Chapter Summaries

Long Xuan traded Sea-Gathering Pills for thousand-year spirit herbs, using the Integrity Gu to expose Old Sun’s attempt to pass off fake Yin-Yang Ginseng. After completing one exchange, he revealed more than two hundred pills and convinced the crowd that his mysterious master and numerous fellow disciples were responsible for them.

• An old man praised the quality of Long Xuan’s Sea-Gathering Pills, and the crowd rushed to trade thousand-year spirit herbs for them.
• Long Xuan seized Old Sun’s wrist and declared his thousand-year Yin-Yang Ginseng fake after the Integrity Gu reacted to his lie.
• The Integrity Gu leaped out and exposed Old Sun’s repeated lies, forcing him to leave in disgrace.
• The young master of the Mo family traded a pile of thousand-year spirit herbs for all the Sea-Gathering Pills on Long Xuan’s table.
• Long Xuan displayed a list and more than two hundred additional pill bottles, then claimed his senior and junior fellow disciples and martial mothers had refined them.

Long Xuan traded Sea-Gathering Pills for shipbuilding materials, escaped the trade fair, and prepared to build the Divine Dragon Ship. At the port, he saw a one-hundred-billion bounty notice for a woman he suspected he recognized.

• Long Xuan traded all two hundred-plus Sea-Gathering Pills to Young Master Mo for the materials needed to build his ship and refine Soul-Restoring Pills.
• Long Xuan took private orders from Gu cultivators seeking Sea-Gathering Pills, while Old Sun failed to sell his pills and left the trade fair in disgrace.
• Long Xuan hid his true body in the World Tree Seed, used Heavenly Creation Elixir to turn ten Nine-Hundred-Year Ironwoods into Millennium Ironwoods, and planned to have outside shipyards build the Divine Dragon Ship's components.
• Long Xuan disguised himself as a Third-Grade Alchemist and went to the port to commission ship parts from Starsea City's shipyards.
• Long Xuan learned that a woman had a one-hundred-billion bounty for robbing the imperial treasury, suspected she was someone he knew, and entered the Mo Clan shipyard.

Long Xuan commissioned parts for a new ship, then spent a year recovering his soul and assembling the Divine Dragon Ship. Just as he prepared to sail for Sky Island, a burly Spiritual Sea Stage Gu Master demanded that Long Xuan’s supposed master refine a pill and agreed to wait ten years.

• Long Xuan ordered ship components from the Mo Clan and other shipyards, paying for rushed work and trusting a mysterious elderly woman to make the remaining parts.
• Long Xuan refined and took a Soul-Restoring Pill, repaired his soul, and assembled the Divine Dragon Ship with his clones inside the World Tree Seed.
• Long Xuan completed the Divine Dragon Ship, equipping it with three propellers, twenty power systems, and the Five-Element Colossal Cannon.
• Long Xuan headed to Starsea City to recruit a crew and sail for Sky Island, but learned a customer at his pill shop wanted to meet his true body.
• A burly Spiritual Sea Stage Gu Master asked Long Xuan to summon his master to refine a Third-Grade pill, and Long Xuan said his master was in seclusion for ten years.
• The burly man believed Long Xuan’s master was powerful and insisted that he would wait.

Long Xuan accepted a deal to study the dangerous Icefire Twin Extremes Pill and hurried to recruit a crew for his voyage to Sky Island. After using an Integrity Gu to screen applicants, he interviewed the few remaining candidates and chose to accept Miao Peipei for her ability to rapidly grow fruits and vegetables.

• A burly man showed Long Xuan the Icefire Twin Extremes Pill formula and explained that he needed it to remove the Spirit-Sealing Gu planted in him by the Feng Clan.
• Long Xuan agreed to take the man's materials and buy himself time to develop Mass Alchemy, planning to use his clones to refine the third-grade pill beyond his grade.
• Long Xuan went to the port and recruited crew for his ship to Sky Island, requiring applicants to be strong, honest, and willing to obey him.
• Long Xuan used the Integrity Gu to question the applicants, and nearly the entire crowd left after he asked whether they had ever done evil.
• Miao Peipei admitted that she had accidentally sunk her father's Greenwood and explained that her Greenwood Physique let her mature ordinary fruits and vegetables in seven days, so Long Xuan decided to accept her.

Long Xuan recruited a hundred crew members and set sail aboard the Divine Dragon Ship, whose unusual submarine mode and powerful defenses astonished them. Just after leaving port, his small vessel encountered a vast Seven-Story Treasure Ship carrying more than ten thousand people bound for Sky Island, and its crew mocked Long Xuan’s ship.

• Long Xuan recruited Miao Peipei, Nie Qingcheng, Ye Qingluan, Qiu Tiandao, Shangguan Wuwu, Xiong Dali, Shi Jiefu, Leng Yan, and other crew members after testing their character with the Integrity Gu.
• Long Xuan launched the Divine Dragon Ship and explained that it could dive underwater and withstand deep-sea pressure with its Five-Elements Barrier.
• Leng Yan examined the ship, while the crew boarded after the Integrity Gu did not react to Long Xuan’s claims about its capabilities.
• Yang Zhan followed Long Xuan aboard and argued that good and evil depended on personal judgment, persuading the Integrity Gu not to expose him despite his many killings.
• Long Xuan’s crew explored the ship’s unfamiliar modern features, and the Divine Dragon Ship set sail toward the open sea.
• A huge Seven-Story Treasure Ship carrying more than ten thousand people passed the Divine Dragon Ship, and its passengers laughed at Long Xuan’s small vessel and mocked his crew.

Long Xuan’s ship was overtaken by the Qian Clan Merchant Association’s Money Ship, but Di Xin suddenly arrived and drove the Divine Dragon Ship to incredible speed while fleeing pursuit. After compensating the injured crew with Supreme-grade Spirit Artifacts, Di Xin joined Long Xuan’s voyage to Sky Island and planned to disembark at Central Land.

• Nie Qingcheng identified the Money Ship as belonging to the Qian Clan Merchant Association and warned Long Xuan that its Ninth Young Master was likely seeking the Three-Legged Golden Toad’s mother bug.
• A cheerful Mo Clan young master and his twin companions climbed aboard the Divine Dragon Ship, then an old woman with yellow wings landed and rushed into the captain’s cabin.
• Di Xin activated all twenty of the Divine Dragon Ship’s power systems, sending it racing past the Money Ship and escaping more than a hundred pursuing Gu Kings.
• After the ship slowed, Di Xin explained that precognition had led Gu Kings to search for her in Starsea City, then gave the crew more than a hundred Supreme-grade Spirit Artifacts as compensation.
• Long Xuan gave the artifacts to his crew and learned that Di Xin intended to travel with him to Sky Island before disembarking at Central Land.

Long Xuan traded a Soul-Restoring Pill to Di Xin for rare Spirit Insects and realized she might be able to retrieve more supplies once the ship left the Boundary Pearl’s range. He tried to negotiate for her luxurious grand medicine garden, but Di Xin threw him out before he could finish.

• Long Xuan showed Di Xin the third-floor cabins, and she teased him for living among five female neighbors.
• Long Xuan offered Di Xin a Soul-Restoring Pill, and she examined it with the Qian Clan’s Golden Eye before agreeing to trade for it.
• Long Xuan asked Di Xin for the materials on his Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu Recipe list, and she agreed to provide them in a few months as payment for saving her and for her passage.
• Long Xuan suspected Di Xin could use a Thatch Gu to return to her grand medicine garden and began considering how its spirit trees could power the Divine Dragon Ship.
• Long Xuan started asking Di Xin about her grand medicine garden, but she shoved him out and slammed the door.

Long Xuan’s crew tested the Five-Element Colossal Cannon, whose shots enraged a Split-Head Whale and shook the Divine Dragon Ship. After Qiu Tiandao killed the whale, the crew harvested its meat and gathered for a feast, leaving them ready to sail on together.

• Young Master Mo fired the Five-Element Colossal Cannon, and the crew marveled at its destructive power.
• The cannon fire enraged a Split-Head Whale, which repeatedly tossed the Divine Dragon Ship into the air.
• Qiu Tiandao leaped into the sea, killed the Split-Head Whale, and invited the sailors to harvest its meat.
• Long Xuan ordered the whale meat brought to the dining hall and stored the surplus in his newly developed freezer.
• Shangguan Wuwu prepared a seafood feast, and Long Xuan toasted the crew as brothers who would live and die together.

Long Xuan learned that entering the Endless Sea required rare Endless Jade, then discovered that the blue jade he had obtained was exactly what they needed to reach Sky Island. Nie Qingcheng advised steering the Divine Dragon Ship through the dangerous Death Sea for its riches, while Young Master Mo enthusiastically agreed and Mo Zuo and Mo You protested.

• Nie Qingcheng explained that the Endless Sea trapped ships unless they carried Endless Jade, and Long Xuan realized he might have a piece of mysterious blue jade.
• Long Xuan showed the blue jade to Nie Qingcheng, who confirmed it was Endless Jade and celebrated that they could enter the Endless Sea.
• Long Xuan asked about the Sky Island Ruins' restrictions, and Nie Qingcheng explained that only Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu Masters could enter and that stronger Gu Masters were barred from the Endless Sea.
• Nie Qingcheng recommended sailing straight through the Death Sea in the Divine Dragon Ship to reach Sky Island and collect its resources and sunken treasures.
• Young Master Mo cheered for exploring the Death Sea, while Mo Zuo and Mo You warned that every ship attempting to cross it had sunk.

Long Xuan’s crew voted to sail through the Death Sea, and Di Xin told him that the Sky Island Ruins held a Repair Worm, one of the Ten Heaven-Defying Spirit Insects. They made a deal to capture it and pursue her other goals, while Long Xuan spent the voyage studying Mass Alchemy and preparing a secret plan involving Yang Zhan.

• Long Xuan held a vote, and the crew overwhelmingly chose to take the Divine Dragon Ship through the Death Sea for its riches.
• Di Xin revealed that her letter identified a Repair Worm in the Sky Island Ruins and explained how it kept the ruins’ mechanisms and puppets repaired.
• Long Xuan agreed to help Di Xin obtain an item and kill the Gu Spirit Sect’s foremost genius in exchange for her help locating and capturing the Repair Worm.
• Long Xuan left the ship’s routine duties to the first mate and spent the following months studying Mass Alchemy in his cabin.
• Long Xuan planned to disguise Yang Zhan as a Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu cultivator and keep an Icefire Twin Extremes Pill ready to restore his cultivation if they faced a crisis in the ruins.

Long Xuan refined a Third-Grade Icefire Twin Extremes Pill across grades and relocated the creatures and herbs from his Medicine Garden into the World Tree Seed. After Di Xin gave him Supreme-grade Spirit Insects, he began modifying the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu Recipe aboard the Divine Dragon Ship.

• Long Xuan reached Marrow Cleansing Peak, learned that the Divine Dragon Ship had sailed beyond the Boundary Pearl's range, and followed Long Ziyan's advice to stay away from the Long Family and live as a Rogue Cultivator.
• Long Xuan returned to his Medicine Garden in the Far Western Lands and moved its Ice Bees, Golden Dragonfish, and other resources into the World Tree Seed.
• Long Xuan refined three Third-Grade Icefire Twin Extremes Pills across grades in a remote mountain cave.
• Long Xuan returned to the Divine Dragon Ship and received a pouch of Supreme-grade Spirit Insects from Di Xin, realizing she also had a Thatch Gu.
• Long Xuan returned to his room and began modifying the Three-Legged Golden Toad Gu Recipe.

Long Xuan and the Divine Dragon Ship’s crew fought off a swarm of Azure-Scaled Beasts during a violent storm as they neared the Death Sea. The crew survived with injuries but no deaths, and Long Xuan promised them a celebratory drink after they recovered.

• A swarm of Azure-Scaled Beasts boarded the ship during the storm, and Nie Qingcheng warned the crew to kill them rather than activate the barrier and risk damage to the hull.
• Long Xuan joined the fight with his Renowned Blade and rallied the sailors by promising them liquor if they survived.
• Long Xuan observed Yang Zhan’s formidable Eye Gu and Di Xin’s many manifested arms as they slaughtered the beasts, while the crew’s other fighters battled across the deck.
• Young Master Mo eagerly charged into the fight but was quickly bitten in the thigh, while his two lackeys froze in fear of the sea.
• The Azure-Scaled Beasts retreated when the storm eased, leaving the exhausted crew injured but alive.
• Long Xuan promised to serve liquor at noon after the crew rested, sent the injured to Shi Jiefu for treatment, and stayed on watch himself.

Long Xuan and the crew discovered a vast trove of spirit herbs on the seabed of the Death Sea, and he used the Divine Dragon Ship’s submarine form to make harvesting easier. As the crew collected herbs, Long Xuan began planning to develop and sell pill formulas for them, while Di Xin joined the harvest.

• Nie Qingcheng told Long Xuan that the black water was the Death Sea and described how dark and disorienting it became deeper down.
• Ye Qingluan reported that Dabu had found many spirit herbs, and Qiu Tiandao confirmed the seabed held countless herbs, including fourth-grade and thousand-year varieties.
• Long Xuan transformed the Divine Dragon Ship into submarine form and brought it down to the seabed, where the crew saw the herbs covering the ocean floor.
• The crew rushed out to harvest while Long Xuan stayed aboard, and Di Xin explained that the herbs might be worth little because no pill formulas for them existed outside the Death Sea.
• Long Xuan decided to create pill formulas and sell them to increase the herbs’ value, and Di Xin left the ship to harvest herbs herself.

The Divine Dragon Ship survived a close encounter with a giant sea creature and continued through the Death Sea, where the crew amassed great treasure and grew more capable. Two months into the voyage, a colossal tentacled monster struck the ship, leaving it badly damaged and the crew injured as Long Xuan fled the area.

• Da Bu warned Ye Qingluan that a fourth-tier creature was approaching, so the crew abandoned the spiritual herbs and boarded the Divine Dragon Ship.
• The ship outran the pursuing creature, and Nie Qingcheng said its speed made crossing the Death Sea possible.
• Over the next two months, the crew gathered treasures, Mo Zuo and Mo You overcame their fear of the deep sea, and Young Master Mo gained combat experience while writing his travelogue.
• In the center of the Death Sea, Long Xuan and the crew saw enormous tentacles rise from the water as a sea monster fought nearby.
• A tentacle struck the Divine Dragon Ship and hurled it far from the monster, injuring or knocking unconscious many crew members.
• Long Xuan steered the ship away, then stopped after discovering that the hull had cracked and the lower cabins were flooding.

After surviving the Death Sea’s dangers and gathering abundant treasures, Long Xuan and the crew discovered a gigantic ancient Nine-Deck Treasure Ship on the seabed. They reached its deck in the Divine Dragon Ship and prepared to salvage what remained of its valuable materials.

• Long Xuan had Di Xin patch the Divine Dragon Ship and repaired its damaged Formation Inscriptions while Shi Jiefu treated the injured crew.
• Over the next two months, Long Xuan’s Calamity Poison Gu cured a contagious plague, and the crew harvested plentiful spiritual herbs from the seabed.
• Long Xuan flooded the World Tree Seed to create an ocean world, planted aquatic spiritual herbs there, and gained spiritual fish that swam inside.
• Ye Qingluan announced that her Treasure-Seeking Dolphin had found a sunken Nine-Deck Treasure Ship, and Long Xuan led the crew to investigate.
• Long Xuan submerged the Divine Dragon Ship and brought it down onto the enormous vessel’s deck, where the crew marveled at its ancient scale and materials.

The crew salvaged the Nine-Deck Treasure Ship while Long Xuan guarded their haul and collected his share. Di Xin returned with the Ocean Heart, a rare Innate Spirit Treasure that could solve the Divine Dragon Ship’s storage and energy problems, and Long Xuan set out to install it as he planned the ship’s upgrade.

• The crew searched the Nine-Deck Treasure Ship’s cabins and piled recovered treasures and construction materials onto the Divine Dragon Ship, handing half their gains to Long Xuan.
• Di Xin returned and gave Long Xuan a blue sphere as half of her gains; Young Master Mo identified it as the legendary Ocean Heart.
• Leng Yan explained that the Ocean Heart could power a spirit ship with the sea’s energy and hold people and resources in a vast seawater space, though its abilities failed on land.
• Di Xin said her remaining treasures, scavenged from bones inside the Ocean Heart, were equal in value to it, and the Integrity Gu confirmed she was telling the truth.
• Long Xuan realized the Ocean Heart could store the salvaged materials and replace the World Tree Seed as the Divine Dragon Ship’s energy core, then ordered Miao Peipei to farm inside it.
• Long Xuan carried the Ocean Heart into the cabin to install it and planned to upgrade the Divine Dragon Ship into a Divine Ship.

After salvaging the Nine-Deck Treasure Ship and leaving the wreck site, the Divine Dragon Ship crossed the Death Sea with little danger, but the crew realized a powerful force had cleared the route. As they reached the sea’s edge, the Black Dragon Pirate Group blocked their way, and Nie Qingcheng urged Long Xuan to hide the ship’s speed and flee.

• The crew dismantled the Nine-Deck Treasure Ship, stored its parts in the Ocean Heart, and Miao Peipei planted food and spirit crops on an artificial island.
• Nie Qingcheng and Leng Yan worried that the calm Death Sea concealed danger, while Long Xuan and Yang Zhan argued that the crew had already left the suspicious area behind.
• After another half month of unusually safe sailing, Di Xin noted that Ye Qingluan’s dolphin Da Bu had stopped finding treasures, leading Long Xuan to suspect another force had cleared the route.
• Qiu Tiandao urged the crew to flee, but Shangguan Wuwu spotted a fleet of nearly a hundred pirate ships blocking the way through the Death Sea.
• A crew member identified the fleet as the Black Dragon Pirate Group and explained its strength and reputation for plunder.
• Nie Qingcheng told Long Xuan to steer right at medium speed and conceal the Divine Dragon Ship’s true speed so the pirate fleet would not send its Gu Kings after them.

Long Xuan’s crew fought off the Black Dragon Pirate Group’s pursuit, with Xiong Dali’s Giant Cannon destroying three pirate ships. Yang Zhan then slaughtered the last ship’s crew using his Yang Eye and the ability to exchange places with his illusion clones, leaving the Divine Dragon Ship’s crew stunned by his strength.

• The Black Dragon Ship’s captain sent four small ships after the Divine Dragon Ship while the main fleet continued toward the sunken ship.
• Nie Qingcheng matched the pursuers’ speed until they had drawn far away from the fleet, and the pirates fired cannons and hooked the Divine Dragon Ship with chains.
• Long Xuan ordered Xiong Dali to use the Giant Cannon, and Xiong Dali destroyed three pirate ships with three shots.
• Yang Zhan pursued the final ship alone, creating illusion clones and switching places with them to kill the pirates aboard.
• Yang Zhan killed everyone on the final ship, and the Divine Dragon Ship’s crew realized how terrifying his combat ability was.

After the Divine Dragon Ship escaped the Black Dragon Pirates, Long Xuan learned that a deadly Heavenly Wind was approaching and began considering how to use it to advance his cultivation. The ship set course for land to escape the storm, while Long Xuan grew excited about tempering his body with other heavenly spiritual objects.

• After Yang Zhan looted and sank the pirate ship, he used his position-swapping method to return to the Divine Dragon Ship, which Nie Qingcheng sent speeding away.
• Leng Yan identified the four captured Black Dragon Seizers and explained how they worked, and Long Xuan had Di Xin repair them.
• Half a month later, Black Dragon realized that the wreck’s treasures, including the Ocean Heart, had been stolen and ordered every squad to hunt the Divine Dragon Ship.
• Long Xuan tested a repaired Black Dragon Seizer by catching a fish, then asked Nie Qingcheng where the ship should go.
• Leng Yan warned that Black Vortex Ghost Wind was coming and urged the crew to reach an island, explaining that its tearing force could kill anyone at sea.
• Long Xuan considered using Heavenly Wind, Heavenly Water, and Heavenly Soil to temper his body in later layers of the Purgatory True Demon Art.

Long Xuan rushed the Divine Dragon Ship toward Great Solitary Island as the Black Vortex Ghost Wind arrived early and destroyed ships across the sea. The crew survived by reaching land just in time, but the ship was wrecked and its passengers were badly injured.

• Long Xuan learned from Leng Yan that Great Solitary Island and Little Solitary Island had allied forces strong enough to deter the Black Dragon Pirate Group, and he headed for Great Solitary Island to escape Heavenly Wind.
• As the Divine Dragon Ship neared Great Solitary Island, the Black Vortex Ghost Wind swept across the sea, shredding ships and living creatures in its path.
• Long Xuan activated all twenty propulsion systems and drove the Divine Dragon Ship toward the island while the black wind rapidly closed in behind them.
• The Divine Dragon Ship reached the beach just before the wind, which turned away from land, but the ship skidded inland and crashed into a mountain wall.
• Long Xuan found the crew severely injured and the Divine Dragon Ship badly damaged, while Leng Yan said the Black Vortex Ghost Wind had arrived early and caused massive losses among nearby ships and factions.