Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi challenged Wang Yao at the Fahua Gathering to settle their grudge and build his reputation. After Xu Yi swiftly defeated Song Zhao with the Soul-Summoning Banner, he pressed Wang Yao to fight, leaving him cornered before the watching crowd.

• Hostess Jiayi urged Xu Yi and Wang Yao to finish their exchange by taking the field.
• Xu Yi challenged Wang Yao, hoping to settle their old score and gain fame for the Donghua Immortal Sect.
• Song Zhao entered the arena in Wang Yao's place, but Xu Yi's Soul-Summoning Banner seized his soul and defeated him instantly.
• The crowd reacted with shock and covetous interest in Xu Yi's powerful soul-attacking treasure.
• Xu Yi challenged Wang Yao again, proposed a life-and-death agreement, and left the crowd waiting for Wang Yao's response.

Xu Yi forced Wang Yao to admit he would not fight, then accepted Xiong Bei Ming’s challenge in his place. As the duel began, Xiong Bei Ming’s purple icicle shattered Xu Yi’s plum blossoms, leaving his defense under pressure.

• Xu Yi taunted Wang Yao until Wang Yao revealed that his Heart Oath prevented him from fighting for three years and refused the challenge.
• Xiong Bei Ming offered to take Wang Yao’s place, and Xu Yi agreed to face him under a Challenge Letter with life-and-death consequences.
• Wang Yao signed the Challenge Letter, vowed to take Xu Yi’s head in three years, and left the arena.
• Xu Yi signed the letter and said he would defend against Xiong Bei Ming’s three moves, while Xiong Bei Ming declared that a second move would count as his loss.
• Xu Yi summoned swirling plum blossoms as Xiong Bei Ming fired a purple icicle that shattered six hundred blossoms.

Xu Yi defeated Xiong Bei Ming by revealing his Boundless Sea, and the news made Wang Qianqiu famous across the cultivation world. In Dark Night City, Wang Yao traded secrets about Xu Yi and the Heavenly Demon Jade Wall to the Old Ancestor’s agent, hoping to stop Xu Yi’s rise.

• Xu Yi’s sea of plum-blossom flames endured Xiong Bei Ming’s ice needle until Xiong Bei Ming conceded and asked whether Xu Yi possessed a Pure Purple Sea.
• Xu Yi revealed that his sea was Boundless, then left as the crowd acclaimed him and the Third Holy Son sent a message by transmission pearl.
• After the Fahua Gathering, Wang Qianqiu became known throughout the cultivation world as Wang Meihua of the Boundless Sea.
• In a secret alchemy chamber in Dark Night City, Wang Yao accepted five elemental high-grade Spirit Stones from the Old Ancestor’s agent in exchange for information.
• Wang Yao told the agent that Xu Yi had entered the inner sect without forming his Origin Core, possessed a Boundless Sea, achieved the True Essence Fifth Turn, and taken the shrunken Heavenly Demon Jade Wall after receiving an inheritance in the Heavenly God Hall.

Xu Yi assassinated Wang Yao and a black-robed middle-aged man in a refinement chamber, then escaped the city while sensing he might be followed. The Third Holy Son learned that the man he suspected of being Xu Yi had seemingly evaded Ming Mingzi, but dismissed his suspicion that Xu Yi was Wang Qianqiu.

• Xu Yi used Wang Yao's blood-written name to track him and arranged a neighboring refinement chamber from which he could attack unseen.
• Xu Yi pierced the chamber with an eighth-rank Dark Obsidian Dagger, killed Wang Yao and the black-robed middle-aged man, destroyed their souls, and took the Sumeru Ring.
• Xu Yi left the refinement chamber district unnoticed, but an uneasy feeling led him to use evasive movements as he departed the city.
• Three thousand plum blossoms spread across the sky, a fireball exploded, and the crystal ball in the red-robed elder's hand shattered.
• The Third Holy Son asked what the red-robed elder had seen, then heard a message and decided he had been overthinking his suspicion that Xu Yi was Wang Qianqiu.

The Third Holy Son abandoned his suspicion that Wang Qianqiu had inherited the Heavenly Demon Jade Wall after learning Wang Yao had died. Elsewhere, Venerable Xia learned that his Daoist attendant was dead and that Wang Yao had also been killed, but he postponed seeking revenge until he finished refining a Divine Treasure embryo.

• The Third Holy Son concluded that Wang Qianqiu was unlikely to be the Heavenly God Hall inheritor after hearing Wang Yao had been killed, and he and the red-robed elder regretted losing the chance to implicate the Donghua Immortal Sect and Imperial Martial Hall.
• Deep beneath the Black Dragon Mountains, Venerable Xia refined a Divine Treasure embryo while a shattered soul tablet revealed that his Daoist attendant had died.
• Venerable Xia used a Mirror Sealing Plate to track the attendant's killer and vowed to wait two days before pursuing them.
• Venerable Xia received word that Wang Yao had also been killed and realized the young man's schemes had brought about the deaths.

Venerable Xia used a Golden Armored Giant before returning to refine the Divine Embryo, while Xu Yi fled after a half-Primal Soul pursued him for killing Wang Yao. Unable to get help from the Donghua Immortal Sect, Xu Yi returned to Wang Yao’s death site and shouted for him to come out.

• Venerable Xia split off a Soul Body, tested the Golden Armored Giant, then returned to refining the Divine Embryo.
• Su Xiao Ruo sensed danger and dragged Xu Yi from his cultivation room after he killed Wang Yao and another man.
• Xu Yi recognized that a half-Primal Soul was approaching and used Raging Wind Talismans to flee.
• Xu Yi contacted Elder Bai and Immortal Lord He for help, but neither could arrange immediate aid.
• Xu Yi returned to Wang Yao’s death site and shouted for Wang Yao to come out.

Xu Yi pretended to mourn Wang Yao, then helped expose Venerable Xia as the hidden figure at the scene. Venerable Xia attacked Xu Yi for his treasure, but Xu Yi countered with the Soul-Summoning Banner, which Venerable Xia recognized as a fourth-rank soul artifact.

• Xu Yi arrived wailing over Wang Yao's death, and Song Zhao and the Imperial Martial Hall experts mistook his grief for proof of honorable regard.
• Xu Yi unleashed Three Thousand Swords toward a hidden presence, prompting Venerable Xia to abandon his hiding place and fly toward them.
• Song Zhao and the others accused Venerable Xia of killing Wang Yao, while Venerable Xia denied it and blamed Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi offered to go with the Imperial Martial Hall to face judgment, making the group more suspicious of Venerable Xia's motives.
• Venerable Xia charged at Xu Yi to invade his spiritual platform, but Xu Yi deployed the Soul-Summoning Banner and forced him to retreat into a golden-armored man from his Sumeru Ring.
• Venerable Xia identified the banner as a fourth-rank soul artifact and declared that his trip had not been in vain.

Xu Yi manipulated Song Zhao and the others into standing their ground against Venerable Xia, then taunted the True Core Divine Venerate into a wager to fight him. He had learned that Venerable Xia’s half-arrived Primal Soul relied on the Golden Armor Divine Body, whose weaknesses Xu Yi hoped to exploit.

• Song Zhao and the other cultivators considered retreating, but Xu Yi publicly vowed to avenge Wang Yao alone and made them stay to protect the Imperial Martial Hall’s reputation.
• Venerable Xia attacked through the Golden Armor Divine Body, and Xu Yi used Flame Burst Talismans to hold it off.
• Xu Yi taunted Venerable Xia with a wager, challenging him to withstand one strike from a technique meant to break golden armor.
• Xu Yi reasoned that Venerable Xia’s absent physical body left the Golden Armor Divine Body without a Qi Sea, and that his Soul-Summoning Banner countered the Divine Venerate’s killing intent.
• Xu Yi had secretly asked Song Zhao and the others about the Golden Armor Divine Body, and they had given him the information he needed.

Xu Yi defeated Venerable Xia by destroying the Golden Armor Divine Body with the Primordial Sword Tooth, then fled before the wounded Venerable could pursue him. He teleported to Chaotic Cloud City, while Venerable Xia returned to his cave to recover.

• Xu Yi challenged Venerable Xia to withstand one strike, then rushed forward under the Illusionary Traces Fire Shadow Art.
• Venerable Xia tried to seize Xu Yi, but Xu Yi destroyed the Golden Armor Divine Body with the Primordial Sword Tooth.
• The Soul-Summoning Banner captured half of Venerable Xia's Primal Soul, but the rest escaped and vowed revenge against Wang Qianqiu.
• Xu Yi left the district and checked that the Primordial Sword Tooth remained intact before heading to a merchant association's teleportation array.
• Xu Yi teleported to Chaotic Cloud City, millions of miles away from the fight.
• Venerable Xia's wounded Primal Soul rejoined his main body, forcing him to stop refining the Divine Treasure embryo and begin recovering.

Venerable Xia accepted Daoist Zhu’s proposal to wait seven years before seeking a fight with Wang Qianqiu, while Xu Yi entered the Chaotic Star Sea and discovered the Ice Fire Rabbit devouring his precious Spirit Stones. The rabbit continued for three months, consuming all the stones Xu Yi had taken from Venerable Xia and many more.

• Venerable Xia learned that his Primal Soul would take years to recover and grew more determined to kill Wang Qianqiu.
• Daoist Zhu offered Venerable Xia a Black Origin Bead or a Challenge Letter and proposed that they wait seven years before Venerable Xia fought Wang Qianqiu.
• Venerable Xia accepted the seven-year pact, and Daoist Zhu vanished.
• Xu Yi entered the Chaotic Star Sea using Mu Guangming’s jade token, met Elder Feng, and settled in Mu Guangming’s former courtyard.
• Xu Yi emptied Venerable Xia’s Sumeru Ring and watched the Ice Fire Rabbit consume high-grade Spirit Stones and change colors.
• The Ice Fire Rabbit devoured Spirit Stones for three months, using up all of Venerable Xia’s trove and many of Xu Yi’s Fire Element Spirit Stones.

Xu Yi sought an explanation for the Ice Fire Rabbit’s radiant, deep sleep and learned it might be undergoing Annihilation, a dangerous transformation that required a Demon Core Stone. With the rabbit’s life at risk, Xu Yi prepared to seek help from the Monster Hunting Workshop and Old Demon Tan.

• The Ice Fire Rabbit stopped devouring Spirit Stones and fell into a deep sleep surrounded by five-colored light, leaving Xu Yi worried.
• Elder Feng returned with Old Su, who recognized the light as a possible sign of a demon undergoing Annihilation.
• Old Su explained that Annihilation could grant a demon a core, greater intelligence, and demonic arts, but warned that the rabbit’s unusual light might indicate a fatal mutation.
• Xu Yi insisted that the rabbit was undergoing Annihilation and asked how to help it; Old Su said it needed a rare Demon Core Stone and could die if it remained too long without one.
• Elder Feng recommended that Xu Yi seek a Demon Core Stone at a coastal Monster Hunting Workshop and offered to bring Old Demon Tan to answer his questions.

Xu Yi obtained a sea-border map and several reference books from Old Demon Tan, then boarded the Seven Python to reach a Monster Hunting Workshop. When someone deliberately lured a Blue Charm out of the fog and trapped her, the passengers erupted in protest.

• Old Demon Tan gave Xu Yi a sea-border map, Record of Sea Borders, Tales of Sea Demons, and Sea Patrol Notes, and Xu Yi copied part of the map to send to Donghua Immortal Sect.
• Elder Bai scolded Xu Yi for delaying the map, and Xu Yi later returned Old Demon Tan’s originals and gave him five mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Xu Yi spent three days aboard the Seven Python studying the map and books as the ship sailed toward a Monster Hunting Workshop.
• The Seven Python suddenly turned toward strange fog, and Xu Yi realized someone had deliberately used a Boundary Barrier Pearl to lure out a Blue Charm.
• The Blue Charm appeared and guided the ship, but someone trapped her in a white-light net, prompting the passengers to curse the captor.

Xu Yi saw through Lei Ming and the Flower-Browed Elder’s scheme to collect Spirit Stones by pretending a blood sacrifice was necessary. Liu Mo'er revealed herself as the one who freed Blue Charm and openly challenged the pair, leaving the ship’s passengers to watch their confrontation.

• A red streak cut the line holding Blue Charm, freeing her to dive into the sea.
• Lei Ming accused an unnamed saboteur of ruining his plan to capture Blue Charm and claimed the ship needed a blood sacrifice to escape danger.
• The Flower-Browed Elder and Lei Ming staged an argument that ended with Lei Ming agreeing to use the Star-Picking Art and collect mid-grade Spirit Stones from the passengers.
• Liu Mo'er appeared and insulted Lei Ming, prompting him to recognize her as the eldest daughter of the North Guard Fleet.
• Liu Mo'er said she had freed Blue Charm, exposed the pair’s plan to make her pay everyone’s Spirit Stones, and challenged them to continue their act.

Xu Yi broke through the Three-Five-Seven Sword while studying the stars aboard the Seven Python, then revealed that he had let Blue Charm go and confronted Young Master Lei. The ship changed course toward shore at full speed, with Young Master Lei promising it would arrive within three hours.

• Liu Mo'er exposed Young Master Lei and the Flower-Browed Elder's scheme, offered to guide the ship, and challenged Lei Ming to fight.
• The Flower-Browed Elder activated the Dragon Bone Protective Formation as Lei Ming and Liu Mo'er began fighting, while Xu Yi studied the stars at the bow.
• Xu Yi broke through the Three-Five-Seven Sword's final barriers and unleashed a strike that rocked the ship and stunned everyone aboard.
• Xu Yi admitted he had let Blue Charm go, and Young Master Lei backed down rather than risk provoking him.
• Xu Yi demanded to know when the Seven Python would reach shore, and Young Master Lei promised it would arrive within three hours and ordered the crew to hurry.

Xu Yi arrived at the Monster Hunting Workshop, learned from Liu Mo'er why the human-run workshops remained safe from the Demon Race, and set up a stall in the Western Market to trade two unusual talismans for rare treasures. He left the stall in view of the crowd and waited at Yashan Residence for serious buyers, drawing an insult from one onlooker.

• Xu Yi reached shore with the Seven Python and accepted Liu Mo'er as his guide after she offered to show him around the Monster Hunting Workshop.
• Liu Mo'er explained that the Demon Race ignored the shallow seas, while spatial rifts and distant sea routes kept the Northern Sacred Court from controlling the workshops.
• Xu Yi spent three days exploring the Monster Hunting Workshop with Liu Mo'er and four days in seclusion.
• Xu Yi disguised himself as a Yang Venerable cultivator at the Western Market and displayed a Raging Wind Talisman and a Flame Burst Talisman for trade.
• Xu Yi announced that he would accept only rare treasures, then entered Yashan Residence to await serious buyers.
• An onlooker mocked Xu Yi for acting as though his two unusual talismans were precious treasures.

Xu Yi traded more than thirty Mystical Talismans for two rare treasures while remaining inside Yalan Residence to avoid the factions watching him. Shopkeeper Cao met with three faction leaders to plan how to force Xu Yi out or seize him, and asked them to cover the cost of clearing the residence.

• Xu Yi set off a Flame Burst Talisman, attracting traders who exchanged more than thirty Mystical Talismans for it.
• Xu Yi obtained a Spirit Mussel Pearl and a Three Emperors Swift Serpent Cloak, both suited to his planned deep-sea journey.
• Xu Yi stayed inside Yalan Residence as powerful factions watched him and Shopkeeper Cao tested whether he would leave.
• Shopkeeper Cao invited Deputy Alliance Leader Zuo, Deputy Island Master Liu, and a gaunt old man to discuss Xu Yi.
• Shopkeeper Cao proposed clearing out Yalan Residence's guests and asked the three faction leaders how they would settle the compensation bill.

Xu Yi escaped Yalan Residence by setting off Flame Burst Talismans, then tracked down and captured Shopkeeper Cao, Deputy Alliance Leader Zuo, Deputy Island Master Liu, and Mr. Zhu. After waking them, he revealed himself as the man they had targeted and prepared to make them serve him.

• Shopkeeper Cao demanded forty percent of the proceeds, and explosions from Xu Yi’s Flame Burst Talismans engulfed the secret chamber.
• Mr. Zhu used a powerful frost talisman to extinguish the flames, devastating the West Marketplace, and the four survivors worried that their identities would be exposed.
• Xu Yi changed his appearance amid the chaos, escaped, looted Sumeru Rings, and followed the injured men using their blood aura.
• Xu Yi ambushed the four with Five Thousand Swords, carried them to a concealed cave, and subdued them with Heart-Devouring Worms.
• After Mr. Zhu accepted defeat, Xu Yi teased Deputy Island Master Liu and revealed that he was the supposed fat pig from Yalan Residence.

Xu Yi forced four coastal leaders to surrender sea charts and agree to serve him, then accepted their request to take the blame for the Yalan Residence explosion. The four hid beneath Meilong Ridge and waited anxiously to see whether Xu Yi would keep his word.

• Deputy Island Master Liu recognized Xu Yi as Donghua King Meihua, and Xu Yi rebuffed Deputy Alliance Leader Zuo's claim of friendship with Immortal Lord He.
• Deputy Alliance Leader Zuo explained that Demon Race rebellions had disrupted the Sea of Forgetfulness and apparently drawn Luanyu Immortal Island into the conflict.
• Xu Yi obtained four coastal sea charts from Deputy Alliance Leader Zuo, Mr. Zhu, Shopkeeper Cao, and Deputy Island Master Liu, filling the gaps in his own chart.
• Shopkeeper Cao asked Xu Yi to take the blame for the Yalan Residence explosion so the four could retain their identities, and Xu Yi agreed while warning them to obey him.
• The four men hid beneath Meilong Ridge, and Deputy Alliance Leader Zuo wondered whether Xu Yi had deceived them when no word came from him.

Xu Yi killed Zhu after catching him plotting to strike first, then gathered his spoils and headed to the Eastern Sea in response to Liu Mo'er's distress message. He found her aboard a badly damaged ship surrounded by powerful cultivators, including her father.

• Zhu proposed luring Wang Meihua into a trap, but Xu Yi appeared and burned him to ash while sparing Shopkeeper Cao, Deputy Island Master Liu, and Deputy Alliance Leader Zuo.
• After the three men fled in separate directions, Xu Yi stayed at their cavern, sent a sea chart to Immortal Lord He, and examined the seventeen Sumeru Rings he had collected.
• Xu Yi analyzed a Talisman Treasure and tested the Spirit Mussel Pearl and Gale Cloak while preparing to seek Liu Mo'er.
• Liu Mo'er sent Xu Yi an urgent message saying her father and brothers were in danger and that their fleet had brought back a demon corpse that had undergone a second Demon Core transformation.
• Xu Yi rushed to the coordinates, found Liu Mo'er aboard a bloodied, scorched ship, and saw that its deck held more than a dozen Yang Venerate experts, including two point origin experts and Liu Mo'er's father.

Xu Yi arrived aboard the Fierce Dragon to help Liu Mo'er’s family after their devastating naval battle with the Lei family, but the Liu family underestimated him and Su Feng mocked him. The chapter ended when Su Jie’s powerful friend arrived and gave Su Feng an Extreme Water Bead, drawing everyone’s attention and tempting Xu Yi.

• Xu Yi met Liu Ming and learned that the Liu family, its guests, and the Su family uncle and nephew were aboard the damaged Fierce Dragon.
• Liu Mo'er explained that the Lei family had ambushed the Liu family at sea, badly damaged their ship, and forced Liu Ming to use a mid-grade Spirit Stone to escape.
• Su Feng insulted Xu Yi’s offer to help, while Liu Yong and Liu Ming rebuked Liu Mo'er; Liu Jie cautioned Su Feng not to provoke a stranger without knowing his strength.
• Xu Yi went to the bow, where three newcomers arrived and Su Jie introduced the red-robed old man to the others without naming him.
• The red-robed old man gave Su Feng an Extreme Water Bead, and Xu Yi felt his greed stir as the crowd recognized the rare treasure.