Slaughterer went to the sea to meet Chongxuan Zun, who was too badly wounded to speak.
Furious, Slaughterer pointed his halberd at Liu Yu, the Sea Fishing Tower's Sect-Protecting Elder, and said, "The Sea Fishing Tower must pay for this grudge."
Liu Yu replied, "Among men, some are foolish, some wise, some worthy, and some base. A man's fortune or misfortune is of his own making."
And so they fought.
With his fists, Slaughterer defeated Liu Yu on Star Pearl Island.
Then he fought Deng Wen and defeated him.
Next, he fought Hai Jingping and defeated him as well.
The Sea Fishing Tower had eight Sect-Protecting Elders, all of them at the Divine Presence Realm.
Slaughterer defeated three of them in succession, and the rest all kept their distance.
Liu Yu coughed up blood and said, "The Near-Sea islands are no place for someone at the Divine Presence Realm to run amok. If not for Futu's old ties, Slaughterer would never have made it back."
Slaughterer replied, "You have a point!"
Then he summoned the Life-Cutting Blade from the west, cleaved open the Raging Sea, and before the eyes of countless onlookers, ascended to True Insight!
The Sea-Pacifying Elder, Xu Xiangwan, was there at the time.
Slaughterer passed by without a word.
Then he climbed the Heavenly Staircase and challenged the Sea Fishing Tower's foremost elder, True Lord Chongguang.
The two fought in the highest reaches of the heavens.
Their battle raged for three days and nights before the wind and thunder finally died down.
Slaughterer had lost his left arm, yet he laughed loudly as he left.
Everyone thought Slaughterer had been defeated.
Only Chongguang sighed and said, "I've lost thirteen years of my lifespan!"
Thus, he compensated Chongxuan Zun with a Sea-Sinking Azure Crystal.
--Chronicles of the Near-Sea