Chapter Summaries

Su Zhan discovered that most of the Sect Master's headquarters lay beneath the seabed, making it difficult to destroy directly. Instead, he began feeding its valuable materials to his cultivation methods, provoking the Sect Master into attacking him.

• The Sect Master tore down the headquarters' outer walls, revealing a vast underground palace complex with twelve of its sixteen energy nodes beneath the sea.
• Su Zhan and his cultivation methods judged that diving underwater would hamper their movement and combat, while the Sect Master used fourteen remaining energy links to stabilize his power at the second level Martial Emperor realm.
• Su Zhan found black metal in the ruins and asked the Immovable Wisdom King Wall to consume it, while the Shadow Thousand Silk Lock extracted formation information and the Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon gathered liquid demonic energy.
• Su Zhan told the Sect Master he would eat the headquarters if he could not destroy it, and the Sect Master hurled an enlarged black sphere at him.
• Su Zhan dodged the sphere's impact and landed fifty zhang away with a large pile of black metal fragments.

Su Zhan evaded the Sect Master while devouring the headquarters’ materials, strengthening his cultivation methods until the Immovable Wisdom King Wall broke through into Wisdom King Armor Skin. He tested his new defense against the Sect Master, leaving the Sect Master to realize that the longer the fight continued, the stronger Su Zhan would become.

• Su Zhan used Limit Flash to evade the pursuing Sect Master while feeding fragments of buildings, arrays, and conduits to his cultivation methods.
• After absorbing metal pillars, the Immovable Wisdom King Wall broke through and formed Wisdom King Armor Skin across Su Zhan’s body.
• Su Zhan stopped fleeing and blocked the Sect Master’s black blade with his forearm, which it failed to pierce.
• Su Zhan struck the Sect Master’s palm with a lightning-coated fist, cracking the armor on his arm and leaving a red mark.
• The Sect Master recognized that Su Zhan was growing stronger by eating the headquarters and called him a locust.

Su Zhan weakened the Sect Master by destroying six Dark River branch pipes, but the Sect Master summoned the Eight-Eyed Demon Whale he had raised for seventeen hundred years. The whale emerged from the Demon Sea with power exceeding the Sect Master’s, leaving Su Zhan facing a new and more formidable threat.

• Su Zhan destroyed six Dark River branch pipes while the Sect Master pursued him, cutting the Sect Master’s energy supply in half.
• Su Zhan’s cultivation methods improved during the chase, raising his combat strength to around Eighth Level Martial King.
• A deep rumble from the seabed alerted Su Zhan to something rising rapidly beneath the Demon Sea.
• The Sect Master revealed that he was summoning a creature he had raised in the depths for seventeen hundred years.
• An enormous High Antiquity Demon Whale emerged, its eight red eyes fixed on Su Zhan and its presence reaching Third Level Martial Emperor.

Su Zhan discovered that the Sect Master's demonic whale was a mind-controlled puppet with a powerful core, and he considered using poison bombs to disable it. As the whale's attacks began interfering with space and slowing his movement, Su Zhan struggled to find a way through its shell and inner shield.

• Su Zhan learned from Shadow Thousand Silk Lock that the demonic whale had no soul and was controlled by the Sect Master, with a power core approaching the peak of the third level of Martial Emperor.
• Su Zhan's allies explained that poison bombs could work if he breached the whale's shell and inner power shield, but doing so would take too long under attack.
• The Sect Master finished forming seals, and the demonic whale attacked Su Zhan with a tentacle that destroyed the headquarters in a vast crater.
• Su Zhan dodged dozens of tentacles with Limit Flash, but their Spatial Principle interference slowed his movement and made the technique less effective.
• Su Zhan realized he needed a faster way to break through the whale's defenses and deliver the poison bombs.

Su Zhan abandoned his attempt to attack the Demon Whale and targeted the Sect Master, exploiting a delay in the whale’s movements. He struck the Sect Master with Law-Eroding Poison, which reached the rift in his divine soul and made him scream.

• Su Zhan realized that Five-Method Fusion took too long and decided to attack the Sect Master instead of the Demon Whale.
• Su Zhan charged the Sect Master, endured two tentacle strikes with his Wisdom King Armor Skin, and used their force to close the distance.
• Su Zhan struck the Sect Master’s palm with the Thunder Emperor Divine Seat, disrupting his control of the Demon Whale by hitting the rift in his divine soul.
• Su Zhan held the Sect Master in place and detonated a Law-Eroding Poison bomb against his chest.
• The poison reached the rift in the Sect Master’s divine soul, and he screamed in agony.

Su Zhan and the Sect Master reached a deadly stalemate as the Sect Master threatened to detonate the Demon Whale, and Su Zhan secretly began disabling the Sect Master's power supply. Su Zhan proposed a truce while his poison worked its way through a Dark River pipe.

• The Sect Master's soul fissure widened, his black pupils faded to gray, and the uncontrolled Demon Whale began wrecking the Main Altar.
• The Sect Master threatened to detonate the Demon Whale's energy core, which Shadow Thousand Silk Lock confirmed could destroy everything within three hundred li.
• Su Zhan and the Sect Master refused to release each other, recognizing that neither could win without risking mutual death.
• Su Zhan covertly seeped Law-Eroding Poison into a Dark River branch pipe to disable one of the Sect Master's energy links.
• Su Zhan proposed that they both calm down, offering not to pursue the Sect Master if he did not detonate the Demon Whale.

Su Zhan weakened the Sect Master by secretly corroding the Dark River supply links, then defeated and killed him. Before dying, the Sect Master warned Su Zhan that opening the sealed thing beneath the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven would kill everyone.

• Su Zhan offered to take over the Black Demon Sect, keeping the Sect Master talking while he corroded three Dark River supply links.
• The Sect Master's presence fell below the Martial Emperor Realm, and Su Zhan struck him down with a punch.
• The uncontrolled Demon Whale returned to dormant mode and sank toward the seabed.
• Su Zhan prepared a purple-gold orb and asked the defeated Sect Master for his last words.
• The Sect Master warned Su Zhan about the thing beneath the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven and said everyone would die if it was opened.
• Su Zhan destroyed the Sect Master's divine soul, while the Ancient Life Tree quietly asked about the seal.

After the Black Demon Sect’s Main Altar sank, Su Zhan realized its treasury might contain treasures that could help preserve the seal on the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven. He returned to the ruins and descended into the liquid Demonic Energy with his companions’ help to search for the Sect Master’s private treasure chamber.

• Su Zhan flew away from the sinking Main Altar, worrying over the Sect Master's warning about the seal on the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven.
• Su Zhan and the entities in his sea of consciousness realized the sunken altar held three thousand years of wealth, and the Ancient Life Tree hoped its treasures might replenish the seal's energy.
• Su Zhan turned back, and Shadow Thousand Silk Lock located the Sect Master's private treasure chamber beneath the main hall and described its remaining defenses.
• Su Zhan returned to the submerged ruins and asked the Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon to clear the surrounding liquid Demonic Energy.
• The Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon formed a purple safe zone as Su Zhan descended into the black seawater.

Su Zhan reached the ruins of the Main Hall and broke through its sealed treasury entrance. He entered the enormous underground treasury, leaving the divine abilities stunned by its size.

• Su Zhan dove three hundred zhang to the collapsed ruins of the main hall and found its foundation mostly intact.
• The Shadow Thousand Silk Lock located the treasury entrance beneath the foundation, and Su Zhan punched through to reach the shaft.
• Su Zhan defeated the shaft’s chain restrictions, followed the real passage through an illusion barrier, and resisted its gravity suppression.
• Su Zhan found a sealed black metal door that required the Sect Master’s presence and smashed it apart with the Five Laws.
• Su Zhan entered a vast treasury illuminated by Spirit Stones, startling the divine abilities with its size.

Su Zhan raided the Sect Master's treasury and learned from the Sect Master's notes that the sealed Primordial Demon Embryo fed on fear and could not be killed. He left with the most valuable treasures, including three Nine-Turn Reincarnation Lotuses that could strengthen the seal, and returned to the surface.

• Su Zhan discovered that three Nine-Turn Reincarnation Lotuses could raise the seal's power from seventeen to at most twenty-six percent, extending its duration to roughly ten months.
• Su Zhan filled his robe with pills, weapons, and heavenly treasures, then used the Thousand-Thread Lock to open a chest protected by a blood-curse lock.
• Su Zhan read the Sect Master's notes describing the sealed Primordial Demon Embryo, which fed on fear and had awakened the Sect Master from a nightmare after he probed the seal.
• The Thunder Emperor Divine Seat recalled that the Primordial Demon Embryo could not be killed and advised keeping it sealed forever.
• Su Zhan fed unwanted weapons to the Immovable Wisdom King Wall, then carried his spoils through the ruined restrictions and returned to the dark red sea's surface.

Su Zhan encountered Black Demon Sect warriors at sea and revealed that their Sect Master was dead. He easily stopped their attacks, then used the Shennong Domain to make the demonic poison inside them rebel.

• Su Zhan sensed three Black Demon Sect ships and landed aboard the middle ship.
• Su Zhan told the warriors their Sect Master was dead, and the bald leader attacked him with a saber.
• Su Zhan deflected the leader’s blade with one finger, numbing his arm and knocking the saber away.
• Su Zhan used the Immovable Wisdom King Wall to make three charging Martial Sect Peak warriors lose their footing.
• The bald leader ordered the remaining warriors to attack together, and Su Zhan enveloped all three ships in the Shennong Domain.
• The Black Demon Sect warriors froze as the demonic poison within their bodies rebelled.

Su Zhan defeated the Black Demon Sect forces aboard three ships and ordered Bai Tiezhuang to spread word that the sect was finished. He returned to the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven, confirmed the Sect Master's death to Yuan Ji, and opened a bundle containing treasures and three Nine-Turn Reincarnation Lotuses.

• Su Zhan used the Ancestor of Myriad Poisons' domain to disable many of the Black Demon Sect warriors.
• Su Zhan offered the remaining warriors surrender or death, and they laid down their weapons.
• Su Zhan learned that Bai Tiezhuang commanded the Outer Sea Patrol Camp and ordered him to spread news of the sect's destruction.
• Bai Tiezhuang agreed to act as a messenger, and Su Zhan flew back to the teleportation formation.
• Su Zhan returned to the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven and told Yuan Ji that the Sect Master was dead.
• Su Zhan opened his bundle, revealing pills, weapon parts, spirit plants, and three Nine-Turn Reincarnation Lotuses.

Su Zhan fed three Reincarnation Lotuses to the core sphere, raising the seal’s energy to twenty-four percent, then sorted the Black Demon Sect’s loot for the Yuan Household and his six cultivation methods. He began distributing materials to the methods, and the Shadow Thousand Silk Lock absorbed a spatial-principle saber and a runic foundation stone.

• Su Zhan fed three Reincarnation Lotuses to the core sphere, raising the seal’s energy from seventeen to twenty-four percent and extending its endurance to eight or nine months.
• Su Zhan told Yuan Ji to help sort the Black Demon Sect’s loot, which frightened Yuan Ji when he recognized its valuable pills and weapons.
• Su Zhan divided the loot between supplies for the Yuan Household and materials for his cultivation methods, whose members argued over who should eat first.
• Su Zhan gave a spatial-principle saber to the Shadow Thousand Silk Lock, which absorbed it and increased its spatial penetration by twenty percent.
• Su Zhan gave the Shadow Thousand Silk Lock a runic foundation stone containing traces of a Teleportation Array’s Spatial Principle, then picked up a dense metal sphere marked by the Earth Principle.

Su Zhan distributed the recovered treasures among the entities in his sea of consciousness, strengthening their abilities. He then examined a scroll about the Primordial Demon Embryo, and Yuan Ji said the Yuan Household records had only ever called the sealed being a “Nameless Thing.”

• Su Zhan fed a metal sphere containing traces of sunken abyss iron to the Immovable Wisdom King Wall, refining its armor skin.
• Su Zhan gave the Fire Soul Lingzhi to the Blazing Dragon Venerate, increasing its white true fire reserves by about thirty percent.
• Su Zhan gave the Nine Nether Bone-Eroding Liquid to the Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon, which improved its law-eroding poison formula.
• Su Zhan gave the Living Stone to the Ancient Life Tree and a five-thousand-year-old Thunder Pearl to the Thunder Emperor Divine Seat for them to digest.
• Su Zhan reread the Sect Master's warning about the Primordial Demon Embryo and asked Yuan Ji whether the Yuan Household records named it.
• Yuan Ji said the household records had only described the sealed being beneath the Grotto-Heaven Core as a “Nameless Thing.”

Su Zhan learned that the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven would self-destruct if its seal’s energy fell below ten percent, and that five Heaven-Mending Stones could preserve it forever. He tested the sealed passage, sensed the terrifying presence within, and learned that the seal’s outer layers were already weakening.

• Yuan Ji told Su Zhan that the Martyrdom Program would compress and destroy the grotto-heaven if the seal’s energy fell below ten percent.
• Yuan Ji recalled a stele inscription saying that gathering five Heaven-Mending Stones from the Five Domains would keep the seal intact forever.
• Su Zhan ordered Yuan Ji to secure the grotto-heaven while he investigated the seal and searched for clues to the stele’s location.
• Su Zhan opened a crack in the golden runes beneath the core sphere, felt a presence that silenced his cultivation methods, and stepped back to let the runes close.
• The Shadow Thousand Silk Lock reported that the seal had seven layers, with the outer two greatly thinned and the third weakening.

Su Zhan warned the Yuan Household that the Primordial Demon Embryo could break free within nine months and ordered them to guard the grotto-heaven while he searched for a way to restore the seal. After assigning his cultivation methods time to investigate and digest their spoils, he left the Core Space, and Yuan Ji asked if he would return.

• Su Zhan confirmed that the Primordial Demon Embryo had devoured the consciousness of seven threads and withdrew from the sealed passage.
• Su Zhan told the Yuan Household disciples the seal had only twenty-four percent of its power left and ordered them to avoid the passage and the seal.
• Yuan Ji restored enough authority to place a bloodline-authenticated barrier over the entrance to the sealed levels.
• Su Zhan tasked the Shadow Thousand Silk Lock with searching the grotto-heaven for a stele and gave his other cultivation methods time to digest their spoils.
• Yuan Ji finished setting the barrier, and Su Zhan left to look around the grotto-heaven.
• Yuan Ji asked Su Zhan if he would come back.

Su Zhan found and read the stone tablet describing how to seal the Primordial Demon Embryo with five Heaven-Mending Stones hidden across the outside world. He memorized the five locations and was left deciding which one to seek first.

• Su Zhan descended the Altar and saw the Mustard Seed Grotto-Heaven slowly recovering as grass and green leaves returned.
• Su Zhan found a stone tablet buried beneath bones in the Skeleton Wasteland before the Shadow Thousand Silk Lock’s search reached the area.
• Su Zhan dug out the tablet and had the Thunder Emperor Divine Seat translate its High Antiquity inscription.
• The tablet revealed that five Heaven-Mending Stones in the Canglan Sea, Withered Bone Desert, Blazing Sun Volcano, Eternal Icefield, and Kunlun Ruins were needed to seal the Primordial Demon Embryo.
• Su Zhan memorized the five locations, sent the inscription to the Thousand-Thread Lock, and wondered which stone to pursue first.

Su Zhan discovered that the Primordial Demon Embryo was probing the weakened seal, accelerating its decay and cutting the time left to repair it to three months. Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon proposed a way to put the probes into dormancy, but the plan had not yet been tested.

• Su Zhan and the others chose five Origin Principle stones as their next goal, then felt tremors rising from the seal.
• Yuan Ji told Su Zhan that the core sphere had pulsed three times and that the tremors were growing more frequent.
• Su Zhan examined the sphere and found three gray probes embedded in the runes at the boundary between the second and third sealing layers.
• Thunder Emperor Divine Seat explained that the probes were eroding the seal, making it decay three times faster and leaving only three months.
• Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon proposed using the Law-Eroding Poison formula in reverse to numb the probes and put them into dormancy.

Su Zhan used poison to paralyze two probes in the seal, but the largest probe resisted and tried to devour the poison. With the seal's decay slowed but still urgent, he chose the Azure Billows Sea as the first place to search for a Heaven-Mending Stone.

• Su Zhan tested the Myriad Poisons Divine Farmer's Canon's poison on one probe, sensed something watching him through the seal, and paralyzed the probe for at least seven days.
• Su Zhan paralyzed the second probe, but the largest one turned purplish-black and expanded slightly when the poison touched it.
• The Thunder Emperor Divine Seat warned Su Zhan that the largest probe was fighting back by devouring activity in the poison.
• Su Zhan recalculated that he had four and a half months to find five Heaven-Mending Stones, then selected the Azure Billows Sea as his first destination.
• The Nine Heavens Divine Lightning recalled that the Azure Billows Sea held High Antiquity ruins and creatures older than High Antiquity, and Su Zhan decided to leave the next day.

Su Zhan recovered at the altar and learned that the Grotto-Heaven Core had given him a key to the sealed space holding a Heaven-Mending Stone in the Azure Billows Sea. He prepared to leave for the sea, where he had only a vague lead on its location, and left Yuan Ji instructions to protect the grotto-heaven.

• The Grotto-Heaven Core gave Su Zhan a golden totem key that could open the sealed space containing the Heaven-Mending Stone.
• Su Zhan recovered overnight, and his Cultivation Methods reported that they had strengthened their abilities by digesting the spoils.
• Su Zhan learned from Shadow Thousand Silk Lock that the Azure Billows Sea lay roughly twenty thousand li east of the Main Altar and was also called the Heaven-Swallowing Sea Trench.
• Su Zhan told Yuan Ji to raise the grotto-heaven's core management level and, in seven days, use Yuan Chou to paralyze only the first two probes with venom.