Chapter Summaries

Zhou Yi, disguised as Elder Chixiao, accepted Wang Chao’s request to subdue the Vicious Flood Dragon troubling the capital in exchange for the Wood Spirit Pearl. After arriving at the Investigation Bureau, he flew off to prepare his countermeasures while Zhou Mingrui ordered the river approaches secretly monitored.

• Wang Chao asked Elder Chixiao to help subdue the Vicious Flood Dragon that kept harassing the capital.
• Zhou Yi explained that he avoided the dynasty’s fortune to escape karmic entanglements, and Wang Chao offered the Wood Spirit Pearl as payment.
• Zhou Yi accepted the commission and flew Wang Chao to the Investigation Bureau’s capital headquarters.
• Zhou Yi met Zhou Mingrui and learned the Vicious Flood Dragon traveled upstream from the East Sea and could transform into water.
• Zhou Yi flew into the sky to make arrangements, and Zhou Mingrui ordered his people to monitor the Sea River tributaries without disturbing him.

Zhou Yi prepared arrays in the capital’s rivers to trap the Vicious Flood Dragon, then discovered the capital’s Dynastic Fortune was close to forming a Fortune Domain. He spotted an Earth Attribute Destiny Star and went to find its bearer, hoping to take on an exceptional disciple.

• Zhou Yi deployed Minor Five Elements Reversal Arrays in the Chao, Yong, Qing, Ya, and Nan Rivers to trap the Vicious Flood Dragon.
• Zhou Yi sensed the capital’s golden Dynastic Fortune while meditating and expelled the fortune spiritual energy he had accidentally absorbed.
• Zhou Yi observed a faint Earth Attribute Destiny Star within the capital’s Dynastic Fortune.
• Zhou Yi decided the Destiny Star’s bearer could make an excellent disciple and headed toward them.

Zhou Yi intervened in a street beating and discovered that Duan Houdao had an Earth Virtue Physique, though a failed awakening had damaged his mind. He summoned Investigation Bureau agent Li Huan, while the bureau continued studying and tracking him.

• The Investigation Bureau monitored Zhou Yi as he flew across the capital and landed above an alley where Li Feiyang's group was beating Duan Houdao.
• Zhou Mingrui and the bureau's experts speculated that Zhou Yi had come because someone in the alley possessed unusual talent, while Daoist Qingchun asked about Zhou Yi's Daoist register.
• Zhou Yi froze the people in the alley, healed Duan Houdao with a spiritual pill, and identified his Earth Virtue Physique and the damage caused by his failed awakening.
• Zhou Yi freed Li Feiyang from the spiritual seal and urged Duan Houdao to take revenge, but Duan Houdao insisted that they should call the police.
• Zhou Yi summoned the Investigation Bureau agent filming nearby, and Li Huan hurried over to hear his instructions.

Zhou Yi claimed Duan Houdao as his disciple after recognizing his Earth Virtue Physique, then brought him to Investigation Bureau headquarters to protect and treat him. He began seeking a way to repair Duan Houdao’s severe soul injury but found that Blue Star lacked the high-grade spirit medicine required.

• Zhou Yi declared Duan Houdao his personal disciple, while Xia Yan tried to gain his favor by kicking Li Feiyang and asking to become his disciple, but Zhou Yi rejected her.
• The Investigation Bureau took custody of the immobilized suspects, and Xia Yan agreed to work for the bureau after learning she could meet Duan Houdao again.
• Zhou Yi brought Duan Houdao to Investigation Bureau headquarters and explained that his muddled mind came from a serious soul injury that ordinary medicine could not heal.
• Zhou Yi established the Profound Yellow Thick Earth Array to gather Earth spiritual energy and help Duan Houdao’s Earth Virtue Physique recover.
• After searching for several days, Zhou Yi found no suitable cure because Blue Star’s spirit herbs and fruits were not yet powerful enough to make pills that could heal soul injuries.

Zhou Yi captured and killed the Vicious Flood Dragon in the Qing River, then recovered the Water Spirit Pearl from its Demon Core. He left with the flood dragon’s remains, while the Investigation Bureau arrived to investigate the scene.

• The Investigation Bureau found no spiritual energy in Duan Houdao’s samples, and Zhou Yi continued trying to devise a pill to heal his divine soul.
• Zhou Yi sensed the Qing River array being attacked and rushed there as the Investigation Bureau prepared to record his encounter with the Vicious Flood Dragon.
• Zhou Yi reinforced the Minor Five Elements Reversal Array and used Five Elements Tribulation Lightning to subdue the black python.
• Zhou Yi demanded the Water Spirit Pearl, but the flood dragon attacked him with its Demon Core and ice techniques.
• Zhou Yi killed the flood dragon and broke open its Demon Core, revealing the Water Spirit Pearl inside.
• Zhou Yi collected the array flags and flood dragon’s remains, and the Investigation Bureau’s teams arrived after he departed.

Zhou Yi met with Zhou Mingrui and Investigation Bureau officials, received the Wood Spirit Pearl, and rejected their offer to exchange Spiritual Objects for Kunlun Sect cultivation methods. He explained the sect’s mission to combat demons and said Wang Chao could seek him at Peach Blossom Mountain, leaving the Bureau curious about how to deepen its contact with the sect.

• Zhou Mingrui brought Wang Chao, Qingchun, and Ji Xingwen to meet Zhou Yi, and Wang Chao handed over the Wood Spirit Pearl.
• Zhou Yi and Qingchun exchanged greetings, and Zhou Yi explained that the Kunlun Sect’s Supreme Ancestor could live for ten thousand years.
• Ji Xingwen proposed exchanging Spiritual Objects for cultivation guidance, but Zhou Yi refused and said the sect would not involve itself in worldly affairs or share its techniques.
• Zhou Yi told Ji Xingwen that the Kunlun Sect descended from the mountain to slay demons and gain merit for cultivation.
• Zhou Yi said he needed to return to treat his disciple Duan Houdao and told the Investigation Bureau that Wang Chao could visit him at Peach Blossom Mountain.

After returning to Kunlun Sect with Duan Houdao, Zhou Yi learned about his parents’ progress and disciplined the Treasure Seeking Rat before sending his disciple to cultivate. He then entered seclusion to brew Azure Flame Wine and refine his Five Spirits Wonderful Tree with the Wood Spirit Pearl and Water Spirit Pearl.

• Zhou Yi brought Duan Houdao back to Kunlun Sect underground and introduced him to the Treasure Seeking Rat, which recognized Duan Houdao’s Earth Virtue Physique and fortune.
• The Peach Spirit Fangfei revealed that the Treasure Seeking Rat had secretly consumed Heavenly Spirit Dew, and Zhou Yi punished it by ordering it to find one Kunlun disciple each month.
• The Treasure Seeking Rat reported that Zhou Yi’s parents were nearing the Innate Realm and had gained fame as the Carefree Twin Immortals, so Zhou Yi rewarded it with a Spirit Pill.
• Zhou Yi instructed Duan Houdao to recite the True Lord Refines Form Clears Spirit Dao Scripture daily, then entered seclusion to brew five jars of Azure Flame Wine.
• Zhou Yi brought out the Five Spirits Wonderful Tree and began refining the Wood Spirit Pearl and Water Spirit Pearl into it using blood and fire refinement.

Zhou Yi refined the Wood and Water Spirit Pearls and merged their essence into the Five Spirits Wonderful Tree, which drained the surrounding spiritual energy and gained the ability to shift between tangible and intangible forms. He left the chapter astonished by the tree’s power and its near-spirit-treasure status.

• Zhou Yi sealed his stone house and spent months refining the Spirit Pearls while the Treasure Seeking Rat brought him supplies and reported on new disciples.
• Zhou Yi gave Gu Yu a Kunlun Flying Immortal Token and a Foundation Establishment Pill, then ordered that the new disciples receive Sect Missions but not yet learn about exchanging for tokens.
• Jiang Xiaozhai contacted Transmission Elder Lingyuan, and Zhou Yi explained the sect’s martial and Dao cultivation techniques before cutting off their transmission.
• Tian Xingjian obtained a Flying Immortal Token and used his Investigation Bureau connections to provide Kunlun with intelligence, while Zhou Yi warned himself that Tian’s entanglements could obstruct his cultivation.
• Zhou Yi completed refining both Spirit Pearls and fed their essence to the Five Spirits Wonderful Tree, which shattered his formation, absorbed energy from the surrounding region, and passed through the Five Elements Inversion Formation as spiritual light.
• Zhou Yi discovered that the tree had gained a tangible-to-intangible transformation and used its blue spiritual light to produce an ice pearl that granted him insight into countless spells.

After refining the Five Spirits Wonderful Tree, Zhou Yi used it to improve his spiritual-qi affinity and cleanse Azure Flame Wine for himself and his companions. The Treasure Seeking Rat reported that the Awakener Alliance’s Great Dynasty minister might possess a Fire Spirit Pearl or an Innate Fire Spirit Physique, and Zhou Yi planned to test Kunlun’s outer disciples before meeting him.

• Zhou Yi swallowed the Five Spirits Wonderful Tree and found that it greatly improved his absorption of spiritual qi, prompting him to seek the remaining Five Elements Spirit Pearls.
• Zhou Yi visited Duan Houdao and Peach Spirit Fangfei, then used the tree’s divine light to remove the baleful qi from Azure Flame Wine and shared the wine with them.
• The Treasure Seeking Rat reported that the Awakener Alliance’s Great Dynasty minister could transform into flames and might possess a Fire Spirit Pearl or an Innate Fire Spirit Physique.
• Zhou Yi gave the Treasure Seeking Rat spirit wine and ordered it to bring him to the Outer Sect Disciples the next day so he could test them for sinister intentions.
• Zhou Yi kept the Treasure Seeking Rat under a beast-taming technique and resolved to build Kunlun’s strength quietly until he achieved Deity Transformation.

After awakening from a wine-induced sleep, Zhou Yi tested the resolve of Xu Miao, a sick young man with conflicting spiritual veins, and accepted him as a potential Kunlun disciple. Zhou Yi left Xu Miao in the hands of the Daoist sects, whose response to his apparent spiritual-root awakening could determine whether he ever entered the immortal path.

• Zhou Yi recovered his clarity after sleeping beneath Fangfei and decided to test the Kunlun Sect’s prospective disciples.
• Zhou Yi found Xu Miao volunteering at Upper Clarity Palace and placed him in a Heart Refining Illusion Array.
• Xu Miao resisted temptations of wealth, power, and worldly suffering, but faltered when he experienced a vision of attaining longevity.
• Zhou Yi accepted Xu Miao as suitable for the Outer Sect, placed a Forbidden Seal on him, and triggered a spiritual awakening phenomenon to draw the Daoist sects’ attention.
• The Daoists of Upper Clarity Palace brought Xu Miao inside and contacted other Daoist leaders, while Zhou Yi and the Treasure Seeking Rat departed.

Zhou Yi tested Jiang Li, an unruly Awakener Alliance member with Innate Bad Luck, and explained that his misfortune could make future heavenly tribulations easier. Zhou Yi offered to help remove it for ten thousand contribution points in exchange for information about the Awakener Alliance, and Jiang Li left to consider the offer.

• Zhou Yi and the Treasure Seeking Rat traveled to Qianyang to test Jiang Li, the last of the twelve prospective disciples.
• Jiang Li resisted most stages of the heart-tempering trial but became immersed in an illusion of life with a mortal woman.
• Zhou Yi revealed the gray cloud of bad luck above Jiang Li and explained that his daily misfortunes could ease future heavenly tribulations.
• Jiang Li asked how to remove his Innate Bad Luck, and Zhou Yi named a price of ten thousand contribution points.
• Zhou Yi suggested Jiang Li report information about the Awakener Alliance, and Jiang Li left without agreeing.

After returning to the Chaotic Star Sea, Zhou Yi resumed control of Earth Fire Island, gathered intelligence, and spent ten years refining pills before traveling to the Inner Star Sea. He arrived near Extreme Saint Island as a vast cloud of demonic energy appeared over its harbor.

• Zhou Yi returned to Earth Fire Island and learned that the Flood Dragon Clan was growing in strength and that rumors claimed the Twin Saints of Heavenly Star could no longer leave Tianxing City.
• Zhou Yi found that the Dragon Blood Grass had grown to four stalks and ordered the four Spirit Turtle clan leaders to remain on Earth Fire Island while he went to the Inner Star Sea.
• Zhou Yi spent ten years refining pills for Great Demons, including the Suanni Clan, and acquired many rare Spiritual Objects.
• At Extreme Saint Island, Fire Spring Daoist explained that the Wen Family had regained its leadership of the demonic path after Six Paths Extreme Saint advanced to late-stage Nascent Soul.
• A vast dark cloud swept over the harbor, bringing Ghostly Wind, demonic howls, and terrifying pressure.

Zhou Yi attacked Extreme Saint Island, severed Wen Tianyi’s body, and took his golden horn before confronting the island’s lord, Wen Wushang. He revealed his connection to Wen Wuchang and suggested that the Wen family’s cultivation of the True Demon Body served another person’s plans.

• Zhou Yi arrived above Extreme Saint Island with his Profound Yin Soul Gathering Banners and sent a cloud hand crashing against its protective formation, causing nearby ships to flee.
• Wen Tianyi emerged to challenge Zhou Yi, but the Scythe Demon ambushed him and cut his body in half; Wen Tianyi’s Nascent Soul escaped into the formation.
• Zhou Yi removed Wen Tianyi’s golden horn and discovered that its Demonic Light could pierce the island’s formation and destroy a palace.
• Wen Wushang came out with his cultivators, apologized for Wen Tianyi, and demanded his son’s body and information about Wen Wuchang.
• Zhou Yi claimed that he and Wen Wuchang had been friends and that he had come to collect the promised Six Extremes True Demon Art, then questioned why Wen Wuchang and Wen Tianyi had cultivated the True Demon Body instead.

Zhou Yi fought Wen Wushang and Six Paths Extreme Saint Wen Tianren after uncovering the Wen Family’s blood sacrifices and use of the Six Extremes True Demon Art. Trapping them in the Profound Yin Soul Gathering Array, Zhou Yi forced Wen Wushang to agree to teach him the art in exchange for a Daoist Oath that applied only for that day.

• Wen Wushang revealed his Saint Demons and attacked Zhou Yi, who identified himself and overwhelmed the demons with his Profound Yin Demon Souls.
• Wen Tianren appeared and offered Zhou Yi the Six Paths True Demon Art if he would help attack Heavenly Star Palace, but Zhou Yi instead enclosed both Wen men in his array.
• Zhou Yi’s array sealed Wen Wushang’s Saint Demons and separated him from Wen Tianren, while Wen Tianren fought off Zhou Yi’s Demon Gods.
• After a day of battle, Wen Wushang began to weaken, and Zhou Yi demanded that he hand over the Six Extremes True Demon Art.
• Wen Wushang refused until Zhou Yi’s Scythe Demon cut off his arm; he then agreed to teach the art if Zhou Yi swore to let him go, and Zhou Yi accepted an oath lasting only that day.

Zhou Yi obtained the Six Extremes True Demon Art from Wen Wushang, discovered its link to Saint Demons, and captured Wen Wushang’s Nascent Soul after breaking his oath. As Wen Tianren remained trapped in the Profound Yin Soul Gathering Array, two demonic cultivators arrived to intervene, and Lu Mu attacked the formation with Profound Yin Ghost Fire.

• Zhou Yi swore not to become enemies with Wen Wushang, received the Six Extremes True Demon Art, and learned that its cultivation would draw a Saint Demon to seize the cultivator’s body.
• Zhou Yi opened the formation exit, but the Scythe Demon struck Wen Wushang as he fled, and Zhou Yi captured his weakened Nascent Soul with the Kunlun Cauldron.
• Zhou Yi searched Wen Wushang’s Storage Bag and found a Saint Demon refining method and an incomplete copy of Nine Mother and Son Heavenly Ghosts.
• Wen Tianren continued resisting the Profound Yin Demon Gods and trying to break the formation while Zhou Yi weighed the risks of releasing him.
• Gu Shuo and Lu Mu arrived outside the formation, argued over their ties to the righteous path, and urged Zhou Yi to reconcile with the Wen Family.
• After Zhou Yi told them to leave, Lu Mu unleashed Profound Yin Ghost Fire into the formation.

Zhou Yi used the Faceless Demon and the weakening Profound Yin Soul Gathering Array to escape after devastating the Wen Family on Extreme Saint Island. With Wen Tianren vowing revenge and the Spiritual Turtle Clan’s strength now feared across the Chaotic Star Sea, Zhou Yi traveled in human form to Kuixing Island.

• Zhou Yi used the Five Skulls Shattering Heart Hammer to absorb Lu Mu’s Profound Yin Ghost Fire while Gu Shuo’s Bone Sea Battle Formation sealed off Profound Yin Qi.
• Zhou Yi ordered the Faceless Demon to possess Wen Tianyi and Wen Wushang’s bodies, then used the disguised Wen Wushang to enter Extreme Saint Island.
• Zhou Yi broke through Gu Shuo’s formation and escaped as the Faceless Demon ambushed Wen Wuji, destroying his body and devastating Extreme Saint Island.
• Wen Tianren discovered the destruction and swore to kill Zhou Yi, while Lu Mu and Gu Shuo fled the island.
• News spread that the Spiritual Turtle Sea Domain’s Great Demon had defeated the Wen Family, and Zhou Yi traveled in human form to Kuixing Island.

Zhou Yi, using the Faceless Demon identity of Ancestor Chiming, seized control of the Kuixing Sect, renamed it the Chiming Sect, and ordered its people to search for an abandoned Ancient Teleportation Array. A century passed as the search expanded and the sect grew, and the chapter ended with He family junior He Qiu joining the search.

• The Faceless Demon subdued Jia Jun, Qian Ming, and Wu Hetong with Soul Restrictions and declared that he would establish a sect as Chiming.
• Chiming renamed the Kuixing Sect the Chiming Sect, rewarded its three elders with Ancient Treasures, and ordered them to find an unnamed island with an abandoned Ancient Teleportation Array.
• The Chiming Sect mobilized its disciples and affiliated merchant families to search the surrounding islands, while Zhou Yi cultivated in seclusion for fifty years.
• The Chiming Sect annexed Sangxing Island, gained resources and Core Formation cultivators, and Chiming captured a rival Nascent Soul rogue cultivator.
• Zhou Yi returned to Blue Star briefly, inspected the new Kunlun disciples, and then resumed his search for the teleportation array in the Chaotic Star Sea.
• After another fifty years of searching, He Tu organized a renewed effort across previously searched islands, and He family junior He Qiu joined the search.

He Qiu discovered an Ancient Teleportation Array with his family and concealed it before traveling to the Chiming Sect. He rented a Cave Mansion on Chiming Peak, hoping to break through to the sixth level of Qi Refinement and find a way to approach a Nascent Soul patriarch.

• He Qiu received He Chuan’s message and left his merchant ship to meet his grandfather and parents at a hidden cave.
• He Qiu recognized the Ancient Teleportation Array and advised his family to seal the chamber and conceal its location.
• He Qiu destroyed the passage and erased traces of the cave, then sent He Chuan and his parents back to the He family.
• He Qiu traveled to Chiming Island and registered with the Chiming Sect, receiving a guarantor certificate.
• He Qiu rented a Cave Mansion on Chiming Peak for one month at half price, planning to break through to the sixth level of Qi Refinement.

He Qiu sought out Ancestor Chiming with news of an Ancient Teleportation Array and was unexpectedly accepted as the Faceless Demon's eldest disciple. After the array's location was confirmed, Zhou Yi ordered four demons to guard it while awaiting an outer-realm cultivator.

• He Qin Xin lent He Qiu her Cave Mansion, where he cultivated and tended her medicine field.
• He Qiu went to the mountaintop and reported the Ancient Teleportation Array to Ancestor Chiming, presenting a recording Jade Slip.
• The Faceless Demon accepted He Qiu as his eldest disciple after receiving Zhou Yi's instruction, and He Qiu formally became his disciple.
• He Tu and Jia Jun congratulated the Faceless Demon, who said he would attend the Extreme Yin Sect's founding celebration.
• The Faceless Demon reported that the array lay fifteen hundred li south, and Zhou Yi ordered Oxhead, Nether Demon, Snake Demon, and Chongming to guard it.

Zhou Yi negotiated with Wen Wushang to use the Demon Devouring Mind Refining Method, then waited in seclusion for a possible arrival from Tian Nan. After sixty-seven years, Han Li arrived in the Chaotic Star Sea, where Zhou Yi welcomed him.

• Zhou Yi revealed the Demon Devouring Mind Refining Method to Wen Wushang and persuaded him to help use it in exchange for a future soul-possession vessel and protection for his bloodline.
• Wen Wushang agreed to fuse three Saint Demon incarnations into Zhou Yi's disciple's cultivation art once the disciple formed a Nascent Soul.
• Zhou Yi found the Ancient Teleportation Array's far end destroyed and began cultivating on the barren island while considering how to reach other regions.
• Over sixty-seven years, He Qiu established his foundation, and Ancestor Chiming accepted him as a disciple at a ceremony attended by the Extreme Yin Ancestor.
• Han Li and a burly black-robed man emerged from the Ancient Teleportation Array, and Zhou Yi greeted Han Li.