Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang sought help making an antidote for ten thousand people and learned that an isolated country called Southern Barbarian might still have pharmaceutical companies. He entered the kingdom despite warnings about a Female Demon, convinced the tale was only a legend.

• Bai Hengshan explained that the disease-free Ninth Heaven plane had few pharmaceutical companies, but Southern Barbarian might still have them.
• Ye Liang agreed to visit Southern Barbarian after breakfast, then followed Bai Hengshan's map to its mountainous border.
• Ye Liang told White Lotus Republic soldiers that his family needed treatment for a cold, and they recoiled at his mention of snot.
• The soldiers warned Ye Liang to flee if he heard beautiful singing because a Female Demon supposedly controlled people through song near the border.
• Ye Liang thanked the soldiers and strode into Southern Barbarian, dismissing the Female Demon story as a fabrication.

Ye Liang stumbled upon mermaids bathing in a lake, but they caught him spying and carried him away as a gift for their grandmother. A hidden savage escaped detection and planned to sneak back during the mermaids’ shift change to steal Wife Moye’s Bo Bo Shell.

• Ye Liang followed a woman’s song through the mountains and found a lake where mermaids were bathing.
• The mermaids discussed finding humans to feed their grandmother and complained about the dangers of hunting them.
• Ye Liang watched the mermaids from the grass, but a Golden Scale Merfolk struck him and the mermaids captured him.
• Golden Scale Merfolk ordered the others to take Ye Liang to their grandmother and warned the Purple-tailed Merfolk not to reveal her tail to humans.
• A savage emerged from a nearby grass pile, relieved that Ye Liang had drawn the mermaids’ attention, and slipped away to steal Wife Moye’s Bo Bo Shell during the shift change.

Ye Liang was taken by the Sacrificial Clan through a Southern Barbarian Kingdom settlement, where the human residents worshipped the merfolk and treated him as a condemned Fallen One. While Zi Yi prepared to test poison on him in the bamboo grove, a mysterious man intervened and attacked her.

• The Sacrificial Clan carried Ye Liang through the settlement as its residents prayed to the merfolk and sent them Power of Faith.
• A little girl noticed that Ye Liang had opened his eyes, but her grandmother slapped her and the Golden Scale Merfolk leader ordered the crowd to disperse.
• The merfolk tied Ye Liang among human skeletons in a bamboo grove and left Zi Yi and Fendie to guard him overnight.
• Zi Yi bribed Fendie with hairpins to leave her alone with Ye Liang, then prepared to test a venomous scorpion on him.
• A shadowy man struck the scorpion from Zi Yi's hand, covered her mouth, and identified himself as Cheng Asheng before attacking her.

Ye Liang forced Cheng Asheng to lead him to Moye, a Merfolk priestess who might help treat an illness, and crossed the guarded Long River bridge under Shadow Camouflage. Moye sensed their arrival and invited them inside, while Cheng Asheng rushed toward her after confessing his two-hundred-year longing.

• Ye Liang squeezed Cheng Asheng's shoulder until he agreed to find someone who could help, giving him until nightfall.
• Cheng Asheng led Ye Liang to the Long River and said Moye, a beautiful Merfolk priestess skilled in medicine, could treat the illness.
• Cheng Asheng revealed he had avoided the area because he feared the Merfolk, but Ye Liang dragged him across the guarded bridge under Shadow Camouflage.
• Moye called to Ye Liang and Cheng Asheng from inside her house, inviting them in.
• Cheng Asheng rushed toward Moye, declaring he had lusted after her for two hundred years, and Ye Liang followed to keep him from acting recklessly.

Ye Liang entered Grandma Moye’s house seeking treatment, but Cheng Asheng’s advances frightened her and drew the merfolk guards’ attention. As the guards subdued Ye Liang, Moye’s asthma worsened, and they used Cheng Asheng’s vital essence to restore her youth.

• Ye Liang was shocked to find that the Merfolk Race’s supposed number one beauty was a blind, elderly woman who could track him by sound.
• Cheng Asheng charged at Grandma Moye, and Ye Liang stopped him and knocked him unconscious after Moye became terrified.
• Golden Scale and the merfolk guards arrived, accused Ye Liang of entering the closed Southern Barbarian Kingdom, and ordered him captured.
• Zi Yi discovered that Moye’s asthma was worsening, so Golden Scale took Cheng Asheng’s vital essence to revive her.
• Moye transformed into a beautiful young woman, while Cheng Asheng shriveled into a husk and Golden Scale carried his remains away.

Ye Liang was imprisoned in the Water Prison after offending Miss Ziyi, where starving prisoners attacked him and died against his barrier. A muscular old man survived and began explaining how the merfolk came to dominate the Southern Barbarian Kingdom.

• Merfolk soldiers locked Ye Liang in the Water Prison’s death cells without food, where starving old prisoners tried to eat him.
• Ye Liang’s barrier killed the old men who charged him, and the Jailer Chief admitted he had put Ye Liang there to please Miss Ziyi.
• A white-haired, muscular old man emerged from the straw and mistakenly credited Ye Liang with using the Eighteen Falls of Clinging Clothes.
• Ye Liang asked about the merfolk, and the old man said the Southern Barbarian Kingdom had once been ruled by humans until the Bastard King let mermaids settle in the long river two hundred years earlier.

Ye Liang learned how the merfolk had taken control of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom and tried to persuade Golden Scale to let him leave so he could find a cure for his poisoned friend. In the prison, Cheng Asheng recovered from being drained of his vital essence, and Ye Liang tested his response to a Spiritual Energy attack.

• Ye Liang heard from the muscular old man that the merfolk had seized the Southern Barbarian Kingdom after its king gave them the Tiger Tally and Long River Bridge.
• Golden Scale visited Ye Liang in the death-row cells and refused to let him leave, saying he knew too much about the kingdom.
• The muscular old man noticed that Cheng Asheng’s fingers were moving, and Ye Liang realized Cheng Asheng was absorbing energy from the air to recover.
• After Ye Liang lent him Spiritual Energy, Cheng Asheng recovered and bragged about his survival abilities.
• Ye Liang pressed Cheng Asheng down with a Spiritual Energy palm seal and discovered that Cheng Asheng could not see Spiritual Energy attacks.

Ye Liang used Soul Excursion to investigate the prison and discovered that the merfolk were draining humans’ vital essence. He helped Zi Yi force her way inside and returned to his cell as she searched the corridor, leaving her approaching the prisoners.

• Cheng Asheng failed to break open the prison door, and Ye Liang told him to wait for the merfolk to open it.
• Ye Liang sent his soul out to explore the prison and saw humans being drained of their vital essence.
• Ye Liang spotted Zi Yi arguing with guards who had orders to keep her out of the prison.
• Ye Liang used an invisible force to knock aside a guard’s weapon and push Zi Yi inside, then distracted the guards with an Amaterasu.
• Ye Liang returned to his cell and warned Cheng Asheng and the old man that someone was coming.
• Zi Yi arrived in the corridor and searched from cell to cell while Ye Liang watched.

Zi Yi and Ye Liang uncovered the merfolk Queen Ashima’s scheme to drain human workers’ vital essence, while Ashima secretly abducted workers whose contracts had supposedly ended. Ye Liang prepared to escape during the birthday banquet and investigated a new group of prisoners whose origins puzzled him.

• Ye Liang agreed to expose the truth at the birthday banquet, and the old man suspected the High Priest did not know prisoners were being drained of vital essence.
• Ashima visited the river workers, gave Cheng Ye a talisman from his daughter, and promised ten veteran workers they could return home after six years of labor.
• Ashima’s guards dragged the ten men underwater, and she revealed that the merfolk would drain their vital essence before considering their release.
• Zi Yi witnessed Ashima’s betrayal and resolved to warn the humans, even if doing so meant overthrowing merfolk rule.
• Ye Liang planned to abduct Merfolk Grandma during the banquet and saw jailers bring in more than a dozen unconscious, swollen-bellied men.
• Ye Liang followed the jailers and found the new prisoners tied to stone pillars, then wondered where the men had come from.

Ye Liang questioned a newly imprisoned man and learned that people in the Southern Barbarian Kingdom had been deceived by the merfolk. As more emaciated prisoners arrived, Ye Liang spoke with Muscle Uncle, while the Merfolk Kingdom’s leader went to the High Priest’s cabin.

• Ye Liang revived a prisoner, who panicked after realizing Lady Ashima had imprisoned him and accused the merfolk of deceiving humans.
• Ye Liang tried to calm the man and learned he had been taken from his family gathering, but the man broke down over his family and father.
• Ye Liang returned invisibly to the deeper prison, where newly captured men arrived after being drained of their vital essence.
• Ye Liang spoke to Muscle Uncle, who said new prisoners usually starved to death and claimed he endured hunger because he was used to it.
• The leader of the Merfolk Kingdom visited the High Priest’s cabin while Grandma slept under Zi Yi’s watch, and someone asked why he had come again.

During Merfolk Grandma Moye’s three-hundredth birthday procession, Ashima used the human worship to strengthen the merfolk and discovered that Tuantuan did not believe in the High Priest. As Ashima moved to harm the girl, Zi Yi recognized the danger and shouted for her to stop.

• Tuantuan’s grandmother slapped her and dragged her toward the village crossroads, while Tuantuan lamented her absent father and the family she had lost.
• A dragon-and-lion-dance procession arrived to escort Moye to the tribe’s center for her ritual, with Zi Yi following behind.
• Ashima urged the humans to pray to Moye, and the merfolk absorbed their human fortune to grow stronger.
• Ashima noticed Tuantuan had not offered faith and approached her, gathering red energy in her palm.
• Zi Yi shouted at Ashima to stop, and the surrounding merfolk guards challenged her.

Ashima nearly touched a little girl during the procession, while rebels plotted to kill her at the altar and Zi Yi asked Ye Liang to help capture her. At the altar, Ye Liang recognized the statue of the former king as Cheng Asheng and learned he had received Merfolk Grandma’s flesh before Ashima began the ceremony.

• Ashima withdrew her hand before touching the little girl, and the dragon dance procession continued.
• Rebels watched from an alley and planned to kill Ashima with gunpowder at the altar; Ye Liang overheard them while disguised as a guard.
• Zi Yi promised Ye Liang an antidote if he helped her people capture Ashima after the sacrifice, and Merfolk Grandma nodded in agreement.
• At the altar, Ye Liang recognized the mermaid statue as Merfolk Grandma and the statue opposite it as Cheng Asheng.
• Zi Yi explained that Cheng Asheng was the former king who had received Merfolk Grandma’s flesh and later left the kingdom.
• Ashima stepped onto the altar and signaled the soldiers to bring the old matriarch.

At the merfolk ceremony, civilians and armed men moved against Ashima, but an explosion destroyed the altar and threatened everyone nearby. Ye Liang stopped the falling statues, subdued Ashima, and left the gathered civilians stunned by both his power and his appearance.

• Merfolk Grandma asked Zi Yi to accompany her to the ceremonial platform as Ye Liang sensed hostility among several groups around the altar.
• Ashima finished the blessings and invited Lady Moye to begin the sacrificial ceremony, but civilians rushed toward her with farming tools.
• An explosion blew apart the altar, killing guards and sending a massive statue crashing toward Ashima and the people on the platform.
• Ye Liang appeared on the platform and held both enormous statues in midair, shocking the plotters in the distance.
• A furious old woman accused Ashima of killing her husband and imprisoning her son, and Ashima gathered Lightning Silk to attack the civilians.
• Ye Liang seized Ashima's charged hand, pinned her to the ground, and knocked her unconscious; the civilians then recognized him and praised his handsome face.

Ye Liang defeated Ashima and helped the civilians regain control, while a flashback revealed Cheng Asheng and Muscle Uncle’s plan to overthrow the Merfolk. After Moye’s ritual drained her vitality, Ye Liang used nearby Spiritual Energy to restore her, leaving her fate no longer in immediate danger.

• Ye Liang subdued Ashima, and the burly attackers fled as civilians celebrated their victory.
• Three days earlier, Muscle Uncle revealed a hidden passage and agreed to send a signal to the rebels for an attack during Moye’s ritual.
• Cheng Asheng told Muscle Uncle that killing Ashima would let humans reclaim power, and Muscle Uncle left through the passage.
• Moye performed a ritual that spread golden power across the Southern Barbarian Kingdom, strengthening its living creatures but leaving her aged and near death.
• Ye Liang transferred Spiritual Energy to Moye, then gathered the abundant energy around him and healed her.

Ye Liang cured Moye Grandma and asked her to study a gene-altering virus, while she requested that he help restore order in the Southern Barbarian Kingdom. At the kingdom’s border, former Water Prison prisoners gathered to seek revenge on the outsiders, and Cheng Asheng was revealed as the Southern Barbarian Emperor.

• Ye Liang cured Moye Grandma, showed her the virus affecting his friend, and learned that she expected to find a cure in about half a month.
• Moye Grandma invited Ye Liang to explore the kingdom and deal with unrest, and he agreed before leaving.
• Thousands of former Water Prison prisoners gathered at the kingdom’s border, where Cheng Ye lamented the years he had spent digging river channels.
• Muscle Uncle arrived with Cheng Asheng and identified him as the Southern Barbarian Emperor.
• Cheng Ye demanded revenge on the outsiders, and Muscle Uncle revealed that the prisoners were being asked to follow their emperor.

Ye Liang found the Southern Barbarian rebels preparing to execute the captured Golden Scale Merfolk and used Tsukuyomi to rescue her. Cheng Asheng saw through the illusion and recognized Ye Liang, while the rebels continued believing the execution had taken place.

• Muscle Uncle set aside the debate over Cheng Asheng's identity and led the Southern Barbarian army in discussing their city.
• Ye Liang learned that the rebels had destroyed the Merfolk lair and followed their trail to the army.
• Cheng Ye brought the captured Golden Scale Merfolk before Muscle Uncle, who ordered her execution.
• Ye Liang hypnotized the soldiers with Tsukuyomi and moved the unconscious Golden Scale Merfolk into his special space.
• Cheng Asheng recognized Ye Liang and admitted he had never realized how powerful he was.

Ye Liang advised Cheng Asheng to abandon his plans to reclaim the Southern Barbarian Kingdom and pursue a wider life, helping Ye Liang gain the final insight he needed to advance toward immortality. Ye Liang sensed that Immortal’s Lightning was about to descend and gave Cheng Asheng a demonic cultivation manual before they parted.

• Cheng Asheng recognized Ye Liang as an immortal cultivator and admitted that his apparent foolishness had been an act.
• Ye Liang listened as Cheng Asheng lamented that his centuries of planning had only helped another man seize power.
• Ye Liang urged Cheng Asheng to leave the small kingdom and embrace the freedom and possibilities of the wider world.
• Cheng Asheng took Ye Liang’s advice to heart and vowed to repay him, while Ye Liang gained insight into the mortal world and saw a golden Light of Immortals appear around him.
• Ye Liang told Cheng Asheng to leave the kingdom’s coming chaos behind and gave him a Demonic Race Cultivation Method suited to the restrictions caused by mermaid flesh.

Ye Liang blocked the Southern Barbarian army from attacking the Merfolk Tribe while waiting for Merfolk Grandma to finish the Dark Antidote. After pinning the soldiers to the ground without killing them, he found the villagers safe and set out to see Merfolk Grandma, ready to leave the mortal world.

• Ye Liang waited outside the Southern Barbarian Tribe while Merfolk Grandma prepared the Dark Antidote, intending to delay the army without taking lives.
• Muscle Uncle recognized Ye Liang, but Cheng Ye volunteered to confront him and was repelled when Ye Liang noticed the amulet linking him to a village girl.
• Ye Liang asked the Southern Barbarian soldiers to wait a few days, but Muscle Uncle ordered the army to charge after his captains urged him to attack.
• Ye Liang used Shinra Tensei to stop the advancing army, then pinned the soldiers to the ground with Gravity Law and ensured they would have water.
• Ye Liang returned to the Southern Barbarian Tribe, confirmed the villagers were safe and Cheng Asheng had left, then headed to Merfolk Grandma's dwelling before leaving the mortal world.

After surviving a tribulation that failed to open the Gate of Immortal Realm, Ye Liang traveled into the past to save the system from being destroyed. Taking the final tribulation lightning meant for his past self, he returned to the future and finally opened the Gate of Immortal Realm.

• Ye Liang completed his Heavenly Tribulation but found that the Gate of Immortal Realm had not opened, so he headed to see his wife.
• Ye Liang visited Dark City and Chaotic Sea Corner before using the Time Ring to travel to Earth’s past.
• Ye Liang removed the system from the path of the tribulation lightning that had once destroyed her, then blocked the strike aimed at her.
• Ye Liang watched his past self face the final tribulation lightning, which veered away and struck him instead.
• Ye Liang returned to the future wounded, and the Gate of Immortal Realm opened above him.

Ye Liang was drawn into the Demon Realm just as he was about to enter the Immortal Realm, where demons captured him and forced him into their plan to infiltrate the Immortal Realm. He ended the chapter poisoned and under the dragon's control.

• An Immortal Realm Cultivator opened the gate and ordered Ye Liang to enter the Immortal Realm.
• A giant lizard swallowed Ye Liang, then was killed by the immortal, leaving Ye Liang trapped in the Demon Realm.
• Ye Liang found himself surrounded by demons who blamed him for destroying their plans in the human world.
• The dragon leader revealed that the demons planned to use Ye Liang to find void nodes and invade the Immortal Realm.
• The dragon poisoned Ye Liang with Fire Dragon Poison and threatened to burn his soul if he refused to obey.