Chapter Summaries

After six years in seclusion, Han Li learned that a mysterious Bug Demon was being blamed for killings matching his supposed methods, and that the Inverse Star Alliance and Star Palace suspected him of stealing the Void Sky Cauldron. He remained unaware of the accusations as he left Strange Abyss Island, while Lin Yun advanced his cultivation and sent Xin Ruoyin and Xiao Mei to seek materials for an Ancient Teleportation Formation.

• Han Li learned that the Sea Abyss had become a forbidden zone after its Demon Beasts went berserk and that the war had driven up the price of Level Five Demon Cores.
• Han Li heard of the Bug Demon, whose azure flying swords and gold-and-silver insects resembled his abilities, and worried that Nascent Soul cultivators from the Void Sky Hall had tracked him down.
• Han Li left the three cultivators after suggesting a nearby coral island where they might find Demon Beasts.
• Extreme Yin had arranged for someone to impersonate the Bug Demon and had persuaded the Nascent Soul cultivators and both major factions that Han Li and Profound Bone had taken the Void Sky Cauldron.
• Lin Yun mastered the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light, refined a Primordial Magnetic Five Elements Ring, and gave it to Xin Ruoyin, who set out with Xiao Mei to gather formation materials.
• Nangong Wan remained in seclusion to recover her vitality after giving Lin Yun a wisp of essence of separation fire.

Nangong Wan left to visit Madam Wen at White Jade Mountain, while Lin Yun refined taiyi refined gold and secluded himself to forge the Clearvoid Invisible Sword. Ten years later, his traveling Yang Spirit avatar encountered two of Man Huzi’s disciples during an attack on a Star Palace island and suddenly transported them away.

• Nangong Wan told Lin Yun that she had advanced in Southern Bright Lihuo Fire and planned to visit Madam Wen at White Jade Mountain, and Lin Yun gave her a Taiyi Divine Thunder Talisman and a protective Fire Lotus.
• Nangong Wan traveled to the Outer Sea with Madam Wen, while Xin Ruoyin took Xiao Mei there to seek a chance for her to reach Core Formation.
• Lin Yun extracted enough taiyi refined gold to refine the Clearvoid Invisible Sword, then entered seclusion as his Yang Spirit avatar left to travel.
• Ten years later, Inverse Star Alliance cultivators led by Senior Brother Wu and Junior Brother Lei attacked a Star Palace island and discussed Man Huzi, Han Li, the Imperial Scale Armor, and the Void Sky Cauldron.
• A man’s voice asked Wu and Lei whether they were Man Huzi’s disciples after they were suddenly transported from outside the island to solid ground.

Lin Yun tracked down Man Huzi’s disciples and learned that Man Huzi had gone to Strange Abyss Island to search for Han Li. On the island, Lin Yun found Daoist Miaohe, who recognized him from reports of his power in the Void Sky Hall.

• Lin Yun captured Man Huzi’s two disciples and questioned them about Man Huzi and his female disciple, Cai.
• The disciples told Lin Yun that Cai’s whereabouts were unknown and that Man Huzi was on Strange Abyss Island with Patriarch Extreme Yin, searching for Han Li and the Void Sky Cauldron.
• Lin Yun traveled to Strange Abyss Island and found no trace of Man Huzi or Extreme Yin in Blackstone City.
• Lin Yun entered Daoist Miaohe’s secluded chamber and caught Miaohe’s Jade Mallet with a Five-Colored Light Sphere before returning it.
• Miaohe identified Lin Yun as Wang Lin and said Extreme Yin had told him of Lin Yun’s great power in the Void Sky Hall.

Lin Yun learned that demon beasts had surged out of the Sea Abyss and sensed a massive beast tide racing toward Strange Abyss Island. As the island prepared for the attack, Nangong Wan, Madam Wen, Man Huzi, and Extreme Yin fled toward it while discussing Han Li and the Void Sky Cauldron.

• Daoist Miaohe told Lin Yun that a ninth-level demon cultivator had killed two cultivators near the Sea Abyss and that Man Huzi and Extreme Yin had gone searching for Han Li.
• Lin Yun detected tens of thousands of demon beasts pursuing fleeing cultivators and warned Daoist Miaohe to prepare Strange Abyss Island for a beast tide.
• Daoist Miaohe realized the danger and rushed out to alert the island as Lin Yun vanished from the secret chamber.
• Nangong Wan and Madam Wen flew toward Strange Abyss Island, while Man Huzi and Extreme Yin discussed the beast tide and their search for Han Li.
• Extreme Yin said he believed finding Han Li would lead them to Profound Bone and the Void Sky Cauldron, while Man Huzi questioned whether Wang Lin had told the truth about the Heaven-Mending Pill.

As a beast tide surged toward Strange Abyss Island, Daoist Miaohe ordered Blackstone City’s defenses activated while Lin Yun rescued Xin Ruoyin and Xiao Mei. Man Huzi and Extreme Yin fled with other cultivators as the tide overtook their rear ranks, and they wondered why the Flood Dragon Clan was involved.

• Man Huzi recognized the pursuing roars as belonging to the Flood Dragon Clan, and he and Extreme Yin sped up as the other cultivators followed suit.
• Daoist Miaohe returned to Blackstone City, warned the formation guards that a beast tide was approaching, and ordered them to activate the city’s formations and restrictions within four hours.
• Lin Yun sensed Xin Ruoyin near the advancing tide, teleported to her and Xiao Mei, and brought them to Blackstone City.
• Xin Ruoyin told Lin Yun that she and Xiao Mei had come searching for a spiritual herb and escaped when tens of thousands of Demon Beasts poured from the Sea Abyss.
• Lin Yun told Xin Ruoyin that Nangong Wan was also on the island, sent her to check the Teleportation Array, and vanished to find Nangong Wan.
• The beast tide swallowed several fleeing Core Formation cultivators, and Extreme Yin asked Man Huzi why the Flood Dragon Clan had joined the pursuit.

Nangong Wan reunited with Lin Yun and Xin Ruoyin on Strange Abyss Island as a beast tide approached Blackstone City. With the city under attack and its Teleportation Array destroyed, Lin Yun and the others joined a meeting to discuss their options.

• Madam Wen warned Nangong Wan that the Flood Dragon Clan’s powerful bloodline and Golden Flood Dragon King made the approaching beast tide especially dangerous.
• Lin Yun contacted Nangong Wan and told her that Xin Ruoyin was with him on Strange Abyss Island.
• The Teleportation Array was destroyed amid a panicked scramble by cultivators trying to escape, and Xin Ruoyin returned to Lin Yun.
• Nangong Wan introduced Lin Yun and Xin Ruoyin to Madam Wen as the beast tide reached Blackstone City and attacked its formations.
• Lin Yun judged that the city would eventually fall, while Madam Wen said they might need to escape during the chaos and avoid the hidden shapeshifting demon cultivators.
• Daoist Miaohe invited Lin Yun, Madam Wen, Nangong Wan, and Xin Ruoyin to a meeting about the beast tide, and they followed him into Black Stone Hall.

Nascent Soul cultivators gathered in Blackstone City to discuss the Beast Tide, and Lin Yun revealed his identity as Wang Lin. The gathering uncovered that Strange Abyss Island had provoked the Flood Dragon Clan, but the tide’s deeper cause remained unknown.

• Man Huzi and Extreme Yin refused to help defend Blackstone City until Strange Abyss Island explained the crisis, while Elder Xuanji dismissed the island’s past dealings with the Myriad Law Sect as mere business.
• Daoist Miaohe brought Lin Yun and the others into the hall, where Man Huzi recognized his Taiyi Divine Thunder and realized he was Wang Lin, formerly known as Lin Yun.
• Lin Yun urged the cultivators to discuss the Beast Tide, and Daoist Jinxia admitted that he and the Huo Brothers had targeted a Level Seven Black Tortoise and its Level Eight Poison Flood Dragon guardian.
• The cultivators learned that the Huo Brothers had likely died and that the Flood Dragon Clan joined the Beast Tide in retaliation, though they could not appease the clan by surrendering Jinxia.
• A Strange Abyss Island cultivator said that shapeshifting Suanni Beast Clan cultivators had attacked his group in the Sea Abyss, while Lin Yun suspected the tide was tied to a Suanni beast’s death and the loss of the Brahma Saint True Fragment.

Lin Yun negotiated with Man Huzi for his geng essence, offering him a pill that could extend his lifespan. Man Huzi agreed to the trade and revealed where he had hidden the essence and other treasures.

• The cultivators agreed to hold Blackstone City for three days before detonating its formations and escaping through the Beast Tide.
• Madam Wen told Nangong Wan that their group planned to regroup at the island’s Teleportation Array and leave together.
• Lin Yun learned that Blackstone City’s Teleportation Array could not be repaired in time, then asked Man Huzi to speak privately.
• Lin Yun offered to trade a lifespan-extending pill for Man Huzi’s geng essence, but Man Huzi demanded proof that Lin Yun had a pill that worked.
• Lin Yun demonstrated the pill’s effect, and Man Huzi agreed to trade the geng essence and give Lin Yun the other treasures in his hidden cave abode.

As Blackstone City fell to the beast tide, Lin Yun helped some of its cultivators and mortals escape before joining the breakout. The survivors faced level eight demon cultivators across Strange Abyss Island, and an enraged roar rose from behind the beast tide.

• The black-robed elder detonated Blackstone City's formation to blast open a path and ordered the cultivators to break out.
• Lin Yun sent Nangong Wan and Xin Ruoyin ahead, then used spatial power to make groups of cultivators and mortals vanish before flying away himself.
• Man Huzi, Extreme Yin, and Elder Xuanji fought through their pursuers, while Master Sifa escaped wounded and Golden Glow Old Daoist lost his body to a Suanni demon cultivator.
• Nangong Wan, Xin Ruoyin, and Madam Wen used fire, ice, and sword techniques to fight through the beast tide.
• A furious roar sounded from behind the beast tide as someone condemned the demon cultivators as useless.

Lord Wu Qing, a Ninth-Level Flood Dragon, attacked Lin Yun after the other transformed Flood Dragons pursued the human Nascent Soul cultivators. Lin Yun countered Wu Qing’s attacks, and the chapter ended as he unleashed the Hundred-Spirit Demon-Slaying Sword against the Flood Dragon in his true form.

• Lord Wu Qing sent three transformed Flood Dragons after Man Huzi and the other human Nascent Soul cultivators, then flew toward Nangong Wan.
• Lin Yun asked Silver Moon what kind of Demon Beast body she wanted, but she rejected the available fishlike beasts and the Suanni beast.
• Lord Wu Qing charged at Lin Yun, who struck him with a five-colored hand and seized his azure saber with the Five-Element Restriction.
• Lin Yun shattered Wu Qing’s conjured dragon claws, provoking him to reveal his massive Flood Dragon form and attack the Beast Tide.
• Lin Yun hurled the Hundred-Spirit Demon-Slaying Sword and sent a huge sword projection slashing down at Wu Qing.

Lin Yun killed the Azure Flood Dragon and led Nangong Wan, Xin Ruoyin, and Madam Wen to the Inverse Star Alliance’s teleportation island. As they waited for the remaining Nascent Soul cultivators, the chapter revealed the other pursuers’ fates and the chaos spreading after the dragon’s death.

• Lin Yun killed the Azure Flood Dragon, captured its small dragon form and Azure Orb, and collected its corpse before leaving with Nangong Wan, Xin Ruoyin, and Madam Wen.
• The group encountered Man Huzi fighting a Red-Scaled Flood Dragon and a Snake-Tailed Demon Cultivator; Man Huzi killed the latter, while the flood dragon fled into the sea.
• Lin Yun told Man Huzi that a Ninth-Level Flood Dragon had delayed them, leaving Man Huzi speechless as they continued to the teleportation island.
• At the island’s underground Teleportation Array, Man Huzi learned Xuanji had arrived and waited with Lin Yun’s group for Extreme Yin, who soon appeared.
• Daoist Miaohe and the Black-Robed Elder remained pursued by shapeshifted flood dragons, the Brown-Haired Suanni Beast killed the Golden Glow Old Daoist’s Nascent Soul, and Reverend Sifa escaped but suffered grave losses to his vitality.
• The Red-Scaled Flood Dragon learned the Azure Flood Dragon had been slain, while cultivators and mortals fled Strange Abyss Island amid the ensuing chaos.

After leaving the Inverse Star Alliance headquarters, Lin Yun and his companions dismantled the Azure Flood Dragon and divided its valuable remains. Lin Yun then retrieved the Geng Essence and other treasures from Man Huzi’s cave on Demon Lake Island.

• Lin Yun, Nangong Wan, and Xin Ruoyin left the Inverse Star Alliance headquarters without meeting Six Paths Supreme Sage or Wan Sangu, while Xuanji suspected Lin Yun’s connection to the Void Sky Cauldron and planned to inform the sect master.
• Lin Yun and the two women carved up the Azure Flood Dragon, recovered its cultivation arts, and collected its soul essence and grade-nine Demon Core.
• Lin Yun erased the Azure Flood Dragon’s intelligence and stored its soul essence, then explained that he would share the Demon Core’s benefits with Nangong Wan and Xin Ruoyin.
• Lin Yun told Nangong Wan and Xin Ruoyin he was going to Demon Lake Island to retrieve the Geng Essence Man Huzi had hidden there.
• Lin Yun found Man Huzi’s cave abode on Demon Lake Island, dispelled its restrictions, and obtained the Geng Essence and the rest of Man Huzi’s collection.

Lin Yun returned to Tianxing City after obtaining the geng essence and discussed the Strange Abyss Island beast tide and his cultivation with Ling Yuling. Wen Qing, one of the Twin Saints of Tianxing and Ling Yuling’s mother, revealed herself and questioned Lin Yun about his origins.

• Lin Yun returned to his true body in Tianxing City and planned to use the geng essence to finish refining the Clearvoid Invisible Sword.
• Lin Yun reassured Xiao Mei that Nangong Wan and Xin Ruoyin were safe and would return soon.
• Ling Yuling visited Lin Yun after reaching mid Core Formation, asked about his identity and cultivation, and heard his account of the beast tide on Strange Abyss Island.
• Ling Yuling left to report the beast tide, and Lin Yun called out the concealed cultivator who had been watching them.
• Wen Qing revealed that she was one of the Twin Saints of Tianxing and Ling Yuling’s mother, then remarked on Lin Yun’s extraordinary strength and asked whether he was renowned in Great Jin.

Lin Yun negotiated with Wen Qing for the location of the Ancient Teleportation Formation leading to Great Jin in exchange for helping her and her husband kill Six Paths Supreme Sage and Wan Sangu. After Wen Qing left, Nangong Wan and Xin Ruoyin returned to Tianxing City and reported defeating an Inverse Star Alliance cultivator.

• Wen Qing explained that the Ancient Teleportation Formation to Great Jin lay inside a sealed space near an Ancient Demon altar, which would open in a hundred years.
• Wen Qing offered to reveal the formation's location if Lin Yun joined her and her husband in killing Six Paths Supreme Sage and Wan Sangu.
• Lin Yun agreed to help and asked for the Star Palace's Geng Essence and permission to see the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain; Wen Qing said she would discuss the latter with her husband.
• Nangong Wan and Xin Ruoyin returned to Tianxing City and told Lin Yun they had defeated an Inverse Star Alliance Nascent Soul cultivator, but his Nascent Soul had escaped.
• Nangong Wan said she planned to cultivate the Reincarnation Divine Light from the Plain Girl Reincarnation Art to prevent Nascent Souls from escaping in future battles.

Lin Yun met Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing inside the Sacred Mountain and gained permission to cultivate near the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain using his Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light. He returned to Ling Yuling at the Jade Gate and reassured her that he was not cultivating Primordial Magnetic Divine Light.

• Ling Yuling led Lin Yun to the Jade Gate, warned him about her parents, and gave him a white-jade token.
• Lin Yun passed through the Jade Gate’s restrictions with Formless Sword Escape and entered the cavern containing the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain.
• Lin Yun told Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing that he wanted to use the mountain’s environment to cultivate a divine ability, then revealed his Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light.
• Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing allowed Lin Yun to cultivate in the cavern and warned him to leave if he felt discomfort.
• Lin Yun returned to Ling Yuling and told her he would cultivate there for a while; he reassured her that he was not cultivating Primordial Magnetic Divine Light.

After more than twenty years in seclusion, Han Li rescued a group of Azure Spirit Sect cultivators fleeing a fifth-grade fish demon and learned that a Beast Tide had transformed the Outer Sea. The chapter ended with the middle-aged cultivator telling him that the world outside now belonged to the Demon Beasts.

• Uncle-Master Sun led four young cultivators toward a mist-shrouded island while a fifth-grade fish demon pursued them.
• The group entered an Illusion Array, but the fish demon followed them to a second formation barrier.
• Han Li killed the fish demon with an azure sword strike and let the cultivators enter his valley.
• Han Li questioned Uncle-Master Sun, who explained that Demon Beasts had hunted human cultivators since the Beast Tide more than twenty years earlier.
• Uncle-Master Sun told Han Li that the world outside now belonged to the Demon Beasts.

Han Li learned that a beast tide destroyed Blackstone City and severed the route to the Inner Sea, while an unknown Nascent Soul cultivator saved many survivors and slew a level-nine flood dragon. In Tianxing City, Lin Yun met with Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing, who had found hope of escaping the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain but feared they lacked the lifespan to reach Deity Transformation.

• A middle-aged cultivator told Han Li how the beast tide destroyed Blackstone City’s teleportation array and killed the Azure Spirit Sect’s Core Formation elder during the attempted escape.
• The cultivator said an unknown Nascent Soul senior teleported many low-level cultivators and mortals to safety and later killed a level-nine flood dragon.
• Han Li learned that Man Huzi, Patriarch Extreme Yin, and other Inner Sea cultivators had been on Strange Abyss Island, while war between the Star Palace and Inverse Star Alliance kept further aid from arriving.
• Han Li dismissed the middle-aged cultivator but ordered him to keep Han Li’s identity secret; the cultivator’s daughter then begged Han Li to cure her paralyzed father.
• Lin Yun congratulated Ling Xiaofeng and Wen Qing on glimpsing a way to escape the Primordial Magnetic Divine Mountain, and they said their remaining lifespans might not be enough to reach Deity Transformation.

Lin Yun learned the location and dangers of the Ancient Teleportation Formation leading to Great Jin, then traveled to investigate it. He found that the space containing the formation would not return for another eighty-odd years.

• Ling Xiaofeng told Lin Yun where the Ancient Teleportation Formation was and warned him about the true devil qi; he gave Lin Yun a white jade token for the Star Palace elder guarding the site.
• Wen Qing asked Lin Yun to look after Ling Yuling while she and Ling Xiaofeng entered seclusion, and Lin Yun agreed.
• Lin Yun gave Ling Yuling the Sixth Turn Return-to-Elixir Method and told her to keep the secret art private.
• Lin Yun traveled to a barren island and showed the Star Palace elder his token, gaining access to the site of the formation's hidden space.
• The elder revealed that the space's entrance would not appear for another eighty-odd years, and Lin Yun realized it had been banished elsewhere until its appointed return.

Lin Yun found a concealed spirit stone mine on the barren island that would become Jade Spirit Island and gathered the strange silver sand sealing its spiritual energy. He reforged the Wolf-Head Jade Ruyi with new materials, giving Silver Moon hope of temporary freedom and the treasure several additional abilities.

• Lin Yun learned the Ancient Teleportation Formation would not become accessible for more than eighty years, then left the island where it was guarded.
• A month later, Lin Yun reached the barren island north of Silver Shark Island and sent Silver Moon into its stone peak to investigate.
• Silver Moon found a high-grade spirit stone mine beneath the peak and brought Lin Yun gray-green stone containing fine silver sand that sealed spiritual energy.
• Lin Yun recognized the silver sand’s usefulness and had Silver Moon gather more of it without letting spiritual energy escape.
• Lin Yun melted down the Wolf-Head Jade Ruyi and reforged it with Wu earth essence, precious materials, the silver sand, and five-element divine sand.
• Lin Yun completed the Jade Ruyi, preserving its original abilities while adding durability, speed, spiritual-energy sealing, and the power to break through five-element materials.