Chapter Summaries

Bai Shuang enlisted Zhang Jian to keep Xuan Li from participating in the Sea King's Festival so she could bring Bai Liying as her deputy sacrificer. Zhang Jian’s scheme left Xuan Li gravely injured and Huo Nu’er blamed, while the Azure Duckweed Dragon Lord vowed to confront Heavenly Fire Palace.

• Bai Shuang explained that the Sea King's Festival’s deputy sacrificer could receive a Sea King Baptism, and she planned to take Bai Liying if Xuan Li could not attend.
• Zhang Jian revealed that his power approached the True Immortal realm, then used a Spirit-Seizing Talisman to control Xuan Li and wait for Huo Nu’er.
• Zhang Jian made the controlled Xuan Li accuse Huo Nu’er of betrayal, provoking her to unleash the Primal Heavenly Fire Talisman and blast Xuan Li through the palace wall.
• Huo Nu’er fled as Zhang Jian took Bai Liying away, and Bai Shuang called for guards and pretended that Xuan Li had been assassinated.
• Xuan Cheng captured Huo Nu’er, searched her soul, and learned that Li'er had been injured during a failed plot; he blamed Heavenly Fire Palace and vowed to confront Heavenly Fire Ancestor.

After Xuan Li was gravely injured, the Azure Duckweed Dragon Lord assigned Bai Shuang his Sea King's Festival place, while Zhang Jian learned how fortune could win the inherited treasure's recognition and gave Bai Shuang a stick of incense. As the festival began, Zhang Jian and Bai Liying arrived at Ancestral Dragon Hall, where Bai Shuang stood among the participants and the Dragon Lord presided over the ceremony.

• The Dragon Mother suspected Bai Shuang had helped outsiders attack Xuan Li, but Xuan Cheng rejected searching her soul and ordered that she be left alone because her father had become a Dark Abyss True Dragon.
• Xuan Cheng assigned Xuan Li's Sea King's Festival place to Bai Shuang, and the Dragon Mother accepted his decision despite having already promised the auxiliary slot to someone else.
• Boundless True Lord told Zhang Jian that the Sea King secret treasure valued a dragon descendant's fortune above bloodline, cultivation, and Dharma treasure, and revealed the ancestral precept: “Take a clear stand, and forge good ties far and wide!”
• Zhang Jian gave Bai Shuang one stick of incense as her sacrificial treasure, while Xuan Gu and Lishui Water Earl discussed their plan to help Xuan Gu win the festival.
• The Sea King's Festival guests gathered, and Bai Liying emerged from seclusion after refining Purple-Leaf Dragonblood Grass and strengthening her cultivation.
• Xuan He guided Zhang Jian and Bai Liying to Ancestral Dragon Hall, where they found Bai Shuang among the participants as the Dragon Lord began the ceremony.

At the Sea King's Festival, the Sea King appraised the dragon descendants’ offerings and chose Bai Shuang as the champion because of the incense she had received from the Great Xia Emperor. Bai Shuang was granted permission to bring a companion to receive the first Dragon Lord’s legacy, while several dragon princes and Xuan Rao qualified for the core ritual.

• Xuan Cheng and the Dragon Mother led the ancestral rites, then the dragon descendants presented their offerings to the Sea King’s dark-gold dragon shadow.
• The Sea King praised Xuan Chou’s page of the Wood Virtue True Scripture and Xuan An’s divine pearl, while warning Xuan An not to exhaust his resources.
• The Sea King recognized Bai Shuang’s incense as an exceptional offering protected by a great divine-path power and named her the festival’s champion.
• The Sea King sent golden lightning into Bai Shuang’s brow, allowed her to bring a like-minded companion to receive the first Dragon Lord’s legacy, and swallowed the incense.
• The Sea King recognized several dragon princes and Xuan Rao for the core ritual, while leaving their offerings in place after drawing out a wisp of radiance.

At the Sea King Festival, Bai Shuang and Bai Liying underwent the Sea King Baptism, awakening powerful ancestral bloodlines. Bai Liying transformed into a Dark Nether Dragon Carp and broke through to the peak of the Golden Core realm, then awoke to find Zhang Jian waiting for her.

• Fourteen additional participants, including Bai Liying, joined the fourteen dragon descendants already chosen for the core sacrificial rite.
• The Azure Duckweed Dragon Lord used the Eight Heavenly Dragon Notes and the Sea King Baptism to awaken and strengthen the bloodlines of all twenty-eight participants.
• Bai Shuang chose the Ice-Soul Chi Dragon bloodline and became enclosed in a towering Ice Crystal cocoon.
• Bai Liying chose the Dark Nether Dragon Carp, reverted to its ancestral bloodline, and reached the peak of the Golden Core realm before enduring the tribulation to form her Yin Spirit.
• Bai Liying's transformation gave her a divine-beast foundation and a special Dao body, while Bai Shuang awakened a powerful dragon-race divine ability.
• Hours later, Bai Shuang and Bai Liying awoke from their transformations, and Bai Liying joyfully greeted Zhang Jian.

After Bai Liying transformed into a Dark Nether Dragon Carp, Zhang Jian visited Sea King Market to seek ancient scripts and powerful immortal arts. He entered the Sea King's Auction, while a demonic vortex opened deep in Azure Duckweed Sea.

• Bai Liying completed her transformation into a Dark Nether Dragon Carp, and Zhang Jian urged her and Bai Shuang to return to their quarters.
• Zhang Jian went to Sea King Market, where Xuan He guided him through the free-trade district and he bought several ancient classics.
• Xuan He told Zhang Jian that her brother Xuanzheng possessed part of a Dragon-Phoenix Treasure Seal Script legacy and offered to persuade him in exchange for a chance to choose her territory again.
• Zhang Jian bought the first-rank Two Modes Creation True Exposition from Treasure Gathering Tower, but passed on the life-and-death and earth-attribute immortal arts he found.
• Zhang Jian and Xuan He entered the Crystal Palace for Sea King's Auction as a demonic vortex formed amid sea beast corpses deep in Azure Duckweed Sea, and a watcher departed from the gate.

Zhang Jian attended the Crystal Palace auction and bought the second-rank earth-element immortal art Central Wu-Earth Grand Primordial Qi. As the second-rank Divine Path art Heavenly Dao Suppression came up for bidding, he prepared to pursue the inheritance that could strengthen his Divine Path authority.

• Zhang Jian ignored the second-round offerings and cultivated in his private room, benefiting from the rapid mana growth granted by his Innate Taiyin Law Seed.
• Golden Dragon Granny outbid True Lord Qinghe for the first-rank immortal treasure Limitless Sword at 1.6 million high-grade spirit crystals, while two other first-rank immortal treasures and three first-rank immortal arts were also sold.
• Zhang Jian bid 2.35 million high-grade spirit crystals for Central Wu-Earth Grand Primordial Qi, outlasting Nine Peaks Divine Lord and securing the second-rank earth-element immortal art.
• The Dragon Clan elder introduced Heavenly Dao Suppression, a second-rank Divine Path art sought by the Earth Origin Inspector, and opened bidding at 1.2 million high-grade spirit crystals.

Zhang Jian outbid powerful factions at the Sea King Trade Fair, first winning a second-tier divine art and then securing the Three Radiances Divine Water for 22 million high-grade spirit crystals. The auction ended with cultivators eyeing his purchase and anticipating trouble after the fair.

• Zhang Jian outbid Nine Peaks Divine Lord and Ao Qing, winning the second-tier divine art for 5.8 million high-grade spirit crystals.
• Azure Cloud True Lord acquired the Spirit of the Azure Void and the Primordial Wind Soul Pearl for the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage.
• The auctioneer presented three drops of Three Radiances Divine Water, and Golden Dragon Granny opened bidding at 12 million for the Yun Family.
• Boundless True Lord and a Ji Clan True Immortal raised the bids before Zhang Jian offered 18 million, then 22 million.
• Zhang Jian won the Three Radiances Divine Water, while the Ji Clan True Immortal and other factions watched in silence.

Zhang Jian settled into Azure Duckweed Dragon Palace to study a second-tier divine art while a demonic gate unleashed a spreading calamity across Azure Duckweed Sea. As the Dragon Palace prepared to summon its deepest reserves and leave its defenses exposed, Pure Void Celestial Venerable and Ji Ke made plans to exploit the crisis and enter the sea eye.

• Zhang Jian collected his auction purchases, asked to cultivate in the Dragon Palace, and began studying a second-tier divine art as demonic qi erupted from the depths of Azure Duckweed Sea.
• Boundless True Lord and Azure Cloud True Lord recognized signs that an extraterritorial demonic gate had stabilized, and Azure Cloud True Lord departed while the Dragon Palace fought the spreading demonic qi.
• After losing several Primordial Spirit True Lords in failed attacks, Azure Duckweed Dragon Lord decided to summon the Fifth Ancestor and Sea King Fiery Ancestor to confront the demon god.
• Pure Void Celestial Venerable told his followers to enter the sea eye and retrieve the hidden object while someone else dealt with the Dragon Palace’s remaining defenders.
• Ji Ke watched the Dragon Palace’s forces surge toward the demonic domain and decided that the moment had come to enter the Dragon Palace and seize Zhang Jian.

Zhang Jian trapped and froze Ji Ke after the Ji Clan true immortal tried to capture him, then headed toward the Azure Duckweed Sea’s sea eye as attackers invaded the Dragon Palace. He discovered that Daoist Qingxu and three other gods were guarding the sea eye while a powerful envoy entered it, and recognized the spatial concealment hiding them.

• Zhang Jian witnessed an attacker destroy the Azure Duckweed Sea God Office and wound a dragon true immortal, then sensed Ji Ke approaching his secluded chamber.
• Ji Ke used the Fire Dragon Jade Bowl on a decoy Zhang Jian, but Zhang Jian trapped him in the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State and froze him with Taiyin Ice-Soul Divine Radiance.
• Zhang Jian learned that attackers were targeting the Dragon Palace’s forbidden areas and that demons had broken into the sea eye, so he headed there while Bai Liying cultivated safely in the core region.
• A powerful water-element divine envoy entered the sea eye with a dozen figures and ordered Qingxu, Ding Huo, Yuanji, and Fangfeng Jian to guard its entrance.
• Daoist Qingxu concealed himself and the other three gods with a colossal tree, but Zhang Jian saw through their spatial immortal art and realized they were fellow practitioners.

Zhang Jian froze Pure Void Celestial Venerable and entered the Azure Duckweed Dragon Palace’s sea-eye secret territory. He navigated its deadly formations and caught up with a group battling a colossal demon god.

• Zhang Jian froze Pure Void Celestial Venerable with his Taiyin Body-Refining Grand Method, killed him with an ice arrow, and captured the peculiar tree seed while sparing three Primordial Spirit True Lords.
• Xuan Nu and the wounded Xuan Kong arrived at the frozen sea eye, and Xuan Nu entered the forbidden territory while Xuan Kong went to reinforce the Dragon Palace treasury.
• Zhang Jian crossed into the sea eye, endured its water tornadoes, and used his Taiyin technique and knowledge of formations to make a path through the spiritual-qi-depleted depths.
• Zhang Jian analyzed the Dragon race’s Chaos Lost-Path Formation with the Eastern Emperor Treasure Mirror and chose the third of its eight paths.
• Zhang Jian caught up with a dozen figures facing a flood of demonic qi shaped by restrictive formations into a colossal demon god as powerful as a top-tier True Immortal.

Zhang Jian secretly followed a powerful group through the sea eye as they fought their way toward its core and discovered the remains of imprisoned Wilderness Gods. The group stopped before a source of divine pressure that surpassed even Zhang Jian’s State-Society Emperor authority.

• A powerful god and his companions destroyed the ancient demon guarding the passage, while Zhang Jian watched in concealment and followed them deeper into the sea eye.
• The group was attacked by a Spirit-Devouring Fish Swarm, and a fire-wielding Primordial Spirit True Lord was devoured after using flames against it.
• The leading god repeatedly blasted paths through the fish with thousands of annihilation thunder pearls, allowing the group and Zhang Jian to advance.
• The group found the skeletal remains of enormous Wilderness Gods, and their leader declared that the sea eye held a Wilderness God legacy treasure.
• Zhang Jian observed restrictions draining the Wilderness Gods’ remains and followed the group to a place where a divine pressure greater than his own authority shook everyone.

Zhang Jian watched Cheng Yao and two True Immortals fight the weakened Desolate God Emperor, then struck Cheng Yao with the Taiyin Ice-Soul Bow after Cheng Yao used a fourth-tier immortal art to kill the Emperor. He continued firing arrows while Daoist Dui Ze turned to attack him.

• Zhang Jian and Cheng Yao sensed danger around the Desolate God Emperor, which unleashed deathly divine patterns and the White-Bone Soul-Summoning Banner to drain the cultivators’ Primordial Spirits.
• Cheng Yao summoned all six Sea-Spirit Pearls and attacked the Emperor alongside Daoist Dui Ze and another True Immortal, but the Emperor trapped them in a third-tier death domain.
• The Desolate God Emperor struck the water-element True Immortal with a Dao-transforming curse and began consuming him, while its domain also restrained Daoist Dui Ze and Cheng Yao.
• Cheng Yao activated a fourth-tier Dao Fruit immortal art that pierced the Desolate God Emperor’s brow and made its domain vanish.
• Zhang Jian shot Cheng Yao with a Taiyin Form-Refining Divine Arrow, froze him, and fired again while Daoist Dui Ze sent Azure-Glow Peak toward Zhang Jian.

Zhang Jian killed the Wilderness God Emperor’s remnant soul, refined its remains, and claimed several treasures before escaping the Sea-Eye Secret Land. The Azure Duckweed Dragon Palace’s search party found no trace of the intruders, while Zhang Jian slipped past the gathered Dragon Palace powerhouses and fled.

• Zhang Jian froze Daoist Dui Ze and used the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State to collect the three True Immortals’ corpses.
• Zhang Jian sent a spirit-body decoy toward the Wilderness God Emperor’s corpse, where the wounded emperor’s remnant soul attempted to possess it.
• Zhang Jian pierced the remnant soul with the Taiyin Ice-Soul Bow’s third-stage immortal art, then sealed the escaped Wilderness God remnant souls with the Azure Lotus Soul-Cleansing Spell.
• Zhang Jian recovered his cultivation and collected two divine-path authorities, a weakened divine artifact, and a seven-colored strange stone from the emperor’s remains.
• The Azure Duckweed Dragon Palace’s Fifth Ancestor, Xuan Nu, and three other powerhouses searched the Sea-Eye Secret Land but found no intruders or damage to the ancestral vein.
• Zhang Jian passed through the Sea-Eye gateway and escaped the Dragon Palace powerhouses using the Golden Lotus Breath-Hiding Art.

Zhang Jian redeemed the desolate gods in the Dragon Palace, gained four powerful guardian gods, and advanced the Azure Lotus Soul-Cleansing Spell to a second-order immortal art. After emerging from seclusion, he met Xuan He and agreed to consider granting Xuanzheng a divine office in exchange for the Dragon-Phoenix Bone Scripture, pending an inspection of Xuanzheng’s collection.

• The Azure Duckweed Dragon Lord decided to borrow the Southern Splendor Sect’s Mind-Seeing Mirror to locate the vanished invaders and the escaped sea demon god.
• Xuan He persuaded Xuanzheng to protect himself, and Xuanzheng agreed to lend the Dragon-Phoenix Bone Scripture in exchange for a divine office.
• Zhang Jian used the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State to redeem the desolate gods, while four desolate god kings chose to serve as his protectors instead of reincarnating.
• The other redeemed remnant souls entered the Netherworld Underworld, and their merit advanced the Azure Lotus Soul-Cleansing Spell to a second-order immortal art.
• After half a year in seclusion, Zhang Jian met Xuan He and said he would consider granting Xuanzheng a divine office after inspecting his collection.

Zhang Jian traded a celestial immortal-grade sea god divine office for Xuanzheng’s collection of Dragon-Phoenix Bone Books and warned him to keep his ability to copy the scripts secret. As Zhang Jian prepared to leave Azure Duckweed Dragon Palace, Azure Duckweed Dragon Lord’s investigation of the Sea-Eye revealed a terrifying divine path emperorly aura, forcing him and Daoist Meng to abandon the inquiry.

• Zhang Jian inspected Xuanzheng’s many Dragon-Phoenix Bone Books and exchanged them for a sea god divine office, while offering Xuanzheng an innate spiritual treasure as an alternative that Xuanzheng declined.
• Zhang Jian left Xuanzheng a warning to conceal his ability to copy Dragon-Phoenix Treasure Seal Script, and Xuanzheng realized the danger of revealing his secret.
• Zhang Jian began merging a fourth-rank death divine office into the Nine Nether Corpse-Shedding True Method and prepared to leave the Dragon Palace with Bai Liying.
• As Zhang Jian departed, he used the Scarlet Dragon Pearl to repel an inexplicable divine light from the Sea-Eye and sensed ill fortune.
• Azure Duckweed Dragon Lord and Daoist Meng used the Mind-Seeing Mirror to investigate the Sea-Eye, but they detected a powerful divine path emperorly aura and stopped their inquiry.

Zhang Jian ambushed Yun Qiao and Golden Dragon Granny, then fled an attack by the extraterritorial Sea Demon God and lured him into Longwood Prefecture. He revealed his divine path emperor authority and summoned four Desolate God Kings to hold the demon at bay as he prepared to attack with the Taiyin Ice-Soul Bow.

• Zhang Jian used Heavenly Dao Suppression to kill five of Yun Qiao’s companions, then froze Yun Qiao and Golden Dragon Granny with Taiyin Ice-Soul Divine Radiance and collected their bodies.
• The Sea Demon God ambushed Zhang Jian, but Zhang Jian evaded the attack and drew him toward Longwood Prefecture.
• Zhang Jian fought the Sea Demon God with the Taiyin Sacred Lotus and the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, then used his divine path imperial qi to send the demon flying and wound him.
• Zhang Jian summoned the divine soul dharma bodies of four Desolate God Kings, who formed a killing formation around the Sea Demon God while Zhang Jian brought out the Taiyin Ice-Soul Bow.

Zhang Jian killed the extraterritorial Sea Demon God, chose Two-Dragon Mountain as a future foundation for the Zhang clan, and returned to Haojing City. After preparing an ancestral sacrifice with Qi Yuhua, Zhang Zhao, and Princess Nanyang, he discussed Zhang Zhao's marriage with Qi Yuhua.

• Zhang Jian and the four Desolate God Kings fought the Sea Demon God, and Zhang Jian froze and killed him with the Taiyin Ice Soul Immortal Bow and Taiyin Body-Refining Grand Method.
• Zhang Jian released Bai Liying, then toured Longwood Prefecture with her and chose Two-Dragon Mountain as a secluded refuge for the Zhang clan.
• Zhang Jian laid a Dreamwalking the Void Formation at Two-Dragon Mountain while Bai Liying cleared the lake of its demons and exotic species, then they returned to East Continent.
• Bai Liying cultivated beneath the Taiyin Treasure Tree, while Zhang Jian used Three Radiances Divine Water on the Peach of Immortality pit and an ancient tree stump; the pit began to sprout, but the stump did not change.
• Zhang Jian held an ancestral sacrifice with Qi Yuhua, Crown Prince Zhang Zhao, and Princess Nanyang, offering piles of gold and silver and the Taiyin Treasure Mirror.
• Zhang Jian discussed Zhang Zhao's marriage with Qi Yuhua.

Zhang Jian and Qi Yuhua considered marriage prospects for Zhang Zhao, while Azure Glow Dao Lord received an enormous sacrifice that included a Taiyin Treasure Mirror and the Higher-Dimensional Heart. The chapter ended with Azure Glow Dao Lord contacting Zhang Jian through his ancestral golden body and encouraging him to keep striving.

• Zhang Jian and Qi Yuhua discussed a possible match between Zhang Zhao and the Si Family’s young lady, then agreed to investigate her background and consider other candidates.
• Zhang Jian planned to help Zhang Zhao strengthen his cultivation and provide him with suitable treasures from the experts he had defeated.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord drew thirty-one incense golden bodies from the Two Realms Pool and received the innate merit spiritual treasure Taiyin Treasure Mirror.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord added the Higher-Dimensional Heart to the sacrifice because the offerings’ value exceeded what she had prepared.
• Zhang Jian entered the Imperial Ancestral Temple and received a nine-colored treasure from the Two Realms Pool.
• Azure Glow Dao Lord spoke to Zhang Jian through his ancestral golden body, praised him, and told him to take care of himself.

Zhang Jian received a Dimension Heart and fused it into the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State before entering seclusion to study its mysteries. Meanwhile, the Si family arranged a marriage between Si Lier and Zhang Zhao, and Si Zhengqing learned that the match followed their Second Ancestor’s orders and served a larger plan for the Eastern Hanging Divine Continent.

• Zhang Jian identified the Dimension Heart as a supreme treasure suited to advancing the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State, then absorbed it into the diagram and entered seclusion.
• Azure Cloud True Lord met with Si Zhengqing and the Si family elders to propose a marriage alliance between Si Lier and Zhang Zhao.
• Si Lier objected to marrying into the newly risen Zhang family, but Si Zhengqing told her Zhang Jian had reached True Immortal-level strength in less than a hundred years.
• Si Zhengqing visited the Yu Emperor, who revealed that the Si family’s Second Ancestor had ordered the marriage after learning Zhang Jian possessed the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart.
• The Yu Emperor explained that the alliance would support the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage’s plan to unify the Eastern Hanging Divine Continent and strengthen ties with the Zhang clan.

After five years, Floating Daoist prepared to unite the Eastern Hanging Divine Continent, while Zhang Jian’s cultivation and State-Society authority advanced dramatically. Zhang Jian chose to delay becoming a True Immortal as he prepared to support Demon-Slaying Peak, arrange a marriage alliance with the Si Family, and expand his influence.

• Floating Daoist revealed his plan to unite the Eastern Hanging Divine Continent and assigned the Paulownia Mountain Dao Lineage’s branches to win over other powers.
• Demon-Slaying True Lord took charge of two hundred provinces and decided to target the major Devil Dao sects while leaving the immortal sect lineages to Zhang Jian.
• An Emperor Star appeared as Zhang Jian advanced his State-Society Emperor authority and refined the Diagram of Mountains, Rivers, and the State with the Dimension Heart.
• Zhang Jian decided to delay his True Immortal breakthrough so he could aim to cross tribulation and ascend directly to the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Zhang Jian learned that Yu Huang had agreed to the marriage alliance and prepared to assist Demon-Slaying Peak in its campaign against the Devil Dao sects.