Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi left Immortal Martial Cliff after studying fire talisman structures and raced southeast, where he discovered pursuers from Lie Yi’s Immortal Feather Sect. He broke through their first ambush and killed a hidden pursuer, while Lie Yi and Feng Ting Shu pursued him aboard a Swift Wind Boat.

• Xu Yi spent five days studying the structures of fire talisman arts, then collected supplies from Old Cai and set off southeast on a Mechanical Bird.
• Feng Ting Shu learned that Xu Yi had left Immortal Martial Cliff and asked Lie Yi to help capture him alive.
• Xu Yi spotted more than a dozen Mechanical Birds surrounding him and used the Soul-Shaking Bell to break through their formation.
• Lie Yi and Feng Ting Shu pursued Xu Yi aboard a Swift Wind Boat, which Lie Yi drove at full speed using spirit stones.
• Xu Yi repeatedly dove and climbed to mislead his pursuers, then sprang from his Mechanical Bird and killed a concealed bird with his fire-imbued Baleful Swords.

Xu Yi killed Feng Ting Shu’s Ghost Bird and fled when Feng Ting Shu and Lie Yi caught up aboard a dragon-shaped boat. After Lie Yi’s attack missed, a huge explosion engulfed Four Cliffs Mountain and devastated the pursuing force.

• Xu Yi maneuvered his Mechanical Bird until he spotted and killed the Ghost Bird, then dived into the forest.
• Feng Ting Shu learned the Ghost Bird was dead and drove the Swift Wind Boat toward Xu Yi with Lie Yi and more than thirty Soul Sensing experts.
• Xu Yi taunted Feng Ting Shu and tried to capture evidence with a Shadow-Sound Pearl, but Feng Ting Shu answered through voice transmission, revealing himself.
• Xu Yi fled into the forest as Lie Yi pursued him and sent a soul fragment into his spiritual platform, where Xu Yi’s lightning ring destroyed it.
• Lie Yi and the experts attacked Xu Yi, but Xu Yi escaped Lie Yi’s sword strike with a Swift Wind Talisman before a massive blast tore through the area, killing the pursuing experts and badly injuring Lie Yi.

Xu Yi’s explosive ambush destroyed Lie Yi’s Swift Wind Boat and killed more than thirty Soul Sensing experts, but Xu Yi escaped before the Yin Venerable could retaliate. Lie Yi and Feng Ting Shu vowed to deal with him when he returned from the Chaotic Star Sea, while Xu Yi continued southeast, regretting the costly talisman he had used to flee.

• Xu Yi’s trap exploded, destroying the Swift Wind Boat and killing Lie Yi’s Soul Sensing subordinates, while Feng Ting Shu and Lie Yi survived.
• Feng Ting Shu promised to cover Lie Yi’s losses, and the two blamed Xu Yi’s Sound Blast Box and other explosives for the ambush.
• Feng Ting Shu and Lie Yi decided to wait for Xu Yi to return from the Chaotic Star Sea, hoping he would be weakened enough to capture.
• Xu Yi escaped a hundred li using his Swift Wind Talisman and reflected on how he had planned the trap with Sound Blast Boxes and over a thousand Heavenly Thunder Pearls.
• Xu Yi chose not to risk fighting Lie Yi and continued southeast aboard the Mechanical Bird, lamenting the loss of his valuable talisman.

Xu Yi reached Xianchun City after a series of long-distance teleports and used his Resentment-Exempt Tablet to dispel vengeful spirits from the massacre he had caused. Meanwhile, Young Master Xu learned of Xu Yi’s ordeal and explosion, and Old Qin warned her against pursuing her feelings for him before she asked him for a favor.

• Xu Yi traveled through Wutie City, Blackfire City, and Baishui City before arriving in Xianchun City.
• Xu Yi used the Resentment-Exempt Tablet to make the vengeful spirits haunting him vanish.
• Young Master Xu received Little Three’s report about Xu Yi’s humiliation, revenge, forced mission, and massive explosion.
• Old Qin teased Young Master Xu about her feelings for Xu Yi and warned her of a Peach Blossom Tribulation.
• Young Master Xu asked Old Qin for a favor, but he refused to help if it involved Xu Yi.

Young Master Xu accepted Old Qin’s promise to repay a debt of gratitude on his behalf, while Xu Yi sought a way through the Northern Sacred Court’s defenses to reach the Chaotic Star Sea. Xu Yi found Captain Zhou, but their meeting ended with Captain Zhou questioning why he had come.

• Young Master Xu complained that he hated not being born into an ordinary family, and Old Qin promised to look after the person he owed a debt to.
• Old Qin told Young Master Xu that the marriage negotiations would soon begin and that he must keep wearing women’s clothing at the Exalted One’s command.
• Xu Yi searched the city’s taverns, brothels, and theaters for information about crossing the defensive cordon to the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Xu Yi identified Captain Zhou at Pengkelai and approached him, claiming a connection to Shopkeeper Fan.
• Captain Zhou said he had returned half of the three hundred spirit stones to Old Fan’s widow and asked Xu Yi why he had come to him.

Xu Yi arranged with Captain Zhou to pass through Chun'an Gate, using Spirit Stones and a Shadow-Sound Pearl to secure the deal. After visiting Old Fan’s widow to reassure Captain Zhou, Xu Yi waited near the gate and was escorted away by soldiers amid a sudden crackdown.

• Xu Yi paid Captain Zhou to guide him through the pass and used a Shadow-Sound Pearl to ensure Captain Zhou honored the agreement.
• Xu Yi returned thirty Spirit Stones to Old Fan’s widow at Hundred Herbs Residence, and Captain Zhou visited to verify Xu Yi’s story.
• Captain Zhou told Xu Yi to meet him at Chun'an Gate at the hour of the Ox, and Xu Yi went ahead to scout the area.
• Xu Yi waited at a braised-food stall near Chun'an Gate as suspicious men gathered and black-armored soldiers converged on the district.
• Xu Yi stayed calm and allowed two soldiers to escort him away while watching the men connected to Captain Zhou.

Xu Yi and twelve other captives were fired from a cannon into the Chaotic Star Sea, where they were trapped in a cage amid a deadly Black Storm. The storm killed everyone else, leaving Xu Yi alone and struggling to survive.

• Captain Zhou and Captain Jiang discussed how the authorities were secretly sending captives to their deaths while concealing the operation to avoid punishment.
• Xu Yi and the other captives emerged near a massive Black Storm and realized their cage had been deliberately sent into danger.
• The captives tried and failed to break the cage, then followed Xu Yi’s command to shield themselves with baleful energy as the storm swept them into its eye.
• The Black Storm battered the cage, killing several captives as they ran out of baleful energy or were crushed by the violent currents.
• After half an hour, Xu Yi was the only survivor, and he struggled to endure the storm despite his Boundless Sea.

Xu Yi survived a storm by escaping inside a Starry Sky Sea Serpent, then killed it and escaped a swarm of Blue Flag Dragon Fish. He flew to an enormous unnamed island and spotted several people approaching on ordinary flying beasts.

• Xu Yi escaped the storm by clinging to a Starry Sky Sea Serpent and leaped from its mouth into the sea.
• Xu Yi burned the Starry Sky Sea Serpent’s insides with Fire Gang Malice, killed it, and retrieved its demon core.
• Thousands of Blue Flag Dragon Fish devoured the serpent and attacked Xu Yi, who drove them back with flames and fled on a Mechanical Bird.
• Xu Yi flew for hours until he found an enormous unnamed island and circled it cautiously.
• Xu Yi spotted several people gliding toward the island from the west on ordinary ferocious beasts.

Xu Yi reached Autumn Wind Plain after questioning four laborers, but the island's guards tried to trap him in a stone chamber. He exposed their scheme and attacked one of them, leaving the confrontation underway.

• Xu Yi stopped four cultivators, knocked out three, and questioned each brother about the Chaotic Star Sea and Autumn Wind Plain.
• Xu Yi paid the brothers with spirit stones, flew southeast, and landed on the island's designated arrival deck.
• Two blue-robed men covered Xu Yi's head and led him into a stone chamber, where he sensed four mid-stage Soul Sensing experts and a mechanism beneath an iron chair.
• Xu Yi tore off his cloak, claimed Hong Jing Tian Lang was his sworn brother, and accused the men of trying to trap him.
• When a burly blue-robed man shouted at him, Xu Yi pierced his defenses with the Coral Horn and hurled him into the iron chair.

Xu Yi overwhelmed four Soul Sensing experts who tried to rob him, took their Sumeru Rings, and left them alive after forcing pills on them. He reached a nearly deserted marketplace and learned that the Venerate of Light had issued the “Reward the Strong, Punish the Weak” decree, which would force Soul Sensing experts to fight for survival.

• Xu Yi defeated the four men in the little black room and demanded their passage tokens.
• Xu Yi killed the round-faced old man, took the four Sumeru Rings, and forced red pills down the throats of the remaining three as leverage.
• Xu Yi left the four men alive to avoid trouble from their powerful backing.
• Xu Yi used the passage tokens to pass several checkpoints and arrive at a quiet marketplace.
• Xu Yi recognized that the Venerate of Light's decree had emptied the marketplace and would make Soul Sensing experts fight for limited tokens.

Xu Yi learned why the Reward the Strong, Punish the Weak Decree had been issued and watched a Gale Legion recruitment test begin as he sought to enter the Chaotic Star Sea’s system and find Peach Blossom Demon Zhong Ziyu. The chapter ended with a tiger-pelted cultivator and a young Gale Legion guard attacking each other under the Soul Testing Robe’s rules.

• Xu Yi learned that the Venerate of Light had issued the decree to cull cultivators and concentrate resources among the strong.
• Xu Yi listened as a crimson-robed man explained that applicants to the Gale Legion had to last ten breaths against a guard.
• A tiger-pelted cultivator offered to serve the Blazing Fire Merchant Association in exchange for rewards and resources for his Blood Fiend Demonic Art.
• The crimson-robed man gave the tiger-pelted cultivator and the apricot-yellow-robed guard Soul Testing Robes and explained that the fighter with fewer marks would win.
• The tiger-pelted cultivator and the guard began their test, launching Finger Swords and split-soul attacks at the same time.

Xu Yi entered the Blazing Fire Merchant Association’s recruitment contest and defeated its last undefeated guard with a display that revealed his Boundless Sea while concealing his deeper abilities. The young master in yellow offered him a place in the association, and Xu Yi’s response was left unstated.

• The young man in apricot robes defeated Xiong Pi with a barrage of Baleful Swords, revealing his Pure Purple Sea.
• Xiong Pi protested his defeat and left after the man in crimson refused to make an exception to the contest’s rules.
• After three hours of trials, Xu Yi stepped forward to challenge the only undefeated guard in apricot robes.
• Xu Yi overwhelmed the guard with a torrent of Baleful Swords, showing the crowd his Boundless Sea while hiding his Fire Gang Malice and true Yin Soul strength.
• The young master in yellow stood up and offered Xu Yi a position with the Blazing Fire Merchant Association, promising spirit stones and valuable supplies.

After joining the Blazing Fire Legion, Xu Yi waited for a private meeting with the middle-aged man in crimson and asked how the Strength Battle worked. He learned how kill points changed a token’s color and that earning a Golden Sub-token required killing a legion commander, then asked whether Yin Venerables participated.

• Xu Yi declined the young master in yellow’s offer to bind himself to the Blazing Fire Legion, but promised to obey orders while he served.
• After the selection ended, Xu Yi was led to a luxurious stone chamber and waited until its numbered gate opened.
• Xu Yi met the middle-aged man in crimson and asked how the Strength Battle measured strength and rewarded participants.
• The middle-aged man explained that killing Soul Sensing Realm powerhouses earned points that changed a fighter’s token color, with purple tokens qualifying for a reward from the Venerate of Light.
• The middle-aged man said that killing a legion commander could earn a Golden Sub-token and that fewer than ten commanders had fallen in more than ten battles.
• Xu Yi asked whether Yin Venerables took part in the Strength Battle.

Xu Yi learned how the Strength Battle benefited the factions behind its participants and agreed to form a blood pact with Young Master Huang in exchange for access to Wind Spirit Stones. The pact linked their locations for the coming teleportation, and Young Master Huang urged Xu Yi to fight for him.

• The middle-aged man in crimson assured Xu Yi that he would not have to fight any Yin Venerables and explained the difference between Golden Master Tokens and Golden Sub-tokens.
• The middle-aged man explained that the Venerate of Light had created the Strength Battle to decide which factions could control the Chaotic Star Sea, and that Xu Yi had to earn points while protecting Young Master Huang.
• The middle-aged man offered Xu Yi three thousand spirit stones to sign a blood pact with Young Master Huang, which would help keep them near each other after teleportation.
• Xu Yi asked for Wind Spirit Stones instead of standard equipment or a gift, and the middle-aged man agreed to sell him two for four thousand spirit stones.
• The middle-aged man gave Xu Yi a Strength Order and showed him how to activate it with his blood.
• Young Master Huang gave Xu Yi two Wind Spirit Stones and explained that their blood pact would keep them within ten li of each other after teleportation.

Xu Yi disguised himself to search the temporary market for Wind element Talisman Paper without revealing that he was a Talisman Master. He bought thirteen sheets from a suspicious seller, who offered him a hundred Spirit Stones and sought a connection to Xu Yi’s supposed senior.

• Xu Yi returned to the hall, took a Body Concealing Pill, and disguised himself among the gathered experts.
• Xu Yi posted a notice offering to buy Wind element Talisman Paper, but no one responded at first.
• A middle-aged man in a hemp robe contacted Xu Yi and tested whether he was buying the paper to practice talismans.
• Xu Yi claimed he was buying the paper for a senior who practiced Swift Body Talismans, convincing the man that he could gain a valuable connection.
• The man sold Xu Yi thirteen sheets for thirteen hundred Spirit Stones and returned a hundred Spirit Stones as a gift, asking for a Swift Body Talisman in return.

Xu Yi, posing as Xue Xiang, struck a deal with Liu Yinglin for a possible supply of talisman paper and asked him about the Peach Blossom Demon, Zhong Ziyu. Liu warned Xu Yi about Zhong’s influence and revealed that little was known about his abilities beyond rumors of his immense physical strength and connection to the Venerate of Light.

• Xu Yi learned from Liu Yinglin that talisman paper was refined by skilled makers and agreed to stay in contact about obtaining supplies.
• Liu Yinglin warned Xu Yi that the Strength Battle would be dangerous and advised him to avoid anyone wearing a peach blossom, a mark worn by Zhong Mouren’s thirty-six outstanding disciples.
• Xu Yi identified the Peach Blossom Demon as Zhong Ziyu and persuaded Liu Yinglin to share what he knew about the man.
• Liu Yinglin said that everyone who had witnessed Zhong Ziyu’s abilities was dead, but his body was rumored to be exceptionally powerful because his disciples practiced body tempering.
• Liu Yinglin added that Zhong Ziyu may have received guidance from the Venerate of Light after once helping him, leaving Xu Yi troubled by the connection.

After preparing talismans and recalling his former life in Furong Town, Xu Yi joined the legion’s departure for the Chaotic Star Sea. The teleportation array sent him onto an erupting magnetic point, and he struggled to reach the seabed while avoiding its dangers.

• Xu Yi asked Liu Yinglin to compile a dossier on Old Demon Zhong, then left after securing Wind Spirit Stones and Wind element Talisman Paper.
• Xu Yi crafted twelve Swift Body Talismans, slept, and dreamed of Qiu Wa and his old courtyard in Furong Town.
• Xu Yi arrived at the hall disguised as a Long-faced Youth and joined the legion as it departed through a teleportation array.
• The middle-aged man in crimson warned the group to rely on comrades from their own legion in the Chaotic Star Sea.
• Xu Yi arrived above the ocean on an erupting magnetic point and watched another person be incinerated by its force.
• Xu Yi dived toward the seabed, escaped the magnetic storm’s first eruption, and dodged a massive Golden Horn Sea Elephant.

Xu Yi escaped a magnetic storm by riding tamed Silver Extreme Arrow Fish, then flew across the sea and encountered two men carrying Giant Bird Emblems. He killed the red-faced big man, took his Clear Wind Net and Sumeru Ring, and chased after the fleeing Bald Monk.

• Xu Yi tamed two Silver Extreme Arrow Fish with Clear Wind Silk and rode them away from the dangerous magnetic points.
• After the exhausted fish carried him more than five hundred li, Xu Yi fed them Precious Medicine, then flew onward on his Mechanical Bird toward Autumn Wind Plain.
• Xu Yi met a red-faced big man and a Bald Monk, who tried to trap him with an invisible Clear Wind Net.
• Xu Yi dodged the net, closed in on the red-faced big man, and killed him with the Coral Horn.
• Xu Yi took the Clear Wind Net and Sumeru Ring, captured the man's spirit, and pursued the fleeing Bald Monk.

Xu Yi pursued the Bald Monk to draw more cultivators into the area, then accepted help from Zhang of Peach Blossom when the Bald Monk found allies. After the groups dispersed, Xu Yi offered Zhang five spirit stones to repay him.

• Xu Yi let a resentful soul cling to him and continued trailing the Bald Monk until five groups of cultivators arrived.
• The Bald Monk fled to Old Demon Zhou and accused Xu Yi of ambushing him and killing Old Qian San.
• Zhang of Peach Blossom confronted Old Demon Zhou, who backed down and left with the Bald Monk and his companions.
• Xu Yi thanked Zhang of Peach Blossom for intervening and offered him five spirit stones, despite Zhang’s companions demanding greater gratitude.

Xu Yi refused to let Zhang of Peach Blossom extort him, mocking Zhang until the group was interrupted by Elder Zhou in Python Robes and his allies. Elder Zhou’s force confronted the Blazing Fire Legion members, while Xu Yi recognized their plan to split the group apart.

• Zhang of Peach Blossom demanded more than the five spirit stones Xu Yi offered, while the yellow-faced middle-aged man and the beautiful woman in red pressured Xu Yi to pay.
• Xu Yi took back the spirit stones and said he would leave if the others did not want to travel with him, but Zhang eventually accepted the five stones.
• Xu Yi mocked Zhang’s contradictory demands, drawing laughter from the yellow-faced middle-aged man and the beautiful woman in red.
• Zhang of Peach Blossom displayed his power with a black baleful-intent sphere, then Elder Zhou in Python Robes arrived with more than a dozen allies.
• Xu Yi recognized that Elder Zhou’s force was trying to make the group scatter, while Zhang challenged Elder Zhou over threatening the Peach Blossom Alliance.