Chapter Summaries

Ling Wuyuan trusted Yuan Yujun’s confidence in the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s strength, while Boyi reconsidered the Sea Clan’s strategy after discovering that the enemy had gathered far more experts than expected. The High Priest agreed to abandon their pretense of weakness and fight openly despite not having fully recovered.

• Ling Wuyuan accepted Yuan Yujun’s confidence in the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion and was impressed by the sect’s hidden strength.
• Yuan Yujun scolded her disciples for losing faith in their sect, and Yan Xiujin protested that concern made them anxious.
• Boyi wondered why the Golden Mist Continent’s forces had gathered so many experts despite the Sea Clan’s deliberate attempts to appear weak.
• Boyi decided the Sea Clan should stop concealing its strength and kill as many hostile experts as possible before reinforcements arrived.
• The High Priest endorsed Boyi’s plan, saying most of his combat strength had recovered despite his lingering injuries.

The chapter explains that Boyi’s group belonged to a nearly destroyed coastal branch of the Anwan Sea Tribe, whose surviving power rested on its True Form Realm fighters and High Priest. When the High Priest’s powerful aura spread across the battlefield, Murong Yan’s opponent grew confident, but Murong Yan vanished before attacking again, leaving him wary and waiting.

• The chapter describes how an external enemy devastated Boyi’s Anwan Sea Tribe branch and drove most survivors from their homeland.
• The High Priest’s aura spread across the battlefield, shocking Murong Yan and signaling power beyond the True Form Realm.
• Murong Yan’s opponent celebrated the High Priest’s arrival and declared that the war’s outcome was settled.
• Murong Yan told her opponent that he would die before the war ended, but he dismissed her threat and prepared to defend himself.
• Murong Yan vanished by influencing the surrounding space, and her opponent could not tell where she had gone.
• When no attack followed, Murong Yan’s opponent decided to wait, believing that delaying would improve his chances.

Murong Yan returned to the Floating Rune Warship and agreed with Yuan Yujun to retreat immediately after sensing the Anwan Sea Tribe High Priest’s overwhelming power. As the ship began a spatial transfer, the High Priest chose to prioritize stopping other fleeing factions, while also trying to keep Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion from escaping.

• Murong Yan used her spacetime ability to return to the Floating Rune Warship, where Yuan Yujun asked whether they should retreat.
• Murong Yan agreed, and the two activated the warship’s spatial-transfer preparations to evacuate their people.
• The Anwan Sea Tribe High Priest was caught off guard by their swift retreat and chose to focus most of his power on stopping other indigenous factions.
• The High Priest unleashed crashing waves of force across the region, killing unprotected human cultivators and attempting to hinder Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion’s escape.

The Golden Mist Continent Anti-Oceanic Alien Coalition faced overwhelming sea tribe forces as the High Priest of the Anwan Sea Tribe sealed off the battlefield. The Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion escaped aboard its Floating Rune Warship, leaving the other trapped factions scrambling to survive.

• Yue Yilong and the other human experts realized that the sea tribe's interference had cut off their retreat and that the enemy outnumbered them with True Form Realm cultivators.
• The News Report expert decided to seek an escape opportunity by joining forces with the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion.
• The Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion endured the High Priest's interference and teleported its Floating Rune Warship away from the battlefield.
• The News Report expert cursed that the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion had fled without him and turned his attention to the remaining factions.
• The High Priest of the Anwan Sea Tribe grew furious at the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion's escape and resolved to stop the others from fleeing.

After the Floating Rune Warship escaped the sea race High Priest’s attack, Ling Wuyuan was flung away during the spatial transfer, leaving the others to fear he had died. He secretly contacted Pei Yi through a soul fragment and reassured her, while Yan Xiujin mistook Pei Yi’s news for madness and the group began mourning him.

• Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion escaped the battlefield aboard the Floating Rune Warship, but the ship arrived tens of thousands of li from its intended coordinates.
• Ling Wuyuan was thrown out of the spatial passage while saving Yan Xiujin and Pei Suxia, and everyone aboard believed he might have died.
• Ling Wuyuan used a concealed soul fragment to tell Pei Yi that he was alive, lightly injured, and still falling through the sky.
• Pei Yi asked Ling Wuyuan where he was, and he said he would have to land and find someone before he could identify his location.
• Yan Xiujin heard Pei Yi say Ling Wuyuan was alive, assumed her Sixth Senior Sister had gone mad, and cried to Yuan Yujun.
• Yuan Yujun, Pei Suxia, Xi Xianlan, and the others began weeping as they mourned Ling Wuyuan.

Ling Wuyuan fell through the sky after temporal-spatial turbulence destroyed his armor, but his unusual resistance and rapid healing left him able to recover from serious injuries. As he continued speaking with Pei Yi and descended, he reflected on having instinctively sacrificed himself to save Pei Suxia and Yan Xiujin.

• Temporal-spatial turbulence destroyed Ling Wuyuan's talisman armor and sword, while he fell from an immense height.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized that his body and soul resisted temporal-spatial power, though the turbulence still left him seriously injured.
• Ling Wuyuan reassured Pei Yi from afar and took medicine from the Mysterious Void Myriad Forms Ring to accelerate his recovery.
• Ling Wuyuan estimated that he would mostly recover within two days and retain more than sixty percent of his combat strength.
• As he continued falling, Ling Wuyuan contemplated his instinctive decision to sacrifice himself to save Pei Suxia and Yan Xiujin.

Ling Wuyuan reflected on why he had risked himself to save Yan Xiujin and Pei Suxia, accepting that he would take responsibility for his choices. After being hurled into the turbulent currents of time and space, he fell through an area of immense gravity and hoped land lay below.

• Ling Wuyuan accepted that his instinct to save Yan Xiujin and Pei Suxia reflected a change in his heart, and resolved to bear the consequences of his actions.
• Ling Wuyuan recalled secretly using [Abyssal Divine Speed] to boost his thinking and reaction speeds so he could save Yan Xiujin and Pei Suxia while Yuan Yujun and Murong Yan were occupied.
• Ling Wuyuan realized that escaping at full physical speed would have killed the weaker people nearby, so he had been unable to avoid being thrown into the turbulent currents of time and space.
• Ling Wuyuan blamed his lack of strength rather than the enemy’s actions as he continued falling at extreme speed.
• Ling Wuyuan felt the surrounding gravity slowing his descent and hoped he would land on solid ground rather than in the ocean.

Pei Yi reassured Yan Xiujin and Pei Suxia that Ling Wuyuan was alive, and Yuan Yujun confirmed that his soul secret art had left spiritual power in Pei Yiman’s mind. Yuan Yujun and Murong Yan discussed the technique’s dangerous requirements and realized Ling Wuyuan was likely outside the Southern Region, making a quick reunion difficult.

• Pei Yi told Yan Xiujin and Pei Suxia that Ling Wuyuan was alive and had said he was fine for now.
• Yuan Yujun examined Pei Yiman and confirmed that spiritual power remained deep in her mind.
• Yuan Yujun praised Ling Wuyuan’s soul secret art but reproached him for developing such a dangerous technique while still at the Source Gathering Realm.
• Yuan Yujun and Murong Yan agreed the art was difficult to use because it required sacrificing a fragment of the caster’s soul and absolute trust.
• Murong Yan asked about the communication token’s range, and Yuan Yujun said it generally worked throughout the Southern Region.
• Murong Yan concluded that Ling Wuyuan had likely fallen into another region unless he was in an ocean area, making his return difficult.

Yuan Yujun and Murong Yan concluded that Ling Wuyuan remained somewhere on or near Golden Mist Continent and would have to wait several months before they could retrieve him. Yuan Yujun expressed her gratitude for saving Yan Xiujin and Pei Suxia, while Pei Yi explained that Ling Wuyuan’s Divine Ability Realm spatial ring had likely preserved his communication token.

• Murong Yan reasoned that Ling Wuyuan was probably still on Golden Mist Continent or had fallen into the surrounding ocean, and that he could likely survive until they reached him.
• Yuan Yujun agreed to let Ling Wuyuan wander for now and said they would fetch him after dealing with their current problems and waiting for overseas reinforcements.
• Yuan Yujun said she would inform the reinforcements of the situation and compensate Ling Wuyuan for saving Yan Xiujin and Pei Suxia.
• Murong Yan wondered how Ling Wuyuan had survived the spatial-temporal turbulence and kept his communication token safe.
• Pei Yi said Ling Wuyuan possessed a high-grade spatial ring that had once been Azure Lake White Stream Palace’s Town's Treasured Artifact, and Murong Yan realized it was likely what had preserved the token.

Murong Yan’s hidden attack killed Zara after he mistakenly believed she was still nearby, and the Sea Tribe High Priest contained Zara’s explosive death within his domain. The Sea Tribe powerhouses realized that Murong Yan had already decided the outcome of their encounter before disappearing.

• While the Sea Tribe and the Golden Mist Continent Anti-Oceanic Alien Coalition continued fighting, Zara stayed on guard because Murong Yan had vanished.
• The Sea Tribe High Priest arrived, confirmed that Zara’s opponent had not left before their victory was decided, and told him he was already dead.
• Zara recognized Murong Yan’s earlier warning as blood poured from his face and his body began swelling.
• Zara exploded into blood mist, but the High Priest’s domain contained the blast before it could devastate the battlefield.
• The Sea Tribe powerhouses watched Zara die without celebrating.

The sea tribe High Priest discovered that Zara had been turned into a living bomb by hidden spatial forces, but a human expert exploited a brief opening in the High Priest’s domain to escape with several wounded survivors. After reporting the battle, the expert learned that the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion had already informed the other factions.

• The sea tribe High Priest explained that Zara’s implanted foreign energies had triggered when he relaxed, killing him in an explosion laced with spatial blades.
• The High Priest warned the sea tribesmen to be cautious and ordered them to finish clearing the battlefield.
• A human expert tore open the High Priest’s domain and escaped with several dying companions, becoming the second group to flee after the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion.
• The expert treated the survivors, took them away aboard a floating rune ship, and reported what had happened to his allies.
• The expert learned that the Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion had already reported the battle, leaving his group to serve as witnesses and costing them the greatest merit and glory.

Yuan Yujun told Murong Yan that News Report had escaped the Sea Clan battlefield with several injured cultivators, lending support to their account of events. Meanwhile, Ling Wuyuan descended into a barren wilderness, where the Mysterious Void Myriad Forms Ring transformed into a metal sphere to shelter him after his crash landing.

• Yuan Yujun informed Murong Yan that News Report had escaped the battlefield with two severely injured True Form Realm cultivators and several Divine Ability Realm cultivators.
• Murong Yan reasoned that News Report must have used a special item and said Snow Moon Cloud Heaven Pavilion would hold Jade Night Snow Mountain until reinforcements arrived.
• Ling Wuyuan spotted a desolate stretch of land below and accelerated toward it after recovering during his fall.
• Ling Wuyuan crashed into the barren ground and left a crater four or five meters deep.
• The Mysterious Void Myriad Forms Ring transformed into a hollow metal sphere and enclosed Ling Wuyuan as a shelter.

Ling Wuyuan survived the turbulence of time and space with minor injuries. More than twenty hours later, a fleeing convoy entered a haunted battlefield at dusk, while its pursuers decided to follow despite fearing the dangers ahead.

• Ling Wuyuan chose to endure the turbulence with his body rather than risk losing the Mysterious Void Myriad Forms Ring, and he survived with several injuries.
• Captain Li urged the wounded convoy to keep fleeing into the ominous wilderness because stopping would mean certain death at the pursuers’ hands.
• Steward Zhang reluctantly agreed, though he regretted traveling through a region with such poor security.
• The pursuers hesitated at the edge of a battlefield where strange events and deadly spirits were rumored to appear after nightfall.
• The pursuers’ leader ordered the group to continue chasing the convoy before darkness fell, and they followed him.

Captain Li’s convoy was caught by the bandits, and their desperate battle left them with little hope of escape. As the bandit leader offered to spare their lives if they surrendered, Captain Li prepared to awaken the evil ghosts around them.

• The bandit leader caught up with the convoy and attacked a driver, but Captain Li deflected the strike.
• Captain Li recognized that he could not defeat the bandit leader and his Organ Fortification Realm second-in-command, and resolved to use the evil ghosts to take the bandits down with him.
• After another clash, the bandit leader offered to spare the convoy if they surrendered, and several survivors, including Steward Zhang, began to waver.
• The bandit leader used moral pressure on Captain Li, urging him not to let the rest of the convoy die with him.

Captain Li rejected the bandit leader’s offer to surrender the caravan’s goods, deciding to fight to the death rather than trust the bandits. He triggered a spiritual entity in the Land of Evil Ghosts, and a terrifying ghost appeared before both groups.

• The bandit leader offered to let Captain Li’s caravan keep three empty carriages if they surrendered their goods, while secretly planning to ambush them later.
• Steward Zhang and other caravan members urged Captain Li to give up the goods, but Captain Li judged that the bandits would likely kill them anyway.
• Captain Li chose to fight to the bitter end and waited for the object he had thrown to awaken nearby spiritual entities.
• An icy wind and a piercing howl swept through the area, and a gaunt, translucent ghost appeared on a hill.
• The bandits panicked at the ghost’s arrival, while Captain Li felt satisfied that his plan to drag everyone into danger had worked.

Captain Li’s group faced an ancient evil ghost that attacked with a deadly wail, leaving most of the caravan incapacitated. As Captain Li prepared to strike the bandit leader from behind, a fourth force roared at the ghost to stop yelling and froze it in place.

• Captain Li’s decision to pit the bandits against the ghost was shown to be justified, since the ghost intended to devour the group.
• The awakened evil ghost sensed the crowd, decided to eat, and lunged at them while shrieking.
• The ghost’s wail felled most of the caravan, while Captain Li and a few capable fighters resisted its power.
• Captain Li considered stabbing the bandit leader from behind as the ghost closed in.
• A powerful newcomer roared at the evil ghost for yelling so loudly, stunning it and bringing its charge to an abrupt halt.

After sleeping through most of the day to recover from his injuries, Ling Wuyuan was awakened by an evil ghost’s hostile shrieks. Enraged, he silenced the ghost with his power while the bandits, Captain Li, and the other spirits watched in shock.

• Ling Wuyuan slept in a shelter made by the [Mysterious Void Myriad Forms Ring] for more than twenty hours, recovering most of his injuries.
• The ring woke Ling Wuyuan when it detected the evil ghost’s shrieks as a hostile attack.
• Ling Wuyuan shouted at the evil ghost, startling the bandit leader, Captain Li, and the ghost with the force of his voice.
• The evil ghost sensed Ling Wuyuan’s immense life force, and the spirits throughout the mass graveyard fell silent in fear.
• Ling Wuyuan drew in spiritual energy and used invisible forces to tear the evil ghost apart and stop it from shrieking.

Ling Wuyuan tortured an evil ghost to death, then questioned the locals after discovering he had been thrown into an unfamiliar land. He suspected that turbulent currents of space-time had carried him from the Southern Region to another of the Golden Mist Continent’s regions.

• Ling Wuyuan used his ability to disrupt energy to torment the evil ghost until it died silently.
• The watching locals stopped crying out and stared in fear as Ling Wuyuan vanished, then appeared beside them.
• Ling Wuyuan asked what country he was in, and Captain Li explained that the Old Dust Kingdom had fallen more than eighty years earlier and the land remained divided by war.
• Ling Wuyuan wondered whether he was still on the Golden Mist Continent and suspected that space-time currents had thrown him into one of its other four regions.

Ling Wuyuan explained how his Gray Mist Imprint worked and why Pei Yiman’s weak mental energy limited its use. He then tried to learn where he was and what powers surrounded him, but the locals could not answer even basic questions, so he asked about nearby cities and experts instead.

• Ling Wuyuan revealed that he had created the Gray Mist Imprint by combining cultivation techniques with technology from the Thorn Civilization, and that it could maintain a faint connection across time and space.
• Ling Wuyuan explained that Pei Yiman could only send a few simple messages each day because her mental energy was too weak to power the imprint.
• Ling Wuyuan asked whether he was still on the Golden Mist Continent and which domain contained the Old Dust Kingdom.
• The people around Ling Wuyuan could not understand his questions about continents and domains, revealing how little geographical knowledge they had.
• Ling Wuyuan asked where the largest nearby city was and which powerful experts or forces were worth noting.

Ling Wuyuan questioned the survivors of a battlefield and learned that Huayan City was the nearest major city, ruled by the Yaowu Army. After sending everyone away, he destroyed an evil ghost and drew a hidden War Ghost out of a distant mountain.

• Ling Wuyuan learned that Huayan City lay north of them and was ruled by the powerful Yaowu Army, then decided to seek information there.
• Ling Wuyuan asked the survivors about their location, the evil ghosts, and the News Report before dismissing them.
• The bandits and caravan members fled, and Ling Wuyuan extinguished the tortured evil ghost with an invisible force.
• Ling Wuyuan called out to someone hiding about fifteen li away, then split a distant barren mountain with a sword strike.
• A War Ghost in rust-covered armor escaped from the mountain and watched Ling Wuyuan with wariness and greed.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized the figure as a War Ghost and reflected that abandoned battlefields could nourish the birth of ghosts.