Chapter Summaries

Feng Jun and the Yin Soul Big Shot discussed the captured Heavenly Demons, and the Big Shot prepared to absorb the Wrath Heavenly Demon while Feng Jun stood guard. Meanwhile, Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi asked about the delayed teleportation array, and Feng Jun agreed to seek experienced array builders from Pine-Cypress Peak.

• Feng Jun admitted that he felt lonely, and the Yin Soul Big Shot ordered him to stand guard while it explained the Heavenly Demons’ uses.
• The Yin Soul Big Shot learned that the Phantom Heavenly Demon had bewitched a Qi Refining Stage thug into raising Ten Directions Platform’s protection fees before the Redwood Essence sealed it.
• Feng Jun urged the Yin Soul Big Shot to absorb the Wrath Heavenly Demon, and it chose to enter seclusion in the manor with Little White guarding it.
• Feng Jun arranged a quiet room for the Yin Soul Big Shot and told Zhang Caixin and the other two women to keep the manor quiet.
• Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi asked Feng Jun when the teleportation array would be finished, and he asked them to find suitable builders.
• Yan Yuxi proposed experienced array disciples from Pine-Cypress Peak, and Feng Jun agreed to handle the positioning and asked whether she needed a ride to the Thunder Plains.

Feng Jun and Yan Yuxi planned to develop Netherworld Island, and Yan proposed enlarging it with engineering puppets. Ji Busheng agreed to help Heavenheart Platform invest, while Feng Jun’s companions received valuable pills; the island’s expansion and development were left to be organized.

• Yan Yuxi reviewed Feng Jun’s plans for Netherworld Island and proposed building out the island to make more room for its facilities.
• Yan Yuxi said her engineering puppets could complete the work in two months, and Ji Busheng agreed to stabilize the new ground.
• Ji Busheng offered Heavenheart Platform’s help and investment, while Red Sister negotiated that its share would be small.
• Feng Jun explained that Red Sister might manage the island, and Ji Busheng gave her a bottle of Heavenly Heart Purifying Spirit Pills.
• Feng Jun persuaded Ji Busheng to give pills to Zhang Caixin and Good Scenery, then brought out Mi Yunshan to claim a share as well.

Feng Jun took Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi to Thunder Plains to make contact with their respective factions, then returned to Netherworld Island while the Big Shot finished absorbing the Wrath Heavenly Demon. After the Big Shot emerged from seclusion, Feng Jun prepared to leave with Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi, leaving the Traveling Residence behind as the Big Shot adapted to its new power.

• Feng Jun brought Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi to Thunder Plains, where they changed their appearances and contacted their factions through Tiantong and other means.
• Ji Busheng arranged for Su Miao to bring two sets of Engineering Puppets, and Feng Jun returned with Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi to Netherworld Island.
• Feng Jun learned that Four Woods and Qinglan had rescued one injured Upper Man and three Qi Condensation disciples while searching for missing Ten Directions Platform members.
• After twenty-nine days in seclusion, the Big Shot emerged, satisfied with absorbing the Wrath Heavenly Demon, and asked for two more days to adapt.
• Feng Jun agreed to leave the Traveling Residence with the Big Shot and notify Four Woods and Qinglan before taking Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi away using his Spatial Divine Ability.

Feng Jun brought Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi to Coastal Market, where they tried to keep a low profile but were soon questioned by a local Higher. Their questions about Coastal Market’s allegiance and the conflict between Ten Directions Platform and the Hunting Alliance left them learning that the feud began over a seized War Boat.

• Feng Jun took the rescued Highers and Good Scenery to Coastal Market in Spirit Beast Bags, then set up shelters with Ji Busheng and Yan Yuxi outside the market.
• A Coastal Market Higher questioned the group, and Yan Yuxi identified herself as being from Pine-Cypress Peak and asked to meet Sister Qiu.
• Ji Busheng posed as Yan Yufeng and challenged the Higher to explain Coastal Market’s position in the conflict between Ten Directions Platform and the Hunting Alliance.
• Ji Busheng intimidated the Higher with his Golden Core aura after he refused to name which side Coastal Market supported.
• Yan Yuxi pressed the Higher for details, and he said the conflict had begun over a seized War Boat.

Ten Directions Platform refused to return the warship it had obtained from Feng Jun, prompting the Hunting Alliance and Tiantong Merchant Alliance to confront Great Dream Adept in Coastal Market. The fighting escalated while Tiantong debated whether to withdraw, and the chapter ended with its elders choosing to remain involved as they waited to see whether an opportunity to strike would arise.

• After learning Ten Directions Platform had returned with the warship, the shipowners demanded that Coastal Market seize it, but Great Dream Adept insisted it belonged to Ten Directions Platform.
• The Hunting Alliance recruited Tiantong Merchant Alliance to challenge Ten Directions Platform over the warship, and Tiantong sent a Golden Core to demand an explanation from Great Dream Adept.
• Great Dream Adept found four Golden Cores from the Hunting Alliance and Tiantong blocking the teleportation array, rejected their demands, and ordered his disciples to attack the Hunting Alliance.
• Ten Directions Platform's disciples fought the Hunting Alliance while refusing to retaliate against Tiantong, alarming Tiantong's Golden Core and prompting him to seek negotiations.
• After consulting Huangfu Wuxia, Tiantong's elders chose to ease tensions temporarily but remain involved in the dispute in case a chance to strike Ten Directions Platform emerged.

Tiantong and Ten Directions Platform reached a humiliating truce that limited the fighting with the Hunting Alliance to low-level cultivators, as both sides gathered allies for a wider war. Feng Jun and his companions learned more about the conflict, then discovered that Jin Adept and other Pine-Cypress Peak disciples had arrived to meet Yan Yuxi and Yan Yufeng.

• Tiantong offered compensation and proposed restricting the conflict to low-level cultivators, and Great Dream Adept accepted after Tiantong's tactics obstructed Ten Directions Platform.
• Ten Directions Platform and the Hunting Alliance recruited allies as fighting spread around the Endless Sea, displacing residents and refugees.
• After hearing the situation from an adept near Coastal Market, Ji Busheng asked him to summon Qiu Adept and prepared to ambush whoever was plotting against them.
• A Golden Core visitor called for Yan Yufeng, and Yan Yuxi recognized him as Jin Adept.
• Jin Adept assured Yan Yuxi that the arrivals were Pine-Cypress Peak disciples, and she asked Feng Jun to remove his Illusion Formation.
• A Coastal Market adept reacted with surprise to Feng Jun's presence, making Feng Jun realize that Adept Liang might not belong to the Hunting Alliance.

Feng Jun met Pine-Cypress Peak’s cultivators, confirmed Yan Yuxi was safe, and learned why Adept Liang had secretly helped them oppose the Hunting Alliance. Pine-Cypress Peak sought to repair its relationship with Feng Jun and would investigate whether the Ten Directions Platform had seized his War Boat, while Ji Busheng asked whether the Heavenheart Platform disciples had arrived.

• Pine-Cypress Peak’s cultivators met Feng Jun and checked on Yan Yuxi, while Yan Yufeng focused on his sister and Jin Adept focused on Feng Jun.
• Feng Jun questioned Adept Liang, who explained that he secretly contacted Pine-Cypress Peak because he could not stand the Hunting Alliance’s conduct and wanted them to investigate the impostors.
• Feng Jun asked why Pine-Cypress Peak had brought so many cultivators to Netherworld Island, and Jin Adept explained that they had come to survey the site before being caught in the conflict between the Ten Directions Platform and the Hunting Alliance.
• Jin Adept said Pine-Cypress Peak would investigate whether the Ten Directions Platform had taken Feng Jun’s War Boat by force and would not fulfill its mediation promise if it had not.
• Ji Busheng asked whether the Heavenheart Platform disciples had arrived.

Feng Jun and representatives of Heavenheart Platform and Pine-Cypress Peak debated how to respond to the Hunting Alliance while preserving regional balance and Tiantong’s role. They agreed to consult Ten Directions Platform and Tiantong, but Feng Jun asked them to wait so he could conceal how quickly he had traveled.

• Ji Busheng learned that Ling Yun Adept had arrived with Heavenheart Platform’s disciples and offered to have him support Ten Directions Platform.
• Yan Yuxi urged Pine-Cypress Peak to support Ten Directions Platform, since her family had accepted Feng Jun’s offer of land on Netherworld Island.
• Feng Jun proposed weakening rather than destroying the Hunting Alliance, arguing that removing it entirely would leave the region without rules and invite bloody conflicts.
• Jin Adept decided they should contact Great Dream Adept and discuss their position with Tiantong, while Yan Yufeng and Ji Busheng debated how forcefully to attack.
• Feng Jun asked everyone to wait two days before contacting Ten Directions Platform, and Yan Yuxi suggested sealing the news for three days.

Feng Jun and four allied factions gathered at Coastal Market and agreed to punish the Hunting Alliance without throwing the Endless Sea into chaos. They moved to surround a Hunting Alliance branch, where a Golden Core recognized that Pine-Cypress Peak had joined Ten Directions Platform.

• Liang Shangren agreed to keep Ji Busheng, Feng Jun, and Yan Yuxi’s secret for three days, while Yan Yufeng and the Pine-Cypress Peak disciples stayed behind as cover.
• Ji Busheng contacted Heavenheart Platform, and Jin Adept told Ten Directions Platform that Pine-Cypress Peak might support them.
• Great Dream Adept met Feng Jun, Yan Yuxi, Ji Busheng, Ling Yun Adept, and other Golden Cores, and the factions agreed to weaken the Hunting Alliance while preserving order.
• Feng Jun asked the allies to inform Tiantong, and Tiantong’s two True Adepts joined the plan after he confirmed he had sold the War Boat to Ten Directions Platform.
• The four factions surrounded a Hunting Alliance branch, set up a Spatial Lock Array, and Ling Yun Adept attacked its defensive formation.
• Tiantong True Adept Tang identified the Hunting Alliance Golden Core as a member of the Starspread Lake Su Family, and Su Adept recognized Jin Dadao of Pine-Cypress Peak among the attackers.

The Ten Directions Platform shattered the Hunting Alliance branch's Defensive Formation as the allied forces exposed several members' identities. With the alliance's prospects collapsing, Ling Yun Adept recognized Little Zhu and Carefree Adept was identified as a target the four powers had decided to kill.

• Jin Dadao attacked the Defensive Formation, and a Golden Core from the Ten Directions Platform broke it with one strike.
• Su Adept gave up hope of escape after Tiantong, Pine-Cypress Peak, and the Ten Directions Platform joined forces.
• The Hunting Alliance's hidden Second-Level Golden Core appeared, and Ling Yun Adept recognized him as Little Zhu of the Zhu Family.
• Little Zhu admitted he had joined for Spirit Stones but said he had not attacked anyone from the Ten Directions Platform, and Ling Yun Adept warned him to behave.
• Wuyou Young Master appeared at the Spatial Lock Array, and Great Dream Adept identified him as Carefree Adept, a notorious demon Golden Core.
• The four powers resolved to kill Carefree Adept for his crimes.

The True Adepts killed Wuyou Young Master, and Ling Yun Adept claimed the kill as payment for Feng Jun’s divination. They spared Little Zhu and told Su Adept they could conceal his background, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Wuyou Young Master revealed her human-demon form and tried to escape, but the Spatial Lock Array trapped her.
• Great Dream Adept’s Yin-Yang Banner disrupted Wuyou Young Master, and Ling Yun Adept beheaded her after she claimed to be Yinsha’s hidden agent.
• Ling Yun Adept asked Feng Jun whether the kill counted, and Feng Jun agreed; a Ten Directions Platform True Adept disputed who deserved credit.
• Great Dream Adept said Little Zhu would be restrained rather than killed, and Ling Yun Adept placed restrictions on him.
• Su Adept offered to die in exchange for the Su Family’s safety, but a Tiantong Golden Core said they could spare him and conceal his background.

Su Adept accepted the True Adepts’ offer to spare him and pledged himself to Feng Jun, then helped the victors seize the Hunting Alliance camp and its supplies. He offered to capture returning Alliance cultivators too, and Feng Jun challenged whether betraying his companions would shake his Dao Heart.

• Su Adept learned that the True Adepts would conceal his origins and spare him, so he pledged to follow their lead and asked Feng Jun to take him under his wing.
• Feng Jun arranged for Pine-Cypress Peak to take Su Adept, and the True Adepts agreed to divide the captured wealth while sparing certain inherited treasures.
• Little Zhu Adept sought help keeping his possessions, and Ji Busheng asked Yan Yuxi to speak up for him; the victors then settled on taking Spirit Stones and stolen goods while leaving the Hunting Alliance some foundation.
• Su Adept surrendered his Storage Pouch, revealed where strategic supplies were hidden, and the True Adepts captured the camp’s cultivators after Carefree Adept was killed.
• Su Adept offered to capture any Hunting Alliance cultivators who returned, and Feng Jun asked whether betraying his companions would shake his Dao Heart.

Feng Jun and the four factions prepared to strike another Hunting Alliance outpost while deciding whether two defectors could help them. Real Person Little Zhu joined the effort under conditions set by Real Person Great Dream, and the chapter ended with Ten Directions Platform hoping the alliance’s kills would earn Feng Jun’s promised divination quota.

• Real Person Su explained that he wanted to defect because he had few trustworthy companions in the Hunting Alliance, and the seniors lifted his restrictions so he could hold the captured location.
• Feng Jun and the four factions chose a Hunting Alliance supply station guarded by a Golden Core cultivator as their next target, prioritizing the enemy’s Golden Core fighters over its goods.
• Real Person Little Zhu decided to defect and help kill Hunting Alliance cultivators, saying he wanted to recover losses from his stolen Spirit Stones.
• Real Person Great Dream agreed to remove Real Person Little Zhu’s seal, allowing him to fight Emergence from Dust cultivators and help Ten Directions Platform seal off the area, but denying him loot from Golden Core kills.
• Ten Directions Platform’s cultivators welcomed Feng Jun’s offer to count their kills toward his promised divination quota, since they could claim they had earned the service rather than requested it.

Feng Jun and the allied adepts surrounded the Hunting Alliance’s supply transfer station, where they discovered the town was filled with Alliance members and associates. The siege began after Jing Adept rejected the station’s offer to summon reinforcements, and the Hunting Alliance revealed Shangqing Adept as its sixth Golden Core.

• Little Zhu agreed to help kill Emergence from Dust cultivators, and the adepts traveled to the transfer station near the Endless Sea.
• Jing Adept revealed that more than half the townspeople were Hunting Alliance cultivators or their relatives, so Great Dream Adept arranged to surround the town.
• Jing Adept announced that Tiantong would stop mediating as the adepts sealed the courtyard with a Spatial Lock Array.
• The Second-Level Golden Core in the courtyard revealed that the station had a Semi-Permanent Teleportation Array, but Jing Adept refused to let him summon reinforcements.
• Ling Yun Adept and Jin Adept attacked the courtyard’s defensive array, while Jing Adept summoned Shangqing Adept and an old man to join the battle.

Shangqing Adept, Wenji Adept, and an unidentified sword cultivator struggled to defend the Blessing Courtyard against nine attackers, while reinforcements arrived and the besieged group prepared to retreat. As Wenji Adept headed for the Teleportation Array, Shangqing Adept suddenly attacked him and he counterattacked.

• Shangqing Adept, Wenji Adept, and the old man used the courtyard’s Defensive Formation to harass the nine True Adepts besieging them.
• Great Dream Adept proposed three Three Talents Formations, but Ling Yun Adept and Jin Adept chose their factions’ own formations, while Tiantong’s cultivators used the Heaven-Earth Millstone Formation.
• Shangqing Adept demanded that Wenji Adept call for reinforcements, and Wenji revealed that he had shut down the Teleportation Array to protect headquarters.
• Demon Child Adept arrived and revealed that he had switched sides, leaving Shangqing Adept alarmed and the defenders outnumbered.
• Wenji Adept, Shangqing Adept, and the old man decided to retreat through the Teleportation Array, but Shangqing Adept slashed at Wenji as he approached the building, and Wenji fired a streak of white light back at her.

Wenqing Adept revealed himself as a Supreme Clarity Sect Golden Core while Shangqing Adept exposed her greater cultivation, and Hou Adept escaped after the Defensive Formation was deactivated. Feng Jun stopped Shangqing Adept from pursuing him until Ling Yun recognized her as an old friend, after which Feng Jun apologized and let her go.

• Wenqing Adept and Shangqing Adept revealed their Golden Core cultivation and sword techniques, while Hou Adept said he would surrender.
• Wenji Adept shut down the Defensive Formation, and Hou Adept immediately fled on his flying sword.
• Great Dream Adept's Yin-Yang Banner failed to stop Hou Adept, who escaped beyond pursuit.
• Shangqing Adept prepared to chase Hou Adept, but Feng Jun's killing intent made her turn on him instead.
• Ling Yun Adept recognized Shangqing Adept as a long-lost old friend, and they exchanged familiar teasing.
• Feng Jun apologized for questioning Shangqing Adept's identity and allowed her to pursue Hou Adept.

Shangqing Adept explained her secret role in the Endless Sea and questioned whether Feng Jun had helped kill a True Immortal. Wenji Adept revealed that he had been undercover for Supreme Clarity Sect to cultivate the Slaughterheart Sword and observe the Hunting Alliance.

• Shangqing Adept warned Feng Jun to be more respectful toward Golden Core cultivators, and Yan Yuxi defended him.
• Yan Yufeng introduced himself and Yan Yuxi, and Shangqing Adept asked whether Feng Jun had contributed to the True Immortal's death.
• Shangqing Adept recounted how she had advanced to the Seventh-Layer Golden Core while secretly working in the Endless Sea for Carefree Platform.
• Shangqing Adept explained that she had joined the Hunting Alliance to gain its trust and gather intelligence, then acted when she believed it was doomed.
• Wenji Adept complained that the others had forced him to reveal himself, and he told Feng Jun that he had volunteered to infiltrate the Hunting Alliance for Supreme Clarity Sect.

Heavenheart Platform and Pine-Cypress Peak dismantled the Hunting Alliance’s outposts and advanced on its headquarters, where they found the Rogue Cultivators Alliance already attacking. The two alliances faced off over who would claim the weakened Hunting Alliance.

• Wenji Adept helped screen the captured town’s members, while Shangqing Adept, Ling Yun Adept, and Little Zhu set out to raid two Hunting Alliance outposts.
• Shangqing Adept’s group captured an adept carrying a Nascent Soul Protective Talisman and handed him over to Great Dream Adept at Ten Directions Platform.
• The allied cultivators set out for the Hunting Alliance headquarters that night and found the Rogue Cultivators Alliance attacking it at dawn.
• Liu Er claimed that the Rogue Cultivators Alliance had come to eradicate the Hunting Alliance, but Great Dream Adept accused him of exploiting their earlier victories.
• Liu Er revealed three more True Adepts, and Ji Busheng challenged the Rogue Cultivators Alliance by pointing out that their forces had not taken down the six Hunting Alliance cultivators.

The Rogue Cultivators Alliance considered attacking the Hunting Alliance headquarters after hearing that Ten Directions Platform had defeated six of its True Adepts. Great Dream Adept rejected Liu Er’s proposed cooperation and declared that Ten Directions Platform would prevent the Rogue Cultivators Alliance from gaining influence in the Endless Sea, before Moving Mountain Adept spoke up.

• Liu Er learned that the Hunting Alliance’s transfer station had been destroyed and believed its headquarters had only four True Adepts left.
• Liu Er proposed that the Rogue Cultivators Alliance and Ten Directions Platform attack the headquarters together and offered to split the gains.
• Great Dream Adept refused to cooperate, then told Liu Er that Ten Directions Platform would not let the Rogue Cultivators Alliance control affairs in the Endless Sea.
• Liu Er claimed the Rogue Cultivators Alliance only wanted to protect rogue cultivators, but Great Dream Adept dismissed his explanation.
• Moving Mountain Adept praised Great Dream Adept’s judgment and said he had a group of good brothers.

Moving Mountain Adept recounted the Hunting Alliance’s decline and chose to confront the Rogue Cultivators Alliance rather than flee, hoping the Ten Directions Platform would spare his organization. As the sides prepared to fight, Azure Sun Adept revealed that Moving Mountain Adept had once crippled his cultivation but spared his clan.

• Moving Mountain Adept learned of the threats to the Hunting Alliance and decided to fight the Rogue Cultivators Alliance while seeking leniency from the Ten Directions Platform.
• Moving Mountain Adept charged out of the Defensive Formation, apologized to Great Dream Adept, and said he would deal with the alliance’s opportunistic attackers first.
• Moving Mountain Adept and three Golden Core cultivators faced the Rogue Cultivators Alliance, but no one accepted Azure Sun Adept’s challenge.
• Master Chang said he had come to settle a personal grudge with Blue River Adept, not to fight the Hunting Alliance.
• Liu Er revealed that Moving Mountain Adept had once knocked down Azure Sun Adept’s cultivation, and Azure Sun Adept said he remained loyal because Moving Mountain Adept had spared his clan.