Chapter Summaries

Luo Yan used the Nether Fish to draw the Fishwife’s anger toward the pirates, triggering a Beast Tide while they harvested Sea Heart Lotus. Xie Zun, Huang Asi, and Zhao Ya fought off the attackers, but the Fishwife entered the battle by striking the Azure Dragon with compressed heavy water.

• Luo Yan stopped channeling the Zhe Kui Dao Tradition after the Fishwife turned its attention from the Nether Fish to the pirates harvesting Sea Heart Lotus.
• The Fishwife directed a Sea Beast at Xie Zun’s Azure Dragon, and the surrounding Sea Beasts charged the pirates.
• Xie Zun used the Azure Dragon’s Mystic Patterns and Guan Dao to kill attacking Sea Beasts, including an Upper-tier blue-scaled flood serpent that Huang Asi finished off.
• Zhao Ya fought with her mermaid mecha, blocked a volley of Bone Spurs, and killed the sea urchin-like Giant Beast.
• The Azure Dragon killed an Upper-tier Water-Splitting Ape, but the Fishwife attacked it with compressed heavy water.

Xie Zun led Huang Asi and Zhao Ya against the Fish Woman, but her beast soul trapped him in an illusion while she turned the surrounding seawater into crushing Heavy Water. The three mechas were caught in a vortex whose pressure began cracking their armor.

• Xie Zun proposed leading the attack while Huang Asi and Zhao Ya supported him, and the three mechas charged the Fish Woman.
• The Fish Woman manifested her beast soul, revealing an old woman's head and unleashing a chorus of mournful cries.
• Xie Zun struck off the Fish Woman's heads, but an illusion of Liu Ping made him believe she was haunting him, leaving the Azure Dragon motionless as he strangled himself.
• The Fish Woman sent out clones that bombarded the Azure Dragon, and Huang Asi and Zhao Ya rushed in to shield it.
• The Fish Woman transformed the seawater around the three mechas into Heavy Water, forming a vortex that warped their armor and opened cracks across it.

Xie Zun, Zhao Ya, and Huang Asi fought Yufu’s avatars after escaping its Heavy Water Vortex and learning that it could trap them in illusions. Xie Zun prepared a secret technique to strike Yufu’s true body, leaving Zhao Ya and Huang Asi to protect him afterward.

• Xie Zun broke free of an illusion and used his Azure Dragon mecha to disrupt Yufu’s Heavy Water Vortex, allowing Zhao Ya and Huang Asi to escape.
• Xie Zun explained that circulating a cultivation technique had awakened him from Yufu’s illusion, then led the group to attack its identical avatars.
• Xie Zun’s attack made one Yufu avatar vanish, revealing that the avatars could be destroyed despite their overlord-like aura and abilities.
• Huang Asi fell into an illusion and appeared to flee, so Xie Zun struck his mecha with a water dragon to wake him.
• Yufu’s avatars damaged Huang Asi’s mecha, but Xie Zun and Zhao Ya arrived in time to save him.
• Xie Zun announced that he would use a secret technique to harm Yufu’s true body and asked Zhao Ya and Huang Asi to protect him afterward; they agreed.

Xie Zun used a secret technique to unleash a gigantic water dragon that devastated the Fishwoman, but she regenerated and overwhelmed the weakened Azure Dragon. As Zhao Ya and Huang Asi fled, Fishwoman clones appeared beside their mecha.

• Xie Zun empowered the Azure Dragon and formed a thousand-meter water dragon that destroyed most of the Fishwoman's clones.
• The dragon seized the Fishwoman's true body and slammed her into the seabed, leaving her badly injured.
• The Fishwoman restored her missing body parts and summoned clones that battered the weakened Azure Dragon and destroyed its head.
• Huang Asi and Zhao Ya abandoned Xie Zun and fled as he shouted at them to return.
• Fishwoman clones appeared near the fleeing Huang Asi and Zhao Ya, who had unknowingly fallen into an illusion.

Fishwife’s illusions and clones battered Xie Zun, Zhao Ya, and Huang Asi, while the Nether Fish killed Huang Asi. Xie Zun severely wounded Fishwife before retreating, and Luo Yan hid the Phantom near the great ocean trench as the weakened Fishwife returned to its nest.

• Fishwife’s illusions separated Zhao Ya and Huang Asi from Xie Zun, and its clones damaged their mechas as they escaped.
• The Nether Fish attacked Huang Asi after his mecha failed, killing him with a blow from its tail.
• Xie Zun used his radar to locate Fishwife’s true body, then wounded it with the Azure Dragon’s Guan Dao.
• Fishwife and its clones bombarded the Azure Dragon, forcing Xie Zun to sever Fishwife’s arms and retreat with his mecha badly damaged.
• Fishwife transferred its injuries to its clones and swam toward the great ocean trench to recover.
• Luo Yan severed his connection with the Nether Fish, piloted the Phantom into the trench, and hid motionless against the rock.

Luo Yan discovered that Wan Qing was spying on him through a controlled deep-sea fish, then used Three Talents Killing Momentum to destroy the weakened Fish Woman. The Fish Woman’s life aura survived and fled toward her nest, leaving her poised to resurrect.

• Wan Qing monitored Luo Yan in the trench with a deep-sea fish controlled by Danghu’s Spirit Thread, and Luo Yan used Divine Treasure to identify the thread.
• Luo Yan realized Wan Qing might report his actions to Zhou Yucheng and decided on a plan to deal with the surveillance.
• The weakened Fish Woman returned to the trench, where Luo Yan ambushed her with Three Talents Killing Momentum and twisted her body apart.
• Luo Yan saw the Fish Woman’s life aura escape into her nest and realized she was about to resurrect.

Wan Qing watched the Phantom enter the trench and discovered that Luo Yan had hidden far more power than she had shown before. The Fishwife resurrected and confronted the mecha, but Luo Yan’s Primordial Spirit unleashed a Dao Art that burned through its defenses, leaving Wan Qing convinced he had a secret motive.

• Wan Qing analyzed the Phantom’s space-twisting attack and suspected it had withheld the move when she and Zhou Yucheng tested it.
• Wan Qing sent a Spirit Thread-controlled Giant Squid after the Phantom as it descended into the trench.
• The Fishwife revived in its prepared body and attacked the Phantom when it entered its lair, but the mecha used the Shadow Dimension to evade the Heavy Water Cannon.
• The Fishwife manifested its beast soul and produced numerous clones as Wan Qing’s squid arrived and revealed that another Overlord was in the lair.
• Luo Yan summoned Fire Yang True Lord, who unleashed the Dao Art Crimson-Gold Fire: Spark Spreads Across the Plains and burned the Fishwife’s clones and true body.
• Wan Qing concluded that Luo Yan was far stronger than he let on and mocked Zhou Yucheng for failing to recognize the threat.

Wan Qing watched as Nether Fish joined 'Phantom' and Fire Yang True Lord in attacking the Fishwife, while Luo Yan exploited her illusions to expose and strike a flaw in her existence. The Fishwife retaliated by intensifying the water's weight, but Fire Yang True Lord unleashed Crimson Fire: Burn Wasteland across her nest.

• After Fire Yang True Lord's blaze cooked Wan Qing's Giant Squid, Wan Qing transferred her Spirit Thread to a merfolk and spotted Nether Fish entering the nest.
• Nether Fish transformed and joined 'Phantom' and Fire Yang True Lord in blocking and attacking the Fishwife.
• Fire Yang True Lord burned away the Fishwife's clones, and Luo Yan used Divine Treasure to activate 'Scorch Delusion' when she tried to use illusion.
• Using the 'Golden Eyes of Enlightenment,' Luo Yan saw a seam in the Fishwife's existence, and 'Phantom' struck it, erasing part of her existence and severely weakening her.
• The Fishwife increased the water's weight, but 'Phantom' escaped into the shadow dimension and Fire Yang True Lord remained unaffected.
• Fire Yang True Lord unleashed Crimson Fire: Burn Wasteland, engulfing the nest in flames that consumed the merfolk and melted the coral reefs.

Wan Qing witnessed Luo Yan kill the fish-woman lord and inferred that he was behind the attacks on An Lan Base, while Nether Fish slept in the lair to digest its meal. Xie Zun returned to the Azure Dragon and explained Zhao Ya and Huang Asi’s deaths, but the ship came under attack before he could decide what to do next.

• Wan Qing watched Luo Yan’s Primordial Spirit kill the fish-woman lord, then hid her puppet fish and concluded that Luo Yan had tamed Nether Fish.
• Nether Fish ate the fish-woman’s energy-rich flesh, prepared to sleep in the lair, and Luo Yan left it there.
• Wan Qing inferred that Luo Yan had attacked An Lan Base and killed Duke Ding and Yan Lang, and planned to reveal the evidence after returning.
• Xie Zun was rescued and told Zhao Ya and Huang Asi’s subordinates that their leaders had fled and died during the battle with the lord.
• Xie Zun said the pirates would return because the Sea Heart Lotus had been destroyed, but cannon fire struck the Azure Dragon and Yao Ling reported that they were under attack.

Luo Yan led the Kunlun fleet in an assault on Xie Zun’s pirate fleet, demanding compensation for the losses caused by the pirates’ medicine-gathering operation. Xie Zun was killed, his forces surrendered, and Luo Yan’s side counted the spoils aboard the Azure Dragon.

• Luo Yan ordered the Kunlun fleet’s mecha to attack the pirates, sinking several ships and starting a battle at sea.
• You Da and Yao Ling fought the opposing mecha but could only hold it to a draw as the Kunlun fleet boarded the Azure Dragon.
• The Kunlun Group broadcast its demand for the pirates’ Sea Heart Lotus, a Divine General mecha, and other compensation.
• Xie Zun rejected the demand and attacked the black-haired man in a Nuoxi Opera Mask, who killed him with a single strike.
• You Da and Yao Ling surrendered after learning that Xie Zun was dead.
• Zhu Hu presented Luo Yan with the inventory of the seized supplies, including Sea Heart Lotus, the damaged Azure Dragon mecha, weapons, and ammunition.

Luo Yan took control of Xie Zun’s pirates and Azure Dragon Shipping, then returned from the sea, leaving Zhuo Hu to manage the force. At Feiyun Port, he confronted Wan Qing, who had been secretly observing him, and demanded that she acknowledge him as her master.

• Luo Yan absorbed You Da, Yao Ling, and the other pirates into his ranks, placed them under Zhuo Hu, and gave him the Azure Dragon.
• Luo Yan sailed home with the Kun Alliance fleet, reflecting that the voyage had secured the Sea Heart Lotus, a Divine General mecha, and a powerful maritime force.
• Wan Qing waited until night to leave the fleet and traveled to a Black Witch contact point in Feiyun Port to contact Zhou Yucheng.
• Luo Yan entered the photography studio and revealed that he had known Wan Qing was aboard his fleet and had tracked the people she controlled.
• Luo Yan told Wan Qing he would not kill her and demanded that she acknowledge him as her master.

Luo Yan defeated Wan Qing, forced her to swallow the Heavenly Dragon Pill, and left the photography studio with her. As they departed, the pill began changing her feelings toward him, and Luo Yan revealed it would make her his servant.

• Wan Qing refused to acknowledge Luo Yan as her master, but he transformed with the Dragon Transformation Stance and overwhelmed her.
• Luo Yan pinned Wan Qing down and fired a powerful blast beside her head, forcing her to agree to do as he said.
• Luo Yan made Wan Qing swallow an unknown object, then left the photography studio with her as the harbor personnel were alerted.
• Wan Qing felt dizzy and found herself developing reverence for Luo Yan and struggling to speak ill of him.
• Luo Yan explained that the Heavenly Dragon Pill was changing Wan Qing's emotions and would make her his servant, unable to disobey him.

Luo Yan questioned Wan Qing after the Heavenly Dragon Pill made her regard him as her master, learning that the Black Witch’s Demon Fetus experiments supported a project to create controllable Heavenly Ghosts. Wan Qing offered to help him rise within the organization and agreed to conceal the Nether Fish’s location, while Luo Yan said he might be able to restore her original form.

• Wan Qing attacked Luo Yan, but her body instinctively stopped her; Luo Yan knocked her unconscious and carried her away.
• After waking the next morning, Wan Qing treated Luo Yan with reverence, and he sensed that the Heavenly Dragon Pill had bound her body and mind to him.
• Wan Qing explained that Demon Fetuses were prototypes for the Black Witch’s effort to create humans who could merge with Heavenly Ghost Blood Essence.
• Wan Qing said she had never met the Da Si Ming, whose orders reached the Black Witch through an envoy, and offered to help Luo Yan become a Shao Si Ming.
• Luo Yan told Wan Qing to report his expanded forces to Zhou Yucheng but coordinate their account of the Nether Fish so its presence in the Vortex Demonic Domain stayed secret.
• Luo Yan said he might be able to restore Wan Qing to her original state, and she eagerly accepted the possibility despite the risks.

Hong Zhuang arrived with Xing Ba at Xuan You Hall, where Cang Lei gathered the thrones in their clan’s sacred Royal City. As the other thrones began to assemble, Cang Lei prepared to reveal why he had summoned them.

• Hong Zhuang endured Cang Lei’s Seedling Pulling Technique and was recognized as a general, while Xing Ba explained that fallen throne rankings remained preserved as memorials.
• Xing Ba showed Hong Zhuang the distant floating Royal City and Xuan You Hall, which only thrones could enter.
• Cang Lei arrived at Xuan You Hall and remembered the age when only Mother and the Desolate Gods could enter its halls.
• Hong Moluo and Qi Que met Cang Lei at the hall and traded insults before Cang Lei said the thrones would learn why he summoned them when everyone arrived.
• Throne Second reflected on Xuan You Hall, Kunlun Palace, and Tai Cang City as empty shells of once-powerful small worlds.

Cang Lei gathered the Thrones in Xuan You Hall and revealed that his Li You Gate could send them to specific locations in the Mortal World. He asked them to help refine it and investigate the Human Race’s hidden defenses before descending, but Li Hu dismissed the danger.

• Wu Qi, the Throne Second, attended Cang Lei’s gathering, and Li Hu charged in to attack Cang Lei over the death of his general.
• Wu Qi stopped Li Hu’s axe and reminded him to respect Mother and the hall.
• Cang Lei asked the Thrones whether they wanted a way to descend into the Mortal World, and Qi Que explained that the Primordial Tent’s openings were random and fleeting.
• Cang Lei showed the Thrones the Li You Gate and said it had sent Lu Gong and foreign races to designated locations in the Mortal World.
• Cang Lei asked the Thrones to help refine the gate and learn what defenses the Human Race possessed, while Li Hu mocked his caution.

The Thrones agreed to send multiple other races into the Mortal World to test the Human Race’s strength before descending themselves. Back in Jinge City, Luo Yan reunited with Bai?, who told him that Jing Yu had been looking for him.

• Li Hu refused Cang Lei’s challenge to descend first, and Cang Lei proposed using other races to probe the Human Race’s defenses.
• Wu Qi supported the plan to persuade several other races to descend together and told Cang Lei that Xiangliu had secretly sent an avatar into the Mortal World decades earlier.
• The Thrones approved the plan for other races to descend, while Hong Moluo decided to try to make Cang Lei go first when the Thrones eventually descended.
• Luo Yan returned to Jinge City and met Bai? at the underground train station.
• Bai? told Luo Yan about the Dragonriders’ friendly match and said Jing Yu had joined the Earthly Department’s Dragonriders and often came looking for him.

Luo Yan reported the Pearl incident and new information about the Black Witches to Bai Shaotang, who warned him to stay cautious and revealed that new cultivation methods were ready for testing. Luo Yan then asked Li Bohang to enroll his young student at the Academy, and Principal Pan Renfeng agreed.

• Luo Yan told Bai Shaotang that Freedom Wings had used pirates to loot the Pearl and identified Jiang Hua as the intermediary who connected them.
• Luo Yan briefed Bai Shaotang on Da Si Ming and the Black Witches’ hidden strength, and explained why he would refuse any nomination to become a Shao Si Ming.
• Bai Shaotang advised Luo Yan to withdraw if the Black Witches put him in danger and revealed that the Mystic Womb Realm method and Spirit Refining Method were ready for cultivation trials.
• Luo Yan messaged Li Bohang to ask the Academy to accept his fifteen- or sixteen-year-old student, who had reached Advanced Level One.
• Principal Pan Renfeng answered the call and agreed to enroll Luo Yan’s student, saying she might become another student able to pilot a divine machine.

Luo Yan arranged for Yang Lixie to bring Little Knife and the other orphans to Guangling City to meet the old principal. At a Freedom Wings base, Jiang Hua told Colonel Caesar that Kunlun Group had absorbed the pirate groups and disrupted their plan, and Caesar summoned Bai Lang Robert.

• Luo Yan told Li Bohang that he could not return to the Academy, then asked Yang Lixie to bring Little Knife and the other orphans to Guangling City and settle them in his house.
• Jiang Hua arrived at Freedom Wings' island base and met Colonel Caesar in person.
• Jiang Hua told Caesar that Xie Zun had died and that Kunlun Group had absorbed Azure Dragon Shipping and several other pirate groups.
• Caesar recognized Kunlun Group from Hu Ziqiang's work report and dismissed Jiang Hua after refusing to discuss his proposed retaliation.
• Caesar called someone and ordered them to bring Bai Lang Robert to see him.

Colonel Caesar ordered Bai Lang Robert to return to Langya City and reconnect with Kunlun Group’s Red Ghost, while planning to pressure him into serving Freedom Wings. Caesar then explained to the Apostles that they would seek the Golden Apple through a trade, and showed them a photograph of Jia Miao as their bargaining chip.

• Caesar summoned Bai Lang Robert and asked him to reestablish contact with Kunlun Group and win Red Ghost’s cooperation.
• Robert warned that Red Ghost would be difficult to persuade, but Caesar ordered him to go and suggested threatening to expose Kunlun Group to the Strategic Affairs Department.
• Caesar welcomed seven or eight Apostles, including Loki and Jane Fortes, and discussed Freedom Wings’ declining position since losing the Golden Apple.
• When an Apostle asked whether they would seize the Golden Apple, Loki called the idea suicidal, and Caesar said they would pursue a trade instead.
• Caesar showed the Apostles a photograph of Jia Miao as the possible bargaining chip.

Luo Yan learned that the Mystic Womb Realm cultivation technique was ready and received it along with breakthrough potions. He prepared to spend the next few days attempting a breakthrough, with Bai Qixue promising to handle squad affairs and urging him to prioritize safety.

• Lin Wei told Luo Yan and Bai Qixue that Jia Miao had gone to Lion City for an international seminar on the Ruins Return, which had been moved there after objections from Freedom Wings and the Iron Gull Alliance.
• Luo Yan and Bai Qixue agreed to spar after she noticed his swordsmanship had improved, then Zhao Chu arrived at headquarters in a rage following a clash with Li Meng.
• Bai Shaotang told Luo Yan, Bai Qixue, Li Meng, Shi Beiluo, and Zhao Chu that the Mystic Womb Realm cultivation technique was ready and that each captain would receive potions and a dedicated cultivation room.
• Luo Yan received the technique and potions, then told Bai Qixue he would spend the next few days attempting a breakthrough.
• Bai Qixue agreed to take care of the squad's affairs and urged Luo Yan not to force the breakthrough.