Chapter Summaries

As the Impermanence Sect’s forces battered the Condensed Jade Sect’s protective array for five days, Xuanji True Person began breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm. Her Golden Core shattered and her Nascent Soul appeared, leaving the attackers shocked as they continued their assault.

• The Island-Protecting Grand Array endured five days of attacks while consuming nearly two million Spirit Stones, and its defenders grew exhausted.
• Ji Cangming secretly planned to sabotage the Condensed Jade Treasure Ship and help the Impermanence Sect when the array was about to fall.
• A thunderous sound announced Xuanji True Person’s Golden Core shattering, and her spiritual energy condensed into a jade ruyi containing a Nascent Soul.
• Dian Cang True Person and Impermanence True Person reacted with shock and fear when they realized Xuanji True Person had passed the first breakthrough trial.
• Ghost Corpse True Person urged the attackers to continue, warning that Xuanji True Person still faced the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Pass and the Three-Colored Thunder Pool Tribulation.

Xuanji True Person's apparent breakthrough collapsed when the Jade Ruyi shattered, leaving the Condensed Jade Sect fearing its destruction. As Ghost Corpse True Person and Impermanence True Person renewed their hopes of victory, Ji Cangming began his betrayal by attacking Gongsun Yang.

• The Condensed Jade Sect's forces rallied after hearing news of Xuanji True Person's breakthrough, and Ji Cangming joined the defense instead of sabotaging it.
• Yuji True Person recognized signs that Xuanji True Person was risking his life and recalled his master's failed breakthrough and final sacrifice.
• The Jade Ruyi cracked and exploded, releasing spiritual energy that the sect's formation partly drew into Condensed Jade Peak.
• Ghost Corpse True Person and Impermanence True Person took the shattered Jade Ruyi as proof that Xuanji True Person had failed and renewed their confidence.
• Ji Cangming's Gilt Jade Slip shattered after blood touched it, and he attacked Gongsun Yang with the Three-Spirit Soul-Seizing Seal while Yang controlled the ballista.

Ji Cangming sabotaged the Condensed Jade Sect’s treasure ship and fled as the Impermanence Sect pressed its assault on Earth Jade Island. Two days into the siege, the Condensed Jade Sect’s spirit-stone reserves were nearly exhausted, yet its Golden Core cultivators continued defending the formation.

• Ji Cangming wounded Gongsun Yang, damaged the dark iron ballista, seized its spirit stones, and escaped toward the sea.
• Hua Shan pursued Ji Cangming, but Leng Jingfei intervened while the Impermanence Treasure Ship’s Heavenly Halberd Ballista battered the Condensed Jade Treasure Ship.
• After two days of fighting, Ten Thousand Souls True Person learned from Yuji True Person that the Island-Protecting Grand Array had less than a million spirit stones left and could last at most two more days.
• The Impermanence Sect’s twelve Golden Core cultivators continued attacking Earth Jade Island, while the Condensed Jade Sect’s seven Grand Supremes held their positions and Xuanji True Person remained missing.
• Ghost Corpse True Person wondered why the Condensed Jade Sect’s Golden Core cultivators kept defending instead of trying to break out.

Xuanji True Person used a second Nascent Soul Formation Herb and soul-nourishing wood to forge his Nascent Soul while Qing Chen and the cultivators defending Earth Jade Island awaited the outcome. The Island-Protecting Grand Array collapsed under the assault, leaving Condensed Jade Peak exposed.

• Xuanji True Person refined the soul-nourishing wood with the Jade Ruyi fragments and his essence blood, causing his Nascent Soul to grow more solid as his body withered.
• Qing Chen noticed the spiritual energy vortex around Earth Jade Island collapse and waited for news of Xuanji True Person’s hidden trump card.
• Ghost Corpse True Person, Impermanence True Person, and the other attackers intensified their assault on the Island-Protecting Grand Array and its defenders.
• A Three Corpses ballista bolt pierced the array’s weakest point, and its poison miasma killed Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining disciples.
• The formation altars collapsed, breaking the Island-Protecting Grand Array.

The Xuanji Heaven-Illuminating Formation collapsed, leaving the Condensed Jade Sect under a devastating assault from the Impermanence Sect and its allies. As the Grand Supremes fought desperately against overwhelming odds, a phoenix cry and three-colored radiance erupted from Condensed Jade Peak.

• The Xuanji Heaven-Illuminating Formation shattered, and its backlash and the invading forces killed and wounded Condensed Jade Sect disciples across the island.
• Qing Chen left command to ten Foundation Establishment cultivators and prepared to use his Yin-Thunder Wings while Xu Jiuling tried to raise the ship’s formation.
• Hua Shan fought to defend the Condensed Jade Treasure Ship as Ji Cangming attacked its formation operators and stole spirit stones.
• Ten Thousand Souls, Yuji, Heavenfire, and Budong battled the enemy Golden Core True Persons while burning their essence to hold them back.
• Purple Centipede True Person wounded Nine Swords True Person, whose swords and Jinghong Sword were damaged.
• A clear phoenix cry sounded from Condensed Jade Peak as three-colored radiance pierced the clouds and shot into the heavens.

Xuanji True Person emerged as True Lord Xuanji with a Dharma Nascent Soul, turning the tide against the invading sects. He trapped Ghost Corpse True Person and Impermanence True Person, who joined forces to face him.

• Yuji True Person sensed Xuanji True Person's breakthrough and fought desperately with the other Condensed Jade Sect elders to hold off the attackers.
• Ghost Corpse True Person and Impermanence True Person abandoned their assault and fled, while Ten Thousand Souls and True Person Budong tried to stop them.
• True Lord Xuanji appeared in a towering phantom manifestation and shattered Ghost Corpse True Person's escape talisman while damaging Impermanence True Person's treasure mirror.
• True Lord Xuanji pursued the fleeing enemies with Star-Shift Cold-Shadow Escape and trapped them with the Heaven-Locking Ice Prison Art.
• Ghost Corpse True Person and Impermanence True Person joined forces, and Ghost Corpse True Person summoned the Three Corpses Immortal-Slaying Dharma Body.

True Lord Xuanji used his newly formed dharma Nascent Soul to defeat Ghost Corpse True Person and kill Impermanence True Person, then considered the cost and limits of his transformation. He planned to strengthen the Condensed Jade Sect before vowing vengeance on whoever stole his three souls seven apertures spirit embryo fruit.

• True Lord Xuanji’s manifestation overwhelmed Ghost Corpse True Person’s Three Corpses Immortal-Slaying Dharma Body and destroyed his corpse army.
• Impermanence True Person detonated the Impermanence Treasure Mirror to break through the ice barrier, while Ghost Corpse True Person split into four bodies to try to escape.
• True Lord Xuanji killed Impermanence True Person with Xuanpo Divine Light and captured Ghost Corpse True Person’s three remnant souls before destroying them.
• True Lord Xuanji collected the defeated cultivators’ treasures and planned to relocate nearby islands and acquire Spirit-Raising Talismans for the Condensed Jade Sect.
• True Lord Xuanji examined his dharma Nascent Soul and accepted that he would need a fourth-tier water- or wood-attribute treasure to form a replacement body.
• True Lord Xuanji swore to find and punish the thief who had stolen his three souls seven apertures spirit embryo fruit.

True Lord Xuanji’s Dharma Aspect devastated the Golden Core cultivators, and Ten Thousand Souls True Person took command while Xuanji withdrew to stabilize his new Dharma Nascent Soul. As the Condensed Jade Sect pursued its enemies, Qing Chen continued fighting on Earth Jade Island, where confusion over the breakthrough led to both deserters and loyal disciples dying.

• True Lord Xuanji’s Dharma Aspect wounded the Golden Core cultivators and killed the Red-Haired Cultivator, while Yuji True Person recognized its power to draw on heaven and earth.
• Yuji True Person told Ten Thousand Souls True Person that Xuanji had slain Ghost Corpse and Impermanence and entrusted the remaining affairs to them.
• Ten Thousand Souls True Person ordered the pursuit of enemy disciples while warning the Condensed Jade Sect not to harm mortals recklessly.
• Yuji True Person used thirty-six azure Sword Qi banners to announce Xuanji’s ascension and command the disciples to hunt the Impermanence, Diancang, and Heimu sects.
• Qing An and Lin Changsheng relayed news of Xuanji’s breakthrough to Qing Chen, who led the attack and executed disciples who deserted or switched sides.
• On Earth Jade Island, some disciples died as traitors without knowing Xuanji had broken through, while others who had held out loyally were killed by Qing Chen before they could learn the news.

After the battle, Qing Chen secretly pursued the wounded Purple Centipede True Person, who was fleeing across the sea. He reached the area where Purple Centipede True Person and Nine Swords True Person were fighting, then hid underwater as their Golden Core battle raged nearby.

• Qing Chen ordered Xue Qingxia, Deng Ziyue, Di Huaiyi, and Li Feiyu to escort the Condensed Jade Treasure Ship to Earth Jade Island, then sent the remaining cultivators after the fleeing enemy forces.
• After learning that Purple Centipede True Person was badly wounded and fleeing, Qing Chen concealed his identity and used a Star-Chasing Moon-Pursuing Talisman to chase him.
• Nine Swords True Person intercepted Purple Centipede True Person above a barren island and attacked him with the Blood Slaughter Nine Tribulations Sword.
• Purple Centipede True Person countered with poison dragons, but Nine Swords True Person destroyed two of them and damaged his spirit staff.
• Qing Chen sensed the Golden Core battle ahead, deactivated his escape talisman, and hid beneath the sea.

Qing Chen secretly watched the duel between Purple Centipede True Person and Nine Swords True Person, then used the fighters’ exhaustion to spring his trap. As Di Jiang went after Purple Centipede’s Golden Core and divine soul, a fiery monk appeared behind Nine Swords, leaving both survivors in danger.

• Qing Chen sent Grudge Ghosts and White Bone Giant Wolves to spy on the wounded Purple Centipede True Person and Nine Swords True Person.
• Purple Centipede revealed that the Myriad Poisons Illustrated Record was in his flesh, then detonated his Violet Poison Pearl in a bid to take Nine Swords down with him.
• The explosion destroyed Demon General Pojun and severely poisoned Nine Swords, while Purple Centipede’s body was reduced to poisonous rain and his divine soul fled with his Golden Core.
• Qing Chen activated the Three Lives Bewildering Tracks Formation, trapping Purple Centipede’s fleeing divine soul and Golden Core.
• Demon General Di Jiang charged at Purple Centipede’s Golden Core and divine soul as Nine Swords tried to escape.
• A flaming monk appeared behind Nine Swords and declared that it was time for him to be reborn in paradise.

Qing Chen used Venerable Flameheart and his demonic forces to defeat Nine Swords True Person and Purple Centipede True Person, then spent seven days purging the battlefield to secure their golden cores. He ended with two cores stripped of their markings and ready to claim.

• Venerable Flameheart battled Nine Swords True Person, whose Blood Slaughter Star-Shattering Formation gravely wounded the Buddhist spirit body and consumed over twenty thousand spirit stones.
• Venerable Flameheart and the Flying Yaksha overwhelmed Nine Swords True Person, breaking his cultivation and preventing him from detonating his golden core.
• The Di Jiang Demon General tore apart Purple Centipede True Person's divine soul and devoured it with the Di Jiang Demon Banner.
• Qing Chen searched the waters and seabed for seven days, then spent fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones to release Venerable Jinming and scour the area with World-Cleansing Buddha Light.
• Qing Chen burned away the remaining traces of both enemies and opened two jade boxes containing their unmarked golden cores.

After killing Nine Swords and Violet Centipede, Qing Chen looted and destroyed their belongings before leaving the sea. When the Condensed Jade Sect learned that Nine Swords had died, Yuji mobilized the sect against its enemies and ordered an investigation.

• Qing Chen burned away the Divine Sense remnants on Nine Swords' and Violet Centipede's Spatial Rings, then stored their treasures in the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda.
• Qing Chen destroyed the rings, retrieved his Formation Flags, and flew away, reasoning that he needed Golden Cores and bodies to strengthen his cultivation.
• Zhu Qi saw Nine Swords' soul tablet crack and reported his death to Hua Shan, who sent message talismans to the sect's Elders.
• Yuji received the news that Nine Swords' Soul Lamp had gone out and summoned his subordinates.
• Yuji ordered the Mysterious Blood Warships and Foundation Establishment cultivators to mobilize and kill members of the Impermanence Sect, Blackwood Island, and the Dian Cang Sect on sight.
• Yuji ordered the Law Enforcement Hall to report suspicious movements within three days and said he would report to the Sect Master.

During the Bloody Turmoil, Qing Chen helped destroy the Impermanence Sect and received a golden core from True Person Budong. His attempt to use it to advance his body cultivation failed, leaving him injured in the midst of a destroyed deserted island.

• After Nine Swords True Person and Purple Centipede True Person died, Qing Chen staged attacks on the Impermanence Sect’s subordinate forces while the Golden Core True Persons and Xuanji True Lord fought the real war.
• Xuanji True Lord and the Tianshu Hall forces annihilated the Impermanence Sect, and an envoy from the Shushan Sword Sect later stopped him from continuing his slaughter.
• True Person Budong gave Qing Chen a golden core taken from Elder Zuo of the Three Corpse Demon Sect and warned him to refine it only to the Golden Core Early Stage.
• Qing Chen tried to break through to the seventh level of the Immovable Wisdom King Heart Method using the golden core, but his body could not withstand its power combined with the Yellow Springs Baleful Qi.
• Qing Chen expelled the core before it could seriously harm him, but it burst into a torrent of baleful qi that destroyed the deserted island.

Qing Chen used an infiltration plan and incriminating evidence to launch a years-long massacre across Blackwood Island and its subordinate forces, completing his arrangements for the dark turmoil. During the campaigns, he also expanded Hidden Spirit Island and Mystic Lotus Island and strengthened the Demon Lotus Sect, leaving his faction far more powerful.

• After Blackwood Island and the Dian Cang Sect surrendered, Qing Chen uncovered their secret support for surviving Impermanence Sect disciples and presented Projection Stone evidence to Tianshu Hall.
• Qing Chen led Battle Hall and Law Enforcement Hall forces, joined by cultivators from more than a dozen islands, in a years-long campaign that devastated Blackwood Island and punished even the surrendered Dian Cang Sect.
• Qing Chen's investigation and evidence came from an infiltration plan he had assigned Lin Changsheng ten years earlier, involving Duan Tianya, Han Shi, Ren Carefree, and Demon Lotus Sect disciples.
• Qing Chen relocated spirit veins from several islands to expand Hidden Spirit Island and secretly raised Mystic Lotus Island's spiritual resources.
• Lin Changsheng, Duan Tianya, Jueqing, Han Shi, Su Zixuan, and Yue Ting advanced their cultivation with the Demon Lotus Sect's plundered resources, while Lin Changsheng reached Foundation Establishment middle stage.

Qing Chen sacrificed the corpses stored beneath Hidden Spirit Island to strengthen the Di Jiang White Bone Demon Mara Banner, while Heavenly Jade Island rose to low-grade fourth-tier status. After suppressing the ghosts and refined corpses stirred by the ritual, he completed the banner’s transformation and merged its Di Jiang Demon General with a demonic god phantom.

• A fourth-tier Spirit Vein-Seeking Grandmaster drew the spirit veins from several islands into Earth Jade Island, transforming it into low-grade fourth-tier Heavenly Jade Island.
• Qing Chen began refining the Di Jiang Demon Mara Banner with cultivator corpses, essence blood, and yin baleful energy in the underground palace beneath Hidden Spirit Island.
• The accumulated resentment animated corpses and produced vengeful spirits, including the Thousand Mountains Island Lord, but Qing Chen destroyed or suppressed them with his demonic and Buddhist techniques.
• After several days, Qing Chen finished feeding the corpses to the banner, which turned pitch-black and manifested a powerful Di Jiang Demon General.
• Qing Chen used his blood to inscribe Immortal-Locking Cult demonic patterns on the banner, then watched the Di Jiang Demon General merge with a faceless demonic god phantom.

Qing Chen successfully advanced the Di Jiang Demon Banner into a magic treasure, though it could no longer effectively devour ordinary mortals or low-level cultivators. He reflected on how the banner and his demon fire could help him strengthen his body and magic power, while political obstacles continued to hinder Xue Qingxia’s alchemy progress.

• Qing Chen fed his blood and killing intent into the Di Jiang Demon Banner as it tore apart the underground palace and absorbed its formations.
• The Di Jiang Demon Banner formed the Di Jiang Hell Diagram, grew to twelve feet, and advanced into a magic treasure.
• Qing Chen concluded that the banner could provide the third-tier qi and blood needed to advance his demon fire beyond its eighth-turn peak.
• Qing Chen considered using his strengthened magic power and body to withstand fusing the Śarīra Method's Golden Core with high-tier killing intent.
• Qing Chen recalled that Xue Qingxia had reached the Foundation Establishment late stage but lacked access to the privileges needed to advance her alchemy.
• Qing Chen wondered why Yuji True Person seemed to be targeting him and resolved to keep his killing of Nine Swords True Person and seizure of the Three Souls Seven Apertures Spirit Embryo Fruit secret.

Qing Chen learned that Xin Bairen and Gongsun Yang were investigating the Demon Lotus Sect and its ties to him. After receiving a coded Jade Slip documenting secret shipments between Mystic Lotus Island and Hidden Spirit Island, he decided to use Ji Bochang to counter the investigation.

• Qing Chen considered how the restored Di Jiang Demon Banner could strengthen him and reflected on his growing conflict with Yuji True Person.
• Lin Changsheng reported that Xin Bairen had sent Gongsun Yang to Black Ape Island to investigate the Demon Lotus Sect and had arranged surveillance of Mystic Lotus Island.
• Lin Changsheng warned that Xin Bairen’s faction might use the investigation to suppress Qing Chen, prompting Qing Chen to consider exploiting Ji Bochang’s imprisonment.
• Duan Tianya presented a coded Communication Jade Slip recording seven supply transfers, including shipments of corpses and Profound Yin Cold Iron between Mystic Lotus Island and Hidden Spirit Island.
• Qing Chen crushed the Jade Slip and decided it was time to move the Ji Bochang chess piece.

Qing Chen arranged a staged confrontation involving Ji Bochang’s escape, then clashed with Xin Bairen and Mo Huaian at a Tianshu Hall council over the sect’s unrest and Battle Hall’s conduct. Yuji True Person intervened and turned his attention to the glowing battle token at Qing Chen’s waist.

• Qing Chen revealed Ji Bochang’s confession and ordered Demon Lotus Guards to disguise themselves as members of rival groups and await his signal.
• At a council in Tianshu Hall a month later, Qing Chen accused Xin Bairen of wanting the Impermanence Sect’s remnants to cause chaos across Condensed Jade territory.
• Xin Bairen challenged Qing Chen over his demonic cultivation art, the cultivators he had killed, and his conduct regarding Mystic Lotus Island.
• Qing Chen brought up Ji Cangming’s betrayal and accused Xin Bairen of hiding him, then defended the Battle Hall’s record of fighting rebellions and suppressing crises.
• Qing Chen’s killing intent overwhelmed Mo Huaian, and Xin Bairen rose in fury but could not answer him.
• Yuji True Person entered, dispersed the murderous intent, and looked at the glowing battle token at Qing Chen’s waist.

Yuji True Person reprimanded Qing Chen for the Battle Hall’s indiscriminate violence and stressed the need to govern the Azure Waves Sea Region without alienating its inhabitants. After hearing accusations and defenses of Qing Chen’s actions, Yuji rewarded him for his service but transferred most traitor-hunting affairs to Xin Bairen, leaving Qing Chen to cultivate in seclusion.

• Yuji True Person restored the Mystic Ice Desk, condemned reckless slaughter, and warned that mistreating the Azure Waves Sea Region’s people could drive them to rival forces.
• Yuji True Person addressed Qing Chen as Deputy Hall Vice Lord Qing, and Qing Chen immediately bowed and pledged obedience.
• Xin Bairen accused Qing Chen and the Battle Hall of causing devastation on Chenlong Island and plundering other islands, while Mo Huaian backed the allegations.
• Sun Wudi, the Central Pivot Hall Rogue Persons, and Xu Jiuling defended Qing Chen’s harsh campaigns as necessary to eliminate threats and secure the sect’s rule.
• Yuji True Person awarded Qing Chen ten bottles of Purple Cloud Pills but placed most traitor-hunting affairs in Xin Bairen’s hands and told Qing Chen to cultivate in seclusion.

Qing Chen surrendered the Tianshu Patrol Warden Token to Xin Bairen while secretly relying on a plan already underway. On Black Ape Island, Yue Ting disguised himself as Ji Cangming and rescued the imprisoned Ji Bochang.

• Yuji True Person ordered Qing Chen to hand over his external command authority, and Qing Chen obediently gave him the Tianshu Patrol Warden Token.
• Yuji True Person passed the token to Xin Bairen, who took control of the authority to command sect forces and operations.
• Imprisoned on Black Ape Island, Ji Bochang swallowed a hidden Reverse-Blood Pill and ignited its power while recalling how Xin Bairen’s faction had kept him and Ji Cangming’s family captive.
• Yue Ting used a Thousand Transformations mask to take Ji Cangming’s appearance, entered the prison, and freed the badly injured Ji Bochang.
• The imprisoned Ji family members saw Yue Ting disguised as Ji Cangming and reacted with surprise and hatred.