Chapter Summaries

The chapter recounts how Dragon Spine Road enclosed Pocket Sea, the rise of its cultivation and trade, and the long conflict over Earth Yin Island, where Demon Corpse Gu Chen had become a land earthly immortal. As True Lord Evolving Transformation prepared to pacify the southeastern seas, True Person Chengchu received seven days to defeat Gu Chen, and inland thunder announced the arrival of the final day’s decisive action.

• True Lord Evolving Transformation’s forces completed Dragon Spine Road, enclosing Pocket Sea and enabling its spiritual qi, trade, and cultivation lineages to flourish.
• Demon Corpse Gu Chen merged with Earth Yin Island as a land earthly immortal, allowing him to withstand the Righteous Path’s repeated sieges for thirty years.
• The Shangqing Sect’s high masters prepared a Dharma treasure to destroy Gu Chen and reclaim Earth Yin Island without damaging its foundations or spiritual essence.
• True Person Chengchu requested seven days from True Lord Evolving Transformation to defeat Gu Chen before the broader campaign against the southeastern seas.
• On the seventh day, thunder rolled in from inland, and True Person Chengchu realized the moment had arrived.

The Shangqing Sect carried Flying-Over Peak across the sea and used it to crush Earth Yin Island and kill Demon Corpse Gu Chen. The peak replaced the island and took root in its spirit eye, stabilizing the shattered earth qi and calming the earthquakes and tsunamis.

• Wu Qingbo and the other cultivators saw a Shangqing Immortal carry a towering mountain toward Earth Yin Island.
• Gu Chen sent his Corpse-Driving Whip and Jiangchen Dharma Form against Flying-Over Peak, but the mountain’s talismanic light overwhelmed both.
• True Person Chengchu led forty-eight Shangqing disciples in the Great Expansion Retreat ritual on the mountain, crushing Gu Chen’s defenses and exposing the island’s stripped, lifeless remains.
• Gu Chen threatened that destroying Earth Yin Island would unleash disasters on nearby coasts, but True Person Chengchu continued the ritual until the peak razed the island and reduced him to ash and smoke.
• The Shangqing disciples chanted the Yellow Court Scripture as Flying-Over Peak’s roots entered the seabed spirit eye, restoring the earth qi and calming the seas.

The Shangqing Sect destroyed Earth Yin Island and killed Gu Chen, but the celebration ended when demons from five surrounding seas launched a coordinated assault on Pocket Sea. True Person Chengchu revealed that the attack had been anticipated, and cultivators across the seas joined a vast counteroffensive against the demons.

• The Shangqing Sect’s Flying-Over Peak replaced Earth Yin Island, and prominent cultivators congratulated True Person Chengchu and the newly revealed Shangqing immortal.
• A thunderous warning from Senior Li alerted the gathered cultivators to approaching demon-led tides surrounding Pocket Sea.
• True Person Chengchu remained calm as the five demon kings—Cold King, Qiu King, Ao King, Hui King, and Alligator King—drove waves toward Pocket Sea from three directions.
• Ning Dingyi attacked Ao King with the Purple Radiance Thunder-Bell Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, while Daoist Pang confronted Alligator King with the Ruyi Iron Dragon and Chan Master Zhenxie struck at Cold King.
• Fifth Realm cultivators and other great cultivators launched attacks across the southeastern seas, and True Person Chengchu called everyone to join the unprecedented campaign to kill demons.

The sects of the Divine Land and the Yellow Sea launched a coordinated campaign to conquer the Eastern Sea, while the Yellow Sea Dragon Lord Qingyang Zhaochuan confronted the Sea-Covering Great Sage. As battles spread across the surrounding seas, a young Daoist caught a jeweled woman trying to gather thunder gang in the deserted Thunderstorm Sea.

• Sect armies from Kuaiji, Qingzhou, Jinling, Yu Zhang, Eight Min, Three Xiang, and the Miao Borderlands entered the seas to attack demon kingdoms and remnants of the Southern School.
• The Yellow Sea's forces invaded the Rizhao Sea, routed its demons, and halted when the Sea-Covering Great Sage arrived with allied Demon Kings.
• Qingyang Zhaochuan challenged the Sea-Covering Great Sage, proclaimed his campaign to cleanse the Eastern Sea, and sent his army to seize its offshore waters.
• Shi Heyang and Deng Qingyang led forces against the Merfolk King, while True Person Tongxuan attacked the Orchid King's stronghold on Yizhou Island.
• A jeweled woman appeared in the Thunderstorm Sea and tried to gather thunder gang, but a young Daoist confronted her and said he had expected her or Dai Yuxiang to come there.

True Lord Cheng confronted Sheng Luoyang, the Mirage Mother, in Thunderstorm Sea over the Dragon-Screaming Water Thunder Gang. After exposing her illusion and blocking her escape, he overwhelmed her first two divine sands and left her with one treasure still unrevealed.

• Sheng Luoyang used a mirage illusion to conceal herself and flee, but True Lord Cheng shattered the illusion and caught up with her.
• Sheng Luoyang offered her territory and a chart of the seas in exchange for her life, but True Lord Cheng refused to spare her.
• Sheng Luoyang attacked with Azure Sky Divine Sand, but True Lord Cheng’s Innate Water Mother Kan Metal Pellet overpowered it and trapped the grains in surging waves.
• Sheng Luoyang released Thunder Marsh Divine Sand to burn away the waves, but True Lord Cheng transformed them into molten metal and captured the lightning sand.
• True Lord Cheng asked Sheng Luoyang to reveal the final treasure of her Sand Sea Three Wonders.

True Lord Cheng battled the Mirage Mother, countering her star swirl divine sand with his treasures and Fixing Yin Divine Light. The Mirage Mother then unleashed a chain of star-sand explosions around him, leaving his fate uncertain.

• True Lord Cheng absorbed the lightning and azure sky divine sand, then faced the Mirage Mother's star swirl divine sand as she covered the battlefield with it.
• True Lord Cheng summoned Marshal Deng, who attacked the Mirage Mother and forced her to reveal her dragon form and create elaborate mirages.
• True Lord Cheng used the Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror's Fixing Yin Divine Light to slow the star sand, then moved to join Marshal Deng in finishing the Mirage Mother.
• The wounded Mirage Mother spat Yangming Cloud Hall Gang at True Lord Cheng, freeing several grains of star sand and drawing the rest toward them.
• The Mirage Mother's star sand attracted and collided in successive explosions, engulfing True Lord Cheng in a cataclysmic blast.

Sheng Luoyang survived the Mirage Mother’s Star Sand explosion, and Marshal Deng killed her before she could claim his treasures. After the Daoist escaped the Thunderstorm Sea, the Land-Sinking Great Sage emerged in the outer ocean to watch the three battles, where a youthful voice asked which side he would help.

• The Mirage Mother believed she had killed True Lord Evolving Transformation, but Marshal Deng seized her and struck her Primordial Spirit with a thunder seal, killing her.
• The Daoist revealed that he had hidden his Primordial Spirit, seed, and Purple Ying in the Dragon Aperture’s Void Realm and used the Water-Mother Golden Pellet to protect himself from the explosion.
• The Daoist retrieved his treasures, let his ruined body dissolve into the talisman register, and flew out of the Thunderstorm Sea toward the outer ocean.
• The Daoist considered leaving the Thunderstorm Sea as a shared Grotto-Heaven Secret Realm whose cultivators could harvest its Spirit Gang under new rules.
• The Land-Sinking Great Sage emerged from the sea as an enormous Baxia Dragon and watched the three Immortal Realm battles.
• A youthful voice asked the Land-Sinking Great Sage which side he had decided to help.

True Lord Cheng confronted Baxia in the spirit-barren far ocean and used his Five-Element Dragon-Binding Rope and treasure-form Dharma body to wound the dragon with the Evil-Slaying Sword. Baxia abandoned his escape and turned to attack, leaving the battle poised for a direct clash.

• True Lord Cheng revealed that he had come to settle Patriarch Sa’s old grievance with Baxia and to answer for the weapons Baxia lent Green Robe.
• Baxia mistook True Lord Cheng’s Five Thunders seal for an attack, fled into the sea, and was caught by the Azure Pivot sword-rope.
• True Lord Cheng added the other four Dharma Swords to bind Baxia’s tail with the Five-Element Dragon-Binding Rope, but Baxia dragged him toward the water.
• True Lord Cheng combined his golden core with the Huang Yulian Platform to manifest the Jingwei World-Suppression Dharma Form and armed it with the Evil-Slaying Sword.
• True Lord Cheng hauled Baxia back with the ropes and stabbed him through the tail, drawing blood and forcing him to turn and attack.

Cheng Xinzhan and the Jingwei Dharma Form battled Baxia beneath the Eastern Sea, overcoming the Demon Dragon with Jingwei’s cries and mountains formed from mysterious yellow qi. Baxia was buried beneath a fused seabed mountain and executed, while Jingwei’s voice reached battles across the ocean.

• Baxia fought the Jingwei Dharma Form and Cheng Xinzhan, using his mace and Dragon Pearl before forcing the battle underwater.
• Jingwei’s cry frightened Baxia, and the Dharma Form froze the currents long enough for Cheng Xinzhan and the Dharma Form to wound him.
• Baxia severed his own tail and tried to flee, but the Dharma Form slowed him with a suppressive incantation.
• Jingwei breathed out successive mountains that pinned Baxia to the seabed, and her cries reached the other battlefields across the sea.
• Cheng Xinzhan fused the mountains into a solid grave and refused Baxia’s plea for mercy as the Dharma Form beheaded him with the Celestial Master Evil-Slaying Sword.

True Lord Cheng created a spirit island from Baxia’s corpse, then went to the Southern Sea to help True Person Baoyuan defeat Green Robe. Green Robe’s body, Second Primordial Spirit, and scattered escape fragments were destroyed, leaving the Southern School Patriarch dead in body and spirit.

• True Lord Cheng transformed Baxia’s corpse into a spirit island and left it as a warning to future sea dwellers.
• True Lord Cheng reached the Southern Sea, where True Person Baoyuan was overwhelming Green Robe’s Black Dragon body and Second Primordial Spirit.
• Green Robe abandoned his attempt to flee and charged at True Lord Cheng, who sent the Jingyang Sword through Green Robe’s reverse scale.
• Green Robe split his original Primordial Spirit into countless silkworm-like fragments while his Second Primordial Spirit distracted True Lord Cheng.
• True Lord Cheng trapped Green Robe’s Second Primordial Spirit with the Five Elements Sword Formation and destroyed every escaping fragment with Yin-Yang sword light.
• True Lord Cheng crushed Green Robe’s Second Primordial Spirit, killing him in body and spirit.

As the southern sects waged the final campaign against the demons, Dragon-Tiger Mountain’s Immortals tried to slip away and ascend to heaven despite True Lord Evolving Transformation’s prohibition. Ji Hehe and Cloud Shoulder Xiao intercepted them, and the chapter ended as Dragon-Tiger Mountain opened its grand array to help Zhang Xianmin break through their fiery barrier.

• Many northern cultivators flew south after sensing the battle in the southeastern seas, while the sealed Zhengyi sects remained apart from the campaign.
• Ji Hehe used his Duyuan Bell to reveal Zhang Yuanji, Zhang Duo, and Zhang Xianmin leaving Dragon-Tiger Mountain, then blocked their ascent.
• Zhang Yuanji attacked Ji Hehe with the Five Thunders Command, but Cloud Shoulder Xiao appeared and trapped it with his Cloud Mountain Five Forms Diagram.
• Zhang Yuanji unleashed Dragon-Tiger Mountain’s Purple Empyrean Jia-Yang Immortal Fire, and Ji Hehe countered with samadhi true fire from his gourd.
• Ji Hehe made space boil around the three Immortals, while Zhang Yuanji and Zhang Duo defended against the spatial bubbles and Zhang Xianmin tried to fly through the flames.
• Dragon-Tiger Mountain’s grand array opened a hole through the fiery clouds, and a voice from the mountain urged Zhang Xianmin to charge through.

Ji Hehe and Cloud Shoulder Xiao trapped the three Dragon-Tiger Mountain immortals with a combined assault, but Zhang Yuanji’s concealed bolt disrupted their formation and let them break free. As the battle widened, Bailingzi confronted Zhang Fawei below, while Ji Hehe prepared another attack on the escaping immortals.

• Ji Hehe and Cloud Shoulder Xiao combined their bells to unleash concealed thunder and void attacks, trapping the three Dragon-Tiger Mountain immortals inside the fire clouds.
• Zhang Xianmin sheltered the group beneath his Red Phoenix Canopy, and Zhang Yuanji used a gourd to draw the Thunderfire from Zhang Duo.
• Zhang Yuanji secretly fired a bolt at Cloud Shoulder Xiao, damaging his Thunder Bell and disrupting the binding formation so the three immortals could escape upward.
• Bailingzi and Quan Rongyi intercepted Zhang Fawei outside Dragon-Tiger Mountain’s formation, and Quan Rongyi flew up to join the battle.
• Ji Hehe aimed his Fire Gourd at the escaping immortals and invoked, “Treasure, please nod!”

Ji Hehe used the gourd’s Gold Essence Gang Qi to kill Zhang Duo and gravely injure Zhang Xianmin, forcing Zhang Yuanji to abandon his attempt to ascend and flee downward. Zhang Yuanji fought off Jianxiao and Rongyi with his Celestial Master robe and Golden Lord Evil-Breaking Crossbow, but Jianxiao charged him as the chapter ended.

• Ji Hehe commanded the gourd to strike, and its hidden Gold Essence Gang Qi nearly killed Zhang Yuanji before severing Zhang Xianmin’s head and destroying Zhang Duo’s Primordial Spirit.
• Zhang Fawei rushed upward to intervene, but Bailingzi intercepted him and the two fought with true fire.
• Zhang Yuanji rejoined his head, then tried to retrieve Zhang Xianmin and their treasures before the returning Gang Qi drove him to flee downward with Zhang Xianmin’s head and the Five Thunders Command.
• Ji Hehe gathered the Dragon-Tiger Mountain Immortals’ remains and Dharma Treasures, then pursued Zhang Yuanji as Jianxiao and Rongyi moved to block him.
• Zhang Yuanji used his Celestial Master Daoist Robe to repel Jianxiao’s thunderfire and Rongyi’s talisman chains, then fired his Golden Lord Evil-Breaking Crossbow.
• Jianxiao identified Zhang Yuanji’s crossbow and sent his silver brocade pouch to capture the lead bolt while charging straight at him.

Cloud Shoulder Xiao, Quan Rongyi, Ji Hehe, and Bailingzi pursued Zhang Yuanji and Zhang Xianmin as they tried to reach Dragon-Tiger Mountain. Zhang Yuanji escaped into the mountain after Zhang Xianmin sacrificed himself, but lost his robe, crown, and command token, and Ji Hehe announced that Dragon-Tiger Mountain's Immortals were forbidden to ascend.

• Cloud Shoulder Xiao's spirit wind and Quan Rongyi's Deity-Retreating Incantation disrupted Zhang Yuanji's attempt to counterattack, while Ji Hehe joined the assault with void bubbles and immortal fire.
• Zhang Xianmin used his divine sand to create the Red City Celestial Palace, shielding himself and Zhang Yuanji as they descended toward Dragon-Tiger Mountain.
• Cloud Shoulder Xiao, Quan Rongyi, and Ji Hehe battered the red city until it crumbled, and Zhang Yuanji's Zhengyi Jade Talisman then wrapped around him.
• Zhang Yuanji threw Zhang Xianmin's head at the pursuing Immortals, and Zhang Xianmin detonated his natal talisman to clear a path for Zhang Yuanji.
• Zhang Yuanji reached Dragon-Tiger Mountain's grand array, but Ji Hehe's gold essence gang qi cut off his scalp and topknot and left him without his robe or Five Thunders Command Token.
• Ji Hehe declared that, by True Lord Evolving Transformation's decree, Dragon-Tiger Mountain's Immortals were forbidden to ascend.

After killing Green Robe and the Black Dragon, Cheng Xinzhan accepted an invitation from Li Zongyuan of the Wave-Suppressing Tower. Li Zongyuan showed him an ancient tower bearing a Chentang Pass plaque and revealed that his ancestor had served the Great Shang Dynasty as Chentang Commander-in-Chief and Eastern Sea Defender.

• Cheng Xinzhan gave the Black Dragon's corpse to True Person Baoyuan, then agreed to visit the Wave-Suppressing Tower after Li Mengyin and Wang Buyan invited him on Li Zongyuan's behalf.
• True Person Baoyuan returned to his sect while Cheng Xinzhan traveled with Li Mengyin and Wang Buyan to the floating city of the Wave-Suppressing Tower.
• Li Zongyuan welcomed Cheng Xinzhan, explained his family's ancestral restrictions against attacking the Aquatic Tribe, and said he needed Cheng's help with a matter.
• Li Zongyuan led Cheng Xinzhan to a restricted eight-story tower, where Cheng recognized an ancient plaque reading "Chentang Pass."
• Li Zongyuan told Cheng Xinzhan that his ancestor served the Great Shang Dynasty as Chentang Commander-in-Chief and Eastern Sea Defender.

Cheng Xinzhan learned that the Wave-Suppressing Tower descended from Heavenly King Li’s family and heard how its ancestors had guarded the Eastern Sea. Li Zongyuan asked him to test the Xuanyuan Heaven and Earth Bow, and Cheng Xinzhan drew it fully, awakening its radiant form and a golden arrow.

• Cheng Xinzhan saw the ancient Chentang Pass plaque and realized the Wave-Suppressing Tower’s Li family descended from Heavenly King Li.
• Li Zongyuan explained how the family had moved Chentang Pass into the sea and established the Wave-Suppressing Tower to watch for dangers to the coast.
• Li Zongyuan showed Cheng Xinzhan the Xuanyuan Heaven and Earth Bow and explained that drawing it fully could free the Li descendants from their ancestral obligations.
• Cheng Xinzhan lifted the bow, aimed toward the distant battle between the Qingyang Dragon Lord and the Sea-Covering Great Sage, and drew its string.
• Cheng Xinzhan drew the bow into a full moon, awakening its azure-and-gold radiance and causing a golden arrow to appear.

Cheng Xinzhan fully drew the Heaven and Earth Bow, proving its power to Li Zongyuan and helping the Yellow Sea Dragon Lord strike the Yazi Dragon. After the seven-day campaign, the land cultivators and sea tribes established the Gengshen Pact, and the chapter recounts Lan Yizhou’s later transformation into the Southern Sea Dragon King, who petitioned Cheng Xinzhan to become an Imperial Lord.

• Cheng Xinzhan fully drew the Heaven and Earth Bow, gaining a connection to the Bow-Offering Tower and Chentang Ancient Pass and letting the Yellow Sea Dragon Lord land a blow on the immobilized Yazi Dragon.
• Li Zongyuan thanked Cheng Xinzhan, celebrated the Li Family’s newly opened path beyond their towers, and feasted with him for a day and night.
• After the seven-day sea campaign killed or subdued the great demons, land cultivators led by True Lord Evolving Transformation and aquatic tribes led by Qingyang Dragon Lord redrew their territories in the Gengshen Pact.
• Lan Yizhou later traveled from Redwood Ridge to Yuyang, leapt the Ancient Dragon Gate at Grinding-Knife Gate Waterway, became a True Dragon, and assumed command as the Southern Sea Dragon King.
• The Southern Sea Dragon King petitioned Cheng Xinzhan to accept the world’s request and ascend to the rank of Imperial Lord.

Cheng Xinzhan explained why he had refused the Imperial Lord title and revealed Dragon-Tiger Mountain’s crimes and Three Pure Ones Mountain’s hidden Ginseng Fruit Tree. He planned to announce the tree and hold a Ginseng Dharma Assembly, then confront Dragon-Tiger Mountain and accept the title only after bringing its leaders to justice.

• Feng Ji Hu asked Cheng Xinzhan why he still refused the Imperial Lord title, and Cheng Xinzhan said Dragon-Tiger Mountain remained to be dealt with.
• Cheng Xinzhan revealed that Dragon-Tiger Mountain had used the Celestial Master Seal to imprint the souls of talented cultivators and make them revere the Zhang Family.
• Cheng Xinzhan told Feng Ji Hu that Three Pure Ones Mountain possessed a Ginseng Fruit Tree, which had grown from a fruit pit he obtained in his youth.
• Cheng Xinzhan explained that Dragon-Tiger Mountain already knew about the tree and could expose it, so he intended to reveal it himself and host a Ginseng Dharma Assembly.
• Cheng Xinzhan declared that he would confront Dragon-Tiger Mountain, avenge its victims, and accept the Imperial Lord title only after bringing its evildoers to justice.

True Lord Evolving Transformation invited cultivators from across the Divine Land to Three Pure Ones Mountain for a Ginseng Dharma Assembly, where they would view his Ginseng Fruit Tree and discuss the Dao of Listening to the Land. As powerful figures and their chosen companions prepared to attend, the assembly became the talk of the cultivation world.

• The Perfected Person of Ultimate Bliss received an invitation and chose Sun Xun to accompany him to the assembly.
• Li Zongyuan learned of the Ginseng Fruit Tree and prepared to bring his daughter, while the Dragon Consort and Qingyang Dragon Lord discussed bringing their child to a future gathering.
• Immortal Bao Yuan selected True Person Zhenchang to accompany him, and True Person Chengchu invited Daoist Nengyue after consulting the mountain's Immortal.
• Xiao Wanzhong summoned Shi Yiniang and told her that the True Lord had invited them to the assembly, explaining that the invitation was connected to her friendship with him.
• Miechenzi summoned Zhou Qingyun and told her to accompany him to Three Pure Ones Mountain for the assembly.
• On the eighteenth day of the tenth month in the 511th year of Ming, powerful cultivators departed their homes and gathered at Three Pure Ones Mountain, making the Ginseng Dharma Assembly the cultivation world's main topic.

Three Pure Ones Mountain opened Changes Garden for a Ginseng Dharma Assembly, gathering perfected masters and leaders from across the cultivation world. As Zhou Qingyun reunited with her master Canxia, White Jade Capital arrived, and she locked eyes with a beautiful woman in City Lord Xiao’s party.

• Three Pure Ones Mountain hosted a gathering at Changes Garden to display its Ginseng Fruit Tree, and Ji Hehe welcomed Immortal Baoyuan and introduced the sect’s accomplished cultivators to Daoist Zhenchang.
• Immortals and leaders from Yu Zhang’s sects, the seas, the Northern Lands, and other regions arrived, including Qingyang Dragon Lord, Li Zongyuan, Xu Wan, and representatives of Emei and Western Shu.
• Wave-Suppressing Tower Lord Li Zongyuan exchanged Voice Transmission Artifacts with guests and arranged to visit Mount Lu after the assembly.
• Master Canxia reunited with Zhou Qingyun and explained Yellow Mountain’s historic ties to Three Pure Ones Mountain and her own path to becoming vice sect master.
• City Lord Qian and City Lord Xiao arrived, and Zhou Qingyun met the gaze of the beautiful woman accompanying them.