Chapter Summaries

Ji Yuan learned Dong Qian was trapped in the ancient battlefield and that Jiang Hong planned to use the cultivators’ blood to open her ancestor’s mausoleum. Unable to escape through the sealed exit, Ji Yuan chose to fight Jiang Hong, who trapped him in a powerful Blood Prison Formation.

• Ji Yuan recognized the disguised female cultivator as Dong Qian and suspected she was connected to the mausoleum and possibly a past life.
• Ji Yuan killed the gray-robed Wei Family cultivator, but his Heaven-Escaping Shuttle failed because the area was sealed, so he fled toward the exit on Rift-Splitting.
• Ji Yuan found the exit blocked and was confronted by Jiang Hong, who offered to spare him in exchange for a wisp of his divine soul.
• Dong Qian told Ji Yuan that Jiang Hong and Heavenly Silkworm True Person were the danger and explained that Blood Luo Irrigation was needed to open her ancestor’s mausoleum.
• With Heavenly Silkworm True Person occupied by the Six-Tailed Demon Fox, Ji Yuan decided to fight Jiang Hong, who enclosed him in a Second Tier Blood Prison Formation.
• Ji Yuan sent Frostfall at Jiang Hong and summoned the Thousand-Phantom Banner to deal with the formation’s ghostly hands.

Ji Yuan fought Jiang Hong through a series of artifacts, talismans, formations, and summoned allies, eventually destroying Jiang Hong’s formation and leaving him badly wounded. Jiang Hong survived behind a Heartguard Mirror’s protection and swore revenge, while Ji Yuan mocked him from below.

• Jiang Hong attacked Ji Yuan with his Six-Armed Demon, blood blades, tiger phantoms, and Blood-Pattern Divine Baleful Intent Formation, while Ji Yuan countered with his artifacts, banners, and talismans.
• Jiang Hong’s Blood-Infant Mother-and-Child Sword destroyed Ji Yuan’s Mirage Light Needle, but Ji Yuan pinned its child swords beneath the Inverted Golden-Ear Cauldron.
• Ji Yuan and Jiang Hong traded blows with their Talisman Treasures until both shattered, and Ji Yuan used the Yin Boy’s Infant-Crying Bell to create an opening for his Sword Embryos.
• Jiang Hong unleashed two Foundation Establishment Middle Stage female Corpse Puppets and a Late Second Tier Red-Silk Python, while Ji Yuan summoned his Ice Flood Dragon and expanded the Stardust Illusion-Killing Formation.
• Ji Yuan’s Stardust blasts destroyed Jiang Hong’s Blood-Pattern Divine Baleful Intent Formation and devastated the battlefield, but Jiang Hong survived behind a Heartguard Mirror.
• Jiang Hong rose beyond Ji Yuan’s reach and vowed to kill him, while Ji Yuan mocked him as a clay chicken and pottery dog.

Ji Yuan and Dong Qian killed Heavenly Silkworm True Person, then entered the Sky Fox ancestor’s tomb so Dong Qian and Six-Tailed could claim its inheritance. After Dong Qian received the inheritance, she drew Ji Yuan close with an alluring breath.

• Hu Li escaped through the Thirty-Six Dense-Smoke Formation while Ji Yuan defeated Jiang Hong, then Ji Yuan killed the corpse puppets attacking Yin Boy and captured the wounded Red-Silk Python.
• Ji Yuan and Dong Qian joined forces against Heavenly Silkworm True Person; Dong Qian restrained him with Descending upon Qingqiu while Ji Yuan fired the Spirit-Energy Cannon and killed him.
• Ji Yuan collected Heavenly Silkworm True Person’s soul, body, and Storage Bag, and learned that Dong Qian had killed the other Foundation Establishment cultivators to open her ancestor’s tomb.
• Dong Qian revealed that she had borrowed her ancestor’s remnant soul to restrain Heavenly Silkworm True Person, then led Ji Yuan underground and opened the tomb with Sky Fox Tribe blood.
• Dong Qian and Six-Tailed drew power from the ancestor’s corpse, which crumbled to ash, and Ji Yuan’s panel confirmed that he had completed the requirement to upgrade the Meditation Room.
• Dong Qian approached Ji Yuan after receiving the inheritance, and an alluring breath overcame his resolve.

Ji Yuan and Dong Qian practiced the Heavenly Fox Bliss Method, which advanced their cultivation, before she led him to the Blood River to form his fourth Sword Embryo. Ji Yuan succeeded in creating the destructive Bloodslaughter Sword Embryo with Dong Qian's help, then asked what she planned to do next.

• Ji Yuan and Dong Qian discussed her previous marriage and the Heavenly Fox Clan inheritance before learning the Heavenly Fox Bliss Method and cultivating together.
• Dong Qian broke through to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, while Ji Yuan's cultivation advanced close to Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Dong Qian explained that her clan's inherited memories came from beyond the Cangluo Continent and agreed to take Ji Yuan to the Blood River beneath the tomb.
• Ji Yuan absorbed the Blood River's killing-tainted Water Fortune, and Dong Qian suppressed the murderous urge so he could form his Sword Embryo.
• After half a month of cultivation, Ji Yuan formed the Bloodslaughter Sword Embryo and asked Dong Qian what she planned to do next.

Ji Yuan parted from Dong Qian and upgraded his Meditation Room, strengthening his Soul-Calming Bell before examining Heavenly Silkworm True Person’s Storage Bag. In Shangxi, Jiang Hong returned to his mother, the Blood Lady, and named Qiu Qianπ as the person who defeated him.

• Ji Yuan told Dong Qian he would travel north to Mirror Lake alone, and she agreed to return to the sect while he promised her a gift.
• Ji Yuan and Dong Qian left the Ancient Battlefield, cultivated together for several days at Swaying Phoenix Ward, and then parted ways.
• Ji Yuan hid in a mountain cave, upgraded the Meditation Room, and discovered that the Soul-Calming Bell’s light and defensive power had grown stronger.
• Ji Yuan read the Level Three Meditation Room’s effect and condition, then used the room to strengthen his Divine Sense and searched Heavenly Silkworm True Person’s Storage Bag.
• Jiang Hong returned to a blood-red valley in Shangxi and told the Blood Lady that Qiu Qianπ had defeated him.

Blood Lady learned that Qiu Qianhai was a Demonic Cultivator and hurried off after hearing he owned an Ice Flood Dragon, while Ji Yuan examined Heavenly Silkworm True Person’s spoils and reflected on Dong Qian. The chapter ended with Island Lord Yunmiao asking Han Feiyu whether he resented her for arranging his expulsion from the Water Dragon Sect.

• Jiang Hong told Blood Lady that Qiu Qianhai used Demonic Dao methods, carried a corpse puppet, and kept an Ice Flood Dragon as a spirit pet.
• Blood Lady ordered Jiang Hong to stay in the valley while she went to speak with his father, and Jiang Hong examined the handprint she had left on his cheek.
• Ji Yuan tried to activate the Heavenly Net but found his Foundation Establishment cultivation insufficient, so he planned to travel north to Mirror Lake and advance.
• Ji Yuan sorted Heavenly Silkworm True Person’s storage bag, finding Spirit Stones, three Talisman Treasures, two Third-Order Monster Cores, and other valuable items.
• Ji Yuan drank Wishful Wine and considered his relationship with Dong Qian, deciding that he trusted her despite the secrets they each kept.
• Island Lord Yunmiao asked Han Feiyu whether he resented her for having him expelled from the Water Dragon Sect, then offered to send him to join his senior sister.

Han Feiyu reported his assignment to Island Lord Yunmiao, who spared Ji Yuan but ordered him to kill Liu Yuan. Ji Yuan reached Lanshan City for the Dragon-Slaying Auction and discovered Millennium Spirit Milk among its lots, which he needed to upgrade his Spirit Vein.

• Han Feiyu gave Island Lord Yunmiao the heads of the traitors he had killed and asked why she had possessed Senior Sister Yun Miao instead of Profound Water True Person.
• Island Lord Yunmiao told Han Feiyu that she would spare Ji Yuan but ordered him to kill Liu Yuan, while Han wondered how he could survive among the old monsters.
• Ji Yuan flew toward Mirror Lake and stopped at Lanshan City after learning that the Spirit-Controlling Sect and Ganhushan were holding a joint auction there.
• Ning Shanshan guided Ji Yuan through the city and explained that the auction's final lots would include the remains and blood essence of a Third-Order Flood Dragon being hunted by Cao Lang and Ye Chen.
• Ji Yuan studied the auction list, spotted ten drops of Millennium Spirit Milk, and resolved to obtain them so he could upgrade his Spirit Vein.

Ji Yuan prepared to bid on the auction’s rare treasures, sold several pills and demon beast materials, and bought gifts for his senior sisters while exploring Lanshan City with Ning Shanshan. When the auction began, he entered the second-floor seating area and spotted someone familiar in the hall below.

• Ji Yuan learned that the Jade Spirit True Person was auctioning a place as his disciple and suspected he wanted to align himself with an immortal sect before the coming war.
• Ji Yuan secretly sold eight Foundation Establishment Pills and several other items at the auction house, receiving 890 middle-grade spirit stones and a token for a second-floor seat.
• Ji Yuan explored Lanshan City with Ning Shanshan and bought gifts for Hua Yaoyue, Feng Zhitáo, Du Wanyi, and Dong Qian.
• Ji Yuan rewarded Ning Shanshan with spirit stones and told her his name before spending the next ten days cultivating and studying the Sword Canon.
• Ji Yuan disguised himself as an old man, entered the crowded auction house with his admission token, and noticed a familiar figure in the hall below.

Ji Yuan attended a three-day auction, won ten drops of Millennium Spirit Milk, and watched the bidding for a place as Jade Spirit True Person’s disciple. The auction ended with a Golden Core guest winning the place, while Jade Spirit True Person appeared to ask about the missing Flood Dragon and He Qianyue’s hurried departure.

• Ji Yuan recognized Senior Brother Qinghe, the Green Grain Island Lord, in the auction hall and wondered whether he worked for the auction house.
• Ji Yuan bought two Heavenly Thunder Pellets and earned a substantial sum when his Two-Pattern Foundation Establishment Pills sold for high prices.
• Ji Yuan outbid Liu Changle for ten drops of Millennium Spirit Milk at 4,550 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones, then learned his neighbor had been teasing him about Liu’s temper.
• He Qianyue received unexpected news and left the auction before the Third-Order Flood Dragon was put up for sale; Crane-Cry True Person took over and began the bidding for a place as Jade Spirit True Person’s disciple.
• Xuanding True Person bid 10,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones for the Spirit-Controlling Sect and won the place after Shiqi True Person withdrew.
• Jade Spirit True Person appeared and asked Crane-Cry True Person why He Qianyue had left and the Flood Dragon was missing.

Ji Yuan collected his auction winnings, bought Third-Order Flood Dragon Essence Blood, and met his eldest senior brother, Ran Kui, in Lanshan City. Ran Kui revealed that the Demonic Dao was again contacting an immortal sect in Shangdong, while the identity of the traitorous sect remained uncertain.

• Crane-Cry True Person ended the auction after revealing that Ye Chen and Cao Lang had encountered two Earth-Turning Flood Dragons and been ambushed by Demonic Cultivators before Canglin True Person rescued them.
• Ji Yuan checked his auction proceeds, bought two bottles of Third-Order Flood Dragon Essence Blood, and left Lanshan City under a changed face and aura.
• Ji Yuan recognized Ran Kui at the northern city gate, contacted him with a Communication Talisman, and met him at House Ding San on Black Tortoise Street.
• Ran Kui told Ji Yuan that he had uncovered evidence that one of the Six Immortal Sects of Shangdong had joined the Demonic Dao and had already alerted Hua Yaoyue and the other elders.
• Ran Kui explained that the Demonic Dao had contacted the unknown sect again and that a Golden Core True Person from Corpse-Driving Mountain had ambushed Ye Chen and Cao Lang, but he warned Ji Yuan not to draw conclusions without proof.

Ji Yuan received a Heavenly Venom Needle from Ran Kui, traveled to Mirror Lake, and condensed his fifth Sword Embryo before breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage. A Nascent Soul elder then appeared in his chamber, and Ji Yuan offered to join Shang Court.

• Ran Kui gave Ji Yuan a Dharma Treasure-grade Heavenly Venom Needle and taught him sword cultivation and artifact refining.
• Ran Kui escorted Ji Yuan to Mirror Lake, where Ji Yuan accepted a lakeside courtyard and received Form-Changing Talismans from Ji Yuan.
• Ji Yuan entered seclusion, absorbed Mirror Lake's Water Fortune, and formed the Firefly Sword as his fifth Sword Embryo.
• Ji Yuan consumed two thousand Middle-Grade Spirit Stones and firmly reached the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• A Nascent Soul elder appeared behind Ji Yuan in the Dao Comprehension Chamber, and Ji Yuan prepared his Fixed-Point Teleportation Token before offering to join Shang Court.

Ji Yuan rejected Mei Zhuang’s offer to become his adopted son and escaped his attack with a Fixed-Point Teleportation Token, returning to the Water Dragon Sect. There, he reunited with Wen Ling’er and told Grand Elder Kong Xifeng that he had encountered Mei Zhuang at Mirror Lake.

• Mei Zhuang offered to take Ji Yuan as his adopted son in exchange for a wisp of his Divine Soul, but Ji Yuan realized Mei Zhuang wanted his opportunity and activated his Fixed-Point Teleportation Token.
• Mei Zhuang tried to crush the token’s golden barrier with a crimson palm, but the token carried Ji Yuan away, and Mei Zhuang admitted that Elder Brother’s creation could not be stopped.
• Profound Water True Person sensed Ji Yuan’s return to the Water Dragon Sect and told Hua Yaoyue what had happened.
• Ji Yuan arrived at Clearwind Island, where Kong Xifeng dispelled his disguise and Wen Ling’er recognized and embraced him.
• Ji Yuan told Kong Xifeng that he had encountered Mei Zhuang at Mirror Lake, astonishing the Grand Elder.

Ji Yuan reunited with Wen Ling'er and Hua Yaoyue after returning to the Water Dragon Sect, while Hua Yaoyue confronted Kong Xifeng over the sect's future and defended Ji Yuan's potential. The chapter ended with Hua Yaoyue telling Ji Yuan how to deter Mei Zhuang if they met again.

• Kong Xifeng explained that Ji Yuan had been fortunate to encounter Mei Zhuang, and Wen Ling'er showed Ji Yuan around Clearwind Island and told him about her rapid cultivation and the sect members on Mist-Hidden Island.
• Hua Yaoyue arrived at Clearwind Island, sent Ji Yuan to Carefree Island, and spoke privately with Kong Xifeng about whether she would protect the Water Dragon Sect or leave the continent.
• Kong Xifeng pressured Hua Yaoyue to stay involved with the sect, but Hua Yaoyue refused and questioned whether Kong's plan to seek a powerful ally served the sect or herself.
• Hua Yaoyue warned Kong Xifeng not to underestimate the people who had defied heaven and lived a second life, and offered to shelter her if she chose to head south.
• Hua Yaoyue rejected Kong Xifeng's doubts about Ji Yuan's poor spiritual root aptitude and predicted that he would surpass her.
• Back on Carefree Island, Hua Yaoyue drank Ji Yuan's Wishful Wine and told him to remind Mei Zhuang of the beating he had taken on Ink Bamboo Island.

Ji Yuan returned to Carefree Island, learned Hua Yaoyue had formed her Nascent Soul, and gave her and Feng Zhitáo gifts. When he reached Mist Island, he found intruders had injured Big Clam and drove them away.

• Hua Yaoyue told Ji Yuan to keep her Nascent Soul breakthrough secret from Yun Qianzai and Feng Zhitáo, then grew displeased when he said he had met Ran Kui.
• Feng Zhitáo arrived, welcomed Ji Yuan back, and accepted his bamboo dragonfly and paper butterfly.
• Ji Yuan gave Hua Yaoyue wind chimes and a new chair, delighting her with both gifts.
• Ji Yuan chose to return to Mist Island and found Water Dragon Sect disciples and fishermen gathered outside it.
• Ji Yuan discovered two Foundation Establishment cultivators trapped inside the Formation and Big Clam badly wounded and poisoned.
• Ji Yuan used the Stardust Illusion-Killing Formation to defeat the intruders, learned Huang Yan was Liexiao True Person's disciple, and let them flee.

Ji Yuan returned to Mist Island, collected a year’s worth of harvest, and upgraded his Spirit Vein to Level Three. After tending to his Corpse Puppets and expanding his Spirit-Devouring Bee swarm, he went to the Fish Pond to test whether Flood Dragon Essence Blood could produce another Ice Flood Dragon.

• Ji Yuan checked Big Clam’s injuries, gave it pills, and released the Ice Flood Dragon before asking Tu Yue to show him the island’s harvest.
• Ji Yuan found the Spirit Vein overflowing with Spirit Stones and stored treasures, then cultivated there for several days and collected the resources.
• Ji Yuan spent Spirit Stones and ten drops of Millennium Spirit Milk to upgrade the Spirit Vein to Level Three, which began producing a drop of Millennium Spirit Milk each month.
• Ji Yuan buried injured Yin Boy and Heavenly Silkworm True Person’s remains at the Mass Burial Ground, hoping the latter might become a powerful Corpse Puppet.
• Ji Yuan found that the Beehive held nearly twenty thousand new First-Tier Spirit-Devouring Bees and five Second-Tier bees, then released his swarm and fed them Spirit Stones.
• Ji Yuan surveyed the crops and jumped from the mountaintop to the Fish Pond, where he planned to use Flood Dragon Essence Blood to try to breed another Ice Flood Dragon.

Ji Yuan used Flood Dragon Essence Blood to breed a second Ice Flood Dragon and fed the remaining drop to his older dragon, which grew larger but did not advance. After contracting the timid hatchling and checking Mist Island, he delivered spirit wine to Carefree Island and set off for Fox Moon Island to surprise Dong Qian.

• Ji Yuan traveled to Linhua City and bought two living Second Tier carp-type Spirit Fish for his experiments.
• Ji Yuan gave Flood Dragon Essence Blood to a Red-Edged Golden-Scaled Carp, but it exploded, so he spread the blood through the Fish Pond instead.
• Ji Yuan's blood-fed fish produced several Second Tier fish and eventually a second Ice Flood Dragon hatchling, which hid from other fish and ate cautiously.
• Ji Yuan fed the final drop of Flood Dragon Essence Blood to his older Ice Flood Dragon, which returned to its full size, while Big Clam woke and went to fight it at Cloud-Rain Marsh.
• Ji Yuan decided the cautious hatchling was worth keeping, contracted it, and returned it to the Fish Pond.
• Ji Yuan delivered spirit wine to Carefree Island and then headed to Fox Moon Island without messaging Dong Qian, hoping to surprise her.

Ji Yuan reunited with Wen Ling'er and her parents on Mist-Hidden Island before returning to Fox Moon Island to meet Dong Qian. Dong Qian delivered Han Feiyu’s warning that Feng Yisan had died and been possessed by the Shang Court old monster Situ Feng.

• Unable to reach Dong Qian, Ji Yuan traveled to Mist-Hidden Island with Wen Ling'er and reunited with Wen Lin and Zhao Yuechan.
• Ji Yuan shared news about Lin Hu, then out-fished Wen Lin at Cloud-Rain Marsh before leaving with Wen Ling'er.
• Kong Xifeng summoned Wen Ling'er back to Clearwind Island, and Ji Yuan later received an excited message from Dong Qian asking him to return to Fox Moon Island.
• Ji Yuan and Dong Qian spent five days in dual cultivation, after which she gave him a restricted Voice-Recording Talisman from Han Feiyu.
• Han Feiyu warned Ji Yuan to keep the matter secret and revealed that Feng Yisan was dead and had been possessed by Situ Feng, an old monster from the Shang Court.

Ji Yuan learned that Han Feiyu believed Feng Yichen had been possessed by the reincarnated Nascent Soul Situ Feng, then consulted Hua Yaoyue and prepared for a coming war. The chapter ended as Devil Lord White Bone attacked Shang Mountain and a swordsman announced that the Demonic Dao had invaded.

• Han Feiyu's recording warned Ji Yuan that Feng Yichen had been possessed by Situ Feng, cautioned him about Profound Water True Person, and urged him to keep the matter secret.
• Ji Yuan told Hua Yaoyue about Han Feiyu's warning and his suspicions; she reassured him about the Water Dragon Sect and explained that both the orthodox and demonic factions were maneuvering amid the coming chaos.
• Ji Yuan and Dong Qian sold his surplus resources, after which Ji Yuan returned to Mist Island, named the two Ice Flood Dragons Monday and Tuesday, and refined his Heavenly Venom Needles and Heavenly Net.
• Ji Yuan spent the following months cultivating, preparing supplies, and acquiring protective items as Li Changhe reported that the Demonic Dao was mobilizing on Shang Mountain.
• Devil Lord White Bone appeared west of the Shang Mountain Range, declared his intent to open the mountain and kill, and a green-robed swordsman announced that the Demonic Dao had invaded on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, year 2172.

Ji Yuan returned to Water Dragon Island after the Demonic Dao began its invasion and heard that the Water Dragon Sect was recruiting cultivators to defend Shang Mountain. After avoiding Yun Qianzai’s public spectacle, he led Island Lord Yunmiao away from the crowd, resisted her attempt to affect his mind, and addressed her as a cultivator under Mei Zhuang.

• Ji Yuan received messages announcing the Demonic Dao’s invasion and hurried from Mist Island to Water Dragon Island.
• Profound Water True Person warned that Shang Mountain must be defended and opened registration for cultivators willing to fight there.
• Yun Qianzai began reciting a grandiose verse, but Feng Zhitáo whisked him away before he could finish.
• Ji Yuan and Dong Qian agreed not to volunteer for the first group, and Ji Yuan went to see his master after Feng Zhitáo summoned him.
• Island Lord Yunmiao confronted Ji Yuan, who took her to an uninhabited stretch of water and resisted her attempt to put him into a trance.
• Ji Yuan greeted Island Lord Yunmiao as a cultivator under Mei Zhuang.

Ji Yuan convinced Old Devil Qu that he had joined the Shang Court, then returned to Carefree Island and discussed the growing Orthodox-Demonic War with Hua Yaoyue. As the Water Dragon Sect prepared for battle and assigned its cultivators, Ji Yuan remembered he could combine his four crafting buildings.

• Ji Yuan used Mei Zhuang’s name and his supposed membership in the Shang Court to make Old Devil Qu leave him alone, then met Kong Xifeng on Clearwind Island.
• Kong Xifeng questioned Ji Yuan’s allegiance, and Ji Yuan insisted he had only been trying to gain benefits from Old Devil Qu before returning to Carefree Island.
• Feng Zhitáo and Yun Qianzai chose to defend Shang Mountain, while Hua Yaoyue told Ji Yuan to remain behind and explained that the Shang Court might offer him opportunities as well as danger.
• Hua Yaoyue identified the remnant possessing Island Lord Yunmiao as Qu Luohun, and Ji Yuan connected Qu Luohun to Han Feiyu and Soulfall Island.
• Dong Qian told Ji Yuan that older Water Dragon Sect cultivators had volunteered to fill the first deployment, and explained how the Six-Sect Alliance would coordinate Shangdong’s defenses and supply lines.
• Ji Yuan left Fox Moon Island for Mist Island and remembered that his four [Pills, Formations, Talismans, Artifacts] buildings could be combined.