Chapter Summaries

Wu Tao sold three Second-Rank Magic Tools at South Li Island's shop and exchanged them for cultivation pills and Source Qi of Spells. He spent a month investigating Chaos Island, then faced a decision about renewing his inn room.

• Wu Tao sold one Tier 2 Low-Grade Magic Tool and two Tier 2 Intermediate Magic Tools to Chen Gong, receiving Source Power Pills and Source Qi of Spells in exchange.
• Wu Tao rented a room at an inn opened by East Cape Island and tested a Source Power Pill, finding it less effective than the Ethereal Void Sect's Magic Power Pills.
• Wu Tao concluded that the lack of an Earth Fire environment had slowed his Six Yang Li Fire True Technique cultivation and decided to investigate Chaos Island.
• Wu Tao spent a month cultivating and exploring Chaos Island's Main City District, discovering that it differed from the Lu Family's description.
• The inn's Qi Refining shop assistant told Wu Tao that his room rental expired the next day, and Wu Tao said he would decide whether to renew it then.

Wu Tao assessed Chaos Island’s cultivation forces and decided to settle there independently, opening a shop to sell Second-Rank Magic Tools and support his cultivation to the Golden Core. He rented a storefront and arranged permits, then revealed that he had personally refined the tools he planned to sell.

• Wu Tao concluded that the 27-Island Alliance controlled Chaos Island’s Earth Fire and recruited Tier 2 artifact refiners, but decided not to join any of the island forces.
• Wu Tao planned to open a Magic Tool Shop, rent Earth Fire, and cultivate until he reached the Golden Core; he also noted that the Star Body Tempering Technique progressed faster in the Star Sea Cultivation World.
• Wu Tao told the inn’s shop assistant that he would not renew his rental and went to the Brokerage Agency to find a storefront.
• Wu Tao selected No. 32 Middle First Street and paid Three Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to expedite the rental and sales permit for his shop.
• When the Brokerage Agency steward asked whether he belonged to the Twenty-Seven Islands, Wu Tao said he came from another island and personally refined the Second-Rank Magic Tools.

Wu Tao opened the Mystic Origin Magic Tool Shop on Chaos Island and began selling Second-Rank Magic Tools and accepting commissions. Huang Xiuyuan visited to test his skills and asked him to refine a Magic Tool from a secret manual.

• The brokerage agency steward learned Wu Tao was a Tier 2 Artifact Refiner and reported him to Uncle-Master Huang, who planned to test and recruit him for Southern Radiance Island.
• Wu Tao rented No. 32 Middle First Street, cleaned the shop, and spent the night cultivating without a Spirit Vein.
• Wu Tao opened the Mystic Origin Magic Tool Shop, displayed his Second-Rank Magic Tools, and received his Sales Permit from the brokerage agency steward.
• Huang Xiuyuan examined the tools, confirmed Wu Tao accepted commissions, and handed him a Tier 2 Intermediate Artifact Refining Secret Manual to ask how long the work would take.

Wu Tao agreed to refine Huang Xiuyuan’s Tier 2 Magic Tool and used the Earth Fire appointment to complete the order and cultivate his fire technique. Impressed by Wu Tao’s craftsmanship, Huang Xiuyuan paid him and invited him to a Spirit Tea House.

• Wu Tao agreed to refine Huang Xiuyuan’s Magic Tool and began analyzing its twelve Magic Restrictions.
• Four days later, Huang Xiuyuan took Wu Tao to an Earth Fire Artifact Refining Room on Chaos Island.
• Wu Tao refined Huang Xiuyuan’s Spell Sword and a Flowing Cloud Immortal Robe, then spent the remaining time cultivating the Six Yang Li Fire True Technique.
• Huang Xiuyuan examined the finished Spell Sword, recognized Wu Tao’s exceptional skill, and paid the remaining fee.
• Huang Xiuyuan invited Wu Tao to a Spirit Tea House, and Wu Tao accepted.

Wu Tao refused Huang Xiuyuan’s offer to join Southern Radiance Island, choosing to remain independent. After Huang Xiuyuan returned home, the island’s masters plotted to lure Wu Tao to their island and prevent him from leaving.

• Huang Xiuyuan invited Wu Tao to join Southern Radiance Island, but Wu Tao declined while agreeing to refine magic tools for them as a customer.
• Huang Xiuyuan offered to claim publicly that Wu Tao had joined Southern Radiance Island to deter invitations from the other islands, but Wu Tao refused the pretense.
• Wu Tao returned to the Mystic Origin Magic Tool Shop and spat out the tea he had kept from Huang Xiuyuan’s teahouse.
• Huang Xiuyuan reported to Southern Radiance Island’s three island masters that Wu Tao was a Tier 2 Intermediate Artifact Refiner who had refused to join any faction.
• The island masters decided to invite Wu Tao to Southern Radiance Island under the pretext of refining magic tools, then keep him from leaving, and assigned Huang Xiuyuan to arrange it.

Wu Tao confirmed to the Lu siblings that he was a Tier 2 Artifact Refiner, then agreed to travel with Huang Xiuyuan to Southern Radiance Island to refine nine Tier 2 Intermediate Magic Tools. He arrived at the island and began work while its three Island Masters waited to assess his skill.

• Wu Tao welcomed Lu Youde, Lu Youxian, and Lu Youqing to Mystic Origin Magic Tool Shop, where he confirmed that he was a Tier 2 Artifact Refiner and offered the Lu Family a discount.
• Lu Youde told Wu Tao that the Lu Family had kept its sea territory after hiring a fifth-level Foundation Establishment cultivator to fight the Mo Family.
• Huang Xiuyuan invited Wu Tao to Southern Radiance Island to refine nine Tier 2 Intermediate Magic Tools because Chaos Island's Earth Fire facilities were booked, and Wu Tao accepted.
• Wu Tao traveled aboard Southern Radiance Island's Spell Ship for three days, then entered the island and inspected its Earth Fire site and Island Protection Array.
• Wu Tao declined the local Tier 2 Low-Grade Artifact Refiner's offer to assist and began refining in an Artifact Refining Room.
• Huang Xiuyuan reported to the three Island Masters that Wu Tao had started, and they decided to wait until he finished the tools before judging his ability.

Wu Tao completed Southern Radiance Island’s artifact-refining commission, but its leaders tried to force him to stay. He killed the island’s leaders and took control of Southern Radiance Island, appointing Gao Qifeng to manage the Earth Fire Hall.

• Wu Tao spent a month refining all eleven commissioned magic tools while cultivating the Six Yang Li Fire True Technique and the Star Body Tempering Technique.
• Huang Xiuyuan and Vice Island Masters Yang and Zhu inspected the finished tools, paid Wu Tao, and invited him to join Southern Radiance Island.
• When Wu Tao refused and prepared to leave, Vice Island Master Yang, Vice Island Master Zhu, and Huang Xiuyuan attacked him and tried to imprison him.
• Wu Tao used his Treasure-Dropping Copper Coin to disarm their spell swords, then killed Vice Island Master Yang, Vice Island Master Zhu, and Huang Xiuyuan.
• Wu Tao killed Southern Radiance Island’s Island Master when he tried to flee, and the island’s other cultivators ran away.
• Wu Tao claimed Southern Radiance Island and appointed Gao Qifeng, its former Earth Fire Hall Master, to continue managing the hall.

After killing Southern Radiance Island’s three Island Masters, Han Fan took control of the island and uncovered its imprisoned former leader, Li Minghe, whom he freed and appointed Deputy Island Master to rebuild the island. As Han Fan settled in to cultivate, news of his victory spread across the Twenty-Seven Islands, and the Lu siblings set out to visit him on Chaos Island.

• Han Fan searched Southern Radiance Island’s halls and took its Foundation Establishment Pills while Gao Qifeng explained the island’s industries and lack of cultivators.
• Han Fan found Li Minghe imprisoned beneath the Island Master’s cultivation hall, freed him, and appointed him Deputy Island Master to restore Southern Radiance Island.
• Li Minghe and Gao Qifeng agreed to recruit cultivators and cautiously discussed whether Han Fan’s star-lit combat technique came from the distant Seven Stars Immortal Sect.
• Han Fan began cultivating in Southern Radiance Island’s Spirit Vein, while word of his defeat of three Ninth Level Foundation Establishment Island Masters spread and the other islands prepared to ally against him.
• Lu Youqing told Lu Youde and Lu Youxian that the notorious Han Fan shared a name with the Han Fan of the Mystic Origin Magic Tool Shop, and the siblings went to visit him.

The Lu siblings learned that Han Fan was the peerless fiend who had taken over Southern Radiance Island, while Wu Tao focused on rebuilding the island and pursuing his cultivation. At the Twenty-Seven Islands Island Master Assembly on Chaos Island, Wu Tao overwhelmed the assembled leaders and secured their submission.

• Lu Youde, Lu Youxian, and Lu Youqing recognized Han Fan in the Romance Art Pavilion’s portrait and learned that he had become Southern Radiance Island’s new Island Master.
• Wu Tao approved the return of Southern Radiance Island’s fugitive cultivators, then went to the Library to investigate the Seven Stars Immortal Sect.
• Li Minghe persuaded Wu Tao to attend the Island Master Assembly because the other Twenty-Six Islands had formed an alliance against Southern Radiance Island.
• Wu Tao agreed to attend the assembly and traveled with Li Minghe to Chaos Island, where they arrived at Southern Radiance Island’s residence.
• At the assembly, Wu Tao accepted Li Tianhong’s challenge and knocked away the three challengers’ magic tools with his Treasure-Dropping Coin.
• Wu Tao released his powerful divine sense over the assembled Island Masters and Deputy Island Masters, causing them to submit and acknowledge his strength.

Wu Tao intimidated the Twenty-Six Islands into disbanding their alliance, returned to Southern Radiance Island, and focused on cultivation while investigating the route through the lost sea area. He broke through to the Ninth Level Spirit Body and prepared to refine Li Minghe’s flying magic tool.

• Wu Tao defeated Li Tianhong and two other island masters, prompting Li Tianhong to announce the dissolution of the Twenty-Six Islands Alliance; Wu Tao also revealed that he was a Tier 2 Advanced Artifact Refiner.
• Wu Tao returned to Southern Radiance Island and spent several months cultivating, while Li Minghe concealed Wu Tao’s connection to the Seven Stars Immortal Sect from the other islands.
• Wu Tao asked Li Minghe about the Seven Stars Immortal Sect and learned that Li Minghe and Si Chen had once escaped the lost sea area, where Golden Core sea demons had killed the other Foundation Establishment cultivators aboard their ship.
• Wu Tao asked the Twenty-Six Islands to send him their general library books, then read through the books while continuing to cultivate.
• Wu Tao broke through to the Ninth Level Spirit Body, extending his divine sense to 142 miles, and summoned Li Minghe to collect materials for a Tier 2 Advanced flying magic tool and a body avatar technique.

Wu Tao cultivated, welcomed Fu Xuan, and demonstrated his artifact-refining skill before refining a Streamer Boat for Li Minghe. His two attempts to make another Body Avatar failed, and the chapter ended with Qu Tong and his surviving juniors stranded on a desolate island after a sea storm killed one of their companions.

• Wu Tao cultivated the Six Yang Li Fire True Technique, then met Fu Xuan, who came to discuss artifact refining and examine Wu Tao's Treasure-Dropping Coin.
• Wu Tao invited Fu Xuan and Gao Qifeng to watch him refine a Tier 2 Advanced Streamer Boat, and Li Minghe received the finished flying magic tool.
• Wu Tao twice failed to refine a Body Avatar and suspected the vanished Golden Page might have been essential, then returned to his usual cultivation routine.
• A sea storm swept Qu Tong and three junior cultivators into the Lost Sea Area, where Qu Tong found Luo Xing and Guan Tong alive but discovered that Junior Brother Ji had died.
• Qu Tong carried Luo Xing and Guan Tong to a desolate island and helped them recover, then told them they needed to heal and find their way back to the sect.

Wu Tao rejected an invitation to Eastern Prosperity Island’s Artifact Refiner Conference, but agreed to host it on Southern Radiance Island and guide the region’s refiners for two days. After the conference, he resumed cultivation and successfully broke through to the Ninth Level Foundation Establishment, setting a goal to reach the Golden Core before age sixty.

• Wu Tao refused Eastern Prosperity Island’s invitation to attend its Artifact Refiner Conference because the journey would interrupt his cultivation.
• Dongfang Xing traveled to Southern Radiance Island and offered to transfer the conference’s hosting rights if Wu Tao would guide the region’s Artifact Refiners.
• Wu Tao agreed to host the conference at the Earth Fire Hall and spend two days sharing artifact-refining knowledge; Artifact Refiners, including Fu Xuan, traveled to Southern Radiance Island.
• Wu Tao attended the conference, explained foundational knowledge to Tier 1 and Tier 2 Artifact Refiners, and then returned to cultivation.
• Wu Tao consumed Foundation Establishment Pills and Source Qi of Spells, broke through to the Ninth Level Foundation Establishment, and resolved to reach the Golden Core before turning sixty.

Wu Tao discovered a record suggesting that a Golden Core Cultivator had built a Water Mansion in Eastern Edge Island’s waters and summoned its Island Master to learn more. Before he could investigate, Qu Tong of the Sea Gazing Immortal Sect seized Eastern Edge Island, leaving Wu Tao to assess the newcomers and the danger they posed.

• Wu Tao broke through the Foundation Establishment stage of the Heavenly Derivation God Refining Scripture to the Third Layer, expanding his Divine Sense, then found a record of a suspected Golden Core Water Mansion in Eastern Edge Island’s waters.
• Wu Tao sent Li Minghe to summon Eastern End Island’s Island Master, Lin Qiyun, and dispatched another Foundation Establishment cultivator to invite Eastern Edge Island’s Island Master.
• Qu Tong, Luo Xing, and Guan Tong learned from captured Eastern Edge Island cultivators that they were in the Twenty-Seven Islands Sea Region, then Qu Tong killed Eastern Edge Island’s three Island Masters and claimed the island.
• News of Eastern Edge Island’s destruction spread across the sea region, prompting Lin Qiyun and representatives from other islands to head toward Southern Radiance Island.
• Li Minghe told Wu Tao about the destruction, and Wu Tao decided to wait and see what Qu Tong and the Sea Gazing Immortal Sect would do before pursuing the Water Mansion.

Wu Tao learned that Qu Tong had found the Golden Core Water Mansion beneath Eastern Edge Island and agreed to help the Sea Gazing Immortal Sect cultivators break its formation. After Qu Tong mistook Wu Tao for a fellow disciple of the Seven Stars Immortal Sect, the two set out together, while Guan Tong privately considered claiming the treasures for her group.

• Lin Qiyun visited Wu Tao, who questioned him about the Golden Core Water Mansion mentioned in Eastern End Island's records; Lin Qiyun then chose to remain on Southern Radiance Island for protection.
• Qu Tong found a beast-hide map among the slain Eastern Edge Island masters' belongings and, after Luo Xing and Guan Tong recovered, led them to the Golden Core Water Mansion.
• The three discovered that the mansion was guarded by a Tier 3 formation requiring four cultivators to attack its positions simultaneously, so Qu Tong decided to seek Wu Tao's help.
• Qu Tong and Guan Tong visited Southern Radiance Island, where Qu Tong sparred with Wu Tao and recognized his Star Body Tempering Technique as belonging to the Seven Stars Immortal Sect.
• Wu Tao accepted Qu Tong's mistaken belief that they shared an Immortal Sect lineage and agreed to divide the mansion's treasures equally among the four cultivators.
• Wu Tao, Qu Tong, and Guan Tong departed for the Golden Core Water Mansion, while Guan Tong privately doubted that her group would truly share its treasures.

Wu Tao killed Qu Tong, Guan Tong, and Luo Xing after they tried to seize the treasures in Shaoyuan Water Mansion, then spent several years cultivating and wandering until he sensed his Golden Core Opportunity. He returned to Southern Radiance Island and began refining his Golden Core with spirit water and spirit fire.

• Wu Tao followed Qu Tong and Guan Tong to Shaoyuan Water Mansion, where they worked with Luo Xing to break its Tier 3 formation and discovered spirit water, spirit fire, and other treasures.
• Qu Tong claimed the spirit water and spirit fire, then attacked Wu Tao with Guan Tong and Luo Xing when Wu Tao objected to the treasure distribution.
• Wu Tao used the Treasure-Dropping Coin and his techniques to kill all three Sea Gazing Immortal Sect cultivators, took their Storage Bags, and buried Shaoyuan Water Mansion beneath the seabed.
• Wu Tao returned to Southern Radiance Island and told Li Minghe that he planned to leave the Twenty-Seven Islands Sea Region after forming his Golden Core; Li Minghe announced the three deaths, and the islands fought over Eastern Edge Island.
• Wu Tao cultivated to Foundation Establishment Perfection, completed A Point of Formless Sword, and wandered the islands as Wu Hai until he sensed his Golden Core Opportunity while fishing.
• Wu Tao returned to Southern Radiance Island, entered seclusion, and began the Water-and-Fire Golden Core Refinement using the spirit water and spirit fire.

After forming his Golden Core, Wu Tao tested his vastly strengthened Natal True Art, gave Li Minghe a valuable robe, and prepared to leave the resource-poor Twenty-Seven Islands Sea Region. The chapter ended with Wu Tao beginning to condense Golden Core True Fire as the region’s island masters traveled to Southern Radiance Island to congratulate him.

• Wu Tao checked his status after breaking through to the Golden Core and reflected on his increased lifespan, missing cultivation technique, and hope of returning to the Immortal Origin Realm.
• Wu Tao unleashed his Golden Core Natal True Art across Southern Radiance Island, silently felling every tree within a 2,520-mile diameter and astonishing Li Minghe and the island’s cultivators.
• Wu Tao received the Magic Tools prepared by Li Minghe, confirmed he would leave the Twenty-Seven Islands Sea Region, and gave Li Minghe his Tier 2 High-Grade Flowing Cloud Immortal Robe.
• Li Minghe learned the fallen trees covered the island’s full 2,520-mile area and explained to a panicked disciple that Wu Tao had been testing a spell.
• Wu Tao began condensing Golden Core True Fire so he could refine Magic Tools without relying on Earth Fire.
• News of Wu Tao’s breakthrough spread throughout the Twenty-Seven Islands Sea Region, and the Island Masters of the Twenty-Five Islands set out to congratulate him.

Wu Tao condensed True Fire, refined two Tier 2 Warships and Shao Yuan’s Tier 3 defensive and offensive True Artifacts, then met the Island Masters who had come to congratulate him. He confirmed that he would leave the Twenty-Seven Islands Sea Region and gave Li Minghe the warships to help Southern Radiance Island retain its strength after his departure.

• The Island Masters of the Twenty-Five Islands arrived at Southern Radiance Island to congratulate Wu Tao on reaching Golden Core, while Fu Xuan hoped to seek his artifact-refining guidance.
• Wu Tao condensed True Fire, assembled two Tier 2 Warships, and refined Shao Yuan’s Tier 3 defensive robe and flying sword.
• Wu Tao emerged from seclusion and met the Island Masters, then told Fu Xuan that he was not from the Twenty-Seven Islands Sea Region and planned to leave soon.
• Fu Xuan asked Wu Tao to speak with him privately, and Wu Tao reassured the disappointed Li Minghe by presenting him with two Tier 2 Warships.
• The Island Masters recognized that the warships would preserve Southern Radiance Island’s combat strength and help maintain the region’s balance after Wu Tao left.

Wu Tao tested the Tier 2 Warships at Southern Radiance Island, agreed to take Fu Xuan across the Lost Sea Area, and set out after studying a Star Sea Map. As they advanced through the fog, Wu Tao encountered a mysterious lamp and warnings to stay away from it, leaving the crossing increasingly perilous.

• Wu Tao had Li Minghe arrange a test in which Li Tianhong and Lin Qiyun faced the Tier 2 Warships, and the island masters saw that the ships could contend with Ninth Level Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Fu Xuan asked Wu Tao to take him across the Lost Sea Area so he could pursue advancement in artifact refinement, and Wu Tao agreed.
• Wu Tao studied the Star Sea Maps in Qu Tong's, Guan Tong's, and Luo Xing's Storage Bags, then summoned Fu Xuan and Li Minghe and departed Southern Radiance Island with Fu Xuan.
• At the edge of the Lost Sea Area, Wu Tao tamed three Tier 2 Advanced Sea Demonic Beasts and used them to scout as he and Fu Xuan entered the fog, where their divine sense ranges were sharply reduced.
• Wu Tao killed attacking sea demonic beasts and saw a flickering lamp near what appeared to be a mast, while Fu Xuan could not see it.
• Wu Tao heard a faint warning to leave, then later heard a clearer warning not to follow the lamp and to stay away from it, but he continued deeper with Fu Xuan.

Wu Tao endured the Lost Sea Area’s monsters, storms, and a haunted spell ship before a powerful elder rescued him and gave him a protection talisman. The elder later encountered a mysterious figure who could take Han Fan’s face, revealing that the two shared a connection and that both men were searching for a ship.

• Wu Tao lost his three Tier 2 Advanced Sea Demonic Beasts to a Tier 3 Low-Level beast, which fled when the eerie lamp appeared.
• Wu Tao and Fu Xuan avoided a bone-covered island whose black flowers attacked them, then were caught in a sea storm that tore Fu Xuan away and left his fate unknown.
• A haunted spell ship tried to compel Wu Tao to board, but the coffin nail in his Sea of Divine Sense frightened it off.
• Wu Tao killed a Tier 3 Low-Level Sea Demonic Beast, then encountered the haunted ship again and was saved from its summons by the coffin nail.
• A gray-robed old man slew a pursuing Tier 3 Advanced Sea Demonic Beast, gave Wu Tao a protection talisman, and urged him to leave the Lost Sea Area.
• The old man later met a mysterious green-robed figure who transformed his face into Han Fan’s and said he and Wu Tao shared a web of cause and effect; both men were searching for a ship.

Wu Tao escaped the Lost Sea Area and reached the Monster Hunting Sea Area, where he learned about Central Island and the local hunting rules. After killing a Sea Demonic Beast that attacked him, he confronted a Branching Bitter Tea Island cultivator who tried to seize his spoils, and stopped him from leaving.

• Wu Tao spent nearly a year and ten months crossing the Lost Sea Area, nearly exhausting his Golden Core Magic Power before he finally emerged into a blue sea region.
• Wu Tao restored his Magic Power underwater, then learned from Mu Qiu and the Mu Family that he was in the Monster Hunting Sea Area and set out for Central Island.
• Wu Tao killed a Tier 3 Low-Level Sea Demonic Beast that attacked him and took its Demon Core and corpse.
• A Zhou-surnamed Golden Core Cultivator from Branching Bitter Tea Island demanded Wu Tao surrender the beast, claiming he had broken local rules.
• Chu Xing of Luoli Island exposed the Zhou-surnamed cultivator's false claim and explained that Wu Tao could keep the spoils because the beast had attacked him first.
• As the Zhou-surnamed cultivator tried to leave, Wu Tao sneered and asked whether he had allowed him to go.