Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi traded two Wind Talisman techniques to Mu Guangming for a promise to protect Princess Yinqiu and warned him that the Yun Family’s Heir knew about the Star Sea’s planned operation. After Mu Guangming rushed off to respond, Xu Yi contacted Steward Fang to ask about the Number One Under Heaven Sect and Yan Zi.

• Mu Guangming asked Xu Yi to trade his Wind Talisman techniques, and Xu Yi agreed to give him two.
• Xu Yi asked Mu Guangming to avoid harming Princess Yinqiu and, if possible, kill the Heir of the Yun Family.
• Xu Yi revealed that the Heir of the Yun Family had learned of the Star Sea’s planned operation in Guan Chong City.
• Mu Guangming promised to do what he could to protect Princess Yinqiu, then vanished with Liu Yinglin and the others.
• Xu Yi returned to his refining room and contacted Steward Fang to ask about the Number One Under Heaven Sect and Yan Zi.

Xu Yi completed two Level 1 Grade 3 Flame Burst Talismans after years of costly experimentation, then rushed to see the Yun Family’s wedding convoy enter the city. He reached the enormous procession and watched it pass amid a crowd of spectators.

• Xu Yi learned from Steward Fang that the Number One Under Heaven Sect remained safe from the Yun Family’s retaliation.
• Xu Yi refined two azure Level 1 Grade 3 Flame Burst Talismans, using nearly all of his remaining Fire Element Spirit Stones.
• Shopkeeper Cao told Xu Yi that the Yun Family’s wedding convoy had entered the city, and Xu Yi left without returning the Spirit Gathering Array.
• Xu Yi flew a hundred miles and spotted the nearly ten-thousand-person wedding procession, with Princess Yinqiu’s Imperial Carriage at its center.
• Xu Yi watched hidden among the crowd as palace guards scattered flowers and tossed spirit stones to cheering spectators.

Eight mirrors unleashed magnetic storms that devastated Guan Chong, killing its commoners and reducing the city to ruins as survivors turned to slaughter and looting. Xu Yi survived underground while the Imperial Carriage remained safe, but a huge claw suddenly seized him and carried him skyward.

• Eight mirrors appeared above Guan Chong and blinded people across the city before unleashing magnetic storm shock waves that shattered the city and flattened Ditian Peak and Dizhu Mountain.
• More than a thousand cultivators died in a magnetic field, while the storm killed the commoners and wiped out most of the wedding entourage and onlookers.
• Surviving cultivators attacked one another over Sumeru Rings, spirit stones, artifacts, and medicines as the city's order collapsed.
• Xu Yi stayed hidden in a hole and recognized the attack as the work of Mu Guangming and the Chaotic Star Sea's forces; he sensed Princess Yinqiu's Imperial Carriage was safe.
• A group cleared corpses from above Xu Yi as it searched the battlefield, but a huge claw grabbed his chest and abdomen and carried him into the sky.

Xu Yi escaped Tianchong City’s sinking amid a beast tide and uncovered Mu Guangming’s plan to plunder the city’s wealth. A message arrived through the Spiritual Connection Jade, and Xu Yi shot into the sky.

• A Golden Crystal Roaring Beast seized Xu Yi, but he struck it with divine sense and killed it with his small sword.
• Xu Yi saw Tianchong City sinking as sea beasts and dragon boats slaughtered the cultivators fleeing into the sky.
• Xu Yi plunged into the sea and used his strengthened wall of thought to withstand the attacking beasts.
• Xu Yi recognized Seven Insects Seven Flowers Grass and Star-colored Void-Devouring Fish, then deduced that Mu Guangming had orchestrated the disaster to loot Tianchong City’s Sumeru Rings.
• The Spiritual Connection Jade delivered Xu Yi a sorrowful poem, and he shot into the sky.

Black-and-White Eyebrows attacked Princess Yinqiu’s wedding escort, killing its senior defenders before confronting the Heir of the Yun Family. The Heir revealed signs of practicing the Soul Companion Twin Birth Art and fought to protect the fleeing princess as Black-and-White Eyebrows unleashed a deadly flood of water swords.

• Black-and-White Eyebrows killed the white-bearded elder and gold-armored general within moments, then split open Princess Yinqiu’s Imperial Carriage.
• The Heir of the Yun Family blocked Black-and-White Eyebrows’ attack on Princess Yinqiu and asked where Mu Guangming was.
• Black-and-White Eyebrows recognized the Heir’s weakened True Soul as evidence of the Soul Companion Twin Birth Art, but the Heir challenged him to fight.
• Black-and-White Eyebrows raised a massive wave and sent water swords through the surviving guards, while the Heir ordered the County Princess taken away.
• Seven cloaked figures escaped with Princess Yinqiu as the Heir of the Yun Family held off the water swords with a wall of fire.

The Heir of the Yun Family wounded Black-and-White Eyebrows while cloaked figures tried to escort Princess Yinqiu from the battlefield. As a vast army of black-armored soldiers emerged and the dragon boats attacked, the fighting erupted into a full-scale war.

• Black-and-White Eyebrows used water attacks against the Heir of the Yun Family and the cloaked figures escorting Princess Yinqiu, while the Heir burned through a water net that had caught her.
• The Heir of the Yun Family deceived Black-and-White Eyebrows with an illusion talisman and pierced his chest with a line of fire.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure opened a spatial gate, and True Spirit Circle Great Perfection experts arriving from the dragon boats killed dozens of attackers near Princess Yinqiu.
• A figure swept Princess Yinqiu away from the incoming energy beams, while the pale-crane cloaked figure received a Sumeru Ring from the Heir and departed with the others.
• Black-armored soldiers poured from the spatial gate and clashed with the dragon boats as sea beasts joined the battle.

Xu Yi rescued Princess Yinqiu from the marriage procession and reunited with her in a secluded valley. After she resumed her Young Master Xu disguise, they decided to return to the circuit court, and she eagerly asked whether the Heir of the Yun Family would die.

• Xu Yi carried Princess Yinqiu away from the battle and hid with her in a secluded valley.
• Princess Yinqiu recognized Xu Yi, recalled his past departure, and concealed her tears before changing back into Young Master Xu.
• Young Master Xu asked Xu Yi where he planned to take her, and he suggested returning to the circuit court.
• Young Master Xu told Xu Yi that her father had arranged the marriage alliance and that three divisions of Jiannan Road's Divine Dragon Left Guard had appeared.
• Xu Yi agreed to return to the circuit court and said the Heir of the Yun Family might not make it home alive.
• Young Master Xu grabbed Xu Yi's arm and asked if the Heir of the Yun Family would really die.

Xu Yi and Princess Yinqiu tricked the seven cloaked pursuers into underestimating them, allowing Xu Yi to kill them all with the Heavenly Spear Technique. He captured their True Soul Figures and urged Princess Yinqiu to figure out what had enabled them to track her.

• Xu Yi sensed pursuers approaching, and Young Master Xu told him to catch them off guard.
• Xu Yi struck Young Master Xu to stage a fight as seven True Spirit Circle Great Perfection experts arrived and saw him battling Princess Yinqiu.
• The man in the crane cloak ordered the group to kill Princess Yinqiu, but Xu Yi suddenly unleashed mind spears and killed all seven pursuers.
• Xu Yi captured the seven True Soul Figures in his Soul-Summoning Banner, collected their Sumeru Rings, and burned their bodies.
• Princess Yinqiu marveled at Xu Yi's strength, and he asked her what she carried that had let the pursuers track them.

Xu Yi and Young Master Xu discussed the Yun family’s ability to track them and prepared for the Yang Venerate pursuer expected to arrive after the deaths of seven Yun family experts. Young Master Xu proposed a gamble that depended on Xu Yi fighting the pursuer, and revealed her defenses against divine sense and spell attacks.

• Young Master Xu explained how blood’s pull could help the Yun family track her after the wedding and said the seven dead Yun family experts would have life talismans that alerted their kin.
• She warned Xu Yi that Yang Venerate experts, possibly including the Flying Eagle cloaked figure, would come after them, while Young Master Yun was likely to pursue his own ambitions in the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Xu Yi considered fleeing with a Swift Wind Talisman, but Young Master Xu argued that they could not outrun a Yang Venerate over ten thousand miles and urged him to gamble on her idea.
• Xu Yi agreed to the gamble and asked whether Young Master Xu could withstand divine sense attacks; she showed him a bracelet that blocked attacks below the fifth tier and a talisman garment that could withstand a hundred spells below the second tier.

Xu Yi lured the Flying Eagle cloaked figure away from Young Master Xu with a Shadow-Sound Pearl and threatened to expose his scandal. When the two clashed, the Flying Eagle cloaked figure discovered Xu Yi’s extraordinary divine sense and feared that more recordings had been hidden.

• Xu Yi gave Young Master Xu a Sumeru Ring containing Swift Body Talismans and Swift Wind Talismans, then left to draw the Flying Eagle cloaked figure away.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure confronted Young Master Xu, and she accused him of failing to protect her and insulting her.
• Xu Yi sent a Shadow-Sound Pearl into the air, and the Flying Eagle cloaked figure destroyed the woods it came from before discovering that it had recorded their conversation.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure struck at Young Master Xu with a thought-sword, but she escaped with a Swift Body Talisman as he pursued Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi blocked the Flying Eagle cloaked figure’s thought-net with his powerful divine sense and warned that more Shadow-Sound Pearls might expose him.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure suspected Xu Yi had planted recordings for Young Master Xu to retrieve.

Xu Yi used the Flying Eagle cloaked figure’s urgency to recover the Shadow-Sound Pearls to gain the initiative in their fight. After discovering that his defenses could withstand the figure’s water spells, Xu Yi trapped him with a fire talisman, but the Flying Eagle cloaked figure countered with a high-grade metal talisman.

• Xu Yi taunted the Flying Eagle cloaked figure with possibilities involving Princess Yinqiu and the Shadow-Sound Pearls, then attacked with the Heavenly Spear Technique.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure struck Xu Yi with a water sword, but Xu Yi survived and mocked him before launching more Heavenly Spears.
• Xu Yi’s attacks put the Flying Eagle cloaked figure on the defensive as his divine sense and limited True Essence left him with few advantages.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure rushed Xu Yi with a barbed spike, but Xu Yi activated a Flame Burst Talisman that surrounded him with black fire.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure activated a high-grade metal talisman, whose Talisman Field Devour effect extinguished the flames.

Xu Yi and Princess Yinqiu lured the Flying Eagle cloaked figure into a prepared ambush after he fled their first encounter. Xu Yi captured the figure’s escaping spirit with the Soul-Summoning Banner, which briefly flared with signs of change before settling down.

• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure fled Xu Yi after using his Level 1 Grade 4 Talisman, then headed southeast to capture Princess Yinqiu.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure pursued Young Master Xu, whose Body Protection Talisman Robe resisted his spells and water attacks.
• Young Master Xu lured the Flying Eagle cloaked figure into a narrow cave, where Xu Yi’s hidden talisman trap engulfed him in black flames.
• The Flying Eagle cloaked figure escaped the flames as a spirit, but Xu Yi used the Soul-Summoning Banner to bind and capture it.
• The Soul-Summoning Banner blazed and trembled as three Law Patterns stirred, then dimmed, leaving Xu Yi unsure how it had changed.

Xu Yi and Young Master Xu escaped after killing Zhou, while Xu Yi realized the Yun Family would pursue him. Young Master Yun’s attack on the Chaotic Star Sea collapsed when the magnetic storm erupted, leaving his army devastated and his position as heir at risk.

• Young Master Xu praised Xu Yi for killing Zhou and gave him Zhou’s Sumeru Ring, which contained a Yin-Poison Thorn and nearly a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Xu Yi took Young Master Xu east with a Swift Wind Talisman, refusing to leave her behind as they fled toward the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Young Master Yun’s Jiannan Road army ambushed the Star Sea forces and destroyed most of their dragon boats.
• The magnetic storm erupted again and devastated Yun Zhongge’s twenty thousand troops, while he survived using a treasured family relic.
• Yun Zhongge realized his carefully arranged plan had been defeated and feared the Yun Family elders would remove him as heir.

Yun Zhongge learned that Flying Eagle had been killed and raced toward the Chaotic Star Sea to capture Princess Yinqiu and salvage his family’s political position. Meanwhile, Xu Yi and Princess Yinqiu fled deeper into the sea as its magnetic storm intensified, leaving Yun Zhongge’s fate uncertain.

• A clan elder told Yun Zhongge that Flying Eagle’s life token had burned and his soul was extinguished, leading Yun Zhongge to suspect a Yang Venerate had intervened.
• Yun Zhongge realized his plan had failed and that the destruction of Jiannan Road’s army could endanger his father’s political ambitions, so he headed for the Chaotic Star Sea to kill Xu Yi and capture Princess Yinqiu.
• At the edge of the Chaotic Star Sea, Xu Yi told Princess Yinqiu that the magnetic storm might destroy Yun Zhongge’s army and explained the Yun Family’s marriage scheme.
• Xu Yi and Princess Yinqiu used a series of Swift Wind Talismans to travel more than eighteen hundred li into the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Xu Yi drove the strengthened Lightning Control Art and continued carrying Princess Yinqiu farther into the sea.

Xu Yi and Young Master Xu used the True Spirit Water Repelling Pearl to hide underwater while Xu Yi refined Fire Talismans to prepare for Yun Zhongge. When Yun Zhongge caught up, Xu Yi chose to face him rather than flee.

• Xu Yi searched for defensible terrain, and Young Master Xu revealed a True Spirit Water Repelling Pearl that let them move freely underwater.
• Xu Yi bound Young Master Xu with Clear Wind Silk and refined Fire Talismans while using the Spirit Gathering Array and maintaining their escape.
• Xu Yi failed once, then refined a Level 1 Grade 4 Fire Talisman and a Level 1 Grade 3 Fire Talisman before exhausting the fire spirit power.
• After Xu Yi sensed danger, he and Young Master Xu left the underwater space and spotted Yun Zhongge approaching.
• Young Master Xu urged Xu Yi to escape, but Xu Yi decided to confront Yun Zhongge and told her to act natural.

Xu Yi prepared Young Master Xu for her confrontation with Yun Zhongge, whose attacks failed against her defenses until he used his paired hammers to disorient her and moved in to seize her. A streak of blue light then shot up from beneath her feet as Yun Zhongge reached for her.

• Xu Yi gave Young Master Xu protective robes before vanishing, and she set off for a coral reef after receiving a message through her Spiritual Connection Jade.
• Yun Zhongge confronted Young Master Xu, who accused him of using their engagement to lure the Star Sea forces into an attack and taunted him about her betrayal.
• Yun Zhongge attacked with spiritual sense and the Ten Flames Sword, but Young Master Xu’s defenses stopped both attacks.
• Yun Zhongge summoned his Lu Yin Bai Hua Hammers and struck them together, using their shrill sound to incapacitate Young Master Xu.
• Yun Zhongge moved close and reached for Young Master Xu’s back, but a streak of blue light shot up from beneath her feet.

Xu Yi ambushed Yun Zhongge to protect Princess Yinqiu, then revealed himself and fought the Heir of the Yun Family underwater. Their first exchanges left them both unharmed as their divine senses clashed across the boiling sea.

• Xu Yi struck Yun Zhongge with a Level 1 Grade 3 Flame Burst Talisman and a flying sword, forcing Yun Zhongge to unleash a Level 1 Grade 4 Earth Mystical Talisman that devastated the surrounding sea.
• Xu Yi escaped the blast with Young Master Xu, and Yun Zhongge recognized him as the killer of his eight personal guards.
• Xu Yi admitted his identity and attacked Yun Zhongge, whose hereditary flame swords failed to penetrate Xu Yi’s Fire Malice and wall of thought.
• Yun Zhongge realized Xu Yi had cultivated a Boundless Sea and possessed extraordinary divine sense, while Xu Yi taunted him in the water that weakened his spells.
• The two exchanged more than a thousand strands of divine sense each, boiling the water within five hundred zhang without either being injured.

Xu Yi and Yun Zhongge’s spiritual-sense battle reached a stalemate, so Xu Yi used Young Master Xu’s apparent departure to provoke Yun Zhongge into attacking. Their schemes collided in a fierce exchange that left Xu Yi badly burned, while Yun Zhongge was struck by a sudden attack whose source remained unclear.

• Xu Yi arranged for Young Master Xu to pretend to leave, hoping to make Yun Zhongge attack and create an opening to use his Flame Burst Talisman.
• Yun Zhongge rushed Xu Yi with the True Spirit Water Repelling Pearl and unleashed his Hundred Flames Sword, while Xu Yi activated his talisman.
• The two attacks took effect together, surrounding Xu Yi with blazing swords and Yun Zhongge with thick black smoke.
• Young Master Xu rushed back, shielded Xu Yi, and used Swift Body Talismans to carry him out of the flame swords’ reach, though Xu Yi was badly burned.
• After Young Master Xu brought Xu Yi to safety, Yun Zhongge cried out in pain as blue light flashed and snow and ice poured down.

Xu Yi and Yun Zhongge survived the devastating black flames, but both were gravely injured, and Yun Zhongge fled after Mu Guangming intervened. Xu Yi recovered enough to ask whether Yun Zhongge had been killed, and Mu Guangming told him that Yun had escaped.

• Yun Zhongge used protective treasures and a Frost and Snow Talisman to survive Xu Yi's black flames, then cut away his burned and frostbitten flesh as it regenerated.
• Young Master Xu tried to save Xu Yi with pills, and Xu Yi urged her through their Spiritual Connection Jade to flee while Yun Zhongge was still wounded.
• Young Master Xu refused to leave Xu Yi, and Yun Zhongge approached them, vowing to avenge his injuries.
• Mu Guangming attacked Yun Zhongge with black divine sense, but Yun's Skull Ring blocked it and Yun escaped.
• Mu Guangming brought Xu Yi and Young Master Xu aboard a dragon boat, where Xu Yi learned Yun Zhongge had gotten away.

Xu Yi recovered from his wounds after Mu Guangming took Young Master Xu away as a hostage to protect the Chaotic Star Sea. After two days of hiding underwater, Xu Yi’s true soul healed, and he began weighing the battle’s consequences and his next steps.

• Mu Guangming told Xu Yi that the battle had largely succeeded, but the Heavenly King Calming Pill could only temporarily suppress Xu Yi’s raging poison fire.
• Mu Guangming admitted that the Chaotic Star Sea needed Princess Yinqiu as a hostage, and Young Master Xu offered to stay so Mu Guangming would treat Xu Yi.
• Mu Guangming gave Xu Yi the Fire Gathering Spiritual Art and took Young Master Xu away, promising that he would be safe in the Chaotic Star Sea for a time.
• Xu Yi used the art to control the Fire Spirit Power and recover most of his injuries, then warned Mu Guangming’s steward that he would become the Chaotic Star Sea’s enemy if Princess Yinqiu came to harm.
• Xu Yi hid underwater with the Hidden Spirit Pearl and meditated for two days until his true soul recovered, then considered the battle’s gains and what to do next.