Chapter Summaries

Yue Qianshan challenged Xu Guanhai at Canghai Platform but was defeated in one move, learning that Xu had reached Ocean-level combat strength. Xu announced he would leave for the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering and warned Yue that Su Yu would still defeat him, leaving Yue determined to grow stronger.

• Yue Qianshan waited at Canghai Platform and challenged Xu Guanhai to prove himself after reaching the Seventh Layer of the Sea Breaking Realm.
• Xu Guanhai arrived and split Yue Qianshan's heavy sword strike with one slash, stopping his sword at Yue's throat and winning immediately.
• Xu Guanhai said his combat strength was more or less Ocean-level, and Yue admitted defeat.
• Xu Guanhai announced that he would leave Tianhai City after tomorrow for the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering, and Yue said he would go too.
• Xu Guanhai told Yue that Su Yu would still beat him if they fought again, then left as the crowd discussed Su Yu's strength.
• Yue Qianshan left Canghai Platform with renewed determination despite his crushing defeat.

After refining his recent gains, Su Yu learned that Xu Guanhai had defeated Yue Qianshan with one strike and that the remaining Blood Tide practitioners still posed a threat. He returned to cultivation, where the Soul Light Orb in his Sea of Consciousness neared completion.

• Su Yu finished tempering his control over his newly improved Thunder Intent and Gold Intent, and Song Yuan brought him to meet the Vice President.
• The Vice President told Su Yu that Yue Qianshan had reached the seventh level of the Sea Breaking Realm but lost to Xu Guanhai in one strike.
• The Vice President warned that the remaining three Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide might return, and said the chamber of commerce president and Sect Master Nie could help protect the city.
• Su Yu worried that the Blood Tide practitioners might target Elder Zhou, Ye Chen, and the others, then returned to his room to cultivate.
• A powerful fluctuation drew Su Yu into his Sea of Consciousness, where the Soul Light Orb's purple light had covered more than ninety percent of its surface.

Su Yu’s Soul Light Orb completed its transformation to pure purple, greatly enhancing his comprehension and advancing several of his Intents. He wondered whether his newfound understanding would let him cultivate the Sky-Splitting Sword Art.

• Su Yu endured the Soul Light Orb’s painful transformation as it consumed the last of its deep-blue light and turned completely purple.
• The purple orb’s insights raised Su Yu’s Sword Intent to perfection and his Thunder Intent to sixty percent and Gold Intent to peak sixty percent.
• Su Yu raised his Wind and Cloud Intents to peak fifty percent but could not break through to sixty percent without deeper understanding or elemental resources.
• Su Yu considered his strength after the breakthroughs and wondered whether he could now cultivate the Sky-Splitting Sword Art.

After the Soul Light Orb turned purple, Su Yu finally found a path toward Space True Intent in the Sky-Splitting Sword Art. He left Tianhai City in disguise, intent on taking the initiative against the Red-Robed Elder and the other two.

• Su Yu comprehended the Sky-Splitting Sword Art and recognized that it pointed toward Space True Intent, though he had only glimpsed its direction.
• Su Yu decided to focus on comprehending Space True Intent and reflected on his plan to eliminate the Red-Robed Elder and the other two before they could act against him.
• Song Yuan warned Su Yu that the remaining three among the Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide had not appeared and urged him not to leave the city.
• Su Yu left the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce, put on the mask he had used in Golden Wind City, and concealed his aura.
• Su Yu passed through the city gate without drawing attention and left Tianhai City.

Su Yu tracked the injured Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide to Black Reef Tower, where the Red-Robed Elder and his brothers negotiated with Lu Chenjiang to kill Nie Kuanglan. They agreed to take the Sea Breaking Sect's payment, but declared that Su Yu had to die first.

• Su Yu questioned Rogue Cultivators outside Tianhai City and learned that the Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide were staying at Black Reef Tower.
• At Black Reef Tower, the Hammer-Wielding Strongman demanded immediate revenge for their dead allies, but the Red-Robed Elder urged caution.
• Lu Chenjiang asked the Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide to help kill Nie Kuanglan, whom he saw as a threat to the Sea Breaking Sect.
• The Red-Robed Elder demanded three million Mid-grade Spirit Stones and a Sea King Pill, and Lu Chenjiang accepted the price.
• The Red-Robed Elder said they would kill Su Yu before moving against Nie Kuanglan.

The Red-Robed Elder and the other surviving Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide planned to kill Su Yu, who had been hiding in the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce, and Lu Chenjiang agreed to accompany them. Su Yu appeared at their stone building and revealed himself, telling the three men, "I found you."

• The Red-Robed Elder, the Hammer-Wielding Strongman, and the Green-Clad Swordsman vowed to kill Su Yu before helping Lu Chenjiang deal with Nie Kuanglan.
• Lu Chenjiang offered to join them, and the Red-Robed Elder agreed after recalling their earlier setback against Su Yu in the Undersea Ruins.
• The Red-Robed Elder said they were watching the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce and would attack when Su Yu left.
• Su Yu arrived at the stone building wearing a mask, and the Red-Robed Elder recognized his sword-cultivator aura.
• Su Yu removed his mask, faced the three practitioners, and said, "I found you."

Su Yu entered Black Reef Tower alone and beheaded three of the Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide with his sword. He then turned on Lu Chenjiang, who pleaded that he was only passing by.

• The Red-Robed Elder and the Green-Clad Swordsman searched for reinforcements, but Su Yu told them he had come alone to kill them.
• The Hammer-Wielding Strongman charged Su Yu, who killed him with a single sword strike.
• The Red-Robed Elder and the Green-Clad Swordsman tried to flee, but Su Yu caught them and beheaded them both.
• Su Yu turned to Lu Chenjiang, who begged for his life and claimed he was just passing by; Su Yu challenged his claim.

Su Yu killed the remaining members of the Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide and forced Lu Chenjiang to promise five million Mid-grade Spirit Stones within three hours in exchange for his life. After Su Yu left Black Reef Tower, an unremarkable middle-aged worker cleaned up the scene without asking questions.

• Lu Chenjiang offered Spirit Stones to buy his life, and Su Yu demanded five million Mid-grade Spirit Stones within three hours.
• Lu Chenjiang agreed to fetch the payment from the Sea Breaking Sect, and Su Yu warned that he would visit the sect if Lu Chenjiang failed to return on time.
• Su Yu collected the Storage Bags from the three slain members of the Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide and left Black Reef Tower.
• A middle-aged Black Reef Tower worker found the corpses and cleaned the room, following the tower's practice of not asking about the living or the dead.

Su Yu entered a black-market auction and discovered that a young woman was being sold as a captive. The auctioneer revealed that she was an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old fourth-level Sea Breaking Realm martial artist who had been subdued with a Sea Locking Pill, and the crowd eagerly awaited her appearance.

• Su Yu heard black-market martial artists discussing a young woman being taken to an auction and followed them to the auction house.
• Su Yu paid the entrance fee and watched the auctioneer sell a broken blade before announcing the next lot.
• The auctioneer revealed that the next lot was a young woman, prompting excitement and crude remarks from the crowd.
• The auctioneer said the woman was an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old fourth-level Sea Breaking Realm martial artist whose True Essence and meridians had been suppressed by a Sea Locking Pill.
• The crowd demanded that the woman be brought onto the stage while Su Yu watched silently from a corner.

At the Black Tide Auction House, Su Yu bid on a captive woman to keep Black Scar Wu from buying her. After Wu challenged him and raised the price, Su Yu answered with a bid of fifty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.

• The auctioneer put a chained young woman onstage and opened bidding at one hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Black Scar Wu bid five thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones and announced he intended to abuse the woman before offering her to others.
• Su Yu bid ten thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, prompting the crowd to turn toward him and Black Scar Wu to confront him.
• Manager Wang upheld the auction rules and allowed Su Yu's higher bid to stand.
• Black Scar Wu raised the bid to eleven thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and Su Yu countered with fifty thousand.

Su Yu won the enslaved woman at the Black Tide Auction with a bid of fifty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, then revealed he had no intention of paying. As Manager Wang and the auction house’s martial artists moved to stop him, Su Yu drew on the Cold Abyss Sword and gave everyone three counts to leave or die.

• Su Yu bid fifty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones for the woman, silencing the auction hall and provoking Black Scar Wu’s anger.
• Manager Wang sold the woman to Su Yu, and the black-clad martial artists brought her from the stage.
• When Manager Wang demanded payment, Su Yu took the chains from the guards and moved the woman behind him.
• Su Yu said he had no Spirit Stones and declared that he was taking the woman, prompting Manager Wang and the martial artists to close in.
• Su Yu placed his hand on the Cold Abyss Sword and threatened to kill anyone still in sight after he counted to three.

Su Yu killed Manager Wang, Black Scar Wu, and the Black Tide Auction House’s guards after they refused his warning, freeing A-Ning from her chains. As he prepared to leave, a powerful figure burst from the auction house’s depths and challenged him.

• Su Yu warned the auction house three times, but Manager Wang ordered five black-clad martial artists to attack him.
• Su Yu killed the five attackers with one sword strike, silencing the crowd and terrifying Black Scar Wu.
• Su Yu killed Manager Wang and several martial artists who tried to ambush him, then chased down and killed Black Scar Wu as he fled.
• Su Yu asked the freed A-Ning if she could walk, but a powerful figure burst through a stone door and demanded to know who had caused trouble.

Su Yu defeated Black Tide Auction House’s Ocean-level backer and forced him to pay eight million Mid-grade Spirit Stones to spare his life. While waiting for the payment, Su Yu looted the auction house’s dead patrons, and Lu Chenjiang arrived with five million Mid-grade Spirit Stones for him.

• A black-robed middle-aged man entered the ruined auction house and demanded to know who had sent Su Yu.
• Su Yu wounded the man with a sword strike, held a blade to his neck, and demanded eight million Mid-grade Spirit Stones to buy his life.
• The black-robed middle-aged man agreed and went through a hidden passage to retrieve the payment while Su Yu kept him within reach of his divine sense.
• Su Yu collected Storage Bags from the corpses as A-Ning watched in shock.
• Lu Chenjiang arrived with five million Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and Su Yu checked the contents of his Storage Bag.

Lu Chenjiang paid Su Yu five million Mid-grade Spirit Stones and surrendered the Sea Breaking Sect’s last Sea King Pill to secure his life and promise not to provoke Su Yu. After leaving, Lu Chenjiang saw the wounded Xie Yuan rushing toward the auction house and realized Su Yu had likely forced him into trouble too.

• Lu Chenjiang gave Su Yu five million Mid-grade Spirit Stones and a Sea King Pill as compensation, and Su Yu agreed not to trouble the Sea Breaking Sect unless it provoked him.
• Su Yu dismissed Lu Chenjiang, who hurried out of the Black Tide Auction House relieved to have survived.
• Lu Chenjiang flew away from the auction house and mourned the Spirit Stones and pill he had lost, though he decided the cost was worth his life.
• Lu Chenjiang encountered the wounded Xie Yuan, who brushed off his attempt to speak and flew toward the Black Tide Auction House.
• Lu Chenjiang suspected Xie Yuan had also encountered Su Yu and took eerie comfort in realizing the Sea Breaking Sect was not alone in paying to survive.

Su Yu left Black Tide Auction House with eight million Mid-grade Spirit Stones and the antidote for A-Ning, after warning Xie Yuan to end the auctioning of people. A-Ning killed Xie Yuan after Su Yu departed, while Su Yu returned to Tianhai City with a haul of Storage Bags.

• Xie Yuan paid Su Yu eight million Mid-grade Spirit Stones and gave him the Sea Locking Pill antidote for A-Ning.
• Su Yu warned Xie Yuan that Black Tide Auction House would be destroyed if it ever auctioned people again, then left the auction house.
• A-Ning crushed the antidote bottle and killed Xie Yuan with a green flash before leaving the auction house.
• Su Yu returned to Tianhai City carrying a bundle of Storage Bags and met Song Yuan outside the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce.
• Su Yu went back to his residence and found nearly a hundred Storage Bags in his bundle.

Su Yu inventoried the spoils from the Red-Robed Elder, his companions, and the Black Tide Auction House, finding the Wind Trace Shadow Sword especially useful for developing his own sword art. He prepared resource-filled Storage Bags for eight companions, Situ Hai, and Elder Zhou, then left with them.

• Su Yu examined the Red-Robed Elder and his companions' possessions, finding spirit stones, spiritual artifacts, and cultivation arts but no sword arts that suited him.
• Su Yu discovered the Wind Trace Shadow Sword among the Black Tide Auction House's Storage Bags and saw how its wind-based techniques could help him develop the Star Cloud Sword Art.
• Su Yu finished sorting the auction spoils and selected resources to share with companions who might benefit from them.
• Su Yu prepared eight Storage Bags for Ye Chen, Xia Li, Xia Yun Huang, Chu Changge, Luoting, Lin Yue, Yang Tian, and Luo Yunshang, but made no new share for Yan Qingxuan.
• Su Yu filled two more Storage Bags for Situ Hai and Elder Zhou, tucked all ten away, and left the room.

Su Yu returned to the inn to leave cultivation resources for Ye Chen and the others, and gifts for Situ Hai and Elder Zhou, before resuming his sword training at the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce. After reaching Great Accomplishment in Wind Trace Shadow Sword in five days and gaining insight into the sixth form of the Star Cloud Sword Art, he was summoned to meet the returned branch president.

• Su Yu left eight Storage Bags for Ye Chen and the others and gave two more to Situ Hai and Elder Zhou as thanks for looking after him.
• Situ Hai probed one of Su Yu’s Storage Bags and was shocked by how much it contained.
• Su Yu calculated that he still held more than sixteen million Mid-grade Spirit Stones and began studying Wind Trace Shadow Sword to develop the sixth form of the Star Cloud Sword Art.
• Su Yu reached Great Accomplishment in Wind Trace Shadow Sword after five days and concluded that its use of wind and shifting momentum could guide his new sword form.
• Song Yuan told Su Yu that the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce branch president had returned and wanted to meet him.

Su Yu met Jiang Yao, the president of the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce’s Tianhai City branch, who assured him the chamber would protect him from the Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide and arrange safe travel to Dongji City. Su Yu kept secret that he had already killed the remaining practitioners, and Jiang Yao left him to continue cultivating with the chamber’s support.

• Song Yuan brought Su Yu to meet Jiang Yao, and Su Yu sensed that her hidden strength was formidable.
• Jiang Yao said the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce would retaliate if the Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide attacked its Tianhai City branch.
• Jiang Yao explained that the chamber’s flying boat would travel to Dongji City alongside disciples from the Kuanglan Blade Sect and the Xuanjing Sect.
• Su Yu concealed that the remaining Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide were already dead and thanked Jiang Yao and the Vice President.
• Jiang Yao told Su Yu to keep cultivating and to ask Song Yuan for access to the chamber’s cultivation resources.

Su Yu spent days deducing a sixth move for the Star Cloud Sword Art by integrating the Wind Trace Shadow Sword. After Yan Qingxuan visited and promised to catch up with him before the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering, Su Yu found a way to make Wind Scar emerge from Return to Void’s lingering momentum.

• Su Yu rejected several ways of combining the Wind Trace Shadow Sword’s speed, agility, and concealment with Return to Void because each disrupted the sword art’s force or killing power.
• Yan Qingxuan visited Su Yu after recovering and said she owed him twice; he told her they were even, and she resolved to catch up with him before the gathering.
• Yan Qingxuan left to enter seclusion, and Su Yu’s thoughts loosened enough for him to see a new path for the sixth move.
• Su Yu realized Wind Scar had to strike just before Return to Void fully ended, using its lingering momentum rather than following it afterward.
• Su Yu tested the sequence and produced a fine mark on the tabletop, then continued his now-faster deductions.

Su Yu tested the embryonic sword move he had deduced by fighting sea beasts in the Tianlan Sea, refining the timing between Return to Void and the wind mark. After finally landing the strike cleanly against a powerful beast, he left the surrounding sea beasts fleeing from the corpses he had made.

• Su Yu left Tianhai City and headed into the Tianlan Sea to test his newly deduced sword move.
• He easily killed several low-tier level-four sea beasts with ordinary sword techniques, then tried combining Return to Void with the wind mark against a mid-tier beast.
• Su Yu repeatedly adjusted the timing of the two techniques while fighting waves of sea beasts, eventually severing a level-four high-grade beast’s neck with a properly timed strike.
• Drawn by the blood, more sea beasts gathered, but after seeing Su Yu’s field of corpses, they turned and fled.