Chapter Summaries

Elder Mingde’s breakthrough triggered an Immortal Venerable lightning tribulation, forcing the attackers to flee Spirit Rhino City. Xu Ming suspected Mingde had fused himself with the city’s grand formation, while Tian Mu confirmed his master was undergoing the tribulation.

• Liao Zhongyu sensed his master Elder Mingde’s powerful aura and expected Spirit Rhino City’s crisis to end without a fight.
• Xu Ming and Gu Hong spotted the gathering black clouds, recognized an Immortal Venerable lightning tribulation, and fled with the other attackers.
• Xu Ming told Gu Hong that Spirit Rhino City’s formation seemed alive and might be Mingde’s life-bound formation, formed through the ancient path of merging man and formation.
• Xu Ming and Gu Hong escaped through a teleportation array, and Lou Zhenhai later followed with the remaining fleeing immortals, leaving scouts to watch the tribulation.
• Tian Mu told Duan Zhengfeng that Elder Mingde was undergoing an Immortal Venerable lightning tribulation.

Elder Mingde began his Immortal Venerable tribulation early, using the Jade-Seeding Spirit-Devouring Formation to gather the immortal essence he needed. Meanwhile, Qin Huaian discovered how to free himself and the other captives, and they prepared a coordinated attack on Tian Mu as Mingde's tribulation neared its end.

• Elder Mingde activated the Jade-Seeding Spirit-Devouring Formation at full power and began the Immortal Venerable tribulation with a defensive barrier in place.
• Elder Mingde endured successive waves of lightning, restoring his immortal essence and reinforcing his barrier between them.
• Qin Huaian deduced that the confinement formation sealed the captives' immortal essence and found a way to break it.
• Qin Huaian secretly taught Duan Zhengfeng and the other two cultivators how to break the formation, and they agreed to attack Tian Mu together in half an hour.
• Elder Mingde received his seventy-second tribulation lightning bolt as Qin Huaian and the others continued working to escape.

Elder Mingde survived the eighth wave of his Immortal Venerable lightning tribulation, but the tribulation clouds gathered again before he could recover, leaving him facing a deadly ninth wave. As the seventy-third bolt descended, he split his Primordial Spirit and sent part of it into a featureless puppet, hurling it beyond the tribulation’s range.

• Elder Mingde endured the eighth wave of lightning with his defensive arrays and high-grade Dao Artifact robe, then began restoring his Immortal Essence Power.
• The tribulation clouds rapidly condensed less than half an incense stick after the eighth wave, signaling that the ninth wave was about to begin.
• Elder Mingde realized he had recovered only a fraction of his strength and believed the nine bolts of the final wave would kill him.
• Elder Mingde split his Primordial Spirit, placed part of it inside a featureless puppet, and hurled the puppet beyond the lightning’s range as the seventy-third bolt descended.

Elder Mingde appeared to perish during his Immortal Venerable tribulation, but a Concealment Puppet preserved a fragment of his Primordial Spirit, which fled toward Spirit Rhino City. As Tian Mu saw the city's formations weaken, Qin Huaian and the others broke free and attacked him.

• Elder Mingde was swallowed by the seventy-third tribulation bolt, and observers reported his apparent death to Lou Zhenhai, who ordered them to watch Spirit Rhino City and prepared to unite Spirit Rock Island.
• Elder Mingde's hidden Primordial Spirit emerged from the Concealment Puppet and headed toward Spirit Rhino City, though his recovery would take a long time.
• Tian Mu saw Spirit Rhino City's formations collapse and waited for Elder Mingde, trusting his master's promised escape and hidden resources.
• Qin Huaian, Duan Zhengfeng, and the others broke free of Tian Mu's restraining formation and attacked him.
• Tian Mu sneered at the attackers and claimed that they could do nothing against him on his turf.

Tian Mu used a powerful formation to attack Qin Huaian and his companions, but Qin Huaian found its weak point before Elder Mingde's Primordial Spirit appeared. Elder Mingde trapped the survivors and planned to possess Qin Huaian's body to restore his strength.

• Tian Mu evaded Duan Zhengfeng's attack with the secret chamber's formation, then launched a trapping-and-killing formation that killed the Earth Immortal cultivator.
• Qin Huaian identified a weak point in the formation, and he, Duan Zhengfeng, and Sun Jinchuan attacked it to weaken the golden sword radiances.
• Tian Mu recognized the gap between his abilities and those of his opponents, whose law comprehension and combat skills surpassed his own.
• Elder Mingde's Primordial Spirit appeared and told Tian Mu he intended to possess one of the intruders' bodies before the Yellow Spring Sacred Sect attacked Spirit Rhino City.
• Elder Mingde used his formation skills to trap Qin Huaian and the two surviving cultivators in separate spheres of light.

Elder Mingde entered Qin Huaian’s sea of consciousness to possess him, but discovered a mysterious ancient aura and tried to kill him with a soul technique. Qin Huaian’s Mirror Bodies overwhelmed Elder Mingde, who begged for mercy as he was seized.

• Duan Zhengfeng berated Elder Mingde when the elder’s Primordial Spirit appeared, and Elder Mingde privately instructed Tian Mu what to do if possession failed.
• Elder Mingde chose to possess Qin Huaian, whose trapping formation prevented him from escaping.
• Elder Mingde entered Qin Huaian’s sea of consciousness and sensed an ancient aura more powerful than the fire source aura he had once encountered.
• Elder Mingde attacked Qin Huaian with the Soul-Extinguishing Curse, but Qin Huaian’s Mirror Body dispersed it and seized him with a phantom palm.
• Qin Huaian summoned two more Mirror Bodies to guard his Primordial Spirit, and Elder Mingde cried out for mercy.

Qin Huaian forced Elder Mingde to reveal the location of a secret realm containing the Fire Origin, then stopped him from self-destructing and searched his Primordial Spirit. The search began, but its outcome was left unknown.

• Elder Mingde begged Qin Huaian to spare him and offered to trade news of the Fire Origin for Tian Mu's safety.
• Qin Huaian agreed not to seek trouble with Tian Mu, and Elder Mingde described a secret realm northeast of the Origin Separation Continent where he had sensed the Fire Origin.
• Elder Mingde showed Qin Huaian a route map to the spatial rift leading to the secret realm.
• Qin Huaian noticed Elder Mingde attempting to self-destruct and restrained him with the Mirror Body.
• Qin Huaian invaded Elder Mingde's Primordial Spirit to search his soul, causing Elder Mingde to lose consciousness.

Qin Huaian searched Elder Mingde’s Primordial Spirit and uncovered the Human-Array Unity Path, the Jade-Seeding Spirit-Devouring Grand Formation, and Elder Mingde’s true relationship with Tian Mu. He left Elder Mingde’s Primordial Spirit intact and looked toward the Storage Ring while Tian Mu still sensed Elder Mingde’s aura within Qin Huaian.

• Qin Huaian used the Soul Search Technique on Elder Mingde and learned that an ancient Immortal Venerable’s Human-Array Unity inheritance had let Elder Mingde overcome his limited aptitude and rise to the Golden Immortal realm.
• Qin Huaian discovered that Elder Mingde had used the Jade-Seeding Spirit-Devouring Grand Formation to drain cultivators in Spirit Rhino City so he could prepare for the Immortal Venerable Tribulation.
• Qin Huaian learned that Tian Mu was Elder Mingde’s son, whom Elder Mingde had raised as a disciple without revealing his origins.
• Qin Huaian left Elder Mingde’s unconscious Primordial Spirit intact and looked at the Storage Ring containing nearly half of Elder Mingde’s wealth.
• Tian Mu remained beside the table, ready to flee with the ring if possession failed, while he still sensed Elder Mingde’s aura within Qin Huaian.

Qin Huaian thwarted Elder Mingde’s attempt to possess him, seized the Storage Ring, and escaped Spirit Rhino City through a hidden one-way teleportation formation. He destroyed the formation’s far end and found himself alone on a remote island surrounded by sea.

• Qin Huaian woke with both his own aura and Elder Mingde’s aura, then told Duan Zhengfeng and the other cultivator how to break free of the binding formation.
• After Spirit Rhino City’s defensive formation was breached, Qin Huaian teleported across the chamber, took the Storage Ring, and extinguished Elder Mingde’s remaining Primordial Spirit.
• Qin Huaian escaped through Elder Mingde’s one-way teleportation formation while Duan Zhengfeng and the other cultivator confronted Tian Mu.
• Tian Mu tried to activate the formation, but Qin Huaian had destroyed its foundation, and Duan Zhengfeng attacked him.
• Qin Huaian emerged on a deserted island three billion li from Spirit Rock Island and looked out over the sea.

After searching Elder Mingde’s memories, Qin Huaian discovered the vast distances between the islands and gathered Elder Mingde’s resources, including a fast Flying Boat. He set course for East Abyss Island and had Gu Ran take over piloting, leaving their journey underway.

• Qin Huaian learned from Elder Mingde’s intact memories about the Chaotic Sea Region, the distant islands, and Elder Mingde’s hidden reserve near a secret realm.
• Qin Huaian searched two Storage Rings and found hundreds of millions of Immortal Crystals, abundant artifact-refining materials and pills, a defensive shield, and two Flying Boats.
• Qin Huaian chose the top-grade immortal artifact Flying Boat, transformed it into a yacht, and set out for East Abyss Island.
• Qin Huaian summoned Gu Ran from his small world and asked him to control the Flying Boat.

Qin Huaian and Gu Ran traveled toward East Abyss Island while Qin Huaian studied Elder Mingde’s inheritance and cultivated his Yin-Yang Laws. After more than a year, Qin Huaian became a beginner Second-Order Immortal Array Master, and Gu Ran spotted an approaching flying vessel.

• Gu Ran took control of Qin Huaian’s flying vessel and laughed at Elder Mingde’s failed attempt to possess his master.
• Qin Huaian showed Gu Ran a map and set their destination as East Abyss Island, then gave him Immortal Crystals for cultivation.
• Qin Huaian added the Soul-Extinguishing Curse and the Array Fundamentals inheritance to his knowledge, including a path to become a Sixth-Order Immortal Array Master.
• Qin Huaian spent more than a year comprehending Yin-Yang Laws while his Mirror Bodies deduced Second-Order Immortal Arrays.
• Qin Huaian became a beginner Second-Order Immortal Array Master, and Gu Ran reported that a flying vessel was approaching.

Qin Huaian and Gu Ran tried to escape a group of pirates pursuing them across the Boundless Sea. After Qin Huaian switched to a Mid-Grade Dao Artifact flying vessel, the pirates’ injured Elder Wu took control of their vessel and continued the chase, leaving Qin Huaian on the verge of being caught.

• Qin Huaian spotted five approaching cultivators and ordered Gu Ran to steer their vessel away from them.
• Senior Brother Chen ordered his group to pursue Qin Huaian, revealing that they had recently robbed a Duan Family disciple and taken a valuable Void Token.
• Qin Huaian switched to his Mid-Grade Dao Artifact flying vessel, but Senior Brother Chen became determined to seize it.
• Senior Brother Chen told the injured Elder Wu about the vessel, and Elder Wu took control of their ship to pursue Qin Huaian.
• Gu Ran warned Qin Huaian that Elder Wu’s vessel was catching up, while Qin Huaian struggled to unleash the Mid-Grade Dao Artifact’s full speed.

Qin Huaian’s Flying Boat was trapped by a group of cultivators led by an injured Heavenly Immortal, and their attacks threatened to break its defensive formation. Qin Huaian ambushed Elder Wu with his strongest sword technique, destroyed half his body, and returned to the Flying Boat with his Storage Ring as the surviving attackers reeled.

• A group of five cultivators caught up with Qin Huaian’s Flying Boat and demanded that he surrender the vessel and their Storage Rings.
• The attackers struck the Flying Boat’s defensive formation, and Qin Huaian realized the Heavenly Immortal among them was the key to escaping.
• Qin Huaian used the Flowing Cloud Sword and teleported behind the injured Heavenly Immortal as the elder attacked the formation.
• Qin Huaian’s Grand Void Birth and Extinction destroyed the left half of Elder Wu’s body, though his Primordial Spirit escaped.
• Qin Huaian sent an Exotic Flame after Elder Wu’s Primordial Spirit, snatched the Storage Ring from the elder’s remains, and teleported back inside the formation.

Qin Huaian used a devastating attack to defeat Elder Wu and reclaim the Void Token, then fled by Flying Boat while recovering his strength. Tranquil Sea Palace pursued him, and its Palace Master set out with two disciples to kill him.

• Qin Huaian used Spatial Law and a powerful sword strike to severely injure Elder Wu and recover the Void Token before ordering Gu Ran to flee.
• Elder Wu ordered the Tranquil Sea Palace cultivators to pursue Qin Huaian and contact the Palace Master.
• Qin Huaian began restoring his depleted immortal essence while Gu Ran piloted the Flying Boat at full speed.
• The Palace Master learned that Qin Huaian had taken the Void Token and decided to hunt him with Junior Sister Liu and Junior Brother Wang.
• The Palace Master paused before leaving and entered a secret chamber to activate a sound-transmission formation.

Qin Huaian and Gu Ran remained pursued until a Four Seas Merchant Association vessel approached, prompting their pursuers to flee. Yu Ruoxue and Yang Qianli decided to investigate, while Qin Huaian slowed down to meet the merchant vessel cautiously.

• Qin Huaian took control of the flying vessel but could neither shake off the pursuers nor attack them without risking his strength.
• Qin Huaian spotted a massive Four Seas Merchant Association vessel, where Yu Ruoxue mistook the pursuit behind him for pirates and urged Yang Qianli to intervene.
• Yang Qianli agreed to approach the fleeing and pursuing vessels, and the steward recognized Qin Huaian's vessel from a message sent by the Tranquil Sea Palace Lord.
• The pursuing vessel turned around and fled as the Four Seas Merchant Association vessel approached, and Qin Huaian explained the association to Gu Ran.
• Qin Huaian slowed down to await the approaching vessel, while Yu Ruoxue urged Yang Qianli to catch and destroy the fleeing pursuers.

Qin Huaian escaped pursuing pirates and boarded a Four Seas Merchant Association vessel bound for East Abyss Island. There, he met the young lady who had requested his rescue, and her response to his formal greeting caught him off guard.

• Yu Ruoxue agreed with Yang Qianli to continue toward the rescued cultivator rather than pursue the fleeing pirates.
• Lu Zhinan invited Qin Huaian to board the Four Seas Merchant Association vessel, while privately weighing the chance to claim Qin's Mid-Grade Dao Artifact flying vessel for the Tranquil Sea Palace.
• Qin Huaian accepted the invitation and flew with Gu Ran to the merchant vessel, where Lu Zhinan introduced himself and offered to bring Qin to his young lady.
• Lu Zhinan led Qin Huaian to a reception room to meet the young lady, who had reached Great Perfection of the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Qin Huaian introduced himself and called the young lady Senior, and she asked whether she really seemed that old.

Qin Huaian and Gu Ran met Yu Ruoxue, a young woman from the Four Seas Merchant Association, after she helped them escape pursuing cultivators. They boarded her association’s flying vessel toward East Abyss Island, but with every cabin occupied, they had to rest on the crowded deck, where other passengers noticed Qin Huaian’s Mid-Grade Dao Artifact flying vessel.

• Gu Ran charmed Yu Ruoxue with flattery, then refused her offer to take him in because he was loyal to Qin Huaian.
• Yu Ruoxue asked Qin Huaian whether pirates had chased them and questioned how a True Immortal like him had obtained a Mid-Grade Dao Artifact flying vessel.
• Qin Huaian told Yu Ruoxue that he and Gu Ran had found the vessel in a Storage Ring inside a cave on an uninhabited island.
• Qin Huaian thanked Yu Ruoxue for helping them escape, then left the reception room with Gu Ran.
• Lu Zhinan told Qin Huaian that every passenger cabin was occupied, so they returned to the deck to rest among thousands of cultivators.
• The cultivators on the deck turned their attention to Qin Huaian because they had seen him arrive on a Mid-Grade Dao Artifact flying vessel.

Qin Huaian began cultivating aboard the Flying Boat during its yearlong journey to East Abyss Island. He was interrupted when a cultivator approached Gu Ran with an invitation for his young master.

• Qin Huaian and Gu Ran settled on the deck after he surveyed the other cultivators.
• Qin Huaian reviewed the Flying Boat's layout and learned that its cabins were full and fighting was forbidden except on the dueling platform by mutual consent.
• Qin Huaian cultivated, using Immortal Crystals to strengthen his Mirror Body while his true body studied the laws of yin and yang.
• A middle-aged cultivator asked Gu Ran to discuss his young master's sincere invitation, but Gu Ran told him Qin Huaian was in seclusion and would have to be asked later.

Qin Huaian drew the Chen Family Second Young Master's attention aboard a Four Seas Merchant Association vessel because of his mid-grade Dao artifact Flying Boat. He rejected an exchange he considered a blatant ripoff, leaving the danger of reaching East Abyss Island unresolved.

• A middle-aged cultivator invited Qin Huaian to meet the Chen Family Second Young Master, but Qin Huaian insisted they speak openly and said he was not interested.
• The Chen Family Second Young Master approached Qin Huaian and asked to buy his Flying Boat.
• The Chen Family Second Young Master offered a top-grade flying sword, one hundred thousand Immortal Crystals, and an elder position in the Chen Family's External Affairs Hall.
• Qin Huaian refused the offer, judging it far below the Flying Boat's value, and decided he would consider other options after reaching East Abyss Island.
• The Chen Family Second Young Master warned Qin Huaian that he would regret refusing, then left.

After witnessing a cultivator struggle to repay gambling debts aboard the Flying Boat, Qin Huaian bought the man’s Earth-class cabin ticket for ten thousand Immortal Crystals. The seller immediately headed back to the casino, while Qin Huaian and Gu Ran moved into the cabin.

• Qin Huaian heard cultivators discuss the Chen Family’s second young master and resumed cultivating without worrying about the encounter.
• Several True Immortal Realm cultivators demanded repayment from Fellow Daoist Han, who had gambled away his Immortal Crystals and most of his belongings.
• Fellow Daoist Han offered his Earth-class cabin ticket for sale to pay his debts, and Qin Huaian went with Gu Ran to inspect it.
• Qin Huaian outbid the others with an offer of ten thousand Immortal Crystals and received the cabin’s restriction token.
• Fellow Daoist Han took the Immortal Crystals and headed to the casino, while Qin Huaian shook his head and went to the cabin.