Chapter Summaries

Su Qing forced Liu Feng to set aside the dispute over the Heavenly God, secured the Pagoda Tree Branch and the Pen of Lingering Affection, and helped Tong Chang prepare to summon the Heavenly Master's Consciousness. As the cultivators waited, the sea demons and Evil Entities continued sacrificing themselves to breach the formations around Langya Immortal Island.

• Su Qing intimidated Liu Feng's supporters, while Huang Li and Fu Hu each made peace with him and invited him to visit their territories.
• Liu Feng agreed to join Su Qing in defending the Daoist temple, and Su Qing reunited with the wounded Old Daoist Tong, who asked for the Pagoda Tree Branch to summon the Heavenly Master's Consciousness.
• Su Qing traded his tied-up Old Scholar Tree for the Pagoda Tree Branch and four prayer mats, then arranged for Tong Chang to begin the summoning.
• Su Qing reunited with Liu Yun'er, confirmed her Yin-Yang Twin Rings were genuine, and obtained the Pen of Lingering Affection from Madam Lanxiang for Ling Ying.
• Su Qing gathered True Person Fu Hu and True Person Liu to face the approaching sea demons and Evil Entities while Tong Chang performed his preparations.
• Outside Langya Immortal Island, Black Ape King urged the sea demons to keep sacrificing themselves against the formations, while Fish Head Shovel kept his Fish Dragon Clan out of the deadly crossing.

The sea demons and evil entities learned about the Wanghai forces and advanced on the Heavenly Master's Daoist Temple, where human cultivators split up to face them. Su Qing's forces fought the sea demon army with ships, Lizard Knights, and the Explosive Bear Legion, but the battle remained unresolved as the Evil Shark Tribe blocked the bears and the Demon Kings had yet to face Su Qing.

• Vaishravana Bodhisattva showed the sea demons visions of the Wanghai forces and the Fifth-Tier Heavenly God Erqiang, prompting the Demon Kings to recognize the threat and Fish Head Shovel to fear facing his old foes.
• The sea demons and evil entities reached the Heavenly Master's Daoist Temple, where Liu Feng led Penglai's army against Vaishravana Bodhisattva's forces while Su Qing took on the sea demons with the Wanghai cultivators.
• The Golden Crab King and Fish Head Shovel led an assault, but Wanghai ships' cannons devastated the Golden Crabs until the Black Ape King sent the Evil Sharks and Water Monkeys forward.
• When cannon ammunition ran low and the Wanghai cultivators struggled in close combat, Su Qing unleashed Lizard Knight regiments and the Golden Roc Mothership to turn the tide.
• Su Qing deployed three thousand armored Explosive Hammer War Bears, which smashed through the Golden Crabs and Water Monkeys until more than twenty thousand Evil Sharks halted their advance, leaving the decisive clash between Su Qing and the Four Great Demon Kings ahead.

Su Qing defeated the sea demons’ Four Great Demon Kings by using his Chaos Human-Demon Body to absorb demon power, while Liu Feng pursued Vaishravana Bodhisattva for its Dao Patterns. The chapter ended with Liu Feng recognizing the Ancient Cloud Tree as Earth Demon Heaven and realizing Vaishravana Bodhisattva had ties to the Demonic Buddha.

• Su Qing transformed into the Chaos Human-Demon Body, swallowed Evil Shark King, and used the Past and Future Staff Technique to defeat Black Ape King and kill his escaping clones.
• Fish Head Shovel fled with its Fish Progeny, while Su Qing killed Golden Crab King and led the puppets and Wanghai Cultivators in slaughtering the remaining sea demons.
• Liu Feng recognized Vaishravana Bodhisattva and the Six-tusked White Elephant as wielders of Dao Patterns he needed to advance to Deity Transformation.
• Penglai Cultivators advanced against the Evil Entities with exorcism equipment, while Liu Feng watched Vaishravana Bodhisattva and the Six-tusked White Elephant.
• Vaishravana Bodhisattva planted a black seed that grew into an Ancient Cloud Tree, and Liu Feng identified it as Earth Demon Heaven and realized it was tied to the Demonic Buddha.

Earth Demon Heaven's Ancient Cloud Tree and the Demonic Buddha's Shattered Lotus overwhelmed the Penglai cultivators with deadly divine techniques. After Liu Feng fled the Heavenly Master's Ruins through Zhao Zhengquan's intervention, the remaining cultivators faced the evil entities without their only Nascent Soul combatant.

• Liu Feng identified the Ancient Cloud Tree as an avatar of Earth Demon Heaven, and the Thousand Islands cultivators joined the Penglai side against it.
• True Person Fu Hu forced the tree to expend one Tier 5 Divine Technique, but True Person Zhao Chun died after drawing out its blood-eye attack.
• The Ancient Cloud Tree's Evil Throughout Heaven divine technique killed most of the Zhao Family Celestial Official Corps, while Liu Feng used his treasures to protect Zhao Zhengquan and two Heaven Officials.
• Huang Li, True Person Xi Fang, True Person Fu Hu, and True Person Blood Luo attacked the tree, but it revealed the Shattered Lotus and unleashed the Demonic Buddha's Life-Claiming Buddhist Chant.
• True Person Blood Luo became an Evil Entity, Xi Fang escaped with only a wisp of her spirit, and Huang Li and Fu Hu fled wounded after the Red-Necked White Crane sacrificed itself.
• Liu Feng froze in fear and begged Zhao Zhengquan to help him escape; Zhao Zhengquan used the Heaven Official Seal to send him beyond the Heavenly Master's Ruins, then faced the remaining danger himself.

Su Qing arrived at the Penglai battlefield with a vast stock of Exorcism Puppets, took supplies and Golden Light Talismans from the desperate Penglai forces, and used them to help Bear Two begin a Tier 4 breakthrough. He then fought the evil hordes with the Buddha Bone Relic’s Buddhist techniques, while Vaishravana Bodhisattva held back its remaining divine techniques and the Heavenly Master’s presence stirred at the Daoist Temple.

• Su Qing sent his Ghoul Dolls to bombard the Ancient Cloud Tree, then took spirit beasts, a Spirit Stone deposit, and Golden Light Talismans from Huang Li and Zhao Zhengquan in exchange for his aid.
• Su Qing activated three Tier 4 and nineteen Tier 3 Golden Light Talismans inside Dragon Island Bi Xi so Bear Two could attempt a Tier 4 breakthrough.
• Vaishravana Bodhisattva sent a massive evil entity army against the Ghoul Dolls, and Penglai cultivators helped defend the puppets as Evil Xi Fang and Evil Blood Luo broke through their line.
• Su Qing equipped the Buddha Bone Relic, defeated Evil Xi Fang and Evil Blood Luo, and used the Thirty-six High Buddhist Cultivators to free their bodies and primordial spirits.
• Su Qing fought through the remaining evil entities and gained multiple Dao Patterns, while Vaishravana Bodhisattva stayed near the Ancient Cloud Tree and shattered lotus to avoid his attack.
• Su Qing sensed a righteous aura from the Heavenly Master's Daoist Temple and suspected the Heavenly Master was watching the battlefield.

Su Qing urged the Wanghai Cultivators to help Penglai fight the evil entities, and the Heavenly Master's Consciousness turned the battle into a contest for divine favor. When Vaishravana Bodhisattva unleashed a Tier 5 Divine Technique that copied the human forces and reversed the battle, Su Qing took Zhao Zhengquan's Yellow Pagoda Fragment and sent Bear Two to confront it.

• After the sea demon battle, Qing He reported the Wanghai forces' spoils and losses, and Su Qing asked the exhausted cultivators to help Penglai resist the evil entities.
• Zhao Zhengquan offered Penglai rewards, and Shao Delong and Liang Hai Shun led the Wanghai Cultivators into battle, where they fought fiercely alongside the Penglai forces.
• The Heavenly Master's Consciousness descended and protected human cultivators from evil qi, prompting Zhao Zhengquan, Fu Hu, Xi Fang, and the Penglai Cultivators to join the fight for the Heavenly Master's favor.
• Vaishravana Bodhisattva used the Demonic Buddha's Shattered Lotus to create black-robed copies of the human fighters, turning the battle against Penglai and Wanghai.
• Su Qing accepted Zhao Zhengquan's Yellow Pagoda Fragment and prepared to fight, but Bear Two emerged with Buddhist power, placed Su Qing inside a protective circle, and charged at the evil entities alone.

Bear Two gained Ancient Buddhist Dharma and a reserved Vajra Fruition, then transformed Su Qing’s Explosive Hammer War Bear Regiment into Arhat Buddha Bears that routed the Evil Entities. The Demonic Buddha escaped with the Shattered Lotus, Vaishravana Bodhisattva became trapped in the ruins, and Su Qing charged it alone to claim its treasures.

• Su Qing explained that Bear Two had received Buddhist teachings from lingering Buddha thoughts and gained a Tier 5 Vajra Fruition, while Master Liaode suspected the Dharma had been stolen.
• Bear Two transmitted Buddhist sutras to Su Qing’s war bears, transforming them into an Arhat Buddha Bear Regiment and empowering them to devastate the Evil Entity horde.
• Su Qing withdrew his offer to send Bear Two to teach at Fulun Temple and considered using its Dharma transmission on his own puppets instead.
• The Demonic Buddha’s phantom fought Bear Two, then retrieved the Shattered Lotus and escaped; Vaishravana Bodhisattva realized the remaining Evil Entities were doomed and tried to flee the sealed ruins.
• Su Qing left Bear Two’s protective ring and charged Vaishravana Bodhisattva, startling Zhao Zhengquan and True Person Fu Hu as they approached the Ancient Cloud Tree.
• Vaishravana Bodhisattva and its Six-tusked White Elephant attacked Su Qing with the Evil Mark Netherworld Passage and Prison Suppressing Dao Pattern.

Su Qing transformed into the Great Witch True Spirit, destroyed Vaishravana Bodhisattva and the Prison Suppressing White Elephant, and broke through to Tier 4 Body Cultivation. As he weighed how to escape the Penglai forces waiting outside the Heavenly Master's Ruins, He Lu learned that Penglai had gathered the Western Sea factions at Langya Immortal Island by accusing Su Qing and others of aiding the evil entities.

• Vaishravana Bodhisattva attacked Su Qing with the Prison Suppressing White Elephant, while Xu Huaiyi caught the fallen Soul Capturing Gloves and collected remnant souls.
• Su Qing invoked the Great Witch True Spirit, hurled the white elephant into Vaishravana Bodhisattva, and destroyed Vaishravana, the elephant, and the Ancient Cloud Tree.
• Su Qing comprehended and manifested the Fearless Dao Pattern, advanced to Tier 4 Body Cultivation, and formed his Mountain Sea True Gang Energy.
• Su Qing claimed the battlefield spoils, chose the Ancient Demon Series puppet blueprints, and considered the Penglai forces likely to be waiting outside the Heavenly Master's Ruins.
• He Lu, Brother 260, and He Lian Xian heard from a Thousand Islands Cultivator that Penglai had summoned Western Sea forces to seal Langya Immortal Island and prevent evil entities from escaping with Divine Patterns.

Su Qing imprinted the Netherworld Access and Prison Suppressing Dao Patterns, gaining Ghost God Masks, then gathered more masks for his puppets and negotiated with Wanghai cultivators for their future Divine Patterns. When the group entered the Heavenly Master's Daoist Temple, they found three Heavenly Master representatives and Heavenly Master Ge himself already occupying the Stone Platforms.

• Su Qing absorbed the Netherworld Access Dao Pattern, learned about the Ghost God Mask, and imprinted it to obtain the Magistrate mask.
• Su Qing imprinted the Prison Suppressing Dao Pattern and obtained the Soul Suppressing General mask.
• Bear Two and Tiger Egg persuaded Su Qing to refine more Dao Patterns into Ghost God Masks for their puppet brothers, and Su Qing collected masks of several ranks.
• Su Qing left seclusion and led the Wanghai Cultivators toward the Heavenly Master's Daoist Temple, while persuading several cultivators to trade him their future prayer mats and Divine Patterns.
• Su Qing and the Wanghai Cultivators entered the temple and found Old Daoist Tong, Madam Lanxiang, the Love Severing Gu, and Heavenly Master Ge standing beneath the four Heavenly Master statues.

Heavenly Master Ge oversaw the distribution of divine patterns, and Su Qing chose a fifth-tier meditation cushion despite the risks. He received the title of Grand Xuan Water Essence Black Spirit Venerable God and was appointed to oversee the gods in the Boundless Dead Sea.

• Heavenly Master Ge dismissed Old Daoist Tong and Madam Lanxiang’s concerns and ordered the gathered cultivators to choose meditation cushions.
• The cultivators hesitated, but Su Qing used signals from Old Daoist Tong, Madam Lanxiang, and the Six-winged Centipede to identify the cushions’ ranks and qualities.
• Su Qing sat on a fifth-tier cushion, and its divine pattern entered him as the gathered cultivators watched.
• Heavenly Master Ge bestowed on Su Qing the title of Grand Xuan Water Essence Black Spirit Venerable God, and Su Qing’s face changed into that of a stern, dark-complexioned man.
• Heavenly Master Ge appointed Su Qing, as the Underworld Martial Judge, to oversee the gods in the Boundless Dead Sea, and Su Qing received divine robes, golden armor, and two Black Water Divine Flags.

Su Qing concealed his identity as the Martial Judge and received a Divine Pattern without giving up his Immortal Path, then guided the cultivators through the dangerous process of claiming divine offices. As Heavenly Master Ge wondered how Su Qing could judge the cushions’ fortunes, the chapter left open whether Su Qing had obtained the Heavenly Master Dao Pattern.

• Heavenly Master Ge recognized that the Divine Pattern had been bestowed upon the Martial Judge rather than Su Qing, but concealed the discrepancy and continued the ceremony.
• Cultivators rushed to occupy prayer cushions, and Divine Patterns annihilated unworthy applicants such as Wang Eryong when they tried to enter their bodies.
• Liu Hudan successfully received a Divine Pattern but was transformed into a woman and appointed Red Thread Matchmaker God, despite pleading to refuse the office.
• Su Qing assigned cushions to cultivators including Ying Jue Shen, Zhao Zhengquan, Xi Fang, and the Wanghai group, while some sold their qualifications to him.
• Heavenly Master Ge wondered how Su Qing could match people to cushions and questioned whether he had somehow obtained the Heavenly Master Dao Pattern.

Su Qing arranged Divine Pattern cushions and persuaded Heavenly Master Ge to bestow divine titles, then sought a token to borrow the ancient Heavenly Masters’ influence. Heavenly Master Ge gave Su Qing his seal and vanished, leaving the barrier down as angry West Sea cultivators gathered outside to pursue Su Qing and the Divine Patterns.

• Su Qing assigned the cultivators Divine Pattern cushions according to their merits, needs, and contributions, reserving several powerful patterns for himself and his allies.
• Heavenly Master Ge conferred divine titles on the seated cultivators, while Su Qing used his Ghost God Masks to accept additional offices on behalf of Li Kuishan and others.
• The cultivators asked Heavenly Master Ge for teachings, but he rejected their requests and urged them to follow their own paths.
• Su Qing asked for a token that could let them borrow the ancient Heavenly Masters’ prestige, and Heavenly Master Ge handed him the Heavenly Master’s Seal with a warning about its consequences.
• Heavenly Master Ge vanished and his barrier dissipated, exposing the group to West Sea cultivators who shouted threats and accused Su Qing of being a great traitor and evil demon.

After Su Qing destroyed the evil spirit sea monsters, Liu Feng tried to turn the assembled forces against him and seize the Divine Patterns, but Zhao Zhengquan and Shi Tianhou defended Su Qing. As Shi Li Jing arrived to collect his son, Su Qing greeted him warmly and asked him to preside over a matter.

• Liu Feng led the Penglai forces in attacking Su Qing, but Zhao Zhengquan stopped them and declared that Su Qing had destroyed the evil spirit sea monsters.
• Liu Feng threatened to use the Fan Tian Yin against Su Qing, but Zhao Zhengquan revealed he was a Fifth-Rank Deity and warned Liu Feng to let the matter rest.
• True Person Xianglong thanked Su Qing for saving the Thousand Islands cultivators and invited him to Fangzhang Immortal Island.
• Shi Tianhou thanked Su Qing, gifted him ten Tianpeng True Feathers, and warned the human cultivators not to harm his nephew before leaving with the lions.
• Shi Li Jing arrived to collect his son, and Su Qing took his hand and asked him to preside over a matter.

Su Qing persuaded Shi Li Jing to organize the inland West Sea Immortal Kingdoms into a coalition against Earth Demon Heaven while promising to hold back the Demonic Buddha’s forces at sea. After Liu Yun’er left with the Demonic Sect, Su Qing decided he needed allies to take over that duty and called back the departing cultivators with an offer of a major opportunity.

• Su Qing warned Shi Li Jing that Earth Demon Heaven and the Demonic Buddha threatened the West Sea, and asked the Desiring Demon Immortal Kingdom to join an attack on the Demonic Tree Evil Kingdom.
• Su Qing promised to stop the Demonic Buddha’s sea forces from landing, and Shi Li Jing agreed to rally the inland Immortal Kingdoms against Earth Demon Heaven.
• Master Liaode committed Fulun Temple to the coalition, and Shi Li Jing departed with his group to prepare the campaign.
• Liu Yun’er returned with Shi Li Jing, so Su Qing sent the Void Four Lions to protect her and planned how to avoid being tied down at Sea Watch.
• As the Penglai and Thousand Islands cultivators prepared to leave, Su Qing called them back and offered them a share in a major opportunity.

Su Qing forced Penglai and the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom into an alliance to resist the sea demons and Evil Entities, while refusing Penglai’s demands for his personal help and Bear Two. After the deal was settled, warnings from Old Liang’s Life-Shedding Cloth and Su Qing’s Dao Patterns signaled a major event affecting his future Dao Path.

• Su Qing persuaded Dragon Subduing and Tiger Subduing to have the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom join the defense against sea demons and Evil Entities, while Zhao Zhengquan questioned what Wanghai Immortal City would contribute.
• Su Qing refused to personally join the fight or lend Bear Two, and Liu Feng threatened to let Wanghai face the danger alone.
• Su Qing implied that Penglai’s merchant caravans could become targets, making Zhao Zhengquan and Liu Feng accept his proposal to supply ships, artifacts, and battle gear to the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom.
• Su Qing negotiated a large Puppet order with Dragon Subduing and Tiger Subduing and told Penglai he planned to explore the Western Sea’s mysteries.
• Penglai and the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom agreed to block the sea demons and Evil Entities, and Su Qing turned aside invitations from True Person Huang Li and True Person Fu Hu.
• As Su Qing prepared to visit Langya Immortal Island and take the Star Sun Essence Vein, Old Liang’s Life-Shedding Cloth and Su Qing’s Dao Patterns began warning of a major event.

Liang Hai Shun learned that the failing Life-Shedding Cloth was tied to He Lian Xian’s life, while Su Qing helped Tong Chang begin a new life and arranged for Granny Xu to protect the Nine Li Tribe. The chapter ended with Tong Chang locating He Lian Xian and two others trapped in Qiu Niu Land, near the Sea Witch’s domain.

• Liang Hai Shun panicked when the Life-Shedding Cloth began to collapse, and Su Qing discovered that its condition was linked to He Lian Xian’s life.
• Tong Chang repaid his karmic debts and chose to use Langya Immortal Island as a base for exorcising demons, while Su Qing declined to take the island’s remaining resources.
• Tong Chang warned Su Qing to reach Tier 6 Void Refinement within a thousand years as greater threats and opportunities approached.
• Granny Xu explained the plight of the scattered Witch-blooded tribes, and Su Qing promised to defeat the Sea Witch and asked her to move Yao Fei’s Nine Li Tribe to Sea Watch Immortal City.
• Tong Chang divined that He Lian Xian and two other divine persons were trapped in Qiu Niu Land, over two million li southwest of Langya Immortal Island and near the Sea Witch’s domain.

Su Qing set out for the Breathless Sea Region to find He Lian Xian, despite the Wanghai Cultivators abandoning the journey. Tong Chang revealed that Brother 17 and Brother 260 were in the deadly region too, and Su Qing learned the Nine Sons Dragon Ships could penetrate its fog before suddenly ordering his fleet to turn around.

• The Wanghai Cultivators made excuses and sailed back toward Wanghai Immortal City, while Tong Chang joined Su Qing aboard Dragon Island Bi Xi.
• Tong Chang revealed that Brother 17 and Brother 260 were living manifestations of a Four Emperors Dao Pattern and wanted to shield them from evil entities.
• Su Qing insisted that he would rescue He Lian Xian, Brother 17, and Brother 260, and Tong Chang described the Breathless Sea’s lack of spiritual energy, vengeful dragons, and vanished expeditions.
• Tong Chang explained that the Nine Sons Dragon Ships could break through the fog and that the Qiu Niu Treasure Ship was likely in the region.
• After hearing about the danger and the treasure, Su Qing ordered the ships to turn around and postpone entering the Place of No Breath.

Su Qing postponed rescuing the three brothers trapped in the Place of No Breath so he could first prepare to defeat the Sea Witch and complete the Nine Li Dao Pattern. He began mass-producing Demon God Soldiers and dismantled the Shapeshifting Diamond Ship for materials to make a Kirin Arm Puppet, then considered how to obtain the rest of the Mountain Sea Capture Dao Pattern.

• Su Qing insisted on taking down the Sea Witch before entering the Place of No Breath, while Tong Chang warned that her giant corpses and possible alliance with Demonic Buddha could make the fight difficult.
• Su Qing went to his workshop on Dragon Island Bi Xi, where he prepared more than two hundred and fifty sea demon corpses to refine into Demon God Soldiers.
• Su Qing studied the Kirin Arm Puppet blueprint and decided its strength-enhancing abilities suited his needs, but he lacked the required materials.
• Su Qing chose to dismantle the Shapeshifting Diamond Ship for its Mysterious Soul Stone plating rather than spend centuries trying to restore the fifth-tier puppet.
• Su Qing used Mountain Sea Capture to strip the Mysterious Soul Stone from the ship without lowering its rank, then considered asking True Person Shan Lu for the Dao Pattern instead of killing him.

Long Fengxian struggled to keep the Dragon-Human Tribe alive as the Sea Witch’s blood sacrifice consumed the island’s creatures. Elsewhere, the pirates aboard the Qiuniu Ship tried to secure more human flesh, while He Lian Xian learned that Brother 17 and his companion carried a curse that brought misfortune to those around them.

• Long Fengxian learned that the Dragon-Human Tribe had sacrificed sixteen clansmen to the Sea Witch’s blood rite and decided to seek help from the Tier 4 demons on Old Saber Mountain.
• Long Fengxian suspected that an axe might lie beneath White Axe Lake and wondered whether he could wield it.
• Peng Muying ordered Li Huaichun and Zhang Changhao to demand flesh tribute from Shipwreck Bay or awaken Qiuniu, but their messages received no replies.
• Li Huaichun and Zhang Changhao learned that their outside subordinates had died in a storm and been eaten by storm bear-men.
• He Lian Xian cursed Brother 17 and his companion after learning that their fortune-seeking Dao Patterns brought calamity to those close to them.

Bear Two and the other puppets captured and slaughtered sea demons across the West Sea, including a Nine-Headed Flood Dragon lured by the Jiaotu Ship’s disguised dragon hook. Meanwhile, Su Qing tested his newly completed Kirin Arm Puppet and discovered it could break through the Penglai Anti-Air Formation, leaving Tiger Egg begging for better materials after its swords were shattered.

• Bear Two and the puppets hunted sea demons across the West Sea, filling Dragon Island Bi Xi with corpses and catching the Nine-Headed Flood Dragon with the Jiaotu Ship’s Deep Sea Dragon Hook.
• Tiger Egg and the Lizard Knights processed the flood dragon while Tong Chang and Liang Hai Shun discussed Su Qing’s puppet-making, talisman paper, and delayed journey to Giant Corpse Island.
• Su Qing installed the Kirin Arm Puppet and demonstrated that its independent punches approached fourth-tier strength.
• Su Qing transformed the Kirin Arm Puppet into arm armor and struck through the Penglai Anti-Air Formation, which he believed showed fifth-tier power.
• Tiger Egg tested the armor with all nine swords, losing every sword except the Rainbow Sword, then begged Su Qing for better materials.