Chapter Summaries

Shen Long and Chu Buyu defeated Mu Lang and recovered from the battle, then fled when a fifth rank Monster Beast approached. Meanwhile, the Soul-Shattering Palace discovered that three Nascent Soul Cultivators had died and sent a search party.

• Mu Lang attacked Shen Long with his Spirit Treasures and poisonous beasts, while Shen Long fought back with his own treasures and flames.
• Chu Buyu captured Wu Jiao's Nascent Soul, then withdrew after Shen Long told her to leave as he and Chu Buyu turned against Mu Lang.
• Shen Long killed Mu Lang, captured his Nascent Soul, and learned through soul searching that Mu Lang had opened the entrance.
• Chu Buyu gave Shen Long two Life-Prolonging Fruits, and Shen Long gave her two Longevity Fruits before they collected the enemies' belongings.
• Shen Long sensed a fifth rank Monster Beast approaching, so Chu Buyu used a yellow Jade Ruler to help them escape underground.
• The Soul-Shattering Palace sounded the Golden Toad Bell nine times after three Nascent Soul Cultivators' Life Soul Lamps went out, then dispatched two Nascent Soul Cultivators and a group of disciples to search for them.

Shen Long and Chu Buyu devised a way to escape the Daoist Field despite a Fifth-Rank Spirit Beast guarding its Teleportation Array. They activated the array and arrived safely outside, leaving the Cyan Giant Lion behind.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu found that a Fifth-Rank Spirit Beast guarded the Teleportation Array and rejected Chu Buyu’s plan to lure it away herself.
• Shen Long used nearly two-thousand-year-old Monster Luring Grass to draw the Cyan Giant Lion away while the Yellow Sand Monster-Confusing Formation trapped nearby Fourth-Rank Spirit Beasts.
• The Cyan Giant Lion killed the trapped beasts and pursued the Monster Luring Grass, while Shen Long and Chu Buyu traveled underground toward the Teleportation Array.
• Shen Long replaced the array’s Spirit Stones, and Chu Buyu tested it by teleporting Golden-Winged Fire Ants away.
• As the Cyan Giant Lion approached, Shen Long and Chu Buyu activated the array and escaped the Daoist Field, while the lion destroyed Shen Long’s Talisman Soldier and Fourth-Rank Puppet Beast.

Shen Long returned from True Monarch Purple Sun's Daoist field and concealed his connection to it while the news drew cultivators across the Southern Border. Back at Golden Toad Mountain, he sent his followers to seek a Strange Beast, then considered how to help his Golden-Winged Wind Peng mutate and consumed two life-prolonging fruits.

• Shen Long and Chu Buyu escaped underground when someone approached the Daoist field, and news of its appearance spread more than half a month later.
• Huangfu Lou looted and burned the Ning Family's holdings at Golden Glow Mountain Range, leaving the returning Ning Family cultivators to find ruins.
• Shen Long met Qian Dafu, Xu Feng, and Ning Qianqian at the Spirit Control Garden, gave them a Strange Beast image to search for, and warned them about the Daoist field's fifth-rank monster beasts.
• Shen Long gave his followers resources and instructed them to report immediately if they found the Strange Beast, then said he planned to attend Senior Wang's Spirit Transmutation Ceremony in the North Sea Cultivation World.
• Shen Long transplanted several spirit plants into the Ten Thousand Beast Tower and decided to save the Seven Rosy Jade Lotus until he could obtain high-rank Peng Bird materials for his Golden-Winged Wind Peng.
• Shen Long ate a Life-Prolonging Fruit and a Longevity Fruit.

Shen Long met with Song He and the others in the Golden Flood Dragon Marketplace, then visited Ximen Hao and Gan Hao to discuss powerful beasts in the Outer Sea. The chapter ended when Ximen Hao received word that a Fourth-Rank Thunder Flood Dragon had appeared.

• Shen Long summoned Song He and the others, praised their work, rewarded them, and asked them to secretly search for a Strange Beast.
• Shen Long went to Golden Flood Dragon Garden, where Ximen Hao introduced him to Gan Hao, a Half-Barbarian who wanted to test Shen Long's strength.
• Shen Long declined Gan Hao's challenge, and the group discussed a Late Fourth-Rank Green Wind Peng and the Thunder Flood Dragon that had killed five Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Ximen Hao described a Fifth-Rank Monster Beast that had once appeared in the Outer Sea and speculated it might have died or been lost in a spatial rift.
• Ximen Hao received a message that a Fourth-Rank Thunder Flood Dragon had appeared.

Shen Long pursued an early fourth-rank Thunder Flood Dragon but learned that True Monarch Thousand Mechanisms had already killed it, so he exchanged a Golden Soul Pill for its essence blood. A month later, Song Yan brought him a portrait resembling the Strange Beast he sought, which led him to suspect it was connected to the Heaven Origin Realm, while he treated her poisoned husband.

• Shen Long and Gan Hao hurried after reports of an early fourth-rank Thunder Flood Dragon, but True Monarch Thousand Mechanisms told Shen Long he had killed it and traded him its essence blood for a Golden Soul Pill.
• Shen Long returned to the marketplace with Gan Hao, then began refining pills in his Alchemy Room.
• Song Yan asked Shen Long to treat her husband, Liu Hao, and gave him a portrait of a foreign cultivator whose Spirit Beast resembled the Strange Beast he sought.
• Shen Long recognized the golden-shirted cultivator in the portrait as belonging to the Heaven Origin Race and wondered whether the Strange Beast and his other opportunity were in the Heaven Origin Realm.
• Shen Long examined Liu Hao, gave him a medicinal pill that made him cough up black blood, and asked Song Yan to explain how she obtained the portrait.

Shen Long searched Han Clan records for information about the Heaven Origin Race but found no trace of the rare Strange Beast he sought. After Mu Weiwei reported a likely ten thousand year Seven Rosy Jade Lotus on Immortal Fallen Island, Shen Long set off with her for the Outer Sea.

• Shen Long asked Han Yisen and Han Huairen to let him examine the Han Clan’s records about the Heaven Origin Race, and they granted him access to the Scripture Depository.
• Huangfu Lou subdued a fifth rank Early Stage Fire Qilin Beast at True Monarch Purple Sun’s Daoist Field and stored it in his Spirit Beast Bracelet.
• Shen Long found no record of the Strange Beast he sought and concluded it might be rare even in the Heaven Origin Realm.
• Lin Yutong told Shen Long that Mu Weiwei had come to see him urgently, so he went to meet her outside Golden Gourd Island.
• Mu Weiwei told Shen Long about a likely ten thousand year Seven Rosy Jade Lotus on Immortal Fallen Island and gave him a map.
• Shen Long brought out the Moon-Stepping Boat and set off with Mu Weiwei for the Outer Sea.

Shen Long encountered a Large Beast Tide while traveling from Golden Flood Dragon Marketplace and returned to help defend it. With the marketplace sealed and cultivators assembled on the walls, the tide gathered outside as leaders feared a powerful Thunder Flood Dragon or fifth-rank Monster Beast might be behind it.

• Shen Long spotted the approaching beast tide, helped the Red-Robed Elder survive attacks from its monsters, and killed a mid-fourth-rank Cyan Falcon Bird with his Spirit Ants.
• Shen Long returned to Golden Flood Dragon Marketplace as alarm bells sounded and the Teleportation Array to the Inner Sea was closed.
• Ximen Hao asked Shen Long to help defend the marketplace, and the Ximen and Han Clans organized residents and cultivators for the defense.
• Ximen Hao, Gan Hao, and Fairy Red Plum speculated that the tide might be connected to a Thunder Flood Dragon, while Ximen Hao said reinforcements had been summoned.
• Thousands of cultivators gathered on the city wall as a golden protective formation appeared and vast numbers of sea beasts and Demon Birds approached.

Shen Long and the cultivators of Golden Flood Dragon Marketplace fought a vast Monster Beast tide, using formations, treasures, and spirit beasts to repel the attackers. The battle continued as Shen Long’s Iron Tail Scorpion and Fire Qilin Beast killed several Fourth-Rank Spirit Beasts, while a Golden-Winged Thunder Eagle was brought down by a Gold-Red Long Spear.

• A horde of several hundred thousand Monster Beasts attacked Golden Flood Dragon Marketplace with spells, and Ximen Hao countered with a cyan Banner Flag that unleashed a destructive tornado.
• The thirty-six Golden Core Cultivators joined their white Banner Flags into a formation that rained White Ice Arrows over the Monster Beasts, while Shen Long and the other cultivators also attacked.
• Shen Long released the Iron Tail Scorpion and Fire Qilin Beast, which slaughtered low-rank Monster Beasts and joined forces to kill a Red Falcon and two blue Manatees.
• A mid-stage Fourth-Rank Golden-Winged Thunder Eagle struck the Iron Tail Scorpion with golden lightning, but a Gold-Red Long Spear pierced its head and killed it.

Shen Long and the defenders fought off waves of Monster Beasts at Golden Flood Dragon Marketplace, but a Late Fourth Rank mutated beast helped the attackers break the Island Protection Formation. The exposed cultivators suffered heavy casualties as Shen Long faced the Ice Flood Dragon with his Cyan Fire Phoenix.

• Shen Long, the Iron Tail Scorpion, the Fire Qilin Beast, and the Spirit Ants attacked the invading Monster Beasts while Ximen Hao deployed Puppet Beasts to defend Golden Flood Dragon Marketplace.
• Ximen Hao reported that Thousand Flower Marketplace had fallen and that a Late Fourth Rank Thunder Flood Dragon led the assault on their side.
• The Thunder, Green, and Ice Flood Dragons joined the attack on the marketplace, and Shen Long and the defenders countered their strikes while the Island Protection Formation held.
• A Late Fourth Rank Blue Giant Beast fired a beam at the Golden Light Screen, and the Thunder Flood Dragon's lightning shattered the Formation.
• Monster Beast spells killed many cultivators and destroyed buildings, while Shen Long summoned a Cyan Fire Phoenix that struck the Ice Flood Dragon and engulfed it in flames.

Shen Long killed the Ice Flood Dragon during the beast tide but was then pursued by the Thunder Flood Dragon, Wind Flood Dragon, and other Fourth-Rank Spirit Beasts. At Star-Moon Marketplace, Wang Kun and True Monarch Taihao learned that the fifth-rank beast’s attack might be connected to Xu Qing’s ten thousand year Seven Rosy Jade Lotus and ordered stronger defenses and an investigation.

• Shen Long defeated the Green Wind Peng and killed the wounded Ice Flood Dragon, collecting its Essence Soul and corpse.
• Ximen Hao was killed by the Thunder Flood Dragon, and Ximen Hai escaped with his Nascent Soul as the other Nascent Soul Cultivators fled.
• The Thunder Flood Dragon, Wind Flood Dragon, and dozens of Fourth-Rank Spirit Beasts pursued Shen Long, while the two flood dragons blocked his escape before he vanished again.
• Song Lianyue reported the devastation and casualties at Star-Moon Marketplace and other marketplaces to Wang Kun and True Monarch Taihao.
• Wang Kun and True Monarch Taihao suspected the fifth-rank beast’s attack was tied to Xu Qing’s Seven Rosy Jade Lotus and ordered a secret investigation and stronger defenses.

Shen Long killed two Fourth-Rank Flood Dragons with his hidden spirit beasts and avoided returning to the Marketplace while the beast tide continued. Elsewhere, Lu Haoming secretly served the Swallowing Sea Whale, which rewarded him for obtaining Ten-Thousand-Year Blood Whale Grass and ordered him to search for rare Dragon Transformation Grass.

• Shen Long's Nine-Headed Ghost Dove and Golden-Winged Wind Peng helped defeat the Thunder Flood Dragon, and Shen Long captured its Essence Soul.
• The Ice Flood Dragon and Nine-Headed Ghost Dove defeated the Wind Flood Dragon, whose Essence Soul Shen Long collected before storing his spirit beasts and leaving.
• Lu Haoming gave the Ten-Thousand-Year Blood Whale Grass to the Swallowing Sea Whale, which swallowed it and praised him.
• The Swallowing Sea Whale asked Lu Haoming for news of high-rank Dragon Transformation Grass, and Lu Haoming said none over five thousand years old was available.
• The Swallowing Sea Whale gave Lu Haoming two Storage Bracelets as a reward and ordered him to keep its existence secret.

Shen Long explored Immortal Fallen Island, avoiding its shifting restrictions and fighting monsters with the help of his spirit beasts. He broke through a hidden barrier in a mountain cave and found a humanoid skeleton with a storage bracelet, then had the Nine-Headed Ghost Dove absorb the black light emerging from it.

• Shen Long entered Immortal Fallen Island with the Hundred-Eyed Golden Cicada and used it to avoid spatial rifts as he landed on the island.
• Shen Long's Iron Tail Scorpion killed and devoured a Yellow Lizard in the Black Dense Forest, while Shen Long detoured around a valley filled with restrictions.
• Shen Long collected Blood-Colored Mushrooms after the Iron Tail Scorpion killed a Blood-Colored Toad in a cave.
• Shen Long used the Thunder-Guiding Bead to expose a Yellow Toad in a swamp, and the Iron Tail Scorpion killed and devoured it.
• Shen Long and the Fire Qilin Beast broke through a Yellow Light Screen in a mountain cave, revealing a skeleton wearing a Yellow Storage Bracelet.
• Shen Long released the Nine-Headed Ghost Dove, which swallowed a mass of black light that flew out of the skeleton.

Shen Long learned that Nine-Curve Ascendant had planned to possess the body of whoever broke the restriction, then acquired Spirit Treasures and rare materials from his storage bracelet. After following True Monarch Thousand Mechanisms and his companions to a hidden chamber, Shen Long watched them break a restriction and reveal a skeleton and several treasures.

• The Nine-Headed Ghost Dove revealed Nine-Curve Ascendant's plan, and Shen Long took the items from the Yellow Storage Bracelet, including three Spirit Treasures, a ten thousand year Seven Rosy Jade Lotus, and Monster Luring Grass.
• The Spirit-Tracking Beast detected True Monarch Thousand Mechanisms traveling with Nine-Year-Old Rogue Cultivator and a silver-robed youth, and Shen Long followed them after learning they sought Dragon Transformation Grass.
• Shen Long tailed the group underground and followed them to a cave at the foot of a steep mountain.
• Nine-Year-Old Rogue Cultivator, True Monarch Thousand Mechanisms, and the silver-robed youth attacked and broke the Blood Ghost Spirit-Devouring Restriction.
• The group entered a Stone Chamber and found a cyan-robed skeleton, a painting, three Spirit Treasures, and a Cyan Storage Bracelet.

Shen Long watched True Monarch Thousand Mechanisms and Nine-Year-Old Rogue Cultivator fight over the treasures, while a possessed Silver-Robed Youth escaped with them. Shen Long’s Nine-Headed Ghost Dove helped kill the youth, and the chapter ended with Shen Long learning the split soul belonged to Cai Lei.

• True Monarch Thousand Mechanisms attacked Nine-Year-Old Rogue Cultivator and his Black-Skirted Woman after seizing the Cyan Storage Bracelet, while Shen Long watched from underground.
• A Remnant Soul possessed the Silver-Robed Youth and fled with the Green Lotus Treasure Lamp and other treasures as True Monarch Thousand Mechanisms and Nine-Year-Old Rogue Cultivator fought to stop him.
• The Nine-Headed Ghost Dove and Shen Long trapped and killed the Silver-Robed Youth, then Shen Long took his belongings and escaped underground.
• True Monarch Thousand Mechanisms and Nine-Year-Old Rogue Cultivator failed to identify the culprit and left, arguing that someone had arranged the theft and possession.
• In a hidden underground cave, Shen Long realized the split soul belonged to Cai Lei.

Shen Long uncovered Cai Lei’s split-soul backup plan, recovered his treasures, and prepared to stay on Immortal Fallen Island while danger remained outside. Meanwhile, Chu Buyu learned that Shen Long was missing after being pursued by two Fourth-Rank Flood Dragons and ordered Wang Feng to search for him.

• Shen Long and Nine-Headed Ghost Dove concluded that Cai Lei had scattered split souls and hidden wealth as backup plans before destroying his main body to cut off his pursuers’ leads.
• Shen Long examined Cai Lei’s belongings, learned about the Lingxu Realm and Green Lotus Continent from jade records, and refined five Spirit Treasures.
• Shen Long praised the Spirit-Tracking Beast, fed his spirit beasts, and chose to remain on Immortal Fallen Island because enemies might be waiting outside amid a Large Beast Tide.
• Shen Long fed a White Flood Dragon’s corpse to the Ice Flood Dragon and gave the other spirit beasts Demon Cores and a Millennial Spirit Herb before cultivating with a Blood Flood Dragon Pill.
• Wang Feng told Chu Buyu that Shen Long had killed a Fourth-Rank Ice Flood Dragon and was then pursued by Thunder and Wind Flood Dragons, so Chu Buyu ordered him to report any news of Shen Long.

After returning to Golden Flood Dragon Marketplace, Shen Long concealed that he had killed the two Fourth-Rank Flood Dragons by claiming two Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators had rescued him. He arranged for others to search for a mutated Monster Beast and the fictional cultivators, then left for the Inner Sea with Master Ice Silkworm and Han Yuwei to recover.

• Han Yilong and Ximen Hai learned that Shen Long had returned and summoned him to Golden Flood Dragon Garden.
• Shen Long pretended to be gravely injured and said two Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators had driven off the Thunder Flood Dragon and Wind Flood Dragon.
• Shen Long reunited with Master Ice Silkworm and Han Yuwei, who urged him to return to the Inner Sea and recuperate.
• At Golden Cicada Pavilion, Shen Long gave Song He medicine for Liu Xin and instructed him to seek news of the mutated Monster Beast and the two supposed rescuers.
• Shen Long asked several Nascent Soul Cultivators to search for the Monster Beast and the fictional cultivators.
• Shen Long, Master Ice Silkworm, and Han Yuwei teleported from the Outer Sea to the Inner Sea.

Shen Long’s supposed severe injuries spread through the cultivation world, while Yuan Rui helped him maintain the deception. Shen Long returned to seclusion, using the cover of recovery to cultivate.

• Chu Buyu learned that Shen Long had escaped two Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators and ordered Wang Feng to investigate them.
• At Heaven Beast Garden, Green Lotus Sword Venerable and the others discussed fifth-rank beasts, missing inheritance, and a new Outer Sea Beast Tide.
• Chen Xiao left the Spirit Control Sect’s new disciple ceremony after the Startling Dragon Bell rang nine times, then learned Shen Long needed rare spirit herbs to recover.
• Yuan Rui arranged a public search for healing herbs, understanding that Shen Long’s injury story could conceal his true strength.
• Shen Long told Lin Sen he would enter seclusion, then took a Blood Flood Dragon Pill and began cultivating.

After sixty years in seclusion, Shen Long traded for the corpse of a mutated Strange Beast and used it to feed the Fire Qilin Beast. He discovered that the Ice Flood Dragon had mutated and gained a powerful freezing ability, then went to Ice Silkworm Valley to ask Chen Bing to refine the Strange Beast’s eye.

• Shen Long met Gan Hao, who traded the corpse of a mutated Fourth-Rank Spirit Beast for three bottles of pills and explained that he had killed it while fleeing other beasts.
• Lin Sen told Shen Long that Wu Hu had entered the Nascent Soul Realm, and Shen Long fed the Strange Beast’s corpse to the Fire Qilin Beast.
• Shen Long found that the Ice Flood Dragon had reached Late Fourth Rank, gained human speech, and mutated to Bloodline Purity five.
• The Ice Flood Dragon demonstrated blue ice that resisted Shen Long’s Green Lotus True Flame but melted when the dragon breathed on it.
• The Golden-Winged Wind Peng and Nine-Headed Ghost Dove asked to mutate, but Shen Long said he lacked the spiritual elixirs to raise their Bloodline Purity.
• Shen Long took the Strange Beast’s vertical eye to Ice Silkworm Valley, where Chen Bing greeted him after he sent a Sound Transmission Talisman.

Shen Long asked Master Ice Silkworm to refine a Spirit Treasure and received fifth-rank Amethyst Flying Scorpion essence blood from Han Yuwei for his Iron Tail Scorpion. Meanwhile, Xu Qingyun arrived from the Green Plum Realm to propose an alliance against the Heaven Origin Race.

• Shen Long gave Master Ice Silkworm materials and five Life-Prolonging Fruits to refine a Spirit Treasure from a Mutated Spirit Beast's eyeball.
• Han Yuwei gave Shen Long the essence blood of a fifth-rank Amethyst Flying Scorpion to strengthen his Iron Tail Scorpion.
• Shen Long fed the Iron Tail Scorpion the essence blood and a Ten Thousand Year Blood Erosion Flower, then began cultivating.
• Wang Kun received word that Xu Qingyun, a Spirit Transformation cultivator from the Green Plum Realm, had come to visit and invited him to the Reception Hall.
• Xu Qingyun told Wang Kun that he had crossed realms through an Interface Passage and sought cooperation against the Heaven Origin Race.

Xu Qingyun invited the Gan Yang Realm to join the Green Plum Realm in destroying the Heaven Origin Race, while Huangfu Lou captured a woman who had secretly followed Wu Quan. In the East Hua Cultivation World, Ye Hongyao traded Flood Dragon Essence Blood with Shen Long and invited him to the Medicine King Valley Valley Master's Spirit Transmutation Ceremony.

• Xu Qingyun told Wang Kun that the Big Dipper Pavilion had ordered the Green Plum Realm to fight the Heaven Origin Race and offered resources in exchange for joining forces with the Gan Yang Realm.
• Wang Kun agreed to consult the other cultivators and let Xu Qingyun stay on Heaven Beast Island, while Xu Qingyun said he alone could access the temporarily closed Interface Passage.
• Wu Quan delivered requested items to Huangfu Lou, who discovered and captured a green-skirted woman secretly following him with a Black Pagoda.
• Huangfu Lou reflected that the woman had nearly uncovered his connection to the disappearances of High-Level Cultivators and the Swallowing Sea Whale.
• Ye Hongyao traded Shen Long a bottle of Fourth-Rank Flood Dragon Essence Blood for a Demon Core and told him that more than eighty Nascent Soul Cultivators had died in a Large Beast Tide.
• Ye Hongyao invited Shen Long to the Medicine King Valley Valley Master's Spirit Transmutation Ceremony, and he agreed to attend.