Chapter Summaries

Zhou Xun rescued Luo Yuancheng and rushed to Heaven Talisman Island, where Red Fire Old Freak and the Sea Clan were attacking the Heaven Talisman Sect. He arrived before the sect’s protective formation fell and confronted Red Fire Old Freak over his alliance with the Sea Clan.

• Zhou Xun killed two Tier 2 Peak-Grade demon beasts with lightning and rescued Luo Yuancheng, a Heaven Talisman Sect disciple.
• Luo Yuancheng told Zhou Xun that Red Fire Island and demon beasts had besieged the Heaven Talisman Sect, so Zhou Xun took him to Heaven Talisman Island.
• Red Fire Old Freak led the Sea Clan and Red Fire Island forces in attacking the sect’s protective formation, which began to crack under their assault.
• Zhou Xun arrived with Luo Yuancheng before the formation fell, giving the Heaven Talisman Sect disciples hope and drawing wary attention from Red Fire Old Freak.
• Zhou Xun accused Red Fire Old Freak of colluding with the Sea Clan to harm the Human Race.

Zhou Xun exposed Red Fire Old Freak’s collusion with the Sea Clan and killed him and another Core Formation cultivator, turning the battle against Red Fire Island in Heaven Talisman Sect’s favor. After Thousand Talisman True Man read a letter from Hu Daoquan and opened the formation, the sect pursued the fleeing attackers while Zhou Xun watched and collected the defeated bird-headed demon.

• Red Fire Old Freak denied colluding with the Sea Clan, but Zhou Xun exposed the hundreds of demon beasts besieging Heaven Talisman Island and drew the enemy’s attack.
• Zhou Xun killed Red Fire Old Freak and the withered Elder within moments, terrifying the remaining great demons and shocking Thousand Talisman True Man.
• Zhou Xun sent his Bloodfiend Spawns to fight the demon turtle and ordered the Earth Origin Beast to engage the bird-headed great demon.
• Thousand Talisman True Man read Hu Daoquan’s letter, opened the formation, and led the Heaven Talisman Sect in pursuing the fleeing Red Fire Island cultivators.
• The Earth Origin Beast returned with the defeated bird-headed demon, and Zhou Xun praised it and stored the demon’s remains.

Zhou Xun returned Hu Daoquan’s belongings to Thousand Talisman True Man and accepted the Heaven Talisman Sect’s offer of its Void Tribulation Flower. They opened the restricted cave where the flower had been cultivated.

• Bloodfiend Spawn returned with the turtle demon’s corpse, and Thousand Talisman True Man arrived to thank Zhou Xun for saving the Heaven Talisman Sect.
• Thousand Talisman True Man welcomed Zhou Xun into his cave abode and shared the sect’s Thousand Talisman Spirit Wine with him.
• Zhou Xun gave Thousand Talisman True Man Hu Daoquan’s First Elder Token and ashes, and told him that Hu’s murderer had already been slain.
• Thousand Talisman True Man offered Zhou Xun the Void Tribulation Flower, which the Heaven Talisman Sect had cultivated for several hundred years.
• Thousand Talisman True Man used the First Elder Token to open the Tier 3 High-Grade restrictions around the cave containing the flower.

Zhou Xun harvested the Heaven Talisman Sect’s Void Tribulation Flower and agreed to stay on Heaven Talisman Island to cultivate while supporting the sect. In Hu Daoquan’s former cave abode, he began extracting Bloodfiend Crystals from the Bloodfiend Spawns he had captured.

• Zhou Xun entered the chamber containing the Void Tribulation Flower, overcame its protective formation, and carefully harvested it with a jade spirit hoe.
• Thousand Talisman True Man recognized the Sea Clan’s role in the attack on the Heaven Talisman Sect and asked Zhou Xun about his plans.
• Zhou Xun agreed to remain on Heaven Talisman Island for secluded cultivation, and Thousand Talisman True Man offered him access to the sect’s archives and First Elder privileges.
• Zhou Xun moved into Hu Daoquan’s former cave abode and began refining Bloodfiend Crystals from the Bloodfiend Spawns he had captured.

Zhou Xun refined Bloodfiend Crystals to strengthen his five Bloodfiend Spawns, then created thirteen more from Core Formation corpses and placed them in a Land of Four Yin to raise them. His unexplained departure alarmed Thousand Talisman True Man, who began preparing to evacuate Heaven Talisman Island.

• Zhou Xun extracted four Bloodfiend Crystals and distributed them among Armor Two through Armor Five to help them advance.
• After restoring himself, Zhou Xun refined the remaining twelve Core Formation corpses into semi-finished Bloodfiend Spawns.
• Zhou Xun used his Diviner's Compass to locate a barren Land of Four Yin northeast of Heaven Talisman Island and established an Extreme Yin Corpse Raising Formation there.
• At midnight, Zhou Xun activated the formation, letting yin qi and moonlight nourish the thirteen Bloodfiend Spawns, then concealed the site and flew back toward Heaven Talisman Island.
• Thousand Talisman True Man learned that Zhou Xun had left and waited outside his cave residence for seven days without a response.
• Thousand Talisman True Man accepted that Zhou Xun had departed and began preparing to withdraw the Heaven Talisman Sect's disciples from Heaven Talisman Island.

After returning to Heaven Talisman Island, Zhou Xun reassured Thousand Talisman True Man and obtained rare spirit herbs to refine the Thunder Eagle’s inner Dan into Lightning Essence Pills. He began refining the Thunderclap Wings and used the pills to cultivate, while fighting and attacks continued across the Southern Sea.

• Zhou Xun returned to Talisman Cloud Cave, where Thousand Talisman True Man rejoiced and worried that he might leave again.
• Zhou Xun asked Thousand Talisman True Man to find rare spirit herbs for refining Lightning Essence Pills, and Thousand Talisman True Man delivered them within half a day.
• Zhou Xun completed the first tempering of the Thunderclap Wings and placed the treasure in his Dantian to nurture for three years.
• Zhou Xun refined the Thunder Eagle’s inner Dan with rare spirit herbs into six Lightning Essence Pills, then enhanced them with Tier 2 Spirit Herbs.
• Zhou Xun swallowed a Lightning Essence Pill and cultivated with the Violet Firmament True Arts as a year passed.
• Battles and attacks continued to break out across the Southern Sea region after the Heaven Talisman Island incident.

After becoming the Heaven Feather Sect’s First Elder, Zhou Xun’s influence forced rival sects to return the Heaven Feather Sect’s lands and pay compensation. He then told Wang Erniu, who was preparing to form his core, that he had found a route out of the Eastern Wasteland to escape its cultivation limits.

• True Person Fengyuan learned that Zhou Xun had become the Heaven Feather Sect’s First Elder and gathered Azure Sun Sect elders to discuss their response.
• The Azure Sun Sect and Aurora Palace returned the Heaven Feather Sect’s territory and resources and paid further compensation.
• The former Heaven Feather Sect First Elder learned of Zhou Xun’s appointment and feared for his own fate.
• Wang Erniu visited Zhou Xun as he prepared to form his core, and Zhou Xun explained that the Eastern Wasteland lacked the primordial qi needed to advance beyond Half-Step Golden Core.
• Zhou Xun told Wang Erniu that he had found a route to another cultivation region, shocking him.

Zhou Xun took Wang Erniu through a hidden passage out of the Eastern Wasteland, and Wang Erniu broke through to the Immortal Golden Core while they traveled. Afterward, Zhou Xun praised his achievement and proposed a spar to test his new strength.

• Zhou Xun revealed the Heaven Feather Sect's teleportation passage to Wang Erniu and led him through the Heavenly Mystery Secret Realm toward the Southern Sea.
• Wang Erniu swallowed an Essence Crystallization Pill and began breaking through in midair, so Zhou Xun used the Icefire Heavy Cloud Formation and High-Grade Spirit Stones to gather Spiritual Qi around him.
• After eight days, Wang Erniu formed an Immortal Golden Core, and Zhou Xun put away the formation as Wang Erniu thanked him.
• Zhou Xun praised Wang Erniu as a Nascent Soul seed and proposed that they spar, leaving Wang Erniu flustered.

Zhou Xun tested Wang Erniu’s swordsmanship and lost to his powerful spiritwood domain, then advised him to remain in the South Sea and seek help from Wang Lin if needed. Wang Erniu later visited Zhou Xun’s avatar at the Heaven Talisman Sect, received a demon beast distribution map, and set out to hunt.

• Zhou Xun and Wang Erniu sparred, and Zhou Xun restrained Wang Erniu’s Natal Flying Sword with spirit trees and vines until Wang Erniu admitted defeat.
• Zhou Xun praised Wang Erniu’s strength, and Wang Erniu chose to remain in the South Sea to hunt demon beasts.
• Zhou Xun recommended that Wang Erniu seek help from Daoist Wang Lin if trouble arose, then returned to the Eastern Wasteland through the Heavenly Mystery Secret Realm.
• Wang Erniu visited Zhou Xun’s avatar at the Heaven Talisman Sect and asked for guidance about hunting demon beasts in the South Sea.
• Zhou Xun gave Wang Erniu an updated map of nearby demon beast distributions, and Wang Erniu departed to begin his hunt.

Zhou Xun’s incarnation refined the Thunderclap Wings while his true body and disciples made rapid cultivation progress. After improving his Wood Spiritual Root with a Tier 4 Peak-Grade Golden Sunflower Bamboo, his incarnation entered a Land of Four Yin to check on the Bloodfiend Spawns.

• Zhou Xun completed a second refinement of the Thunderclap Wings and returned them to his Dantian to continue nurturing.
• Zhou Xun’s true body advanced toward the peak of Early-Stage Core Formation as Song Yiqing, his disciples, and Wei Qiuxin made cultivation breakthroughs.
• After five years of nurturing, Zhou Xun’s incarnation raised the Golden Sunflower Bamboo to Tier 4 Peak-Grade and met his true body in the Heavenly Mystery Secret Realm.
• Zhou Xun used the Essence Spring Art to absorb the bamboo’s essence, raising his Wood Spiritual Root sensitivity to eighty-one points.
• Zhou Xun entered a Land of Four Yin, killed a yaksha, and enlarged the Bloodfiend Pouch beside the Bloodfiend Spawns.

Zhou Xun cleared the Corpse Nurturing Ground, harvested Bloodfiend Spawns, and killed a Tier 3 Low-Grade demon crab on his way back to Heaven Talisman Island. After half a year of cultivation, he discovered that Armor One had reached Tier 3 High-Grade.

• Zhou Xun absorbed the yin qi, raised the remaining Bloodfiend Spawns, and restored the deserted island before returning to Heaven Talisman Island on the Earth Origin Beast.
• Zhou Xun found a Tier 3 Low-Grade demon crab hiding beneath a herd of demon beasts and killed it with Mystic Thunder, then cooked and tasted one of its claws.
• Zhou Xun refined the Bloodfiend Spawns into Bloodfiend Crystals and distributed crystals to the Bloodfiend Spawns, except Armor One.
• Zhou Xun cultivated for half a year, then awoke when the Bloodfiend Pouch stirred and discovered that Armor One had reached Tier 3 High-Grade.

Zhou Xun tested Armor One’s strength after it advanced to Tier 3 High-Grade, then continued cultivating and body refining. He broke through to the seventh level of the Hundred Meridian Body Refining Art and tested how well his new physique resisted magic treasures.

• Zhou Xun took Armor One to an uninhabited island and tested it against the Earth Origin Beast, Fengzhong, finding that Armor One was comparable to an ordinary late-stage Core Formation cultivator.
• Zhou Xun rewarded Fengzhong with a Tier 3 Mid-Grade demon beast inner core and returned to secluded cultivation.
• After two years of cultivation, Zhou Xun absorbed a costly spiritual ointment and broke through to the seventh level of the Hundred Meridian Body Refining Art.
• Zhou Xun tested his new physique, finding that it could block a low-grade magic treasure but was pierced by a mid-grade flying sword, with the wound healing quickly.
• Another month passed, and Zhou Xun reached the age of ninety-five.

After receiving Song Zhishu’s farewell message, Zhou Xun decided to visit his old friend in Clear Moon Lake with Song Yiqing. They arrived as Song Zhishu’s relatives worried over his failing lifespan and the future of the Song Lineage.

• Zhou Xun received Song Zhishu’s message, in which the old cultivator said his life was nearing its end and urged Zhou Xun to continue along the immortal path.
• Zhou Xun told Song Yiqing that a Longevity Pill could not save Song Zhishu, then invited her to accompany him to Xu Nation.
• Zhou Xun and Song Yiqing flew toward Clear Moon Lake on her Crimson Flame spirit beast.
• At the Song Lineage’s ancestral grounds, Song Zhide hoped Zhou Xun would take a descendant as his disciple, but Song Zhishu admonished him to be content with the lineage’s existing ties to Zhou Xun.
• A powerful Spirit Energy fluctuation came from afar, and the gathered Song Lineage members showed delight.

Zhou Xun returned to the Song Lineage with Song Yiqing and visited his dying old friend Song Zhishu, using his vital essence to give him a little more time. He later visited Shi Jingfeng’s grave and reflected on how well Jingfeng’s daughter Wanrong had fared.

• Zhou Xun and Song Yiqing arrived at Clear Moon Lake, where Song Qingheng and the Song Lineage’s other leaders welcomed them.
• Zhou Xun praised Song Chengyun’s cultivation and invited him to visit Heaven Han City.
• Zhou Xun visited Song Zhishu and used his vital essence to extend the old man’s life by about half a month.
• Zhou Xun and Song Yiqing stayed in Zhou Xun’s former cave dwelling in Clear Moon Quarter.
• Zhou Xun visited Shi Jingfeng’s grave and told him that Wanrong had married Zhou Xun’s eldest disciple, had five children, and reached Foundation Establishment.

Zhou Xun revisited the grave of Shi Jingfeng and left a life-extending pill for Gao Yue, then returned to old places in Clear Moon Quarter and left a Tier 2 High-Grade alchemy inheritance at Dan Hai Pavilion. A month later, Song Zhishu died peacefully with Zhou Xun at his side.

• Zhou Xun visited Shi Jingfeng’s grave, and Gao Yue later recognized that he had returned from the offerings and lingering Spiritual Qi.
• Zhou Xun left a Life Nurturing Pill and a note in Gao Yue’s cave dwelling, and she realized he had truly come back.
• Zhou Xun revisited familiar places in Clear Moon Quarter and left a complete Tier 2 High-Grade alchemy inheritance in Dan Hai Pavilion’s former Alchemy Room.
• Zhou Xun spent time with Song Yiqing and Song Zhishu over the following month.
• Zhou Xun arrived at Song Zhishu’s bedside, where Song Zhishu spoke to him and then passed away peacefully.

After Song Zhishu’s funeral, Zhou Xun returned with Song Yiqing to Forgetful River Lake, where he reunited with Xing Huaian and Yuan Pan'er and helped his spirit beasts prepare for breakthroughs. Two years later, his cultivation had advanced steadily, and he had created a Tier 3 puppet.

• Song Zhishu was cremated, and his ashes were scattered over Clear Moon Lake in accordance with his final wishes.
• Zhou Xun and Song Yiqing rode the Crimson Fire Luan to Forgetful River Lake and reunited with Xing Huaian and Yuan Pan'er, who had formed a False Core.
• Zhou Xun released the Azure Golden Dragon Carp and Blackscaled Armadillo and gave them Tier 3 demon beast inner cores to refine.
• Zhou Xun began cultivating in seclusion at Forgetful River Lake, confident that his disciples could manage Heaven Han City.
• Two years later, Zhou Xun, now ninety-seven, revealed that his Puppet Art had advanced enough for him to create a Tier 3 humanoid puppet.

Zhou Xun refined five Tier 3 Low-Grade puppets and watched the Azure Golden Dragon Carp break through to Tier 3, transforming into a flood dragon. Little Gold then prepared to reveal the divine ability she had awakened.

• Zhou Xun refined five Tier 3 Low-Grade puppets from materials taken from Forgetful River Immortal City's secret treasury.
• Song Yiqing joined Zhou Xun at Stillheart Pavilion as the Azure Golden Dragon Carp began its breakthrough.
• Zhou Xun activated the formation to gather Spiritual Qi while Little Gold braved the storm and completed her transformation into a Tier 3 flood dragon.
• Cultivators in Forgetful River Immortal City watched the breakthrough, and Zhou Xun urged the Blackscaled Armadillo to prepare for its own advance.
• Little Gold revealed that she was female, then transformed into a hundred-zhang dragon to show Zhou Xun her newly awakened divine ability.

Zhou Xun improved his spiritual roots, watched his pangolin become a Tier 3 Demon King, and saw his Bloodfiend Spawn grow stronger during years of seclusion. The chapter then described escalating conflict between the Human Race and Sea Clan and introduced Seatown Immortal City, where South Sea Nascent Soul cultivators gathered.

• Zhou Xun gave Xing Huaian and Yuan Pan'er jade slips containing his beast-taming insights and returned to secluded cultivation.
• Zhou Xun used a Tier 4 spirit herb to raise his Wood Spiritual Root affinity to eighty-two points and began refining Wood Essence Pills.
• Zhou Xun's pangolin completed its breakthrough and became a Tier 3 Demon King, joining his other Tier 3 spirit beasts.
• Armor One through Armor Five emerged from Zhou Xun's Bloodfiend Pouch, with four reaching the peak of Tier 3 Middle-Grade.
• Over the years, human and Sea Clan clashes intensified, with demon beasts slaughtering human islands and human cultivators hunting great demons.
• Seatown Immortal City was introduced as the South Sea's border stronghold and only Fourth-Order Spiritual Vein, governed by three Central Continent powers and home to Nascent Soul cultivators.

Monarch Qian Chuan ordered the South Sea sects to suppress human cultivators allied with the Demon Race and prepare for the South Abyss Clan’s invasion. As Thousand Talisman True Man left Heaven Talisman Island to answer the edict, Black Reef Demon King led an assault on the island, believing it was undefended.

• Monarch Qian Chuan told Seatown Immortal City’s Nascent Soul Cultivators that the South Abyss Clan would likely attack within two months and ordered a campaign against human cultivators who had joined the Demon Race.
• Thousand Talisman True Man told Zhou Xun that Heaven Talisman Island had to send its forces to obey the South Sea Edict and asked him to protect the sect’s disciples.
• Zhou Xun promised to safeguard the sect’s inheritance and gave Thousand Talisman True Man a Tier 3 Mid-Grade Escape Talisman.
• Thousand Talisman True Man departed with the island’s forces aboard two tower ships.
• Black Reef Demon King learned from Fú Yóu Demon King that Zhou Xun had defeated an earlier attack on Heaven Talisman Island, but believed the island was now weak and ordered his demon beasts to attack it.

Perfected Zhe Hui's squad fled a Beast Tide toward Heaven Talisman Island, but Black Reef Demon King pursued them and attacked. The chapter ends as the squad's coordinated assault strikes Black Reef Demon King, with only Perfected Zhe Hui's Golden Sword Talisman piercing his defenses.

• Perfected Zhe Hui and his squad spotted a Beast Tide and changed course for Heaven Talisman Island.
• Black Reef Demon King ordered Fú Yóu Demon King to lead the younger demons onward while he pursued the human cultivators with five other Great Demons.
• Perfected Zhe Hui accelerated toward the island, but Black Reef Demon King sped ahead of his companions and began closing the distance.
• Perfected Zhe Hui told his squad to wait until Black Reef Demon King was in range, then attack together.
• Perfected Zhe Hui and the squad unleashed their weapons and talismans, and most attacks bounced off Black Reef Demon King's black light while Perfected Zhe Hui's Golden Sword Talisman pierced it.