Chapter Summaries

The Demon Beast cultivators prepared the Poison Dragon Formation to break Illusory Spirit Island’s defenses while Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er worried over the strange nature of Tianyuan’s advancement. As the barrier weakened under the formation’s attack, Tianyuan warned Li Xiaoya that the enemy was baiting him into a trap.

• The Sea Cow Emperor stopped the futile bombardment and had the Black Human Race Cultivator teach his forces the Poison Dragon Formation.
• Liu Xian'er estimated that Illusory Spirit Island’s barrier could last only four days, while Tianyuan promised his advancement would be complete by then and claimed he could immediately defeat the attackers.
• Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er privately questioned whether Tianyuan’s advancement was unusual, then decided to focus on guarding him.
• The Demon Beasts attacked with the Poison Dragon Formation, and Liu Xian'er reinforced the barrier as it began to weaken.
• After six hours, Li Xiaoya prepared to leave the barrier and attack, but Tianyuan warned him that the Demon Beasts were waiting to lure him into a trap.

Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er defended Illusory Spirit Island while Tianyuan prepared to advance to the Immortal Tribulation Stage, but the attackers broke through their barrier before he emerged. A giant black-and-white cauldron appeared as Tianyuan’s furious roar rang out.

• Tianyuan warned Li Xiaoya that the enemy had laid underwater formations, and Liu Xian'er discovered that the Black Human Race formation master and several others had disappeared.
• Tianyuan told Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er to hold the island’s defenses for one hour, while a burst of five-colored light gathered around his aura above the island.
• Li Xiaoya and Zhang Hong channeled their magic power into Liu Xian'er as she reinforced the golden immortal script barrier.
• The Black Human Race Cultivator and the Poisonous Beast Purple Flood Dragon joined the Poison Dragon Formation, intensifying its corrosive attacks on the barrier.
• After more than an hour, the barrier shattered, and the Sea Cow Emperor ordered his forces to attack the humans.
• Tianyuan roared in anger, and an enormous black-and-white cauldron appeared overhead, releasing the power of laws.

Tianyuan used the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron to defeat and capture the attacking demon beasts, then returned to Illusory Spirit Island. He revealed to Li Xiaoya and the others that he had recovered his Immortal Tribulation Stage cultivation, leaving them stunned and asking about his past.

• The Sea Cow Emperor led the demon beasts in a charge toward Illusory Spirit Island as Li Xiaoya prepared to fight alongside Tianyuan.
• Black-and-white sword rays struck the Sea Cow Emperor and the demon beasts, wounding them and blasting them into the air.
• The Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron created a vast vortex that prevented the demon beasts from escaping and swept them inside, while a formation master's Nascent Souls were destroyed.
• Tianyuan descended to Illusory Spirit Island with the cauldron, and its suppression lifted as he greeted Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong.
• Tianyuan said he had recovered his Immortal Tribulation Stage cultivation, and Li Xiaoya asked whether he had originally been an Immortal Tribulation Stage cultivator.

Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong hunted demon beasts around Illusory Spirit Island while Tianyuan dealt with the captives inside the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron. Tianyuan explained that he would give Li Xiaoya the cauldron after surviving the heavenly tribulations awaiting him outside, then opened it to reveal something he intended to give them.

• Tianyuan suppressed the Sea Cow Emperor and the other captives inside the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron, then sent Li Xiaoya and the others to handle the remaining demon beasts.
• Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong repaired formations and hunted demon beasts, spreading fear of Illusory Spirit Island and earning Li Xiaoya and Liu Xian'er new imperial titles.
• Tianyuan summoned Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong and confirmed that the cauldron's chaos flames had killed the captives after they endured for more than ten days.
• Tianyuan revealed that the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron was a Heaven-Creating Divine Artifact and promised to give it to Li Xiaoya after surviving his accumulated heavenly tribulations.
• Tianyuan explained that his physical body had been destroyed in an accident, reducing his cultivation from the Immortal Tribulation Stage to the Mighty One Stage, and then opened the cauldron to show them something good.

Tianyuan revealed that the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron had refined demon beasts into Longevity Immortal Pills, and Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong prepared to explore the Inner Sea. A year later, they set out for the Immortal Herb Garden, but Tianyuan detected demon beasts ahead.

• The Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron produced Longevity Immortal Pills that doubled lifespan and enhanced vitality, and Tianyuan gave the remaining pills to Li Xiaoya and the two women.
• Tianyuan planned an Inner Sea expedition for a year later, and Liu Xian'er said her formation knowledge should help them navigate its dangers.
• Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong each refined a Longevity Immortal Pill during a year of recovery and cultivation, improving their vitality and self-healing.
• Illusory Spirit Island gained a reputation that surpassed the Inner Sea Four Emperors, while the Five-Headed Sea Beast Emperor remained absent.
• Tianyuan, Li Xiaoya, and their companions rode the Four-Armed Salamander Beast toward the Inner Sea and the Immortal Herb Garden, then Tianyuan sensed demon beasts ahead.

Li Xiaoya’s group traveled toward the Inner Sea and discovered the Turtle-Snake Emperor attacking the Demon-Magic Emperor’s island. Tianyuan secretly rescued the Demon-Magic Emperor’s nascent soul, leaving the Turtle-Snake Emperor stunned as he faced the group.

• Tianyuan drove off demon beast cultivators who sought the group’s protection, and the Four-Armed Salamander Beast carried everyone toward the Inner Sea.
• The group chose to enter through the Demon-Magic Emperor’s territory to seek the Immortal Herb Garden, while Tianyuan noticed a battle near Flame Island.
• Tianyuan identified the Turtle-Snake Emperor among the attackers, and the group approached quietly after learning the Demon-Magic Emperor had survived as a nascent soul.
• Tianyuan devised a plan, and the Turtle-Snake Emperor led his demon beasts away from the island to attack Li Xiaoya’s group.
• Tianyuan destroyed the volcanic island and appeared with the Demon-Magic Emperor’s nascent soul trapped in a sphere of light.

Tianyuan captured the Demon-Magic Emperor’s demonic infant and helped Li Xiaoya kill the Turtle-Snake Emperor, while most of the emperor’s demon beasts escaped. As the group left the erupting volcanic island, Tianyuan revealed he would use the captive to find the Immortal Herb Garden.

• Tianyuan revealed that he had seen through the Demon-Magic Emperor’s plan and seized his demonic infant as it emerged from the barrier.
• The Turtle-Snake Emperor tried to flee after discovering Tianyuan’s strength, but Tianyuan blocked him and attacked while Li Xiaoya joined the fight.
• Tianyuan and Li Xiaoya killed the Turtle-Snake Emperor, while nearly eighty percent of the other demon beasts escaped.
• The group left the volcanic island on the Four-Armed Salamander Beast, and Tianyuan explained that he would search the Demon-Magic Emperor’s demonic infant for the route to the Immortal Herb Garden.

Tianyuan extracted a route through the formation guarding the Immortal Herb Garden from the Demon-Magic Emperor’s memories and explained the difference between Primordial Artifacts and Heaven-Creating Divine Artifacts. The Four-Armed Salamander Beast then warned that something was wrong with the map, interrupting Tianyuan’s explanation of the Immortal Court.

• Tianyuan performed a Soul Search on the Demon-Magic Emperor’s demonic infant and used what he learned to draw a route through the formation before the Immortal Herb Garden.
• Tianyuan sent the map to the Four-Armed Salamander Beast, which swallowed it and set off to follow the marked route.
• Tianyuan revealed that the Hundred-Thousand-Zhang Demon Mountain was a Primordial Artifact and explained that the Demon-Magic Emperor had entered the Fallen Immortal Grounds while fleeing a Demon Emperor who hunted him for stealing it.
• Tianyuan explained that Primordial Artifacts were lower-grade divine artifacts than Heaven-Creating Divine Artifacts and warned Li Xiaoya not to use powerful treasures recklessly because the Immortal Court watched for them.
• Tianyuan began telling Li Xiaoya that Daode Daoist Patriarch had once obtained a Heaven-Creating Divine Artifact and been hunted by the Immortal Court, but the Four-Armed Salamander Beast stopped and warned that something was wrong with the map.

Liu Xian'er discovered that the Inner Sea formation briefly aligned with the Map once every twelve double-hours, allowing the group to travel deeper along its route. Tianyuan explained the Immortal Court's interest in Divine Artifacts and promised he had a plan to protect the Yin-Yang Chaos Divine Cauldron; after more than three days, the group reached the Map's endpoint but found only a vast Light Curtain and mist, not the Herb Garden.

• Liu Xian'er examined the Map and determined that the Inner Sea formation changed constantly but matched its route during a brief lull every twelve double-hours.
• Tianyuan revealed that the Immortal Court ruled the Greater Star Realms and might send True Immortals to seize Divine Artifacts, but said the Fallen Immortal Grounds kept them from sensing the artifacts inside.
• Li Xiaoya asked about the Divine Artifact that had caused the Daode Daoist Patriarch to be hunted, and Tianyuan identified it as the Source of Life.
• Tianyuan guided Liu Xian'er, Li Xiaoya, and Zhang Hong in cultivation while they waited for the formation's lull.
• The Four-Armed Salamander Beast followed the Map through the Inner Sea, and the group reached its endpoint after more than three days.
• Tianyuan found only a five-colored Light Curtain and mist at the endpoint, with no sign of the Herb Garden.

Liu Xian'er revealed the false barrier hiding the Immortal Herb Garden, but found its true layered formation too difficult to break. She proposed creating a space vortex to get everyone inside, and the group agreed to try.

• Liu Xian'er identified the first five-colored Light Curtain as a false formation and used Golden Immortal Script to reveal the Immortal Herb Garden beyond it.
• The group recognized the garden from the Four-Armed Salamander Beast's parents' picture, while Tianyuan warned that the Demon-Magic Emperor had failed to breach its defenses for thousands of years.
• Liu Xian'er studied the garden's layered formation for four or five days and concluded she could not break it without thousands of years to study it.
• Tianyuan explained that the Demon-Magic Emperor's party had already searched along the barriers and found no safe way around them.
• Liu Xian'er proposed using a formation to create a space vortex, recalling that the Four-Armed Salamander Beast's parents had entered the garden through one.
• Tianyuan confirmed the Demon-Magic Emperor's party had never tried creating a space vortex, and Li Xiaoya urged them to attempt it.

Liu Xian'er devised a two-formation method to open a precise Space Vortex after years of failed attempts. The method finally worked, and the group sent the Ice-Sealing Light Sphere through before Tianyuan ordered the Four-Armed Salamander Beast to enter first.

• Liu Xian'er spent more than ten years studying and testing formations while Li Xiaoya, Tianyuan, and the others cultivated and prepared to restrain the formation’s guardians.
• Liu Xian'er explained a new two-formation plan, assigning roles to everyone and coordinating their preparations.
• Li Xiaoya and the others formed a sphere of five-colored spiritual light while Liu Xian'er opened a Space Vortex with her Golden Immortal Formation.
• A golden beam pierced the target space, confirming that Liu Xian'er's formation had succeeded.
• The group sent the Ice-Sealing Light Sphere through the vortex and froze its opening on both sides.
• Tianyuan ordered the Four-Armed Salamander Beast to go through first, leaving it pale with fear.

Tianyuan and the others crossed a spatial passage into the herb garden’s inner area and prepared to test whether Li Xiaoya could evade its guardians. Li Xiaoya’s invisibility failed to fool them, and hundreds of guardians surrounded him and launched a storm of lightning-wreathed spears.

• The Four-Armed Salamander Beast entered the frozen spatial passage, emerged near the herb garden, and signaled that the route was safe.
• Tianyuan protected the group as they crossed the passage and reached the island surrounded by towering guardian statues.
• Liu Xian'er established a defensive formation while Li Xiaoya used water escape and an Invisibility Cloak to approach the herb garden.
• Li Xiaoya surfaced near the barrier, spotted spirit-form medicinal herbs, and blocked a guardian’s spear with the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash.
• Hundreds of guardians detected Li Xiaoya, surrounded him, and hurled spears charged with Evil-Warding Divine Thunder at him.

Li Xiaoya and his companions discovered that the Guardians grew stronger by killing one another, forcing them to abandon their earlier plans. Liu Xian'er opened a space vortex to send the Guardians away, but they began another round of infighting just as Tianyuan moved to stop them.

• Li Xiaoya used his wings, sword, and five clones to hold off the Guardians while the others watched for a way past them.
• The Guardians abruptly stopped pursuing Li Xiaoya and began attacking one another, healing their wounds and growing far stronger after each death.
• The strengthened Guardians overwhelmed Li Xiaoya's weaker clones, and Tianyuan realized that another round of deaths could make them too powerful to fight.
• Tianyuan called for the fourth plan, and Liu Xian'er drew a Golden Immortal Script Formation that opened a space vortex while Tianyuan protected her.
• The Guardians stopped again as if preparing to kill one another, so Tianyuan unleashed a torrent of black-and-white sword light to stop them.

Tianyuan swept the Guardians into Liu Xian'er's Space Vortex, allowing the group to reach the Immortal Herb Garden, where Liu Xian'er began studying its barrier. The displaced Guardians wreaked havoc across the Inner and Outer Seas, and after more than a month Liu Xian'er finally spoke, leaving the group waiting to hear whether she had solved the restriction.

• Tianyuan used his Black-and-White Sword Rays to funnel the Guardians into Liu Xian'er's Space Vortex, and Li Xiaoya knocked back one Guardian that escaped.
• Liu Xian'er closed the vortex, and Tianyuan led Li Xiaoya, Zhang Hong, and the Four-Armed Salamander Beast to the Immortal Herb Garden.
• The group saw spirit herbs, herb spirits, and unfamiliar red fruits inside the garden, but Tianyuan warned them that its light barrier still blocked their way and asked Liu Xian'er to examine it.
• The Guardians emerged in scattered parts of the Inner and Outer Seas, where their repeated deaths made them stronger and they slaughtered cultivators and demon beasts.
• A Mysterious Young Man in the Inner Sea repeatedly destroyed Guardians, then fled when they kept regenerating and pursuing him.
• After more than a month of studying the barrier, Liu Xian'er suddenly addressed the group, who eagerly asked how she had done.

Liu Xian'er realized that the guardians they had thrown into space vortices were needed to control the formation, so the group searched the seabed for treasures while she studied its islands. Li Xiaoya reunited with the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, which said it might recover memories that could reveal a way out, and watched Guagua pass through the Herb Garden's restriction.

• Liu Xian'er explained that the formation's guardians, islands, and pillars were key to controlling it, but the guardians had been scattered through space vortices.
• Li Xiaoya and the others searched the seabed for spirit herbs while Liu Xian'er examined an island.
• Li Xiaoya caught a rare pink spirit herb and heard the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, Guagua, speak to him again.
• Guagua said it might remember a way out if it recovered its cultivation, but estimated it would need at least ten thousand spirit herbs.
• Li Xiaoya took Guagua to the Herb Garden, where Guagua passed straight through the five-colored restriction.

The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma entered the herb garden and absorbed the spirits of its wild herbs, apparently transforming as it regained power. The sphere split open to reveal a figure whose face matched Li Xiaoya’s.

• Li Xiaoya called the others after Guagua entered the herb garden, but the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma began absorbing the spirits of the wild herbs before they could reach it.
• The sphere spared the garden’s planted fruit trees while growing to the size of a water vat and leaving the other herbs withered.
• Li Xiaoya told Tianyuan and the others that Guagua had awakened and might regain its memories and help them escape.
• Liu Xian'er reported that the island guardians were likely key to breaking the formation, so the group decided to wait and rely on Guagua.
• About an hour later, the sphere cracked open and revealed a human figure with Li Xiaoya’s face.

The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma emerged in a human form resembling Li Xiaoya and amused everyone by changing its face before settling on a little girl’s appearance. After explaining that it had regained memories of the Immemorial Heaven-and-Earth Spiritual Qi Formation, it revealed the formation could not be broken but hinted that they could still leave.

• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma emerged from the Five-Colored Spiritual Light looking like a naked, featureless Li Xiaoya, then passed through the barrier to meet the group.
• Li Xiaoya objected as the Ganoderma changed its face to Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong before shrinking into a little girl and refusing to wear clothes.
• Tianyuan sent the Four-Armed Salamander Beast to collect spirit herbs from the seabed, and the Ganoderma demonstrated that it could freely pass through the barrier.
• The Ganoderma said the spirit herbs had not restored its full memory but had brought back its memories of the Immemorial Heaven-and-Earth Spiritual Qi Formation.
• The Ganoderma explained that the formation could not be broken unless the entire Star Realm was destroyed, then told the disappointed group that they could still leave.

Li Xiaoya and the others learned that the Inner Sea was the hardest place to escape from, while Guagua promised to find another exit. In the Herb Garden, they discovered Red Lotus Immortal Wine Fruits and valuable five-colored divine soil, but Guagua demanded the fruits in exchange for helping them retrieve the soil.

• Guagua explained that the Inner Sea had the formation's thickest space and that only its owner could escape from there, then promised to sense out another exit.
• At Li Xiaoya's prompting, Guagua identified the garden's red fruits as Red Lotus Immortal Wine Fruits, which could be brewed into potent Immortal Wine, though no one knew how to brew it.
• Guagua revealed a lump of five-colored divine soil and explained that it could grow any spirit herb dozens of times faster.
• Tianyuan and the others celebrated the discovery, and Li Xiaoya asked Guagua to retrieve the soil from behind the Light Barrier.
• Guagua agreed to help only if the Red Lotus Immortal Wine Fruits belonged to Guagua, threatening to withhold help when the group grew suspicious.

Li Xiaoya agreed to let the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma take the Red Lotus Immortal Wine Fruits in exchange for the five-colored divine soil. After they divided the spoils and worried about the garden's owner, they found their way out had vanished and began opening another space vortex.

• Li Xiaoya struck a bargain with the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, promising it the Red Lotus Immortal Wine Fruits for the five-colored divine soil.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma used a mysterious ability to gather every fruit and strip the island of its five-colored divine soil.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma gave Tianyuan half the divine soil and shared the rest, along with a few fruit plants, with Li Xiaoya, Liu Xian'er, and Zhang Hong.
• Zhang Hong raised concerns about the garden's Immortal owner, and the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma guessed the owner might be dead before urging everyone to leave.
• The group discovered that the frozen space vortex had disappeared and began working together to open another one.

The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma helped Li Xiaoya and the others escape the Herb Garden’s barriers and guided them through the Inner Sea. Their journey ended when they encountered a powerful Mysterious Young Man pursued by dozens of guardians.

• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma opened a passage, and Tianyuan released the Four-Armed Salamander Beast from its Soul Ring before leading the group out.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma admitted she could open the barriers but claimed she had avoided entering the Herb Garden for their safety.
• She possessed Li Xiaoya and guided the group through many barriers, where they found spirit treasures but no living creatures.
• Li Xiaoya and the others emerged from another barrier and sensed an overwhelming aura nearby.
• The Mysterious Young Man appeared, and Li Xiaoya and Tianyuan recognized him as dozens of guardians charged after him.