Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang and Chestnut faced hostility toward Daming and Erming, two Wasp-people, in Unicorn City, where wasps were hated for a past betrayal. When officers tried to seize Chestnut, Ye Liang effortlessly defeated them and began to wonder whether he was an expert.

• Chestnut explained that people in the city feared Daming and Erming because Wasp-people had betrayed the Insect People ten years earlier.
• Two officers provoked Daming, and Chestnut blocked a sword strike to protect him before invoking the Unicorn Queen’s decree protecting Wasp-people.
• More officers surrounded Chestnut and accused her of attacking them, revealing that they wanted to take her away.
• Ye Liang stepped in, caught the officers’ blades with his hand, and sent one officer flying with an invisible force that killed him.
• The remaining officers fled, and Chestnut and the others questioned Ye Liang’s strength as he wondered whether he was an expert.

After Ye Liang attacked an officer while rescuing Chestnut, she took him to the Wasp-people’s hidden base beneath Unicorn City. Chestnut reported to the Holy Emissary, who ordered her to enter the dangerous upcoming Insectoid Priest, while Ye Liang waited outside and spotted a beauty.

• Chestnut warned Ye Liang that Queen would hold him responsible for attacking an officer, then led him and Daming and Erming through a sewer entrance to the Wasp-people’s secret base.
• Chestnut passed Ye Liang off as a kidnapped slave to get the group past the guarded entrance.
• Chestnut went to report to the Holy Emissary, while Daming and Erming left Ye Liang waiting in the base’s plaza.
• The Holy Emissary scolded Chestnut over the Wasp-people’s dwindling supplies and ordered her to participate in the upcoming Insectoid Priest.
• Ye Liang grew bored while waiting and, half-asleep, exclaimed that he had seen a beauty.

Ye Liang met Guozi, a human who worked for the Wasp Holy Emissary, while Chestnut returned from the secret chamber and disbanded Lizi's Extortion Squad. Later, Chestnut refused to reveal Ye Liang's whereabouts to Rhinoceros Beetle officers and was attacked in a tavern.

• Ye Liang tried to greet Guozi, but Wasp-people guards kicked him aside and Daming and Erming explained that she was a successful extortionist.
• Chestnut returned from the secret chamber, announced that she was disbanding Lizi's Extortion Squad, and told Daming and Erming to stay underground.
• Chestnut left for the tavern where she had first treated Ye Liang to a drink and sat alone as Unicorn City officers surrounded her.
• Officer Sanqiao asked Chestnut where Ye Liang and the escaped Wasp-people were, but she refused to betray them.
• A subordinate officer kicked Chestnut down, and the officers began to assault her after Sanqiao left.

Ye Liang rescued Chestnut from officers led by Sanqiao and learned she had been ordered to undertake a deadly Insectoid Priest ritual. He agreed to accompany her to the Sea of Departed Souls, where they arrived with other Wasp Insectoids and spotted Miss Guozi.

• Ye Liang killed the officer attacking Chestnut, defeated the other subordinate officers, and escaped Sanqiao with her.
• Chestnut told Ye Liang that the Holy Envoy had ordered her to carry offerings to the Wasp-people Ancestral Temple, and she feared the danger would put Daming and Erming at risk.
• Ye Liang offered to deliver the offerings, but Chestnut explained that the Ancestral Temple was hidden among countless dangerous Isles of Departed Souls across the Sea of Departed Souls.
• Ye Liang decided to accompany Chestnut, and six months later they reached the sea with other Wasp Insectoids.
• Ye Liang recognized Miss Guozi among the ritual participants, and Chestnut teased him for staring at her.

Ye Liang and Chestnut boarded a Heroic Spirit Boat to seek the Ancestral Temple, but their Boatman left them on a dangerous island overrun by Fallen Ones. They waited for the boat to depart again, only to see the Boatman use his paddle as a pillow and fall asleep.

• Miss Guozi tried to recruit Ye Liang from Chestnut, but he rejected her and offered for her to join their team instead.
• Several days later, Chestnut explained that the Heroic Spirit Boatmen could lead them to the Ancestral Temple, and she warned Ye Liang not to offend them.
• Ye Liang and Chestnut boarded a flatboat and crossed the Sea of Departed Souls with the other travelers.
• The Boatman left them on a perilous island where Fallen Ones roamed, and Chestnut told Ye Liang they had to wait for the boat to set sail again.
• When the Boatman picked up his paddle, Ye Liang and Chestnut rushed toward the shore, but the Boatman lay down and fell asleep.

Ye Liang forced the malicious Boatman to sail by punching a hole in the Soul Skiff, proving the vessel was part of the Boatman's ghost. After escaping the Fallen Ones, Ye Liang and Chestnut searched for a kinder Boatman and spotted Miss Guozi's boat, which they believed was the right one.

• Chestnut tried to drag Ye Liang away as the Fallen Ones swarmed toward them, but Ye Liang realized the Boatman had deliberately provoked him.
• Ye Liang kicked the Soul Skiff into the sea, boarded it with Chestnut, and demanded that the Boatman sail, but the oar had no effect.
• Ye Liang punched a hole in the Soul Skiff, causing the Boatman to clutch his head in pain until he agreed to row and the vessel repaired itself.
• The Soul Skiff carried Ye Liang and Chestnut away from the Fallen Ones, and Ye Liang explained his suspicions about the Boatman being a mass of resentment.
• Ye Liang and Chestnut decided to find a kinder Boatman who could lead them to the ancestral hall, then spotted Miss Guozi's Soul Skiff and recognized it as the right one.

Ye Liang tricked Miss Guozi into letting him aboard her boat while Chestnut secretly followed the ghost ship underwater and took control of it. After the ghost ship disappeared, Ye Liang saw a chance to escape Guozi’s group, though he feared Chestnut might encounter Fallen Ones on the island’s far side.

• Ye Liang pretended to accept Guozi’s demand and struck Chestnut into the sea, convincing Guozi’s group to let him aboard.
• Chestnut followed the boat underwater with a rope tied around her waist while Ye Liang concealed her presence.
• When Guozi’s boat stopped at a safe island, Chestnut killed the sleeping Wasp-person subordinate, ordered the boatman to leave, and sailed away on the ghost ship.
• Ye Liang traveled with Guozi’s group and worried that Chestnut would run into Fallen Ones on the other side of the island.
• Guozi’s group returned to shore and found the ghost ship gone, and Ye Liang suggested searching for other vessels so he could escape.

Ye Liang used the Insect People as bait to slip past the Fallen Ones and reach the other side of the island, where Chestnut was waiting by the sea. As he approached her, Chestnut suddenly shouted for him to run.

• Miss Guozi split the group, sending Ye Liang and three Insect People to scout the dangerous side of the island.
• Ye Liang smeared local grass on himself to conceal his scent and led the Insect People through the Fallen Ones’ territory.
• Ye Liang proposed luring the Fallen Ones away, then used the Insect People as bait while he secretly crossed the passage.
• Ye Liang escaped through the mountain paths and reached the other side of the island, where Chestnut waited by the sea.
• Chestnut shouted for Ye Liang to run as he approached her.

Ye Liang rescued Chestnut from a mutated Ghost Boatman with help from Miss Guozi and her group, then followed them to a boat and boarded it to leave the island. The real Miss Guozi learned that Ye Liang had tricked her subordinates and set out to hunt him down.

• A huge Ghost Boatman attacked Ye Liang and seized Chestnut, who warned him that it had swallowed their former Boatman.
• Ye Liang fought to save Chestnut, and Miss Guozi arrived with three subordinates and helped defeat the Ghost Boatman.
• Ye Liang freed Chestnut from the chain and told Miss Guozi that the Ghost Boatman had captured her.
• The real Guozi questioned the three Wasp-people, learned Ye Liang had deceived them, and ordered a search for him.
• Ye Liang followed the impostor Miss Guozi to a boat guarded by another Ghost Boatman, sensed its killing intent, and boarded with Chestnut.

Ye Liang discovered that the misty island was using Genjutsu to disguise dead Wasp Insectoids as ruins and companions. After swallowing a green pearl from a statue and awakening the Tenseigan and Rinnegan, he realized Chestnut was in danger as a corpse reached for her.

• Ye Liang grew suspicious of Fruit and the Ghost Boatmen after their journey passed without danger, then followed the group to a fog-covered island they believed held the Ancestral Temple.
• Ye Liang found a green pearl in a Wasp Queen statue, accidentally swallowed it, and awakened the Tenseigan and Rinnegan.
• Ye Liang saw that the three Wasp-people traveling with him were actually mummies and realized the island's apparent ruins were Genjutsu hiding corpses.
• Ye Liang hurried across the island to find Chestnut and saw her kneeling before a corpse that reached toward her with a rotting arm.

Ye Liang confronted the rotten corpse pretending to be Miss Guozi and learned that she and her attendants feared his Rank Nine strength. After he taunted her into attacking, she struck at his unguarded back with a poisoned Ghost Hand, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Ye Liang kicked the corpse away, recognized that it was not Miss Guozi, and warned Chestnut to hide near the shore because the Boatman was also suspicious.
• The fake Miss Guozi revealed that she wanted to absorb Ye Liang and rebuild her body, while Ye Liang discovered she was at early Rank Nine and he had regained middle-stage Rank Nine strength.
• Three Wasp-people subordinates arrived, but they fled when Miss Guozi warned them that Ye Liang was middle stage Rank Nine.
• Ye Liang mistook their fear for proof that he vastly outranked Miss Guozi, then taunted and humiliated her by ordering her to kneel and throwing sand in her face.
• Miss Guozi attacked Ye Liang's exposed back with her poisoned, law-infused Ghost Hand as Ye Liang's system power was exhausted.

Ye Liang bluffed the dried corpse into believing he had mastered Great Dao Truth, and the corpse surrendered and went to attempt a breakthrough. Ye Liang reunited with Chestnut and confronted the Boatman, but his Rinnegan ran out of Chakra in the Underworld Realm.

• Ye Liang convinced the dried corpse that he was an ancient master whose words could reveal Great Dao Truth, so the corpse knelt and called him Senior.
• The dried corpse stopped fighting, thanked Ye Liang, and left to attempt a breakthrough.
• Ye Liang left the island and found Chestnut waiting by the shore, then learned the Boatman was still there.
• Ye Liang recognized the Boatman as another of Miss Guozi's people and walked up to confront him.
• The Boatman glared at Ye Liang, and Ye Liang's Rinnegan reverted to normal when its Chakra ran out.

Ye Liang’s borrowed Ninth Stage strength vanished, leaving him beaten by the Boatman, but the Boatman stopped when his boss, 'Miss Guozi', began a dramatic ascension. After waiting several days, the Boatman knelt to greet him, only to find that 'Miss Guozi' had disappeared.

• The Boatman realized Ye Liang’s strength had fallen to the Sixth Stage and explained that a Forbidden Jutsu had temporarily boosted him.
• The Boatman battered Ye Liang, and Chestnut tried to drag him toward the mist-covered island, but Ye Liang charged back and was beaten again.
• The Boatman prepared to attack Ye Liang until a shriek and crimson lightning revealed that 'Miss Guozi' was ascending toward the peak.
• Ye Liang and Chestnut waited with the Boatman for three or four days as the ascension continued, then the Boatman knelt to greet his boss.
• The Boatman looked up after receiving no response and found that 'Miss Guozi' had vanished.

Ye Liang traveled toward the Ancestral Temple with Miss Guozi, while a battle for the island’s approach unfolded behind them. Guozi’s forces encountered the Island Guardian Beast, beginning the true contest for the temple.

• Miss Guozi introduced Ye Liang as an ancient, powerful Senior, and Boatman reluctantly greeted him.
• Ye Liang stuck his hand into the sand, which Chestnut explained was an Insect People gesture of friendship, and Miss Guozi mistook it for a pledge of brotherhood.
• Miss Guozi arranged a boat and personally escorted Ye Liang toward the Ancestral Temple.
• Guozi led her Wasp-people through a fight against rival boats as they advanced toward the island.
• A waterspout swept up boats and wounded fighters, and the Island Guardian Beast emerged and swallowed a Wasp-person.

Ye Liang, Chestnut, and Lan Chi approached Final Island despite warnings that Peak Creatures guarded the Ancestor Shrine. After landing, Ye Liang discovered that the Ghost Boatmen had all died, leaving the group facing an unexplained danger.

• Lan Chi explained that the waterspout held a ninth-rank peak Slippery Sea Dragon Shark and that Peak Creatures guarded the Ancestor Shrine.
• Chestnut considered turning back, but Lan Chi insisted he would protect Ye Liang and help him recover his strength.
• Ye Liang and the others passed safely through the waterspout and reached the island, where they found boats but no people or footprints.
• Ye Liang suspected the people who had landed had vanished and searched the boats.
• Lan Chi examined a boat and concluded that all the Ghost Boatmen had died there.

Ye Liang and the others used Lan Chi’s Scenery Law to reconstruct the Ghost Boatmen’s disappearance and discovered that Wasp Insectoids had entered a hidden space with special keys. Ye Liang abandoned the chance to reach the ancestral hall, but Lan Chi offered him energy to use a void technique.

• Lan Chi said a peak expert had severed the Ghost Boatmen’s souls from their ships, causing them to vanish.
• Lan Chi used his Law Orb to replay the past around the ships, revealing Wasp Insectoids opening a void with special keys.
• Ye Liang realized Chestnut had been treated as a pawn because she had no key to enter the hidden space.
• Lan Chi admitted he could not open the void, and Ye Liang decided to leave rather than pursue the ancestral hall.
• Ye Liang claimed his damaged strength prevented him from using his void techniques, and Lan Chi offered to transfer him energy.

Ye Liang pretended to know a Spatial Anomaly Technique, and Lan Chi insisted on helping him despite the danger. After Lan Chi transferred much of his Law Power, Ye Liang recovered to the ninth rank but still felt something was missing, while Lan Chi had to stop before losing his own realm.

• Ye Liang warned Lan Chi that helping him with the Spatial Anomaly Technique might cost him his life, but Lan Chi took this as a test of loyalty and offered to help anyway.
• The Boatman tried to expose Ye Liang as a weakling, but Lan Chi slapped him twice and sent him away.
• Lan Chi transferred his Scenery Law energy to Ye Liang, restoring his strength and surrounding him with Law Power.
• Ye Liang reached the ninth rank and asked Lan Chi for more energy, but Lan Chi stopped the transfer after using up most of his Laws.
• Ye Liang felt disappointed that his body still seemed empty and wondered whether more energy might have restored something else.

Ye Liang accidentally opened a passage into the Underworld Realm after pretending to cast a spatial technique. Once inside, he discovered that Lan Chi and Chestnut were undead spirits and that Lan Chi had been trapped there for tens of thousands of years.

• Ye Liang pretended to use a secret technique, but his chant caused his eyes to change and a fissure to open in the sky.
• Ye Liang continued his strange ritual until the void split open into a dark passage.
• Lan Chi entered first, followed by Ye Liang and Chestnut, who revealed her insect wings and flew through the passage.
• Ye Liang began suffocating in the void until Lan Chi surrounded him with ripples that eased his distress.
• Chestnut told Ye Liang they were in the Underworld Netherworld, and Lan Chi realized Ye Liang was a living person and begged him to help escape the Underworld Sea of Darkness.

Ye Liang followed Lan Chi’s phantoms through the void while Miss Guozi fled after obtaining an Exotic Treasure skull. The two groups met when Miss Guozi begged Ye Liang to save her from the Insectoid Race.

• Ye Liang agreed to help Lan Chi and the others escape once he recovered his strength, and Lan Chi used Scenery Law phantoms to track the people ahead.
• Miss Guozi refused to surrender a glowing skull to the Wasp-people and used its emerald ghosts to kill them.
• Golden Beetle ambushed Miss Guozi with his Golden Horn Divine Light, but she released more ghosts and escaped toward the void.
• Ye Liang followed the phantoms across small planets and found Insect People corpses with wounds that Lan Chi identified as the work of an Exotic Treasure.
• Miss Guozi flew down to Ye Liang’s group, asked him to save her from her pursuers, and offered to serve as their guide.

Ye Liang learned that the Wasp-people’s Ancestor Shrine was a treasure chamber and that Fruit was one of eighteen elites sent to gain Law Power. After Chestnut agreed to spare Fruit, Ye Liang accepted her offer to guide them to the final shrine, while Lan Chi fought Golden Beetle.

• Lan Chi blocked Golden Beetle’s attacks on Fruit, then fought him after he insulted Lan Chi’s Law Power.
• Fruit told Ye Liang that the shrine was a treasure chamber and revealed that the Wasp Holy Emissary had sent eighteen elites to gain Law Power and seize control of the Underworld Netherworld.
• Fruit explained that she had earned an elite position through her professional ability, while Chestnut had likely been sent as cannon fodder.
• Fruit offered to help Ye Liang obtain Exotic Treasures and reach the final shrine if he saved her, and Chestnut agreed to spare her for now.
• Ye Liang accepted Fruit’s offer as Lan Chi gained the upper hand against Golden Beetle.