Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ziliang learned that his son Yuan Dalang was safe in Qingliang Commandery but faced pressure from Ren Ye to supply forty million Star Source in goods. After Ren Ye chose to preserve the alliance and split the Park District Squad for separate journeys, he set out for Xingshan while a mysterious tomb stirred in the Star Gate World.

• Yuan Ziliang received Ren Ye's letter, which revealed Yuan Dalang's location, demanded forty million Star Source in goods, and threatened to expose the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce's dealings with Qingliang Commandery and the Southern Border.
• Yuan Ziliang ordered Yuan Shen to kill the Mastermind and the Fu establishment manager, stage Yuan Dalang's death, and withhold scarce materials to keep leverage over Ren Ye; he replied that the goods would arrive in seven days and warned Ren not to demand more.
• Ren Ye judged that Yuan Ziliang would risk losing Yuan Dalang rather than let the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce be drained, so he ordered his people to keep Yuan Dalang safe and maintain trade with the Chamber of Commerce.
• After Dragon Head said her master had sent her to a Secret Realm connected to the Migration Land, Ren Ye split the Park District Squad into two traveling teams by lot.
• Ren Ye left for Xingshan with his team as a Fallen God Emperor's Tomb flickered mysteriously somewhere in the Star Gate World.

Ren Ye and his companions left Gutan City for the Nine Li Continent, where Ming Quan guided them toward his hometown, Tide Dragon City. The group traveled in disguise and learned about the continent’s oppressive rules and taxes as they approached the city.

• Ren Ye visited Qinghe Academy, where Mr. Xu arranged for White Chicken to accompany the group into Great Emperor Jiuli’s Tomb and gave Ren Ye the Ba Snake Statue, warning him not to enter Xingshan before White Chicken arrived.
• Ren Ye and his companions activated Ming Quan’s Route Pass and crossed the Star Gate to the Nine Li Continent, arriving at an abandoned teleportation array outside Tide Dragon City.
• Ming Quan warned the group that bandits and powerful fighters roamed the lawless land outside the city, then gave them ragged clothes to disguise their wealth before they set out on foot.
• As the group traveled, Ming Quan explained that Tide Dragon City belonged to the Immortal Wave Five Cities, which were ruled by the powerful Immortal Wave Sect and burdened residents with strict awakening fees, travel taxes, and censorship rules.
• Ren Ye and the others reacted to Ming Quan’s account of the city’s customs and taxes as they continued toward Tide Dragon City.

Ren Ye and his companions entered Tide Dragon City, paid its burdensome taxes, and learned that the Vengeful Ghost Sect had abducted more military officers. Ming Quan led them to his home, where his wife and children joyfully awaited his return, only to realize he was carrying the belongings of the brother who had died.

• Ming Quan led the group through Tide Dragon City Pass, where they paid homecoming, death-abroad, and visitor taxes and registered their tokens.
• Ren Ye secretly replaced the visitors’ divine-sense signatures in their tokens with remnants supplied by Divine Baby.
• Ming Quan learned that eight third-grade officers and a fourth-grade commander had recently disappeared, and a traveler blamed the Vengeful Ghost Sect.
• Ming Quan explained that the Vengeful Ghost Sect abducted young supernatural ability users, especially military officers, to serve its leader’s cultivation.
• Ming Quan brought Ren Ye and the others to his farmhouse in Great Marsh Township, where his wife and children rushed out to welcome him.
• Ming Quan’s wife saw the box of personal effects and realized that the brother she had awaited for nearly two years was dead.

After Brother Hong's funeral, Xing Wu resolved to support his family by leaving the Hunting Patrol and hunting alone. He entered the depths of Wo Niu Peak with a thousand-jin bow and an unexplained, potent liquid, and the chapter revealed that his extraordinary strength was tied to a secret from his past.

• Ren Ye returned Brother Hong's effects box and blessed Xing Wu and his siblings during the burial, while Ai Fei performed the rebirth rite.
• Chunniang and her children ate their first dinner without Brother Hong, and she later wept while making the Hundred-Spirit Paste he had once taken on his travels.
• Xing Wu told Chunniang he planned to leave the Hunting Patrol and hunt alone to provide for the family, and she agreed after hearing his preparations and plans.
• Xing Wu secretly brought Little One a chicken leg before leaving home before dawn with a thousand-jin Beast-Bone Bow and Blue Fish Arrows.
• Xing Wu entered the depths of Wo Niu Peak, drank a phosphorescent liquid from a battered teapot, and revealed that he had once entered Xingshan.

Xing Wu hunted a second-rank Pingpeng Pig, sold its hide, and brought its meat home to share with Ren Ye and the others. During the gathering, Little One tasted Daoist Chu’s Drunken Immortal Brew, and a surge of Star Source energy made Daoist Chu suspect that the child had attained enlightenment.

• Xing Wu killed a Pingpeng Pig with arrows and Beast-Tendon Ropes, then carried it to Heavenly Treasure Pavilion and sold its hide while keeping its meat.
• Xing Wu invited Ming Quan, Ren Ye, and the others to his home for a meal, where they noticed something unusual about his body.
• Daoist Chu gave Little One a drop of Drunken Immortal Brew, and Little One stayed conscious despite becoming visibly drunk.
• Little One argued with Chunniang and tried to dodge her dog-beating stick as Star Source energy stirred in his abdomen.
• Daoist Chu stopped Chunniang and exclaimed that Little One might have attained enlightenment.

Little One showed extraordinary signs of awakening after drinking Drunken Immortal Brew, but the surges vanished and he remained an ordinary child. At the Xing Family feast, Ren Ye agreed to take the five children as disciples, while Xing Wu insisted he wanted Ren Ye as his adoptive father; then several white-robed Taoists arrived at the courtyard gate.

• Little One’s drunken poetry accompanied dozens of increasingly powerful surges of Star Source Power, but the signs disappeared before he awakened.
• Daoist Chu found no sign of awakening in Little One and said he had indigestion, while Chunniang was relieved that her son had not changed.
• Chunniang proposed that Ren Ye take her five children as adopted sons, and Ren Ye offered to take them as disciples instead.
• Xing Wu said he wanted Ren Ye to be his adoptive father, while Daoist Chu offered to teach Little One and Yin Tiger and Old Liu argued over taking disciples.
• Several white-robed Taoists appeared outside the Xing Family courtyard, and their leader asked whether it was the Xing Family.

Prime Minister Turtle and the Immortal Wave Sect used an altered household register to force Xing Wu into an awakening, but his apparent inability to cultivate thwarted their plan. When the Daoists threatened Chunniang’s youngest child and attacked her, Old Liu retaliated, crippling the young Daoist and striking at Prime Minister Turtle.

• Prime Minister Turtle arrived with Daoists and Tide Dragon Guards, declaring that Xing Wu had to undergo awakening under Tide Dragon City’s law.
• Chunniang protested that Xing Wu was not yet eighteen, but Prime Minister Turtle produced an altered household register claiming he was already past the required age.
• Xing Wu agreed to be tested and endured Prime Minister Turtle’s violent infusion of Star Source, then was declared incapable of awakening.
• The young Daoist demanded to test Little One and threatened to falsify the ages of Chunniang’s other children when she resisted.
• Old Liu attacked the young Daoist, crushed his Star Core, and crippled him while Chunniang refused to stop the retaliation.
• Prime Minister Turtle protested Old Liu’s attack, and Old Liu appeared beside him and slapped at his face.

Ren Ye and his companions beat the Immortal Wave Sect Taoists who tried to claim Xing Wu, then were arrested and taken to Tide Dragon City's Ministry of Justice. City Lord Long Yuqing learned that Ren Ye was protected by six sixth-grade elders, leaving him torn between the sect's demands and his debt to Chunniang.

• Ren Ye slapped Prime Minister Turtle, and Daoist Chu, Yin Tiger, and Ai Fei joined in beating the Immortal Wave Sect Taoists until Chunniang urged them to stop.
• Chunniang went to seek help at the City Lord's Residence while Ren Ye and the others stayed with the Xing family and waited for the authorities.
• Five hundred Tide Dragon Black Cavalry and Immortal Wave Sect Taoists arrived, arrested the courtyard's occupants, and escorted them to Tide Dragon City's Ministry of Justice.
• At the yamen, a fourth-grade Taoist threatened Ren Ye, while Prime Minister Turtle demanded revenge from his bed.
• Long Yuqing ordered harsh punishment for the outsiders, then learned Chunniang had come to invoke his promise to help her and heard that Ren Ye's six protectors were sixth grade.
• Long Yuqing realized that punishing Ren Ye could provoke his powerful backers, while sparing him risked offending the Immortal Wave Sect.

Yang Mingtang intervened in the Ministry of Justice’s effort to execute Ren Ye and his companions, forcing the Immortal Wave Sect’s Taoist Priest He to accept a thorough investigation instead. After the group was released, Ren Ye was summoned to meet Long Yuqing and won the city lord over with praise and a rare bamboo branch.

• Long Yuqing sent Chunniang away to tend the rare plants and ordered Steward Bao to give her fifty thousand star source, then summoned Yang Mingtang to discuss her family’s case.
• Yang Mingtang rejected the chief official’s death sentence, demanded an investigation into the awakening and the sect’s conduct, and warned that he would submit the case to the Immortal Wave Sect’s inspectorate.
• Taoist Priest He withdrew his support for Prime Minister Turtle, while Yang Mingtang ordered Turtle to seek Chunniang’s forgiveness and had the prisoners released.
• Ren Ye warned Prime Minister Turtle and went with the chief official to meet Long Yuqing, where he introduced himself as Zhu Zigui.
• Zhu Zigui praised Long Yuqing and presented him with a branch of Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo, delighting the city lord.

Ren Ye met with Long Yuqing in Tide Dragon City, gave him an azure bamboo branch, and described the Migration Land before Xingshan's red tide suddenly spread across the Nine Li Continent. As sects and factions prepared to contend over the awakening Great Emperor's Dao resonance, Long Yuqing planned a grand ancestral ceremony, and Ren Ye returned to Great Marsh Township to learn that Little One had a fever.

• Ren Ye gave Long Yuqing an azure bamboo branch and promised to seek nether river water and life green jade to help it thrive.
• Ren Ye spent nearly six hours telling Long Yuqing about the Migration Land, then tried to leave as the City Lord invited him to stay and continue talking.
• A great Dao resonance triggered Xingshan's red tide, turning the sky and landscape crimson and making Ren Ye's blood and star core boil.
• Long Yuqing recognized the red tide as the early awakening of the Great Emperor's broken Dao resonance, while elders and factions across the continent reacted and began preparing for the coming contest.
• Long Yuqing convened his relatives, worried about Tide Dragon City's position, and decided to hold a grand ancestral ceremony on Xingshan.
• Ren Ye returned to Great Marsh Township, where Xing Wu told him that Little One had a slight fever after being frightened by the Immortal Wave Sect's Taoists.

Ren Ye and his companions attended Long Yuqing’s ancestral ceremony, while Divine Baby detected elusive yin evil qi in a sealed courtyard behind the Guest Retainer Courtyard. As the procession reached Xingshan, Old Liu wandered up a deserted mountain path to relieve himself.

• Ren Ye gave Long Yuqing a copy of Records of Migration Land Encounters, earning a place as a guest retainer at the City Lord’s Residence.
• Divine Baby told Ren Ye he sensed growing yin evil qi near a sealed well; Ren Ye investigated the courtyard but left without opening its gate.
• Ren Ye and his companions joined the enormous procession to the Long Family Ancestral Land, where crimson mist shrouded Xingshan.
• Great General Yang Ganglie arrived with eight thousand armored riders and received a triumphant welcome from the city’s officials and soldiers.
• Old Liu, searching for a secluded place to relieve himself, left the crowd and climbed an empty mountain path.

Yang Ganglie and the Long family began the grand ancestral rites, but the Vengeful Ghost Sect attacked Tide Dragon City with a masked Fifth Grade woman wielding the Infinite Goblet. As Long Yuqing faced an incoming arrow and the Ancestral Land was engulfed in black rain, Old Liu found himself back at a familiar spot as the mountains turned crimson.

• Yang Ganglie returned to Tide Dragon City with eight thousand cavalry, and Ren Ye explained his power and influence to Xu Bangzi and the others.
• Yang Mingyuan received a secret report linking a captured Vengeful Ghost Sect user to the missing Third Grade military officers and decided to keep the findings from Long Yuqing until after the rites.
• Yang Ganglie and Long Yuqing and Yang Ling'er began the ancestral rites, but dark clouds suddenly covered the Ancestral Land.
• A masked Fifth Grade woman and dozens of Fourth Grade Vengeful Ghost Sect members emerged from the clouds, prompting Yang Ganglie to attack with his Dragon-Sealing Staff.
• The woman revealed the Infinite Goblet and unleashed black rain over the Ancestral Land as the commoners fled, while an unseen archer fired at Long Yuqing.
• Old Liu found fresh human waste in the mountains, realized he had returned to the same place, and saw the surrounding weeds turn crimson.

The Vengeful Ghost Sect attacked the Long family’s ancestral ceremony with the Divine Punishment Bow and Infinite Goblet, overwhelming the defenders and trapping Ren Ye and Daoist Chu in the fighting. Ren Ye revealed his strength to save Long Yuqing, then led him and Yang Ling’er toward an escape route.

• Wu Meng fired a Divine Punishment Arrow that broke through the fifth-grade generals’ defense and blasted open Long Yuqing’s father’s tomb.
• The witch used the Infinite Goblet to spread black water that devoured the defenders’ divine sense, allowing Wu Meng to ambush them with the Divine Punishment Bow.
• Vengeful Ghost Sect fighters stormed the Marquis Courtesy Platform, forcing Ren Ye and Daoist Chu to shelter beneath it while Yin Tiger escorted Chunniang’s family away.
• Yang Mingyuan tried to retreat but turned back after Long Yuqing called for help, while Ren Ye and Daoist Chu waited for a chance to escape.
• When the platform collapsed and a Vengeful Ghost Sect fighter attacked Long Yuqing, Ren Ye emerged, blocked the attack, and killed the fourth-grade attacker.
• Ren Ye helped Long Yuqing up and ordered Daoist Chu to carry Yang Ling’er as they prepared to flee southwest together.

Ren Ye fought off the Vengeful Ghost Sect while helping Long Yuqing and his wife escape, then deflected Wu Meng’s Divine Punishment Arrow with a mysterious ability. His group fled toward Tide Dragon City, but Yang Mingyuan was captured, and afterward Ren Ye realized that the man who had gone to take a dump was missing.

• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu carried Long Yuqing and his wife away from the ceremonial platform, but a Fourth Grade ghost general and his followers pursued them.
• Ren Ye wounded and severed the ghost general with the Human Emperor Sword and the Nine Peaks Divine Swords, while Daoist Chu joined the fight against the other Fourth Grades.
• Wu Meng fired the Divine Punishment Arrow at Ren Ye, who used a mysterious power to strip away its divinity and flick it aside.
• Brother Tiger, Ai Fei, and Xu Bangzi regrouped with Ren Ye’s party, and the Vengeful Ghost Sect retreated as two Fifth Grade auras approached from Tide Dragon City.
• Ren Ye’s group fled toward Tide Dragon City, while the ghost general’s forces captured Yang Mingyuan; later, Ren Ye noticed that the man who had gone to take a dump had not returned.

Ren Ye and his companions went back to Xingshan to search for Old Liu and were unexpectedly drawn into the mountain’s crimson domain. After finding Old Liu’s blood near a flower field, Ren Ye was repelled by a deadly force, but Xing Wu revealed that he knew a hidden path inside.

• Ren Ye, Daoist Chu, Yin Tiger, Ai Fei, Xu Bangzi, and Xing Wu rode back to the Long Family Ancestral Land to search for Old Liu.
• Yin Tiger tracked Old Liu’s scent along a narrow trail, but Xing Wu warned that the group was approaching the dangerous Foot of Xingshan.
• The surrounding wilderness turned crimson, trapping the group inside Xingshan; Daoist Chu planted a Wind-Guiding Flag to help them find their way back.
• The group found Old Liu’s droppings and footprints, then followed his trail to a fork where Yin Tiger identified a large pool of Old Liu’s blood.
• Ren Ye approached the flower field but was struck by overwhelming pressure and bloodline surges, forcing him to retreat with help from the Human Emperor Seal.
• Xing Wu admitted that he knew a hidden path into the area after Ren Ye decided they could not enter the flower-field route.

Xing Wu led Ren Ye and the others through a hidden cave toward the sea of flowers, recounting how he had survived Xingshan as a child. After the group searched for Old Liu and prepared to retreat, a headless figure in Old Liu’s clothes emerged from the flowers.

• Xing Wu admitted he had entered Xingshan years earlier and offered to guide the group through a hidden route to the sea of flowers.
• Xing Wu recounted how his companions died or disappeared, while he survived by eating strange fruits and escaped through a cave.
• Ren Ye and the others discovered their Star Source Power was being drained as they moved deeper into the mountain, but they continued together toward the sea of flowers to search for Old Liu.
• Ren Ye glimpsed an ancient gate marked with the character “Emperor” on the deeper branch of the tunnel, then led the group to an open area overlooking the flowers.
• The group found no sign of Old Liu and decided to retreat as their strength waned, but faint footsteps sounded in the flowers.
• A blood-covered, headless body wearing Old Liu’s clothes emerged from the sea of flowers, shocking the group.

Ren Ye risked the Emperor’s Tomb’s power to retrieve Old Liu’s severed head and rescue his headless corpse, but the Great Emperor’s Dao resonance attacked him. The Ba Snake statue and Human Emperor Seal awakened Xingshan’s Red Tide, which chose multiple people across the Nine Li Continent as descendants of the Great Emperor, while Ren Ye’s fate remained unclear.

• Daoist Chu could not sense Old Liu’s divine sense or yin soul and suspected the Great Emperor’s Dao resonance had turned him into a corpse puppet.
• Ren Ye used the Human Emperor Seal’s purple fortune to enter the sea of flowers and retrieve Old Liu’s head.
• Ren Ye tried to conceal Old Liu’s headless corpse with purple fortune, but the Great Emperor’s Dao resonance attacked, and his companions prepared to intervene.
• Ren Ye pushed the Human Emperor Seal to its limit, inadvertently awakening the Ba Snake statue and stirring Xingshan.
• A beam of divine radiance struck Ren Ye, and a blood-red Emperor character appeared between his brows as the Xingshan Red Tide surged across the Nine Li Continent.
• Crimson marks appeared on a Falling Cloud Sect descendant and the Myriad States Crown Prince, while a beam of red light passed over the Immortal Wave Sect without choosing its sect master.

The Xingshan Red Tide chose 999 Blood Mark bearers across Nine Li, and Ren Ye escaped the sea of flowers with Old Liu’s body, which appeared lifeless. After learning that the Great Dao Contest would determine who could enter the Emperor’s Tomb, Ren Ye heard a mysterious voice from Xingshan addressing him as if he resembled an old acquaintance.

• Daoist Wuchen watched the crimson ray scatter over the Immortal Wave Five Cities without choosing a disciple and concluded that someone had stolen the sect’s opportunity.
• Heavenly Dao opened its eye and sent auspicious clouds to escort the Great Emperor’s crimson rays across Nine Li, choosing 999 heirs, including hidden talents among ordinary people.
• Ren Ye recovered from the pressure in the sea of flowers, saw the Blood Mark vanish from his brow, and used his purple fortune to conceal and carry Old Liu’s headless body away.
• Ren Ye and the others escaped Xingshan, but his examination of Old Liu found no sign of life; Daoist Chu urged them not to declare him dead while the Great Emperor’s Dao resonance remained.
• Ren Ye placed Old Liu’s body in the Phoenix Fire Furnace with nether river water and vowed to return to the Emperor’s Tomb for answers.
• Heavenly Dao announced that the Emperor’s Tomb would open in 100 days and that only the 99 participants with the most Blood Marks could enter; a voice from Xingshan then told Ren Ye that he resembled an old acquaintance.

Ren Ye learned that the emperor’s tomb would admit only the ninety-nine blood guide bearers who collected the most marks, while the Immortal Wave Sect searched for the person who had taken its expected opportunity. After Ren Ye returned to Tide Dragon City, Long Yuqing rewarded him for saving his life, but an Immortal Wave Sect master arrived demanding the six visitors.

• Ren Ye learned that blood guide bearers had to seize one another’s marks to qualify for entry into Great Emperor Jiuli’s Tomb, and he resolved to fight for a chance to save Old Liu.
• Daoist Wuchen ordered the Immortal Wave Sect to find whoever had intercepted its blood guide opportunity, while Chu Jin demanded permission to challenge that person and reclaim it.
• A Servants’ Court steward connected the recent visitors in Tide Dragon City to a dispute in which Ren Ye and the others had injured sect disciples, prompting the Immortal Wave Sect to send people to the city.
• Ren Ye returned to the City Lord’s Residence, where Long Yuqing questioned him about the Red Tide and then gave him three million Star Source and a Dragon Character Token for saving his life.
• Steward Bao summoned Long Yuqing to the Prefectural Yamen, where a Fifth Grade Immortal Master demanded that the six visitors be handed over that night.

Long Yuqing learned that the Immortal Wave Sect suspected Ren Ye had taken Chu Jin’s Great Emperor opportunity and risked defying the sect to help Ren Ye and his companions escape. He led Ren Ye toward a secret passage, where Ren Ye sensed Yin Evil Qi and questioned who knew about it.

• Xun Immortal Master told Long Yuqing and Yang Mingtang that the Immortal Wave Sect believed Ren Ye’s group had taken Chu Jin’s Great Emperor opportunity and ordered a pursuit.
• Long Yuqing falsely claimed that Ren Ye and the others had left, then told Yang Mingtang to conceal their departure while he went to warn Ren Ye.
• Long Yuqing revealed the danger to Ren Ye, who admitted he had entered Xingshan and obtained a blood guide.
• Long Yuqing decided that Ren Ye, his companions, Chunniang and her son, Ming Quan, and Ming Quan’s family all had to escape the Immortal Wave Five Cities.
• Long Yuqing brought Ren Ye to an abandoned courtyard and explained that a well beneath it connected to a secret passage leading to the borderlands.
• Ren Ye sensed Yin Evil Qi near the courtyard and asked who knew about the passage, while Long Yuqing said he had never used it.