Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing soul-searched five demonic cultivators and learned that the Soul Controlling Sect had maintained a hidden branch on Lingxiu Island for a century. He took Zhu Wanyun overseas to investigate, and the chapter ended as more than a hundred sect members surrounded them on the island.

• Li Yunjing had Li Linzi and Gu Wenzhuo defeat five demonic cultivators, then soul-searched and killed them to uncover the Soul Controlling Sect’s origins.
• Li Yunjing learned that the sect had operated from Lingxiu Island for a century and decided to investigate personally; Zhu Wanyun asked to accompany him, and he agreed.
• Li Yunjing and Zhu Wanyun traveled across the sea aboard the Azure Cloud Boat, and Zhu Wanyun played the qin while Li Yunjing accompanied her on the flute.
• Li Yunjing and Zhu Wanyun reached Lingxiu Island, where Li Yunjing told her he would give her a new cultivation technique and she accepted eagerly.
• More than a hundred Soul Controlling Sect members, including over a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators, gathered around Li Yunjing and Zhu Wanyun, and Li Yunjing asked whether they belonged to the sect.

Li Yunjing confronted Zhuang Yangming and the Soul Controlling Sect, then slaughtered their cultivators while Zhu Wanyun played the guzheng from the protection of an array. After defeating the sect’s Ten Thousand Soul Ghost God, Li Yunjing used a Daoist mantra to free the trapped souls, leaving Zhuang Yangming and four cultivators still facing him.

• Li Yunjing identified Zhuang Yangming as a Soul Controlling Sect steward and killed a Fifth Heaven Foundation Establishment cultivator with one punch.
• Nine Soul Controlling Sect experts trapped Li Yunjing and Zhu Wanyun in the Nine Ghosts White Bone Array, but Li Yunjing broke through and killed five of them with Five Elements Divine Thunder.
• Zhuang Yangming ordered the Qi Refining cultivators to attack Li Yunjing and Zhu Wanyun, so Li Yunjing protected Zhu Wanyun with an array while she played Ambush from Ten Sides.
• Li Yunjing slaughtered the Qi Refining cultivators and killed another Foundation Establishment cultivator as Zhuang Yangming and four others fought back.
• Zhuang Yangming and the remaining four summoned the Ten Thousand Soul Ghost God, but Li Yunjing pierced it with lightning and the Heavenly Thunder Emperor Seal.
• Li Yunjing chanted the Taiyi Savior of Suffering Rebirth Mantra, restoring the trapped souls' awareness and sending them on to their next lives.

Li Yunjing fought the Soul Controlling Sect disciples who had enslaved souls and slaughtered mortals, defeating them with his sword, thunder arts, and treasures. After destroying the Nether Prison Ghost, he killed the remaining demonic cultivators and left Zhuang Yangming buried and beaten into submission.

• Li Yunjing rejected Zhuang Yangming and the other Soul Controlling Sect disciples’ pleas to escape and summoned the Azure Sea Listening Waves Sword to break their defenses.
• Li Yunjing killed several fleeing demonic cultivators, while Bai Lei sacrificed himself to summon the Nether Prison Ghost.
• Li Yunjing revealed his Seventh Heaven of Foundation Establishment Realm fighting strength and used the Heavenly Thunder Emperor Seal and a sea of lightning to grievously wound the Nether Prison Ghost.
• Li Yunjing suppressed and destroyed the Nether Prison Ghost with the Great Dao of Five Elements, then killed Zhuang Yangming’s remaining companion.
• Li Yunjing sealed the ground with the Great Dao of Earth and beat Zhuang Yangming into a pit after his forces of more than a hundred cultivators had been wiped out.

Li Yunjing learned that the Buddhist Sect had ordered the Soul Controlling Sect to slaughter Lingxiu Island’s inhabitants and carry out a secret mission, then discovered the Blood Bodhi Tree they had cultivated from the victims’ blood. He took Zhu Wanyun under his wing and decided to uproot the tree and burn the cave.

• Zhu Wanyun gathered the spoils while Li Yunjing questioned the dying Zhuang Yangming about Lingxiu Island.
• Zhuang Yangming revealed that the Buddhist Sect had ordered the island’s slaughter and sent the Soul Controlling Sect into Yingtian Prefecture, and that its members included three Golden Core Realm cultivators.
• Zhuang Yangming died after warning Li Yunjing about treasures cultivated by the Buddhist Sect on the island.
• Li Yunjing shared resources with Zhu Wanyun, agreed to let her follow him, and gave her a cultivation technique.
• Li Yunjing and Zhu Wanyun found a blood-soaked cave containing corpses and a Blood Bodhi Tree nourished by their blood.
• Li Yunjing decided to uproot the nearly mature Blood Bodhi Tree and burn the cave.

Li Yunjing fought an asura woman guarding the Blood Bodhi Tree, killed her with the Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror, and escaped Lingxiu Island with Zhu Wanyun. He left for the palace and planned to return to his sect, carrying the tree and a vast haul of spoils while trying to hide his role in the battle.

• Li Yunjing tried to seize the Blood Bodhi Tree, but an asura woman emerged from the Blood Pool and attacked him with blood-path arts.
• Li Yunjing countered her attacks with the Blood Demon Seal and fought her at close range, while the cavern and Lingxiu Island collapsed around them.
• The asura woman unleashed three Blood-Transforming God Thunder, damaging Li Yunjing's treasures and armor, but the Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror healed him and trapped her in its deadly black light.
• Li Yunjing pierced the weakened asura woman with the Azure Sea Listening Waves Sword, stored her corpse, and took the Blood Bodhi Tree.
• Li Yunjing warned Zhu Wanyun to keep the battle secret, then flew away on the Azure Cloud Boat and examined the asura woman's valuable treasures and Spirit Stones.

Li Yunjing studied the Soul Controlling Sect's spoils and returned toward the Divine Firmament Mountain Range as the Soul Controlling Sect learned that its twelve disciples had died. In Yingtian Prefecture, the imperial family attacked the Liu Family, while monks from Mingxin Temple began investigating the loss of the Blood Bodhi Tree.

• Li Yunjing examined the Soul Controlling Sect's treasures and the demoness's inheritance, then told Zhu Wanyun to keep quiet about Lingxiu Island and headed back toward his sect.
• The Soul Controlling Sect discovered that Zhuang Yangming and eleven others had died, and Bi Ruo'an revealed that they had been sent to assist Mingxin Temple.
• The Zhu Clan's forces accused Liu Jianye of colluding with demonic cultivators and fought the Liu Family outside the Prime Minister's Mansion, leaving Liu Jianye badly wounded.
• Li Linzi and Gu Wenzhuo watched the battle between the Zhu and Liu families and prepared to report what they had seen to the Divine Firmament Dao Sect.
• Zen Master Huiguo sent Dingxin to investigate the missing Blood Bodhi Tree and ordered Huiyun and Huian to demand that the Soul Controlling Sect recover it or pay its full value within half a month.

Li Yunjing returned to the Divine Firmament Dao Sect with evidence that the Buddhist Sect and Soul Controlling Sect were plotting against it. After reporting to the sect’s leaders, he received a reward of ten million contribution points for his service, while the threat of conflict with the Buddhist Sect loomed.

• Zen Master Huiguo and Shura argued over the lost Blood Bodhi Tree and the danger of confronting the Divine Firmament Dao Sect.
• Li Yunjing returned to the sect, rewarded the Patrol Disciples at Guest-Welcoming Peak, and learned that Xu Wuyi had gone into seclusion.
• Li Yunjing told Elder Liu Boxi about the Shura, the Soul Controlling Sect, and the Blood Bodhi Tree; Liu Boxi then brought him to see the Sect Leader.
• Li Yunjing presented the elders with demonic artifacts, Identity Tokens, the Blood Bodhi Tree, and the demoness’s corpse as proof of his account.
• Ming Lingchuan praised Li Yunjing’s achievements and awarded him ten million contribution points despite noticing the trouble recorded on his Identity Token.

Li Yunjing proposed a plan to secure the East Sea by recruiting local Daoist powers rather than launching an all-out war, earning Ming Lingchuan’s approval and the third volume of the Five Thunders Method. After cultivating and developing ideas for imbuing techniques and treasures with spiritual nature, he joined the sect’s expedition to the East Sea and met a Nascent Soul Realm Patriarch willing to guide him in the Five Elements.

• Ming Lingchuan asked the elders how to respond to Buddhist and demonic forces in the East Sea, and Wan Lingshi urged the sect to destroy them outright.
• Li Yunjing recommended investigating enemy forces and investing in strong local Daoist sects as allies, and Ming Lingchuan praised his plan and imparted the third volume of the Five Thunders Method.
• Li Yunjing studied the new volume, practiced shaping thunder into a lotus and other forms, and considered combining his arts to give techniques and treasures spiritual nature.
• Ming Lingchuan organized an expedition with a Nascent Soul Realm leader, ten Golden Core Realm elders, and twenty Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators to win over East Sea powers and confront Buddhist and demonic forces.
• Li Yunjing boarded the Divine Firmament Warship, greeted the Nascent Soul Realm Patriarch, and asked for guidance; the Patriarch agreed to teach him about the Five Elements.

Li Yunjing swallowed the Blood Bodhi Fruit, advanced to the peak of the fifth level of Foundation Establishment, and decided to preserve the Blood Bodhi Tree for future fruit. He later met Zhu Wanyun to discuss the imperial family’s destruction of the Liu Family, but he withheld judgment on whether the Divine Firmament Dao Sect would retaliate.

• Li Yunjing guided the Nascent Soul Realm ancestor and the sect’s elites into Yingtian Prefecture, then gave them a map of his East Sea route and received orders to investigate demonic and Buddhist infiltrators.
• After the sect’s elites left for the East Sea, Li Yunjing sealed himself in a side hall and swallowed the nearly ripe Bodhi Fruit.
• Li Yunjing spent ten days absorbing the fruit’s power, reaching the peak of the fifth level of Foundation Establishment and strengthening his magical power and spirit.
• Li Yunjing changed his plan and stored the Blood Bodhi Tree so he could nurture it and harvest another fruit in the future.
• Li Yunjing visited Zhu Wanyun, who told him the imperial family had destroyed the Liu Family and feared the Liu Family’s influence within the Divine Firmament Dao Sect.
• Li Yunjing remained wary of the imperial family’s account and did not promise that the sect would leave it unpunished.

Li Yunjing accepted Zhu Wanyun’s help with the investigation, spent three days with her, and gave her resources to advance her cultivation. Meanwhile, Monk Dingxin of Mingxin Temple came to Yingtian Prefecture to reclaim the Blood Bodhi Tree, but learned Li Yunjing had eaten its fruit.

• Li Yunjing told Zhu Wanyun to keep searching for demonic cultivators and Buddhist Sect agents, then stayed for a meal and advised her to focus on magical treasures rather than swordsmanship.
• Zhu Wanyun invited Li Yunjing to stay the night, and he remained at the Princess Mansion for three days before giving her a Hundred Treasure Pouch and urging her to cultivate and continue the investigation.
• Monk Dingxin met Lord Niu, learned about Li Yunjing’s background, and decided to deal with him that night; he also gave Lord Niu’s family resources for two Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Monk Dingxin entered Li Yunjing’s residence and discovered that Li Yunjing had reached the Fifth Heaven of Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Dingxin revealed he had come for the Blood Bodhi Tree, and Li Yunjing told him the Bodhi Fruit was gone because he had eaten it.

Li Yunjing fought Dingxin after catching him off guard, and the two clashed fiercely inside the Divine Firmament Temple. Li Yunjing destroyed Dingxin’s Nirvana Sarira with the Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror and collected its scattered golden light, while Dingxin remained a dangerous opponent.

• Li Yunjing struck Dingxin while he was distracted by news of the Bodhi Fruit, then wounded him with the Azure Sea Listening Waves Sword as Dingxin counterattacked.
• Dingxin enlarged himself with his Buddhist Golden Body, while Li Linzi and Gu Wenzhuo withdrew and activated the Divine Firmament Temple’s Great Dao Azure Sky formation.
• Li Yunjing and Dingxin fought through dozens of exchanges, collapsed a side hall, and both suffered serious injuries.
• Dingxin resumed his desperate assault, but Li Yunjing avoided direct clashes and attacked from a distance with five-elements spells.
• Dingxin summoned a Nirvana Sarira and sent it at Li Yunjing, who used the Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror to shatter it.
• Li Yunjing gathered the Sarira’s golden light and fragments into a jade bottle.

Li Yunjing defeated and crippled Monk Dingxin, then tried to learn Mingxin Temple’s plans in the East Sea. After Monk Dingxin refused to talk, Li Yunjing handed the interrogation to Li Linzi and Gu Wenzhuo, recovered from his injuries, and advanced his body cultivation to one step below the Foundation Establishment peak.

• Li Yunjing endured Monk Dingxin’s attacks and battered him until the monk was badly weakened, then used the Blood Demon Seal and Palm Lightning to destroy both his arms.
• Li Yunjing demanded that Monk Dingxin reveal Mingxin Temple’s forces and purpose in the East Sea, but the monk refused despite Li Yunjing’s brutal torture.
• Li Yunjing assigned Monk Dingxin’s interrogation to Li Linzi and Gu Wenzhuo, crippled the monk’s dantian, and had disciples carry him to the dungeon.
• Li Yunjing meditated for a day and a night, healed his injuries with lightning power, and used pills to strengthen his body cultivation to one step below its Foundation Establishment peak.

After extracting information from Monk Dingxin, Li Yunjing accompanied Elder Yu Yuanhua and Xu Xun into the East Sea to investigate Mingxin Temple’s growing influence. They reached Venomous Snake Island in disguise, learned that reinforcements were approaching, and encountered a fight in the marketplace.

• Li Yunjing inventoried Monk Dingxin’s treasures, studied the Buddhist scriptures, and refined pills for three days before the sect’s envoys arrived.
• Yu Yuanhua and Xu Xun joined Li Yunjing at the dungeon, where Yu Yuanhua searched Monk Dingxin’s soul and learned the location of Mingxin Temple’s East Sea base and its Mind-Clarifying Branch Temple.
• Yu Yuanhua took Li Yunjing and Xu Xun into the East Sea and told them that Mingxin Temple had won over the Soul Controlling Sect, another major power, and more than a dozen smaller factions.
• Yu Yuanhua used Monk Dingxin’s memories to guide them to Venomous Snake Island, where the three concealed their identities and entered Spirit Snake City.
• Yu Yuanhua received word that two elders and four disciples were heading toward the island, and Li Yunjing traded for sea materials in the marketplace.
• A woman’s shrill cry drew Li Yunjing, Yu Yuanhua, and Xu Xun’s attention to a fight breaking out in the marketplace.

Ji Zixuan’s fight with the Spirit Snake Sect escalated after she revealed she was the daughter of the Two Immortals of Azure Wave, and Li Yunjing intervened to protect her. The Spirit Snake Sect trapped the market district in its Ten Thousand Snake Poison Sha Array, leaving Li Yunjing and Xu Xun surrounded.

• Ji Zixuan killed and wounded Spirit Snake Sect disciples, then claimed she was the daughter of the Two Immortals of Azure Wave.
• When a Spirit Snake Sect Foundation Establishment cultivator attacked Ji Zixuan, Li Yunjing blocked him and drove off his poisonous snakes with his Five-Colored Divine Light and flames.
• More than a hundred Spirit Snake Sect cultivators arrived, and Xu Xun joined Li Yunjing in fighting them.
• Deputy Sect Master Ba Anyi ordered the Spirit Snake Sect disciples to form the Ten Thousand Snake Poison Sha Array, trapping the market crowd and killing hundreds of Qi Refining cultivators.
• Li Yunjing protected himself from the poison and gave Xu Xun Detoxification Pills and Five Elements Spirit Talismans.

The Spirit Snake Sect trapped Li Yunjing, Xu Xun, and the island’s cultivators in the Ten Thousand Snake Poison Sha Array, but the Two Immortals of Azure Wave arrived and revealed Ji Zixuan as their daughter. As the Spirit Snake Sect faced demands to surrender its attackers, Old Man Evil Wind appeared to target the Divine Firmament Dao Sect trio, and Madam Ji prepared to fight him.

• Vice Sect Master Ba Anyi ordered the Spirit Snake Sect disciples to empower the Ten Thousand Snake Poison Sha Array and kill everyone trapped inside.
• Li Yunjing and Xu Xun fought off the array’s attacks while Yu Yuanhua protected Ji Zixuan and observed them.
• The Two Immortals of Azure Wave arrived, and Ji Zixuan identified them as her parents; Yu Yuanhua introduced himself as an elder of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect.
• Madam Ji demanded compensation and the surrender of those who attacked Ji Zixuan, while Ji Shuhan backed her demands and the Spirit Snake Sect’s Ba Huaiyi refused to hand over its people.
• Old Man Evil Wind arrived and declared that he had come for Li Yunjing, Xu Xun, and Yu Yuanhua, so Madam Ji challenged him while Ji Shuhan agreed to deal with the Spirit Snake Sect.
• Madam Ji summoned a crystal ball that filled with mist and formed a Black Tortoise as she prepared to attack Old Man Evil Wind.

Madam Ji and Old Man Evil Wind fought while Ji Shuhan and Yu Yuanhua battled the Spirit Snake Sect’s Golden Core elders, and Li Yunjing used his upgraded Azure Cloud Boat to turn the fight against the sect’s forces. Zen Master Huiguo then arrived to support the Spirit Snake Sect, putting Ji Shuhan under pressure as Madam Ji prepared a hidden attack on Old Man Evil Wind.

• Madam Ji summoned the Black Tortoise Dharma Image and fought Old Man Evil Wind, while Ji Shuhan and Yu Yuanhua joined forces against the Spirit Snake Sect’s three Golden Core elders.
• Li Yunjing boarded his upgraded Azure Cloud Boat with Xu Xun and Ji Zixuan, then used its Heavenly Thunder Cannon to devastate the Spirit Snake Sect’s disciples and ships.
• Ji Shuhan killed one of the Spirit Snake Sect’s Golden Core cultivators and threatened the two survivors as their side began to lose.
• Zen Master Huiguo arrived and used his kasaya to suppress Ji Shuhan, while Old Man Evil Wind trapped Madam Ji in demonic gales.
• Madam Ji held off Old Man Evil Wind with the Black Tortoise and secretly readied a Soul-Devouring and Spirit-Snatching Needle to strike him by surprise.

Li Yunjing used the Great Five Elements Divine Thunder Demon-Extinguishing Array to trap Ba Huaiyi and help Yu Yuanhua defeat the Spirit Snake Sect’s Golden Core experts. The Divine Firmament Dao Sect gained the advantage, but Zen Master Huiguo and Old Man Evil Wind escaped, leaving the alliance’s future uncertain.

• As the Azure Cloud Boat came under heavy attack, Li Yunjing decided to leave it with Xu Xun and Ji Zixuan and sneak underground to aid Yu Yuanhua.
• Li Yunjing ambushed Ba Huaiyi with the Great Five Elements Divine Thunder Demon-Extinguishing Array while Yu Yuanhua struck him with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning.
• After Ba Huaiyi was reduced to his head and trapped inside the array, Li Yunjing told Yu Yuanhua to pursue the other Spirit Snake Sect cultivator, who soon fell as well.
• Two Divine Firmament Dao Sect elders arrived with four Foundation Establishment cultivators, and the Spirit Snake Sect’s disciples scattered after their ancestors were defeated.
• Old Man Evil Wind escaped by splitting into countless incarnations, while Zen Master Huiguo fled into the sea; Ji Shuhan pursued him briefly before returning to Venomous Snake Island.

Li Yunjing pursued the defeated Spirit Snake Sect, protected Ji Zixuan, and looted the sect’s headquarters amid the chaos. A teleportation formation carried them to a sealed chamber, where Li Yunjing killed and collected forty-nine second-tier venomous snakes for his Ten Thousand Poison Banner.

• Li Yunjing collected spoils and captured Spirit Snake Sect disciples while Xu Xun went after prisoners; Ba Anyi ambushed Li Yunjing, then fled toward the far end of Venomous Snake Island with other survivors.
• Li Yunjing pursued Ba Anyi with Ji Zixuan, cutting down Spirit Snake Sect cultivators who tried to stop them as news spread that the sect had lost.
• Li Yunjing and Ji Zixuan entered the Spirit Snake Sect headquarters to loot its palaces, and Li Yunjing smashed through their restricted entrances while other cultivators kept their distance.
• A one-way teleportation formation trapped Li Yunjing and Ji Zixuan in a sealed stone chamber, where four passages opened and forty-nine second-tier venomous snakes emerged.
• Li Yunjing killed all the snakes and collected their bodies to strengthen his Ten Thousand Poison Banner.

Li Yunjing and Ji Zixuan fell into the Spirit Snake Sect’s underground hall, where Li Yunjing defeated the cultivators who tried to seize the treasures. While searching the hall’s supplies, Ji Zixuan found an old map of the Orchid Mountain Range, and Li Yunjing memorized its unusual markings despite judging the region too dangerous to explore for now.

• Li Yunjing refused to divide the underground hall’s treasures with the other cultivators and demanded that the four Spirit Snake Sect disciples surrender.
• When the cultivators attacked, Li Yunjing protected Ji Zixuan, then turned the battle around with his treasures and killed every attacker.
• Li Yunjing and Ji Zixuan searched the hall’s three rooms and found supplies worth several million Low-grade Spirit Stones, which they shared.
• Ji Zixuan discovered an ancient map of the Orchid Mountain Range, and Li Yunjing recognized its geography and memorized its marked locations.
• Ji Zixuan asked Li Yunjing whether he recognized the map.

After the Divine Firmament Dao Sect seized Venomous Snake Island, Li Yunjing was sent back to summon reinforcements, but a bounty hunter ambushed him on the way. Protected by the Azure Cloud Boat, Li Yunjing fled beneath the sea while the white-robed cultivator pursued him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Li Yunjing and Ji Zixuan returned to the Spirit Snake Sect’s mountain gate, where Yu Yuanhua and the other Golden Core experts finished suppressing the looters and killing two invading Golden Core cultivators.
• Li Yunjing and five fellow Foundation Establishment cultivators organized the remaining people on Venomous Snake Island, while the elders and the Two Immortals of Azure Wave repaired the island’s formations and agreed to share its marketplace profits.
• Yu Yuanhua ordered Li Yunjing to return to the mainland and bring people from the Divine Firmament Temple to maintain Venomous Snake Island.
• A white-robed cultivator ambushed Li Yunjing aboard the Azure Cloud Boat, explaining that Mingxin Temple had placed a bounty on members of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect.
• Li Yunjing defended the boat with its barrier and Heavenly Thunder Cannon, then fled into the ocean when the attacker’s saber broke through the barrier and struck the hull.
• The white-robed cultivator pursued Li Yunjing underwater as he steered the Azure Cloud Boat in circles, seeking a favorable place to fight.