Chapter Summaries

Tang Yu celebrated his promotion to Inspector Envoy by accepting lavish gifts, recruiting Wang Qiang, and promising the gathered great demons greater profits. After the banquet, he went with a great demon’s Dao companion to her home to admire her flowers.

• Tang Yu and his allies purged the Nether Sea’s radicals, promoted their own people, appointed Yellow Wind commander of the Kill Battalion, and secured Tang Yu’s promotion to Inspector Envoy.
• Tang Yu hosted a lavish banquet where great demons offered him treasures and a beautiful woman flirted with him.
• Wang Qiang asked Tang Yu to adopt him, and Tang Yu offered him a job first after hearing his ambitious answer.
• Tang Yu promised the great demons their shares would at least triple, and they pledged to follow him.
• Tang Yu went with the beautiful woman to her home to admire her flowers, while her Dao companion approved.

The Nether Sea’s renewed offensive faltered after the He Luo Clan and Spinning Turtle Clan clashed over a failed battlefield maneuver, worsening divisions among the demon armies. Tang Yu returned to Merfolk territory and arranged to oversee the Merfolk Mother Ancestor’s feeding ceremony, leaving his plans poised to unfold.

• The He Luo Clan and Spinning Turtle Clan accused each other of betrayal after the Spinning Turtle Clan failed to join an attack, then fought until the three military camps intervened.
• The military camps punished both clans equally, but their demon cultivators continued challenging one another, deepening the armies’ internal strife.
• Tang Yu and his state-devouring rats continued profiting from dealings between the feuding clans while he prepared his scheme.
• Tang Yu returned to Merfolk territory, where the demon cultivators respectfully greeted him as Young Clan Leader.
• After learning that his father had been sent to the front lines, Tang Yu arranged to take charge of the Merfolk Mother Ancestor’s feeding ceremony the day after tomorrow.

Tang Yu poisoned the Merfolk Mother during its feeding ritual with four pellets that contaminated the spiritual energy it swallowed. The Merfolk Mother began thrashing in agony, and the Merfolk Clan rushed to respond as the poison destroyed its true essence and meridians.

• Tang Yu confirmed the feeding ritual with the elders, then waited for the Merfolk Clan to begin it.
• Tang Yu lit three incense sticks and led the Merfolk demon cultivators in prayers to the Merfolk Mother.
• Tang Yu's four poison pellets were swept into the Merfolk Mother's mouth and contaminated the seawater and spiritual energy it swallowed.
• After half a day, the Merfolk Mother's feeding stopped, and it began thrashing violently in the sea.
• Situ Dajin led the Merfolk Clan forces away from the battlefield to rush back and help the Merfolk Mother.
• The poison contaminated the Merfolk Mother's true essence and began eroding its meridians, leaving it unable to survive.

Tang Yu staged the Merfolk Mother's death as an assassination and framed the Ghost Shark Clan with Vengeful Ghost Poison. Situ Dajin mobilized the Merfolk Clan's elites to attack the Ghost Shark Clan, while Tang Yu stayed behind.

• The Merfolk Mother died, and Tang Yu ordered the area sealed while the Merfolk cultivators chased the assassin's fleeing black threads.
• Situ Dajin returned, mourned the Merfolk Mother, and learned the assassin had escaped despite the elders' pursuit.
• Tang Yu returned injured and claimed he had failed to catch the assassin, while the elders and Situ Dajin excused him.
• An elder identified the poison that killed the Merfolk Mother as Vengeful Ghost Poison, and Tang Yu suggested the Ghost Shark Clan was responsible.
• Situ Dajin ordered all Merfolk Clan elites at the Nascent Soul Realm and above to mobilize against the Ghost Shark Clan, but left Tang Yu behind.

The Merfolk Clan and Ghost Shark Clan plunged into all-out war after the Merfolk Mother’s death, disrupting the Nether Sea campaign. Tang Yu told Wang Yuan the two clans were now occupied with each other, while a fleet of supply ships arrived at the Li Tang Sect’s harbor.

• The Merfolk Clan attacked the Ghost Shark Clan, and their feud escalated into all-out war despite the three great military camps’ attempts to mediate.
• The three great military camps paused their offensive and redeployed forces as tensions spread among the ten clans.
• Wang Yuan convened meetings to prepare the Li Tang Sect for a decisive battle in the Nether Sea, while Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan discussed the war’s growing disorder.
• Tang Yu told Wang Yuan that the Merfolk Clan and Ghost Shark Clan were at war and might stay out of the coming conflicts for years.
• A fleet of cargo ships purchased by the Li Tang Sect landed at the harbor, and a cultivator rode toward Tang Yu on a flying artifact.

Tang Yu learned about the Heavenly Craft Sect’s powerful mechanical artifacts while Wang Yuan prepared for a thousand-year truce. As the Merfolk and Ghost Shark clans’ battle intensified, Tang Yu approved his allies’ move on Dragon Support Warehouse, then watched Ma Li’s group seize some of its goods first and spark a bitter dispute.

• Wang Yuan received a delivery that included a giant Burner mechanical humanoid, and he told Tang Yu about the Heavenly Craft Sect and its Immortal Emperor patriarch.
• Tang Yu stayed out of the fighting between the Merfolk Clan and the Ghost Shark Clan and kept a low profile at the Inspector’s residence.
• Great demons asked Tang Yu for permission to target Dragon Support Warehouse, and he approved their plan after they said they had arranged the necessary payments.
• Several days later, the great demons complained that Ma Li’s group had taken goods from Dragon Support Warehouse before them.
• Tang Yu explained that Ma Li had accused them of moving too slowly, and the great demons left angrily after learning some of the goods had already been moved.

Tang Yu avoided an emergency meeting after suspecting that Coiling Mountain and Ma Li had fallen out over Dragon Support Warehouse. At the meeting, Ma Li’s accusations exposed a wider network of traitors, and the named demons erupted into battle as their crimes came to light.

• Tang Yu rewarded his steward and sent him to watch the meeting in Sky Camp, ordering him to report if a fight broke out.
• The Sea Dragon King accused Ma Li and his accomplices of stealing supplies and secretly trading with human cultivators, then presented witnesses and evidence.
• Ma Li’s uncle condemned him and prepared to execute him, but Ma Li accused Coiling Mountain, Three Bamboo, and Night Kill of similar crimes.
• Ma Li detailed Coiling Mountain’s wrongdoing, and the Sea Dragon King had witnesses brought in before ordering Coiling Mountain and his accomplices restrained.
• Coiling Mountain named at least twenty more great demons as traitors and bargained for a chance to atone at the front lines.
• A named great demon attacked first, prompting the others to join in and plunging the meeting into chaos.

Tang Yu confirmed that the three Nether Sea military camps had descended into civil war, and Wang Yuan decided the Li Tang Sect would exploit the chaos to launch a full-scale attack. The sect’s forces crushed the front line and advanced toward the command camps, where they arrived as the warring demons were already badly weakened.

• The three military camps split into factions and fought, while two great demons rescued Ma Li’s and Coiling Mountain’s groups.
• Tang Yu’s steward reported the fighting, and Tang Yu notified Wang Yuan after seeing the battle for himself.
• Wang Yuan persuaded the Li Tang Sect’s elders to commit their full strength to a deep strike against the Nether Sea, and the sect deployed its elite cultivators and twenty mech suits.
• The Li Tang Sect overwhelmed the leaderless frontline, killed the remaining Deity Transformation demonic cultivators, and advanced eight thousand li.
• Wang Yuan sent Yueha and three other Martial Uncles to establish a fortune-suppressing formation, then led the rest toward the command camps.
• The Li Tang Sect arrived as the demons’ battle had killed a quarter of both factions; the Sea Dragon King was wounded and under attack, and the surviving great demons stopped fighting in shock.

Wang Yuan led the Li Tang Sect in a devastating assault on the Nether Sea and activated a relic formation meant to suppress its fortune and seal its mysterious Lord. The Lord shattered the formation and trapped the invaders, but the Snow Leopard Sacred Beast arrived; the chapter ended with the Lord conjuring countless resentful souls to attack it.

• Wang Yuan ordered the Li Tang Sect experts and twenty Burner mech suits to attack while the great demons fought among themselves, and traitorous demons turned on the Sea Dragon King and their own allies.
• The Li Tang Sect killed more than thirty great demons as Coiling Mountain and other traitors fled, then Wang Yuan activated a relic formation that suppressed the Nether Sea's fortune.
• A northern pillar shattered, the Lord of the Nether Sea teleported reinforcements into the battle, and the Li Tang Sect was surrounded as Wang Yuan broke his smoking pipe to summon help.
• The Snow Leopard Sacred Beast appeared, destroyed demonic beasts below the Soul Transformation stage, and with its arrival half the Nether Sea's water vanished into a protective film around the Li Tang Sect.
• Countless resentful souls of demonic beasts emerged and attacked the Snow Leopard Sacred Beast, while the Li Tang Sect's attacks failed to diminish their numbers.

Wang Yuan summoned the Needle-Staring Great Emperor, who freed Zhi Shi and confronted the Lord of the Nether Sea. As their battle began, Tang Yu reached the Nether Sea’s hidden spiritual-energy formation and prepared to contaminate its source.

• Wang Yuan invoked the Needle-Staring Great Emperor, and the vengeful souls and seals suppressing the snow leopard vanished.
• The Needle-Staring Great Emperor reunited with Zhi Shi, then killed the demonic beasts and cultivators surrounding the Li Tang Sect.
• The Lord of the Nether Sea formed from seawater and challenged the Needle-Staring Great Emperor, while his power rose toward the Tribulation Transcendence stage.
• The Needle-Staring Great Emperor gained the advantage in their battle as the Li Tang Sect members watched.
• Tang Yu descended to the Nether Sea’s deepest canyon and found the natural formation that supplied its spiritual energy.

Tang Yu comprehended the Great Dao of Snow and began contaminating the Nether Sea’s spiritual energy, intending to stop its circulation despite knowing it would make him its greatest criminal. In the Immortal Realm, Jia Chenyang sensed Tang Yu’s growing Dao and said their meeting was drawing near.

• Tang Yu meditated on the Great Dao of Snow and realized that snow reflected the cycle shared by all things.
• Tang Yu spread his Great Dao aura into the natural formation, contaminating the Nether Sea’s spiritual-energy source so cultivation there would become impossible.
• Tang Yu accepted that his actions would destroy the Nether Sea’s cultivation prospects but decided it was the only choice.
• Jia Chenyang caught Wang Kun and forced him to eat noodles covered in a thick, sticky sauce as punishment for spreading a story about him.
• Jia Chenyang sensed Tang Yu’s Great Dao, praised its depth, and told Wang Kun to leave.

The Needle-Staring Great Emperor sealed the Lord of the Nether Sea for a thousand years, but the Nether Sea lost all its spiritual energy and Wang Yuan died after the battle. Tang Yu stayed behind while the Li Tang Sect mourned and chose a new Sect Master, and Wild Elder Shaoling appeared beside him.

• The Needle-Staring Great Emperor and the snow leopard took advantage of the Nether Sea's contaminated spiritual energy to defeat the Lord of the Nether Sea and seal him beneath the sea for a thousand years.
• The Needle-Staring Great Emperor warned the Li Tang Sect that the seal would last only a thousand years, then ascended to the Immortal Realm as Wang Yuan's body scattered into ashes.
• The Li Tang Sect's First Elder gathered Wang Yuan's ashes, and the sect mourned its fallen cultivators for seven days as the remaining demon cultivators were wiped out.
• Tang Yu attended Wang Yuan's memorial and waited for the Li Tang Sect to choose its next Sect Master before discussing cooperation between the sects.
• Ning Qingyan met Tang Yu before the Jade Maiden Sect departed, and Wild Elder Shaoling appeared beside Tang Yu after he watched their ferry leave.

Tang Yu learned that the Lord of the Nether Sea had engineered the war to eliminate the demonic beasts and cultivators consuming the Nether Sea’s spiritual energy, and they struck a deal over the lingering Great Dao traces. After the Lord departed, Tang Yu returned to the Li Tang Sect and found Jicheng had become its new sect master.

• Wild Elder Shaoling revealed that he was the Lord of the Nether Sea and asked Tang Yu how to withdraw the Great Dao aura contaminating the Nether Sea’s spiritual energy.
• Tang Yu deduced that the Lord’s true body was the Nether Sea’s water essence and learned that he had arranged the war to prevent demonic beasts and cultivators from being born there.
• Tang Yu negotiated a deal: he would retrieve the Great Dao traces in a thousand years, and the Lord would act for him once during that period.
• The Lord refused Tang Yu’s invitation to visit the Joyous Union Sect and left after agreeing to the deal.
• Tang Yu returned from the sea of clouds and saw Jicheng leading the Li Tang Sect elders as their new sect master.

After becoming sect master, Jicheng reflected on Wang Yuan’s sacrifices and settled postwar cooperation with Tang Yu. Far away, Fang Meiyun retrieved her thousand-year love token with Xiao Xiaole and used his hair in a mysterious ritual, vowing to bring him back to her.

• Jicheng completed his sect master ceremony, then visited Wang Yuan’s austere cave dwelling and realized how difficult the position had been for his martial nephew.
• Tang Yu finalized postwar business cooperation with Jicheng, paid respects at Wang Yuan’s cenotaph, and departed with the Joyous Union Sect.
• Tang Yu corrected an elder who called him sect master and returned to guiding the female disciples in their cultivation.
• Fang Meiyun arrived at Peach Blossom Temple and retrieved the sandalwood box she and Xiao Xiaole had left beneath the ten-thousand-year peach tree.
• Fang Meiyun swallowed Xiao Xiaole’s lock of hair, formed hand seals, and made her already swollen belly grow several sizes larger.

Fang Meiyun used a forbidden divine ability to conceive a child meant to avenge Xiao Xiaole and bring her back to A Le, then encountered Wang Shaoyang in a peach grove. Wang Shaoyang trapped her in a deadly formation and approached after she collapsed.

• Fang Meiyun used her flesh, blood, soul, and an item bearing a marital bond to conceive a child that would avenge Xiao Xiaole.
• Fang Meiyun recalled her past with A Le and regretted not choosing Meng Zihao, though she vowed that she belonged to A Le in this life.
• Wang Shaoyang introduced himself to Fang Meiyun and eyed the ancient treasure bracelet on her wrist.
• Fang Meiyun recognized Wang Shaoyang's Seven Severing Peach Fiend Array and stepped into it, where peach blossoms drained her vitality and tore flesh from her body.
• Fang Meiyun collapsed into a pool of blood, and Wang Shaoyang deactivated the formation and approached her.

Fang Meiyun seized control of Wang Shaoyang, drained his cultivation, and killed him. The chapter ended with Xiao Xiaole waking in a cold sweat at the Stargazing Sect and calling Meiyun's name.

• Wang Shaoyang mocked Fang Meiyun's appearance and tried to assault her, but Fang Meiyun used a thread to take control of his body and soul.
• Fang Meiyun questioned Wang Shaoyang about men who pursued beautiful women, and he defended his preferences and argued that women admired the strong.
• Fang Meiyun controlled Wang Shaoyang through three days and nights of dual cultivation, reducing his cultivation from mid-Nascent Soul to Foundation Establishment while reaching mid-Nascent Soul herself.
• Fang Meiyun offered Wang Shaoyang a choice between begging to die and begging to live, then killed him and turned him to ashes.
• At the Stargazing Sect, an old daoist heard a scream and found Xiao Xiaole sitting up in bed, sweating and muttering Meiyun's name.

Xiao Xiaole suffered a terrifying heart-demon invasion filled with visions of Fang Meiyun and a child she claimed was his. After the old Daoist stabilized his mind, Xiao Xiaole suspected Fang Meiyun had tampered with the tokens they left on the Ancient Fate Tree and set off to investigate.

• Xiao Xiaole repeatedly dreamed that Fang Meiyun appeared in place of his old Daoist friend and tormented him with a camisole and a pregnancy.
• Xiao Xiaole fled into the clouds, then endured a vision of Fang Meiyun’s monstrous unborn child biting his hand.
• The old Daoist used the Soul-Settling Pearl to pull Xiao Xiaole out of the heart-demon invasion and help him steady his soul.
• Xiao Xiaole told the old Daoist that Fang Meiyun had claimed to be carrying his child, and suspected she had taken and tampered with their tokens on the Ancient Fate Tree.
• Xiao Xiaole left to inspect the Ancient Fate Tree, while the old Daoist promised to call on his friends if he found clues.

Xiao Xiaole learned that Fang Meiyun had taken their token and left a note promising they would meet again as a family of three, so he and the old Daoist launched a continent-wide search for her. Fang Meiyun escaped to the west and, after witnessing Xiao Jiahao reject his junior sister, captured both disciples with Universe Within the Sleeve.

• Xiao Xiaole and the old Daoist found Fang Meiyun's note beneath the peach tree and used a divine ability to trace her actions, discovering she had become a pig demon.
• The old Daoist offered rewards across the northern Nine Heavens Continent for information about Fang Meiyun, while Xiao Xiaole decided to visit the Jade Maiden Sect to deduce her location.
• Fang Meiyun disguised herself as a nun and traveled west, believing she would soon reunite with her child and Xiao Xiaole.
• At a magic treasure shop, an ugly female cultivator gave Xiao Jiahao a flying sword and invited him to a flower-viewing gathering, but he rejected her and said he preferred spending time with Junior Brother Zhou.
• After the female cultivator embraced Xiao Jiahao and he shoved and kicked her away, Fang Meiyun used Universe Within the Sleeve to capture both disciples and disappeared.

Fang Meiyun recruited her first disciple for the newly founded Fist Sect by coercing Xiao Jiahao and persuading his junior sister to join her. The sect began to spread, while Tang Yu learned that the Stargazing Sect had placed a bounty on Fang Meiyun and realized she was still alive.

• Fang Meiyun took Xiao Jiahao and his junior sister to a remote wilderness and defeated Xiao Jiahao when he invoked his sect and master.
• Fang Meiyun ordered Xiao Jiahao to become Dao companions with his junior sister or die, but he refused and said he would rather die than touch her.
• Fang Meiyun urged Xiao Jiahao's junior sister to reject men and seek power, then made Xiao Jiahao approach her against his will.
• Xiao Jiahao's junior sister pledged herself to Fang Meiyun, who made her the Fist Sect's first disciple and raised her cultivation to middle Foundation Establishment.
• Fang Meiyun continued recruiting disciples, and the Fist Sect's influence and slogan spread.
• Tang Yu read a message aboard a magical artifact ferry and discovered that the Stargazing Sect had put a bounty on Fang Meiyun, who was still alive.

Tang Yu learned that Fang Meiyun was still alive and ordered a bounty placed on her before Amber arrived aboard a Treasure Pavilion ferry to see him. After they spent time together, Amber warned that his senior sisters and junior sisters might keep him out of their beds when he returned to the Joyous Union Sect.

• Tang Yu ordered a bounty notice for Fang Meiyun, offering half the northern bounty and arranging for her to be sent there if captured.
• Tang Yu spotted the Treasure Pavilion's ferry approaching and teleported aboard after Amber invited him over.
• Tang Yu and Amber reunited in her cabin and became intimate.
• Tang Yu shared a new Li Tang Sect cigar with Amber, and they discussed its strength and possible appeal to female cultivators.
• Amber warned Tang Yu that his senior sisters and junior sisters might notice her marks and refuse to let him into their beds when he returned.