Chapter Summaries

After years in seclusion, Ke Xialing joined Cui Wanli, Shen Yu, and five junior sisters on an expedition into the Netherworld Secret Realm. Their search through the ancient ruins turned into a desperate fight against a swarm of Soul Devourer Beasts, and Ke Xialing used Flame Dragon Talismans to open a path.

• Ke Xialing emerged from seclusion, then accepted Cui Wanli and Shen Yu's invitation to explore the ancient ruins with their group of eight.
• The women toured the Immortal Realm Alliance's main base, where Ke Xialing bought unusual items and many talismans, then traveled for two days to the ruins.
• Soul Devourer Beasts repeatedly ambushed the group, and Cui Wanli and Shen Yu pulled Ke Xialing out of danger.
• Dozens of Soul Devourer Beasts surrounded the women, and several junior sisters were injured as the group fought to hold them back.
• Ke Xialing raised a defensive Immortal Artifact over the group, then hurled seven or eight Flame Dragon Talismans at the beasts and led the others away from the blast.
• The talismans engulfed five or six Soul Devourer Beasts in flames, filling the ruins with screams and the stench of scorched flesh.

Ke Xialing and her junior sisters escaped the Soul Devourer Beasts and traveled to Plum Ridge to hunt demon beasts and gather resources. There, a powerful bear discovered them and charged, leaving them facing a new threat.

• Ke Xialing used Flame Dragon Talismans to open a gap in the Soul Devourer Beasts' encirclement and led the group to safety.
• Ke Xialing and the others rested, healed their injuries, and chose to head to Plum Ridge after checking their location on a map.
• Ke Xialing led the group into Plum Ridge, where they avoided powerful beasts and hunted weaker ones while gathering immortal medicine.
• Ke Xialing sensed a demon beast stronger than herself, but before she could decide whether to flee or fight, a giant bear charged out of the woods.

Ke Xialing led her junior sisters in a fierce battle against a Late Golden Immortal giant bear and discovered its heart-shaped chest marking was its weakness. They killed the bear, but two junior sisters died, leaving the survivors grieving as they departed.

• Ke Xialing and the others surrounded the giant bear and attacked, but its thick hide resisted most of their blows.
• Ke Xialing identified the heart-shaped patch of white fur on the bear's chest as its weakness and directed the group to focus their attacks there.
• The giant bear killed Li Yi and another junior sister, prompting the survivors to spread out while Ke Xialing prepared Flame Dragon Talismans.
• Ke Xialing used the fire dragons to expose the bear's chest, then drove her flying sword through its heart-shaped patch and wounded it severely.
• Ke Xialing ordered the others to retreat and attack from a distance while the sword qi and fire dragons weakened the bear until it died.
• Ke Xialing gathered the remains of the two fallen junior sisters, and she led the grieving survivors away from the bloodied battlefield.

Ke Xialing and the surviving junior sisters recovered from their battle with the giant bear and set out to return to the Cloud Glow Sect, but an unknown attacker ambushed them. Ke Xialing exposed the hidden assailant as a sinister old man in black robes.

• Ke Xialing sheltered the group in a Defensive Formation and spent several days recovering after the battle with the giant bear, in which two junior sisters had died.
• Ke Xialing and the others decided to end their training expedition and return to the Cloud Glow Sect.
• As they passed a stream, a dark shadow snatched Lin Wan'er and another junior sister, and Ke Xialing raised a Defensive Formation around the four remaining women.
• A concealed attacker repeatedly struck the formation with a black staff, while Ke Xialing searched for his location.
• Ke Xialing intercepted the staff with Sword Qi, sensed the attacker, and sent her Flying Sword into the woods, revealing a slender old man in black robes.

Old Immortal Nangong trapped Ke Xialing and her companions in the Netherworld Secret Realm and attacked their defensive formation with Netherworld Demon Flame. Ke Xialing summoned Li Dalong for help and fought to hold off Nangong until he arrived.

• Old Immortal Nangong revealed himself as an evil cultivator and taunted Ke Xialing about the two junior sisters he had captured.
• Ke Xialing estimated Nangong's cultivation and secretly contacted Li Dalong, who rushed from the Creation Cultivation Tower toward Plum Ridge.
• Old Immortal Nangong sent Netherworld Demon Flame against the women's protective barrier, rapidly draining its spiritual energy as Ke Xialing replaced the formation stones.
• Ke Xialing ordered Cui Wanli and Shen Yu to attack Nangong, but he deflected their Flying Swords with the Shadow Demon Staff.
• Nangong struck the weakened barrier with his staff, so Ke Xialing gave a junior sister extra immortal stones and joined the assault to keep him from attacking it again.

Li Dalong arrived in time to save Ke Xialing and her companions from Old Immortal Nangong, killing the demonic cultivator with a sword strike. After reuniting with Ke Xialing, he learned Old Immortal Nangong had taken Junior Sister Wan'er and another woman, and the search for them remained.

• Old Immortal Nangong attacked Ke Xialing and her companions, hoping to capture them and absorb their souls to advance his cultivation.
• As the women weakened, Li Dalong arrived and startled Old Immortal Nangong, who tried to escape with his Phantom Cloak.
• Li Dalong struck Old Immortal Nangong with the Soul Chaser Sword and killed him before he could flee.
• With Old Immortal Nangong dead, Ke Xialing deactivated the Defensive Formation, and Shen Yu and the others thanked Li Dalong.
• Ke Xialing embraced Li Dalong, then told him that Old Immortal Nangong had taken Junior Sister Wan'er and another woman.

Li Dalong rescued two captured Cloud Glow Sect disciples, but their weakened divine souls could not be saved, and they died after he brought them back. As Ke Xialing and the others entered seclusion, the Cloud Glow Sect faced growing conflicts and its elders gathered for a tense meeting.

• Li Dalong found Lin Wan'er and another junior sister hidden in a mountain hollow, but their divine souls were too weak to recover.
• Lin Wan'er and the other girl died despite Li Dalong sustaining them with immortal power, bringing the expedition's losses to four.
• Li Dalong led the survivors back to the Cloud Glow Sect, where Ke Xialing later entered seclusion to improve her cultivation.
• Li Dalong checked on Ye Wuxia, then prepared to cultivate in the Creation Cultivation Tower.
• With Ke Meili, Ke Xialing, Li Dalong, and his other wife in seclusion, several elders met to discuss the sect's growing conflicts and limited strength.

After the Sea-Calming Pavilion killed nineteen Cloud Glow Sect disciples over an Ancient Great Expert Cave Abode, Sect Leader Ke Meili weighed how to avenge them and secure the cave’s treasures. She decided to seek help from the Limitless Immortal Sect and enlist Li Dalong, leaving the response to the Sea-Calming Pavilion pending.

• Lan Yuqing interrupted Ke Meili’s seclusion and brought her back to the Sect Main Hall to address an urgent matter.
• Ma Lian reported that twenty Cloud Glow Sect disciples had found an Ancient Great Expert Cave Abode, escaped its damaged formations with several High-Grade Immortal Artifacts, and been attacked by the Sea-Calming Pavilion.
• Meng Rongrong escaped after the Sea-Calming Pavilion killed the other nineteen disciples and pursued her for more than half a month.
• Ke Meili considered seeking allies, publicizing the cave’s location, or asking the Limitless Immortal Sect for aid, and chose to seek its help.
• Ke Meili decided that Li Dalong should assist with avenging the disciples and pursuing the cave’s treasures.

Ke Meili arranged a Cloud Glow Sect expedition to Outland Sea Island after the Sea-Calming Pavilion killed nineteen disciples and seized an ancient cave abode. Li Dalong carried her proposal to Ye Xingchen, who heard that the Limitless Immortal Sect could lead the expedition and decide how to divide the benefits.

• Ke Meili decided to seek the Limitless Immortal Sect's help, assigning elders to organize five hundred expedition members and prepare their supplies and equipment.
• Ke Meili summoned Li Dalong from seclusion and asked him to lead the Cloud Glow Sect party to Outland Sea Island after speaking with Ye Xingchen.
• Li Dalong agreed despite preferring to develop quietly, then hurried to the Limitless Immortal Sect.
• Li Dalong told Ye Xingchen that the Sea-Calming Pavilion had seized the ancient cave abode and killed nineteen Cloud Glow Sect disciples.
• Li Dalong offered the Cloud Glow Sect's information and participation in exchange for the Limitless Immortal Sect's help taking revenge, with Ye Xingchen's sect deciding how to divide the gains.

Ye Xingchen agreed to cooperate with the Cloud Glow Sect and arranged for Xiang Zhongxiang and Zhang Xueyou to accompany Li Dalong on the expedition to Outland Sea Island. Li Dalong learned the Heaven-Severing Finger, then hurried to lead five hundred assembled disciples toward the mission.

• Ye Xingchen agreed to the Cloud Glow Sect’s proposal, ordered its people to follow the Limitless Immortal Sect’s arrangements, and set a meeting in Chichang City for two days later.
• Ye Xingchen selected Xiang Zhongxiang to lead the Limitless Immortal Sect’s involvement and secretly assigned Zhang Xueyou to protect Li Dalong.
• Li Dalong returned to the Cloud Glow Sect and reported the agreement to Ke Meili, who ordered Elder Ma to assemble the team quickly.
• Li Dalong signed in and received the Heaven-Severing Finger, reaching minor mastery after studying it with Enlightenment Tea.
• Ke Meili told Li Dalong that the expedition was ready, and he went to the Sect Main Hall to meet the five hundred disciples he would lead to Outland Sea Island.

Li Dalong led five hundred Cloud Glow Sect disciples to join Xiang Zhongxiang and the Limitless Immortal Sect in attacking the Sea-Calming Pavilion at the Ancient Cave Abode. The attackers slaughtered the pavilion's forces, and Xiang Zhongxiang captured Pavilion Master Zhang Fengxiang as he tried to escape.

• Li Dalong took five hundred Cloud Glow Sect disciples through the teleportation formation to Chichang City and gave Xiang Zhongxiang a map of the Ancient Cave Abode.
• Li Dalong and Xiang Zhongxiang led their combined force toward the cave abode and detained everyone they encountered along the way.
• The attackers captured Sea-Calming Pavilion sentries and learned that the pavilion had suffered heavy losses while obtaining ancient immortal medicines and immortal artifacts.
• The Limitless Immortal Sect established a perimeter, and Elder Ma executed the captured sentries before the attackers cleared the pavilion's outer guards.
• A Limitless Immortal Sect deacon led a hundred-person squad into the cave abode, killed Zhang Fengxiang's elders, and overwhelmed his forces.
• Zhang Fengxiang fled toward the entrance, where Xiang Zhongxiang seized him by the neck and left him unable to resist.

After Elder Xiang Zhongxiang crippled Zhang Fengxiang and the Sea-Calming Pavilion was defeated, Li Dalong led Cloud Glow Sect and Limitless Immortal Sect forces to attack the pavilion’s island base. They broke through its Defensive Array, leaving its disciples exposed and bracing for battle.

• Elder Xiang Zhongxiang searched Zhang Fengxiang’s soul, leaving him an imbecile, and the Cloud Glow Sect disciples dragged him away to be used as an offering for their fallen comrades.
• The Sea-Calming Pavilion’s remaining disciples were wiped out, and Elder Xiang Zhongxiang took their Cave Abode intelligence and treasures.
• Li Dalong took Elder Ma and 450 Cloud Glow Sect disciples to the Sea-Calming Pavilion’s base with Lei Chuanzhi and 100 Limitless Immortal Sect disciples and three deacons.
• When the group reached the island, Li Dalong detected concealed presences and warned of an ambush before a black Protective Barrier rose and sword lights attacked.
• Lei Chuanzhi and the three deacons struck the Defensive Array until it shattered, exposing the island as the Sea-Calming Pavilion’s disciples scattered or prepared to fight.

Li Dalong and the Cloud Glow Sect, backed by the Limitless Immortal Sect, destroyed the Sea-Calming Pavilion and avenged their fallen disciples. After collecting the spoils and burning the headquarters, Li Dalong and Lei Chuanzhi led their people back to the Ancient Cave Abode to reunite with Elder Xiang.

• Lei Chuanzhi and the Limitless Immortal Sect's late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals helped the Cloud Glow Sect overwhelm the Sea-Calming Pavilion disciples, while Li Dalong and Elder Ma led the assault.
• Li Dalong killed the Sea-Calming Pavilion's last disciple, and the Cloud Glow Sect completed its revenge despite suffering more than thirty deaths and over two hundred injuries.
• Li Dalong asked Lei Chuanzhi to search the ruins for hidden experts, and Lei Chuanzhi's people collected a share of the Sea-Calming Pavilion's treasures.
• Elder Ma gave Li Dalong two storage rings, including one containing valuable items for Elder Xiang Zhongxiang, and Li Dalong burned the headquarters to the ground.
• Li Dalong and Lei Chuanzhi led their people back to the Ancient Cave Abode to reunite with Elder Xiang.

Li Dalong and the Limitless Immortal Sect continued breaking formations in the Ancient Cave Abode, uncovering valuable Immortal Medicines while suffering casualties from its dangers. The chapter ended with black-clad attackers ambushing the guards outside, prompting Xiang Zhongxiang to respond as Li Dalong suspected an alliance of rival factions and sought to warn the Cloud Glow Sect.

• Li Dalong thanked Xiang Zhongxiang for helping break the formations and gave him a Storage Ring containing some of their gains.
• Xiang Zhongxiang reported that the group had found many valuable Immortal Medicines, and Li Dalong hoped to find Divine Medicine that could awaken Zhou Yong.
• Li Dalong joined the formation-breaking effort as the group advanced deeper into the Cave Abode, suffering deaths from dangerous formations and Demon Beasts.
• A bloodied Limitless Immortal Sect disciple reported that black-clad attackers had ambushed the guards outside the Cave Abode.
• Xiang Zhongxiang took several Great Luo Golden Immortal elders and deacons outside to confront the attackers while ordering everyone else to stay alert.
• Li Dalong suspected the attackers were an alliance of factions opposed to the Limitless Immortal Sect and decided to warn his in-laws in the Cloud Glow Sect.

After Li Dalong reported an attack on the Ancient Cave Abode and the discovery of valuable immortal medicine, Ye Xingchen organized a major response by the Limitless Immortal Sect. He planned to use the reinforcements to draw out the attackers and crush their forces.

• Li Dalong contacted Ye Xingchen, reporting that people in black had attacked the cave abode entrance and that Elder Xiang Zhongxiang was fighting them.
• Li Dalong told Ye Xingchen that the cave abode contained abundant ten-thousand-year-old immortal medicine and might hold divine medicine.
• Ye Xingchen summoned the sect elders and ordered three Quasi-Saint grand supreme elders to prepare to deploy, while planning to conceal them until the enemy committed its stronger forces.
• Ye Xingchen informed the assembled elders about the attack and the possible divine medicine, prompting them to demand swift retaliation.
• Ye Xingchen announced that the Limitless Immortal Sect would send three grand supreme elders, hundreds of Great Luo Golden Immortal elders and deacons, and one thousand Taiyi Golden Immortal disciples as reinforcements.

Ye Xingchen set the Limitless Immortal Sect’s plan to draw out and defeat the attackers, while its defenders at the Ancient Cave Abode suffered severe losses. As reinforcements led by Ouyang Feng rushed to Outland Sea Island, they were ambushed by a formation near Chichang City.

• Ye Xingchen assigned Ouyang Feng to lead reinforcements to Outland Sea Island and ordered the three Grand Supreme Elders to wait before striking.
• Black-clad attackers overwhelmed the defenders at the Ancient Cave Abode, killing Cloud Glow Sect disciples and nearly fifty Limitless Immortal Sect disciples.
• Li Dalong and the remaining defenders prepared to hold the cave entrance as the enemy’s assault intensified and reinforcements had yet to arrive.
• Ouyang Feng led the first wave of reinforcements out of Chichang City toward Outland Sea Island.
• Ten li from Chichang City, Ouyang Feng sensed a formation activating around his force, warned everyone of the ambush, and ordered them to attack before it could take shape.

Ouyang Feng and the Limitless Immortal Sect fought their way out of a binding formation and turned the ambush against the black-clad attackers. With a second rescue force joining the battle, the sect encircled the attackers, who began self-detonating as their escape failed.

• Ouyang Feng ordered formation masters to study the binding formation while black-clad attackers launched a coordinated assault on the trapped Limitless Immortal Sect disciples.
• Ouyang Feng protected the formation masters as they searched for weaknesses, then directed disciples to destroy the formation’s key nodes.
• Ouyang Feng led the Limitless Immortal Sect in a counterattack after the formation collapsed, while the black-clad attackers suffered mounting losses.
• The Limitless Immortal Sect’s second rescue force arrived, and Ouyang Feng used its superior numbers to surround the black-clad attackers.
• Ouyang Feng tightened the encirclement as the attackers tried to flee, and trapped black-clad cultivators began self-detonating, killing and wounding fighters on both sides.

Ouyang Feng pursued the black-clad ambushers after their attack on the Limitless Immortal Sect, while Zhang Tianshu’s reinforcements saved the Ancient Cave Abode from falling. The surviving defenders began recovering as Ouyang Feng sent more forces to support Zhang Tianshu’s pursuit.

• Ouyang Feng opened a gap in the encirclement, then ordered his forces to chase the fleeing black-clad men while Zhang Tianshu took half the second relief force to the Ancient Cave Abode.
• Guided by the three hidden Grand Supreme Elders, Ouyang Feng spread his forces out to surround the fugitives; after a two-hour pursuit, they killed more than a thousand attackers, though several late-stage Great Luo Golden Immortals escaped.
• Zhang Tianshu arrived as Xiang Zhongxiang’s defenders were nearly exhausted, forcing the black-clad leader to abandon the attack and withdraw; Zhang Tianshu pursued but gained little against their organized retreat.
• Xiang Zhongxiang led the wounded into the cave abode to recover, while Li Dalong’s Cloud Glow Sect disciples treated them and cleared the battlefield.
• Ouyang Feng arrived, ordered Zhang Wu to guard the cave abode, and took Yang Wei and the rest of his force to reinforce Zhang Tianshu.

Ouyang Feng sent Limitless Immortal Sect reinforcements to help Zhang Tianshu pursue the black-clad attackers into the Sea of Oblivion. The black-clad leader sacrificed his rear guard to keep his main force moving, then called for aid when Zhang Tianshu’s fighters blocked their escape.

• Ouyang Feng ordered Yang Wei to send Great Luo Golden Immortals ahead and asked two Grand Supreme Elders to oversee the pursuit.
• Zhang Tianshu reported that the black-clad men were retreating in an orderly way and warned that they might have powerful reinforcements.
• When the black-clad leader accelerated the retreat, Zhang Tianshu called for Ouyang Feng to hurry, and Zhang Wei arrived with the first group of reinforcements.
• Zhang Tianshu divided the elders and deacons into four groups to attack while holding their position until Ouyang Feng arrived.
• The black-clad leader abandoned his rear guard, but Zhang Tianshu sent fifty Great Luo Golden Immortals to intercept the fleeing force.
• The black-clad leader sent his own Great Luo Golden Immortals to fight and activated his backup plan by requesting aid.

Ouyang Feng and Zhang Tianshu’s forces battled the men in black in the Sea of Oblivion, while signs of a larger trap raised fears that the Limitless Immortal Sect itself was targeted. Ye Xingchen received Ouyang Feng’s warning and began summoning elders to respond to the unknown enemy.

• The leader of the men in black crushed a Jade Talisman to signal for a backup plan, then ordered his subordinates to defend and delay the Limitless Immortal Sect’s forces.
• Ouyang Feng arrived with reinforcements and joined Zhang Tianshu in wiping out the rear guard before leading the main force against the larger group of men in black.
• Ouyang Feng urged the men in black to surrender, but they fought on and took heavy casualties among the Limitless Immortal Sect disciples.
• Ouyang Feng and Zhang Tianshu suspected the men in black were buying time for a larger scheme, so they ordered their forces to attack at any cost.
• Ouyang Feng contacted Ye Xingchen and warned that the sect’s forces might be surrounded and wiped out, requesting reinforcements.
• Ye Xingchen ordered the elders on duty to meet him and told Elder Li Shuxin that the enemies appeared to be an unknown force.