Chapter Summaries

After the Kill List placed Tang Yu third, he helped the Joyous Union Sect’s allies in battle and survived an assassination attempt by Ghost Moon. The two disappeared into the void while fighting, leaving Tang Yu’s fate unknown.

• The Nether Sea’s demons reacted to Tang Yu’s new third-place ranking and the reward of ten thousand miles of sea territory.
• Tang Yu expanded his Snow Great Dao divine ability to support the Treasure Pavilion and Jade Maiden Sect, while Ning Qingyan privately considered cultivating with him.
• Four Soul Formation demon cultivators attacked Tang Yu, and the Joyous Union Sect’s Supreme Elders moved to protect him.
• Ghost Moon struck Tang Yu with a black blade, but Tang Yu blocked the attacks with his Pinduoduo Divine Ability and countered with Thoughtless Punches.
• Ghost Moon dragged Tang Yu into the chaotic currents of the void, and their auras vanished after the space repaired itself.

Tang Yu defeated Ghost Moon in the void, then faked a serious injury so he could enter the Nether Sea disguised as Ghost Moon and learn about its forces. He reached Lady Liuli’s Glazed Palace for treatment and began plotting to use her to stir conflict among the sea demons.

• Tang Yu trapped Ghost Moon in the void, weakened him with his snow-based divine ability, and used the Beast Taming Art to take control of him.
• Tang Yu let Ghost Moon strike him and sent himself back to the battlefield badly wounded, where the Joyous Union Sect’s elders stopped Ghost Moon from attacking again.
• Tang Yu was taken to the Li Tang Sect’s healing formation, where he comforted a boy whose mother had died before secretly entering Ghost Moon’s memories.
• Tang Yu learned about the Nether Sea’s demon forces and, disguised as Ghost Moon, traveled to the Glazed Palace to recover from his injuries.
• Lady Liuli examined Tang Yu, and he considered seducing her to provoke conflict among the powerful sea demons.

After Lady Liuli healed Tang Yu while he posed as Ghost Moon, she offered to match him with her daughter. Tang Yu then tricked her into examining his allegedly numb divine weapon, leaving their encounter poised to become more intimate.

• Lady Liuli healed the wounded Divine Transformation cultivators and then treated Tang Yu alone, giving him a cup of Thousand-Year Moon Dew.
• Lady Liuli offered to find Ghost Moon a Dao companion and suggested her daughter, whom Tang Yu agreed to meet because he wanted the Nether Sea's most beautiful woman.
• Tang Yu asked Lady Liuli to treat an injury he claimed Tang Yu had inflicted on his divine weapon during their fight.
• Lady Liuli screened the room from divine senses and examined Tang Yu's supposedly numb divine weapon while he pretended he could not feel her touch.

Tang Yu gathered intelligence about the Nether Sea’s plans while posing as an ally and attended a strategy meeting where Li Tang Sect leaders prepared for a stronger attack. Afterward, he secretly reunited with Ning Qingyan and pretended his injuries had not healed, drawing her into his small world.

• Lady Liuli treated Tang Yu’s lack of sensation, and he left Glazed Palace after agreeing to return in a few days.
• Tang Yu encountered Hu and other merman cultivators returning from an attack, then checked that the Jade Maiden Sect’s battlefield and Ning Qingyan were safe.
• After the second wave ended, Tang Yu attended Wang Yuan’s meeting, where Wang Yuan introduced Yueha, Danduo, Jicheng, and Yixi and discussed the coming Nether Sea assault.
• Tang Yu shared intelligence about the demon cultivators’ next attack and told Wang Yuan he had obtained it by controlling a demon cultivator.
• Ning Qingyan summoned Tang Yu to the back mountain, and he pretended his injuries remained serious before bringing her into his small world.

Ning Qingyan and Tang Yu secretly cultivated together, and she returned to her sect after agreeing to explain her impending breakthrough as an insight gained from a life-and-death crisis. Meanwhile, Jicheng met Wild Elder Shaoling, who revealed a prophecy that Jicheng would become king and offered to help him claim power in Li Tang and the Nether Sea.

• Tang Yu warned Ning Qingyan that the Jade Maiden Sect and she herself were targets of the demon cultivators, then urged her to advance to Soul Transformation through a secret cultivation session.
• Ning Qingyan emerged with Tang Yu showing signs of a breakthrough, and they agreed she would attribute her own breakthrough to insights from surviving danger.
• Ning Qingyan reluctantly returned to her group, while Tang Yu went back to the Joyous Union Sect to organize the next stage of his plan.
• Wang Yuan assigned new battle roles based on Tang Yu's intelligence, keeping Yixi as commander and tasking Yueha, Danduo, and Jicheng with key duties.
• Wild Elder Shaoling drew a glowing cloth from a fish and told Jicheng that its four characters read, "Jicheng Becomes King."
• Shaoling offered to help Jicheng become king in Li Tang and the Nether Sea, invoking his family's historic claim to rule the Li Tang Mountains.

Wild Elder Shaoling advised Jicheng to use the war to weaken Li Tang’s factions and remove Wang Yuan so he could claim power. During the Nether Sea’s third assault, Tang Yu and Old Hu led an attack on the Jade Maiden Sect, where five formations trapped them and sparked accusations between their clans.

• Wild Elder Shaoling urged Jicheng to suppress Li Tang’s factions during the war and eliminate Wang Yuan, and Jicheng resolved to become Li Tang’s king.
• After three days of rest, the Nether Sea began its third assault, but Tang Yu’s Honey Snow Ice City weakened the demon army as it attacked.
• Tang Yu and Old Hu agreed to target the Jade Maiden Sect, with Old Hu’s merfolk assigned to kill key figures and claim captured female cultivators.
• Tang Yu, Old Hu, and their allies infiltrated the Jade Maiden Sect’s battlefield, where a blue radiance activated five formations that trapped all eight attackers.
• Tang Yu accused Old Hu of deliberately triggering the trap, and the merfolk and Ghost Shark Clan cultivators took sides against each other.

Tang Yu and the demon cultivators were trapped in layered formations set by the Jade Maiden Sect and its allies, where Tang Yu exposed himself as the traitor and attacked his companions. He escaped back to the Nether Sea with one wounded survivor, then claimed after waking that Old Hu had been the traitor.

• Tang Yu accused Old Hu of being a traitor while the eight demon cultivators tried to survive the formations’ attacks.
• Tang Yu stabbed Old Hu and killed another Ghost Shark Clan demon cultivator, revealing himself as the mole.
• Tang Yu repeatedly ambushed the remaining demon cultivators as the formations wore them down, and a demon cultivator’s self-destruction failed to break free.
• Tang Yu escaped the formation carrying a wounded Merman Clan demon cultivator, while the Nether Sea forces held back their opponents.
• Tang Yu fainted after reaching the Nether Sea, and a day and night later he woke and claimed Old Hu had been the traitor.

Tang Yu posed as Ghost Moon and blamed Old Hu for betraying the Nether Sea, then used the pink poison he had planted to manipulate Lady Liuli. The chapter ended with Lady Liuli warning Tang Yu that her dead husband had returned.

• Tang Yu accused Old Hu of luring the expedition into the formation, and Situ Yu confirmed the accusation after waking.
• Tang Yu revealed that he had refined Situ Yu and was now impersonating him, while Situ Dajin promised compensation to the Ghost Shark Clan.
• The great demons learned the formation combined several grand formations and left to discuss how to break it.
• Lady Liuli examined Tang Yu, expelled a pink poison from his body, and was overcome by its effects.
• Afterward, Lady Liuli dressed herself and urged Tang Yu to lie down and recover because her dead husband had returned.

Tang Yu, disguised as Ghost Moon, met the Sea Dragon King Zheng Kun’s daughter Clear Moon in Glazed Palace and learned the clan was preparing a covert invasion from the surface. He charmed Clear Moon with stories of the Nine Heavens Continent and a poem, while Lady Liuli hoped they would grow intimate.

• Lady Liuli and Tang Yu pretended he was recovering when Zheng Kun and Clear Moon arrived at Glazed Palace.
• Lady Liuli introduced Clear Moon to Ghost Moon, then left with Zheng Kun, who argued with her about his concubines before going to visit them.
• Tang Yu questioned Clear Moon and learned the Sea Dragon Clan was halfway through a plan to invade from the surface.
• Tang Yu told Clear Moon about the Nine Heavens Continent and recited a poem that left her captivated.

Tang Yu learned that the Sea Dragon Clan planned to tunnel beneath the battlefield and attack the human army from behind, then joined a strike team sent underground to ambush them. As the team emerged into the sea and began fighting, Tang Yu watched a Sea Dragon demon cultivator without joining the attack.

• Tang Yu declined to take advantage of Clear Moon's advances and asked her to heal his injuries.
• Tang Yu discovered the Sea Dragon Clan's plan to tunnel under the seafloor and surprise the human army.
• Wang Yuan rejected Jicheng's proposal for a proactive assault, then arranged an underground ambush after hearing Tang Yu's intelligence.
• Tang Yu insisted on joining twelve Nascent Soul experts, and Wang Yuan gave him a life-saving divine ability.
• The team rode an earth-escape artifact underground, emerged near the Sea Dragons, and attacked while Tang Yu focused on one demon cultivator.

Tang Yu ambushed Wang Junhou’s Sea Dragon Clan operation, then persuaded him that the Nether Sea’s wars weakened the Sea Dragons for the benefit of the other clans. Wang Junhou agreed to consider cooperating with the human cultivators and left to report the operation’s failure to his uncle.

• Wang Junhou attacked Tang Yu, but Tang Yu blocked his techniques and evaded him while the accompanying cultivators killed hundreds of Sea Dragons.
• Tang Yu argued that the Nether Sea’s wars served the leaders’ interests and that the Sea Dragon Clan was sacrificing its strength while the other clans held back.
• Tang Yu ordered his companions to stop fighting and told Wang Junhou to meet someone at Falling Flower Pavilion in South Water Palace seven days later if he wanted to cooperate.
• After Tang Yu and the cultivators departed, Wang Junhou decided the Sea Dragon Clan should preserve its strength and pursue power in the Nether Sea.
• Eight Nascent Soul demon cultivators arrived, and Wang Junhou claimed Li Tang Sect cultivators had exposed the operation and fled after attacking.
• Wang Junhou arranged care for the wounded, recognized that lower-ranking races were being neglected, and flew off to report to his uncle.

Tang Yu advanced his plan to divide the Nether Sea clans by recruiting Wang Junhou and giving him evidence against Ghost Moon. The Sea Dragon King summoned the other clan leaders to deal with the alleged traitor, while a fierce fight erupted in Lady Liuli’s room.

• Tang Yu explained his plan to turn the Nether Sea races against one another to Wang Yuan, who approved of the potential service.
• Wang Junhou secretly visited South Water Palace and discovered that Situ Yu was Tang Yu’s second avatar.
• Tang Yu offered Wang Junhou evidence that Ghost Moon had colluded with human cultivators, and Wang Junhou agreed to cooperate.
• Wang Junhou presented the jade slip to the Sea Dragon King, who accepted the evidence and summoned the leaders of the other nine clans.
• Three figures fought fiercely in Lady Liuli’s room inside Glazed Palace.

Wang Quan caught Tang Yu, Lady Liuli, and Clear Moon in bed together, then killed Ghost Moon and accused him of colluding with human cultivators. Ghost Mist rejected the evidence and fought Wang Quan, while the other great demons watched for a chance to benefit.

• Wang Quan and four other clan leaders entered the Glazed Palace and found Tang Yu with Lady Liuli and Clear Moon beneath the covers.
• Tang Yu tried to flee, but Wang Quan crushed Ghost Moon and took a pink bead linked to the Joyous Union Sect from the bedcovers.
• Lady Liuli and Clear Moon emerged, and Wang Quan slapped Lady Liuli when she claimed Ghost Moon had tricked them.
• Ghost Mist arrived and demanded an explanation for Ghost Moon's death, but he rejected Wang Quan's recorded evidence and accused him of framing the Ghost Shark Clan.
• Wang Quan accused Ghost Mist of ordering Ghost Moon to collude with human cultivators, and the two clan patriarchs began fighting as the other great demons watched.

Tang Yu recruited Wang Junhou into a scheme to sell stolen Nether Sea supplies and intelligence, while Wang Quan and Ghost Mist’s fight was halted by a higher authority. Elsewhere, Lin Xuan and Lin Nannian found the stone door to an ancient cave abode and prepared to enter.

• Lady Liuli left Glazed Palace with Clear Moon, while Wang Quan and Ghost Mist’s battle was stopped after a giant eye appeared and the great demons ordered them to stand down.
• Tang Yu met Wang Junhou in Southwater City and persuaded him to provide intelligence from the Demon Division in exchange for spirit stones.
• Tang Yu proposed stealing and selling medicinal supplies from wartime stores, and Wang Junhou agreed to help him.
• Tang Yu and Wang Junhou used a teleportation array to send stolen Nether Sea medicinal products away and received a large payment in high-grade spirit stones.
• Inside the dangerous cave abode, Lin Xuan and Lin Nannian evaded Nascent Soul cultivators and reached a stone door, where Lin Xuan prepared to use the key.

Lin Xuan and Lin Nannian entered a treasure-filled cave dwelling, where Fang Meiyun attacked them before the Empress's remnant soul intervened. Lin Xuan looted the cave and sealed Fang Meiyun and Lin Nannian inside, leaving Fang Meiyun to consider dual cultivating with the unconscious Lin Nannian to escape.

• Lin Xuan and Lin Nannian passed through successive formations and reached the Glazed Palace, where Fang Meiyun ambushed them and drained their remaining true essence.
• Fang Meiyun tried to absorb Lin Xuan's Golden Core, but the Empress's remnant soul appeared, knocked her unconscious, and ordered Lin Xuan to kill them both.
• Lin Xuan spared Lin Nannian but knocked him unconscious, then looted the cave and trapped both him and Fang Meiyun inside its activated restrictions.
• Lin Xuan sealed the cave entrance and left, while Fang Meiyun awoke trapped in a Bagua formation beside Lin Nannian.
• Fang Meiyun rejected cooperating with Lin Nannian, but after visions urged her to pursue revenge through dual cultivation, she slowly sat atop him.

Fang Meiyun drained Lin Nannian’s cultivation and killed him before leaving the cave to hunt other male cultivators. Meanwhile, Tang Yu vanished through the bronze door, and Lu Junzhuo relayed his message to Chi Yin, who found the gift Tang had left for her.

• Fang Meiyun forced Lin Nannian through another round of dual cultivation, then fed him a pill and drained him until he died.
• Fang Meiyun broke the cave’s restrictions, scavenged its hidden items, disguised herself as a beautiful woman, and left to hunt male cultivators.
• After Tang Yu disappeared through the bronze door, Zhao Gaoshen tried to reopen it while Lu Junzhuo assured him he would handle the matter.
• Lu Junzhuo called Chi Yin and told her to check Tang Yu’s computer memo for instructions.
• Chi Yin opened the safe in Tang Yu’s study, found a lifelike miniature of Tang Yu, and took it to her bedroom.

During the Nether Sea battle, Golden Core demon cultivators discovered that their healing medicine had been replaced with inferior flowers and reported Registrar Huang Sanlang. The military justice officer dismissed their complaint and threatened them over a delayed mission, while Tang Yu’s bribery of powerful demon officials was revealed; the chapter ended with an author’s note asking certain people to apologize.

• Five wounded Golden Core demon cultivators broke a human formation, then found that their Nether Sea Flowers healed them unusually slowly.
• The five confronted Registrar Huang, who admitted the flowers were only about fifty years old but accused them of trying to extort him.
• The one-armed demon cultivator led his companions to report Huang Sanlang to the military justice officer, who accepted Huang’s claim that he had downgraded the medicine to toughen the soldiers.
• Huang Sanlang and the military justice officer threatened the five with punishment for delaying their mission, and the soldiers left without justice.
• Tang Yu hosted the military commander and other demon officials, whose cooperation had helped him obtain century-old Nether Sea Flowers for the Li Tang Sect and earn profits through the Treasure Pavilion.
• The author asked certain people to apologize and stated, “Mei Yun is your wife.”

After five low-ranking demon cultivators were given a deadly assignment, Commander No Thought investigated their claim that Registrar Huang had replaced their century-old Nether Sea Flowers with weaker ones. Huang denied the accusation and challenged No Thought’s authority, so No Thought went to question the military judge while Huang remained confident he would escape blame.

• After failing to get justice from the Military Justice, the five wounded demon cultivators agreed to avoid risking their lives and were assigned to fight two Class-A mechanical beasts.
• The five deliberately held back against the beasts, suffered severe injuries, and were confronted by No Thought, who pressured them until they admitted their actions and described the defective medicine.
• No Thought questioned other Golden Core demon cultivators, gathered evidence, and went to confront Huang the Registrar.
• Huang Sanlang denied skimming supplies and claimed the five had resold century-old Nether Sea Flowers, then insisted No Thought had no authority to take him away.
• No Thought released Huang Sanlang and went to investigate with the military judge, while Huang mocked him after he left.

No Thought confronted the Military Commissioner over suspected corruption in military supplies, but Tang Yu intervened and turned the accusation back on him. Convinced that powerful demons were working together to hide the thefts, No Thought headed to the warehouses to investigate.

• No Thought accused the Military Commissioner of failing to investigate Clerk Huang’s suspected skimming of military pay and shortages in Nether Sea Flowers.
• The Military Commissioner denied wrongdoing, mocked No Thought, and refused to swear an oath upon the Great Dao.
• Tang Yu arrived and defended the Military Commissioner, then suggested No Thought might be a mole when he pressed the accusation.
• The Military Commissioner and Tang Yu began drinking together, while No Thought left determined to investigate the matter himself.
• After several demons rebuffed him, No Thought concluded they were part of a network led by Situ Yu and rushed to the warehouses to inspect the supplies.

No Thought suspected that the warehouse guards and officials had colluded to steal supplies, so he enlisted He Ruyu to force an inspection. The warehouse appeared intact, but opening it ruined valuable cultivated materials, leaving No Thought responsible for the losses and Tang Yu’s plan apparently on track.

• No Thought failed to get a token to inspect the warehouse because its guards and other officials refused to authorize entry.
• No Thought asked He Ruyu to intervene, and He Ruyu agreed despite warning him about the consequences if nothing was missing.
• He Ruyu and No Thought brought an Earth Camp token to the warehouse, where the military inspector and other officials arrived before the guards opened it.
• No Thought saw that the supplies were present, but the warehouse formations began shutting down and ruined a batch of precious spiritual materials.
• The military judge mocked No Thought and demanded compensation, and No Thought accepted responsibility before leaving.
• He Ruyu exchanged a knowing look with Tang Yu, who raised one finger, and He Ruyu departed with a satisfied smile.