Chapter Summaries

Cao Yu and the Southern Spiritual Garden elders prepared to negotiate with Guangxi Garden over Huaihua Mountain, with the Liquid Creek leaving them vulnerable to pressure. Yu Duocheng then accused them of summoning Old Demon Kongxu and announced that Guangxi Garden would surrender the entire mountain, leaving the elders bewildered as he recalled the flute that had awakened them the previous night.

• Elder Hu explained that Bai Yu’s thirty-percent offer meant Guangxi Garden would keep seventy percent and could cut off the Liquid Creek, forcing the Southern Spiritual Garden to consider concessions.
• Cao Yu and the others welcomed Xu Yi back at a banquet, where they discovered he had advanced to the Third Realm of Life Wheel and discussed the dispute with Guangxi Garden.
• Xu Yi declined to attend the next day’s negotiations, saying he needed several days of rest, so Cao Yu and the others went without him.
• Elder Hu told Cao Yu and the others to open negotiations by offering fifty percent and to settle for no less than forty percent.
• Yu Duocheng arrived without Bai Yu and accused the Southern Spiritual Garden of summoning Old Demon Kongxu, then agreed to give them all of Huaihua Mountain.
• Cao Yu denied knowing anything about Old Demon Kongxu as Yu Duocheng recalled a chilling flute waking Guangxi Garden during the hour of the Pig.

Xu Yi revealed that he had asked Old Demon Kongxu to help Southern Spiritual Garden reclaim Huaihua Mountain, then left for Southern Pole Sect. He arrived as the sect prepared to host the Immortal Gathering, a gathering of the Three Great Mystic Sects.

• Old Demon Kongxu forced Guangxi Garden to give up its claim to Huaihua Mountain, and Elder Bai identified him by his attack with the square box.
• Elder Hu and the others denied inviting Old Demon Kongxu until Xiahou Sheng guessed that Zhong Ruyi had arranged the intervention.
• Three days later, Xu Yi confirmed that he knew Old Demon Kongxu and had mentioned the dispute to him, then announced he was returning to Southern Pole Sect.
• Cao Yu and the others held Xu Yi a farewell banquet, and disciples from Cold Star Peak brought a Starry Sky Boat to take him back.
• Senior Brother Hong and Senior Brother Zhao welcomed Xu Yi aboard and wished him success at the Immortal Gathering.
• Elder Jiang and his team prepared Sun Top for the gathering, where Southern Pole Sect would host Qingxing Sect and Tianhai Sect.

At the Immortal Gathering, the Southern Pole Sect hosted an early martial contest after the Qingxing and Tianhai sect masters pressed for Tao Jin to compete. Tao Jin stepped onto the platform to face Zhang Jianxiu, whose attack was just beginning.

• Wu Zhongce and Jing Yicheng urged Zhang Daohan to let the young disciples compete, and Zhang agreed to open the contests.
• Disciples from the three sects fought in a series of bouts, with Zhang Jianxiu defeating three opponents and remaining onstage.
• Zhang Daohan grew impatient when Southern Pole Sect veterans He Luo and Zhang Cheng did not step forward to challenge the fighters.
• Tao Jin entered the contest, drawing cheers from female cultivators and challenging Zhang Jianxiu.
• Zhang Jianxiu unleashed his Wave Splitting Art, and Tao Jin closed his eyes and revealed a whistle in his hand.

Tao Jin defeated Zhang Jianxiu with the Great Visionary Art but lost to Mu Jinlin’s mastery of the One Heart Art. After Tao Jin invoked Zhong Ruyi’s name, Shao Yong revealed that Zhong Ruyi had returned, leaving Zhang Daohan under pressure to summon him.

• Tao Jin defeated Zhang Jianxiu, then challenged Mu Jinlin and Jian You to fight him together.
• Jian You declined to fight, and Mu Jinlin faced Tao Jin instead.
• Mu Jinlin used the One Heart Art to strike Tao Jin through his portals and defeat him.
• Tao Jin questioned Mu Jinlin’s boasts by invoking Zhong Ruyi, prompting Mu Jinlin to ask Zhang Daohan for a match with him.
• Shao Yong praised Zhong Ruyi’s past feats and revealed that he had returned the previous day, while Zhang Daohan angrily demanded that Shao Yong summon him.

Xu Yi was summoned to face Mu Jinlin and Jian You, but refused to fight without stakes and turned the challenge into a wager for Profound Yellow Pills. After the sects contributed their pills, Mu Jinlin prepared to test Xu Yi’s strength, with Jian You waiting in reserve.

• Shao Yong demanded that Zhang Daohan offer Xu Yi a reward if he was called in to rescue the Southern Pole Sect’s reputation, and Zhang ordered him summoned.
• Xu Yi arrived at Sun Top looking as though he had just woken up and insisted he would not fight for free.
• Xu Yi wagered his Profound Yellow Pills against contributions from the Tianhai Sect and Qingxing Sect, drawing more than eight thousand pills from their disciples.
• Xu Yi added two Yin Fish Pills and promised to give his winnings to the gathered Southern Pole Sect disciples.
• Jian You offered to fight Xu Yi first if Mu Jinlin felt uncertain, but Mu Jinlin chose to test Xu Yi himself.

Xu Yi defeated Mu Jinlin with his evolved defensive art, and Jian You conceded after exposing Xu Yi as Old Demon Kongxu. As the sect leaders reclaimed the wager, Qingxing Sect elder Golden Striker challenged Xu Yi for three moves, offering a Mind Mirror that Huang Mei said could help him break into the Yin Fish Realm.

• Xu Yi redirected Mu Jinlin’s Netherworld Light Palms and defeated him by pinning him down with three spears.
• Jian You conceded to Xu Yi and revealed that he was Old Demon Kongxu, shocking the gathering.
• Xu Yi admitted his identity, and Zhang Daohan praised his actions in the Chaotic Abyss Sea before canceling the wager and letting the disciples reclaim their resources.
• Golden Striker challenged Xu Yi to withstand three moves and offered a Mind Mirror as the wager.
• Huang Mei urged Xu Yi to accept because the Mind Mirror could steady his mind during his breakthrough to the Yin Fish Realm.

Xu Yi accepted Golden Striker’s challenge and defeated him despite the Heart-Bewitching Bone, winning his resources and Mind Mirror. After returning to his cave abode, Xu Yi was woken by Song Yuanyou, who regretted implying that he no longer cared about the Profound Yellow Pills.

• Golden Striker challenged Xu Yi to withstand three moves and revealed a Heart-Bewitching Bone, drawing condemnation from Zhang Daohan and Shao Yong.
• Xu Yi resisted the bone’s bewitchment and used golden-armored soldiers to beat Golden Striker until he conceded.
• Xu Yi took the wagered resources and Golden Striker’s Mind Mirror, then refused to explain how he had countered the bone without another Mind Mirror.
• Xu Yi returned to his cave abode, but Song Yuanyou woke him and regretted saying he no longer cared about the Profound Yellow Pills.

Xu Yi repaid Song Yuanyou, fulfilled his duty at the Immortal Gathering, and then prepared to break through to the Yin Fish Realm. Shao Yong supported his decision with resources, leaving Xu Yi equipped to attempt the dangerous breakthrough.

• Xu Yi gave Song Yuanyou two thousand Profound Yellow Pills and agreed to attend the reception for the visiting sects.
• Xu Yi mingled with disciples from Qingxing Sect and Tianhai Sect throughout the Immortal Gathering, building a strong reputation before resting for seven days.
• Xu Yi told Shao Yong he intended to attempt the Yin Fish Realm, and Shao Yong gave him notes from past attempts and offered Yinghai Peak's support.
• After studying the breakthrough, Xu Yi returned and asked Shao Yong for Profound Yellow Pills instead of the secret realm, offering three Yin Fish Pills in exchange.
• Shao Yong returned with twenty thousand Profound Yellow Pills, including five thousand as a gift from Yinghai Peak.

Xu Yi began breaking through to the Yin Fish Realm on Westflower Island, where his pill-induced illusions tested his will and eventually swallowed his consciousness. The story then shifted to a long-term internet café resident called Little Xu, whose routine was interrupted by a senior girl bringing him a meal.

• Xu Yi rejected Shao Yong’s secret-realm suggestion, then built a hidden chamber and decoy chambers on Westflower Island.
• Xu Yi swallowed the Yin Fish Pill and used an array to circulate Profound Yellow Qi around himself.
• Xu Yi endured illusions drawn from his memories, including the Titan Dragon Python, Chu Jiang Star, and Big Yellow’s death, before a black hole consumed his consciousness.
• Old Jin urged Little Xu to change his repetitive internet café routine, but Little Xu brushed him off and continued gaming.
• A senior girl brought Little Xu a meal, and he gave her money before telling her not to visit for the next few days.

Xu Yi, using the name Empty Son, became captivated by streamer Mimosa and spent his savings on her broadcasts. When she claimed she might quit unless she climbed the rankings, he rushed to an ATM and discovered he would need far more money, then began searching for online loans.

• Old Jin urged Xu Yi to find a job and stop spending his days at the internet café, but Xu Yi told him to stop nagging.
• Old Jin showed Xu Yi Mimosa’s livestream, and Xu Yi created an account as Empty Son and paid to send her gifts.
• Xu Yi spent hours chatting with Mimosa, left the internet café for the first time in three years, and returned to her livestream after she came online again.
• Mimosa sobbed that she was unpopular and might quit livestreaming, then explained that climbing the rankings could earn her the platform’s recommendation.
• Xu Yi asked how much money Mimosa needed, went to an ATM, and found that his savings were far short of the nearly three hundred thousand yuan needed to rank.
• Unable to bear the thought of Mimosa giving up, Xu Yi began searching for online loans.

Empty Son borrowed heavily to support Mimosa’s livestream, only to discover she had blocked him after their meeting. As debt collectors closed in, he took a delivery job and ran into Wu Zhihui and Yanzi at a nightclub reunion, where Wu Zhihui prepared to humiliate him.

• Empty Son borrowed more than 290,000 yuan, converted his money into Virtual Coins, and pushed Mimosa’s livestream onto the homepage.
• Yanzi gave Empty Son her wallet so he could clean up and visit Mimosa at the Marriott Hotel, where he refused her advances and fell asleep.
• Empty Son woke to Mimosa’s note and 500 yuan, then realized she had blocked him and that Zixu Video would not accept his complaint.
• Empty Son opened five credit cards, started food delivery work, and struggled as Youhuahua and Anyihua pursued him for repayment.
• Empty Son delivered food to a university reunion at Emperor Era Nightclub, where Wu Zhihui recognized him and revealed that Yanzi was working there as a waitress.
• Wu Zhihui called Empty Son over and announced him to the reunion crowd, while Empty Son prepared for the mockery.

After learning how much Yanzi had sacrificed for him, Empty Son discovered she had married to pay his debts and compensation. A struggling old man pushing a cart up a hill in a storm helped Empty Son finally understand Jiangcheng Textile University's motto, and he stood changed by the realization.

• Wu Zhihui told Empty Son that Yanzi had been a top student who chose Jiangcheng Textile University and worked to repay his debts.
• Empty Son slapped Yanzi and left Emperor Era, then returned for his phone and caught Wu Zhihui groping her; he attacked Wu and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
• Yanzi visited Empty Son in prison and secretly paid the Wu family five hundred thousand yuan, helping secure his early release, but he refused to see her.
• Old Jin showed Empty Son records revealing that Yanzi had used her meal money to feed him and had sold herself to marry a wealthy divorcé to pay his debts and compensation.
• Empty Son ran through a storm and watched a disabled old man repeatedly push a cart up the hill near Jiangcheng University, then finally understood the school's motto: “Heaven moves with strength; the noble person strives without cease.”

Xu Yi emerged from a three-year breakthrough in the Yin Fish Realm, having survived a dangerous illusion and transformed his keyboard into a powerful treasure. He returned to the Southern Pole Sect, where Shao Yong welcomed him and asked where he had been.

• Xu Yi escaped his final illusion, manifested two Yin Fish, and fused them with his keyboard to create a colorless sphere.
• Xu Yi woke after three years and three months, thanked Old Desolate for watching over him, and discovered that nearly all his Profound Yellow Pills and his Mind Mirror had been used up or destroyed.
• Xu Yi replenished his strength, then tested the Spiritually Communicating Treasure and found that its illusions could now stir his emotions.
• Xu Yi left his seclusion, fully manifested soldiers from his Star Core Sand, and headed for the Southern Pole Sect.
• Xu Yi's return caused a stir among the sect members, and Shao Yong cleared away his visitors before asking where he had been for more than three years.

After returning from three years in seclusion with a Golden Yin Fish, Xu Yi reunited with Shao Yong and met Sect Master Zhang Daohan. Zhang praised Xu Yi’s talent and promised him a peak and the resources he deserved, leaving Xu Yi to prepare for further cultivation.

• Shao Yong welcomed Xu Yi back as a fellow senior after learning he had reached the Yin Fish Realm.
• Shao Yong brought Xu Yi to Zhang Daohan and argued that the sect owed Xu Yi for his service and the help he had never received.
• Zhang Daohan sent Shao Yong outside and asked Xu Yi to reveal his Yin Fish.
• Zhang Daohan recognized Xu Yi’s Golden Yin Fish, explained its strengths, and urged him to focus on cultivating divine abilities.
• Zhang Daohan promised Xu Yi a mountain peak and explained that advancing through the Yin Fish stages required time and the washing of Profound Yellow Qi.

Xu Yi learned about immortal ranks and was assigned to attend the Southern Pole Sect’s offering ceremony at Yun Jing Palace in three years. He settled into his new role as an elder by choosing Fish Mouth Peak and appointing Chen Bing as its steward.

• Zhang Daohan explained the Yang Fish and Divine Diagram Realms, the immortal ranks, and the Southern Pole Sect’s offerings to Yun Jing Palace.
• Zhang Daohan told Xu Yi he could attend the offering ceremony in three years, and Shao Yong became delighted when he learned the envoy kept Yun Jing Palace’s reward.
• Elder An helped Xu Yi choose Fish Mouth Peak, arrange its staff, and select his own steward.
• Xu Yi appointed Chen Bing as steward, while other disciples envied the opportunity and Li Ping reflected on Xu Yi’s rise.

Xu Yi considered how to gather the pills he needed to advance, then entered Blood Sea Villa and had Feng Sihai summon the major powers of the Chaotic Star Sea. Feng Sihai revealed that Xu Yi had called the gathering, leaving the assembled factions poised to face him.

• Xu Yi realized he could not afford to wait for spiritual plants and pills to support his cultivation, then smiled as he contemplated another plan.
• Xu Yi appeared in Zhengxin Hall, where Feng Sihai recognized him as Old Demon Kongxu and panicked.
• Xu Yi calmly ordered Feng Sihai to contact Third Young Master You, Geng Jianping, and the major organizations in the Chaotic Abyss Sea.
• Feng Sihai followed Guan Zhao's advice and invited seven renowned factions to discuss redrawing territorial boundaries, while Blood Sea Society forces waited outside.
• Third Young Master You and Geng Jianping assumed Feng Sihai had called them to discuss surrendering routes, but Feng Sihai announced that Brother Ruyi would reveal himself.

Xu Yi confronted the Chaotic Abyss Sea’s leaders and swiftly defeated Qin Wei, Third Young Master You, and their followers. He forced the stunned assembly to sit and listen, leaving them too intimidated to call for help.

• Xu Yi appeared at Feng Sihai’s gathering, and Third Young Master You warned him not to keep causing trouble in the Chaotic Abyss Sea.
• Xu Yi threatened to drive the Four Seas Alliance out of the region, and Qin Wei attacked him.
• Xu Yi used his transformed box to pin Qin Wei to the ground, then summoned thirty Golden Armored Generals to overwhelm Third Young Master You’s group.
• Xu Yi gathered the Star Core Sand and ordered everyone to sit, while the battered Third Young Master You and Qin Wei obeyed.
• Geng Jianping’s group abandoned the idea of summoning their leaders or the Immeasurable Elder, fearing they could not challenge Xu Yi and the Southern Pole Sect.

Xu Yi summoned the seven families of the Chaotic Abyss Sea to demand monthly Profound Yellow Pills, then accepted Feng Sihai’s proposal to mediate peace among them in exchange for higher contributions. He ordered the families to preserve their current territories and warned that he would punish anyone who broke the agreement.

• Xu Yi took the seat of honor and told the gathered families that he wanted to borrow Profound Yellow Pills from them.
• Xu Yi demanded that six families pay three hundred Profound Yellow Pills each month and that Third Young Master You’s family pay five hundred, and everyone agreed.
• Feng Sihai proposed that the families raise their payments to five hundred each in return for Xu Yi guaranteeing peace among them.
• Four families backed Feng Sihai’s proposal, and Third Young Master You agreed after Xu Yi asked whether he opposed the arrangement.
• Xu Yi ordered Feng Sihai to draw a map of the families’ current territories for everyone to approve and sign, warning that he would strike down anyone who caused trouble.

Xu Yi secured a steady supply of Profound Yellow Pills from the seven factions of the Chaotic Abyss Sea and cultivated until he reached the Second Realm of Life Wheel. After receiving the Mother Scroll, he studied the Southern Pole Sect’s cultivation arts but found no useful common ground among them.

• Xu Yi collected the seven factions’ monthly payments and raised the Four Seas Alliance’s fee to seven hundred after Third Young Master You praised him to avoid punishment.
• The seven factions soon delivered their Profound Yellow Pills, while Xu Yi cultivated plants, refined pills, and advanced rapidly through the first Yin Fish realm.
• Xu Yi consumed nearly eighty thousand Profound Yellow Pills over nine months and broke through to the Second Realm of Life Wheel.
• Shao Yong sent Xu Yi a Mother Scroll containing the cultivation arts recorded in the Transmission Hall.
• Xu Yi studied the arts, broke through the profound points of several, and stopped when he could not find commonalities among them.

Xu Yi advanced to the Third Realm of Yin Fish after two years of seclusion, mastering four divine abilities and deciding to seek a path beyond the Southern Pole Sect. He traveled to the Chaotic Abyss Sea to remind the seven families that he was still alive and collect their tributes.

• Xu Yi practiced the Stone Fire Art, Flowing Water Art, Floating Earth Art, and Two Mountains Art while cultivating for two years.
• Xu Yi reached the Third Realm of Yin Fish, then found that Shao Yong was traveling and Zhang Daohan was in seclusion when he went to ask about paying tribute to Yun Jing Palace.
• Xu Yi visited Jiang Xiao at Cold Star Peak, handled invitations from sect members, and traveled by Starry Sky Boat to the Southern Spiritual Garden.
• Xu Yi arrived at the Blood Sea Villa, where Feng Sihai had been berating Life Wheel Realm experts, and Feng Sihai hurried to apologize.
• Feng Sihai reflected that each of the seven families had paid Xu Yi nearly twenty thousand Profound Yellow Pills over the past three years.