Chapter Summaries

After escaping the Divine Hall, Li Shiming hid in an underwater cave mansion and examined the spoils from the Peak Great Cultivators he had defeated. He learned more about Cloud Island Sea, prepared to pass himself off as a Sword Cultivator, and saw that cultivators were gathering in the region as the chapter ended.

• Li Shiming built a temporary underwater cave mansion and began sorting the spoils from the five Peak Great Cultivators he had killed, while regretting that Qiu Zhi had escaped.
• Li Shiming examined Zong Jing's bones, Skeleton Clone, White Bone Art, and other possessions, then burned the human remains he found in the Soul Crystal Ring.
• Li Shiming found Leng Hong's diary, learned about the Wind Demon Sect and Cloud Island Sea, and discovered a rare wing-shaped magical treasure.
• Li Shiming examined Shen Ze's Treasure Mirror, other magical treasures, and a map of Cloud Island Sea marked for careful verification.
• Li Shiming refined the Glazed Flying Cloud Sword and changed his aura to appear as a Sword Cultivator while a Drone Satellite monitored the sea.
• Li Shiming saw more than a hundred Great Cultivators and over a thousand Nascent Soul cultivators gathering near the Divine Hall, which remained out of sight.

Li Shiming left the search area disguised as a sword cultivator and reached the Jade Pearl Islands, a settlement of suspended islands protected by a powerful formation. After registering and exploring its islands, he discovered abundant high-quality cultivation materials and became interested in their unusual talisman supplies.

• Li Shiming used the Heavenly Human Art to pass among the cultivators searching for him, then flew away from the Divine Hall region in the Wind Chasing Dragon Boat.
• He arrived at the Jade Pearl Islands and registered on Kun Three Island, agreeing to obey its rules and receiving an identity badge.
• Li Shiming explored the islands and found that their many cultivation trades and resources attracted cultivators from across the Cloud Island Sea.
• He sensed no Peak Great Cultivator on the main island and suspected that a Half-Step Great Power or Great Power gave the Jade Pearl Islands their confidence.
• On Kan One Island, Li Shiming inspected a high-grade Blank Talisman made from an unfamiliar sea plant and asked whether even higher-quality ones were available.

Li Shiming studied how to inscribe divine powers onto Great Cultivator talismans, creating an escape talisman capable of moving its user eight thousand li. When Sea Beasts attacked Jade Pearl Island, he joined the defenders and began examining the island’s grand formation from his assigned node.

• Li Shiming reinforced his cave dwelling and traded a Great Cultivator High Grade Spiritual Pill for blank talismans and talisman ink.
• With IBMz15’s calculations and the Server Room Space’s precision, Li Shiming drew a talisman that combined Divine Eye Art with Close In An Instant, allowing an eight-thousand-li instant movement toward a visible destination.
• Li Shiming found that a Great Cultivator Blank Talisman could not hold Falling Thunder Art, and concluded that stronger offensive talismans required higher-quality blanks.
• After five days in his cave dwelling, Li Shiming heard that Sea Beasts had attacked Jade Pearl Island and agreed with the other Great Cultivators to help defend the islands.
• Senior Yuan assigned Li Shiming a formation node on Zhen Yi Island, where he connected to the grand formation and began studying it with IBMz15.

Li Shiming helped defend the Jade Pearl Islands from a swarm of Mysterious Nether Black-Gold Beasts, using his sword light to kill far more beasts than the other Great Cultivators. The island formation’s barrier came under severe pressure, and a Fourth Grade Late Stage beast finally broke through it.

• The Jade Pearl Islands shifted their great formation to strengthen the defense facing the approaching swarm, while Wu Ding warned the Great Cultivators that dying Mysterious Nether Black-Gold Beasts produced corrosive mist.
• Li Shiming unleashed three hundred sword-light blades empowered by Chaos Sword Intent, cutting through the swarm and outperforming the other Great Cultivators before deliberately limiting his attack.
• The Mysterious Nether Black-Gold Beasts reached the barrier and gnawed at it, while Li Shiming noticed that their Corrosion Mist healed injured Fourth Grade beasts.
• The formation combined energy from all thirty-six islands into a massive wall of fire that cleared a large section of the swarm, but the effort drained the cultivators supporting it.
• The Great Cultivators resumed their attacks as the barrier briefly stabilized, but a Fourth Grade Late Stage Mysterious Nether Black-Gold Beast broke through and led the swarm inside.

Li Shiming helped defend the Jade Pearl Islands against a massive Mysterious Nether Black-Gold Beast tide, which the islands’ Half-Step Great Power ultimately turned back using a formation-wide counterattack. The surviving cultivators celebrated the victory, while Li Shiming returned to Dui Yi Island and politely evaded invitations from fellow Great Cultivators.

• After a Fourth Grade Late Stage Mysterious Nether Black-Gold Beast broke through the grand formation, a Half-Step Great Power killed it with a devastating beam, but the remaining beasts regrouped and charged again.
• The beasts self-destructed against the formation, covering its barrier in Corrosion Mist and rapidly draining its energy.
• Great Cultivator Wu Ding ordered the thirty-six islands into a layered wall, where cultivators used barrels of Fourth Grade Potent Poison to counter the Corrosion Mist.
• Wu Ding had the Great Cultivators channel Spiritual Power into the formation, creating an energy net that cut down the beasts until the surviving swarm retreated.
• The islands returned to their original positions, the cultivators celebrated their survival, and Li Shiming returned to Dui Yi Island while brushing off invitations from other Great Cultivators.

Li Shiming extracted the Mysterious Nether Black-Gold Beast’s Innate Rune and used it to make powerful Corrosion Mist Talismans, then traded for hundreds of Great Cultivator Blank Talismans. His trades attracted the attention of other Great Cultivators, and Dai Biao of the Purple Cloud Sect approached him with an offer of more blanks.

• The Jade Pearl Islands paid Li Shiming with Fourth Grade Top Tier Metal Attribute Refining Materials, three hundred years of residence rights on Dui Yi Island, and five Fourth Grade Early Stage Mysterious Nether Black-Gold Beast corpses.
• Li Shiming used IBMz15 to extract a beast’s Innate Rune, drew it on a Great Cultivator Blank Talisman, and confirmed that it produced corrosive mist strong enough to destroy a Fourth Grade Top Tier Magical Treasure within ten breaths.
• Li Shiming discovered that the shop’s Corrosion Mist Talismans were weaker talismans made from beast hide and blood, then exchanged Great Cultivator Advanced Spiritual Pills for more than five hundred Great Cultivator Blank Talismans.
• Li Shiming made over five hundred Corrosion Mist Talismans, while other Great Cultivators noticed his trades and some began considering approaching or targeting him.
• Dai Biao of the Purple Cloud Sect met Li Shiming and offered to obtain one thousand Great Cultivator Blank Talismans within a month in hopes of trading with him.

Li Shiming left the Jade Pearl Islands after attracting attention for his high-grade spiritual pills, but Great Cultivator Wu Ding ambushed him at sea. Li Shiming slaughtered most of the attackers and turned back toward the islands to test whether their Half-Step Great Power could leave the Cave Heaven.

• Li Shiming departed Dui Yi Island and traveled through the Cloud Island Sea while studying local texts and the Jade Pearl Islands' grand formation.
• Great Cultivator Wu Ding and fifteen Great Cultivators concealed a formation ahead of Li Shiming and surrounded him, intending to kill him for his spiritual pills.
• Li Shiming killed Great Cultivator Wu Ding and several other attackers with the Traceless Illusion Sword, the Glazed Flying Cloud Sword, and his Fourth Grade Sword Foundation.
• Li Shiming pursued the remaining attackers, killing all but three who escaped with Life-Saving Talismans.
• Li Shiming collected the corpses and sailed back toward the Jade Pearl Islands to investigate the Half-Step Great Power's limitations.

Li Shiming used Great Cultivator Wu Ding's control Jade Token to turn the Jade Pearl Islands' formation against its main island, unleashing Corrosion Mist that devastated the island and exposed the Half-Step Great Power's blessed-land gate. The Half-Step Great Power discovered Li Shiming and attacked, but Li Shiming escaped; the exposed gate revealed that the Jade Pearl Islands possessed a bound blessed land.

• Li Shiming found the Jade Pearl Islands' highest-authority control Jade Token in Great Cultivator Wu Ding's Soul Crystal Ring and modified it so he could use it.
• Li Shiming remotely moved the thirty-six islands into an Imprisonment Grand Formation and sent two hundred Corrosion Mist Talismans to the main island.
• The Corrosion Mist destroyed buildings and killed many cultivators on the main island while the other islands' cultivators watched helplessly.
• The mist exposed the space gate to the Half-Step Great Power's blessed land, prompting him to intervene and erase the Corrosion Mist.
• The Half-Step Great Power discovered Li Shiming and struck at his location, but Li Shiming escaped eight thousand li away using Close In An Instant.
• Li Shiming deduced that the exposed space gate belonged to a bound blessed land, whose location could bring further danger to the Jade Pearl Islands.

Li Shiming ambushed Jade Pearl Islands cultivators from a distance, while the Half-Step Great Power repeatedly failed to stop him. The attacks drove the islands’ people to flee and revealed the strain Li Shiming’s assault placed on the Inheritance Blessed Land.

• Great Cultivator Dai Biao left the Jade Pearl Islands and warned three returning Jade Pearl Islands great cultivators that the islands had been attacked by Li Shizhen.
• Li Shiming ambushed and killed the three great cultivators, then killed five Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators who came to investigate.
• The Jade Pearl Islands’ Half-Step Great Power hesitated to attack Li Shiming, and cultivators began fleeing as the islands’ defenses and morale faltered.
• Li Shiming used the Sun Shooting Bow to strike cultivators through the Jade Pearl Islands’ formation, and the Half-Step Great Power’s attacks missed him.
• Li Shiming continued destroying buildings and killing cultivators while the Half-Step Great Power stopped attacking, weakened by the disorder in his Inheritance Blessed Land.

Li Shiming discovered that Great Cultivators from the Purple Cloud Sect were approaching the Jade Pearl Islands and let them test the weakened Half-Step Great Power for him. Great Cultivator Jiao Xian and his group entered the Inheritance Blessed Land, where Jiao Xian urged them to attack first so he could claim the opportunity afterward.

• Li Shiming detected five concealed Flying Boats and identified their occupants as outsiders waiting to take advantage of the battle.
• Great Cultivator Dai Biao summoned Great Cultivator Jiao Xian and five other Purple Cloud Sect Great Cultivators, and Jiao Xian ordered them to move on the Jade Pearl Islands.
• Li Shiming vanished when Jiao Xian announced the Purple Cloud Sect's arrival, then secretly followed the group with his Phantom Spirit Dragon to observe their confrontation with the Half-Step Great Power.
• Great Cultivator Jiao Xian used a Formation Breaking Talisman to breach the Jade Pearl Islands' Formation and sent Dai Biao to reveal the Space Gate with an Array Plate.
• After confirming that the Space Gate led to an Inheritance Blessed Land, Great Cultivator Jiao Xian offered resources to whoever killed the Half-Step Great Power and entered behind the others.

Great Cultivator Jiao Xian led Great Cultivators into a Half-Step Great Power’s Cave Heaven, where they were overwhelmed by its master’s control over the blessed land. After Great Cultivator Dai Biao accidentally destroyed an energy node, the dying Half-Step Great Power turned on the invaders and broke through Jiao Xian’s defenses; the chapter ended with him grabbing Jiao Xian before he could escape.

• Great Cultivator Dai Biao and the other Great Cultivators attacked the Half-Step Great Power, but their Flying Swords could not penetrate his flesh.
• The Half-Step Great Power used the blessed land’s force to kill the attacking Great Cultivators, leaving Dai Biao alive because he had fallen behind.
• Great Cultivator Jiao Xian pressed Dai Biao to attack, and Dai Biao struck an energy node, causing the Cave Heaven’s energy to run wild and fatally injuring its master.
• The Half-Step Great Power tore Dai Biao apart and devoured his Nascent Soul, then attacked Jiao Xian and damaged his shield and defenses.
• The Half-Step Great Power used Flesh Curse to destroy Jiao Xian’s Great Power Life-Preserving Jade Talisman shield, then blocked his escape and seized him in a hug.

Li Shiming seized the ruined Jade Pearl Blessed Land after witnessing a Half-Step Great Power die, then secured its Heavenly Secret Treasure and escaped with it. As cultivators fought over the Jade Pearl Islands and Great Cultivators searched for the missing inheritance, Li Shiming sailed deeper into the Cloud Island Sea to inspect the spoils he had taken.

• Li Shiming watched the Half-Step Great Power kill Great Cultivator Jiao Xian and then die as his blessed land collapsed into chaos.
• Li Shiming cut the Space Gate’s small island free, teleported away with it, and hid it using a formation.
• Li Shiming explored the Jade Pearl Blessed Land, found the Flying Pearl Jade Pendant, and formed a connection with the inheritance.
• Li Shiming stored the island in his Soul Crystal Ring while cultivators plundered the Jade Pearl Islands and arriving Great Cultivators searched for the vanished blessed land.
• Great Cultivators focused suspicion on Great Cultivator Jiao Xian, while many also noticed Li Shizhen; Li Shiming sailed away aboard the Jade Pearl Flying Boat.
• Li Shiming inspected the Purple Cloud Sect Great Cultivators’ spoils and resolved to use low- and intermediate-grade Great Cultivator Spiritual Pills in future trades.

Li Shiming found the Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl among the Half-Step Great Power’s treasures and learned it held over a thousand years of pure energy. He entered seclusion to cultivate toward the Peak Great Cultivator realm, while the forces hunting him and Li Shizhen failed to locate him; Li Yuanba later awoke from seclusion.

• Li Shiming searched the Half-Step Great Power’s Soul Crystal Ring and found a protected Jade Box containing the Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl.
• Li Shiming cracked the Jade Box’s restriction and learned that the Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl stored pure energy, including more than a thousand years’ worth of a Peak Great Cultivator’s cultivation.
• Li Shiming abandoned his plans to explore, hid in a seabed Cave Dwelling, and began cultivating with the Heavenly Spirit Jade Pearl and five Spiritual Pills.
• Li Shiming realized the accumulated energy could reduce his estimated path to the Peak Great Cultivator realm from over a hundred years to about thirty, and planned to help Clone Li Yuanba advance as well.
• Cloud Island Sea forces searched for Li Shiming and Li Shizhen for several years without finding them, then made the search a long-term task.
• Li Yuanba opened his eyes in the Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion and grew impatient to make trouble for the Jade Purity Sect.

Li Yuanba emerged from seclusion and learned from Jian Wuwei that Great Power Luo Yuan had failed to capture Li Shiming. With Jian Wuwei's help, Li Yuanba gained access to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion's restricted classics and studied the path to advancing to Great Power, leaving with Sword Elder's expectations.

• Jian Wuwei praised Li Yuanba's progress and told him that Great Power Luo Yuan had failed to capture Li Shiming.
• Li Yuanba asked Jian Wuwei to arrange access to classics about Peak Great Cultivators and advancing to Great Power.
• Jian Wuwei secured Li Yuanba permission to enter the guarded Library Pavilion, where Sword Elder warned him not to pursue advancement too soon.
• Li Yuanba spent a month reading all 260 Jade Slips and learned about constructing a blessed land and gathering resources for advancement.
• Sword Elder told Li Yuanba that he had the generation's greatest hope of becoming a Great Power.

Yin Shilan learned that Li Shiming had found a safe place to cultivate, while the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect faced growing attacks from forces backed by superpowers. Li Yuanba infiltrated the Jade Purity Branch Sect to target four Thunder Cultivator Great Cultivators, but the formation was already scanning him as he reached its core.

• Li Shiming's Phantom Clone reassured Yin Shilan that the main body had begun safe seclusion and would likely return in about thirty years.
• Lotus Flower Temple and Veiled Sun Sect, backed by Jade Purity Sect and White Emperor Sect, rallied smaller sects against the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
• Great Cultivator Hu urged the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect's leaders to secure key resources and let their enemies act so the sect could uproot them.
• Li Yuanba chose to target four Jade Purity Sect Great Cultivators at the Jade Purity Branch Sect instead of attacking its Far Sailing Boats.
• Li Yuanba used IBMz15's analysis and Close In An Instant to bypass the branch sect's grand formation, then moved toward its core as it began scanning him.

Li Yuanba infiltrated the Jade Purity Branch Sect by taking control of its great formation, then slaughtered its six Thunder Cultivator Great Cultivators and the other cultivators. The massacre devastated the Jade Purity Sect, which blamed Li Shiming and rushed to strengthen its depleted ranks.

• Li Yuanba killed the Formation Master, seized control of the branch sect’s great formation, and located its cultivators.
• Li Yuanba trapped the six Thunder Cultivator Great Cultivators beneath Ten Thousand Swords Peak and killed them with his swords and the Golden Corpse Late Stage.
• The Golden Corpse Late Stage slaughtered the remaining cultivators while Li Yuanba gathered the spoils, erased traces of sword cultivation, and returned to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion.
• A returning Jade Purity Sect cultivator found the branch sect’s dead and sent word through the communication formation, spreading news of the massacre among the superpowers.
• Great Power Luo Yuan ordered Nascent Soul Middle Stage Peak Cultivators recalled and supplied with more resources after learning the Jade Purity Sect had only three active Thunder Cultivator Great Cultivators left.

Li Yuanba followed intelligence about a Jade Purity Sect trading vessel to Changshui Island, where five Great Cultivators ambushed him. He broke their formation defense and remained locked in battle with four Peak Great Cultivators as they prepared stronger defenses.

• Jian Wuwei sent Li Yuanba intelligence about the Jade Purity Sect's Far Sailing Boat, while other Western Yan forces targeted the weakened sect's interests.
• Li Yuanba traveled to Changshui Island and waited for the trading vessel, whose arrival time was publicly known.
• When Li Yuanba appeared above the vessel, spatial energy sealed the area, revealing that the ship was a trap.
• Four Peak Great Cultivators and Great Cultivator Lin Yuan emerged; Li Yuanba recognized Cui Cheng, Yu Chao, and Lin Yuan, who blamed him for their past defeats.
• Li Yuanba attacked Cui Cheng, but Yu Chao's ice crystal fortress protected him while the other Great Cultivators counterattacked.
• Li Yuanba dodged their attacks with his speed and shattered the ice crystal fortress after three strikes, prompting the four Peak Great Cultivators to raise their defenses.

Li Yuanba fought four Peak Great Cultivators at Changshui Island, using Form Intention Sword to break their defenses and exploit Great Cultivator Yu’s Formation. After killing one opponent, he drove Great Cultivator Cui and Great Cultivator Yu to flee, while the final Peak Great Cultivator remained under attack.

• Great Cultivator Cui warned the others about Li Yuanba’s Ten Thousand Swords Peak, and four Peak Great Cultivators continued their attack as Li Yuanba evaded them and damaged their defensive treasures.
• Li Yuanba’s repeated attacks destroyed the Spirit Marks in the four cultivators’ defensive treasures, forcing them to use weaker backups and unleash their strongest techniques from all sides.
• Li Yuanba entered Great Cultivator Yu’s Formation, used IBMz15’s information to break Yu’s ownership mark, and escaped the trap.
• Li Yuanba destroyed a Peak Great Cultivator’s defensive treasure and killed him with Form Intention Sword, destroying both his body and Nascent Soul.
• Great Cultivator Cui and Great Cultivator Yu activated their Life-Preserving Jade Talismans and fled, while the remaining Peak Great Cultivator faced Li Yuanba’s incoming sword.

Li Yuanba survived Great Cultivator Lin’s ambush, defeated the attackers, and brought a mighty figure’s ice needle back to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion. Sword Elder identified it as the Frost Moon Ice Soul Needle and removed its Spirit Mark, leaving Li Yuanba to keep it as he prepared to enter seclusion.

• Li Yuanba killed Great Cultivator Lin and used the Golden Corpse Late Stage to block the blue radiance from Lin’s attack treasure, an ice needle.
• Li Yuanba cleared the battlefield, took control of the Far Sailing Boat, and returned it to Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion after dismissing the other cultivators aboard.
• Li Yuanba told Jian Wuwei that four Peak Great Cultivators had ambushed him and asked to see Sword Elder about the ice needle’s Spirit Mark.
• Sword Elder identified the treasure as Old Ghost Jiang’s Frost Moon Ice Soul Needle, removed its Spirit Mark, and let Li Yuanba keep it.
• Jian Wuwei warned Li Yuanba to remain in the pavilion because he had angered several forces, while intelligence reports said he had killed two Peak Great Cultivators from other superpowers.
• Li Yuanba recognized the Frost Moon Ice Soul Needle as a powerful ice-attribute treasure but lamented that it offered little help to a metal-attribute Sword Cultivator.

Li Yuanba’s victory over the Jade Purity Sect weakened outside interference in the Eastern Qi Continent, while Great Cultivator Hu decided to attack the Veiled Sun Sect. With Li Shiming’s support, two Golden Corpse Late Stage began assaulting the Veiled Sun Sect’s mountain gate, triggering its defenses.

• Li Yuanba’s defeat of several Peak Great Cultivators made the Jade Purity Sect withdraw from the Eastern Qi Continent, and the White Emperor Sect also pulled out most of its combat cultivators.
• Great Cultivator Hu received the White Emperor Sect’s promise not to interfere in the Eastern Qi Continent and decided to destroy the Veiled Sun Sect.
• Great Cultivator Hu visited Li Shiming, who revealed that he was secluded and attempting to reach the Peak Great Cultivator realm, and agreed to help resolve the Veiled Sun Sect problem.
• Great Cultivator Hu and Great Cultivator Ding led Ten Thousand Beasts Sect forces toward the Veiled Sun Sect while two Golden Corpse Late Stage broke through its Blessed Land Barrier.
• The Veiled Sun Sect’s alarm sounded and its Sect Protecting Grand Formation activated as five Great Cultivators rose to respond.