Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng investigated powerful Spirit Restrictions inherited by several Immortal Clans and found clues linking them to the Forbidden Sea, which he decided to avoid until he was stronger. He returned to cultivation while his Myriad Transformation Dao Body handled Fudao Hall’s growing workload, leaving the story in a stretch of quiet routine.

• A young cultivator watched a streak of light leave the canyon, then used the Lotus Pupil Technique to identify the departing figure and rejoiced that he had finally left.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that the Golden Cauldron Sect’s powerful Spirit Restriction had likely been inherited rather than created by its founding Ancestor, but he found no record of its origin.
• After infiltrating three Immortal Clans, Cheng Buzheng found their supreme treasures also used powerful Spirit Restrictions, then discovered fragments suggesting an Ancestor had fought the Purgatory Race alongside Golden Cauldron True Person and Supreme Emperor Divine Axe.
• Cheng Buzheng inferred that the Immortal Clan’s treasure-making knowledge and Spirit Restriction might have come from the Forbidden Sea, but chose to postpone investigating until he reached the Half-Step Supreme realm.
• Cheng Buzheng used Small Plate to deduce a newly acquired Magic Treasure blueprint, while his Myriad Transformation Dao Body withdrew from its infiltration work and returned to Fudao Hall.
• The Myriad Transformation Dao Body spent years fulfilling Fudao Hall’s surging orders as Cheng Buzheng continued cultivating and periodically exchanged three-month visits with Murong Wanwan.

Murong Wanwan traveled to Immortal Alliance City after Fairy Kong told her she had found a lead on the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone. She met Yan Wanyu, who knew where the rare treasure could be retrieved, but said it would take at least three hundred years.

• Murong Wanwan received Fairy Kong’s message about a lead on the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone and traveled from Sea Suppressing Immortal City to Immortal Alliance City.
• Murong Wanwan met Fairy Kong at Vulture Origin Tower and shared the Jade Slip containing her transformation secret art and its Magic Treasure diagram.
• Fairy Kong told Murong Wanwan that Yan Wanyu had information about the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone and was expected to arrive.
• Yan Wanyu joined Murong Wanwan and Fairy Kong, then explained that the treasure was not currently in anyone’s possession.
• Yan Wanyu told Murong Wanwan that retrieving the treasure would take at least three hundred years, leaving the private room awkward and Fairy Kong apologetic.

Murong Wanwan convinced Yan Wanyu to reveal the location of a Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone inside an Abandoned Mansion, and Fairy Kong joined their expedition. Months later, Murong Wanwan told Cheng Buzheng she was preparing to search for the treasure, while he had no other leads and asked her incarnation to help with Fudao Hall’s orders after she returned.

• Murong Wanwan offered a great heart demon oath promising she would seek only the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone, and Yan Wanyu agreed to share its location.
• Yan Wanyu invited Fairy Kong to join them, and both Fairy Kong and Murong Wanwan swore heart demon oaths before Yan Wanyu did the same.
• Yan Wanyu revealed that she had a map to an Abandoned Mansion protected by a Great Array she could not yet break, and explained how the three would divide any gains.
• Yan Wanyu set their departure for seven months later, giving Murong Wanwan and Fairy Kong time to prepare.
• Six months later, Murong Wanwan asked Cheng Buzheng about news of the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone, and he said he had none and urged her to have her Myriad Transformation Dao Body help at Fudao Hall.
• Murong Wanwan told Cheng Buzheng she planned to travel to search for the crystal, and he reluctantly agreed that she could leave before helping with Fudao Hall's orders.

Cheng Buzheng began using the [Creation Heaven-Mending Art] to try to repair the flaw in his True Spirit without recalling his Myriad Transformation Dao Body. Meanwhile, Yan Wanyu, Fairy Kong, and Murong Wanwan reached the Abandoned Mansion and began combining arrays to break its powerful concealment formation.

• The white-haired Old Daoist sent the gathered soul-type Spirit Medicines from Fudao Hall to Cheng Buzheng.
• Cheng Buzheng identified a fragment of his True Spirit as the cause of his impaired comprehension and began the [Creation Heaven-Mending Art] with the collected herbs.
• Yan Wanyu led Fairy Kong and Murong Wanwan to the hidden Abandoned Mansion on an island in the Inner Sea.
• The three women tested the mountain-wall formation and found that their combined attacks could not break it by force.
• Yan Wanyu, Fairy Kong, and Murong Wanwan activated their prepared arrays and began merging them to break the formation.

Yan Wanyu, Murong Wanwan, and Fairy Kong broke into an Abandoned Mansion, only to find its halls and most chambers stripped of anything valuable. When they finally broke open a protected secret chamber, a hidden sword beam struck without warning and gravely wounded Fairy Kong.

• Yan Wanyu, Murong Wanwan, and Fairy Kong used a five-colored sword formation to break the Abandoned Mansion's outer array and sent their puppets and incarnations inside to investigate.
• The three women's proxies searched the hall and several secret chambers, finding that the furnishings and stored treasures had weathered away over a thousand years.
• The proxies discovered a final chamber protected by a defensive formation too strong for them to break, so Yan Wanyu entered the mansion and attacked it with their support.
• Yan Wanyu's attacks alone failed to break the chamber's formation, and Murong Wanwan and Fairy Kong joined her with their Magic Treasures.
• The three women shattered the formation and door, triggering a sudden sword beam that broke through Fairy Kong's defenses and sent her crashing into a wall, gravely wounded.

Yan Wanyu’s revenge plot against Fairy Kong and Murong Wanwan was revealed, and Jue Wudong trapped them in the Four-Image Demon Diagram Array. As another cultivator attacked Yan Wanyu outside, Murong Wanwan began searching for a way to break the array while Fairy Kong risked her life to buy her ten breaths.

• A figure left Bright Immortal City after sensing trouble, while Yan Wanyu revealed that the abandoned mansion was a decoy and confronted Fairy Kong over her killing of Yan Qing.
• Yan Wanyu summoned her husband, Jue Wudong, and explained how she had avoided breaking her heart-demon oath; Jue Wudong then activated the Four-Image Demon Diagram Array, trapping Murong Wanwan and Fairy Kong.
• The four demonic elephants battered the two women inside the array as a red-clouded cultivator arrived and attacked Yan Wanyu with a Phoenix-bearing ring treasure.
• Murong Wanwan told Fairy Kong she had found a flaw in the array and needed ten breaths to break it; Fairy Kong agreed to hold off the attack despite her failing strength.
• The array shattered Fairy Kong’s defensive treasure, and she took the demonic elephant’s full-force blow while protecting Murong Wanwan, just as the elephant’s hoof threatened to crush them.

Murong Wanwan broke the demon array’s suppression just as Fairy Kong was about to fall, allowing a powerful cultivator within a Phoenix phantom to defeat the Four Evil Generals of Demon Spirits. After the sisters offered their thanks, the mysterious cultivator refused their gifts and departed.

• Fairy Kong’s barrier shattered under the strengthened demon array, but Murong Wanwan released a golden secret technique that pierced the array and weakened its power.
• The cultivator within the Phoenix phantom killed Yan Wanyu and attacked the Four Evil Generals, who transformed their array into a demonic cloud to resist the fiery net.
• Murong Wanwan and Fairy Kong took Spirit Pills, regained some Magic Power, and prepared to help as Jue Wudong ordered the Four Evil Generals to break out.
• The Phoenix phantom strengthened the fiery net with several Magic Treasures and destroyed the demonic elephant, leaving behind Storage Bags and a shattered Array Diagram.
• Fairy Kong and Murong Wanwan offered their Storage Bags to thank the cultivator, who refused their gifts and vanished into the distance.

Cheng Buzheng failed to restore the missing sliver of his main body's True Spirit, though refining soul essence strengthened his Divine Sense, and he resumed cultivation while waiting for his wife. Murong Wanwan and Fairy Kong escaped the island, discussed Wanwan's plan to conceive her husband's child and Fairy Kong's past with Yan Qing, then headed for Bright Immortal City as Wanwan's true body returned to Immortal Alliance City.

• Cheng Buzheng found that the [Creation Heaven-Mending Art] had not mended his missing True Spirit, though his soul and Divine Sense had grown stronger, and he returned to meditation.
• Murong Wanwan and Fairy Kong cleared the battlefield, flew to Volcano Island, and restored their magic power.
• Murong Wanwan explained that she sought the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone to conceive her husband's bloodline, and Fairy Kong agreed to use her connections to help.
• Fairy Kong told Murong Wanwan that Yan Qing had plotted to steal her [Golden Core Breaking Pill], but she had survived and held no grudge against him.
• As Volcano Island's volcano neared eruption, Murong Wanwan and Fairy Kong flew toward Bright Immortal City.
• Murong Wanwan's true body returned to Immortal Alliance City, entered her C-Grade Cave Mansion, and sat in its Quiet Room with several Storage Bags and a damaged black Array Diagram before her.

Murong Wanwan recounted how she had concealed her true body, saved Fairy Kong, and killed Yan Wanyu and the four Jue Family brothers. While inspecting their spoils, she found two Heart Spirit Diamonds and hurried back to Cheng Buzheng, whose attempt to discourage her from dual cultivation ended with him sternly asking why she had gone out.

• Murong Wanwan explained that she had anticipated Yan Wanyu’s betrayal, waited for her true body to arrive, and concealed her strength to protect Cheng Buzheng’s identity.
• Murong Wanwan reflected on her growing closeness with Fairy Kong and declined the treasures Fairy Kong offered in gratitude.
• Murong Wanwan searched the dead demonic cultivators’ Storage Bags, kept a Jade Slip containing the Four Symbols Demonic Array, and found two Heart Spirit Diamonds for Cheng Buzheng’s Heart Spirit Divine Eye.
• Murong Wanwan returned to Cheng Buzheng’s Cave Mansion and greeted him affectionately as he emerged from cultivation.
• Cheng Buzheng mistook Murong Wanwan’s enthusiasm for a desire to dual cultivate, lectured her about the hardships of cultivation, and asked why she had gone out.

Murong Wanwan told Cheng Buzheng about her expedition to a fake Abandoned Mansion and gave him two [Heart Spirit Diamonds], which allowed him to begin cultivating the sixth-rank [Heart Spirit Divine Eye]. Meanwhile, her disguised avatar and Fairy Kong returned to Immortal Alliance City, where Fairy Kong promised to find her an answer within half a month.

• Cheng Buzheng questioned Murong Wanwan about leaving to explore the fake Abandoned Mansion, and she explained that she had prepared a Teleportation Positioning Jade and a backup Myriad Transformation Dao Body.
• Murong Wanwan gave Cheng Buzheng two [Heart Spirit Diamonds] found in Yan Wanyu's Storage Bag and said she would pass a demonic Array Diagram to his incarnation.
• After Murong Wanwan left the Quiet Room, Cheng Buzheng used one [Heart Spirit Diamond] to cultivate the sixth-rank [Heart Spirit Divine Eye].
• Murong Wanwan's disguised avatar and Fairy Kong returned to Immortal Alliance City, where Fairy Kong promised to give her an answer within half a month.
• Fairy Kong advised Murong Wanwan to avoid Dark Markets, especially those outside Immortal City, before they parted ways.

Cheng Buzheng tested the reach of his Heart Spirit Divine Eye and learned that Murong Wanwan could obtain the sealed Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone only by exchanging divine blood. More than ten years later, Madam Yao approached Cheng Buzheng with a chance to explore a Nascent Soul Late Stage expert’s legacy, but he refused.

• Cheng Buzheng sent a Soul Puppet across Sea Suppressing Alliance cities and found that the Heart Spirit Divine Eye’s reach extended into part of the Inner Sea but ended near the Demon Alliance border.
• Fairy Kong told Murong Wanwan that the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone was sealed in the Immortal Alliance’s Spirit Source Hall and could only be exchanged for with divine blood from high-ranking Blood Demons.
• Fairy Kong explained that divine blood came from fourth-rank-or-higher Blood Demon divine envoys and that access to the Forbidden Sea was tightly restricted.
• Over the next ten years, Cheng Buzheng cultivated in seclusion while his Myriad Transformation Dao Body periodically returned to White Cloud Sect to reassure and control its Golden Core elders.
• Madam Yao visited Cheng Buzheng and offered to share a chance to claim a Nascent Soul Late Stage expert’s legacy, but he declined and left.

After more than a decade of routine, the story shifted to Seal Boundary Ancient City, where the human and Demon Race Supremes prepared a joint campaign against the Purgatory Blood Demon Clan. The meeting ended with plans to open Seal Boundary Ancient City and Forbidden Ancient City fully.

• Cheng Buzheng spent the intervening years declining invitations, while Fudao Hall's major orders increased and his family gained a few Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Demon Venerable Luosha arrived at Seal Boundary Ancient City as numerous human and Demon Race Supremes gathered for a major meeting.
• The Demon Race leaders and the two human alliances reported their prepared resources for the war-preparedness treasury.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea explained that Venerable Tianzhao's improved Beast-Enticement Art could help locate Purgatory Blood Demon blood river spaces and increase the chance of luring out their Desolate Beasts.
• The Supremes agreed on divine blood exchange rates and other preparations, then approved fully opening Seal Boundary Ancient City and Forbidden Ancient City.

Murong Wanwan reported the Immortal Alliance’s exchange list and mandatory expedition order to Cheng Buzheng, who realized the three alliances’ vast supplies likely came from cooperation between human and Demon Race Supremes. As the couple debated how to comply without exposing their identities, Murong Wanwan tried to persuade Cheng Buzheng to let her send an incarnation to the Forbidden Sea.

• Mortal Cultivators gathered at Immortal Alliance City’s gates to discuss the divine blood exchange list and learned that Golden Core cultivators who refused to travel to the Forbidden Sea could lose their Cave Mansions unless they were masters of Immortal Arts.
• Murong Wanwan spotted Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone on the list and hurried to Immortal Arts Heavenly Spirit Street, while Golden Core cultivators crowded the newly opened Seal Boundary Ancient City teleportation hall.
• Murong Wanwan met Cheng Buzheng at Fudao Hall and told him about the order and the enormous quantities of Magic Treasures and fourth-tier Spirit Pills on the exchange list.
• Cheng Buzheng inferred that Human Race and Demon Race Supremes had joined forces to obtain divine blood, then questioned where the alliances had acquired so many treasures and pills.
• Murong Wanwan urged Cheng Buzheng to let her send an incarnation to the Forbidden Sea, arguing that their Cave Mansion and hidden identities could not be protected by transferring its ownership to Grand Origin One.

Cheng Buzheng reluctantly helped Murong Wanwan prepare her incarnation for a journey into the Forbidden Sea, while cultivators across the alliances made choices about answering the Immortal Alliance’s summons. Chu Daofeng left to join a team, and Jiang Siling remained determined to hunt weaker Blood Demon Envoys despite her master True Lord Mingxiang’s concerns.

• Cheng Buzheng warned Murong Wanwan that repeatedly losing her Myriad Transformation Dao Body could damage her True Spirit and urged her to prepare medicine for recovery.
• Cheng Buzheng gave Murong Wanwan Teleportation Guiding Jades, advised her to strengthen [Heart Spirit Divine Eye], and arranged for a Soul Puppet to alert him if anything happened.
• Chu Daofeng rejected Shangguan Qingyu and Chu Linger’s pleas, explaining that he had accepted the Immortal Alliance’s summons and would leave with several Martial Brothers.
• Shangguan Qingyu decided to stay behind and watch over Chu Linger after Chu Daofeng explained that he needed a team of Nascent Soul Cultivators to face Blood Demon Envoys.
• Jiang Siling told True Lord Mingxiang she would go to the Forbidden Sea to hunt Human Origin Blood Demon Envoys, arguing that she could not depend on her master and that her goal differed from True Lord Mingxiang’s.

Jiang Siling departed for the Forbidden Sea with Fairy Kong and another cultivator, while True Person Qian tried to recruit Cheng Buzheng for a dangerous expedition in exchange for treasures. Cheng Buzheng declined at first, but curiosity about the exchange list stirred him to leave Fudao Hall and inspect it, where he saw the immense rewards offered for the Forbidden Sea campaign.

• True Lord Mingxiang agreed to let Jiang Siling travel to the Forbidden Sea after checking the backgrounds of her companions, and Jiang Siling later departed with Fairy Kong and another female cultivator.
• True Person Qian told Cheng Buzheng about a deal to obtain ten top-tier Spiritual Items by venturing into the Forbidden Sea, but Cheng Buzheng refused to join him.
• Cheng Buzheng warned True Person Qian to act quickly before the Immortal Alliance invalidated his private agreement, and True Person Qian left to pursue the opportunity.
• Cheng Buzheng posted a notice that Fudao Hall would close for half a day and went to inspect the exchange list displayed outside Immortal Alliance City.
• Cheng Buzheng saw that the list offered rare breakthrough treasures, divine abilities, a Bloodline Ascension Pool, and many cultivation resources in return for divine blood from the Forbidden Sea.

Cheng Buzheng finished deciphering a damaged array diagram while Murong Wanwan’s incarnation registered for the Immortal Alliance’s call and teleported to Seal Boundary Ancient City. He then began refining a Teleportation Guiding Jade, leaving the process underway.

• Cheng Buzheng read the Immortal Alliance’s exchange rewards and later deciphered the tattered black Array Diagram with the aid of [Celestial Cycle Divination].
• Murong Wanwan told Cheng Buzheng that her incarnation was ready to depart and that her true body had reached a nearby Immortal City and mastered [Heart Spirit Divine Eye].
• At Immortal Alliance City’s teleportation hall, an Immortal Alliance True Person refused to register Golden Core cultivators seeking to keep C-Grade Cave Mansions unless they met the Nascent Soul requirement or qualified under the first three days’ exception.
• Murong Wanwan’s incarnation registered as Dipper Mother True Lord using Old Monk Fayang’s C-Grade Cave Mansion and then teleported toward Seal Boundary Ancient City.
• Seven days later, Cheng Buzheng finished deciphering the fragmentary map, entered Fudao Hall’s Artifact Refining Chamber, and began refining a Teleportation Guiding Jade with the [Dao One Spirit Cauldron].

Cheng Buzheng distributed the newly refined Teleportation Guiding Jade while continuing work on a new trump card. Elsewhere, an Immortal Alliance envoy demanded that a sect’s Nascent Soul Ancestor answer the Alliance’s call, and the Ancestor decided to flee with the sect’s resources before the envoy returned.

• Cheng Buzheng refined six pairs of Teleportation Guiding Jade and sent four pairs by Soul Puppets to Murong Wanwan’s true body and his own true body.
• Cheng Buzheng continued handling Fudao Hall’s few orders and developing a new trump card as business remained slow.
• An Immortal Alliance team confronted a sect and ordered its absent Ancestor to appear within a month, threatening to revoke his protection and honorary elder status if he refused the Alliance’s call.
• The sect’s Golden Core elder reported the envoy’s warning to the Nascent Soul Ancestor, who had been hiding in the sect rather than visiting friends.
• The Nascent Soul Ancestor decided to flee to the Sea Suppressing Alliance and take the sect’s resources with him, leaving the sect’s cultivators unaware that he had abandoned them.

The Immortal Alliance ordered the Grand Elders of its affiliated sects to travel to Immortal Alliance City and enter the Forbidden Sea, while secretive cultivators carried out a planned attack on a Nascent Soul Cultivator. The Spirit Creek Sect’s Grand Elder accepted the summons, and the Metal Thunder Sect’s Great Elder tried to dissuade its young Ancestor from going.

• An Immortal Alliance envoy learned that a sect’s Ancestor had fled, crossed the sect off the route, and contacted a distant cultivator through a Jade Talisman.
• Four powerful cultivators ambushed and killed a Nascent Soul Cultivator, divided the spoils, and set aside a share for the person who had supplied their intelligence.
• The Spirit Creek Sect’s Grand Elder refused his junior brother’s offer to go in his place and promised to answer the Immortal Alliance summons himself.
• The Immortal Alliance envoy ordered the Spirit Creek Sect’s Grand Elder to proceed to Immortal Alliance City and the Forbidden Sea, then marked the sect’s formation with an Immortal Alliance Identity Token.
• The Metal Thunder Sect’s Great Elder told its young Ancestor that the envoy would arrive soon and urged him not to risk going to the Forbidden Sea.

The Metal Thunder Sect’s young Ancestor accepted the Immortal Alliance’s call to fight the Infernal Blood Demon Clan after learning the rewards could help him advance, despite his Great Elder’s efforts to keep him away from the envoy. He left for Immortal Alliance City, while the Great Elder set out for the Ice Origin Sect to pursue True Person Jingru; elsewhere, the Immortal Alliance faced a defiant refusal from the Skyward Immortal Sect’s Ancestor.

• The Metal Thunder Sect’s Great Elder urged his former disciple, the young Ancestor, to avoid the Immortal Alliance envoy, but the Ancestor argued that delay would cost the sect its protection.
• When the Immortal Alliance envoy summoned the sect’s Grand Elder, the young Ancestor suppressed the Great Elder and met the envoy himself.
• After learning the call’s rewards included items that could aid his cultivation, the young Ancestor accepted, and the envoy recorded the Metal Thunder Sect’s participation and gave him a deadline to reach Immortal Alliance City.
• The young Ancestor told the Great Elder he knew about his love letters to True Person Jingru and teased him by revealing that much of the sect had read them; after the Ancestor left, the Great Elder flew toward the Ice Origin Sect.
• An Immortal Alliance envoy demanded that the Skyward Immortal Sect answer the call, but its peak Nascent Soul Late Stage Ancestor refused, citing his impending breakthrough and asking the envoy to leave.

Sky-Piercing Ancestor refused the Immortal Alliance’s summons and used a forceful stance to conceal his reasons, while an Immortal Alliance True Lord planned to retaliate by making him a target for the Demon Alliance. Elsewhere, an Immortal Alliance envoy arrived at the White Cloud Sect to visit Cheng Buzheng and deliver an order, and Cheng Buzheng discovered that the sect had admitted the visitor without checking with him first.

• Sky-Piercing Ancestor explained to a Golden Core elder that his defiance of the Immortal Alliance was meant to make his enemies suspect he had a hidden trump card.
• The Immortal Alliance True Lord decided not to attack Sky-Piercing Ancestor directly and sent a martial nephew to spread word that he had lost his honorary elder status, hoping a Demon Alliance Devil Master would target him.
• An Immortal Alliance expert reached the White Cloud Sect, announced he would visit major sects in a month, and asked to see Cheng Buzheng, his former colleague.
• A White Cloud Sect Golden Core elder verified the envoy’s Identity Token, admitted him, and went to notify Cheng Buzheng, who was in seclusion through a Soul Puppet.
• Cheng Buzheng learned that the elder had let the envoy into the sect and angrily wondered why he had trusted a stranger who claimed to be his friend.