Chapter Summaries

After thirteen years crossing the dangerous sea, Wang Daoyuan reached a volcanic island near the Seven Stars Sea Cultivation World and found the ancient Teleportation Array recorded by True Man Ten Thousand Corpses. He had Chen Zhaoyi copy its intact formation patterns, though the array could not be recreated from the patterns alone.

• Wang Daoyuan stored the Jade Scale Flood Dragon’s corpse, and Bloodflame processed its blood essence while the dragon’s valuable parts and remains were used to strengthen the Spirit Pearl Space.
• Wang Daoyuan traveled east aboard his flying warship, cultivating the True Dragon Body Tempering Art and killing Demon Beasts while avoiding storms and pursuing packs.
• After thirteen years at sea, Wang Daoyuan arrived at an active volcanic island where faint fifth-order spiritual energy marked the edge of the Seven Stars Sea Cultivation World.
• Wang Daoyuan dived into an underwater cave, activated its entrance mechanism, and found the intact Teleportation Array described in True Man Ten Thousand Corpses’ records.
• Wang Daoyuan brought Chen Zhaoyi out of the Spirit Pearl Space to record the array’s patterns, knowing that the patterns alone could not be used to construct a Teleportation Array.

Wang Daoyuan investigated a Teleportation Array and settled on Monster Hunting Island as a place to gather intelligence about the Seven Stars Sea Cultivation World. At a restaurant there, he overheard a Rogue Cultivator describe fleeing the Blood Shark Pirates and a Seven Stars Alliance wanted notice.

• Wang Daoyuan recorded the Teleportation Array’s patterns, sealed the cave, and stayed on Volcanic Island to comprehend Laws using its lava.
• Ruan Chang scouted east and found Monster Hunting Island, a Rogue Cultivator settlement without Nascent Soul Cultivators, where he gathered intelligence in disguise.
• Wang Daoyuan left Volcanic Island, disguised himself as an ordinary Rogue Cultivator, and flew to Monster Hunting Island.
• Wang Daoyuan explored Monster Hunting Market and entered Kaiyang Restaurant to listen for useful information.
• A white-bearded cultivator asked Fellow Daoist Li why he had come to Monster Hunting Island, and Li explained that the Blood Shark Pirates had scattered his brothers and that he had fled under a Seven Stars Alliance wanted notice.

Wang Daoyuan joined Liang Feng’s monster-hunting team on Monster Hunting Island to learn more about the Seven Stars Sea. The team’s leader, the Mysterious Ice Fairy, summoned him inside, while Uncle Zhong’s manner suggested she might have ties to a powerful faction.

• Wang Daoyuan heard that the Seven Stars Alliance and the Blood Shark Pirates held power across the Seven Stars Sea, while Myriad Demon Island lay far beyond it.
• Liang Feng invited Wang Daoyuan to join the Mysterious Ice Fairy’s monster-hunting team because his spirit bees could find spiritual objects, and Wang accepted.
• Liang Feng took Wang Daoyuan to the team’s base, where Uncle Zhong suspected he might be a Jade Heng Sword Sect disciple.
• The Mysterious Ice Fairy called Uncle Zhong, Liang Feng, and Wang Daoyuan into her cave abode.

Wang Daoyuan, posing as Zhou Ming, joined Mysterious Ice Fairy and Uncle Zhong’s demon beast hunting team and learned more about the Seven Stars Sea’s major powers. After arranging an expedition to Black Shark Reef, he gathered intelligence revealing that Monster Hunting Island lay between the Seven Stars Alliance and the Blood Shark Pirates, who had agreed not to control remote islands plagued by demon beasts.

• Wang Daoyuan entered Mysterious Ice Fairy’s cave abode with Uncle Zhong and Liang Feng, introduced himself as Zhou Ming, and claimed skill in sword cultivation and artifact refining.
• Wang Daoyuan displayed his Soul Chasing Bees, and Uncle Zhong described Greenleaf Island, which belonged to the Divine Pill Sect.
• Mysterious Ice Fairy agreed to take Wang Daoyuan demon beast hunting and set their departure for Black Shark Reef one month later.
• Wang Daoyuan settled on a nearby hill and visited Kaiyang Restaurant to gather information about the Seven Stars Sea’s powers.
• Wang Daoyuan learned that the Seven Stars Alliance and the Blood Shark Pirates had fought for control of Monster Hunting Island before agreeing to leave remote, demon-beast-infested islands uncontrolled.

Wang Daoyuan joined a demon-hunting team at Black Shark Reef and used his Soul Chasing Bees to locate two Jade Fin Sharks. The team prepared an ambush, and the sharks charged toward their formation.

• Wang Daoyuan refined a new sword spell that controlled thirty-six sword shadows and could strengthen the Heaven Sealing Sword Prison.
• Uncle Zhong gathered Wang Daoyuan, Liang Feng, the Mysterious Ice Fairy, Ding Ming, and Jiang Yi to travel to Black Shark Reef and hunt Demon Beasts.
• Wang Daoyuan sent out Soul Chasing Bees, which located several groups of Demon Beasts, including two Jade Fin Sharks west of the reef.
• Uncle Zhong chose the Jade Fin Sharks as their target, while the Mysterious Ice Fairy assigned Wang Daoyuan and Liang Feng to hold one shark back.
• Jiang Yi lured the Jade Fin Sharks with blood-scented liquid, and Ding Ming set up a formation as the team waited in hiding.
• Two ink-black Jade Fin Sharks charged toward the group.

Wang Daoyuan and Mysterious Ice Fairy’s team killed two Jade Fin Sharks at Black Shark Reef and headed back toward Monster Hunting Island. On the way, the Blood Shark Pirates intercepted them and demanded their prey, while Uncle Zhong claimed the team had returned empty-handed.

• Ding Ming activated the blood-colored formation, and Mysterious Ice Fairy froze the two Jade Fin Sharks as Uncle Zhong, Wang Daoyuan, Liang Feng, and Mysterious Ice Fairy attacked them.
• The Jade Fin Sharks grew larger in their frenzy, but Mysterious Ice Fairy’s Ice Sword and Wang Daoyuan’s sword shadows struck fatal wounds inside their mouths.
• Uncle Zhong stored the two sharks in his Universe Ring, and the team left Black Shark Reef as a group of Silver Scale Sharks approached.
• A fourth-order flying boat raised the Blood Shark Pirates’ flag and pursued the team after they had traveled more than three thousand li from Black Shark Reef.
• Uncle Zhong told the Blood Shark Pirates that the team had found no prey and offered them Spirit Stones, but their boat continued following.

Wang Daoyuan agreed to protect the Mysterious Ice Fairy and Uncle Zhong from the Blood Shark Pirates in exchange for a Seven Stars Token. He used concealment to appear aboard the pirates’ vessel and forced their leader’s men to apologize, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Blood Shark Pirates demanded that the Mysterious Ice Fairy come with them to satisfy their leader, while Uncle Zhong tried to negotiate.
• Uncle Zhong privately offered Wang Daoyuan information about Nascent Soul breakthrough treasures and then a Seven Stars Token in exchange for his help.
• Wang Daoyuan accepted the offer but warned Uncle Zhong not to renege on the agreement.
• Wang Daoyuan concealed himself with the Black Demon Robe and Hidden Demon Art, then appeared on the Blood Shark Pirates’ vessel and threatened the men with sword light at their throats.
• The burly Blood Shark Pirate apologized to the Wen Family’s eldest young lady and offered spiritual treasures as compensation.

Wang Daoyuan received the Seven Stars Token after helping Mysterious Ice Fairy escape the Blood Shark Pirates, then refused Uncle Zhong’s offer to marry into the Wen family. He stopped to consider a different bargain: protecting Mysterious Ice Fairy in the Seven Stars Secret Realm in exchange for its map and intelligence.

• Uncle Zhong paid off the Blood Shark Pirates, and Wang Daoyuan returned safely to the demon-hunting team’s flying vessel.
• The team returned to Monster Hunting Island, where Uncle Zhong distributed the proceeds from selling the Jade Fin Sharks.
• Wang Daoyuan accepted the Seven Stars Token and tried to leave without getting involved in Mysterious Ice Fairy’s family affairs.
• Uncle Zhong offered Wang Daoyuan a map of the Seven Stars Secret Realm if he agreed to marry Mysterious Ice Fairy, but Wang Daoyuan refused.
• Uncle Zhong instead asked Wang Daoyuan to protect Mysterious Ice Fairy in the secret realm until she reached the Nascent Soul realm, offering all his secret-realm intelligence in return.

Wang Daoyuan treated Uncle Zhong’s cold-qi injuries and agreed to travel with him and Mysterious Ice Fairy to Skyfire Island. After leaving their companions behind and disguising themselves, the three reached the island after two days at sea.

• Uncle Zhong explained that a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator’s cold qi had corroded his organs, and Wang Daoyuan used Crimson Sun True Fire and the Azure Dragon Return to Heaven Art to improve his condition.
• Uncle Zhong described Skyfire Island, and Wang Daoyuan chose it as a destination for its fire spiritual qi, spiritual veins, and potential to aid his cultivation.
• Uncle Zhong gave Liang Feng and the other two companions travel funds and told them to seek their own paths before the group departed.
• Wang Daoyuan advised Mysterious Ice Fairy to disguise herself as a man, then gave her and Uncle Zhong a technique to alter their appearances.
• Wang Daoyuan, Uncle Zhong, and Mysterious Ice Fairy traveled northwest for two days and saw Skyfire Island’s smoking volcano.

Wang Daoyuan settled on Skyfire Island, cultivated beside its volcano, and finished removing the cold energy from Uncle Zhong. After rejecting Uncle Zhong’s proposal that he marry Mysterious Ice Fairy, Wang Daoyuan returned to the crater to cultivate and study the Animal Hide Book’s records of the Seven Stars Secret Realm.

• Uncle Zhong guided Wang Daoyuan to an empty cave abode on Skyfire Island, where Wang Daoyuan began cultivating near the volcano’s lava.
• Wang Daoyuan used the volcano’s abundant fire spiritual power to comprehend laws, strengthen his spiritual flame and Spirit Pearl Space, and restore six magical artifacts.
• After a year of treatment, Wang Daoyuan removed the last cold energy from Uncle Zhong and warned him that his damaged foundation limited his remaining lifespan and prospects for advancement.
• Uncle Zhong gave Wang Daoyuan an Animal Hide Book and offered him marriage to Mysterious Ice Fairy, but Wang Daoyuan declined because he already had a wife and children.
• Wang Daoyuan saw Mysterious Ice Fairy in tears, left the hill, and returned to the crater to cultivate while waiting for the Seven Stars Secret Realm to open.
• Wang Daoyuan read that the secret realm’s most valuable location was the Seven Stars Heavenly Palace, whose Ziwei Hall remained inaccessible and whose medicine gardens drew cultivators from the great powers.

Wang Daoyuan spent nine years strengthening his Laws, sword arts, artifacts, and spirit beasts before traveling in disguise to Yin Yuan Island for the Seven Stars Secret Realm. The realm opened, and its entrance admitted cultivators carrying Seven Stars Tokens.

• Wang Daoyuan learned from the animal hide book about the Seven Stars Sea, Myriad Demon Island, and the realm near Yin Yuan Island.
• Over nine years on Skyfire Island, Wang Daoyuan advanced his Fire and Earth Law comprehension, restored his artifacts, and developed the Heavenly Gang Sword Array.
• Wang Daoyuan left for Yin Yuan Island aboard a flying boat and disguised himself to avoid attracting attention.
• Wang Daoyuan settled in a marketplace on western Yin Yuan Island as cultivators gathered for the realm's opening.
• At sunrise, a Nascent Soul peak cultivator announced that the Seven Stars Secret Realm had opened and that holders of Seven Stars Tokens could enter.

Wang Daoyuan entered the Seven Stars Secret Realm by taking advantage of a battle over Seven Stars Tokens, then traveled to Mirror Lake to search for spirit materials and study Water Attribute laws. He found a promising spirit plant and made enough progress in comprehending the laws to meet the requirement for breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm.

• Major powers and Nascent Soul Cultivators entered the secret realm before Golden Core Rogue Cultivators began competing for entry.
• Wang Daoyuan pretended to join a robbery, used his Seven Stars Token to pass through the light screen, and appeared in the Ten Thousand Horses Plain.
• Wang Daoyuan concealed his aura and flew east to Mirror Lake, where he released Big Black to search for spirit plants.
• Big Black found a mid-grade Fourth-order sapling on an island, and Wang Daoyuan moved it with the surrounding rock into the Spirit Pearl Space.
• Wang Daoyuan set up concealment formations beside the island's Mid-grade Fifth-order spirit spring and studied the Water Attribute laws in his Gui Water Nether Flame.
• After five days, Wang Daoyuan had advanced his Water Attribute law comprehension enough to meet the requirement for a Nascent Soul breakthrough.

Wang Daoyuan comprehended the final Five-element Law at Golden Sun Mountain and found Geng Metal Essence, then was ambushed by a Nascent Soul Cultivator while leaving. He realized his attacker was only in the Nascent Soul Early Stage and that he still had a chance to fight.

• Wang Daoyuan comprehended the Wood Attribute Law at a Fifth-order Spirit Vein, then traveled to Golden Sun Mountain to study the Metal Attribute Law.
• Wang Daoyuan completed his comprehension of all Five-element Laws and sensed an unusual fluctuation along the Metal Attribute Spirit Vein.
• Wang Daoyuan found and collected Geng Metal Essence, placing it in the Spirit Pearl Space to help a Metal Attribute Spirit Vein grow.
• Wang Daoyuan left Golden Sun Mountain, but a Nascent Soul Cultivator attacked and destroyed his flying boat, demanding that he hand over his gains.
• Wang Daoyuan evaded the attack and used the Sword Shadow Divine Light Technique to exhaust the golden light, judging that his opponent was a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator.

Wang Daoyuan escaped a Nascent Soul cultivator and traveled to Flowing Cloud Mountain to search for Core Shattering Grass and Nascent Soul Fruit. There, he unexpectedly encountered Uncle Zhong and the Mysterious Ice Fairy being pursued, and struck down one of their attackers.

• Wang Daoyuan resisted the golden-robed Nascent Soul cultivator's attempt to make him a servant, then escaped underground when neither side wanted to risk a desperate fight.
• Wang Daoyuan traveled to Flowing Cloud Mountain, hoping to find Core Shattering Grass and Nascent Soul Fruit to aid his Nascent Soul formation.
• Wang Daoyuan heard pursuers decide to kill him, then recognized Uncle Zhong and the Mysterious Ice Fairy among the fugitives.
• Wang Daoyuan approached the group and waited until the pursuers passed before ambushing a Peak Golden Core cultivator and beheading him.

Wang Daoyuan drove off the attackers threatening Mysterious Ice Fairy and Uncle Zhong, then accepted spiritual medicines from them as thanks for saving their lives. With the Core Shattering Grass and Nascent Soul Fruit secured, he planned to form his Nascent Soul in a secluded place inside the secret realm and later plunder the Seven Stars Heavenly Palace.

• Wang Daoyuan ambushed the Nascent Soul Cultivator twice, forcing him and the surviving Peak Golden Core Cultivator to retreat north.
• Wang Daoyuan reunited with Mysterious Ice Fairy and Uncle Zhong, complained that Uncle Zhong had drawn him into danger, and demanded spiritual medicines as repayment.
• Uncle Zhong led Wang Daoyuan and Mysterious Ice Fairy to a hidden medicinal garden containing Nascent Soul Fruits, Core Shattering Grass, and Spring Return Grass.
• Uncle Zhong gave Wang Daoyuan one Nascent Soul Fruit, two Core Shattering Grass plants, and a Spring Return Grass plant, while keeping the remaining medicines for Mysterious Ice Fairy.
• Wang Daoyuan declined Uncle Zhong's offer to guard him and decided to form his Nascent Soul in a remote location before seeking to plunder the Seven Stars Heavenly Palace.

Wang Daoyuan prepared at Mirror Lake and successfully formed a Nascent Soul, fusing his five Spiritual Power Seeds and manifesting an Yinglong Pattern. A tribulation cloud gathered above the island, and heavenly pressure spread across a two-hundred-li radius.

• Wang Daoyuan returned to Mirror Lake, cleared nearby spirit fish, searched for cultivators, and arranged guards and formations around the island.
• Wang Daoyuan drank aged Hundred Fruit Brew and swallowed Core Shattering Grass, causing his Golden Core to swell and shatter.
• Wang Daoyuan swallowed a Nascent Soul Fruit as his Golden Core and Purple Palace fragments gathered around his divine soul, forming a white-jade Nascent Soul.
• Wang Daoyuan's five Spiritual Power Seeds merged into the Nascent Soul, while the Five Elements Divine Beast Phantoms fused into an Yinglong Pattern on its glabella.
• Wang Daoyuan's Nascent Soul summoned five fifth-order shields as a tribulation cloud formed and heavenly pressure covered the area around Mirror Lake.

Wang Daoyuan endured the five elemental tribulations and became a Nascent Soul Cultivator, then faced a Divine Ability Tribulation that tested his control over domains and spells. As the tribulation flames overwhelmed his Five Elements Spirit Fire, he summoned the Yinglong, which devoured the flames and turned the fight in his favor before the tribulation condensed into a five-colored flame pearl.

• Several Nascent Soul Cultivators sensed the disturbance near Mirror Lake, but those meditating at the Heavenly Palace dismissed it while others flew toward the tribulation.
• Wang Daoyuan used a shield and his spirit fires to withstand the five elemental tribulations, advancing all five spirit fires to low-grade fifth order.
• After the five tribulations passed, Wang Daoyuan became a Nascent Soul Cultivator and faced a Divine Ability Tribulation that drained life force and divine sense across its domain.
• Wang Daoyuan imitated the tribulation's spells and domain, improving his understanding of divine abilities as it demonstrated his commonly used techniques.
• The tribulation flames overwhelmed Wang Daoyuan's Five Elements Spirit Fire until he summoned the Yinglong, which devoured the flames and grew stronger.
• Wang Daoyuan regained ground as his spirit fires resisted the tribulation flames, while the tribulation condensed them into a five-colored flame pearl.

Wang Daoyuan survived his Nascent Soul tribulation and killed True Person Jin Guang, who attacked him while he was unconscious. As he absorbed the Heaven and Earth Boon, another Nascent Soul Cultivator from the Seven Stars Alliance arrived and threatened to kill him.

• The heavenly tribulation shattered Wang Daoyuan's defenses and left his Nascent Soul badly burned, but the Yinglong devoured the flames and helped preserve his life.
• A golden-robed Nascent Soul Cultivator attacked Wang Daoyuan, but Chen Zhaoyi's formation, Liao Yang's avatar, Blood Flame, and the Crimson Feather Crow held him off until Wang Daoyuan awoke.
• Wang Daoyuan trapped the golden-robed cultivator in Black Tortoise Purgatory, killed him, and refined his Nascent Soul into spirit fire essence.
• Wang Daoyuan and his spirit beasts absorbed the violet-gold Heaven and Earth Boon while his Nascent Soul recovered and his physical body grew stronger.
• A burly Nascent Soul Cultivator from the Seven Stars Alliance arrived, accused Wang Daoyuan of killing True Person Jin Guang, and demanded his life.

Wang Daoyuan repelled a Nascent Soul body cultivator during the Heaven and Earth Boon, then used the boon to strengthen his body and develop the Spirit Pearl Space. After the boon ended, he discovered that a special energy in spirit fires might be limiting their growth.

• Wang Daoyuan fought off a body cultivator who attacked Lakeheart Island, wounding him and forcing him to flee.
• Wang Daoyuan absorbed the Heaven and Earth Boon to temper his body and feed the Yinglong mark, while nearby cultivators decided not to interfere.
• Wang Daoyuan poured the remaining boon into the Spirit Pearl Space, advancing all five spirit veins to Low-grade Fifth-order and expanding the space's spirit fields and time flow.
• Wang Daoyuan examined his spirit fires and found that they contained a special energy, with the Life Spirit Fire and Crimson Sun True Fire holding more than the others.
• Wang Daoyuan suspected that the other spirit fires had stalled because they could not replenish the special energy needed for their growth.

After Wang Daoyuan’s Nascent Soul breakthrough, the Blood Shark Pirates and the Wen Family tried to recruit him, but he refused both offers and left Mirror Lake in disguise. With eighteen days left before the Seven Stars Secret Realm closed, he headed toward Qing Mang Mountain to seek spiritual herbs.

• Wang Daoyuan realized that splitting off Pseudo Spirit Fire could weaken his Spirit Fire and stored the Crimson Feather Crow, Big Black, and Yun Yi in the Spirit Pearl Space.
• Huang He invited Wang Daoyuan to join the Blood Shark Pirates and warned that the Seven Stars Alliance would issue a warrant for him, but Wang Daoyuan refused and said he could go to Myriad Demon Island.
• Wen Xuantong offered Wang Daoyuan a place with the Wen Family, including the possibility of marrying into the family, but Wang Daoyuan also declined.
• Wang Daoyuan donned the Black Demon Robe, used the Hidden Demon Art, and left Mirror Lake rather than risk drawing the attention of powerful cultivators.
• Wang Daoyuan headed north toward Qing Mang Mountain, where he hoped to find spiritual herbs and ingredients useful for cultivation and healing pills.