Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qingyuan killed Zeng Mingshi after a fierce battle, then wondered whether the ambush was connected to the Vast Sea Sect cultivator surnamed Ouyang. After Zhang Qingyuan left, cultivators scavenged the battlefield while a mysterious figure watched his departure through a mirror.

• Zhang Qingyuan recalled the Yin Yang Yuan Ci Bead, used the Seed Sword Technique and Wind Cloud Formless Body, and killed Zeng Mingshi.
• Zhang Qingyuan searched Zeng Mingshi's corpse, took his Storage Bag and valuables, sank the body into the sea, and flew away.
• Zhang Qingyuan suspected that Zeng Mingshi's attack was connected to the Vast Sea Sect cultivator surnamed Ouyang, who might still be nearby.
• Spirit Essence Realm Cultivators arrived, collected Dharma Treasure fragments, and fought over the battlefield's remaining spoils.
• A mysterious figure hidden among the clouds watched Zhang Qingyuan's departure through a mirror, then vanished.

Zhang Qingyuan returned safely to the Moon Liên Islands and saw how the innovations he had encouraged had transformed their industries and daily life. After settling local affairs, he began secluded cultivation and searched Zeng Mingshi’s Storage Bag, where he found a Void Escape Talisman that could save his life.

• Zhang Qingyuan returned to the Moon Liên Islands without encountering further attacks and learned that the islands had remained safe and prosperous.
• Elder Zhang Changyang reported on the islands’ affairs, and Zhang Qingyuan reviewed their development, including improvements to Black Thorn Wild Boar breeding and Purple Stripe Ganoderma cultivation.
• Zhang Qingyuan reflected that the islands’ changes echoed the civilization of his previous life and credited his power with making his home adapt to his ideas.
• Zhang Qingyuan declined Zhang Changyang’s welcoming banquet, prepared for secluded cultivation, and examined the Storage Bag seized from Zeng Mingshi.
• Zhang Qingyuan found the intact Formation Breaking Talisman and a Void Escape Talisman, and realized Zeng Mingshi might have escaped had he activated it.

Zhang Qingyuan discovered a mysterious Spirit Sea Sword Token in Zeng Mingshi’s Storage Bag and suspected it was tied to the lost Spirit Sea Sword Sect. After a month of seclusion, he reached the perfected stage of True Essence First Layer and resolved to seek pills to accelerate his next breakthrough.

• Zhang Qingyuan found a dark-blue Token that blocked Spiritual Sense and identified it as a Spirit Sea Sword Token.
• Zhang Qingyuan recalled the Spirit Sea Sword Sect’s destruction and wondered whether the Token had prompted the bounty on Zeng Mingshi.
• Zhang Qingyuan set the mystery aside and cultivated in seclusion for a month.
• Zhang Qingyuan advanced to the perfected stage of True Essence First Layer and estimated that reaching True Essence Second Layer without outside help would take over a year.
• Zhang Qingyuan counted his remaining Spirit Stones and Merit Points, including the expected reward for reporting Zeng Mingshi’s death, and grew confident he could obtain pills for a faster breakthrough.

Zhang Qingyuan turned in evidence of Zeng Mingshi's death and spent his Merit Points on resources and a True Essence Realm Gui Water Pill Recipe. He then concealed his identity and headed for a Black Market to secretly buy Natal Magic Treasures.

• Zhang Qingyuan submitted Zeng Mingshi's Recording Stone and Vast Sea Sect token at the Sect branch in Tiannan City, earning Merit Points and Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhang Qingyuan exchanged all his Merit Points for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, using his Inner Sect status to receive a 30% discount, and bought a True Essence Realm Gui Water Pill Recipe.
• Zhang Qingyuan bought several masks in Tiannan City's Marketplace and practiced disguising his appearance and concealing his True Essence aura.
• Zhang Qingyuan left Tiannan City, traveled underwater to cover his tracks, disguised himself, and flew toward a remote island near the Black Market to secretly buy Natal Magic Treasures.

Zhang Qingyuan visited the Black Market and secretly bought three discarded Natal Magic Treasures before returning to the Moon Liên Islands. He refined True Essence Realm Gui Water Pills, used them to advance his cultivation, and broke through to the True Essence Second Layer.

• Zhang Qingyuan entered the Black Market and bought three Natal Magic Treasures from an old stall owner for five hundred Spirit Stones.
• Zhang Qingyuan found no other Natal Magic Treasures and left the Black Market without attracting attention.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to the Moon Liên Islands, studied the Gui Water Pill Recipe, and gathered the ingredients needed to refine pills.
• Zhang Qingyuan successfully refined his first batch of True Essence Realm Gui Water Pills with a fifty-percent pill formation rate.
• Zhang Qingyuan spent three months refining and consuming Gui Water Pills, then broke through from True Essence First Layer perfection to the True Essence Second Layer.

Zhang Qingyuan stabilized his breakthrough to the True Essence Second Layer while war spread across the region, then received two visitors who revealed the history and purpose of the Spirit Sea Sword Token. They invited him to join them in opening the sealed ruins of the Spirit Sea Sword Sect, and the chapter ended before he answered.

• Zhang Qingyuan spent half a month stabilizing his True Essence Second Layer cultivation after using most of his exchanged treasures.
• Vast Sea Sect cultivators attacked a Cloud Water Sect Spirit Stone Vein in the South Sea, while searches failed to find the attackers but killed other infiltrators.
• Tan Nansheng of Yuhua Sect and Miao Bokang of Xiànkōng Island visited Zhang Qingyuan and asked whether he had killed Zeng Mingshi.
• Tan Nansheng explained that Zeng Mingshi had stolen the Spirit Sea Sword Token, which could help uncover the ruins of the destroyed Spirit Sea Sword Sect.
• Tan Nansheng and Miao Bokang invited Zhang Qingyuan to join them in opening the ruins and claiming their treasures.

Zhang Qingyuan accepted Tan Nansheng and the others’ invitation to explore the ruins, hoping to gain cultivation resources while relying on his Void Escape Talisman for safety. As he prepared, he refined three Natal Magic Treasures and discovered that the Black Sky Longsword was a powerful High-grade Dharma Treasure; his enhanced spiritual sense also let him control all three weapons at once.

• Zhang Qingyuan decided to join the expedition to the ruins, judging that the potential cultivation resources outweighed the risks.
• Zhang Qingyuan declined to sell his refined Natal Magic Treasures, fearing that revealing his ability could expose him to danger.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Proficiency Panel to erase the former owners’ traces from three Natal Magic Treasures.
• Zhang Qingyuan discovered that the dark longsword was the High-grade Dharma Treasure Black Sky Longsword, which increased his sword strikes’ power by thirty percent.
• Zhang Qingyuan found that his powerful spiritual sense let him control three Dharma Treasure weapons simultaneously and estimated he could defeat Zeng Mingshi within two hundred moves.

After mastering his three dharma treasures, Zhang Qingyuan left the Moon Liên Islands and joined seven others in the Land of the Forsaken to uncover the ruins of the Spirit Sea Sword Sect. Their Spirit Sea Sword Tokens activated the ruins, which began rising from the seabed as the group watched.

• Zhang Qingyuan finished preparing and left the Moon Liên Islands after mastering his three new dharma treasures.
• Zhang Qingyuan and seven others crossed the storm-ravaged Land of the Forsaken to reach the site of the Spirit Sea Sword Sect’s sunken island.
• A black-robed Formation Master explained that the sect’s island had sunk into the Heavenly Abyss after a battle whose aftershocks had left the region in chaos for three hundred years.
• Lu Lin urged the group to focus on opening the passage, and the eight cultivators took positions with their Spirit Sea Sword Tokens.
• The eight cultivators poured True Essence into their tokens, causing the ruins of the Spirit Sea Sword Sect to rise from beneath the sea.

Zhang Qingyuan and seven other cultivators opened a space channel into the returning Spirit Sea Sword Sect Ruins after its eruption alerted the South Sea. The group entered before rivals could arrive, while a mysterious observer watched and cultivators across the region rushed toward the ruins.

• The Spirit Sea Sword Sect Ruins surged toward the surface, displacing seawater and sending a powerful flare of spiritual energy into the sky.
• Tan Nansheng and the others realized the eruption would attract nearby True Essence Realm cultivators, so they agreed to enter the ruins early.
• The black-robed cultivator used the eight Spirit Sea Sword Tokens and a formation disk to open a space channel, consuming the tokens in the process.
• The black-robed cultivator warned that the channel would last only half a month, and the group entered the ruins to search for treasures.
• After Zhang Qingyuan and the others passed through, a mirror-like eye appeared briefly and observed the empty site.
• True Essence Realm cultivators across the South Sea sensed the eruption and hurried toward the Land of the Forsaken.

Ye Tongwei entered the Land of the Forsaken, staking his final chance at a breakthrough on the newly opened Spirit Sea Sword Sect Ruins. As more cultivators converged on the disturbance, Zhang Qingyuan and the others inside the ruins remained unaware of the coming chaos.

• Ye Tongwei, stuck at Ninth Stage Perfection for twenty years, recalled leaving his family island after defying his father’s wish that he protect the Lineage’s inheritance.
• After thirty years of wandering without breaking through, Ye Tongwei saw the sudden opening of the ruins as his last chance to fulfill his dream.
• Ye Tongwei accepted that he might never return and charged his lone boat into the stormy sea toward the Land of the Forsaken.
• Hundreds of cultivators, including Spirit Essence Realm cultivators, headed toward the pillar of light, foreshadowing chaos around the ruins.
• Zhang Qingyuan and the others inside the Spirit Sea Sword Sect Ruins remained unaware of the arrivals and faced a problem of their own.

Zhang Qingyuan and the expedition entered a bone-filled region of the Spirit Sea Sword Sect ruins, where a vast swarm of Gold Devouring Bees attacked them. After the black-robed Formation Master surnamed Wang struck him from behind, Zhang Qingyuan was engulfed by the swarm and burrowed underground to escape.

• The group found a vast region of bones and sensed dangers buried among them.
• A massive swarm of Gold Devouring Bees appeared, and Tan Nansheng identified them and warned the group of their strength.
• The cultivators attacked the swarm, but the bees devoured their attacks, forcing everyone to flee in different directions.
• The black-robed Formation Master surnamed Wang struck Zhang Qingyuan from behind as the group scattered.
• The bees engulfed Zhang Qingyuan and quickly devoured his True Essence Shield, so he drilled underground to evade them.

Zhang Qingyuan discovered that the Yin Yang Yuan Ci Beads disrupted the Gold Devouring Bee swarms, letting him follow them through the White Bone Region. He reached the hive and saw it built from bones, where countless bees gathered.

• Zhang Qingyuan used the Yin Yang Yuan Ci Beads to drive the attacking Gold Devouring Bees into chaos and burrowed underground until the swarm passed.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized the beads’ magnetic field could disrupt the bees and decided to pursue their Royal Jelly.
• Zhang Qingyuan tested the beads against the swarm, confirming that their field killed or maddened nearby bees and sent others fleeing.
• Zhang Qingyuan followed the swarm across the White Bone Region while protecting himself with the beads’ electromagnetic field.
• Zhang Qingyuan reached the Gold Devouring Bees’ hive, a towering structure of bones bound together with gel.

Zhang Qingyuan tested the Gold Devouring Bees and discovered that their swarm could consume attacks and unleash a deadly barrage of qi-breaking stingers. He sacrificed a Long Spear Magic Tool in an explosive attack, leaving the outcome of his attempt to reach the Royal Jelly uncertain.

• Zhang Qingyuan attacked the Gold Devouring Bee nest with the Great River Sword Technique, but the swarm consumed most of its power.
• The Gold Devouring Bees fired a barrage of stingers that pierced True Essence, and Zhang Qingyuan blocked them with his Silver Shadow Longsword, which was ruined.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized that the bees died after firing their stingers and decided to risk sacrificing a magic tool to reach the Royal Jelly.
• Zhang Qingyuan sent his Long Spear Magic Tool crashing into the swarm and detonated it as the bees began devouring it.

Zhang Qingyuan destroyed the Gold Devouring Bee hive with a self-detonating Magic Treasure, then used the Yin Yang Yuan Ci Beads to disrupt the swarm and seize its Royal Jelly. He escaped the enraged bees and celebrated several hundred li away with his spoils.

• Zhang Qingyuan's Magic Treasure self-detonation devastated the Gold Devouring Bee hive and sent the Bee Queen fleeing deeper inside.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Yin Yang Yuan Ci Beads to throw the wounded Gold Devouring Bees into chaos and reached the breached hive.
• Zhang Qingyuan collected the Royal Jelly and nearly half of the ordinary honey from the hive.
• As the swarm recovered and gathered, Zhang Qingyuan took eight or nine Bee Pupae and more than a dozen Worker Bees, then escaped.
• Zhang Qingyuan reached a secluded mountain range several hundred li away and celebrated possessing the Royal Jelly.

Zhang Qingyuan consumed the Gold Devouring Bees’ royal jelly to strengthen himself before entering the Spirit Sea Sword Sect Ruins. Outside the Space Channel, powerful True Essence Realm cultivators gathered, and Old Daoist Huang explained how the passage had likely been opened.

• Zhang Qingyuan decided his Early True Essence Second Layer cultivation was insufficient and swallowed a drop of royal jelly to begin refining its power.
• Over five days, cultivators arrived at the Space Channel, while nearby Spirit Essence Realm cultivators hesitated after one man was torn apart entering it.
• Mad Saber Nangong Bantian and other True Essence Realm experts arrived, intimidating the cultivators gathered outside the passage.
• Nangong Bantian asked Old Daoist Huang whether the Space Channel was safe, and Huang inferred that people carrying the Spirit Sea Sword Token had opened it to enter the ruins.

Nangong Bantian and the other True Essence cultivators entered the Spirit Sea Sword Sect ruins, while Zhang Qingyuan remained unaware of their arrival and finished refining the Gold Devouring Bee Royal Jelly. His cultivation reached the True Essence Second Layer Late Stage, and he looked ahead to returning from his ten-year assignment and meeting his former sectmates.

• Nangong Bantian entered the ruins ahead of the old Daoist, intending to claim the unfinished Spirit Artifact rumored to remain there.
• Spirit Essence Realm cultivators followed the True Essence seniors through the Space Channel and encountered bones and swarms of Gold Devouring Bees.
• Zhang Qingyuan finished refining most of the Royal Jelly and advanced from the Early True Essence Second Layer to the Late Stage.
• Zhang Qingyuan recognized that more Royal Jelly power remained in his body and expected to reach the True Essence Third Layer after refining it in seclusion.
• Zhang Qingyuan thought of Yan Kuangtu, Bing Yuyao, and his other former sectmates as he anticipated returning after his ten-year assignment.

Zhang Qingyuan advanced through the Spirit Sea Sword Sect Ruins, seeking treasures to strengthen himself before returning to the Inner Sect and settling the score for his exile. As he fought his way toward the sect gate, he discovered that battling demonic beasts helped him refine the Gold Devouring Bee Royal Jelly’s remaining medicinal power and improve his cultivation.

• Zhang Qingyuan resolved to return to the Inner Sect and settle the old grudge over his exile, aiming to reach True Essence Mid-Stage first.
• Zhang Qingyuan headed toward the Spirit Sea Sword Sect’s sect gate, carefully navigating the island’s dangerous demonic beasts and hidden hazards.
• Zhang Qingyuan escaped a True Essence Late Stage Vine Demon’s attack by sensing the danger and dodging beyond its range.
• Zhang Qingyuan concluded that the Mountain Protecting Formation had not been broken and decided to collect treasures as he traveled toward the center of the island.
• Zhang Qingyuan fought demonic beasts guarding Spirit Items and discovered that the battles helped him refine the royal jelly’s residual medicinal power, improving his cultivation while conserving True Essence.

Zhang Qingyuan fought his way through the island, killing True Essence Realm demonic beasts to strengthen himself and claim their treasures while unintentionally opening a safer route toward the Spirit Sea Sword Sect Gate. After slaying a Great Serpent, he found a Snake Tongue Fruit that could help him reach True Essence Second Layer perfection.

• Zhang Qingyuan used the island’s battles and guarded treasures to refine the Royal Jelly’s medicinal power and improve his strength and combat skills.
• Zhang Qingyuan killed ordinary True Essence Realm demonic beasts along his route, unknowingly creating a safer path for later cultivators heading toward the Spirit Sea Sword Sect Gate.
• Zhang Qingyuan battered a heavily wounded Great Serpent with a storm of sword strikes until it tried to flee.
• Zhang Qingyuan anticipated the Great Serpent’s escape and beheaded it with a single strike.
• Zhang Qingyuan spotted a Snake Tongue Fruit and said it could help him reach True Essence Second Layer perfection.

After killing the Great Serpent, Zhang Qingyuan found a Snake Tongue Fruit that could help him refine the Royal Jelly inside his body. Fan Hongrui arrived, coveted the fruit, and threatened Zhang Qingyuan, while onlookers debated the morality of seizing another cultivator’s spoils.

• Zhang Qingyuan's cultivation stabilized at the True Essence Second Layer Late Stage, and he realized the Snake Tongue Fruit could speed up his refinement of the Royal Jelly.
• Fan Hongrui arrived after sensing the battle and saw Zhang Qingyuan beside the slain Great Serpent and the Snake Tongue Fruit.
• Fan Hongrui assumed Zhang Qingyuan was weakened, demanded the fruit, and threatened him with the aura of a True Essence Third Layer cultivator.
• Cultivators who had followed Zhang Qingyuan gathered nearby, and one of them identified Fan Hongrui as a notorious South Sea Rogue Cultivator Alliance member.
• A young cultivator condemned Fan Hongrui's attempt to seize the fruit, while another bystander argued that the strong preyed on the weak.

Fan Hongrui attacked Zhang Qingyuan with his strongest martial skill, confident that the exhausted younger cultivator could not resist. Zhang Qingyuan remained calm as the Flowing Cloud Heavenly Sleeve descended upon him.

• Fan Hongrui heard a bystander criticize his past and used his Spiritual Sense to injure and immobilize the gossiping cultivators.
• Fan Hongrui sent a lethal beam toward the bystanders, but Zhang Qingyuan intercepted it with a ray of his own.
• Fan Hongrui threatened Zhang Qingyuan and unleashed the Yellow-Grade martial skill Flowing Cloud Heavenly Sleeve at full power.
• Bystanders recognized the skill and expected Zhang Qingyuan to lose, while Zhang Qingyuan calmly questioned Fan Hongrui's confidence.