Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu helped Young Man Yan ambush a Qi Refining perfection Ironback Gray Ape after it attacked a caravan with its horde. Wang Yu killed it with a single strike, and the surviving apes fled.

• Mortal guards and Qi Refining cultivators defended the caravan from a horde of black apes and gray-white giant apes.
• The Ironback Gray Ape hurled trees and boulders at the caravan before joining the attack.
• The Qi Refining cultivators failed to harm the demon ape, which revealed itself to be at Qi Refining perfection.
• Wang Yu cut the Ironback Gray Ape in half with a single sweep of his blade, causing the remaining apes to flee.
• Young Man Yan praised Wang Yu’s Artifact Control Technique and explained that he had lured Wang Yu there to ambush the elusive beast.

Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang discussed the Demon Beast threat and the human forces’ shortages before traveling to Five Plains Lake to deal with a newly advanced second-tier fish demon. They arrived with a Sima Household representative, who had used valuable beast blood to lure the demon out.

• Yan Lingxiang explained that Demon Beasts frequently harassed mortal settlements and described the overwhelming numbers faced by the Three Sects during their decisive battle against the Snow Wolf Clan.
• Ning Zhen delivered the Ironback Gray Ape’s corpse to Wang Yu, and Yan Lingxiang ordered him to tell the Ning Household that its payment to the Green Water Palace would rise by thirty percent for the year.
• Yan Lingxiang told Wang Yu they would next stop at Five Plains Lake to deal with a second-tier fish demon.
• More than half a month later, Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang arrived above Five Plains Lake with a Sima Household representative as workers poured beast blood into the lake to lure the fish demon out.
• The Sima Household representative explained that the fish demon had ruined the household’s Spirit Fish Farm for more than half a year.

Wang Yu used Overclocking to discover that the second-tier demon fish had disguised itself as ordinary spirit fish, then helped expose it. After the fish escaped Yan Lingxiang’s ring and the Sima household head’s sword attack, Wang Yu made a move to capture it.

• The Sima household head and Yan Lingxiang prepared to hunt the demon fish while the Sima disciples withdrew from the lake.
• Wang Yu used Overclocking to inspect the shoal and found the demon fish concealed among ordinary spirit fish.
• Wang Yu attacked with white fireballs, forcing the disguised fish to reveal its silver form.
• Yan Lingxiang tried to seal the demon fish with a bronze ring, but it split into silver fish silhouettes and escaped.
• The Sima household head attacked with a flying sword, but the silhouettes burst into blue light as Wang Yu reached toward the lake.

Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang helped the Sima Household capture a second-tier silver demonic fish, and Wang Yu received a thunderclap stone as payment. The next day, Wang Yu questioned Yan Lingxiang about why he prized the fish’s transformation ability so highly.

• Wang Yu used a white-fire net to trap the silver demonic fish, while Yan Lingxiang bound it with his Bronze Ring.
• A white flying sword severed half the fish’s tail, and Yan Lingxiang shrank and captured the restrained fish.
• The Sima Household’s short-bearded man thanked Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang and invited them to be entertained; Big Green retrieved the fish’s severed tail before they left.
• The next day, Wang Yu examined the second-tier thunderclap stone he had received as payment and noted that it completed the main materials for Little White’s artifact embryo.
• Yan Lingxiang kept the captured fish after giving up the Sima Household’s promised payment and paying Wang Yu tens of thousands of spirit stones for it.
• Wang Yu asked Yan Lingxiang why he valued the fish’s form-shattering shadow-mimicry ability so highly.

Yan Lingxiang explained the Green Flood Dragon King's bloodline carried by the fish demon and described Sima's life-bound flying sword. He warned Wang Yu that true sword cultivators were exceptionally rare, leaving Wang Yu to reconsider his interest in the sword path.

• Yan Lingxiang told Wang Yu that the fish demon carried the Green Flood Dragon King's bloodline and had some potential to reach the third tier, then took it for himself.
• Wang Yu asked about Sima's sword, and Yan Lingxiang explained that Sima wielded a life-bound White Essence Sword and was a false sword cultivator.
• Yan Lingxiang revealed that Sima had learned sword-refining methods from half of an incomplete Sword Canon but lacked true sword cultivation methods and arts.
• Wang Yu asked about sword cultivation, and Yan Lingxiang compared the sects' numbers, noting the Sword-Grinding Sect had only just over a thousand members.
• Yan Lingxiang said only thirty-odd members of the Sword-Grinding Sect were true sword cultivators and advised Wang Yu to seek a Green Water Palace true disciple position instead.

Wang Yu learned from Yan Lingxiang that Sword-Grinding Sect cultivators pursued sword cultivation through extreme and dangerous practices. Senior Luo appeared aboard the Bone Boat, silenced Yan Lingxiang’s criticism, and tested Wang Yu’s potential as a sword cultivator.

• Wang Yu asked Yan Lingxiang why the Sword-Grinding Sect had so few disciples, and Yan Lingxiang described three extreme acts committed by its cultivators.
• Wang Yu said he had no interest in becoming a sword cultivator, but Senior Luo appeared beside the head of the Sima Household and challenged Yan Lingxiang’s account.
• Yan Lingxiang recognized Senior Luo as a Golden Core Sword Cultivator and learned that Luo had sacrificed everything below his neck to forge his Life-Bound Flying Sword.
• Senior Luo spared Yan Lingxiang but ordered him to remain kneeling, then asked Wang Yu to join the Sword-Grinding Sect if he possessed a sword body, sword bone, or sword meridian.
• Senior Luo struck the back of Wang Yu’s head, and a sword rang out behind him.

Wang Yu failed the Sword-Grinding Sect’s test for sword talent, while the Black-Robed Youth reclaimed the demon fish and revealed that the Sima Household Head was his registered disciple. Before leaving with his new disciple, the youth gave Wang Yu a Jade Slip of his early sword-cultivation insights and departed, leaving Wang Yu stunned on the Bone Boat.

• The Black-Robed Youth rang the Three Sword-Calling Chimes, but Wang Yu showed no sword body, sword bone, or sword meridian.
• The Black-Robed Youth demanded that Yan Lingxiang return the demon fish he had planted in Five Plains Lake, and Yan Lingxiang handed it over in a Copper Bowl.
• The Sima Household Head admitted that he had cut the fish’s tail and addressed the Black-Robed Youth as his master.
• The Black-Robed Youth explained that he had taken the Sima Household Head as a registered disciple because he possessed a section of hundred-forged sword bone and had nurtured a Life-Bound Flying Sword.
• The Black-Robed Youth told Yan Lingxiang to inform the old ghost Yan that he would not join the expedition in two years, then gave Wang Yu a Jade Slip containing his early sword-cultivation insights.
• The Black-Robed Youth took the Sima Household Head away on an azure sword light, leaving Wang Yu holding the Jade Slip on the Bone Boat.

Wang Yu received a half-volume Sword Canon from Senior Luo and returned Yan Lingxiang’s Spirit Stones as the two headed back to the Green Water Palace. Aboard the Azure Blood-Streaked Rainbow, Luo explained that Wang Yu’s Divine Sense was extraordinarily strong but that he lacked Sword Cultivator talent, and he looked forward to testing what Wang Yu learned from the Canon.

• Yan Lingxiang warned Wang Yu to study Senior Luo’s Sword Canon and said they would return directly to the Green Water Palace.
• Wang Yu returned the Spirit Stones Yan Lingxiang had paid him, and Yan Lingxiang offered to take him to a Gambling Stone Field rich in Chaos Stones after he studied the Palace’s Innate Spirit Object.
• Luo told his disciple that Wang Yu’s Divine Sense was at least three or four times stronger than his disciple’s, possibly five or six times stronger.
• Luo compared Wang Yu with several exceptional disciples from the Three Sects and said Wang Yu’s Divine Sense came close to the strongest among Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Luo explained that his disciple’s refined White Essence Flying Sword made him suited to the Sword-Grinding Sect, while Wang Yu had no particular Sword Cultivator talent.
• Luo said he would test Wang Yu’s understanding of the Sword Canon if Wang Yu joined the Green Water Palace and they met again.

Yan Lingxiang brought Wang Yu through Cloudglow Lake’s deadly outer mist and introduced Green Water Palace’s defenses and mortal settlement. They reached a vast emerald, pyramid-shaped island, which Yan Lingxiang said was only the top of the palace, leaving Wang Yu still approaching the sect itself.

• Yan Lingxiang explained that the white mist around Cloudglow Lake was a corrosive outer seal of Green Water Palace’s fourth-tier grand formation.
• Wang Yu compared the palace’s formation with the weaker grand formation of the Four Symbols Sect and considered how formation masters were classified.
• Yan Lingxiang guided Wang Yu’s bone boat through the mist and described the lake’s mortal fishermen and Green Water Palace cultivators.
• Yan Lingxiang showed Wang Yu the sect’s outer mortal settlement, a sprawling network of floating ironwood islands where he had grown up.
• Wang Yu saw a towering emerald island and asked if it was Green Water Palace, but Yan Lingxiang said it was only the palace’s top.

Wang Yu entered the Green Water Palace with Yan Lingxiang and discovered that the sect occupied a miniature secret realm called the Green Water Grotto Heaven. Yan Lingxiang took him to meet Martial Uncle Chai, who would decide whether Wang Yu could contemplate the palace’s sacred object.

• Yan Lingxiang retrieved the Command Token and brought Wang Yu through a White Light Gate after Senior Brother Guan verified the Hall Master's instructions.
• Wang Yu and Yan Lingxiang entered the palace through a teleportation array, and Yan Lingxiang explained that only specially approved visitors used it.
• Wang Yu saw the Green Water Palace's vast grounds beneath a blue light screen and learned that the sect was a miniature secret realm.
• Yan Lingxiang described the palace's halls, peaks, and abodes, then warned Wang Yu that Martial Uncle Chai disliked talkative people.
• Yan Lingxiang and Wang Yu rode a giant white bird toward the Jade Balance Hall, where Martial Uncle Chai oversaw the sacred object.

Wang Yu demonstrated his Flame Blade spell to Chai Hefeng and agreed to sign a third-tier spirit contract to study Green Water Palace’s Innate Spirit Object. After signing, he stood ready to enter the sealed wooden door as Chai Hefeng began undoing its seal.

• Wang Yu displayed his ninety-eight-pattern Flame Blade, and Chai Hefeng praised his spell talent.
• Chai Hefeng explained the Innate Spirit Object’s study rules and required Wang Yu to promise secrecy under a third-tier spirit contract.
• Wang Yu agreed to the contract and followed Chai Hefeng to a sealed wooden door, where a Nascent Soul powerhouse granted the contract.
• Wang Yu read the contract and signed it with his blood, adding his name among the indistinct names already recorded.
• Chai Hefeng told Wang Yu to knock three times when he finished studying, then began casting a spell to undo the door’s seal.

Wang Yu entered a sealed desert and used Overclocking to see through its illusion, revealing a colossal Tyrannosaurus rex that crumbled into an enormous many-eyed eyeball. As the remaining eyes vanished, a blood-red symbol appeared and captured his attention and thoughts.

• The woman used a Bone Finger to open the wooden door and sent Wang Yu through it.
• Wang Yu found himself alone in a silent desert where a restrictive seal limited his Divine Sense.
• Wang Yu used Overclocking and spirit inscriptions to shatter the desert illusion and reveal a vast world of birdsong and flowers.
• Wang Yu discovered a colossal, one-eyed Tyrannosaurus rex staring at him before it crumbled into ash.
• The remaining enormous eyeball revealed many eyes, then formed a blood-red symbol that seized Wang Yu's gaze and compelled his thoughts to study it.

Chai Hefeng and Junior Brother Yan waited outside the Myriad Forms Eye while discussing Wang Yu’s spell talent and competing to recruit him for their peaks. After he remained inside for three days, they discussed the Eye’s mysteries and the possibility of comprehending all its spell patterns.

• Junior Brother Yan arrived at Jade Balance Hall hoping to recruit Wang Yu for Pure Fire Peak, while Chai Hefeng argued that Spirit Arts Peak would suit his spell talent better.
• Chai Hefeng and Junior Brother Yan agreed to let Wang Yu choose a peak after he came out of the Myriad Forms Eye.
• After three days, Junior Brother Yan asked how Wang Yu’s time inside compared with other prodigies who had studied the Eye.
• Chai Hefeng and Junior Brother Yan discussed the Eye’s nearly thousand spell patterns, its mysterious origins, and Green Water Palace’s efforts to gain control of it.
• Junior Brother Yan described the two possible ways to comprehend all the patterns, and Chai Hefeng dismissed the likelihood of one Foundation Establishment cultivator mastering them all.

Wang Yu nearly finished comprehending the Eye of Myriad Forms, but the spell pattern suddenly came alive and attacked him. He escaped its first strike, then fought off threads that sprang from the ground and disrupted his Dharma Power.

• Outside the wooden door, Chai Hefeng and the man in the brocade robe waited several days without hearing anything from inside, growing astonished and hopeful.
• Wang Yu continued comprehending spell pattern symbols while enduring severe mental exhaustion and recalling an illusion of a one-eyed Tyrannosaurus Rex that had shown him his greatest fear.
• After Wang Yu comprehended another symbol, nearly a hundred additional symbols appeared on the eyeball and formed a pulsing blood-red design.
• Wang Yu snatched his hand away as the design released threads, then used Instantaneous Step to evade their first attack.
• Blood-red threads bound Wang Yu's feet and disrupted his Dharma Power, but he shattered the attacking threads with a roar and a powerful stomp.

Wang Yu was overwhelmed by the yellow eyeball’s power and trapped in a blood cocoon as an icy energy invaded his body. The system activated automatically, identified a latent supernatural ability, and began using it to absorb the energy and simulate the alien organism.

• Wang Yu’s heart synchronized with the yellow eyeball’s heartbeat, draining his strength and leaving him unable to resist the blood threads.
• The eyeball transformed its spell pattern and summoned over a thousand eyes, whose mental power sealed Wang Yu’s body, dharma power, and divine sense.
• Blood threads wrapped Wang Yu and the yellow eyeball in separate cocoons as icy energy began invading Wang Yu’s body.
• The system detected the alien biological energy, assessed the danger, and activated automatic protection to search for a countermeasure.
• The system stimulated Wang Yu’s body and mental power, then activated his super biological simulation ability to absorb the energy and simulate the alien organism.
• Wang Yu recalled that he might have a third supernatural ability, then lost consciousness as the system began its process.

Wang Yu escaped the Myriad Forms Eye after surviving a terrifying experience and reported that he had comprehended twenty-two Spell Patterns. Back in the white jade hall, two Green Water Palace Golden Core cultivators invited him to join their peaks, with Yan Tu offering him a place as a personal disciple.

• Wang Yu awoke before the yellow eyeball, discovered he was unharmed, and fled through the wooden door after circling the area to find it.
• A blue-robed boy examined Wang Yu’s visit in a bronze mirror, destroyed the yellow eyeball, and revealed a blood egg covered in writhing black strands.
• Wang Yu returned to the white jade hall and told the cultivators that he had comprehended twenty-two Spell Patterns during his eight days inside.
• The brocade-robed man invited Wang Yu to become an inner disciple of Spirit Arts Peak, and Yan Tu offered to take him as a personal disciple of Pure Fire Peak.

Wang Yu joined the Green Water Palace and chose Yan Tu’s Pure Fire Peak over Chai Hefeng’s Spirit Arts Peak. After passing the sect’s oath test, he became Yan Tu’s third personal disciple and received a gourd of Firecloud Miasma.

• Wang Yu told Chai Hefeng and Yan Tu that he had come from the Four Symbols Sect and had once been its Patriarch’s disciple.
• Chai Hefeng and Yan Tu each urged Wang Yu to join their spirit peak, and Wang Yu chose Yan Tu’s Pure Fire Peak.
• Yan Tu took Wang Yu to the Heart-Questioning Hall, where Wang Yu swore the great sect oath before the spirit soul magical artifact.
• The artifact confirmed Wang Yu’s oath, and Yan Tu welcomed him as his third disciple and gave him a gourd of Firecloud Miasma.

Yan Tu accepted Wang Yu as his personal disciple and brought him to Pure Fire Peak, where Wang Yu began settling into Green Water Palace. Yan Tu arranged for Wang Yu’s background to be investigated and left him to choose a temporary cave abode before reporting back the next day.

• Yan Tu gave Wang Yu a second-tier Ruyi Hook, and Senior Brother Wen agreed to investigate Wang Yu’s history in the Wu Kingdom in exchange for immortal crane grass.
• Yan Tu flew with Wang Yu to Pure Fire Peak, where Wang Yu felt comfortable in the heat because he cultivated the Crimson Sun Great Art.
• Yan Tu introduced Wang Yu to Uncle Mu and explained that Wang Yu needed to earn true disciple status to obtain an independent True Abode.
• Yan Tu told Uncle Mu to help Wang Yu choose a temporary cave abode and asked Wang Yu to return the next day after resting.
• Yan Lingxiang offered to show Wang Yu the best cave abodes, and Yan Tu agreed as Uncle Mu followed them out.

Wang Yu inspected his new cave abode on Pure Fire Peak, then used the login interface to test whether the blood-cocoon experience had been real. His super biological simulation ability activated and formed another blood cocoon around him, leaving him determined to see what happened next.

• Wang Yu entered his cave abode with the formation disc and examined its fire coral trees, spirit-gathering array, and other facilities.
• Wang Yu questioned whether the blood cocoon and the unknown energy had been real, since he could remember only the woman's icy yellow eyes.
• Wang Yu called the Taiyuan login interface and tried activating his super biological simulation ability in the Silver Hall.
• Wang Yu's heart began pounding, his blood boiled, and blood threads burst from his body and wrapped him in a blood cocoon.
• Wang Yu allowed the cocoon to form, confident he could leave the login interface if necessary, and waited to see what would happen.

Inside the blood cocoon, Wang Yu absorbed unknown biological energy and underwent a second awakening of his Iron-Eater Crocodile bloodline. He emerged as a scaled, half-demonized humanoid, discovered his strengthened body and innate Copper Skin and Iron Bones ability, and began testing whether his other bloodline abilities had awakened.

• Wang Yu confirmed that the blood cocoon had preserved the complete Spell Spirit Markings Diagram he had copied from the yellow eyeball.
• Unknown biological energy fused with Wang Yu’s bloodline and triggered a painful transformation as the cocoon injected more energy into him.
• The blood cocoon hardened into a green egg, which later shattered and released Wang Yu in a towering, scaled demonic form.
• Wang Yu examined his new appearance and suspected that his Iron-Eater Crocodile bloodline had undergone a second awakening.
• Wang Yu tested his scales and skin, confirmed his Copper Skin and Iron Bones ability, and conjured stones to test Stone Armor.