Chapter Summaries

Si Yuanjin recovered an artifact that replayed Fang Qianyuan’s battle with the sea monsters and enlisted Blacktooth Shark to interfere with him. After learning the Boundless Sect was behind the opposition, Fang Qianyuan decided to ignore the threat and hurry after Qunyao.

• Si Yuanjin’s crew recovered a black artifact from a frozen Gray Knife Fish and used it to view Fang Qianyuan’s battle.
• After watching Fang Qianyuan destroy the sea monsters, Sha Jiao questioned whether he should take part in Si Yuanjin’s plan, but agreed after Si Yuanjin promised rewards.
• Zuoqiutang reported to Fang Qianyuan that Blacktooth Shark was targeting them and that the Boundless Sect was likely directing him.
• Fang Qianyuan rejected Fang Lian’s suggestion to involve the Flying Immortal Sect and said the Boundless Sect wanted to obstruct their pursuit of Qunyao.
• Fang Qianyuan ordered his party to ignore the incident and reach the designated waters as quickly as possible.

Qunyao oversaw a ritual on Nameless Island that used the blood of sea beasts and an array to transform captive mortals. As the humans mutated, Qunyao declared that his research into the secret of life had succeeded and that Wu Lianyi's ambition had advanced.

• Fang Qianyuan ordered the fleet to speed ahead, while Si Yuanjin and Blacktooth Shark decided to wait for Qunyao's response and look for a chance to support him.
• Qunyao walked through the facilities on Nameless Island, where demonized warriors prepared an altar and captive humans for a ritual.
• Qunyao ordered the ritual to begin, and the warriors drained the blood of twelve sea monsters into the altar and its channels.
• The warriors threw the captives into the blood pool, where beast phantoms entered their bodies and caused them to mutate.
• Qunyao celebrated the ritual's success and declared that he had uncovered the secret of life, then flew down toward the altar as an Earth Rank Spirit Tamer followed.

Qunyao’s Blood Pool experiment transformed mortals into powerful Spirit Tamers, though many panicked and were captured. One young man gained the power of a supreme-grade Demon Star Raging Shark, struck Qunyao, and escaped, leaving Qunyao convinced the experiment had succeeded.

• The mortals who survived the Blood Pool reverted toward human form, revealing monstrous traits and strength, then fled and fought the Demonized Warriors who pursued and captured them.
• Qunyao declared the survivors Spirit Tamers, but several demanded to know what he had done and begged for mercy.
• The young man who had reverted fastest asked if the creatures inside them were Spirit Tamers’ Spirit Creatures, then said he felt wonderful.
• The young man struck Qunyao with tremendous force and fled, radiating power like a supreme-grade Demon Star Raging Shark.
• Qunyao let the young man escape and told the Earth Rank Spirit Tamer to report the successful experiment to His Highness King Mu.

Fang Qianyuan learned that King Mu had attacked three Flying Immortal Sect fleets in support of Qunyao. A warning revealed that Qunyao had developed living weapons through the Rebirth Ritual, making its Warrior Path more powerful.

• Fang Qianyuan discussed Eastern Sea marine creatures and the region’s shared resources and ongoing conflicts with Flying Immortal Sect disciples.
• Yan Yu delivered a letter from Elder Yu reporting that King Mu had attacked three of the sect’s fleets.
• Fang Qianyuan identified King Mu as a Heaven-Tier Powerhouse supporting Qunyao, while Fang Lian worried the conflict could escalate into a war between the Righteous and Demonic Paths.
• Fang Lian asked why King Mu had acted at this moment, and Fang Qianyuan revealed that a Flying Immortal Sect death spy had warned Qunyao had created living weapons through the Rebirth Ritual.

Fang Qianyuan and Fang Lian discussed the threat posed by newly developed Living Weapons and hurried the search for their makers. A month later, Zuoqiutang and the Warriors aboard the Ice Dragon encountered an arrogant young man flying over the sea, who demanded to board.

• Fang Qianyuan and Fang Lian explained that parasitism and bloodline refinement could turn Spirit Creatures into powerful Living Weapons, and agreed they needed to destroy the enemy's base quickly.
• Fang Qianyuan's group intensified their patrols and searches while the Flying Immortal Sect monitored supplies and sea-monster hunters.
• After a month of fruitless searching, Fang Qianyuan and the Warriors entered a new stretch of sea on July fifth.
• A lookout spotted a lone man flying toward the Ice Dragon, and Zuoqiutang gathered the Warriors on deck to meet him.
• The young man tried to descend onto the ship and cursed Zuoqiutang for blocking him, claiming the crew should feel honored that he had chosen their vessel.

Zuoqiutang confronted the young man Long Hao, whose overwhelming power and strange regenerative ability made him a threat to the Warrior Administration. After reinforcements subdued him, the commanders took him alive for questioning.

• Zuoqiutang attacked Long Hao after he ignored a warning, but discovered that Long Hao had great cultivation and little combat experience.
• Zuoqiutang wounded Long Hao, who revealed a Demon Star Raging Shark Dharma Form and resisted a volley of specially enhanced arrows.
• Long Hao regenerated from the damage and struck Zuoqiutang with a hand formed from seawater, prompting Zuoqiutang to call for reinforcements.
• Sun Jixing and Feng Yun arrived and fought Long Hao, while Feng Yun's poisonous mist left him dizzy and disoriented.
• Ximen Man pierced Long Hao's chest with a strike, knocking him unconscious, and bound him with the Dragon-Binding Rope so the commanders could interrogate him.

Fang Qianyuan learned through Long Hao’s dream that a hidden Demon-Refining Workshop had used a ritual to give him extraordinary power. With Qunyao’s presence confirmed, Fang Qianyuan ordered Fang Lian to uncover Long Hao’s origins so they could reach the hiding place before Elder Yu and the others.

• Wang Ran reported that Zuoqiutang and the other commanders had captured Long Hao alive, and Fang Qianyuan ordered them brought in.
• Zuoqiutang described Long Hao’s strength and strange lack of experience, prompting Fang Qianyuan to ask Fang Lian to search his dreams.
• Fang Lian entered Long Hao’s dreamscape and saw that he had once been an untrained young master of the Long Family.
• Long Hao’s dream revealed that pirates had abducted him and other mortals and taken them to a Demon-Refining Workshop.
• The workshop’s warriors used a ritual involving spiritual blood to transform Long Hao and the other captives, giving Long Hao cultivation comparable to Seven Turns or above.
• Fang Qianyuan recognized that Qunyao had appeared and ordered Fang Lian to verify Long Hao’s origins so they could reach its hiding place before Elder Yu and the others.

Fang Qianyuan led the Warrior Administration fleet to the Nameless Island revealed in Long Hao’s Dreamscape and moved to seize it without alerting the Righteous Path Allies. He left the Flying Immortal Sect disciples unable to report the discovery, while his forces surrounded the island and trained their cannons on it.

• Fang Qianyuan recognized the Nameless Island and ordered his fleet to surround it, keeping the operation within the Azure Cloud Sect’s forces.
• Warriors stalled the Flying Immortal Sect disciples and blocked their access to the Communication Array as the fleet approached the island.
• A Warrior Administration Team Captain pretended that a subordinate had damaged the array, convincing a Flying Immortal Sect disciple that repairs would take until the following day.
• The Flying Immortal Sect disciples discovered that communication arrays aboard the other ships had also failed, leaving them unable to notify their sect.
• The Warrior Administration positioned magical and mortal cannons on its warships and aimed them at the island.

Fang Qianyuan unleashed the divine ability Heaven and Earth Have Wind, summoning a vast storm to attack Nameless Island. Hai Rongyang and Qunyao realized the storm was man-made as their monitoring outposts were destroyed and enemy warships approached.

• Fang Qianyuan used the Wind Weasel to channel his power and set the surrounding wind and origin energy into motion.
• Fang Qianyuan invoked Heaven and Earth Have Wind, creating black tornadoes that lifted seawater and formed a devastating storm racing toward the island.
• Hai Rongyang watched the unnatural storm approach Nameless Island and learned that Qunyao suspected an attack.
• Hai Rongyang joined Qunyao and a thousand Warriors as monitoring images showed the storm destroying their outposts and revealed warships behind it.
• Hai Rongyang recognized that a powerful attacker was advancing on the island and feared they would be overwhelmed.

Zuoqiutang led the Warrior Administration’s assault on the island as Fang Qianyuan’s storm destroyed its defenses. After Qunyao released the captive beasts to slow the attackers, Fang Qianyuan reached the altar, exposed the underground cavern, and drew Qunyao and the others out to face him.

• Zuoqiutang led the Personal Guard ashore after Fang Qianyuan parted the storm, and Fang Qianyuan’s black dragon froze and destroyed the Eight-Clawed Dragons guarding the beach.
• Hai Rongyang and Qunyao watched the invasion from a secret chamber, and Qunyao recognized the attackers as Azure Cloud Sect warriors led by Fang Qianyuan.
• Qunyao released the enormous beasts from their cages to hinder Zuoqiutang’s forces, while demonized warriors tried and failed to escape the island.
• Fang Qianyuan fought across the island, reached the offering altar, and carved open the ground to reveal an underground cavern.
• A middle-aged man in green robes emerged with several others and challenged Fang Qianyuan, who welcomed the confrontation.

Fang Qianyuan confronted Qunyao, who explained that the Warriors sought to overcome the injustices of fate and make everyone extraordinary. Qunyao challenged Fang Qianyuan to vindicate the Warriors’ name and revealed that he had reached the half-step Heaven Tier.

• Fang Qianyuan encountered Qunyao, who calmly asked to speak with him about Wu Lianyi’s past attempt to seek him out.
• Qunyao recalled Fang Qianyuan’s youthful wish to travel the world and challenge its heroes, then asked how an ordinary person would be judged for making the same boast.
• Qunyao argued that people were born with unequal gifts and fates, and said his group refused to accept those differences as fixed.
• Qunyao declared that the Warriors wanted to make everyone wise, brave, strong, and extraordinary, then challenged Fang Qianyuan to a fight.
• Qunyao’s aura surged beyond the Tenth Transformation of the Earth Rank, revealing cultivation at the half-step Heaven Tier.

Fang Qianyuan fought Qunyao, a former mortal who had reached half-step Heaven Tier and transformed into a forest of attacking trees. After enlarging into a giant werewolf, Fang Qianyuan struck back with devastating force, but the battle remained unresolved.

• Fang Qianyuan learned that Qunyao had once been an ordinary laborer before joining Wu Lianyi’s Warrior Hall and advancing to half-step Heaven Tier.
• Qunyao transformed into a tree-like creature, and Fang Qianyuan froze and destroyed his body with Wind Evasion, Wind Blade Frost Sword.
• Qunyao’s divine ability, One Tree Becomes a Forest, caused countless trees, branches, and vines to attack Fang Qianyuan across a vast area.
• Fang Qianyuan used the Windbody Technique to evade the wooden cage, then formed Ice Armor to withstand the attacks.
• Fang Qianyuan manifested a giant werewolf Dharma Aspect, enlarged himself, and tore through the forest with a force-energy claw.
• Fang Qianyuan invoked Greedy Wolf Style, Black Moon, and pressed a dark sphere toward the ground.

Fang Qianyuan froze a vast part of the island, but Qunyao revived the forest and exposed the Demonized Warriors hiding within it. Fang Qianyuan then fought the overwhelming army alone and drove his attack toward its lair.

• Hai Rongyang fled through the underground passage while Qunyao stayed behind to face the attack.
• Fang Qianyuan's strike froze a wide area of the island, killing many of Qunyao's wooden clones and turning the forest into a field of ice.
• Qunyao drew in the surrounding essence and rapidly regenerated the trees, exposing the Demonized Warriors hidden in the mountain.
• Thousands of Demonized Warriors, including Sea Folk and Deep Sea Folk, charged Fang Qianyuan and attacked him from the forest.
• Fang Qianyuan cut down the advancing warriors with Wind Blade Frost Sword and swept a massive attack toward their lair.

Fang Qianyuan overwhelmed Qunyao and his forces, but Qunyao gathered the island’s blood energy and created a giant primordial tree. A wooden figure emerged from its flower and challenged Fang Qianyuan to a strike.

• Fang Qianyuan unleashed relentless attacks that wiped out the Human Rank enemies and giant monsters while grievously injuring Qunyao.
• Zuoqiutang recognized the blood mist around the island’s center as a sign that Qunyao was using a blood sacrifice art.
• Qunyao fused roots that absorbed the blood energy and grew into a towering primordial tree.
• A flower bud on the tree absorbed spiritual energy and bloomed while Fang Qianyuan watched without attacking.
• A wooden figure emerged from the flower, addressed Fang Qianyuan as Young Master Fang, and announced, “Blooming Flower Reveals Me!”

Qunyao used Blooming Flower Reveals Me to attack Fang Qianyuan with tribulation thunder, but Fang survived by using Reverse Time Transformation. Qunyao exhausted his strength and collapsed, leaving Fang standing.

• Qunyao rushed Fang Qianyuan and traded blows with him, while Fang questioned how long Qunyao could sustain his enhancement.
• Qunyao unleashed Yi Wood True Thunder, which formed into a tribulation weapon that locked onto Fang.
• Fang Qianyuan used Reverse Time Transformation, Past Body, to reverse the damage from the thunder strike, though it consumed most of his stored power of time.
• Qunyao’s attack drained the flesh, blood, and essence of his subordinates and left him depleted.
• Qunyao’s body dried, cracked, and fell like charcoal.

Fang Qianyuan defeated Qunyao and uncovered the secret chamber containing research on the warrior path, which he decided could not be erased. Elsewhere, Elder Yu learned that contact had finally been made with the Azure Cloud Sect.

• Zuoqiutang and the others emerged from hiding as Fang Qianyuan confronted the dying Qunyao, who revealed he had hidden something in a secret chamber.
• Qunyao argued that ideals were destined never to be realized, then died and turned into dead wood.
• Zuoqiutang and the warriors broke through a wall and found a concealed chamber filled with protected books on the warrior path.
• Fang Qianyuan ordered the bookshelves taken back to the sect, reasoning that the warrior path had spread too widely to be erased.
• Fang Qianyuan's group rescued abducted mortals, rogue cultivators, and Spirit Tamers, and learned that disappearances across the Eastern Sea were widespread.
• A disciple told Elder Yu that his people had finally made contact with the Azure Cloud Sect.

After learning that Fang Qianyuan had captured Qunyao and found nearly a thousand victims and workshop supplies, Elder Yu arranged for Feng Tianyun and Zou Yong to negotiate with him on behalf of the Eastern Sea's Righteous Path. Meanwhile, Fang Qianyuan continued investigating the ruins and personally interrogated Hai Rongyang aboard the Ice Dragon.

• A young disciple reported that Fang Qianyuan had found Qunyao's island, captured it, and discovered nearly a thousand victims and workshop supplies.
• Elder Yu summoned Feng Tianyun and Zou Yong, then explained that Qunyao was in Fang Qianyuan's hands.
• Feng Tianyun and Zou Yong agreed to act as envoys, and Elder Yu assigned Yang Fan to accompany them.
• Fang Qianyuan delegated the investigation and interrogations to his subordinates before personally questioning Hai Rongyang.

Fang Lian and Fang Qianyuan interrogated Hai Rongyang, who revealed the Boundless Sect’s progress in Dharma Lineage Research. His revelations showed that the research might help humans survive the coming decline of supernatural power by transforming their very nature through union with Spirit Creatures.

• Fang Lian offered Hai Rongyang three choices, and he chose to cooperate with the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Fang Qianyuan questioned Hai Rongyang about his mission and the progress made by Qunyao, Wu Lianyi, and their associates.
• Hai Rongyang revealed that their research had developed methods to produce powerful Warriors in batches and create Dharma Lineages.
• Fang Qianyuan learned that the Boundless Sect planned to use the findings to reform how Dao arts were taught and transmitted.
• Hai Rongyang explained that Dharma Lineage Research aimed to help humans endure the Dharma-Ending Age by merging with multiple Spirit Creatures and transforming their lives.

After eliminating Qunyao’s lair, Fang Qianyuan and Fang Lian discussed the potential of the Dharma Lineage research and reported their gains to the sect. When Flying Immortal Sect elders arrived seeking Qunyao’s findings, Fang Qianyuan admitted he had texts and researchers but demanded compensation for sharing them.

• Fang Qianyuan and Fang Lian recognized that Wu Lianyi’s Dharma Lineage research could let mortals cultivate and reshape the balance of power.
• Fang Qianyuan ordered Fang Lian to report their discoveries to the sect under both their names and asked her to include their gains.
• Yang Fan, Feng Tianyun, and Zou Yong arrived from the Flying Immortal Sect, and Fang Qianyuan invited them aboard the Ice Dragon.
• Yang Fan pressed Fang Qianyuan to make the Boundless Sect reveal its findings, claiming the alliance required it.
• Fang Qianyuan said his group had found Warrior Path texts and researchers, then demanded the Flying Immortal Sect pay for them.

After reaching an agreement with the Flying Immortal Sect, Fang Qianyuan returned to Eastwind Island and learned that the Ten Thousand Poisons Valley might be sheltering the Demonized Warriors. The faction’s Valley Master, Dongfang Zhi, caught Fang Qianyuan’s attention and left him deeply unsettled.

• Yang Fan agreed to report Fang Qianyuan’s offer to the Flying Immortal Sect, while Feng Tianyun and Zou Yong chose to handle the matter through their alliance with the sect.
• Yang Fan, Feng Tianyun, and Zou Yong visited the ruined island and saw the devastation left by the battle.
• Elder Yu arrived with twelve Flying Immortal Sect warships, negotiated an exchange of Eastern Sea resources and an alliance with Fang Qianyuan, then departed to pursue Qunyao’s remaining leads.
• Fang Qianyuan and his group returned to Eastwind Island, where he considered the risks of sending his confiscated research texts back to his sect.
• Fang Lian reported that Feng Tianyun and Zou Yong were investigating the Ten Thousand Poisons Valley, which might be harboring the Demonized Warriors.
• Fang Lian described Valley Master Dongfang Zhi as a far-sighted threat, and Fang Qianyuan reacted with visible alarm.