Chapter Summaries

Su Yu created and refined Starfall Wind Trace, the sixth form of the Star Cloud Sword Art, then successfully combined it with the first five forms. With Six-Form Fusion complete, he left the hidden reef sea region and headed toward Tianhai City to focus on other matters before departing.

• After driving the Sea Beasts away, Su Yu tested his sword against a black reef and created the sixth form, naming it Starfall Wind Trace.
• Su Yu spent five days refining Starfall Wind Trace, making its killing thread faster and increasing its power.
• Su Yu combined Starfall Wind Trace with the first five forms of the Star Cloud Sword Art, and Six-Form Fusion succeeded on his first attempt.
• Su Yu judged Six-Form Fusion stronger than the Heaven Slaying Sword Drawing Art at Lesser Accomplishment and realized it suited his combat style.
• Su Yu decided to use the more than a month remaining before his departure to focus on other matters, then left for Tianhai City.

As Su Yu prepared to leave for Dongji City, he perfected two sword arts and advanced Little Red’s growth, though he could not push the Heaven Slaying Sword Drawing Art beyond lesser accomplishment. With five days left before departure, he entered the fourth layer of the Sea Breaking Realm.

• Su Yu found that Little Red’s fire-aspected energy had grown stronger inside the Spirit Beast Bag, and it killed a low-fourth-rank sea beast with ease.
• Su Yu perfected the Thunderbolt Sword Art on the twelfth day and the Wind Trace Shadow Sword on the twentieth day.
• Su Yu failed to advance the Heaven Slaying Sword Drawing Art beyond lesser accomplishment, despite repeatedly refining his sword qi.
• Song Yuan told Su Yu that the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce’s flying vessel would leave for Dongji City in five days.
• Su Yu entered the Spirit Tide Chamber, absorbed spiritual qi from two High-grade Spirit Stones, and broke through to the fourth layer of the Sea Breaking Realm.

After five days of seclusion, Su Yu and Yan Qingxuan reached the fourth level of the Sea Breaking Realm, while their companions also advanced. Jiang Yao gathered the group and their allies to depart for Dongji City, where the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering would take place.

• Su Yu and Yan Qingxuan emerged from seclusion at the fourth level of the Sea Breaking Realm, and they met Jiang Yao at the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce hall.
• Ye Chen, Chu Changge, Lin Yue, and Luoting had entered the Sea Breaking Realm, while Xia Li, Yang Tian, Xia Yun Huang, and Luo Yunshang had reached the Peak Ninth Level of Essence Transformation Realm.
• Jiang Yao led the group out of Tianhai City, where Nie Kuanglan introduced Lin Feng, who challenged Su Yu to a fight before the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering.
• Elder Ding and Zhao Yuxin arrived, and Jiang Yao introduced them to the group, noting Zhao Yuxin's ninth-place ranking on the previous Canghai Ranking.
• Jiang Yao summoned a large Wanhai Chamber of Commerce flying boat and told everyone to board.

Jiang Yao and the others traveled toward Dongji City, where Nie Kuanglan revealed that he had glimpsed the path to perfect Blade Intent and Su Yu reflected on his own perfect Sword Intent. Along the way, they encountered an imposing warship carrying the Eastern Domain prodigy Changkong and a dangerous old man whom Elder Zhou identified as a Half-Step Venerable.

• Jiang Yao and Elder Ding reasoned that the remaining Seven Loose Practitioners of Blood Tide had avoided attacking because they knew she was traveling with the Kuanglan Blade Sect and the Xuanjing Sect.
• Nie Kuanglan said he had touched the path to perfect Blade Intent, prompting Jiang Yao and Elder Ding to congratulate him on his prospects.
• Su Yu considered pursuing Sword Domain after reaching perfect Sword Intent, while the group continued toward Dongji City and passed other travelers bound for the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering.
• A dark-cyan warship carrying the long-haired Changkong swept past the group, and Nie Kuanglan judged that the young man had approached the Sea Breaking Invincible Realm.
• Su Yu sensed that the black-robed old man beside Changkong posed a greater danger, and Elder Zhou identified him as a Half-Step Venerable.

Jiang Yao explained the Ten Great Sects of the Eastern Domain as the group continued toward Dongji City, where the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering would be held. Su Yu silently cut through an attack from a Blood God Sect flying boat, and the group arrived at the city.

• Jiang Yao identified Feng Changkong as a renowned Heaven Wind Sect prodigy and described the Ten Great Sects, including the Upper Three Sects.
• Ten days later, Jiang Yao told the group they were nearing Dongji City as they approached the Falling Star River.
• Xue Wusha’s blood-colored flying boat struck a small sect’s craft and sent a wave of corrosive blood energy toward the Wanhai Chamber of Commerce flying boat.
• Su Yu silently cleaved the blood energy apart, drawing Xue Wusha’s attention before the Blood God Sect boat flew away.
• Jiang Yao warned the group about the Blood God Sect’s corrosive blood-path arts.
• The group reached Dongji City and saw the flags of the Ten Great Sects displayed on jade pillars outside its walls.

Su Yu and his companions arrived in Dongji City ahead of the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering and settled into Tianhai Courtyard to prepare. Meanwhile, Jiang Yao met with her father, Jiang Huaiyuan, and told him she had encountered people from the Heaven Wind Sect and the Blood God Sect.

• Su Yu and Yan Qingxuan saw the many young martial artists arriving in Dongji City, where Sea Breaking Realm cultivators were common.
• Jiang Yao led the group through the city and settled them in Tianhai Courtyard for the five days before the gathering.
• Jiang Yao warned everyone to avoid unnecessary conflicts with the many geniuses and sect disciples in the city.
• Su Yu chose a room and decided to spend the next five days cultivating instead of going out.
• Jiang Yao visited her father, Jiang Huaiyuan, at the Tianhai Chamber of Commerce headquarters and told him she had encountered people from the Heaven Wind Sect and the Blood God Sect.

Jiang Huaiyuan and Jiang Yao anticipated that four Tianhai Chamber of Commerce branches would challenge the decision to give Su Yu the Dongxuan Token. At the headquarters meeting, Shen Wanhe questioned Su Yu’s cultivation and proposed that the token’s ownership be decided through a match.

• Jiang Yao confirmed to Jiang Huaiyuan that she had given the Dongxuan Token to Su Yu, a Fourth Layer Sea Breaking Realm cultivator, and assured him Su Yu was capable.
• A steward reported that the Nanchuan, Beiyue, Yunjiang, and Chishui branches wanted Su Yu summoned to the next day’s meeting.
• Su Yu reached the peak of the Fourth Layer Sea Breaking Realm after nearly a month of cultivation, then followed Jiang Yao to the headquarters meeting.
• Shen Wanhe questioned whether Su Yu’s cultivation was high enough to hold the Dongxuan Token, while young martial artists from the four branches mocked him.
• Shen Wanhe proposed that the Dongxuan Token’s ownership be decided by a match.

Su Yu accepted the challenge at the general association and instantly knocked out a fifth-level Sea Breaking Realm martial artist without drawing his sword. He then challenged the opposing group all at once, including Fang Qingshi, whose Ocean-level strength worried Jiang Huaiyuan and Jiang Yao.

• Jiang Huaiyuan agreed to Shen Wanhe's proposed contest, and the group moved to the Training Ground.
• A fifth-level Sea Breaking Realm martial artist charged Su Yu, who struck with his sheathed sword and knocked him unconscious.
• Su Yu challenged the fifth- and sixth-level fighters together, then included the three seventh-level cultivators and Fang Qingshi.
• Fang Qingshi dismissed Su Yu as unqualified, but Su Yu told him to enter the field or leave.
• Jiang Huaiyuan warned Jiang Yao that Fang Qingshi had Ocean-level battle strength, while Fang Qingshi accepted Su Yu's challenge.

Su Yu defeated Fang Qingshi in a decisive duel at the Training Ground, shocking the gathered martial artists and branch leaders. He then challenged the remaining fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-layer fighters to come at him.

• Fang Qingshi stopped the other martial artists from joining in and entered the arena to fight Su Yu alone.
• Fang Qingshi revealed Ocean-level combat power and attacked Su Yu with a mountain-shadow palm strike.
• Su Yu cut through Fang Qingshi's palm print and mountain shadow with the Cold Abyss Sword.
• Fang Qingshi launched a second attack, but Su Yu split both palm prints and sent him crashing into the formation screen.
• Fang Qingshi fell to his knees and could not rise, leaving Shen Wanhe, Jiang Huaiyuan, and the spectators stunned.
• Su Yu sheathed his sword and asked the remaining martial artists whether they still wanted to fight.

Su Yu defeated Fang Qingshi, ending the dispute over the Dongxuan Token and preserving Jiang Huaiyuan's authority. Jiang Huaiyuan then explained that the Tianhai Chamber of Commerce's rapid expansion had left it wealthy but vulnerable, and had worsened divisions within its leadership.

• Su Yu's victory over Fang Qingshi made Shen Wanhe and the other branch chairmen abandon their challenge over the Dongxuan Token.
• Shen Wanhe accepted Jiang Huaiyuan's decision, and the chairmen from the four branches left the Training Ground with Fang Qingshi.
• Jiang Huaiyuan sent Jiang Yao and the others away, then thanked Su Yu privately for preventing the Chamber of Commerce from losing face.
• Jiang Huaiyuan told Su Yu that the Chamber of Commerce's wealth and widespread businesses had drawn outside attention, while it lacked powerful experts to protect them.
• Jiang Huaiyuan explained that rapid expansion and mounting external pressure had gradually strained his relationships with Shen Wanhe and the other leaders.

Jiang Huaiyuan explained why the four branch guilds wanted the Dongxuan Token and gave Su Yu a Guest Elder Token to support him at the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering. At Dongji Teahouse, Su Yu heard that the gathering’s leading prodigies had arrived and that rumors of his victory over Fang Qingshi were spreading, before talk turned to the Three Wonders of the Eastern Domain.

• Jiang Huaiyuan told Su Yu that the branch guilds hoped Fang Qingshi would claim Dragon Luck and help someone reach Half-Step Venerable, but he could not ask Jiang Yao to give up the Dongxuan Token she had won through hardship.
• Jiang Huaiyuan gave Su Yu a main guild Guest Elder Token and urged him to perform well at the True Dragon Gathering.
• Su Yu left the Tianhai Chamber of Commerce and went to Dongji Teahouse, where patrons said prodigies from the Ten Great Sects had arrived.
• Su Yu overheard patrons discuss the seven sects’ leading prodigies and their formidable strength.
• Teahouse patrons debated a rumor that Su Yu had defeated Fang Qingshi, then turned their conversation to the Upper Three Sects and the Three Wonders of the Eastern Domain.

Teahouse patrons discussed the rumored strength of the Eastern Domain’s Three Wonders before the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering. Su Yu became especially interested in Chu Tianque, while the contest’s eventual winner remained uncertain.

• A gray-clad middle-aged man named Lei Wuji, Chu Tianque, and Ji Xuanyi as the Three Wonders of the Eastern Domain.
• A blue-clad Rogue Cultivator said Lei Wuji had reportedly comprehended thunder and fire intents to sixty percent, and a saber-bearing young man suggested Lei Wuji had other hidden trump cards.
• The saber-bearing young man said Chu Tianque’s Sword Intent was approaching perfection, and Su Yu paused at the news because his own Sword Intent had reached perfection.
• The gray-clad middle-aged man shared a rumor that Ji Xuanyi had defeated some Taixuan Sect elders years earlier, but the patrons questioned how powerful those elders had been.
• The patrons agreed that Ji Xuanyi’s current strength was unknown and that the True Dragon Gathering’s outcome remained uncertain.

Su Yu learned more about the Three Wonders of the Eastern Domain and returned to Tianhai Courtyard determined to strengthen himself before the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering. Ling Zhaoye sensed that Su Yu’s Soul Power was unusually deep, while Su Yu prepared to use a Mysterious Sea Pill to break through before the gathering.

• Su Yu considered the uncertain strength of Chu Tianque and Ji Xuanyi, paid the teahouse waiter with Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and left.
• Ling Zhaoye told Pei Xuanyang that Su Yu’s Soul Power was unusually strong, then wondered whether Su Yu had noticed his probing.
• Su Yu returned to Tianhai Courtyard, reviewed the prodigies he might face, and judged Chu Tianque and Ji Xuanyi to be his greatest concerns.
• Su Yu decided that three days were enough to advance from the peak of the Fourth Layer of the Sea Breaking Realm, since his true essence was ready and his foundation had been tempered.
• Su Yu took out a Mysterious Sea Pill and pulled out its stopper.

Su Yu used the Mysterious Sea Pill and three High-grade Spirit Stones to break through to the fifth level of the Sea Breaking Realm, then seized the opportunity to master the thirteenth level of the Azure Profound Divine Art. After inspecting the damage to his meridians, he opened the Jade Box containing the Sea King Pill and hesitated over whether to take it.

• Su Yu swallowed the Mysterious Sea Pill and circulated the Azure Profound Divine Art with three High-grade Spirit Stones to strengthen his cultivation.
• Su Yu broke through to the fifth level of the Sea Breaking Realm as his True Essence Sea expanded.
• Su Yu used the Indestructible Sutra to endure the pain of opening blocked meridian routes and completed the thirteenth level of the Azure Profound Divine Art.
• Su Yu inspected his meridians and confirmed that the Indestructible Sutra was repairing them while his new realm stabilized.
• Su Yu opened the Jade Box holding the Sea King Pill, which Lu Chenjiang had offered as an apology, and considered whether to take it.

Su Yu risked consuming a Sea King Pill to break through from the fifth to the sixth layer of the Sea Breaking Realm before the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering. He succeeded but left his meridians and True Essence Sea needing several days of careful stabilization.

• Su Yu chose to take the Sea King Pill rather than wait to stabilize his fifth-layer cultivation, driven by the approaching Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering and the rumored strength of Lei Wuji, Chu Tianque, and Ji Xuanyi.
• Su Yu used ten High-grade Spirit Stones and the Azure Profound Divine Art to refine the pill’s powerful medicinal energy while the Indestructible Sutra repeatedly repaired his damaged meridians.
• Su Yu’s first attempt to break through to the sixth layer failed, and the rebound injured his meridians and made his true essence turbulent.
• Su Yu accumulated his remaining medicinal power and Spiritual Qi, then broke through the barrier and reached the sixth layer of the Sea Breaking Realm.
• Su Yu checked his body, confirmed that his foundation remained intact despite minor damage and instability, and began circulating the Azure Profound Divine Art to consolidate his cultivation.

After stabilizing his breakthrough to the sixth level of the Sea Breaking Realm, Su Yu left Tianhai Courtyard to buy high-level pills before the Eastern Pole True Dragon Gathering began. The chapter leaves him walking through a crowded Dongji City as martial artists debate the likely winners.

• Su Yu completed a cycle of cultivation and found that his sixth-level Sea Breaking Realm cultivation had largely stabilized and his Qingxuan True Essence had grown stronger.
• Su Yu reflected on the cost of his breakthrough and considered Lei Wuji, Chu Tianque, and Ji Xuanyi as benchmarks for his strength.
• Su Yu left Tianhai Courtyard without disturbing Yan Qingxuan or the others still in seclusion and decided to replenish his supply of high-level pills.
• Su Yu entered Dongji City's crowded streets, where martial artists argued over which of the Three Wonders of the Eastern Domain would win the True Dragon Tournament.
• A restaurant owner threatened to double the drinkers' wine bill unless they cleared the entrance, and Su Yu continued through the city without stopping.

Su Yu explored Dongji City's main street and bought pills for cultivation, recovery, and injury treatment at a Pill Pavilion. After paying nearly five hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones, he left the shop and disappeared into the crowd.

• Su Yu visited a Pill Pavilion while browsing Dongji City's shops.
• He selected Sea Gathering, Sea Recovery, and Clearheart Meridian-Protecting Pills for himself.
• Su Yu added Azure Jade Meridian-Renewing, Purple Jade Flesh-Regenerating, and Profound Origin True Essence Recovery Pills to his purchase.
• The shopkeeper charged Su Yu 486,000 Mid-grade Spirit Stones, which he paid in full.
• Su Yu left the Pill Pavilion and vanished into the busy street crowd.

Su Yu browsed Dongji City's shops and bought two Mysterious-tier Mid-grade sword arts that complemented his existing techniques. He left with the Thunder-Chasing Lightning Sword and Wind-Riding Flowing Light Sword, still holding more than fifteen million Mid-grade Spirit Stones.

• Su Yu inspected a Mysterious-tier Mid Grade Blazing Flame Sword but rejected it because it did not suit his combat style or surpass his Cold Abyss Sword.
• Su Yu examined sword arts at a Martial Skill Firm and found the Thunder-Chasing Lightning Sword and Wind-Riding Flowing Light Sword compatible with techniques he already knew.
• Su Yu paid five hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones for both sword arts and learned that each Jade Slip could be opened three times.
• Su Yu left the firm after spending nearly a million Mid-grade Spirit Stones that day, with more than fifteen million remaining in his Storage Bag.

Su Yu explored Dongji City's Old Street, using his Soul Power to examine its scattered wares. The Indestructible Sutra reacted to a dark fragment at one stall, and Su Yu confirmed the pull came from it.

• Su Yu passed sect disciples and arguing martial artists on Dongji City's lively streets before reaching the run-down Old Street.
• Su Yu examined the old street's stalls with his Soul Power but found nothing worthwhile among the damaged goods.
• As Su Yu prepared to leave, the Indestructible Sutra stirred in response to a dark fragment at a stall.
• Su Yu inspected a damaged Formation Disk to conceal his interest, and the Indestructible Sutra reacted more clearly to the fragment.

Su Yu secretly bought a dark fragment from Old Hu's stall after noticing its connection to the Indestructible Sutra. In a quiet alley, he confirmed the fragment resonated with the blood and Qi in his body when he circulated the scripture.

• Su Yu examined an old Jade Slip and a dark fragment on Old Hu's stall, then bought the fragment for five hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Old Hu assumed Su Yu wanted the Jade Slip and tried to sell it to him for ten thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Su Yu walked away without buying the Jade Slip, leaving Old Hu and the nearby stall owners to wonder why he had chosen the fragment.
• Su Yu checked that no one had followed him into an alley, then took out the fragment and circulated the Indestructible Sutra.
• The fragment warmed in Su Yu's palm and faintly resonated with the blood and Qi flowing through his body.