Chapter Summaries

Wang Daoyuan killed an assassin sent by the Huang Family and discovered the man belonged to an organization called Ghost Snake. After Deputy Commander Lin and three others from the Guard Team arrived with the Huang Family cultivator, Wang Daoyuan finished refining his pills and asked why they had come.

• Wang Daoyuan caught and killed the Nascent Soul assassin, then burned away his Nascent Soul and erased the traces of the fight.
• Wang Daoyuan examined the assassin's belongings and found a Ghost Snake token and a Formation Breaking Bead.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to refining pills, but Deputy Commander Lin and three others arrived at his courtyard, including the Huang Family cultivator who had threatened him.
• The Huang Family cultivator criticized Wang Daoyuan for making Deputy Commander Lin wait, and Wang Daoyuan rebuked him after Deputy Commander Lin said waiting was fine.
• Wang Daoyuan completed the pill-condensing stage, welcomed the visitors inside, and asked Deputy Commander Lin why they had come.

Wang Daoyuan evaded Second Young Master Huang’s attempt to use the Guard Team to search his residence, then prepared for the Huang Family’s next assassination attempt. After leaving Rare Treasures Island for Myriad Demon Island, he was pursued by Young Master Huang and an unfamiliar assassin.

• Deputy Commander Lin rejected Second Young Master Huang’s demand to search Wang Daoyuan’s Universe Ring for evidence of a killing.
• Wang Daoyuan reinforced his courtyard formation, completed three Essence Blood Viscera Strengthening Pills, and left Rare Treasures Island after two months.
• Two Peak Golden Core cultivators tried to delay Wang Daoyuan at the south gate, but he continued out and headed south aboard his flying boat.
• A fast fifth-tier flying boat caught up with Wang Daoyuan, so he put away his boat and fled toward the coral reefs below.
• Young Master Huang and an unfamiliar figure, whose aura resembled Ghost Snake’s, flew from the pursuing boat as Young Master Huang called out to Wang Daoyuan.

Wang Daoyuan lured Young Master Huang and the assassin into the sea, where his true-dragon form gave him the advantage. He killed Young Master Huang with the Returning Origin Sword, revealing that he was the sword cultivator surnamed Zhou, and then turned to attack the assassin.

• Wang Daoyuan plunged into the coral reefs to escape Young Master Huang and the assassin, but Young Master Huang poured shark-attracting liquid into the water.
• Wang Daoyuan swam deep beneath the surface and provoked Young Master Huang until he angrily entered the sea with the assassin.
• Wang Daoyuan transformed into a true dragon and seized Young Master Huang, while the assassin tried to intervene.
• Wang Daoyuan drew the Returning Origin Sword, revealing his identity as the sword cultivator surnamed Zhou, and shattered Young Master Huang's shield and body with a single thrust.
• Wang Daoyuan stored Young Master Huang's corpse in the Spirit Pearl Space and attacked the assassin with the Returning Origin Sword.

Wang Daoyuan killed the assassin pursuing him, escaped Old Master Huang’s search, and traveled south to Fire Lotus Island in the Myriad Demon Islands. He arrived seeking Essence of Departing Fire and began looking for information at the island’s marketplace.

• Wang Daoyuan detected the assassin hiding in the seawater, killed him with the Returning Origin Sword, and stored his corpse and Nascent Soul in the Spirit Pearl Space.
• Jin Sheng told his father, Old Master Huang, that Young Master Huang’s soul tablet had shattered, and Old Master Huang set out to pursue Wang Daoyuan.
• Wang Daoyuan searched Young Master Huang’s and the assassin’s Universe Rings, found the Fifth-order top-grade Star Core, and switched to their faster flying vessel.
• Old Master Huang failed to find Wang Daoyuan and returned to Rare Treasures Island, while Wang Daoyuan avoided the Blood Shark Pirates and reached the southern edge of the Seven Stars Sea.
• Wang Daoyuan traveled through Sea Demonic Beast territory for more than half a year and arrived at Fire Lotus Island to seek Essence of Departing Fire.
• Wang Daoyuan entered Fire Lotus Island’s marketplace to gather information and found a restaurant called Kaiyang Restaurant.

Wang Daoyuan learned that Blood Flame Mountain might contain Essence of Departing Fire and traveled there to investigate. After establishing his authority among the cultivators near the volcano, he waited for a chance to enter its crater, where a fleeing cultivator and a blood-red giant lizard finally appeared.

• At Kaiyang Restaurant, Wang Daoyuan overheard cultivators discuss a past discovery of Essence of Departing Fire in Blood Flame Mountain’s lava lake.
• Wang Daoyuan traveled to Blood Flame Mountain and gathered valuable Fire Attribute Spirit Plants along the way.
• A Nascent Soul Middle Stage Blood Demon cultivator demanded ten thousand High-grade Spirit Stones from Wang Daoyuan for cultivating nearby, but Wang Daoyuan challenged him and won their clash with the Ink Dragon Halberd.
• Wang Daoyuan stayed near Blood Flame Mountain for more than half a month, waiting for an opportunity to enter its crater.
• A Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator fled from the crater, pursued by a blood-red giant lizard.

Wang Daoyuan descended into Blood Flame Mountain’s lava lake in search of the Essence of Departing Fire and waited as rival cultivators fought below. He ambushed a fleeing demonic cultivator but let him escape ahead, then learned the man had taken the Essence of Departing Fire as the other cultivators hurried after him.

• After a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator reported a sixth-order material beneath the lava, more than twenty cultivators entered the crater, and Wang Daoyuan followed using Black Tortoise Purgatory and Crimson Sun True Fire to withstand the heat.
• Hearing human spells and fighting below, Wang Daoyuan waited at a depth of over a thousand zhang for the exhausted cultivators to rise.
• A demonic cultivator who had previously troubled Wang Daoyuan fled upward after a battle below, and Wang Daoyuan attacked him with dragon claws.
• The demonic cultivator escaped in a streak of blood light, while Wang Daoyuan followed at a measured pace and told the other cultivators he had not pursued him.
• An elderly cultivator and the others learned the fugitive had obtained the Essence of Departing Fire and rushed after him.

Wang Daoyuan pursued the Blood Demon with a group of cultivators and helped secure the Essence of Departing Fire. After killing a Nascent Soul cultivator who challenged his right to a share, he intimidated the others into accepting a fair division of the treasure.

• Wang Daoyuan followed the cultivators south as they tracked the Blood Demon to an underwater hideout.
• Wang Daoyuan proposed sharing the treasure, then killed a black-robed Nascent Soul cultivator who tried to exclude him.
• The group found the Blood Demon’s underwater formation, and Wang Daoyuan broke it to reveal the cultivator holding the Essence of Departing Fire.
• The cultivators attacked and killed the Blood Demon, including his Nascent Soul, before he could bargain for his life.
• The Azure Wave Snake’s owner divided the Essence of Departing Fire into shares, giving Wang Daoyuan and the three trackers larger portions.

After leaving Fire Lotus Island with the Essence of Departing Fire, Wang Daoyuan searched south for the Essence of Yimu and encountered cultivators from the Golden Sand Sect. They offered him an elder’s position if he joined, and he learned that their sect had four Nascent Soul Cultivators and dominated the surrounding region.

• Wang Daoyuan left Fire Lotus Island, stored the Essence of Departing Fire in the Spirit Pearl Space, and continued south aboard his flying boat.
• As he traveled, Wang Daoyuan considered how the Essences of Guishui and Geng Metal had affected his spirit veins and the Grand Unity Golden Flame.
• After flying more than two hundred thousand li, Wang Daoyuan was intercepted by two Golden Sand Sect elders, Xie Qin and Du Ze, who suspected him of being a spy.
• Wang Daoyuan threatened to fight if the elders pressed him, but Xie Qin and Du Ze decided he was likely a rogue cultivator and invited him to join their sect.
• Xie Qin told Wang Daoyuan that the Golden Sand Sect had four Nascent Soul Cultivators and offered him the position of Fourth Elder.

Wang Daoyuan visited the Golden Sand Sect to learn about the Myriad Demon Islands and find the Essence of Yimu. He accepted a Guest Elder position, and An Lintao promised to have the sect search for the essence.

• Wang Daoyuan decided the Golden Sand Sect posed little danger and followed Xie Qin and Du Ze to Golden Sand Island.
• An Lintao welcomed Wang Daoyuan in the city and described the sect’s struggles against demonic cultivators and Half-demons.
• An Lintao invited Wang Daoyuan to join as the Fourth Elder, but Wang Daoyuan declined because he wanted to travel freely.
• An Lintao offered Wang Daoyuan the position of Guest Elder without restricting his movements, and Wang Daoyuan accepted.
• Wang Daoyuan requested the Essence of Yimu, and An Lintao promised to ask the sect’s disciples to search for it.

Wang Daoyuan joined the Golden Sand Sect as a Guest Elder and went with Xie Qin to watch over its shops on Demon Slaying Island. There he met Liu Zhiyuan of the Town Sea Sect and recognized that his aura resembled True Lord Sea-Crossing’s, leaving him curious about the connection.

• Wang Daoyuan accepted the Golden Sand Sect’s Guest Elder token and chose to establish himself at the Demon Slaying Island market to seek Essence of Yimu.
• Wang Daoyuan traveled to Demon Slaying Island with Xie Qin and chose to stay in the Earth Fire Chamber while helping the sect’s shops with his alchemy and artifact-refinement skills.
• Liu Zhiyuan asked the Golden Sand Sect for aid against the Magic Flame Sect’s pressure, and Xie Qin offered supplies at seventy percent of market value.
• Wang Daoyuan sensed that Liu Zhiyuan’s aura was familiar, and Xie Qin explained the Town Sea Sect’s history and ties to the Spirit Taming Sect.
• Wang Daoyuan recalled that Liu Zhiyuan’s aura resembled True Lord Sea-Crossing, whom he had encountered in the Seven Stars Secret Realm.

Wang Daoyuan uncovered signs that the Town Sea Sect was tied to the Spirit Taming Sect and spent a year refining pills and artifacts for the Golden Sand Sect. When Magic Flame Sect threatened the Golden Sand Sect over its support for the Town Sea Sect, Wang Daoyuan and Liu Zhiyuan stepped forward, and the confrontation edged toward violence.

• Wang Daoyuan suspected the Town Sea Sect was a hidden contingency of the Spirit Taming Sect, but decided to avoid getting deeply involved.
• Wang Daoyuan refined pills and defensive artifacts for a year in the Golden Sand Sect's Earth Fire Chamber, earning spirit stones and improving his skills.
• Three Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators from the Magic Flame Sect blocked the Golden Sand Tavern and demanded the Golden Sand Sect stop supporting the Town Sea Sect.
• Xie Qin told the Magic Flame Sect cultivators that the Golden Sand Sect's discounts for the Town Sea Sect were a longstanding custom, but they threatened to attack unless the ties were severed.
• Wang Daoyuan flew out to defend the Golden Sand Sect, and Liu Zhiyuan arrived with a Low-grade Fifth-order puppet as the Magic Flame Sect's leader threatened them.

After the Golden Sand Sect allied with the Town Sea Sect, Wang Daoyuan and his companions fought three Magic Flame Sect cultivators who had come to provoke them. Wang Daoyuan killed the strongest opponent, and the other two demonic cultivators were also slain, leaving Liu Zhiyuan impressed by his skill.

• Xie Qin announced that the Golden Sand Sect would stand with the Town Sea Sect and that they intended to keep the three Magic Flame Sect cultivators from leaving.
• Wang Daoyuan, Liu Zhiyuan, and Xie Qin each engaged one opponent, with Wang Daoyuan initially meeting the leading demonic cultivator in a clash of physical strength.
• Wang Daoyuan used Dragon Qi and the Ink Dragon Halberd to overpower the leader, then pursued him after he tried to escape with Blood Escape.
• Wang Daoyuan wounded and exhausted the leader with Feather Blade, caught him, and killed his Nascent Soul.
• Wang Daoyuan struck down Xie Qin's opponent, and Xie Qin killed him; Liu Zhiyuan and his puppet finished off the third demonic cultivator.
• Liu Zhiyuan praised Wang Daoyuan for killing Blood Sea True Person, one of the strongest Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivators, without being injured.

Wang Daoyuan exchanged the corpses of two Nascent Soul devil cultivators for Fourth-order Essence of Yimu and ten Nascent Soul Nurturing Pills from Liu Zhiyuan. After suspecting Town Sea Sect was concealing its true strength, he returned to the Earth Fire Chamber and began fusing the Essence of Yimu with his Wood Attribute Spirit Vein.

• Liu Zhiyuan offered to exchange resources for the devil cultivators' corpses, and Wang Daoyuan agreed to trade them for Essence of Yimu.
• Liu Zhiyuan gave Wang Daoyuan a piece of Fourth-order Essence of Yimu and ten Nascent Soul Nurturing Pills, and Wang Daoyuan handed over the two corpses.
• Xie Qin questioned Town Sea Sect's ability to refine corpses, and Wang Daoyuan advised him to focus on defending their shop against Magic Flame Sect.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to the Earth Fire Chamber and connected the Essence of Yimu to the Wood Attribute Spirit Vein.
• Wang Daoyuan noted that his Grand Unity Golden Flame had reached Fifth-order and that the Gui Water Nether Flame showed signs of advancing.

Wang Daoyuan cultivated for a year after securing the Spirit Pearl Space and the Blood Sea True Person’s spoils, while the Magic Flame Sect’s rogue cultivator attacks steadily damaged the Town Sea Sect and Golden Sand Sect. Liu Zhiyuan proposed that the two sects strike the raiders’ gathering place on Flowing Cloud Island, and Wang Daoyuan heard the plan.

• Wang Daoyuan expanded the Yin-energy spirit fields to use up the growing spring water from the Water Spirit Vein and Gui Water Nether Flame.
• Wang Daoyuan used the Blood Sea True Person’s pills to cultivate for a year, improving his Nascent Soul and physical strength.
• The Magic Flame Sect recruited rogue cultivators to harass the Town Sea Sect and Golden Sand Sect, leaving fewer than twenty percent of the Town Sea Sect’s industries operating normally.
• Liu Zhiyuan met Wang Daoyuan and Xie Qin to propose that the two sects attack the rogue cultivators gathered on Flowing Cloud Island.
• Liu Zhiyuan explained that Flowing Cloud Island lacked a unified defensive formation and that a strike there could temporarily halt the raids.

Wang Daoyuan joined the Town Sea Sect and Golden Sand Sect’s plan to wipe out the demonic cultivators and half-demons on Flowing Cloud Island. The allied cultivators gathered at Crouching Tiger Reef, where they waited for scouting insects before beginning the operation.

• An Lintao and Mo Liangping agreed to support an attack on Flowing Cloud Island, and the Golden Sand Sect committed three cultivators.
• Xie Qin assigned Wang Daoyuan to join Mo Liangping and Du Ze, while Liu Zhiyuan arranged for both sects to meet at Crouching Tiger Reef.
• Wang Daoyuan traveled to Crouching Tiger Reef and met the Town Sea Sect’s Nascent Soul elders, including Elder Qi and Elder Li.
• Mo Liangping and Du Ze arrived, and Elder Li said they would wait for the Spirit Insects scouting Flowing Cloud Island to return.
• Tens of thousands of Spirit Insects began buzzing around the gathered cultivators.

The Town Sea Sect ambushed three demonic cultivators on Flowing Cloud Island, then joined the ensuing battle against the island’s Rogue Cultivators and Half-demons. Wang Daoyuan’s premonition of danger intensified just as enemies announced that the Town Sea Sect had fallen into a trap and was surrounded.

• True Person Lu Hun used Ghost Soul Bugs to locate twenty-three Nascent Soul Cultivators on Flowing Cloud Island, and Elder Li led the Town Sea Sect in an attack.
• Wang Daoyuan, Du Ze, and Liu Zhiyuan broke into a cave abode and captured a Nascent Soul Early Stage Yin Demon cultivator with Liu Zhiyuan’s golden rope.
• The Town Sea Sect’s surprise attack alerted the island’s other cultivators, and both sides began fighting in the open.
• Wang Daoyuan fought alongside Du Ze against a Half-demon but grew increasingly uneasy as the battle continued.
• A voice announced that the Town Sea Sect had fallen into a trap, and laughter from all sides revealed that the island’s defenders had surrounded them.

Wang Daoyuan and the cultivators of the Town Sea Sect and Golden Sand Sect tried to break out of an ambush by the Silver Shark Tribe and other demonic cultivators. After helping Mo Liangping and Du Ze escape, Wang Daoyuan fled alone when a shark attack scattered the survivors.

• Elder Li ordered the surrounded cultivators to gather and break out north, and Wang Daoyuan stayed near the middle of their formation.
• The Silver Shark Tribe blocked their way, while demonic cultivators attacked from behind; Wang Daoyuan wounded a shark Half-demon and helped Mo Liangping escape.
• Elder Li and Elder Qi deployed a fifth-tier puppet and refined corpse, then fled north with the remaining Town Sea Sect cultivators aboard a flying boat.
• Two enormous sharks burst from the sea and attacked the flying boats, killing a wounded Town Sea Sect Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator.
• Wang Daoyuan helped Mo Liangping pull Du Ze to safety, then abandoned the others and fled north alone.

Wang Daoyuan escaped the battle at Flowing Cloud Island and settled on a remote volcanic island to cultivate. Ten years later, he advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage and stabilized his cultivation.

• The devil cultivators and half-demons split up to hunt the fleeing sect cultivators, while they sent sharks after Wang Daoyuan rather than pursue him themselves.
• Wang Daoyuan fled north, changed course, and headed east to a barren volcanic island far from the Magic Flame Sect.
• Mo Liangping and Du Ze escaped toward the Golden Sand Sect, but Liu Zhiyuan and the other Town Sea Sect cultivators were killed.
• Wang Daoyuan carved a cave beside the lava lake, cultivated with the flames, and planned to gather materials before returning to the Northern Abyss Cultivation World.
• After ten years of cultivation, Wang Daoyuan's Nascent Soul grew to seven inches and he broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Wang Daoyuan stabilized his breakthrough as the spirit veins and several elemental essences in his Spirit Pearl Space continued to grow.

Wang Daoyuan refined a first-order puppet that could harvest spirit grain, then Ghost Soul Bugs discovered his whereabouts on Volcanic Island. Several bugs escaped, and he chose to avoid their nearby master rather than pursue them without knowing the enemy’s strength.

• Wang Daoyuan studied Puppet Art and decided to make simple puppets to help manage the Green Willow Secret Realm’s Spirit Fields.
• Wang Daoyuan refined a humanoid first-order puppet, using an ordinary fish’s soul as its puppet soul.
• Wang Daoyuan awakened the puppet and watched it harvest mature spirit grain in the Spirit Pearl Space.
• A swarm of Ghost Soul Bugs approached Volcanic Island and revealed that Wang Daoyuan’s whereabouts had been exposed.
• Wang Daoyuan killed most of the Ghost Soul Bugs with his divine sense, but several escaped, so he avoided pursuing them while their master was nearby.

Wang Daoyuan was pursued by Town Sea Sect elders who wanted to seize his body-tempering technique. He destroyed Elder Qi’s corpse puppet but then faced a powerful Sword Puppet alongside the two elders.

• Elder Qi and Li Xingzong found Wang Daoyuan’s trail and pursued him east, intending to force him to surrender his body-tempering technique.
• The elders caught up with Wang Daoyuan at sea and demanded his inheritance, but he refused and challenged them to trade for the Spirit Taming Sect’s Soul Nurturing Art of Clones.
• Elder Qi sent a refined corpse to attack, but Wang Daoyuan used his domain and Crimson Sun True Fire to burn it to ashes and destroy the elders’ flying boat.
• Wang Daoyuan trapped Elder Qi and Li Xingzong in a sea of fire and offered to spare them if they surrendered the Soul Nurturing Art of Clones.
• Elder Qi and Li Xingzong summoned their Sword Puppet, and Elder Qi threatened Wang Daoyuan with its power.