Chapter Summaries

After escaping Lin Xuan’s cave, Fang Meiyun discovered and entered a hidden underwater palace. There, she ambushed two Golden Core cultivators, who mistook her for an imitator of Fairy Meiyun’s Misfortune, and she prepared to attack them.

• Fang Meiyun searched for Lin Xuan, sensed approaching Nascent Soul cultivators, and left to look for other treasures.
• Fang Meiyun found a lake protected by a powerful formation, deduced how it worked, and broke it to reveal a hidden entrance.
• Fang Meiyun restored the lake’s concealment with new formations and entered the underwater passage.
• Chu Nianchi and Nangong Bihan arrived, agreed to share the treasure, and accidentally broke the lake’s formation while using formation-breaking shuttles.
• Chu Nianchi and Nangong Bihan entered an underwater palace, where Fang Meiyun ambushed Nangong Bihan; after they mistook her for an imitator, Fang Meiyun became furious.

Fang Meiyun overwhelmed Chu Nianchi and Nangong Bihan with her strange powers, but her dwindling true essence allowed them to pin her down. The brothers resorted to a Yin-Harvesting Yang-Replenishing technique to drain her, and Fang Meiyun unexpectedly looked pleased as they attacked.

• Chu Nianchi and Nangong Bihan trapped Fang Meiyun in a golden cage and flooded it with sword qi, but she swallowed their attacks and nearly consumed their magic treasures.
• Fang Meiyun struck both brothers with a powerful punch, sending them flying, then fought them for nearly half an hour as her true essence began to run low.
• Nangong Bihan baited Fang Meiyun while Chu Nianchi used the one-use Heaven-Suppressing Seal to pin her down.
• Fang Meiyun transformed into her Bo Gang physique and struggled against the weakening seal, leaving the brothers desperate for a way to escape.
• Chu Nianchi taught Nangong Bihan a Yin-Harvesting Yang-Replenishing technique, and Nangong Bihan began using it on Fang Meiyun, whose expression turned comfortable.

Nangong Bihan and Chu Nianchi forcibly drained Fang Meiyun’s true essence until she reverted to a giant pig, then fled and tried to wash away their disgust. Chu Nianchi removed his manhood, and Nangong Bihan persuaded him to become a woman so they could be Dao companions; the two embraced and kissed.

• Nangong Bihan and Chu Nianchi took turns draining Fang Meiyun’s true essence until she lost her transformation and became a giant pig.
• Chu Nianchi stopped Nangong Bihan from killing the unconscious Fang Meiyun, and the two fled from the lake.
• Nangong Bihan and Chu Nianchi scrubbed themselves in a river, but their disgust and turmoil persisted.
• Chu Nianchi cut off his manhood and burned it away, then offered the knife to Nangong Bihan.
• Nangong Bihan refused to follow suit and proposed that Chu Nianchi become a woman so they could be Dao companions.
• Chu Nianchi dropped the knife, walked to Nangong Bihan, and kissed him.

Fang Meiyun left the secret realm and sent Xiao Xiaole birthday meat buns through a mind-controlled cultivator. When Xiao Xiaole opened the Stargazing Sect temple gate, Old Sect Master Yun mistook the messenger for a threat and killed her, leaving Xiao Xiaole devastated.

• Fang Meiyun recovered from her injuries, left the secret realm, and transformed into a young girl before entering a city.
• Fang Meiyun made meat buns, enchanted a female cultivator to deliver them to Xiao Xiaole, and told her to say that Meiyun missed him.
• The messenger traveled to the Stargazing Sect, where Xiao Xiaole and Old Sect Master Yun waited in the back-mountain temple.
• Xiao Xiaole sensed Meiyun outside and opened the gate, but Old Sect Master Yun unleashed a blast that killed the female messenger.
• Old Sect Master Yun shut the gate and led Xiao Xiaole back to the pavilion, telling him to return to the wine.

Xiao Xiaole learned that Mei Yun had survived, while Tang Yu arranged to plunder the Heavenly Water Warehouse and lure Wang Yuan’s forces into a trap. The Sea Dragon King surrounded Wang Yuan’s strike force and demanded that he summon Ancestor Needle-Staring, intending to make the Li Tang Sect lose its divine trump card.

• Xiao Xiaole told Old Sect Master Yun that Mei Yun was still alive and wondered what he would do if they met again.
• Tang Yu rejected plans to kill No Thought and ordered his allies to move most of the Heavenly Water Warehouse’s supplies before a staged attack.
• Tang Yu’s associates teleported the warehouse supplies to the Li Tang Sect and onward to merchant ships, then left the warehouse.
• Wang Yuan led more than twenty Soul Transformation experts in an assault on the Heavenly Water Warehouse, breaking five of its six protective formations.
• The Sea Dragon King and more than thirty demon cultivators arrived, trapped Wang Yuan’s force in a water prison, and attacked them.
• The Sea Dragon King revealed that the ambush was meant to force Wang Yuan to summon Ancestor Needle-Staring and exhaust the Li Tang Sect’s trump card.

Wang Yuan and the Li Tang Sect cultivators were trapped behind enemy lines, but he summoned the Snow Leopard Patriarch, whose arrival sparked a battle with the Nether Sea’s sea dragon. After the Patriarch rescued them, Wang Yuan ordered an investigation into the operation, including his four martial uncles.

• Wang Yuan used a Radiant Spirit-Suppressing Talisman to shield his group while they tried to break the water prison.
• A yellow-robed Integration realm dragon carp revealed he had destroyed the teleportation arrays and began cracking the talisman with water drawn from the Nether Sea.
• Wang Yuan broke his smoking pipe, summoning the Snow Leopard Patriarch, whose arrival shattered the water prison and drove the demon cultivators back.
• The Snow Leopard Patriarch fought the Nether Sea’s massive blue dragon, while Tang Yu surfaced, saw the clash, and returned underwater to speak with Lady Liuli about rebellion.
• After the sea dragon gained a slight advantage, the Snow Leopard Patriarch took Wang Yuan and the others away and returned them to the Li Tang Sect’s mountain gate.
• Wang Yuan ordered everyone who knew about the operation, including his four martial uncles, to attend a meeting.

Wang Yuan called the Li Tang Sect’s leaders together after their operation in the Nether Sea failed, suspecting that someone had betrayed them. Snow Leopard Patriarch urged the sect to set aside suspicion and focus on the war, but the traitor remained unidentified.

• Tang Yu arrived at the meeting and learned that Wang Yuan suspected a traitor had exposed the operation in the Nether Sea.
• Wang Yuan cleared Tang Yu of suspicion and voiced doubts about his four martial uncles, prompting Jicheng to angrily defend himself.
• Yixi, Danduo, Yueha, and Jicheng swore oaths upon the Great Dao to prove they had not betrayed the Li Tang Sect.
• Snow Leopard Patriarch arrived and used Wang Yuan to urge everyone to fulfill their duty, avoid internal strife, and preserve the sect’s unity.

Tang Yu turned Wang Yuan’s misunderstanding of a song lyric into an unexpected clue about the Needle-Gazing Patriarch, then secretly reunited with Ning Qingyan and gave her a large supply of Nether Sea water essence. The two rested together beneath a snowy tree after shaking snow from its branches.

• The Snow Leopard Patriarch accepted Wang Yuan’s explanation, and Tang Yu’s improvised song lyric prompted Wang Yuan to ask him to write down the lyrics.
• Wang Yuan interpreted the translated lyrics as a smoke-related divine ability connected to the rise of Needle-Gazing Patriarch and promised to remember Tang Yu’s favor.
• Jicheng returned to the front lines, unaware that Wild Elder Shaoling had betrayed him by informing on Wang Yuan.
• Tang Yu found Ning Qingyan on the back mountain, and she told him she had left the battlefield command to visit him.
• Tang Yu gave Ning Qingyan a storage ring filled with Nether Sea water essence for the Jade Maiden Sect, and she accepted it after he insisted.
• Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan shook snow from a tree together, then sat down to rest.

Tang Yu reunited with Ning Qingyan while the Nether Sea’s attacks intensified, then visited Lady Liuli and Clear Moon at the Glazed Palace. He revealed that he was both Tang Yu and Ghost Moon, leaving the two women stunned by the identity of the man they loved.

• Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan rested together and talked about his time at the Jade Maiden Sect and whether they should tell her fellow disciples about their relationship.
• The Nether Sea sent increasingly powerful demon cultivators into battle, causing heavy damage to the defensive formations and sending more wounded cultivators to the Glazed Palace.
• Tang Yu, controlling Situ Yu, entered the Glazed Palace and told Lady Liuli he had come with a message from Ghost Moon.
• Tang Yu imitated Ghost Moon and revealed private details about Lady Liuli and Clear Moon, convincing them he knew their secrets.
• Tang Yu identified himself as both Tang Yu and Ghost Moon, and Lady Liuli and Clear Moon realized their beloved was the renowned human cultivator.

Tang Yu persuaded Lady Liuli and Clear Moon to leave the Nether Sea and offered the Jellyfish Clan protection and resources under the Joyous Union Sect. The mother and daughter arrived at his cloudtop immortal abode, where they began planning the clan’s relocation and then invited him to Lady Liuli’s Moonlit Spring.

• Tang Yu offered to take Lady Liuli and Clear Moon out of the Nether Sea through a concealed teleportation formation, and they chose to leave Glazed Palace with him.
• The mother and daughter crossed the formation and arrived at Tang Yu’s immortal abode above a sea of clouds.
• Tang Yu offered to support the Jellyfish Clan as a subsidiary of the Joyous Union Sect and discussed providing resources and work for its members.
• Tang Yu and the mother and daughter began planning how to relocate the entire Jellyfish Clan without mishap.
• Lady Liuli created her Moonlit Spring and invited Tang Yu to try it as her glazed robe began to fade.

Tang Yu and Red Snake bribed Yellow Wind to betray No Thought and help them control the Kill Battalion. Yellow Wind accepted the offer, and Tang Yu revealed he had fueled Yellow Wind’s suspicions by planting evidence that No Thought was involved with Yellow Wind’s Dao companion.

• Tang Yu visited the wounded Yellow Wind at Glazed Palace with Red Snake and offered him spirit stones to win him over.
• Yellow Wind initially insisted he was loyal to No Thought, but he accepted three thousand high-grade spirit stones and a magic treasure.
• Tang Yu offered Yellow Wind the Kill Battalion commander position and more rewards if No Thought died in battle, and Yellow Wind agreed to help them.
• Tang Yu gave Yellow Wind healing pills before leaving Glazed Palace with Red Snake.
• Tang Yu told Red Snake that he had planted evidence suggesting No Thought was having an affair with Yellow Wind’s Dao companion, giving Yellow Wind another reason to turn against No Thought.

Yellow Wind followed Tang Yu’s plan and arranged a birthday banquet to get No Thought drunk and vulnerable. After No Thought was led to a private room by Yellow Wind’s mind-controlled Dao companion, the setup moved toward its next stage.

• Yellow Wind found Tang Yu’s jade slip and medicine, recovered from his injuries, and decided to keep the proposed plan for killing No Thought.
• Yellow Wind invited No Thought and the Kill Battalion’s senior members to a birthday banquet, then used a secret technique to control his Dao companion’s mind.
• Yellow Wind hosted the guests with wine and dancers, while insisting that no one use true essence as they drank.
• No Thought outlasted the others and, once drunk, was escorted by Yellow Wind’s Dao companion to the innermost room.
• Yellow Wind’s Dao companion undressed and pressed herself against No Thought.

Yellow Wind's scheme led No Thought to sleep with Yellow Wind's Dao companion, leaving No Thought consumed by guilt while Yellow Wind concealed his knowledge. Yellow Wind then learned the Kill Battalion's plan and sent the full meeting record to Tang Yu, who received it in the Li Tang Mountains.

• Yellow Wind's Dao companion seduced No Thought, and they slept together twice before No Thought teleported away in remorse.
• Yellow Wind returned to the room, confirmed that his Dao companion had poisoned No Thought, and spared her because she might remain useful.
• After resting for nearly three days, Yellow Wind returned to the Kill Battalion and accepted a Nine Lives Pill from the guilt-ridden No Thought.
• No Thought told the Kill Battalion's senior officers that their next mission was to use the Yellow Springs Formation to split the human cultivators' formation.
• Yellow Wind secretly sent the meeting's intelligence to Tang Yu, who received the full record on a jade slip through a miniature teleportation formation.

Tang Yu learned that the Kill Battalion planned to establish a powerful formation behind enemy lines and arranged with Wang Yuan to ambush them and kill their Integration Realm leader. Meanwhile, No Thought joined radical demon cultivators investigating traitors and agreed to help them seize Situ Yu after the Kill Battalion’s operation.

• Tang Yu told Wang Yuan about the Kill Battalion’s plan, and Wang Yuan gave him command of an operation to eliminate its Integration Realm cultivator and as many Nascent Soul Transformation cultivators as possible.
• No Thought felt uneasy, blamed his guilt over sleeping with Yellow Wind’s Dao companion, and left camp for a nearby city.
• No Thought met with radical demon cultivators who shared clues about traitors but lacked enough evidence to expose them.
• A Merfolk Clan cultivator proposed seizing Situ Yu and searching his soul, and No Thought agreed to join the effort after the Kill Battalion’s operation.

No Thought and the demon cultivators launched their planned assault on the battlefield, using the Yellow Springs Formation to raise a red tower and attack key human cultivators. No Thought charged at Tang Yu while the Spinning Turtle Clan ancestor waited to see whether the snow leopard sacred beast would intervene.

• No Thought met Yellow Wind and assembled the demon cultivators, then briefed them on the Yellow Springs Formation and distributed its tools.
• No Thought led the group to the battlefield as the demon forces drew the human cultivators' attention with an enormous water spear.
• Wang Yuan sent Elder Xuan to stop the spear, and Elder Xuan's white towel absorbed it.
• No Thought and the others emerged from a spatial rift and formed a red tower, with the Spinning Turtle Clan ancestor at its top.
• No Thought charged at Tang Yu as the other demon cultivators spread out, while the ancestor watched the snow leopard sacred beast atop the Li Tang Mountains.

Tang Yu lured No Thought to the Li Tang Mountains and endured his attacks before countering with a strange divine ability. On the battlefield, the Red Tower formation failed, turning the tide against the Nether Sea forces and leaving the Spinning Turtle Clan Patriarch captured.

• Tang Yu warned Ning Qingyan to avoid risking her life, then flew toward the Li Tang Mountains with No Thought in pursuit.
• No Thought struck Tang Yu into the mountains and unleashed Star-Devouring Realm, but Tang Yu survived the barrage with his Pinduoduo Divine Ability.
• Tang Yu used a red ball and performed a strange dance, causing his invisible vortex to melt No Thought's water attacks and make No Thought's eyes explode.
• The Spinning Turtle Clan Patriarch fought Yueha and Danduo while wielding the Red Tower, but a crack appeared in the tower and the formation's power drained away.
• The demon cultivators fled after the formation failed, but most were killed; Yellow Wind and two others escaped, while Yueha and Danduo captured the Spinning Turtle Clan Patriarch's true body.

Tang Yu defeated and captured No Thought after the formation drained away No Thought’s strength, revealing that Tang Yu had anticipated the trap and was secretly Situ Yu. No Thought learned that Yellow Wind had betrayed him and was taken away alive, reflecting on the loss and hopes that had shaped his life.

• When the formation’s power vanished and No Thought’s true essence drained away, Tang Yu stopped his provocation and used an Ancient God-Suppressing Talisman to restrain him.
• No Thought accused Tang Yu of anticipating the formation’s failure, and Tang Yu revealed that he had been disguised as Situ Yu.
• Tang Yu explained that Yellow Wind had poisoned No Thought, preventing him from self-destructing or escaping, and named Yellow Wind as the traitor.
• Two Li Tang Sect elders placed No Thought in a cage, while Tang Yu ordered them to keep him alive for at least two hundred years.
• As No Thought looked toward the Li Tang Mountains, he remembered his parents and wished he could taste his mother’s cooking once more.

Tang Yu helped Lady Liuli move Glazed Palace and the Jellyfish Clan out of the Nether Sea, using an expensive chain of teleportation arrays to bring them safely into the Li Tang Mountains. He escorted them toward the Joyous Union Sect, promised support for their new sect, and left with Lady Liuli and Clear Moon to discuss the plan.

• After the Red Tower fell, Jicheng led the human cultivators in a full assault while the Nether Sea demons fought desperately to keep their lines from retreating.
• Tang Yu met Lady Liuli at Glazed Palace and confirmed that its formations were ready for the clan's departure.
• Lady Liuli teleported the injured demon cultivators away, shrank Glazed Palace, and used Tang Yu's teleportation arrays to move it into the Li Tang Mountains.
• Tang Yu assured the Li Tang Sect elders that Glazed Palace would leave soon, then entered and reassured the Jellyfish Clan about their relocation and future resources.
• Tang Yu gave the clan fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones and magical treasures, then escorted Glazed Palace south as Lady Liuli asked him to discuss founding a sect.
• Tang Yu followed Lady Liuli into a room with Clear Moon, and the female cultivators outside overheard their loud encounter and returned to their rooms.

Tang Yu returned to the Li Tang Mountains after relocating the Glazed Palace and helping secure a major defeat for the Nether Sea. As he questioned why the lord of the Nether Sea had not interfered, the Nether Sea’s commanders gathered to discuss their losses, and the Spinning Turtle Clan Patriarch accused someone among them of being a traitor.

• Tang Yu delivered Lady Liuli and the Glazed Palace to the Joyous Union Sect, then returned to the Li Tang Mountains as the fighting wound down.
• Tang Yu learned that the Nether Sea had lost fifteen Nascent Soul cultivators and that the Spinning Turtle Clan Patriarch had escaped with only a remnant soul.
• Wang Yuan told Tang Yu that the Glazed Palace had arrived safely, and Tang Yu received Liu Yanlan’s confirmation by flying sword.
• Tang Yu and Wang Yuan discussed why the lord of the Nether Sea had allowed the relocation to proceed without intervening.
• At a meeting in the Nether Sea, the Spinning Turtle Clan Patriarch blamed the plan’s failure on a traitor among them.

Tang Yu helped frame No Thought and a group of radical demon cultivators as traitors during a Nether Sea war council. The radicals were imprisoned in the Dragon-Imprisoning Formation as the He Luo and Spinning Turtle Clans remained on the brink of conflict.

• The Spinning Turtle Clan ancestor accused No Thought of sabotaging the formation, while the He Luo Clan chief demanded proof and defended him.
• Yellow Wind testified that No Thought had acted strangely before the operation, intensifying suspicion against him.
• The Spinning Turtle Clan and He Luo Clan nearly fought over No Thought before the other demon cultivators persuaded them to stand down.
• A Sea Dragon Clan great demon presented evidence that implicated Tang Yu's radical rivals in colluding with human cultivators and sabotaging the Nether Sea.
• Witnesses and seized goods supported the accusations, and two radicals suffered backlash after swearing Great Dao oaths of innocence.
• The demon leaders ordered the radicals imprisoned in the Dragon-Imprisoning Formation, while Tang Yu silently revealed he had arranged the evidence and manipulated the supplies.