Chapter Summaries

Su Qing gathered Wanghai’s major powers and allies for an expedition to Langya Immortal Island, then turned to strengthening himself before the journey. After absorbing the Buddha Bone Relic’s power, he began condensing a Golden Dao Pattern.

• Master Liaode, Shao Delong, Rao Tingshan, and Duan Tian'ai backed Su Qing’s plan to take Wanghai’s forces to Langya Immortal Island.
• Su Qing persuaded the Green Lion King to join the expedition by withholding the finished Void Four Lions until he could complete their final step on the island.
• Shi Zhi Fang and Lü Wentian joined the growing expedition after Su Qing called them upstairs, while many Wanghai factions committed people, ships, supplies, and funds.
• Su Qing decided to strengthen Tiger Egg and his own body before the journey, using the Buddha Bone Relic as a catalyst to condense a Natal Dao Pattern.
• Su Qing swallowed the relic and absorbed its Buddha Charm while his Qiongqi and Nine Li Dao Patterns restrained its Golden Buddha Phantom.
• After more than six hours, Su Qing drained the phantom’s power, and a Golden Dao Pattern slowly condensed on his furnace lid.

Su Qing condensed the Fearless Vajra Natal Dao Pattern and discovered that his Lotus Birth Seal granted limited control over time. He fed the Buddha Bone Relic to Tiger Egg and began inscribing Tier 5 Divine Beast Runes on it, pushing through the strain as his spiritual power ran low.

• Su Qing condensed the Five Elders-tier Fearless Vajra Dao Pattern and completed the Golden Core chapter of the Immeasurable Buddha Merit Technique.
• Su Qing absorbed the Lotus Birth Seal and realized it let him control time briefly by spending Merit Qi.
• Su Qing gave the drained Buddha Bone Relic to Tiger Egg, which swallowed it and collapsed under the relic's Fourth-tier Vajra power.
• Su Qing used Tier 5 Divine Beast Talisman Water to remove Tiger Egg's old runes and began drawing new Divine Beast Runes with the Phoenix Down Talisman Brush.
• Su Qing trembled and ran low on Spiritual Liquid as he continued crafting the Tier 5 runes.

Su Qing completed Tiger Egg’s upgrade but delayed his trip to Langya Immortal Island again, leaving Old Daoist Tong to face the siege without him. As the island’s defenders struggled against Penglai’s forces and a traitorous ally, Old Daoist Tong revealed Heavenly Master powers and moved to bind the bamboo spirit to the island’s spiritual vein.

• Su Qing absorbed the Qiongqi Dao Patterns from one tiger skin, then fitted another to Tiger Egg and completed its upgrade with fifth-tier runes and other materials.
• Su Qing postponed his arrival at Langya Immortal Island by another half month and devoted himself to making puppets and studying the Star Track Magic Cannon Blueprint.
• A breach opened in the Two Forms Starlight Formation, and Granny Xu used her Spirit Needles to keep it from widening while Madam Lanxiang sealed it with a talisman painting.
• Cloud Bamboo Daoist revealed his allegiance to Penglai and tried to undermine the formation, while Old Daoist Tong used a Heavenly Master Object Sealing Talisman to enfeoff him as the Pulse Protecting God of the Star-Sun Spiritual Vein.

Old Daoist Tong used the Heavenly Master Object Sealing Talisman to force the Old Bamboo Spirit into becoming a Pulse Protecting God, strengthening Langya Immortal Island’s defenses against Penglai. As Penglai prepared to summon True Person Fire Crow, Tong gathered the island’s resources and reinforcements in the Heavenly Master’s Ruins, while his divinations about Su Qing remained mysteriously blocked.

• The Old Bamboo Spirit refused Tong’s divine office, but Tong sealed a Bamboo Tip from its root and used it to replace the spirit’s consciousness with a Pulse Protecting God’s divine will.
• Tong fused the Bamboo Tip with the Star-Sun Spiritual Vein, strengthening the Two Forms Starlight Formation enough to withstand Penglai’s bombardment.
• Liu Feng rejected Tong’s request for time to prepare and agreed to trade a Yellow Pagoda Fragment for True Person Fire Crow’s help in breaking the formation and entering the Heavenly Master’s Ruins.
• Liu Feng ordered True Person Hu and True Person Ha to drive True King Tianpeng away, while Tong prevented his nervous outside reinforcements from leaving the island.
• Tong and Madam Lanxiang moved the Langya Sect’s artifacts and Star-Sun Essence to the Heavenly Master’s Ruins, preparing for the formation to fall.
• Tong failed to divine Su Qing’s whereabouts and suspected that Su Qing’s fortune or a secret technique had hidden him, so he began divining Demoness Liu Yun’er instead.

Liu Yun'er reached late-stage Golden Core cultivation, and Shi Li Jing sent a Demonic Sect force with her to Langya Immortal Island. In Sea Watch, cultivators borrowed heavily and bought ships and puppets for the voyage, and Su Qing finally led their vast fleet out to sea.

• Shi Li Jing congratulated Liu Yun'er on forming a Second Grade Golden Core and assigned Demonic Sect elders and disciples to accompany her to Langya Immortal Island.
• Yao Guangquan urged Li Kuishan to join the voyage, so Li borrowed three thousand Spirit Stones from Bear Two's Money House and bought Lizard Knights after the Treasure Ship Puppets sold out.
• Su Qing emerged from seclusion as promised and found thousands of ships and tens of thousands of Wanghai Cultivators gathered for the expedition.
• Hei Qingtian warned Su Qing to protect Sea Watch's accumulated strength, and Su Qing promised not to lead the fleet into a hopeless fight.
• Shao Delong and Ying Jue Shen discussed the dangers of Langya Island as Su Qing prepared to lead the Wanghai fleet against the forces gathered there.

Su Qing gathered Sea Watch’s captains and Golden Core Venerables aboard Dragon Island Bi Xi, demanded their allegiance, and exposed enemy spies among them. The cultivators killed Li Fu, a Penglai agent disguised as a member of the Li Family, as they committed themselves to Su Qing’s expedition into the deep sea.

• Su Qing’s fleet sailed into the West Sea, and invited cultivators gathered aboard Dragon Island Bi Xi, where Li Kuishan and the others saw its mermaids and formidable Puppet forces.
• Liang Hai Shun tested the cultivators’ willingness to risk their lives, and they declared they would fight for the riches of the deep sea.
• Su Qing demanded that the remaining fleet follow his command, and Ying Jue Shen warned those unwilling to fight to leave.
• Su Qing exposed Cen Qianyi as a Thousand Islands spy using intercepted messages, then had Giant Bear Divine Generals bind him and throw him into the sea.
• Su Qing named Li Fu a Demonic Tree Evil Kingdom spy, and the cultivators accepted the accusation despite Li Fu’s claim to belong to the Penglai Li Family.
• Yao Guangquan attacked Li Fu’s scattered cloud form, and the Sea Watch cultivators joined in until they destroyed it.

Su Qing persuaded the Wanghai fleet to raid Shipwreck Bay while the Pirate Kings were away, but Liu Feng expected pirates to blockade them on Penglai’s orders. At Langya Immortal Island, the Thousand Islands True Persons revealed their plans and prepared to exploit the conflict, while the Yazi Ship’s ambush escalated into a clash with True Person Fu Hu’s forces.

• Su Qing revealed that most Pirate Kings had gathered near Langya Immortal Island and urged the Wanghai cultivators to seize Shipwreck Bay while it was lightly guarded.
• Liu Feng ordered the Pirate Kings to attack the Wanghai fleet and dismissed Su Qing as a minor threat, then gave True Person Fire Crow ten days to arrive and help break the formation.
• On Rosy Cloud Island, five Thousand Islands Nascent Soul True Persons discussed the Heavenly Master Puppet, their plot against Langya, and their plan to use the Pirate Kings against the Wanghai fleet.
• True Person Ku Mu ordered True Person Fu Hu to confront the pirates, while the Thousand Islands group planned to preserve Wanghai’s strength and eventually reclaim the city.
• Huang Zhi’s Yazi Ship prepared to ambush the Wanghai fleet, but Ji Houzi recognized True Person Fu Hu’s flag and opened fire, prompting the captain to order a full attack.

Wan Xiari welcomed Liu Yun'er to Shipwreck Bay and learned she sought support for the Demonic Sect at Langya Immortal Island. After discovering their family connection, he agreed to send Taotie Ship and a hundred ships under Ning Chengke’s command, while Ning Chengke maneuvered to send Wan Xiari away with the expedition.

• Wan Xiari warned Ning Chengke that he intended to leave him Yazi Ship and wealth so he could protect the Wan Family and Ning Family by settling in the Northern Border.
• Liu Yun'er arrived at Shipwreck Bay with gifts from Desiring Demon Immortal Kingdom, and Wan Xiari warmly welcomed her despite Ning Chengke’s suspicions.
• Xu Huaiyi told Ning Chengke that the Demonic Sect wanted Shipwreck Bay’s help displaying its strength at Langya Immortal Island, and Ning Chengke initially rejected the request.
• Wan Xiari revealed that Liu Yun'er was his grandniece, offered her partial control of Taotie Ship, and agreed to send a hundred treasure ships with Ning Chengke.
• Ning Chengke urged Wan Xiari to accompany the fleet, but Wan Xiari accused him and the bay’s leaders of wanting him gone; Ning Chengke then promised to protect Liu Yun'er himself.

Liu Yun'er persuaded True Person Wan to leave Shipwreck Bay with much of its strength, while Su Qing led Sea Watch in a surprise assault on the pirate stronghold. Ning Chengke took control of the bay and tried to claim the Taotie Ship, but as Sea Watch arrived, a pirate attacked him.

• True Person Wan agreed to escort Liu Yun'er to Langya Immortal Island, taking half the Western Sea Giant Monsters and leaving Ning Chengke to guard Shipwreck Bay with the Taotie Ship.
• Liu Yun'er relayed Shipwreck Bay's intelligence to Su Qing through their Two Hearts Contract, and Su Qing ordered Sea Watch to attack the bay.
• Yao Guangquan discovered a hidden passage into Shipwreck Bay, so Su Qing sent Master Liaode, Ying Wushen, Lü Wentian, Li Kuishan, and other fighters through it while leading the main fleet in a frontal assault.
• After Wan Xiari departed, Ning Chengke took charge of Shipwreck Bay and failed to form a pact with the Taotie Ship, though he retained partial control over it.
• Ning Chengke learned that Sea Watch's fleet was approaching and dismissed the threat, but a pirate rogue cultivator suddenly attacked him with powder and a dagger.

Ning Chengke discovered that Sea Watch had launched a coordinated assault on Shipwreck Bay, attacking from both the bay and the sea, and tried to lead the pirates through the blockade aboard the Taotie Ship. After Su Qing’s forces crippled the pirates’ defenses and battered the Taotie Ship, Ning Chengke challenged Su Qing to a personal duel, wagering Shipwreck Bay’s ships, weapons, and treasure on the outcome.

• Ning Chengke discovered that the supposed assassin was a puppet and hurried to the Shipwreck Bay choke point, where Sea Watch’s fleet was bombarding the bay behind Dragon Island Bi Xi.
• Ning Chengke learned that Master Liaode’s forces had infiltrated Shipwreck Bay and that the pirate family heads were fighting inside, so he ordered the pirates to break through the Sea Watch blockade.
• Ning Chengke tried to rally the Western Sea Giant Monsters, but Sea Watch’s Spirit Explosion Puppets, Golden Mane Water Lions, and Fish Dragon Puppets overwhelmed them beneath the sea.
• Su Qing offered Ning Chengke a chance to surrender, but Ning Chengke refused and sacrificed the Wan Family to unleash the Taotie Ship’s full power.
• Su Qing’s Dragon Island Bi Xi slowed the Taotie Ship with Seal Divine Light, while Sea Watch’s cannons and a hidden underwater attack damaged it despite Ning Chengke’s Devour Heaven and Earth ability.
• Ning Chengke challenged Su Qing to fight him face-to-face, wagering Shipwreck Bay’s treasure ships, cannons, and Taotie Ship against a promise to spare the surviving pirates.

Su Qing defeated Ning Chengke in a duel, captured the Taotie Ship, and led the Wanghai forces in wiping out Shipwreck Bay’s pirates. He rejected occupying the bay but joined the scramble for its treasures, while Qing He’s attempt to secretly claim a vault was foiled by Bear Two and Fire Egg.

• Su Qing accepted Ning Chengke’s challenge despite the Wanghai cultivators’ objections, then revealed that he controlled numerous Treasure Ship Puppets.
• Ning Chengke trapped Su Qing in Reincarnation Desperate Situation, but Su Qing used the Lotus Birth Seal’s time-stopping power to seize Ning Chengke’s Azure Bird, magic artifact, and Talisman Papers before killing him.
• The Taotie Ship devoured Ning Chengke’s body and soul, and Su Qing took control of the ship as the Wanghai forces destroyed the remaining pirate fleet and resistance inside Shipwreck Bay.
• Ying Jue Shen suggested that Sea Watch occupy Shipwreck Bay, but Su Qing refused because Sea Watch could not defend it against the greater powers of the West Sea.
• Su Qing sent his Puppets to gather spoils alongside the Wanghai Shipowners, while Qing He tried to claim a hidden treasure vault and Bear Two and Fire Egg removed its contents.

Su Qing subdued the Taotie Corrupt Mark, purified the Taotie Dao Pattern, and gained a powerful new treasure ship and improvements to his cultivation aptitude. While Shipwreck Bay’s spoils were being distributed, he discovered that an ordinary-looking landscape talisman painting contained the mountains and rivers from the Heavenly Sword Crossing West Diagram.

• Su Qing rejected the Taotie Corrupt Mark’s offer and used one hundred and eight High Buddhist Cultivators to subdue and purify it, claiming the complete Taotie Dao Pattern and Taotie Ship.
• Su Qing imprinted the Taotie Dao Pattern, improving its mastery, his spiritual root and bone structure, and his Puppet Immortal completeness.
• Su Qing praised Yao Guangquan’s service and said he intended to promote him to Flood Dragon Group Leader, then took the landscape talisman painting Yao Guangquan had found.
• Su Qing recognized the painting’s landscape as part of the Heavenly Sword Crossing West Diagram and used Tiger Egg and the Eye of Piercing Delusion and Seeing Truth to reveal its hidden profundity.

Su Qing discovered that the Landscape Talisman Painting was the Mountain and River Society Diagram, an ancient refuge sheltering a Seven-Colored Little Snake that revealed the great tribulation was still far from over. Su Qing entered the diagram, and Bear Two followed him while the others guarded the captive snake outside.

• Su Qing searched the painting for its hidden Dao Pattern, but a Seven-Colored Python followed his divine sense out and was subdued by Tiger Egg and the Puppets.
• The Seven-Colored Little Snake restrained Su Qing with its eye technique, but Tiger Egg wounded it and Su Qing defeated it with the Heaven-grade Tianshan Nine Swords.
• The snake revealed that Empress Wa's Palace had entered the Mountain and River Society Diagram to survive an ongoing great tribulation, with more than nine hundred Yuan Cycles remaining before its foretold end.
• Su Qing tried to enter the diagram, while the snake failed to follow and was kept captive by the Puppets; Fire Egg attacked it, and Bear Two knocked it unconscious.
• Bear Two entered the Mountain and River Society Diagram to find Su Qing and demanded that he be released.

Su Qing entered the Mountain and River Society Diagram, negotiated with the Mountain and River Child over restoring its polluted world, and returned with a Beast Ring and the diagram. Qing He then reported the heavy losses and enormous spoils from the Shipwreck Bay operation.

• Bear Two and Tiger Egg cultivated in the Wa Empress Hall while Su Qing ate incense ash, then Su Qing tried and failed to take the incense burner and Wa Empress Statue.
• The Mountain and River Child revealed that evil qi had polluted the Mountain and River Society Diagram and asked Su Qing to bring in spiritual veins to restore its mountains and rivers.
• Su Qing bargained with the Mountain and River Child for a Beast Ring and agreed to bring spiritual veins into the diagram, but the Mountain and River Child threw him, Bear Two, and Tiger Egg out when he asked for a consultation fee.
• Su Qing returned to Qing He and used the Beast Ring to capture the Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python after it refused to submit.
• Qing He reported that the Wanghai Treasure Ship had suffered major losses but gained pirate ships and spoils worth over one hundred fifty thousand Spirit Stones.

Su Qing extracted Shipwreck Bay’s Spiritual Veins, provoking heavenly lightning and awakening an Azure Giant Dragon beneath the bay. He and Master Liaode survived the attack and fled with the fleet toward Langya Immortal Island, while Su Qing began searching ancient texts for clues about the Three Dragons of Heaven, Earth, and Sea.

• Su Qing pulled six Tier 3 Spiritual Veins from Shipwreck Bay and stored them in his Storage Bag, astonishing the Wanghai cultivators.
• Su Qing, Master Liaode, Tiger Egg, and Dragon Island Bi Xi worked together to extract Shipwreck Bay’s Tier 4 Spiritual Vein, and the collapsing Black Mountain triggered a violent sea storm.
• Master Liaode used his Roc-Elephant Dharma Image to shield Su Qing from the heavenly lightning punishment, while the Mountain and River Society Diagram absorbed the remaining bolts.
• An Azure Giant Dragon emerged from beneath Shipwreck Bay and forced Su Qing to expend several Substitute Puppets to escape its attack.
• Su Qing helped the badly burned Master Liaode back onto Dragon Island Bi Xi, and the fleet fled toward Langya Immortal Island.
• Su Qing borrowed Fulun Temple’s ancient texts from Master Liaode to search for records about the Three Dragons of Heaven, Earth, and Sea.

Old Daoist Tong struggled to hold Langya Immortal Island against Penglai while waiting for Su Qing’s fleet, but Liu Yun’er and Wan Xiari arrived first. Wan Xiari then privately asked Tong Chang for a way to stop being human, leaving the old Daoist ready to discuss the Black Tortoise Lake.

• Old Daoist Tong and Madam Lanxiang feared that Penglai would break Langya Immortal Island’s formation and force them to retreat to the Heavenly Master's Ruins before fulfilling the Heavenly Master's last command.
• Old Daoist Tong revealed that Su Qing had delayed his arrival by raiding Shipwreck Bay, and he expected him to come because the Pirate Kings posed a threat to the Sea Watch fleet.
• Liu Yun’er arrived with Wan Xiari and a large force of Desiring Demon Sect members, and Old Daoist Tong admitted them to Langya Immortal Island.
• At the banquet, Liu Yun’er reminded Tong that Wan Xiari was only her uncle-in-law; Tong then postponed discussing the Yin-Yang Twin Ring she had come to obtain.
• After Liu Yun’er left, Wan Xiari privately told Tong Chang that he no longer wished to be a man, and Tong brought up Black Tortoise Lake.

Su Qing led the Sea Watch Ship Fleet toward the battle between True Person Fu Hu’s Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom fleet and the Pirate Kings, intending to enter Langya Immortal Island with a force no one could command. The chapter ended with True Person Fu Hu recognizing that Su Qing had become a rival capable of contending for the Heavenly Master's Ruins.

• Su Qing received the Demoness’s warning that the Pirate Kings would kill him if they discovered him, but he resolved to head toward Langya and help Old Daoist Tong and True Person Fu Hu.
• Su Qing ordered the fleet to raise the banners of its allied forces and advanced Dragon Island Bi Xi toward the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom fleet.
• Li De celebrated the fleet’s damage to the Pirate King ships, and True Person Fu Hu revealed that Shipwreck Bay had already been destroyed by the Sea Watch Ship Fleet.
• True Person Fu Hu explained that the battle had become too costly to abandon and that the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom could no longer force Su Qing to fight the Pirate Kings for them.
• Seeing Su Qing’s banners, Dragon Ship Taotie, and more than ten thousand treasure ships, True Person Fu Hu realized Su Qing had come to compete for the Heavenly Master's Ruins.

Su Qing negotiated an alliance with True Person Fu Hu, securing the Wanghai Ship Fleet’s role as the main force and a favorable share of the spoils in the battle against the Pirate Kings. As the fleets moved into position, Ji Houzi opened fire on the approaching Dragon Island Bi Xi.

• Shao Delong proclaimed the Wanghai fleet a coalition of factions, and Li De challenged them to send out their leader.
• Su Qing and True Person Fu Hu argued over who would lead the battle and claim the Pirate King ships, until Fu Hu agreed to let the Wanghai Ship Fleet take the main-force position.
• Fu Hu entered the Dragon Island Bi Xi, discovered Su Qing’s formidable allies and defenses, and signed the alliance pact.
• Liang Hai Shun read the pact aloud, and Fu Hu ordered the Thousand Islands Ship Fleet to part so the Wanghai fleet could take the lead.
• Ji Houzi brought out the Yazi Divine Might Cannon and fired at the approaching Dragon Island Bi Xi.

Su Qing used Spiritual Sense Light to release hundreds of underwater Puppets and reinforce the Wanghai Ship Fleet as it battled the Pirate Kings. He then charged the Chiwen Ship, while its captain sought a chance to escape the increasingly dangerous fight.

• The Wanghai Ship Fleet and Dragon Ship Taotie held off the Pirate Kings’ flagships while Wanghai captains hunted their depleted ships.
• True Person Fu Hu recognized that Su Qing’s rewards for combat merit had driven the Wanghai cultivators to fight with extraordinary determination.
• Fearing the fleet would lose too much strength before reaching Langya Immortal Island, Su Qing activated Spiritual Sense Light and sent hundreds of underwater Puppets into battle.
• Su Qing put on Tiger Egg, took Void Four Lions, and charged toward the Chiwen Ship.
• Captain Diao Wuyi rallied his crew but concluded that the Pirate Kings needed to find a chance to leave the battlefield.

Diao Wuyi tried to lure a Serpent Dragon Ship toward the Chiwen Ship, but Su Qing, disguised as one, pierced the King Ship with the Rainbow Sword. As reinforcements arrived and the Bi'an Ship attacked, Su Qing shifted his focus to keeping the pirate King Ships from fleeing and trapping them all.

• Diao Wuyi disguised the Chiwen Ship as a Serpent Dragon Ship and baited a nearby vessel with claims that the Yazi Ship was vulnerable.
• Su Qing, disguised as a Serpent Dragon Ship through his Dao Pattern, used Tiger Egg's Truth-Piercing True Eye to identify the Chiwen Ship and pierced it with the Rainbow Sword.
• Diao Wuyi recognized Su Qing and ordered the Chiwen Ship's crew to activate its remaining formations while its fleet tried to protect it.
• Yao Guangquan, Shao Delong, Li Hai Lang, and Li Kuishan arrived with reinforcements, and Su Qing assigned them to fight the Chiwen Ship's escort fleet.
• The Bi'an Ship arrived with its fleet, and its Sin Prison Domain hampered Su Qing's allies as Delong attacked the pirates with Spirit Explosion Puppets and Spiders.