Chapter Summaries

Zhao Sheng and He Ying fled the Underground City’s collapse and fought off Zhou Zhongyu’s Magma Demon Puppet. When a Golden Core True Person triggered Boiling Spring Valley’s volcanoes, Zhao Sheng became trapped in a tunnel and collapsed it behind him to form a barrier against the pursuing magma.

• Zhao Sheng and He Ying escaped the collapsing Underground City and sensed water spiritual energy gathering around Boiling Spring Valley.
• He Ying detected and attacked a Magma Demon Puppet, and Zhao Sheng’s Formless Sword split its head and wounded its demon soul.
• He Ying infused the puppet with Spiritual Power, destroying its magma body, while Zhao Sheng concluded that Zhou Zhongyu controlled it from far away.
• A Golden Core True Person triggered a volcanic eruption, sending a torrent of magma through the tunnels as Zhao Sheng and He Ying fled.
• Zhao Sheng reached a collapsed passage, found He Ying missing, and used talismans to bring down the tunnel behind him as a barrier against the magma.

After surviving the magma eruption, Zhao Sheng followed the wounded Zhou Yingze into an underground cavern, where Zhou Yingze sought a hidden treasure guarded by a Molten Gold Toad. The chapter ended as Zhou Yingze began using a spell to attack the beast and expose what lay beneath it.

• Seven days after the eruption, Zhao Sheng escaped the underground tunnels and encountered Zhou Yingze, who had survived but was gravely injured.
• Zhao Sheng concealed himself and followed Zhou Yingze as he used a black rat to lead them deeper underground in search of a treasure.
• Zhao Sheng discovered a cavern crossed by a Magma River and saw Zhou Yingze confront a Molten Gold Toad guarding something beneath its feet.
• The Molten Gold Toad attacked Zhou Yingze with six beams of Golden Light, but its strikes missed and it refused to leave the river.
• Zhou Yingze chanted an incantation and raised two vortices around the Molten Gold Toad, sending magma into the air.

Zhou Yingze killed the Molten Gold Toad with a bone spike and retrieved its corpse and a mysterious metal box from the Magma River. When Zhou Yingze opened the box, its Soul-Eating True Flame of Divine Extinction exposed Zhao Sheng, who fought off a shockwave and emerged from hiding as Zhou Yingze accused him of being a Mo Family spy.

• Zhou Yingze used magma giants to trap the Molten Gold Toad, then killed it with a bone spike bearing ghastly white flame.
• Zhou Yingze pulled the Molten Gold Toad's corpse and a crimson metal box from the Magma River.
• Zhou Yingze opened the box, releasing red light that ignited Zhao Sheng's Soul Sea with the Soul-Eating True Flame of Divine Extinction.
• A shockwave struck Zhao Sheng, who defended himself with the Profound Yuan Water Barrier and left the passage after his hiding place was exposed.
• Zhou Yingze recognized Zhao Sheng and accused him of being a spy sent by the Mo Family.

Zhao Sheng avenged his destroyed family by killing Zhou Yingze, but the effort left his divine soul severely burned and his life still in danger. He recovered the Flame Orb and prepared to carry out his final contingency.

• Zhou Yingze attacked Zhao Sheng with a Flame Greatsword and Flame Orb, but Zhao Sheng evaded his strikes using Bullet Time.
• Zhou Yingze unleashed a barrage of talismans, and Zhao Sheng used a Profound Yuan Water Barrier to slip through the gaps and close in.
• Zhao Sheng sacrificed a hundred drops of essence blood to restore his mental strength, then used the Crystal Invisible Sword to pierce Zhou Yingze's head.
• Zhao Sheng stored Zhou Yingze's and the Molten Gold Toad's corpses, collected the Flame Orb, and found that the Soul-Eating True Flame of Divine Extinction had begun burning fiercely again.
• Zhao Sheng decided he still had to complete his final contingency, temporarily sustaining his mental strength by converting essence blood.

After settling the fourth life, Zhao Sheng inherited new abilities and improved his spiritual roots before awakening in his fifth life as Ding Tian aboard a rocking ship. He protected himself with Water Condensation Art and hurried with Wu Fang toward the deck after an emergency horn sounded.

• The Hundred Lifetimes Book gave Zhao Sheng a Grade B+ evaluation for his fourth life and let him inherit Four Spiritual Roots, Bullet Time, and the Second-Order Talisman Master profession.
• Zhao Sheng received five accomplishment rewards, used the Profound Grade reward to advance his constitution to Water, Metal, and Fire Three Spiritual Roots, and drew Iron Will, Danger Perception, and an incomplete Spirit Race Bloodline.
• Zhao Sheng spent his last Yellow Grade reward to advance Iron Will, then awoke in a narrow cabin as a distant horn sounded and the ship lurched.
• When the lurch threw Zhao Sheng toward the cabin wall, he conjured a water sphere that protected him, astonishing Wu Fang.
• Zhao Sheng told Wu Fang he had practiced Water Condensation Art since he was six, then urged him to go to the deck.

Zhao Sheng learned about Zhao Dingtian’s ostracized past while sailing aboard the Eastern Vault Ship, which came under attack by Blood Hand Pirates. As the captain fought their Foundation Establishment cultivator, Zhao Sheng fled from a stronger pirate rather than reveal his true strength.

• Zhao Sheng recalled that Zhao Dingtian was a fifteen-year-old orphan with Three Spiritual Roots who had been discriminated against and forced to work as a sailor.
• Captain Dongyang Ju ordered the Eastern Vault Ship’s crew to power its formation and Spirit Stone Furnace after a Blood Hand pirate ship emerged from the sea.
• Zhao Sheng recognized the pirates as part of the Blood Bandit Alliance, which was backed by the Blood Demon Sect, formerly the Guiyuan Sect.
• A scarlet flying boat caught up with the Eastern Vault Ship, and more than twenty Blood Hand Pirates boarded and attacked the crew.
• Dongyang Ju fought a masked elder in red, while Zhao Sheng ran from a stronger Blood Hand Pirate to avoid exposing his abilities.

Zhao Sheng escaped a pirate attack by leaping into the sea and discovering the aquatic abilities of his incomplete Spirit Race Bloodline. He hid from the Zhao Family to cultivate, changed to the Mystic Origin Heavy Water Art, and reached Qi Refining Level Three before his spirit stones ran out.

• Zhao Sheng used Danger Perception to assess the chaos aboard the ship, then jumped overboard to escape the towering blood pirate.
• Zhao Sheng adapted to the sea, swam to the seabed, and found he could breathe underwater, withstand the pressure, and see in the dark.
• Zhao Sheng wondered whether he had reincarnated as Zhao Dingtian or whether Zhao Dingtian had always been destined to exist, then opened a temporary cave on the seabed.
• Zhao Sheng switched from the Wave Treading Art to the Mystic Origin Heavy Water Art and began cultivating in seclusion to conceal his rapid progress from the Zhao Family.
• After half a month of cultivation, Zhao Sheng used up his last Spirit Stone and advanced to Qi Refining Level Three.

Zhao Sheng reviewed his Spirit Race bloodline and talents, then traveled across the Outer Star Sea while reflecting on the Zhao Clan’s history and strength. He encountered an armed ship, was forcibly brought aboard by a bald giant, and introduced himself as Zhao Dingtian.

• Zhao Sheng examined his long lifespan, considered the dangers of Absolute Rationality, and noted which talismans he could draw.
• Zhao Sheng rode a White-Flag Swordfish across the sea and recalled the Shattered Star Sea’s island defenses and the Zhao Clan’s rise under Zhao Xuanji.
• Zhao Sheng spotted a heavily armed three-masted ship and sensed danger from its crew.
• A bald giant confronted Zhao Sheng, captured him with an iron chain, and hauled him aboard the ship.
• Zhao Sheng faced the approaching bare-chested men and introduced himself as Zhao Dingtian.

Zhao Sheng and Chen Lao Er rigged a betting game around Zhao Sheng’s sparring match with Li Mu, earning Zhao Sheng nearly three hundred Spirit Stones. As Zhao Sheng climbed the ladder afterward, he accidentally glimpsed beneath a woman’s short skirt and was confronted about what he had seen.

• Chen Lao Er gathered bets on how long Zhao Sheng would last against Li Mu, while Li Mu wagered two Mid-Grade Spirit Stones on himself.
• Zhao Sheng dodged Li Mu’s flying sword and countered his Sword Light Splitting technique without being injured.
• Li Mu increased his Spiritual Power beyond the agreed limit, then conceded after Zhao Sheng called out the violation.
• Chen Lao Er and Zhao Sheng split the winnings, and Zhao Sheng received nearly three hundred Spirit Stones.
• A woman descending the ladder caught Zhao Sheng looking beneath her skirt and asked what he had just seen.

Zhao Sheng advanced to Qi Refining Level Four while working aboard the Great Fortune under Hai Dafu’s debt arrangement. After the ship reached the Far Ocean and encountered a pod of Spirit Whales, Hai Dafu waited for one to separate before hunting; a thunderstorm brought the chance he had been waiting for.

• Hai Lan'er collected two Mid-Grade Spirit Stones from Zhao Sheng as monthly interest on the debt Hai Dafu had imposed on him.
• Zhao Sheng cultivated aboard the Great Fortune and advanced to Qi Refining Level Four after half a month.
• Chen Lao Er warned Zhao Sheng that the ship had entered the dangerous open ocean and advised him to hide in the cultivation room if trouble arose.
• The Great Fortune encountered a pod of Spirit Whales, and Hai Dafu refused to attack while they remained together.
• Three days later, a thunderstorm arrived, giving Hai Dafu the opportunity he had been waiting for.

Hai Dafu and the crew of the Great Fortune attacked a Spirit Whale, but the wounded beast turned on the ship and nearly capsized it. The Great Fortune survived the collision, though three sailors were killed, and the whale hunt remained unresolved.

• Hai Dafu ordered the crew to prepare for a hunt after spotting a Spirit Whale separated from its pod.
• The crew fired Dragon Shooting Crossbows and secured the whale with Whale Blocking Ropes as Zhao Sheng powered the ship's formation.
• The Spirit Whale broke free, turned around, and sent a towering surge toward the Great Fortune.
• Hai Dafu changed the ship's formation from levitation to gravity to evade the whale's charge, but the whale struck and killed three sailors.
• The Great Fortune narrowly avoided capsizing when Hai Dafu turned its stern toward the wave and rode the surge away.

While the Great Fortune dragged the exhausted Spirit Whale into the deep sea, Zhao Sheng spotted deadly black mist clinging to strange blue flames that the crew tried to collect. The flames were followed by an unfamiliar, chilling Spiritual Energy, whose nature Zhao Sheng began to recognize.

• Hai Dafu guided the Great Fortune through the Spirit Whale’s repeated attacks until the wounded whale dived and dragged the ship toward the seabed.
• Hai Dafu ordered the sailors into the cabin, where they lent Spiritual Power to the ship’s formations as the Great Fortune pursued the Spirit Whale underwater.
• Hai Lan’er, Li Mu, and Hai Dafu noticed dusky blue flames drifting through the ship, and crew members began trying to capture them.
• Zhao Sheng saw black mist clinging to the flames and warned the crew that they were dangerous, while Chen Lao Er took his warning seriously.
• The crew sensed an unfamiliar, icy Spiritual Energy, and Zhao Sheng perceived countless gray particles and began identifying the strange energy.

The Great Fortune entered the Ocean Graveyard, where Hai Dafu and his crew found an Accumulating Spirit Coral reef and salvaged a Spirit Whale. After four crew members died by suicide, the group debated leaving the cursed sea area.

• Hai Dafu identified the ghostly blue sea and its mountains of bones as the legendary Ocean Graveyard, while Li Mu suspected a Pure Yin Spiritual Vein lay nearby.
• The Spirit Whale died, and Hai Dafu raised the Great Fortune to retrieve its corpse.
• Hai Dafu and Li Mu recognized an enormous coral reef as Accumulating Spirit Coral, indicating a spiritual vein beneath it.
• Zhao Sheng and the others surfaced aboard the Great Fortune, then spent three days salvaging the Spirit Whale until only its skeleton remained.
• Hai Dafu learned that Skinny Monkey was the fourth crew member to jump into the sea and die, prompting Hai Lan'er, Li Mu, and Chen Lao Er to urge him to leave.

After a string of suicides and seven days of recurring fog, the Great Fortune became trapped in the Ocean Graveyard. Hai Dafu led a group to explore a Pure Yin Spiritual Vein, but days passed without their return, leaving Hai Lan'er distraught and Zhao Sheng wondering what the survivors would do.

• Hai Dafu found that Chen Jinshui had severed his own heart meridians, then ordered the Great Fortune to leave with the Spirit Whale bones.
• Suicides continued aboard the ship, and Zhao Sheng told Hai Dafu that people who touched the Ghostly Blue Flame seemed to kill themselves.
• The Great Fortune was surrounded by fog each night, and Zhao Sheng deduced that it had been circling the same waters before Hai Dafu confirmed they were over the Ocean Graveyard.
• After two months trapped, Hai Dafu led five others to explore a Pure Yin Spiritual Vein, while Zhao Sheng stayed aboard and Hai Lan'er was forbidden to go.
• When Hai Dafu's group failed to return after several days, Zhao Sheng knocked Hai Lan'er unconscious as she tried to dive after her father, then asked Li Mu what they would do if the captain never came back.

Zhao Sheng cultivated to Qi Refining Level Five aboard the Great Fortune while Hai Lan'er grew attached to him and Gui Xinshu grew jealous. After Li Mu returned from another fruitless search, a strange Ghost Ship emerged from the fog and struck the Great Fortune, leaving the survivors facing an uncertain discovery.

• Zhao Sheng digested Spirit Whale meat and used its spiritual energy to advance from Qi Refining Level Four to Level Five.
• Hai Lan'er eagerly welcomed Zhao Sheng from seclusion, while Gui Xinshu grew jealous and tried to strike him.
• Zhao Sheng dodged Gui Xinshu's attacks until Li Mu returned with Yan Kai and Zou Li on a cloud boat.
• Li Mu told Hai Lan'er that he had found nothing during his search for Hai Dafu.
• A mysterious, seaweed-covered ship struck the Great Fortune in the night, and Gui Xinshu recognized it as a Ghost Ship.

After investigating a Ghost Ship, Zhao Sheng and the Great Fortune's crew learned they might be trapped in the Mist Sea and would need more cultivators to attempt an escape. Three years later, with supplies dwindling and morale low, they finally spotted another ship approaching.

• Li Mu led Zhao Sheng, Gui Xinshu, Hai Lan'er, Yan Kai, and Zou Li aboard a Ghost Ship, where he found a Navigation Gold Plate and a Jade Slip describing hazards and a possible escape from the Mist Sea.
• Zhao Sheng identified their sea region as the Mist Sea and warned that sailing through a Thundercloud Storm was only a conjecture and that the Great Fortune lacked the twenty cultivators needed to reach full power.
• The crew waited for other ships while their scouting dwindled over three years, and Zhao Sheng quietly advanced to the Qi Refining Seventh Level as he explored the surrounding sea.
• Zhao Sheng discovered that the spiritual aperture of the Pure Yin Spiritual Vein lay beneath a Coral Reef surrounded by an Ocean Graveyard, while Li Mu repeatedly asked to investigate the reef but never approached it closely.
• After a Thundercloud Storm passed, Hai Lan'er spotted a ship on the horizon, and Li Mu, Zhao Sheng, and the others rushed onto the deck, overjoyed that another vessel had arrived.

Zhao Sheng joined Li Mu, Hai Lan'er, Gui Xinshu, and cultivators from the Zhi Jin on an expedition beneath Shan Ling Reef, where they discovered a Pure Yin Spirit Stone mine and an eerie jade wall. After studying the wall, Zhao Sheng found an old man’s shadow feeding on his Soul Sea and was pulled into a boundless sea of meteorite stars.

• Zhao Sheng completed a second-rank Water Thunder Talisman while preparing for the undersea expedition.
• Li Mu persuaded the Zhi Jin cultivators to join the search for the sea captain’s body, and Zhao Sheng led the group down to Shan Ling Reef.
• The cultivators found a hidden path through the black mist and entered an undersea cave that contained a Pure Yin Spirit Stone mine.
• Zhao Sheng noticed that Li Mu and the others were entranced by the Spirit Stone Jade Wall, warned Hai Lan'er not to look at it, and studied the markings around it.
• Zhao Sheng looked at the jade wall, experienced strange visions, and discovered a shadowy old man drawing soul water from his Soul Sea.
• The black figure released black light and transported Zhao Sheng to a boundless sea of meteorite stars.

Zhao Sheng encountered Qi WuYang, a dying Spirit Venerable whose collapsing Divine Sense World left him a stone tablet and a warning about a Primordial Sea God gestating in the Sky Pillar World. After the Hundred Lifetimes Book absorbed the remnant thought and awarded Zhao Sheng an Earth Grade achievement, he returned to find Hai Lan'er alive, the others dead and wrapped in gray threads, and the spirit stone jade wall collapsed.

• Qi WuYang questioned Zhao Sheng about the Spirit Race and offered to take him as a disciple after learning Zhao Sheng could not be killed in the Divine Sense World.
• As his world collapsed, Qi WuYang asked Zhao Sheng to warn a Spirit Race member of Nascent Soul Realm or above about the Primordial Sea God and gave him a stone tablet.
• The gray torrent engulfed Qi WuYang's remnant thought, which the Hundred Lifetimes Book absorbed, granting Zhao Sheng an Earth Grade achievement and changing his Spirit Race Bloodline status to evolving.
• Zhao Sheng regained consciousness as Hai Lan'er tried to wake him and discovered Li Mu, Gui Xinshu, and the others dead, with gray threads wrapping their bodies into cocoons.
• Hai Lan'er wept for her father as the spirit stone jade wall cracked apart and collapsed, leaving a pile of spirit stones.

After escaping the Mist Sea aboard the Great Fortune, Zhao Sheng and the survivors sailed north and found an island that revealed their location near Zhi Ao Island. The group was left at the edge of the Outer Star Sea, just three hundred nautical miles from the nearest Dragon Scale-grade spirit island.

• Zhao Sheng and Hai Lan'er escaped the flooded undersea cave, and Zhao Sheng noticed that the black aura over the dark-blue flames had vanished.
• Zhao Sheng killed the short, plump old man when he tried to seize the Great Fortune, and Yan Kai, Zou Li, and the surviving Zhi Jin crew pledged to follow Zhao Sheng.
• Zhao Sheng spent two months searching underwater for a route out of the Mist Sea, then guided the Great Fortune into an undersea current.
• After three months adrift, Zhao Sheng surfaced and confirmed that the Great Fortune had escaped the Mist Sea, prompting the crew to celebrate.
• Zhao Sheng ordered the Great Fortune north, and half a month later he found an island that confirmed they were three hundred nautical miles from Zhi Ao Island.

Zhao Sheng brought the Great Fortune to Zhi Ao Island, where Dong Zheng and Li Ziqi began investigating the ship and its crew. Hai Lan'er arranged for the Xu Clan to take over the vessel, while Zhao Sheng planned to return to Central Continent and pursue Foundation Establishment.

• Zhao Sheng chose Zhi Ao Island as the Great Fortune's destination, and the ship arrived four days later.
• The pier steward registered Zhao Sheng's group and privately reported the ship and its seven-person crew to Dong Zheng and Li Ziqi.
• Dong Zheng and Li Ziqi decided to investigate the Great Fortune before choosing how to deal with it.
• Zhao Sheng told Yan Kai and Zou Li to watch the other Qi Refining cultivators, then asked Hai Lan'er how she would handle the ship and its cargo.
• Hai Lan'er proposed placing the Great Fortune under her Xu Clan elders' protection, and she and Zhao Sheng visited Sea Treasure Pavilion.
• Hai Lan'er sent word of the Great Fortune to Thousand Ships City, expecting the Xu Clan to send people to take it over within days or weeks.