Chapter Summaries

Wu Tao broke through to Spirit Body Layer Eight, created a reversed Magic Restriction that could knock opponents’ Magic Tools down, and refined three Treasure-Dropping Coins. After testing one with Wen Xingrui, he gave his master a coin and learned that its power depended on superior Magic Power and Divine Sense.

• Wu Tao broke through to Spirit Body Layer Eight, raising his Divine Sense to one hundred and thirty-six miles.
• Wu Tao created a reversed Magic Restriction designed to sever an opponent’s control of their Magic Tool, then refined three Treasure-Dropping Coins.
• Wu Tao showed Wen Xingrui the new Magic Restriction and explained how it could disable an opponent’s Magic Tool.
• Wen Xingrui tested a Treasure-Dropping Coin against Wu Tao’s Five Elements Spell Swords, knocking all five to the floor and identifying the coin’s limits.
• Wen Xingrui praised the invention and advised Wu Tao to develop the Magic Restriction into a True Prohibition after reaching Golden Core; Wu Tao gave him the coin he had made for him.

Wu Tao gave Chen Yao a Treasure-Dropping Coin and began refining magic tools for the war against the Celestial Yin Sect. After the Righteous Sects captured the Celestial Yin Sect’s mountain gate, Wu Tao was summoned by the hall master for new work.

• Wu Tao showed Chen Yao how the Treasure-Dropping Coin could sever her control over a spell sword, then gave her one to refine as a trump card.
• Zhou Chongwen introduced Huang Qi, who would take over his duties while he prepared to break through to Foundation Establishment, and Huang Qi delivered new artifact-refining assignments to Wu Tao.
• Wu Tao spent two months refining Tier 2 High-Grade magic tools for the Foundation Establishment Battlefield at Demon Suppression Pass.
• The Six Demonic Sects retreated from the Celestial Yin Sect, and the Righteous Sects breached and occupied its mountain gate.
• Ning Qiudao told Lao Lu that two immortal boats had been destroyed and asked him to secure the Celestial Yin Domain while artifact refiners were sent to recover their components.
• After news of the victory reached the Ethereal Void Sect, Huang Qi told Wu Tao that the hall master had summoned him.

Wu Tao left the Ethereal Void Sect with Wen Xingrui to repair Immortal Boats damaged in the war, while promising Chen Yao they could have a child once the situation stabilized. In the Celestial Yin Domain, Wu Tao joined the search for wreckage and learned that Ning Qiudao had sent Golden Core Cultivator Yao Guangsheng to protect him.

• Wu Tao learned that two Immortal Boats had disintegrated in the Celestial Yin Domain and agreed to leave with Wen Xingrui the next day.
• Wu Tao told Chen Yao they could have a child when the situation stabilized, then departed the sect with Wen Xingrui aboard a Flying Void Boat.
• Wu Tao arrived in the Celestial Yin Domain and learned that the other two Immortal Boats had crashed in its central and western regions.
• Wen Xingrui led the Tier 3 Artifact Refiners in assembling the central-region wreckage while Wu Tao and Zhou Qinghe prepared to search the western region.
• Yao Guangsheng told Wu Tao that Ning Qiudao had sent him to provide protection because Wu Tao's life was extremely important.

Wu Tao searched for disassembled Immortal Boat parts under Yao Guangsheng’s protection and secretly discovered that his world-crossing token had sensed a nearby world-breaking formation. Beneath the search party, Mystic Yin Protector and Zhang Baiyin prepared to ambush Wu Tao and escape.

• Wu Tao and Zhou Qinghe led two Foundation Establishment Cultivators in searching for Immortal Boat parts while Yao Guangsheng guarded them.
• During the search, Wu Tao’s world-crossing token glowed and pointed toward a world-breaking formation within range, which he kept secret.
• Mystic Yin Protector sensed the five cultivators above through a formation disk and recognized Yao Guangsheng and Han Fan.
• Zhang Baiyin proposed that Mystic Yin Protector distract Yao Guangsheng while he killed Han Fan, then they would escape toward the Foundation Establishment Battlefield.
• Mystic Yin Protector agreed, and Zhang Baiyin rose with killing intent toward Han Fan.

Wu Tao searched the Celestial Yin Domain for Immortal Boat components before a Demonic Dao ambush forced him to flee from Golden Core Cultivators. With Zhang Baiyin pursuing him and Yao Guangsheng occupied, Wu Tao chose to use the World-Crossing Token to escape through a World-Breaking Formation.

• Wu Tao and Feng Congyun excavated one Immortal Boat component, then Wu Tao joined Zhou Qinghe to recover three more.
• Yao Guangsheng shielded Wu Tao, Zhou Qinghe, and another Five Spring Mountain cultivator when Xuanyin and other Demonic Dao forces attacked.
• Wu Tao fled with the Star-Shining Step while Yao Guangsheng intercepted Xuanyin's Divine Sense and fought him.
• After Zhang Baiyin ambushed him, Wu Tao used a Thousand-Mile Escape Talisman and realized he had to find another way to survive.
• Wu Tao activated his remaining Thousand-Mile Escape Talisman toward the World-Breaking Formation sensed by his World-Crossing Token.

Wu Tao activated the World-Breaking Formation with the World-Crossing Token just as Zhang Baiyin caught up and attacked, then vanished with his Body Avatar. Zhang Baiyin and Yao Guangsheng found only the destroyed altar, leaving Wu Tao's fate unknown.

• Wu Tao used a Thousand-Mile Escape Talisman, landed near his Body Avatar, and found the damaged World-Breaking Formation.
• Wu Tao filled the formation's Spirit Stone Slots and inserted the World-Crossing Token, activating the altar as Zhang Baiyin pursued him.
• Wu Tao and his Body Avatar vanished when the completed formation transported them, while Zhang Baiyin's attack destroyed the altar.
• Zhang Baiyin found a patterned stone fragment, then fled with the Mystic Yin Protector as Yao Guangsheng pursued them.
• Yao Guangsheng discovered a fragment carrying Han Fan's aura and left without finding Wu Tao.

Wu Tao fled the Immortal Origin Realm through the World-Breaking Formation, but the passage shattered and his body was destroyed in the deep sea. Ning Qiudao later learned from Yao Guangsheng that Han Fan had likely escaped the realm, while the fate of Wu Tao and his Body Avatar remained uncertain.

• Wu Tao endured the violent World-Crossing Passage, and Wu Xuan sacrificed himself to push Wu Tao toward its exit as the Golden Page flew away.
• The passage shattered, and Wu Tao was blasted into the deep sea, where a broken altar exploded and his consciousness faded.
• A golden figure formed from a fragment of flesh, claimed Wu Tao's body after declaring their karma settled, and left the sea.
• Yao Guangsheng returned to Demon Suppression Pass without Han Fan and later reported the events to Ning Qiudao.
• Ning Qiudao examined rubble bearing World-Breaking Formation runes and concluded that Han Fan had left the Immortal Origin Realm.

After the World-Crossing Passage exploded, Wu Tao survived on the seabed and began repairing his shattered body, discovering that the new realm had abundant Starlight Power. He saved Jiang Yuan, a desperate young fisherman, and sent him back to the surface with the large fish that could spare him punishment.

• Wu Tao woke on the seabed with shattered bones and a badly damaged Sea of Divine Sense, and used the Jiao Pearl to keep the seawater away.
• Wu Tao found that the Coffin Nail was repairing his Sea of Divine Sense, while the Golden Page had disappeared into the destroyed World-Crossing Passage.
• Wu Tao began healing with the Star Body Tempering Technique and discovered that Starlight Power was denser in this realm than in the Immortal Origin Realm.
• Jiang Yuan struggled to catch enough fish to meet the tribute demanded by the Immortal Master Temple, then caught a huge fish and leaped into the sea after it escaped his net.
• Wu Tao sensed Jiang Yuan sinking toward the seabed and used Starlight Power to revive and propel him back to the surface.

Jiang Yuan gained abundant catches by fishing near the Undersea Immortal, then brought the villagers to share the waters and their bounty. While Wu Tao quietly recovered beneath the sea, Snake-Tail Village held a sacrifice for the Immortal, unaware that he had not noticed them.

• Jiang Yuan offered a giant fish at the Snake-Head Island Immortal Master Temple, then secretly returned to the Undersea Immortal’s waters and caught sixty fish.
• Mother Zhou Er repeatedly raised the price for Jiang Yuan to marry Er Ya, but agreed after he brought another forty fish and revealed the Undersea Immortal’s fishing grounds to her family.
• Jiang Yuan took Mother Zhou Er’s family to the Undersea Immortal’s waters, where they caught boats full of fish and confirmed the Immortal’s existence.
• Jiang Yuan and Mother Zhou Er’s family shared the fishing grounds with Snake-Tail Village after villagers tied them up and demanded to know their secret.
• Wu Tao finished repairing his injuries and watched the villagers’ nets from beneath the sea without interfering.
• The fishermen of Snake-Tail Village thanked the Undersea Immortal with a sacrifice, then cast their nets and returned home with abundant fish.

Wu Tao recovered much of his strength beneath the sea while the fishermen of Snake-Tail Village prospered from the abundant fish around him. After the Immortal Master Temple sent Wen Xing, Wen Qi, and Wen Le to kill him, Wu Tao slew Wen Qi and Wen Le and emerged from the sea to confront Wen Xing.

• Wu Tao assessed his recovery and continued cultivating on the seabed while his presence drew enough fish to feed the fishermen of Snake-Tail Village.
• Jiang Dahai alerted Wen Xing to the fishermen’s improved catches, then tortured Jiang Yuan until he revealed the Undersea Immortal; Wen Xing reported the matter to the Temple Master.
• The Temple Master ordered Wen Xing to take Wen Qi and Wen Le to kill the supposed Demon Daoist, and Jiang Dahai led them to the sea before Wen Xing killed him for embarrassing him.
• Wen Qi and Wen Le attacked Wu Tao with Water Arrow Talismans, but their arrows failed to harm him, and Wu Tao killed them with drops of seawater.
• Wu Tao found tokens identifying Wen Qi and Wen Le as members of the Immortal Master Temple on Pan-Snake Island, then emerged from the sea and asked Wen Xing whether he was also a cultivator of the temple.

Wu Tao confronted the Pan-Snake Island Immortal Master Temple after its cultivators mistook his cultivation for demonic interference and tried to kill him. The Foundation Establishment Ancestor, Wen Nian, sacrificed the temple master to appease Wu Tao, then invited him to talk and offer compensation.

• Jiang Yuan and the Snake-Tail Village fishermen kowtowed to Wu Tao, who questioned Wen Xing and learned why the Immortal Master Temple had sent cultivators after him.
• Wu Tao took Wen Xing to the Immortal Master Temple and used his divine sense to confirm that the temple had one Foundation Establishment Ancestor and otherwise Qi Refining cultivators.
• Three Immortal Master Temple cultivators attacked Wu Tao, and he killed them with fire arrows; the temple’s other cultivators gathered around him.
• The temple master arrived, recognized Wu Tao as the undersea immortal, and summoned Wen Nian, the Foundation Establishment Ancestor.
• Wen Nian learned that the temple master had ordered the attack, killed him to settle the grievance, and offered Wu Tao the temple’s treasures and spirit stones as compensation.
• Wu Tao accepted Wen Nian’s apology and went with him to his cave abode to discuss the region and cultivation world.

Wu Tao accepted Wen Nian’s apology for the Immortal Master Temple’s offense, taking spirit stones and Source Qi of Spells but returning a low-grade magic tool. As Wen Nian described the Twelve Islands of Heavenly Phenomena, Wu Tao learned that it lay on the Star Sea’s remote fringe, though its vastness remained unknown.

• Wen Nian offered Wu Tao 500 Low-Grade Spirit Stones, 13 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, 6 High-Grade Spirit Stones, 20 wisps of Source Qi of Spells, and a Tier 2 Low-Grade Attack Magic Tool as an apology.
• Wu Tao accepted the spirit stones and Source Qi of Spells but returned the magic tool after revealing that he was a Tier 2 Artifact Refiner.
• Wen Nian expressed surprise that the Twelve Islands of Heavenly Phenomena had a Tier 2 Artifact Refiner and explained that the islanders relied on a passing spell ship from Chaos Island to trade for such tools.
• Wen Nian told Wu Tao that the Twelve Islands of Heavenly Phenomena were a barren fringe region of the Star Sea, with twelve islands and First-Rank Spirit Veins.
• Wu Tao asked how large the Star Sea was, and Wen Nian admitted that cultivators in the islands did not know its true extent.

Wu Tao learned that reaching Chaos Island required crossing the Chaos Sea Area, then arranged to trade with the island masters for cultivation resources and recover his cultivation on Pan-Snake Island. After reading the island’s geographical records, he learned that his world was called the Star Sea, a realm of countless islands.

• Wen Nian told Wu Tao that Chaos Force disrupted magic power and divine sense, and that only spell ships or Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivators could cross the Chaos Sea Area.
• Wu Tao decided to restore his Foundation Establishment Layer 8 cultivation and asked Wen Nian to arrange a meeting with the other island masters to trade magical artifacts for Spirit Stones and Source Qi of Spells.
• Wen Nian agreed to gather the island masters at Pan-Snake Island in three days and gave Wu Tao a Cultivation Room beside a First-Rank Spirit Vein, along with a promise to provide geographical books.
• Wu Tao refined twenty strands of Source Qi of Spells, then read the books Wen Xing delivered and learned that the world was called the Star Sea and consisted of countless islands.

Wu Tao prepared Tier 2 Low-Grade Magic Tools for a trade with the island masters and discovered that cultivating the Star Body Tempering Technique in the Star Sea was far faster than in the Immortal Origin Realm. After completing the trade, he returned to the Immortal Master Temple’s cultivation room to continue cultivating.

• Wu Tao reviewed what he had learned about Chaos Island, prepared several Tier 2 Low-Grade Magic Tools, and cultivated with a High-Grade Spirit Stone.
• Wu Tao found that the Star Sea’s bright skies let him cultivate the Star Body Tempering Technique at three times his former speed.
• Wen Nian told Wu Tao that ten island masters had arrived, while the Island Master of Crouching Dragon Island remained in secluded cultivation.
• Wu Tao revealed his Foundation Establishment Layer 7 aura and traded a Tier 2 Low-Grade Magic Tool to each of the ten visiting island masters.
• Wu Tao borrowed Wen Nian’s cultivation room again, and Wen Nian accepted the trade’s outcome as good fortune for himself and the Immortal Master Temple.

Wu Tao cultivated with Source Qi of Spells while Chen Yao waited for him to return from the Immortal Boat mission. When Wen Xingrui returned without Han Fan and explained that Han Fan had left the Immortal Origin Realm, Chen Yao resolved to keep cultivating and wait for his return.

• Wu Tao began refining Source Qi of Spells to restore his Foundation Establishment Layer 8 cultivation.
• After half a year without news, Chen Yao continued cultivating and waited for word from Zhao Zhen.
• Wen Xingrui returned to the Ethereal Void Sect without Han Fan, and told Zhao Zhen that Han Fan had left this world and might still be alive.
• Wen Xingrui explained Han Fan's disappearance to Chen Yao, who insisted that her Senior Brother would return and promised to wait for him.
• Wen Xingrui assigned Han Fan's duties to Zhao Zhen, arranged monthly cultivation resources for Chen Yao, and ordered that Han Fan's cave abode be preserved.
• Chen Yao returned to the cave abode, cared for the Golden Winged Eagle, and vowed to wait for Han Fan.

After recovering his cultivation, Wu Tao left Pan-Snake Island but secretly returned to discover that Wen Yu and eleven disciples wanted revenge for the Immortal Master Temple. He killed them to eliminate the threat, then found the ruined World-Breaking Formation and set off toward Chaos Island, vowing to return to A-Yao.

• Wu Tao recovered his Foundation Establishment Layer 8 cultivation, said farewell to Wen Nian, and departed Pan-Snake Island on the Streamer Boat.
• Wu Tao secretly returned to the Immortal Master Temple and overheard Wen Yu and eleven disciples condemn Wen Nian for executing the temple master and swear to avenge the temple.
• Wu Tao killed Wen Yu and the eleven disciples with his divine sense, then warned Wen Nian to ensure the Immortal Master Temple held no resentment toward him.
• Wu Tao left the Twelve Islands of Heavenly Phenomena and searched the seafloor for the destroyed World-Breaking Formation, gathering its broken foundation stones.
• Wu Tao vowed to return to A-Yao and flew toward the Chaos Sea Area, declaring that he was heading for Chaos Island.

Wu Tao crossed the Chaos Sea Area, resisting its strange force and killing the Tier 2 Sea Demonic Beasts that attacked him. Near Chaos Island, he saved Lu Youde and Lu Youxian from a Sea Demonic Beast and accepted their invitation to travel back with them.

• Wu Tao left the Twelve Islands of Heavenly Phenomena and entered the Chaos Sea Area, where he used his cultivation to repel the Chaos Force.
• Wu Tao flew east through the Chaos Sea Area, killed attacking Tier 2 Sea Demonic Beasts, and collected their corpses.
• Wu Tao emerged from the Chaos Sea Area and continued toward Chaos Island, landing briefly on an uninhabited island before flying onward.
• Wu Tao encountered Lu Youde and Lu Youxian battling a Tier 2 Sea Demonic Beast and turned back to help them.
• Wu Tao, Lu Youde, and Lu Youxian killed the Sea Demonic Beast, and Wu Tao introduced himself as Han Fan.
• Lu Youde invited Han Fan to ride the Lu Family's Spell Ship to Chaos Island, and Han Fan accepted.

Wu Tao learned about Chaos Island and the powers that controlled it from the Lu brothers after helping their family slay a sea beast. The spell ship reached Chaos Island, where Lu Youde and Lu Youxian waited for Wu Tao at the bow.

• Wu Tao accepted Source Qi of Spells and sea beast meat from Lu Youde and Lu Youxian as thanks for helping them defeat a Tier 2 Low-Grade Sea Demonic Beast.
• Wu Tao asked Lu Youde about Chaos Island and learned that twenty-seven island powers shared control of it, with strict rules in the Main City District and no rules in the Non-Main City District.
• Lu Youde warned Wu Tao that the strongest cultivators among the twenty-seven powers had reached Ninth Level Foundation Establishment Perfection.
• Wu Tao cultivated with the Source Qi of Spells in a guest room while the Lu Family's spell ship traveled toward Chaos Island.
• A Lu Family Qi Refining cultivator informed Wu Tao that the ship had arrived, and Wu Tao went to meet Lu Youde and Lu Youxian at the bow.

Wu Tao arrived on Chaos Island and stayed at the Lu Family residence after encountering their rivals, the Mo Family. As the Lu brothers feared losing their sea territory in an upcoming contest, they decided to ask Wu Tao to fight for them.

• Lu Youde and Lu Youxian invited Wu Tao to stay with the Lu Family, and he accepted.
• Mo Long confronted the Lu brothers at the dock, threatened to claim their sea territory, and warned Wu Tao not to get involved; Wu Tao dismissed his warning.
• Wu Tao settled into the Lu Family residence and began cultivating the Star Body Tempering Technique.
• Lu Youxian learned that Fellow Daoist Wuhen would not help the Lu Family in the upcoming Sea Territory Contention Battle and worried they could lose the territory needed to earn a Foundation Establishment Pill for their little sister.
• Lu Youde agreed to ask Wu Tao to help the Lu Family, after Lu Youxian suggested offering him extra payment.

Wu Tao declined Lu Youde’s request to represent the Lu family in Spell Battles and left the family residence to establish himself in Chaos Island’s Main City District. After selling eleven Sea Demonic Beast corpses, he went to a Magic Tool Shop to offer Magic Tools for sale.

• Wu Tao told Lu Youde he would sell his Sea Demonic Beast meat himself and declined the Lu family’s invitation to fight for hunting rights.
• Wu Tao thanked Lu Youde for his hospitality, said he would no longer stay with the Lu family, and left for the Main City District.
• Wu Tao explored the commercial streets and compared prices at three shops that purchased Sea Demonic Beast meat.
• Wu Tao sold eleven Demonic Beast corpses at the third shop, surprising the shopkeeper, who wondered whether Wu Tao belonged to the Liu Family.
• Wu Tao entered a Magic Tool Shop and told the shop assistant he wanted to sell Magic Tools.