Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan defeated An Jingqi in a contest at Black Peacock Sacred Mountain, and the wolf badger also routed a Long-Armed Divine Ape, ending the clan’s winning streak. After receiving an inheritance and entering seclusion, Wang Xuan checked the Mysterious Mobile Phone’s accumulated messages and learned that Li Lin was seeking a Dao companion.

• Wang Xuan declared his contest with An Jingqi a draw, but An Jingqi acknowledged his victory and left Black Peacock Sacred Mountain.
• The wolf badger trapped a Long-Armed Divine Ape in a Five-Colored World, attacked with three transformations, and spared him after winning.
• The Long-Armed Divine Ape Clan departed, and news spread that Kong Xuan had stopped its winning streak at Black Peacock Sacred Mountain.
• An Jingqi asked a female divine ape to watch Kong Xuan’s movements and decided she might attend the same upcoming gathering as him.
• Wang Xuan received a scripture for refining his Dao-imperialized crown bone, shared his own scripture with the three great elders, and entered seclusion.
• Wang Xuan checked the Mysterious Mobile Phone’s messages, and it reported that Li Lin had entered the sea of stars seeking a Dao companion.

Wang Xuan rejected the Mysterious Mobile Phone’s dangerous offers until he chose to fish in the Mysterious Sea and hooked a valuable True Return Fish. A colossal creature swallowed the fish and dragged Wang Xuan through the vortex into the sea.

• Wang Xuan dismissed the Mysterious Mobile Phone’s suggestions, including visiting Moon Sacred Lake, capturing Wu Tian, entering Purgatory, and stealing Purple Mansion Peaches.
• The Mysterious Mobile Phone opened a vortex to the Mysterious Sea, and Wang Xuan chose the red fishing rod, whose hook carried a piece of true dragon flesh as bait.
• Wang Xuan caught a True Return Fish, which the Mysterious Mobile Phone identified as the main ingredient of Nine Spirits Cave’s Return to Truth Liquid.
• A colossal creature swallowed the True Return Fish and pulled the fishing rod toward the vortex.
• Wang Xuan tried to haul the creature back with a great hand of magical power, but the silver light linked his power to his body and dragged him through the vortex.

Wang Xuan was dragged from the Real World into a vast Mysterious Sea, where he wounded the Silver Strange Fish that had caught him and discovered its flesh could dramatically nourish and strengthen him. After enduring a painful transformation from eating it, he spotted another True Return Fish and a sealed Bronze Bottle, eager to explore the strange sea further.

• A Silver Strange Fish dragged Wang Xuan into the Mysterious Sea, and he used the First Killing Array Diagram to wound it before the sea’s forbidden power forced him to stop attacking.
• Wang Xuan retrieved a chunk of the Silver Strange Fish’s flesh, cooked it on a reef island, and ate it as soup, grilled fish, and sashimi.
• The fish flesh blackened Wang Xuan’s body and caused intense pain, but he shed old skin and emerged with a stronger, golden-lustered body.
• Wang Xuan stored the remaining fish flesh and searched the sea, spotting a flash of red that suggested more True Return Fish remained.
• Wang Xuan’s Spiritual Heavenly Eye revealed a sealed Bronze Bottle drifting dozens of miles away.

Wang Xuan opened a bronze bottle and freed a Green-haired Old Man, who attacked him and was killed after revealing that the Mysterious Sea was an inverted world where sea creatures fished for outsiders from the starry sky. Wang Xuan sent the bottle back into the sea, where an angler on the other side caught it, while he continued cultivating and fishing for True Return Fish.

• Wang Xuan found a bronze bottle drifting across the Mysterious Sea and pried out its stopper, releasing a Green-haired Old Man.
• The Green-haired Old Man attacked Wang Xuan, but Wang Xuan subdued him with the little broken flag and questioned him about the Fishbone Palace and the Mysterious Sea.
• The Green-haired Old Man explained that the Mysterious Sea was a vast world beneath the starry sky, where its inhabitants fished for outsiders; he then attacked again and Wang Xuan killed him.
• Wang Xuan carved a message into a piece of silver fishbone, sealed it inside the bronze bottle, and threw the bottle back into the sea, where it sank toward the other side.
• A woman fishing beneath the stars caught the glowing bronze bottle, while Wang Xuan continued cultivating and fishing for fiery red True Return Fish.

Wang Xuan caught a True Return Fish by pursuing it directly through the Mysterious Sea, then used its spirituality to begin forming a Dao-imperialized texture unique to himself. Elsewhere, Zhuo Yanran received his message bottle and recognized the value of the Silver Strange Fish bones, while Wang Xuan noticed the bottle had returned but was too busy cultivating to investigate.

• Wang Xuan tried several fishing rods, but the True Return Fish evaded his rule fishing line and a corpse bait attacked him before he destroyed it with the First Killing Array Diagram.
• Wang Xuan chased the True Return Fish across the sea and caught a three-meter-long one, while the Silver Strange Fish watched and fled.
• Wang Xuan brought the fish to the reef and prepared to use its spirituality to develop a Dao-imperialized texture unique to himself.
• Zhuo Yanran read Wang Xuan's message asking for help and information about the Mysterious Sea, recognized the Silver Strange Fish bones as valuable, and sent a reply in the Bronze Bottle.
• Wang Xuan noticed the Bronze Bottle had returned, but he set it aside and continued Dao-imperializing.

Wang Xuan developed his own Imperial Dao Texture, advanced to the seventh level of True Immortal, and survived a heavenly tribulation in the Mysterious Sea. As he exchanged messages and supplies with Zhuo Yanran, he saw through her scripture’s hidden trap and sent her a foul secretion as a gift.

• Wang Xuan’s skullcap absorbed borrowed Imperial Daoized textures to form his own imprint, strengthening his cultivation and preparing his body for another transformation.
• Wang Xuan ate the True Return Fish and Silver Strange Fish, practiced several body-refinement scriptures, and naturally advanced to the seventh level of True Immortal.
• Wang Xuan endured a deadly heavenly tribulation, then read Zhuo Yanran’s message about the Mysterious Sea and its strange treasures.
• Wang Xuan exchanged messages with Zhuo Yanran, received an old fishing rod, true dragon flesh, and a mysterious scripture, and declined to send a strand of his Primordial Spirit back in the Bronze Bottle.
• Zhuo Yanran told Ye Lin that she had given Wang Xuan a scripture with a hidden flaw meant to make him seek its later sections, while Wang Xuan used other scriptures to overcome its problems and recognized her scheme.
• Wang Xuan sent Zhuo Yanran the foul secretion of a Sperm Whale Dragon, which she mistook for a sign that he wanted the scripture’s later sections.

Wang Xuan’s revenge with the Bronze Bottle’s foul substance sent Zhuo Yanran and the other anglers fleeing, and they blamed him for the ambush. After the bottle returned carrying a challenge from the Golden Book and Jade Scroll, Wang Xuan questioned how it worked and proposed a safer way to meet the universe’s top talents.

• Wang Xuan cleansed the reef island after dispersing the foul substance, while Zhuo Yanran’s bottle caused chaos among the anglers and drove them from the sea.
• Zhuo Yanran blamed a supposed sea-clan slave for the attack, and the furious anglers discussed forcing him into a decisive battle through the Golden Book and Jade Scroll.
• Wang Xuan found the fish gone, settled for simmering fish-bone soup, and resumed cultivating on the reef island.
• A Bronze Bottle returned with Zhuo Yanran’s angry message and a hazy manifestation of the Golden Book and Jade Scroll, which had registered Wang Xuan’s spiritual imprint and summoned him to a life-and-death battle.
• Wang Xuan dismissed the summons, noted that he had altered his Primordial Spirit imprint and was no longer using Kong Xuan’s identity, then questioned the golden book’s power and proposed a safer arrangement.

Wang Xuan resisted the Golden Book and Jade Scroll’s attempts to summon him, then learned from the Mysterious Mobile Phone that the sacred object governed immortal realms and could host fair duels. He chose to enter its gateway himself to face the descendants of Anomalous Beings, while the phone accompanied him.

• The Golden Book and Jade Scroll failed to detain Wang Xuan, and its manifestation vanished.
• The sea-race group learned the summons had failed, and Zhuo Yanran worried that she had recorded the wrong spiritual trace.
• Wang Xuan sent a shell message introducing himself as Lu Renjia and challenged his opponents to devise a reliable way to duel without forcing him into the battlefield.
• The Mysterious Mobile Phone appeared and explained the Golden Book and Jade Scroll’s power, purpose, and limits to Wang Xuan.
• The Golden Book and Jade Scroll again failed to pull Wang Xuan through its gateway, so he entered it voluntarily with the Mysterious Mobile Phone accompanying him.

Wang Xuan faced Zhuo Yanran and the other aggrieved visitors in the Golden Book and Jade Scroll battlefield, where the artifact verified that he was not a sea-race slave and protected him from an unfair duel. After securing the Star River Cleansing Body Scripture, he revealed he was only a True Immortal and defeated the first challenger, while Zhuo Yanran's cousin arrived with absurd rumors about her.

• Wang Xuan met Zhuo Yanran and the group gathered to confront Lu Renjia, then insisted the Golden Book and Jade Scroll verify his identity and clear him of being a slave.
• Wang Xuan demanded the Star River Cleansing Body Scripture before fighting, and Zhuo Yanran gave him its complete first half after warning him of its dangers.
• Zhuo Yanran charged into the battlefield but struck the Golden Book and Jade Scroll's protective barrier and injured her face; Wang Xuan revealed he was a True Immortal.
• A Man in Green challenged Wang Xuan, who defeated him and left him unconscious and stripped of his feathers after the challenger revealed his azure-bird form.
• Zhuo Yanran's younger cousin arrived and told her that rumors claimed she had vomited at the Mysterious Sea because of morning sickness.

Wang Xuan defeated the Xuanwu Beast Xuan Tian in the Golden Book and Jade Scroll arena, while Zhuo Yanran tried to find someone powerful enough to challenge him. The chapter ended with Lu Wufa arriving and greeting Wang Xuan instead of the cousins who had summoned him.

• Zhuo Yanran punched Zhuo Feifan for trying to suppress his laughter, then urged him to challenge Wang Xuan after the Green Crow Clan genius lost.
• Zhuo Feifan proposed bringing Lu Wufa, but Xuan Tian entered the arena after lowering his cultivation from the Heavenly Grade Domain to the True Immortal Domain.
• Xuan Tian secretly offered Wang Xuan treasures to fake a fight, but the Golden Book and Jade Scroll warned them that dueling fraud was forbidden.
• Xuan Tian and Wang Xuan fought fiercely, and Wang Xuan broke Xuan Tian's saber and cracked his turtle shell after countering the Xuanwu Clan's Back Mountain Ram.
• Xuan Tian acknowledged Wang Xuan's strength, and the two kept their shared insight into Dao-imperialized transformation private.
• Lu Wufa arrived, ignored Zhuo Feifan and Zhuo Yanran, and bowed to Wang Xuan, leaving Zhuo Feifan stunned.

Wang Xuan learned that Lu Wufa had found a Dao-imperialized lump of flesh beneath the Mysterious Sea and agreed to explore it with him. After Lu Wufa publicly praised Wang Xuan as far beyond the local combat-power measures, he fought Zhou Xuan to a draw, leaving the spectators focused on Lu Renjia.

• Lu Wufa recognized Wang Xuan’s Dao-imperialized texture, explained that he had found a strange lump of flesh sustaining a spatial fissure beneath the Mysterious Sea, and asked Wang Xuan for guidance.
• Wang Xuan explained why Lu Wufa’s Dao-imperialized patterns remained hidden within his flesh and agreed to help him study the mysterious patterns at the fissure.
• Lu Wufa compared Lu Renjia’s strength to ten or more Green Crows, enraging Green Crow and prompting Zhuo Yanran to knock him down.
• Lu Wufa publicly treated Wang Xuan as his teacher and agreed to fight Zhou Xuan on his behalf.
• Lu Wufa and Zhou Xuan fought fiercely, grew evenly matched, and ended their battle in a draw, while the spectators turned their attention to Lu Renjia.

Wang Xuan defeated Jin Yu and the Black Crane before facing Zhuo Yanran, whose Imperial Daoized techniques made their duel far more challenging. He struck her waist and damaged her divine wing, leaving her retreating in pain as Zhuo Feifan insisted she remained invincible.

• Zhou Xuan stood bloodied after Lu Wufa stopped him from reaching Wang Xuan, while newcomers heard increasingly outrageous rumors about Zhuo Yanran.
• Jin Yu challenged Wang Xuan and tried to turn their duel into a staged fight, but the battlefield warned them to fight fairly, and Wang Xuan defeated him.
• The Black Crane also challenged Wang Xuan, lost after a fierce duel, and learned that Jin Yu had not warned him that fake fights were forbidden.
• Zhuo Yanran entered the arena and attacked Wang Xuan with Imperial Daoized fists and transparent divine wings.
• Wang Xuan brought forth his own unique textures, countered Zhuo Yanran's attacks, and struck her waist, damaging one of her wings and forcing her to retreat.

Wang Xuan defeated Zhuo Yanran in a fierce duel, earning fame across the stars before returning to the underwater world and capturing a weakened clone of the Silver Strange Fish. After learning that his reef island belonged to a peak Anomalous Being who might be dead, he picked up a fishing rod that automatically cast its line to fish for Anomalous Beings.

• Wang Xuan overcame Zhuo Yanran's star-powered attacks, tore off one of her butterfly wings, and beat her until Xuan Tian and the others called the duel.
• Zhuo Yanran fled with a swollen, injured face while Ye Lin teased her, and Wang Xuan exchanged contact information with Xuan Tian, Black Crane, Jin Yu, and Lu Wufa.
• The Golden Book and Jade Scroll sent Wang Xuan back to the underwater world, where he spotted and killed a weakened clone of the Silver Strange Fish.
• The Mysterious Mobile Phone identified the catch as a Snow Moon Fish and explained that Wang Xuan stood on a peak Anomalous Being's fishing platform, whose owner was probably doomed and unlikely to return.
• Wang Xuan picked up an untouched fishing rod, and its line automatically cast itself as the Mysterious Mobile Phone warned that it was meant for fishing Anomalous Beings.

Wang Xuan was trapped on the reef island while its Karma Rod fished for Anomalous Beings, bringing back pieces of its targets instead. After it snared fur from the Old Saint Ape and a bamboo shoot from the Black and White Bear, the rod cast its line again, leaving Wang Xuan bracing for another catch.

• Wang Xuan prepared for battle when the Karma Rod cast its line, and the Mysterious Mobile Phone warned that he could not escape its reach.
• The hook struck the Old Ape on Sacred Ape Mountain, returning with golden fur and a piece of Purple Mansion Peach after failing to catch him.
• Wang Xuan used the killing formation diagram to turn the fur into monkeys, suppressed them, and gathered the fur for later use.
• The rod began a second attempt after the first failed to catch an Anomalous Being, and the Mysterious Mobile Phone prepared to record Wang Xuan's possible death.
• The hook caught a piece of Yin Yang Bamboo Shoot from the Black and White Bear, which threatened to steal Wang Xuan's descendants in revenge.
• Wang Xuan saw the rod cast its line again and realized the fishing had not ended.

Wang Xuan’s Karma Rod snatched a True Return Fish and a powerful cat from Nine Spirits Cave, leaving him worried about the grudge he had incurred. As the rod cast again, the Mysterious Mobile Phone warned that someone deeply connected to Wang Xuan might be the next catch.

• The Karma Rod hooked Lin Jingxian’s hair and sleeve in Nine Spirits Cave before catching the True Return Fish she had allowed her cat to catch.
• The fluffy cat clung to the fish and was dragged away with it, despite Lin Jingxian’s attempt to stop the hook.
• Wang Xuan prepared for an otherworldly opponent, then recognized the cat as a late Heavenly Grade great demon and knocked it unconscious before sealing it in the killing array diagram.
• The Mysterious Mobile Phone identified the cat as a missing pet from Nine Spirits Cave, and Wang Xuan worried that he had made Lin Jingxian his enemy.
• The Karma Rod cast again, and the Mysterious Mobile Phone warned Wang Xuan that a person deeply entangled with him might be coming as the final catch.

Wang Xuan’s Karma Fishing Rod hooked the treasures of Li Lin, an Anomalous Being from Moon Sacred Lake, and nearly dragged him and the fishing platform into the depths of space. After the platform severed the line and Wang Xuan escaped Li Lin’s mark by placing it on a cat, he crossed the sea and emerged beneath the stars.

• Wang Xuan caught Li Lin’s hair ornaments, clothing, and other treasures while fishing, and the Mysterious Mobile Phone identified her as a powerful Anomalous Being from Moon Sacred Lake.
• The Mysterious Mobile Phone warned Wang Xuan that Moon Sacred Lake was producing dangerous fluctuations, and Li Lin awoke to find her protections and treasures being hooked away.
• Li Lin pursued the hook with a Divine Item, while the fishing line began pulling Wang Xuan’s island reef and fishing platform toward her.
• Wang Xuan returned Li Lin’s treasures, but her red hair tie marked him before the island reef’s protection snapped the line and ended the pull.
• Wang Xuan transferred Li Lin’s lingering mark to the unconscious kitten, sealed it away, and later caught eleven True Return Fish by hand over two months.
• Wang Xuan safely crossed the sea and emerged beneath the starry sky.

Wang Xuan escaped a barrage of fishing hooks in the Mysterious Sea and met Lu Wufa to investigate a hidden spatial rift containing Dao-imperialized flesh that might belong to a True Saint. Meanwhile, Zhuo Yanran continued hunting down her besties and said she wanted to fight Lu Renjia even more.

• Wang Xuan emerged from the sea, deflected anglers' hooks, and fled after nearby observers recognized him as Lu Renjia.
• Wang Xuan contacted Lu Wufa and asked to inspect the hidden rift beneath the sea, while Xuan Tian and Jin Yu arrived too late to meet him.
• Wang Xuan encountered a Great Black Cat defeating a silver-white Great Lion, and heard them use Green Crow as a measure of strength.
• Lu Wufa led Wang Xuan to the rift and explained that Dao-imperialized flesh inside had kept him from approaching it.
• Wang Xuan saw the flesh and suspected the rift might contain the remains of a True Saint, then prepared to investigate the mysterious space.
• Zhuo Yanran told Xuan Tian and Jin Yu she was busy fighting her besties and said she wanted to beat Lu Renjia even more.

Wang Xuan and Lu Wufa discovered a ruined space containing the remains of a powerful Dao-imperialized being, possibly a True Saint, but Liu Ming and his allies blocked their exit. Wang Xuan sensed the corpse might still be alive, so they stayed quiet and studied its patterns while the Lightning Beast Clan patriarch was summoned.

• Zhuo Yanran beat her friend, postponed a match with An, and departed for the Mysterious Sea aboard a warship.
• Wang Xuan forced open a spatial rift and found a headless remnant corpse hanging from a Brass Mountain, whose bones bore profound Imperial Daoized patterns.
• Lu Wufa entered the hidden space, and Liu Ming, a Silver-haired Woman, and a Gray-haired Man appeared at the entrance and prevented them from leaving.
• Liu Ming sent the Gray-haired Man to summon Lei Hong, the Lightning Beast Clan patriarch, after Wang Xuan overheard the message.
• Liu Ming hurled a sphere of lightning at the passage, but Wang Xuan sensed the remnant corpse move and pulled Lu Wufa deeper into the space.
• Wang Xuan and Lu Wufa began studying the corpse's patterns as the Gray-haired Man hurried to contact Lei Hong.

Wang Xuan memorized the Dao-imperialized patterns on the wreckage at Brass Mountain, strengthening the imprint in his crown bone, then escaped with Lu Wufa and hid nearby. Lei Hong arrived to claim the wreckage, while Wang Xuan and Lu Wufa watched from concealment.

• Wang Xuan studied the golden patterns on the wreckage’s spine and absorbed their Dao-imperialized information, causing the patterns to ascend into his crown bone.
• Wang Xuan stopped Lu Wufa from continuing his dangerous observation and led him through the spatial rift as Liu Ming and the Silver-haired Woman attacked.
• Wang Xuan and Lu Wufa fought their way out, then escaped the pursuit and hid beneath Wang Xuan’s killing formation diagram to watch the coming battle.
• Wang Xuan’s spine patterns resonated with his crown bone, and he passed the patterns he had memorized to Lu Wufa.
• Lei Hong arrived in the Mysterious Sea, accepted Liu Ming’s filial greeting, and went to uproot Brass Mountain and take the wreckage.

Wang Xuan watched as Lei Hong’s ambush against a wounded remnant turned into a catastrophic battle between two top-tier anomalous beings. The remnant killed Lei Hong and destroyed his pair of Lightning Dao Grinding Discs, while Wang Xuan collected a fragment and the Mysterious Mobile Phone recorded the battle.

• Lei Hong sent a puppet into the mysterious space while his true body waited outside, and Wang Xuan realized that two versions of Lei Hong were preparing to attack together.
• The remnant attacked Lei Hong’s puppet, revealing a pair of Divine Fabey cymbals as Lei Hong’s true body joined the fight.
• The remnant overwhelmed Lei Hong, destroyed his grinding discs, and pursued him into the starry sky as Wang Xuan collected a fragment of the shattered treasure.
• The Mysterious Mobile Phone emerged and recorded the battle while Lei Hong lost most of his body and the remnant devoured his flesh.
• The battle ended with Lei Hong dead and his Lightning Dao Grinding Discs destroyed, shocking the Mysterious Sea.