Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing left the battle near Holy Sound Island and broke through the Sea Clan’s defenses to raid their territory. He looted the Giant Crab Demon Race’s treasury on Giant Crab Island, escaped two Demon Kings, and flew off with a huge haul.

• Li Yunjing recovered, took a pill to restore his strength, and headed toward the Sea Clan’s territory instead of returning to Holy Sound Island.
• Li Yunjing trapped a Sea Snake King in the Five Elements Divine Thunder Demon-Extinguishing Array, killed it, and fought through the Sea Clan’s blockade for a day and night.
• Li Yunjing reached Giant Crab Island, attacked the palace complex, and discovered the Giant Crab Demon Race’s treasury beneath the ruins.
• Li Yunjing filled his Storage Rings with the treasury’s riches and found a Fourth-Tier Storage Gourd, but the Giant Crab King confronted him.
• Li Yunjing fought off the Giant Crab King, escaped the converging demons aboard the Azure Cloud Boat, and outpaced two Demon Kings pursuing him.

Li Yunjing infiltrated Rhino Island’s imperial palace and looted the Hall of Many Treasures before escaping through its restrictions. A powerful Rhino Demon King pursued him, and Li Yunjing fled aboard the Azure Cloud Boat after using his last third-tier Divine Firmament Thunderbolt Bead to slow the pursuer.

• Li Yunjing secretly entered Rhino Island and discovered the enormous Rhino Clan palace, where he sensed a powerful Demon King.
• Li Yunjing found the Hall of Many Treasures and slipped inside by hiding on a maid’s skirt.
• Li Yunjing collected the huge jade box and filled his storage artifacts with treasures from the hall.
• Li Yunjing studied the hall’s restrictions, drained their lightning power, and carved a hole through the wall to escape.
• A Rhino Demon King detected Li Yunjing and chased him as he fled Rhino Island on the Azure Cloud Boat.
• Li Yunjing hurled his last third-tier Divine Firmament Thunderbolt Bead at the Rhino Demon King and used the blast’s recoil to speed away.

Li Yunjing fled the Rhino Demon King into Mystic Turtle Clan territory, escaped while the two powers clashed, and reached Ten Thousand Demon Island. There, he negotiated with the Giant Wolf King to exchange a sea chart and weapons for five Red Sun Fruits.

• Li Yunjing used exploding treasures, escape techniques, and pills to evade the Rhino Demon King as he crossed into Mystic Turtle Clan territory.
• The Mystic Turtle Ancestor confronted the Rhino Demon King and fought him, giving Li Yunjing time to escape.
• After three days, Li Yunjing reached Ten Thousand Demon Island, where he fought demon beasts and learned the island's name had changed from Golden Ape Island.
• Li Yunjing and the Giant Wolf King discussed a trade, and Li Yunjing offered a sea chart, one hundred high-grade spiritual weapons, and ten supreme-grade spiritual weapons for five Red Sun Fruits.

Li Yunjing traded sea charts and spiritual artifacts to the Giant Wolf King for red sun fruits, then returned to Divine Firmament Island and opened an ancient jade box containing the Myriad Phenomena Lotus Lantern. After refining the lantern, he planned to upgrade his Myriad Dao Glazed Furnace and left seclusion to handle business and await True Person Blazing Fire's summons.

• Li Yunjing traded a hundred high-grade spiritual artifacts, ten supreme-grade spiritual artifacts, and sea charts to the Giant Wolf King for five red sun fruits, and agreed to search for a Dragon Blood Ancient Tree.
• Li Yunjing left Ten Thousand Demon Island, fought through Sea Clan attacks on his return, and reached Holy Sound Island after more than half a year away.
• Li Yunjing returned to Divine Firmament Island, spent six months studying the jade box's Nine-Turn Spirit Sealing Array, and accidentally opened it with a slap when its ancient restrictions failed.
• Li Yunjing discovered the Myriad Phenomena Lotus Lantern inside the crumbling box, learned it contained Daoist Myriad Phenomena's insights into the Great Dao, and refined it through blood sacrifice.
• Li Yunjing decided to upgrade the Myriad Dao Glazed Furnace with Fu Lingfeng's help, prepared the materials, and left seclusion to visit the Star Moon Trading Firm and await True Person Blazing Fire's summons.
• Li Yunjing told Xing'er and Yue'er to cultivate diligently rather than spend too much time on the shop's chores.

Li Yunjing created the Star Moon Core Condensation Art to help Xing'er and Yue'er form golden cores, then prepared to join an expedition into the Lingyuan Island secret realm. As the Divine Firmament Warship carried him and True Person Blazing Fire toward the secret realm, Li Yunjing eagerly studied the vessel’s systems.

• Li Yunjing told Xing'er and Yue'er to focus on cultivation and spent seven days developing the Star Moon Core Condensation Art for them.
• Xing'er and Yue'er received the new cultivation art and began cultivating in seclusion while Li Yunjing managed the trading firm and practiced his auxiliary professions.
• True Person Blazing Fire summoned Li Yunjing and ordered him to kill Heavenly Net Dao Sect cultivators, seize treasures, and bring him any fourth-tier fire-aspected spiritual objects found in the Lingyuan Island secret realm.
• Li Yunjing prepared for the expedition, reassured Xing'er and Yue'er, and met True Person Blazing Fire at the docks three days later.
• Li Yunjing boarded the Divine Firmament Warship and studied its formations, controls, power systems, defenses, and flight mechanisms during the journey.

Li Yunjing studied the Divine Firmament Warship before entering the Lingyuan Island secret realm to retrieve a Fourth-Tier fire-elemental treasure for True Person Blazing Fire. After following the Heavenly Net Dao Sect to a volcano, he confronted their disciples, who threatened him instead of answering his questions.

• Li Yunjing examined the Divine Firmament Warship's powerful systems and treasures, then abandoned the idea of owning one after realizing its cost.
• True Person Blazing Fire brought Li Yunjing to the Lingyuan Island Sea Area and instructed him to enter the secret realm alone and find a Fourth-Tier fire-elemental treasure.
• Li Yunjing arrived at Lingyuan Island, saw the Heavenly Net Dao Sect bring seven Golden Core Realm cultivators, and entered the secret realm with the other Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Inside the vast Grotto-Heaven World, Li Yunjing followed the Heavenly Net Dao Sect disciples toward a volcano, hoping they would lead him to valuable treasures.
• A group of Heavenly Net Dao Sect disciples confronted Li Yunjing near the volcano and threatened to torture him, but he demanded to know what was inside.

Li Yunjing killed the Heaven's Net Dao Sect disciples guarding the volcano, then escaped its eruption and returned as other cultivators flooded inside. In the fog, he joined battle with Zhao Qi and the Six Wang Brothers, killing several of them before the remaining brothers attacked with hidden flying needles.

• Li Yunjing killed more than a dozen Heaven's Net Dao Sect Foundation Establishment cultivators outside the crater and entered the volcano.
• Li Yunjing sensed a restriction and an impending eruption, escaped the crater, and watched magma erupt as the Heaven's Net Dao Sect disciples cried out inside.
• After other cultivators gathered and entered the volcano, Li Yunjing returned and fought those who attacked him in the fog.
• A blue-robed woman named Zhao Qi tried to ambush Li Yunjing, then proposed an alliance, but he refused her.
• The Six Wang Brothers threatened Zhao Qi and attacked her and Li Yunjing; Zhao Qi helped Li Yunjing hold two brothers back while he killed others.
• The two remaining Wang brothers launched dozens of flying needles at Li Yunjing.

Li Yunjing killed the Six Wang Brothers after they threatened him, then overpowered Zhao Qi, who had ambushed him earlier. After teasing and growing intimate with her, he told her his name, and Zhao Qi chose to follow him despite learning he already had several women.

• Li Yunjing dodged the Wang Family brothers' hidden weapons and killed two of them before helping Zhao Qi against the remaining pair.
• The last two Wang Family members fled and begged for mercy, but Li Yunjing chased them down and killed them.
• Li Yunjing subdued Zhao Qi after she spent her vital blood to escape, then told her he wanted an apology rather than harm her.
• Zhao Qi flirted with Li Yunjing, and he grabbed her and smacked her before two cultivators interrupted them with a sudden attack.
• Li Yunjing killed the two attackers with the Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror, then revealed his name as Zhao Qi admitted she wanted to follow him.
• Li Yunjing told Zhao Qi he already had five or six women, and she accepted this and said she hoped she had entrusted her life to the right man.

Li Yunjing persuaded Zhao Qi to sell her businesses and travel with him to the Southern Heaven Continent, then led her through a magma pool toward a Fourth Tier treasure. After using the Heavenly Net Dao Sect’s secret to provoke a clash, he reached the far side of the vortex with Zhao Qi, where they faced an ambush in a dark cavern.

• Li Yunjing told Zhao Qi about his origins and offered to take her to the Southern Heaven Continent, and she agreed after deciding to sell her businesses.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi descended into the volcano, where he killed attackers and let her collect their belongings.
• Li Yunjing protected Zhao Qi as they entered the magma pool and followed a vortex to the Heavenly Net Dao Sect’s stronghold.
• Li Yunjing killed three sect disciples with the Heavenly Fire Divine Flame Seal and revealed that a Fourth Tier treasure lay beyond the vortex, drawing other cultivators into battle.
• Li Yunjing prepared his defenses and took Zhao Qi through the vortex, dodging two Heavenly Net Dao Sect disciples’ ambush as he assessed the cavern and its defenders.

Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi fought their way through the cave and found the Red Flame Crystal, but the Heavenly Net Dao Sect’s remaining disciples surrounded them. Li Yunjing killed Senior Brother Tian, yet the eight survivors launched a desperate assault that forced him to retreat.

• Li Yunjing killed most of the cultivators blocking the passage after a blinding white light erupted in the cave, while five survivors fled.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi entered a stone chamber, where he reflected Senior Brother Tian’s Blue Crystal Ice Soul and killed Junior Brother Liu.
• Li Yunjing found the Red Flame Crystal and faced Senior Brother Zhang and the other Heavenly Net Dao Sect disciples, who surrounded them in a formation.
• Li Yunjing fought the nine disciples with several treasures, lost the Blood Demon Seal, and killed Senior Brother Tian with the Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror’s black light and his sword.
• The eight remaining disciples changed formation and attacked Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi with a barrage of weapons, forcing Li Yunjing to retreat.

Li Yunjing unleashed his Three Heads and Six Arms Divine Power to fight the Heavenly Net Dao Sect’s True Disciples and killed them all. He burned their bodies, collected their treasures, and left Zhao Qi stunned by his victory.

• Li Yunjing transformed into three heads and six arms, using his many treasures to repel the Heavenly Net Dao Sect disciples and kill one with a sword strike.
• Li Yunjing learned that Senior Brother Zhang was related to Zhang Jun and attacked him before he could break through to the Golden Core Realm.
• Senior Brother Zhang fought Li Yunjing with a demonic Blood-Colored Long Blade as the other disciples joined the battle.
• Li Yunjing trapped three disciples with the Heavenly Net Earthly Web, then blocked the escape route and killed the remaining opponents.
• Li Yunjing burned the corpses, gathered the disciples’ treasures, and concealed the evidence while Zhao Qi marveled at his victory.

Li Yunjing collected the Red Flame Crystal for the Divine Firmament Dao Sect and escaped the volcano after killing Mysterious Yin Sect cultivators, whom he planned to frame for the Heavenly Net Dao Sect deaths. He and Zhao Qi explored the secret realm’s ice plains, where they encountered an Ice Plains Wolf and spotted an ancient palace atop a distant iceberg.

• Li Yunjing offered Zhao Qi a Treasure Artifact and cultivation resources, and she accepted so she could work toward the Golden Core Realm.
• Li Yunjing stored the Red Flame Crystal in a Cold Jade Box and gave Zhao Qi an Illusion Transformation Talisman for their escape.
• Li Yunjing killed a group of Mysterious Yin Sect cultivators who tried to rob them and decided to use them as scapegoats for the Heavenly Net Dao Sect deaths.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi left the volcanic region and crossed into the secret realm’s ice plains, where Zhao Qi revealed that she had a top-grade Ice spiritual root.
• Li Yunjing killed an Ice Plains Wolf with one strike and gave Zhao Qi its Demon Core.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi saw an ancient palace appearing through the haze atop a massive iceberg.

Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi fought through the Ice Palace’s defenses and reached its main hall, where they discovered a young woman’s corpse in a Crystal Coffin surrounded by powerful treasures and seven Fourth Tier Demon Cores. Li Yunjing suspected a resurrection or recovery ritual and lost his nerve, leaving the pair hesitant to approach the coffin.

• The Yin Yang Five Elements Heaven Derivation Sword warned Li Yunjing of danger near the Ice Palace, where twelve third-tier Ice Armor Puppets trapped him and Zhao Qi.
• Li Yunjing destroyed three puppets by breaking their blue power beads, but the remaining nine merged into a Frost Giant Beast.
• Zhao Qi gave Li Yunjing a high-grade third-tier fire-type talisman, which he used to melt the beast’s defenses and shatter its chest crystal.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi entered the Ice Palace after its doors opened and saw a young woman’s corpse inside a Crystal Coffin, surrounded by valuable offerings and seven powerful Demon Cores.
• Li Yunjing recognized that the coffin and Demon Cores might be part of a ritual for resurrection or recovery, and he decided he did not dare take the treasures.

Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi were captured in the Ice Palace, where a Daoist nun bound them with restrictions and demanded the Nine-Turn Profound Ice Lotus within one hundred years in exchange for their freedom. They escaped the secret realm and reunited with True Person Blazing Fire, but a powerful wave of spiritual pressure swept toward them over the sea.

• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi tried to leave the Ice Palace, but a white-robed Daoist nun stopped them and declared that her sleeping mistress needed attendants.
• Li Yunjing invoked the Divine Firmament Dao Sect, and the Daoist nun offered to release them if they brought her the Nine-Turn Profound Ice Lotus from the Profound Ice Abyss within one hundred years.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi left the Ice Palace and decided to abandon the secret realm and Zhao Qi's assets rather than risk further trouble.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi paid the Heavenly Net Dao Sect's toll at the secret realm exit and returned to the outside world.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi met True Person Blazing Fire and flew with him beyond Lingyuan Island, where a powerful wave of spiritual pressure approached them.

Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi fled with True Person Blazing Fire as the Heavenly Net Dao Sect attacked them over the deaths of its True Disciples and the Red Flame Crystal. The Pale-Eyed Eagle Clan disrupted the pursuit, allowing the three to escape aboard the Divine Firmament Warship.

• True Person Blazing Fire fought Duanmu Yan and withdrew with Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi as Heavenly Net Dao Sect cultivators and their allies attacked.
• Li Yunjing told True Person Blazing Fire that he had killed nearly every Heavenly Net Dao Sect True Disciple in the secret realm, including a Half-step Golden Core Realm cultivator.
• True Person Blazing Fire used his innate true flame and a fire whip to hold off Duanmu Yan before carrying Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi away.
• Tens of thousands of Pale-Eyed Eagles attacked the Heavenly Net Dao Sect forces, giving True Person Blazing Fire and his companions a chance to escape.
• True Person Blazing Fire took Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi deep beneath the sea and brought out the Divine Firmament Warship, which they boarded.

True Person Blazing Fire, Li Yunjing, and Zhao Qi escaped the Devouring Giant Whale King aboard the Divine Firmament Warship, then entered a storm that let Blazing Fire and Li Yunjing replenish their thunder power. Blazing Fire recovered eighty percent of his strength, and the warship continued toward a safer route back to the sect.

• A Devouring Giant Whale King attacked the Divine Firmament Warship, forcing True Person Blazing Fire to spend ten thousand High-grade Spirit Stones to boost its speed.
• True Person Blazing Fire used Boil the Rivers and Seas to hold off the whale while Li Yunjing piloted the warship to safety.
• After escaping the whale, True Person Blazing Fire meditated while Li Yunjing steered the warship away from Lingyuan Island.
• Li Yunjing found that a storm blocked their route and guided the warship into it with its defenses and Thunder-Replenishing Pool activated.
• True Person Blazing Fire and Li Yunjing absorbed the storm's lightning, and Blazing Fire recovered eighty percent of his strength.

After surviving the storm, Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi were forced off the Divine Firmament Warship and headed toward Flying Cloud Island. Near the Sea of Scattered Stones, they encountered Wei Henian and other cultivators fighting over a Purple-Gold Gourd, which Li Yunjing seized before diving into the sea under a barrage of attacks.

• True Person Blazing Fire recharged the Divine Firmament Warship, accepted Li Yunjing's Red Flame Crystal, and agreed to refine his Great Sun Dao Robe into a low-grade Treasure Artifact.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi traveled for a month and a half aboard the warship before True Person Blazing Fire left them near Flying Cloud Island to meet True Person Flying Cloud.
• Li Yunjing brought Zhao Qi toward the Flying Cloud Sect, then hid with her beneath the sea after spotting Wei Henian fighting alongside Primordial Yang Dao Sect disciples and other cultivators.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi watched the cultivators battle over a Purple-Gold Gourd, and Li Yunjing decided to take it without attacking Wei Henian.
• Li Yunjing snatched the Purple-Gold Gourd with his Five-Colored Divine Light and plunged into the sea as the crowd attacked him, while Wei Henian recognized him.

Li Yunjing fought off Ji Qiaoqiao and the East Sea cultivators who tried to take the Purple-Gold Gourd from him. The chapter ended with Li Yunjing killing Island Master Yuxiu in one strike, leaving the surrounding cultivators stunned and Ji Qiaoqiao terrified.

• Ji Qiaoqiao led four Primordial Yang Dao Sect disciples underwater to claim the Purple-Gold Gourd, while Wei Henian stayed behind and secretly plotted against her.
• Li Yunjing killed two pursuers, then faced Ji Qiaoqiao and a crowd of cultivators who gathered around him; Zhao Qi blended into the encircling group.
• Ji Qiaoqiao accused Li Yunjing of stealing her sect's treasure, but Li Yunjing rejected her claim and denounced the Primordial Yang Dao Sect disciples for their shamelessness.
• Island Master Changshan and Island Master Yuxiu attacked Li Yunjing alongside the crowd, while the five Primordial Yang Dao Sect disciples formed a Five Elements Formation to oppose him.
• Li Yunjing killed East Sea cultivators with his Five Elements True Qi bell, then unleashed Water God Thunder and destroyed Island Master Yuxiu and his golden core.
• The surrounding cultivators were shocked that Li Yunjing had slain a Golden Core cultivator, and Ji Qiaoqiao trembled in fear.

Li Yunjing killed Island Master Yuxiu and Island Master Changbai, then headed toward Flying Cloud Island with Zhao Qi. Sun Zirui secretly hired the notorious cultivator bandit Black Hand Tian Mingzi to ambush him, while Li Yunjing began refining the Purple-Gold Gourd, unaware of the plot.

• Li Yunjing pursued Island Master Changbai after killing Island Master Yuxiu, while Ji Qiaoqiao refused to help Changbai and the East Sea cultivators fled.
• Island Master Changbai tried to escape, but Li Yunjing chased him down and killed him with the Heavenly Thunder Emperor Seal after the Azure Cloud Boat blocked his path.
• News spread that Li Yunjing had killed two Golden Core Realm cultivators, and Sun Zirui decided to hire Black Hand Tian Mingzi to kill him.
• Aboard the Azure Cloud Boat, Li Yunjing talked with Zhao Qi and began refining the Purple-Gold Gourd.

Li Yunjing refined the Purple-Gold Gourd, returned to Flying Cloud Island, and organized his abundant supplies while preparing Zhao Qi and Li Linzi with cultivation resources. He built Chaos Palace inside the gourd and, sensing his cultivation had reached its limit, prepared to pursue a breakthrough and unify his Five Elements techniques.

• Li Yunjing partially refined the Purple-Gold Gourd, learned it was a high-grade fourth-tier treasure from the Canglan Continent, and moved Little Yellow into its spacious interior.
• Li Yunjing and Zhao Qi arrived at Flying Cloud Island, where he left Zhao Qi to cultivate and manage Star Moon Trading Firm Branch No. 3 with Li Linzi.
• Li Yunjing sorted his supplies, gave Zhao Qi resources for future cultivation and Li Linzi resources to advance, then upgraded three of his spiritual artifacts.
• Li Yunjing furnished the Purple-Gold Gourd with Chaos Palace, an extravagant cultivation sanctuary equipped with formations, restrictions, and Puppet Mechanism Beasts.
• Li Yunjing prepared to cultivate in seclusion, attempt a breakthrough to the eighth heaven of the Foundation Establishment realm, and fuse his Five Elements techniques into an art of his own.