Chapter Summaries

Bai Yang joined a Huaxia research and security team on its third attempt to reach the mysterious island, where previous landings had vanished. He helped guide their assault boat through the whirlpools as the island’s interference suppressed his Psychic Power, and the team continued toward shore.

• Qiu Guorong showed Bai Yang footage of earlier teams reaching the island and disappearing, then explained the goals of the planned landing.
• Bai Yang agreed to join the expedition, and at dawn he boarded a helicopter with Su Xishui’s team and the researchers.
• The helicopters stopped short of the island because interference made flying closer impossible, so the teams transferred to assault boats.
• Bai Yang declined Su Xishui’s offer of protective equipment and used his water-controlling ability to steer his boat safely through the whirlpools.
• Bai Yang sensed the island’s interference repeatedly suppressing his Psychic Power until its range fell to about a hundred meters.
• Bai Yang’s group watched another country’s assault boat disappear into a whirlpool, but he did not attempt to save its passengers.

Bai Yang’s expedition survived the turbulent crossing and landed on the newly risen island, where their equipment failed and the shore was covered in rotting sea creatures. While exploring, Bai Yang found pearls and a coral forest, and the group discovered enormous deposits of gold and jadeite, leaving them to wonder what else the island held.

• Bai Yang’s group crossed the stormy waters and reached the island’s northern shore, while other factions lost people at sea.
• Su Xishui learned that communications and electronic equipment had stopped working, then led the group ashore across the foul-smelling tidal flats.
• Bai Yang secretly collected thirteen pearls from a giant shell and cut down a three-meter coral tree to take home.
• The researchers found a natural chunk of gold as large as a table, and an assistant discovered a large piece of jadeite in a rock crevice.
• The group realized the island might hold many more treasures and wondered what lay farther inland.

Su Xishui’s team discovered that the island was packed with gold, gemstones, and rare metals, while its interference cut them off from the outside world. Bai Yang secretly collected treasures as the scientists prepared to head inland, and he wondered whether the earlier arrivals had lost contact because of the island’s riches.

• Su Xishui ordered the team to bury a ten-ton gold deposit, take the jadeite, and investigate the island and the fate of earlier arrivals.
• The scientists found more gold, jadeite, silver, and numerous precious metals as Su Xishui tried and failed to signal the outside world.
• Bai Yang dug up a huge diamond and a giant pearl, then kept them despite Su Xishui’s demands that he hand them over to the country.
• Bai Yang continued finding gemstones and noticed the first group from another country reach shore, prompting him to suspect the island’s riches were connected to the missing arrivals.
• An expert reported that the island contained vast quantities of known gemstones and rare elements, that electronic equipment failed there, and that its foul smell came from decomposing creatures.

Su Xishui’s team explored the treasure-filled island and found evidence that earlier arrivals had been killed, prompting her to suspect a conspiracy among the groups there. She warned Bai Yang that greed could turn people against one another and asked him to stop anyone in their group who gave in to it.

• Su Xishui and Old Hua removed their protective gear after learning the island’s air was breathable, though its stench made them cough.
• Bai Yang caught giant seafood and cooked a feast for the team before they marched inland.
• Su Xishui ordered the team to stop collecting the island’s abundant treasures, while Bai Yang secretly stored some in his spatial pouch.
• Su Xishui’s party found three decomposed Western soldier corpses with gunshot wounds, and an experienced soldier suspected they had been killed by one of their own.
• Su Xishui told Bai Yang that the earlier arrivals might be luring later groups together to discuss the island’s wealth.
• Su Xishui asked Bai Yang to show no mercy if anyone in their group succumbed to greed.

Bai Yang and Su Xishui’s group explored the island’s treasures and encountered an unknown species of aggressive deep-sea worms. After one worm infested a research assistant and rapidly reproduced inside him, Bai Yang warned that the creatures could cause a world-threatening disaster.

• Su Xishui worried that the island’s immense wealth might tempt her warriors to betray her, and Bai Yang reassured her that he understood.
• The group traveled inland, finding vast riches and unfamiliar dead sea creatures before scientists discovered a pool filled with living, threadlike worms.
• When two research assistants approached the pool to capture a worm, the creatures lunged at them, and one worm burrowed into a chubby assistant’s body.
• Bai Yang used his psychic power to pull out the worm, then watched pink larvae spread across the unconscious assistant as the parasite reproduced within him.
• Bai Yang ordered everyone to flee the pool and warned that the worms’ speed, piercing power, and reproduction could make them a deadly global threat.

Bai Yang destroyed the threadlike worms after one killed a research assistant, then kept a specimen so Old Zhang could study it under supervision. Their initial findings revealed extraordinary reproduction and regeneration, leaving Bai Yang to ask why they had not already devastated ocean life.

• Su Xishui ordered the expedition away from the pond after a worm infestation killed the fat research assistant, while Bai Yang burned the corpse and its larvae.
• Bai Yang evacuated the group, then used supernatural flames to destroy every worm in the pond and checked that none had escaped.
• A kilometer away, Bai Yang returned with a worm sealed in a tempered-glass container and asked Old Zhang to study it while he guarded him.
• Old Zhang found that the worm reproduced at a staggering rate, regenerated when cut, and could survive both in and out of water.
• Bai Yang insisted the worms had to be destroyed despite their potential value, then asked Old Zhang why they had not wiped out ocean life.
• Old Zhang proposed that cold deep-sea temperatures slowed the worms or that they had natural predators.

Bai Yang and the researchers confirmed that cold temperatures slowed the nematodes, then returned to shore and discovered their motorboats had vanished. Trapped on the island, Su Xishui began investigating the theft while Bai Yang offered help only as a last resort.

• Bai Yang and Old Zhang cooled the nematodes with evaporating alcohol and observed that the creatures became less active but continued reproducing.
• Bai Yang and Su Xishui decided to leave the island and report their findings, and the group returned to shore in under two hours.
• The group discovered that their motorboats were missing, and Su Xishui ordered everyone to camp for the night while she sought a way off the island.
• Su Xishui blamed herself for failing to guard the boats, but Bai Yang said he could take them off the island and then refused to do so unless they had no other option.
• Bai Yang and Su Xishui shared drinks on a boulder that night, and Su Xishui reported that footprints suggested the boats had been taken by water to strand the group.

Su Xishui returned from searching for the stolen boats with only four of her ten soldiers, reporting that worms had killed one soldier and four others had vanished. Bai Yang resolved to drive everyone off the island and make it disappear, then recognized mysterious symbols on a rock as the Red Cliff Heavenly Book.

• Su Xishui led ten elite soldiers into the night to search the coastline for the stolen boats.
• A research assistant broke her foot in a rocky crevice, and Bai Yang ordered the camp to stay calm and travel in pairs at night.
• Su Xishui returned with four soldiers, explaining that a worm had killed one of their comrades and four others had disappeared; they had found no boats or foreign explorers.
• Bai Yang told Su Xishui he planned to find the people on the island, drive them out, and make the island disappear to prevent its wealth and worms from causing catastrophe.
• The group resumed its research inland, and Bai Yang recognized mysterious symbols on a rock as the Red Cliff Heavenly Book he had seen with Wang Qingyu in Qian Province.

Bai Yang found more mysterious symbols on the island before Su Xishui’s group encountered three French soldiers fighting over a giant diamond. Bai Yang interrogated one soldier, took the diamond, and left Su Xishui furious.

• Bai Yang discovered a stone bearing symbols like those in Qian Province and the Dragon Tomb, then spotted more symbol-covered rocks along the route.
• After gunfire approached, Su Xishui captured one pursuer while two soldiers seized the other two men.
• Su Xishui questioned a captive, but Bai Yang used his ability to learn that the men were French teammates who had fought over a diamond after their unit landed on the island.
• Bai Yang found a basketball-sized diamond in the captive’s pack and made it disappear, angering Su Xishui.

Bai Yang and Su Xishui reached the island’s tallest mountain and encountered the Wealth Alliance, a coalition claiming control over the island’s treasures. Su Xishui challenged one of its decision-makers, Lek, to prove her group’s strength.

• Su Xishui learned from a hypnotized man that the island’s survivors were heading toward its tallest mountain, and she and Bai Yang continued there.
• More than a hundred armed men surrounded Bai Yang’s group near the mountain and introduced Lek as one of the Wealth Alliance’s seven decision-makers.
• Lek explained that the alliance had gathered over thirteen thousand people and demanded newcomers join under its existing leadership.
• Su Xishui asked how someone could become a decision-maker, then challenged Lek to a fight after he invited her to join his faction.
• Lek accepted Su Xishui’s challenge, while Bai Yang prepared to watch.

Su Xishui challenged decision-maker Lek to establish her group’s strength among the island’s elites, then defeated and killed him in a brutal fight. She demanded that Lek’s armed followers submit, while the Huaxia soldiers trained their guns on them.

• Su Xishui challenged Lek to a fight, and the two traded confident taunts before attacking.
• Su Xishui and Lek exchanged a powerful first blow, then fought fiercely with techniques drawn from multiple combat styles.
• After Bai Yang complained that the fight was dragging on, Su Xishui struck Lek with a flurry of attacks and knocked him against a boulder.
• Lek tried to stab Su Xishui with a hidden knife, but she snapped his neck with her foot.
• Su Xishui demanded that Lek’s followers submit, as more than forty Huaxia soldiers aimed their guns at the armed men.

Su Xishui killed the men who challenged her, rallied part of Lek’s forces, and secured recognition from the other decision-makers while Bai Yang guarded the scientists. She asked Bai Yang to give her three days to take control of the island before he began his plan to conceal it with a Formation.

• Su Xishui shot dead eight men who urged the soldiers to attack Bai Yang and the others, then persuaded the assembled fighters to follow her while she handled the risks.
• Su Xishui asked Bai Yang to protect the scientists as she led the fighters to stabilize the situation and take control of Lek’s remaining men.
• Bai Yang stayed with the scientists, studied his jade pendant’s Formation inheritance, and planned to conceal the island with a Formation spanning fifty kilometers.
• Su Xishui returned with two companions after taking control of two-thirds of Lek’s remaining men and gaining recognition from the other six decision-makers.
• Su Xishui invited Bai Yang to their camp and asked him to give her up to three days to take control of the island before he carried out his plan.

Bai Yang studied Formations at Su Xishui’s camp and used his Wisdom Eye to complete his first miniature floating Formation. He realized that different types of Formations relied on interacting energies, just as Su Xishui arrived and asked what he had figured out.

• Su Xishui settled Bai Yang and the scientists in her camp, then left to handle the unstable situation.
• Bai Yang tried to arrange stones into an object Formation, but his first three attempts failed.
• Bai Yang used his Wisdom Eye to observe the stones’ qi and adjusted their positions until their magnetic fields formed a stable force field.
• Bai Yang placed a small stone on the completed Formation and watched it float.
• Bai Yang concluded that all types of Formations worked through interacting energies, and Su Xishui entered his tent and asked what he had figured out.

Bai Yang experimented with beginner Formations while Su Xishui explained her plans to gain control of the island. After surveying the island, he investigated a cave where deadly ice and scorching heat existed together, which reminded him of the Hot and Cold Springs in Mihe Forest.

• Bai Yang showed Su Xishui a levitating pebble Formation, but she barely reacted and described her efforts to control the island’s competing groups.
• Su Xishui discussed the island’s powerful fighters and her plan to build alliances, while Bai Yang said he avoided controlling people because it turned them into puppets.
• Bai Yang created several beginner Formations, including one that generated a persistent cloud of mist, and Su Xishui kicked apart its foundation before leaving.
• The next day, Bai Yang surveyed the island under a Stealth Talisman and concluded that newcomers and the Wealth Alliance could turn it into a new world power if he did not interfere.
• Bai Yang visited a cave where blue ice killed people despite the intense heat inside, and recognized a resemblance to the Hot and Cold Springs in Mihe Forest.

Bai Yang entered the island’s impossibly hot ice cave and fought his way deep underground, using supernatural flames and lightning to overcome its extreme conditions. He broke through a solid ice wall into a sealed spherical chamber, where he spotted something inside a floating block of ice.

• Bai Yang flew invisibly into the cave and used a Freezing Talisman and an ice-blue magical bead before the heat destroyed them.
• Bai Yang surrounded himself with red and then blue supernatural flames as he descended through the narrowing passage.
• Bai Yang tried to break through the ice with a third-grade flying sword, but the ice froze and shattered it.
• Bai Yang wrapped himself in the Ten Absolute Dark Light Sword Banner and used lightning to blast through the ice wall.
• Bai Yang emerged into a spherical chamber as the passage sealed behind him, then noticed something inside a floating block of ice.

Bai Yang discovered a tiny red creature frozen inside a floating block of ice beneath the surface. After it thawed and the surrounding ice melted to reveal a volcanic crater, the creature clung affectionately to him, leaving him bewildered as he decided to leave.

• Bai Yang used his Psychic Power to inspect the floating ice and found a fuzzy red ball with a faint sign of life inside.
• The ice shattered, freeing the red creature, which rushed toward Bai Yang before he stopped it with his Psychic Power.
• The surrounding ice vaporized and the cave entrance burst open, while Bai Yang realized the frozen chamber concealed a volcano crater.
• The red ball revealed eyes and limbs, and Bai Yang cautiously loosened his hold after it cried and appeared harmless.
• The creature cuddled against Bai Yang and played in his hand, but it could only squeak, so Bai Yang decided to leave.

Bai Yang brought a strange flying creature back from the melting cave and planned to protect the island with a Mountain Protection Formation. The creature revealed that it ate diamonds, then nearly bit Su Xishui when she tried to cuddle it.

• Bai Yang left the cave with the fluffy creature and returned to his tent, where he discovered it could fly.
• Bai Yang chose a Mountain Protection Formation to conceal and defend the island, and planned to use animal blood in place of scarce origin qi.
• The creature appeared holding a chicken-egg-sized diamond, then crunched and swallowed it while Bai Yang watched in shock.
• Su Xishui entered the tent, tried to grab the creature, and nearly got bitten before Bai Yang pulled it away.
• Su Xishui accused Bai Yang of touching her inappropriately after he pushed her back, and Bai Yang denied it.

Su Xishui told Bai Yang that the island’s leaders planned to bring in newcomers and choose a leader capable of breaking the outside blockade. Bai Yang took control of the situation, hypnotized the island’s people, and began preparing an array to resolve the crisis, while the mysterious little creature continued eating precious stones.

• Su Xishui tried to kick Bai Yang, but he dodged, struck her, and pinned her with Psychic Power to smack her; she then explained the island’s growing population and the decision-makers’ plan to choose a leader.
• Su Xishui said she wanted to become leader and described the challenge of sending people beyond the blockade to bring back supplies, but Bai Yang declared that he would handle the situation himself.
• Bai Yang warned that the leaders’ plans could lead to conflict on the island and a world war, then left the tent and hypnotized more than ten thousand people with his Psychic Power.
• Bai Yang ordered six decision-makers to gather newcomers and collect tall stones and large live fish, then used the Blood-Patterned Sword to carve more than three hundred stone steles for an array.
• Bai Yang returned to his tent at night and worried about the little creature’s endless appetite for jade, diamonds, gold, and gemstones.

Bai Yang teased Su Xishui, then began preparing a Mountain Protection Formation to hide the island as more people arrived. By the end of the chapter, he had carved and blood-activated the patterns on the first stone steles.

• Bai Yang returned to his tent with the gem-eating creature, named it Red Ball, and found Su Xishui practicing there with the Shadow Secret Codex.
• Bai Yang summoned water to drench Su Xishui as she left, then went to sleep and woke to find Red Ball rolling on him.
• Bai Yang hypnotized the people arriving at the camp and put them to work preparing stones and digging pits for the Formation.
• Bai Yang used the Blood-Patterned Sword and Psychic Power to carve intricate patterns into the stone steles and trace blood across them.
• The patterns on a completed stele flashed with an eerie red glow.

Bai Yang completed the Mountain Protection Formation around the island and ordered everyone to leave before activating it. The island was sealed behind dense fog and a force-field barrier, leaving its future discovery uncertain.

• Bai Yang carved and blood-activated more than four hundred formation bases, then placed and adjusted them across the island.
• Bai Yang told Su Xishui to evacuate everyone and explained that island visitors would forget their experiences once they escaped the chaotic waters.
• Su Xishui and the others took the hidden ships to the coast and left, while Bai Yang confirmed the island was empty.
• Bai Yang installed the formation eye on the mountain summit and linked it to the formation bases, completing the Mountain Protection Formation.
• The Formation shrouded the island in dense fog and raised a barrier that blocked entry and exit while disorienting anyone who reached the island.