Chapter Summaries

After the battle, Chen Daoxuan used his White Lotus of Creation and Sword Qi Rain Curtain to protect Cangzhou from the Corpse Horde, while Zhou Mubai guarded him. Fairy Chi Yao arrived as bait for Old Demon Shen Jue, only to find Chen Daoxuan had already drawn the enemy’s attention.

• The Cangzhou Allied Forces treated the wounded and buried the dead, while Chen Daoxuan recovered his True Yuan under Zhou Mubai’s protection.
• Chen Daoxuan’s efficient group-killing sword technique and Lifebound Artifact let him sustain battle far longer than other cultivators.
• Fairy Chi Yao traveled toward Cangzhou as bait, hoping to draw out Old Demon Shen Jue before the corpse chaos spread further.
• For five days, Chen Daoxuan rushed between endangered defense sectors and devastated the Corpse Horde, frustrating Sun Fu’s attempts to ambush him.
• Fairy Chi Yao arrived to find only tens of millions of Zombies remained and realized Chen Daoxuan had taken over the role of bait.

Chen Daoxuan fought to protect Cangzhou Immortal City as Sun Fu attacked a vulnerable defense zone and Chi Yao’s group joined the battle. Divine Absolute True Person ambushed Chen Daoxuan, but Qin Zhan arrived, defeated him, and sealed him in a bead.

• Chi Yao recognized that Chen Daoxuan’s Sword Qi Rain Curtain was far more powerful and enduring than the Silk Rain Sword Intent should allow.
• Sun Fu led nine late stage Purple Mansion zombie servants against Defense Zone 37, and Zhou Mubai left Chen Daoxuan to reinforce it.
• Chi Yao and two other Purple Mansion sword cultivators attacked, killing three late stage Purple Mansion zombie servants and confronting Sun Fu.
• Divine Absolute True Person appeared behind Chen Daoxuan and struck him with the Soul Stabilizing Divine Light, but the Primordial Enlightenment Scripture absorbed it and Chen Daoxuan escaped.
• Qin Zhan seized Divine Absolute True Person, struck him into a Space Prison, and sealed him inside a transparent bead.

The Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall wiped out the Corpse Horde at Cangzhou Immortal City, but Shen Jue escaped after sacrificing only an avatar. Chen Daoxuan defeated Sun Fu and learned that Sun Mang threatened Guang'an Prefecture, so he hurried there aboard Fairy Chi Yao’s Spirit Boat.

• The Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall slaughtered the Corpse Horde and told Chen Daoxuan that Shen Jue had used his master's remains to refine an avatar, while the real Shen Jue remained at large.
• Sun Fu offered to reveal Shen Jue’s Grotto-Heaven if Chen Daoxuan fought him, and Chen Daoxuan accepted the duel after the Hall Master promised to protect him.
• Chen Daoxuan overwhelmed Sun Fu with his Flying Swords and destroyed his Corpse Core after Sun Fu taunted him about the danger facing his family.
• Chen Daoxuan warned the Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall that Sun Mang had been left in Guang'an Prefecture and set off to reinforce it.
• Fairy Chi Yao offered Chen Daoxuan her faster Spirit Boat, and she and another female cultivator accompanied him toward Guang'an Prefecture.

Chen Daoxuan told Chi Yao that he had a plan to lure and eliminate Shen Jue, then returned to Twin Lakes Island and killed Sun Mang while Chi Yao slew the other zombies. The Chen Family's island was safe for now, and Chen Daoxuan confirmed to Chi Yao that the fight had gone as planned.

• Chen Daoxuan reassured Chi Yao that Guang'an Prefecture and his family were protected, then proposed a way to lure Shen Jue into a trap.
• Sun Mang besieged Twin Lakes Island and taunted the Chen Family, but Chen Xianhe kept everyone behind the Fourth-Grade Defense Formation.
• Chen Daoxuan attacked Sun Mang, while Chi Yao killed the three early stage Purple Mansion zombies guarding him.
• Chen Daoxuan overwhelmed Sun Mang and destroyed his Corpse Core, killing him as the Chen Family celebrated his return.
• Luo Xiuyuan recognized Chi Yao as a Qianyuan Sword Sect cultivator and reflected on the Merfolk Tribe's alliance with the Chen Family.
• Chi Yao asked Chen Daoxuan how the battle had gone, and he confirmed it with a nod.

After the Merfolk Tribe helped defend Twin Lakes Island, Chen Daoxuan promised to free its imprisoned clansmen and returned home to rest. He then discovered that the Golden Scripture had granted him the Soul Stabilizing Divine Light, a divine art that could expand the Sea of Consciousness but consumed large amounts of Divine Sense.

• Chen Daoxuan hosted Fairy Chi Yao and Yue'e at the Chen Family’s Spirit Mansion before returning to Twin Lakes Island.
• Chen Daoxuan thanked Luo Xiuyuan and promised to help the Merfolk Tribe reclaim the clansmen imprisoned on Spirit Shell Island.
• Luo Li gazed back toward Twin Lakes Island before following Luo Xiuyuan beneath the sea.
• After sleeping for a day and a night, Chen Daoxuan examined the Golden Scripture and received the Soul Stabilizing Divine Light.
• Chen Daoxuan learned that the divine art expanded the Sea of Consciousness by refining Divine Sense, but that the process caused severe Divine Sense depletion.

Chen Daoxuan learned that cultivating the Soul Stabilizing Divine Light required a Source of Divine Light and concluded that he needed the Immortal Corpse or Divine Absolute True Person. Sun Mang recovered in the Myriad Star Sea Underworld and entered the Divine Absolute Immortal Mansion after Divine Absolute True Person summoned it, while Chen Daoxuan joined the Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall and others to locate Old Demon Shen Jue.

• Chen Daoxuan comprehended the Soul Stabilizing Divine Light and realized he needed a Source of Divine Light from the Immortal Corpse or Divine Absolute True Person to cultivate it.
• Sun Mang recovered by devouring three Demonic Beast clans, then heard Divine Absolute True Person summon it and entered the Divine Absolute Immortal Mansion.
• Fairy Chi Yao sensed that Old Demon Shen Jue had taken the bait, and Fairy Yue'e notified Chen Daoxuan.
• Chen Daoxuan met the Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall and the Void Toad Clan Leader, who used his spatial talent to locate Old Demon Shen Jue.
• The Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall led Chen Daoxuan, Fairy Chi Yao, and Fairy Yue'e to inspect the Upper Realm Immortal's mansion.

Chen Daoxuan and the Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall entered Divine Absolute True Person’s Immortal Mansion, where the Hall Master’s group killed Divine Absolute True Person and Sun Mang. Chen Daoxuan found no inheritance while exploring until he reached the Treasure Pavilion with Fairy Chi Yao and Fairy Yue'e, where they discovered an exceptionally powerful Magic Artifact.

• The Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall opened a Space Rift to Divine Absolute True Person’s Immortal Mansion and led Chen Daoxuan and the others inside.
• The Hall Master confronted Divine Absolute True Person, who lunged at Chen Daoxuan, but the white-haired Void Toad elder destroyed his Corpse Core and killed him.
• The Hall Master erased Sun Mang and let the group search the Immortal Mansion for treasures; he also refused the white-haired elder’s request for an extra transformation quota for the Void Toad Clan.
• Chen Daoxuan explored the Immortal Mansion with his Divine Sense severely restricted but found no treasures or inheritance.
• Chen Daoxuan met Fairy Chi Yao and Fairy Yue'e at the Treasure Pavilion, where they found a single Magic Artifact whose rank appeared far higher than Fourth Grade Upper.

After finding the Michen Banner in Divine Absolute Immortal Mansion, Chen Daoxuan accepted it for safekeeping and was invited to the Qianyuan Sword Sect’s postwar reward ceremony. At the Cangzhou Allied Forces’ merit assessment, the Ye Family protested its absence from the delegation list, then left after Zhou Minghao pointed out that its Old Ancestor could represent it.

• Fairy Chi Yao and Fairy Yue'e agreed that Chen Daoxuan should keep the Michen Banner, and Fairy Yue'e handed it to him.
• The Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall told Chen Daoxuan to attend the Qianyuan Sword Sect’s postwar reward ceremony in one month.
• The Cangzhou Allied Forces eliminated the remaining corpse tide, and Chen Daoxuan arrived at the Zhou Family Residence for the merit assessment.
• Zhou Minghao announced that seventeen cultivators, including Chen Daoxuan, would travel to the Qianyuan Sword Sect to receive rewards.
• Ye Hongsheng objected that no Ye Family cultivator was on the list, but Zhou Minghao replied that the Ye Family Old Ancestor could represent the family.
• Ye Hongsheng departed with the Ye Family Purple Mansion cultivators after Zhou Minghao dismissed his objection.

Chen Daoxuan and the other Cangzhou cultivators discussed breaking with the Ye Family and proposed building a new trade hub, using the upcoming Qianyuan Sword Sect Reward Ceremony to test whether the sect would support a boycott. They arrived at Giant Spirit Island and entered Qianyuan Sword Sect through a Space Gate.

• Zhou Mubai said his family would break with the Ye Family because Ye Wudao’s flight had cost him the Cangzhou cultivators’ trust, and Zhang Xuanling refused to let Ye Wudao command the Zhang Family again.
• Chen Daoxuan argued that the clans needed to replace Cangzhou Immortal City as their trade hub, but the group recognized that travel between prefectures depended on the Ye Family’s Large Transport Ships.
• Chen Daoxuan proposed that the clans’ boycott could prompt Qianyuan Sword Sect to pressure the Ye Family, and said the Reward Ceremony’s inclusion of Large Transport Ships would reveal the sect’s position.
• Zhang Xuanling flew the group to Giant Spirit Island aboard his Wind Wing Spirit Boat, where they saw Qianyuan Sword Sect’s vast array of disciple islands and encountered the formation’s Space Barrier.
• A Space Gate opened in the barrier, and Zhang Xuanling led Chen Daoxuan and the others into Qianyuan Sword Sect.

Chen Daoxuan arrived at the Qianyuan Sword Sect for a ceremony honoring the Cangzhou cultivators who quelled the Corpse Tide. At the ceremony, Ye Wudao claimed the Ye Family deserved the greatest credit, but Zhou Minghao presented the battle merit ledger, which showed Chen Daoxuan at the top.

• Han Huaiping escorted Chen Daoxuan to the Cloudtop Immortal Palace, where he learned the sect’s Cave Heaven had been refined from a Realm Demon’s shell.
• Ten days later, Chen Daoxuan and the Cangzhou cultivators attended the Reward Ceremony before the Qianyuan Sword Sect’s female Sect Leader.
• Elder Wu argued that quelling the Corpse Tide only offset the Cangzhou cultivators’ past failures, but the Sect Leader decided to distribute rewards under the Frontline Battle Merit System.
• Ye Wudao objected and claimed the Ye Family had earned the foremost merit, prompting Zhang Xuanling to challenge him over fleeing the defense of Cangzhou Immortal City.
• Zhou Minghao challenged Ye Wudao to prove the Ye Family’s contribution and displayed the battle merit ledger, which placed Chen Daoxuan at the top.

Chen Daoxuan was pulled into Qianyuan Sword Sect’s factional dispute when Ye Wudao challenged the authenticity of his battle merits and demanded proof that he had slain the corpse hordes himself. Chen revealed his White Lotus of Creation, and Hall Master Huyan agreed to test his claim that he had created it.

• Ye Wudao accused Zhou Minghao’s battle merit records of being forged, but Zhang Yu confirmed that Qianyun Hall’s independent records were true.
• The Sect Master of Qianyuan Sword Sect forced Ye Wudao to his knees, and Ye demanded that Chen Daoxuan step forward and swear an oath about his battle achievements.
• Chen recognized that Ye Wudao’s challenge was meant to undermine the Sect Master faction, so he admitted that he had relied on external aid and revealed his White Lotus of Creation.
• Chen explained that the White Lotus of Creation stored his True Yuan, allowing him to slay the corpse hordes, and said that he had made the artifact himself.
• Ye Wudao demanded that Chen create a Magic Artifact on the spot, but Hall Master Huyan instead offered to test Chen’s artifact-refining ability, and Chen accepted.

Chen Daoxuan completed and fused the missing Formation Patterns on a second-grade Magic Artifact, proving Ye Wudao had falsely accused him and revealing extraordinary Artifact Forging talent. Hall Master Huyan urged the Sect Leader to punish Ye Wudao, leaving the sect’s response pending.

• Hall Master Huyan challenged Chen Daoxuan to complete the unfinished Artifact inheritance, and Chen asked for only one incense stick’s time to prepare.
• Chen Daoxuan entered a state of Enlightenment, then began inscribing Formation Patterns onto the Bronze Mirror Artifact Blank after Hall Master Huyan prepared it.
• Chen Daoxuan completed the three missing Formation Patterns and continued creating more, while the gathered cultivators watched and Ye Wudao grew anxious.
• Chen Daoxuan inscribed eighteen Formation Patterns and successfully fused them, completing a second-grade top-quality Magic Artifact that unleashed a Wind-Thunder Domain.
• Hall Master Huyan praised Chen Daoxuan’s talent and called on the Sect Leader to punish Ye Wudao for slandering a man of merit.

The Sect Master of Qianyuan Sword Sect and the Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall confronted Ye Wudao over his repeated crimes, while Ye Yin stayed silent as his son begged for help. Fei Chenxue ultimately offered to spare Ye Wudao in her own name, leaving Ye Yin briefly moved by her apparent mercy.

• Elders and hall masters demanded that the Sect Master punish Ye Wudao for violating sect law, and Ye Yin left the decision to her.
• The Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall silenced Ye Wudao, forced him to kneel, and listed his escape from confinement, flight during the Cangzhou corpse tide, and slander of the meritorious as three crimes.
• Ye Wudao begged Ye Yin and the Sect Master to save him, but Ye Yin kept his eyes lowered and did not respond.
• The Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall prepared to sentence Ye Wudao, but the Sect Master asked that he be spared for Ye Yin’s contributions.
• After the hall objected, Fei Chenxue offered to plead for Ye Wudao in her own name, and Ye Yin briefly praised her before calling it a pity.

After Ye Wudao was spared execution but sentenced to kneel, Chen Daoxuan and the Cangzhou cultivators exchanged their battle merits for transport ships. Qin Zhan then let Chen Daoxuan borrow an Immortal Corpse, and Chen entered its vast Sea of Consciousness to seek an inheritance.

• Qin Zhan spared Ye Wudao’s life at the Sect Leader’s request but forced him to kneel outside Cloud Palace until Zhennan Pass was recaptured.
• The Cangzhou cultivators exchanged their battle merits for ninety-six Large Transport Ships, with Guang'an Prefecture receiving sixteen.
• After the others left, Qin Zhan told Chen Daoxuan why Ye Wudao could not be killed and offered him a private reward in place of the promised one.
• Chen Daoxuan asked to borrow Qin Zhan’s Immortal Corpse, and Qin Zhan warned that its vast Sea of Consciousness could overwhelm him before agreeing.
• Chen Daoxuan sent his Divine Sense into the Immortal Corpse and awoke in a vast starry sky.

Chen Daoxuan risked entering an immortal’s Sea of Consciousness and used the Primordial Enlightenment Scripture to bring back a speck of Source of Divine Light. After leaving Cloud Palace, he joined the Cangzhou cultivators in discussing Zhou Mubai’s proposal to establish a Merchant Alliance, with voting power based on each family’s investment.

• Chen Daoxuan found the Source of Divine Light at the core of the immortal’s Sea of Consciousness, but its weight and the distance to the edge threatened to exhaust his Divine Sense.
• Chen Daoxuan recited the Primordial Enlightenment Scripture to recover his Divine Sense and eventually carried the Source of Divine Light out of the Sea of Consciousness.
• The Hall Master of Zhenhai Hall revealed himself to be a Magical Power incarnation and vanished with the Immortal Corpse after Chen Daoxuan thanked him.
• Chen Daoxuan left Cloud Palace, saw Ye Wudao still kneeling and immobilized, and returned to the Cangzhou cultivators waiting at his residence.
• Zhou Mubai proposed a Cangzhou-wide Merchant Alliance to connect trade between prefectures and exclude the Ye Family’s Cangzhou Immortal City.
• Zhou Mubai suggested that alliance votes and profits be determined by investment, and the wealthy families approved the proposal.

After the Cangzhou Merchant Alliance was founded, Chen Daoxuan negotiated the release of the Merfolk Tribe and discussed his plans for Spirit Stone Coin with Zhou Mubai. He returned to Twin Lakes Island determined to assess the gains from his journey to the Qianyuan Sword Sect.

• Zhou Mubai persuaded Cangzhou's great families to establish the Cangzhou Merchant Alliance, which they formally founded a month later.
• Chen Daoxuan and Zhou Mubai agreed that the Zhou Family would release the Merfolk Tribe in exchange for priority supplies of Water Spirit Pearls from the Chen Family.
• Chen Daoxuan explained his plan to make Spirit Stone Coin replace Spirit Stones as currency, and Zhou Mubai said he would not oppose its introduction in Guang'an Prefecture if cultivators accepted it.
• Chen Daoxuan returned to Twin Lakes Island, reflected on what he had learned about the wider world and Sword Intent, and resolved to take stock of his journey's gains.

Chen Daoxuan set a return coordinate with the Michen Banner and opened his Sea of Divine Light, then discovered an Immortal’s memory fragment hinting at the origin of the Myriad Star Sea Underworld. Back on Twin Lakes Island, he showed the Chen Family its new Large Transport Ship and discussed assigning Chen Daolin to handle the Cangzhou Merchant Alliance before asking Chen Daochu about his research.

• Chen Daoxuan set the Michen Banner’s first spatial coordinate on Twin Lakes Island and used the Immortal’s Source of Divine Light to open his own Sea of Divine Light.
• Chen Daoxuan saw a memory fragment of a white-robed Daoist emerging from a Space Rift and illuminating the underworld, and suspected the scene showed the origin of the Myriad Star Sea.
• Chen Daoxuan returned to Twin Lakes Island with ten Large Transport Ships, and the Chen Family gathered to inspect one at the harbor.
• Chen Daoxuan told Chen Xianhe that Chen Daolin would represent the family in the Cangzhou Merchant Alliance’s affairs, and Chen Xianhe voiced concern about Daolin’s low cultivation.
• Chen Daoxuan asked Chen Daochu whether the Artifact Research Institute had advanced its research, and Chen Daochu confirmed that it had.

Chen Daoxuan toured the Changping Artifact Research Institute and learned that Chen Daochu’s team had developed a prototype for a Spirit Talisman Manufacturing Machine that might let mortals make Talismans. He promised to support the research, while Chen Daochu’s requests for funding and more lessons led Chen Daoxuan to consider changing who managed the family’s finances.

• Chen Daoxuan toured the expanded Artifact Research Institute with Chen Daochu and saw the puppets the team had bought and dismantled for research.
• Chen Daochu demonstrated how a Puppet Beast’s Spirit Control Formation replicated a sealed spell Dao pattern and proposed using the principle to create a Spirit Talisman Maker.
• Chen Daoxuan was excited by the possibility that ordinary mortals could use the machine to make Talismans and pledged unconditional support for the project.
• Chen Daochu revealed that the institute had spent its ten million Spirit Stones, prompting Chen Daoxuan to recognize that the family needed someone to manage finances while he was away.
• Chen Daochu asked Chen Daoxuan to teach the institute again, and Chen Daoxuan agreed after confirming its confidentiality measures were strict.

Chen Daoxuan held a Clan Meeting to establish departments and appoint managers as the Chen Family expanded its organization. He left the meeting having assigned most leadership posts and promised to honor the dying mortal Chen Beiwang in the Clan Ancestral Hall.

• Chen Xianhe told Chen Daoxuan that Chen Beiwang was gravely ill, and Chen Daoxuan asked for him to be placed in the Clan Ancestral Hall after his death.
• Chen Daoxuan opened the Clan Meeting in the newly built Deliberation Hall and appointed Chen Zhi Minister of Livelihood.
• Chen Xianhe volunteered to serve as Minister of Education, and Chen Daoxuan appointed Chen Daolian Minister of Finance.
• Chen Daoxuan appointed Chen Fusheng Minister of Military Department and assigned other cultivators to manage the remaining departments.
• After the Clan Meeting, an urgent voice called out to stop Chen Daoxuan as he was leaving with Chen Xianhe.

Chen Daoxuan visited the dying Chen Beiwang, gave him a biography honoring his life, and witnessed a newborn in his family reveal a Heavenly Spiritual Root. The chapter ended with the anxious Luo Li rushing toward Twin Lakes Island to find Chen Daoxuan.

• Chen Daolin asked why Chen Daochuan had not been appointed to lead a department, and Chen Daoxuan explained that Daochuan had important duties as president of Changping Central Bank.
• Chen Daoxuan flew to Changping County, reflected on the Chen Family’s rapid growth and shared identity, and visited Chen Beiwang.
• Chen Daoxuan gave the dying Chen Beiwang his biography, and Chen Beiwang said farewell to his family before passing away.
• An old steward brought news that Chen Beiwang’s granddaughter had been born, and Chen Daoxuan discovered she had a Heavenly Spiritual Root.
• Luo Li hurried toward Twin Lakes Island without arranging a meeting in advance, her face filled with anxiety.