Chapter Summaries

Jiang Liu killed six Saint Realm warriors who tried to rob him, then faced six Divine Realm warriors who had arrived for the Heaven Gathering Flower. After one attacked him over the death of Xuan'er, Jiang Liu killed him with a single saber strike, leaving the others frightened and trying to retreat.

• Jiang Liu's Starfall attack killed six Fourth Tier of the Saint Realm warriors and drove away a hidden Divine Realm observer.
• Jiang Liu searched the corpses for valuables, then realized he had to find his way back to the Heaven Gathering Flower.
• Sea beasts gathered to feed on the corpses as six first-tier Divine Realm warriors approached Jiang Liu.
• One of the Divine Realm warriors found Xuan'er's head, blamed Jiang Liu, and attacked him.
• Jiang Liu dispelled the man's spatial pressure and killed him with one saber strike, while two of the remaining warriors began retreating.

Jiang Liu killed Old Fan after Old Fan attacked him, then faced the five surviving island elders. The elders negotiated for their lives by offering him origin stones, and Jiang Liu heard their offer of two thousand stones each.

• Jiang Liu searched Old Fan's corpse and hid the items he found in his System Space.
• The five surviving elders surrounded Jiang Liu, then Yu Chenghai tried to negotiate after realizing they might not survive a fight.
• Jiang Liu challenged the elders' claim that the attack was a misunderstanding and asked what compensation they would offer.
• The five elders discussed the matter through voice transmission and agreed to give Jiang Liu two thousand origin stones each.
• Yu Chenghai offered the stones to Jiang Liu and anxiously awaited his response.

Jiang Liu spared five old men in exchange for ten thousand origin stones and an invitation to Beast Taming Island, then returned to search for the Heaven Gathering Flower. He found Divine Realm Sea Beasts gathered around it and watched the flower begin to mature.

• Jiang Liu accepted the five old men's offer of ten thousand origin stones and let them leave after recording their names.
• Yu Chenghai invited Jiang Liu to visit Beast Taming Island, and Jiang Liu planned to use him as a future helper.
• Jiang Liu left the bloodied stretch of sea and dove toward the Heaven Gathering Flower's location.
• Jiang Liu concealed his aura with the Shadowveil Robe and approached the flower, which was surrounded by several Divine Realm Sea Beasts.
• The Heaven Gathering Flower suddenly grew from about a meter tall to more than two meters, showing Jiang Liu that it was about to mature.

Jiang Liu stole the mature Heaven Gathering Flower from beneath a sea full of fighting beasts and returned to the island. A white-haired elder from the Zheng Family sensed his arrival and wondered whether he had come to take the family's property.

• Jiang Liu watched the Heaven Gathering Flower mature as its bud changed colors and a storm of Heaven and Earth Essence formed.
• Jiang Liu used the Shadowveil Robe to approach the flower while the sea beasts fought, then cut it down with an Ice Blade and stored it in the System Space.
• Jiang Liu escaped the pursuing sea beasts and flew back to the small island, wondering about the flower’s true uses.
• A white-haired old man atop a five-story pavilion sensed Jiang Liu’s arrival and feared that a Second-Order Divine Realm expert had come to seize his Zheng Family’s property.

Jiang Liu returned to the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild with the Heaven Gathering Flower, while Zheng Yunhao feared the guild’s arrival threatened the Zheng Family’s control of Tianyun Island. After considering his family’s dwindling prospects and the island’s essence stone mine, Zheng Yunhao decided he could no longer delay.

• Jiang Liu returned to the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild, and Tang Chengyuan welcomed him inside, convinced the Heaven Gathering Flower would help him break through.
• Zheng Yunhao watched them enter and suspected the guild had sent a Second-Order Divine Realm expert to take control of Tianyun Island.
• Zheng Yunhao reflected on his failed attempts to split his divine soul and the Heaven Gathering Flower’s value in helping with breakthroughs.
• Zheng Yunhao considered how the Island Alliance controlled the island’s essence stone mine and how the Zheng Family might lose the alliance’s protection after his death.
• Zheng Yunhao saw the guild’s intervention as an urgent threat and resolved to act quickly.

Jiang Liu accepted Tang Chengyuan’s extra payment after Tang confessed the Heaven Gathering Flower’s true effects. When Tang brought out the spirit stones in a Space Pouch, Jiang Liu became interested in the pouch, which Tang said he could not give up.

• Tang Chengyuan confessed that the Heaven Gathering Flower could help God Realm martial artists break through to the Second-Order Divine Realm.
• Jiang Liu showed no anger, and Tang offered him an additional ten thousand spirit stones for the flower.
• Jiang Liu agreed to Tang’s offer, deciding he could settle matters later if he learned the flower was worth more.
• Tang Chengyuan placed thirteen thousand five hundred spirit stones and a bolt of silk on the table from his Space Pouch.
• Tang Chengyuan told Jiang Liu that the one-cubic-meter Space Pouch belonged to the guild headquarters and was worth one hundred thousand spirit stones.

Jiang Liu completed his transaction with Tang Chengyuan, who then explained the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild’s feud with the Míng Hé Merchant Guild and asked Jiang Liu to help the Tong Family. The chapter ended with Jiang Liu hearing Tang Chengyuan’s request, before agreeing or refusing.

• Jiang Liu dismissed Tang Chengyuan’s Space Pouch and collected the origin stones and God Realm map into his System Space.
• Tang Chengyuan stopped Jiang Liu from leaving and asked him to hear a request.
• Tang Chengyuan explained that the Míng Hé Merchant Guild and the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild had split after a Tong Family heir violated the Shang Family head’s daughter and refused to marry her.
• Tang Chengyuan said the Míng Hé Merchant Guild had grown powerful, pushed the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild onto small sea islands, and now sought to destroy it.
• Tang Chengyuan asked Jiang Liu to lend his strength to the Tong Family and help protect the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild.

Jiang Liu declined to commit to helping the struggling Soaring Sky Commerce Guild, but accepted a Transmission Stone so Tang Chengyuan could contact him later. Tang Chengyuan reported Jiang Liu to the guild’s headquarters, where Guild Master Tong Chuchu received news from Tianyun Island.

• Jiang Liu weighed the danger of opposing the powerful Míng Hé Merchant Guild and told Tang Chengyuan he would discuss the request later.
• Tang Chengyuan gave Jiang Liu a Transmission Stone, which Jiang Liu stored in his System Space before leaving to meet Yu Chenghai.
• Tang Chengyuan sent Jiang Liu’s information to the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild’s headquarters in Eternal Joy City.
• Tong Chuchu surveyed the guild’s deserted headquarters and heard that news had arrived from Tianyun Island.

Tong Chuchu learned from Tang Chengyuan about a young Second-Order Divine Realm warrior on Tianyun Island who had defeated six First-Order Divine Realm warriors. Seeing him as a potential ally against the Míng Hé Merchant Guild, she decided to visit Tianyun Island in secret, and left Eternal Joy City with Xiao Yue.

• Tong Chuchu received Tang Chengyuan’s report through a Transmission Stone about the warrior’s astonishing strength and youth.
• Tong Chuchu considered the warrior’s potential and resolved to meet him before the Míng Hé Merchant Guild could recruit him.
• Tong Chuchu remembered how the Míng Hé Merchant Guild had ambushed her father and driven the Soaring Sky Commerce Guild into decline.
• Tong Chuchu told Xiao Yue to prepare for a quiet trip to Tianyun Island, and the two left Eternal Joy City disguised as men.

Jiang Liu traveled to Beast Taming Island, where Yu Chenghai welcomed him and explained the island’s factions and its ore veins. After Jiang Liu rejected Yu Chenghai’s attempt to arrange women from his family for him, Yu Chenghai asked him to help kill the Ge and Feng families’ Divine Realm experts.

• Zheng Yunhao sensed Jiang Liu leaving Tianyun Island and risked attempting another breakthrough to protect the Zheng Family.
• Jiang Liu reached Beast Taming Island, and Yu Chenghai greeted him and brought him inside.
• Yu Chenghai explained that Beast Taming Island had an ore vein and that Tianyun Island held a miniature essence-stone mine.
• Yu Chenghai hosted a banquet and summoned his female descendants to seek Jiang Liu’s cultivation guidance, but Jiang Liu sent them away.
• Yu Chenghai bowed to Jiang Liu and asked him to kill the Ge and Feng families’ First-Order Divine Realm experts so he could unite Beast Taming Island under the Yu Family.

Jiang Liu considered helping Yu Chenghai and the other families on Beast Taming Island resist the Tranquil Sea Alliance, which controlled them and exploited their Star Sand Mine. He asked Yu Chenghai to bring the Ge and Feng families’ Divine Realm experts to meet him before he decided what to do.

• Jiang Liu released his Second-Order Divine Realm aura to reprimand Yu Chenghai for treating him like a weapon, and Yu Chenghai kowtowed and begged forgiveness.
• Jiang Liu asked Yu Chenghai about the forces backing the Ge and Feng families, and Yu Chenghai explained that all three families were marginal members of the Tranquil Sea Alliance.
• Yu Chenghai revealed that the Tranquil Sea Alliance took seventy percent of the Star Sand Mine’s output, leaving the three families little profit and motivating their desire to resist.
• Jiang Liu considered using the families’ resistance to establish his own foothold among the islands and proposed speaking with the Ge and Feng families’ Divine Realm experts.
• Yu Chenghai hurried to invite the two experts to Jiang Liu’s residence.

Jiang Liu and Yu Chenghai tried to persuade Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan to resist the Tranquil Sea Alliance, but the two men feared the alliance’s retaliation. Jiang Liu declared that he would handle the alliance’s response to the withheld Star Sand Mine delivery and asked them not to warn it.

• Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan entered Yu Chenghai’s estate and were restrained by Jiang Liu’s aura until he let them proceed.
• Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan bowed to Jiang Liu, then heard Yu Chenghai ask whether they wanted to break away from the Tranquil Sea Alliance.
• Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan hesitated because they feared Song Wei and the alliance would destroy their families.
• Yu Chenghai told them that Jiang Liu had killed Fan Changyin after defeating six First-Order Divine Realm experts.
• Yu Chenghai said he would not hand over the Star Sand Mine delivery, and Jiang Liu promised to deal with any forces the alliance sent while asking the two men not to alert it.

Jiang Liu persuaded Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan to join Yu Chenghai in resisting the Tranquil Sea Alliance, then learned about its forces and planned their next move. He left the three to prepare for the Alliance’s Star Sand Mine collectors arriving in three days, while his frighteningly undetectable departure strengthened their confidence in him.

• Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan agreed to stop handing over the Star Sand Mine and side with Yu Chenghai against the Tranquil Sea Alliance.
• Jiang Liu asked the three to explain the Alliance, and they described Song Wei’s rise and the forces under his command.
• Jiang Liu assessed the Alliance’s strength and concluded that killing Song Wei and controlling or eliminating its other Second-Order Divine Realm experts could dismantle it.
• Jiang Liu told the three to plan how to deal with the Alliance’s collectors arriving in three days, then vanished without any detectable vital energy fluctuation.
• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan were shocked by Jiang Liu’s departure and grew more confident that he could defeat Song Wei.

Jiang Liu inspected the spoils from his enemies and concluded that the remote islands were unlikely to provide good cultivation arts, though they could help him gather Origin Stones and build his forces. He cultivated on Beast Taming Island, creating a massive disturbance that left Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan eager to obtain better cultivation arts through him.

• Jiang Liu examined the items taken from a Divine Realm martial artist and six Saint Realm warriors, found nearly twenty thousand Origin Stones and seven Saint Grade weapons, but no cultivation manuals.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the sea region’s lack of Second-Order Divine Realm experts likely stemmed from poor access to cultivation arts, and decided to use the remote islands to gather Origin Stones and strengthen his forces.
• Jiang Liu began cultivating the Saintly Sky Art on a beach, drawing in Heaven and Earth Essence until sand and seawater formed enormous swirling phenomena around him.
• The people of Beast Taming Island reported the disturbance, and Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan arrived but stayed back after recognizing Jiang Liu was cultivating.
• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan marveled at Jiang Liu’s cultivation and hoped he could help them obtain higher-level cultivation arts.

Jiang Liu cultivated on the remote island, gauged his progress toward the Third-Tier Divine Realm, and approved the Shockwave Sea Alliance's name while refusing to become its public leader. Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan were left in charge, with Jiang Liu promising to step in if the alliance faced threats they could not handle.

• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan hoped that following Jiang Liu would earn them cultivation arts that could help them break through to the Second-Order Divine Realm.
• Jiang Liu cultivated with the Saintly Sky Art until he could no longer refine the Heaven and Earth Essence, gaining thousands of experience points.
• Jiang Liu saw that the beach and seawater around him had lost some of their spirituality and noticed fewer sea beasts nearby.
• Yu Chenghai asked Jiang Liu to choose a name for their force, and Jiang Liu approved the name Shockwave Sea Alliance.
• Jiang Liu appointed Yu Chenghai alliance leader and Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan vice alliance leaders, promising to handle any enemies they could not defeat.

Jiang Liu entrusted Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan with handling the Tranquil Sea Alliance’s arrival while he considered his soul cultivation and the Demon God’s avatars. Three days later, a Huang Family envoy arrived at Beast Taming Island to collect Star Sand Mine and other resources.

• Jiang Liu gave Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan authority to decide how to handle the Tranquil Sea Alliance’s people, while resolving to kill any Divine Realm expert who could not be made to pledge allegiance.
• Jiang Liu reflected on his soul’s slowed growth, his desire to devour more Divine Realm souls, and his plan to visit the Nether Realm once he learned its coordinates.
• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan returned to the Yu Family estate, consolidated their Star Sand Mine, and sent scouts to watch for the Tranquil Sea Alliance’s arrival.
• The three leaders prepared for the alliance’s visit, recalling how the Huang, Yuan, and Wu families exploited the islands and how Song Wei had crushed a past rebellion.
• Three days later, Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan met a Huang Family fleet at the docks and saw that its newly promoted First-Tier Divine Realm envoy intended to recoup his expenses from the island forces.

Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan ambushed Huang Rui and the Huang Family delegation on Beast Taming Island. Jiang Liu killed Huang Rui by destroying his divine soul, and no one from the delegation survived.

• Huang Rui arrived on Beast Taming Island and expected Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan to cater to him, but they ignored his hints and offered him no banquet.
• Ge Qingsong informed Yu Chenghai that the Huang Family members who stayed aboard the ship had been dealt with, and Yu Chenghai and Feng Dashan attacked Huang Rui while Ge Qingsong fought the other visitors.
• Huang Rui was badly wounded and tried to flee, but Jiang Liu used a Starfall to destroy his divine soul and then left to refine it.
• Yu Chenghai and Feng Dashan watched Jiang Liu depart, while Ge Qingsong finished off the remaining members of Huang Rui's delegation.

After defeating Huang Rui’s group, Jiang Liu accepted the spoils while the three clans prepared to resist the Tranquil Sea Alliance together. Two days later, Huang Yaohai learned Huang Rui had vanished on Beast Taming Island and went to report the suspected rebellion to Song Wei.

• Yu Chenghai, Feng Dashan, and Ge Qingsong gathered the spoils and gave Jiang Liu the largest share, including mineral resources he stored in the System Space.
• The three clan leaders distributed the remaining spoils, easing tensions among their clans and strengthening their resolve to resist the Tranquil Sea Alliance.
• At Tranquil Sea Island, Huang Yaohai learned that Huang Rui had not returned from Beast Taming Island and suspected its people were rebelling.
• Huang Yaohai flew to the central region to report the matter rather than handle it privately.

Huang Yaohai reported Beast Taming Island’s rebellion to Song Wei, who mobilized the Tranquil Sea Alliance and led its forces to attack. Jiang Liu met the approaching fleet and swiftly killed Song Wei’s three First-Order Divine Realm subordinates, leaving Song Wei wary of his strength.

• Huang Yaohai told Song Wei that Beast Taming Island had rebelled, and Song Wei ordered Yuan Jinhao and Wu Chongshan to gather their forces for an attack.
• Huang Yaohai alerted the Yuan Family and Wu Family, and more than a dozen ships set out from Tranquil Sea Island for Beast Taming Island.
• Jiang Liu sensed the fleet approaching and flew out to meet it, followed by Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan.
• Song Wei sent three First-Order Divine Realm experts to test Jiang Liu, who killed them with three swift blade strikes.
• Jiang Liu used Ice Blades to retrieve and absorb the three Divine Souls, and Song Wei became cautious about his strength.

Jiang Liu killed three First-Order Divine Realm experts and then fought Song Wei and the other leaders of the Tranquil Sea Alliance. As Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan struggled against their own opponents, Jiang Liu’s first counterattack wounded Huang Yaohai’s clone.

• Jiang Liu used his reforged saber to kill three First-Order Divine Realm experts and absorb their souls into his Divine Sea.
• Song Wei, Huang Yaohai, Yuan Jinhao, and Wu Chongshan confronted Jiang Liu with their clones, while Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan faced five First-Order Divine Realm enemies.
• Jiang Liu fought the four leaders and their clones without revealing his own clone, while the sea churned around them.
• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan used their movement techniques to evade their opponents and seek a chance to strike.
• Jiang Liu dodged attacks from Song Wei, Yuan Jinhao, and Wu Chongshan, then slashed Huang Yaohai’s clone and weakened him.