Chapter Summaries

Ying Yan pursued Zhuge Xiang across the Eastern Sea to seize the Fire Phoenix, but Zhuge Xiang refused his offer and fought back when Ying Yan’s cultivators attacked. Lu Yuling held off three attackers with powerful ice spells as the battle began.

• Zhuge Xiang traveled toward the Eastern Sea with Lu Yuling and spent his days training in the Asura Path.
• Ying Yan and Lei Qianjun led a group of cultivators aboard a Flying Dragon Warship to pursue Zhuge Xiang and reclaim his Fire Phoenix.
• Ying Yan caught up with Zhuge Xiang, asked for the Fire Phoenix, and threatened force after Zhuge Xiang refused to trade it.
• Ying Yan ordered his cultivators to attack Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling, and they quickly shattered the Asura Warship’s defensive array.
• Lu Yuling changed the weather with a silver ice crystal and used ice spells to entangle three Spell Control Stage cultivators.

Zhuge Xiang used his Phantom Cloak and the Demon Luo Scripture to overwhelm Ying Yan’s cultivators, forcing Ying Yan to halt the fight with an offer. Ying Yan revealed that those who master the Demon Luo Scripture become the Asura Sect’s Sect Master, leaving Zhuge Xiang surprised by the possibility that his Master was grooming him for the role.

• Zhuge Xiang’s Phantom Cloak clone absorbed the attackers’ strikes and exploded, heavily injuring the surrounding cultivators.
• Zhuge Xiang emerged from stealth, attacked the wounded cultivators with Three Consecutive Slashes and Sweep Through Thousands of Soldiers, and subdued Lei Qianjun.
• Ying Yan stopped Ming Ying from firing and begged Zhuge Xiang to pause, offering a better proposal instead of pursuing the Fire Phoenix.
• Ying Yan recognized Zhuge Xiang’s Demon Luo Scripture and explained that its successful practitioners became the Asura Sect’s Sect Master.
• Zhuge Xiang learned that his Master might be preparing him to lead the Asura Sect.

Zhuge Xiang rejected Ying Yan’s proposed alliance for the moment, keeping open the possibility of seeking his help with a mission tied to Qin Shi Huang’s bloodline. While traveling across the East Sea with Lu Yuling and Su Huayu, Zhuge Xiang landed on Sea God Island and learned that its people worshipped a living deity who watched over the island.

• Ying Yan offered Zhuge Xiang support for the Asura Sect in exchange for help seizing the Imperial Throne, but Zhuge Xiang postponed any agreement while considering how Ying Yan might aid his mission.
• After Ying Yan departed, Zhuge Xiang told Lu Yuling he had no intention of genuinely allying with the untrustworthy prince.
• Zhuge Xiang and Su Huayu continued across the East Sea aboard the Asura Warship until dark clouds and lightning led them to land on a nearby island.
• A squad of cultivators required Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling to register and explained that the island’s residents worshipped a living Sea God whose eye watched the whole island.
• Zhuge Xiang doubted the Sea God was real, angering the islanders, and Lu Yuling apologized as Zhuge Xiang grew curious about the deity.

Zhuge Xiang questioned whether the Sea God of Sea God Island could truly be a deity, while the Sea God herself searched for someone who had vanished from her watch. After hearing an eyewitness account of the Sea God restoring the island with a miraculous feat, Zhuge Xiang began to wonder if a real deity existed there.

• The Sea God awoke in Sea God Hall and dismissed her attendants while worrying that someone she cared about had disappeared from her sight on the island.
• Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling explored Sea God Island’s market, where ordinary residents and cultivators traded side by side.
• Zhuge Xiang asked a passing cultivator whether the Sea God truly existed, and the cultivator recounted a miracle he had witnessed thirty years earlier.
• The cultivator described how the Sea God drew spiritual energy from the surrounding ocean and restored the island’s withered land and plants in the time it took to brew a cup of tea.
• Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling were astonished by the feat, and Zhuge Xiang wondered whether a deity truly lived on the island.

Mo Lingna confronted Sea God Lin Birou and reclaimed the Sea God position, causing Lin Birou to lose her divine power and fall from Sea God Peak. As the island mourned the apparent death of its deity, Zhuge Xiang caught the falling Lin Birou while heading toward Sea God Hall with Lu Yuling.

• A shadow evaded Sea God's divine eye and entered Sea God Hall, where Mo Lingna accused Lin Birou of stealing her mother's position as Sea God.
• Mo Lingna attacked Lin Birou and seized a ball of golden light as the Sea God's eye shattered and blood rain, mournful winds, and a black-and-white world marked the deity's fall.
• Mo Lingna celebrated reclaiming the Sea God position after six years, while Lin Birou fell from Sea God Peak stripped of her spiritual aura.
• Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling followed the island's residents toward Sea God Hall and learned that the Sea God position had a twenty-year term.
• Zhuge Xiang sensed a woman falling from the sky, caught her with Sword Flight, and recognized her as Lin Birou.

Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling rescued an unconscious woman who revealed she was the retired Sea God, while Mo Lingna appeared before Sea God Island as the new Sea God. The retired Sea God explained how someone could inherit the divine position, leaving Zhuge Xiang eager to learn more about divinity.

• Lu Yuling admired the unconscious woman's beauty, and Zhuge Xiang teased her before they tended to the stranger's injuries.
• The woman woke, thanked Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling, and identified herself as the retired previous Sea God, Mo Lingna having succeeded her.
• Mo Lingna appeared above Sea God Hall, and the island's storm cleared as its residents celebrated her ascension.
• Zhuge Xiang questioned the retired Sea God about her ordinary appearance and how Sea Gods were chosen.
• The retired Sea God said a pure-hearted person could merge with the Sea God's divinity to become a Sea God, prompting Zhuge Xiang to ask what divinity was and where it came from.

Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling learned how Sea Gods gained power through a divine persona and heard how Lin Birou had been stripped of hers by Mo Lingna. After accepting a quest to help Lin Birou reclaim it, Zhuge Xiang agreed to assist her despite Lu Yuling’s reservations.

• Lin Birou explained that the first Sea God had protected the island’s ancestors and that belief empowered each Sea God through a divine persona.
• Zhuge Xiang learned that deities could command the spiritual energy and forces within their territory but lacked the combat strength of immortals.
• Zhuge Xiang accepted the quest to help Lin Birou reclaim her divine persona, with a reward of experience points and the Transfiguration Technique.
• Lin Birou revealed that Mo Lingna, her master’s daughter, had seized her divine persona despite being a cultivator, which violated the Sea God’s inheritance rules.
• Lin Birou asked Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling to help her reclaim the persona, and Zhuge Xiang agreed before Lu Yuling could refuse.

Mo Lingna used her Sea God authority to rapidly cultivate, while Zhuge Xiang, Lu Yuling, and Lin Birou entered Sea God Hall through a hidden full-moon passage to reclaim the divine persona. Mo Lingna revealed her cultivator strength, offered to marry Zhuge Xiang, and attacked Lin Birou and Lu Yuling, leaving Zhuge Xiang facing her next move.

• Mo Lingna absorbed spiritual Qi from the surrounding sea and raised her cultivation rapidly inside Sea God Hall.
• Lin Birou told Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling about the secret passage that opened on the full moon and led unseen into the temple.
• Lin Birou opened the passage in the reflected moonlight, and she, Lu Yuling, and Zhuge Xiang entered Sea God Hall.
• Mo Lingna recognized Lin Birou and asked Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling not to interfere, then offered to marry Zhuge Xiang if he withdrew.
• Mo Lingna threatened Lu Yuling and Lin Birou, then used Nether Ghost Claw to seize them in its grasp.

Mo Lingna captured Lu Yuling and Lin Birou, then released Lu Yuling after Zhuge Xiang claimed she was his fellow disciple. Convinced Zhuge Xiang was her destined husband, Mo Lingna arranged to marry him the next day.

• Mo Lingna's Ghost Claws seized Lu Yuling and Lin Birou, but Zhuge Xiang shattered a claw with Southern Departure Finger.
• Mo Lingna trapped Lu Yuling in a Vital Energy Prison and blocked Zhuge Xiang from mobilizing the vital energy of heaven and earth.
• Zhuge Xiang persuaded Mo Lingna that Lu Yuling was only his martial sister, so Mo Lingna released her and ordered her never to return to Sea God Island.
• Lu Yuling left after teasing Zhuge Xiang, while Mo Lingna spared Lin Birou and had her attendants take her away.
• Mo Lingna told Zhuge Xiang about a prophecy that he would be her destined husband and declared that they would marry the next day.
• Mo Lingna began arranging the wedding and asked Zhuge Xiang for his name.

Mo Lingna forced Zhuge Xiang to marry her in a grand wedding on Sea God Island, while Lu Yuling rescued Lin Birou and brought her to the Sea God Hall. The wedding ended with Lu Yuling confronting Mo Lingna, as Lin Birou secretly searched for the hidden artifact that could defeat the Sea God.

• Mo Lingna kept Zhuge Xiang under house arrest and prepared to marry him the next day, while the island celebrated the wedding.
• As Zhuge Xiang and Mo Lingna began the wedding rites, Lu Yuling flew to the prison and rescued Lin Birou.
• Lin Birou told Lu Yuling to take her to the Sea God Grand Hall to find the secret artifact meant to deal with a rebellious Sea God.
• Zhuge Xiang and Mo Lingna completed the wedding ceremony, but Mo Lingna stopped before escorting him to the bridal chamber when Lu Yuling and Lin Birou entered.
• Lu Yuling teased Zhuge Xiang and challenged Mo Lingna, who ordered her to leave Sea God Island.
• While Mo Lingna confronted Lu Yuling, Lin Birou quietly opened a hidden compartment in the Sea God Hall.

The Southern Bright Bird King arrived at Sea God Hall to reclaim the offspring Lu Yuling had captured, disrupting Mo Lingna and Zhuge Xiang’s wedding. Mo Lingna and the Bird King refused to back down, leaving a battle on the verge of breaking out.

• The Southern Bright Bird King learned that Lu Yuling had captured his offspring and flew to Sea God Hall in a fury.
• Mo Lingna ordered Lu Yuling to leave, but the Bird King recognized her and demanded that she return his son.
• Mo Lingna asked the Bird King to take his vendetta elsewhere so her wedding could continue.
• Zhuge Xiang asked Mo Lingna to let Lu Yuling stay, but Lu Yuling refused her protection.
• Mo Lingna asked the Bird King to spare Lu Yuling for the day, but he rejected her request and threatened to fight if she interfered.

During Mo Lingna's wedding, the Southern Bright Bird King attacked Lu Yuling, but Lin Birou used a conch that summoned the First Generation Sea God. The Sea God appeared and effortlessly subdued the Southern Bright Bird King, leaving it transformed into a tiny red bird in his palm.

• The Southern Bright Bird King attacked Lu Yuling, and Mo Lingna, Zhuge Xiang, and Lu Yuling fought back but were overpowered.
• As the wedding guests fled, Lin Birou stayed in Sea God Hall and blew an ordinary-looking conch that released a powerful aura.
• The conch's aura prompted the First Generation Sea God to step through a tear in space, and the Southern Bright Bird King recognized him with terror.
• The First Generation Sea God told the Southern Bright Bird King to leave, but it attacked, hoping to overcome its fear of him.
• The First Generation Sea God shrank the Southern Bright Bird King into a sparrow-sized red bird and took it into his palm as his mount for a hundred years.

The First Generation Sea God appeared after Lin Birou blew the conch and effortlessly subdued the Southern Bright Bird King. He recognized Zhuge Xiang as the youth foretold to help resolve his connection with Jin Mingzi, then confronted Mo Lingna over taking Lin Birou’s divine persona and seized it from her.

• The First Generation Sea God captured the Southern Bright Bird King and recognized himself in the ancient illustration Lin Birou and Mo Lingna remembered.
• The First Generation Sea God questioned Zhuge Xiang, believing he was the youth Liao Wufa had foretold would help him find Jin Mingzi.
• Zhuge Xiang revealed that Jin Mingzi was the Golden Winged Corpse King and recounted his encounters with him and the old beggar.
• The First Generation Sea God asked Zhuge Xiang to help him in the future, then turned to Lin Birou and Mo Lingna about the divine persona.
• Mo Lingna admitted she had taken Lin Birou’s divine persona, and the First Generation Sea God extracted it from her body.

The First Generation Sea God stripped Mo Lingna of her divine persona and prepared to suppress her for a hundred years, but Zhuge Xiang risked his life to plead for her. Lin Birou agreed to let Zhuge Xiang redeem himself through meritorious service, and he gained a level and the Transfiguration Technique.

• The First Generation Sea God removed Mo Lingna's divine persona and began suppressing her beneath the sea for a hundred years.
• Zhuge Xiang tried to stop the First Generation Sea God's attack, was badly injured, and asked him to spare Mo Lingna because she was his wife.
• Zhuge Xiang offered to handle the First Generation Sea God's entrusted matter to redeem himself for Mo Lingna's crimes.
• The First Generation Sea God let Lin Birou decide whether Zhuge Xiang could redeem himself, and she agreed.
• The First Generation Sea God returned the divine persona to Lin Birou, and Zhuge Xiang completed the Deification quest, reached Layer 2 of the True Essence Realm, and obtained the Transfiguration Technique.

After learning Transfiguration Technique aboard the Asura Warship, Zhuge Xiang was interrupted by an attack from three Four-Star Spirit Beasts. Mo Lingna charged into battle with overwhelming fury, leaving Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling astonished as she drove the beasts back.

• Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling left Sea God Island aboard the Asura Warship after saying goodbye to Lin Birou and the First Generation Sea God.
• Zhuge Xiang learned Transfiguration Technique and considered ways its ability could be used to surprise or restrain enemies.
• Mo Lingna joined Zhuge Xiang in his room and kissed him, but Lu Yuling’s warning that Four-Star Spirit Beasts were attacking the warship interrupted them.
• Zhuge Xiang rushed outside and found a black eagle, a dark brown vulture, and a white flamingo threatening the ship and its passengers.
• Mo Lingna attacked the beasts with Bull Demon Fist, sending the black eagle flying and suppressing all three with her furious assault.
• Zhuge Xiang wondered why Mo Lingna was fighting so fiercely, while Lu Yuling looked suspiciously between him and Mo Lingna.

Zhuge Xiang struggled to cope with Mo Lingna and Lu Yuling’s rivalry aboard the Asura Warship. Their standoff was interrupted by Ying Wushuang, whom the Little Fire Phoenix greeted as its mother.

• Mo Lingna drove off three fairies who had sought to devour human cultivators, frightening them into swearing off humans.
• Mo Lingna tried to spend time alone with Zhuge Xiang, but Lu Yuling repeatedly intervened and took charge of the warship.
• Over the next several days, Mo Lingna and Lu Yuling competed for Zhuge Xiang’s attention, leaving him caught between them.
• Zhuge Xiang found Mo Lingna and Lu Yuling locked in a silent staring contest and asked what they wanted for lunch, but neither answered.
• Ying Wushuang arrived beside the Asura Warship, and the Little Fire Phoenix flew out and called her mother, alarming Zhuge Xiang.

Mo Lingna and Ying Wushuang nearly fought after the Little Fire Phoenix called Ying Wushuang its mother, while Zhuge Xiang tried to clarify their misunderstanding. Their clash was interrupted by Ao Xiaoyao, a Dragon Palace princess seeking help to capture a Black Flood Dragon, and Zhuge Xiang accepted a quest to assist her.

• Mo Lingna confronted Ying Wushuang over the Little Fire Phoenix calling her mother, and the two prepared to fight despite Zhuge Xiang's efforts to stop them.
• Ao Xiaoyao arrived and told Ying Wushuang she had left the Dragon Palace to help capture the Black Flood Dragon that stole the Dragon Pearl.
• Zhuge Xiang received a quest to help Ao Xiaoyao capture or slay the Black Flood Dragon, with an Origin Returning Furnace among the rewards.
• Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling offered to help Ao Xiaoyao, while Mo Lingna objected to Zhuge Xiang assisting Ying Wushuang.
• Ying Wushuang agreed to accept Zhuge Xiang's help, despite suspecting he had ulterior motives.

Zhuge Xiang and Ying Wushuang learned that the Black Flood Dragon had stolen a dragon pearl and traveled to Nanning Island with Ao Xiaoyao to help the East Sea Dragon Palace pursue it. They found the Dragon Palace’s forces stymied by a strange black pool, and the Little Fire Phoenix revealed that magma lay beneath it.

• Ying Wushuang explained that the Black Flood Dragon had stolen a dragon pearl from the East Sea Dragon Palace, and she described her ties to the Dragon Palace and Ao Xiaoyao.
• Zhuge Xiang, Ying Wushuang, and their companions reached Nanning Island aboard the Asura Warship after two days of travel.
• General Crab tried to send Ao Xiaoyao back to the Dragon Palace, but Ying Wushuang persuaded him to let the princess stay.
• General Crab told Ying Wushuang that the Dragon Palace’s scouting teams had vanished inside the black pool and that their water spells could not move it.
• Ao Xiaoyao tried and failed to control the pool’s water, and the Little Fire Phoenix said magma lay beneath the pool.

Zhuge Xiang used Devourer's Treasure to fuse with Little Fire Phoenix and reveal that the black pool was magma, exposing the Black Flood Dragon hiding beneath it. General Crab and the Dragon Palace forces attacked the dragon, and a combined strike left it badly wounded.

• Little Fire Phoenix revealed that the black pool was magma, but said it lacked the cultivation needed to control the flames.
• Zhuge Xiang fused with Little Fire Phoenix, gained its fire-attribute talents, and parted the magma to expose the Black Flood Dragon.
• General Crab rallied the Dragon Palace forces and confronted the Black Flood Dragon, which attacked first with a wave of flames.
• Zhuge Xiang briefly checked the dragon's flames, allowing General Crab and the other fairies to overwhelm them with seawater.
• The seawater wave struck the Black Flood Dragon and reduced its HP by half.

Zhuge Xiang and the East Sea Dragon Palace forces attacked the Black Flood Dragon, who revealed an incomplete human transformation and proved far stronger in his new form. As the battle intensified, Mo Lingna forced him back with her Bull Demon Fist, and he lunged at her before she began using Fox Demon Step.

• General Crab and the Dragon Palace experts launched a barrage of spells at the Black Flood Dragon, who shrank into a half-human, half-dragon form.
• Zhuge Xiang used his Data Eye to confirm that the Black Flood Dragon was still a peak six-star fairy, not yet a true monster.
• The Black Flood Dragon smashed aside most of the spells, while Ying Wushuang, Zhuge Xiang, Mo Lingna, and Lu Yuling attacked him with their signature techniques.
• The Black Flood Dragon burned his paw blocking Zhuge Xiang's Southern Departure Finger and dodged Ying Wushuang's Dragon Slaying Sword before kicking her away.
• Mo Lingna's Bull Demon Fist made the Black Flood Dragon step back, but he then lunged toward her, and she began using Fox Demon Step.