Chapter Summaries

Wu Tao was assigned to lead a group of Artifact Refiners to inspect the Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillars in the Lost Sea Area. After preparing to leave and reassuring Chen Yao, he arrived at Ten Thousand People Plaza three days later, where the gathered teams were preparing to depart.

• Wu Tao reviewed his cultivation progress, noting that he had reached the Ninth Refinement of Golden Core Nine Refinements and the ninth layer of the True Body.
• Wu Tao received a mission assigning him to lead Gu Xingyuan, Liu Song, and three other Tier 3 Advanced Artifact Refiners to inspect eighty-one pillars in the Lost Sea Area for one month.
• Gu Xingyuan told Wu Tao he was glad to join his group, and Wu Tao advised him to prepare for their departure in three days.
• Wu Tao told Chen Yao about the mission and reassured her that the Immortal Palace and Ning Qiudao's Protective Talisman would protect him.
• Wu Tao arrived at Ten Thousand People Plaza three days later, where Artifact Refiners, Formation Masters, Talisman Masters, and Deputy Hall Masters had gathered beside waiting Flying Boats.

Wu Tao traveled with a team of Artifact Refiners, Talisman Masters, and Formation Masters to the Lost Sea Area to inspect and repair the Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillars. After arriving, he met Tang Jingquan and Pi Baibai, who described the Ghost Ships and the dangers facing the cultivators guarding the array.

• Wu Tao boarded the Flying Boat with Gu Xingyuan and the other cultivators, then cultivated during the journey as the boat picked up additional specialists from the Seven Stars Immortal Sect and Moon Shadow Immortal Sect.
• The Flying Boat reached the Lost Sea Area, where Wu Tao saw the mist battering the Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillar Array and landed on an island prepared as a base for the campaign.
• Wu Tao contacted Tang Jingquan and Pi Baibai, who came to his quarters and told him they had encountered Ghost Ships twice, losing Golden Core cultivators and suffering serious injuries among their Nascent Soul ranks.
• Tang Jingquan explained that Ghost Ships also threatened the Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillar Array, and that three Nascent Soul cultivators guarding its pillars had already been injured.

Wu Tao and the other specialists prepared to enter the Lost Sea Area and inspect its Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillars under the protection of six Nascent Soul cultivators. As their convoy advanced through the mist, Cui Qing detected a Ghost Ship approaching.

• Wu Tao learned from Tang Jingquan that Cui Qing was guarding the Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillar Array and that the chief True Disciple's cultivation level remained unclear.
• Deputy Hall Masters Hua, Zhao, and Duanmu Lei gathered the artifact refiners, Talisman Masters, and Formation Masters to explain their work and cooperation plan for inspecting all eighty-one pillars within a month.
• Chen Li learned from Jin Chengruo that Li Mo was a skilled artifact refiner who had also come from a Rogue Cultivator background, and decided to seek his friendship.
• Wu Tao and the other specialists boarded Spell Ships and Flying Boats with six Nascent Soul cultivators and entered the Lost Sea Area.
• Cui Qing sensed a Ghost Ship approaching through the mist and warned the other Nascent Soul cultivators.

Wu Tao and the other Three Arts cultivators traveled into the Lost Sea Area, where six Nascent Soul True Lords destroyed a Ghost Ship before the group reached a Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillar. They began inspecting and repairing the pillar, and the chapter ended after their first repair was completed without incident.

• Cui Qing detected an approaching Ghost Ship, and six Nascent Soul True Lords fought it alongside the Flying Boat until they destroyed it without casualties.
• Wu Tao warned Liu Song not to underestimate Ghost Ships, and Deputy Hall Master Hua said additional Nascent Soul cultivators would join the mission.
• The Spell Ship and Flying Boat reached a Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillar, where the stationed cultivator surnamed Luo greeted Cui Qing and the others.
• Deputy Hall Master Zhao handed out Water-Avoiding Talismans, and Wu Tao, Gu Xingyuan, Chen Li, and other Three Arts cultivators descended to inspect the pillar underwater.
• Wu Tao and the others repaired wear on the pillar while Deputy Hall Master Hua, Deputy Hall Master Zhao, and Duanmu Lei inspected it; they finished their first pillar without encountering danger.

Wu Tao and the other Three Arts cultivators inspected and repaired the first two Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillars without encountering Ghost Ships, then continued the month-long mission as their group made steady progress. While they worked on the twenty-first pillar, eight Ghost Ships suddenly surrounded the Spell Ships and Flying Boats.

• Wu Tao and the other cultivators completed repairs on the second pillar and safely left the Lost Sea Area, where Chen Li asked Wu Tao to refine a damaged Flying Sword after the mission.
• Wu Tao returned to his residence, cultivated through the night, and resumed inspecting pillars the next day.
• Over seven days, the group inspected twenty pillars, weathered sea storms, and repelled two Ghost Ship attacks with help from Cui Qing and the other Nascent Soul True Lords.
• As the group worked on the twenty-first pillar, the mist thickened, and Cui Qing warned that Ghost Ships might attack.
• Wu Tao and the other Three Arts cultivators stopped work and rushed back to the Spell Ships as eight Ghost Ships appeared around the vessels.

Eight Ghost Ships attacked Cui Qing’s group while Wu Tao and five other Three Arts cultivators were underwater, and the black light dragged them aboard one of the ships. As everyone watched them sink into it, Wu Tao’s Coffin Nails awakened, erased the Ghost Ship, and freed all six cultivators.

• Eight Ghost Ships surrounded Cui Qing’s group and swept them with black light as the Three Arts cultivators rushed back toward the Spell Ship.
• Vice Hall Master Hua, Duanmu Lei, and Deputy Hall Master Zhao carried nine cultivators to safety, while Cui Qing ordered the formation portal closed and summoned reinforcements with a Deity Transformation talisman.
• Wu Tao and five other cultivators were caught in the black light underwater and pulled toward a Ghost Ship despite Cui Qing and the other Nascent Soul True Lords trying to stop it.
• As the six cultivators sank into the Ghost Ship, Wu Tao’s Coffin Nails restored his awareness and released a power that made the ship vanish.
• The six cultivators recovered their senses and hovered above the sea, leaving Cui Qing and the other witnesses stunned.

Wu Tao and the other five escaped the ghost ships when the Coffin Nail devoured all eight, leaving the cultivators baffled about their disappearance. After returning to the small island to rest, Wu Tao refused Duanmu Lei’s offer to move him to a safer inspection assignment in the Lost Sea Area.

• Cui Qing ordered Wu Tao and the other five to flee to the spell ship while the Coffin Nail secretly devoured the ghost ships.
• An Eerie Spell Ship’s mysterious voice asked the Coffin Nail to stop, but the Coffin Nail ignored it and consumed the remaining ghost ships.
• Sun Sovereign examined Wu Tao and the others, found no eerie power in them, and allowed the group to return to the small island and rest for two days.
• Duanmu Lei told Wu Tao that he and Liu Song would switch inspection duties so Wu Tao could inspect the safer upper half of a Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillar.
• Wu Tao refused the reassignment, insisting he would carry out his original mission and would not avoid danger at Liu Song’s expense.

After surviving a Ghost Ship, Wu Tao resumed inspecting the Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillars under the protection of eleven Nascent Soul True Lords. He suspected Master Nail had made the Lost Sea Area’s master stop attacking, and the inspections continued without incident with seven days remaining.

• Duanmu Lei praised Wu Tao’s loyalty to the Immortal Palace and told him reinforcements would arrive before the next inspection.
• Tang Jingquan and Pi Baibai visited Wu Tao, then said they would accompany him on the next mission to help protect him.
• Wu Tao reassured Gu Xingyuan and the other cultivators that eleven Nascent Soul True Lords would guard them during the inspection.
• Lao Lu and four other Nascent Soul True Lords from the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect joined the protection detail as the spell ship and Flying Boat entered the Lost Sea Area.
• The Eerie Spell Ship and more than a hundred Ghost Ships vanished after sensing Wu Tao, and the cultivators inspected three pillars without being attacked.
• For half a month, the inspections continued without Ghost Ship attacks, leaving seven days of the mission remaining.

Wu Tao and the other cultivators completed their inspection of all eighty-one Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillars in the Lost Sea Area without another Ghost Ship attack. As they prepared to leave, the Coffin Nail demanded that Wu Tao go into the depths of the Lost Sea Area, then raised a storm that swept him and the others away.

• Wu Tao and the other Three Arts cultivators inspected the pillars, took an early break, and returned to the Small Island to rest before resuming the mission.
• Jin Chengruo and He Youxian asked Wu Tao and Gu Xingyuan about being caught in the Ghost Ship's black light, and the survivors described losing control of their bodies and senses.
• On the final day, Wu Tao and the others inspected the last two Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillars without incident and prepared to leave the Lost Sea Area.
• The Coffin Nail told Wu Tao to secretly go into the Lost Sea Area's depths and meet an existence there so the two Coffin Nails could fuse.
• When Wu Tao objected that he could not leave the Spell Ship, the Coffin Nail raised a sea storm that swept him and the other cultivators into the air, prompting Cui Qing to order the Nascent Soul True Lords to rescue them.

A sudden Tier 4 sea storm scattered the Three Arts cultivators, leaving Wu Tao missing while Cui Qing led a search. Guided by Coffin Nail, Wu Tao reached the hidden Eerie Spell Ship, where Coffin Nail defeated its master, Yin Liyi, and took an item before Wu Tao returned.

• Cui Qing and the other Nascent Soul True Lords rescued the scattered Three Arts cultivators, but could not find Li Mo.
• Cui Qing split the group, sending six Nascent Soul True Lords back with the rescued cultivators while he and four others searched for Li Mo.
• Coffin Nail guided Wu Tao deeper into the Lost Sea Area, where it used Dao Language to summon the hidden Eerie Spell Ship and its master, Yin Liyi.
• Yin Liyi challenged Coffin Nail, but Coffin Nail manifested an Immortal Coffin and defeated him, forcing him to hand over an item.
• Wu Tao left with the item, while Yin Liyi recognized Coffin Nail as a legendary existence and worried that the Immortal Dynasty's slow procedures would not stop Qi's revival in time.

After the storm scattered the cultivators in the Lost Sea Area, Wu Tao returned safely to Hua Tianlun and was escorted back to the Small Island. There, he learned that the Coffin Nail had inscribed the method for learning Dao Language onto a Jade Slip.

• Cui Qing ended the search and escorted the rescued Three Arts cultivators out of the Lost Sea Area before returning with Nascent Soul True Lords to look for Wu Tao.
• Hua Tianlun detected Wu Tao approaching the eighty-first Domain-Suppressing God-Breaking Pillar, checked him for the Ghost Ship’s strange power, and sent a message to Cui Qing.
• Cui Qing learned that Wu Tao had returned safely and brought him back to the Small Island, where Duanmu Lei and Gu Xingyuan welcomed him.
• Wu Tao activated the formations in his residence and examined the Black Bead that Master Nail had borrowed from the existence on the Eerie Spell Ship.
• Wu Tao asked the Coffin Nail to teach him the language it had used, and the Coffin Nail inscribed its learning method onto a Jade Slip and identified it as Dao Language.

After returning safely from the Lost Sea Area, Wu Tao resumed cultivation, began studying Dao Language, and refined a Flying Sword for Chen Li. The chapter leaves Chen Li praising the weapon, while his wish to seek Wu Tao’s help joining an immortal sect remains unspoken.

• Master Nail began refining the Black Bead to fuse the two Coffin Nails, while Wu Tao set aside the Dao Language Jade Slip and completed his cultivation for the night.
• Wu Tao welcomed Jin Chengruo, He Youxian, Chen Li, and the other Three Arts cultivators, who visited to confirm he had returned safely from the Lost Sea Area.
• After the visitors left, Wu Tao agreed to refine a Flying Sword for Chen Li, who supplied the Spiritual Materials and planned to ask later for help joining an immortal sect.
• Wu Tao finished the Tier 3 high-grade Flying Sword, checked on the Coffin Nails, and began learning the notes of Dao Language, discovering that pronouncing them required matching Magic Power and divine sense.
• Wu Tao completed more cultivation, then gave Chen Li the Flying Sword; Chen Li inspected it and praised Wu Tao’s artifact-refining skill.

Wu Tao helped Chen Li gain an introduction to Deputy Hall Master Zhao, who accepted Chen Li into Star Immortal Palace’s Talisman Hall. Wu Tao returned to Jade Star Island, reunited with Chen Yao, and checked his cultivation progress, finding that his Golden Core and True Body training still required years to complete.

• Chen Li asked Wu Tao to introduce him to Deputy Hall Master Zhao so he could join Star Immortal Palace’s Talisman Hall, and Wu Tao agreed.
• Wu Tao told Deputy Hall Master Zhao that Chen Li sought to join the Talisman Hall, and Zhao approved Chen Li’s recruitment.
• Wu Tao advised Chen Li to study the Dao of Talismans diligently after Chen Li thanked him for the recommendation.
• Wu Tao returned to Star Immortal Palace after the inspection mission and reunited with Chen Yao at Jade Star Island.
• Wu Tao examined the Coffin Nails in his Sea of Divine Sense and checked his status, estimating that his Golden Core cultivation needed four and a half years to reach perfection and his True Body cultivation needed less than two years.

After returning safely from the Lost Sea Area, Wu Tao resumed his cultivation and Warship Department duties, then attended Duanmu Lei’s Deputy Hall Master ceremony with Chen Yao. On the way home, Wu Tao’s Sea of Divine Sense expanded and his divine sense broke through to three thousand li.

• Wu Tao spent two days on Jade Star Island cultivating and accompanying Chen Yao before returning to the Warship Department.
• Wu Tao received visits from Yu Zhixin, Su Sanxian, Liu Yidao, and Fu Xuan, who offered their concern about the Lost Sea Area mission.
• Chen Yao learned of the danger Wu Tao had faced and hugged him in relief after he comforted her.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao attended Duanmu Lei’s Deputy Hall Master ceremony, where Su Sanxian introduced Wu Tao to artifact refiners from other immortal palaces.
• As Wu Tao and Chen Yao returned to Jade Star Island, Wu Tao’s Sea of Divine Sense expanded and his divine sense reached three thousand li.

Wu Tao’s Coffin Nail finished merging, transforming his divine sense into one comparable in range and quality to that of a newly advanced Nascent Soul True Lord, though he remained at Golden Core 9th Layer. After learning his first Dao Language syllable, he received a new assignment to lead artifact refiners to support the Immortal Origin Realm, whose situation remained unclear.

• Wu Tao discovered that the Coffin Nail had merged and his divine sense had expanded to three thousand li, and Chen Yao sensed its Nascent Soul-level pressure.
• Wu Tao examined his transformed divine sense in the Cultivation Main Hall, judged it comparable to a newly advanced Nascent Soul True Lord’s, and told Chen Yao about its range without revealing the Coffin Nail.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao cared for their Demonic Beasts and returned to cultivation, while Wu Tao joined a gathering of newly recruited Four Arts rogue cultivators at Star Immortal Palace.
• After four months of study, Wu Tao spoke his first Dao Language syllable and noticed that it helped him sense the structure of his Magic Power and divine sense.
• Yu Zhixin told Wu Tao to lead artifact refiners from three Warship Department halls to support the Immortal Origin Realm, and Wu Tao questioned whether the Devil World had invaded it.

Wu Tao prepared to lead Star Immortal Palace’s aid mission to the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect in the Immortal Origin Realm, bringing Chen Yao so they could visit their master and old acquaintances. As their flying boat entered the Nether Soul Domain, an accompanying Nascent Soul cultivator announced that an enemy craft was ahead.

• Yu Zhixin told Wu Tao that the Devil World’s support for the Demonic Dao remnants was likely part of an agreement between the upper echelons, and assigned him to lead artifact refiners to aid the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect.
• Wu Tao recruited Gu Xingyuan, Ye Chaoming, Jin Cha, and other artifact refiners, then told Chen Yao they would return to the Immortal Origin Realm together.
• Wu Tao arranged for Chen Juan and Wang Sheng to care for Jade Star Island and its demonic beasts while he and Chen Yao departed with the Golden Winged Eagle.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao boarded a high-grade Tier 4 Flying Boat with cultivators from several halls and three Nascent Soul True Lords, then traveled through the Boundary Wall Portal into the Immortal Origin Realm.
• A puppet dispatched by Yin Liyi followed the flying boat toward the Path to Godhood, while Sovereign Di traveled there with Wang Jing and Tianmo Guquan.
• After the flying boat entered the Nether Soul Domain, a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator warned that an enemy craft was ahead.

Wu Tao and Chen Yao traveled safely from the Nether Soul Domain toward the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect after Star Immortal Palace repelled an attack by demonic-path remnants. Meanwhile, Divine Monarch Di led Wang Jing and Tianmo Guquan into the first Devil World forbidden zone, following a puppet sent by the Lost Sea Area.

• Li Jingxing identified the approaching demonic-path Flying Boat and ordered Liu Cheng to send a signal to the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect for assistance.
• Star Immortal Palace’s Flying Boat counterattacked the Six Demonic Sects’ vessel, forcing it to retreat, and Wu Tao and Chen Yao resumed cultivating.
• Yao Guangsheng met Li Jingxing’s group after they left the Nether Soul Domain and led their Flying Boat toward the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect.
• Wu Tao recognized Yao Guangsheng and worried about seeing Ning Qiudao again, then reassured himself that Coffin Nail would protect him and returned to cultivating.
• Divine Monarch Di told Wang Jing and Tianmo Guquan that their route required crossing three forbidden zones and waited for a Lost Sea Area puppet to arrive.
• Divine Monarch Di led Wang Jing and Tianmo Guquan into the first forbidden zone behind the Sun Immortal Palace puppet, while Tianmo Guquan wondered how Wang Jing had sensed it.

Sovereign Di, Wang Jing, and Tianmo Guquan followed Yin Liyi’s puppet through the Devil World’s forbidden areas toward the Path to Godhood. After Tianmo Guquan explained the deadly legend surrounding the path, they reached its entrance and found its black-robed guardian waiting.

• Yin Liyi’s puppet crossed three forbidden areas, whose powers made way for it, while Sovereign Di, Wang Jing, and Tianmo Guquan followed unseen.
• Tianmo Guquan warned Sovereign Di that the deepest forbidden area contained the Path to Godhood and an existence who had defeated the Blood Moon Demon Venerable and countless challengers.
• Wang Jing confirmed the legend and said he believed the guardian was no match for Sovereign Di; Tianmo Guquan overcame his fear and agreed to follow them.
• After two months crossing the deepest forbidden area, the group reached the golden Path to Godhood and saw a black-robed figure holding a great saber seated at its entrance.
• Yin Liyi’s puppet bowed to the figure and greeted him as its lord.

Wang Jing learned from Sovereign Di that the cultivation worlds existed within Qi’s body and that Qi’s revival would reclaim the Spiritual Power sustaining their inhabitants. After Wang Jing passed Sovereign Di’s test, Sovereign Di explained the origins of the cultivation worlds and left him facing the fate of everyone else.

• Yingtian Shou told Yin Liyi that the Immortal Dynasty’s memorial petition procedures could take decades, then received a reply rejecting their petition because its format was incorrect.
• Yingtian Shou ordered the guardian Heavenly Officials to each write a replacement petition, and he ordered Yin Liyi to write two.
• Sovereign Di, Wang Jing, and Tianmo Guquan overheard Yin Liyi and Yingtian Shou; Sovereign Di then left the Path to Godhood with the two men without challenging it.
• Wang Jing told Sovereign Di that the cultivation worlds were inside Qi’s body and that the restricted zones suppressed Qi, and Sovereign Di confirmed that Wang Jing had passed his test.
• Sovereign Di explained that Qi’s revival would reclaim the Spiritual Power shared by the world’s living beings, causing a calamity for human and Devil Race cultivators.
• Sovereign Di explained that gods and devils created the Chaotic Immortal World from primordial chaos, and that innate gods and devils could nurture cultivation worlds.

Wang Jing accepted Sovereign Di’s Three Thousand Avatars secret art while learning that he could not yet save the Star Sea Cultivation World from Qi. Meanwhile, Wu Tao and Chen Yao arrived at the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect as Star Immortal Palace envoys and reunited privately with Wen Xingrui.

• Wang Jing inspected Sovereign Di’s Three Thousand Avatars secret art, agreed to cultivate it, and had the golden leaf branded into his divine sense.
• Tianmo Guquan envied Wang Jing’s opportunity, but Wang Jing revealed his strength and Sovereign Di erased Tianmo Guquan’s memories of the secret art.
• Sovereign Di told Wang Jing that he could not oppose Qi or save the Star Sea Cultivation World at his current level, then ended the Devil World journey and set out for the Immortal Origin Realm.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao arrived at the Ethereal Void Immortal Sect, where they received a Cave Abode with two Fourth-Rank Low-Grade Spirit Veins.
• Wu Tao and Chen Yao visited Wen Xingrui in the Artifact Refining Hall, and Wen Xingrui welcomed his disciples warmly.