Chapter Summaries

Cheng Buzheng rushed back to the White Cloud Sect after learning an Immortal Alliance envoy had arrived, then questioned Elder Hu Bi about the alliances’ forceful campaigns and met the envoy, Elder Luo. Their reunion began warmly, with their ties through Chu Daofeng, Fairy Kong, and Murong Wanwan suggesting their friendship remained close.

• Cheng Buzheng halted his treasure-refining work, traveled at full speed through the Secret Realm, and secretly reentered the White Cloud Sect.
• Cheng Buzheng summoned Elder Hu Bi, who described the Demon Alliance’s bloody punishments and rumors that the Immortal Alliance had caused the deaths or disappearances of cultivators who rejected its summons.
• Cheng Buzheng told Elder Hu Bi to take him to the Immortal Alliance envoy, and Elder Hu Bi led him to the Reception Hall.
• Cheng Buzheng sent the two disciples guarding the hall away with rewards and greeted the arriving envoy, Elder Luo, as an old friend.

Cheng Buzheng accepted the Immortal Alliance’s order to register for the Forbidden Sea, while keeping his true strength concealed and declining to join True Lord Luo’s proposed teams. True Lord Luo departed after asking Cheng Buzheng to help his Dao companion if they met at sea, leaving an Immortal Alliance identity token registered with the White Cloud Sect.

• Elder Luo visited Cheng Buzheng and explained that he had to register for the Forbidden Sea and reach Immortal Alliance City within a year.
• Cheng Buzheng agreed to the order and heard Elder Luo’s warnings about sailing alone and his suggestions for joining teams targeting different Blood Demon Envoys.
• Elder Luo told Cheng Buzheng that his Dao companion had already gone to the Forbidden Sea with other Female Cultivators, including True Lord Jiang, and asked him to consider joining one of the teams.
• Cheng Buzheng avoided committing to either team, and Elder Luo eventually stopped pressing him after several days of indirect probing.
• One month later, Elder Luo registered Cheng Buzheng on the Jade Register and asked him to help his Dao companion if they met in the Forbidden Sea.
• Elder Luo departed aboard the Immortal Alliance Treasure Ship, and Cheng Buzheng returned through the White Cloud Sect’s formation.

Cheng Buzheng arranged White Cloud Sect’s affairs before preparing to answer the Immortal Alliance’s summons to the Forbidden Sea. After declining True Lord Sikong’s invitation to join a coalition of Jin Kingdom cultivators because he already had teammates, he received Madam Yao, who hinted that she meant to tempt him.

• Cheng Buzheng assigned White Cloud Sect’s major decisions to a Council of Elders and left daily affairs to the sect master before preparing to depart.
• True Lord Sikong visited Cheng Buzheng and invited him to join a group of cultivators from several kingdoms who had sworn Great Heart Demon Oaths to face the Forbidden Sea together.
• Cheng Buzheng declined because he had already agreed to join Mortal Cultivators serving in the Immortal Alliance, including old friends waiting for him in the Forbidden Sea.
• True Lord Sikong accepted Cheng Buzheng’s refusal and left, after which True Lord Yao requested an audience.
• Madam Yao arrived and teased Cheng Buzheng, saying that if anyone was to be seduced, it should be her Ancestor.

Madam Yao visited Cheng Buzheng and left him a Jade Talisman so she could call on him for help if she faced danger, while he weighed her request without making a promise. After returning to Immortal Alliance City, Cheng Buzheng finished refining a Magic Treasure and found more than a hundred small puppets scattered in his residence.

• Madam Yao asked Cheng Buzheng to rescue her if she ever faced danger in the Forbidden Sea, and he gave no firm answer before accepting her Jade Talisman.
• Cheng Buzheng activated the Jade Talisman and confirmed it linked to another talisman rather than tracking him, while Madam Yao learned he had not destroyed it.
• Madam Yao departed, and Cheng Buzheng left the White Cloud Sect soon afterward.
• Cheng Buzheng's Myriad Transformation Dao Body completed a Magic Treasure in Fudao Hall using the [Dao One Spirit Cauldron] and Thunder Dragon Heavenly Fire.
• More than a hundred junior cultivators arrived in Immortal Alliance City and split into groups to leave the city.
• Cheng Buzheng's Myriad Transformation Dao Body entered his residence outside Immortal Alliance City and found more than a hundred palm-sized puppets scattered across the floor.

Cheng Buzheng prepared for a journey into the Forbidden Sea, while Fudao Hall stopped accepting commissions and Crimson Fire Ancestor struggled to believe the news. In the Forbidden Sea, Murong Wanwan’s distant incarnation remained confined to a small hunting range and worried about obtaining a Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone.

• Cheng Buzheng recalled his Soul Puppets and planned to use them to scout Thunder Abyss for Houtu Turbid Qi before traveling into the Forbidden Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng’s Myriad Transformation Dao Body began refining a treasure, then entered the final stage of preparation for the journey.
• Crimson Fire Ancestor visited Fudao Hall, joked with the white-haired Old Daoist, and left a Storage Bag for Cheng Buzheng.
• The white-haired Old Daoist told Crimson Fire Ancestor that Fudao Hall would stop accepting commissions because Cheng Buzheng planned to enter the Forbidden Sea, and posted a notice announcing the closure.
• Murong Wanwan’s Myriad Transformation Dao Body, disguised as a young male Mortal Cultivator, remained confined to a hundred-million-li hunting radius because of its weak connection to her main body.
• Murong Wanwan worried that scarce Infernal Blood Demons would prevent her from earning a Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone to conceive her husband’s bloodline.

A Mortal Cultivator squad celebrated capturing Divine Blood before learning that it could assimilate its refiners into mindless monsters. As they neared the Forbidden Ancient City, Murong Wanwan ambushed their Flying Boat, and the four Nascent Soul cultivators fled in different directions.

• The Mortal Cultivators discussed their successful hunt and explained that Divine Blood could transform anyone who refined it into a monster through its mysterious assimilating power.
• True Lord Zhuang told True Lord Wu that a powerful bandit cultivator had been robbing weaker teams near the Forbidden Ancient City, despite surviving an attempt by the city’s forces to capture him.
• The captain warned the squad that they had entered the bandit cultivators’ territory and ordered everyone to prepare for danger.
• Murong Wanwan spotted the Flying Boat and judged that its four Nascent Soul cultivators would be easy to defeat.
• Murong Wanwan struck the Flying Boat with a crimson sword light, destroying it as the captain and the other three cultivators escaped in different directions.

Murong Wanwan robbed a squad of Nascent Soul cultivators of their divine blood and then set out to intercept a powerful group of demons, hoping to gather enough for the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone. Meanwhile, Cheng Buzheng left Immortal Alliance City disguised as Old Monk Fayang, beginning his journey to join his wife while preparing to answer the Immortal Alliance’s summons to the Forbidden Sea.

• Murong Wanwan forced four Nascent Soul cultivators to surrender their divine blood, then escaped with their Storage Bag as they fled.
• Murong Wanwan found one portion of low-grade fourth-rank divine blood and five portions of high-grade third-rank divine blood, leaving her still short of the amount needed for the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone.
• Murong Wanwan sensed a returning demon squad led by a peak Great Demon Middle Stage demon with a mid-grade bloodline divine ability and decided to attack it.
• Cheng Buzheng left his B-grade Cave Mansion, transformed into Old Monk Fayang, and departed Immortal Alliance City by teleportation.
• Old Monk Fayang reached a transit Immortal City and used Heaven-Covering Transformation to disguise himself as an ordinary Golden Core cultivator.

Cheng Buzheng reunited with Murong Wanwan, who asked to take her true body to the Forbidden Sea, but he refused. Meanwhile, the Crystal Horn great demon pushed the leaders of both races to organize a hunt for the mysterious rogue cultivator, revealing that the Crystal Horn clan needed their combined forces to find him.

• Cheng Buzheng reached the courtyard Murong Wanwan had rented and reunited with her after she sensed his signal and opened the gate.
• Murong Wanwan asked Cheng Buzheng for permission to send her true body to the Forbidden Sea, but he refused, so she tried to distract him with affection.
• In the Forbidden Ancient City, the Crystal Horn great demon urged the human and Demon Race leaders to purge the rogue cultivator who had attacked its junior.
• Ning Taibai, Lei Zhong, Ji Longzi, Gongzhi Yang, and other leaders opposed a major operation, citing the previous failed attempt and the costs of pursuing one cultivator.
• The Crystal Horn great demon argued that preparations and spatial-sealing treasures could counter the rogue cultivator's escape methods, while concealing its need for both races' manpower to find the tribulation cultivator in the Forbidden Sea.

The Crystal Horn Great Demon secured the inland powerhouses’ agreement to help capture the mysterious tribulation cultivator in exchange for rare Spiritual Items. Meanwhile, Cheng Buzheng prepared to enter Seal Boundary Ancient City, where he collected the talismans used to lure Desolate Beasts and recognized them as an altered version of his own Beast-Enticement Art.

• The Crystal Horn Great Demon demanded a space-sealing treasure and one rare Spiritual Item from each powerhouse, and the group agreed to his terms.
• After months of recovery and cultivation, Cheng Buzheng’s Myriad Transformation Dao Body left Fudao Hall, traveled away to erase a potential loose end, and returned to Immortal Alliance City.
• Cheng Buzheng registered for entry to Seal Boundary Ancient City, received an Identity Token, and teleported into the city.
• Cheng Buzheng disguised himself, went to the Divine Blood Hall, and collected ten specially made talismans for luring Desolate Beasts.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized that the talismans were based on his Beast-Enticement Art, though their runes and ingredients had been modified.

Cheng Buzheng learned about Seal Boundary Ancient City from a Golden Core cultivator who tried to sell him enhanced spirit talismans, but he decided the business was not worth pursuing. He hired the cultivator to show him around and arrange entry to the Dark Market, while remaining curious about the secrecy surrounding Forbidden Ancient City.

• A Golden Core cultivator approached Cheng Buzheng and explained how newly refined spirit talismans could improve the odds of luring Desolate Beasts, but Cheng judged the improvement and potential profits too small.
• The cultivator invited Cheng to a midnight trading fair and offered to guide him through the city and arrange access to the Dark Market, which Cheng accepted.
• As they toured Seal Boundary Ancient City, Cheng learned that its central palaces were reserved for the supremes and that the cultivator had been unable to learn much about Forbidden Ancient City because returning cultivators kept silent.
• After nightfall, the cultivator led Cheng to a secluded manor, where masked guards arranged for him to enter the Dark Market.

Cheng Buzheng found two long-sought Heart Spirit Diamonds at the trade fair while failing to locate the Nine Mystic Illusion Spirit Grass he needed. The gathering then shifted to an auction after a Half-Step Supreme offered vast rewards for a breakthrough method, and the first treasure went up for bids.

• Cheng Buzheng traded a lightning-attributed Spirit Medicine for a sword-shaped spirit bone and two Heart Spirit Diamonds, then secretly checked the items for abnormalities.
• Cheng Buzheng searched every stall for Nine Mystic Illusion Spirit Grass but found none, so he waited for the organizers’ auction.
• A Half-Step Supreme revealed he had been stuck at his bottleneck for twelve hundred years and offered valuable rewards for a way to seize a breakthrough opportunity, but no one answered.
• The Half-Step Supreme left the auction to a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator, who opened the bidding with a mid-grade Myriad Phenomena Ruyi starting at ten Grade-C rare Spiritual Items.

Cheng Buzheng failed to find the Nine Mystic Illusion Spirit Grass in Seal Boundary Ancient City, so he traveled to Forbidden Ancient City to obtain divine blood and exchange for it. There he learned why private divine blood trades were forbidden and witnessed captured cultivators being punished at the city gate.

• Cheng Buzheng left the trade fair, checked himself for anything unusual, and spent the night without incident.
• After searching the shops for several days, Cheng Buzheng learned that the Nine Mystic Illusion Spirit Grass could be exchanged for with third-tier divine blood, but no one would trade him any.
• Cheng Buzheng went to Forbidden Ancient City, where he saw a departing Nascent Soul Cultivator swear a Heart Devil Great Oath and realized returning cultivators were forbidden from revealing information about the Forbidden Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng saw that Nascent Souls and Golden Cores were displayed above the city gates, then learned from nearby cultivators that private divine blood trading could bring severe punishment.
• Human Race and Demon Race powerhouses sealed captured Nascent Souls and demon infants onto the western city gate and burned them with soul flames.

Cheng Buzheng left the city gates and explored the Forbidden Ancient City while Murong Wanwan hunted four returning Great Demons in the Forbidden Sea. After discovering that they belonged to the Mystic Turtle Clan, she fought their fused [Black Tortoise Descent] with her [Primordial Force Field] and powerful attacks, but their defensive ability kept them alive as they waited for reinforcements.

• A human leader warned the Mortal Cultivators at the city gates against privately trading Divine Blood, and Cheng Buzheng left to explore the Forbidden Ancient City.
• Murong Wanwan spotted four Great Demons traveling toward the city, checked for traps, and used her compass to confirm her target before attacking.
• Murong Wanwan suppressed the four demons with the [Primordial Force Field] and demanded their Divine Blood, but they fused into a giant Mystic Turtle and resisted her sword strike.
• The demons used their origin bloodline power to heal the Mystic Turtle's shell, and Murong Wanwan recognized their [Black Tortoise Descent] as a Mystic Turtle Clan bloodline divine ability.
• Murong Wanwan unleashed a Phoenix phantom and continued attacking, but the turtle repeatedly recovered while its captain urged the others to endure until reinforcements arrived.

Murong Wanwan discovered that the four Mystic Turtle Clan demons had been used as bait to draw her into an ambush, and she fought her way free of their formation. With powerful cultivators sealing the surrounding space and closing in, she became trapped and risked losing the divine blood in her Storage Bag.

• The Mystic Turtle Clan elder ordered the rescue teams to converge in a quarter-hour, while privately accepting that Gui Xuan Yi and the other demons might not survive until help arrived.
• Murong Wanwan sensed danger, spotted treasure ships approaching from every direction, and realized the four Mystic Turtle Clan demons had been bait.
• Murong Wanwan withdrew, broke Gui Xuan Yi's spatial formation with her sword, and fled as the four demons cautiously regrouped and then pretended to injure one another to claim more merit.
• A speed-renowned great demon intercepted Murong Wanwan as the surrounding forces closed in, and she found that sealed space prevented both [Void Escape Travel] and her Teleportation Guiding Jade from working.
• Murong Wanwan faced encirclement and struggled to protect the divine blood in her Storage Bag, which she needed to exchange for a [Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone].

Murong Wanwan sacrificed her magic treasures and physical body to escape a two-race ambush, but a Half-Step Demon Venerable tracked down her remaining Nascent Soul to seize her divine abilities. She self-destructed again to escape him, leaving the Crystal Horn expert with only a scrap of her shattered Storage Bag.

• Murong Wanwan detonated her magic treasures, killing more than a dozen weaker human and Demon Race experts and opening a crack in the sealed space.
• Murong Wanwan self-destructed her body and sent her Nascent Soul through the gap, while the surviving experts hurried toward Forbidden Ancient City with false traces and a fabricated appearance.
• A Half-Step Demon Venerable sealed Murong Wanwan's Nascent Soul and demanded the divine abilities in her memories, so she feigned surrender before self-destructing.
• The Crystal Horn expert searched the blast site and found only a scrap of Murong Wanwan's Storage Bag, then blasted apart the crimson sea in anger before disappearing.

Cheng Buzheng learned that the rogue cultivator Lone Walker, killed by a half-step Demon Venerable of the Crystal Horn Race, was his wife Murong Wanwan’s Myriad Transformation Dao Body. After Murong confessed and explained what happened, Cheng Buzheng returned his attention to the Forbidden Sea incarnation and vowed to confront the Crystal Horn Race powerhouse.

• Cheng Buzheng heard rumors in Forbidden Ancient City that the Crystal Horn Race had killed Lone Walker, and he grew suspicious when the reported abilities resembled Murong Wanwan’s.
• Cheng Buzheng confronted Murong Wanwan in the Immortal Alliance and pointed out inconsistencies in her story, including her incarnation’s supposed location and the return of her true spirit.
• Murong Wanwan admitted that she had been Lone Walker and recounted the events, while continuing to conceal why she wanted the Heaven-Nurtured Crystal Stone.
• Cheng Buzheng told Murong Wanwan to restore her true spirit and returned his attention to his Myriad Transformation Dao Body in Forbidden Ancient City.
• Cheng Buzheng vowed to deal with the half-step Demon Venerable of the Crystal Horn Race and disappeared into the crowd.

Cheng Buzheng watched a Golden Core team kill a third-tier Blood Demon, draw out its Blood River Desolate Beast, and refine its Blood River Space into divine blood. He continued toward the Forbidden Deep Sea to pursue his other goals, including finding the Crystal Horn Race expert who had harmed his wife.

• Cheng Buzheng observed a Golden Core squad lure out and kill a third-tier Blood Demon and its Desolate Beasts.
• Yan True Person drew out the Blood River Desolate Beast, opened its spatial node, and refined the Blood River Space into a portion of divine blood.
• The squad collected the divine blood and valuable materials before leaving by Flying Boat.
• Cheng Buzheng worked out how the squad had condensed divine blood and considered gathering several portions to exchange for the Nine Mystic Illusion Spirit Grass.
• Cheng Buzheng reviewed his goals in the Forbidden Sea and continued toward the suspected location of the Crystal Horn Race's main force.

Cheng Buzheng tested a Purgatory Blood Demon’s connection to its Blood River space, extracted third-tier divine blood, and discovered Spirit Restrictions that could help advance his Life-Bound Magic Treasure. As he hurried deeper into the Forbidden Sea to hunt stronger Blood Demons, a Heaven Origin Blood Demon Envoy slaughtered a group of cultivators and pursued the survivors.

• Cheng Buzheng suppressed a third-tier Blood Demon, then annihilated its consciousness so Desolate Beasts could emerge from its Blood River space.
• Cheng Buzheng crushed the Desolate Beasts, found the special beast’s spatial node, entered the Blood River space, and extracted a droplet of third-tier divine blood.
• Cheng Buzheng searched the Blood Demon’s storage crystal and found a Jade Slip filled with unfamiliar Spirit Restrictions, confirming that the restrictions came from spoils taken from the Purgatory Blood Demon Clan.
• Cheng Buzheng resolved to hunt more Blood Demons for the knowledge needed to advance his Life-Bound Magic Treasure and flew deeper into the Forbidden Sea.
• A Heaven Origin Blood Demon Envoy defeated a group of cultivators, sent five Desolate Beasts after those fleeing, and swallowed a concealed Nascent Soul Ancestor in a river of blood.
• True Lord Sikong fled in terror, realizing that the Blood Demon they had thought weak was a Heaven Origin Blood Demon Envoy capable of commanding late fourth-rank Desolate Beasts.

True Lord Sikong was swallowed by a Desolate Beast, which a half-step Demon Venerable then killed before pursuing events elsewhere in the Forbidden Sea. Immortal Alliance squads defeated Blood Demons and extracted divine blood, while a Female Cultivator squad fought to finish off another Blood Demon before it could escape their formation.

• True Lord Sikong fled a pursuing Desolate Beast but was swallowed; a half-step Demon Venerable appeared, crushed the beast, and sent the Heaven Origin Blood Demon Envoy fleeing.
• Hall Master Wei led an Immortal Alliance squad, including Chu Daofeng, in killing an Earth Origin Blood Demon Envoy and its Desolate Beasts.
• Chu Daofeng found the spatial node inside a surviving Desolate Beast, and the squad extracted divine blood, erased its traces, and escaped by Flying Boat.
• A squad of Female Cultivators trapped a Human Origin Blood Demon Envoy in an illusion-filled peach blossom formation and began killing the Desolate Beasts it summoned.
• The Blood Demon broke free of the illusion and detonated its remaining Desolate Beasts, shaking the formation before countering its mind-affecting aura with a river of blood.

Cheng Buzheng slaughtered Crystal Horn Race demons to draw Crystal Calamity back toward him, while Jiang Siling and Fairy Kong’s team hunted Blood Demons and Desolate Beasts. The chapter ended with Cheng Buzheng preparing a stealth attack on another group of Crystal Horn Race Great Demons.

• Jiang Siling led her team, including Fairy Kong, to suppress a Desolate Beast, take its spatial coordinate point, and leave after cleaning up the scene.
• After learning that many Crystal Horn Race demons had died in the Forbidden Sea, the patriarch ordered Crystal Calamity to investigate and hunt down those targeting the race.
• Crystal Calamity received the message, became furious, and rushed away from the depths of the Forbidden Sea.
• Cheng Buzheng killed several Crystal Horn Race Great Demons and took their divine blood and other supplies, hoping to lure Crystal Calamity back.
• Cheng Buzheng spotted four more Crystal Horn Race Great Demons and secretly approached them through the void, planning to eliminate their strongest member first.