Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen spread rumors about the Ghost Ship among Penglai Island’s rogue cultivators, using the gossip as a possible move in the coming Righteous-Demonic Great War. He then set his plans in motion and reached the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein.

• Rogue cultivators in a Penglai Mountain City inn discussed the Flying Boat Sea Market’s destruction, the coming East Sea Grand Event, and fears that spirit puppets would displace them.
• Lin Chen, posing as a young cultivator with a Feather Fan, described the Ghost Ship and its dangers and treasures, then suggested it might appear at Penglai Island.
• After Lin Chen left, the inn’s visitors spread his unverified Ghost Ship story across Penglai Island and the East Sea Cultivation World.
• Wu Yong questioned Lin Chen’s decision to spread the rumor, and Lin Chen explained that he was preparing for the coming war while intending to let both sides exhaust themselves.
• Lin Chen ordered the Kunpeng Cub to spread the rumor throughout Penglai’s Mountain Cities and confirmed that he had secured a reserved place in the Penglai Grand Event.
• Lin Chen arrived at the site of the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein, one of the four remaining High Order Spirit Veins in heaven and earth.

Lin Chen entered the underground world beneath Penglai Island and discovered that its mortals were made to absorb the hatred, curses, and other turbid forces accumulating above, while their souls and the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein’s spiritual qi rose to sustain the Cultivation World. He descended toward the spirit vein to plant a hidden hand that could reverse pure and turbid qi, transform the accumulated darkness, and help him become a Heavenly Lord.

• Lin Chen used the Divine Firmament Gang Law Dao talisman decree to enter the underground world, which otherwise caused his dharma power and Golden Core to collapse.
• Lin Chen examined the poisoned soil and used yin qi to see that the underground world was filled with cursed remains and the resentful faces of dead cultivators.
• Lin Chen realized that the Ten Directions Spirit-Banning Heaven and Earth Great Formation sent turbid qi downward into the mortal realm, while mortal souls and the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein’s spiritual qi rose to support Penglai Island.
• Lin Chen concluded that the system was building up a world-destroying calamity and decided to reverse pure and turbid qi, dissolve the accumulated hatred, and establish a power of his own.
• Lin Chen summoned the Split Spirit aboard the Ghost Ship and continued sinking toward the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein.

Lin Chen reached the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein beneath Penglai Island and revealed his plan to turn the Ghost Ship into a prototype of the ancient Nine Nether. He intended to draw in the accumulated darkness of the Yinji Sea, use the Dragon Source and life-and-death conversion to create a world, and advance toward becoming a Heavenly Lord.

• Lin Chen discovered that basalt sealed the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein and sent his soul through it as Dream Spiritual Energy while leaving his body behind.
• Lin Chen arrived at the spirit vein’s core, where spiritual energy surged in vast tides, and revealed that he had refined the Mirror Female Cultivator into a Magic Treasure Embryo.
• Lin Chen proposed purifying the demonic qi infecting the spirit vein and using the Ghost Ship to absorb the darkness gathered in the Yinji Sea.
• Lin Chen explained that he would combine the Ghost Ship, its Ancient World Remains, the Boundless Blood Sea, and the Dragon Source to recreate a Nine Nether prototype and form a world.
• Lin Chen declared that creating this world could let him achieve Void Refinement, advance to Heavenly Lord, and become one of the foremost beings in the world.

Lin Chen used the Profound Mirror, Dream Spiritual Energy, and a branch of the Soul Returning Wood to create an illusory Nine Nether that resonated with the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein and the Yinji Sea. After powerful cultivators converged on the disturbance, Lin Chen vanished, leaving the Immortal Alliance’s Spirit Transmutation Old Monsters to arrive.

• Lin Chen cast the Profound Mirror into the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein and used accumulated knowledge of the Nine Nether to manifest the Illusion Sea of Death and its ominous spiritual objects.
• The mirror formed the Nine Nether Long River from countless resentful souls, and its grievance resonated with the Yinji Sea, causing the Spiritual Energy Tide to erupt across Penglai Island and Wolong Pass.
• Lin Chen added Ghost Ship taboos to create the Graveyard of All Beings, then planned to use the Nine Nether as part of a future Outer World.
• Lin Chen placed a Root Branch of the Soul Returning Wood in the mirror, creating a spark of vitality and an illusory realm where the true spirits of dead cultivators could be reborn.
• As Immortal Alliance cultivators and Spirit Transmutation Old Monsters approached, Lin Chen vanished, and several Spirit Transmutation Old Monsters arrived moments later.

Several Spirit Transformation figures investigated the disturbance in the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein, but heaven and earth concealed its source. They left divided over whether to slaughter millions of cultivators to find the culprit, while the Divine Firmament Gang Law Dao master feared the Immortal Alliance was too fractured to face the coming calamity.

• Heavenly Craftsman Venerable and the master of the Divine Firmament Gang Law Dao found that their instruments could not locate the cause of the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein's disturbance.
• Heavenly River Venerable proposed inspecting nearby Mountain Cities and killing their cultivators if necessary, but the Dao Master condemned the mass slaughter.
• Cold Moon Venerable arrived and supported Heavenly River Venerable, citing the disappearance of the Spirit Medium Bride and the Great Sui Demonic Dao in the west.
• Heavenly Craftsman Venerable opposed the plan, and Nether Prison Daoist appeared before Cold Moon Venerable departed.
• Heavenly River Venerable left demanding an explanation from the Divine Firmament Gang Law Dao, while the Dao Master and Heavenly Craftsman Venerable withdrew, troubled by the Alliance's divisions.

Lin Chen returned to Penglai Mountain City after using the Forget Demon Venerable’s power to evade the Immortal Alliance’s search, while planning to use Nine Nether to fuel his future advancement. When the Kunpeng Cub fled in search of food, Lin Chen tracked it and sensed a connection to Celestial Human reincarnation and the Hell Path; elsewhere, the Hell Ten Paths prepared to pursue their goal of reincarnating as Celestial Humans.

• Lin Chen rose from the underground space undetected as the Immortal Alliance searched for the source of the disturbance, and he planned to blame a Heavenly Demon Cult stronghold.
• Lin Chen returned to Wu Yong, who reported that he had spread news of the Ghost Ship across Penglai Island’s Mountain Cities.
• Lin Chen discovered that the Kunpeng Cub had left the inn to seek something delicious and used their blood contract to track it.
• Lin Chen sensed that the Kunpeng Cub’s location involved a Celestial Human, reincarnation, and the Hell Path.
• In a corrupted Sea of Flowers, the Hell Ten Paths celebrated their improved Hell Nether Flower and declared their aim to reincarnate as Celestial Humans.

The Celestial Being Path, Reincarnation Path, and Hell Path planned to replace the Old Heaven with a New Heaven using a strange flower, then reincarnate as Celestial Humans. When they mistook a trap for Lin Chen’s arrival, they were confronted instead by East Sea Immortal Alliance cultivators, while Lin Chen watched from safety.

• The three Path Lords explained how the strange flower mutated spiritual qi and could transform the world’s laws into a New Heaven.
• The Path Lords planned to mutate themselves and use cultivators as test subjects for reincarnation into the new world.
• An Ancient Variant cub tried to escape, and the Path Lords discussed its master and the new world’s shared consciousness.
• The Path Lords opened the concealment expecting the Ancient Variant’s master, but Spirit Transformations and Nascent Souls from the Immortal Alliance entered instead.
• The master of the Divine Firmament Gang Law Dao accused the Path Lords of infiltrating Penglai Island and attacking the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein.
• Heaven darkened and a white trace descended before the Path Lords could explain, while Lin Chen admitted he had redirected the danger rather than risk saving the Ancient Variant himself.

The Heavenly River Old Monster and the Divine Firmament Dao Master attacked Hell Ten Paths on Penglai Island, but their assault revealed a strange fungal spread that they mistook for an Outer Domain Invasion. Lin Chen watched from hiding and suspected the flowers were responsible as the Divine Firmament Dao Master unleashed Chaos Yin Yang Five Elements Divine Thunder.

• The Divine Firmament Dao Master summoned the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal, while the Heavenly River Old Monster struck Hell Ten Paths with Primordial Heavy Water and helped turn a thousand-mile region into a vast pit.
• Lin Chen watched from the mountains and considered letting the Kunpeng Cub escape or die so he could later claim its corpse.
• Hell Ten Paths revealed a dark crimson Sea of Flowers and a yellow-green Fungal Mat that spread across the pit, prompting the Immortal Alliance cultivators to accuse them of joining an Outer Realm World.
• Lin Chen sensed that the strange growth might come from the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein and that the flowers, rather than an outside invasion, were behind it.
• The Divine Firmament Dao Master gathered the power of the sea, sky, Sun, and Moon into Chaos Yin Yang Five Elements Divine Thunder and fired it at the Sky Pit.

Lin Chen infiltrated the lightning-sealed region around Penglai Island and realized Hell Ten Paths was using Spiritual Energy Radiation to reshape the world's laws. He sacrificed the Kunpeng Cub to break the seal, prompting a Heavenly Lord to intervene and the East Sea Immortal Alliance to summon Golden Core prodigies to Penglai Island.

• Xu Yuanyang watched the lightning curtain around Penglai Island as Lin Chen returned with Wu Yong and discussed how the upheaval would change the Immortal Alliance's plans.
• Lin Chen's true body approached the seal and concluded Hell Ten Paths was turning Spiritual Energy Radiation into a weapon to create a new world and gain its favor.
• Lin Chen decided to obtain Hell Ten Paths' research results and sacrificed the Kunpeng Cub's True Spirit Bloodline to unleash its Soaring Nine Heavens ability.
• The Kunpeng Cub shattered the lightning curtain and escaped, while a yellow-green Giant from Hell Ten Paths broke through the seal and fought the Spirit Transmutation cultivators.
• A Heavenly Lord erased the sealed region, and Lin Chen departed as he anticipated a major Immortal Alliance response.
• The Immortal Alliance ordered Golden Core prodigies from the myriad islands to reach Penglai Island within seven days, threatening death to anyone who disobeyed.

Lin Chen and Xu Yuanyang watched the East Sea Immortal Alliance gather on Penglai Island before Golden Core cultivators and above were transferred into an ancient floating grotto-heaven. They arrived at the vast Floating Spirit Island, the Divine Firmament Gang Law Dao’s supreme strategic treasure.

• Lin Chen watched cultivators, supplies, and experts from across the East Sea arrive on Penglai Island as the Immortal Alliance prepared for war against the Hell Ten Paths.
• Xu Yuanyang told Lin Chen that Golden Core cultivators and above would discuss matters on the Dao’s Floating Island.
• A mysterious bell sounded, and the illusory Floating Spirit City appeared above Penglai Island, drawing Lin Chen and the other qualified cultivators into its transference light.
• Lin Chen studied the spatial transference as it carried him and the other cultivators through the void on a jade Spiritual Platform.
• The Spiritual Platform emerged from a great river among floating peaks, heavenly palaces, waterfalls, and suspended bridges inside Floating Spirit Island.

Lin Chen learned how the Floating Spirit Island drew power from the Reversed Yin-Yang Five-Elements Furnace and was challenged to fight by the Hunyuan Five Elements Sect’s Dao Child, Song. Meanwhile, ten Immortal Alliance cultivators used Heavenly Secrets Fishing to expose hidden threats across the East Sea, and the chapter ended as red lights appeared across their map.

• Song explained to Lin Chen that the Floating Spirit Island had been powered for a million years by the Reversed Yin-Yang Five-Elements Furnace, restrained by million-year Profound Ice and channeled through geomagnetic spirit iron.
• Song demanded that Lin Chen fight him in return for revealing his sect’s secret.
• The Divine Firmament Dao Master and nine other Spirit Transformation combatants agreed to divide the Hell Ten Paths among their sects and forces before their campaign began.
• Tianjizi distributed Heavenly Mystery Rods, and the ten cultivators cast their lines into a pool to weave a net of fate over the East Sea.
• The cultivators used Heavenly Secrets Fishing to probe for the Hell Ten Paths, Four Directions Demon, unknown variables, and Ancient Variants; Turtle Xuan recognized the technique from the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• A dark-red die was suppressed in the map of the East Sea, revealing numerous red lights, while the East Sea Rogue Immortal and Nether Prison cultivator each held two fishing rods.

The Immortal Alliance’s ten Spirit Transformation cultivators used Heavenly Secrets Fishing to expose Hell Ten Paths, but the missing demons and unknown forces raised suspicions of interference by an insider or a Heavenly Lord. As the Alliance prepared to suppress the East Sea, Lin Chen sensed an overwhelming danger and found Song Jingxuan’s fist rushing toward him.

• The ten Spirit Transformation cultivators saw Heavenly Secrets Fishing reveal Hell Ten Paths members but fail to uncover the demons, Demon Kings, Demon Venerables, or unknown variables.
• Five Elements Daoist suspected either a hidden traitor or demons capable of resisting the Alliance’s fortune, and Old Woman Han Yue and the East Sea Rogue Immortal accused each other.
• Tianjizi said the anomaly might have come from an insider or a Heavenly Lord, while privately recognizing a familiar aura associated with the one upon the moon.
• Divine Firmament Dao Master proposed eliminating the immediate danger and suppressing the East Sea, and the cultivators agreed to deploy fleets, treasures, disciples, and other forces.
• Tianjizi said the Heavenly Mystery Net would eventually draw the Alliance, the demons, and unknown forces together at one place.
• Lin Chen felt a sudden, overwhelming premonition of danger, then saw Song Jingxuan swing a fist toward his face.

Song Jingxuan attacked Lin Chen on the Floating Island, but Lin Chen survived his apparent death and uncovered the secret behind Song Jingxuan’s growing power. As the Immortal Alliance’s assembly finally began, Lin Chen resolved to avoid a prolonged fight with Song Jingxuan.

• Song Jingxuan punched Lin Chen, whose Blue Lotus Thousand Water Shield adapted to the attack before Song Jingxuan’s techniques broke through and shattered his body.
• Lin Chen reassembled his body and claimed that a True and False Illusion Technique had deceived the onlookers; a Divine Firmament Gang Law Dao True Lord ended the confrontation and warned them not to cause trouble.
• Song Jingxuan apologized to Lin Chen with a Yin Yang Five Elements Nascent Soul Spirit Pill and tried to learn about Lin Chen’s technique.
• Lin Chen inferred that Song Jingxuan’s Myriad Law Mother Qi copied opponents’ spells and abilities, and decided to kill Song Jingxuan instantly or flee if they met again.
• A great bell rang, the palaces opened, and the Immortal Alliance’s Nascent Soul True Lords and leaders appeared as the assembly began.

Lin Chen attended the East Sea Grand Event, learned how the Ten Thousand Dao Spirit Islands sustained their many cultivation paths, and heard that the Alliance planned to use Heavenly Secrets Fishing against hidden Evil Cultivators. As the meeting turned to assigning commanders for the hastily launched campaign, Song Jingxuan asked whether Lin Chen had an idea.

• Lin Chen watched Golden Core Cultivators and nearly a hundred Nascent Soul True Lords gather on Cloud-Within Island for the East Sea Grand Event.
• Lin Chen found the Alliance meeting tedious, while Song Jingxuan explained that the East Sea's many Spirit Islands preserved distinct cultivation methods and helped sect disciples develop their own Dao paths.
• Xu Yuanyang said the Hell Ten Battles would let cultivators travel the islands and hunt Evil Cultivators, and Song Jingxuan revealed that the Alliance would use Heavenly Secrets Fishing to identify them.
• Song Jingxuan privately wondered whether Lin Chen's apparent Rogue Cultivator identity concealed a deeper connection to the Alliance.
• Divine Firmament Dao Master asked the assembled cultivators how to assign commanders and forces for the campaign after the war had begun before the Golden Core ranks could be determined.
• Song Jingxuan sensed something and asked Lin Chen whether he had an idea for solving the command problem.

Lin Chen presented his Spirit Puppet Method to the Immortal Alliance, explaining how it could speed cultivation and turn failed cultivators into useful Spirit Puppets. As the Alliance’s sect leaders moved to restrict the method, Lin Chen interrupted the Divine Firmament Dao Master and asked the Spirit Transformation venerables to hear him out.

• Lin Chen announced that his Spirit Puppet Method could address the Alliance’s troubles and open a new path among the Hundred Arts of Cultivation.
• Mister Mist attacked Lin Chen with his Mistbound Spirit Domain, but True Lord Xingmu intervened and the Heavenly River Old Monster ended the confrontation.
• Xu Yuanyang explained to Song Jingxuan that the method accelerated advancement at the cost of castration or the loss of yin, reduced lifespan, and the risk of becoming a Spirit Puppet after a failed breakthrough.
• Lin Chen described the method’s benefits, including using Spirit Puppets as laborers, guardians, soldiers, and replacements for cultivators in dangerous tasks.
• Hundred Herbs Master and True Lord Xingmu supported the method, while Mister Mist and other Nascent Soul True Lords called for the Alliance’s leaders to control it.
• The Divine Firmament Dao Master began to accept the proposal to restrict the method, but Lin Chen interrupted him and asked the Spirit Transformation venerables to hear him out.

Lin Chen persuaded the Spirit Transformation venerables to reconsider the Spirit Puppet Method by tying its spread to a campaign merit and war-bond system for the East Sea war. He argued that the plan could draw resources from the region’s sects, clans, and cultivators while binding them to the alliance, and Heavenly River Old Monster tentatively supported it.

• Lin Chen challenged Mister Mist’s authority, and Heavenly River Old Monster summoned him to the summit to explain his proposal privately.
• Lin Chen warned the venerables that the war could devastate the East Sea and drive its cultivators toward the Central Lands.
• Lin Chen proposed using war bonds and campaign merit points to attract cultivators’ resources and reward contributions to campaigns against the Hell Ten Paths.
• Lin Chen argued that access to the Spirit Puppet Method could be linked to participation, giving East Sea sects and clans a tangible reason to join the system.
• Lin Chen presented the plan as a way to unite the East Sea behind the alliance, and Heavenly River Old Monster said it might be possible.

Lin Chen persuaded the Spirit Transformation cultivators to approve a plan that would exploit East Sea forces through the Spirit Puppet Method, and the alliance assigned him a Flying Boat Fleet for the war against the Hell Ten Paths. After the Divine Firmament Dao Master punished Mister Mist and the gathered cultivators received their campaign orders, Lin Chen began considering whether to attack the injured Nascent Soul cultivator.

• The Spirit Transformation cultivators unanimously approved Lin Chen’s plan to bind East Sea forces to the alliance and harvest their resources through the Spirit Puppet Method.
• The Divine Firmament Dao Master granted Lin Chen a talismanic command and a Flying Boat Fleet, then ordered the gathered cultivators to return to Penglai Island and prepare for war.
• Mister Mist tried to object, but the Divine Firmament Dao Master struck him with Five Elements Spirit Lightning and severely injured him.
• Song Jingxuan praised the lightning strike, while Lin Chen considered ambushing Mister Mist now that he was wounded.
• The Nascent Soul True Lords were shown a map of the East Sea’s Hell Ten Paths forces and ordered to hunt their Nascent Soul Evil Cultivators before joining an assault on Reincarnation Island.

Lin Chen studied the Radiant Strange Flowers’ ability to mutate spiritual energy and suspected their radiation came from the dream world tied to his Golden Core breakthrough. Aboard the Floating Spirit Island, Song Jingxuan revealed legends about the Ancient Cultivators’ war with a knowledge-seeking civilization and the Nine Great Immortal Sects’ hidden purposes, leaving Lin Chen questioning whether a higher-dimensional force controlled their world.

• Lin Chen reasoned that the Radiant Strange Flowers could transform the world’s spiritual energy and suspected their radiation was connected to the dream world he had entered during his Golden Core breakthrough.
• Lin Chen woke aboard the Floating Spirit Island and learned from Song Jingxuan that it had once been a Cosmic Star Nest used by Ancient Cultivators to campaign across worlds.
• Song Jingxuan explained that the Divine Firmament Gang Law Dao had originated to study heaven’s will and aid invasions, while a legendary war with a knowledge-obsessed civilization had ended the Ancient Cultivators’ campaigns.
• Song Jingxuan shared an alternate account claiming the civilization escaped by descending into another dimension, after which Ancient Cultivators pursued it and later founded the predecessors of the Nine Great Immortal Sects.
• Song Jingxuan said the Hunyuan Five Elements Sect investigated whether the universe was natural or created, while the Divine Firmament Gang Law Dao examined whether fate and the universe’s course were normal.
• Lin Chen learned that the sects’ investigations concerned whether a higher-dimensional interferer had arranged their world and experiences.

Lin Chen realized that Grandmaster Taixuan might possess the power to reverse time, while the Immortal Alliance prepared to launch a devastating invasion of Hell Ten Paths. The chapter ended as thousands of spirit ships descended across the East Sea like a meteor shower.

• Song Jingxuan told Lin Chen that ancient sect founders had speculated about a Creator, the nature of reality, and the world as a repeating recording.
• Song Jingxuan began describing Grandmaster Taixuan's power, but a strange dripping sound accompanied a sudden reversal of time that left Lin Chen terrified.
• Lin Chen connected with his Split Spirit and concluded that time had reversed; he then wondered why no information existed about how Grandmaster Taixuan gained and kept his position.
• Above the Nine Heavens, the Immortal Alliance transformed Floating Spirit Islands into a Cosmic Starship and prepared a mass deployment of spirit ships against Hell Ten Paths.
• Heavenly River Old Monster assigned the fleets their targets and ordered them to kill rather than let anyone escape.
• The Cosmic Starship launched thousands of spirit ships, which fell across the East Sea like a rain of meteors.

Lin Chen and his companions survived their spiritual ships’ crash landing in the East Sea, then learned their mission was to hunt False Nascent Soul Cultivators of the Hell Ten Paths. Lin Chen planned to outsource the fighting to local cultivators, but Song Jingxuan warned that the war’s entangled fortune would force them to meet their enemies, and an approaching coincidence began.

• Lin Chen, Song Jingxuan, and Xu Yuanyang recovered from the crash and used the ship’s spiritual energy to heal themselves and repair the damaged vessels.
• Lin Chen activated the Flowing Cloud Ship Spirit and examined the fleet’s mission to hunt Celestial Being Path False Nascent Soul Cultivators in the sea region.
• Lin Chen proposed outsourcing the mission to local False Nascent Soul cultivators and using the East Sea Immortal Alliance’s authority to make others take on the work.
• Song Jingxuan and Xu Yuanyang fell silent when Lin Chen challenged them to fight the False Nascent Soul Cultivators themselves.
• Song Jingxuan warned that Heavenly Secrets Fishing had entangled both sides’ fortunes, making an encounter inevitable, and Lin Chen sensed something approaching.