Chapter Summaries

Wang Daoyuan accepted the northern half-demons into Qingli Commandery and helped Wang Daojian develop his sword cultivation. He then tried to subdue the Mysterious Ice Old Tortoise, but when it refused, he knocked it unconscious and fused a Split Soul into it.

• The half-demon leaders submitted their personnel and asset records to Wang Daoyuan, who declared their people part of Qingli Commandery and sent them home to await noble titles.
• Wang Daoyuan summoned Wang Daojian, confirmed that his Violet Mansion Phenomenon was the Returning Origin Sword, and gave him an improved sword canon and a copy of the Returning Origin Sword Diagram.
• Wang Daoyuan urged Wang Daojian to grow stronger and help the Wang Clan eventually replace Blood Shadow's upper ranks.
• Wang Daoyuan traveled to Cloud Hidden Isle and released the Mysterious Ice Old Tortoise from the Linglong Pagoda, then offered it a chance to become his master and potentially reach the sixth rank.
• The Mysterious Ice Old Tortoise refused to submit, so Wang Daoyuan stunned it with the White Tiger Soul Suppressing Roar and fused a Split Soul into it.

Wang Daoyuan refined the Mysterious Ice Old Tortoise into an avatar, developed his Water Dragon Technique, and returned to cultivate with Zhou Luan. As her Nascent Soul ceremony approached, the Zhao Emperor and Crown Prince Zhao Qingxuan agreed that the weakened Zhao Clan should recognize the Wang Clan’s rising power and honor the Qingli County King as emperor.

• Wang Daoyuan abandoned Spirit Devourer, placed the Mysterious Ice Turtle avatar in the Spirit Pearl Space, and learned from its memories that no other Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts threatened the Extreme Cold Ice Plains.
• Wang Daoyuan advanced the Water Dragon Technique to Mid-grade Fifth-order and began fusing it with his divine ability, improving its power and reducing its divine sense cost.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to Jade Spring Peak, told his master about the new avatar, and spent the following months cultivating with Zhou Luan.
• The Zhao Emperor and Crown Prince Zhao Qingxuan discussed the Zhao Clan’s decline, its loss of Qingli Commandery, and the Wang Clan’s two Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Zhao Qingxuan proposed honoring the Qingli County King as emperor, and the Zhao Emperor ordered Zhao Jingguo to handle the matter.

Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan hosted their Nascent Soul Ceremony, expounded the Dao, and met with the region’s major powers. After the guests discussed the rising Demon Beast threat, Wang Daoyuan agreed to help defend the Western Sea and nurture the Taiyi Divine Sword.

• Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan welcomed Golden Core representatives from across the region and expounded the Dao for three months with True Man Lei Yan.
• Zhao Jingguo announced that the Zhao Emperor would relinquish Qingli Commandery and invite Wang Daoyuan to proclaim himself Emperor, leaving Wang Mingchen to handle the matter.
• Xuan Jiuxiao reported that increasingly powerful Demon Beasts were attacking the Heavenly Secret Sect’s Western Sea holdings, and True Man Lei Yan promised to bring the Linglong Pagoda there.
• Wang Daoyuan said he would remain near the Skyrend Mountain Range but could reach the Western Sea within days if it came under pressure.
• Kui Jian asked Wang Daoyuan to nurture the Taiyi Divine Sword to the fifth tier in exchange for sword cultivator inheritances, and Wang Daoyuan agreed.

Wang Mingchen founded Yan Kingdom and became its emperor, while the Northern Abyss forces organized to guard the Western Sea against possible Demon Beast threats. After the ceremony, Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan returned to Jade Spring Peak, where Zhou Luan teased him about his bearing.

• True Man Lei Yan arranged for the Northern Abyss forces to send cultivators and inherited artifacts to guard the Western Sea, and Wang Daoyuan offered his Mysterious Ice Turtle.
• Wang Mingchen chose Yan as the new state's name and Qingli Market as its capital, and Zhao Kingdom agreed to gift it land, a crown, and dragon robes.
• The Wang Clan built a new capital, and Wang Daoyuan crowned Wang Mingchen as emperor during the founding ceremony for Yan Kingdom.
• Wang Zhian read the sacrificial text, and Wang Mingchen ascended the dragon throne and received the people's obeisance.
• Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan returned to Jade Spring Peak, where Zhou Luan praised Wang Mingchen's appearance in dragon robes and teased Wang Daoyuan.

Wang Daoyuan investigated a gathering of Eastern Sea Demon Beasts and tested his Water Dragon Technique against their horde. When he forced many of them to flee, Patriarch Netherwater intervened and challenged him.

• Wang Daoyuan traveled to Linhai Prefecture after learning that more than a hundred Demon Beasts had gathered east of the Wan Chuan River estuary.
• Gu Chengfeng told Wang Daoyuan that the Demon Beasts might travel upstream and threaten the inland, so Wang Daoyuan went to investigate.
• Wang Daoyuan concealed himself near the horde and attacked it with black fire dragons formed from his Water Attribute spiritual energy.
• The fire dragons killed Demon Beasts and multiplied, driving seventy or eighty of the horde to flee into the sea.
• A one-horned alligator dragon invoked Patriarch Netherwater, who scattered Wang Daoyuan's attack and challenged him to fight.

Wang Daoyuan battled the Netherwater Black Tortoise at sea, studying its water-control techniques before using his sword to overpower it. The old turtle’s Black Tortoise bloodline could not save it, and Wang Daoyuan’s final strike pierced its body.

• The Netherwater Black Tortoise surfaced and drew Wang Daoyuan into a powerful vortex, then attacked him with water columns.
• Wang Daoyuan countered with his water dragons and tried to form his own vortex, but the old turtle disrupted his techniques and mocked his water control.
• Wang Daoyuan summoned the Returning Origin Sword and split the vortex and seawater with the Demon Slaying Sword, frightening the old turtle into fleeing.
• The old turtle burned its Black Tortoise bloodline to withstand Wang Daoyuan’s sword shadows, then swam toward the deep sea.
• Wang Daoyuan caught up and fused his Natal Artifacts and Yinglong into his sword, piercing the old turtle from tail to neck.

After killing the Mid-grade Fifth-order Netherwater Black Tortoise, Wang Daoyuan returned to Qingli City and used Essence of the Five Elements to nurture its spiritual vein. He then infused Essence of Guishui into Jade Spring Peak’s spiritual vein, while Qingli City’s vein advanced to High-grade Third-order and continued to grow.

• Wang Daoyuan confirmed the Netherwater Black Tortoise was dead, left the fleeing Fourth-order Demonic Beasts alone, and flew to Linhai Prefecture.
• Wang Daoyuan told Gu Chengfeng that he had killed the Netherwater Black Tortoise and warned him to watch for surviving Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to Qingli City, where Wang Mingchen welcomed him, and ordered the tortoise’s corpse displayed to reassure the people that both Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts had been defeated.
• Wang Daoyuan fused Essence of the Five Elements into Qingli City’s spiritual vein and told Wang Mingchen to protect it as it advanced.
• Wang Daoyuan returned to Jade Spring Peak and infused Essence of Guishui into its spiritual vein.
• Two months later, Qingli City’s spiritual vein reached High-grade Third-order, and both it and Jade Spring Peak’s vein continued gaining spiritual energy.

Wang Daoyuan prepared to leave Jade Spring Peak after several different Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts appeared in the Western Sea, suggesting it had a Fifth-order spirit vein and might face a major invasion. He reached the Heavenly Secret Sect and reunited with Xuan Jiuxiao, who said the sect had been waiting for him to arrive.

• Wang Daoyuan told Zhou Luan about the Low-grade Fifth-order alligator dragon and arranged for her to guard Jade Spring Peak, Qingli City, and their other holdings while he was away.
• After a giant python and a Low-grade Fifth-order Mixed-blood Roc appeared in the Western Sea, Wang Daoyuan decided the beasts might be scouting before a large-scale invasion and entrusted Zhou Luan with supplies for the puppets and their Lineage.
• Wang Daoyuan traveled by flying boat to the Western Sea, kept his whereabouts concealed, and approached the Heavenly Secret Sect's mountain gate.
• Wang Daoyuan contacted his master and True Man Xuan Tian, and Xuan Jiuxiao came to bring him in discreetly.
• Xuan Jiuxiao told Wang Daoyuan that three Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts had appeared and that his father and Martial Uncle Lei Yan had been considering sending for him.

Wang Daoyuan arrived in the West Sea to help the human cultivators prepare for the Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts and agreed to restore the Heavenly Secret Sect’s Yin-Yang Compass. After two months of nourishing it with Yin Yang Energy, its artifact spirit awakened, and the compass endured the lightning tribulation as it reached the fifth order.

• Wang Daoyuan met Xuan Jiuxiao and joined True Man Lei Yan, True Man Xuan Tian, and the other cultivators to discuss the West Sea’s Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts.
• True Man Xuan Tian asked Wang Daoyuan to repair the Yin-Yang Compass in exchange for free access to the Heavenly Secret Tower, and Wang Daoyuan agreed.
• True Man Xuan Tian activated the Yin-Yang Compass while Wang Daoyuan infused its two polarities with Yin Yang Energy.
• After two months, the compass continued absorbing Yin Yang Energy, leading Wang Daoyuan and True Man Xuan Tian to suspect its artifact spirit was close to awakening.
• Two days later, the Yin-Yang Compass released powerful Law Power and withstood a lightning tribulation as its artifact spirit awakened.

Old Ancestor Yin-Yang examined Wang Daoyuan, nearly suffered heavenly backlash while trying to calculate his origins, and concluded that Heaven had brought him forth to help save the world. Wang Daoyuan entered the Heavenly Secret Tower to seek ways to strengthen his divine abilities and found a five-elements domain inheritance to study.

• Old Ancestor Yin-Yang examined Wang Daoyuan's abilities and sensed a connection to ancient divine beasts, the Returning Origin Sword Immortal, and a powerful bloodline inheritance.
• Old Ancestor Yin-Yang's attempt to calculate Wang Daoyuan's origins drew down heavenly might, so he stopped and concluded that Heaven had brought Wang Daoyuan forth to save the world.
• Old Ancestor Yin-Yang instructed True Man Xuan Tian to let Wang Daoyuan enter the Heavenly Secret Tower and seek the Sword Immortal inheritance.
• True Man Xuan Tian led Wang Daoyuan to the tower, explained its inheritances and dangers, and opened the entrance with a jade token.
• Wang Daoyuan passed the lower floors and found the Seal Demon Divine Venerable's five-elements domain inheritance on the seventh floor.

Wang Daoyuan sought guidance from the Seal Demon Divine Venerable’s imprint in a soul crystal and learned that his control over spiritual power was weak because he relied too heavily on spirit fire. The imprint taught him to practice manipulating spiritual energy directly, and Wang Daoyuan successfully formed a small water dragon.

• Wang Daoyuan sent his avatar, Liao Yang, into the soul crystal, where the Seal Demon Divine Venerable warned him that the illusion could damage his soul and sent him back.
• Wang Daoyuan entered the illusion himself, and the Seal Demon Divine Venerable recognized his Five Elements Domain and offered to teach him despite his focus on attack.
• Wang Daoyuan demonstrated how he used his domain and Gui Water Nether Flame to form a black fire dragon, but the Seal Demon Divine Venerable effortlessly blocked and absorbed its attacks with water droplets.
• The Seal Demon Divine Venerable explained that Wang Daoyuan’s control of spiritual power was inadequate and urged him to practice manipulating spiritual energy without spirit fire.
• Wang Daoyuan used the Sword Qi Manifestation Technique to control spiritual energy directly and successfully condensed a thumb-thick water dragon.

Wang Daoyuan improved his spiritual-power control and domain divine ability under the Demon Sealing Divine Monarch’s guidance in the Heavenly Secret Tower. After he emerged, the Demon Race’s imminent invasion forced the sects to prepare a defense at the Heavenly Secret Sect’s mountain gate, where the coastal industries soon came under attack.

• Wang Daoyuan used water dragons refined with Gui Water Nether Flame to shake the Demon Sealing Divine Monarch’s spell, demonstrating that his divine ability had grown powerful enough to threaten peak Nascent Soul cultivators.
• The Demon Sealing Divine Monarch advised Wang Daoyuan to focus on controlling spiritual power and laws, then sent him out of the illusion before his divine sense was damaged.
• True Man Xuan Tian summoned Wang Daoyuan after Old Ancestor Yin-Yang predicted a massive Demon Race assault, possibly involving multiple High-grade Fifth-order Demonic Beasts.
• Wang Daoyuan told the assembled cultivators that he could handle powerful enemies, and True Man Xuan Tian ordered them to abandon western industries and defend the mountain gate.
• Two days later, Wang Daoyuan learned through the queen bee that Fourth-order Demonic Beasts had come ashore and begun sweeping through coastal industries.

Hundreds of Fourth-order Demonic Beasts and more than a dozen Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts gathered before the Heavenly Secret Sect, led by the primordial exotic beasts Qiongqi and Xiū Shé. After the sect’s formation and Heavenly Secret Tower withstood their attacks, the beasts remained poised to challenge the defenders.

• The Soul Chasing Bees suffered heavy losses while surveying the coast, and Wang Daoyuan recalled them as the Demonic Beasts advanced on Heavenly Secret Mountain.
• The Heavenly Secret Sect’s Mountain Protecting Grand Formation killed several Fourth-order Demonic Beasts that attacked it, forcing the rest to wait beyond its reach.
• Linglong identified the two approaching leaders as the primordial exotic beasts Qiongqi and Xiū Shé, and Wang Daoyuan recognized their names from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• True Man Lei Yan rejected Qiongqi’s demand for the land along the West Sea coast, and Qiongqi attacked the formation with violent winds.
• True Man Xuan Tian joined the Heavenly Secret Tower’s power to the formation, stabilizing it against Qiongqi’s assault.
• Qiongqi demanded the Heavenly Secret Tower, and Xiū Shé tried to swallow the formation’s spiritual energy, but the barrier continued to hold.

The Demon Race threatened to bypass Heavenly Secret Mountain and attack the human territories, forcing the defenders to accept losses and wait for the enemy to split its forces. When the Seven-tailed Fox left with six Fifth-order Demon Beasts, True Man Xuan Tian and the others began their counterattack, suppressing Qiongqi while Wang Daoyuan wounded Xiū Shé.

• A Seven-tailed Fox arrived, and Qiongqi threatened to attack human lands beyond Heavenly Secret Mountain.
• Wang Daoyuan judged that he could only hold Qiongqi and Xiū Shé while the defenders dealt with the other Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts.
• True Man Mo Lin agreed that the Qin Kingdom would endure losses, and True Man Xuan Tian accepted abandoning the sect's eastern industries to protect the Human Race's chances.
• After half a day, the Seven-tailed Fox departed with six Low-grade Fifth-order Demon Beasts, leaving Qiongqi, Xiū Shé, and four other Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts outside the formation.
• True Man Xuan Tian and True Man Lei Yan used the Yin-Yang Compass and Violet Gold Exquisite Pagoda to suppress Qiongqi.
• When Xiū Shé struck at the Linglong Pagoda, Wang Daoyuan's Returning Origin Sword cut its tail and left a bone-deep wound.

Wang Daoyuan killed Xiū Shé and Qiongqi, then helped defeat the remaining Fifth-tier Demon Beasts and captured the Gray Peng to make a clone. After subduing it with a Split Soul, he left the Heavenly Secret Sect and headed east to pursue the Demon Beasts.

• Wang Daoyuan baited Xiū Shé into using its Devouring Divine Ability, then killed it with the Yinglong Demon Slaying Sword.
• Wang Daoyuan helped free Qiongqi from its seal and killed it after it broke through the black prison.
• Wang Daoyuan captured the Gray Peng, subdued it with the Split Soul taken from Ruan Chang, and stored it in the Spirit Pearl Space.
• Wang Daoyuan and the other cultivators defeated the remaining four Fifth-tier Demon Beasts, though seven more Fifth-tier beasts and hundreds of Fourth-order beasts still threatened human territory.
• Wang Daoyuan left the Heavenly Secret Sect aboard a high-grade Fifth-order flying vessel and headed east.

Wang Daoyuan helped repel the demon beasts that had ravaged the Heavenly Secret Sect and Qin Kingdom, but one Gu Eagle escaped into the Wan Chuan River. After the survivors assessed their catastrophic losses, they prepared for further attacks and planned to use demon cores to help six Half-step Nascent Soul Cultivators attempt breakthroughs.

• Wang Daoyuan rode the Gray Peng east, found True Man Lei Yan and the others fighting two Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts, and followed True Man Mo Lin's orders to pursue the beasts threatening Qin Kingdom.
• Wang Daoyuan joined the Mysterious Ice Turtle at the Jing River, killed more than ten Fourth-order Demonic Beasts, and pursued a Gu Eagle that had escaped into the water.
• Wang Daoyuan searched the Jing and Wan Chuan Rivers, killed dozens of Fourth-order Demonic Beasts, and warned the river powers and Zhou Luan to watch for the missing Gu Eagle.
• Three days later, True Man Mo Lin reported that Qin Kingdom had lost nearly ten million mortals and over a hundred thousand cultivators, while one Fifth-tier Gu Eagle remained at large.
• Wang Daoyuan explained that the demon beasts had fled the unstable Western Sea, and True Man Lei Yan warned that more attacks could come and proposed distributing six Demonic Cores to help six Half-step Nascent Soul Cultivators break through.

Wang Daoyuan entered the Heavenly Secret Tower to improve his Five Spirits Immortal Transformation Art and sought guidance from the Blood Spirit Divine Venerable. The Divine Venerable proposed a way to develop Wang Daoyuan’s spiritual power seeds into a cultivation method that could also strengthen his internal organs, though Wang Daoyuan still had to put the theory into practice.

• True Man Xuan Tian gave Wang Daoyuan the token granting the Yan Kingdom access to the Heavenly Secret Tower.
• Wang Daoyuan released the Mysterious Ice Turtle and the gray peng to guard against demon beasts, then entered the tower to study cultivation methods.
• Wang Daoyuan chose the Blood Spirit Divine Venerable Inheritance and explained his plan to transform his five spiritual power seeds into the Nascent Soul’s internal organs.
• Blood Spirit Divine Venerable inspected Wang Daoyuan’s Nascent Soul and advised him to use spirit-fire essence to re-condense the internal organs while the spiritual power seeds nourished them.

Wang Daoyuan developed a technique in the illusion to convert spiritual power into vital essence, then began cultivating it in the Spirit Pearl Space. Meanwhile, Wang Shouye and Wang Daojian defended Wanchuan Market from Demon Beasts, and Wang Shouye revealed his newly comprehended Water Control Lesser Divine Ability.

• Blood Spirit Divine Venerable used the Spiritual Power Seed to devise a rudimentary way for Wang Daoyuan to convert spiritual power into vital essence.
• Wang Daoyuan spent three years in the illusion refining the technique until it could be cultivated, then began forming five viscera and meridians in his Nascent Soul.
• Fourth-order Demon Beasts gathered near Wanchuan Market, and Wang Shouye warned Jia Qi that a Fifth-tier Primordial Exotic Beast might be directing them.
• Jia Qi stayed to control the market formation while Wang Shouye and Wang Daojian went ashore to intercept the Demon Beasts threatening the Wang Clan's holdings.
• Wang Shouye restrained an upper-grade Fourth-order catfish Demon Beast with his Water Control Lesser Divine Ability, allowing Wang Daojian to kill it with the Demon Slaying Sword.
• Wang Shouye told Wang Daojian that he had recently comprehended Water Control and suggested he study the Divine Ability Essentials in the Scripture Repository.

Wang Shouye and Wang Daojian drove the Demon Beasts away from Wanchuan Market, while Wang Daoyuan completed his Nascent Soul’s five viscera and learned that the market remained secure. He then entered the Heavenly Secret Tower to improve his alchemy, where the Thousand Hand Divine Venerable demonstrated techniques that could help him attempt Low-grade Fifth-order pills.

• Wang Daojian wounded a high-grade Fourth-order Luo Fish with his sword, and the frightened Demon Beasts retreated toward the Wan Chuan River.
• Jia Qi used the market formation to manifest giant sharks that killed three Demon Beasts and drove the rest away from Wanchuan Market.
• Wang Daoyuan completed the Nascent Soul’s five viscera and blood vessels, then found that circulating his improved cultivation art greatly accelerated his body-tempering progress.
• Wang Daoyuan received Zhou Luan’s report about Wanchuan Market and learned that Wang Shouye and Wang Daojian had grown stronger.
• Wang Daoyuan entered the Heavenly Secret Tower to study alchemy, and the Thousand Hand Divine Venerable demonstrated how to refine the Beast Blood Returns to Heaven Pill.

Wang Daoyuan advanced his alchemy, artifact refinement, and formation skills under the guidance of ancient experts in the Heavenly Secret Tower. He left with a Fifth-order Spirit Gathering Bead that could store enough spiritual power to greatly extend his Sword Puppet’s combat time, just as the tower suddenly closed.

• Thousand Hand Divine Venerable taught Wang Daoyuan his alchemy methods, helping him become a Fifth-order alchemist and learn to refine two batches of pills at once.
• Wang Daoyuan entered Heavenly Boat Divine Venerable’s inheritance and studied how to refine Fifth-order flying boats, raising his formation mastery to Low-grade Fifth-order.
• Wang Daoyuan asked Heavenly Boat Divine Venerable to improve his Spirit Gathering Bead, and the elder replaced its artifact inscriptions with Law Inscriptions.
• Heavenly Boat Divine Venerable gave Wang Daoyuan a Low-grade Fifth-order Spirit Gathering Bead that stored the equivalent of ten High-grade Spirit Stones.
• The Heavenly Secret Tower suddenly closed, so Wang Daoyuan hurriedly left, suspecting that something major had happened.