

• Li Wanru and Skeleton Old Ancestor intervened after Li Wufeng’s blood aura flared, and Zhao Sheng recognized the powerful guests gathered at the platform.
• Li Wanru’s bewitching voice stirred Zhao Sheng’s blood and qi, but he recovered, took a secluded seat, and tried to avoid attention.
• Skeleton Child watched Zhao Sheng with malice after a Sensing Talisman revealed that its target had appeared.
• Zhao Sheng used Danger Perception to assess the dangerous crowd and spotted a gaunt young man in a Hundred Skull Robe whose killing intent alarmed him.
• After the guests waited half a day for Heavenly Wolf Arhat, Li Wufeng, Li Wanru, and Skeleton Old Ancestor urged Grand Vow Bodhisattva to begin the trading fair.
• Zhao Sheng examined the treasures on display, then set out an incomplete Enlightenment Pill recipe, two Foundation Establishment Pills, and a sealed box containing strange threadworms.

At the trade fair, Zhao Sheng exchanged a rare Gu insect for a Core Formation Pill, acquired One Yuan Heavy Water and Kui Water, and sold talismans and pills. The gathering ended with Heavenly Wolf King and Heavenly Wolf Arhat announcing that the sea clans had forced a compromise and secured 380 places in the restricted area near Star God Island.

• Skeleton Old Ancestor prompted the devil cultivators to reveal their sinister wares, and the four Nascent Soul grandees selected treasures before the others began trading.
• Zhao Sheng traded his Primal Ancestor Worm to the female Gu cultivator for one Core Formation Pill, then failed to persuade her to give him another.
• Zhao Sheng bought One Yuan Heavy Water and a large supply of Kui Water, then exchanged more goods for the Heavy Wave Sword and a defensive talisman treasure.
• Zhao Sheng sold talismans and pills, including a bottle of Marrow Spirit Pills to Skeleton Child, and accumulated several tens of thousands of Spirit Stones.
• Heavenly Wolf King and Heavenly Wolf Arhat arrived and announced that the sea beast army had broken through three blockades and forced Star God Palace and the ancient clans to compromise.
• Heavenly Wolf Arhat said the three great sea clans had secured 300 places and his side had secured 80 places in the restricted region near Star God Island.

At the Dharma assembly, Skeleton Old Ancestor and the other Nascent Soul cultivators recruited elite rogue cultivators into their sects, while Zhao Sheng remained outside their offers. Summoned to the Spirit Palace, Zhao Sheng met Old Ancestor Lingyuan, who welcomed him as a rare pure-blooded Spirit Race returnee despite the hostility of other Spirit Race leaders.

• Skeleton Old Ancestor and Blood Sea Old Demon nearly fought over recruitment slots before the Heavenly Maiden and Heavenly Wolf Arhat intervened.
• Skeleton Child joined the Ten Thousand Corpses Sect and received a Nascent Soul Realm skull bone from Skeleton Old Ancestor.
• The Nascent Soul cultivators offered sect positions and benefits, and most gathered cultivators joined one of the demonic sects.
• Zhao Sheng and three others stayed seated; the Heavenly Maiden stopped recruiting the female gu cultivator after hearing her secret message.
• Old Ancestor Lingyuan summoned Zhao Sheng to the Spirit Palace, where Nebula King criticized him but Lingyuan welcomed him for his exceptionally pure Spirit Race bloodline.
• After Zhao Sheng left, the other Spirit Race leaders resented his apparent reluctance to join them.

Zhao Sheng withdrew to refine his treasures while the Spirit Race prepared to travel to the Star Algae Sea to meet the awakening Star God, and its leaders debated how to secure Zhao Sheng's place among them. As the Spirit Race set out under the protection of its powerful sea beasts, Zhao Sheng used a top-grade Essence Spirit Pill to advance his cultivation toward Foundation Establishment Perfection.

• Old Ancestor Lingyuan rebuked Nebula King and defended Zhao Sheng's firm attachment to his Human Race identity, while Spirit Race members discussed arranging a marriage and descendants for him.
• Zhao Sheng returned to his residence and entered seclusion, and Spirit Race juniors gathered at the Spirit Palace over the next three days.
• Old Ancestor Lingyuan activated the command token, and the Hump Mountain Turtle carried the Spirit Palace from the seabed toward the Star Algae Sea with Spirit Race cultivators and battle pets.
• The Spirit Race departed Dragon Head Island, and Nether Mist Old Ancestor sent demonic beasts to guard it as Heavenly Wolf Arhat, Grand Vow Bodhisattva, Li Wanru, and the other Nascent Soul Ancestors set out after them.
• Half a month later, Zhao Sheng swallowed a top-grade Essence Spirit Pill and condensed his twenty-fifth Spiritual Power bead after two hours of cultivation.

Zhao Sheng joined the Spirit Race on the Spirit Palace as the Star God Ceremony began, keeping his distance from the clan members who sought to claim him. As the Star God began to awaken, he watched the heavens open and pure Spiritual Power fall into the Star Algae Sea.

• Zhao Sheng left seclusion and learned that the Star God Ceremony was about to begin at Spirit Palace Plaza.
• At the plaza, Zhao Sheng encountered Wang Yingling and two other Spirit Race women, then used talismans to vanish from view and withdraw to the edge of the turtle shell.
• Old Ancestor Lingyuan announced that the Star God would awaken that night, while Lingxu ordered the chosen ones to obey the Three Kings and avoid fighting.
• Zhao Sheng and the others boarded the Across the Sea Crab and waited as Spiritual Power surged around them and the sea filled with algae.
• The Heavenly Astral Aura split open, and countless meteors of exceptionally pure Spiritual Power fell from the sky into the Star Algae Sea.

Zhao Sheng noticed strange flashes at the edge of the sky while nearly a hundred Nascent Soul Ancestors gathered beyond the world to collect Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence. When the Star God's meteor shower vanished, a vast mental storm erupted, and the fleeing Ancestors left Zhao Sheng unaware that the Hundred Lifetimes Book had briefly reacted.

• Zhao Sheng spotted flashes and signs of fighting near the sky's edge and suspected Nascent Soul cultivators were there.
• Old Ancestor Lingyuan destroyed Yue Qinghan's probing light sword while Li Wufeng captured and sealed an earth-attribute strand of Extraterrestrial Mysterious Essence.
• Old Ancestor Lingyuan caught a lightning-attribute strand, and Palace Lord Clear Moon provoked the Spirit Race by sending a rainbow crystal flower into Spirit Void Old Ancestor's domain.
• Old Ancestor Lingyuan saw the meteor shower end and fled with Lingxu as the other Nascent Soul Ancestors escaped an immense mental storm.
• The mental storm swept across the Shattered Star Sea, while the Hundred Lifetimes Book flashed briefly inside Zhao Sheng's Soul Sea without his noticing.

Zhao Sheng encountered the Star God and learned that it was the collective consciousness of the Star Algae Sea, restrained by an ancient array. The Star God believed Zhao Sheng could eventually free it and asked him to answer an ancient question about the Dao, leaving him stumped.

• Zhao Sheng's spirit was drawn into the sky, where the Star God questioned him about his strange nature and the Heavenly Dao.
• Zhao Sheng met the Star God in an illusion of the Star Algae Sea and learned that its true name was Algae and that algae formed its body.
• Zhao Sheng realized that Algae's consciousness spread wherever algae grew and that the Heaven Sealing Sea Locking Grand Array restrained it.
• Algae asked Zhao Sheng to help break its restraints, and Zhao Sheng said he might do so if he became capable in the future.
• Algae described its view of life, cultivation, and immortality, then asked Zhao Sheng to explain an ancient mystery about the Dao.

Zhao Sheng spoke about the Dao to the Star God until his inspiration ran dry, then accepted its offer to see the world through its eyes. He nearly lost himself to the Star God’s vast consciousness, but Absolute Rationality preserved his independence, leaving him able to experiment with the Star God’s perception of time.

• Outside the Star God’s realm, Nebula King coveted Zhao Sheng’s bloodline, but Ice King warned him not to act while the ancestor watched.
• At the Nascent Soul Dharma Assembly, Old Ancestor Lingyuan and Old Ancestor Lingxu challenged Climbing Star and Clear Moon to a wager over which side’s chosen children would awaken last.
• Zhao Sheng admitted he could not answer the Star God’s questions, then explained his understanding of the Dao as inspiration flowed into him.
• After Zhao Sheng’s inspiration ran dry, the Star God offered to show him the world through its eyes and transformed the realm into Chaos.
• Zhao Sheng entered the Star God’s world of light and countless consciousnesses, but Absolute Rationality warned him of assimilation and helped him maintain an independent form.
• Zhao Sheng explored the Star God’s perception by slowing and accelerating time, watching the world and the lives of star algae unfold at different speeds.

Zhao Sheng used the Star God's consciousness to inspect fortune and kill Nebula King, then consumed his lifespan to rapidly reach the Golden Core Realm and develop the Sumeru Water Realm divine ability. After erasing the Golden Core Tribulation, he chose to keep using the Star God's consciousness to comprehend multiple paths at once.

• Zhao Sheng viewed the fortunes of the seven Children of Fortune, recognized Li Pingjian's extraordinary potential, and saw that Wang Yingling had the strongest fortune among the Spirit Race members.
• Zhao Sheng killed Nebula King with a thread of the Star God's divine sense, leaving the Ice King and Heaven River King unable to detect the attacker.
• Zhao Sheng discovered that wielding the Star God's consciousness rapidly consumed his lifespan and used its power to advance to Late Stage Foundation Establishment.
• Zhao Sheng deduced the Sumeru Water Realm divine ability, used it to form a Golden Core, and erased the resulting tribulation clouds.
• Zhao Sheng decided to continue burning his lifespan to comprehend the Dao, assigning different Star God consciousnesses to tasks including developing the One True Water Art and deducing the Enlightenment Pill formula.

Zhao Sheng recovered a Great Dao True Script, delegated new deduction tasks to the Star God consciousness, and advanced to the Golden Core realm. As the Nascent Soul Ancestors argued over the Star God’s unusual behavior, Zhao Sheng vanished in a space-time translocation attributed to the Star God.

• Zhao Sheng recognized the platinum rune as the Great Dao True Script “Firm,” and the Hundred Lifetimes Book recorded it.
• Zhao Sheng assigned the Star God consciousness tasks to deduce the paths of Gold and fortune, then transformed his Spiritual Power into Golden Core True Essence.
• Zhao Sheng advanced to the Golden Core realm without undergoing heavenly tribulation, shocking the Spirit Race as Wang Yingling and the other remaining children of fortune were expelled from the Star God consciousness.
• The Nascent Soul Ancestors monitored Zhao Sheng through the Round Light Treasure Mirror and argued over whether to end the Star God Ceremony, fearing a repeat of the Star Algae Disaster.
• Zhao Sheng suddenly vanished from the mirror, and Gu Fengge identified the event as space-time translocation before others said the Star God had caused it.