Chapter Summaries

Xia Wuji rescued the White Robe Girl but was betrayed and swallowed by Azure Sky Sea Pythons as the ship’s passengers were overpowered by Yu Hai and the Sky Burning Sect. At the bottom of the Domain Sea, the Universe Pagoda protected Xia Wuji, who lay among the slain pythons while their largest survivor stared at him in terror.

• Xia Wuji rescued the White Robe Girl and fought off the Azure Sky Sea Python pursuing them, but a Sky Burning Sect elder struck him and sent him into a swarm of pythons.
• Jiang Zhiyuan, Pengfei, and the White Robe Girl’s grandfather attacked the Sky Burning Sect, but Yu Hai intervened, injured the grandfather, and stabbed him with a dagger.
• Yu Hai revealed he worked for the Mystic Alliance, wounded Pengfei and Jiang Zhiyuan, and helped Qiao Zi subdue Pengfei.
• Old Du persuaded Qiao Zi to spare Jiang Zhiyuan for possible use in a future escape, while Yu Hai bound Jiang Zhiyuan, Pengfei, the White Robe Girl, and her grandfather to the broken mast.
• Yu Hai assaulted the White Robe Girl and her grandfather, then ordered Old Du to keep sailing.
• At the bottom of the Domain Sea, the Universe Pagoda’s light protected Xia Wuji amid the corpses of the Azure Sky Sea Pythons, while the largest surviving python watched him in terror.

Xia Wuji subdued a Seventh Grade Low Rank Azure Sky Sea Python and sent its kin to search for Snakehead Old Du’s ship. Meanwhile, Old Du’s battered ship met reinforcements from the Giant Shark Gang, leaving Jiang Zhiyuan in danger of being discarded.

• Xia Wuji used the Universe Pagoda to suppress the Azure Sky Sea Python, then used Hun Lie and the Dragon Transformation Art to bring it under his control.
• Xia Wuji ordered the sea python to summon its kin and search for Snakehead Old Du’s ship so he could reunite with Pengfei and Jiang Zhiyuan and settle the score.
• Snakehead Old Du continued steering his damaged ship while Yu Hai, Qiao Zi, and the Sky Burning Sect elders watched him and kept Jiang Zhiyuan, Pengfei, the White Robe Girl, and her grandfather restrained.
• Two ships bearing the Giant Shark Gang’s emblem appeared, and Qiao Zi recognized them as reinforcements sent by her father.
• Snakehead Old Du realized that Yu Hai would take the White Robe Girl and her grandfather and that Qiao Zi wanted Pengfei, while Jiang Zhiyuan was no longer needed and would soon die.

Xia Wuji returned from the Domain Sea and rescued the White Robe Girl, Pengfei, and Jiang Zhiyuan, then turned the Azure Sky Sea Pythons against their attackers. After the pythons killed Yu Hai and the Sky Burning Sect elders, they chased the fleeing Giant Shark Gang ship, leaving Old Du and the others stunned by Xia Wuji’s power.

• Qiao Zi ordered Yu Hai to capture the White Robe Girl and the old man, and tried to kill Jiang Zhiyuan, but Xia Wuji’s flying swords killed her and freed the captives.
• The White Robe Girl’s grandfather struck Yu Hai back, then died after asking Xia Wuji to take his granddaughter into the Chaos Sea and revealing that her father was Lin Qun.
• Yu Hai demanded that Xia Wuji hand over the White Robe Girl, while the two Sky Burning Sect elders attacked Snakehead Old Du.
• Xia Wuji withdrew his flying swords and summoned the Azure Sky Sea Pythons, which swallowed Yu Hai and killed the two elders.
• The Giant Shark Gang ship fled, and Xia Wuji sent the Seventh Grade Low Rank Azure Sky Sea Python and its subordinates after it.

After Yu Hai’s attack killed Lin Ling’s grandfather, Xia Wuji learned that the ambush had been ordered by a Mystic Alliance elder to prevent Lin Qun from becoming the alliance’s Ninth Elder. Xia Wuji and his companions continued toward the Chaos Sea, where he hoped to find his aunt Qin Baishang, and the ship was nearly there.

• Xia Wuji purged the toxins from Jiang Zhiyuan, Pengfei, and Lin Ling, gave them healing pills, and comforted Lin Ling as she mourned her grandfather.
• The Azure Sky Sea Pythons returned with a Giant Shark Gang ship, and Xia Wuji let Old Du use it to continue steering toward the Chaos Sea.
• Xia Wuji questioned Yu Hai’s remnant soul and learned that the Mystic Alliance’s First Elder faction had arranged the attack to stop Lin Qun from becoming the new Ninth Elder.
• Lin Ling told Xia Wuji her name and said she would find her father herself, while Xia Wuji offered to take her there if it was on his way.
• Yu Hai described the Chaos Sea’s four first-rate forces and its other factions, but said he had never heard of Qin Baishang.
• After ten more days of safe travel, Old Du told Xia Wuji they would reach the Chaos Sea the next day.

Xia Wuji and his companions reached the Chaos Sea after Snakehead Old Du brought them near the border, and Xia Wuji gave a sea python the Dragon Transformation Art before they parted. When they crossed the barrier, they encountered Giant Shark Gang members waiting for the person who killed Qiao Zi.

• Jiang Zhiyuan told Xia Wuji that he had reached Nirvana Realm consummation but could not yet break through, and Xia Wuji said the Chaos Sea’s energy would help him advance.
• Snakehead Old Du stopped near the Chaos Sea and wished Xia Wuji, Jiang Zhiyuan, Pengfei, and Lin Ling well; Xia Wuji let him keep the ship for his return journey.
• Xia Wuji gave a seventh-grade low-rank Azure Sky Sea Python the Dragon Transformation Art and promised to find a way to free it from the Domain Sea’s restrictions.
• Qiao Gang learned that Qiao Zi had been killed by a young man with flying swords and ordered his men to capture the killer if he reached the Chaos Sea.
• Xia Wuji and his companions passed through the Domain Sea barrier and found more than a dozen Giant Shark Gang members waiting; the gang members shouted for them to be killed.

Xia Wuji and his companions fought off the Giant Shark Gang after Lin Ling revealed the power of her Pale Eyes, but Qiao Gang pursued them. After learning Qiao Gang’s strength and that their southbound route was being sealed, Xia Wuji decided to ambush their pursuers for clues about Qin Baishang.

• A Giant Shark Gang elder attacked Xia Wuji’s group, and Lin Ling’s Pale Eyes incapacitated one attacker and wounded the elder before Xia Wuji and Jiang Zhiyuan killed the gang members.
• Lin Ling collapsed from the backlash of using Pale Eyes, and Xia Wuji treated her while Pengfei carried the group south.
• Qiao Gang arrived at the battlefield, saw the dead, and ordered his people to search for Xia Wuji and kill him.
• After breaking through three interceptions, Xia Wuji questioned the captured elder’s remnant soul and learned that Qiao Gang was a third-layer Myriad Manifestation Realm expert who had sent word to block their route south.
• Xia Wuji decided to find a place to eliminate the pursuers, hoping Qiao Gang might know something about Qin Baishang.

Xia Wuji and Jiang Zhiyuan attacked Qiao Gang’s stronghold, where Xia Wuji used Hun Lie’s soul power to amplify a formation-countering technique. He halted the Seventh Grade Low Rank formation, leaving Jiang Zhiyuan free to attack its Formation Master.

• Lin Ling woke during the journey, told Xia Wuji about her Pale Eyes and her guilt over her grandfather’s death, and then fell asleep again after he urged her to rest.
• Xia Wuji sent Pengfei to hide with Lin Ling near Qiao Gang’s stronghold and took Jiang Zhiyuan to attack it.
• Hun Lie resolved to limit the soul power he lent Xia Wuji, but Xia Wuji later drew on his power directly.
• Jiang Zhiyuan killed the Giant Shark Gang martial artists who rushed out, and the remaining defenders activated the Seventh Grade Low Rank formation.
• Xia Wuji used the Spirit Reversal Seal and Hun Lie’s soul power to stop the formation, while Jiang Zhiyuan charged at the Formation Master with his saber.

Xia Wuji seized a Giant Shark Gang stronghold, gathered its resources, and helped Jiang Zhiyuan and himself break through to higher realms. He prepared to ambush Qiao Gang’s returning force while using Hun Lie’s soul power to study the stronghold’s formation.

• Xia Wuji disrupted the stronghold’s formation with Hun Lie’s soul power, allowing Jiang Zhiyuan to kill the Formation Master and rout the Giant Shark Gang defenders.
• Xia Wuji gathered the fallen cultivators’ soul power for Hun Lie, then shared the stronghold’s treasures among Pengfei, Jiang Zhiyuan, and Lin Ling.
• Xia Wuji decided to wait for Qiao Gang’s return, helped Jiang Zhiyuan break through to the Myriad Manifestation Realm, and then advanced to the first level of the Life and Death Realm.
• Xia Wuji assigned Jiang Zhiyuan to ambush Qiao Gang’s trusted subordinate and told Pengfei and Lin Ling to remain in the secret chamber.
• Xia Wuji went to the formation’s nexus to study its operation, drawing on the soul power Hun Lie had recently gained.

Xia Wuji and Jiang Zhiyuan ambushed Qiao Gang and He Hui at the looted base, killing He Hui but failing to immediately overcome Qiao Gang. As Qiao Gang seized Jiang Zhiyuan, Xia Wuji poured Hun Lie’s recovered soul power into the Seventh Grade Low Rank formation for one final attack.

• Qiao Gang and He Hui returned to their devastated base and discovered that the treasury had been emptied.
• Xia Wuji and Jiang Zhiyuan ambushed Qiao Gang and He Hui as they prepared to leave, and Jiang Zhiyuan killed He Hui.
• Qiao Gang shattered Xia Wuji’s formation attack and transformed into a flaming beast, while Jiang Zhiyuan tried to hold him off.
• Qiao Gang broke Jiang Zhiyuan’s saber ray and seized him with a flaming hand, and Hun Lie’s soul power was drained to unleash the formation at full power.

Xia Wuji defeated and killed Qiao Gang, then learned the route to the Mystic Alliance from his remnant soul. After leaving Giant Shark Gang territory, Xia Wuji agreed to escort Lin Ling to her father, Lin Qun, while seeking help to find Qin Baishang.

• The Seventh Grade Low Rank formation weakened Qiao Gang, and Jiang Zhiyuan struck him before Xia Wuji finished him with the Nine Steps to Heaven and the Jinghong Sword.
• The people accompanying Qiao Gang fled, while Xia Wuji, Jiang Zhiyuan, Lin Ling, and Pengfei escaped the Giant Shark Gang base.
• Xia Wuji questioned Qiao Gang's remnant soul about Qin Baishang and the Mystic Alliance, then crushed the soul and fed its power to the Universe Pagoda.
• Hun Lie complained about Xia Wuji draining his soul power, then quickly swallowed the soul power Xia Wuji offered.
• After Pengfei carried them out of Giant Shark Gang territory, Lin Ling prepared to leave to find her father, but Xia Wuji offered to take her to Lin Qun at the Mystic Alliance branch helm.

Xia Wuji brought Lin Ling to Mystic Light Island so she could reunite with her father, Lin Qun, but the guards who let them in plotted to rob and attack them. As the ambush began, Pengfei and Xia Wuji fought back, and Xia Wuji prepared to face a Nirvana Realm attacker with his Jinghong Sword and Earth Foot divine ability.

• Xia Wuji and his companions reached Mystic Light Island, bribed the guards with pills, and checked into an inn without revealing Lin Ling's identity.
• Xia Wuji told Lin Ling to meet her father during his patrol the next day, while masked Mystic Alliance guards arranged to poison and rob the group.
• The attackers broke into the inn, but Jiang Zhiyuan killed two men and battled their leader as the inn collapsed.
• Pengfei transformed into a golden roc and killed several attackers, while Xia Wuji's Seven Emotions Flying Swords disrupted another man's attack.
• A Nirvana Realm attacker charged Xia Wuji, who drew the Jinghong Sword and invoked the Earth Foot divine ability.

Xia Wuji and his companions survived an attack by Mystic Alliance martial artists, with a masked Nine Yang Sword Sect successor secretly helping before departing. After Xia Wuji ordered the last attacker killed, Liang Feng learned that Lin Qun’s daughter had reached Mystic Light Island and prepared to capture her.

• A masked swordsman used a flying sword to kill two black-clad attackers, then told Xia Wuji to stay on Mystic Light Island and vanished; Xia Wuji recognized the technique as the Nine Yang Sword Sect’s inheritance.
• Jiang Zhiyuan defeated the last attacker, but hesitated when the man revealed he belonged to the Mystic Alliance; Xia Wuji ordered his death, and Jiang Zhiyuan beheaded him.
• Xia Wuji secretly sent the dead man’s soul power into the Universe Pagoda, then left with Jiang Zhiyuan, Pengfei, and Lin Ling without taking any spoils.
• Liang Feng interrogated and killed the innkeeper, learning that Lin Qun’s daughter had reached Mystic Light Island, then ordered the battle’s witnesses killed.
• Liang Feng reported to a hidden superior that Lin Qun’s daughter was on the island and said he had arranged to capture her before Lin Qun’s inspection the next day.

Xia Wuji used Void Manifestation Talismans to draw away the hidden sentries so Lin Ling could reach her father, Lin Qun. Liang Feng realized the deception and intercepted Xia Wuji and Lin Ling as they traveled toward Lin Qun.

• Xia Wuji told Lin Ling that the increased sentries were meant to stop her from reaching Lin Qun and promised he would help her meet him that day.
• Xia Wuji gave Jiang Zhiyuan sixth-grade supreme Void Manifestation Talismans and a map so he could lure the hidden sentries away.
• Lin Qun reprimanded Liang Feng for killing witnesses and ordered him to reflect on his mistakes for three months.
• Jiang Zhiyuan's talismans repeatedly misled Liang Feng's men, allowing Xia Wuji to send Lin Ling toward Lin Qun.
• Liang Feng invented an excuse to leave Lin Qun's inspection party, then spotted Lin Ling on a Golden Roc and blocked her path.

Xia Wuji defeated and crippled Liang Feng after he tried to capture Lin Ling. Lin Ling reunited with her father, Lin Qun, and told him that her grandfather had died protecting her and that Xia Wuji had helped her reach the Chaos Sea.

• Liang Feng attacked Xia Wuji and tried to intimidate him into leaving Lin Ling, but Xia Wuji fought back with the Seven Emotions Flying Swords.
• Liang Feng used a life-saving treasure to withstand the flying swords, but Xia Wuji broke through its protection with the fifth step of Nine Steps to Heaven and crippled him.
• Lin Qun arrived with Mystic Alliance members and stopped them from attacking Xia Wuji when he recognized Lin Ling and sensed their blood ties.
• Lin Ling called Lin Qun her father, and the two embraced after being separated.
• Lin Ling told Lin Qun that her grandfather had died after bringing her to the Chaos Sea and that Xia Wuji had protected her on the journey.
• Lin Qun thanked Xia Wuji for protecting Lin Ling and helping them reunite.

Xia Wuji stayed at the Mystic Light Branch while Lin Qun purged his enemies and promised to search the Chaos Sea for Qin Baishang. After advancing his cultivation and reforging the Jinghong Sword, Xia Wuji successfully fused the Seven Emotions Flying Swords into a weapon that could rival an Eighth Grade supreme weapon.

• Lin Qun took the crippled Liang Feng away and vowed to punish everyone connected to the crimes against his family.
• Lin Qun thanked Xia Wuji with pills, Spirit Crystals, and a Seventh Grade Low Rank spirit sword, then agreed to search for Qin Baishang and revealed that a Mystic Alliance treasure could divine Heaven's secrets.
• Lin Qun launched a bloody purge of Mystic Light Island based on Liang Feng's clues and restored order after three days while Xia Wuji and his companions cultivated.
• Xia Wuji broke through to the second level of the Life and Death Realm, raised his spiritual power, and reforged the Jinghong Sword as a Seventh Grade Low Rank weapon.
• Xia Wuji fused all seven Seven Emotions Flying Swords into one, creating a sword that could rival an Eighth Grade supreme weapon.

Xia Wuji taught Lin Ling the Azure Pupil Profound Light technique, helping her unleash the Pale Eyes’ destructive power. He agreed to accompany Lin Qun to the Mystic Alliance headquarters, where they could ask the Second Elder about the person Xia Wuji was searching for.

• Xia Wuji recovered from practicing his Seven Emotions Flying Swords technique, while Pengfei reported improving his combat skills and nearing the fifth-tier peak.
• Lin Ling visited Xia Wuji, and he recognized that she had advanced to the first layer of the Yin Yang Realm.
• Xia Wuji taught Lin Ling Azure Pupil Profound Light and guided her as she fired two beams from her Pale Eyes, destroying Pengfei’s practice puppet.
• Xia Wuji told Lin Ling to treat the technique as a trump card and conceal that he had taught it to her.
• Lin Ling told Xia Wuji that Lin Qun was one of two helmsmen competing to become the Mystic Alliance’s Ninth Elder.
• Lin Qun invited Xia Wuji to travel with him to the Mystic Alliance headquarters and ask the Second Elder about Xia Wuji’s target, and Xia Wuji accepted.

Lin Qun brought Xia Wuji and his disciples to the Mystic Alliance headquarters for the final assessment to become Ninth Elder. After Qin Rui used a dispute with the Giant Shark Gang as a pretext to attack Xia Wuji, a fight broke out in Xia Wuji’s courtyard.

• Lin Qun told Xia Wuji he hoped to help him establish himself in the Chaos Sea, while Zhou Jie and Qi Lian expressed confidence in the coming contest against Qin Wei’s Mystic Fire Branch.
• The Mystic Light Branch arrived at the Mystic Alliance headquarters, where Lin Qun arranged separate lodgings for Xia Wuji before going to meet the alliance leader.
• Pengfei warned Xia Wuji that Zhou Jie and Qi Lian might underestimate their opponents, and Xia Wuji decided to ask Lin Qun to add him to the thirty-person team.
• Qin Rui and his followers stormed Xia Wuji’s courtyard, accusing him of killing a Giant Shark Gang enforcer and demanding his head.
• Qin Rui attacked Jiang Zhiyuan while three Nirvana Realm martial artists charged toward Xia Wuji.

Qin Rui’s attack on Xia Wuji was stopped by the Mystic Light Branch, but a man from Purgatory severely injured Zhou Jie and Qi Lian. After learning Purgatory had become one of the Chaos Sea’s five great powers, Xia Wuji volunteered to replace the injured cultivators in the deadly competition.

• Zhou Jie, Qi Lian, and the Mystic Light Branch subdued Qin Rui and his attackers after they came for Xia Wuji.
• A white-robed man from Purgatory struck Zhou Jie and Qi Lian, and Xia Wuji blocked his poisoned needles with flying swords.
• Lin Qun arrived and stopped the Purgatory man, who used a token to redirect Lin Qun’s attack.
• An alchemist told Lin Qun that the attack had been arranged to weaken the Mystic Light Branch before its competition, and Zhou Jie and Qi Lian would not recover in time to compete.
• Lin Qun explained Purgatory’s rise to power and warned Xia Wuji that its man had targeted him.
• Xia Wuji offered to represent the Mystic Light Branch in the fight-to-the-death competition, saying they should kill.

Lin Qun agreed to let Xia Wuji and Lin Ling fight for the Mystic Light Branch after Lin Ling revealed her Azure Pupil Profound Light. At the Mystic Alliance competition, Li Xuan ordered the matches to proceed, and Qin Rui threatened Xia Wuji and Lin Ling before Xia Wuji calmly called him a dying man.

• Lin Ling showed Lin Qun her Azure Pupil Profound Light, and he allowed her to compete as long as she withdrew if she was in danger.
• Qin Wei gave Bai Ziliu a Storage Ring and a map tracing the Nine Yang Sword Sect woman's route, while Bai Ziliu left to capture her.
• Qin Wei told Qin Rui to fight carefully, then Wang Chao congratulated Qin Wei in advance on becoming the Mystic Alliance's Ninth Elder.
• At the competition, Qin Wei mocked Lin Qun, while the First Elder demanded Lin Qun's expulsion and the Second Elder asked Li Xuan to postpone the matches.
• Li Xuan ordered the competition to proceed as usual, and Xia Wuji and Lin Ling stepped forward to represent the Mystic Light Branch.
• Qin Rui threatened Xia Wuji and Lin Ling, and Xia Wuji told Lin Ling that Qin Rui was about to die.

Xia Wuji led Lin Ling into the Mystic Alliance’s deadly island match, where the Mystic Light Branch faced a stronger Mystic Fire Branch. After killing an ambush party, he activated their communication talisman and decided to draw the enemy to them.

• The Mystic Alliance announced that both branches had to fight on a deserted island for one day, with the side having more survivors declared the winner and talismans offering a delayed escape.
• The branches were teleported to opposite sides of the island, while Qin Wei taunted Lin Qun and predicted the Mystic Fire Branch would win.
• Xia Wuji told the Mystic Light Branch participants to split up and signal him if they found Wang Chao, Qin Rui, or Liao Xiu, then set off with Lin Ling.
• Xia Wuji blocked a poisoned-needle ambush, killed four Mystic Fire Branch fighters, and took a talisman from one of them.
• Xia Wuji deciphered and activated the talisman’s communication power, telling Lin Ling that they could wait for the Mystic Fire Branch to come to them and die.