Chapter Summaries

Fang Qianyuan received the Eastern Sea representatives aboard his treasure ship, where Luo Qing challenged his manner and reputation. He defused the confrontation, but the young geniuses’ rivalry remained beneath the polite introductions.

• The visitors saw Fang Qianyuan’s overwhelming presence as Zuoqiutang introduced him as Azure Cloud Sect’s Grand Elder.
• Li Xiuping and the other guests paid their respects, while Li Yulou joined reluctantly and Luo Qing refused to bow her head.
• Luo Qing accused Fang Qianyuan of treating them with contempt, and Zuoqiutang rebuked her for speaking insolently.
• Fang Qianyuan turned his attention to the guests, invited them to sit, and explained that he had not intended to slight them.
• Li Xiuping tried to smooth things over as Fang Qianyuan, Fang Lian, and Li Yulou recognized that Luo Qing’s challenge stemmed from her pride as a rival genius.

Fang Qianyuan’s meeting with Luo Qing turned confrontational after she demanded an apology or a duel over his perceived disrespect. When Fang Ming tried to seize her, he was repelled by an unseen counterattack.

• Fang Lian identified Luo Qing as a proud young talent of the Flying Immortal Sect and worried she might attract Fang Qianyuan’s interest.
• Luo Qing refused to sit, accused Fang Qianyuan of disrespect, and demanded that he apologize or accept her challenge for his title.
• Fang Ming cleared the hall and asserted his standing after Luo Qing dismissed him as an enslaved Warrior.
• Li Yulou concluded that Fang Qianyuan meant to insult their delegation, while Fang Ming called Luo Qing an obstinate fool and launched a sudden attack.
• Luo Qing counterattacked, sending Fang Ming flying backward.

Luo Qing used Yun Long’s Vaporization Method to drain Fang Ming’s water-element spirit essence and suppress him. Fang Ming then awakened a powerful force that broke through the mist and resisted Yun Long’s ability.

• Fang Qianyuan watched Fang Ming recover from Luo Qing’s counterattack and charge her from another direction.
• Luo Qing enveloped Fang Ming in mist created by Yun Long, whose power began siphoning the water element from his spirit essence.
• The Eastern Sea visitors explained that Yun Long’s Vaporization Method could dismantle spirit essence and weaken spirit creature manifestations.
• Fang Ming’s body markings transformed into Dao patterns and restrictions, releasing a dense power that forced apart Luo Qing’s mist and resisted vaporization.
• Luo Qing looked gravely at Fang Ming’s newly awakened power and asked what it was.

Fang Ming fought Cloud Immortal Luo Qing after she challenged Fang Qianyuan’s authority, using an immortal-blood Blood Mark Curse Seal to withstand her cloud dragon’s attacks. Luo Qing froze him with a dragon pearl, but Fang Ming broke free and struck back, leaving their duel unresolved.

• Fang Lian recognized Fang Ming’s Blood Mark Curse Seal and recalled that Fang Qianyuan had allowed trusted subordinates to receive the risky seals as voluntary trump cards.
• Luo Qing identified the seal’s unusual power, summoned her cloud dragon, and attacked Fang Ming with waves of freezing mystic light.
• Luo Qing used the cloud dragon’s pearl to freeze Fang Ming, alarming Li Xiuping, Shui Lanyue, Ling Po, and the others.
• Fang Ming broke out of the ice, closed in on Luo Qing, and struck her back before she regained her balance.

Luo Qing left the Azure Cloud Sect after her challenge was stopped by Fang Qianyuan’s formidable subordinate, while Fang Qianyuan warned the Eastern Sea guests not to spread rumors. On the way back to the Divine Wind, Li Yulou told Luo Qing about his past conflict with Fang Qianyuan over the Refining Furnace, and she began to ponder what he had said.

• Luo Qing admitted that Fang Qianyuan’s subordinate was a formidable opponent and left the banquet rather than risk being driven out.
• Li Yulou followed Luo Qing, while Fang Qianyuan let them leave and cautioned the Eastern Sea guests to choose their words carefully about the incident.
• Fang Lian tried to smooth over the awkward gathering, and Fang Qianyuan served the guests Hundred Blossom Spirit Wine.
• Luo Qing told Li Yulou she still had methods she had not used, but she resented Fang Qianyuan’s status and power.
• Li Yulou revealed that he had previously competed with Fang Qianyuan for the Refining Furnace and described the encounter from his own perspective.
• Luo Qing listened to Li Yulou’s account and fell into thought.

Fang Qianyuan and his fleet crossed the great whirlpools through the Water Realm on their way to meet the Flying Immortal Sect’s delegation. They arrived safely at Eastwind Island, where the next stage of their journey awaited.

• The captain explained the Eastern Sea’s great whirlpools and the fleet’s route through Eastwind Island toward Penglai Island.
• Fang Lian told Fang Qianyuan that the Flying Immortal Sect’s delegation was waiting on Eastwind Island and that they could discuss the visit there.
• Fang Qianyuan learned that the Flying Immortal Sect expected him to join the Eastern Sea campaign against Qunyao, though he did not want to be ordered around or waste his forces.
• Wang Ran warned Fang Qianyuan that the fleet was approaching the great whirlpool, and the treasure ships and spirit creatures entered it.
• The fleet passed through the Water Realm and another whirlpool, returned to the Eastern Sea, and reached Eastwind Island.

Fang Qianyuan and his entourage arrived at Eastwind Island, where local clan representatives and Flying Immortal Sect envoys welcomed them. Li Yulou and Luo Qing noticed that Elder Yu had deliberately withheld most of his delegation from the welcome, setting up a contest of status with Fang Qianyuan.

• Fang Qianyuan sensed the abundant water essence around Eastwind Island and steered his treasure ship to the harbor reserved for major sects and top experts.
• Ying Ting and representatives of Eastwind Island’s sixteen aristocratic clans welcomed Fang Qianyuan ashore, followed by envoys from the Flying Immortal Sect.
• Li Yulou and Luo Qing watched from the Divine Wind and noticed that Elder Yu’s delegation had sent almost no senior members to greet Fang Qianyuan.
• Li Yulou concluded that Elder Yu was retaliating for Fang Qianyuan’s earlier slight and expected the senior expert to challenge him.
• Luo Qing remained unmoved, wanting to reclaim her dignity through her own actions rather than Elder Yu’s intervention.

Fang Qianyuan and his delegation attended a gathering hosted by Flying Immortal Sect elder Yu, where Elder Yu’s seating arrangement challenged Fang Qianyuan’s standing. The chapter ended as Fang Ming objected to the slight.

• Fang Qianyuan accepted an invitation to meet Flying Immortal Sect elders and discussed their cool reception with Fang Lian.
• Fang Qianyuan brought Fang Lian and the others to Elder Yu’s island, where Ye Wujin introduced them to prominent guests from the sect and across the Eastern Sea.
• Fang Qianyuan recognized Luo Qing and exchanged pointed words with her about their earlier meeting aboard the ship.
• Elder Yu remained seated when Fang Qianyuan arrived, then directed an attendant to show him to a seat below the dais.
• Fang Ming protested that the seating arrangement disrespected Fang Qianyuan’s rank and equal standing.

Elder Yu deliberately slighted Fang Qianyuan at a preliminary meeting between the Flying Immortal Sect and the Azure Cloud Sect, then faced him in a clash of auras. Elder Yu unleashed his Heaven-Eyed Blue Shark spirit creature and damaged the hall, but Fang Qianyuan remained calm and seemed to have gained the upper hand.

• Elder Yu seated Fang Qianyuan below the dais, and the Azure Cloud Sect members recognized the insult as deliberate provocation.
• Elder Yu claimed he had only been joking, while Fang Qianyuan warned that few people dared joke with him.
• Fang Qianyuan and Elder Yu stared each other down as their peak Earth Rank auras collided, frightening everyone in the hall.
• Elder Yu released his Heaven-Eyed Blue Shark spirit creature and spirit essence, wrecking more than half the hall while shielding the attendants and its main beam.
• Elder Yu looked grave after the clash, while Fang Qianyuan remained composed, leaving the onlookers to conclude that Elder Yu had fallen behind.

Elder Yu backed down from his confrontation with Fang Qianyuan, allowing the meeting between the Azure Cloud Sect and the Flying Immortal Sect to proceed. In private, he warned a young Spirit Tamer that Fang Qianyuan had been severely underestimated and urged him to consider how the younger generation would face the Azure Cloud Sect’s growing influence.

• Ying Ting, Feng Tianyun, and the Eastwind Island elders pleaded with Elder Yu and Fang Qianyuan to avoid a fight.
• Elder Yu withdrew to the rear hall and told Ye Wujin to host Fang Qianyuan, after which the gathering moved to a side hall.
• Ye Wujin welcomed the Azure Cloud Sect and began explaining the Eastern Sea situation and the arrangements ahead.
• A young Spirit Tamer visited Elder Yu, who revealed that he was less troubled by his own slight than by Fang Qianyuan’s power and its implications for future generations.
• The young Spirit Tamer argued that sects would eventually return to equal footing, and Elder Yu warned that the Azure Cloud Sect would likely expand its advantage while others might act recklessly.
• Elder Yu asked the young man to have Luo Qing stay behind later for a private discussion.

Fang Qianyuan secured an independent role for his forces in the Eastern Sea campaign and received supplies from the Flying Immortal Sect. Luo Qing then briefed him on Qunyao’s movements and the Eastern Sea’s evolving Demonic Path, leaving him to confront the scale of the threat and opportunity.

• Fang Qianyuan rejected the Eastern Sea factions’ attempts to control his force, and he warned the Azure Cloud Sect’s people that the factions might undermine them covertly.
• Fang Qianyuan led his people to the harbor, where the Flying Immortal Sect handed over ships, supplies, personnel, and disciples to support their campaign.
• Luo Qing visited Fang Qianyuan and presented intelligence about Qunyao’s arrival and activities in the Eastern Sea.
• Luo Qing described how the Demonic Path had adapted to the Eastern Sea and Water Realm, and Fang Qianyuan recognized that its transformation could pose a grave threat while offering valuable knowledge.

Fang Qianyuan and Luo Qing agreed to cooperate against Qunyao and the spread of the Demon Refinement Art, while Fang Qianyuan’s group prepared for combat at sea. Before the operation began, rogue cultivators attacked Eastwind Island’s harbor.

• Luo Qing explained the Eastern Sea’s struggle against Qunyao, the Boundless Sect, and the growing forces of rogue cultivators.
• Luo Qing revealed that the Righteous Path had formed a joint fleet and planned to kill Qunyao to cut off the Demon Refinement Art at its source, and Fang Qianyuan approved.
• Luo Qing warned Fang Qianyuan to prepare his people for fighting at sea, and he instructed Fang Lian to study her materials and train the Azure Cloud Sect’s people.
• The Azure Cloud Sect’s people practiced on deserted islands and at sea while waiting for the operation to begin.
• Rogue cultivators forced their way into Eastwind Island’s harbor, throwing the island into turmoil.

Fang Qianyuan and his companions watched rogue cultivator Wu Jiangzi attack Eastwind Island’s harbor with Demonized Warriors and sea serpents. Wu Jiangzi initially overwhelmed Shui Jiyuan, but reinforcements turned the fight against him, and the chapter ended with him regenerating while surrounded.

• Fang Qianyuan flew with Fang Lian, Wang Ran, and the others to watch the harbor attack, where sea serpents, Human Rank Spirit Tamers, and Demonized Warriors were fighting the guards.
• Wang Ran recognized the attackers as Demonized Warriors who had obtained the Demon Refinement Art, while Wu Jiangzi urged his men to loot and kill.
• Shui Jiyuan charged Wu Jiangzi, but Wu Jiangzi blocked his halberd with a towering wave and sent him crashing into a crater.
• Wu Jiangzi distracted Shui Jiyuan by attacking civilians, then had several half-step Earth Rank bandits ambush him.
• Another clan elder and three more Earth Rank Spirit Tamers reinforced Shui Jiyuan, surrounded the bandits, and nearly cleaved Wu Jiangzi in two with a Flying Sword.
• Wu Jiangzi’s mangled chest regenerated as Shui Jiyuan declared that he had nowhere to escape.

Wu Jiangzi rampaged through Eastwind Island in a powerful fish-headed dharma aspect, but the local cultivators could only drive him off as he plundered and withdrew into the sea. Fang Qianyuan agreed to help, and Luo Qing suddenly struck Wu Jiangzi down with a devastating bolt of lightning.

• Shui Jiyuan rallied the cultivators against Wu Jiangzi, who escaped their attacks by diving underwater and then transformed into a giant fish-headed monster.
• Wu Jiangzi wrecked shops, devoured their goods, and fought off the encircling Spirit Tamers, healing quickly despite their attacks.
• Wu Jiangzi withdrew into the sea with his surviving forces after his underlings suffered heavy losses.
• Fang Qianyuan explained why Eastwind Island's powerful clans had not committed themselves to pursuing Wu Jiangzi, then agreed to lend a hand.
• Luo Qing appeared with Yun Long and blasted a huge hole through Wu Jiangzi's chest, sending him sinking into the sea.

Luo Qing defeated and sealed Wu Jiangzi after discovering his demonic body could repeatedly recover from devastating injuries, though it was not truly immortal. She suspected he had attacked the harbor on the Boundless Sect’s orders and took him away to question him.

• Luo Qing and Yun Long struck Wu Jiangzi with Water Thunder, but he regenerated and boasted that he had an undying body.
• Luo Qing used thunder and summoned sharks to tear apart Wu Jiangzi’s dharma aspect, revealing that his recovery had limits.
• Fang Qianyuan connected Wu Jiangzi’s ability to Wu Lianyi’s research into regeneration and immortality.
• Luo Qing battered Wu Jiangzi again, sealed him, and let the other bandits flee while Eastwind Island’s experts captured a few.
• Luo Qing told Fang Qianyuan that Wu Jiangzi had gained a demonic path legacy and likely attacked at the Boundless Sect’s direction, then took him away for questioning.

After learning that the Boundless Sect had sent Wu Jiangzi to probe Eastwind Island, Fang Qianyuan chose to sail out and assist Elder Yu in the pursuit of Qunyao. As his fleet left the harbor, Si Yuanjin reappeared and watched, preparing to test Fang Qianyuan in waters that favored him.

• Luo Qing reported that Wu Jiangzi had acted on the Boundless Sect's orders and warned that the sect might be trying to delay the pursuit of Qunyao.
• Fang Qianyuan chose to leave Eastwind Island and help Elder Yu rather than remain behind to guard it.
• Fang Qianyuan ordered Zuoqiutang to prepare the Warrior Administration's units, and they sailed east aboard eleven warships the next morning.
• Si Yuanjin watched Fang Qianyuan's fleet depart and resolved to find an opportunity to test him.

Fang Qianyuan and his companions traveled along a safe shipping lane toward a distant battlefield while learning about sea navigation and the lawless Eastern Sea. When suspicious ships and schools of fish appeared ahead, they prepared for a possible pirate attack.

• Fang Qianyuan learned from Flying Immortal Sect disciples how currents, monsoons, and dangerous waters shaped sea travel.
• Fang Qianyuan heard that mortals had built steamships and become a significant force in Eastern Sea trade.
• A lookout spotted six merchant-flagged ships, and the Flying Immortal Sect disciples warned that rogue cultivators often used ordinary vessels to ambush travelers.
• Fang Qianyuan ordered his companions to continue forward and destroy the ships if they showed hostile intent.
• Shimmering ripples appeared on the sea, and the group realized schools of fish might have been summoned to bring sea monsters against their ships.

Fang Qianyuan ordered the fleet to attack a suspicious group of ships after recognizing that a school of Gray Knife Fish might be bait for sea monsters. The gray-robed Daoist’s fleet tried to escape, but Bighead the Stone Octopus attacked their ship.

• A gray-robed Daoist and his Spirit Tamers used a school of Gray Knife Fish to hide manifested spirit creatures carrying blood-like liquid toward the Ice Dragon.
• After hearing that the fish were ramming the hull and could attract sea monsters, Fang Qianyuan ordered the fleet to eliminate the suspicious ships.
• The gray-robed Daoist’s crewmen claimed to be merchants from Shelter Island, but the Ice Dragon’s fleet opened fire without warning.
• The gray-robed Daoist ordered his crew to flee and keep their Drift Birds calm, warning that sea demons would attack the bloodied flagship.
• Bighead the Stone Octopus rose from the sea and wrapped its tentacles around the wooden ship.

Fang Qianyuan's forces captured the bandits who ambushed them and learned their leader was Blacktooth Shark, Sha Jiao. When enormous sea colossi approached, Fang Qianyuan chose to confront them and tore open the sea with a sweeping strike.

• Bighead crushed the bandits' ship while the Gray-Robed Daoist and other bandits tried to escape.
• Fang Qianyuan sent Zuoqiutang, Fang Ming, and the other Earth Rank Spirit Tamers to defeat the bandits and capture the survivors.
• The Gray-Robed Daoist revealed that Blacktooth Shark, Sha Jiao, had sent them, and a Flying Immortal Sect disciple identified Sha Jiao as a pirate leader with Boundless Sect connections.
• A Warrior warned Fang Qianyuan that more than ten enormous sea colossi were approaching beneath the ship.
• Fang Qianyuan ordered the ship away and swept his hand toward the sea, tearing a chasm more than ten li long across its surface.

Fang Qianyuan tore open the sea, killed a massive sea monster, and froze the surrounding waters while fighting off a tsunami. After destroying the trapped sea behemoths, he returned to his original form and pursued the Treasure Ship.

• Fang Qianyuan split the sea with a claw strike and blasted a huge behemoth with Mountain-Breaking Gang.
• The sea monster’s cry destabilized the sky and raised a tsunami that trapped Fang Qianyuan.
• Fang Qianyuan transformed into a werewolf and used Wind Blade Frost Sword to freeze the sea for more than thirty li.
• Fang Qianyuan shattered the ice and the frozen behemoths with black spheres and Mystic Light.
• Fang Qianyuan returned to his original form and chased the Treasure Ship, which had sailed more than a hundred li away.