Chapter Summaries

Xia Ming and Lin Qi left the Sea King Treasury as the Mysterious Turtle revealed that the Sea King had left an inheritance in his tomb. The Mysterious Turtle tested the cultivators with sound waves, declaring that those who endured them could enter the true Sea King Secret Realm and seek the inheritance.

• Xia Ming took Oxi’s spatial ring amid the tremors and found many valuable magic crystals to fuel his magic crystal cannon.
• Xia Ming and Lin Qi withdrew from the chaotic Sea King Treasury as Asura and the man in black armor also left.
• The Mysterious Turtle raised its head, roared, and told the cultivators that they were weak humans coveting the Sea King’s tomb.
• The Mysterious Turtle revealed that the Sea King had left an inheritance in his tomb, prompting Xia Ming to wonder where it was hidden.
• The Mysterious Turtle struck the crowd with metallic sound waves, knocking down weaker cultivators and announcing that those who endured the attack could enter the true Sea King Secret Realm.

After the Black Tortoise swallowed everyone who had survived its sonic attack, Xia Ming realized he had arrived in the true Sea King Secret Realm inside the beast. He found Lin Qi there, who arrived with news of a major discovery.

• The Black Tortoise's suction pulled Xia Ming, Lin Qi, Asura, the black-armored man, and the two hidden level-ten experts into its mouth.
• Xia Ming awoke unharmed in a lush realm filled with medicinal herbs and dense magical elements, and concluded it was the true Sea King Secret Realm.
• Xia Ming considered the powerful experts gathered there and anticipated a battle over Sea King's inheritance, then ate roasted meat while planning his next move.
• Lin Qi found Xia Ming and rejoiced that he was safe, then said he had made a major discovery.

Xia Ming and Lin Qi found a camp in the true Sea King Secret Realm, where thousands of coffins surrounded a terrifying stone stele. As they prepared to leave, the dead followers buried there awakened as puppet soldiers and began guarding the realm against intruders.

• Lin Qi told Xia Ming about a strange camp he had discovered, and they went to investigate it together.
• Xia Ming and Lin Qi found thousands of coffins arranged around a blood-red stone stele engraved with the character “Command.”
• The stele’s power overwhelmed Lin Qi, and Xia Ming helped him recover by sending magic power into him.
• As more cultivators approached the camp, Xia Ming urged Lin Qi to leave before they attracted attention.
• The coffins opened, and over a thousand dead followers of the Sea King rose as powerful puppet soldiers to attack intruders.

Xia Ming and Lin Qi fought the puppet soldiers and discovered that Earth Essence in their foreheads controlled them. After collecting more than a dozen pieces each, they prepared to retreat, but a bronze coffin opened and released the aura of a Level Ten expert.

• Xia Ming and Lin Qi tried to retreat from the camp, but a peak Level Eight puppet soldier attacked them.
• Xia Ming worked out that the puppet soldiers could be killed by destroying their heads, then took the Earth Essence from the fallen soldier’s forehead.
• Xia Ming changed their plan and joined Lin Qi in collecting Earth Essence from the puppet soldiers while keeping the magic crystal cannon ready for emergencies.
• Other cultivators also discovered the Earth Essence, and Xia Ming and Lin Qi collected more than a dozen pieces each.
• As Xia Ming said it was time to leave, a bronze coffin beside the stone stele opened and released the aura of a Level Ten expert.

Xia Ming and Lin Qi faced a Level Ten puppet general that rallied the puppet soldiers into a deadly battle formation, while five black-armored Level Nine fighters entered the fray. After Number Two attacked Xia Ming, the magic crystal cannon wounded him and the puppet soldiers killed him, leaving the black-armored group wary as the battlefield grew more crowded.

• A Level Ten puppet general emerged from its coffin and commanded more than a thousand puppet soldiers to form a battle formation.
• Xia Ming and Lin Qi spotted five black-armored Level Nine fighters and recognized their clothing from the Sea King Treasury.
• Number Three identified Xia Ming and Lin Qi, and Number Two charged at them while the puppet soldiers fought nearby.
• Xia Ming fired his magic crystal cannon, severely wounding Number Two, who fell among the puppet soldiers and was killed.
• The surviving black-armored men became wary of Xia Ming's cannon as Lin Qi asked how they would deal with the growing crowd of puppet soldiers, and Xia Ming spotted something across the battlefield.

Xia Ming and Lin Qi tried to cross the Sea King’s puppet-soldier camp by flying toward the Command-character stele, which Xia Ming believed could suppress the soldiers. They escaped a level-ten puppet general’s strike and reached the stele, where the puppet soldiers stopped attacking.

• Xia Ming explained that the Sea King’s camp and puppet soldiers guarded the route to the secret realm’s center, and he identified the Command-character stele as their likely source of restraint.
• Xia Ming flew with Lin Qi toward the stele while Number One ordered Number Three to stop them; Xia Ming fired his magic crystal cannon and wounded Number Three, interrupting his spell.
• The level-ten puppet general attacked Xia Ming and Lin Qi in midair, but Xia Ming dodged its battle-aura strike and continued toward the stele.
• Xia Ming and Lin Qi reached the Command-character stele, where the puppet soldiers fell quiet and ceased attacking.

Xia Ming and Lin Qi escaped the puppet legion by carrying the Command Stele, whose Sea King aura kept the soldiers at bay. They left the other cultivators trapped in battle and began collecting Earth Essence while pressing onward toward the Sea King's treasure.

• Xia Ming and Lin Qi discovered that the puppet soldiers would not approach the Command Stele, leaving them safe within its range.
• Xia Ming used the Hand of the Thunder God to uproot and carry the Command Stele, forcing the puppet soldiers to retreat wherever they went.
• Number One and Number Three watched Xia Ming and Lin Qi leave, while the puppet general turned on the remaining cultivators and killed one who tried to escape.
• The cultivators launched a desperate assault on the puppet legion as Xia Ming used the Hand of the Thunder God to gather dead puppets and collect their Earth Essence.
• Xia Ming and Lin Qi decided to prioritize finding the Sea King's treasure and began plundering Earth Essence as they moved onward.

Xia Ming and Lin Qi escaped the puppet soldiers with their Earth Essences and found the Sea King's ruined magic tower. Inside, Xia Ming discovered a book containing the Sea King's magic notes.

• Xia Ming struck down a puppet soldier and took its unusually pure Earth Essence, then stored it rather than using it.
• Xia Ming and Lin Qi left the puppet soldiers behind, carrying the command stele until they were safely beyond the soldiers' reach.
• Xia Ming detected an illusion array, and he and Lin Qi crossed it to reach a plain filled with dense magical elements and a dilapidated magic tower.
• Xia Ming and Lin Qi searched the tower's nine levels and found it nearly empty and covered in dust.
• Xia Ming discovered an ancient bronze book and realized it contained the magic notes Sea King had left behind.

Xia Ming found the Sea King's handwritten magical notebook but no other inheritance in the empty magic tower. As cultivators gathered and the black-armored men moved to attack him and Lin Qi, a huge golden coffin appeared in the sky and began to open.

• Xia Ming discovered that the notebook contained the Sea King's cultivation insights, magic arrays, and methods for breaking through bottlenecks.
• Xia Ming offered Lin Qi a copy of the notebook, and Lin Qi gratefully accepted.
• Cultivators poured into the secret realm, including Asura, two level-ten powerhouses, and the black-armored men searching for Xia Ming and Lin Qi.
• Xia Ming and Lin Qi left the magic tower, but Number Three spotted them, and Number One ordered the black-armored men to attack.
• A thunderous sound announced an enormous golden coffin in the sky, which Xia Ming and Lin Qi recognized as the Sea King's coffin.
• The golden coffin slowly opened as the gathered cultivators watched.

Xia Ming and the other cultivators encountered the Sea King's remnant soul, who announced that he would choose an inheritor based on potential. After praising Asura as a promising talent, the Sea King was astonished by Xia Ming's even more extraordinary potential.

• Xia Ming recognized the figure atop the golden coffin as the Sea King, then concluded that he was the Sea King's remnant soul rather than the living Sea King.
• The Sea King told the cultivators that those who passed his tests could compete for his inheritance, and that he would choose the person with the greatest potential.
• The Sea King judged a white-bearded Level Ten expert to have limited potential, discouraging the crowd from stepping forward.
• Asura presented himself, and the Sea King praised his strength and potential as a promising young talent.
• Xia Ming stepped forward, and the Sea King expressed astonishment at his exceptional talent, stunning the other cultivators.

Sea King announced that only the first person to cross the Cosmic Light Grand Formation and reach him would receive his inheritance. Xia Ming and Asura advanced far faster than the other cultivators, and Xia Ming was about to overtake Asura.

• Sea King praised Xia Ming’s talent, then declared that the inheritance would go to whoever reached him first through the Cosmic Light Grand Formation.
• Sea King activated the formation, which placed immense pressure on the cultivators and tested their potential rather than their strength.
• Lin Qi and the other cultivators struggled to move forward, while Asura advanced quickly after observing the formation.
• Xia Ming entered the formation and strode forward faster than Asura, astonishing the crowd despite the pressure he endured.
• The Level Ten experts and the four black-armored men made varied progress, while Xia Ming drew close to overtaking Asura.

Xia Ming overtook Lin Qi and Asura in the Cosmic Light Grand Formation, but Number Three attacked him to prevent him from claiming the Sea King's inheritance. Lin Qi saved Xia Ming with a magic scroll, and Sea King punished Number Three, while Asura used the delay to take first place.

• Xia Ming passed Lin Qi and Asura in the formation and took the lead, drawing the Sea King's approval and the black-armored men's hostility.
• Number Three cast Calamity Flame at Xia Ming, whose Moon God Armor weakened the attack but could not stop it.
• Lin Qi used his level-eight Wind Spirit Protection scroll to shield Xia Ming from the black flames.
• Sea King reprimanded Number Three and made him spit blood with his overwhelming pressure, warning him not to attack again.
• Asura passed Xia Ming during the distraction and retook first place in the formation.

Xia Ming fought through the Cosmic Light Grand Formation and overtook Asura to reach the Sea King's coffin first. He claimed victory and returned Asura's taunt, while the black-armored men and Asura were left furious and shaken.

• Xia Ming pursued Asura through the increasingly crushing pressure of the Cosmic Light Grand Formation, while Lin Qi urged him onward.
• Asura taunted Xia Ming and tried to maintain his lead, but Xia Ming steadily closed the gap despite bleeding from the pressure.
• The Sea King watched Xia Ming's persistence and judged his talent and perseverance greater than Asura's.
• Xia Ming pushed past Asura and reached the Sea King's coffin first, winning the inheritance contest.
• Number One among the black-armored men cursed Xia Ming's victory, and Asura brooded over his defeat.
• Xia Ming calmly told Asura, "You can't beat me," returning Asura's earlier words.

The Sea King named Xia Ming as his successor and revealed that he had discovered a cultivation path based on magic mutation. Seeing Xia Ming wield Ice Flame and lightning, the Sea King promised to teach him how to unleash their true power.

• The Sea King recalled his rise to power and his failure to become a Magic God, then offered Xia Ming his inheritance.
• The Sea King transported Xia Ming into a separate void and named him his successor.
• The Sea King explained how powerful mages created domains, small worlds, and worlds of their own before revealing his alternative path: magic mutation.
• Xia Ming displayed his Ice Flame and lightning, astonishing the Sea King.
• The Sea King said Xia Ming had barely tapped the power of his mutations and began teaching him how to master them.

Xia Ming learned to combine his mutated Ice-Blue Fire and lightning under Sea King's guidance and received Sea King's true inheritance, a powerful emerald-green seed. After Sea King's illusion vanished, Xia Ming returned to the Sea King Secret Realm, where four level-nine black-armored men attacked him for the inheritance.

• Sea King taught Xia Ming to fuse his mutated Ice-Blue Fire and lightning, and Xia Ming mastered a new power.
• Sea King gave Xia Ming an emerald-green seed containing his knowledge, memories, and magical power, to be absorbed after Xia Ming reached Level Nine.
• Sea King named Xia Ming his inheritor, urged him to become a God of Magic, and vanished as the illusion collapsed.
• Xia Ming returned to the Sea King Secret Realm, where the Cosmic Light Grand Formation disappeared and everyone realized he had received the inheritance.
• Number One ordered Xia Ming killed, and Numbers Three, Four, and Five joined him in attacking Xia Ming.
• Xia Ming faced the four level-nine experts without fear, confident in his newly mastered mutated magic.

Xia Ming unveiled the Thunderfire Eye and instantly killed Number One as the black-armored men tried to kill him after Sea King's inheritance disappeared. Numbers Four and Five remained to face him while Number Three continued preparing a spell, leaving Xia Ming surrounded.

• The level-ten powerhouses and many cultivators left after Xia Ming claimed Sea King's inheritance, while four black-armored men surrounded him.
• Lin Qi stepped forward to help Xia Ming, but Xia Ming ordered him to retreat as Number One attacked and Number Three prepared a spell.
• Xia Ming focused mutated magic into his eyes and used the Thunderfire Eye to engulf Number One in Ice Flame and purple lightning.
• Number One died instantly, shocking the crowd and revealing the destructive power and heavy magic drain of Xia Ming's new technique.
• Numbers Four and Five remained stunned as Number Three resumed his incantation.

Xia Ming used Thunderfire Eye to kill Number Four, but Number Three completed a black-magic ritual that summoned an abyssal demon at the cost of Number Five. As the demon approached, Xia Ming began breaking through to level nine and turned his attention toward it.

• Xia Ming aimed Thunderfire Eye at Number Three, but Number Four stepped in front of him and was instantly reduced to ash.
• Number Three completed an incantation and revealed that he was using black magic to summon a demon from the abyss.
• The summoned demon swallowed Number Five as the blood sacrifice, leaving Number Three as the last black-armored man.
• Number Three ordered the powerful demon to attack Xia Ming, who judged that his magic crystal cannon and Thunderfire Eye might not be enough to stop it.
• Xia Ming suddenly began breaking through to level nine, keeping the demon at bay with his rising power and Star Step.
• Xia Ming fixed his gaze on the abyssal demon as his strength surged.

Xia Ming broke through to level nine during his battle with Number Three and used the Thunderfire Eye to destroy the Abyss Demon. He then ignored Number Three’s warning about the Evil Spirit Tower and killed him, wiping out all five black-armored men.

• Xia Ming advanced to level nine, astonishing Number Three, Lin Qi, and the other surviving cultivators.
• The Abyss Demon attacked Xia Ming, but his Lightning Shield and Moon God Armor helped him withstand its bone spikes.
• Number Three taunted Xia Ming about the limits of the Thunderfire Eye, and Xia Ming used the spell again with greater power.
• Xia Ming’s Thunderfire Eye overwhelmed the Abyss Demon with Ice Flame and purple lightning, reducing it to ashes.
• Number Three revealed he belonged to the Evil Spirit Tower and threatened revenge, but Xia Ming refused to spare him.
• Xia Ming killed Number Three with flames, leaving all five black-armored men dead.

Xia Ming killed Number Three, drove away the cultivators, and left the Sea King Secret Realm with Lin Qi. After the Mystic Turtle confirmed Xia Ming had received Sea King's inheritance, Xia Ming set out to find a place to study his breakthrough and the inheritance's seed of power.

• Xia Ming killed Number Three, took his belongings, and intimidated the remaining cultivators until most of them left.
• Xia Ming recovered his magic power and told Lin Qi that he had obtained Sea King's inheritance.
• Xia Ming and Lin Qi left the battlefield, were expelled from the Sea King Secret Realm, and returned to the enormous city.
• The Mystic Turtle asked Xia Ming about the inheritance and urged him to fulfill Sea King's last wish before departing.
• Xia Ming told Lin Qi he would find a place to comprehend his breakthrough to level nine and study the seed of power.

After parting from Lin Qi, Xia Ming found a secluded cave to stabilize his newly reached Level Nine power. He planted Sea King’s Power Seed in his domain, where it sprouted into a sapling that began releasing vast stores of magic power.

• Xia Ming gave Lin Qi a copy of the Sea King Notes and told him to seek him in Rhine Territory if he needed help.
• Xia Ming left Lin Qi, found a hidden cave, drove out a black bear, and settled in to stabilize his Level Nine breakthrough.
• Xia Ming inspected the black-armored men’s spatial rings and discovered rare treasures, including a Moon Tree Leaf.
• Xia Ming placed Sea King’s Power Seed at the center of his domain and nourished it with his magic power.
• The Power Seed sprouted, releasing immense, exceptionally pure magic power, and Xia Ming realized the growing sapling could become the foundation of a small world.