Recaps

Lei Dong destroyed the Wang Clan, left Mute Girl with resources and cultivation guidance, then traveled to Canglan Island seeking Golden Core Demon Beast materials. He learned that the island lord monopolized those materials, leaving him to consider how to obtain them without provoking the island’s power.

• Lei Dong’s Ghost Guards and other forces killed the Wang Clan’s cultivators, and he gave Mute Girl the clan’s valuables after the massacre.
• Lei Dong guided Mute Girl in cultivation for about a month, left her a letter, and flew toward Canglan Island.
• Lei Dong surveyed Canglan Island, observed its dangerous cultivators, and paid the entry fee to enter.
• Lei Dong refused invitations to join adventuring teams and searched the market for Golden Core Beast Souls or demon beast flesh.
• Lei Dong learned that the island lord’s shop monopolized Golden Core Demon Beasts, and he worried that offering adventurers more money would offend the island lord.

Lei Dong searched Canglan Island for Golden Core Demon Beast flesh and joined a hunting team after agreeing to buy some of their catch. The team took him beyond the island to test his strength, and the leader called on Shangguan to spar with him.

• Lei Dong decided to join a group to hunt Golden Core Demon Beasts at sea, relying on his Asura Wings to escape if necessary.
• At the plaza, Lei Dong heard offers from two group leaders and questioned a scarred, leopard-headed leader about his team's sea-hunting record.
• Lei Dong offered to pay Spirit Stones for his teammates' shares of Golden Core Demon Beasts, and the team agreed on terms that required him to fight and share some prey with Island Lord Shang.
• Lei Dong joined the team, and its members flew beyond Canglan Island to test his strength and fighting style.
• The leader chose Shangguan to spar with Lei Dong.

Lei Dong defeated Shangguan in a sparring match and joined Captain Qian’s team for an expedition to the outer sea. As they traveled, he studied the Netherworld Great Law and planned to develop his Ghost Qi threads into a stronger control spell.

• Captain Qian introduced Shangguan, and Lei Dong challenged him to a sparring match.
• Lei Dong overwhelmed Shangguan with the Black Dragon Chant and Crimson Refining Flying Sword until Captain Qian stopped the fight.
• Shangguan accepted his defeat, and Captain Qian welcomed Lei Dong into the team and introduced Qing Niangzi, Zhao, and Zhang.
• Three days later, the team boarded Captain Qian’s Flying Boat and headed for the outer sea.
• Lei Dong studied the Netherworld Great Law and resolved to refine his Ghost Qi threads into a powerful spell for binding enemies.

Lei Dong struggled to make durable threads from Netherworld Ghost Qi until Captain Qian directed him to Qing Niangzi’s Flying Needle Guiding Thread. After Qing Niangzi demonstrated the technique and began sharing her experience, Lei Dong learned its principles, leaving him with a path toward developing his own control spell.

• Lei Dong spent seven or eight days trying and failing to condense Netherworld Ghost Qi into durable threads.
• Captain Qian advised Lei Dong to learn from Qing Niangzi’s experience with Flying Needle Guiding Thread.
• Qing Niangzi demonstrated how her thread guided the Blue Light Flying Needle and withstood Lei Dong’s strength.
• Qing Niangzi agreed to teach Lei Dong her experience, and the others sealed their six senses to avoid overhearing.
• Qing Niangzi explained the technique to Lei Dong, who remembered nearly everything in less than half an hour.

Lei Dong and the crew searched the Endless Sea for a Golden Core Demon Beast using Captain Qian’s detection artifact, then prepared a formation to trap one. Qing Niangzi volunteered to act as bait as the hunt began.

• Lei Dong practiced under Qing Niangzi’s instruction as the Flying Boat entered the Endless Sea.
• Captain Qian used Original Form Revealed to search for Golden Core Demon Beasts, and Lei Dong learned that the artifact came from the Demon Artifact Sect.
• After days of searching and catching lesser Monster Beasts, Captain Qian detected a Golden Core Demon Beast twenty-seven li away.
• The crew traveled to the beast’s location and set up the Mistshadow Formation under the Zhao cultivator’s direction.
• Captain Qian asked for a volunteer to serve as bait, and Qing Niangzi offered to take the role.

Qing Niangzi lured a Golden Core Knife Eel Dragon into the team’s formation, where Captain Qian and the others attacked it. Lei Dong revealed a peak Foundation Establishment Puppet alongside his Crimson-Refining Flying Sword, prompting Captain Qian to offer him an extra half-share of the reward.

• Qing Niangzi used lightning to draw the Knife Eel Dragon out of the sea and lured it into the formation.
• Old Zhao activated the formation, trapping the Knife Eel Dragon in Black Mist as it tried to break free.
• Captain Qian and the other cultivators attacked the trapped beast with their spiritual artifacts.
• Lei Dong summoned a peak Foundation Establishment Puppet and his Crimson-Refining Flying Sword, surprising the team with his strength and wealth.
• Captain Qian offered Lei Dong an extra half-share, and the team accepted the arrangement.

Lei Dong and his teammates killed the Knife Eel Dragon after Shangguan’s Scarlet Blood Scythe badly wounded it and Lei Dong stopped it from escaping into the sea. They divided the spoils, and Lei Dong’s display of strength and fair dealing won the team’s respect before he and Captain Qian sensed something to their left.

• Shangguan unleashed his life-or-death Scarlet Blood Scythe, nearly cutting the Knife Eel Dragon in two before collapsing from exhaustion.
• The wounded Knife Eel Dragon broke through the Black Mist formation and fell toward the sea, but Lei Dong used his Asura Wings and Black Dragon Chant to knock it back into the air.
• The team killed the Knife Eel Dragon, and Captain Qian captured its fleeing beast soul in a Soul Sealing Ball.
• Captain Qian gave Lei Dong the beast’s remains, and Lei Dong paid the agreed full price while declining to discuss his wings.
• Captain Qian returned Lei Dong’s promised half-percent bonus, and Lei Dong and Captain Qian both turned toward something they sensed to the left.

Lei Dong and Captain Qian prepared to face a much larger ship carrying a stronger group of cultivators. After Lei Dong challenged them to surrender their Golden Core Demon Beast, he decided the enemy was doomed because they had no Golden Core Cultivator.

• Captain Qian ordered everyone back aboard their small ship and asked Lei Dong to display his Peak Puppet and Asura Wings to intimidate the approaching vessel.
• Lei Dong donned his battle armor and spread his Asura Wings, startling his companions and making Captain Qian sense his formidable power.
• The opposing Flying Boat revealed ten powerful Foundation Establishment cultivators, outnumbering Captain Qian's group, while Lei Dong confirmed none of them was a Golden Core Cultivator.
• Lei Dong demanded that the enemy leave behind their Golden Core Demon Beast and get lost, provoking their leader and alarming Captain Qian.
• Lei Dong told Captain Qian that the enemy had no Golden Core Cultivator and declared that they were dead.

Lei Dong led Captain Qian’s group into battle against ten cultivators and unleashed his ghosts, puppets, and Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger. The fight began with Lei Dong’s forces instantly killing one of the enemy cultivators.

• Captain Qian agreed to fight after Lei Dong offered to handle the seven Foundation Establishment Middle Stage opponents in exchange for half the spoils.
• Qing Niangzi backed Lei Dong’s plan, and Captain Qian’s team agreed to battle the ten cultivators.
• Lei Dong struck the enemy Flying Boat’s shield with a Nether Fireball, provoking the opposing captain to order an attack.
• Captain Qian retreated the Flying Boat while Lei Dong concealed his Ghost Guards, puppets, Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger, and hundreds of ghosts in Netherworld Ghost Qi.
• Lei Dong commanded an attack and sent his Ghost Guards and ghosts after one opponent while he led his puppets and tiger toward another.
• The Ghost Guards froze one Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator and shattered him with a coordinated strike.

Lei Dong’s squad turned the battle around as he killed the seven Foundation Establishment Middle Stage opponents and broke the enemy’s morale. Captain Qian’s group kept the three Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators occupied, and Qing Niangzi and Captain Qian brought one down.

• Lei Dong killed two Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators in a surprise attack, raising his squad’s morale.
• Lei Dong’s ghostly subordinates overwhelmed another enemy while Captain Qian’s four teammates blocked the three Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators.
• The remaining four middle-stage enemies fled, but Lei Dong used the Asura Wings to chase them down and kill them.
• Lei Dong returned with the four corpses, terrifying the three late-stage opponents and emboldening Captain Qian’s group.
• Qing Niangzi shattered one opponent’s spirit shield with her Green Light, and Captain Qian struck him in the chest with a killing move.

After Old Zhang was killed, Lei Dong helped Captain Qian track the surviving enemies underwater and won the team’s trust by submitting his share of the spoils. The team debated becoming an elite squad, and Lei Dong proposed that Captain Qian become their first Golden Core cultivator.

• The two surviving enemy cultivators killed Old Zhang, then escaped by diving underwater as Lei Dong and Captain Qian’s team pursued them.
• Lei Dong stopped Captain Qian from diving after them and suggested using Original Form Revealed to track their position; Captain Qian found them descending two hundred zhang below the surface.
• The team waited above the water while Lei Dong handed Captain Qian all his spoils, earning his trust and prompting Qing Niangzi and the Zhao-surnamed cultivator to submit theirs as well.
• Lei Dong asked Captain Qian to send Old Zhang’s belongings and share of the voyage’s profits to his family, and Captain Qian vowed to honor the request.
• Qing Niangzi proposed turning the team into an elite squad by investing in Top Grade Spirit Items, while Captain Qian suggested Lei Dong take over as captain.
• Lei Dong declined the captaincy and proposed that Captain Qian remain leader and be the first among them to advance to Golden Core.

Lei Dong proposed helping Captain Qian gather the resources needed to reach the Golden Core realm with an Ascension Pill. The team pledged funds toward the attempt, and Lei Dong offered five million Spirit Stones, bringing their planned total to eighteen million.

• Lei Dong explained that an Ascension Pill and rare treasures could raise Captain Qian’s chance of reaching Golden Core to around sixty percent.
• Captain Qian revealed that an Ascension Pill had recently sold for sixteen million Spirit Stones, far beyond what he could save alone.
• Lei Dong suggested that Qing Niangzi and the others lend Captain Qian money in exchange for repayment with interest and his continued service on the team.
• Qing Niangzi pledged three million Spirit Stones, while Old Zhao offered a little over two million and Shangguan offered three million.
• Lei Dong counted Captain Qian’s own funds and Old Zhang’s belongings toward the goal, then pledged five million Spirit Stones, bringing the total to eighteen million.

Lei Dong and his companions invested their spoils in Captain Qian’s attempt to break through to the Golden Core, while arranging safeguards and gathering the necessary resources. After Captain Qian began his breakthrough, the team rested on Canglan Island and Lei Dong entered seclusion to cultivate.

• Lei Dong persuaded Captain Qian and the others to pool resources for Captain Qian’s Golden Core breakthrough, and Captain Qian agreed to honor their terms if he succeeded.
• Captain Qian led the group in killing the two exhausted Foundation Establishment cultivators who surfaced from the sea, and the team divided spoils worth nearly twenty million Spirit Stones along with a seized Flying Boat.
• The group returned to Canglan Island, where Captain Qian sold his old boat and arranged to buy an Ascension Pill and rare breakthrough materials.
• A masked Golden Core cultivator sold Captain Qian an Ascension Pill for his offered price of eighteen million Spirit Stones.
• Captain Qian began his Golden Core breakthrough while the others recuperated on Canglan Island, and Lei Dong entered brief seclusion to improve his cultivation.

Lei Dong assessed Canglan Island’s prices and chose an extravagant cultivation regimen using Top Grade Spirit Stones and Transformation Pills. After beginning his secluded training on a remote island, he completed his first day-and-night cycle with a noticeable gain in cultivation, though he had not yet advanced.

• Lei Dong compared prices in Canglan Island’s markets, exchanged ten Top Grade Spirit Stones, and considered which pills would support his cultivation without harming his future Golden Core breakthrough.
• After calculating his fortune and expenses, Lei Dong bought thirty Transformation Pills and ordered sixty more for a trial of intensive cultivation.
• Lei Dong traveled to an isolated island, dug a secret chamber, and stationed his ghost guards and puppets to protect his seclusion.
• Lei Dong activated Heavenly Devil Transformation, exhausted himself attacking the surrounding waters, then returned to the chamber in severe pain.
• Lei Dong swallowed a Transformation Pill and cultivated with a Top Grade Spirit Stone for a day and a night, emerging refreshed and surprised by his substantial progress.

Lei Dong spent three months training on a secluded island before reuniting with his teammates after Qian Luo reached the Golden Core Stage. He bought four Golden Core Monster Beasts to help evolve his Critical Hit Ghost Guard and joined the group’s return to the deep sea, where he began a speed wager with Qian Luo.

• Lei Dong used one Transformation Pill each day and burned off its remaining power with Heavenly Devil Transformation, raising his cultivation while spending heavily on pills and Top Grade Spirit Stones.
• After three months, Lei Dong met Qian Luo and the others on Canglan Island and congratulated Qian Luo on reaching the Golden Core Stage.
• Lei Dong asked Qian Luo to procure four Golden Core Monster Beasts so the Critical Hit Ghost Guard could advance toward becoming a Ghost General.
• Lei Dong learned that Dragon Turtle Incense could strengthen the soul, but Dragon Turtles were too rare for him to pursue.
• Qian Luo obtained four Golden Core Monster Beasts for seven million Spirit Stones, and the group set out for the deep sea aboard their Flying Boat.
• Lei Dong challenged Qian Luo to a hundred-li flying race for a Top Grade Spirit Stone; Qian Luo took the lead, and Lei Dong summoned his Asura Wings.

Lei Dong demonstrated his strength to Qian Luo, and their team hunted Golden Core Demon Beasts across the Endless Sea. After Lei Dong’s Critical Hit Ghost Guard advanced into a Critical Ghost General, he prepared to test it against a Dragon Turtle, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Lei Dong outpaced Qian Luo with his wings, earned his respect as an equal, and reminded him that he owed eleven million Spirit Stones.
• Qian Luo and the others traveled to the Endless Sea, where their team defeated a One-Eyed Sea Demon and later hunted five more Golden Core Demon Beasts.
• Lei Dong’s Critical Hit Ghost Guard emerged from its cocoon as a powerful Critical Ghost General.
• Lei Dong asked Qian Luo to let him fight the next Golden Core Demon Beast alone so he could test the Ghost General.
• Lei Dong lured the beast to the surface with a Netherflame Bullet, and Qian Luo recognized it as a Dragon Turtle.

Lei Dong lured a Golden Core Dragon Turtle into Old Zhao’s formation and trapped it, then revealed that he could control a Ghost General. The chapter left the Ghost General fighting the Dragon Turtle inside the formation while Lei Dong’s companions watched in amazement.

• The Dragon Turtle ambushed Lei Dong, but his Blood-colored Cloak absorbed the bite and his Asura Wings carried him out of reach.
• Lei Dong drew the Dragon Turtle after him, provoking it with Netherflame Bullets while keeping his companions concealed in Old Zhao’s formation.
• The Dragon Turtle pursued Lei Dong into the trap and became trapped when it collided with the formation’s barriers.
• Lei Dong summoned his Critical Ghost General, startling his companions, who had believed Foundation Establishment Cultivators could not control one.
• The Critical Ghost General charged the Dragon Turtle and fought it blow for blow inside the formation.

Lei Dong and his team killed a Dragon Turtle, and Lei Dong acquired its soul-benefiting incense. The team ventured deeper into the Endless Sea, where a powerful hurricane drove them to stop as an impressive Flying Boat approached.

• Lei Dong's Ghost General overpowered the Dragon Turtle, and the team joined the attack when it tried to escape the Mist Shadow Formation.
• The team killed the Dragon Turtle before it broke through the formation, and Qian Luo found Dragon Turtle Incense among its remains.
• Lei Dong bought the incense at market price, while Qian Luo awarded him an extra tenth of the spoils for luring the beast.
• The team resumed hunting and agreed to venture farther into the Endless Sea, where they encountered increasingly dangerous conditions.
• A hurricane battered the team's Flying Boat, and Qian Luo ordered Qing Niangzi to stop and Old Zhao to prepare a defensive formation.
• A large, well-built Flying Boat appeared in the distance, leaving the team uncertain about the cultivators aboard.

Qian Luo and Lei Dong sized up a rival crew led by a Golden Core Cultivator and decided to lure him close enough to kill. After days of waiting through a storm, Qian Luo baited the rival with a supposed treasure deal, leaving both sides poised to make their move.

• Qian Luo halted the approaching Flying Boat at a distance, and its Golden Core Cultivator claimed his crew needed healing pills.
• Qian Luo and Lei Dong secretly agreed to probe the rival crew and kill its Golden Core Cultivator if he was their only one.
• Qian Luo and the rival crew waited out a seven-day storm while their formation masters set up formations.
• After the storm, Qian Luo offered pills at three times the market price, then used a proposed treasure trade to draw the rival closer.
• Qian Luo claimed he had brought only four Foundation Establishment Cultivators to hunt, while privately planning to ambush the other crew.

Lei Dong and Qian Luo lured a Golden Core Cultivator and his followers into a fight, then used the Critical Ghost General to turn the battle in their favor. Lei Dong intercepted the fleeing Golden Core Cultivator and bluffed that he was a Nascent Soul Cultivator, but the man saw through the deception and attacked.

• Qian Luo and the Golden Core Cultivator lowered their Flying Boat shields, and both groups gathered between the boats under the pretense of negotiating.
• Qian Luo and the Golden Core Cultivator attacked at once, while Lei Dong sent the Critical Ghost General to kill a female Foundation Establishment Cultivator and seal her Living Soul.
• The Golden Core Cultivator fled over the open sea, and Lei Dong used his Asura Wings to catch up with him while Qian Luo stayed to fight the others.
• The Golden Core Cultivator mistook Lei Dong for a Nascent Soul Cultivator, but after Lei Dong bluffed him for several exchanges, he recognized the deception and attacked with red flame and light.

Lei Dong used his Ghost General, puppets, ghosts, and escape techniques to hold off a Golden Core Cultivator until Qian Luo arrived. After the two joined forces, the wounded enemy fled with a blood escape technique, but Lei Dong caught up and killed him.

• Lei Dong combined the Critical Ghost General, Golden Puppet, Myriad Ghost Banner, and his own attacks to wear down the Golden Core Cultivator while avoiding his strikes.
• The Golden Core Cultivator tried to flee and destroy the Ghost General, but Lei Dong kept the Ghost General retreating and continued harassing him until Qian Luo arrived.
• Lei Dong and Qian Luo joined forces with the Ghost General and puppets, overwhelming the Golden Core Cultivator and blocking his escape attempts.
• The wounded Golden Core Cultivator spent Essence Blood to flee as blood mist, and Lei Dong pursued him with his Asura Wings.
• Lei Dong caught the exhausted Golden Core Cultivator and killed him with the Crimson Refinement Flying Sword.

Lei Dong and Qian Luo killed a Golden Core Cultivator, and Lei Dong reflected on what he needed before attempting the dangerous journey back to Kang Prefecture. After distributing the spoils and strengthening his Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger with the Living Soul, the group discovered a fortune inside the Golden Core Cultivator’s Storage Bracelet.

• Lei Dong captured the Golden Core Cultivator’s Living Soul while the Ghost General devoured the corpse, then considered his limits and resolved to reach the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and become strong enough to defeat a Golden Core Cultivator alone before seeking a way home.
• Lei Dong fed the Golden Core Living Soul to the Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger, sent the Ghost General to recover, and collected the fallen cultivator’s treasures.
• Lei Dong returned to Qian Luo and the others, claimed the remaining Foundation Establishment Cultivators’ Living Souls for the Myriad Ghost Banner, and reminded Qian Luo to account for his share of the spoils.
• Qian Luo removed the spiritual sense from the Golden Core Cultivator’s Storage Bracelet, revealing a vast space containing more than ten preserved Golden Core Monster Beasts.

Lei Dong’s crew counted the enormous profits from their robbery and searched the sea for more targets, while Myriad Ghost Ancestor learned that Lei Dong was still missing. Ding Wanyan received permission to leave seclusion with Dongfang Fu and lead Myriad Ghost Cave’s disciples into battle against Tianyin Palace.

• Qian Luo and his team estimated the spoils from Lei Dong’s crew’s battle at forty-seven million Spirit Stones, and the crew began searching for more targets.
• Myriad Ghost Ancestor berated his disciples for failing to find Lei Dong, who had disappeared alongside Tantai Bingyun.
• Ding Wanyan told Myriad Ghost Ancestor that the Heavenly Devil Lord had gone to search for Lei Dong and asked to join the front lines against Tianyin Palace.
• Myriad Ghost Ancestor approved Ding Wanyan’s request and agreed to secure treasures for her and Dongfang Fu as the Twin Yin Sha Heroes emerged from seclusion.
• Myriad Ghost Ancestor ordered Ding Wanyan to lead her fellow disciples into battle, and they pledged to follow her.

Over five years, Lei Dong built his team into a formidable force in the Endless Sea, with every member reaching Foundation Establishment Late Stage and his Ghost General and Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger advancing to Golden Core level. After the team defeated another group of cultivators, Lei Dong reflected on how he had earned their loyalty, which he needed for the dangerous journey to Kang Prefecture.

• Lei Dong watched from his Flying Boat as Qian Luo, Qing Niangzi, Shangguan, and Old Zhao overwhelmed a group of Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Lei Dong's Critical Ghost General and Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger reached Golden Core level, making him capable of contending with Golden Core Early Stage cultivators.
• Qian Luo and the other teammates grew stronger with Lei Dong's support and came to revere him as their true leader.
• Qing Niangzi trapped a fleeing dark-faced cultivator and killed him with her Soul Breaking Needle, but Lei Dong remained lost in thoughts of his wife.
• Lei Dong's team finished the battle and gathered the spoils; Lei Dong recalled how he had feigned a grave injury two years earlier to secure his teammates' loyalty for the journey to Kang Prefecture.

Lei Dong mapped out a dangerous route from the Chaotic Archipelago through Zhao Prefecture, the Great Desert of Death, and the Hengduan Mountain Range to return to Kang Prefecture. He prepared his teammates and the Soul Devouring Pagoda’s Ghost Servants for the journey, intending to strengthen the group before they left Zhao Prefecture.

• Lei Dong learned that reaching Kang Prefecture required crossing Zhao Prefecture and the Great Desert of Death, since crossing the Endless Sea was too dangerous.
• Lei Dong bought a detailed Jade Slip map and planned a safer route through Zhao Prefecture that would take more than two million li.
• Lei Dong reviewed his teammates’ backgrounds and found Qian Luo, Shangguan Hong, Zhao Ge, and Qing Niangzi willing to stay with him despite their different ties and obligations.
• Lei Dong urged his teammates to exchange their Spirit Stones for Top Grade Spirit Items and to stockpile Foundation Establishment Living Souls and flesh.
• Lei Dong planned to raise his Ghost Servants’ strength, acquire Upper Grade Spirit Ghosts for his teammates, and investigate the Fierce Ghost Sect’s ghost-taming techniques.