Chapter Summaries

After reaching Great Solitary Island, Long Xuan traded sixteen forged profession badges to Di Xin for her Face-Changing Gu. He tested the Gu, but Di Xin warned him not to impersonate her and threatened to use his appearance to provoke powerful factions.

• Long Xuan led the injured crew ashore on Great Solitary Island, where Leng Yan said her clan could offer them protection.
• Long Xuan donned his Third-Grade Alchemist disguise, and Di Xin discovered that his badge was genuine and learned he could forge badges.
• Di Xin revealed the Face-Changing Gu and offered to trade it for sixteen badges spanning four professions and grades one through four.
• Long Xuan agreed to the exchange, contracted with the Face-Changing Gu, and transformed his face to look like Di Xin.
• Di Xin forbade Long Xuan from using her appearance again and threatened to impersonate him to provoke the hundred strongest factions in the Gu World.

Long Xuan led the Divine Dragon Ship’s crew ashore on Great Solitary Island as a typhoon and tsunami struck, while Leng Qianqiu and the Leng Clan froze the wave before it reached land. Leng Qianqiu then warned Great Solitary Island’s leaders that the Black Dragon Pirate Group would attack after the Heavenly Wind passed, leaving the island to prepare for war alone.

• Long Xuan warned the crew about the approaching tsunami, stored the Divine Dragon Ship in the Ocean Heart, and ran inland with them.
• Ships crowded Great Solitary Island’s harbor as the Black Vortex Ghost Wind changed course and a towering tsunami surged toward shore.
• Leng Qianqiu and more than ten members of the Leng Clan used the frozen Gu worm to freeze the tsunami and halt it near the coast.
• An old man gave Leng Qianqiu Little Solitary Island’s final plea for aid, reporting that the Black Dragon Pirate Group had invaded and the island could hold out for only half a day.
• Leng Qianqiu explained that the Black Dragon Pirate Group needed both islands as bases near the Death Sea and would attack Great Solitary Island after the Heavenly Wind passed.
• Great Solitary Island’s leaders fell silent as they realized they would have to face the Black Dragon Pirate Group without Little Solitary Island’s support.

Black Dragon’s pirates finished slaughtering Little Solitary Island and prepared to attack Great Solitary Island, where they believed Long Xuan’s group had fled. Long Xuan reached Great Lonely City with his crew and began arranging shelter and supplies as the Heavenly Wind raged outside.

• Black Dragon ordered his men to kill every resident of Great Solitary Island when they captured it, while preserving Little Solitary Island’s labor force.
• Long Xuan led his crew into Great Lonely City, where a protective barrier shielded the crowded city from the Heavenly Wind.
• Long Xuan relied on his Third-Grade Alchemist disguise to keep people from bothering him and avoid the risk of being asked to refine fourth-grade pills.
• Long Xuan asked Leng Yan to find lodging for the crew through her Cold Clan relatives, and she said she would try to secure ten rooms.
• Leng Yan sent the crew to sell unneeded treasures and free space in their storage bags before their next journey to Sky Island.
• Di Xin stayed with Long Xuan, explaining that her ample storage space meant she had no need to sell anything.

Long Xuan met Wu Yaoyao, a young fortune-teller whose Divination Gu had an unreliable record, and learned that her readings could help the Gu grow when made for people with powerful fates. He agreed to a reading, but jokingly demanded five hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones—and Wu Yaoyao paid, leaving him unexpectedly richer as she prepared to read his fortune three times.

• Wu Yaoyao offered Long Xuan a free fortune reading, and Di Xin explained how Divination Gu gained growth from accurate predictions about powerful people.
• Di Xin questioned Wu Yaoyao's accuracy, prompting Wu Yaoyao to defend her past prediction that the Skywind would strike early.
• Long Xuan decided to accept a reading after Wu Yaoyao argued that foreknowledge could help him avoid future danger.
• Long Xuan demanded five hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones as payment, and Wu Yaoyao reluctantly agreed.
• Wu Yaoyao put down one hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones of each element and demanded three readings to see whether Long Xuan's future could earn back her loss.

Wu Yaoyao used Divination Gu to glimpse two possible battles in Long Xuan’s future, each against a Gu King who had refined a Forbidden Gu. She warned that both opponents seemed nearly impossible to defeat, leaving Long Xuan frightened and unconvinced that the visions were accurate.

• Long Xuan asked Wu Yaoyao to divine his future, and she saw him charge at a crimson-robed Blood Demon Gu possessor who slaughtered Gu Kings with blood and bats.
• Wu Yaoyao explained the Blood Demon Gu’s powers and warned Long Xuan that the opponent was virtually impossible to kill, while Long Xuan insisted the vision was wrong.
• Wu Yaoyao performed another divination and saw Long Xuan fighting a brawny man who caused earthquakes and unleashed magma.
• Wu Yaoyao identified the second opponent as an Earth Demon Gu possessor, and Di Xin described the Gu’s disaster, endurance, defense, and recovery powers as Long Xuan feared another disastrous future.

Wu Yaoyao’s final divination warned Long Xuan that he would face an almost indestructible opponent and that the world would suffer a great upheaval within a hundred years. After arranging medical care for her, Long Xuan learned that Death Sea spirit herbs were selling at rock-bottom prices and ordered his crew to buy them all.

• Wu Yaoyao’s third divination made her vomit blood, and she warned Long Xuan that his future opponent was indestructible wherever heaven, earth, or other things existed.
• Wu Yaoyao predicted a great upheaval within a hundred years, then collapsed from the backlash of her divination.
• Long Xuan carried Wu Yaoyao to the ship’s doctor, Shi Jiefu, who said she would recover after taking pills and resting.
• Long Xuan’s crew complained that Death Sea spirit herbs were selling cheaply because the Black Dragon Pirate Group had flooded Great Solitary Island and Little Solitary Island with them.
• Long Xuan ordered the crew to spend every Spirit Stone aboard buying all the Death Sea spirit herbs on the market.

Long Xuan revealed pill recipes made from Death Sea Spirit Herbs and planned to profit by buying up the herbs and spreading the recipes. Meanwhile, Leng Qianqiu prepared to force a visiting Third-Grade Alchemist to refine King-Breaking Pills, and Leng Yan realized he meant Long Xuan.

• Long Xuan showed the crew four new pill recipes that increased spiritual power across several cultivation levels, and Di Xin recognized their potential to drive up the price of Death Sea Spirit Herbs.
• Long Xuan distributed tens of thousands of recipe copies and told the crew to gather the herbs before spreading the recipes around the island.
• Long Xuan claimed his master and mistress had created the recipes, while Di Xin noticed the copies had identical handwriting and wondered whether the method could reproduce formations.
• Leng Qianqiu ordered the island's Teleportation Array shut down so foreign Gu cultivators would be trapped on the island and drawn into the war against the Black Dragon Pirate Group.
• Leng Yan asked Leng Qianqiu for lodging for her crew, but he could offer only one room before learning that a Third-Grade Alchemist had arrived on the island.
• Leng Qianqiu ordered his people to gather King-Breaking Pill ingredients and went to demand the alchemist refine them, while Leng Yan warned that the alchemist was Long Xuan and tried to stop him.

Long Xuan agreed to refine King-Breaking Pills for Leng Qianqiu, the lord of Great Solitary Island, after learning that the island faced an imminent attack from the Black Dragon Pirate Group. He planned to use his master and martial mother to produce the pills while studying the formula, and the chapter ended with him judging that the pills would not be powerful enough for his own breakthrough.

• Leng Qianqiu asked Long Xuan to refine King-Breaking Pills and promised him rooms and any reward he wanted.
• After hearing that the Black Dragon Pirate Group would soon attack Great Solitary Island, Long Xuan decided to produce many pills to weaken the pirates and protect his own interests.
• Long Xuan told Leng Qianqiu that his clones could greatly increase pill production, and Leng Qianqiu agreed to take every pill he made.
• Leng Qianqiu gave Long Xuan the pill formula and ingredients, while the crew settled into rooms at the Cold Clan.
• Leng Yan questioned Long Xuan about pretending to be a Third-Grade Alchemist, and he said his master and martial mother would refine the pills through his Thatch Gu.
• Long Xuan studied the formula and concluded that the King-Breaking Pill’s breakthrough rate would not overcome his Ten Extremity Physique’s bottleneck.

Long Xuan refined twenty King-Breaking Pills while Di Xin posed as a Fourth-Grade Formation Master to secure Great Solitary Island’s materials and build a defensive formation. As the crew prepared to repair their ship before the Black Dragon Pirate Group arrived, Long Xuan discovered that the rabbit could also refine King-Breaking Pills.

• Long Xuan used his Big-Pot Pill Refinement Technique to refine twenty King-Breaking Pills in half a month, after an oversized batch failed.
• The Divine Dragon Ship crew gave away pill formulas, drove up the price of Death Sea Spirit Herbs, and profited by reselling their stock.
• The island lord hired Di Xin, believing she was a Fourth-Grade Formation Master, to build a formation against the Black Dragon Pirate Group.
• Di Xin told Long Xuan she had upgraded and expanded the ship, and Long Xuan agreed to spare time for its Formation Inscriptions while continuing to refine pills.
• Long Xuan entered the World Tree Seed and found six King-Breaking Pills beside the rabbit, realizing that it could refine Third-Grade Pills.

Leng Qianqiu divided twenty King-Breaking Pills among the Five Clans to prepare new Gu Kings for the coming war, while Long Xuan used the extended Heavenly Wind to gather materials for his Gu Recipe. The Black Dragon Pirate Group reached Great Solitary Island and prepared a surprise attack to find the people who took the Ocean Heart.

• Leng Qianqiu confirmed the twenty King-Breaking Pills were genuine and assigned four to each clan for its strongest Spiritual Sea Stage geniuses.
• Leng Qianqiu gave five bottles of pills to the five clan geniuses and personally stayed to guard their breakthroughs.
• Long Xuan spent King-Breaking Pills and his other wealth trading for materials, advancing the Heaven-Swallowing World Toad Gu Recipe to 80%.
• Black Dragon rejected Baldy's suggestion to wait, explaining that he wanted to trap everyone on Great Solitary Island and find the people who took the Ocean Heart.
• Black Dragon ordered nearly one hundred ships to launch a surprise attack, with several thousand cannons aimed at Great Solitary Island.

The Black Dragon Pirate Group attacked Great Solitary Island with a massive cannon barrage, trapping Long Xuan and his crew during the assault. Di Xin revealed she possessed the Earth Heart and hid the group inside it as they tried to reach the Teleportation Array, while the Island Lord’s pregnant wife unknowingly repeated false information about the array’s destruction.

• The Black Dragon Pirate Group bombarded Great Solitary Island, and Leng Qianqiu ordered the island’s cannons to return fire.
• Long Xuan and the Divine Dragon Ship crew realized the attack had trapped them on the island, where they risked being targeted for taking the Ocean Heart.
• Di Xin revealed that the Teleportation Array had never been broken and that Leng Qianqiu had concealed it as a backup escape route.
• Di Xin used her Earth Heart to hide Long Xuan and the crew, and an unidentified presence slipped into the treasure as well.
• At the Teleportation Array hall, the Island Lord’s pregnant wife calmed the angry crowd and claimed that Black Dragon Pirate Group agents had destroyed the array.
• Long Xuan concluded that the pregnant woman believed her claims were true, so her Integrity Gu did not expose the false information she had been given.

Long Xuan saw through the Island Lord’s deception and decided to bribe the guards at the supposedly destroyed Teleportation Array so he and Di Xin could escape. He offered them six King-Breaking Pills, leaving the guards to decide whether to accept his deal.

• Long Xuan explained to Di Xin how the Island Lord’s wife had unknowingly used false information to convince the crowd that the Black Dragon Pirate Group had destroyed the Teleportation Array.
• Two men rallied the islanders against the pirates, and the crowd dispersed to prepare for battle after accepting the Island Lord’s story.
• Long Xuan decided to bribe the array guards with King-Breaking Pills, and Di Xin entered the Earth Heart so he could attempt the escape alone.
• Long Xuan disguised himself as a Spiritual Sea Stage Gu Master and approached the main hall, where the two guards claimed the array had been destroyed.
• Long Xuan offered the guards all six of his King-Breaking Pills in exchange for letting him through the Teleportation Array.

Long Xuan bribed two guards with King-Breaking Pills to enter the teleportation hall, then revealed a trace of Peak Gu King aura to force one guard to hand over a genuine Teleportation Talisman. Long Xuan teleported away, leaving the guards panicked about the consequences of letting a Peak Gu King escape.

• The guards secretly agreed to let Long Xuan enter, intending to give him a fake Teleportation Talisman and kill him during teleportation.
• The skinny guard led Long Xuan into the hall after warning the onlookers that he would only inspect the array once.
• Long Xuan exposed a trace of Peak Gu King aura, causing the skinny guard to replace the fake talisman with a genuine one.
• Long Xuan used an Integrity Gu to confirm the skinny guard was telling the truth, then entered the teleportation gate and vanished.
• The fat guard confronted the skinny guard, who explained that Long Xuan's revealed strength had left them no choice but to let him go.

Long Xuan escaped through the Teleportation Array to Sea God Island and led his crew in repeating their pill-formula and spirit-herb scheme. He sold their stock to the Qian Clan Merchant Association, whose fat manager eagerly agreed to the deal.

• The guards concealed Long Xuan’s passage through the Teleportation Array by bribing the guards on Sea God Island with King-Breaking Pills.
• Long Xuan released Di Xin and the crew, then proposed using the Black Dragon Pirate Group’s name to buy up Sea God Island’s Death Sea Spirit Herbs.
• The crew bought the island’s Death Sea Spirit Herbs cheaply, while Long Xuan scattered valuable pill formulas across Sea God City.
• Long Xuan disguised himself as the Black Dragon Pirate Group’s first mate and offered the herbs to the Qian Clan Merchant Association’s fat manager.
• The fat manager agreed to buy all of Long Xuan’s Death Sea Spirit Herbs at prices based on spirit herbs with equivalent spiritual power.

Long Xuan sold Death Sea spirit herbs on Sea God Island, gathered materials for his Gu Recipe, and took the Divine Dragon Ship back to sea. As the crew sailed toward the Endless Sea, Di Xin and Long Xuan reassured Leng Yan about Great Solitary Island, while Wu Yaoyao offered to divine her future.

• Long Xuan sold his spirit herbs to the Qian Clan steward for four hundred million Spirit Stones and accepted a Permanent Message Transmission Talisman.
• Long Xuan spent the proceeds and some of his stored treasures gathering over forty thousand materials for the Heaven-Swallowing World Toad Gu Recipe.
• Long Xuan gathered the crew and sailed from Sea God Island toward the Endless Sea aboard the Divine Dragon Ship.
• Di Xin told Leng Yan that Great Solitary Island had a strong chance of defeating the Black Dragon Pirate Group, and Long Xuan reassured Leng Yan that Island Master Leng could evacuate the Lineage if necessary.
• Wu Yaoyao offered to divine Leng Yan's fortune, and Long Xuan asked whether she had already divined the future of Di Xin, the shipwright.

Wu Yaoyao divined the crew’s futures, including Leng Yan’s long life and Qiu Tiandao’s victory over a Sea Flood Dragon, while Long Xuan wondered whether her prophecies were always accurate. Five months later, Long Xuan completed the Heaven-Swallowing World Toad Gu Recipe and learned that Di Xin planned to risk everything to obtain a breakthrough fruit from the Teng Household in Central Land.

• Wu Yaoyao foresaw Di Xin being hunted by tens of thousands of Gu Kings and predicted that Leng Yan would lead the Cold Clan, live for over a thousand years, and grow old alone.
• Wu Yaoyao divined for Young Master Mo, Ye Qingluan, Miao Peipei, and Qiu Tiandao, whose future showed him slaying a Sea Flood Dragon.
• Long Xuan spent the voyage studying Gu Recipes while Miao Peipei’s vegetable garden supplied the crew with abundant produce.
• After five months, Long Xuan completed the Heaven-Swallowing World Toad Gu Recipe and sought Supreme-grade Spirit Insects from Di Xin.
• Long Xuan found Di Xin studying a map of Central Land’s powers, and she explained that she had to obtain an Earth Spirit Fruit from the Teng Household to break through from the Marrow Cleansing Stage.

Long Xuan agreed to help Di Xin create an Earth Spirit Fruit pill formula and accompany her to steal the Teng Household’s Earth Spirit Fruit Tree in exchange for materials. As the Divine Dragon Ship entered the Endless Sea, the crew encountered deadly gravity that dragged objects toward the seabed.

• Di Xin asked Long Xuan to formulate an Earth Spirit Fruit pill and join her expedition to the Teng Household, offering to gather the materials he needed in return.
• Long Xuan agreed to accompany Di Xin but insisted that her plan must convince him the expedition was safe; Di Xin also warned him not to send a clone in his place.
• Di Xin promised to gather the listed materials within half a year, and Long Xuan left her cabin.
• Nie Qingcheng told Long Xuan that the Divine Dragon Ship had entered the Endless Sea, where severe gravity made flight impossible and threatened to sink ships.
• Long Xuan threw a wooden board into the sea, watched it sink instantly, and heard Qiu Tiandao say that no swimmer could escape the water.

After reaching the Endless Sea, Long Xuan ordered the Divine Dragon Ship to head straight for Sky Island. Meanwhile, the battered Black Dragon Pirate Group refused to enter the sea itself and sent six hundred Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu Masters and three weakened Spiritual Sea Stage Gu Masters after the Ocean Heart.

• Nie Qingcheng warned the Divine Dragon Ship's crew not to fall into the water, and Long Xuan ordered them to make for Sky Island at full speed.
• The Black Dragon Pirate Group's surviving seven ships reached the edge of the Endless Sea after losing nearly all their forces in its disastrous attack on Great Solitary Island.
• Black Dragon decided not to enter the Endless Sea with his remaining forces and resolved to obtain the Ocean Heart to rebuild the pirate group.
• Black Dragon ordered six hundred Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu Masters and three Spiritual Sea Stage Gu Masters who had fallen a realm to pursue the Ocean Heart and search Sky Island for treasure.
• The six ships sailed into the Endless Sea, leaving the Black Dragon Ship behind with the wounded.

Long Xuan and the Divine Dragon Ship were attacked by Undying Worms in the Endless Sea, whose growing mass threatened to crush the ship beneath the water. Long Xuan’s Calamity Poison Gu devoured their venom and neutralized them, allowing the ship to escape the nest while gaining a powerful new poison.

• Long Xuan spotted the Undying Worms approaching and activated the Divine Dragon Ship’s barrier before they could board.
• Leng Yan explained that the worms could not be killed by ordinary attacks and that their venom could corrode anything.
• Long Xuan realized the worms were merging into a massive droplet that would press the ship beneath the sea, and the crew’s attacks failed to stop them.
• Long Xuan released his Calamity Poison Gu, which drained the Undying Worms’ venom and caused them to dissolve into ordinary water.
• The crew survived, and Long Xuan sailed the Divine Dragon Ship away from the Undying Worm nest as the remaining worms kept their distance.

Long Xuan’s Divine Dragon Ship survived the dangers of the Endless Sea and encountered the Candle Clan and Water Clan fighting over the sea. The ship reached the crowded island nearest Sky Island, where Long Xuan learned that more than a hundred thousand Gu Masters would gather for the treasure hunt.

• Undying Worms attacked the Black Dragon Pirate Group’s leading ship, killing everyone aboard, while Scarface ordered the other ships to flee.
• Over two months, the Divine Dragon Ship crossed the Endless Sea and repelled ships that tried to attack it.
• Long Xuan watched the Candle Clan’s Candlelight Ship battle the Water Clan’s Raging Waves Ship, while Leng Yan explained their rivalry and warned him about the powerful competitors.
• Long Xuan took Leng Yan’s advice and left the battle before the conflict could draw them in.
• Ten days later, Long Xuan saw a barren island crowded with Gu Masters and learned from Leng Yan that it was a temporary gathering point near where Sky Island would emerge.