Chapter Summaries

Wang Daoyuan defeated Li Xingzong and Elder Qi, captured the Sword Puppet, and demanded the Spirit Taming Sect’s inheritance. Li Xingzong chose death and reincarnation rather than betray the sect, while Wang Daoyuan began threatening Elder Qi with Soul Extraction and Spirit Refining.

• Wang Daoyuan revealed himself as Zhou Ming and fought Li Xingzong’s Sword Puppet while his Azure Dragon Life Grabbing Art and Vermillion Bird Phantoms weakened Li Xingzong and Elder Qi.
• Wang Daoyuan shattered the Sword Puppet’s longsword, captured it, and demanded that Li Xingzong and Elder Qi surrender the inheritance.
• Li Xingzong refused to hand over the inheritance but agreed to remove his Split Soul from the puppet before releasing himself from his body and entering reincarnation.
• Wang Daoyuan took Li Xingzong’s Universe Ring and offered Elder Qi the choice between surrendering the inheritance and having his soul scattered.
• Elder Qi cursed Wang Daoyuan and refused, so Wang Daoyuan gathered fire spiritual power around him and threatened him with Soul Extraction and Spirit Refining.

Wang Daoyuan forced Elder Qi to hand over the Spirit Taming Sect’s Soul Nurturing Art of Clones and verified that its Nascent Soul Realm portion was genuine. After agreeing to let Elder Qi undergo corpse dissolution, Wang Daoyuan asked him how the Spirit Taming Sect had perished.

• Wang Daoyuan rejected Elder Qi’s request for an oath and made him choose between surrendering the inheritance and having his soul destroyed.
• Elder Qi recorded the Soul Nurturing Art of Clones on an animal-hide book, providing its contents from Qi Refining through the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Wang Daoyuan studied the technique while a clone tested its methods, confirming that the inheritance had no major problems.
• Wang Daoyuan told Elder Qi he would let him undergo corpse dissolution, then asked how the Spirit Taming Sect had fallen.

Elder Qi told Wang Daoyuan how the Spirit Taming Sect fell after its Supreme Great Elder, Divine Lord Yufeng, went to the Azure Dragon Ruins to seek a breakthrough to Mahayana. After hearing the history and the uncertain whereabouts of the Soul Nurturing Wood, Wang Daoyuan let Elder Qi end his life and was warned that White Bone Hall controlled the territory to the east.

• Elder Qi explained that Divine Lord Yufeng left for the Azure Dragon Ruins, where a seventh-tier spirit vein and spiritual items could support a breakthrough to Mahayana, but no traveler had returned alive in tens of thousands of years.
• Elder Qi said Divine Lord Juesheng persuaded several powers to attack the Spirit Taming Sect after Yufeng's departure, while a resentful Supreme Elder betrayed the sect from within.
• The attackers lured away the Spirit Taming Sect's Deity Transformation Cultivators, seized its mountain gate, killed its defenders, and destroyed the Teleportation Array to the Azure Dragon Ruins.
• Elder Qi described how the ensuing wars and conflicts led to the formation of the Seven Stars Alliance and said the Soul Nurturing Wood's fate remained unknown.
• Wang Daoyuan dispelled Black Tortoise Purgatory and allowed Elder Qi to end his life; Elder Qi warned him that White Bone Hall controlled the territory to the east.

Wang Daoyuan returned to Fire Lotus Island after turning the Sword Puppet into a clone and putting it to work studying Sword Intent. At the island’s market, he heard that the righteous sects were losing ground to the Magic Flame Sect and learned that Rare Treasures Island’s grand auction was ten years away.

• The Town Sea Sect learned that Elder Qi had died and suspected the White Bone Hall, but chose to deal with the Magic Flame Sect first.
• Wang Daoyuan examined Li Xingzong and Elder Qi’s belongings, discarded the male Ghost Soul Bugs, and kept their treasures and cultivation insights.
• Wang Daoyuan used Seven-Leaf Ghost Face Flower nectar to create a Split Soul and merge it with the Sword Puppet, which carried Slaughter Sword Intent.
• Wang Daoyuan left the Sword Puppet in the Spirit Pearl Space to study the Returning Origin Sword Diagram and arrived at Fire Lotus Island after more than half a month at sea.
• At Kaiyang Restaurant, Wang Daoyuan heard that the Town Sea Sect and Golden Sand Sect had suffered losses against the Magic Flame Sect, and that Rare Treasures Island’s grand auction would take place in ten years.

Wang Daoyuan settled on Fire Lotus Island and spent years preparing five artifact spirit prototypes with the Three Treasures Artifact Nurturing Technique. He left them merged with the Yinglong pattern at his Nascent Soul’s brow, where they could eventually strengthen his artifacts.

• Wang Daoyuan decided to attend the Rare Treasures Island auction for fifth-order spirit items, while postponing any attempt to enter Azure Dragon Ruins.
• Wang Daoyuan hired a broker to find a residence with a Fire Eye, then bought one in the southeastern market.
• Wang Daoyuan drew fire essence from the Crimson Sun True Fire and used it to raise the Essence of Yimu to mid-grade Fifth-order.
• Wang Daoyuan inscribed five sections of the Essences of the Five Elements and infused them with spiritual power, divine sense, vital blood, and his comprehended laws.
• Wang Daoyuan fused the five embryonic artifacts into the Yinglong pattern and nurtured them until five artifact spirit prototypes formed.

Wang Daoyuan strengthened his magic tools, became a Fifth-order Artifact Refiner, and traveled to the Rare Treasures Island market for its auction. There, Old Master Huang confronted him over the death of his son, and Wang Daoyuan denied killing him without cause.

• Wang Daoyuan merged the five artifact spirit embryos into their matching magic tools, boosting their power, then returned the embryos to the Yinglong mark to mature.
• Wang Daoyuan spent more than a year practicing artifact refinement and successfully forged a fifth-order shield, establishing himself as a Fifth-order Artifact Refiner.
• Wang Daoyuan traveled to the Rare Treasures Island market with Chen Zhaoyi and the Sword Puppet, while his Nascent Soul watched over the shield as it was tempered in the Spirit Pearl Space.
• Wang Daoyuan entered the market openly and returned to his unchanged courtyard, where Old Master Huang soon came to visit.
• Old Master Huang accused Wang Daoyuan of killing his son and demanded that a life be repaid with a life, while Wang Daoyuan challenged the accusation and defended his actions.

Wang Daoyuan confronted Old Master Huang, then attended the Seven Stars grand auction while preparing for the conflict to come. The auction opened with a rare Nascent Soul Fruit, whose healing and breakthrough-enhancing effects drew the cultivators’ attention.

• Wang Daoyuan accused Old Master Huang and the Huang Family of tyranny, but Old Master Huang refused to attack him inside the market and left, threatening to have someone else kill him.
• Wang Daoyuan spent the next half month cultivating and nurturing his artifact spirit before heading to the Seven Stars Auction House.
• Wang Daoyuan arrived at the auction and ignored Old Master Huang’s mocking voice transmission as the Nascent Soul peak cultivator took a private room nearby.
• Zi Yan opened the auction with a five-inch Nascent Soul Fruit and explained that it could heal hidden injuries, increase potential, and improve the odds of breaking through to Deity Transformation.
• Wang Daoyuan judged that the Nascent Soul Fruit would cost far more than his nearly four hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.

Wang Daoyuan attended the centennial grand auction, where Old Master Huang bought a Nascent Soul Fruit and Wang Daoyuan won an ancient Golden Book written in characters from his previous life. The auction then introduced a map to the dangerous Sunset Abyss, and bidding began.

• Old Master Huang outbid True Lord Heng Hai and True Lord Wusheng, securing the Nascent Soul Fruit for five hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Wang Daoyuan suspected Old Master Huang had severe hidden injuries to his Nascent Soul and considered this an advantage for their eventual confrontation.
• Zi Yan presented a Golden Book whose writing the Seven Stars Chamber of Commerce could not decipher, and Wang Daoyuan recognized its traditional characters and title, "Kunlun Wanderer's Seven Stars Sea Travelogue."
• Wang Daoyuan rebuffed Old Master Huang's mockery, then bought the Golden Book for twelve thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zi Yan presented a Treasure Map believed to lead to Sunset Abyss, a dangerous place said to hold rare Yin- and Yang-attributed spiritual treasures, and opened bidding at fifty thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.

Wang Daoyuan bought the Sunset Abyss Treasure Map while recognizing that the auction’s Ziwei Hall sword was a scheme to drain rival factions’ resources. When the auction presented a damaged Ziwei Hall puppet that could help his puppet-making, he suspected the conspirators had set the bait for him.

• Wang Daoyuan outbid Old Master Huang and other cultivators for the Sunset Abyss Treasure Map at one hundred and eighty thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zi Yan presented a longsword said to be a key to Ziwei Hall, and Wang Daoyuan recognized it as a likely scam arranged by powerful factions to profit and weaken their rivals.
• Wang Daoyuan briefly bid on the sword, then withdrew as the female shopkeeper from the Crimson Flame Sect won it for nine hundred and seventy thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zi Yan auctioned a badly damaged puppet from Ziwei Hall, and True Lord Wusheng and True Lord Heng Hai confirmed its history and strength.
• Wang Daoyuan recognized the puppet as one he had encountered in Ziwei Hall and suspected it was bait aimed at his interest in puppet-making.

Wang Daoyuan attended the Seven Stars Chamber of Commerce auction, bought a travelogue and treasure map, and watched True Lord Heng Hai win a Deep Sea Ink Dragon egg. After returning to his courtyard, Wang Daoyuan strengthened its formation and examined the map for places to find the Yin Yang treasures he needed to reach Spirit Transformation.

• True Lord Heng Hai bought the damaged puppet for six hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones, then won the Deep Sea Ink Dragon egg for one million three hundred thousand.
• Wang Daoyuan paid one hundred ninety-one thousand High-grade Spirit Stones for the Seven Stars Sea Travelogue and Sunset Abyss Treasure Map, then traded barbs with Old Master Huang before returning to his courtyard.
• Wang Daoyuan modified the courtyard's Defensive Formation and went to the Earth Fire Chamber to test an ordinary version of his proposed Natal Artifact.
• Wang Daoyuan's avatar examined the map and found marked deep-sea locations where sixth-rank Yin Yang attribute spiritual treasures could be obtained.
• Wang Daoyuan concluded that finding those treasures was necessary because relying on sun and moon energy alone could take eight hundred to a thousand years to reach Spirit Transformation.

Wang Daoyuan finished forging the Yinglong Demon Slaying Sword and left the market to confront Old Master Huang before he could recover from his hidden injuries. The chapter ended with Old Master Huang learning of his departure and preparing to avenge Jin Shan.

• Wang Daoyuan studied Kunlun Idle Wanderer’s travelogue and learned about the Seven Stars Sea and the Azure Dragon Ruins.
• After three years of refining and research, Wang Daoyuan reforged his five Natal Artifacts into the Yinglong Demon Slaying Sword and merged Yinglong and its five embryonic artifact spirits into it.
• Wang Daoyuan tested the sword’s power and realized he could briefly reach strength capable of threatening a Nascent Soul Peak cultivator, but using it consumed enormous spiritual power and divine sense.
• Wang Daoyuan decided to attack Old Master Huang before he could heal his hidden injuries with a Nascent Soul Fruit, then left the market despite an attempt to delay him at the southern gate.
• Old Master Huang received word that Wang Daoyuan had left and vowed to avenge Jin Shan.

Wang Daoyuan confronted Old Master Huang at sea to seize the Nascent Soul Fruit and avenge himself against the Huang Family patriarch. After a fierce battle left Wang Daoyuan badly wounded, the Yinglong Demon Slaying Sword killed Old Master Huang, and Wang Daoyuan claimed his death was dignified.

• Wang Daoyuan gathered coral and Star Pattern Sea Cucumber juveniles while waiting for Old Master Huang to arrive.
• Old Master Huang arrived with the Nascent Soul Fruit and attacked Wang Daoyuan with his Water Control Divine Ability.
• Wang Daoyuan and his Sword Puppet fought off Old Master Huang’s water dragons using sword techniques and the Heavenly Gang Sword Array.
• Old Master Huang repelled Wang Daoyuan’s attack and prepared to kill him as Wang Daoyuan spat blood and lost the Returning Origin Sword.
• The Yinglong Demon Slaying Sword appeared, destroyed the water dragons, and turned Old Master Huang into a cloud of blood mist.

Wang Daoyuan fled west while badly injured after killing Old Master Huang, but the Spirit Taming Sect tracked him and sent cultivators to intercept him. He defeated the pursuers, then caught their flying vessel and discovered a Five-element Spiritual Root cultivator aboard whom he hoped to turn into a clone.

• Wang Daoyuan healed his internal injuries with the Azure Dragon Pearl, took Old Master Huang’s treasures, and continued west aboard a faster flying vessel.
• True Lord Heng Hai learned that Wu Chuan was Zhou Ming and planned to report him to the sect master and organize an attack while Wang Daoyuan was injured.
• Demon birds followed Wang Daoyuan, and three Spirit Taming Sect cultivators intercepted him aboard a flying vessel.
• Wang Daoyuan used his divine ability and the Vermilion Bird Fan to burn the three Nascent Soul cultivators and their two corpse puppets, while sparing another puppet.
• Wang Daoyuan caught up with the fleeing vessel and found two Peak Golden Core cultivators aboard, including one with a Five-element Spiritual Root.

Wang Daoyuan defeated the Blood Shark Pirates’ ambush, captured Jia Qi as a clone, and escaped the Seven Stars Sea’s pursuit. After studying Jia Qi’s techniques and using him to test a cultivation method, Wang Daoyuan returned to the Northern Abyss Cultivation World.

• Wang Daoyuan stopped the Blood Shark Pirates’ flying vessel, killed one cultivator, and subdued Jia Qi before merging a prepared Split Soul into him.
• Wang Daoyuan looted the three Nascent Soul Cultivators and learned from Jia Qi’s memories about his cultivation techniques and the demonic birds tracking him.
• Wang Daoyuan evaded the demonic birds by flying southwest and then west, while Blood Shark Pirate pursuers remained far behind.
• Wang Daoyuan had Jia Qi cultivate the Five Spirits Immortal Transformation Art and began studying how the Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique could improve his own cultivation.
• Wang Daoyuan crossed the sea aboard his flying vessel and, after a little more than four years, saw the Skyrend Mountain Range and returned to the Northern Abyss Cultivation World.

Wang Daoyuan returned to North Abyss and found Demon Beasts terrorizing the region, backed by two awakened Mid-grade Fifth-order turtles. He left a Sword Puppet to protect Wanchuan Market and reunited with his clan and Master at Jade Spring Peak, where he planned to stabilize the situation before confronting the Demon Race.

• Wang Daoyuan reached Wanchuan Market, killed the Demon Beasts attacking it, and left his Sword Puppet there to guard the settlement.
• Twelfth Uncle explained that two Black Tortoise-bloodline turtles had awakened and were emboldening Demon Beasts across North Abyss.
• Wang Daoyuan arrived at Jade Spring Peak and was welcomed by Wang Mingchen and the Wang Clan members.
• Wang Daoyuan met True Man Lei Yan, who warned him that the Demon Beasts’ terrain advantage and possible hidden Fifth-order beasts made a reckless attack dangerous.
• Wang Daoyuan gave True Man Lei Yan twenty Nascent Soul Nurturing Pills, and True Man Lei Yan urged him to visit Zhou Luan.

Wang Daoyuan reunited with Zhou Luan and prepared to help her form a Nascent Soul at Falling Star Plain. When the Golden Ox Clan refused to leave Golden Horn Peak, he destroyed its defensive formation and exterminated the clan, leaving Patriarch Xuanbing's response looming.

• Wang Daoyuan returned to his cave abode, where Zhou Luan welcomed him and learned he had brought her a Nascent Soul Fruit.
• Zhou Luan chose to form her Nascent Soul at Falling Star Plain, and Wang Daoyuan proposed having his clone Jia Qi draw out the Demonic Beasts first.
• After Zhou Luan finished preparing, Wang Daoyuan took her to Falling Star Plain and demanded that the Golden Ox Clan abandon Golden Horn Peak.
• The Golden Ox Clan refused and activated its defensive formation while its leader warned that Patriarch Xuanbing would arrive.
• Wang Daoyuan shattered the formation with the Demon Slaying Sword and killed every living creature on Golden Horn Peak, wiping out the Golden Ox Clan.

Wang Daoyuan helped Jia Qi form a Nascent Soul and weather his heavenly tribulation, then confronted the old turtle who arrived from the Extreme Cold Ice Plains. Their first clash showed that the turtle had the advantage in physical strength.

• Wang Daoyuan washed Golden Horn Peak clean and gave Jia Qi a Fifth-tier Demonic Core and Core Shattering Grass to help him break through.
• Jia Qi shattered his Golden Core and Violet Mansion, formed a Nascent Soul with five flood dragon patterns, and survived all five lightning tribulations using the Ink Jade Cauldron.
• As Jia Qi absorbed the Heaven and Earth Boon, an ice-blue auspicious cloud arrived with an armored old turtle from the north.
• Wang Daoyuan argued that the Demon Race had repeatedly attacked humans and broken their agreement, while the old turtle claimed the humans had trespassed on Demon Race territory.
• The old turtle attacked Wang Daoyuan with a giant turtle claw, and Wang Daoyuan blocked it with the Ink Dragon Halberd but was blasted back several li.

Wang Daoyuan captured the Mysterious Ice Old Tortoise while protecting Zhou Luan as she absorbed the Heaven and Earth Boon. Zhou Luan then formed a powerful Nascent Soul, and the heavenly tribulation clouds gathered over Golden Horn Peak.

• The Mysterious Ice Old Tortoise attacked Golden Horn Peak, but Wang Daoyuan used his domain divine ability and Crimson Sun True Fire to defend it while Zhou Luan absorbed the Heaven and Earth Boon.
• The Mysterious Ice Old Tortoise launched an ice sphere at the mountain, but Linglong swallowed it; Wang Daoyuan then stopped the tortoise from escaping and captured it inside the Linglong Pagoda.
• After returning to Golden Horn Peak, Wang Daoyuan gave Zhou Luan the materials she needed to form her Nascent Soul and undergo tribulation.
• Zhou Luan used the Crimson Luan Nirvana Fire, the Essence of the Five Elements, Core Shattering Grass, and Nascent Soul Fruit to complete Shattering Core, Forming Nascent Soul.
• Dark tribulation clouds gathered above Golden Horn Peak as Zhou Luan prepared to undergo her heavenly tribulation.

Zhou Luan survived her Nascent Soul tribulation and returned openly to Jade Spring Peak with Wang Daoyuan, where the clan welcomed her as the Empress Dowager. Wang Daoyuan also revealed that he had captured the Mysterious Ice Turtle alive, while True Man Lei Yan prepared to guard the Western Sea.

• Zhou Luan endured her Nascent Soul tribulation, and Wang Daoyuan helped extinguish its lingering flames before she absorbed the Heaven and Earth Boon.
• Wang Daoyuan absorbed the boon to heal hidden injuries and strengthen his spirit fires, while the Yinglong, its artifact spirits, and the Linglong Pagoda absorbed the remaining energy.
• Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan returned openly to Jade Spring Peak, where the clan greeted her as the Empress Dowager.
• At the Assembly Hall, True Man Lei Yan congratulated Zhou Luan, and Linglong arrived after chasing Wang Daoyuan for over a hundred thousand li.
• Wang Daoyuan told True Man Lei Yan that he had captured the Mysterious Ice Turtle alive, and Lei Yan said he would guard the Western Sea after the Nascent Soul celebration.

Wang Daoyuan prepared for his Nascent Soul ceremony while planning new combat spells, and heard how Wang Mingchen had governed Qingli Commandery. The half-demons then sought to submit to Qingli Commandery, and Wang Daoyuan agreed in principle as they asked permission to intermarry with humans.

• Wang Daoyuan set his Nascent Soul ceremony for a year later and promised to deal with the Mysterious Ice Turtle before then.
• Wang Daoyuan deduced a powerful Water Attribute offensive spell and discussed Wang Mingchen’s Violet Mansion Phenomenon and governance of Qingli Commandery.
• Wang Daoyuan met several Peak Golden Core half-demons, who explained that the Demon Race had slaughtered most of their people and asked to submit to Qingli Commandery.
• Wang Daoyuan accepted their submission on condition that they not form a state within a state or bully Wang Mingchen.
• The half-demons asked permission to marry humans and insisted that they sought only to integrate into the human race.