Chapter Summaries

Liu Changxu took his four children shopping in Many-Treasure City and discovered precious violet light jade hidden inside a seemingly ordinary piece of black jade. After returning to the Elegant Orchid Garden, he uncovered a five-inch piece of fourth-tier low-grade violet light jade worth an estimated three million low-grade spirit stones.

• Liu Changxu took Ting'er, Yan'er, Chao'er, and Yang'er around the marketplace, buying the spirit treasures they chose.
• At a spirit jade stall, Liu Changxu used his divine sense and Seven-Colored Glazed Eyes to detect a hidden purple radiance in a piece of black jade.
• Liu Changxu bought the black jade along with four pieces chosen by his children, paying five thousand low-grade spirit stones for the lot.
• After the family returned to the Elegant Orchid Garden, Liu Changxu went to his cultivation chamber and cut open the black jade with Water Blade Art.
• Liu Changxu uncovered a five-inch piece of fourth-tier low-grade violet light jade and estimated its value at three million low-grade spirit stones.

Liu Changxu held a family banquet, where Yang Qingxue won over the household while Qin Yulian reconsidered her feelings for him. The peaceful gathering reminded Liu Changxu of his distant family and the looming decisive battle, so he resolved to hurry and refine a palace magical treasure for their escape.

• Liu Changxu prepared a family banquet, and Yang Qingxue took the household’s leading seat and gave second-tier talismans to Chunlan, Xiazhu, Qiuyue, and Dongxue.
• Su Jinxiu sulked at Yang Qingxue’s place, while Qin Yulian reflected on her feelings for Liu Changxu and considered taking the initiative to become his Dao companion.
• Liu Changxu’s children praised his spirit cuisine, and he promised to make more if they behaved well.
• Liu Changxu thought of his wives and children far away and worried that the Southern Sea’s calm preceded a decisive battle.
• Liu Changxu decided to stop delaying and refine the palace magical treasure so he could protect his family if the Azure Cloud Sect lost.

Liu Changxu completed the Ruyi Lotus Palace, a life-bound magical treasure designed to shelter and transport his family. After showing it to everyone in the Elegant Orchid Garden, he let them explore and choose rooms inside.

• After spending a year and a half refining the Ruyi Lotus Palace, Liu Changxu emerged from the Artifact Refining Room and summoned the palace above the plaza.
• Liu Changxu told Yang Qingxue and the others that the treasure could carry the family wherever he went.
• Liu Changxu opened the palace, and Yang Qingxue and the others explored its lavish rooms, halls, pools, and garden.
• Ting'er, Chao'er, Yang'er, and Yan'er asked Liu Changxu for rooms of their own, and he gave them permission to choose.
• Liu Changxu explained how he had assigned the living quarters, and Su Jinxiu took Qin Yulian and Zhang Yuxin to choose rooms after learning hers matched Yang Qingxue's.

Liu Changxu stayed behind in Many-Treasure City to protect Yang Qingxue as she prepared to advance to the Nascent Soul Realm, while Su Jinxiu and the others went to the South Cape Island battlefield. A year later, Yang Qingxue’s tribulation began, and Liu Changxu flew out to respond to the gathering spiritual energy.

• Liu Changxu returned to the Human-Demon War, but soon received word that cultivators were being sent from Many-Treasure City to South Cape Island.
• Su Jinxiu insisted on joining the expedition, and Liu Changxu chose to stay with Yang Qingxue as she prepared for her Nascent Soul advancement.
• Liu Changxu gave Su Jinxiu, Qin Yulian, and Zhang Yuxin talismans, and Yang Qingxue offered them three fourth-tier Golden Armor Talismans before they departed.
• Yang Qingxue entered seclusion at a peak outside Many-Treasure City, and Liu Changxu moved his family nearby in the Ruyi Lotus Palace.
• A year later, spiritual energy gathered above Yang Qingxue’s peak, and Liu Changxu emerged from the Ruyi Lotus Palace and flew toward the disturbance.

Liu Changxu, Hu Changchun, and Chu Shixiong guarded Yang Qingxue as she faced her Nascent Soul tribulation. The lightning overwhelmed her formation and two Earth Shield Talismans, leaving her to continue the ordeal as the bolts grew stronger.

• Liu Changxu released Little Blue, Xiao Yun, and Xiao Jin to guard Yang Qingxue’s secluded peak and warned approaching cultivators to stay back.
• Hu Changchun and Chu Shixiong arrived from Many-Treasure City and joined Liu Changxu in guarding the tribulation site.
• Yang Qingxue’s low fourth-tier Mountain-Guarding Grand Formation blocked the first five bolts, but the sixth pierced it and struck her Ruyi Azure Phoenix Armor.
• Yang Qingxue used an Earth Shield Talisman to withstand the later bolts as her formation crumbled beneath the sixteenth strike.
• Yang Qingxue’s first Earth Shield Talisman burned away after the eighteenth bolt, and her second was destroyed by the twentieth; Hu Changchun and Chu Shixiong realized her tribulation was far more powerful than theirs.

Yang Qingxue survived her Nascent Soul tribulation with the Ruyi Azure Phoenix Armor and advanced to the Nascent Soul early stage. After celebrating in Many-Treasure City, Liu Changxu set out with his family and friends for South Cape Island to join the Human-Demon War.

• Yang Qingxue endured the final tribulation bolts, survived the destruction of the mountain peak, and advanced to the Nascent Soul early stage after receiving Thunder Tribulation Rain Dew.
• Liu Changxu congratulated Yang Qingxue, and Hu Changchun and Chu Shixiong arrived to offer their congratulations before the couple returned to Many-Treasure City.
• Yang Qingxue received visitors at Elegant Serenity Pavilion, while Yao Changhe teased Liu Changxu about her admirers and Liu Changxu retorted that Yao had never dared confess his feelings.
• Yang Qingxue entered seclusion in the Ruyi Lotus Palace to consolidate her cultivation, while Liu Changxu volunteered to travel to South Cape Island to check on his master, his master's wife, and his senior sisters.
• Yang Qingxue agreed to accompany Liu Changxu, who left Qiuyue and Liu Yang behind to look after Elegant Orchid Garden and took the rest of his family with him.
• Yao Changhe, Zhang Jiuzhen, Li Ran, Hu Yang, Zhang Jia'er, Lu Chang'an, Lin Feiyang, Wu Kun, and others joined Liu Changxu, and they departed aboard the Seven-Star Flying Boat.

Liu Changxu spotted Emerald Island’s fourth-tier Blood Spirit Fruits and planned to seize them despite his companions’ warnings about the Azure Sea Eagle Race. He left to scout Emerald Peak and discovered ten ripe fruits that could help him break through to Nascent Soul.

• Liu Changxu and his companions hunted numerous sea monsters while traveling aboard Yao Changhe’s Seven-Star Boat.
• Yao Changhe explained that the Azure Sea Eagle Race and its lower-fourth-tier Demon King kept the sect from occupying Emerald Island.
• Liu Changxu proposed attacking Emerald Peak for its spirit treasures, but Yao Changhe, Zhang Jiuzhen, and the others urged caution.
• Liu Changxu rode Xiao Yun toward Emerald Peak and examined the mountain with his Seven-Colored Glazed Eyes.
• Liu Changxu found twenty-four lower-fourth-tier Blood Spirit Fruits, ten of them ripe, and believed three could help him advance to Nascent Soul.

Liu Changxu attacked the Azure Sea Eagle flock on Emerald Peak to seize the Blood Spirit Fruit, but the fourth-tier Azure Sea Eagle was nowhere to be found. He and his three spirit beasts fought off the flock and killed its third-tier eagles, leaving the unseen fourth-tier eagle and the Blood Spirit Fruit unresolved.

• Liu Changxu searched Emerald Peak for the fourth-tier Azure Sea Eagle and assessed the flock's strength before deciding to attack alone.
• Liu Changxu concealed himself and flew toward Emerald Peak with the Azure Cloud Eagle Xiao Yun stored away, but the flock spotted him and rushed to meet him.
• Liu Changxu released Xiao Yun, Little Blue, and Xiao Jin, then shot down three third-tier Azure Sea Eagles with his Golden Flood Dragon Sunset Bow.
• Liu Changxu used the Red Lotus World-Destroying Seal to fight the supreme-grade eagle and his Red Lotus Skyburning Swords to attack the other eagles.
• Liu Changxu and his spirit beasts held off the flock as he killed the middle- and lower-grade third-tier eagles, then pursued and slew the fleeing upper-grade and supreme-grade eagles.

Liu Changxu harvested Emerald Peak’s rare treasures before fleeing the returning Fourth-Tier Azure Sea Eagle and rejoining Yao Changhe’s group. He concealed his haul, and Yao Changhe hurried the Seven-Star Boat away from the island.

• Liu Changxu collected Blood Spirit Fruits, rare spirit plants, Azure Sea Eagle Eggs, Spirit-Gathering Jade, and other valuable materials from Emerald Peak.
• Liu Changxu sensed danger, escaped the returning Fourth-Tier Azure Sea Eagle, and warned Yao Changhe and the others to leave.
• Liu Changxu reunited with the group and falsely claimed he had gained nothing and fled using a Void-Escaping Talisman.
• Lin Feiyang and Wu Kun returned to Liu Changxu’s side, and he forgave them for staying behind.
• Yao Changhe steered the Seven-Star Boat away from Emerald Island at top speed.

After more than two months at sea, Liu Changxu and his companions reached Cape City on South Cape Island, an important Azure Cloud Sect stronghold in the Human-Demon War. Liu Changxu learned that his master Su Hao and his family were in the city, and Qi Xiaoyue led the group to their lodgings as he eagerly anticipated seeing them.

• Liu Changxu and his companions endured a smooth voyage from Emerald Island, killing many third-tier sea monsters and discarding some of their materials when their Storage Rings filled up.
• Liu Changxu and his companions arrived at Cape City, where the bloodstained walls showed that a battle had taken place recently.
• Qi Xiaoyue guided Liu Changxu and his companions into the city, and they learned that she was the eldest disciple of Wu Jiaxin, a friend of Liu Changxu's master's wife.
• Qi Xiaoyue discovered that Liu Changxu was Su Hao's disciple and promised to take him to meet Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing.
• An elderly Nascent Soul cultivator registered Liu Changxu and his companions and arranged rooms for them at the Guest Lodge, where Liu Changxu eagerly looked forward to seeing his master.

Liu Changxu reunited with Su Hao, Jiang Yuqing, and Su Jinxiu, then learned that Zhang Yuxin had died in battle and Qin Yulian was critically poisoned. Su Jinxiu explained that both senior sisters had been hurt while rescuing her, and Liu Changxu went to see Qin Yulian.

• Liu Changxu visited Su Hao's lodge with Qi Xiaoyue and reunited with Su Hao, Jiang Yuqing, and Su Jinxiu.
• Liu Changxu learned that Zhang Yuxin had died in the battle against the Sea-Demon Race and Qin Yulian had been poisoned by a Blue-Ring Sea Snake.
• Jiang Yuqing explained that only the gallbladder of the same kind of Blue-Ring Sea Snake could cure Qin Yulian, but Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing had been unable to find one.
• Liu Changxu asked to see Qin Yulian, and Su Jinxiu led him to the pavilion where she was staying.
• Su Jinxiu broke down and blamed herself, then told Liu Changxu that Zhang Yuxin and Qin Yulian had been hurt while trying to save her from third-tier Sea Monsters.

Liu Changxu found Qin Yulian gravely poisoned by a Blue-Ring Sea Snake and learned that only the snake’s gallbladder could reliably save her. After settling his family in the City Lord’s Manor residence, he agreed to attend an auction where his master and his wife hoped to bid on a Nascent Soul Formation Pill.

• Liu Changxu examined Qin Yulian and found that she had contained the venom, but still needed a Blue-Ring Sea Snake’s gallbladder to survive.
• Jiang Yuqing told Liu Changxu that she had posted a citywide bounty for the gallbladder or information about the snakes.
• Liu Changxu brought his family and disciples to pay their respects to Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing, who celebrated Yang Qingxue’s breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm while Su Jinxiu remained unhappy.
• Liu Changxu moved his family into the City Lord’s Manor’s Number Ninety-Nine Residence and spent the night with Chunlan, Xiazhu, and Dongxue.
• Su Jinxiu arrived early the next morning and invited Liu Changxu to the Azure Cloud Pavilion auction, where a Nascent Soul Formation Pill would be offered.

Liu Changxu attended Cape City’s auction with Su Hao, Jiang Yuqing, and Su Jinxiu, hoping to find useful treasures and news of the Blue-Ring Sea Snake. He won a third-tier Humanoid Puppet and lent it to Su Jinxiu for the coming war, while bidding began on an armor that could help a Golden Core cultivator survive Nascent Soul tribulation lightning.

• Liu Changxu agreed to attend the auction after learning that it would offer a Nascent Soul Formation Pill and give him a chance to seek news of the Blue-Ring Sea Snake.
• At the Azure Cloud Pavilion auction, Liu Changxu listened as Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing explained the human-demon war in the Southern Sea.
• Liu Changxu outbid the other bidders and bought a lower-grade third-tier Humanoid Puppet for four hundred and fifty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Su Jinxiu mistook the puppet for a gift, then accepted Liu Changxu’s offer to use it during the war before returning it to him.
• Su Jinxiu activated the puppet, and the auction moved on to the Golden Flood Dragon Armor as Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing showed interest in bidding.

Liu Changxu and Su Hao's family attended an auction where Jiang Yuqing secured a Nascent Soul Formation Pill with help from Liu Changxu and Su Jinxiu. After the purchase, Liu Changxu kept his precious Blood Spirit Fruit secret, even from Yang Qingxue.

• Su Hao stopped bidding on the Golden Flood Dragon Armor after Liu Changxu promised to refine defensive treasures, and the armor sold for seven hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Liu Changxu outbid other cultivators and bought a bottle of Third-Tier Supreme Grade Jade Marrow Spirit Milk for one hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Jiang Yuqing bid for the Nascent Soul Formation Pill, and Liu Changxu and Su Jinxiu offered her their Spirit Stones to support her.
• Jiang Yuqing won the Nascent Soul Formation Pill for six million three hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, with Liu Changxu lending her five hundred thousand.
• Liu Changxu left the auction with Su Hao's family and resolved to keep his Blood Spirit Fruit secret, even from Yang Qingxue.

After selling his sea monster materials and buying more storage space, Liu Changxu was assigned to a sea patrol squad and sailed from Cape City with his friends. The squad encountered a large sea monster force, and its cultivators began battle.

• Liu Changxu sold his sea monster materials for over six million low-grade spirit stones and bought two high-capacity Storage Bracelets.
• Liu Changxu received orders to join a sea patrol squad led by Liu Yuchen and Zhang Xue'er, alongside Su Jinxiu, Yao Changhe, Zhang Jiuzhen, Wu Kun, Lin Feiyang, and his other friends.
• Liu Changxu departed Cape City aboard Liu Yuchen's Cloud-Piercing Boat with the patrol squad and four other squads.
• Liu Changxu spotted a large force of sea monsters ahead, and Liu Yuchen and Zhang Xue'er ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
• Liu Yuchen and Zhang Xue'er led the thirty Golden Core cultivators off the boat to engage the sea monsters.

Liu Changxu and the Golden Core cultivators fought a massive sea monster horde while Liu Yuchen and Zhang Xue'er engaged three fourth-tier monsters. Liu Changxu slew five third-tier sea monsters and helped turn the battle into a one-sided slaughter, while Little Blue searched the horde for hidden Blue-Ring Sea Snakes.

• Liu Yuchen and Zhang Xue'er attacked three fourth-tier shapeshifted sea monsters, but their flying swords were intercepted and the combatants fought farther from the horde.
• Liu Changxu led the Golden Core cultivators in ranged attacks that drew third-tier sea monsters away from the main horde before they turned to fight them.
• Liu Changxu sent Little Blue into the horde to find third-tier Blue-Ring Sea Snakes that might threaten Qin Yulian.
• Liu Changxu used the Twelve Red Lotus Skyburning Swords to kill five third-tier sea monsters in less than two hours.
• Liu Changxu and the other Golden Core cultivators attacked the low-tier sea monster horde from a safe distance and slaughtered its members.

Liu Changxu led the Sea Patrol Squad to rout the sea monster horde, then warned the cultivators to flee when a fourth-tier sea monster appeared. As the monster pursued his group, Xu Wen challenged Liu Changxu’s plan to scatter and escape.

• Liu Changxu and the Sea Patrol Squad attacked the sea monster horde, and Little Blue returned with a Blue-Ring Sea Snake corpse that could help treat Qin Yulian’s poisoned wound.
• Liu Changxu spotted a fourth-tier sea monster and ordered the cultivators to retreat; Su Jinxiu invited Li Jiaqi and Xu Wen to flee with them on Little Blue.
• The fleeing cultivators split into groups, but the Silver Star Grouper Demon devoured three who were overtaken, while the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Demon and Bloodthirsty Shark Demon also joined the pursuit.
• Liu Changxu realized the fourth-tier sea monster was pursuing his group and suggested Li Jiaqi and Xu Wen split off; Xu Wen argued that scattering would let the monster pick them off one by one.

Liu Changxu escaped a pursuing fourth-tier Silver Star Grouper Demon by hiding with his companions inside the Ruyi Lotus Palace, then returned safely to Cape City. He learned that only twenty-two members of his sea patrol squad had returned, contacted his friends, and reunited with his relieved master Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing.

• Liu Changxu ordered Little Blue to dive into the sea, then hid with Su Jinxiu, Xu Wen, Li Jiaqi, and his family inside the Ruyi Lotus Palace while Little Blue concealed it in a large fish.
• The Silver Star Grouper Demon searched underwater but failed to find them and eventually left.
• Three days later, Little Blue burst out of the fish, and Liu Changxu traveled with it toward Cape City while the others stayed inside the Ruyi Lotus Palace.
• After wandering for two days, Liu Changxu and his companions reached Cape City and reported to a white-haired elder at the City Lord's Manor, who said that twenty-two members of their squad had returned safely.
• Liu Changxu contacted Yao Changhe and his other friends, who reported they had returned without injuries, then reunited with Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing at Su Hao's residence.

Liu Changxu returned from a disastrous sea patrol and used the gallbladder of a Blue-Ring Sea Snake to cure Qin Yulian’s poison injury. With the war growing more dangerous, he set aside his anxiety and spent a warm evening with his family.

• Su Hao told Liu Changxu that the other Sea Patrol Squads had suffered heavy losses against reinforced sea-demon forces, and Jiang Yuqing warned that the Azure Cloud Sect was outmatched.
• Liu Changxu presented the third-tier Blue-Ring Sea Snake gallbladder, and Jiang Yuqing gave its juice to Qin Yulian, curing her poison injury.
• Qin Yulian thanked her family and fellow disciples, while Liu Changxu credited Jiang Yuqing for finding the cure.
• Liu Changxu hosted his friends and master's family for dinner, and the group discussed the worsening war before he encouraged them.
• Liu Changxu drew comfort from his wives and children, then took them to play in the Spirit Pool at the Ruyi Lotus Palace.

The Azure Cloud Sect’s war against the sea-demon race continued for three years before a decisive battle between Spirit Transformation experts left both sides too weakened to continue. After the sect declared the war over, Liu Changxu returned to a fragile peace, while Su Jinxiu’s love for him deepened and her parents struggled over what to do.

• Liu Changxu gave Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing two third-tier supreme-grade Golden Armor Talismans before they joined the second expeditionary force, then continued making talismans with Su Jinxiu and Qin Yulian.
• After the expeditionary force came under heavy pressure, Liu Changxu, Su Jinxiu, and their friends received orders to fight at sea again.
• In October of the year 3219, eight Spirit Transformation Grand Supreme Elders of the Azure Cloud Sect and nine fifth-tier sea demon emperors fought for ten days and nights, leaving the result undisclosed and both sides badly wounded.
• The Azure Cloud Sect announced the end of the war, and Cape City celebrated; Liu Changxu’s friends had suffered many injuries, while Li Ran, Zhang Jia'er, and Lu Chang'an had died.
• Yang Qingxue emerged from seclusion, stabilized her Nascent Soul cultivation, and became an Azure Cloud Sect elder, while Su Jinxiu grew more distressed as Liu Changxu spent less time with her.
• Su Hao and Jiang Yuqing agonized over Su Jinxiu’s desire to marry Liu Changxu, since he already had wives and the Jiang Household would oppose the match.