Chapter Summaries

Zhou Xun tested the space-crossing Junmang Short Spear that Ironside True Lord had forged from an Ink Flood Dragon's horn, then obtained the Dan Yuan Wine recipe. Meanwhile, Wang Erniu and three fellow Core Formation cultivators were surrounded by Demon Kings, and his Boundless Sword Formation blocked their opening assault.

• Zhou Xun waited at Ironside True Lord's cave abode while the artifact refiner finished forging the Junmang Short Spear.
• Ironside True Lord presented the spear, and Zhou Xun tested its power by teleporting it across space and obliterating a barren island.
• Zhou Xun returned to Ironside True Lord's cave, drank wine, discussed the Dao, and obtained the Dan Yuan Wine recipe before leaving seven days later.
• A peak Tier 3 Mysterious Frost Ice Crab and fourteen other Demon Kings surrounded Wang Erniu, Li Fei, and two fellow Human cultivators.
• The demon crab's Extreme Soul Cold Light froze and shattered the young man's low-grade defensive magic treasure, then the Demon Kings launched a combined attack.
• Wang Erniu raised the Boundless Sword Formation, and its three hundred and sixty-five sword-lights blocked the incoming attacks.

Zhou Xun arrived just as Wang Erniu and his companions were being overwhelmed by Demon Kings, killed their leader, and joined the battle with his Tier 4 mount. After the group defeated the remaining demons, Zhou Xun invited them to travel with him to Seatown Immortal City.

• The Demon Kings battered Wang Erniu’s sword formation until he was near defeat.
• Zhou Xun killed the peak Tier 3 demon crab with a spear and reunited with Wang Erniu, who learned that Zhou Xun had formed a Nascent Soul.
• Zhou Xun summoned his Tier 4 Crimson Turtle and led the group in attacking the remaining Demon Kings despite their objections about Fourth Realm cultivators interfering.
• Wang Erniu, Li Fei, and the others killed the remaining demons alongside Zhou Xun and the Earth Origin Beast, then divided the spoils.
• Zhou Xun invited Wang Erniu and his companions onto the Crimson Turtle and set out with them for Seatown Immortal City.

Zhou Xun reunited with Wang Erniu, exchanged sword cultivation insights with him, and escorted him toward Seatown Immortal City. Meanwhile, the South Abyss Demon Emperor learned that his son had died and vowed revenge on Wang Lin, while Zhou Xun unexpectedly encountered his old enemy Perfected Lord Yu Xuan near the city.

• Zhou Xun asked Wang Erniu why he had joined the expedition, and Wang Erniu explained that he volunteered to seek a breakthrough and had reached the fourth level of the Sword Shadow Unification Technique.
• Zhou Xun raised a soundproof barrier, and he and Wang Erniu spent several days exchanging insights on sword arts and sword formations.
• The Thousand Crab Demon Emperor reported to Mo Yuan that the Third Prince had died attacking Heaven Talisman Island and that Brother Crimson Turtle was missing.
• Mo Yuan grieved for his son and ordered the Thousand Crab Demon Emperor to investigate Wang Lin so he could take revenge.
• Zhou Xun rode the Crimson Turtle toward Seatown Immortal City with Wang Erniu and his companions, then recognized Perfected Lord Yu Xuan, who had once pursued him.

Zhou Xun encountered Perfected Lord Yu Xuan on the way to Seatown Immortal City, and both men secretly decided to eliminate the other. At the city gate, Zhou Xun’s identity and transformed spirit beast drew suspicion until Alliance Leader Yu appeared.

• Zhou Xun disguised his identity when he met Perfected Lord Yu Xuan and accepted his transmission talisman while planning revenge.
• The Mountain Lord detected Feng Chong in Zhou Xun’s spirit beast pouch, and Perfected Lord Yu Xuan recognized Zhou Xun as the cultivator who had escaped him years earlier.
• Perfected Lord Yu Xuan resolved to kill Zhou Xun after completing his patrol, while Zhou Xun considered investigating the Spirit Mastery Sect’s Dragon Transformation Pool.
• Zhou Xun and Wang Erniu reached Seatown Immortal City, where the guards questioned Zhou Xun about his Nascent Soul cultivation and transformed spirit beast.
• Alliance Leader Yu emerged from the city gate, and the gathered cultivators greeted him.

Alliance Leader Yu vouched for Zhou Xun and welcomed him into Seatown Immortal City, where Zhou Xun reunited with True Lord Tian Ci. After learning that Perfected Lord Yu Xuan had once hunted Zhou Xun, Tian Ci agreed that they should kill him.

• Alliance Leader Yu examined Zhou Xun, declared him no Demon Race spy, and gave him a Transmission Talisman.
• Wu apologized to Zhou Xun and exchanged Transmission Talismans with him.
• Zhou Xun parted ways with Wang Erniu and the others, then visited True Lord Tian Ci at his cave abode.
• Zhou Xun and Tian Ci shared Spirit Mist Tea from the Eastern Wasteland and reminisced about their homeland.
• Zhou Xun told Tian Ci that Perfected Lord Yu Xuan had once pursued him, and Tian Ci vowed to kill Yu Xuan.

Zhou Xun and True Lord Tian Ci discussed using the Azure Jade Chalice to trap and kill Old Man Yu Xuan, then went to Seatown Immortal City to claim Zhou Xun’s battle merit rewards and arrange his new cave abode. They met Monarch Qian Chuan, who welcomed them and served Dragon Blood Wine.

• Zhou Xun revealed that he possessed the South Abyss Clan’s Azure Jade Chalice, and True Lord Tian Ci agreed it could help them prevent Old Man Yu Xuan from escaping.
• True Lord Tian Ci reassured Zhou Xun that Human and Demon Race Spirit Transformation cultivators had agreed not to interfere lightly in worldly affairs.
• Zhou Xun asked about the spirit herbs on the battle merit exchange list, and True Lord Tian Ci confirmed that four Tier 4 Grade 2 Spirit Herbs and a Tier 4 Upper-Grade Spirit Aura Treasure Mushroom remained available.
• Zhou Xun followed True Lord Tian Ci to the inner city to visit Monarch Qian Chuan, who welcomed them and invited them into his hall.
• Monarch Qian Chuan served Dragon Blood Wine, and Zhou Xun refined its Spiritual Qi, gaining cultivation equivalent to half a month of practice.

Zhou Xun visited Monarch Qian Chuan to verify two great merits and exchange them for spirit herbs, but the available herbs were ones he had already obtained. Monarch Qian Chuan revealed that more treasures would be released ahead of another war and began helping Zhou Xun find a cave abode in Seatown Immortal City.

• Zhou Xun met Monarch Qian Chuan and True Lord Tian Ci over spirit wine, then explained that he had come to report two great demon kills and seek help finding a residence.
• Monarch Qian Chuan verified the Demon Shark’s inner core and recorded Zhou Xun’s kill as a great merit.
• Zhou Xun displayed the corpse of the South Abyss Third Prince, a Tier 4 black flood dragon, and Monarch Qian Chuan recorded it as his second great merit.
• Zhou Xun found that the available Tier 4 Grade 2 spirit herbs were all ones he had previously obtained, so he declined to exchange his merits for them.
• Monarch Qian Chuan privately told Zhou Xun that the Demon Race’s invasion was likely to resume and that more treasures would be released in a few years.
• Zhou Xun asked for a permanent cave abode in Seatown Immortal City, and Monarch Qian Chuan brought out a miniature map to show him the available locations.

Zhou Xun settled into his new Tier 4 cave abode near True Lord Tian Ci and began cultivating there. Monarch Qian Chuan visited with his disciple Wang Lingfeng, and Zhou Xun welcomed them with Spirit Mist Tea before asking what had brought them.

• Monarch Qian Chuan gave Zhou Xun a control token for an ownerless cave abode, and Zhou Xun chose the one nearest True Lord Tian Ci.
• Zhou Xun inspected his new residence, found its Spiritual Qi and facilities excellent, and began cultivating there.
• Zhou Xun decided that breathing and qi absorption were too slow and planned to brew Dan Yuan Wine.
• Monarch Qian Chuan arrived with Wang Lingfeng, who Zhou Xun recognized as Perfected Hua Du, a cultivator he had once rescued.
• Zhou Xun prepared Spirit Mist Tea for his guests, and Monarch Qian Chuan praised its effects on a cultivator’s state of mind.
• Monarch Qian Chuan agreed that he had come for an important matter after Zhou Xun asked his purpose.

Zhou Xun accepted Monarch Qian Chuan’s offer to become an Honored Guest Elder of Seatown Immortal City and began preparing for his new role. He then turned his attention to the Dragon Transformation Pool and visited Song Yiqing to discuss its potential benefits for their spirit beasts.

• Monarch Qian Chuan offered Zhou Xun generous benefits and limited obligations in exchange for joining Seatown Immortal City, and Zhou Xun accepted.
• Monarch Qian Chuan gave Zhou Xun an Honored Guest Elder token and invited him to select a High-Grade Mystic Treasure after a celebratory banquet.
• Zhou Xun fed his Wind-Guiding Butterfly Tier 3 Spirit Elixir, and it began spinning silk as it prepared to advance.
• Zhou Xun decided to seek access to the Spirit Mastery Sect’s Dragon Transformation Pool to improve the bloodlines of Crimson Flame, the Azure Golden Dragon, and the Blackscaled Armadillo.
• Zhou Xun visited Song Yiqing at her cave residence after more than a year apart, and she welcomed him warmly.

Zhou Xun took Song Yiqing to the Spirit Mastery Sect to seek the Dragon Transformation Pool, arriving through a hidden Teleportation Array. After entering the sect’s territory, he captured Cui Ping, the sect leader’s son, and prepared to question him.

• Zhou Xun explained the Dragon Transformation Pool plan to Song Yiqing, and she agreed to accompany him to the Spirit Mastery Sect.
• Zhou Xun and Song Yiqing traveled to the Teleportation Array, activated it with Teleportation Talismans and spirit stones, and arrived in the Central Continent.
• The pair left the concealed array chamber and discussed the Central Continent’s Spiritual Qi before searching for directions within the sect’s territory.
• Zhou Xun spotted Cui Ping tending a medicinal field, subdued him with a Bewilderment Talisman, and searched his memories.
• Zhou Xun learned that Cui Ping was the Spirit Mastery Sect Leader’s only son, then restrained him as he woke and addressed him as Senior.

Zhou Xun forced Perfected Being Yufeng to open the Spirit Mastery Sect’s Dragon Transformation Pool so his spirit beasts could refine their bloodlines. As they entered the pool, an ancient turtle spirit beneath the sect’s forbidden grounds awoke and flew toward them.

• Zhou Xun threatened the young man into summoning Sect Leader Cui, then demanded access to the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• Perfected Being Yufeng refused, so Zhou Xun used the Spirit Wood Boundary to capture and seal him, revealing power comparable to a Nascent Soul Cultivator.
• Perfected Being Yufeng yielded and led Zhou Xun and Song Yiqing to the Dragon Transformation Valley.
• Song Yiqing released Little Flame, and Zhou Xun sent Little Gold and the Blackscaled Armadillo into the pool to refine their bloodlines.
• A massive emerald-green turtle awoke beneath the sect’s forbidden grounds, transformed into a white-haired Elder, and flew toward the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• Zhou Xun sensed the Elder approaching from the west and reacted with alarm.

Bi Cang recognized Song Yiqing as a cultivator of the Spirit Mastery Sect’s inheritance and offered to accept her into Hundred Mastery True Lord’s lineage. After Song Yiqing’s formal ceremony, Zhou Xun went to Five Willows Pavilion in Seatown Immortal City to buy materials for brewing Dan Yuan Wine.

• Bi Cang revealed that Song Yiqing was eligible to join the Spirit Mastery Sect and offered her a place in Hundred Mastery True Lord’s lineage.
• Zhou Xun agreed to Song Yiqing taking a master after securing her freedom to come and go and her own territory within the sect.
• Song Yiqing completed the ceremony and became a disciple of Hundred Mastery True Lord’s lineage, witnessed by the sect’s Core Formation cultivators.
• After Monarch Qian Chuan departed, Zhou Xun studied the Dan Yuan Wine recipe and set out to buy its materials.
• Zhou Xun entered Five Willows Pavilion, where a green-robed man came forward to greet him.

Zhou Xun bought Dan Yuan Wine and a Mystic Thunder Crystal from Five Willows Pavilion, arranging for more lightning treasures to be gathered for him. After returning to his new cave abode, he found Wang Erniu waiting there.

• Zhou Xun met shopkeeper Gao Yuan, who recognized that the spirit items Zhou Xun sought were ingredients for Dan Yuan Wine.
• Gao Yuan offered Zhou Xun fifty jin of Dan Yuan Wine for one hundred thousand spirit stones per jin, saving him years of brewing and fermentation.
• Zhou Xun bought a four-tael Tier 4 Profound Lightning Crystal and asked Five Willows Pavilion to gather more heavenly lightning treasures for him within half a year.
• Zhou Xun inspected the wine and crystal, paid for both, and left Five Willows Pavilion with Gao Yuan's escort.
• Wang Erniu congratulated Zhou Xun on his new cave abode, and Zhou Xun invited him inside before attending to the wine.

Zhou Xun and Wang Erniu developed a new sword formation using Lightning Seeds, while three spirit beasts completed their bloodline purification in the Dragon Transformation Pool. Bi Cang tried to recruit Zhou Xun into the Spirit Mastery Sect, but Zhou Xun refused.

• Zhou Xun brewed Dan Yuan Wine with a Tier 4 Demon Shark core and invited Wang Erniu to try some after it matured.
• Zhou Xun used his thirty-six Lightning Seeds to form three hundred and sixty lightning swords, but his first attempt at the Heavenly Origin Sword Formation collapsed.
• Zhou Xun and Wang Erniu spent a month refining the new lightning sword formation.
• Zhou Xun, Song Yiqing, and Bi Cang went to the Dragon Transformation Pool as the three spirit beasts neared the end of their bloodline purification.
• Bi Cang recognized the Azure Golden Dragon and the pangolin as Heaven-Grade spirit beasts and urged Zhou Xun to join the Spirit Mastery Sect.
• Zhou Xun refused Bi Cang’s offer, and the three spirit beasts completed their purification and opened their eyes.

Zhou Xun improved his strength by mastering a sword formation and continued cultivating in Seatown Immortal City. The chapter ended as his enemy Perfected Lord Yu Xuan entered a shop and was confronted by a Nascent Soul cultivator who called him Fellow Daoist Gu.

• The Old Tortoise of Azure Canopy persuaded Zhou Xun and Song Yiqing to remain at the Spirit Mastery Sect, where it offered to teach Song Yiqing the Spirit Mastery Scripture.
• Zhou Xun and Wang Erniu practiced sword formations, and Zhou Xun successfully transformed his Violet Firmament True Thunder Formation into a versatile sword formation.
• Zhou Xun resumed peaceful cultivation while the Wind-Guiding Butterfly remained cocooned, Chiwu studied alchemy, and Feng Chong cultivated in seclusion.
• Perfected Lord Yu Xuan returned to Seatown Immortal City after completing his three-month patrol and urged the Spirit Mastery Sect cultivators with him to prepare for the war.
• Perfected Lord Yu Xuan entered a shop in the trading district, where a Nascent Soul cultivator recognized him as Fellow Daoist Gu and shocked him.

Perfected Lord Yu Xuan allied with a Spirit Clam Clan emissary to target Wang Lin, planning to lure him from Seatown Immortal City and kill him with South Abyss's support. Meanwhile, Zhou Xun cultivated in the city, considered improving his incarnation's aptitude, and received Wang Lingfeng, who arrived on Monarch Qian Chuan's orders.

• Perfected Lord Yu Xuan and the middle-aged man agreed to cooperate in killing Wang Lin in exchange for Yu Xuan investigating the death of South Abyss's Third Prince.
• Yu Xuan recognized Wang Lin as the enemy he wanted dead and proposed luring him out of the immortal city with a supposed ruin expedition.
• The middle-aged man approved the plan and said he would report it to His Majesty South Abyss.
• Zhou Xun cultivated with the Purple Firmament Lightning Formula and judged that his incarnation's slow progress made improving its aptitude necessary.
• Zhou Xun checked on the cocooned Wind-Guiding Butterfly, then welcomed Wang Lingfeng, who said he had come at Monarch Qian Chuan's order.

Zhou Xun learned that True Monarch Fengyan was competing for the Tier 4 Upper-Grade Spirit Aura Treasure Mushroom and began seeking a way to obtain his third Great Merit. He grew close to Perfected Lord Yu Xuan through repeated visits, while privately viewing him as a great enemy and a possible source of merit.

• Wang Lingfeng delivered Monarch Qian Chuan’s warning that True Monarch Fengyan was pursuing the Spirit Aura Treasure Mushroom, and Zhou Xun sent a reply with spirit tea for Monarch Qian Chuan and Wang Lingfeng.
• Zhou Xun worried that he might have to kill Crimson Noon for a Great Merit, and the sudden chill he felt caused Crimson Noon to botch his Dan refinement.
• Perfected Lord Yu Xuan visited Zhou Xun, praised his Spirit Mist Tea, and discussed cultivation and spirit beasts with him.
• Perfected Lord Yu Xuan repeatedly visited Zhou Xun over the following days, and Zhou Xun showed him the Wind-Guiding Butterfly.

Zhou Xun accepted Yu Xuan’s invitation to explore an ancient medicinal garden, while privately suspecting the journey required extra caution. He sought Tian Ci’s help and learned that Tian Ci had drawn a powerful Tier 4 talisman.

• Yu Xuan gave Zhou Xun a lost method for refining the Extreme Illusion Profound Elixir, which could help the Wind-Guiding Butterfly transform into a Tier 4 Nether Illusion Butterfly.
• Yu Xuan brought Zhou Xun a Fire Cloud Mushroom and claimed he had found an ancient medicinal garden, inviting Zhou Xun to explore it with him.
• Yu Xuan secretly planned to lure Zhou Xun toward the Demon Race’s sea domain and kill him with the Demon Emperor, but Zhou Xun agreed to go and accepted Yu Xuan’s demand for sixty percent of the treasure and first choice.
• Zhou Xun went to seek help from True Lord Tian Ci because he did not trust himself to defeat Yu Xuan alone.
• Tian Ci showed Zhou Xun a superior Tier 4 Nine Dragons Talisman he had drawn.

Zhou Xun prepared to ambush Perfected Lord Yu Xuan with True Lord Tian Ci’s help, while securing a transmission talisman and a defensive treasure from Monarch Qian Chuan. Unbeknownst to them, Yu Xuan had recruited powerful South Abyss demons to capture Zhou Xun, and his hope of claiming Zhou Xun’s Nascent Soul was rejected.

• True Lord Tian Ci gave Zhou Xun two Nine Dragon Talismans, and the two agreed to work together against Perfected Lord Yu Xuan at the ancient medicinal garden.
• Zhou Xun arranged to borrow a million-li transmission talisman from Monarch Qian Chuan for half a month and accepted a Black Tortoise Shield as a gift.
• Perfected Lord Yu Xuan told the Bountiful Clam Demon Emperor that Zhou Xun had taken the bait and asked for Zhou Xun’s Nascent Soul after the capture.
• The Bountiful Clam Demon Emperor revealed that the Thousand Crab Demon Emperor and four other demons would join Yu Xuan and Mountain Lord in the attack.
• The Spirit Pearl Demon Emperor refused Yu Xuan’s request, insisting that any captured Zhou Xun must be handed over to His Majesty South Abyss.

Zhou Xun traveled east with Perfected Lord Yu Xuan, knowing the elder intended to trap him, and launched a preemptive attack before they reached the supposed destination. Perfected Lord Yu Xuan called for demonic reinforcements, while Zhou Xun and Crimson Noon prepared to fight their opponents.

• Perfected Lord Yu Xuan persuaded Bountiful Clam Demon Emperor to lend him Zhou Xun and provide a transmission talisman for the planned ambush.
• Zhou Xun divined that travel would be auspicious, then left Seatown Immortal City with Perfected Lord Yu Xuan and Crimson Noon.
• An elegant Elder learned through a talisman that Zhou Xun had departed and followed them east.
• After traveling nearly two million miles, Zhou Xun contacted True Lord Tian Ci and attacked Perfected Lord Yu Xuan with the Nine Dragon Talismans.
• Perfected Lord Yu Xuan defended himself and alerted Thousand Crab Demon Emperor, who rushed to assist him.
• Crimson Noon transformed into a giant turtle and challenged Perfected Lord Yu Xuan's Rank 4 Mountain Monarch to fight.