Chapter Summaries

Han Changming attended his dying parents on Green Conch Island, then returned home grieving and encouraged Ye Xue to pursue greater cultivation. He trained Han Benyong in combat, and Han Changying arrived as the chapter ended.

• Han Changming hurried to Green Conch Island, where Han Shan entrusted Han Duanxian, a descendant with spiritual roots, to his care before passing away.
• Two days later, Li Xue also died, and Han Changming brought Han Duanxian back to Red Shrimp Island after the funerals.
• Han Changming mourned his parents and urged Ye Xue to keep advancing along the immortal path; she agreed and entered seclusion the next day.
• Han Changming tested Han Benyong against three puppet beasts and reprimanded him for neglecting his defense in combat.
• Han Changying arrived on a giant red eagle and found Han Changming training Han Benyong.

Han Changying returned to Red Shrimp Island and asked Han Changming for a Miasma-Breaking Pill to help with her cultivation bottleneck. Han Changming arranged a pill for her, prepared Hundred Honey Brew, and began refining Foundation Establishment Pills while Han Changying resumed training the clan’s artifact refiners.

• Han Changying returned with Han Daobin and others, gave Han Changming Three-Color Spirit Honey, and explained that she had remained stuck at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage despite hunting demon beasts.
• Han Changying asked Han Changming for a Miasma-Breaking Pill, and Han Changming obtained one from Han Benzhi after he readily agreed to give it to her.
• Han Changming purified the pill with the Taiyi Spirit-Transforming Gourd and secretly kept its improved grade from the clan; he also fed his spirit beasts and prepared two jars of Hundred Honey Brew.
• Han Changming began refining Foundation Establishment Pills to support the Han Clan’s growth and attract Rogue Cultivators.
• Han Changying instructed Han Benfeng and Han Benyan in artifact refinement and planned to train more refiners to increase the clan’s Puppet Beast production.

Han Changming gave Han Changying a mid-grade Miasma-Dispelling Pill, and she gifted him a powerful puppet beast for Han Benyong. After learning that the Red Algae Assembly would be held early at Green Turtle Market, Han Changming planned to attend with Han Benyong, while Liu Weiwei returned from seclusion.

• Han Changying guided Han Benfeng and Han Benyan in artifact refinement over the course of a month.
• Han Changming gave Han Changying a mid-grade Miasma-Dispelling Pill and asked her to keep his pill-purification method private.
• Han Changying gave Han Changming a Crimson Flame Flying Tiger Puppet Beast for Han Benyong and prepared to enter secluded cultivation.
• Han Changming handed twelve of his eighteen mid-grade Foundation Establishment Pills to the clan and kept six in reserve.
• Han Benyong told Han Changming that the Red Algae Assembly would be held early at Green Turtle Market, and Han Changming agreed to take him.
• Han Duanyu asked to go, but Han Changming refused because he was too young; Liu Weiwei then arrived after emerging from seclusion.

Han Changming arrived at Green Turtle Market for the Red Algae Gathering and accepted an invitation from Fire Whale Hermit. The Golden Core cultivator asked to buy two of Han Changming’s top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills for his children.

• Han Changming invited Han Benyong and Liu Weiwei to attend the Red Algae Gathering, while Han Benzhi stayed behind to care for Han Duanyu.
• Han Changming led clan members to Green Turtle Market and told them to avoid making enemies and to remain in the market.
• Han Defei told Han Changming that Fire Whale Hermit had invited him, and Song Qingyuan escorted him to the hermit’s secluded mountain residence.
• Han Changming met Fire Whale Hermit, who asked to purchase two top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills for his children, whose previous attempts at Foundation Establishment had failed.

Han Changming traded high-grade Foundation Establishment Pills for Fire Whale Hermit's Insect Nurturing Pill and its formula, then used the formula to prepare to raise his spirit insects. At a Foundation Establishment gathering, Liu Weiwei traded pills supplied by Han Changming for a Blood Toad Beast core, demonstrating his alchemy reputation and earning the other cultivators' attention.

• Han Changming exchanged two high-grade Foundation Establishment Pills for an Insect Nurturing Pill, then accepted the pill formula from Fire Whale Hermit and agreed to attend a Golden Core gathering.
• Han Changming found that the Vermilion Bird Space held many of the herbs needed for the Insect Nurturing Pill, improved one pill with the Taiyi Spirit-Transforming Gourd, and fed it to his Amethyst Flying Scorpion.
• At a Foundation Establishment gathering, Song Qingyuan offered Hundred Insect Powder, and Han Benyong traded a mid-grade Black Moon Pill for it on Han Changming's behalf.
• Liu Weiwei offered four mid-grade pills and a Miasma-Breaking Pill in exchange for lightning-attributed spiritual items, poisonous herbs, or venom sacs.
• Liu Weiwei accepted Lu Xiaoming's mid-grade third-rank Blood Toad Beast core for the five pills after Han Benyong inspected it, then confirmed that Han Changming had refined the pills.

Han Changming refined five Purple Sun Pills and went to the Gathering Immortal Pavilion, where he reunited with Lin Sheng and met several Golden Core cultivators. Meanwhile, Liu Sheng sought rare materials for Infant Transformation Water, and Lin Sheng discussed his old grudge against Han Changming.

• Liu Weiwei and Han Benyong presented Han Changming with a third-rank mid-grade demon core and a Cyan Gourd, and Han Changming rewarded them with mid-grade Origin Harmonizing Pills.
• Han Changming began refining Purple Sun Pills while Lin Sheng and Su Qingxue discussed his past conflict with Han Changming and agreed not to act against him recklessly in the Red Algae Sea.
• Liu Sheng told Su Yu that Ocean Listening Pavilion was seeking rare materials to exchange for Infant Transformation Water, which could aid a Golden Core cultivator's breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Han Changming finally refined five Purple Sun Pills, then visited the Gathering Immortal Pavilion marketplace after nightfall.
• Fire Whale Hermit welcomed Han Changming upstairs, where Han Changming encountered Lin Sheng and was introduced to Madam Su, Clear Void Wanderer, and Hundred Spirits Wanderer.

Han Changming attended the Red Algae Assembly at Green Turtle Market, traded a Purple Sun Pill for a Fire Rock Beast egg, and acquired rare ingredients for his alchemy. The gathering ended with Liu Sheng offering a wealth of goods in exchange for five exceptionally rare items.

• Han Changming waited for Liu Sheng and Lu Haibin to arrive before the cultivators began their exchange meeting.
• Fire Whale Hermit and the other cultivators traded materials, and Lin Sheng exchanged his Snow Glaze Saber for a blue jade casket from Liu Sheng.
• Han Changming traded a Purple Sun Pill to Hundred Spirits Wanderer for a Fire Rock Beast egg, hoping it would suit Han Zhangxiang’s wish for a fire-attributed spirit beast.
• Han Changming exchanged Netherwater Pills for old Hundred-leaf Grass, Purple Nether Ginseng, Mysterious Glaze Flowers, and Golden Gang Stone.
• Liu Sheng displayed many valuable materials and asked to trade them for Dragon Transformation Grass, high-grade spirit stones, a fourth-rank flood dragon demon core or essence soul, and Spirit Eye Jade.

Han Changming exchanged Purple Sun Pills with Hundred Spirits Wanderer for a Spirit-Nurturing Pill formula and advice on raising spirit insects, then prepared for the Red Algae Assembly. The chapter ended as he joined the gathering’s platform, while Ocean Listening Pavilion weighed a dangerous lead about Spirit Eye Jade on Thousand Poison Island.

• At Gathering Immortal Pavilion, Liu Sheng failed to find anyone able to provide five rare materials and left after discussing them with the assembled cultivators.
• Hundred Spirits Wanderer visited Han Changming, traded him an incomplete Spirit-Nurturing Pill formula and spirit honey for Purple Sun Pills, and shared advice about raising spirit insects.
• Hundred Spirits Wanderer showed Han Changming his Three-Eyed Blood Toad Beast before leaving, and Han Changming returned to refining Purple Sun Pills.
• Su Yu told Liu Sheng that Chen Chong might have taken the Hundred Spirits Sect’s Spirit Eye Jade to Thousand Poison Island, but Liu Sheng rejected sending disciples there based on rumor.
• Han Changming emerged on the opening day of the Red Algae Assembly, heard that Han Benyong had befriended Liu Hong, and joined Liu Sheng, Fire Whale Hermit, and Lu Haibin on the platform.

After the Red Algae Assembly, Han Changming learned from Liu Hong about a third-rank Hundred-Eyed Octopus near Red Shrimp Island. He rewarded Liu Hong for revealing its location and descended into the sea to confront the beast, leaving the hunt poised to begin.

• Liu Sheng, Fire Whale Hermit, Lu Haibin, and Han Changming expounded the Dao, and the factions held an auction after the assembly ended.
• Han Changming met Liu Hong, who reported a third-rank Hundred-Eyed Octopus and asked for mid-grade Black Moon Pills to cure his poisoned Dao companion.
• Han Changming gave Liu Hong two mid-grade Black Moon Pills, warned him not to deceive him, and sent him to deliver them to his Dao companion.
• Liu Hong returned after purging the lingering poison from his wife and offered to lead Han Changming to the octopus's lair.
• Han Changming took Liu Hong and his clansmen to a desolate island, sent Han Benyong back for Foundation Establishment cultivators, and dived into the sea.
• Han Changming found the massive Hundred-Eyed Octopus feeding on fish demons and prepared to kill it.

Han Changming trapped and killed the Hundred-Eyed Octopus with the Five Thunder Demon-Slaying Formation, then returned to Red Shrimp Island and received a newly refined Wishful Gourd from Han Zhangxiang. The chapter ended with Han Changming giving Han Zhangxiang a Fire Rock Beast egg and Purple Sun Pills.

• Han Changming lured the Hundred-Eyed Octopus into the Five Thunder Demon-Slaying Formation and fought it with help from Han Delei, Han Changlu, Han Benyong, and the other Han Clan cultivators.
• The formation, Han Changming's third-tier Puppet Beast, and his attacks overwhelmed the Hundred-Eyed Octopus, which Han Changming killed and collected.
• Han Changming rewarded Liu Hong with Black Moon Pills and spirit stones, and Liu Hong agreed to keep the hunt secret.
• Han Changming and his clansmen returned to Red Shrimp Island, where Han Zhangxiang told him that the magical treasure had been refined.
• Han Zhangxiang gave Han Changming the Wishful Gourd, and Han Changming tested its sand before presenting Han Zhangxiang with a Fire Rock Beast egg and ten Purple Sun Pills.

Han Changming presented Han Zhangxiang with graded Purple Sun Pills, then stayed on HLD while the clan leader went to the Outer Sea to ease the clan’s financial strain. In Vast Righteous City, the Han family received a bounty notice for rare materials, and Han Changjiong celebrated Han Benxian’s successful Foundation Establishment before deciding to cultivate in seclusion.

• Han Changming gave Han Zhangxiang eight ordinary and two mid-grade Purple Sun Pills, and Han Zhangxiang warned him to keep his ability to refine graded pills secret.
• Han Zhangxiang told Han Changming to remain on HLD while he went to the Outer Sea, agreed that Han Daobin should become clan head, and hoped to find a Golden Core spiritual item for Han Daojing.
• Han Changming returned to his residence and used pill fire to refine and nurture the Wishful Gourd.
• In Vast Righteous City, Han Changyan gave Han Changwu a Righteous Path Alliance bounty notice seeking rare materials in exchange for cultivation resources, including Golden Core spiritual items.
• Han Changjiong announced that Han Benxian had successfully entered the Foundation Establishment Realm with Han Changming’s high-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, then planned to enter seclusion and attempt the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

Han Zhangxiang brought Han Benxian to work at the Golden Gourd Pavilion, then took Han Daoguang and Han Daoxiu to investigate an ancient cultivator’s cave. They broke through its restrictions and discovered that the deceased Golden Core cultivator’s most valuable possessions were a weakened defensive formation and a set of sea charts.

• Han Zhangxiang found Han Benxian drunk in the street and arranged for Han Changwu to give him work at the Golden Gourd Pavilion.
• Han Changwu reported the Righteous Path Alliance’s requested materials and talismans to Han Zhangxiang, who told her to watch for them.
• Han Zhangxiang summoned Han Daoguang and Han Daoxiu and led them to the site of an ancient cultivator’s cave, where they uncovered its entrance using a map.
• Han Daoguang, Han Zhangxiang, and Han Daoxiu entered the cave and found a skeleton behind a yellow formation screen.
• Han Zhangxiang broke the Mystic Turtle Spirit-Guarding Formation with the Red Flood Dragon Blade, and the group examined the deceased Golden Core cultivator Gale Wanderer’s belongings.
• Han Zhangxiang and the others identified a third-rank defensive formation, a few refining materials, and more than a dozen sea charts among the cave’s most valuable items.

Han Zhangxiang and his companions uncovered Windstorm True Person’s sea charts, cultivation technique, and the location of Demon-Luring Grass, then set out to find it. Meanwhile, Han Changming refined mid-grade Netherwater Pills and met Mu Xue, who asked him to refine Soul-Replenishing Pills for her injured divine soul.

• Han Zhangxiang examined Windstorm True Person’s legacy, found detailed sea charts and a wind-attributed cultivation technique, and warned Han Daoguang and Han Daoxiu against reckless searches for ancient caves.
• Han Daoguang discovered a jade slip recording seven stalks of two-hundred-year-old Demon-Luring Grass in Righteous Path Alliance territory and learned that Windstorm True Person had hoped his successor would avenge him.
• Han Zhangxiang promised to avenge Windstorm True Person and offered Han Daoguang and Han Daoxiu Golden Core Jade Liquid once they reached Foundation Establishment Great Perfection; the three set out to search for the Demon-Luring Grass.
• Han Changming refined seven mid-grade Netherwater Pills, then received word that Hundred Spirits Wanderer had arrived with Mu Xue.
• Mu Xue asked Han Changming to refine Soul-Replenishing Pills using materials for three batches, explaining privately that her divine soul had been injured.

Han Changming agreed to refine a Soul-Replenishing Pill for Mu Xue and successfully produced three, giving her one in exchange for a generous reward. After earning her gratitude and strengthening his ties with Hundred Spirits Wanderer, Han Changming resumed cultivation, determined to build his reputation in the Outer Sea.

• Mu Xue asked Han Changming to refine a Soul-Replenishing Pill, and Han Changming agreed to try without guaranteeing success.
• Han Changming studied the pill formula and rested before refining the pill from Mu Xue's three batches of ingredients.
• After three days, Mu Xue and Hundred Spirits Wanderer waited anxiously at HLD until Han Changming emerged and confirmed that he had succeeded.
• Mu Xue gave Han Changming a Fujin Fruit, twenty thousand spirit stones, and a third-rank pill formula, then left with the pill.
• Han Changming revealed that he had refined three Soul-Replenishing Pills in total and kept the other two.
• Han Changming spoke with Hundred Spirits Wanderer about unusual creatures, then took a mid-grade Purple Sun Pill and began cultivating.

Han Zhangxiang and his companions found five stalks of Demon-Luring Grass, but a wounded Poison Flood Dragon ambushed them as they left. After Han Daoxiu died and Han Daoguang escaped, Han Zhangxiang lured the dragon and other demon beasts away before fleeing underground, leaving the Poison Flood Dragon besieged.

• Han Zhangxiang, Han Daoguang, and Han Daoxiu uncovered a cave and harvested five stalks of six-hundred-year-old Demon-Luring Grass.
• The wounded Poison Flood Dragon attacked the group, killed Han Daoxiu with its tail, and pursued Han Zhangxiang and Han Daoguang.
• Han Zhangxiang stayed behind to cover Han Daoguang's escape, then fought the Poison Flood Dragon with the Red Flood Dragon Blade and a Golden Blade Demon-Slaying Talisman.
• Han Zhangxiang used a stalk of Demon-Luring Grass to draw other third-rank demon beasts toward the Poison Flood Dragon as he fled.
• The Poison Flood Dragon struck Han Zhangxiang down and swallowed the grass, but more than a dozen demon beasts attacked it while Han Zhangxiang escaped underground.

Han Changming learned that Liu Guangyang had discovered an ancient cultivator's cave abode on Thousand Poison Island after Han Changying advanced to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and prepared to travel to the Outer Sea. The chapter ended with Han Changming hearing Liu Guangyang's report and reacting cautiously to the dangerous discovery.

• Han Zhangxiang escaped from the third-rank demonic beasts, restored his mana underground, and left Desolate Island after finding the beach clear.
• Han Changming fed the Amethyst Flying Scorpion a mid-grade Insect Nurturing Pill and a third-rank Blood Toad Beast's inner core, then put it away when it fell still.
• Han Daobin told Han Changming that Han Changying had advanced to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage and would soon head to the Outer Sea.
• Han Changming asked Han Changying to take Han Benyong with her to gain experience in the Outer Sea.
• Han Daojing informed Han Changming that Liu Guangyang had arrived with urgent news, and Han Changming met with him privately.
• Liu Guangyang told Han Changming that a group searching Thousand Poison Island had found an ancient cultivator's cave abode before a second-rank venomous insect wiped them out.

After Liu Guangyang reported that the Liu Clan had lost twenty Qi Refining cultivators seeking an ancient cave dwelling on Thousand Poison Island, Han Changming arranged an expedition to retrieve its treasures. Han Daojing, Han Changying, Han Delei, and Han Benyong were chosen to go, while Liu Weiwei stayed behind to improve her combat experience.

• Liu Guangyang told Han Changming that the Liu Clan's search for an ancient cultivator's cave dwelling on Thousand Poison Island had cost twenty lives.
• Han Changying volunteered to lead an expedition, and Han Daojing offered to help break the cave's formations.
• Liu Weiwei volunteered to join, but Han Daojing and Han Changying advised against taking her because of her limited combat experience.
• Han Changming assigned Han Benyong to join the expedition and told Liu Weiwei to remain at HLD and train.
• Han Daojing, Han Delei, and Han Changying left HLD, while Han Changming gave them pills for the journey.

Han Daojing’s group braved Thousand Poison Island and broke into an ancient cultivator’s cave, where they found a magic treasure. As they emerged, a third-rank demon insect appeared, leaving the group facing immediate danger.

• Sun Hong joined the Han Clan’s expedition to Thousand Poison Island, hoping to help his grandsons secure a future.
• Han Daojing led the group through the island, where poisonous insects attacked and the cultivators destroyed them.
• Han Delei found the cave entrance, and the group broke the third-order formation protecting an ancient cultivator’s chamber.
• Han Delei discovered a magic treasure, and Han Daojing collected it before leading everyone out of the cave.
• A ragged young man in blue fled toward the group but was killed by a beam of black light, and a huge third-rank centipede emerged from the forest.

Han Daojing, Han Changying, and Han Benyong escaped a third-rank demonic insect, while Han Delei and Sun Hong stayed behind and died fighting it. Their sacrifice left the black centipede injured, but a third-rank blood-red toad arrived and attacked it.

• Han Changying sent two puppet apes against the black centipede while Han Daojing used a Four Symbols Demon-Locking Talisman to bind it, and the survivors split up to flee.
• The centipede struck Han Delei and Sun Hong from the air, and two second-rank scorpions ambushed them on the ground, forcing Han Daojing, Han Changying, and Han Benyong to retreat without them.
• Han Delei fought the centipede with fire talismans and a black explosive bead, then died while gripping its claws; Sun Hong used his last strength to attack it with two red beads before the centipede killed him.
• The wounded black centipede prepared to pursue Han Daojing and the others, but a third-rank blood-red toad arrived and attacked it with blood-colored flames.

Han Deling survived her lightning tribulation and formed a low-grade Golden Core, while Han Changming welcomed Han Daojing's return from Thousand Poison Island with news of Han Delei and Sun Hong's deaths and an ancient treasure. The chapter ended with Han Changming beginning to refine the Thunderfire Awl and planning for the clan's cultivation and advancement.

• Han Changming taught Han Changxin and Han Changlu alchemy until a thunderclap announced that Han Deling had drawn her Golden Core tribulation.
• Han Deling formed a third-aperture, low-grade Golden Core with the aid of Golden Core Jade Liquid and survived the lightning tribulation.
• Han Daojing returned with Han Changying and Han Benyong, reported that Han Delei and Sun Hong had likely died, and gave Han Changming the ancient Thunderfire Awl.
• Han Changming arranged support for Han Delei and Sun Hong's descendants, gave Han Deling the Dry Blue Ruler and Netherwater Pills, and learned that she had formed a low-grade Golden Core.
• Ye Xin emerged from seclusion at Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, and Han Changming decided to reserve Golden Core materials for Han Daojing while telling Ye Xin to wait before attempting a breakthrough.
• Han Changming took the Thunderfire Awl to his underground chamber and began refining it with his core fire.