Chapter Summaries

White Shark took advantage of turmoil in the Rainbow Fish Territory to approach the reef and kill Huan Guang. Meanwhile, Jiang Chen uncovered the Water Spirit Pearl’s connection to the reef and began using the shifting earth veins and the pearl’s eruption to seize the entire reef.

• White Shark sensed that the upheaval had weakened the Rainbow Fish clan’s grand formation and decided to enter the fog-shrouded reef to kill Huan Guang.
• Jiang Chen deduced that a Rainbow Fish ancestor had expanded the reef around the Water Spirit Pearl, letting the clan draw on its power while concealing it.
• Jiang Chen concluded that the reef was the Water Spirit Pearl’s shell and formed a plan to take the whole reef rather than reach the pearl directly.
• When the Water Spirit Pearl erupted and shifting earth veins destabilized the reef, Jiang Chen seized the opportunity and unleashed his full strength, summoning Mist Flood Dragon and Spirit Lord.

Jiang Chen fused the Mist Flood Dragon and Spirit Lord’s bodies into his Heaven-Mixing Origin Dharma Body, then used Earth-Shaking to sever Great Reef Island’s earth veins and lift the island. White Shark recognized Jiang Chen as Black Shark’s killer and, sensing a treasure that stirred his bloodline, decided to risk a surprise attack while Jiang Chen was burdened by the island.

• Jiang Chen merged the Mist Flood Dragon’s true dragon body and Spirit Lord’s secret realm body into his Heaven-Mixing Origin Dharma Body, becoming a hundred-zhang giant.
• Jiang Chen used Earth-Shaking to sever Great Reef Island’s earth veins and lifted the island with the help of Primordial Unity Qi.
• White Shark entered Great Reef Island and realized that the giant lifting it was a divine ability user and the killer of Black Shark.
• The Water Spirit Pearl stirred, unsettling Jiang Chen and awakening White Shark’s desire for a treasure hidden on Great Reef Island.
• White Shark decided to attack Jiang Chen while he was occupied with lifting the island, planning to flee if his strike failed.

While lifting the great reef island to claim the Water Spirit Pearl, Jiang Chen used White Shark’s attack to strengthen his Heaven-Mixing Origin Dharma Body, then defeated and killed him without setting the island down. He erased all traces of the fight and continued his effort to secure the pearl.

• White Shark attacked Jiang Chen with his Flood-Dragon Shark Body-Piercing Mystic Light while Jiang Chen held up the great reef island.
• Jiang Chen’s Heaven-Mixing Origin Dharma Body absorbed the attack’s black and white mystic light, strengthening him and making it easier to lift the island.
• White Shark tried to flee, but Jiang Chen locked onto him with Star Cluster Divine Light.
• White Shark broke through the starlight, only for Jiang Chen to suppress him with Cloud-Mountain Overturning-Sea Seal.
• Jiang Chen swept away White Shark’s consciousness with Primordial Unity Qi and erased all traces of the fight.

Canghai True Lord discovered a newly born heavenly treasure through the True One Profound Mother Great Dao Treasure Wheel and ordered Jellyfish Palace to find it. Secret-Keeping Demon King suspected the treasure’s appearance was connected to recent events near the Seven-Colored Fish and ordered Golden-Eyed Sacred Son and nearby Demon Kings to investigate and seal off the region.

• Canghai True Lord detected a new heavenly treasure in the Boundless Sea and sent Jellyfish Palace a message to locate it.
• Canghai True Lord considered how Heavenly One True Water could help him advance his cultivation and refine the Profound Mother Treasure Wheel, but his plan depended on the Impermanence Sect suffering a devastating blow.
• Secret-Keeping Demon King found the treasure’s vague location near the Seven-Colored Fish and Flood Shark Race territories, where several unusual events had recently occurred.
• Secret-Keeping Demon King learned that White Shark had gone missing near the Seven-Colored Fish territory and suspected something had happened to him.
• Secret-Keeping Demon King ordered Golden-Eyed Sacred Son to investigate and directed three nearby Demon Kings to help seal off the Seven-Colored Fish sea region.

Golden Eyes investigated the vanished Rainbow Fish Territory and Dragon Gate Ravine, concluding that a powerful Impermanence Sect cultivator had taken the heavenly treasure and was likely still nearby. Meanwhile, exhausted Jiang Chen examined the flooding inside the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm and sought a way to suppress the restless Water Spirit Pearl.

• Golden Eyes traced the traces at the Rainbow Fish Territory and determined that a late Purple Mansion-level opponent had suppressed the White Shark and taken the heavenly treasure.
• Golden Eyes visited Dragon Gate Ravine, linked the water manor trap and the traces of Thousand Transformations, Form-Shifting to the Impermanence Sect, and began tracking Jiang Chen.
• Golden Eyes reasoned that the cultivator was probably still nearby because moving the reef-island far away would require a rare cave-heaven treasure.
• Jiang Chen stopped in a temporary cave dwelling, took a medicinal pill, and connected his consciousness to the Spirit Lord.
• Jiang Chen saw that the reef-island and its increasingly restless Water Spirit Pearl had brought heavy rain and flooding to the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm, and he tried to find a way to quell the turmoil.

Jiang Chen reshaped the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm to contain the Water Spirit Pearl’s catastrophic flood, carving a network of rivers and opening a space for their waters to converge. The realm’s turmoil subsided, though the Spirit Lord weakened from the strain, and a new mystery emerged where the rivers met.

• Floodwaters from the Water Spirit Pearl threatened the Clear-Sighted Monkeys, who prayed to the Azure Sun God for salvation.
• Jiang Chen decided to contain and guide the flood by making its water essence part of the secret realm’s natural circulation.
• Using the Primordial Unity Banner, Jiang Chen carved two great riverbeds and formed branching waterways across the realm.
• Jiang Chen opened an expanse of emptiness at the realm’s southern edge and used the Heaven-Supporting method to stabilize it, weakening the Spirit Lord in the process.
• The hundred rivers converged in the new space, the realm’s turmoil subsided, and a new mystery was born.

Jiang Chen used Mist Flood Dragon to restrain the Water Spirit Pearl and end the flood disaster in the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm, though the dragon was injured. After returning to his spirit residence exhausted, he celebrated the realm’s new water cycle until Purple Lightning warned him of danger outside.

• Jiang Chen guided Mist Flood Dragon to bind the Water Spirit Pearl and control the flood pouring through the sky.
• Mist Flood Dragon contained and regulated the pearl’s power, allowing the rain to ease and the hundred rivers to flow into the South Sea.
• The Clear-Sighted Monkeys worshiped Qingyang, and a white-haired old ape recorded how the true god saved the world.
• Jiang Chen returned to his spirit residence exhausted and observed that the secret realm’s water cycle had begun to nourish its development.
• Jiang Chen considered Mist Flood Dragon’s future divine abilities, then Purple Lightning warned him of danger outside.

Jiang Chen used decoys and the Great Void to evade the Golden-Eyed Sacred Son while escaping through an undersea current. The Sacred Son froze the current and found Jiang Chen, but immediately sensed he had entered a trap.

• Jiang Chen, weakened and pursued by the Jellyfish Palace, created a substitute with the Form-Entrusting Secret Art and fled into the Great Void.
• The Golden-Eyed Sacred Son destroyed Jiang Chen's decoy with Geng Metal Divine Light, recognized it as a substitute, and tracked his apparent escape route.
• The Golden-Eyed Sacred Son caught up with more decoys and concluded that Jiang Chen was stalling while his true body escaped through an undersea current.
• The Golden-Eyed Sacred Son pushed his divine ability to its limit, found Jiang Chen's traces at the current, and froze its flow with his metal-and-water power.
• The Golden-Eyed Sacred Son entered the current and saw Jiang Chen, then felt an intense unease as though he had fallen into a trap.

Jiang Chen escaped the Jellyfish Palace’s blockade after luring the Golden-Eyed Sacred Son into a seabed catastrophe, though he lost an arm in the process. The Golden-Eyed Sacred Son survived and was injured, while Jiang Chen recovered his arm and continued into the sea.

• Jiang Chen’s false body triggered a seabed disaster, but the Golden-Eyed Sacred Son escaped with Law-Breaking Golden Light and suffered injuries.
• The Purple Mansion Demon Kings arrived, and the Golden-Eyed Sacred Son ordered them back after realizing their departure had weakened the blockade.
• A clownfish-form Jiang Chen passed through the blockade because the Soul-Illuminating Mirrors failed to detect his Soul-Shifting Method.
• Jiang Chen revealed himself beyond the sealed region with his left arm missing and considered whether his trap had badly wounded the Golden-Eyed Sacred Son.
• Jiang Chen used primal qi to restore his arm, transformed into a fish, and swam away.

The Golden-Eyed Sacred Son ended Jellyfish Palace’s search for Jiang Chen after Snail Granny confirmed he had left the waters. Jiang Chen returned to Boating Archipelago, where the war had driven rapid growth and a flourishing demon-hunting trade.

• The Golden-Eyed Sacred Son called off the search because the front-line war needed the troops, then met Snail Granny, who confirmed Jiang Chen had escaped and identified him as a member of the Impermanence Sect.
• Snail Granny told the Golden-Eyed Sacred Son that the conflict in the Boundless Sea would soon expose Jiang Chen and others, while he vowed to settle the grievance later.
• Snail Granny vanished into the water, and Jiang Chen returned to Boating Archipelago after changing his appearance several times.
• Jiang Chen saw that Boating Archipelago had grown busy as Rogue Cultivators hunted demons and traded their carcasses for resources amid the worsening war.

Jiang Chen reviewed the Boating Archipelago’s growing resources with Ge Ziling, who had completed her Body Nest cultivation and planned to compete for a true disciple position. Afterward, he assessed his gains from the Boundless Sea and decided to report the monster kings he had killed or subdued to the Impermanence Sect so he could claim merit and resources while keeping the Water Spirit Pearl secret.

• Ge Ziling told Jiang Chen that the Boating Archipelago had recovered its investment as property values rose, and she described how Battle Pools were being used to refine white-bone artifacts.
• Jiang Chen learned that Ge Ziling had completed her Body Nest cultivation and urged her to contend for a true disciple position.
• Jiang Chen entered the stabilized Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm and considered the benefits and risks of claiming merit for killing or subduing monster kings.
• Jiang Chen decided to report his achievements to the Impermanence Sect, obtain resources, and remain hidden while he absorbed the Water Spirit Pearl’s benefits.
• Jiang Chen’s report of his achievements caused a stir among the Impermanence Sect’s upper ranks.

Yun Wuya confirmed Jiang Chen’s growing strength, concealed his achievements, and ordered the sect to provide the treasures he had earned. Meanwhile, True Lord Azure Resonance was ambushed by the Hollow Mulberry Twin Sages on the Heavenly Mulberry Continent, and their battle began.

• Yun Wuya learned that Jiang Chen had killed four Purple Mansion Demon Kings and decided to seal information about him.
• Yun Wuya ordered the Impermanence Sect to deliver Jiang Chen’s requested treasures without deduction and sent news of his achievements to Daoist Yuangang.
• True Lord Azure Resonance discovered that Azure Void True Lord and Mysterious Mulberry True Lord had trapped him with Lone Tree Supports Heaven.
• True Lord Azure Resonance transformed into an azure dragon and attacked, and the three True Lords clashed.

Jiang Chen received valuable treasures from the Impermanence Sect and sent the Withered-Flourish Mystic Fruit and an Earth Master inheritance to Taoyao. Taoyao began refining the fruit with remarkable ease, while Jiang Chen returned to cultivation to advance his Purple Mansion realm.

• Jiang Chen accepted Holy Dharma Pills, Primordial Unity Essence, Azure Cloud Silk, an Earth Treasure, and a third-grade Earth Master inheritance from the Great Void.
• Jiang Chen decided to use the essence and silk to upgrade his Primordial Unity Banner and give Taoyao the Earth-Carriage Book inheritance.
• Jiang Chen sent Taoyao the Withered-Flourish Mystic Fruit, the final treasure it needed to prepare for advancing to the Purple Mansion.
• Taoyao began refining the fruit, and its Withered-Flourish True Intent flowed into it without resistance.
• Jiang Chen concluded that Taoyao's advancement should be assured and returned to his sealed cave residence to cultivate with the Holy Dharma Pills.

Jiang Chen cultivated in seclusion and broke through to the mid Purple Mansion Realm while factions in Boating Archipelago discovered signs of a breakthrough and tensions mounted. He remained in seclusion to nourish his divine soul, sensing that its power had not yet reached its limit.

• Jellyfish Palace sympathizers discovered unusual spiritual currents and signs of a Purple Mansion breakthrough in Boating Archipelago, then decided to send the intelligence out.
• Du Zhong raided the sympathizers’ secret gathering, killed most of them, and ordered the survivors interrogated for accomplices.
• The Tortoise Breath Demon King and Cold Snake Demon King discussed attacking Boating Archipelago, but the Tortoise Breath Demon King decided to wait for a better opportunity.
• Jiang Chen consumed Holy Dharma Pills, strengthened his dharma power and treasure body, and broke through to the mid Purple Mansion Realm.
• Jiang Chen sensed that his divine soul had been tempered but had not reached its limit, so he stayed in seclusion to nourish it further.

Qingxu True Lord and Xuansang True Lord used the restored Evil-Exorcising Dragon-Subduing Mace to exploit its power against True Lord Azure Resonance’s dragon form. Azure Resonance was driven into retreat inside their sealed void, while the two Hollow Mulberry Valley cultivators considered their larger scheme and hopes of advancing further.

• True Lord Azure Resonance transformed into an azure dragon and used Yimu Azure Slaying Thunder to attack the heaven-supporting tree sealing the void.
• Qingxu True Lord and Xuansang True Lord raised the Azure Nether Heavenly Barrier, then revealed and jointly activated the Evil-Exorcising Dragon-Subduing Mace.
• The mace’s Dragon-Subduing Divine Light extinguished Azure Resonance’s thunder, shattered his protective divine light, and severely restrained his dragon form.
• Qingxu True Lord and Xuansang True Lord struck again, forcing the wounded Azure Resonance to retreat while his Dark-Scaled Jade Zhang Armor protected him.
• Qingxu True Lord and Xuansang True Lord noted that a crack kept the mace from reaching its full power, and Xuansang True Lord said their scheme could give them a chance to advance further.

Jellyfish Palace used a Grotto-Heaven fragment to empower Canghai True Lord’s Thousand Rivers Reflecting the Moon, sealing off the Boundless Sea and suppressing Star River Palace. True Lords Xuanji and Ninefold Execution fought back against Jellyfish Palace’s three True Lords, but they feared their absent Senior Brother Yingling had also been caught in the attack.

• True Lord Xuanji detected Canghai True Lord’s celestial phenomenon spreading across the Boundless Sea, and realized he meant to trap them there.
• True Lord Xuanji identified a Grotto-Heaven fragment empowering the phenomenon, while True Lord Ninefold Execution wondered whether Jellyfish had left it behind.
• True Lords Xuanji and Ninefold Execution manifested their true forms and used Star River Palace to resist the three attacking True Lords from Jellyfish Palace.
• Thousand Rivers Reflecting the Moon suppressed Star River Palace, prompting True Lord Ninefold Execution to urge Xuanji to contact True Lord Yingling.
• True Lord Xuanji revealed that Yingling had not responded, and suspected something had happened to him.

Canghai True Lord revealed that Jellyfish Palace had used a fragment of Four-Seas Peaceful Heaven to cultivate a Grotto-Heaven seed, then blocked True Lord Xuan Qiong from entering the Boundless Sea. Xuan Qiong escalated the battle with Heaven's Collapse, and Canghai answered with Four Seas at Peace as the sea fell into chaos.

• Canghai True Lord explained that Jellyfish had reshaped a fragment of Four-Seas Peaceful Heaven into a Grotto-Heaven seed, but it had begun to decay.
• Canghai refused to reveal which power backed Jellyfish Palace and declared that he would stop Xuan Qiong from entering the Boundless Sea.
• True Lord Xuan Qiong attacked with Black Tortoise Bearing Heaven, and Canghai countered with a vast hand formed from the sea.
• Canghai pointed out that Xuan Qiong had sent only a portion of his power, since his true body could not leave the Impermanence Sect without endangering its Grotto-Heaven.
• True Lord Xuan Qiong unleashed Heaven's Collapse, overturning the sea and disrupting the workings of myriad Daos and principles.
• Canghai True Lord invoked Four Seas at Peace through the True Unity Mysterious Mother Treasure Wheel, and the opposing powers collided as disasters erupted across the Boundless Sea.

The Jellyfish Palace launched a devastating assault on the Impermanence Sect as a celestial phenomenon threw the Boundless Sea into turmoil. At Boating Archipelago, Jiang Chen discovered Yin Zheng attempting a forbidden Human-Demon Essence Exchange to seize the Muddy River Crab King's foundation and break through to the Purple Mansion.

• Luo Bin and True Person Nian He watched Bloodshed Island's defenses falter as the Jellyfish Palace attacked, and they suspected the conflict between Celestial Phenomenon True Lords had isolated the island.
• The beast tide shattered Bloodshed City's third-rank formation, while disasters spread across the rear areas of the Boundless Sea.
• Jiang Chen sensed that the celestial upheaval was caused by cultivators and discerned a powerful force suppressing the sea's unrest.
• Jiang Chen discovered a concealed underwater cave in Boating Archipelago and found Yin Zheng performing a blood sacrifice on the Muddy River Crab King.
• Yin Zheng staked his chance at the Purple Mansion on the forbidden Human-Demon Essence Exchange, using the demon king's unusual nature and the Yin Clan's bloodline restriction to control it.

Jiang Chen discovered that Yin Zheng had betrayed the Impermanence Sect to use the forbidden Human-Demon Essence Exchange Art, and learned that the Jellyfish Palace had manipulated him. As Yin Zheng’s failed transformation altered the Turbid River Demon King, Jiang Chen ordered a purge of the clan’s agents but paused when the demon king’s spirituality unexpectedly began to recover.

• Jiang Chen recognized the forbidden Human-Demon Essence Exchange Art as Yin Zheng tried to seize the Turbid River Demon King’s Dao foundation, and judged that Yin Zheng would lose himself and become a monster.
• Jiang Chen learned that Yin Zheng had accepted the Jellyfish Palace’s offer and betrayed the Impermanence Sect in hopes of reaching Purple Mansion, unaware that the palace intended to use his body and ensure his transformation failed.
• Jiang Chen suspected the Jellyfish Palace was using the Yin Clan to gather intelligence and weaken the Boating Archipelago, then sent Du Zhong a list of hidden agents and ordered him to kill them.
• Jiang Chen prepared to kill the Turbid River Demon King after Yin Zheng’s body fused into it, but the demon king’s spirituality unexpectedly showed signs of clarity.
• Jiang Chen dimmed the Lunar Godslayer Lamp and spread his divine soul’s power through the cave, using water and fire to help the Turbid River Demon King transform.

As the demons of Cold Breath Water Palace marched on Boating Archipelago, Copper Hammer Rogue Cultivator chose to stand with the archipelago and rallied its restless rogue cultivators. Jiang Chen witnessed Turbid River Demon King's stable transformation and named it Crab General.

• Tortoise Breath Demon King gathered four Purple Mansion Demon Kings and led the demons from Cold Breath Water Palace toward Boating Archipelago.
• Black Soil urged Copper Hammer Rogue Cultivator to flee after hearing that the Yin Clan had defected and Impermanence Sect's defenses had fallen.
• Copper Hammer explained that Boating Archipelago's formation had sealed them in and that Impermanence Sect would eventually recover, then ordered Black Soil to unite the rogue cultivators.
• Copper Hammer used strength and promised benefits to calm the rogue cultivators in Boating Archipelago.
• Turbid River Demon King spoke to Jiang Chen after its transformation stabilized, and Jiang Chen named it Crab General.