Chapter Summaries

Xu Jiuling and Qing Chen planned defenses against the Yue Household’s likely breakout from Mysterious Mountain Island, while Yue Three Reflections prepared a desperate diversion to preserve his family. The Yue forces launched their apparent assault at Eastern Yue Bay, where Chang Zhichong and Chang Yong awaited them.

• Qing Chen warned Xu Jiuling that the Yue Household might feint at Eastern Yue Bay and make its main breakout at Western Yue Mountain.
• Xu Jiuling proposed stationing forces at both bays and keeping four Foundation Establishment cultivators in reserve to reinforce either position.
• Yue Chengfeng volunteered to serve as bait so Yue Three Reflections could survive and pursue the Golden Core realm.
• Yue Three Reflections mustered a hundred Yue Household disciples and two hundred rogue cultivators for the planned breakout.
• Chengfeng led several hundred cultivators in an attack on the formation barrier at Eastern Yue Bay, and Chang Zhichong and Chang Yong prepared to meet them.

Yue Chengfeng fought Chang Zhichong and Chang Yong at Eastern Yue Bay while the Condensed Jade Sect recognized that the Yue Household’s main attack was aimed at Western Yue Mountain. As the Yue Household assaulted the mountain, Chang Silang, Chang Shan, and Chang Hu chose to conserve their strength and rely on the defenses and reinforcements.

• Yue Chengfeng used his Lixia Blazing Sun Halberd Technique to overwhelm Chang Zhichong and Chang Yong, who called for a message to be sent to the Condensed Jade Sect.
• Xu Jiuling and Qing Chen inferred that Western Yue Mountain was the Yue Household’s main target and ordered its defenders to hold the line.
• Xu Jiuling went to Western Yue Mountain to oversee the battle and left Qing Chen in command of the Central Army Camp.
• The Yue Household’s four Foundation Establishment cultivators led over a thousand Qi Refining cultivators in an assault on Western Yue Mountain.
• Chang Hu urged Chang Shan not to risk his life for the Condensed Jade Sect, and Chang Silang agreed that they should preserve their strength and let the formation absorb attacks they could not stop.
• Chang Silang, Chang Shan, Chang Hu, and their disciples intercepted only about half of the Yue Household’s offensive.

Xu Jiuling arrived at Western Yue Mountain and led the Chang Household cultivators in a fierce attack on the Yue Household’s Foundation Establishment cultivators. The Yue Household quartet’s coordinated Secret Techniques blocked the assault as their island-protecting formation awakened.

• Xu Jiuling recognized that the drawn-out battle was damaging the Restricting Formation and ordered Chang Silang, Chang Shan, and Chang Hu to attack the Yue Household’s Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Xu Jiuling unleashed the Mysterious Darkness Divine Palm while the three Chang Household cultivators attacked with the Azure Water Mysterious Turtle Art.
• The Yue Household’s four Foundation Establishment cultivators combined techniques from the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Soul-Shocking Art and formed a defense that blocked their opponents’ attacks.
• Xu Jiuling was shocked by the quartet’s newly strengthened coordination, and the Yue Household’s morale rose.
• The Yin-to-Yang Transformation Formation erupted with light over Western Yue Mountain.

The Yue Household unleashed the full power of its Island-Protecting Grand Array to break through the Canhe Dragon-Imprisoning Formation at Western Yue Mountain. Gu Jianchun arrived and helped the Condensed Jade Sect suppress the Yue Household’s attack, leaving the Yue fighters facing defeat.

• The Yue Household used Ultimate Sublimation to pour its Island-Protecting Grand Array’s power into an assault on the Canhe Dragon-Imprisoning Formation.
• Xu Jiuling redirected the formation’s power to Western Yue Mountain and strengthened its barrier, while Chang Silang, Chang Shan, and Chang Hu attacked the Yue Household’s battle formation.
• The Yue Household’s four Foundation Establishment High Persons intensified their assault, and their formation sent another wave of Spiritual Power globes against the barrier.
• Gu Jianchun arrived, activated his Purple Cloud Mystic Art, and attacked the Yue Household with the Shaoyang Sword’s purple-cloud Sword Qi.
• Gu Jianchun’s attack helped the Condensed Jade Sect suppress the Yue Household’s combined Secret Technique, and the four Foundation Establishment High Persons despaired.

Qing Chen realized that the Yue Household’s assault on Western Yue Mountain was a diversion and that Yue Three Reflections meant to strike the Condensed Jade Sect’s Central Camp to overcome his Heart Demon. As Qing Chen ordered the camp to annihilate the attackers, a masked Yue Household martial artist revealed himself to be a cultivator and declared his ambition to reach the Golden Core.

• Gu Jianchun held back the Yue Household cultivators at Western Yue Mountain, easing the pressure on the Canhe Dragon-Imprisoning Formation.
• After receiving a message about the Western Yue Mountain attack, Qing Chen recognized that Yue Three Reflections’ apparent presence there was a deception designed to draw Condensed Jade Sect forces away.
• When a messenger reported Yue Household forces and mortals near the Central Army Camp, Qing Chen deduced that Yue Three Reflections intended to attack the camp and destroy its banner to overcome his Heart Demon.
• Qing Chen ordered every available force, Spirit Boat, warship, and Talisman to attack the Yue Household forces and left the main tent.
• Outside the Central Camp, a masked Yue Household martial artist fought off a Condensed Jade Sect cultivator, caught a Voice Transmission Talisman with Magic Power, and revealed that he was a cultivator.
• The masked martial artist roared that his path to the Golden Core began that day and proclaimed, “My Fate Is Mine, Not Heaven’s!”

Yue Three Reflections revealed his Foundation Establishment power and tried to break through the Condensed Jade Sect’s Restricting Formation, but hidden attackers intercepted his strike and surrounded him. He defended against their follow-up attacks as a giant blood saber descended toward him.

• Yue Three Reflections killed a fourth-layer Qi Refining cultivator with an exploding Spirit Implement and revealed his Foundation Establishment identity, rallying the Yue Household martial artists.
• Yue Three Reflections combined two techniques from the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Soul-Shocking Art and launched a powerful strike at the Restricting Formation’s barrier.
• A mass of Demon Fire, a transparent blood seal, and a giant blood-red saber intercepted and shattered Yue Three Reflections’ attack, while two powerful zombies appeared beside him.
• Yue Three Reflections used his fingers and palms to counter the zombies’ Viper Finger attacks and formed an Origin-Returning Gang Qi Barrier against the descending blood saber.
• The blood saber struck Yue Three Reflections’ newly formed barrier.

Qing Chen stalled Yue Three Reflections in battle while waiting for reinforcements. The fight took a sudden turn when a gigantic ruler-like object appeared in the sky, heading straight for the Canhe Dragon-Imprisoning Formation.

• Yue Three Reflections blocked Qing Chen’s blood saber with the Origin-Returning Gang Qi Barrier, though the impact killed nearby cultivators and martial artists.
• Qing Chen confronted Yue Three Reflections and provoked him while secretly waiting for reinforcements to arrive.
• Yue Three Reflections charged Qing Chen, who defended himself with the Demon Lotus Karmic Fire and Mingwang Blood Baleful Intent Armor.
• Qing Chen attacked with blood arrows, the Three Yin Sword Formation, and two silver-armored corpses, forcing Yue Three Reflections to defend himself.
• Yue Three Reflections spotted a massive ruler-like object falling toward the Canhe Dragon-Imprisoning Formation and wondered if it was a magic treasure.

Qing Chen and the forces on Mysterious Mountain Island watched in terror as Mysterious Altar True Person unleashed the Mysterious Altar Ruler, a magic treasure, across the battlefield. A fire god phantom and a fiery flying sword checked the ruler and damaged the Canhe Dragon-Imprisoning Formation, while the clash continued to escalate.

• Qing Chen recognized the enormous Mysterious Altar Ruler as a magic treasure, and its aura silenced the battlefields across Mysterious Mountain Island.
• An unnamed cultivator shouted at Mysterious Altar True Person and summoned the fire god phantom with the Secret Technique Fire God's Wrath.
• The fire god phantom's pillar of deep-blue flames struck the Mysterious Altar Ruler and slowed its advance.
• A fiery flying sword magic treasure arrived and repeatedly clashed with the ruler, tearing a large rent in the Canhe Dragon-Imprisoning Formation.
• Mysterious Altar True Person taunted Third Huo, whose rage intensified the fire god phantom's aura and boiled the nearby seawater, killing hundreds of aquatic creatures.

Heavenfire True Person arrived at Western Yue Mountain and fought Mysterious Altar True Person, who broke through the formation before fleeing rather than face the Condensed Jade Sect on its own territory. Heavenfire True Person pursued him toward Dichang Island as Mysterious Altar mocked him and blamed the Yue Household for wasting the sect’s Core Formation treasure.

• Xu Jiuling recognized Heavenfire True Person and Mysterious Altar True Person as middle Golden Core cultivators after their magical treasures clashed.
• Mysterious Altar True Person attacked Heavenfire True Person with the Falsehood-Breaking Finger, and Heavenfire formed a Fire God Shield to block the strike.
• Mysterious Altar True Person abruptly fled after attacking, leaving Qing Chen and the other onlookers stunned.
• Heavenfire True Person angrily chased Mysterious Altar True Person, who fired finger strikes behind him and taunted him to fight on Dichang Island.
• Mysterious Altar True Person cursed the Yue Household for wasting the sect’s Core Formation treasure and resented the sect master for entrusting it to him.

Qing Chen sent Xue Yubing, Di Huaiyi, Gu Jianchun, and Xu Jiuling to attack the Yue Household while he pursued Yue Three Reflections across Mysterious Mountain Island. Yue Three Reflections raced toward the damaged formation barrier, and the chapter ended as a breeze slipped through its widening crack.

• Xue Yubing and Di Huaiyi arrived at Mysterious Mountain Island, and Qing Chen sent messages ordering them and the others to join forces against the Yue Household at Western Yue Mountain.
• Yue Three Reflections knocked the Silver-Armored Corpses aside and struck Qing Chen with a spiraling spear tip, sending him flying backward.
• Yue Three Reflections fled toward the breach in the formation barrier, and Qing Chen pursued him using the Six Jia Evasion Technique.
• Yue Three Reflections recalled how the Clear-Ming Turtle-Breathing Heart Method had helped him deceive Third Grand Supreme-Heavenfire True Person and survive by cultivating anew.
• The formation barrier's crack widened as turbulent spiritual power gathered, and a breeze flashed through it.

Qing Chen led Yue Three Reflections into an ambush and unleashed his forces to kill him. Yue Three Reflections found himself trapped amid Qing Chen’s formations and corpses as Qing Chen prepared an all-out strike.

• Qing Chen repeatedly redirected Yue Three Reflections during their pursuit until they reached the reef where the Three-Life Bewildering Trail Formation sprang shut around them.
• Yue Three Reflections fought off the White Bone Demon General’s blade formation and saw the surrounding ranks of White Bone Giant Wolves and White Bone Demon Soldiers.
• Qing Chen revealed that Mo Qiuxian’s Living Corpse had secretly prepared the formation, then used it alongside the Si Snake Puppet and Lin Kaishan to trap Yue Three Reflections in a Three Powers Formation.
• Yue Three Reflections recognized Qing Chen’s mastery of multiple paths as Qing Chen ordered his corpses, demonic beasts, swords, blood baleful intent, and demon fire to attack.
• Qing Chen burned the essence blood in his two Brahma Apertures and declared that he would provide for Yue Three Reflections’ wives and daughters as he launched his full attack.

Qing Chen defeated Yue Three Reflections, destroyed his cultivation, and used the White Bone Demon Mara Banner to seize control of his divine sense. More than half a year later, Hidden Spirit Market Ward showed how Qing Chen’s rule and the Yue Household’s destruction had made him feared and infamous.

• Qing Chen overwhelmed Yue Three Reflections with secret techniques, shattered his spear and armor, and left him gravely wounded against a reef.
• Qing Chen seized Yue Three Reflections’ Storage Bag, ruptured his sea of qi, severed his meridians, and revealed that he had orchestrated the Yue Household’s ruin.
• Qing Chen used the White Bone Demon Mara Banner’s Soul-Seizing and Spirit-Snatching technique to suppress Yue Three Reflections’ divine sense as Yue cursed him and resisted.
• More than half a year later, a long-haired cultivator in Hidden Spirit Market Ward intimidated a female lineage cultivator by invoking Qing Chen’s authority.
• The stallholder and nearby cultivators feared Qing Chen, whose massacre of the Yue Household and construction of the Bronze Sparrow Spirit Terrace and Joyful Pleasure Tower had become notorious.

After Pan Yuelian failed to break through late Qi Refining, Qing Chen reclaimed the demon seal he had placed in her, ending her life. He promised to have Gao Yuliang and Deng Ziyue look after the Pan Household.

• Pan Yuelian's breakthrough attempt failed, and the medicinal energy damaged her meridians, forcing her to recover for about a year.
• Pan Yuelian mourned her limited cultivation prospects and told Qing Chen she had never regretted following him.
• Qing Chen explained that he had to reclaim Pan Yuelian's demon seal because its value to him was exhausted.
• Qing Chen promised to have Gao Yuliang and Deng Ziyue look after the Pan Household.
• Qing Chen extracted Pan Yuelian's Dao Heart Seed Demon Seal, then burned her corpse to ash.

After ordering arrangements for Pan Yuelian’s relatives, Qing Chen reflected on the Yue Household’s destruction and the great gains that had strengthened his cultivation and artifacts. He learned that the household possessed a phoenix blood flower and an ice heart lotus that could aid his future Core Formation.

• Qing Chen sent Gao Yuliang and Deng Ziyue instructions to select Pan Yuelian’s close blood relatives for positions and support in the sect.
• Qing Chen recalled how he and his allies had destroyed the Yue Household, then ordered seven days of slaughter across Mysterious Mountain Island.
• Qing Chen reviewed how the killings had raised his Mingwang Scripture, Demon Lotus Karmic Fire, divine sense, and White Bone Demon Mara Banner to formidable levels.
• Qing Chen recalled learning through interrogation that the Yue Household had a five-hundred-year-old phoenix blood flower and ice heart lotus, complementary treasures for Core Formation.
• Qing Chen considered the three trials of Core Formation and noted that most cultivators failed at the Core Condensation Pass.

Qing Chen reflected on the resources and advantages that could help him pass the Core Formation trials, then learned that Su Zixuan had successfully reached Foundation Establishment. He accepted her spare pills and appointed her the Blood Sun Devil Envoy under his command.

• Qing Chen considered how his refined magic power, phoenix blood flower, and ice heart lotus would improve his chances of passing the Core Condensation Pass, and wished he could obtain a Dragon-Tiger Golden Core or Golden Jade Liquid Returning Pill.
• Qing Chen told Su Zixuan that he had personally killed Yue Lian, leaving Su Zixuan grieving over the companion who had been with her for twenty years.
• Su Zixuan offered Qing Chen the spare Foundation Establishment Pill and Meridian-Guarding Pill after successfully breaking through with one Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Qing Chen accepted the pills, gave Su Zixuan treasures, and appointed her the Blood Sun Devil Envoy under his command.

Qing Chen gave Su Zixuan treasures and a divine sense technique, then sent her into secluded cultivation to advance her Formation Dao. Meanwhile, Yue Chengfeng sought allies against the Blood River Old Devil, but Yang Jinquan chose to leave the Azure Wave Archipelago with Yue Daishi.

• Qing Chen gave Su Zixuan several spirit artifacts, the Wind-Chasing Evasion Technique, two copper-armored corpses, and the Five-Colored Guardian Immortal Nether Lotus Method.
• Su Zixuan told Qing Chen she had not yet reached the second tier of Formation Dao, and explained that a long-distance teleportation formation required a mid-grade third-tier Formation Grandmaster and rare materials.
• Qing Chen warned Su Zixuan about the Nether Star Devil Envoy and Xie Yu, then sent her into secluded cultivation to strengthen her divine sense and improve her formations.
• Yue Chengfeng, still injured from his escape at Eastern Yue Bay, urged Yue Daishi to join him and her husband in seeking revenge on the Blood River Old Devil and pursuing the opportunity on Immortal-Severing Island.
• Yang Jinquan refused to risk his life for revenge, and he and Yue Daishi decided to leave the Azure Wave Archipelago and find a seaside cave abode.

The Condensed Jade Sect’s Grand Elders discussed selecting cultivators for an approaching operation and debated whether Qing Chen should be included. True Person Budong declared his intention to take Qing Chen as his disciple, while Heavenfire True Person claimed he wanted him too.

• The Grand Elders discussed the Sect Master’s breakthrough, an approaching hundred-year Secret Realm event, and selecting young cultivators for the operation.
• Yuji True Person warned that Qing Chen’s unusual status as an Immortal-Severing Island native and his Foundation Establishment Late Stage combat strength made him a concern.
• Heavenfire True Person defended Qing Chen’s inclusion, and another Grand Elder agreed that Qing Chen could not pose a serious threat to the operation.
• True Person Budong revealed that he had observed Qing Chen and intended to take him as his disciple.
• Heavenfire True Person said he also planned to take Qing Chen as a disciple, but True Person Budong told him that he and Qing Chen had no affinity.

True Person Budong revealed that he intended to make Qing Chen his prospective true disciple because of his cultivation and spirit body. Meanwhile, Qing Chen dealt with the dead fourth young madam of the Yue Household, then confronted Lin Changsheng over the failed investigation into the Great Qin Dynasty case, where Duan Tianya raised the possibility that the Qin Household descendants had been betrayed by one of their own.

• True Person Budong explained that Qing Chen's cultivation of the Mingwang Scripture and Wisdom-Emptiness Spirit Body suited his lineage, and said he planned to nurture him as a prospective true disciple.
• Qing Chen received a Voice Transmission Talisman on Hidden Spirit Island, then disposed of the dead fourth young madam of the Yue Household with demon fire.
• Qing Chen questioned four maids from the Criminal Clan's First Branch about their ties to the Yue Household and threatened them over the spirit wine before sealing the bathing room.
• Half a day later, Qing Chen berated Lin Changsheng for mishandling the investigation into the Great Qin Dynasty case.
• Lin Changsheng reported that the Qin Household descendants had fought the Sun Household and drawn the investigators into the conflict.
• Duan Tianya told Qing Chen that some Qin Household descendants appeared betrayed, suggesting someone on their own side had killed them.

Qing Chen ordered the Demon Lotus Sect to attack the Sun and Liu Households without investigating, then visited Yue Ting and assessed his growing skill in alchemy. He left Yue Ting with second-tier demon beast cores to use in attempting to refine Foundation Establishment Pills.

• Qing Chen recognized that someone was manipulating Duan Tianya and the Sun and Liu Households, but ordered Duan Tianya, Jueqing, and Lin Changsheng to plunder the households without concern for evidence.
• Qing Chen showed the three men a Foundation Establishment Pill and promised valuable rewards for effective service, stirring their ambition.
• Qing Chen told Duan Tianya to handle the Sun Household's expected visit to Hidden Spirit Island over a collateral descendant's crimes.
• Qing Chen went with Lin Changsheng to Yue Ting's courtyard, where Yue Ting thanked him for saving his master's life and improving their cultivation.
• Qing Chen appointed Yue Ting Nether Star Devil Envoy and reassured him that he would handle any trouble with the Condensed Jade Sect.
• After learning Yue Ting could refine upper-grade first-tier Void Spirit Pills at a forty-to-fifty-percent success rate, Qing Chen gave him mid- and late-second-tier demon beast cores to try refining Foundation Establishment Pills.

Qing Chen promised Yue Ting valuable rewards and resources to test and cultivate his alchemy talent. Meanwhile, Chu Feikong reached the Foundation Establishment middle stage and set out for Immortal-Severing Island, planning to return to the Azure Wave Archipelago and seize its opportunity.

• Qing Chen praised Yue Ting’s alchemical talent and promised him pills, a promotion, and a physical-body mystic art if he refined Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Yue Ting accepted the offer with excitement because the Meridian-Guarding Pill and mystic art could help his aging master, Xie Yu, overcome Foundation Establishment.
• Qing Chen supplied Yue Ting with spirit herbs and demon-beast inner cores so he could practice refining second-tier pills, and instructed Lin Changsheng and Su Zixuan to meet his alchemy needs.
• More than two million li from the Azure Wave Archipelago, Chu Feikong killed a Foundation Establishment cultivator and learned of Immortal-Severing Island by searching his soul.
• Chu Feikong flew toward Immortal-Severing Island, intending to claim its hidden opportunity and take revenge on the forces he had left behind.