Chapter Summaries

Ji Yuan returned to the Water Dragon Sect, arranged to sell his stored goods through Dong Qian’s shop, and learned that Yao Jingfeng had died. Back on Mist Island, he built an artificial spirit vein that reached level two, while the Water Dragon Sect’s Golden Core elders vowed to find whoever was draining its veins.

• Ji Yuan inspected Carefree Island, visited Dong Qian on Fox Moon Island, and agreed to sell his pills, talismans, and other goods through her Marvelous Medicine Shop.
• Dong Qian told Ji Yuan that Yao Jingfeng had stolen Spirit Stones, been caught, and killed himself while being taken to the Discipline Hall.
• Ji Yuan returned to Mist Island, collected Tu Yue’s Tri-color Spirit Eggs, and began making an artificial spirit vein in his Cave Abode.
• Ji Yuan and Tu Yue buried Spirit Stones throughout the excavated tunnel, and the system displayed that the Spirit Vein had reached level two.
• At the Water Dragon Sect’s Founders’ Hall, Profound Water True Person reported the spirit-vein problem, and the Golden Core elders vowed to find and punish whoever was responsible.

Ji Yuan upgraded his Spirit Vein, cultivated, and planned his next Azure Waves Sword Embryo before Li Changhe revealed that the Water Dragon Sect’s Spirit Veins had been sabotaged. The chapter ended with Li Changhe asking Ji Yuan whether he had heard of the Shang Court.

• Ji Yuan upgraded his Spirit Vein to Level Two, saw the effects available at Level Three, and spent ten days cultivating until his Spirit Liquid returned to its peak.
• Ji Yuan resumed work in his Talisman Chamber and Alchemy Room, sent Third One to the Mass Burial Ground, and asked Tu Yue to replenish the Beehive’s Spirit Stones and summon the Ice Flood Dragon.
• Ji Yuan reviewed nine locations where he could condense special Azure Waves Sword Embryos and chose Heavenly Pillar Peak as his next destination.
• Li Changhe summoned Ji Yuan to discuss the investigation into the Spirit Vein damage and told him that the Water Dragon Sect had suffered losses of about one million Middle-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Li Changhe said Senior Brother Yun had captured a Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator caught damaging the Large Spirit Vein at Qiyun Mountain, then revealed that the culprits were not Demonic Cultivators.
• After Ji Yuan sealed the room with talismans, Li Changhe asked whether he had heard of the Shang Court, the ancient power that once unified Cangluo Continent.

Ji Yuan learned that Shang Court's remnants had infiltrated the sects and received powerful protections from the Water Dragon Sect. Meanwhile, Han Feiyu's master planned to seize the Water Dragon Sect, and an ancient prisoner emerged from Blackwater Pool seeking revenge on Han Feiyu.

• Li Changhe told Ji Yuan that Shang Court's successors were devouring Spirit Veins through insiders within the Immortal Sects, and that the sects would investigate.
• Dan Yangzi recognized the voice of Old Devil Qu inside Han Feiyu, who revealed plans to seize the Water Dragon Sect's sect master and kill Island Lord Liu Yuan and the Worry-Free Island Master.
• Han Feiyu balked at killing Ji Yuan, his friend, and asked his master to choose someone else.
• Profound Water True Person and Li Gang gave Ji Yuan a protective scale, a teleportation page, Millennium Spirit Milk, and Talisman Treasures as rewards for helping the sect.
• A young man crawled out of Blackwater Pool and remembered that he meant to avenge himself on Han Feiyu.

Many-Treasure True Person told Ji Yuan how the Shang Court fell and urged him to cultivate quickly, then Ji Yuan traveled to Heavenly Pillar Peak to condense his third Sword Embryo. He secured an empty Cave Abode and began secluded cultivation there.

• Many-Treasure True Person explained that the Shang Court’s two Spirit Transformation rulers left Cangluo, and infighting among the remaining Nascent Soul Cultivators destroyed the dynasty and the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven.
• Many-Treasure True Person recounted how the Alliance of Shang Mountain divided the Orthodox Dao and Demonic Dao, then asked Ji Yuan to save Li Changhe if he could; Ji Yuan agreed.
• Ji Yuan arranged for earthfire to be installed on Carefree Island, then chose to travel to Heavenly Pillar Peak before upgrading the [Artifact Refining Room].
• Ji Yuan prepared his equipment and supplies, left Tu Yue in charge of Mist Island, and traveled south under the appearance of Qiu Qianhai.
• At Heavenly Pillar Peak, Ji Yuan met Xue Nanshan, He Tianming, and Mu Lulu at the Immortal Rest Pavilion, then left after noticing Mu Lulu seemed afraid of He Tianming.
• Ji Yuan found an unoccupied Cave Abode below the summit, activated the [Cave Abode] effect, and deployed the Star-Spiral Cloud Barrier Formation to begin secluded cultivation.

Ji Yuan forged the Cloudwatch Sword at Heavenly Pillar Peak, then received advice from a mysterious young master about choosing his primary Flying Sword. After returning to Cloud-Rain Marsh, he learned that Liu Yuan had been badly injured.

• A young master and his Foundation Establishment servant claimed the best viewing spot at Heavenly Pillar Peak and watched the Cloud-Sea Vortex form.
• After waiting for Ji Yuan to emerge from seclusion, the young master caught up with him and advised him to keep a Flying Sword forged purely from Water Fortune as his primary sword.
• Ji Yuan decided to follow the advice, switched to his Peak-Grade Rift-Splitting Flying Boat, and returned quickly to Cloud-Rain Marsh.
• Ji Yuan met Soft Hands before reaching Mist Island, and she told him that Liu Yuan had been badly injured.

Ji Yuan visited the injured Liu Yuan, gave him a potent healing pill, and learned that a mysterious Foundation Establishment attacker had ambushed him. After a period of cultivation and island upkeep, Ji Yuan discovered that Yin Boy had transformed into a Foundation Establishment Corpse Puppet and took control of him.

• Soft Hands brought Ji Yuan to Liu Yuan, whose injuries were more than half healed after he swallowed Ji Yuan's improved Qi-Blood Pill.
• Liu Yuan explained that a mysterious Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator had ambushed him outside Black Mountain City, and Soft Hands warned both men to remain inside the sect.
• Liu Yuan privately suspected Ji Yuan might have been the attacker, while Ji Yuan left because he feared Liu Yuan's account pointed toward him and decided to stay cautious.
• Ji Yuan returned to Mist Island, examined the Cloudwatch Sword, and spent the following months cultivating and tending his Spirit Field, Fish Pond, and other resources.
• Ji Yuan sensed powerful yin energy on Miyuan Island and found that Yin Boy had transformed into an early Foundation Establishment Corpse Puppet.
• Ji Yuan established control over Yin Boy, returned his bell and skull-shaped Spirit Artifact, and considered raising Tu Bu into another Foundation Establishment Corpse Puppet.

Ji Yuan returned to Carefree Island after learning his Flying Boat carried a mark left by a powerful cultivator, and Hua Yaoyue removed it while confirming that the mark belonged to a Nascent Soul-level figure. She also identified Ji Yuan’s golden page as a Fixed-Point Teleportation Token tied to the Shang Court, leaving Ji Yuan to consider how that lost inheritance had reached the Cangluo Continent.

• Ji Yuan prepared food and gifts for Feng Zhitáo’s breakthrough celebration, then met her and Yun Qianzai on Carefree Island.
• Hua Yaoyue teased Ji Yuan about provoking the Shang Court and Nascent Soul cultivators, then discovered a mark on his Sky-Skimming Flying Boat and asked what had happened at Heavenly Pillar Mountain.
• Ji Yuan recounted his trip, and Hua Yaoyue burned away the mark; its young owner noticed from far away but dismissed the matter and returned to fishing.
• Hua Yaoyue punished Yun Qianzai for getting carried away, then returned Ji Yuan’s Flying Boat, and the group celebrated Feng Zhitáo’s breakthrough before she left for Fire Phoenix Island.
• Ji Yuan asked about Shang Court descendants and showed Hua Yaoyue his golden page and scale; she identified the page as a Fixed-Point Teleportation Token made by a Spirit Transformation Cultivator using teleportation formations.

Ji Yuan learned more about the Shang Court’s legacy from Hua Yaoyue, then raised his Artifact Refining Room and discovered that his crafting buildings could be fused if their levels matched. After a month of forging and alchemy, he stocked the Marvelous Medicine Shop with his pills and received a message from Liu Yuan.

• Ji Yuan asked Hua Yaoyue about the Fixed-Point Teleportation Token and the Shang Court, and she suggested the Orthodox-Demonic War might be an internal struggle among the Shang Court’s remnants.
• Ji Yuan returned to Carefree Island, upgraded the Artifact Refining Room, and learned that the Alchemy Room, Formation Room, Talisman Chamber, and Artifact Refining Room could be fused only when their levels matched.
• Ji Yuan spent over a month forging artifacts and refining Sky-Pillaring Pills and Waterlike Pills, then brought his goods to the Marvelous Medicine Shop.
• Shi Xiu'er told Ji Yuan that business had improved, and he left her his new pills, Dharma Tools, and talismans to sell before rewarding her with a Middle-Grade Spirit Stone.
• Ji Yuan received a message from Liu Yuan and immediately left the shop to go to him.

Ji Yuan learned that Xiao Chengyi was suspected of attempting to assassinate Liu Yuan, then spent a year cultivating and refining artifacts while unrest spread across Cangluo Continent. After reuniting with Du Wanyi and receiving Island Lord Yunmiao’s Communication Talisman through Han Feiyu, he found a design for a Spirit-Energy Cannon in The True Explanation of Artifact Refining.

• Liu Yuan told Ji Yuan that an anonymous note accusing Xiao Chengyi of trying to kill him had reached Yun Miao, and the sect leaders sent Xiao Chengyi to Shang Mountain while they investigated.
• Ji Yuan returned to a routine of cultivation and crafting as Demonic Cultivator attacks and local unrest spread across Shangdong.
• A year later, Ji Yuan finished forging a High-Grade Magical Artifact and prepared to visit Du Wanyi, who had returned from her dangerous assignment in Magnolia City.
• Ji Yuan, Dong Qian, and Han Feiyu reunited with Du Wanyi, who described the fighting in Magnolia City and explained that Yao Jingfeng had been sent back from Liancheng Mountain for stealing a senior brother’s valuables.
• Han Feiyu gave Ji Yuan Island Lord Yunmiao’s Communication Talisman and said he had planned to introduce them, prompting Ji Yuan to suspect Han Feiyu was playing matchmaker.
• Ji Yuan returned to Chengyou Island, read The True Explanation of Artifact Refining, and discovered a design for a High-Grade Spirit Artifact called the Spirit-Energy Cannon.

Ji Yuan sought a secondhand Spirit-Energy Cannon and prepared to travel to Coastal City with Feng Zhitáo and Yun Qianzai to obtain one from the Cloud Family. Meanwhile, Feng Yichen returned to the Water Dragon Sect after a long absence and contacted the Sect Master.

• Ji Yuan learned from The True Explanation of Artifact Refining that forging a Spirit-Energy Cannon required advanced artifact-refining and formation skills, so he asked Feng Zhitáo where he could buy one.
• Feng Zhitáo explained that a new Spirit-Energy Cannon cost around three thousand Middle-Grade Spirit Stones and suggested asking Yun Qianzai about retired cannons kept by his Cloud Family in Coastal City.
• Feng Zhitáo secured Yun Qianzai's release, and Ji Yuan prepared to leave Mist Island with his Ice Flood Dragon, Spirit-Devouring Bees, and Yin Boy while leaving Big Clam to guard the island.
• Ji Yuan met Feng Zhitáo and Yun Qianzai on Carefree Island, and the three set off east toward Coastal City aboard their Flying Boats.
• A battered Flying Boat landed west of the Water Dragon Sect, and Feng Yichen contacted the Sect Master to announce that he had finally returned.

Feng Yichen returned from the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven and accused Han Feiyu of stealing his Spiritual Root, leading Profound Water True Person to bind Han Feiyu for judgment. Meanwhile, Ji Yuan arrived at Coastal City with Feng Zhitáo and Yun Qianzai, whose unexpected offer to give him a Spirit-Energy Cannon left the Cloud Family gathering astonished.

• Feng Yichen told Profound Water True Person that Han Feiyu had attacked him and stolen his Spiritual Root in the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven.
• Han Feiyu admitted his guilt, and Profound Water True Person ordered guards to take him to the Discipline Hall.
• Feng Yichen left Water Dragon Island, sensed something was wrong, and prepared to flee before a veiled woman confronted him about a dangerous woman in Shangxi.
• Ji Yuan, Feng Zhitáo, and Yun Qianzai reached Coastal City and visited the Cloud Family at Cloud Family Fort.
• After the Cloud Family hosted a feast and asked what Ji Yuan needed, Yun Qianzai announced that he planned to give his junior brother a Spirit-Energy Cannon.

Ji Yuan obtained a Spirit-Energy Cannon from the Cloud Family and discovered that he could inspect and upgrade it through his Panel. After returning to the Water Dragon Sect, he received alarming messages about Han Feiyu.

• Yun Qianzai offered Ji Yuan a Spirit-Energy Cannon, and Ji Yuan paid the Cloud Family with goods worth about fifteen hundred Middle-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Ji Yuan discovered that the cannon had to be outside his Storage Bag to appear on his Panel, which showed that its next level could threaten Golden Core Peak cultivators.
• Yun Qianzai took the cannon to repair its Formation patterns while Yun Wannian hosted Ji Yuan and Feng Zhitáo at Cloud Family Fort.
• Ji Yuan and Feng Zhitáo visited Coastal City, where Ji Yuan recognized Shui Kai, then spent a day exploring the ocean and discussed Hua Yaoyue possibly leaving for another continent.
• Yun Qianzai finished repairing the cannon, and Ji Yuan, Feng Zhitáo, and Yun Qianzai returned to the Water Dragon Sect.
• At Carefree Island, Ji Yuan received messages from Dong Qian and Du Wanyi saying something terrible had happened to Han Feiyu.

Ji Yuan learned that Han Feiyu had been punished and expelled after Feng Yichen returned from the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven, while Profound Water True Person and Kong Xifeng suspected Feng Yichen was tied to Shang Court. After Han Feiyu warned Ji Yuan to beware Island Lord Yunmiao, Ji Yuan became a Second-Tier Artifact Refiner and prepared to upgrade his Spirit-Energy Cannon before seeking another Sword Embryo.

• Du Wanyi and Dong Qian told Ji Yuan that Feng Yichen had survived the Nine Nether Grotto-Heaven and accused Han Feiyu, who was punished, expelled from the sect, and ordered to kill ten Foundation Establishment Realm Demonic Cultivators.
• Profound Water True Person told Kong Xifeng that he suspected Feng Yichen was a remnant of Shang Court, and Kong Xifeng accepted Feng Yichen's bloodstained robe so she could investigate him.
• Ji Yuan examined the Level Two upgrade requirements for his Spirit-Energy Cannon and planned to improve his artifact-refining skills before traveling to the Blood River to form another Sword Embryo.
• Ji Yuan, Dong Qian, and Du Wanyi visited Han Feiyu after his punishment, and Han Feiyu told Ji Yuan to beware Island Lord Yunmiao without explaining why.
• Over the following months, Ji Yuan comprehended enough of the Sword Canon to form another Sword Embryo and refined a Low-Grade Spirit Artifact, becoming a Second-Tier Artifact Refiner.

Ji Yuan gathered materials from Hua Yaoyue and the Li Family to upgrade his Spirit-Energy Cannon, which became a Meteor Cannon capable of destroying Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators. He prepared to travel to Blood River to form a Sword Embryo, and Feng Zhitáo offered to accompany him.

• Ji Yuan received five Spirit-Energy Stones and a Third-Order Monster Core from Hua Yaoyue, then obtained forty jin of Silvermoon Meteorite Rock from Li Changhe.
• Ji Yuan upgraded the Spirit-Energy Cannon to Level Two and discovered that it had become a Level Three Meteor Cannon with the power to destroy cultivators up to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Ji Yuan packed his weapons, supplies, Ice Flood Dragon, Yin Boy, and Spirit-Devouring Bees, then left Tu Yue to guard the island as he headed north.
• Li Changhe gave Ji Yuan a token to show the Wei Family in the Ancient Battlefield Ruins so they could guide him to Blood River.
• Ji Yuan told Hua Yaoyue and Feng Zhitáo he planned to travel to Ganhushan to form a Sword Embryo, and Feng Zhitáo offered to go with him.

Ji Yuan traveled north alone, disguised as an old man, to buy corpses for Tu Yue in Corpse-Driving Mountain territory. After purchasing eight fire-arts cultivators’ corpses in Flood City, he crossed the Yunlin Mountains with Wang Xiu and learned that Wang planned to visit an ancient battlefield’s ruins.

• Ji Yuan refused Feng Zhitáo’s offer to accompany him, received Hua Yaoyue’s warning to use his Teleportation Token if needed, and left Carefree Island.
• Ji Yuan disguised himself as an old man and crossed Fallen Star River, traveling through Shuibei toward Corpse-Driving Mountain territory.
• In Flood City, Ji Yuan bought eight Foundation Establishment Early Stage fire-arts cultivators’ corpses from Huang Yongnian for 368 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Huang Yongnian arranged for Ji Yuan to travel north with Wang Xiu, revealing that both had paid in advance to pass safely through the Yunlin Mountains.
• Ji Yuan and Wang Xiu crossed the mountains without trouble, then parted after Wang said he was heading to the ruins of an ancient battlefield.

Ji Yuan and Wang Xiu reached the Ancient Battlefield, only to find Hu Li and other Demonic Cultivators barring the entrance. After waiting in Swaying Phoenix Ward, Ji Yuan approached Hu Li in disguise to learn about the group occupying the ruins, and Hu Li began explaining their powerful Young Master.

• Wang Xiu told Ji Yuan he was returning to the Ancient Battlefield to mourn his father-in-law, and the two agreed to travel together.
• Ji Yuan and Wang Xiu reached the Ancient Battlefield entrance, where guards refused them entry and Ji Yuan recognized Hu Li among those inside.
• Wang Xiu learned that Demonic Cultivators had occupied the Ancient Battlefield for three months and were killing anyone who challenged their orders.
• After waiting in Swaying Phoenix Ward, Ji Yuan said goodbye to Wang Xiu and left, then returned disguised as a delicate-looking man riding a smoking skull.
• Ji Yuan contacted Hu Li telepathically, revealed their past connection, and asked about the Demonic Cultivators’ backer.
• Hu Li told Ji Yuan that a Golden Core cultivator served as a guard for their Foundation Establishment Late Stage Young Master, who had a formidable background.

Ji Yuan infiltrated Jiang Hong’s Demonic Cultivator group to investigate the deaths of Xu Fugui and the Iron Hammer Island Lord. He learned that Jiang Hong’s forces were besieging the Wei Family, where an outsider and a Six-Tailed Demon Fox were resisting them.

• Ji Yuan deduced that Jiang Hong’s group was linked to his enemies and persuaded Hu Li to introduce him as Qiu Qianhai.
• Hu Li revealed that Jiang Hong’s mother came from Shangxi and was in the Nascent Soul Realm, while Heavenly Silkworm True Person served as Jiang Hong’s Golden Core bodyguard.
• Ji Yuan entered the Ancient Battlefield Ruins with Hu Li, met Jiang Hong, and accepted fifty Middle-Grade Spirit Stones to join the group.
• Hu Li told Ji Yuan that Jiang Hong sought to gather the battlefield’s killing aura and that the Wei Family’s Six-Tailed Demon Fox had stopped their attack.
• Ji Yuan learned that ten Foundation Establishment Cultivators served Jiang Hong and asked Hu Li why he had not seen the Blood River.

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Ji Yuan infiltrated the forces besieging the Wei Family and took up watch inside their fire Formation while investigating their motives and the Blood River. The Wei Family’s protective Formation was nearing collapse, and its mysterious lady prepared to stake everything on a desperate gamble.

• Ji Yuan accepted Hu Li’s information and moved into another Cave Abode, then resolved that Hu Li might be dangerous and considered killing him.
• Ji Yuan befriended the other Demonic Cultivators, learned they planned to break the Wei Family’s water-aspected Formation, and was assigned to guard the siege.
• Feng Xiuxiu taught Ji Yuan how to enter the Four Symbols Boiling Sea Formation and replace the Spirit Stones maintaining it.
• Ji Yuan entered the Formation, relieved another Cultivator, and began watching the Spirit Stones while hiding his hostility toward Jiang Hong.
• Wei Kun learned that the Wei Family’s Protective Formation could hold for only about a month, and the black-robed lady with the Six-Tailed Fox urged him to stake everything on her plan.
• Wei Kun returned to his family and declared that they would repay their ancestors’ debt and face death by fighting.

Ji Yuan learned that Jiang Hong and Heavenly Silkworm True Person planned to use the Wei Family to open a tomb, then joined the assault on the family’s stronghold. The black-robed woman emerged to confront Jiang Hong, recognized Ji Yuan, and spoke to him telepathically.

• Jiang Hong confirmed that the Fox Clan True Lord’s tomb lay beneath the battlefield, while Hu Li warned Ji Yuan that Jiang Hong meant to sacrifice the Wei Family to excavate it.
• Jiang Hong gathered his cultivators, distributed Storage Bags and promised rewards for killing Wei Family members, then led them to attack.
• The Wei Family’s Formation collapsed, but the black-robed woman’s Six-Tailed Demon Fox spirit broke Heavenly Silkworm True Person’s attack and drove him away.
• Ji Yuan fought a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator while searching for Hu Li and the black-robed woman, as Jiang Hong slaughtered the Wei Family’s Qi Refining cultivators.
• The black-robed woman stepped out of the mountain hall, challenged Jiang Hong, and recognized Ji Yuan with a familiar telepathic greeting.