Chapter Summaries

The Spirit Stone Crisis drove the East Sea Cultivation World into a widespread uprising after cultivators discovered their wealth and futures had been stripped away. Hundred Herbs Master dismissed the revolt as a threat he could crush, but as he considered exploiting the chaos, he realized that he and his allies had fallen into a trap.

• Lower-level cultivators discovered that the spirit stones and treasures collected at Immortal Alliance garrisons had vanished, and their despair erupted into a revolt that spread across the East Sea Cultivation World.
• Hundred Herbs Master struggled to place the [Moth Lord] statue in the Medicine Spirit Grotto-heaven before the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation could be activated.
• Hundred Herbs Master's True Disciple reported that the uprising had disrupted the supply of spirit stones, spiritual medicines, ores, and other materials throughout the region.
• Hundred Herbs Master ordered his sect to slaughter the rioters and secretly investigate whether the Medicine Spirit Grotto-heaven had been affected.
• Hundred Herbs Master realized that the upheaval was a trap and that he and his allies had fallen into it.

Hundred Herbs Master realized that the East Sea riots were an open scheme designed to tempt the Immortal Alliance’s upper ranks into pursuing their own ambitions. Zhang Hao sought high-level spirit herbs amid the chaos, but Lin Chen and Spider Web Spirit Queen appeared before he could raid a Nascent Soul stronghold, and Lin Chen said the real players had yet to enter the board.

• Hundred Herbs Master watched cultivators loot and slaughter across Penglai Island and recognized that the chaos threatened the East Sea’s fundamental order.
• Hundred Herbs Master realized the scheme also offered the Alliance’s upper ranks a chance to pursue their own interests, and he hesitated to alert the other Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Zhang Hao decided to raid a powerful faction’s medicinal garden for high-level spirit herbs despite Tree Elder’s warning that the Alliance’s strongest forces remained untouched.
• Spider Web Spirit Queen attempted to bewitch Zhang Hao, but his eight spiritually intelligent artifacts blocked her ability.
• Lin Chen stopped Spider Web Spirit Queen from pressing Zhang Hao and explained that he had exploited people’s greed to throw the East Sea Immortal Alliance into chaos.
• Spider Web Spirit Queen asked whether they could act, but Lin Chen said the upheaval was only an appetizer and the true pieces had not yet entered the board.

The East Sea Immortal Alliance’s leaders argued over how to suppress the uprising caused by the Spirit Stone Crisis, while refusing to return the wealth they had seized. As a massive storm approached Penglai Island, the Four Directions Demon prepared to exploit the disorder and launch its attack.

• Nascent Soul cultivators gathered on Floating Spirit Island and clashed over responsibility for the rebellion and how to restore order.
• True Lord Xingmu warned that unrest had spread across the East Sea and that the Four Directions Demon could take advantage, but the leaders balked at paying back the Spirit Stones they had seized.
• Hundred Herbs Master proposed escalating the crisis, while True Lord Xingmu warned that slaughtering the rebels would cause further catastrophe.
• A sect on Penglai Island discovered that the [Four Seasons Reincarnation Great Formation] had failed, allowing a terrifying sea storm to approach the island.
• Demonic Path figures revealed their plan to use the storm and the ensuing darkness to provoke the Immortal Alliance into action, then attack with their gathered demons and an undercover agent.
• As the immense storm advanced toward Penglai Island, the black-clad figures declared that the war had begun and disappeared.

A Sea Storm struck Penglai Island after the Four Seasons Reincarnation Great Formation failed, giving the conspirators an opening to begin their war against the East Sea Immortal Alliance. Hundred Herbs Master and his allies attacked Medicine Spirit Grotto-heaven, where they killed True Lord Wu Yuan and announced that the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation was ready.

• Hundred Herbs Master discovered that his avatar's connection had been severed as the Sea Storm overwhelmed the East Sea after the Four Seasons Reincarnation Great Formation lost its support.
• The conspirators sent the Floating Spirit Island into the storm and ordered attacks on Wolong Pass, Penglai Island's sect gates, the Central Lands teleportation array, and Tiangong Island.
• Hundred Herbs Master arrived at Medicine Spirit Grotto-heaven with a Tianhe Sect command token, but True Lord Wu Yuan grew suspicious and refused to open the formation.
• Hundred Herbs Master revealed his betrayal and joined Spirit Puppet Venerable and the avatars of Origin Array Spirit Lord, Danxia True Lord, and Xuan Yin True Lord in attacking True Lord Wu Yuan.
• Hundred Herbs Master used a talisman to tear open the grotto-heaven's Fifth Order formation, killed True Lord Wu Yuan, and ordered the East Sea Dragon Palace to attack the Wolong front line.

Forget Demon Venerable and Great Sui Demonic Dao attacked Tiangong Island, but Daoist Tai Ming revealed that the island was an illusion and trapped them in its formations. The battle escalated as Tiangong Island lost contact with the East Sea Immortal Alliance.

• Celestial Maiden Gu Yue activated Tiangong Island’s defenses and briefly crushed the apparent intruder, but Forget Demon Venerable ambushed her and killed her.
• Forget Demon Venerable used his power to erase the battle from the island’s surroundings, then summoned Great Sui Demonic Dao to spread spores across Tiangong Island.
• Great Sui Demonic Dao and Forget Demon Venerable discovered that the island around them was an illusion, and its image dissolved to reveal Daoist Tai Ming’s formation trap.
• Daoist Tai Ming confronted Forget Demon Venerable, who acknowledged the deception and challenged him to settle their conflict through strength.
• Forget Demon Venerable battled Daoist Tai Ming over Penglai Island as Great Sui Demonic Dao fought Tiangong Island’s Fifth Order Great Formation, cutting the island off from the East Sea Immortal Alliance.

The East Sea Immortal Alliance discovered that the Demon Side’s assault had disrupted its defenses, while Celestial Venerable Canghai learned that the Dragon Emperor and Drought Demon were moving against him. As Canghai battled Drought Demon, the Dragon Emperor unleashed a heaven-shaking attack aimed at Wolong Pass.

• The Divine Firmament Dao Master ordered Old Woman Han Yue and Nail Soul True Lord to activate the Immortal Alliance’s hidden foundation while he worried over missing allies and Celestial Venerable Canghai’s silence.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai sensed that Tiangong Island had lost contact, then confronted the Dragon Emperor, who revealed that the Dragon Palace had joined the Four Directions Demon to seize the Reverse Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Feng Shui Formation.
• The Dragon Emperor mobilized a vast army of sea beasts as Drought Demon appeared before Canghai and challenged him over the Heavenly River left by Ancient Cultivators.
• Celestial Venerable Canghai and Drought Demon began an unprecedented battle within the hidden Heavenly River.
• The Dragon Emperor gathered the killing intent of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning and directed it toward Wolong Pass, while an unseen figure slipped through the pass’s formations toward its core.

Lin Chen explained that heaven and earth had favored Zhang Hao because he was meant to help restore reincarnation, but the arrival of Lin Chen, Taixuan, and the Heavenly Demon had thrown the era’s intended course into chaos. He warned Zhang Hao to leave Penglai Island before the coming battle and departed for the East Sea Dragon Palace, leaving their friendship at risk.

• Lin Chen assessed the Demonic Path’s plan to cut off the Central Lands, breach Wolong Pass, and exploit the Dragon Palace’s sea beast tide.
• Zhang Hao refused Lin Chen’s advice to leave Penglai Island, hoping to obtain rare resources amid the upheaval.
• Lin Chen warned Zhang Hao that his great fortune might no longer protect him because the events meant to shape the era had been disrupted.
• Lin Chen realized that heaven and earth had intended Zhang Hao and Lin Tianhang to restore reincarnation, but the current Great Tribulation had displaced that plan.
• Lin Chen departed toward the East Sea Dragon Palace after warning Zhang Hao that they would become enemies if they met again.

The East Sea Dragon Palace launched a full-scale assault on Wolong Pass while the Immortal Alliance was weakened by upheaval elsewhere. The Heavenly River Old Monster rallied the defenders and activated the Dragon Trapping Formation, but Lin arrived with a threat to kill him.

• The Dragon Palace's army gathered before Wolong Pass, and the Dragon Emperor offered the Heavenly River Old Monster a chance to submit.
• The Dragon Emperor accused Celestial Venerable Canghai of betraying humanity to complete the Reverse Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Feng Shui Formation, but the Heavenly River Old Monster refused to yield.
• The Dragon Emperor ordered the sea beasts to attack, and their first assault quickly overloaded Wolong Pass's grand formation.
• The Heavenly River Old Monster ordered the Dragon Trapping Formation activated, bringing the pass's formations and defenders into battle positions.
• The Heavenly River Old Monster sensed killing intent as Lin approached and declared that he had come to ring the Venerable's death knell.

Lin Chen confronted Heavenly River Venerable inside Wolong Pass and defeated him in a clash of life-risking attacks, killing the Venerable and destroying the pass’s core. With the Heaven and Earth Feng Shui Dragon-Trapping Grand Formation still gathering power, Lin Chen looked to the Sea of Mist and demanded that the Dragon Emperor break through.

• Heavenly River Venerable activated Wolong Pass’s highest-level defenses, but Lin Chen used the Candle Dragon Scale and the Space Great Dao to evade the attacks and draw him into a void-like space.
• Lin Chen rejected Heavenly River Venerable’s appeal to Human Race solidarity, while the Venerable took the Heavenly Demon Spirit Transmutation Pill and asked Lin Chen to aid the East Sea Cultivation World if he lost.
• Heavenly River Venerable unleashed a fatal punch infused with Primordial Heavy Water, and Lin Chen met it with a punch that twisted space-time.
• The collision tore apart Wolong Pass and disrupted the Sea of Mist; Heavenly River Venerable’s Soul Lamps went out, confirming his death.
• Lin Chen emerged after destroying the formation’s core, saw the great formation gathering power again, and warned that the Dragon Emperor had to break through Wolong Pass.

After Heavenly River Venerable’s death destroyed Wolong Pass’s formation core, True Lord Wan Hai and the defenders sacrificed themselves to reactivate the Dragon Trapping Grand Formation. The Dragon Emperor answered with his full power, and Wolong Pass collapsed beneath his attack.

• True Lord Wan Hai learned that Heavenly River Venerable had died and warned the other Nascent Soul Cultivators that retreat or surrender would leave them doomed.
• True Lord Wan Hai chose to die defending Wolong Pass and sacrificed his flesh and soul to restore the pass formation.
• The cultivators of Wolong Pass gave their lives to fully activate the Dragon Trapping Grand Formation, which suppressed the Dragon Palace sea beasts.
• The Dragon Emperor declared that the sea clans fought for survival and that he would not retreat from the struggle over the East Sea spirit veins.
• The Dragon Emperor unleashed his wind-and-rain Dao Domain, dispersed the Sea of Mist, and destroyed Wolong Pass.

Lin Chen confronted the Dragon Emperor after it destroyed Wolong Pass, and the Dragon Emperor withdrew rather than risk a costly battle. As the Dragon Palace unleashed its invasion and the Myriad Demons Great Formation across the East Sea, Lin Chen flew toward the Yinji Sea to pursue his plans and investigate the demons’ unexplained lack of Spirit Transformation-level forces.

• The Dragon Emperor resonated with the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein and shattered Wolong Pass, while Lin Chen analyzed its power and discovered the Dragon Emperor’s true nature.
• The Dragon Emperor recognized Lin Chen and offered him a position if he helped the Dragon Palace invade; Lin Chen mocked the offer and refused.
• Ancestor Kongsha attacked Lin Chen, but the Dragon Emperor struck Ancestor Kongsha instead, annihilating many sea beasts and severely injuring the Spirit Transformation monster.
• The Dragon Emperor called off the confrontation and led the Dragon Palace Army toward the Inner Sea, deploying the Myriad Demons Great Formation as the Endless Tidal Wave spread devastation across the East Sea.
• Lin Chen left the ruined pass for the Yinji Sea, wondering why the demons had not assigned Spirit Transformation-level power to carry out their plans.

The destruction of Wolong Pass triggered a catastrophe across the East Sea Cultivation World, while Old Woman Han Yue and the other rogue cultivators found themselves hunted and cut off from escape. Old Monster Meng Die proposed joining forces with the Outer Realm Evil Gods, hoping to survive the Dragon Emperor’s advance and profit from the chaos.

• The breach of Wolong Pass destabilized the Sleeping Dragon Spirit Vein, unleashing spiritual storms, collapsing Penglai Island, and causing cultivators across the East Sea to die as the Endless Tidal Wave swept in.
• Old Woman Han Yue and Nail Soul True Lord learned that Wolong Pass had fallen, and the rogue cultivators debated whether to flee or press on for their chance to achieve the Dao.
• East Sea Rogue Immortal trapped Han Yue and Nail Soul True Lord in his Book World, where a demonic invasion appeared to attack them.
• After losing contact with Han Yue and Nail Soul True Lord, Old Monster Meng Die reasoned that the Demon Side had begun eliminating the Outer Realm Evil Gods as unnecessary variables.
• Old Monster Meng Die warned that the Dragon Emperor was leading the Dragon Palace Army toward Penglai and that escape was impossible, then proposed uniting the East Sea Immortal Alliance with the Outer Realm Evil Gods.

Old Monster Meng Die urged Old Monster Yuan Hai and Withered Wood Old Monster to exploit the chaos around Penglai Island, but Spider Web Spirit Queen ambushed them with a host of Spirit Transformation fighters. Withered Wood Old Monster transformed into Venerable Ku Rong and unleashed his Reincarnation Domain as Lin Chen awakened the Demon Army hidden in Nether Prison Daoist's domain.

• Old Monster Meng Die pressed Old Monster Yuan Hai and Withered Wood Old Monster to turn the Outer Realm Evil Gods against the demons and use the Twelve Heavens Divine Fiend Great Formation against the Dragon Palace Army.
• Spider Web Spirit Queen trapped the three old monsters in a web of threads and revealed that the Dragon Emperor had broken through Wolong Pass after Fellow Daoist Lin killed its commander.
• Withered Wood Old Monster summoned three Spirit Transformation-level treasures, but Spider Web Spirit Queen brought Nether Prison Daoist, Spirit Medium Bride, Calamity Shaman, and other Demon Side fighters to meet them.
• Withered Wood Old Monster merged with his golden man, comprehended the Dao of flourishing and decline, and transformed into Venerable Ku Rong, whose Reincarnation Domain of One Year, One Wither engulfed the combatants.
• Lin Chen activated the hidden hand in Nether Prison Daoist's domain and awakened the long-sleeping Demon Army.

The Crying Spirit branch awakened the Demon Army hidden in Nether Prison Daoist’s blessed land as the East Sea Immortal Alliance prepared to defend Penglai Island against the approaching Dragon Palace Army. Divine Firmament Dao Master ordered two Taboo Weapon strikes, which destroyed part of Penglai Island and killed Nether Prison Daoist, leaving the Immortal Alliance and the awakened demons facing one another for battle.

• The Crying Spirit branch descended upon the blessed land, and a funeral procession dissolved the demons’ cocoons and awakened the Demon Army.
• Tianjizi and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators learned that Wolong Pass had fallen, the Dragon Palace Army was advancing, and the Heavenly Mystery Net had been corrupted.
• Divine Firmament Dao Master ordered the Floating Island to fire the [Star Annihilation Yang Spirit Arrow] at Wolong Pass and launch an overlimit attack at Nether Prison Daoist’s blessed land.
• The two Taboo Weapon strikes devastated the blessed land and shattered one-tenth of Penglai Island, while Nether Prison Daoist died protecting the Demon Army.
• Venerable Ku Rong, Old Woman Han Yue, and the Immortal Alliance cultivators assembled opposite the awakened demons, and both sides prepared to fight.

The Spirit Transformation cultivators of the Immortal Alliance and the Demonic Path began their decisive battle as the Ten Directions Spirit-Sealing Heaven and Earth Formation started suppressing spiritual energy. The fighting split into multiple battles, with both sides committing their strongest cultivators as the Demon Army and Immortal Alliance forces clashed.

• Divine Firmament Dao Master activated the Ten Directions Spirit-Sealing Heaven and Earth Formation, while Calamity Shaman warned that the disrupted spiritual energy would take time to suppress.
• Calamity Shaman unleashed the Black Annihilation Heavenly Disaster, and Five Elements Daoist met him with the Great Five Elements Annihilation Light Ray.
• The Spirit Medium Bride trapped Old Woman Han Yue and Heavenly Craftsman Venerable inside her Ancient Mansion, where seven Spirit Transmutation Corpses joined her power.
• Venerable Ku Rong confronted Spider Web Spirit Queen and used his ancient bell's cycle of life and death against her Heavenly Net Earthly Snare.
• Old Monster Meng Die challenged East Sea Rogue Immortal, who explained why he had joined the demons before enveloping them both with the Book of Heaven Scroll.
• The Immortal Alliance cultivators and the Demon Army charged into battle across the battlefield.

Immortal and demonic cultivators fought across Penglai as the Dragon Palace threat forced former conspirators into shifting alliances. Above the battlefield, the Calamity Shaman overwhelmed Five Elements Daoist, while the Spirit Medium Bride summoned the slain geniuses of the Sun Moon Immortal Palace to confront Old Woman Han Yue.

• Immortal and demonic Nascent Soul cultivators clashed across Penglai, and Hundred Herbs Master attacked Coffin Bearer Demon Venerable despite their former alliance.
• Hundred Herbs Master declared that the Dharma's End Great Formation would soon activate and pressed his people to kill the demons who knew about the Year Warden statue.
• The Calamity Shaman defeated Five Elements Daoist in their contest over the Five Elements and unleashed a World Destroying Storm, forcing Five Elements Daoist to defend himself with the Hunyuan Five Elements Ring and fifth-rank talismans.
• Seven Spirit Transmutation Corpses dragged Heavenly Craftsman Venerable into a secluded chamber, leaving Old Woman Han Yue to face the Spirit Medium Bride.
• Old Woman Han Yue brought out the Moon Wheel, but the Spirit Medium Bride summoned the lost souls of the Sun Moon Immortal Palace geniuses its aristocratic families had murdered.

The Spirit Medium Bride used the Sun Moon Immortal Palace’s dead to seize control of Old Woman Han Yue’s moon wheel and kill her, while the Immortal Alliance’s forces struggled against the Spirit Transformation demons. Lin Chen’s avatar, the Immeasurable Sea Emperor, decided to enter the battle himself.

• The Spirit Medium Bride summoned the resentful dead of the Sun Moon Immortal Palace, who turned Old Woman Han Yue’s moon wheel into a blood-red corpse-built Guanghan Palace and killed her.
• The Spider Web Spirit Queen attacked Venerable Ku Rong with her Heavenly Net Earthly Snare, but he broke through and stabbed at her with his staff.
• Forget Demon Venerable appeared behind Venerable Ku Rong and pierced him through the chest with ancient scissors.
• Old Monster Meng Die revealed that he had replaced the East Sea Rogue Immortal by devouring his Primordial Spirit, then discovered that the Immortal Alliance’s forces were losing badly.
• Old Monster Meng Die, revealed as Lin Chen’s Spirit Transformation avatar, the Immeasurable Sea Emperor, stood up to face the Spirit Transformation demons himself.

Forget Demon Venerable broke free of Tiangong Island and helped turn the battle at Penglai, but the East Sea Immortal Alliance unleashed the Star Annihilation Yang Spirit Arrow against Wolong Pass. Lin Chen, appearing as Immeasurable Sea Emperor, struck Forget Demon Venerable and chose to join the Alliance against the Demonic Path.

• Forget Demon Venerable pierced Venerable Ku Rong with the Demon Scissors, and Spider Web Spirit Queen wrapped Ku Rong in a cocoon to drain him.
• The Star Annihilation Yang Spirit Arrow struck Wolong Pass, unleashing a vast flame storm across Penglai and threatening the Dragon Palace Army.
• Forget Demon Venerable claimed Yinji Sea was already controlled by a hidden next-generation Heavenly Lord of the Demonic Path.
• Lin Chen appeared as Immeasurable Sea Emperor, pierced Forget Demon Venerable, and used Three Lights Divine Water to harm him and heal the Alliance’s wounded.
• Lin Chen rejected Forget Demon Venerable’s claim of alliance and decided to fight alongside the East Sea Immortal Alliance against the Demonic Path.

The Calamity Shaman summoned Longevity Heaven’s will to overwhelm the Immortal Alliance’s Spirit Transformations, but the Divine Firmament Dao Master led Penglai Island’s cultivators in resisting it with the Cosmic Starship and their Man Conquers Heaven Dao Fruit. As Old Monster Meng Die trapped the Spider Web Spirit Queen, the Immeasurable Sea Emperor faced the Forget Demon Venerable and Spirit Medium Bride.

• The Calamity Shaman blocked the Divine Firmament Dao Master, Heavenly Craftsman Venerable, Five Elements Daoist, and Venerable Ku Rong with the World Destroying Storm.
• The Calamity Shaman summoned Longevity Heaven’s golden lightning brain, whose heavenly power erased the four cultivators’ attacks and engulfed them in lightning.
• The Divine Firmament Dao Master and the surviving cultivators transformed a Floating Spirit Island into a Cosmic Starship and fought back with their collective Man Conquers Heaven Dao Fruit.
• Old Monster Meng Die stopped the Spider Web Spirit Queen and enveloped them both in Dream Realm Mist, sending them into a long slumber.
• The Immeasurable Sea Emperor stood before the Forget Demon Venerable and Spirit Medium Bride as the other Spirit Transformation combatants remained occupied.

The Immeasurable Sea Emperor was trapped between the Spirit Medium Bride’s heart-demon Dao and an entity that erased memories, leaving him facing the Five Decays of Heaven and Man and possible total erasure. He used the Heavenly River Venerable’s remaining essence to summon Heavenly River Weak Water into his collapsing dream.

• The Spirit Medium Bride and another peak existence joined their Dao domains and attacked the Immeasurable Sea Emperor, whose emotions and cognition were twisted by the Bride’s scriptures.
• The Bride’s curse mutated the Immeasurable Sea Emperor’s seven corporeal souls and three ethereal souls, bringing on the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.
• A shadow appeared throughout the Immeasurable Sea Emperor’s memories and explained that forgetting was the deepest level of death, then began erasing his memories and traces.
• The Immeasurable Sea Emperor realized his erasure could doom Penglai Island and derail Lin Chen’s plan, so he drew on the Heavenly River Venerable’s remaining essence.
• Black Heavenly River Weak Water entered the Immeasurable Sea Emperor’s collapsing self-dream as the two Devil Masters closed in.