Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin established a fortified cultivation base at Mang Village and gathered five hundred Huaxia and foreign special forces soldiers there to train. After crushing the foreign soldiers’ resistance, he gave them ten days to draw qi into their bodies or be sent home, then left Zhang Long in charge.

• Chen Lin and Changqingzi used formation flags and spirit stones to extend the Sun-Covering Cloudmist Formation over Mang Village and activate the Five-Element Spirit-Gathering Formation.
• Five hundred special forces soldiers arrived at the base, including three hundred Huaxia soldiers led by Zhang Long and two hundred foreign elites.
• Chen Lin arrived with Heavenly Hatred True Lord and Gu Changfeng, and the Huaxia soldiers knelt to salute him.
• When a Navy SEAL major resisted, Gu Changfeng severed his hand and Heavenly Hatred True Lord forced all two hundred foreign soldiers to their knees.
• Chen Lin named the site Chen Family Village Base, ordered the soldiers to learn cultivation and draw qi within ten days, and left Zhang Long in charge.

With sea and air routes blocked by the Sea Beast Clan, Chen Lin equipped Chen Guofu and nine villagers with storage rings to move critical supplies. The newly appointed Strategic Logistics Corps departed by helicopter after receiving a formal salute from military officers.

• Ye Wenjun told Chen Lin that vital equipment from America and Gaul was stranded overseas, and that a Water Arrow had shot down Bear Country’s transport plane.
• Chen Lin produced ten storage rings and explained that only people who could use spiritual power could operate them.
• Chen Guofu and nine Chen Family Village cultivators arrived, bound the rings with their blood, and demonstrated that they could store and retrieve a massive rockery.
• Chen Lin assigned the villagers to transport strategic supplies and warned Ye Wenjun that the military had to protect them.
• Ye Wenjun brought Chen Guofu and the nine villagers to Yicheng City Military Airport, where the provincial military commander and six officers saluted them before they boarded the helicopters.

Ye Wenjun brought ten farmers from Chen Family Village to Area 51 to collect the equipment Huaxia was owed under the supreme treaty. Chen Guofu and the others used Brass Rings to store the machines and aircraft, leaving Lieutenant General Richard stunned by their power.

• Ye Wenjun arrived at Nellis Air Force Base with Chen Guofu and nine other farmers instead of the professional transport team Richard expected.
• Richard led Ye Wenjun and the farmers to the underground warehouse holding three lithography machines, two dismantled F-22s, and sealed cases of alien wreckage.
• American soldiers aimed their rifles at the farmers, but the cultivators' spiritual power forced the soldiers to lower their weapons after Ye Wenjun warned Richard about Advisor Chen.
• Chen Guofu used his Brass Ring to make the first lithography machine vanish, and Zhang Daniu and the other villagers stored the remaining equipment.
• The farmers emptied the warehouse in three minutes, while Richard watched in shock.

Kunpeng and Silver Ray emerged from a twenty-thousand-year slumber beneath the Pacific Ocean and learned that Earth's spiritual energy had vanished. Convinced that a turning point would come and that the sea clan would rule the world, Kunpeng ordered his followers to search for the Demon Emperor and his hidden people.

• A massive underwater eruption triggered SSS-class alarms in the Pentagon and Huaxia's underground command center as Kunpeng and Silver Ray emerged from a seabed fissure.
• The humanoid sea beast presented ancient records, and Kunpeng learned that spiritual energy had disappeared eight hundred years earlier.
• Abyss Bone reported that the sea clan had destroyed several East China Sea blessed lands but had found an inland formation with abundant spiritual energy.
• Kunpeng dismissed the humans as weak and vowed to attack the inland formation after recovering some of his origin essence.
• Kunpeng learned that Abyss Bone had found no trace of the Demon Emperor and ordered the sea beasts to search inland earth veins beneath famous mountains and rivers.

Chen Lin learned that powerful Sea Beast Clan leaders had awakened and ordered preparations for a coastal assault, while Heavenly Hatred True Lord recovered his late Nascent Soul cultivation. When Heavenly Hatred said he could not mass-produce his Black-Armor Puppets without rare materials, Chen Lin revealed a huge cache of spiritual treasures.

• Zhang Long drilled five hundred elite soldiers from five countries at the Global Transcendence Special Operations Base.
• Ye Wenjun reported abnormal activity in the Mariana Trench, and Chen Lin identified it as the awakening of high-ranking Sea Beast Clan members and ordered Level-one combat readiness.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord recovered his late Nascent Soul cultivation, but Chen Lin crushed his renewed arrogance with divine sense and summoned him to the Back Courtyard pavilion.
• Chen Lin warned Changqingzi, Yun Sheng, and Heavenly Hatred that sea beasts could come ashore within six months and asked whether Heavenly Hatred could mass-produce his Black-Armor Puppets.
• Heavenly Hatred explained that rare materials made mass production impossible, so Chen Lin poured a vast supply of spiritual treasures onto the bluestone paving.

Chen Lin supplied Heavenly Hatred True Lord with high-grade materials and spirit stones to produce Black-Armor Puppets for the coming sea beast assault. At the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station, Chen Lin found and identified a damaged Nascent Soul spatial treasure called the Heavenly Shuttle.

• Chen Lin dumped a mountain of rare materials before Heavenly Hatred True Lord, who promised to make 120 peak late Core Formation Black-Armor Puppets within a month.
• Chen Lin gave Heavenly Hatred True Lord two thousand mid-grade spirit stones and assigned Changqingzi to guard the refining while Yun Sheng selected fifty soldiers to train as puppet pilots.
• At midnight, Chen Lin entered the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station and used his early Core Formation divine sense to sort the incoming waste.
• Chen Lin found a buried jade shuttle, broke its damaged seal, and learned it could carry five hundred living beings and travel a thousand miles in an instant.

Chen Lin discovered a spatial flying treasure and found a remnant soul calling itself the Star Moon Demon Saint inside a purple scale. After the Demon Saint tried to possess him, Chen Lin overwhelmed it with his powerful divine sense and left it begging for its life.

• Chen Lin found the Heavenly Shuttle, which could carry five hundred people and travel a thousand miles in an instant, and stored away his Silver Flying Boat.
• Chen Lin discovered a dark purple scale in the skull of an ancient demon beast and heard the Star Moon Demon Saint claim it had survived inside the scale for eight thousand years.
• The Star Moon Demon Saint offered to teach Chen Lin divine transformation if Chen Lin found it a body, but secretly prepared to possess him.
• The Demon Saint invaded Chen Lin's sea of consciousness and discovered that Chen Lin's divine sense rivaled that of an early nascent soul cultivator.
• Chen Lin captured the Demon Saint's remnant soul, dragged it out of his sea of consciousness, and demanded a reason to spare it.

Chen Lin forced the Demon Saint to reveal the Spirit Suppression Art, a method that could weaken Demon Tribe opponents by a major realm, then enslaved him with a Master-Servant Contract. He planned to use the art to prepare Chen Family Village and the Jiaolong Guard for the coming war against the Deep Sea Demon Tribe.

• The Demon Saint begged Chen Lin for a chance to serve, but Chen Lin threatened to destroy his remnant soul and dismissed him as useless.
• The Demon Saint offered the Spirit Suppression Art, which could restrain Demon Tribe members and lower an opponent's strength by a major realm.
• Chen Lin connected the art's potential to the Deep Sea Race and decided it could give his forces an advantage in the coming war.
• Chen Lin presented the Demon Saint with a Master-Servant Contract, but the Demon Saint refused to sign it.
• Chen Lin threatened the Demon Saint with purple-gold lightning until he signed the contract and addressed Chen Lin as Master.
• Chen Lin planned to teach the Spirit Suppression Art to Chen Family Village's special forces and the Jiaolong Guard.

Chen Lin had the Star Moon Demon Saint teach the Spirit Suppression Art to Clear Wind and Bright Moon after learning that humans could not practice it. Meanwhile, Ao Lie led two early Core Formation sea beasts inland through the Yangtze estuary to search for a Demon Tribe remnant, and he rebuked a subordinate for underestimating the danger.

• The Star Moon Demon Saint admitted that the Spirit Suppression Art would kill or cripple human cultivators who tried to use it.
• Chen Lin ordered the demon saint to teach the art to Clear Wind and Bright Moon, and the cats began absorbing spiritual energy as their red moon marks glowed.
• Chen Lin left the Mountains and Rivers Painting, confident that the two cats could become an advantage against the Sea Beast Clan.
• In Magic City, Ao Lie led a giant crab and a long-armed strange fish upstream through the Yangtze estuary while evading human sonar arrays.
• Ao Lie explained that the sea beasts were seeking a Demon Tribe remnant on orders from Lord Abyss Bone, then rebuked the fish for suggesting they destroy the continent outright.

Ao Lie and two Core Formation sea beasts traveled inland along the Yangtze River to find and capture a surviving Demon Prince, while giant water-monster attacks terrorized the Twelve Coastal Provinces. At the Song-Style Courtyard House, Clear Wind and Bright Moon trained under the Star Moon Demon Saint as Chen Lin received a call beside Heavenly Hatred True Lord’s array preparations.

• Ao Lie used Lord Abyss Bone’s Demon-Seeking Compass to lead two sea beasts west along the Yangtze River in search of the surviving Demon Prince, ordering them to kill any human cultivators who interfered.
• A monster dragged Wang into the Han River and killed him while Li watched from the bank.
• Giant creatures attacked waterways across the Twelve Coastal Provinces, prompting widespread fear and online speculation.
• Clear Wind and Bright Moon reached the threshold of the Spirit Suppression Art’s introductory section while the Star Moon Demon Saint watched.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord carved array patterns into a stone platform beside ten Black-Armor Puppets, and Chen Lin’s encrypted phone began vibrating.

Chen Lin sent Yun Sheng and Changqingzi to investigate sea beasts searching inland waterways, and Yun Sheng discovered they were seeking the demon emperor bloodline. After Yun Sheng signaled Chen Lin, Shark Crazy exposed her and ordered Ao Lie to attack, leaving her protected by six Black-Armor Puppets.

• Ye Wenjun told Chen Lin that sea beasts had attacked waterways across twelve inland provinces while apparently searching for a target.
• Chen Lin sent Yun Sheng and Changqingzi upstream with twelve Black-Armor Puppets to follow the sea beasts and report what they were seeking.
• Yun Sheng overheard Ao Lie and his companions discussing their search for a remnant of the Demon Tribe and the demon emperor bloodline.
• Yun Sheng realized the sea beasts might be looking for Chen Lin's two Crimson Moon Fox pets and crushed her Sound-Transmitting Jade Talisman.
• Shark Crazy appeared, exposed Yun Sheng, and ordered Ao Lie to kill her so he could search her divine soul.
• Yun Sheng summoned six Black-Armor Puppets into a six-pointed star formation as Ao Lie lunged at her.

Chen Lin arrived at the Reservoir in the Heavenly Shuttle and rescued Yun Sheng from Shark Crazy, while Heavenly Hatred True Lord seized the Nascent Soul sea beast and killed the other attackers. As Heavenly Hatred True Lord prepared to collect the Demon Cores, two powerful surges of spiritual power emerged from the Reservoir’s whirlpool.

• Ao Lie and the other Core Formation sea beasts attacked Yun Sheng, while Shark Crazy struck her with his Trident and badly wounded her.
• Chen Lin arrived through a spatial rift, caught Yun Sheng, and gave her a healing pill.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord revealed his peak late Nascent Soul power and crushed Shark Crazy’s body, preserving his soul for Chen Lin.
• At Chen Lin’s command, Heavenly Hatred True Lord erased Shark Crazy’s consciousness and killed Ao Lie, the Giant Crab, and the Long-Armed Monster Fish.
• Two violent surges of spiritual power erupted from the Reservoir’s underground-water-vein whirlpool.

Chen Lin and Heavenly Hatred True Lord defeated two sea beasts, though one escaped, and Chen Lin learned the clan was searching for the demon emperor bloodline. After bringing the injured Yun Sheng to the Mountains and Rivers Painting to heal, he was spotted by Qin Chuxia and Song Qiuya, who assumed the pair were becoming romantically involved.

• Heavenly Hatred True Lord killed the manta-ray sea beast but failed to stop the horned whale from escaping into the Underground River.
• Chen Lin examined Shark Crazy's divine soul, learned a deep-sea clan was searching for the demon emperor bloodline, and ordered Heavenly Hatred True Lord to hunt the clan's members downstream.
• Chen Lin carried the badly injured Yun Sheng away in the Heavenly Shuttle, and Yun Sheng found herself enjoying his embrace despite her embarrassment.
• Chen Lin brought Yun Sheng into the Mountains and Rivers Painting and treated her with a healing pill and his true essence.
• Qin Chuxia and Song Qiuya saw Chen Lin tending to Yun Sheng and concluded that he was courting her.

Chen Lin learned that sea beasts had come ashore and ordered his group to prepare for combat. In the Mariana Trench, Kunpeng heard that a powerful cultivator had destroyed his forces and learned that spiritual energy had appeared in inland Huaxia before Chen Family Village vanished behind a formation.

• Qin Chuxia teased Yun Sheng about her feelings for Chen Lin, and Yun Sheng fled into the Bamboo Grove in embarrassment.
• Chen Lin told Qin Chuxia to focus on cultivation, then warned Song Qiuya and the others that sea beasts had come ashore and ordered them to prepare for battle.
• A wounded narwhal reported to Kunpeng that his force had been wiped out and that a peak late Nascent Soul cultivator with a White Bone Cane had killed Shark Crazy.
• Azure Flood Dragon told Kunpeng that his daughter Linglong had detected spiritual energy near Chen Family Village and that the village had disappeared behind an enormous formation.

Kunpeng ordered the Sea Tribe to investigate Chen Family Village after discovering its powerful formations and learning that a peak late Nascent Soul cultivator had destroyed a Sea Tribe force. Linglong traced the village’s sudden rise to Chen Lin, an ordinary man who had apparently gained a heaven-defying opportunity.

• Kunpeng realized Chen Family Village possessed powerful formations and vast spirit-stone reserves, then ordered the Sea Tribe to conceal its search operations and have Linglong investigate the village.
• Kunpeng visited the dying Silver Ray and vowed to seize Chen Family Village’s resources and find Demon Tribe bloodlines to restore her origin essence.
• Azure Flood Dragon warned Linglong that a peak late Nascent Soul human had killed Shark Crazy, Commander Ao Lie, and dozens of Sea Tribe elites, and ordered her to stay away from Chen Family Village.
• Linglong searched online records and learned that Chen Family Village had been poor and spiritually barren a year earlier, before fog concealed it and its fortunes changed.
• Linglong investigated Chen Lin’s background and concluded that he had gained a heaven-defying opportunity just over half a year earlier.

After confirming that Chen Family Village had transformed from a barren wasteland in six months, Linglong reported her findings to Kunpeng. Convinced the village held a treasure that could let the Sea Tribe break through its limits, Kunpeng mobilized the tribe for an invasion of Huaxia.

• Linglong used the Soul-Searching Art on a Yicheng real estate tycoon and confirmed Chen Family Village had been barren and spiritually empty just over six months earlier.
• Linglong transmitted her findings to Kunpeng and the Sea Tribe's commanders, describing Chen Lin's rise, the village's spiritual resources, and its powerful formation and guardian.
• Kunpeng and the commanders concluded that Chen Family Village held a treasure capable of restoring the Sea Tribe's queen and helping Kunpeng reach deity transformation.
• Kunpeng ordered Linglong to keep monitoring the village and its military defenses without approaching its formation.
• Kunpeng activated the Sea-Sealing Grand Formation, awakened the Sea Tribe, and led hundreds of thousands of sea beasts toward Huaxia as a massive tsunami surged toward the East China Sea.

Kunpeng led a hundred thousand Sea Tribe beasts across the Pacific and annihilated Japan’s remaining naval forces before ordering an invasion of Honshu. After the beasts devastated the island’s eastern coast, international representatives watched in horror as the threat became clear.

• Kunpeng ordered his Sea Tribe army to crush anything in its path as it approached Japan’s first island chain.
• Colonel Yamamoto ordered the remaining Japanese ships to fire missiles and guns at the advancing sea beasts, but Azure Flood Dragon deflected the attacks.
• Azure Flood Dragon froze and shattered the Izumo, while Deep-Sea Demon Octopuses dragged the other warships beneath the sea.
• Kunpeng ordered the sea beasts to land on Honshu and leave no blade of grass, and they slaughtered survivors and devastated the eastern coast.
• Representatives from several nations watched satellite footage of the attack at the National Security Supreme Command Center and feared the beasts could reach their countries.

As a hundred thousand sea beasts advanced toward Eastern Zhejiang after destroying Honshu Island, Chen Lin gathered his Nascent Soul allies and raced to the coast. He deployed the Sea-Covering Heaven-Locking Formation and left his group to guard its formation eyes as the invasion approached.

• Ye Wenjun ordered a nationwide air-defense alert, the East China Sea Fleet onto maximum readiness, and evacuations of three coastal provinces after learning the sea beasts were heading west.
• Chen Lin learned that the sea beasts would reach Eastern Zhejiang in three hours and warned the old man that nuclear weapons would not stop Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord delivered fifty Black-Armor Puppets, and Chen Lin assembled him, Changqingzi, Withered Wood Ancestor, Violet Frost Fairy, and Perfected Xuanming to face the invasion.
• Chen Lin used the Heavenly Shuttle to travel instantly from Yicheng to the East China Sea coast with the five Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Chen Lin planted thirty-six formation flags to establish the Sea-Covering Heaven-Locking Formation and assigned Heavenly Hatred True Lord and the others to guard its formation eyes.

Chen Lin used Clear Wind and Bright Moon’s Spirit Suppression Art to cripple the Sea Tribe vanguard, allowing Huaxia’s fleet to inflict devastating losses. Kunpeng then attacked Lone Reef’s formation, leaving its defenders badly injured as the spirit stones powering it rapidly crumbled.

• Chen Lin supplied Heavenly Hatred True Lord, Withered Wood, Violet Frost, and the others with spirit stones and supreme-grade Essence-Returning Pills, then warned them to hold the formation against the Sea Tribe army.
• Kunpeng arrived with a vast force of sea beasts, and his overwhelming pressure revealed that he was a peak late Nascent Soul expert.
• Huaxia’s military opened fire on the advancing sea beasts, but their spiritual defenses limited the damage.
• Chen Lin sent Clear Wind and Bright Moon to use the Spirit Suppression Art, which weakened the sea beasts and left the vanguard vulnerable to a second bombardment.
• The fleet killed or wounded more than half of the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment vanguard, prompting Kunpeng to attack Lone Reef with his Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Trident.
• Kunpeng’s strike shook the Sea-Covering Heaven-Locking Formation, injured Withered Wood, Violet Frost, and the other defenders, and rapidly consumed the spirit stones powering it.

Kunpeng and Heavenly Hatred True Lord fought above Lone Reef while Azure Flood Dragon’s forces attacked the formation below. Chen Lin gave Changqingzi the Sword-Nurturing Gourd, turning the battle with its thirty-six Azure Cloud Swords, but the sea beasts exploited Changqingzi’s inexperience and opened a gap in the Sword Formation.

• Heavenly Hatred True Lord charged through the formation and clashed with Kunpeng in the sky.
• Azure Flood Dragon led ten Nascent Soul sea beasts against Lone Reef, where Chen Lin sent Changqingzi, Withered Wood, Violet Frost, Mystic Brightness, and fifty Black-Armor Puppets to meet them.
• As the defenders began to lose ground, Chen Lin gave Changqingzi the Sword-Nurturing Gourd, and Changqingzi released thirty-six Azure Cloud Swords that wounded the eight early Nascent Soul sea beasts.
• Kunpeng noticed the treasure and demanded to know who Chen Lin was, but Chen Lin calmly told him he would find out soon enough.
• Azure Flood Dragon spotted a pause in Changqingzi’s Sword Formation, and he, Giant Crab, and Devil Ray struck its weak point, knocking away several swords and opening a wide gap.