Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing fled the Azure-Armored Crab King, then secretly entered its lair while cultivators and a mysterious pursuer fought over the beast. He found an immature Five-Colored Flower and Yin-Yang Fruit, and ended the chapter trapped in the Electric Eel King's lightning alongside Xie Wuyi.

• Li Yunjing escaped the Azure-Armored Crab King and returned under cover to watch the battle, while an unseen creature watched from the reefs.
• Li Yunjing followed the treasure's fragrance to a coral cave, where Xie Wuyi and the Electric Eel King arrived as the Azure-Armored Crab King rushed back to its lair.
• The Electric Eel King killed the Qi Family Three Brothers, while cultivators revealed that the Holy Sound Sect had organized the hunt and that Saint Sound Fairy was expected to arrive.
• Xie Wuyi dodged the Azure-Armored Crab King's lightning and entered the cave, followed by the Electric Eel King and Li Yunjing.
• Li Yunjing and Xie Wuyi agreed to cooperate against the Electric Eel King, which trapped them both in a web of lightning while sparing the Five-Colored Flower and Yin-Yang Fruit.

Li Yunjing seized the Five-Colored Flower and Yin-Yang Fruit from the Electric Eel King’s cave, escaped the pursuing cultivators, and ate the fruit while returning to the Divine Firmament Temple. After enduring a dangerous surge of yin-yang and thunder energy, he absorbed their power and advanced to Foundation Establishment sixth heaven.

• Li Yunjing blasted Xie Wuyi with Water God Thunder, forcing him to flee the Electric Eel King’s cave.
• Li Yunjing dodged the Electric Eel King, snatched the Five-Colored Flower, and escaped the cave as the Electric Eel King attacked the cultivators outside.
• Li Yunjing burrowed ten miles through the seabed, escaped aboard the Azure Cloud Boat, and evaded pursuers before reaching the sky above the ocean.
• Li Yunjing kept the Five-Colored Flower intact, ate its Yin-Yang Fruit, and suffered as its powerful energy surged through his body during his journey home.
• Li Yunjing’s Yin Yang Dual Qi and thunder power clashed within him for a day and a night before he absorbed them and advanced to Foundation Establishment sixth heaven.

After advancing to the sixth level of Foundation Establishment, Li Yunjing organized reinforcements and supplies for the Divine Firmament Dao Sect’s newly seized Venomous Snake Island. He returned with two hundred disciples and learned that the sect’s forces had gathered on the island, while Xie Wuyi had pursued him on the way back.

• Li Yunjing assessed his increased strength, then ordered Li Linzi and Gu Wenzhuo to prepare two hundred disciples for Venomous Snake Island and request reinforcements for the Divine Firmament Temple.
• Li Linzi volunteered to lead the disciples overseas, while Gu Wenzhuo agreed to report the need for reinforcements to the sect.
• Li Yunjing visited Zhu Wanyun, told her about the situation overseas, and cultivated with her before returning to the Divine Firmament Temple.
• Li Yunjing took Li Linzi and two hundred disciples aboard the Azure Cloud Boat and reached Venomous Snake Island after a two-day journey.
• Xu Xun asked why Li Yunjing had been delayed, and Li Yunjing said Xie Wuyi had chased him on the way back.
• Li Yunjing led Xu Xun, another cultivator, Li Linzi, and the two hundred disciples toward the Spirit Snake Sect’s mountain gate, now a stronghold staffed by the sect’s forces and three hundred temporary recruits.

Li Yunjing reported to the Divine Firmament Dao Sect’s ancestor after returning to Venomous Snake Island, and his rapid cultivation breakthrough and fortunate encounter impressed the elders. As preparations began for an alliance gathering and a possible war, the ancestor gave Li Yunjing permission to withdraw if he faced lethal danger and he asked for Divine Firmament Thunderbolt Beads.

• Li Yunjing led Li Linzi into the main hall, reported what had happened, and told the ancestor that he had already sent someone to notify the sect.
• The ancestor noticed Li Yunjing had reached the Sixth Heaven of the Foundation Establishment Realm and wondered what had enabled his rapid progress.
• Li Yunjing explained that while fleeing pursuers, he had found the Holy Sound Sect surrounding an Azure-Armored Crab King, and the ancestor revealed that the Holy Sound Sect had agreed to ally with them.
• The ancestor ordered the elders to prepare Venomous Snake Island for a meeting in three days with factions they had drawn to their side.
• After the elders left, the ancestor gave Li Yunjing a Jade Slip authorizing him to leave the battlefield and return to the sect if he faced lethal danger.
• Li Yunjing accepted the Jade Slip and asked the ancestor for Divine Firmament Thunderbolt Beads to protect him in the coming battle.

Li Yunjing secured three Divine Firmament Thunderbolt Beads, learned that the Divine Firmament Dao Sect had built an alliance of East Sea powers, and spent two days tempering his body with thunder until it reached the Foundation Establishment Realm peak. After seeing visiting cultivators crowd the newly renovated Divine Firmament Temple marketplace, he rushed to find its administrator.

• Li Yunjing shamelessly asked the old ancestor for a reward and received three third-tier Divine Firmament Thunderbolt Beads.
• Yu Yuanhua told Li Yunjing that the Holy Sound Sect, Flying Cloud Sect, and several weaker factions had joined the Divine Firmament Dao Sect's alliance against Mingxin Temple.
• Li Yunjing returned to Divine Firmament Temple, kept the Spirit Snake Sect cultivator's belongings, and spent two days cultivating instead of taking on tasks that had already been assigned.
• Li Yunjing used the Five Thunders Method to repeatedly destroy and restore his body, bringing his physical strength to the peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Li Yunjing saw visiting cultivators filling the marketplace and learned from Li Linzi that Jiang Feilong handled its affairs.
• Li Yunjing hurried to the marketplace administration office to find Jiang Feilong.

Li Yunjing secured the Spirit Snake Sect’s former flagship store for Star Moon Trading Firm and began arranging its renovation and defenses. He left the work to Li Linzi and invited Jiang Feilong out for a drink, hoping to gain a trusted local ally for the business.

• Li Yunjing visited Jiang Feilong, who told him Elder Yu Yuanhua had reserved a large marketplace shop for him.
• Jiang Feilong showed Li Yunjing the nine-story former Spirit Snake Sect flagship store, and explained that disciples had looted it before the premises were assigned to Li Yunjing.
• Li Yunjing accepted the damaged building, inspected its floors and outbuildings, and decided it would become Star Moon Trading Firm’s East Sea flagship store.
• Li Yunjing laid restrictions around the property and left his Lesser Five Elements Formation Disks there to protect the future store.
• Li Yunjing summoned Li Linzi to organize more than thirty disciples to clean and renovate the store, offering them contribution points.
• Li Yunjing asked Jiang Feilong to join him for a drink while Li Linzi supervised the work.

Li Yunjing found Shi Huilan’s talents in commerce and arrays impressive and appointed her temporary manager of the Star Moon Trading Firm. Meanwhile, True Person Five Elements continued negotiations to unite East Sea powers against Mingxin Temple’s allies, and credited Li Yunjing’s strategy with sparing the Divine Firmament Dao Sect a major deployment.

• After dining with Jiang Feilong, Li Yunjing secured his promise to help look after the Star Moon Trading Firm.
• Li Yunjing met Shi Huilan in his rear courtyard and learned she had a background in commerce and arrays despite her low cultivation.
• Li Yunjing put Shi Huilan in charge of preparing the courtyard and offered her temporary management of the Star Moon Trading Firm, promising rewards and help reaching Foundation Establishment.
• In the Divine Firmament Temple branch, Fairy Holy Sound and True Person Flying Cloud discussed claiming the Soul Controlling Sect or Ascetic Sect in return for their contributions to the alliance.
• True Person Five Elements reflected that Li Yunjing’s plan had spared the Divine Firmament Dao Sect from deploying a vast force and valued the young cultivator’s contribution.

True Person Five Elements and the East Sea cultivators prepared to confront Mingxin Temple after learning that Elder Fa Zheng was approaching. Li Yunjing reasoned that the visitors had come to test their strength rather than fight decisively, and the chapter ended with True Person Five Elements rejecting Fa Zheng’s peace proposal.

• Fairy Holy Sound outlined the differences between the Soul Controlling Sect and the Ascetic Sect, and True Person Five Elements revealed that the Divine Firmament Dao Sect had prepared methods to break both sects’ protective formations.
• True Person Five Elements learned that Elder Fa Zheng of Mingxin Temple was coming to discuss peace, then summoned Li Yunjing to the gathering.
• Li Yunjing argued that Mingxin Temple’s alliance lacked the strength and certainty to risk a decisive battle and had likely come to test the Divine Firmament Dao Sect.
• True Person Five Elements praised Li Yunjing’s analysis and led the gathered cultivators out to meet Fa Zheng and his forces.
• Fa Zheng urged the Divine Firmament Dao Sect to abandon its plans and seek peace, but True Person Five Elements scorned his words and insisted that strength mattered more than rhetoric.

The East Sea factions confronted Mingxin Temple, and Zen Master Fazheng proposed settling their dispute through six one-on-one matches. Li Yunjing volunteered for the Foundation Establishment match as both sides began choosing contestants.

• Fairy Holy Sound and True Person Flying Cloud mocked Mingxin Temple and urged its people to leave the East Sea, while True Person Five Elements backed them.
• Zen Master Fazheng proposed three Foundation Establishment matches and three Golden Core matches, and True Person Five Elements accepted.
• Li Yunjing volunteered to fight in the Foundation Establishment match, and True Person Five Elements warned that he would add thirty years to Li Yunjing's sentence if he lost.
• Fairy Holy Sound selected Liao Wanqing, and True Person Flying Cloud selected the Ninth Heaven Foundation Establishment sword cultivator Wen Bin.
• Ji Shuhan volunteered for one of the Golden Core matches.

The Divine Firmament Dao Sect and Mingxin Temple selected fighters for a series of battles, and Li Yunjing faced Mingxin Temple’s Dingnan in the Foundation Establishment match. After their opening exchanges showed Dingnan’s power and Li Yunjing’s resilience, Li Yunjing drew the Azure Sea Listening Waves Sword as the fight continued.

• Wen Heze and Fu Lingfeng volunteered to fight for the Divine Firmament Dao Sect, with Fu Lingfeng claiming the Golden Core Realm match.
• Dingnan stepped forward for Mingxin Temple, and Li Yunjing confronted him after Dingnan challenged him to concede.
• Li Yunjing attacked with Five Elements True Qi, but Dingnan countered with Mount Sumeru Gold Mountain Palm and sent him flying without injuring him.
• Li Yunjing recovered quickly, charged as a fire dragon, then used nine illusory doubles to surround Dingnan and strike with Sword Qi.
• Dingnan dodged Li Yunjing’s attack, and Li Yunjing drew the Azure Sea Listening Waves Sword from his Storage Ring.

Li Yunjing used his Thunder Divine Body and magical treasures to battle Monk Dingnan, gradually gaining an opening despite suffering heavier injuries. After striking Monk Dingnan’s sea of consciousness with the Heavenly Thunder Emperor Seal, Li Yunjing thrust his sword toward the monk’s brow.

• Li Yunjing used the Azure Sea Listening Waves Sword against Monk Dingnan, then challenged him to a contest of body-tempering skills.
• Li Yunjing and Monk Dingnan exchanged hundreds of blows, while Li Yunjing’s thunder power healed his injuries and Monk Dingnan’s strength waned.
• Monk Dingnan switched to his Demon-Subduing Pestle and shattered Li Yunjing’s nine phantom bodies with a lion’s roar.
• Monk Dingnan struck Li Yunjing with the pestle, but the Five-Colored Divine Light and Thunder Divine Body helped him withstand the blow.
• Li Yunjing launched the Heavenly Thunder Emperor Seal into Monk Dingnan’s sea of consciousness, leaving him in agony.
• Li Yunjing seized the opening and thrust the Azure Sea Listening Waves Sword toward Monk Dingnan’s brow.

Li Yunjing killed Monk Dingnan, prompting Fu Lingfeng to protect him and punish Mingxin Temple with a Fourth Tier Divine Firmament Thunderbolt Bead. With the first match over, Wen Bin faced Gong Chang in the second contest, and their battle began with Gong Chang unleashing a horde of ghosts.

• Li Yunjing pierced Monk Dingnan’s head, destroyed his Sarira, and killed him.
• A Mingxin Temple elder attacked Li Yunjing, but Fu Lingfeng protected him and retaliated with a Divine Firmament Thunderbolt Bead that inflicted heavy losses on the temple’s side.
• Zen Master Fazheng apologized and agreed to continue the contest, while True Person Five Elements insisted the second match begin.
• Wen Bin entered the arena to fight Gong Chang, the Soul Controlling Sect’s top Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Gong Chang unleashed the Ten Thousand Ghost Banner’s endless evil ghosts, and Wen Bin cut down the first wave with his sword.

Wen Bin defeated and killed Gong Chang after breaking through his ghost array with sword intent bestowed by his grandmaster. The Soul Controlling Sect’s defeat left its leader considering flight, while Zen Master Fazheng tried to keep the demonic sect allied with Mingxin Temple.

• Gong Chang unleashed a horde of ghosts and trapped Wen Bin inside the Ten Thousand Ghost Heart-Devouring Array, but Wen Bin broke it with his grandmaster’s sword intent and wounded him.
• Wen Bin cleaved Gong Chang’s White Bone Sword in two and killed him with a thrust, then carried his corpse back to his formation.
• True Person Five Elements praised Wen Bin, while True Person Flying Cloud celebrated his disciple’s victory.
• Zen Master Fazheng reassured Sect Master Wang that Mingxin Temple would send more experts to the East Sea after the Soul Controlling Sect lost its match.
• Sect Master Wang considered fleeing with the Soul Controlling Sect into the dangerous depths of the East Sea rather than sharing Mingxin Temple’s fate.

The Ascetic Sect sent Vajra to fight Liao Wanqing, but her layered sonic and soul techniques overwhelmed him. The Ascetic Sect Master conceded to Fairy Holy Sound to stop Vajra from being killed.

• The Ascetic Sect Master sent Vajra into battle after Zen Master Fazheng and the Soul Controlling Sect Master urged the alliance to continue fighting.
• Liao Wanqing used her zither and the Seven-String Soul Lock against Vajra, but his armor and Shura techniques shattered her attacks.
• Liao Wanqing injured Vajra with the Holy Sound Sect's Nine-Layer Tribulation Sound, which pierced his hardened body.
• Vajra unleashed the Indestructible Vajra Body and charged Liao Wanqing, but her Soul-Absorbing Bells and heart-bewitching song trapped him in illusions and divine flames.
• The Ascetic Sect Master tried to intervene, but Fairy Holy Sound blocked him and struck Vajra with a sonic attack.
• The Ascetic Sect Master conceded the round and demanded that Liao Wanqing release Vajra.

After the Divine Firmament Dao Sect won all three Foundation Establishment contests, Fu Lingfeng faced Mingxin Temple’s strongest Golden Core Realm fighter, Master Huiming. Fu Lingfeng’s overwhelming swordsmanship left Huiming wounded and despairing as the battle continued.

• Zen Master Fazheng and the Ascetic Sect's patriarch pressured Fairy Holy Sound to spare Vajra, and she returned him after the Ascetic Sect conceded.
• Zen Master Fazheng insisted that all six contests continue, and he selected Master Huiming for Mingxin Temple’s first Golden Core match.
• True Person Five Elements sent Fu Lingfeng to fight Huiming, and Fu Lingfeng appeared on the battlefield with startling speed.
• Fu Lingfeng used the Crimson Firmament Thunder Sword to destroy Huiming’s dharma wheel and wound him.
• Huiming struggled against Fu Lingfeng’s attacks and realized that his opponent’s strength vastly surpassed his own.

Fu Lingfeng defeated Master Huiming in the duel, and Zen Master Fazheng conceded the remaining matches and withdrew with Mingxin Temple’s allies. The Divine Firmament Dao Sect’s side celebrated the victory and planned to publicize it across the East Sea as they prepared for the coming war.

• Fu Lingfeng summoned nine thunder dragons, shattered Master Huiming’s defenses, then pierced him with the Crimson Firmament Thunder Sword.
• True Person Five Elements blocked Zen Master Fazheng from attacking Fu Lingfeng, while the remaining fighters from Mingxin Temple’s side hesitated to continue.
• The sect masters of the Soul Controlling Sect and the Ascetic Sect urged Zen Master Fazheng to end the matches, and he agreed to concede.
• True Person Five Elements accepted the concession, and Zen Master Fazheng led Mingxin Temple’s allies and disciples away.
• True Person Five Elements, True Person Flying Cloud, and Fairy Holy Sound celebrated the victory and planned a feast and an announcement to East Sea factions.

After the Divine Firmament Dao Sect's victory over Mingxin Temple, the East Sea factions formed an alliance and Li Yunjing's Star Moon Trading Firm prospered. Li organized a major auction with the alliance's support, then focused on producing goods while Fu Lingfeng took charge of the final preparations.

• The East Sea factions formed the East Sea Alliance, with True Person Flying Cloud as Alliance Leader and True Person Five Elements and Fairy Holy Sound as Vice Alliance Leaders.
• As news of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect's victory spread, thousands of cultivators arrived on Divine Firmament Island, and Li Yunjing's Star Moon Trading Firm became the market's largest trading firm.
• Li Yunjing arranged a joint auction, securing support and treasures from the Divine Firmament Dao Sect, the Flying Cloud Sect, the Holy Sound Sect, and the Two Immortals of Azure Wave.
• More than thirty thousand cultivators gathered for the auction, and alliance leaders invited reclusive Nascent Soul Realm figures with offers of fourth-tier treasures.
• Fu Lingfeng took charge of the auction preparations, installed an array, and replaced Li Yunjing with Yu Yuanhua as auctioneer while Li Yunjing cultivated and made goods in seclusion.
• Fu Lingfeng watched Li Yunjing's work and regretted that he had not recruited the talented artifact refiner into Heavenly Craft Hall.

Li Yunjing mass-produced magical artifacts, pills, and talismans using assembly-line methods, stunning True Person Five Elements and Fu Lingfeng with his efficiency and breadth of skills. As he began making Puppet Mechanism Beasts, the two powerful cultivators were left wondering how someone so young could master so many professions.

• Li Yunjing used batch processing to make thirty supreme-grade flying swords and thirty low-grade spirit-tool flying swords, prompting Fu Lingfeng and True Person Five Elements to plan to bring him to the Divine Firmament Dao Sect.
• Li Yunjing refined Qi Replenishing Pills and True Essence Pills in four furnaces at once, producing eight hundred and four hundred pills respectively over a day and a night.
• Li Yunjing made more than a thousand first- and second-rank talismans, impressing True Person Five Elements, who considered asking Palace Master Qin to let him take Li Yunjing as his disciple.
• Li Yunjing began refining Puppet Mechanism Beasts, leaving True Person Five Elements and Fu Lingfeng overwhelmed by his mastery of multiple secondary professions.

After earning a fortune from Star Moon Trading Firm, Li Yunjing met Fu Lingfeng, the hall master of Heavenly Craft Hall, and agreed to teach him his batch-crafting method. Li Yunjing then asked Fu Lingfeng to refine his Five Dragon Wheel into a supreme-grade Treasure Artifact, leaving Fu Lingfeng astonished by the outrageous request.

• Li Yunjing finished crafting his stock and checked Star Moon Trading Firm’s accounts, finding that he had earned over two million Low-grade Spirit Stones and seventy thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones in half a month.
• Li Yunjing gave Li Linzi and Shi Huilan Spirit Stones to distribute among the trading firm’s staff.
• Fu Lingfeng presented Li Yunjing with the Cloud Sea Golden Lamp Array and asked about the batch-crafting method he had used for his treasures.
• Li Yunjing agreed to teach the method at Heavenly Craft Hall, then complained that he could not improve his bonded magical treasure and offered Fu Lingfeng his Five Dragon Wheel for guidance.
• Li Yunjing asked Fu Lingfeng to refine the Low-grade Spirit Tool blank into a supreme-grade Treasure Artifact, and Fu Lingfeng was stunned by the costly demand.

Li Yunjing prepared the Star Moon Trading Firm for its first major auction, organizing the venue, staff, and security. When the doors opened, the firm filled with curious cultivators, and the Flying Cloud Sect arrived as its first major power, with its deputy sect master offering Li Yunjing support.

• Fu Lingfeng refused to refine a supreme-grade Treasure Artifact for Li Yunjing but agreed to upgrade his Five Dragon Wheel to a high-grade Spirit Tool.
• Li Yunjing inspected the auction floors and lots, then coordinated with Yu Yuanhua on the auction arrangements.
• The next morning, Li Yunjing assigned staff and sect members to manage the trading floors and keep order before opening the doors.
• Cultivators crowded into the Star Moon Trading Firm, browsing its wares while Li Yunjing watched sales begin.
• Li Yunjing welcomed the Flying Cloud Sect's elders and disciples, and its deputy sect master praised his firm and offered him support.