Chapter Summaries

Su Han, Bi Yao, and the injured Lu Xueqi were ambushed in Heyang City by the Shadow Kill Leader and experts from other forces. They broke through the encirclement and raced toward the East Gate, with their pursuers close behind.

• The Shadow Kill Leader and other fighters surrounded Su Han, Bi Yao, and Lu Xueqi in a secluded street.
• Su Han led the group toward the eastern side of the encirclement while Bi Yao and Lu Xueqi guarded his flanks.
• Su Han used his flying Qing Ming Sword to deflect a hook aimed at Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao unleashed Ghost Shadows to disrupt the attackers.
• Su Han tore open a path through the encirclement, and the three escaped toward the East Gate.
• The Shadow Kill Leader pursued them through Heyang City's alleys as they dodged and blocked attacks from behind.

Su Han, Bi Yao, and Lu Xueqi escaped Heyang City after fighting off the Shadow Kill Leader and his pursuers, but all three were badly depleted. In a forest at dawn, Su Han examined Lu Xueqi and found that her injuries had worsened and might damage her foundation if left untreated.

• Su Han carried the injured Lu Xueqi toward Heyang City's closed East Gate while Bi Yao used the Nine Nether Mirror to hinder their pursuers.
• As city soldiers fired crossbow bolts and the Shadow Kill Leader's group attacked, Su Han pushed Lu Xueqi toward the battlements and faced the attackers below.
• Bi Yao turned back to protect Su Han, while Lu Xueqi used the opening stance of the Divine Sword Controlling Thunder True Spell to make the pursuers hesitate.
• Su Han and Bi Yao used the opening to reach the battlements, then Su Han took both women over the wall and fled into the night.
• After reaching a forest beyond the city at dawn, Su Han checked Lu Xueqi's pulse and realized her aggravated injuries and use of the sword spell threatened her foundation.

Su Han used his Pure Yang True Qi to ease Lu Xueqi’s injuries, exhausting himself in the process. Lu Xueqi felt better and thanked him, while Bi Yao offered them Condensing Jade Pills.

• Su Han examined Lu Xueqi and warned that her internal injuries and blocked meridians needed treatment.
• Lu Xueqi reluctantly agreed to let Su Han guide his Pure Yang True Qi through her meridians while Bi Yao kept watch.
• Su Han carefully treated Lu Xueqi, suppressing her pain and improving the flow through her damaged meridians.
• Su Han withdrew his hand, visibly exhausted, and Lu Xueqi told him she felt much better.
• Bi Yao offered Lu Xueqi and Su Han Condensing Jade Pills to restore their True Essence.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao recovered briefly in the forest before setting out for a remote place where they could hide and heal. By nightfall they camped beside the road, and Su Han agreed to take Bi Yao with him to look for water and wild fruit while Lu Xueqi rested.

• Lu Xueqi and Su Han accepted pills from Bi Yao, and the three meditated to recover.
• Su Han decided they should avoid heading directly to Liupo Mountain and instead travel to a remote fishing village to lie low.
• Lu Xueqi agreed to follow Su Han, and the three left the forest together.
• Su Han led them east through the wilderness rather than taking the official road, while wondering who had arranged the attacks.
• At dusk, Su Han chose a sheltered slope as their campsite and warned Lu Xueqi not to strain her injuries.
• Bi Yao volunteered to accompany Su Han to find water and wild fruit, and he agreed.

Su Han, Bi Yao, and Lu Xueqi recovered after escaping their pursuers, and Su Han reassured Bi Yao that he would protect her just as he had protected Lu Xueqi. The three planned to hide in a fishing village before preparing to investigate Liupo Mountain, while Su Han kept watch through the night.

• Bi Yao questioned Su Han for risking his life to save Lu Xueqi, and Su Han told her he would have done the same for her.
• Su Han and Bi Yao fetched water and wild fruit, then returned to find Lu Xueqi meditating.
• Around the campfire, Su Han proposed resting in a fishing village and preparing before going to Liupo Mountain; Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao assessed their recovery.
• Su Han took the first and last watches so Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao could rest, and both women eventually fell asleep.

Su Han took Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao to a secluded fishing village, keeping them out of sight while Lu Xueqi recovered from Tianya’s backlash. After settling them in an abandoned hut, he left to gather information and supplies, leaving the two women alone together.

• Su Han sensed two powerful cultivators pursuing each other through the wilderness at night, but they passed without discovering his camp.
• At dawn, Lu Xueqi said her internal energy had stabilized somewhat, while Bi Yao reported that more than half of her True Essence had recovered.
• Su Han led Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao east toward the sea, disguising their appearance and avoiding populated paths.
• The three reached a fishing village and settled in a concealed, abandoned hut behind it.
• Su Han went into the village for information, food, and water, leaving Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao alone in the hut.
• Bi Yao reflected on Lu Xueqi’s beauty and cultivation, then felt jealous over Su Han’s concern for her.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao recovered in a secluded fishing village while Su Han kept watch for danger. On the sea cliff, Bi Yao thanked Lu Xueqi for saving her, easing some of the tension between them before Su Han called out.

• Bi Yao warned Lu Xueqi not to misinterpret Su Han's kindness, but Lu Xueqi said she could judge him for herself.
• Su Han returned with supplies, reported that the village was safe, and cooked a meal for the three of them.
• The trio stayed in the hut for several days as Lu Xueqi healed, Bi Yao restored her True Essence, and Su Han cultivated and watched for suspicious activity.
• Bi Yao met Lu Xueqi at the sea cliff and thanked her for shielding her from the black-robed old man's attack.
• Lu Xueqi said they had been in the same boat and noted that Su Han valued Bi Yao's safety, making Bi Yao blush.
• Su Han called out from behind them.

Su Han, Bi Yao, and Lu Xueqi prepared to investigate Liupo Mountain, a dangerous place rumored to contain a seal and a monstrous presence. After reaching Wanghai and learning that ships vanished in its waters, Su Han sought out Shipwright Li, whose son had disappeared there.

• Su Han confirmed Lu Xueqi had recovered and decided the three would leave for Liupo Mountain the next day.
• Su Han studied a map with Bi Yao and Lu Xueqi, explaining that Liupo Mountain might be an ancient ruin or sealing site that someone planned to exploit.
• The three traveled to Wanghai, where sailors refused to go near Liupo Mountain because of its deadly fog, reefs, and undercurrents.
• An old boatman told Su Han that ships vanished near Liupo Mountain and that a wreck had been found covered in enormous claw marks.
• The boatman directed Su Han to Widower Li, whose son had vanished with Wang Dadan, and Su Han told Bi Yao and Lu Xueqi he would seek the shipwright’s help.
• Su Han found Shipwright Li sitting in a dilapidated courtyard, staring at a worn model boat.

Su Han learned that a mysterious token was connected to Old Craftsman Li’s missing son and obtained an ancestral sea chart marking Liupo Mountain. He and Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao traveled to Black Water Port to find a Spirit Boat, entering the lawless port under the scrutiny of hostile onlookers.

• Su Han showed Old Craftsman Li a token taken from their attackers, and Li revealed that his missing son had carried a similar one before disappearing with Wang Dadan.
• Old Craftsman Li shared an ancestral sea chart marking Liupo Mountain and explained that only a specially made Spirit Boat could cross its dangerous waters.
• Li told Su Han that Black Water Port might have a ready-made Spirit Boat, and Su Han promised to look for any trace of Li’s son.
• Su Han returned to the inn, told Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao what he had learned, and decided they would leave for Black Water Port the next day.
• After three days of travel, Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao arrived at Black Water Port and entered its crowded, lawless streets while concealing their auras.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao searched Black Water Port for a ship and reached the Black Water Gang’s Dockyard. When Situ Ming tried to claim the women and threatened Su Han after he refused his help, the group faced an armed confrontation.

• Su Han stopped a drunken man from touching Bi Yao, warning him to show respect.
• Su Han led Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao toward the Dockyard after spotting its sign in the port.
• The One-Eyed Guard and the tattoo-faced guard demanded the women be left behind before allowing the group inside.
• Situ Ming, the Black Water Gang’s Young Gang Leader, offered to take the group into the Dockyard while eyeing Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao with greed.
• Su Han declined Situ Ming’s offer, and Situ Ming ordered his guards to surround the group.

Su Han sought a Spirit Boat at Boss Jin’s Dockyard to reach Liubo Mountain and learned that a black-robed man had already taken one there. He decided to search the Black Market of Black Water Port for a Spirit Seeking Plate that could track the boat.

• Boss Jin interrupted Situ Ming’s confrontation with Su Han and invited Su Han and his two junior sisters into the Dockyard.
• Su Han rejected the Dockyard’s ordinary ships and revealed that he needed a vessel to cross the dangers around Liubo Mountain.
• Boss Jin told Su Han that a black-robed man had bought the Dockyard’s only Spirit Boat three months earlier and sailed toward Liubo Mountain.
• Boss Jin explained that the Spirit Boat had a flawed driving formation whose unusual fluctuation might be tracked with a Spirit Seeking Plate.
• Su Han learned that a Spirit Seeking Plate might be found in the Black Market of Black Water Port, while Boss Jin warned him about Situ Ming and the Black Water Gang.
• Su Han left the Dockyard and informed the two women of what he had learned.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao searched Black Water Port’s Black Market for a Spirit Seeking Plate, where Su Han confronted Situ Ming after the young gang leader tried to seize a damaged compass and threatened them. Su Han crushed Situ Ming’s finger and warned him to stop, leaving the Black Water Gang’s retaliation unresolved.

• Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao entered Black Water Port’s Black Market to search for a compass that could help them track the Spirit Boat.
• Su Han inspected a verdigris-covered Star Fixing Plate and recognized that its core formation was badly damaged.
• Situ Ming bought the compass, taunted Su Han, and ordered him to kneel and leave Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao behind.
• Su Han knocked away most of Situ Ming’s guards with a surge of True Essence, terrifying the surviving Core Formation leaders.
• Su Han broke Situ Ming’s finger and warned him that he would break his neck if he kept pestering them.

Su Han defeated the Black Water Gang’s ambush at Black Water Port and found a token bearing a pattern linked to Liubo Mountain. He and Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao hid in a sea-eroded cave, where Su Han examined the Compass and token.

• Su Han bought the rusty Compass from the old stall owner for ten mid-grade spirit stones and left the Black Market with Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao.
• Su Han sensed multiple groups following them and led Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao to a secluded rocky shore outside the port.
• A one-eyed Black Water Gang elder and a sinister old man ambushed the trio with more than a dozen subordinates, but Su Han and Lu Xueqi fought back.
• Su Han killed the gang members and both late Core Formation elders, then took a Black Water token whose whirlpool pattern resembled the one Old Shipwright Li had described.
• A furious voice rang across Black Water Port as the three fled to a hidden sea-eroded cave, where Su Han took out the Compass and token.

Su Han repaired the Compass and awakened it as an ancient Star Sundial, which pointed toward Liubo Mountain. Guided by the Netherworld Token, he, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao found a Ghost Bone Spirit Boat and sailed from Black Water Port toward the mountain.

• Su Han channeled True Essence into the Compass, restoring it and revealing that it was an ancient Star Sundial pointing southeast toward Liubo Mountain.
• Su Han used the Netherworld Token to follow its guidance to an abandoned dock, where he and his companions discovered a hidden underground chamber.
• The three found a Ghost Bone Spirit Boat and a deceased Netherworld Dao disciple’s message about the Secret of Reincarnation and Liubo Mountain’s ancient secrets.
• Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao boarded the boat and slipped out of Black Water Port before dawn, following the Star Sundial toward Liubo Mountain.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao sailed toward Liubo Mountain aboard the concealed Ghost Bone Spirit Boat. On the third day, the boat passed over ancient underwater ruins, where black water arrows suddenly attacked them.

• Su Han used the Netherworld Token to activate the Spirit Boat's Concealment Formation as they continued toward Liubo Mountain.
• During the first two days, Su Han studied the Star Sundial, Lu Xueqi kept watch, and Bi Yao learned to draw Yin Cold Power from the boat.
• On the third morning, the Spirit Boat shuddered after passing over what Su Han sensed was a submerged ancient city.
• Su Han detected lingering energy in the ruins, and several corrosive black water arrows shot toward the Spirit Boat.
• Lu Xueqi drew the Frost Snow Sword and raised an ice wall to block the incoming attack.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao were trapped by an ancient defense formation in the underwater ruins, which attacked their Spirit Boat with corrosive water arrows and a powerful suction force. Su Han found the Black Banner powering the formation and temporarily stopped its attacks by confusing it with an aura of shared origin and replacing its depleted spirit stones.

• Black Water Arrows and a suction force from the underwater ruins trapped the Ghost Bone Spirit Boat, and Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao helped defend it.
• Su Han located the formation's core on an elevated platform and left the Spirit Boat to reach it while Lu Xueqi covered him and Bi Yao maintained the boat.
• Su Han found a sentient Black Banner attacking with a black spike and noticed its power had weakened as its spirit stones were depleted.
• Su Han imitated an aura connected to the Ghost Bone Spirit Boat, confusing the Black Banner and weakening its attacks.
• Su Han replaced the depleted spirit stones with high-grade ones, disrupting the formation, then returned safely to the Spirit Boat.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao escaped the Underwater Ruins and navigated a perilous fog to reach Liubo Mountain. As they sought a landing place, a Nascent Soul-stage Sea-Covering Python attacked, leaving a fierce battle imminent.

• Su Han took the Netherworld Token from Bi Yao and drove the Ghost Bone Spirit Boat out of the Underwater Ruins, carrying away a Black Fragment from an ancient banner.
• Su Han used the Star Sundial to guide the Spirit Boat through dangerous waters and into a fog filled with hidden Space Rifts.
• Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao emerged from the fog and saw Liubo Mountain, then searched its coastline for a safe place to land.
• The Netherworld Token and Star Sundial warned Su Han of danger, and he pulled the Spirit Boat back as a Sea-Covering Python lunged from the bay.
• Lu Xueqi identified the beast as a Nascent Soul-stage ancient exotic beast, and Su Han readied his Qing Ming Sword for the approaching fight.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao fought the Sea-Covering Python guarding a bay that might provide a safe route to Liubo Mountain. Su Han wounded its left eyelid, but the enraged beast remained alive and attacked them.

• Su Han drew the Sea-Covering Python’s attention while Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao struck its vulnerable neck, wounding it with lightning and flower petals.
• The Sea-Covering Python attacked Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao, but Su Han carried them clear on the Spirit Boat.
• Su Han suspected the bay held something important or offered a safe way to land on Liubo Mountain, and asked Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao to hold the beast back.
• Lu Xueqi froze the sea and Bi Yao disrupted the Sea-Covering Python’s Spiritual Sense, allowing Su Han to climb onto its body.
• Su Han attacked the Sea-Covering Python’s left eye with the Qing Ming Sword, slashing its eyelid deeply and drawing dark blue blood.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao escaped the Sea-Covering Python by entering a secluded bay on Liubo Mountain, where the beast refused to follow. Following the Netherworld Token’s call through ancient ruins marked “Demon Suppressing Abyss,” they reached a rune-covered black altar.

• Su Han wounded the Sea-Covering Python’s eye, then Lu Xueqi caught him as Bi Yao brought the Spirit Boat closer.
• Su Han led Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao into the bay, where the Sea-Covering Python stopped at the entrance and would not cross.
• Su Han determined that a powerful restriction prevented flight, and the three continued on foot through the silent jungle.
• Su Han and Bi Yao examined ancient ruins while Lu Xueqi uncovered a stone stele bearing the words “Demon Suppressing Abyss.”
• Su Han followed the warming Netherworld Token deeper into the ruins with Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao, and they found a large altar carved with eerie runes.

Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao discovered that the altar’s damaged seal held a powerful entity that tried to use the Netherworld Token to escape. As the seal collapsed, Su Han attempted to restore the broken pillar’s function while Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao drew the entity’s attention.

• Su Han and Lu Xueqi realized the altar’s seal had been deliberately damaged, including the shattered Bi An Stone Pillar.
• The black mist tried to pull the Netherworld Token from Su Han and used a bewitching mental ripple to lure the group closer, but Lu Xueqi brought Bi Yao back to her senses.
• Su Han, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao attacked the black mist, but their strikes worsened the seal’s collapse.
• Su Han recognized that the nine stone pillars formed the seal and decided to use the Five Elements Seal Demon Seal to reinforce it.
• Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao poured spiritual power into the eight intact pillars to awaken their suppressive force while Su Han formed hand seals at the altar’s edge.
• The black mist roared and sent tentacles toward Lu Xueqi and Bi Yao.