Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi confronted the Duke of Jing State and the Jin State court, then exposed and killed the National Preceptor Ku Shangren and his allies. After revealing the Keyboard’s overwhelming power, he left the court in chaos with the ruler still alive.

• Xu Yi insulted Xue Li, the Duke of Jing State, before they entered the Golden Hall for court.
• Xue Li and Ku Shangren accused Xu Yi and Zhong Lin of defying the ruler, and Tao Jingming demanded that Xu Yi bow.
• Xu Yi rejected Tao Jingming’s authority, beheaded Xue Li, and revealed that he had killed Zhong Shu.
• Ku Shangren summoned the Six Fiends of the Demonic Cloud and threatened Xu Yi with the Southern Pole Sect.
• Xu Yi used the Keyboard to kill four fiends, then crushed Ku Shangren and the two remaining fiends.

Xu Yi revealed his overwhelming power to protect the Zhong family, then confessed to Zhong Lin that he had taken Zhong Ruyi’s identity after Dong Chao killed him. After receiving the Star Core Sand and leaving, Xu Yi gave Madam Zhong false memories that eased her grief as the Zhong family celebrated its new honors.

• Xu Yi defeated Ancestor Ku Shangren and the Six Fiends of the Demonic Cloud, then warned Tao Jingming to appoint a reliable National Preceptor.
• Xu Yi returned to the Zhong residence, where the family feared punishment, and checked on Madam Zhong and Zhong Lin.
• Zhong Lin tested Xu Yi with a childhood detail, prompting Xu Yi to admit that he was not Zhong Ruyi and explain how Dong Chao had killed him.
• Xu Yi gave Zhong Lin Dong Chao’s notes and Zhong Ruyi’s belongings, and Zhong Lin gave him the Star Core Sand in gratitude for avenging his son.
• A sovereign’s decree elevated Zhong Lin to First-Class Duke and granted his wife the title Holy Benevolent Madam.
• Xu Yi planted happy false memories in Madam Zhong’s mind and made her believe Zhong Ruyi had entered a ten-year seclusion.

Xu Yi returned to the Southern Pole Sect after settling the Zhong family's troubles, repaid Jiang Xiao with Profound Yellow Pills, and traveled to the Southern Spiritual Garden in the Chaotic Abyss Sea. He settled into his new post as a Seed Monitor and planned to explore the area.

• Ye Shangong questioned Xu Yi about killing Ancestor Ku Shangren, and Xu Yi said he had acted to protect Ye Shangong's and the Southern Pole Sect's reputations.
• Xu Yi gave Jiang Xiao over a hundred Profound Yellow Pills, then escaped when Shao Zijun arrived and demanded a share.
• Xu Yi boarded the Starry Sky Boat to the Chaotic Abyss Sea, where Outer Sect Disciples welcomed him as a sect hero.
• Two Inner Sect Disciples took Xu Yi to the Southern Spiritual Garden, where steward Cao Yu verified his identity and issued him a Restriction Token.
• Cao Yu showed Xu Yi his cave dwelling and hosted a welcoming banquet with the other stewards; the next day, Xu Yi told Cao Yu he planned to look around.

Xu Yi settled at Wind Thunder Cliff to cultivate and pursue his goals after Cao Yu warned him away from the trial zone. A month later, his attempt to refine Profound Yellow Pills had left him sitting motionless in his cave abode, ashen-faced.

• Cao Yu explained that Inner Sect Disciples were forbidden from entering the trial zone and advised Xu Yi to explore south instead, so Xu Yi headed there.
• At Wind Thunder Cliff, Xu Yi rented a cave abode from Huo Yansha, paid her a generous tip, and set up concealment and defensive arrays.
• Xu Yi moved plants and household items onto his Green Flat and began secluded cultivation at Wind Thunder Cliff.
• Xu Yi planned to break through to the Third Realm of Life Wheel, activate his Star Core Sand with a second-tier desolate core, and find materials to advance the Ding Yuan Technique.
• Xu Yi decided to focus first on refining Profound Yellow Pills, but after a month he sat motionless in his cave abode with an ashen face.

After failing to refine Profound Yellow Pills profitably, Xu Yi recovered and went to hunt higher-tier savage beasts for their cores. He followed a major hunting party into the Chaotic Abyss Sea, then used the Incense Spirit Pearl to lure prey as the chapter ended with a beast entering his perception.

• Xu Yi failed to produce pills from his early batches, then refined nonstop for three months and made only two low-yield batches.
• Huo Yansha supplied Xu Yi with fifty batches of spirit plants and warned him that pill refining depended partly on Heavenly Source.
• Huang Mei advised Xu Yi to abandon pill refining for now, and Xu Yi rested for more than ten days before setting out to hunt savage beasts.
• Xu Yi followed two dragon boats carrying a major beast-hunting party deep into the Chaotic Abyss Sea, then separated from them at their destination.
• Xu Yi summoned the Myriad Bone Skeleton to guard him underwater and carried the Incense Spirit Pearl forward as bait.
• A small savage beast entered Xu Yi's perception, making his spine tighten and his hair stand on end.

Xu Yi encountered a Golden-haired Baboon being attacked by a group of Life Wheel cultivators and watched them break and flee. When the beast turned on him, it saw through his ambush and clashed with Myriad Bone Skeleton, leaving Xu Yi unable to intervene as the skeleton’s hidden demon-body Life Wheel suffered under its flames.

• Xu Yi survived the ghostly flames in the Chaotic Abyss Sea, killed an Ironback Eagle, and spent thirteen days hunting more than twenty Green Ferocious Beast cores.
• Xu Yi sensed a large group of cultivators fighting a Golden-haired Baboon and approached to watch.
• The exhausted cultivators tried to retreat, but the Golden-haired Baboon killed four of them and drove the others to flee.
• The Golden-haired Baboon spotted Xu Yi and avoided the ambush he had set with Myriad Bone Skeleton.
• Myriad Bone Skeleton and the Golden-haired Baboon fought without seriously injuring each other, while the flames scorched the demon-body Life Wheel inside the skeleton.

Xu Yi defeated a Golden-haired Baboon after a grueling battle, recovered from his exhaustion, and sold his beast cores before bringing the baboon's corpse to Fenghua Pavilion. The appraisal left Mr. Wu astonished by the beast's death, while Huo Yansha reminded him that the shop did not ask customers where their goods came from.

• Xu Yi fought the Golden-haired Baboon for a day and night, and the Myriad Bone Skeleton finally crushed its skull.
• Xu Yi collected the baboon's corpse and beast core, evaded three people tracking him, and returned to his cave abode at Wind Thunder Cliff.
• After sleeping for seven days, Xu Yi sold his beast cores across several shops and received six hundred and thirty-six Profound Yellow Pills.
• Xu Yi brought the Golden-haired Baboon's corpse to Fenghua Pavilion, where Huo Yansha introduced him to Mr. Wu for an appraisal.
• Mr. Wu marveled at the rare beast's crushed skull and apologized after Huo Yansha objected to his question about where it came from.

Xu Yi spent two years hunting wild beasts, refining pills, and cultivating while living near Wind Thunder Cliff. With his exile nearly over, he stayed out at sea, close to advancing his cultivation and completing the preparation of his Star Core Sand.

• Xu Yi sold the Golden-haired Baboon's carcass to Fenghua Pavilion, declined to sell its wild core, and received a Fenghua Token from Mr. Wu.
• Xu Yi cultivated in seclusion, refined Profound Yellow Pills, and used the Golden-haired Baboon's wild core to nourish his Star Core Sand.
• Xu Yi hunted three second-order wild beasts in the Abyss Sea and sold their carcasses at Fenghua Pavilion, leading Mr. Wu to suspect he had a team backing him.
• Xu Yi repeatedly hunted and traded wild beasts over nearly two years, earning more than ten thousand Profound Yellow Pills and using thirty-seven second-order wild cores to nourish his Star Core Sand.
• Xu Yi asked Song Yuanyou to handle his exile matter, and Song Yuanyou agreed while Xu Yi still owed him one thousand Profound Yellow Pills.
• On the fifteenth day of a new trip out to sea, Xu Yi rested on a small boat after a hunt that had yielded an ordinary harvest.

Xu Yi rescued Feng Qi from three pursuers, only to learn that Feng Qi was a notorious criminal who had betrayed the Red-clothed Bandits. Feng Qi’s Blood Sea Society retainers then blocked Xu Yi from leaving, and the chapter ended with Xu Yi facing the ungrateful young master.

• Xu Yi was ambushed by three pursuers after Feng Qi deliberately drew them toward him, and he killed two of them with his YZ spears.
• The hemp-clothed middle-aged pursuer escaped with a wonder talisman, while Feng Qi thanked Xu Yi and promised a reward.
• Feng Qi’s white-browed Yin Fish Realm retainer arrived with four others, and Feng Qi berated him and struck him with a bellyband.
• Xu Yi tried to leave after recognizing Feng Qi’s foul character, but Feng Qi’s people blocked his way.
• Huang Mei told Xu Yi that Feng Qi was the Blood Sea Society’s Seventh Young Master, who had betrayed the Red-clothed Bandits and raped one of their members to death.

Xu Yi fought Feng Qi’s group and the White-browed Daoist in the Chaotic Abyss Sea, surviving their attacks with the help of Myriad Bone Skeleton. After the White-browed Daoist fired his Talisman Bow, Xu Yi disappeared beneath the sea, and his pursuers could not find him.

• The White-browed Daoist attacked Xu Yi with water beasts, then Feng Qi ordered four other Life Wheel cultivators to join the battle.
• The White-browed Daoist froze the sea and pulled Xu Yi up inside a vast column of ice, but Myriad Bone Skeleton emerged and pierced the Daoist’s palms.
• The White-browed Daoist severed his arms to escape Myriad Bone Skeleton and summoned a golden bow and blood-red arrow from a talisman.
• Xu Yi used Myriad Bone Skeleton to shield himself from the arrow, but the blast gravely wounded him and damaged both his skeleton and Life Wheels.
• Lin Wu and the other cultivators searched the sea for Xu Yi but found no trace of him.

Xu Yi escaped the Blood Sea Society’s search by hiding in the Four-Colored Seal, but the arrow’s energy left him badly injured and weakened his life wheel. After reaching Wind Thunder Cliff, he recovered at Fenghua Pavilion and arranged to sell beast remains and cores, promising Mr. Wu that more resources would soon arrive.

• Feng Qi ordered Lin Wu and the others to search hundreds of li for Xu Yi, but they found no trace of him; Lin Wu revealed that the Insight Mirror had locked onto Xu Yi’s life soul.
• Xu Yi used the Four-Colored Seal to purge the strange energy from his body while Huang Mei stayed hidden in the seabed mud until the search ended.
• Xu Yi traveled inside the weakened Myriad Bone Skeleton, then returned to Wind Thunder Cliff and went to Fenghua Pavilion for treatment.
• Huo Yansha gave Xu Yi two Myriad Spirit Pills, and he asked her to sell two desolate beast carcasses and buy a bottle of the pills.
• Mr. Wu saw the thirteen first-order desolate beast cores Xu Yi had supplied and offered him a good price; Xu Yi promised that more resources would soon flow into Fenghua Pavilion and asked it to stock up on Profound Yellow Pills.

After recovering from his injuries, Xu Yi boarded a Blood Sea Society dragon boat and robbed its passengers as Old Demon Kongxu. Jia Ming explained how Kongxu’s practiced scheme kept the passengers and the Society from resisting, while the Society’s planned counterattacks repeatedly failed to catch him.

• Xu Yi spent thirteen days and twelve Myriad Spirit Pills healing his injuries, then emerged from seclusion.
• Aboard the Blood Sea Society dragon boat, Lu Sihuo bragged about the journey while Jia Ming and others worried about danger ahead.
• Old Demon Kongxu arrived on the dragon boat and demanded thirty Profound Yellow Pills from each passenger, killing a cultivator who challenged him.
• The passengers, including Lu Sihuo and Jia Ming, handed over pills or other valuables, and Xu Yi departed with his skeleton.
• Jia Ming told Lu Sihuo that Kongxu’s threats, the dragon boat’s value, and the passengers’ fear of retaliation kept everyone in line.
• Jia Ming explained that the Blood Sea Society had tried to counterattack Kongxu, but he always seemed to evade its traps and choose his targets.

Xu Yi continued robbing the Blood Sea Society’s dragon boats, determined to make the organization suffer, while Feng Qi responded with a bounty and a plan to capture him alive. Feng Qi’s allies suspected Xu Yi might infiltrate the Society to claim the reward, setting a trap for him.

• Lu Sihuo and Jia Ming joined the passengers demanding compensation from the Blood Sea Society for their losses.
• Huangmei counted sixteen hundred Profound Yellow Pills as Xu Yi recalled surviving repeated hunts and resolved to keep attacking the Blood Sea Society.
• Feng Qi accused White-browed Daoist of leaking information, but White-browed Daoist argued that Feng Qi had turned a potential ally into an enemy.
• Feng Qi offered ten thousand Profound Yellow Pills for Xu Yi’s capture and a Yin Fish Pill for information, insisting the Society must not make peace.
• Lin Wu realized Feng Qi intended to lure Xu Yi out by offering the Yin Fish Pill, and Feng Qi praised his deduction.

Xu Yi prepared to infiltrate the Blood Sea Society’s stronghold and kill Feng Qi, disguising himself as a bounty claimant named Xue Xiang. He arrived at Feng Sihai’s banquet with the Jade Flute of Kongxu, where the guests welcomed him as the man who had captured Old Demon Kongxu.

• Xu Yi rejected Huang Mei’s warning about Feng Qi’s possible trap and explained how he had switched his Life Wheel and changed his appearance to conceal his identity.
• Xu Yi said he had waited outside Black Emperor Ridge for the right moment to confront Feng Qi at a gathering hosted by Feng Sihai.
• At Zhiyan Studio, Feng Sihai announced that Old Demon Kongxu had been gravely wounded and his Jade Flute seized, exciting the gathered scions.
• Guan Zhao brought Xu Yi into the banquet, where Xu Yi introduced himself as Xue Xiang and presented the Jade Flute of Kongxu.
• Third Young Master You praised the flute and pledged Tianhai Pavilion’s support to the Blood Sea Society, prompting Feng Sihai to promise a twenty-percent increase in its contribution.

Xu Yi presented Old Demon Kongxu’s Jade Flute to the Blood Sea Society to claim its bounty, but Feng Qi accused him of deception and challenged his account. Xu Yi defended his story and nearly received the Yin Fish Pill, while Feng Qi remained convinced something was wrong.

• Geng Jianping questioned whether Xu Yi’s Jade Flute proved its connection to Old Demon Kongxu, and Guan Zhao played it to demonstrate its auspicious mist.
• Xu Yi demanded the Yin Fish Pill immediately, citing his distrust of Feng Qi, and Feng Sihai ordered Guan Zhao to retrieve one.
• Feng Qi arrived with White-browed Daoist and Lin Wu, challenged Xu Yi’s claim, and accused him of trying to cheat the Blood Sea Society.
• Geng Jianping urged Feng Sihai to let Feng Qi investigate, and Xu Yi tried to leave before White-browed Daoist blocked his way.
• Xu Yi said he had ambushed a green-clad cultivator in the Chaotic Abyss Sea, wounded him, and taken the Jade Flute; Guan Zhao said the timing matched reports of Old Demon Kongxu’s disappearance.
• Feng Sihai began to accept Xu Yi’s explanation, but Feng Qi insisted Xu Yi could have arranged the evidence because of a connection to Old Demon Kongxu.

Xu Yi endured Feng Qi’s accusations, joined the Blood Sea Society as a guest elder, and waited for a chance to strike back. Seven days later, he left the estate and set his sights on Feng Sihai’s trusted subordinate Long Sanqian.

• Feng Qi accused Xu Yi of conspiring with Old Demon Kongxu and challenged him to let the Blood Sea Society inspect his Starry Sky Ring.
• Xu Yi allowed the inspection, then slapped Feng Qi when Feng Qi dismissed the accusation as a joke.
• Feng Sihai apologized to Xu Yi and had Guan Zhao give him the Yin Fish Pill, with the condition that he serve as a guest elder for at least a year.
• Xu Yi accepted the position and stayed in his room for seven days, while Feng Qi and Lin Wu watched him.
• After Lin Wu reported that Xu Yi had left through the west gate, Feng Qi summoned the White-browed Daoist to follow him.
• Xu Yi headed toward Black Emperor Ridge and darted past Long Sanqian, whom he had chosen as his next target.

Xu Yi ambushed Long Sanqian and killed him with the Myriad Bone Skeleton’s forbidden move, but Long Sanqian self-destructed and badly wounded Xu Yi. Xu Yi escaped as Feng Sihai’s forces arrived, leaving the Blood Sea Society to face the loss of its quartermaster and a third of its liquid assets.

• Xu Yi followed Long Sanqian out toward the Chaotic Abyss Sea, then tricked him with a warning about Old Demon Kongxu and attacked.
• Long Sanqian broke free of Xu Yi’s box traps, but Xu Yi unleashed Demon Bone Disintegration and pierced him with Heavenly Demon Bones.
• Long Sanqian destroyed his body and damaged his Life Wheel in a self-detonation, while Xu Yi fled beneath the sea and gathered the scattered resources.
• Xu Yi discovered that the Myriad Bone Skeleton had lost its bond with him and that one of its fingers was badly damaged.
• Feng Sihai and the Blood Sea Society’s main force arrived as Xu Yi escaped through a light gate, and Feng Qi blamed the others for failing to heed his warnings.

Feng Qi led a massive search for Xue Xiang and Old Demon Kongxu, but the hunt failed and brought the Blood Sea Society disgrace. Imprisoned by Feng Jinbo, Feng Qi learned that his enemies remained beyond his reach, then heard Old Demon Kongxu promise to kill him within seven days.

• Feng Qi activated the Seven Mountains Stele and mobilized Black Emperor Ridge to search the sealed sea for Xue Xiang and Old Demon Kongxu.
• After a day of searching, Feng Qi found no trace of Old Demon Kongxu and continued the blockade for half a month.
• Feng Qi lifted the seal when the Blood Sea Society could no longer sustain the blockade, and Feng Jinbo emerged from seclusion and sent him to the Dark Prison.
• Feng Qi told the White-browed Daoist to urge Feng Sihai to use the Yang Fish Great Power against Old Demon Kongxu.
• Old Demon Kongxu spoke through the Ruyi Pearl and vowed that Feng Qi would lose his head within seven days, leaving Feng Qi trembling in fear.

Xu Yi hid in Blood Sea Villa, mastered the Star Core Sand, and killed White-browed Daoist before escaping. Feng Qi learned that Immeasurable Elder had agreed to hunt Old Demon Kongxu, then faced Feng Sihai, who told him he had brought about his own death.

• After escaping the sea blockade, Xu Yi hid in Blood Sea Villa and used its alchemy chamber to inspect his resources.
• Xu Yi activated the Star Core Sand, imprinted it with his life fire, and mastered the Myriad Soldier Art.
• When the search ended, Xu Yi attacked White-browed Daoist in his cave abode and killed him with a Golden Armored Warrior before fleeing.
• Feng Jinbo persuaded Immeasurable Elder to hunt down Old Demon Kongxu, and Feng Qi briefly believed the threat would be eliminated.
• Feng Sihai confronted Feng Qi in the Nether Prison and blamed him for bringing ruin upon the Blood Sea Society, declaring that he had caused his own death.

Feng Sihai took Feng Qi’s Life Wheel and sent it to Spirit Beast Peak, ending Old Demon Kongxu’s attacks on dragon boats. Xu Yi left the Chaotic Abyss Sea for the Southern Pole Sect, while a dispute over Huaihua Mountain brought the Southern Spiritual Garden and Qingxing Sect into a tense standoff.

• Feng Sihai told Feng Qi that Old Demon Kongxu had turned the Chaotic Abyss Sea against the Feng family and demanded Feng Qi’s Life Wheel.
• Feng Qi surrendered his Life Wheel, and Feng Sihai sealed it in a Soul Locking Bottle and sent it to Spirit Beast Peak.
• The Soul Locking Bottle vanished, and reports of dragon boat attacks stopped, though the Blood Sea Society’s decline threatened to disrupt the Chaotic Abyss Sea.
• Xu Yi decided to leave the Chaotic Abyss Sea and return to the Southern Pole Sect before preparing to enter the Yin Fish Realm.
• Cao Yu and Yu Duocheng argued over Huaihua Mountain at Sun-Rising Pavilion, and Cao Yu declared that neither the Southern Spiritual Garden nor Guangxi Garden would get it.