Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chen crossed Kunpeng Sea toward Ember Sea, surviving a battle with a dangerous Willow Tree and acquiring Yin Wood Sars. After reaching a barren island, he encountered a strange snake whose Black Mist was dangerous but whose body proved unexpectedly fragile.

• Xiao Chen detoured around a massive thunderstorm and avoided investigating a colossal creature struggling beneath its lightning.
• A sea Willow Tree attacked Xiao Chen, but he absorbed its Yin Sha Qi and condensed a Yin Wood Seal he named Sea Willow Sars before escaping.
• Xiao Chen crossed Kunpeng Sea, collected a piece of Red Sandstone, and detoured around a suspected New Ruin opening in the mist.
• Xiao Chen reached a large, barren island and was immediately attacked by a strange, many-legged snake that sprayed corrosive Black Mist.
• Xiao Chen burned away the Black Mist and killed the snake with a single palm strike, then wondered why the creature had been so weak.

Xiao Chen entered the Secluded Doom Forbidden Land, met its reclusive Nascent Soul resident Su Li, and agreed to carve statues in exchange for Moon-Dyed Jade Marrow Mushrooms. While working, he discovered a strange Blood Pool that greatly increased his vitality and cultivation, leaving him with a new mystery to investigate.

• Iron Fan True Monarch ordered the Azure Sea Immortal Sect to conceal the Secluded Doom Forbidden Land's warning that a Golden Core cultivator had entered.
• Xiao Chen found three Moon-Dyed Jade Marrow Mushrooms and met Su Li, who offered him one in advance if he cut Spirit-Sealing Sinking Cloud Wood and carved statues.
• Su Li sent Xiao Chen to work at a distance because her curse endangered those near her, while Xiao Chen quickly felled the trees and began carving.
• Xiao Chen accidentally broke a piece of Spirit-Sealing Sinking Cloud Wood and went to cut another tree as Su Li calmly allowed him to continue.
• Xiao Chen found a hidden Blood Pool, absorbed its Vitality Power, and rapidly increased his Life Core and Total Vitality.

Su Li sent Xiao Chen away before the Moon Eclipse Curse could erupt, warning him never to return, while Xiao Chen discovered a crystal that greatly strengthened his body and cultivation. The chapter ended with him searching for more crystals before leaving Secluded Doom Island.

• Su Li watched Xiao Chen carve statues for four days without showing signs of the curse, then feared the approaching Moon Eclipse would infect him.
• Su Li told Xiao Chen to stop carving and leave, then let him take the Moon-Dyed Jade Marrow Mushrooms and any Spirit Herbs he wanted if he departed before midnight.
• Xiao Chen accepted Su Li's offer and hurried away, while Su Li prepared for the possible early arrival of the Moon Eclipse.
• Xiao Chen found a new Moon-Dyed Jade Marrow Mushroom growing above a buried reddish crystal and absorbed the crystal's vitality, increasing his true essence and Qi and Blood Concentration.
• Xiao Chen searched the area for more mysterious crystals, found none, and decided to chop down two trees before leaving the island.

Xiao Chen refined a Blood Crystal during Su Li’s Moon Eclipse, gaining a large increase in true essence and vitality while the curse ended early. He struck a deal with Su Li for more Blood Crystals and learned her story, then stayed on Secluded Doom Island as the next moon eclipse approached.

• Su Li spilled her blood onto Snow Leaf Grass to restrain the curse, but the Moon Eclipse erupted early as Xiao Chen arrived.
• A Blood Crystal formed from Su Li, and Xiao Chen absorbed it alongside the surging spiritual power, gaining a hundred strands of true essence and greatly increased vitality.
• Xiao Chen proposed trading three Purple-Gold Bodhi Fruits for each Blood Crystal, and Su Li agreed to the deal.
• Su Li told Xiao Chen about her Nine Yin Calamity Spirit Body, Moon Eclipse Curse, and the surveillance array watching Secluded Doom Island.
• Su Li asked Xiao Chen to carve another statue, and he stayed on the island to cultivate and talk with her until the next fifteenth approached.

Xiao Chen learned from Su Li’s inherited memories that a Witch Artifact in Wu Mausoleum might help suppress her Moon Eclipse Curse, then left Secluded Doom Island to search for it. He reached Azure Sea Market and hired Guo Pan to guide him to a source of information.

• During the moon eclipse, Xiao Chen absorbed Su Li’s Curse Power and both of them witnessed the Moon Witch Tribe’s inherited memories.
• Xiao Chen learned that Wu Mausoleum might hold a Witch Artifact and that reaching it would mean facing Witch Poison, traps, and dense Killing Intent in a remote Sea Abyss.
• Su Li helped Xiao Chen refine the Blood Crystal, allowing him to break through to mid-stage Golden Core in Body Refining.
• Xiao Chen set out to find Wu Mausoleum, promised Su Li he would return, and accepted her Thunder Pearl.
• After two days of travel, Xiao Chen arrived at Azure Sea Market and hired Guo Pan to guide him to places that sold intelligence.

Xiao Chen bought intelligence from Azure Sea Pavilion and Spirit Communication Pavilion, learning about recent changes and upcoming events in the Compassion Sea, then purchased Spirit Honey and sold his Tier 3 Talismans. At the Get Rich Wall, he saw a bounty raised to one million Spirit Stones for a Fourth-Order Life-Extending Pill, while several other bounties sought missing Golden Core cultivators.

• Xiao Chen paid Fifty-Five Thousand Spirit Stones for a sea chart, a ten-year intelligence summary, and a list of upcoming events from Azure Sea Pavilion.
• Xiao Chen learned about the Illuminating Void Sect, Surging Wave True Monarch, a coming Five Great Sects competition, and a bounty on Golden Light Rogue Cultivator.
• Xiao Chen bought three hundred jin of Third-Order Spirit Honey after hearing about the sect competition, then purchased cheap rumors at Spirit Communication Pavilion and sold his Tier 3 Talismans at half price.
• Xiao Chen visited the Get Rich Wall, where he saw the Three Pearl Star Fixing Plate bounty and several notices concerning missing Golden Core cultivators.
• An Azure Sea Immortal Sect cultivator raised the Yi Family's bounty to One Million Spirit Stones for a Fourth-Order Life-Extending Pill.

Xiao Chen left Azure Sea Market after killing Wang Qiang Hu, then traveled north and encountered a vast, newly formed snowfall before reaching the northeastern edge of Compassion Sea to search for Wu Mausoleum. His search was slowed by unusually large numbers of Golden Core Sea Fish, so he decided to investigate what had drawn them there.

• Xiao Chen ignored the argument over the Yi family’s bounty, refused Wang Qiang Hu’s offer, and followed him into an alley, where he killed him and took his belongings.
• Xiao Chen refined Wang Qiang Hu’s Storage Ring, found Spirit Stones, an Origin Returning Divine Stone, Azure Sea Heavy Water, and a mysterious token, then disposed of the evidence and continued north.
• Xiao Chen crossed the territories of the Heavenly Dipper Sect and Ink Barrier Sect, then passed through a newly emerged snowfall that stretched for at least ten thousand li.
• Xiao Chen reached the northeastern edge of Compassion Sea and began searching underwater for Sea Abyss that might contain Wu Mausoleum.
• Xiao Chen encountered many Golden Core Sea Fish, caught and grilled several, and realized their numbers were disrupting his search.
• Xiao Chen stopped searching and decided to gather information about what had attracted the Sea Fish.

Xiao Chen used Sun Haoran’s family heirloom sea chart to locate the distant Sea Abyss where Wu Mausoleum lay, then found and opened the mausoleum’s entrance. He entered its passage and saw ancient murals, but the open doorway and strange force left him wary.

• Xiao Chen met Sun Haoran and asked about nearby Meteorite Lands, and Sun Haoran showed him his family’s old sea chart.
• Sun Haoran explained to Sun Haoze that sharing the chart had helped send Xiao Chen away without risking a fight.
• Seven days later, Xiao Chen reached the Sea Abyss and searched its depths, fighting several Golden Core Sea Fish along the way.
• Xiao Chen found a carved pillar in a deep trench and dug for three days until he uncovered the entrance to Wu Mausoleum.
• Xiao Chen touched the sealed stone entrance, which sank and revealed a passage shielded from the seawater.
• Xiao Chen entered the mausoleum and saw moonlit crystals, Witch Talismans, and vivid murals of the High Priest and kneeling tribespeople.

Xiao Chen crossed the Wu Mausoleum’s traps, absorbed its Burial Abyss Asura to form a Yin Earth Seal, and entered the Tomb Chamber to retrieve the Witch Artifact. The dead High Priest trapped him in her coffin, but Xiao Chen escaped and destroyed the Tomb Chamber before taking the artifact.

• Xiao Chen bypassed the Bone Tower and endured the passage’s freezing green flames, then restored his true essence despite the warning to turn back.
• Xiao Chen crossed the moon-phase palace by triggering its traps, reached the plaza, and refined its Burial Abyss Asura into a fifth strand of Killing Intent that formed a Yin Earth Seal.
• Xiao Chen entered the Tomb Chamber, found an inherited cultivation method on beast hide for Su Li, and discovered the Witch Artifact in the High Priest’s coffin.
• The High Priest seized Xiao Chen and dragged him into the coffin, but he reappeared on the plaza a quarter of an hour later.
• Xiao Chen attacked the Tomb Chamber with his fire spells and Flying Sword, seized the Witch Artifact from afar, and continued blasting the surroundings.

Xiao Chen returned from the Wu Mausoleum carrying the Crystal Moon Wheel and came upon the Sun Family Trio under attack by Wang Ruiyang. He killed Wang Ruiyang and the other attackers, then left after Sun Haoran promised to keep his involvement secret.

• Xiao Chen removed the Crystal Moon Wheel from the Wu Mausoleum and carried it across the sea toward home.
• Wang Ruiyang ambushed the Sun Family Trio after they opened their forefather’s Cave Residence and recovered the family’s lost secret art.
• As the Sun Family’s defensive formation neared collapse, Sun Haoran prepared to help Sun Haoze escape with a Fleeting Light Golden Talisman.
• Xiao Chen arrived holding the glowing Crystal Moon Wheel, and Sun Haoze asked him to save the Sun Family from the robbers.
• Wang Ruiyang attacked Xiao Chen, who killed him with his Cold Light Ice Soul Needles in a single move.
• Xiao Chen killed the remaining attackers, took their Storage Rings, and departed after Sun Haoran agreed to keep the incident secret.

Xiao Chen inventoried the Wang Family and Robber Cultivators’ spoils, discovered an invitation to a Nascent Soul Ceremony and a valuable pill recipe, then fled a region where powerful demonic beasts were stirring. He reached Ink Barrier Peak just before the New Year and entered Ink Stone Market to shop.

• Xiao Chen sorted through the Storage Rings, kept a Youth Preservation Pill for Su Li, and found letters revealing the Wang Family’s ties to the Illuminating Void Sect and Lotus Flower Temple, plus an invitation to a Nascent Soul Ceremony hosted by Esteem Truth Temple.
• Xiao Chen identified a Thunder Shakes Mountains and Rivers Divinity Painting and discovered a fourth-grade Gold Sand Tempering Spirit Pill recipe in a Spirit Accumulating Treasure Box.
• Xiao Chen crossed a vast snowy region, sensed Spiritual Energy Tide disturbances and two Nascent Soul Demonic Beasts, concealed himself, and hurried away without being discovered.
• Xiao Chen arrived at Ink Barrier Peak on the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month and stored his Crystal Moon Wheel outside Ink Stone Market.
• Xiao Chen entered the bustling Ink Stone Market to relax and buy New Year goods.

Xiao Chen returned to Secluded Doom Island with Witch Clan artifacts and an inheritance record, then helped Su Li prepare to test the curse-suppressing artifact during the fifteenth-night moon eclipse. The artifact only partly worked, and the ritual left Su Li receiving an inheritance vision about the Moon Witch Tribe’s decline and a prophecy of a Heavenly Witch reincarnation.

• Xiao Chen heard market cultivators praise Zhang Shouquan and the Lo Clan’s profitable Yang-Preserving Stone vein, then sold surplus items for just over two million Spirit Stones.
• Xiao Chen returned to Secluded Doom Island, where Su Li welcomed him, and he gave her the World Illusion Moon Wheel, a curse-suppressing Witch Artifact, and a beast-hide record from the Wu Mausoleum.
• Su Li read the beast hide and mistook Xiao Chen’s return to mean he had opened the coffin, but he clarified that he was safe and had retrieved the artifacts from it.
• Xiao Chen cultivated with two Blood Crystals while Su Li refined the curse-suppressing Witch Artifact before the fifteenth-night ritual.
• Xiao Chen and Su Li set off fireworks to calm her before the moon eclipse, and the artifact blocked the moonlight but did not fully prevent the ritual’s effects.
• Su Li received an inheritance vision describing the Moon Witch Tribe’s decline and predicting that a Heavenly Witch reincarnation would one day revive the clan.

Xiao Chen refined a Reinforced Blood Crystal during the lunar eclipse and used its surging Vitality Power to break through to Late-stage Golden Core in Body Cultivation. Su Li learned about the outside world and witnessed ancient Moon Witch memories, while the chapter ended with Xiao Chen successfully advancing.

• Iron Fan True Monarch ordered the monitoring records of the forbidden grounds destroyed after a formation detected a Spiritual Energy Tide and a suspected Nascent Soul battle.
• Su Li recognized that Xiao Chen’s fever after refining a Blood Crystal might have been Witch Blood Purification, which she said normally followed the absorption of six Blood Crystals.
• Xiao Chen brought Su Li a Youth Preservation Pill and intelligence reports, and she began enjoying the island and reading news about the outside world.
• Xiao Chen and Su Li prepared offerings for the next lunar eclipse, and Su Li’s Inherited Memory revealed ancient Moon Witch battles, a Kunpeng, and warriors bearing War Marks.
• Su Li produced a Reinforced Blood Crystal, and Xiao Chen absorbed its powerful Vitality Power, overcame the Golden Core Minor Bottleneck, and reached Late-stage Golden Core in Body Cultivation.

After Xiao Chen broke through to the Late-stage Golden Core, he chose Star Realm Blessing I and gained Heart of Clarity, which greatly improved his cultivation and perception of the laws. He began planning for the approaching crisis and his eventual Nascent Soul breakthrough, realizing he could ask Su Li about her own experience.

• Xiao Chen used a Blood Crystal to reach the Late-stage Golden Core, and his body underwent intense tempering as damaged flesh was replaced.
• Xiao Chen chose Star Realm Blessing I over Little Giant and Rescue Is On The Way, receiving Heart of Clarity from Heart Moon Fox.
• Su Li worried as Blood Mist rose from Xiao Chen, but he recovered and told her the process had helped temper his body.
• Xiao Chen tested Heart of Clarity at the beach and repeatedly entered a focused cultivation state, sensing the Five Elements and drawing in spiritual energy from across the island.
• Xiao Chen considered the crisis expected within five years and planned how to improve his chances of forming a Nascent Soul.
• Xiao Chen realized Su Li could tell him about Nascent Soul Formation and decided to ask her.

After Xiao Chen reached Late-stage Golden Core, Su Li suspected he was the prophesied Heavenly Witch Reincarnation and taught him the Witch Clan’s Blood Bestowal Infant Drawing Secret Art and the materials needed for an Infant Nurturing Altar. Xiao Chen left Secluded Doom Island to prepare for Nascent Soul Formation, reached Ink Stone Market, and learned new intelligence about Zhang Shouquan and the upcoming auction.

• Su Li connected Xiao Chen’s unusual cultivation, curse immunity, and accidental arrival on Secluded Doom Island to the prophecy of the Heavenly Witch Reincarnation.
• Xiao Chen asked Su Li about Nascent Soul Formation, and she described her breakthrough and offered to teach him Witch Clan secret methods.
• Su Li taught Xiao Chen the Blood Bestowal Infant Drawing Secret Art and listed the rare materials required for an Infant Nurturing Altar.
• Xiao Chen planned to seek Crimson Moon Dew and Nascent Soul materials, then left the island and flew north toward Ink Stone Market.
• At Ink Stone Market, Xiao Chen learned that Zhang Shouquan had defeated a group of Robber Cultivators and that the Listening Wave Sea Auction had been moved to March 18.
• Xiao Chen listened to a storyteller praise the Thunderbolt Spear at the Five Great Sects’ competition, while someone in the crowd challenged the praise.

Xiao Chen gathered materials for an expensive ritual altar and heard rumors about Crimson Moon Dew, rising Golden Core Sea Fish, and disappearances near Azure Sea Market. After reaching Listening Wave Sea for the auction, he presented Heavy Origin Spirit Breath Soil to an appraiser, who went to fetch his master.

• A storyteller described how Heaven Sword True Person defeated Thousand Machines Valley's Eight Vajras in the grand competition, and Xiao Chen learned Cloud Wave Sword Abode had won first place.
• Xiao Chen bought most of the ritual altar's auxiliary materials in Ink Stone Market and heard that Crimson Moon Dew would be valuable at the Listening Wave Sea auction.
• Xiao Chen heard reports of increased Golden Core Sea Fish and numerous Golden Core cultivators disappearing around Azure Sea Market, including the Golden Face Tiger.
• Xiao Chen detoured around a Yin Spirit Calamity and arrived at Listening Wave Sea with three days remaining before the auction.
• Xiao Chen took Heavy Origin Spirit Breath Soil to the Jade Leaf Commerce Association's Appraisal Pavilion, and Little Zhao summoned his master to inspect the Fourth-Order Spiritual Item.

Xiao Chen consigned several spiritual treasures at Listening Wave Island, secured a private room for the auction, and learned about the local powers while waiting for it to begin. At the auction, Surging Wave True Monarch appeared to maintain order, and Xiao Chen made a decisive bid on a rare Nine-Petal Golden Stamen.

• Kuang Ruihong appraised Xiao Chen's Heavy Origin Spirit Breath Soil, Burrowing Turtle Moon Embracing Jade, Violet Star Radiance Box, and three other spiritual items, then accepted them for consignment at Xiao Chen's chosen starting prices.
• Kuang Ruihong gave Xiao Chen a B-class Twenty-Four private-room token with a three-million-Spirit-Stone credit limit and later reported the rare Violet Star Radiance Box to the Second Shopkeeper.
• Xiao Chen rented a shielded courtyard, spent three days inspecting stalls and hearing rumors about the powers around the Listening Wave Sea, then went to the auction.
• Surging Wave True Monarch appeared at the auction hall and announced that he would maintain order before Luo Hanxiang began the bidding.
• Xiao Chen recognized a nine-hundred-year-old Nine-Petal Golden Stamen as a treasure he had sought and bid one hundred thousand Spirit Stones, drawing the crowd's attention to VIP Room B24.

Xiao Chen won several auction items by bidding far above his rivals, including a Nine-Petal Golden Stamen, a Four Seasons Frost Fruit, and a Fifth-Order Defensive Talisman Treasure. As the auction moved to a Yuanqing Longevity Pill, the Yi Family Old Ancestor bid one million Spirit Stones, but a sinister voice interrupted the sale with a higher offer.

• Xiao Chen outbid Mountain Opening True Person for the Nine-Petal Golden Stamen at 200,000 Spirit Stones, then later won the Four Seasons Frost Fruit for 300,000 after Qing Luan True Person tried to test him.
• Xiao Chen's consigned spiritual objects sold for high prices, and a complete portion of Heavy Origin Spirit Breath Soil went to VIP Room B2 for 567,600 Spirit Stones.
• Xiao Chen entered the bidding for a Fifth-Order Defensive Talisman Treasure after learning it could protect its owner from a Nascent Soul Demonic Beast, and he won it for one million Spirit Stones after Huiming Luohan and Bai Qiao True Person withdrew.
• Luo Hanxiang introduced a Fourth-Order Yuanqing Longevity Pill, and the Yi Family Old Ancestor bid one million Spirit Stones before Yunfeng True Monarch yielded.
• A sinister voice interrupted Luo Hanxiang's sale of the pill and offered to raise the bid by one thousand Spirit Stones.

Xiao Chen won the Cangran Secret Token and Crimson Moon Dew with large bids, then immediately offered two million Spirit Stones for the final item, the Three Lights Soul Nourishing Jade. The auction ended with the other bidders stunned and the contest for the jade just beginning.

• The Yi Family Old Ancestor bid up to two million Spirit Stones for the Fourth-Order Longevity Spirit Pill, but withdrew after the Room B26 bidder kept raising the price by one thousand and taunting him.
• Luo Hanxiang introduced the Cangran Secret Token, and Xiao Chen outbid the other bidders to obtain it for 700,000 Spirit Stones.
• Xiao Chen bid two million Spirit Stones for the Crimson Moon Dew, and the Jade Leaf Commerce Association accepted his bid after Withered Leaf True Monarch backed him.
• Luo Hanxiang presented the Three Lights Soul Nourishing Jade as the final auction item, and Xiao Chen immediately bid two million Spirit Stones after another bidder opened at one million.

Xiao Chen won the Three Lights Soul Nourishing Jade for four million Spirit Stones, then escaped a scheme involving a mysterious masked cultivator who tried to frame him with a Storage Bag. After collecting his auction earnings, he accepted Withered Leaf True Monarch’s invitation and met him for tea.

• Xiao Chen outbid Gang Yuan True Monarch and Qian Shu True Monarch, winning the Three Lights Soul Nourishing Jade for four million Spirit Stones.
• A mysterious cultivator in a Bronze Mask tossed Storage Bags at Xiao Chen and two other cultivators while fleeing, but Xiao Chen dodged the bag and avoided being framed.
• Withered Leaf True Monarch and the Yi Family Old Ancestor each took a special interest in Xiao Chen as he left the Auction Hall.
• Xiao Chen collected the items he had won, securing Crimson Moon Dew and the Three Lights Soul Nourishing Jade, and noted that he still needed Nine Aperture Lucid Jade and Coarse-grained Twisted Leaf.
• Xiao Chen collected the proceeds from his six auction items and received an invitation from Withered Leaf True Monarch, who waived the commission and offered him tea.
• Xiao Chen met Withered Leaf True Monarch in a private room, where the True Monarch invited him to sit and chat as friends.