Recaps

Lei Dong and Zhang Heng met the Battle Hall Master after their successful seizure of Tianyin Palace’s transport ship and learned that the mission had tested their character. The Hall Master revealed herself as the Heavenly Demon, then ordered Lei Dong to knead her shoulders.

• Ouyang Mi praised Zhang Heng and Lei Dong for capturing the cargo intact and told them it was worth 1.83 billion Spirit Stones.
• Ouyang Mi brought the two men to meet the Battle Hall Master, who praised Lei Dong for warning Zhang Heng about the cargo’s danger.
• The Hall Master explained that the ship-seizure mission had been a test, promoted them to core Battle Hall members, and doubled their Contribution Value.
• The Hall Master dismissed Zhang Heng but asked Lei Dong to stay, then revealed herself as the Heavenly Demon.
• The Heavenly Demon told Lei Dong about her past as Battle Hall Vice Hall Master and ordered him to knead her shoulders.

Lei Dong learned that Yin Sha Sect and Tianyin Palace would fight a limited war over the East Sea Star Islands in three months. He assessed his escape speed and began considering how to improve his chances of surviving the conflict.

• Lei Dong returned to camp, reassured Zhang Heng that the Hall Master had treated him well, and heard that she had been angered by the ambush on his squad.
• Zhang Heng told Lei Dong that Yin Sha Sect and Tianyin Palace had agreed to restrict the coming war to the sea, limit the disciples and Ancestors they could deploy, and begin fighting in three months.
• Lei Dong considered the danger of the war and decided that becoming stronger was his best chance of survival.
• Lei Dong tested his escape speed, reaching about eight hundred li per hour with true energy, thirteen hundred with Ghost Shadow Escape, and fifteen hundred when he empowered it with the Netherworld Great Law.

Lei Dong assessed his chances of escaping Golden Core cultivators and sought ways to survive the war with Tianyin Palace. After updating his Contribution Value, he agreed to learn the Blood Escape Technique and asked Deacon Zhao to recommend other life-saving options.

• Lei Dong tested his escape speed and concluded that only greater cultivation or improved techniques could give him a chance against a Golden Core cultivator.
• Lei Dong returned to Small Continent City with 780 Spirit Stones and 20 million Contribution Points earned through battles and missions.
• Lei Dong visited the Third Commandery's Contribution Value clerk, Deacon Zhao, and updated the amount recorded on his token.
• Lei Dong asked Deacon Zhao for life-saving spirit items or a Cultivation Method that could help him escape a Golden Core cultivator.
• Deacon Zhao recommended the Blood Escape Technique, and Lei Dong decided to learn it while asking for other options.

Lei Dong exchanged twenty-one million Contribution Value for a damaged pair of top-tier Great Asura wings after Steward Zhao urged him to buy them. After discovering their poor condition, Lei Dong left in anger, and Zhao Chong reported to a Hall Master that he had followed the Hall Master’s order to recommend the wings.

• Steward Zhao told Lei Dong that the top-tier Great Asura wings could be refined into a speed-enhancing Spirit Item, though they could not be transplanted directly.
• Lei Dong spent twenty-one million Contribution Value, including twenty High Grade Spirit Stones to cover a shortfall, to exchange for the wings.
• Lei Dong inspected the wings and found them badly damaged, with broken bones and much of one wing’s membrane burned away.
• Lei Dong grabbed Steward Zhao in anger, but Zhao warned him that attacking a Contribution Steward would bring punishment under sect rules.
• Lei Dong put away the wings and stormed out, and Zhao Chong later told a Hall Master that he had recommended them as ordered.

Lei Dong searched Small Continent City for someone capable of refining the battered Asura Wings and learned about the reclusive Artifact Refining Grandmaster Wang Lei, whose family had been slaughtered by the Blood Demon. He sailed with Zhang Heng to Wang Lei’s island, hoping to persuade him to refine the wings while guarding against the dangerous old master.

• The Heavenly Demon took the Asura Wings, and Steward Zhao regretted charging Lei Dong only twenty million contribution points for them.
• Lei Dong searched Small Continent City for an artifact refiner capable of turning the Great Asura’s wings into a magical artifact, but the local refiners refused the task.
• Lei Dong learned that Wang Lei had once been a renowned Artifact Refining Grandmaster before the Blood Demon murdered his wife and children, leaving him isolated and broken.
• Lei Dong decided to seek Wang Lei’s help despite expecting him to refuse.
• Lei Dong asked Zhang Heng to sail the Netherworld Nine to Wang Lei’s island and brought the ship along as a precaution.

Lei Dong visited Wang Lei to ask him to refine a Spirit Item, but Wang Lei attacked him and then offered to hear his request if he survived ten Finger Swords. Lei Dong endured Wang Lei’s opening barrage, though the Golden Core cultivator’s strikes wounded him.

• Lei Dong arrived at Wang Lei’s island and asked him to refine a Spirit Item, but Wang Lei ignored him until he turned to leave.
• Wang Lei attacked Lei Dong with a Finger Sword, and Lei Dong dodged while Zhang Heng brought Netherworld Nine closer.
• Lei Dong noticed Wang Lei’s pride in the Blood-colored Cloak and praised his work, prompting Wang Lei to challenge him to withstand ten Finger Swords.
• Lei Dong prepared his defenses and accepted the challenge as Zhang Heng warned Wang Lei not to go too far.
• Wang Lei’s second Finger Sword curved after Lei Dong, who blocked it with the Indestructible Shield.
• Wang Lei unleashed seven or eight more attacks, and Lei Dong stopped them with his treasures and Peak Puppet but spat out blood from the impact.

Lei Dong survived Wang Lei’s final Finger Force and asked him to refine a pair of Great Asura wings. Wang Lei discovered the wings belonged not to a Peak Great Asura, but to an Asura King.

• Lei Dong used the Black Dragon Banner, Golden Puppet, Black Dragon Chant, and Indestructible Shield to withstand Wang Lei’s final Finger Force, then recovered with spiritual medicine.
• Wang Lei acknowledged Lei Dong’s unusual strength and asked what material he wanted refined into a Spirit Item.
• Zhang Heng flew away under the excuse of relieving himself, giving Lei Dong privacy to show Wang Lei his material.
• Lei Dong presented a battered pair of wings he believed belonged to a Peak Great Asura and asked Wang Lei to refine them.
• Wang Lei examined the wings and told Lei Dong they were Asura King wings, leaving Lei Dong stunned.

Lei Dong learned that the damaged wings were Asura King Wings and discovered that repairing and refining them would require rare materials and a powerful fire source. He returned to Small Continent Island with a plan to find a Nascent Soul Cultivator and arrange materials, only to learn their auxiliary cost totaled forty-one million Contribution Value.

• Wang Lei explained that the Asura King Wings needed extensive repairs and either an Earth Fire Core or a Nascent Soul Cultivator skilled with flames to refine them.
• Lei Dong decided to gather the auxiliary materials and find a Nascent Soul Cultivator himself, while Wang Lei gave him a list of what he needed.
• After Lei Dong left, Miss Mu thanked Wang Lei for helping and asked him to keep her involvement secret from Lei Dong.
• Lei Dong showed Zhang Heng the wings, and Zhang Heng offered to exchange Spirit Stones for Contribution Value through Battle Hall members.
• Lei Dong checked Wang Lei's materials list with Steward Zhao and found that the auxiliary materials would cost forty-one million Contribution Value.

Lei Dong gathered the costly materials needed for Wang Lei to repair the Asura King Wings, with Tian Mo agreeing to assist. After a month, Wang Lei began forging the wings, bringing them to a majestic, nearly restored state as the chapter ended before the final step.

• Lei Dong recruited squadmates to help cover the materials' cost, spent 410 Upper Grade Spirit Stones, and arranged to receive supplies unavailable at Small Continent Island.
• Tian Mo readily agreed to accompany Lei Dong and help Wang Lei forge the wings once the materials arrived.
• After a month of cultivation and patrols, Lei Dong received the shipment and brought Tian Mo to Wang Lei's island.
• Wang Lei purified the materials, shaped and repaired the wing frames, and used Tian Mo's Demonic Flame to assist with the difficult forging.
• Wang Lei wove the Mysterious Nether Heavenly Silk across the frames and formed new membranes, leaving the restored wings to dry before the final step.

Lei Dong completed the refinement of the Asura King Wings and discovered they gave him astonishing bursts of speed. Wang Lei then attacked to test whether Lei Dong could escape his pursuit, leaving Lei Dong fleeing on wings that rapidly drained his true energy.

• After the Heavenly Demon tempered the wings and Wang Lei inscribed formations on them, Lei Dong used five mouthfuls of Essence Blood and began refining them with his soul.
• Lei Dong spent three days overcoming the wings’ resistance and finally melded them into his soul alongside his other magic tools and spiritual artifacts.
• Lei Dong summoned the wings and flew several li in an instant, then practiced controlling their speed while the Heavenly Demon assessed their limits.
• Wang Lei suddenly attacked Lei Dong with a giant green claw, forcing Lei Dong to flee with repeated bursts from the wings.
• Lei Dong swallowed a Lesser Misty Spirit Replenishing Pill and continued escaping as the wings drained his true energy.

Lei Dong fled across the sea while Wang Lei pursued him, surviving an attack by a colossal sea monster before using his treasures and pills to keep ahead of his pursuer. Wang Lei eventually gave up the chase, and the Heavenly Demon appeared to advise Lei Dong to refine his wings and improve his cultivation.

• Lei Dong flew low over the sea on the Evil Ghost Banner and recovered his strength with a Lesser Misty Spirit Replenishing Pill.
• A colossal tentacled sea monster attacked Lei Dong, but he severed one of its tentacles, blocked its water arrow, and escaped with his Asura Wings.
• Wang Lei caught up with Lei Dong, who repeatedly used his Asura Wings and pills to maintain his lead during a long pursuit.
• Wang Lei gave up chasing Lei Dong, then praised the Asura King Wings he had crafted and explained their potential.
• The Heavenly Demon appeared and told Lei Dong to refine his wings further and focus on raising his cultivation.

Lei Dong spent three years fighting in the Eastern Sea war, rising to the peak of the seventh Foundation Establishment layer and earning the fearsome nickname Ghost Asura. He led an assault on the Qian family’s island, where its protective formation finally shattered.

• Lei Dong returned to camp with his refined wings, and his squad members tried unsuccessfully to exchange for Great Asura Wings.
• The war between the Yin Sha Sect and Tianyin Palace erupted, and Lei Dong and Number Nine were assigned to command twenty-five Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Over three years of missions, Lei Dong advanced to the peak of the seventh layer, while battle-tested survivors under his command gained wealth, equipment, and respect for him.
• Lei Dong led the Netherworld Twenty-Six against the Qian family and offered its acting clan leader a chance to surrender, but the man refused.
• Lei Dong and his forces attacked the Qian family’s Mountain Protecting Formation until Lei Dong’s black dragon strike shattered it.

Lei Dong wiped out the Qian Lineage before fleeing Tianyin Palace’s pursuing warships. Tantai Bingyun used white wings to overtake the Netherworld Warship and unleashed a fiery dragon attack, leaving Lei Dong’s crew stunned and in immediate danger.

• Lei Dong led his Foundation Establishment Cultivators in slaughtering the Qian Lineage, then ordered them to finish quickly and loot the island.
• Lei Dong killed the fleeing Scarlet Refinement with one sword strike, and his squad wiped out the Qian Lineage in under half an hour.
• Two White Jade Warships arrived, and Tantai Bingyun recognized Lei Dong and ordered a pursuit.
• Lei Dong escaped aboard the Netherworld Warship, but the two White Jade Warships stayed on its heels and fired their cannons.
• Tantai Bingyun spread a pair of white wings, flew past the Netherworld Warship, and summoned a fiery dragon that attacked it.

Lei Dong drew Tantai Bingyun’s Infernal Flame Dragon away from the Netherworld Warship so Number Nine could steer it toward the Yin Sha Sect’s stronghold. Tantai Bingyun pursued Lei Dong herself with a pair of powerful wings, and the chapter ended with the two flying off in pursuit.

• Lei Dong blasted Tantai Bingyun’s Infernal Flame Dragon with the Netherflame Main Cannon, then attacked it with Black Dragon Chant to draw its attention away from the Netherworld Warship.
• The wounded flame dragon ignored Tantai Bingyun’s commands and pursued Lei Dong, while Number Nine steered the Netherworld Warship toward the Yin Sha Sect’s stronghold.
• Tantai Bingyun abandoned her attempt to control the flame dragon, caught up with Lei Dong, and struck him with her Green Lotus Sword Tune.
• Lei Dong used his Asura Wings to fly more than four li away, but Tantai Bingyun followed with her own wings and vowed not to let him escape.
• Lei Dong fled again, and Tantai Bingyun turned into a streak of white light and chased after him.

Lei Dong fled Tantai Bingyun and Sima Jie across the sea, using pills and his Asura Wings to endure their relentless pursuit. After six days, they reached Yaksha Tribe waters, where a giant fish spear suddenly rose from the sea.

• Lei Dong evaded the Heavenly Maiden Warship and escaped after Sima Jie placed a tracking marker on him.
• Lei Dong used replenishing pills and the Evil Ghost Banner to sustain his flight while Tantai Bingyun and Sima Jie followed.
• Sima Jie warned Tantai Bingyun that they were approaching Yaksha Tribe territory, but she continued chasing Lei Dong.
• Tantai Bingyun tried to ambush Lei Dong with her Seven-String Soul-Calming Melody, but he fled before the music could ensnare him.
• After six days of pursuit, Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun were exhausted, while Sima Jie trailed far behind aboard the warship.
• A huge triangular fish spear shot out of the sea near the pursuing cultivators.

Sima Jie’s party entered Yaksha territory while pursuing Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun, then fled when a massive Sea God’s Wrath vortex began forming. Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun also encountered the disaster and a Yaksha wielding a golden trident, leaving their escape uncertain.

• A Yaksha leader attacked the White Jade Warship and ordered Sima Jie’s party to leave Yaksha waters, but Sima Jie insisted they needed to find Tantai Bingyun.
• The Yaksha sounded their horns for help, and a colossal Sea God’s Wrath vortex appeared over the sea.
• Sima Jie ordered the White Jade Warship to retreat and explained that the growing vortex could destroy everything across tens of thousands of miles.
• Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun heard Yaksha horns answering from all directions and saw the enormous vortex sucking up seawater and sea beasts.
• Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun agreed not to attack as a Yaksha carrying a golden trident appeared before them.

Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun encountered the Yaksha King beside a dangerous spatial vortex called the Sea God's Wrath. He asked them to use their special wings to help destroy it, and both agreed to the dangerous mission.

• The Yaksha King appeared before Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun, then asked about the origins of their wings.
• The Yaksha King asked Tantai Bingyun about Ji Qingtong and Lei Dong about Mu Yanmei, revealing that he knew both women.
• Lei Dong offered to help with the vortex, and the Yaksha King explained that it was the Sea God's Wrath and threatened to grow more dangerous.
• The Yaksha King said Heaven-Splitting Thunders could destroy the vortex, but setting them off would require reaching its edge and escaping the spatial rifts.
• The Yaksha King estimated that Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun had a sixty percent chance of surviving because their wings could tear through space, and both agreed to help.

Lei Dong and Tao Tai Bingyun agreed to help the Yaksha King destroy a growing spatial vortex, and he equipped them with protective treasures before sending them into it. Lei Dong reached his assigned position and dropped the Heaven-Splitting Thunder, but the vortex pulled it toward a rift before he could escape, leaving him to face its blast behind his shields.

• The Yaksha King gave Lei Dong and Tao Tai Bingyun Heaven-Splitting Thunder, Top Grade Spirit Stones, and Great Body Protection Technique talismans, then transported them into the distorted space.
• The Yaksha King assigned himself the vortex's core and sent Lei Dong and the others to its four corners.
• Lei Dong flew to his assigned position and rapidly restored his true qi with a pill and a Top Grade Spirit Stone.
• The Yaksha King ordered Lei Dong to drop the Heaven-Splitting Thunder and flee, but spatial force dragged the pearl toward a rift.
• The Heaven-Splitting Thunder detonated as Lei Dong raised a Profound Yin Shield and crushed the talisman for protection.

Lei Dong survived the collapse of the Sea God's Wrath by following its currents to the center, but the ordeal left him gravely injured and unconscious. He awoke in a dilapidated hut with his belongings mostly gone, and a mute woman entered and reacted with delight at seeing him.

• The Yaksha King rescued one Yaksha elder from the contracting vortex, while another elder was cut apart by spatial rifts.
• Lei Dong followed the Yaksha King's advice and flew toward the vortex's center, using his remaining defenses and divine sense to dodge spatial rifts.
• At the vortex's center, Lei Dong's defenses shattered, and a heavy impact knocked him unconscious as the Sea God's Wrath vanished.
• Lei Dong awoke in a damp hut, realized his soul and body were badly injured, and found that his Storage Bracelet remained with him.
• Lei Dong prepared to take healing pills, but paused when he heard someone approach.
• A mute woman entered the hut, saw Lei Dong awake, and gestured to him with apparent delight.

Lei Dong recovered in a mute fisher girl’s hut after she rescued him from the sea, discovering that she had an excellent Spiritual Root and arranging for her to learn to read. He learned that cultivators lived on nearby Wo Jing Island, and as his strength returned, he kept his presence concealed while healing.

• The Mute Girl fed Lei Dong healing fish soup and used gestures to explain that she had fished him from the sea.
• Lei Dong began treating his severe body and soul injuries, then discovered that the Mute Girl had an excellent Spiritual Root and promised to find her a reading teacher.
• After several days of recovery, Lei Dong sent the Mute Girl to fetch a teacher and threatened the shifty man into silence.
• The teacher told Lei Dong that cultivators lived on Wo Jing Island, more than five hundred li away.
• Lei Dong forced the teacher to tutor the Mute Girl by making him believe he had been given poison, and trouble arose after seven or eight days.

Lei Dong learned that Mute Girl was being beaten and cheated by fish buyers for the Golden Spirit Fish she caught, and he joined her on a night fishing trip. After seeing her unusual method and catching one fish, he declared that Myriad Ghost Cave of the Yin Sha Sect would protect her and vowed to deal with her abusers.

• Lei Dong learned from the middle-aged scholar that Mute Girl caught valuable Golden Spirit Fish and that local buyers abused her and had ties to an Immortal Master.
• Lei Dong kept the middle-aged scholar with him and followed Mute Girl out to sea at night to learn how she fished.
• Lei Dong summoned his level-two ghost guard to haul up Mute Girl's traps, but their first catch contained no Golden Spirit Fish.
• Mute Girl showed Lei Dong that a drop of her blood on the bait attracted Golden Spirit Fish, and they caught one in a later trap.
• Lei Dong told Mute Girl that she belonged to Myriad Ghost Cave of the Yin Sha Sect and promised that the fish buyers and their backers would not survive.

Lei Dong protected Mute Girl, eliminated the fishmongers who preyed on her, and waited for the cultivators collecting Golden Spirit Fish. After discovering that the region was the Chaotic Archipelago and that the Wo Jing Island family posed no great threat, he was left focused on finding a way home.

• Lei Dong captured the fishmongers, searched their leader’s soul, and had his vengeful ghosts devour the gang.
• Lei Dong ordered the middle-aged scholar to teach Mute Girl to read and arranged for a Ghost Guard to catch Golden Spirit Fish for her.
• Lei Dong learned that two cultivators would collect goods from the island in half a month, then wiped out the fishmongers’ wider organization to prevent anyone from warning them.
• After healing for half a month, Lei Dong ambushed the two arriving Qi Refining Cultivators and searched the fourth-layer cultivator’s soul.
• Lei Dong learned that he was in the Barbaric Lands of the Chaotic Archipelago, far from familiar regions, and that the Wo Jing Island family had three Foundation Establishment Cultivators but no Golden Core Cultivators.

Lei Dong recovered on Fisherman Island while teaching Mute Girl the basics of cultivation and preparing to deal with Wo Jing Island. When three intruders arrived, he attacked and overwhelmed them, leaving the Foundation Establishment Cultivator at his mercy.

• Lei Dong refined two cultivators’ souls into the Myriad Ghost Banner and gave their possessions to Mute Girl.
• Lei Dong stayed on Fisherman Island to heal and sent ghost guards to patrol, hoping to draw Wo Jing Island’s Foundation Establishment Cultivators out one by one.
• Mute Girl studied characters and cultivation knowledge, and Lei Dong gave her the Ice Soul Law Jade Slip.
• A ghost guard spotted three intruders, so Lei Dong flew toward them and confronted a Foundation Establishment Cultivator and two Qi Refining Cultivators.
• The Foundation Establishment Cultivator fled and tried to bargain, but Lei Dong sent the Myriad Ghost Banner after the two Qi Refining Cultivators and summoned the Silver Puppet to attack him.
• The Silver Puppet shattered the Foundation Establishment Cultivator’s defenses, and Lei Dong appeared behind him and placed a hand on his head.

After searching a Foundation Establishment Cultivator’s soul, Lei Dong learned about the regions surrounding the Chaotic Archipelago but found no clear route home. He broke through to the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment and decided to raise his Critical Hit Ghost Guard into a Ghost General for protection.

• Lei Dong finished searching the Foundation Establishment Cultivator’s soul, then let his vengeful ghosts devour the man and his two young relatives.
• Lei Dong learned about Zhao Prefecture, the vast desert to its south, and the Million Mountains to its west, but found no information about Kang Prefecture or how to return home.
• After sensing an imminent breakthrough, Lei Dong meditated on a coastal cliff for three days and advanced to the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Lei Dong realized that his stronger soul might let him control a Natal Ghost General and weighed how to obtain one.
• Lei Dong chose to promote his Critical Hit Ghost Guard directly into a Ghost General, using the resources and Golden Core-level souls he could find.

Lei Dong brought Mute Girl to Wo Jing Island to exterminate the Wang Clan and claim its wealth, showing her the danger of the Cultivation World. He drew the clan’s cultivators out of their compound and prepared to attack once both Foundation Establishment Cultivators had gathered.

• Lei Dong decided to eliminate the Wang Clan so no survivors could threaten Mute Girl on Fisherman Island, and he took her along to Wo Jing Island.
• Lei Dong explained that Mute Girl would have to rely on herself after he left for Kang Prefecture, and she held onto the name of the place.
• Lei Dong surrounded the Wang Clan compound with fierce ghosts, summoned his Ghost Guards and puppets, and restored his true Qi before beginning the attack.
• A Ghost Guard killed two guards and battered the Mountain Protecting Formation until the Wang Clan activated it and its cultivators came out to confront the attacker.
• Lei Dong held back while the Critical Hit Ghost Guard fought the clan’s cultivators, then spotted the second Foundation Establishment Cultivator arriving with reinforcements and moved his Ghost Guards and puppets forward.