Chapter Summaries

Zhao Gang investigated who had discovered the tracking mark on his son and ordered Songting to identify cultivators with advanced Origin Eye cultivation. On the Heavenly Dao Sect’s flying ship, Fairy Qiyu gave Wu Binglan a Supreme Unity True Water Dao Fruit and told her about a cultivator whose tribulations displayed extraordinary lightning, leaving Wu Binglan alarmed.

• Songting told Zhao Gang that the tracking mark remained detectable after Golden Glow Island, confirming that his son’s killer had survived.
• Zhao Gang learned that the Origin Eye might reveal his tracking mark and ordered Songting to investigate the identities of cultivators who had reached its third or fourth level.
• Fairy Qiyu gave Wu Binglan the Supreme Unity True Water Dao Fruit, and Wu Binglan resolved to use it to pursue the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Fairy Qiyu told Wu Binglan that one cultivator had drawn Purple Sky Divine Lightning in all nine waves of an Earth Immortal tribulation and had also faced lightning as powerful as a Golden Immortal tribulation.

Wu Binglan explained the legend of Jiang Yi, a genius who died beneath the Purple Sky Divine Lightning, and discussed the search for the cultivator who survived nine waves on Golden Glow Island. Qin Huaian emerged from the island, searched unsuccessfully for Gu Ran, and chose to stay among the crowds rather than draw attention by leaving alone.

• Wu Binglan told Fairy Qiyu that Jiang Yi had been a peerless genius who perished during his Immortal Ascension Tribulation after enduring six waves of Purple Sky Divine Lightning.
• Wu Binglan concluded that the cultivator who survived nine waves on Golden Glow Island might be a Heavenly Immortal and said the Heavenly Dao Sect would search for him.
• Major sects spread the news and searched among Earthly Immortal cultivators, while the Heavenly Dao Sect, Blood Moon Cult, and Azure Water Sword Pavilion also sought Early-stage Heavenly Immortals.
• Qin Huaian emerged above the Boundless Sea, searched for Gu Ran with his Divine Sense, and sensed that Gu Ran was still alive but could not find him.
• Qin Huaian changed his plan to leave immediately because flying vessels and powerful cultivators were watching the survivors, and merchants and sects quickly set up stalls nearby.

Qin Huaian watched cultivators trade and recruit near Golden Glow Island, then refused Cheng Yishui’s offer to buy his immortal spirit herbs or recruit him into the Mystic Medicine Sect. Cheng Yishui began explaining that teleportation arrays across the Chaotic Sea Region had been restricted when Golden Glow Island appeared.

• Qin Huaian used the Origin Eye to identify a mid-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and spotted several more powerful experts aboard nearby Flying Boats.
• Cheng Yishui introduced himself as a Mystic Medicine Sect disciple and approached Qin Huaian, who was posing as Wang Zhiping, to ask whether he had immortal spirit herbs to sell.
• Qin Huaian refused to sell his herbs, and Cheng Yishui offered a fair price and possible sect membership if he had enough.
• Cheng Yishui warned Qin Huaian that undercurrents were surging beneath the seemingly peaceful sea region and said most Golden Glow Island entrants belonged to sects.
• Cheng Yishui explained that cultivators across the Chaotic Sea Region had sought to reach Golden Glow Island, but most teleportation arrays had been restricted.

Qin Huaian learned that Rogue Cultivators faced grave danger trying to leave the Golden Glow Island sea region, while the Mystic Medicine Sect could offer him safe passage. He suspected Cheng Yishui wanted him to sell his treasures, but decided to gamble on the sect and asked whether it sold Golden Rhyme Dao Pills.

• Cheng Yishui explained that major forces controlled access to Golden Glow Island and that only about one million of the six million cultivators who entered had survived.
• Cheng Yishui warned Qin Huaian that Rogue Cultivators leaving alone risked being plundered by bandits from the Chaotic Sea Region and other major regions.
• Cheng Yishui said the Mystic Medicine Sect could take cultivators to safety because it was backed by the Heavenly Star Pavilion and had two Grand Unity Immortal Venerables.
• Qin Huaian realized Cheng Yishui had described the danger to persuade him to sell his Golden Glow Island treasures to the Mystic Medicine Sect.
• Qin Huaian asked Cheng Yishui whether the Mystic Medicine Sect sold Golden Rhyme Dao Pills, and Cheng Yishui smiled broadly.

Qin Huaian traded immortal spirit herbs to join the Mystic Medicine Sect as an outer disciple and secure passage aboard its Flying Boat. He chose several pills and a cabin, and the boat was set to leave for Dragon Creek Continent within three days.

• Cheng Yishui offered Qin Huaian a place aboard the Mystic Medicine Sect's Flying Boat in exchange for herbs worth two Golden Rhyme Dao Pills.
• Elder Yin inspected Qin Huaian's herbs and accepted him as an outer disciple, giving him one Golden Rhyme Dao Pill and directing him to Senior Brother Qian for the remaining exchange.
• Senior Brother Qian offered Qin Huaian Immortal Crystals or pills, and Qin Huaian chose three bottles of pills.
• Cheng Yishui gave Qin Huaian an outer disciple identity token and showed him the available cabins, saying the Flying Boat would head to Dragon Creek Continent within three days.

Qin Huaian discovered that Elder Yin had secretly placed a tracking mark on him aboard the Mystic Medicine Sect’s Flying Boat, but chose to leave it in place to avoid drawing attention. He planned to use the voyage to cultivate and leave the sect after reaching Dragon Creek Continent, then heard that more passengers had been recruited as outer disciples.

• Qin Huaian secured his room with its built-in restrictions and a second-tier defensive immortal array, then used the Origin Eye to find a faint spiritual fluctuation on his shoulder.
• Qin Huaian suspected Elder Yin had marked him to track and rob him after he left the Flying Boat, but decided not to remove the mark while aboard the vessel.
• Qin Huaian planned to wait for the Seed Space to finish upgrading before using his Mirror Bodies to cultivate, while focusing his true body on comprehending Laws.
• Qin Huaian heard a cultivator lead several newcomers into the cabin and welcome them as Mystic Medicine Sect outer disciples.

Qin Huaian stayed in seclusion aboard the Mystic Medicine Sect's Flying Boat as it departed Golden Glow Island and began publicizing its trading area. Three months later, a notice announced an auction, and Qin Huaian learned that some of its lots would be revealed the next day.

• Qin Huaian continued comprehending the laws of yin and yang while reflecting on Supreme Purity True Person's request to spread the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture.
• Three days later, Qin Huaian felt the Flying Boat set sail as hundreds of cultivators filled the rooms on his deck.
• Qin Huaian saw a formation notice directing cultivators to the Flying Boat's trading area, where they could buy supplies and sell immortal plants and spirit herbs.
• Over the following days, more cultivators visited the trading area, and the Mystic Medicine Sect repeated its notice every ten days.
• Three months after the Flying Boat departed, Qin Huaian saw a notice announcing an auction in the trading area for the following day.

Qin Huaian reviewed the auction list, decided to attend, and recognized that the Mystic Medicine Sect was using trade and auctions to draw resources from cultivators leaving Golden Glow Island. The auction began aboard the Flying Boat with Lan Yin presenting a Void Token as the first major item.

• Qin Huaian examined the auction list, considered his need for valuable treasures and refining materials, and decided to attend the auction and assess the situation aboard the Flying Boat.
• Qin Huaian received a number plaque, found his seat in the auction hall, and read the rules and reference prices.
• Qin Huaian concluded that the Mystic Medicine Sect was using its trading area and auction to harvest resources from Rogue Cultivators.
• Lan Yin of the Mystic Medicine Sect opened the auction before nearly three thousand cultivators and announced a Void Token as the first heavyweight item.

At the Mystic Medicine Sect auction, Lan Yin introduced the Void Token as a pass to the dangerous Void Hall, where cultivators could encounter unusually active spatial laws. Qin Huaian recognized the token as identical to one he had found and realized the crowd was discussing his escape from Golden Glow Island, while the auction’s opening bid had yet to begin.

• Lan Yin unveiled the Void Token and explained that it granted entry to the Void Hall, a secret realm that opened once every three thousand years.
• Lan Yin described the Void Hall’s spatial dangers and its potential to help cultivators comprehend the laws of space, prompting mixed reactions from the crowd.
• Cultivators debated whether an Earth Immortal who teleported away with the Nine-Orifice Golden Lotus on Golden Glow Island had truly comprehended the laws of space.
• Qin Huaian recognized the rumored Earth Immortal as himself and recalled using teleportation and the Thousand Illusions Mask to escape.
• Lan Yin confirmed the Golden Glow Island story and encouraged cultivators to believe they might comprehend the laws of space, though many remained unconvinced.

Lan Yin explained the Void Hall and auctioned a Void Token, which a cultivator bought for fifteen million Immortal Crystals. Qin Huaian then won a bottle of Seven-Turn Essence Condensation Pills for four hundred thousand Immortal Crystals.

• Lan Yin described the Void Hall’s treasures and announced that the Mystic Medicine Sect was auctioning one of its Void Tokens.
• Cultivators bid against one another until an aged-voiced cultivator won the Void Token for fifteen million Immortal Crystals.
• Lan Yin began the next auction for a bottle of Seven-Turn Essence Condensation Pills, and Qin Huaian joined the bidding.
• Qin Huaian raised the bid to four hundred thousand Immortal Crystals and won the pills.
• A female cultivator brought Qin Huaian the bottle of Seven-Turn Essence Condensation Pills.

Qin Huaian learned that the Void Hall on Dragon Creek Continent held opportunities to comprehend spatial laws, then spent two years cultivating aboard the Mystic Medicine Sect's vessel. When powerful bandit cultivators attacked the vessel, their leader demanded that everyone surrender their storage artifacts.

• Qin Huaian paid the auction fee for Seven-Turn Essence Condensation Pills with immortal spirit herbs and heard cultivators discuss the Void Hall on Dragon Creek Continent.
• Qin Huaian realized his Void Token might let him enter the Void Hall and obtain Spatial Stones, then returned to his room to cultivate.
• Over the next two years, Qin Huaian remained aboard the vessel as Void Token prices at later auctions rose to fifty million Immortal Crystals.
• Bandit cultivators attacked the Mystic Medicine Sect's flying vessel, and the sect ordered unofficial disciples such as Qin Huaian to stay in their cabins.
• Kong Lü confronted the attackers and invoked Star Pavilion's protection, but a middle-aged spear-wielding cultivator demanded that the vessel's passengers surrender their storage artifacts.

Kong Lü and the Mystic Medicine Sect faced a raid by cultivators from other great regions, who sought the resources brought back from Golden Glow Island. The Sect escaped by scattering its forces and leaving the Rogue Cultivators as bait, while Qin Huaian tried to flee amid the ensuing battle.

• Kong Lü realized the attackers were stronger and ordered the Mystic Medicine Sect's Golden Immortals to prepare an escape as the vessel's defenses weakened.
• The bandit cultivators shattered the protective formation and charged the vessel, while the Mystic Medicine Sect split into groups to flee.
• A Mystic Medicine Sect cultivator called on the Rogue Cultivators to escape, revealing them as targets and leaving them to delay the attackers.
• Kong Lü fled toward the Boundless Sea, and the spear-wielding Primordial Unity Immortal Venerable pursued him.
• The bandit cultivators attacked the Rogue Cultivators in a fierce battle, and Qin Huaian used his improved Free and Easy Wanderer to escape without revealing his teleportation ability.

Qin Huaian escaped the bandit cultivators but drew the pursuit of three powerful Golden Immortals, so he veered toward a Mystic Medicine Sect flying boat. Elder Yin recognized him as one of the wealthy rogue cultivators he had marked, and the chapter ended with Senior Brother Ren asking how Elder Yin knew him.

• The bandit cultivators slaughtered the rogue cultivators left aboard the flying boat while pursuing those who fled.
• Qin Huaian used his exceptional movement technique to escape the fleeing crowd, but three bandit cultivators—a Golden Immortal at perfection and two late Golden Immortals—chased him.
• Qin Huaian turned toward a Mystic Medicine Sect group escaping aboard a mid-grade Dao artifact flying boat, with the three pursuers close behind.
• A cultivator aboard the boat warned Senior Brother Ren that Qin Huaian and the bandits were catching up.
• Elder Yin recognized Qin Huaian as a rogue cultivator he had marked, and Senior Brother Ren asked how he knew him.

Qin Huaian fled toward the Mystic Medicine Sect's flying boat as its elders prepared to confront the pursuing bandits and help their disciples escape. The white-bearded old man invited Qin Huaian aboard, and he joined the boat while keeping watch on Elder Yin.

• Elder Yin told the white-bearded old man that Qin Huaian was a Rogue Cultivator named Wang, and the old man ordered a group of elders to fight the three pursuing bandits while the rest fled with the disciples.
• Qin Huaian shouted that he was Wang Zhiping, an outer disciple of the Mystic Medicine Sect, and begged the sect elders to save him.
• The white-bearded old man led five cultivators to intercept the bandits and told Qin Huaian he could leave aboard the Mystic Medicine Sect's flying boat.
• Qin Huaian recognized Elder Yin on the boat, suspected him because he had planted a tracking mark, but boarded and thanked him for saving his life.

Qin Huaian escaped with the Mystic Medicine Sect aboard its flying vessel after bandit cultivators attacked. He learned they were heading for Singing Sand Island and spotted more bandit reinforcements approaching the battle behind them.

• Elder Yin let Qin Huaian board the Mystic Medicine Sect’s vessel and identified the attackers as cultivators from another region.
• Elder Yin postponed discussing Qin Huaian’s movement technique until the sect had escaped danger, and the vessel flew beyond the battle’s range.
• Cheng Yishui apologized to Qin Huaian and gave him a detailed map showing their location and the route to Singing Sand Island.
• Qin Huaian learned that reaching Dragon Creek Continent would require several transfers from Singing Sand Island, so the sect planned to travel by vessel instead.
• Qin Huaian used the Origin Eye to see that one bandit and one Mystic Medicine Sect cultivator had died, while five more bandit cultivators approached as reinforcements.

Qin Huaian realized two Perfect-stage Golden Immortal bandits were pursuing the Mystic Medicine Sect’s flying boat and left it to escape on his own. The boat’s cultivators then discovered the pursuers were close behind and wondered whether Qin Huaian had known all along.

• The Mystic Medicine Sect’s four Golden Immortals fled in separate pairs while the bandits chose to pursue the flying boat carrying several hundred cultivators.
• Senior Brother Liu and another Perfect-stage Golden Immortal sped ahead to catch the boat, expecting their reinforcements to follow once it was forced to slow down.
• Qin Huaian warned Cheng Yishui about the danger, thanked Elder Yin and the other Golden Immortals, and left the flying boat without waiting for a reply.
• Elder Yin let Qin Huaian go, noting that catching him would be difficult and that he had placed a tracking mark on him.
• A Late Golden Immortal aboard the boat spotted the two Perfect-stage bandits pursuing them, and the Mystic Medicine Sect cultivators began to fear that Senior Brother Ren and the others had failed.

Elder Yin urged the Mystic Medicine Sect cultivators to scatter as the bandits pursued them, then secretly chased Qin Huaian with a powerful flying treasure. Qin Huaian let Elder Yin draw closer so he could test his strength, and the chapter ended with Elder Yin nearly catching him.

• Elder Yin advised Elder Feng to have the Mystic Medicine Sect cultivators flee in separate directions, and Elder Feng ordered them to scatter and stored their flying vessel.
• The two Golden Immortal Great Perfection bandits decided to abandon the chase and return with the resources they had seized.
• Qin Huaian flew away from Singing Sand Island to shake off pursuit, then noticed Elder Yin approaching him.
• Elder Yin pursued Qin Huaian alone, hoping to claim his treasures and other rewards, and relied on a flying treasure he had found in Void Hall.
• Qin Huaian sensed Elder Yin closing in and deliberately slowed down while pretending to be exhausted.

Qin Huaian fled Elder Yin, who revealed his intention to steal Qin Huaian’s Storage Ring and flight technique. After a fierce battle, Qin Huaian used Spatial Law to vanish and strike Elder Yin from behind, killing him.

• Elder Yin caught up with Qin Huaian and demanded his Storage Ring and flight technique, threatening to kill him if he refused.
• Qin Huaian blocked Elder Yin’s casual attack with the Flowing Cloud Sword, revealing his command of the Laws of Yin and Yang.
• Elder Yin attacked with his whisk, but Qin Huaian evaded the blow and struck Elder Yin’s shield with a powerful sword radiance.
• Elder Yin used his Golden Roc Wings to close in and shattered Qin Huaian’s Taiji Yin-Yang Fish with successive attacks.
• Qin Huaian vanished using Spatial Law and unleashed a destructive strike from behind, leaving Elder Yin’s consciousness to sink into eternal darkness.

After killing Elder Yin, Qin Huaian escaped across the Boundless Sea aboard a flying boat and examined the treasures in Elder Yin's Storage Ring. He refined one restriction of the top-grade Dao Artifact Golden Roc Wings and tested their appearance above the sea.

• Qin Huaian took Elder Yin's Storage Ring and Mid-Grade Dao Artifact fly-whisk, collected the ownerless golden wings, and fled after cremating Elder Yin's remains.
• Three days later, Qin Huaian set his course for Singing Sand Island aboard a top-grade immortal artifact flying boat powered by Immortal Crystals.
• Qin Huaian transferred Elder Yin's neatly organized herbs, pills, jade slips, and Mid-Grade Dao Artifact alchemy furnace into his own Storage Ring.
• Qin Huaian spent three months refining the golden wings and learned they were the Golden Roc Wings, a top-grade Dao Artifact with ninety-nine layers of restrictions.
• Qin Huaian emerged from the control room and summoned transparent wings behind himself above the Boundless Sea.

Qin Huaian reached Singing Sand Island after refining two layers of restrictions in the Golden Roc Wings and learned that its eastern coast was dangerous because of the illusion-inducing Illusory Sound Conches. As he neared the shore, a burst of golden light drew the attention of cultivators across the area.

• Qin Huaian refined a second layer of restrictions in the Golden Roc Wings, increasing his flying speed by another ten percent.
• Qin Huaian spotted Singing Sand Island and recalled Cheng Yishui’s information about its size, the Illusory Sound Pavilion, and the Glazed Gold Sand along its eastern coast.
• Qin Huaian put away his Flying Boat and approached the eastern coast at an ordinary mid-stage Heavenly Immortal’s speed.
• Qin Huaian crossed the region of strongest illusory sounds, and the World Tree’s energy restored his clarity when the sounds began to affect him.
• Qin Huaian saw cultivators collecting Illusory Sound Conches and greeted a mid-stage Heavenly Immortal who had noticed him.
• A mass of golden light rose near the coast, drawing the attention of cultivators across tens of thousands of li.