Chapter Summaries

After the Sea-Demon Race retreated, Liu Changxu returned to Elegant Orchid Garden with Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue, then began preparing a feast from the Golden-Horned Sea Ox he had slain. The chapter left him starting the Five-Element Ascension Soup while the women prepared the meat.

• Liu Changxu and the Golden Core cultivators pursued the fleeing sea monsters but killed only a few second-tier creatures before returning to Many-Treasure City.
• Hu Changchun, Chu Shixiong, and Li Qingxia returned with little to show for their pursuit, and Liu Changxu took the four women back to Elegant Orchid Garden.
• Liu Changxu observed that Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue had gained confidence and combat experience, though Dongxue had a minor back injury.
• Liu Changxu decided to prepare a spirit-cuisine feast and invited Lin Feiyang and Wu Kun to join him.
• Liu Changxu and the four women processed the Golden-Horned Sea Ox, saving its beast core, horns, hide, and valuable meat while Little Blue ate some scraps.
• Liu Changxu began preparing the Five-Element Ascension Soup as Chunlan and the others cut the tender sea ox meat.

Liu Changxu brewed Five-Element Ascension Soup that improved his physique and cultivation, then prepared a banquet of third-tier spirit cuisine for Wu Kun and Lin Feiyang. The two Golden Core True Persons arrived at Elegant Orchid Garden and began the feast.

• Liu Changxu brewed Five-Element Ascension Soup over seven days and divided it among five jade bottles.
• Liu Changxu drank six bowls of the soup, strengthened his bones and physique, and advanced closer to the Golden Core middle stage.
• Liu Changxu rested for a day, then prepared third-tier spirit cuisine to host Wu Kun and Lin Feiyang while keeping the soup for himself.
• Wu Kun and Lin Feiyang arrived at Elegant Orchid Garden, where Liu Changxu welcomed them to a lavish banquet.
• Wu Kun thanked Liu Changxu for the feast, and the banquet began after they exchanged pleasantries.

After preparing to enter seclusion to break through, Liu Changxu interrupted his retreat when Xiao Yun the Azure Cloud Eagle began its tribulation. Xiao Yun survived the lightning and became a lower-grade third-tier spirit beast, leaving Liu Changxu to reunite with it as its wounds healed.

• Wu Kun and Lin Feiyang invited Liu Changxu to hunt demon beasts at sea, but he declined because he planned to enter seclusion for a breakthrough.
• On the third day of seclusion, Liu Changxu sensed that Xiao Yun the Azure Cloud Eagle was approaching its tribulation and took it to an uninhabited valley.
• Xiao Yun faced the lightning tribulation, enduring eight bolts before nearby cultivators gathered to watch.
• Xiao Yun survived the final, most powerful bolt, and Liu Changxu confirmed through their soul connection that it was still alive.
• Tribulation Jade Dew healed Xiao Yun's wounds as it transformed into a lower-grade third-tier spirit beast and greeted Liu Changxu.

Liu Changxu celebrated Xiao Yun’s successful advancement, discovering that the Azure Cloud Eagle had awakened powerful abilities. After returning to Many-Treasure City, he told the four maidservants the news and withdrew to his cultivation chamber, unaware that they hoped to become his women.

• Xiao Yun advanced, its feathers turned pale gold, and Liu Changxu recognized that its bloodline had begun evolving.
• At Liu Changxu’s request, Xiao Yun demonstrated its Size Manipulation Divine Ability, Golden Thunder Divine Ability, and golden wind blades.
• Liu Changxu gave Xiao Yun Five-Element Ascension Soup, placed it in his Spirit Beast Bag, and flew back to Many-Treasure City.
• Yu Xia and Wang Chendong arrived at the site after Liu Changxu had left, questioned nearby cultivators, and returned to the city.
• At Elegant Orchid Garden, Liu Changxu told Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue that Xiao Yun had advanced, then resisted his desire and went to his cultivation chamber.
• The four maidservants interpreted Liu Changxu’s reaction as attraction and hoped to persuade him to take them into his bedchamber.

Liu Changxu brought the sleeping Yellow Mountain Lion Xiao Jin to a remote island and prepared a formation to help him undergo the Golden Core tribulation. Xiao Jin survived the lightning, advanced to a lower-grade third-tier Spirit Beast, and awakened a more powerful Lion's Roar Divine Ability.

• Liu Changxu flew to an unnamed island and found three Tiger-Headed Eagle Eggs in a nest on the central spiritual mountain.
• Liu Changxu released the sleeping Yellow Mountain Lion Xiao Jin in a valley and concealed them with a Five-Element Maze Formation.
• Xiao Jin awoke, and Liu Changxu flew away as dark clouds gathered over the island.
• Tribulation lightning shattered the formation, but its protection reduced the force of the first strike; Xiao Jin endured the remaining bolts despite severe injuries.
• After the final bolt, Xiao Jin absorbed Tribulation Jade Dew, healed, and advanced to a lower-grade third-tier Spirit Beast.
• Xiao Jin roared in celebration, and Liu Changxu realized his Lion's Roar Divine Ability had grown more powerful.

Liu Changxu returned to Elegant Orchid Garden with spirit treasures and Tiger-Headed Eagle eggs, while struggling to control his attraction to Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue. When he offered the four women only three eggs, Xiazhu volunteered to give hers up, leaving the others secretly jealous.

• Liu Changxu explored the little island, gathered spirit treasures for his family, and returned to Elegant Orchid Garden.
• Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue welcomed Liu Changxu in revealing clothes, and he struggled to suppress his desire for them.
• The four maids sensed Liu Changxu's growing attraction and tried to win his favor, hoping to secure their cultivation futures.
• Liu Changxu brought out three Tiger-Headed Eagle eggs and offered them to the women as gifts.
• Xiazhu offered to forgo an egg so her three sisters could have one, making Chunlan, Qiuyue, and Dongxue secretly jealous.

Liu Changxu hosted a private banquet to celebrate Xiao Yun and Xiao Jin’s advancements, using the meal to assess Chunlan and her companions. The three spirit beasts devoured all the third-tier dishes, and Liu Changxu stopped them before they could eat the rest.

• Liu Changxu took Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue into the kitchen to help prepare a celebratory banquet.
• The women prepared first-tier spirit cuisine, giving Liu Changxu a sense of their personalities and skills; he was especially impressed by Chunlan’s competence and Qiuyue’s talent.
• Liu Changxu invited the four women to dine with him, then summoned Little Blue, Xiao Yun, and Xiao Jin, startling them with the sudden appearance of the spirit beasts.
• Xiazhu briefly nestled in Liu Changxu’s arms before returning to her seat, and the women laughed as the beasts struggled to settle around the table.
• Little Blue, Xiao Yun, and Xiao Jin quickly ate all eight third-tier dishes, then tried to eat the first-tier dishes until Liu Changxu stopped them.

Liu Changxu entered secluded cultivation and used several precious spirit fruits to advance to the golden core middle stage, while greatly strengthening his body. After emerging, he learned that his senior sisters Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, and Zhang Yuxin had come to see him, and went to welcome them.

• After the banquet, Liu Changxu instructed Chunlan and the other women to keep guests away during his seclusion and notified Wu Kun and Lin Feiyang.
• Liu Changxu drank Cloud Azure Spirit Tea and ate three Flame Jujubes, two spirit peaches, and a dragon-scale fruit to fuel his breakthrough.
• A month later, Liu Changxu consolidated his golden core middle-stage cultivation and reached a physical strength of nine hundred and ninety thousand jin.
• Chunlan told Liu Changxu that Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, and Zhang Yuxin had visited twice while he was in seclusion.
• Liu Changxu swept Chunlan and the other women to the Elegant Orchid Garden entrance and opened its protective formation to welcome his three senior sisters.

Liu Changxu welcomed his three senior sisters to the Elegant Orchid Garden, cleared up Su Jinxiu’s misunderstanding, and recounted the danger of the recent beast tide. The sisters shared a meal with him, but their reunion ended on a somber note when he had no news of Su Jinxiu’s parents.

• Liu Changxu welcomed Qin Yulian, Zhang Yuxin, and Su Jinxiu and explained that Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue were maids, easing Su Jinxiu’s anger.
• Liu Changxu served Cloud Azure Spirit Tea, and Su Jinxiu accepted his gift and cheerfully told him about her dangerous journey.
• Liu Changxu described how the beast tide had threatened Many-Treasure City, worrying Qin Yulian and Zhang Yuxin and embarrassing Su Jinxiu.
• Liu Changxu invited the three senior sisters to stay for lunch, and they joined him and the four maids in preparing a feast.
• Su Jinxiu asked about her parents, and Liu Changxu said he still had no news of them; that night, the three senior sisters stayed in the Elegant Orchid Garden.

Liu Changxu and his senior sisters volunteered to join Hu Changchun’s force reinforcing Blue Coral City, where Su Jinxiu hoped to find her parents. Before they departed, Liu Changxu punished Xiazhu for clinging to him, then promised to keep the maids safe.

• Hu Changchun announced that Blue Coral City was under attack and sought ten Golden Core cultivators to reinforce it.
• Su Jinxiu volunteered to search for her parents, and Liu Changxu, Qin Yulian, Zhang Yuxin, Lin Feiyang, and five other cultivators joined the force.
• Back at Elegant Orchid Garden, Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue pleaded with Liu Changxu not to leave for the dangerous front lines.
• Xiazhu threw herself into Liu Changxu’s arms, so he slapped her and gave Chunlan a Spirit Pill to help her recover.
• Liu Changxu and his three senior sisters boarded Hu Changchun’s fourth-tier Flying Boat and set off for Blue Coral City.

Liu Changxu and nine Golden Core cultivators arrived near Coral Island aboard Hu Changchun’s Golden Dragon Boat as humans battled sea monsters around Blue Coral City. Liu led his companions toward the city at high altitude, rescued Zhang Yuxin from a Silver Thunder Flood Dragon, and entered the city as the fighting continued.

• Hu Changchun brought Liu Changxu and nine Golden Core cultivators near the battlefield aboard the Golden Dragon Boat, then told them to engage at their discretion and meet inside Blue Coral City.
• Liu Changxu chose to fly high toward Blue Coral City, and his companions followed while eighteen third-tier sea monsters pursued them and gradually fell behind.
• A Silver Thunder Flood Dragon caught up with Zhang Yuxin and another Golden Core cultivator near the rear, then struck the other cultivator with a lightning orb.
• Liu Changxu shot at the Silver Thunder Flood Dragon with his Golden Flood Dragon Sunset Bow, allowing Zhang Yuxin to escape into Blue Coral City.
• The other Golden Core cultivators rescued the injured cultivator, and Liu Changxu entered Blue Coral City after the Silver Thunder Flood Dragon escaped by using a Tiger-Headed Eagle as a shield.

Liu Changxu joined the defenders of Blue Coral City, reunited with his fellow disciples, and prepared for the city’s counterattack. After the battle began, he attacked a third-tier Golden-Tusked Walrus with his flying swords.

• Liu Changxu entered Blue Coral City, reunited with Lin Feiyang, Su Jinxiu, Zhang Yuxin, and met the injured Wu Yuangang, whom he had saved.
• Liu Jie escorted Liu Changxu and the other Golden Core cultivators to Blue Coral Courtyard, where they received lodgings.
• Liu Changxu prepared spirit cuisine for Su Jinxiu and the other women, then learned that their Master and Mistress were not in Blue Coral City.
• Hu Changchun and Jiang Han summoned the Golden Core cultivators, announced the battle arrangements, and led the city’s forces out to fight the Sea Monsters.
• Liu Changxu protected himself with a Golden Armor Talisman and attacked a Golden-Tusked Walrus with six Red Lotus Flying Swords, four of which pierced its body.

Liu Changxu killed a Golden-Tusked Walrus and an upper-grade third-tier Golden Crab, then rushed to help Qin Yulian when a Tiger-Headed Eagle overpowered her. He killed the Eagle with one arrow, bringing his total to three third-tier Sea Monsters slain that day.

• Liu Changxu killed the Golden-Tusked Walrus with his Red Lotus Flying Swords and captured its monster soul.
• Liu Changxu battered the Golden Crab with the Red Lotus World-Destroying Seal until he killed it and collected its soul and corpse.
• Liu Changxu drank three bottles of Five-Element Ascension Soup to restore his depleted magic power.
• Qin Yulian struggled against a faster, stronger Tiger-Headed Eagle, whose Wind Blade broke her Golden Armor Talisman barrier, so she sent Liu Changxu a plea for help.
• Liu Changxu rode Little Blue toward Qin Yulian and shot the Tiger-Headed Eagle through the neck with the Golden Flood Dragon Sunset Bow, killing it.

Liu Changxu rescued Qin Yulian, then joined Su Jinxiu and Zhang Yuxin in their battle against a Blue Sea Flood Dragon. He killed the beast underwater and returned to find that Su Jinxiu and Qin Yulian had joined the pursuit of the fleeing Sea Monsters while Zhang Yuxin waited for him.

• Liu Changxu defeated the Tiger-Headed Eagle, gave the exhausted Qin Yulian Five-Element Ascension Soup, and set out with her to find Su Jinxiu and Zhang Yuxin.
• Liu Changxu found Su Jinxiu and Zhang Yuxin being driven back by a Blue Sea Flood Dragon, and joined their fight.
• The Blue Sea Flood Dragon escaped into the ocean and hid inside a Silver Star Grouper, but Liu Changxu wounded it and pursued it underwater with Little Blue.
• Liu Changxu and Little Blue killed the wounded Blue Sea Flood Dragon, and Little Blue swallowed its Beast Core before Liu Changxu put him in his Spirit Beast Bag.
• Zhang Yuxin told Liu Changxu that Elder Hu and City Lord Jiang had defeated the three fourth-tier Sea Monsters, prompting Su Jinxiu and Qin Yulian to join the pursuit while she waited for him.

Liu Changxu and Zhang Yuxin joined Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, Lin Feiyang, and Wu Yuangang in hunting a wounded Blue-Flag Whale. After Liu Changxu’s Red Lotus World-Destroying Seal struck it down, the six divided the spoils and prepared to return to Blue Coral City.

• Liu Changxu and Zhang Yuxin pursued Sea Monsters together, and Liu Changxu gave Zhang Yuxin the spoils from seven second-tier kills.
• Liu Changxu and Zhang Yuxin found Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, Lin Feiyang, and Wu Yuangang struggling to kill a Blue-Flag Whale.
• Liu Changxu summoned the Red Lotus World-Destroying Seal, which struck the fleeing whale and smashed it into the seabed.
• Su Jinxiu killed the nearly defeated Blue-Flag Whale, and the six cultivators dragged its body to a deserted island and divided its parts.
• Lin Feiyang received the whale’s spine to refine a bone-whip Magical Treasure, while Su Jinxiu gave Liu Changxu her share of its flesh as payment for meals.
• The six cultivators finished dividing the spoils and prepared to return to Blue Coral City.

After a feast, Liu Changxu cautiously rejected a proposal to investigate a rumored spirit gold vein in dangerous sea monster territory. Days later, news arrived that the investigators had been killed and a larger sea monster horde was approaching Blue Coral City.

• Liu Changxu hosted his senior sisters, Lin Feiyang, and Wu Yuangang for a meal of third-tier spirit cuisine.
• Wu Yuangang proposed investigating a rumored spirit gold vein, and Su Jinxiu and Lin Feiyang agreed to go.
• Liu Changxu warned that the deep-sea expedition was too dangerous without Elder Hu or City Lord Jiang, and the group postponed the plan.
• Su Jinxiu left in frustration, while Qin Yulian and Zhang Yuxin also departed; Liu Changxu stayed behind to meditate.
• Several days later, news reported that more than a dozen Golden Core cultivators had been killed by sea monsters and a larger horde was advancing on Blue Coral City.

After the Sea Monsters lured cultivators into a deadly trap, Liu Changxu and the others learned that a massive new beast tide was approaching Blue Coral City. Liu Changxu prepared his group to survive, but when the tide arrived, the cultivators chose to defend the city despite its likely fall.

• Liu Changxu and his companions attended a City Lord's Manor meeting where Jiang Han ordered cultivators to report before leaving the city and warned that a larger beast tide was coming.
• Hu Changchun and Jiang Han assigned Liu Changxu, his three senior sisters, Lin Feiyang, and Wu Yuangang to defend the relatively safe southern wall.
• Liu Changxu warned his senior sisters to stay with him if the city fell and worked with them to prepare third-tier talismans.
• A little over ten days later, Liu Changxu saw an enormous Sea Monster force approaching, including eight fourth-tier monsters and roughly a hundred and sixty third-tier monsters.
• Liu Changxu and the other cultivators concluded that Blue Coral City could not hold, but agreed to defend it rather than flee without protection from Hu Changchun and Jiang Han.

Liu Changxu and the defenders of Blue Coral City fought an exhausting battle against a beast tide led by a cunning fourth-tier demon king. As the city's defenses failed and reinforcements seemed impossible, Liu Changxu resolved to escape with his three senior sisters, who agreed to his plan.

• Liu Changxu and the city defenders fought waves of low-level sea monsters while the high-level monsters stayed back and drained the city's defenses.
• Liu Changxu and five allies unleashed powerful area attacks to briefly relieve pressure on the walls, but the sea monsters soon surged forward again.
• Blue Coral City's formation exhausted its spirit stones and its barrier weakened overnight, causing defender casualties to rise.
• Liu Changxu realized the Azure Cloud Sect could not send reinforcements and that the Nascent Soul True Lords had promised help only to keep the defenders fighting.
• Liu Changxu told his three senior sisters he planned to flee after the city fell, and Su Jinxiu pledged to support him.

After the low-tier sea monsters retreated, more than a hundred and sixty high-tier sea monsters surrounded Blue Coral City, led by eight fourth-tier beasts. Hu Changchun and Jiang Han led a surprise counterattack, but the city’s defenses rapidly failed, leaving its survival dependent on their efforts or outside reinforcements.

• A beast cry caused the low-tier sea monsters attacking Blue Coral City to withdraw, but more than a hundred and sixty high-tier sea monsters soon arrived and encircled the city.
• Liu Changxu recognized the Greenwood Flood Dragon and the seven other fourth-tier sea monsters, while Hu Changchun and Jiang Han appeared above the city to rally the defenders.
• Blue Coral City’s formation struck the monsters by surprise, and Hu Changchun, Jiang Han, Liu Changxu, and the Golden Core cultivators launched a counterattack that killed or wounded many of them.
• Liu Changxu used Red Lotus Karma Fire to burn a Giant-Toothed Shark to ashes, while the enraged Greenwood Flood Dragon struck cracks into the city’s defensive barrier.
• Hu Changchun forced the Greenwood Flood Dragon to abandon nearby cultivators, but the sea monsters soon riddled the barrier with breaches, and Hu Changchun and Jiang Han struggled to hold the city against the assault.

Liu Changxu rallied the surviving cultivators as Blue Coral City fell and fought his way toward the outskirts with his three senior sisters. He escaped the city with them, avoiding the fourth-tier Sea Monsters pursuing Hu Changchun and Jiang Han.

• The Greenwood Flood Dragon broke Blue Coral City's defensive formation, entered the city, and began slaughtering its cultivators as more high-tier Sea Monsters poured in.
• Hu Changchun and Jiang Han fled, drawing the fourth-tier Sea Monsters away, and Liu Changxu released the Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon, the Azure Cloud Eagle, and the Yellow Mountain Lion.
• Liu Changxu rallied the remaining cultivators and led Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, and Wu Yuangang out of the city, then learned that Zhang Yuxin needed rescue.
• Liu Changxu used the Golden Flood Dragon Sunset Bow to kill three attacking Sea Monsters and wound two others, including the Tiger-Headed Eagle pinning Zhang Yuxin.
• Liu Changxu rescued Zhang Yuxin and escaped Blue Coral City with his senior sisters as the intimidated third-tier Sea Monsters held back.