Chapter Summaries

After Little Fish recovered from a sudden stomach ailment, she told the Carp Clan that the secret realm had connected to the outside world. Wang Baishun explained the wider world, and Little Fish and the younger clansfolk urged the clan chief to move the clan beyond the realm’s restrictions.

• Little Fish reassured her family that she was well, and Crab Six confirmed that the emergency had been real but had passed.
• Little Fish introduced Wang Baishun as an outsider, and he described the sects, regions, and powers beyond the secret realm.
• Little Fish explained that the realm prevented the clan from advancing beyond the Great Unity Realm and urged her father to lead them outside.
• The younger clansfolk supported Little Fish’s proposal, citing their ancestors’ limited lifespans and the rare chance to escape.

Wang Baishun warned the Carp Clan that leaving the Secret Realm would expose them to powerful outside cultivators, and accepted the clan chief’s offer to stay and heal. The aquatic clans gathered to consider the danger, while Wang Baishun began recovering in his guest room.

• Little Fish urged the Carp Clan chief to take the clan into the outside world, but he explained that its members would be vulnerable to powerful cultivators there.
• Wang Baishun confirmed that powerful factions were waiting at the Secret Realm exits and would likely seize native creatures who emerged.
• The Carp Clan chief invited Wang Baishun to stay and recover, and Wang Baishun accepted.
• A shrimp soldier led Wang Baishun to his guest room, where he washed and began treating his injuries.
• The Carp King gathered representatives of the aquatic clans and warned them about the danger of leaving the Secret Realm.

Xu Mu and the others fled a mob of cultivators after Fake Luo Bai was caught looting corpses, while the real Luo Bai and his companions received inheritances in a palace. Fake Luo Bai convinced his fleeing companions that the real Luo Bai was his favored younger twin, but they refused to help him take attacks.

• Xu Mu and his companions were exposed for looting corpses and fled as hundreds of cultivators pursued them.
• Fake Luo Bai ran ahead while collecting more Storage Rings, drawing most of the pursuers’ attacks and Yuan Quan’s fury.
• Xu Mu and the others passed the palace where the real Luo Bai, Wang Baishun, Hao Wu, and their companions were receiving inheritances.
• Xu Mu and the others mistook the real Luo Bai for Fake Luo Bai’s twin, and Fake Luo Bai invented a story about being mistreated by their Lineage.
• Fake Luo Bai asked Xu Mu and the others to take some attacks for him, but they ignored him while the real Luo Bai and his companions remained focused on their inheritances.

Cheng Quan and Zhang Yun pursued Fake Luo Bai and his companions while mistaking the real Luo Bai below for the fugitive’s twin. After a long chase, they searched near the battlefield but were driven away, leaving Xu Mu, Xu Sanniang, and the others safe beneath a pile of corpses—and Luo Bai feeling around again.

• Cheng Quan rejected Zhang Yun’s proposal to split their forces, and they both led their men after Fake Luo Bai instead of confronting the real Luo Bai and the Misty Sect disciples.
• Fake Luo Bai and his companions fled for over three hours while Luo Bai dodged attacks and taunted his pursuers.
• Cheng Quan and Zhang Yun searched the area where the fugitives disappeared, but could not find them.
• Xu Sanniang asked Luo Bai what they should do as the pursuers kept watch, and Luo Bai confidently told her they would leave soon.
• Fighters from the nearby factions ordered Cheng Quan and Zhang Yun’s group to leave, forcing them to withdraw.
• Xu Mu, Xu Sanniang, and the others sighed with relief beneath the corpses while Luo Bai began feeling around inside the pile.

Luo Bai, Xu Mu, Xu Sanniang, and their companions looted the corpses, then fled as nearly a thousand cultivators chased them. After escaping a blockade by changing direction, they watched their pursuers quarrel while continuing the chase.

• Luo Bai and Xu Sanniang looted Storage Rings and clothes from corpses, and Xu Mu joined them after hesitating.
• Cao Yan, Wu Mei, and nearly a thousand cultivators spotted the looting and pursued Luo Bai and his group.
• Luo Bai and his companions found Cheng Quan, Zhang Yun, and their group blocking their path, leaving them trapped between pursuers.
• Luo Bai sent the group a plan by voice transmission, then led them in a sharp turn to escape the blockade.
• Cheng Quan and Zhang Yun traded insults with Cao Yan and Wu Mei as both groups continued pursuing Luo Bai and his companions.

Fake Luo Bai and his companions tricked the Misty Sect disciples into believing they were Luo Bai’s family and drew them into a battle with Zhang Yun and Cao Yan’s forces. After the two groups clashed, Fake Luo Bai, Xu Mu, and the others escaped and watched from a distance, unsure whether to flee.

• Fake Luo Bai called for help by claiming that Luo Bai was his twin brother, and the Misty Sect disciples prepared to save him.
• Zhang Yun reassured Cao Yan and Wu Mei that their opponents had only a few hundred reinforcements, while the two sides traded insults.
• Fake Luo Bai and Xu Mu persuaded the Misty Sect disciples to shelter them, and Wang Guodong refused Zhang Yun and Cheng Quan’s demand to hand them over.
• Someone in the crowd attacked the Misty Sect disciples, triggering a fierce battle between the two groups.
• Xu Mu and the others slipped away during the fighting, then reunited with Fake Luo Bai in a distant house and debated whether to flee.

Wang Guodong’s Misty Sect disciples were driven back into the palace while Luo Bai and the others absorbed their inheritances. After awakening, Luo Bai learned that a lookalike had been called his twin older brother, then led a counterattack that ended in a stalemate.

• Wang Guodong ordered the exhausted Misty Sect disciples to retreat into the palace as Cheng Quan’s allies failed to press their advantage.
• Fake Luo Bai, Xu Mu, and Xu Sanniang watched as Luo Bai and the other disciples completed their inheritances, with Luo Bai reaching the third level of the body integration realm.
• Luo Bai awoke, learned that a twin older brother had appeared, and struggled to reconcile the claim with what his mother had told him.
• Cheng Quan’s forces charged into the hall and knocked Wang Guodong aside, prompting Luo Bai, Wang Baishun, Qu'er, and the others to drive them back outside.
• Zhang Yun, Cao Yan, and their allies regrouped and surrounded Luo Bai and the other strongest Misty Sect disciples, bringing the battle to a stalemate.

Luo Bai and his allies battled Cheng Quan, Cao Yan, Wu Mei, and their Heavenly Prodigies, but both sides grew badly wounded. As Senior Sister Qu'er unleashed her trump card, Luo Bai summoned a demon wraith that devoured his enemies and began strengthening him.

• Cheng Quan and more than a dozen Heavenly Prodigies attacked Luo Bai, while Qu'er, Wang Baishun, Hao Wu, and the Misty Sect disciples fought their own opponents.
• Wu Mei and Cao Yan chose to reinforce the battle, and Zhang Yun intercepted Luo Bai as he tried to kill the retreating Cheng Quan.
• Cao Yan's group surrounded and wounded Luo Bai, while Wu Mei's sneak attack left Qu'er clutching her bleeding chest.
• Luo Bai and Qu'er kept fighting despite their injuries, and Qu'er summoned a giant manifestation that killed or wounded seven or eight Heavenly Prodigies before clashing with Wu Mei's trump card.
• Luo Bai summoned a hideous demon wraith, merged with it, and began seizing and devouring Heavenly Prodigies, devastating Cheng Quan and Cao Yan's forces as his aura grew stronger.

Luo Bai’s ghostly form fought Cao Yan’s group while Misty Sect disciples battled Wu Mei’s allies and struggled to protect their wounded leaders. The fighting remained deadlocked as the ghost healed from its injuries and the scattered battles continued.

• Luo Bai’s ghostly form chewed through Cao Yan’s disciples, and Cao Yan and several fighters clashed with him using their hidden power.
• Cheng Quan and Zhang Yun severed Luo Bai’s right arm, but he struck them down and killed more disciples before healing his wounds by devouring them.
• Senior Sister Qu’er trapped Wu Mei’s sword, killed her, then swallowed a medicinal pill to suppress her chest wound and rejoined the battle.
• Misty Sect disciples arrived to help Senior Sister Qu’er, and both sides became locked in a fierce fight.
• An enemy ambushed Wang Baishun, but Hao Wu and Wang Jing killed the attacker and shielded him as the fighting continued.
• Fake Luo Bai, Xu Mu, and the others watched the bloody battle from a secluded spot.

Luo Bai and his allies defeated Zhang Yun and Cao Yan’s forces, with Luo Bai devouring Cheng Quan and others during the battle. Afterward, Luo Bai learned that his elder brother and companions had disappeared and killed the disciples who delivered the news, leaving the survivors terrified.

• Luo Bai’s rapidly healing body overwhelmed the exhausted Cao Yan, Cheng Quan, Zhang Yun, and their allies, forcing them to flee.
• Luo Bai intercepted Zhang Yun and Cheng Quan’s group, while Zhang Yun betrayed the others and escaped; Luo Bai crushed and devoured Cheng Quan and the captured disciples.
• Luo Bai, Senior Sister Qu’er, and their allies pursued the fleeing forces and won, though more than a hundred Misty Sect disciples died.
• Luo Bai learned that the disciples who had gone to reunite with his elder brother and companions had disappeared.
• Luo Bai killed the disciples who brought him the news before Senior Sister Qu’er and the others could stop him.

At the banquet, Wang Baishun described wonders of the outside world, and Little Fish lamented that the clans were trapped in their realm after dozens of young prodigies died trying to leave. He offered to take everyone out safely, but the Carp King and the other leaders asked what conditions he expected in return.

• Little Fish and the young clan members questioned Wang Baishun about towering buildings and delicacies in the outside world.
• Little Fish explained that dozens of Heavenly Prodigies had left the Secret Realm in three groups and died soon afterward, so the clans had stopped sending anyone out.
• Wang Baishun promised that he could bring the clans safely into the outside world and find them a suitable place to live.
• The young people celebrated the chance to leave, while the Carp King and the other clan leaders asked Wang Baishun to state his conditions.

Wang Baishun negotiated with the clans trapped in the Secret Realm, asking them to swear loyalty to the Great Qin Dynasty in exchange for freedom, autonomy, and access to its resources. The Carp King reserved judgment while he and the other leaders discussed the offer, and Little Fish accompanied Wang Baishun as he left.

• The clans offered Wang Baishun their resources, protection, obedience, and marriage alliances, but he remained silent until they asked him to state his demands.
• Wang Baishun asked everyone who left the Secret Realm to swear and sign a contract supporting the Great Qin Dynasty and never betraying its Imperial House.
• Wang Baishun promised the clans respect, autonomy, and access to Great Qin's resources, and said the dynasty was a powerful super-dynasty comparable to the Misty Sect.
• The Carp King said the clans needed time to discuss the offer, and Wang Baishun left without pressing them for an immediate answer.
• The Carp King sent Little Fish to accompany Wang Baishun, and the other young women hurried after them.

Wang Baishun charmed Little Fish, the River Clam Clan’s First Princess, and the other women while touring the coral cluster. Meanwhile, the Ox Demon began a tribulation to enter the Human Immortal Realm, and Long Ji and Youmeng moved to sabotage it and seize its rewards.

• Wang Baishun evaded Little Fish’s question about whether he was a royal Heavenly Prodigy, then boasted that he was the finest prodigy in the outside Xuanhuang World.
• Little Fish led Wang Baishun and the women toward the Coral Cluster, where he continued flirting with them.
• Long Ji and Youmeng spotted the Ox Demon gathering thunderclouds for his Human Immortal tribulation as rival factions watched and considered their options.
• Long Ji rejected Youmeng’s offer to ambush the Ox Demon directly and gave her a Thunder Spirit Bead to protect her from the lightning.
• Long Ji told Youmeng to hide underground beneath the Ox Demon while he entered the thunderclouds, intending to intensify the tribulation and intercept its rewards.
• Youmeng burrowed beneath the Ox Demon, and Long Ji transformed into lightning and entered the clouds.

The Ox Demon faced a lightning tribulation that grew to more than three times its original size as Long Ji secretly gathered the surrounding thunderclouds and absorbed their energy. The first barrage struck the Ox Demon, and the chapter left him struggling to withstand the relentless lightning.

• The Ox Demon prepared with pills and shields while the assembled factions watched and hoped he would fail his tribulation.
• Thunderclouds gathered from every direction and converged above the Ox Demon, terrifying him and the spectators.
• Youmeng clutched the Thunder Spirit Bead underground while Long Ji transformed into a Thunder Dragon and absorbed energy from the clouds.
• Long Ji used the Thunder-Attracting Art until the surrounding thunderclouds had gathered above the Ox Demon.
• The first wave of lightning struck, and the Ox Demon blocked most of it with his shields before an unbroken barrage continued.

The Ox Demon endured the sixth wave of lightning tribulation only by swallowing pills, while Long Ji watched from above and absorbed the lightning’s energy. The seventh wave left the Ox Demon unconscious, but a fourth-grade pill revived him just before the next wave formed.

• Youmeng absorbed lightning underground, which tempered her body and helped her merge the souls she had absorbed.
• Long Ji absorbed energy from the lightning while secretly watching cultivators prepare to seize the Ox Demon's Storage Ring if he died.
• The Ox Demon survived the fourth and fifth waves with mostly superficial wounds, then suffered internal injuries during the sixth and swallowed pills to recover.
• Three soundless, deep-purple bolts struck the Ox Demon during the seventh wave, sending him crashing to the ground unconscious.
• The Ox Demon revived after swallowing a fourth-grade pill, but remained gravely wounded as the next wave approached.

The Ox Demon endured the final tribulation lightning and advanced to the human immortal realm, but Wang Di and the other cultivators ambushed him before his advancement was complete. A pillar of rewarding energy protected him from their attacks, though its power soon began to dwindle, leaving him and his attackers confused.

• The Ox Demon transformed into his enormous black true form, withstood two bolts of dark red lightning, and swallowed fourth-grade pills to recover before the final wave.
• Long Ji absorbed much of the energy meant to reward the Ox Demon and stored some of it in his Spirit-Gathering Pill.
• The Ox Demon used pills and his inner core to prepare for the final white lightning bolt, which destroyed his horns and left him charred but alive.
• The Ox Demon's aura surged as he advanced to the human immortal realm, while cultivators ambushed him and attacked his underlings.
• A pillar of tribulation energy shielded the Ox Demon and helped him fend off the assault, but the energy soon thinned, delighting Wang Di and the others.

The Ox Demon was attacked by Wang Di and the other cultivators after his lightning tribulation left him weakened, while the Demon Race was besieged by the factions. Long Ji withdrew with the thunderclouds and later removed another Seven Baleful Soul-Pinning Nail from Youmeng, restoring more of her strength.

• The Ox Demon was enraged when the energy from his tribulation vanished before he had recovered, and Wang Di and the others attacked him.
• The Ox Demon transformed and fought back, scattering his attackers, but Wang Di rallied them to surround and wear him down.
• The factions besieged the Demon Race, whose members refused to surrender and fought desperately despite being outnumbered.
• Long Ji withdrew with the thunderclouds after reaching the great perfection of the Body Integration Realm and storing energy in the Spirit-Gathering Pill.
• Long Ji reunited with Youmeng and pulled out another Seven Baleful Soul-Pinning Nail, allowing her to wield greater strength at different times of day.

Long Ji and Youmeng watched the Ox Demon’s battle with Wang Di’s group, planning to attack whoever survived. The Ox Demon fled, his followers scattered under pursuit, and Long Ji and Youmeng stayed behind to collect the fallen’s treasures and strengthen Youmeng.

• Long Ji and Youmeng watched the wounded Ox Demon and Wang Di’s group fight, then agreed to strike whoever won or fled.
• The Ox Demon tricked Wang Di’s group with a feigned charge and escaped, prompting them and several opportunists to chase him.
• The remaining demons fought off their attackers until a wounded leopard demon detonated himself, allowing the fox spirit and others to break through and scatter.
• Long Ji and Youmeng gathered the Storage Rings left on the battlefield, and Youmeng absorbed the corpses’ flesh-and-blood essence.
• Youmeng’s aura rose to the early Human Immortal stage, while Long Ji judged that the two could pick off the remaining cultivators unless they attacked together.

The Ox Demon escaped an ambush by Wang Di and his pursuers, while Long Ji and Youmeng captured three hidden cultivators and made them Long Ji’s servants. The group then concealed themselves and set off after the Ox Demon and the others.

• The Ox Demon defeated two ambushers, then used a shield to escape as Wang Di and the others attacked and pursued him.
• Two cultivators tried to loot the ambushers’ corpses, but Long Ji and Youmeng appeared, sealed their cultivation, and captured them along with a bound woman.
• Youmeng consumed the corpses’ flesh-and-blood essence, terrifying the captives as they pleaded and argued over who should be eaten instead.
• Long Ji planted Servant Marks on the three captives, and Youmeng added life-and-death controls before they swore allegiance to him.
• Long Ji returned the captives’ Storage Rings with most of their resources removed, and the group concealed themselves and pursued the Ox Demon.

Xu Feng rescued the wounded Ox Demon and used a Servant Mark to make him his servant. The Ox Demon resisted, but Xu Feng’s punishment left him terrified and subdued.

• The Ox Demon killed a Rat Demon and a monk after they ambushed him, then collapsed from his injuries.
• Wang Di and his group reached the Ox Demon’s hiding place, but a streak of light carried him away before they arrived.
• Xu Feng brought the unconscious Ox Demon to a secluded place, planted a Servant Mark on him, and treated his wounds.
• When the Ox Demon attacked Xu Feng, Xu Feng triggered the mark’s pain and forced him to submit.