Chapter Summaries

Xia Wuji accompanied Mo Xinlan to confront Lin Sanniang and Lin Tianhu, who pressured Mo Xinlan to marry Lin Tianhu and threatened them when she refused. Lin Sanniang attacked Xia Wuji, but Mo Ying appeared to stop her and called Xia Wuji her son-in-law.

• Xia Wuji joined Mo Xinlan in the main hall, where Lin Sanniang and her son Lin Tianhu were waiting.
• Lin Sanniang offered Mo Xinlan pills and urged her to marry Lin Tianhu, while he promised to abandon or kill his concubines for her.
• Mo Xinlan rejected Lin Tianhu, declared Xia Wuji was the man she loved, and ordered the visitors to leave Mo Garden.
• Lin Tianhu threatened Xia Wuji, and Lin Sanniang blasted Mo Garden's guards aside before sending a streak of blood light at him.
• A sword aura dissolved Lin Sanniang's attack, and Mo Ying appeared to defend Xia Wuji and call him her son-in-law.

Mo Ying defended Xia Wuji and Mo Xinlan from Lin Sanniang and Lin Tianhu, then watched Xia Wuji defeat Lin Tianhu in their duel. After dinner, Xia Wuji left Purgatory Island with Mo Xinlan, who hinted that she could spend the night with him.

• Mo Ying injured Lin Sanniang's guards and ordered Lin Sanniang and Lin Tianhu to leave Mo Garden, but Lin Tianhu challenged Xia Wuji over Mo Xinlan.
• Lin Sanniang proposed rules limiting each fighter to one spirit artifact and forbidding outside assistance, and Xia Wuji accepted the duel.
• Xia Wuji used the Mountain River Sword Technique to overwhelm Lin Tianhu, shatter his armor, and leave him badly injured.
• Lin Sanniang treated Lin Tianhu and promised to kill Xia Wuji and help her son obtain Mo Xinlan.
• Mo Ying cooked for Xia Wuji and Mo Xinlan, then sent Xia Wuji back to Ghost Sword Island because he could not stay longer on Purgatory Island.
• Mo Xinlan accompanied Xia Wuji and hinted that she could tell her mother she would sleep with Younger Sister Yao Xi that night.

Mo Xinlan spent the night and following day with Xia Wuji, then used Yao Xi and Xu Qi to hide their relationship from her mother. Xia Wuji pursued his fifth-level Asura advancement, and Sword Rakshasa selected a mission involving Sea Spirit for him, to be issued in three days.

• Mo Xinlan asked Yao Xi to tell her mother she was staying with Xu Qi, and Yao Xi agreed to help cover for her.
• Mo Xinlan spent the day with Xia Wuji, while Pengfei remained in the Universe Pagoda until Xu Qi and Yao Xi arrived to tease her.
• Xu Qi offered Xia Wuji a Sea Dog Pill, but he returned it and left to visit Ghost Sword Island's Sword Honing Hall.
• Xia Wuji passed a simple trial at Sword Honing Hall and took its sealed scroll to the Mission Hall to apply for a fifth-level Asura advancement mission.
• Feng Xuan reported Xia Wuji's application to Sword Rakshasa and presented a qualifying mission related to the Thousand Islands Sect.
• Sword Rakshasa chose the mission involving Sea Spirit and ordered Feng Xuan to issue it three days later.

Xia Wuji gave Jiang Zhiyuan a cultivation manual and prepared to take a Fifth-Class Asura promotion mission, while Mo Ying warned him that it would send him near the Thousand Islands Sect to seek a Sea Spirit. After learning that Sea Spirits might be connected to the legendary Heart of the Sea King, Xia Wuji accepted the dangerous mission and said he might become the Chaos Sea’s second Sea King.

• Xia Wuji gave Jiang Zhiyuan a Heaven Grade Top Rank cultivation technique and told him to live his own life.
• Xia Wuji told Mo Xinlan he had applied for a Fifth-Class Asura promotion mission, then taught her a Heaven Grade Top Rank sword technique.
• Mo Ying confronted Xia Wuji and Mo Xinlan, then told Xia Wuji that the Life and Death Celestial Art had restored her and that she had kept it secret from the Hell Lord.
• Mo Ying brought Xia Wuji his mission scroll, which required him to retrieve a Sea Spirit from waters near the Thousand Islands Sect.
• Mo Ying explained the legends linking Sea Spirits to the Heart of the Sea King and warned Xia Wuji about the mission’s risks.
• Xia Wuji accepted the mission, reasoning that Sword Rakshasa was testing him, and declared that he might become the Chaos Sea’s second Sea King.

After Mo Ying reacted strongly to Xia Wuji asking about Qin Baishang, she took Mo Xinlan back to Purgatory Island and warned her to focus on cultivation. Ding Lu then gave Xia Wuji a manual about sea spirits and announced she would lead the team for his Level-Five Rakshasa assessment mission, leaving Xia Wuji convinced the Heart of the Sea King legend was true.

• Xia Wuji asked Mo Ying about Qin Baishang, and Mo Ying ordered him to forget the name before taking Mo Xinlan back to Purgatory Island.
• Mo Ying told Mo Xinlan that Xia Wuji had mentioned something he should not have, then asked whether he had impregnated her and advised her to be more restrained.
• Ding He brought Xia Wuji to Ding Lu, who gave him a manual on sea spirits and said she would lead the team on the mission near the Thousand Islands Sect.
• Ding Lu explained that Xia Wuji had to capture a sea spirit himself to advance to Level-Five Rakshasa and qualify for the Purgatory Grand Competition.
• Xia Wuji read that sea spirits could attach to sea beasts but not humans, then concluded the Heart of the Sea King was real and represented a law of the Chaos Sea.

Ding Lu’s team traveled to Full Moon Island to investigate sea spirits and infiltrate the Thousand Islands Sect’s territory, with Xia Wuji learning about the island’s defenses and the unusual Song Qing. At night, Ding Lu led the team beneath the sea to wait for midnight before landing on the island.

• Ding Lu brought Xia Wuji and a small force from Ghost Sword Island toward Full Moon Island, stopping at a barren island to wait for their sleeper agent.
• Xia Wuji reunited with Azure Sky Dragon Python and more than a thousand Azure Sky Sea Pythons, then ordered them to hide beneath the sea to avoid exposing their connection.
• Huang Yong arrived and reported that Song Yan guarded Full Moon Island, while Song Qing had recently come there and was a surviving sea-spirit fusion subject.
• Huang Yong arranged to distract patrols on the eastern shore at midnight so Ding Lu’s team could land on the southern shore, and he described a merchant fleet escape route if the infiltration failed.
• Ding Lu explained that Song Qing had survived a failed sea-spirit fusion, gained exceptional talent, and captured three sea spirits for the Thousand Islands Sect.
• After nightfall, Ding Lu led Xia Wuji and the others beneath the sea to Full Moon Island’s southern shore to await midnight.

Ding Lu and Xia Wuji were caught in a Thousand Islands Sect ambush on Full Moon Island, but both escaped after fierce battles. Xia Wuji returned to the island in secret and sent Pengfei to find the injured Ding Lu while he planned to capture the sea spirit.

• Huang Yong lured Ding Lu and her group into Song Yan's ambush, where an explosive arrow attack killed or wounded most of her followers.
• Ding Lu fought Song Yan and a powerful old man from the Thousand Islands Sect, then used a secret technique and her life-saving trump card to escape.
• Xia Wuji fled an attack beneath the sea, defeated Song Qing with the Mountain River Sword Technique, and escaped with a strand of seawater mixed with Song Qing's blood.
• Xia Wuji slipped back onto Full Moon Island through its weak western defenses and erased his aura with the Dust Washing Art.
• After seeing Ding Lu escape, Xia Wuji released Pengfei and told him to find her, report that Xia Wuji remained on the island, and ask her to return after healing.

Ding Lu learned from Pengfei that Xia Wuji had infiltrated Full Moon Island and planned to capture a sea spirit, so she stayed behind to heal. As Xia Wuji used Song Qing’s blood to track sea spirits, his Blood Guiding Art split into four butterflies, revealing four sea spirits near the island.

• Ding Lu caught Pengfei, learned Xia Wuji was hiding on Full Moon Island, and agreed to heal rather than risk alerting the Thousand Islands Sect.
• Song Qing told Song Yan that at least three sea spirits had appeared and offered to locate their general area after recovering.
• Xia Wuji used Song Qing’s preserved blood to create a blood butterfly with the Blood Guiding Art.
• Pengfei returned and reported that Ding Lu was recovering, while Xia Wuji’s blood butterfly split into four, indicating four sea spirits.

Xia Wuji captured two Sea Spirits on Full Moon Island and brought them into the Universe Pagoda, where he used the Myriad Spirits Scripture to calm them. He returned to his hiding place, leaving two more Sea Spirits unclaimed near heavily guarded shores.

• Xia Wuji followed a blood butterfly to the western shore, suppressed the Eight-Clawed Giant Squid with the Universe Pagoda, and sealed the Sea Spirit that escaped from it.
• Song Yan and Elder Zhang investigated the disturbance, found the dead squid, and increased the Thousand Islands Sect's vigilance while planning to capture at least three Sea Spirits.
• Xia Wuji found a second Sea Spirit possessing a sea beast raised on Full Moon Island, captured it with the Universe Pagoda, and returned to his cave.
• Xia Wuji entered the Universe Pagoda and refused Hun Lie's request to eat the two Sea Spirits.
• Xia Wuji used the Myriad Spirits Scripture to soothe the two Sea Spirits, which began swimming joyfully in his hands.

Xia Wuji merged two sea spirits, sent Pengfei and the Azure Sky Dragon Python to capture more, and killed Song Qing before escaping Full Moon Island. He reunited with Ding Lu and urged her to take him away before Thousand Islands Sect could catch up.

• Xia Wuji merged two sea spirits into his body and gained the ability to sense their aura and draw on the Chaos Sea's laws.
• Xia Wuji gave Pengfei sealing talismans and ordered him to capture sea spirits near Full Moon Island with the Azure Sky Dragon Python and three eighth-rank Azure Sky Sea Pythons.
• Song Yan and Elder Zhang investigated disturbances on Full Moon Island while Song Qing emerged from seclusion and realized someone was capturing all the sea spirits.
• Xia Wuji ambushed and killed Song Qing, then met Pengfei and the Azure Sky Dragon Python beneath the sea and took them and two sealed sea spirits into the Universe Pagoda.
• Xia Wuji escaped to Ding Lu's desolate island and told her he had killed Song Qing and captured a sea spirit, asking her to take him away quickly.

After escaping the Thousand Islands Sect, Xia Wuji returned to Ghost Sword Island with Ding Lu and presented the captured sea spirit to Liu Qi. He became a Level Five Rakshasa, gained access to the island’s Sword Prison Space, and then reunited with Mo Xinlan.

• Ding Lu brought Xia Wuji to Purgatory’s sea region, where he explained how he killed Song Qing and captured a sea spirit on Full Moon Island.
• Ding Lu congratulated Xia Wuji for passing the advancement trial, and he gave her the talisman containing the sea spirit to hand to their master.
• At Ghost Sword Island, Ding Lu accepted responsibility for the mission’s casualties, and Liu Qi deducted half a year of her cultivation resources.
• Liu Qi advanced Xia Wuji to Level Five Rakshasa, granted him access to every area and the Sword Prison Space, and promised to teach him more of the Ghostly Sword Art.
• Xia Wuji absorbed another sea spirit, checked on Pengfei and the Azure Sky Dragon Python, and reunited with Mo Xinlan at his residence.

Xia Wuji entered the tenth layer of Sword Prison Space, learned the complete Ghostly Sword Art, and advanced his cultivation before Sword Rakshasa took him to the Purgatory Grand Competition’s selection round. He left confident he could reach the top ten and become a Hell Envoy.

• Mo Xinlan reassured Xia Wuji that her mother was satisfied with him and had sent healing pills, while Xia Wuji said he would visit Mo Garden after cultivating.
• Sword Rakshasa brought Xia Wuji to the tenth layer of Sword Prison Space, where she taught him the final four moves of the Ghostly Sword Art beside a quasi-saint sword fragment.
• Xia Wuji mastered the full Ghostly Sword Art and cultivated for half a month, advancing from the third to the fifth layer of the Nirvana Realm.
• Sword Rakshasa told Xia Wuji that the Purgatory Grand Competition would begin in half a month and that a selection round would narrow more than three thousand registrants to one hundred competitors.
• Sword Rakshasa took Xia Wuji from Sword Prison Space to Purgatory Island, and Xia Wuji felt confident he could place in the top ten.

Xia Wuji arrived at Purgatory Island and prepared to compete in the Purgatory Tournament’s first-round selection. As the tournament gathered its factions, powerful enemies targeted him, and Xia Wuji resolved to kill anyone who attacked him.

• Mo Ying warned Xia Wuji and Mo Xinlan not to fool around before the selection, then told Sword Rakshasa that a Heavenly Origin Sacred Land envoy had come to the Chaos Sea and was targeting Purgatory.
• Mo Xinlan asked whether she could live with Xia Wuji if he reached the tournament’s top ten, and Mo Ying agreed she could join him once the Hell Lord arranged his residence.
• Xia Wuji, Mo Ying, Mo Xinlan, and Sword Rakshasa went to the martial arena, where Purgatory’s Yellow Springs Emissaries, Asura Kings, Rakshasa Kings, and tournament contestants gathered.
• Lin Tianhu and Gong Yue urged their allies to find a chance to kill Xia Wuji during the selection, while Xia Wuji remained calm and prepared to retaliate against anyone who attacked him.

Xia Wuji drew lot number four for Purgatory’s brutal selection matches, where Ghost Sword Island and Mo Garden were deliberately targeted. As the fourth match began, several factions offered rewards for killing Xia Wuji, and he told his allies to stay away so he could face his attackers himself.

• Liao Kai announced that the selection would consist of forty-five melees, with each winner earning a place in the Purgatory Grand Tournament roster, and Xia Wuji drew lot number four.
• The first three matches showed coordinated attacks against Ghost Sword Island and Mo Garden; one fighter from Ghost Sword Island and Mo Garden won the second match, while all seven participants from their sides died in the third.
• Sword Rakshasa, Mo Ying, Mo Xinlan, Ding Lu, and Yao Xi warned Xia Wuji to be careful before his match began.
• Lin Sanniang, Dugu Ding Tian, and Bai Chi offered powerful rewards to their fighters for killing Xia Wuji, while Liao Kai told his disciple Du Yan to secure the match’s spot.
• As the seventy-eight fighters entered the arena, Xia Wuji told the five Ghost Sword Island and Mo Garden fighters beside him to stay away and declared that he would kill his attackers himself.

Xia Wuji faced twelve fighters who had targeted him for rewards and killed them all with his flying swords and sword techniques. When Du Yan challenged him, claiming he was exhausted, Xia Wuji defeated and killed him, leaving the battle ongoing with no one willing to target him.

• Xia Wuji told his companions to scatter as the fourth battle began, then killed a Rakshasa and another attacker with the Seven Emotions Flying Swords.
• Xia Wuji blocked a barrage of attacks with Mo Ying's Mountain River Sword Technique, then used the Ghostly Sword Art and his flying swords to kill all twelve attackers.
• The crowd and Xia Wuji's allies reacted to his victory, while Lin Sanniang, Dugu Ding Tian, Bai Chi, and their associates looked grim.
• Du Yan challenged Xia Wuji, argued that his opponents had failed to cooperate, and demanded that he leave the arena.
• Xia Wuji charged Du Yan, defeated him with Divine Radiance, and crushed his head beneath his foot.

Xia Wuji won his selection battle and secured a place in the Purgatory Grand Tournament, then trained until reaching the sixth level of the Nirvana Realm. As attacks and infiltrations threatened Purgatory, Yao Xi told him that Ding Lu had arranged a safer place for him to stay.

• Xia Wuji defeated Du Yan, and the last opponent surrendered, securing him a slot in the Purgatory Grand Tournament.
• The selection ended with Ghost Sword Island winning three slots and Dark Island winning fifteen; Mo Ying and Sword Rakshasa arranged for Xia Wuji to focus on cultivation.
• Xia Wuji trained in the tenth level of Sword Prison Space for ten days and advanced to the sixth level of the Nirvana Realm.
• Sword Rakshasa took away the Saint Sword Fragment as trouble grew, and Xia Wuji visited the Universe Pagoda to guide Pengfei and the Azure Sky Dragon Python.
• Yao Xi told Xia Wuji that the four great powers were attacking Purgatory's borders and that Eternal Night Island and Heartbreak Island had suffered attacks.
• Yao Xi explained that Ding Lu wanted Xia Wuji, herself, and Ding Lu's younger brother to stay together because powerful enemies had infiltrated Purgatory.

Xia Wuji helped defend Ghost Sword Island against a Kun Gate invasion and stopped Huang Jing from attacking Ding Lu, but Ding He killed Huang Jing after her betrayal was exposed. As Ding Lu fought Yin Mei and Kun Gate’s assault faltered, Pengfei warned Xia Wuji that the Azure Sky Dragon Python was in danger.

• Xia Wuji saved Ding He from a talisman arrow as Kun Gate forces attacked Ghost Sword Island, and Feng Xuan ordered Xia Wuji, Yao Xi, and Ding He escorted to safety.
• Yin Mei revealed that she had joined Kun Gate and tried to kill Xia Wuji, but Ding Lu arrived and confronted her as Ghost Sword Island’s defenders gained the upper hand.
• Xia Wuji stopped Huang Jing’s poison-coated arrow aimed at Ding Lu and discovered that Huang Jing had turned against her master over her father’s death.
• Huang Jing’s mother defended Ding Lu and killed herself, and Ding He beheaded Huang Jing after she apologized.
• Ding Lu charged at Yin Mei while Xia Wuji watched the battle, then Pengfei urgently told him that the Azure Sky Dragon Python was in trouble.

Xia Wuji rescued the Azure Sky Sea Pythons from the Middle Domain sacred lands’ tracking runes and used the sea spirits to free them from the Dark Domain Sea’s influence. As he prepared to return to Ghost Sword Island, three figures spotted him and turned back to confront him.

• Pengfei told Xia Wuji that the Azure Sky Dragon Python was suffering from strange runes, which the python suspected were triggered by leaving the Dark Domain Sea.
• Xia Wuji left Ghost Sword Island during the battle with Kun Gate, reached the Azure Sky Sea Pythons’ hiding place, and brought the wounded clan into the Universe Pagoda.
• Xia Wuji erased his and the pythons’ traces, set up a formation on a deserted island, and entered the pagoda to deal with the runes.
• Xia Wuji used the Universe Pagoda and the power of three sea spirits to remove the runes, which formed a scarlet-eyed sea spirit that he purified and absorbed.
• Xia Wuji told the Azure Sky Dragon Python that its clan was free of the Dark Domain Sea’s influence, then left the pagoda to return to Ghost Sword Island.
• Three figures flew over Xia Wuji, doubled back, and looked down at him with cold disdain.

Xia Wuji fought three young members of the Heaven Origin Sacred Land who tried to seize his memories, killing two and nearly defeating the third. When a black chain killed the elder who intervened, Xia Wuji recognized it from Purgatory Island’s protective array and realized that his aunt Qin Baishang was the Hell Lord of Purgatory.

• A ninth-level Nirvana Realm man from the Heaven Origin Sacred Land attacked Xia Wuji and demanded to extract his memories, but Xia Wuji defeated and killed him.
• A first-level Myriad Manifestation Realm man attacked Xia Wuji to avenge his junior brother, and Xia Wuji cut him down with the Jinghong Sword.
• Xia Wuji fought the third-level Myriad Manifestation Realm woman with his Seven Emotions Flying Swords and Ghostly Sword Art, breaking her defenses.
• An elder struck at Xia Wuji, but a black chain shattered the attack and pierced the elder’s head before vanishing into the void.
• Xia Wuji recognized the chain from Purgatory Island’s Eight Extremes Sky Locking Array and realized that Qin Baishang, the aunt he had been searching for, was the Hell Lord of Purgatory.

Xia Wuji learned that Qin Baishang was Purgatory’s Hell Lord and decided to claim first place in Purgatory’s Grand Competition before her. After Purgatory purged its enemies and the competition began, he arrived on Purgatory Island with Mo Xinlan and prepared for the contest.

• Sword Rakshasa Liu Qi brought Xia Wuji back to Ghost Sword Island and explained that the Hell Lord had anticipated the upheaval and used it to purge Purgatory of hidden agents.
• Xia Wuji asked about the Hell Lord’s name, and Liu Qi warned him never to mention Qin Baishang; Xia Wuji resolved to enter the Grand Competition and appear before her as its champion.
• Ding Lu reported that Ghost Sword Island’s crisis was settled, and Sword Rakshasa killed the captured Yin Mei.
• Purgatory purged its ranks, removed Liao Kai as a Yellow Springs Emissary for his failure during the crisis, and mourned the deaths and severe injuries among its leaders.
• Sword Rakshasa brought Xia Wuji and the other competitors to Purgatory Island, where Mo Ying summoned her to meet the Hell Lord.
• Mo Xinlan asked Xia Wuji about the Heavenly Origin Sacred Land and the upcoming competition, and Xia Wuji said he intended to take first place.