Chapter Summaries

Li Fan learned that the Company and the Legion were rival forces from Earth 0 competing over the Taiji Realm, and that his system was a small shell company seeking to study the realm’s native “viruses.” After receiving fish feed and equipment from the system, he prepared a cultivation pond and assessed the seized gear while warning himself to grow stronger before the Company’s investigators arrived.

• Li Fan chose a courtyard at the Golden Scale Palace, moved the cult’s equipment there, and cleaned away the blood before setting up a hidden base on an uninhabited reef.
• The system told Li Fan that the Company and the Legion were rival groups from Earth 0, while his own organization was a small shell company seeking opportunities involving the Taiji Realm’s native “viruses.”
• The system warned Li Fan that the Company might send an executive as dangerous as the Feather Transformation Immortal to investigate Ah Xiba’s rampage, then gave him fish feed based on the Beast Mother Heavenly Tome.
• Li Fan bought one hundred black carp and one hundred white carp, fed them the pellets, and prepared a cultivation pond with a formation and Qiankun Huaqi Pill.
• Li Fan inspected Ah Xiba’s equipment, tested the Gauss rifle and protective suit, and found their capabilities useful but limited against powerful cultivators.

After Amao completed eighty-one days of cultivation, Li Fan learned from Huan Delang that the Central Plains and South Sea had fallen into widespread turmoil. While patrolling near Jinlin Isle, Li Fan impressed Huan Delang with his strength, and Huan Delang asked him to accompany him to inspect an ancient demon-god seal.

• Amao emerged from seclusion at Foundation Establishment Perfection and agreed to continue helping the Huan Family's disciples cultivate through Dual Cultivation.
• Huan Delang told Li Fan that the Huan Family's old enemies were suffering setbacks and described the wars and rebellions spreading across the Central Plains and South Sea.
• Huan Delang invited Li Fan to patrol the nearby waters, where they hunted sea beasts and collected their materials.
• Li Fan learned Huan Delang's inherited war-spear throwing technique and killed a giant sea beast with a single throw.
• Huan Delang revealed that his family guarded an ancient demon-god seal beneath the sea and asked Li Fan to accompany him to inspect it; Li Fan enthusiastically agreed, misunderstanding the task as exterminating the demon god.

Li Fan accompanied Old Huan to inspect the Golden Scale Palace’s underwater seal, hoping to find a Demon God to nourish his Tai Su Dao Body. After a bomb killed Old Huan and damaged the seal, Li Fan discovered Guiche and, mistaken for an agent of the Divine Religion, prepared to devour it.

• Li Fan explained that his cultivation had reached a bottleneck and that he needed to nourish his Tai Su Dao Body to increase his progress.
• Old Huan led Li Fan beneath the sea to inspect the seal on a Demon God beneath a submarine volcano near Jinlin Isle.
• Li Fan and Old Huan fought their way through mutated sea monsters, and Li Fan secretly ate some of them as they advanced.
• A metal-nitrogen bomb detonated when Old Huan neared the volcano, killing him and blasting open the site.
• Li Fan entered the Demon Subduing Platform and learned that the sealed Demon God was Guiche, a Nine-Headed Bird whose weakened seal had allowed one head to awaken.
• Guiche mistook Li Fan for a Divine Religion agent and offered its neck for an injection; Li Fan transformed into Qiongqi and bit down instead.

After devouring Guiche, Li Fan forced several Dao Bodies to Golden Core Perfection and raised Gonggong to the Nascent Soul Realm, then discovered Penglai Mountain had destroyed the Golden Scale Palace while hunting the Divine Sect. He buried Old Man Huan, recovered a hidden stone box that might preserve the Huan family’s legacy, and followed a school of sea bream toward Penglai Immortal Mountain.

• Li Fan devoured Guiche and used his mood limit to advance several Dao Bodies, with Gonggong reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Li Fan recovered from his transformation, left the Demon Subduing Platform, and returned to Jinlin Isle to bury Old Man Huan.
• Li Fan found the Golden Scale Palace destroyed and used the drone’s recordings to learn that Penglai cultivators had slaughtered the Huan family while searching for the Divine Sect.
• Li Fan discovered that Amao had been taken alive to Penglai, while Madam Chi Lin and the Huan family elders had been killed.
• Li Fan buried Old Man Huan, found a stone box beneath the cemetery bricks, and promised to preserve the Huan family’s legacy.
• Li Fan left Jinlin Isle and followed a vast school of sea bream heading toward Penglai Immortal Mountain.

Li Fan approached Penglai, gathered intelligence on the Supreme Nine Truth Sect and the wider war, and prepared several cover identities so he could enter the territory and rescue A Mao and the Nangong Family’s captured descendants. He posed as a South Sea independent cultivator and asked to join Penglai, leaving his mission poised to begin.

• Li Fan studied reports on Penglai and learned how the Supreme Nine Truth Sect ruled the East Sea and controlled its resources.
• Li Fan learned that Zhen Country’s relief forces had stalled, the rebels had grown stronger, and the Immortal Palace army had lost at Juelong Ridge.
• Li Fan judged that Penglai was too overwhelmed by the wider conflicts to notice a rescue attempt and decided the time was right to act.
• Li Fan disguised himself as a red-haired brute and prepared the identities of Li Tang, Huan Delang, and A Xiba to conceal his involvement.
• Li Fan approached a Penglai island, revealed his Nascent Soul aura, and introduced himself as Red-Haired Ghost Li Tang seeking to join the Penglai Immortal Sect.

Li Fan sought refuge with Penglai and impressed Zhou Chengxue by overwhelming him in a spar, earning a recommendation to join the sect. Zhou Chengxue took Li Fan to meet fellow disciples and the Xiao Clan women fleeing the war, where Li Fan recognized Xiao Yushi.

• Li Fan posed as a rough rogue cultivator seeking refuge, and a Penglai cultivator summoned Zhou Chengxue to assess him.
• Zhou Chengxue challenged Li Fan to spar, but Li Fan repeatedly broke through his defenses and defeated his attacks with the Tiger Claw Technique.
• Zhou Chengxue accepted Li Fan as an Outer Sect Retainer of the Supreme God True Palace and promised to recommend him as a guest elder.
• Li Fan persuaded Zhou Chengxue to bring him along to meet fellow disciples, and they flew toward a ship carrying women of the Xiao Clan of Lanling.
• Li Fan saw Xiao Yushi aboard the ship, dressed in mourning clothes as she fled the war in Zhen Country.

Li Fan protected Xiao Yushi from Cheng Qianlong, then learned that Penglai would join the Nine Great Xuan Sects in attacking the Divine Sect at Kunlun. As Zhou Chengxue explained Penglai’s factions, their ship crossed the Dark Sea and arrived at Penglai.

• Li Fan threw Cheng Qianlong into the sea for harassing Xiao Yushi, and Zhou Chengxue calmed the other Penglai disciples and escorted her onward.
• Zhou Chengxue told Li Fan that the Xuan Sects planned to attack the Divine Sect’s headquarters at Kunlun, and Li Fan eagerly offered to fight.
• Li Fan taunted the injured Cheng Qianlong and claimed he would prove his loyalty by provoking a fight with Cheng Qianlong’s grandfather, so Zhou Chengxue explained Penglai’s internal factions.
• Zhou Chengxue warned Li Fan to focus on cultivation and merit rather than fame, then opened a passage through the Dark Sea with a jade pendant.
• Li Fan and Zhou Chengxue’s ship passed through the towering sea walls and arrived at Penglai.

Li Fan entered Penglai Mountain with Zhou Chengxue and explored the sect while searching for Amao and the Huan family. Zhou explained Penglai’s defenses and its version of Beichen Sword Sect’s sword arts, leaving Li Fan newly informed about the dangerous methods behind Sword Qi and Qi Sword.

• Zhou Chengxue explained that Penglai’s Nine Heavens Dark River Formation blocked passage and offered to help Li Fan obtain a cultivation method.
• Li Fan secretly followed Xiao Yushi’s group and searched Penglai Island for Amao and the Huan family while Zhou Chengxue handled the mission handover.
• Li Fan watched two Golden Core disciples fight over a rare Donghua Eternal Spring Divine Pill and questioned Zhou Chengxue about the blue light on their swords.
• Zhou Chengxue demonstrated the Nine Truth Profound Darkness Qi Sword and explained how Penglai had developed its Qi Sword branch from the Nine Luminaries Sword Scripture.
• Zhou Chengxue recounted Beichen Sword Sect’s history and described the dangerous Sword Transformation Guide that had divided its outer branches into Sword Qi and Qi Sword lineages.

Zhou Chengxue explained the history of Beichen’s sword-qi and qi-sword schools to Li Fan, then helped him settle into Shenzhen Palace as an Outer Sect Guest Adept. Li Fan saw how Penglai’s relentless rankings favored a handful of elite disciples and planned to complete his rescue mission and leave as soon as possible.

• Zhou Chengxue explained how Beichen’s rival schools cultivated sword qi and qi swords, and recounted how Sword Ancestor Xuantian had offered his disciples almost no guidance.
• Two Penglai cultivators fought over divine pills, and the arena elder gave the prize to the winner while treating the loser’s injuries.
• Li Fan bowed nine times before the Profound Maiden’s statue, received a guest adept token, and learned that Yi Si Shenjun would not meet him.
• Zhou Chengxue helped Li Fan arrange lodging, a Martial God cultivation manual, armor, and other necessities at Shenzhen Palace.
• Li Fan studied Penglai’s ranking boards and concluded that the sect’s competition concentrated resources among a few elite disciples, so he planned to leave after completing his rescue mission.

Li Fan studied Penglai’s sect rankings, learned of a deadly blow to Lingzhen Palace, and used a drone to search for the Huan Family captives. He found the Demon-Suppressing Tower instead and picked a fight with its Spirit Race guards, testing his new combat techniques before a Divine Transformation cultivator intervened.

• Li Fan inferred from the rankings that the Nine Truth Sect concentrated resources on favored Dao Seeds, while Zhou Chengxue had fallen behind and was assigned routine duties.
• Li Fan saw that six Lingzhen Palace disciples had died and heard that Xu Chengyang had uncovered the God Cult’s trail as Lingzhen Palace suffered heavy losses.
• Li Fan used drone footage and his maps of Penglai to identify possible prisons, then approached the Demon-Suppressing Tower while posing as Li Tang, a God True Palace guest elder seeking work.
• After the Spirit Race general challenged him, Li Fan provoked and fought four guards, using the Dou Department Cultivation Method to test his strength.
• When a powerful demon cultivator arrived, Li Fan stopped fighting, snapped off the deer-horned general’s antler, and chewed it as he left.

Li Fan used a demon-hunting mission to secure a way off Penglai, survived a dangerous encounter with Cheng Chengzhi, and located the Huan family’s captors. He infiltrated their warehouse to begin the rescue, only to find that the prisoners were all unconscious women.

• Li Fan toured Penglai while picking fights with Outer Sect cultivators, befriended several Inner Sect disciples, and accepted Ling Bingyu and Ling Liuying’s demon-hunting challenge, which gave him an excuse to leave the island.
• Cheng Chengzhi challenged Li Fan, unleashed a devastating palm attack, then destroyed Cheng Qianlong’s body and departed after the Shenzhen Palace master excused the damage.
• Li Fan realized Cheng Chengzhi’s strength had made the observers stop probing his identity, while the returning patrol drone revealed the Huan family’s location and six Golden Core captors.
• Li Fan disguised himself as a Spirit Race member and infiltrated the warehouse near the harbor where the Huan family was being held.
• Li Fan found several unconscious girls in the dungeon and wondered why the prisoners were all women.

Li Fan rescued a Huan family girl from a warehouse and fought a black-clad sword cultivator, but Penglai’s headmaster erased the scene and took the survivors away. As rumors exposed factional conflict within Penglai, Li Fan stayed put and Xiao Yushi arrived with an unexpected personal gift.

• Li Fan found Huan family women imprisoned in a warehouse, then ambushed a black-clad expert who killed a Penglai Golden Core cultivator and threatened the Huan girl.
• Li Fan battled the expert with Moon Soul, shattered his two sword pellets, and drove him to flee, while sword energy killed nearby Penglai cultivators and Spirit Race members.
• Li Fan gave the blinded Huan girl a Mysterious Purple Gold Pill, pretended to be a witness, and helped Derun and Dezai investigate before Manifestation Dao Lord appeared and cleared away the scene and prisoners.
• Li Fan suspected Xia Chengming had fought him and learned that two Gaozhen Palace De-generation cultivators had died, while rumors linked the incident to Liu Chengzong and Penglai’s factional tensions.
• Li Fan decided not to leave Penglai and received Xiao Yushi, who offered herself to him as her gift.

Li Fan protected Xiao Yushi and received a mission from Yi Si Shenjun to escort Ling Bingyu and Ling Liuying while testing an ancient dual-cultivation method. He followed the two into the East Sea, watched them defeat a mutated sea serpent, and discovered after eating it that it was poisonous.

• Xiao Yushi asked Li Fan to let her stay with him, and he promised to protect her as his mistress under Shenzhen Palace.
• Yi Si Shenjun summoned Li Fan, gave him an ancient Immortal Palace dual-cultivation method, and ordered him to bring Ling Bingyu and Ling Liuying back safely.
• Li Fan left Xiao Yushi supplies and set out to sea, where he crossed the Nine Heavens Underworld River Formation and found a giant mutated sea serpent.
• Ling Bingyu and Ling Liuying fought the sea serpent with showy fire-and-ice techniques, defeated it, and left without collecting its remains.
• Li Fan gathered the serpent's remains and ate some of its meat and gallbladder, triggering a warning that he had been poisoned.

Li Fan investigated a sea monster and discovered a Legion mining operation on a radiation-soaked world connected to Penglai. Back in the East Sea, he followed Zhou Chengxue and found him buying green ore, leaving Li Fan unsure whether Zhou was involved in the Divine Church’s mineral-smuggling network.

• Li Fan killed a rock-like sea monster, ate its soft-bodied core and tentacles, and cultivated on the reef before entering a world of purple rock and intense False Moon radiation.
• Li Fan found that purple crystals from the world’s petrified inhabitants rapidly restored his Gui Xu True Essence, then followed Si Nan’s direction to a vast automated Legion mine.
• Li Fan suspected the Divine Church had allies within Penglai and returned to the Taiji Realm without attacking the mine, while the system began analyzing the ore.
• Li Fan secretly followed Zhou Chengxue but saw him buy a bag of green crystals from a shipowner who said Spirit Race members had left it behind.
• Li Fan considered that Zhou Chengxue might be innocent and suspected the Spirit Race was helping the Divine Church transport ore through the East Sea.

Li Fan killed a giant sea beast and discovered parasitic Shatentacles that increased his mood limit. After searching for two missing girls, he encountered a group of Spirit Race demon spirits searching the ocean floor.

• Li Fan used water escape to reach the mission area and found a huge, mutated whale-like sea beast.
• Li Fan attacked the beast from behind, killed it with his fish spear, and collected its heart and horn.
• Li Fan discovered Shatentacles living inside the whale's skull and found that eating them increased his mood limit.
• Li Fan dismantled the whale, fed its Shatentacles to his heads, and cleaned up the remains.
• Li Fan failed to find the two girls and searched the surrounding waters for them.
• Li Fan encountered a group of young Spirit Race demon spirits searching the ocean floor.

Li Fan discovered that Shatentacles were controlling Spirit Race members and traced them to a hidden nursery beneath an undersea palace. He found Ling Bingyu and Ling Liuying dining with their hosts, and the chapter ended when Ling Liuying noticed that the fish eggs served to them were tainted with baleful energy.

• Li Fan killed eight possessed Demon Race members, discovered a Shatentacle inside each of their heads, and ate the parasites as they fled.
• Li Fan followed the Shatentacles' signals to an undersea nursery filled with eggs and found an altar using a ritual sword, a golden skull, and a qilin horn to spread baleful energy.
• A Shatentacle-possessed maid carried eggs from the nursery to Yulin Manor's palace, where Li Fan saw that the Spirit Race residents were also parasitized.
• Li Fan watched as Grandmother of Yulin Manor hosted Ling Bingyu and Ling Liuying and offered to lead them toward a supposed Devil Embryo.
• The maid served Shatentacle eggs disguised as fish eggs, but Ling Liuying detected their intense baleful energy.

Li Kun watched Ling Bingyu and Ling Liuying uncover Yulin Aunt’s plot at Yulin Manor, where she and the servants used Shatentacles to spread baleful energy and recruit Spirit Race cultivators into her revival plan. After the sisters were overwhelmed and captured, Li Fan killed Yulin Aunt and rescued them, leaving them shaken and clinging to him.

• Ling Liuying discovered that the fish egg was tainted, and the servant who stepped on Li Kun revealed himself as a Devil Embryo when a Shatentacle emerged from his face.
• Yulin Aunt and her possessed maids attacked Ling Bingyu and Ling Liuying with tentacles that contaminated the air and weakened their Dao Arts.
• Ling Liuying broke free with her strength, and Ling Bingyu escaped with ice before the sisters briefly gained the upper hand and Yulin Aunt revealed her plan to use Heavenly Demon Eggs to empower the Spirit Race.
• Yulin Aunt merged with Shatentacles and overwhelmed the sisters, binding them while she tried to force eggs into their mouths.
• Li Fan struck from behind and killed Yulin Aunt, then cleared Yulin Manor of the other Devil Seeds and freed the sisters.
• Ling Bingyu and Ling Liuying recovered from their shock, cried, and threw themselves into Li Fan’s arms.

Li Fan finished investigating Yulin Manor and learned that the Ling sisters were mixed-blood cultivators whose parents had been expelled from Penglai’s Inner Sect. When the sisters invited him to study their Spirit Pivot method with them, Li Fan discovered it matched another version he possessed, and the three began cultivating together.

• Li Fan confirmed that he had killed the Devil Embryos and the nearby sea monster, then concealed the Divine Cult altar and proposed returning to Penglai.
• Ling Liuying and Ling Bingyu mistook Li Fan for a mixed-blood cultivator and told him their parents had been expelled after their father, Ling Chendao, refused to leave their Spirit Race mother.
• The Ling sisters invited Li Fan to cultivate with them using the Spirit Pivot, a method their parents had adapted for mixed-blood cultivators.
• Li Fan compared the sisters’ Zhenzhen Spirit Pivot with his Shenzhen Spirit Pivot and concluded that both were reconstructions of an Immortal Palace fragment, possibly useful against baleful qi.
• The Ling sisters returned in battle outfits, and Li Fan studied the Huan family’s dual-cultivation manuals before the three began practicing the Spirit Pivot together.

Li Fan combined cultivation methods from several schools into a new Ling Shu, but found it impossible to practice and learned that the ancient art could help the body resist baleful qi. After returning to Penglai, he asked Xiao Yushi about the Ling Shu’s origins and heard how the Huan Family fell from power.

• Li Fan studied the Ling sisters’ Ling Shu and other secret arts, then created a composite cultivation method that he could not practice.
• Li Fan concluded that the ancient Ling Shu strengthened resistance to baleful qi and might be part of the Nine Truth Sect’s preparations for the Age of Taisu.
• Li Fan left Yulin Manor to report the mission in Penglai while the Ling sisters went to report to Zhenzhen Palace.
• Li Fan asked Xiao Yushi about the Ling Shu, and she explained that it had begun as an Immortal Palace art for imperial consorts before spreading among noble families.
• Xiao Yushi recounted how the Huan Family’s Duke Yongchong lost his allies, was killed after the Beichen Sword Sect’s defeat, and left the Huan Family exiled overseas.

Li Fan accompanied Zhou Chengxue to Penglai’s enormous pill workshop, where he learned how the sect mass-produced Donghua Changchun Pills from common East Sea materials. Zhou Chengxue explained the risks and rewards of the final refining stage, while Li Fan saw how the sect’s alchemy system operated.

• Xiao Yushi told Li Fan that Grand Tutor Sima Xuanwen held great power and was unifying the Immortal Palace, while Li Fan considered how this might affect the Three Great Sects.
• Zhou Chengxue examined Li Fan’s collected seabed treasures, recognized valuable Red Mist Coral, and invited Li Fan to help refine pills.
• Zhou Chengxue explained how Xuan Sect alchemists had adapted the Donghua Changchun Pill formula to use common materials and produce pills on a large scale.
• Zhou Chengxue took Li Fan through Penglai’s pill workshop, where they saw Spirit Race horns and other East Sea ingredients processed along assembly lines.
• Zhou Chengxue described the restricted final-refining area, Penglai’s monthly pill quota, and the risks that alchemists faced when refining the pills.