Chapter Summaries

Zheng Yi confronted Gongye Ning and Twin-Headed Flood Dragon Zhong Sheng, who sought to seize his Seven Treasures Mystical Tree. He dismissed the treasure and effortlessly repelled Zhong Sheng’s attack, while Gongye Ning’s ocean-flower magic swallowed him, leaving the elder terrified.

• Gongye Ning and Twin-Headed Flood Dragon Zhong Sheng revealed themselves and demanded that Zheng Yi hand over his rare treasure.
• Zheng Yi summoned the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree, prompting both Core Formation Cultivators to offer him rewards while plotting to claim it.
• Zheng Yi dismissed the tree and challenged the two cultivators, then Zhong Sheng attacked with his Mountain-Splitting Axe as Gongye Ning trapped him with a flower-basket treasure.
• Zheng Yi flicked a finger and sent Zhong Sheng flying, rupturing his hand, while Gongye Ning’s ocean-wave petals closed around Zheng Yi and swallowed him.

Zheng Yi defeated Twin-Headed Flood Dragon Zhong Sheng and Gongye Ning, trapped them in his Yin Yang Eight Trigrams Furnace, and refined them into Heavenly Demon Slaves. He sent them away to handle their affairs, then spent the next twenty years cultivating in seclusion on Poison Dragon Island.

• Zheng Yi shattered Gongye Ning's flower-basket treasure and forced Zhong Sheng and Gongye Ning to flee in different directions.
• Zheng Yi caught both cultivators with his Five-Element Five-Colored Innate One Qi Great Capturing Hand and trapped them in the Yin Yang Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Zheng Yi used the Heavenly Demon Relic to refine Zhong Sheng and Gongye Ning for three months, turning them into devoted Heavenly Demon Slaves.
• Zheng Yi ordered the two men to keep the matter secret and sent them to handle their respective affairs.
• Zheng Yi remained in secluded cultivation on Poison Dragon Island for twenty years, studying the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree, the Nine Bends Yellow Springs Array Diagram, and the Heavenly Demon Relic.

Zheng Yi’s forces prospered during his secluded cultivation as he completed the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree and prepared to form his Nine Rank Golden Core. As he began his breakthrough, a Heart Demon attacked him with an alluring illusion, but he recognized the Mystic Yin Succubus Heavenly Demon Dance and broke free.

• Zheng Yi’s controlled pirate groups established the Azure Wave Alliance, made Poison Dragon Island its headquarters, and renamed it Azure Wave Island.
• Zheng Yi saw that the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree’s seven divine abilities were nearly complete and decided it was time to break through into the Core Formation Realm.
• As Zheng Yi’s golden radiance surged, pink mist filled his secret chamber and drew him into an illusion of a palace, dancing heavenly maidens, and a life of indulgence.
• Zheng Yi’s Sea of Consciousness dispelled the pink mist, and he recognized the attack as the Mystic Yin Succubus Heavenly Demon Dance.
• Zheng Yi blasted apart the illusion’s fairies, revealing them as demons, and attributed his escape to the protections and treasures in his Sea of Consciousness.

During his Nine Rank Golden Core Tribulation, Zheng Yi became trapped in a Heart Demon Illusion Realm that his Divine Soul attacks could not destroy. He used the Heavenly Demon Relic to sacrifice the souls of more than seventy percent of his puppet slaves, shattered the illusion, and woke in his secret chamber having overcome the Heart Demon Tribulation.

• The Heart Demon trapped Zheng Yi in an Illusion Realm where demons repeatedly re-formed after his Divine Soul Sword Qi destroyed them.
• Zheng Yi used the Ten Thousand Slave Annihilation Heavenly Demon Devour to extract the souls of more than seventy percent of his puppet Heavenly Demon Slaves.
• Thousands of pirates across Zheng Yi’s territories died as their souls were drawn into the Heavenly Demon Relic.
• Zheng Yi’s strengthened Divine Soul formed a Primordial Giant that battered the Illusion Realm until it collapsed.
• Zheng Yi opened his eyes in his secret chamber and realized he had overcome the Heart Demon Tribulation.

After devouring an Extraterrestrial Demon and advancing his Divine Soul, Zheng Yi began his Core Formation tribulation over Azure Wave Island. He endured nine lightning strikes with his body and treasures, but the clouds gathered into a fearsome Nine-Nine United Pure Yang Lightning strike.

• Zheng Yi realized he had devoured the Extraterrestrial Demon and gained a major increase in Divine Soul Power.
• Zheng Yi flew above Azure Wave Island to face the tribulation, while the surviving pirates watched in terror.
• Zheng Yi endured the first lightning strike with his body and used the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror, Slaying Immortal Gourd, Five-Colored Peak, and other treasures to counter later strikes.
• Zheng Yi absorbed the shattered lightning essence to strengthen his body as nine rounds of tribulation passed without weakening the clouds.
• Zheng Yi recognized that the tribulation was not ending when a Thunder Giant Sword formed from the power of the previous nine strikes as Nine-Nine United Pure Yang Lightning.

Zheng Yi completed his Nine Rank Golden Core tribulation, then spent six months in seclusion before revealing his power and transforming the Seven Pirate Groups into the Azure Wave Island alliance. A year after his breakthrough, Azure Wave Island prepared to host his Core Formation Grand Ceremony as fleets and representatives gathered, including an approaching fleet of formidable warships.

• Zheng Yi destroyed the tribulation's Golden Armored Heavenly Soldier with the Five-Colored Divine Light, completed his Nine Rank Golden Core, and swallowed the Golden Core into his belly.
• After six months of seclusion, Zheng Yi displayed his Golden Core and the Nine Bends Yellow Springs Array Diagram beneath the night sky.
• Zheng Yi revealed his identity and strength, united the Seven Pirate Groups under Azure Wave Island, and established the Seven Battle Fleets and safer trade routes.
• One year after Zheng Yi formed his Core, Azure Wave Island invited surrounding forces to his Core Formation Grand Ceremony, drawing fleets and representatives from across the seas.
• An imposing fleet of formation-covered combat warships raced toward Azure Wave Island as the grand ceremony approached.

At Azure Wave Island’s Core Formation Ceremony, Zheng Yi used the arrival of the notorious Golden Core pirate Zhong Sheng to display the island’s power and expand its influence. The ceremony ended with Azure Wave Island established as the overlord of the Azure Wave Sea Area, where its laws and patrols secured the shipping routes.

• Twin-Headed Flood Dragon Zhong Sheng arrived uninvited with the Demon Dragon Great Pirate Group, and Azure Wave Island’s patrol fleet blocked their way.
• Zheng Yi ordered the gates opened, and Zhong Sheng entered the island; less than half an hour later, he pledged the Demon Jiao Pirate Crew to Azure Wave Island as an outer-ring force.
• Pirate groups, merchant guilds, and representatives of the Thirty-Six Islands attended the ceremony, while Zheng Yi kept his connection with the Sunset Merchant Guild secret.
• Zheng Yi used the ceremony to reveal Azure Wave Island’s strength, consolidate the Seven Pirate Groups and nearby territories, and establish the island as the Azure Wave Sea Area’s dominant power.
• After the ceremony, Azure Wave Island enforced its laws through its maritime patrol and law enforcement teams, driving outside pirates away and making merchant routes safer.

Zheng Yi learned that a recurring Sea Realm Spiritual Tide would disrupt the ocean’s spiritual energy, drive sea beasts toward the islands, and threaten war between human cultivators and the Deep Sea Demon Courts. He began gathering information and preparing for the Flood Dragon Demon Court’s likely advance as the crisis approached.

• Zheng Yi perfected his Nine Rank Golden Core in seclusion and realized his cultivation could advance without the usual Golden Core Stage barriers.
• After receiving Gongye Ning’s message, Zheng Yi asked Azure Wave Island’s subordinates to explain the Sea Realm Spiritual Tide and learned it could trigger decades of chaos and sea-beast attacks.
• Zheng Yi recognized that the spiritual tide would first devastate the deep-sea Demon Courts and could drive their survivors toward human islands in search of resources.
• A subordinate warned Zheng Yi that past tides had led the Flood Dragon Demon Court to demand resources from the islands and wage war when resisted.
• Zheng Yi questioned Twin-Headed Flood Dragon Zhong Sheng and Gongye Ning, ordered more intelligence gathered, and confirmed the Flood Dragon Demon Court’s long history and formidable power.

The Flood Dragon Imperial Court ordered Azure Wave Island and other islands seized, threatening the human cultivators with enslavement or death. Zheng Yi answered by capturing and crushing the Unicorn Flood Dragon Envoy, but its damaged soul escaped.

• A Unicorn Flood Dragon Envoy arrived above Azure Wave Island and demanded its surrender as a branch hall, threatening to kill everyone who resisted.
• Zheng Yi summoned his Five-Element Five-Colored Innate One Qi Great Capturing Hand and overwhelmed the Envoy with its power.
• The Unicorn Flood Dragon detonated its Flood Dragon Orb and tried to flee through the resulting spatial rift.
• Zheng Yi used Five-Colored Divine Light to stop the escape and seized the wounded Unicorn Flood Dragon.
• Zheng Yi crushed the Unicorn Flood Dragon, and its damaged Flood Dragon Soul fled into the distance.

Zheng Yi killed the Unicorn Flood Dragon, refined its Dragon Soul into the Five Dragons Divine Fire Shroud, and evacuated Azure Wave Island before the Flood Dragon Demon Court could retaliate. Four adult Flood Dragons arrived to destroy the island but found it deserted.

• Zheng Yi captured the Unicorn Flood Dragon’s escaping soul in the Chaos Green Skin Gourd and ordered Azure Wave Island’s cultivators to kill the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals and prepare to leave.
• Zheng Yi refined the Unicorn Flood Dragon’s Soul into the Five Dragons Divine Fire Shroud, awakening a true Yellow Springs Fire Dragon and strengthening the treasure.
• Zheng Yi led the packed Azure Wave Island fleet away, leaving the island deserted.
• The enraged Flood Dragon Imperial Court dispatched four adult Flood Dragons with an army to attack Azure Wave Island.
• The four Flood Dragons arrived and found that Zheng Yi and his people had already fled.

Zheng Yi received an invitation to the Floating Island Immortal Assembly as the Human Archipelago’s conflict with the Deep Sea Flood Dragon Imperial Court escalated. He arrived at Immortal Floating Island, where Fan Xian'er confronted him with an offer to make a deal.

• The four flood dragons found Azure Wave Island stripped of its resources, then established a guarded base there after failing to find Zheng Yi’s fleet.
• Zheng Yi hid his fleet among remote islands while the conflict between the Human Archipelago and the Deep Sea Flood Dragon Imperial Court intensified during a once-in-ten-thousand-years spiritual tide.
• Zheng Yi received an invitation to the Floating Island Immortal Assembly and agreed to attend before consuming a Flawless Golden Core that advanced his cultivation.
• Zheng Yi traveled alone to Immortal Floating Island and arrived at the assembly, where the cultivators gathered to discuss resisting the Flood Dragon Demon Court.
• Fan Xian'er blocked Zheng Yi’s path and offered to make a deal, while the Heavenly Demon Relic revealed that something within her threatened it.

Zheng Yi attended the Floating Island Immortal Assembly, where Hai Cang True Person Jie Zhouyou recognized his extraordinary Golden Core and body-refining strength. Jie Zhouyou introduced Zheng Yi to the assembled Core Formation leaders as a Golden Core True Person, leaving them to reassess his standing.

• Fan Xian'er reluctantly moved aside after Zheng Yi warned her not to stop him.
• Hai Cang True Person Jie Zhouyou welcomed Zheng Yi and sensed his powerful Golden Core, bloodline aura, and nearly perfected God-Demon Body Refining Technique.
• Jie Zhouyou addressed Zheng Yi as a Golden Core True Person and personally escorted him into the assembly, prompting speculation among the onlookers.
• Jie Zhouyou introduced Zheng Yi to the gathered Core Formation Cultivators as a new Golden Core powerhouse of the human race.
• The assembled cultivators recalled Zheng Yi's rise, his killing of a Unicorn Flood Dragon, and the Sea Patrol Kill Order before studying him with renewed seriousness.

Zheng Yi gained the respect of the Core Formation factions after Hai Cang True Person Jie Zhouyou recognized his strength, then joined their effort to resist the Flood Dragon Demon Court. The Floating Island Alliance was established, and Zheng Yi left Immortal Floating Island after a private conversation with Jie Zhouyou.

• Hai Cang True Person Jie Zhouyou introduced Zheng Yi as a powerful Golden Core True Person, prompting the assembled faction leaders to greet and defer to him.
• Jie Zhouyou described the Flood Dragon Demon Court’s attacks on human islands and urged the factions to unite and prepare for its next assault.
• Zheng Yi agreed that Azure Wave Island would not stand apart and said he would follow Immortal Floating Island’s lead when humanity’s interests required it.
• The gathered factions approved the rules of the Floating Island Alliance, which Jie Zhouyou announced was formed to resist the Flood Dragon Demon Court’s exploitation.
• Zheng Yi spoke privately with Jie Zhouyou for half an hour after the meeting, then left Immortal Floating Island.

Zheng Yi infiltrated Azure Wave Island and planned to eliminate the four powerful old Flood Dragons occupying it. After wounding one and trapping it with the Five Fires Divine Dragon Shroud, he faced the other three as they attacked the treasure to free their companion.

• Zheng Yi agreed with Hai Cang True Person Jie Zhouyou to trade Flood Dragon corpses for rare resources that could strengthen the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree.
• Zheng Yi secretly entered Azure Wave Island and discovered four peak-strength old Flood Dragons occupying the island.
• After waiting four days, Zheng Yi followed one old dragon on patrol and struck it with Slaying Immortal Sword Qi, wounding it.
• Zheng Yi trapped the wounded old dragon with the Five Fires Divine Dragon Shroud as its three companions rushed to attack him.
• Zheng Yi withstood the three old dragons' attacks with the Five Fires Divine Dragon Shroud and unleashed his Blood Qi Domain.
• The three old dragons turned their assault on the trembling Five Fires Divine Dragon Shroud to free their companion.

Zheng Yi fought four old flood dragons on Azure Wave Island, killing two and capturing their dragon souls with the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree’s powers. He suppressed the remaining dragons and rejected their threat-backed plea for mercy, declaring that the Unicorn Flood Dragon’s appearance had made the conflict a fight to the death.

• Zheng Yi restrained one old flood dragon, ripped out its Dragon Tendon, crushed its head, and captured its fleeing soul in the Chaos Green Skin Gourd.
• Zheng Yi endured the three remaining dragons’ combined assault, then wounded one with Samadhi Soul Wind and struck another with Yellow Springs Heavy Water.
• Zheng Yi used the Five Elements, Five Colors, Innate One Qi Great Capturing Hand to suppress a flood dragon and turn the battle in his favor.
• Zheng Yi’s Samadhi Soul Wind stripped another old dragon to its bones, and the Slaying Immortal Gourd captured its dragon soul.
• An old dragon trapped beneath the Five-Finger Mountain threatened Zheng Yi and offered to end the Demon Court’s pursuit if he released them.
• Zheng Yi dismissed the dragon’s offer and said the conflict had become a fight to the death when the Unicorn Flood Dragon appeared on Azure Wave Island.

After killing four old dragons on Azure Wave Island, Zheng Yi met Turtle Prime Minister, who offered Sea God Alliance resources in exchange for cooperation against the Flood Dragon Demon Court. The chapter ends with Turtle Prime Minister presenting Zheng Yi with the Heaven and Earth Sun Moon Wheel and beginning to explain its history.

• Zheng Yi killed the four old dragons, gathered their remains, and left Azure Wave Island injured.
• Zheng Yi caught Turtle Prime Minister following him and demanded to know his intentions.
• Turtle Prime Minister identified himself as a member of the Sea God Alliance and invited Zheng Yi to cooperate against the Flood Dragon Demon Court.
• Zheng Yi agreed to consider working with the alliance and traded the dragon corpses for precious deep-sea resources.
• Turtle Prime Minister gave Zheng Yi the Heaven and Earth Sun Moon Wheel as a deposit for their cooperation and began recounting its origins.

After trading with Turtle Prime Minister, Zheng Yi refined the souls of four slain flood dragons into his Five Fires Divine Dragon Shroud and became famous across the East Origin Sea Realm. Wounded and hunted by the Flood Dragon Demon Court, he hid on a remote island to recover and temper his new abilities while preparing further trump cards.

• Turtle Prime Minister gave Zheng Yi the Heaven and Earth Sun Moon Wheel in exchange for friendship and the prospect of future cooperation.
• Zheng Yi refined four flood dragon souls into his protective artifact, completing the five Vital Flame Dragons.
• News of Zheng Yi's victory over four Core Formation flood dragons spread, prompting the Flood Dragon Demon Court to issue wanted and kill orders as war engulfed the Sea Realm.
• Zheng Yi left the battle area, found a hidden island, and entered seclusion to heal his injuries and remove the corrosive power of dragon breath.
• Zheng Yi examined the five Vital Flame Dragons and planned to temper his abilities and prepare additional trump cards while avoiding the Flood Dragon Demon Court.

Zheng Yi observed the Soul Hall’s growing influence and the Incense Fire Dharma Realm’s evolution, then traveled to the Blood Fiend Sea to reforge the Heaven and Earth Sun Moon Wheel. He sent the artifact into the sea, where it began drawing in the region’s Blood Fiend power.

• Zheng Yi saw the Western Continent’s survivors rebuild under the Soul Hall, while the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and a new cultivation system developed.
• Zheng Yi concluded that the evolving Dharma Realm could help him replace the Heavenly Dao and transform the Apocalyptic World into the Netherworld.
• Zheng Yi went to the Blood Fiend Sea, where the Heaven and Earth God and Demon Diagram fragment had once shaped the land and spawned the Corpse Race.
• Zheng Yi killed the remaining Corpse Race members and monsters, then ordered the Soul Hall to forbid entry to the area.
• Zheng Yi dropped the Heaven and Earth Sun Moon Wheel into the Blood Fiend Sea, and its power began pulling the surrounding Blood Fiend aura into a vast vortex.

Zheng Yi used the Blood Fiend Sea to awaken and transform the Heaven and Earth Sun Moon Wheel into the Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Divine Blade. After the blades devoured the sea’s Blood Fiend power, Zheng Yi brought them to the Cultivation World’s East Origin Sea Area, where their arrival halted a violent storm.

• The Blood Fiend aura stirred the Heaven and Earth Sun Moon Wheel, which transformed into two blood-colored blades.
• The Heavenly Demon Relic revealed the refining secret technique for the Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Divine Blade, and Zheng Yi inscribed its demonic script onto the blades.
• Zheng Yi fed the blades his origin essence blood, awakening their spirituality and strengthening their power.
• The blades devoured the Blood Fiend Sea’s origin and drained away its Killing Intent, leaving the sea ordinary.
• The empowered blades appeared in the East Origin Sea Area and abruptly stopped the raging storm.

Zheng Yi fed the Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Divine Blades the souls of Ocean Giant Beasts, stabilizing and strengthening the vicious weapons. After confronting a young cultivator who had followed him to buy or commission a blade, Zheng Yi caught him placing a tracking mark and crushed him in a giant palm.

• Zheng Yi sent the two Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Divine Blades into the deep sea to devour Ocean Giant Beasts and their Soul Power.
• The blades grew more spiritual and powerful as Zheng Yi hunted thousands of beasts for several months, while avoiding a presence whose aura threatened him.
• Zheng Yi discovered a young cultivator hiding nearby, forced him out of stealth, and dismissed his requests to buy a blade or hire Zheng Yi to make one.
• As Zheng Yi prepared to leave and test the blades against the Flood Dragon Demon Court, he discovered that the young cultivator had placed a tracking mark on him.
• Zheng Yi crushed the young cultivator inside a giant palm formed from the void.