Chapter Summaries

Zhou Xun visited South Peak True One and True Person Pill Cauldron, then gathered his disciples and subordinates to arrange their cultivation and responsibilities. He planned a teleportation array between Heaven Han City and Forgetful River Lake and called for a search for Profound Void Crystal to expand the network across the Eastern Wasteland.

• Zhou Xun visited South Peak True One, who learned that Daoist Heaven's Gift and Daoist Tieshan had both advanced to Nascent Soul and lamented that he might never see them again.
• True Person Pill Cauldron joined Zhou Xun and South Peak True One for a gathering over spirit wine from the Central Continent.
• Zhou Xun summoned Zhou Jinsong, Shi Wanrong, and Wei Qiuxin, ordered Shi Wanrong to return to Forgetful River Lake to cultivate, and gave Wei Qiuxin a super-grade Essence Crystallization Pill.
• Zhou Xun gave Zhou Jinsong and his wife spirit liquid refined from Tier 3 High-Grade demon Dan.
• Zhou Xun announced plans for a Teleportation Array between Heaven Han City and Forgetful River Lake and instructed them to search for Profound Void Crystal for a wider Eastern Wasteland network.

Zhou Xun established a Teleportation Array between Heaven Han City and Forgetful River Lake, then used the profits and a reward campaign to expand the network across the Eastern Wasteland. After a year of secluded cultivation, he reached Peak Core Formation and prepared to leave for Central Continent with Lin Xueying to form his Nascent Soul.

• Zhou Xun built and tested a Teleportation Array connecting Heaven Han City and Forgetful River Lake, then began charging one thousand Spirit Stones per use.
• The array drew cultivators from across the Eastern Wasteland, earning Zhou Xun nearly a million Spirit Stones in less than half a year.
• Zhou Xun offered cultivation support and valuable pills for Profound Void Crystals, prompting a widespread search and leading him to build an array connecting with the Heaven Feather Sect.
• After a year in secluded cultivation, Zhou Xun reached Peak Core Formation and went to the Heart Cleansing Pavilion, where Lin Xueying found him.
• Zhou Xun told Lin Xueying that they would leave in two days for Central Continent, where he planned to form his Nascent Soul.

Zhou Xun told his disciples he was leaving the Eastern Wasteland for the Central Continent and secretly traveled there with Lin Xueying. At Song Yiqing’s cave residence, he prepared to attempt a Nascent Soul breakthrough.

• Zhou Xun summoned his five disciples, announced that he had reached peak Core Formation, and revealed the secret route to the Central Continent, warning them to keep it hidden.
• Zhou Xun lectured his disciples on cultivation and the Nascent Soul stage, then took Lin Xueying through his teleportation network to the Spirit Mastery Sect.
• Zhou Xun reunited with Song Yiqing and his two spirit beasts, then explained that he had come to use the sect’s Tier 4 spiritual vein to attempt a breakthrough.
• Zhou Xun set up a Tier 4 formation around Song Yiqing’s cave residence and ordered his spirit beasts to guard the entrance while he entered seclusion.
• Zhou Xun secured the cultivation chamber, lit Tier 4 Spirit Soothing Incense, and began preparing to form his Nascent Soul.

Zhou Xun formed a Nascent Soul with a superior Nascent Soul Pill and easily passed the tribulations. The lotus seed infused his Nascent Soul with mysterious power, leaving his true body with strength and potential that surpassed his avatar's.

• Zhou Xun refined a Nascent Soul Pill into a Superior Nascent Soul Pill and swallowed it to begin his breakthrough.
• Zhou Xun compressed his Golden Core until it cracked and transformed into a Nascent Soul, while the Spirit Mastery Sect sensed his Nascent Soul Tribulation.
• Zhou Xun used a forest to absorb all nine lightning bolts and swiftly overcame the Inner Demon Tribulation.
• The lotus seed sent wondrous radiance into Zhou Xun's Nascent Soul, leaving an Azure Lotus pattern and growing a lotus leaf in his Dantian.
• Zhou Xun sensed that his newly formed Nascent Soul's mana was no weaker than his avatar's and realized his true body's potential was greater.

Zhou Xun condensed a Nascent Soul and accepted an offer to become an Honored Guest Elder of the Spirit Mastery Sect. Back in Seatown Immortal City, he learned that Perfected Lord Yuan Gu and True Monarch Fengyan had vanished and began studying the inheritance of a Tier 4 Peak-Grade formation.

• Zhou Xun tested his Nascent Soul and found that his strength, combined with his incarnation, could rival a grand cultivator.
• Lin Xueying and Song Yiqing congratulated Zhou Xun, and Old Tortoise of Azure Canopy later visited him at the cave residence.
• Old Tortoise of Azure Canopy offered Zhou Xun an Honored Guest Elder position with a Tier 4 cave residence and five High-Grade Spirit Stones every hundred years, and Zhou Xun accepted.
• Zhou Xun returned to Seatown Immortal City and heard that Perfected Lord Yuan Gu and True Monarch Fengyan had vanished, with the Demon Race blamed for their disappearance.
• Zhou Xun studied the Jade Slip inheritance of a Tier 4 Peak-Grade formation and examined the materials needed to lay it out.

Zhou Xun failed to complete a Tier 4 array plate, then spent six years cultivating and studying formations while waiting for a chance to hunt Azure Lightning Demon Clan beasts. The ceasefire ended when a colossal beast shattered the southern battlefront’s defenses, and Seatown Immortal City sounded its war drums as the Human Race prepared for battle.

• Zhou Xun refined the array flagpoles and flag surfaces but failed to engrave the Tier 4 array plate, then fed Tier 3 Spirit Elixir to the Wind-Guiding Butterfly.
• Over six years, Zhou Xun advanced his cultivation and studied array formations while monitoring the Azure Lightning Demon Clan for a hunting opportunity.
• A gigantic beast burst from beneath the southern battlefront, broke through its walls and a crucial point in its formation, and the Demon Race launched a massive attack.
• Seatown Immortal City sounded six rounds of war drums, and Zhou Xun set out with Feng Chong and Crimson Noon while Jiang Wanning stayed behind.
• Zhou Xun met True Lord Tian Ci on the way to Seatown Grand Hall, where nearly three hundred Nascent Soul cultivators, including Perfected Lord Tianyi, Perfected Lord Yuan Lang, and Netherfiend True Lord, had gathered.

After the Demon Race breached Seatown Immortal City's southern defenses with a Savage Ancient Beast, Monarch Qian Chuan organized reinforcements while Profound Thunder True Lord fought to hold the line. Profound Thunder True Lord faced three upper-grade Demon Emperors alone as the battle escalated.

• Monarch Qian Chuan reported that a Savage Ancient Beast had destroyed key nodes of the southern defensive formation and breached the front.
• Netherfiend True Lord led a force of cultivators, including Zhou Xun and True Lord Tian Ci, toward the southern front, with Zhou Xun riding Feng Zhong.
• Profound Thunder True Lord fought the Savage Ancient Beast while an elder and more than twenty Tier 3 Array Formation Masters began repairing the damaged formation.
• The South Abyss Demon Emperor and two other Tier 4 Upper-Grade demonic beasts appeared before Profound Thunder True Lord and urged him to join the Demon Race.
• Profound Thunder True Lord refused and formed a giant lightning spear to challenge the South Abyss Demon Emperor, who summoned dark clouds and a powerful demonic aura.

Profound Thunder True Lord delayed the three Demon Emperors long enough for the Human Race Array Formation Masters to repair the defensive formation, but the demon beasts eventually broke through. Netherfiend True Lord arrived as the Human Race forces fled under pursuit.

• Profound Thunder True Lord fought the South Abyss Demon Emperor and two other Demon Emperors, but escaped with his lightning Nascent Soul after a black beam pierced his head.
• Profound Thunder True Lord and the Array Formation Masters restored the defensive barrier, forcing the South Abyss Demon Emperor to order a coordinated assault.
• The three Demon Emperors and the Beast Tide battered the weakened barrier while more than forty Nascent Soul Cultivators defended it.
• The final light curtain shattered, and Profound Thunder True Lord and the Human Race cultivators retreated as the demon beasts pursued them.
• Netherfiend True Lord arrived with reinforcements, saw the Human Race cultivators being chased, and ordered his forces to attack.

Zhou Xun joined the battle as reinforcements arrived and challenged the Thousand Crab Demon Emperor, his old rival. After freeing a besieged cultivator, Zhou Xun trapped the demon emperor in his Violet Firmament True Thunder Formation and intensified the bindings as his opponent struggled to break free.

• Nearly two hundred Nascent Soul Cultivators reinforced the Human Race, and Netherfiend True Lord engaged the South Abyss Demon Emperor.
• Zhou Xun arrived with Feng Zhong and spotted the Thousand Crab Demon Emperor pursuing a Human Race cultivator.
• Zhou Xun intercepted the Thousand Crab Demon Emperor with his Mystic Thunder Sword, allowing Yun Shang to retreat and recover.
• Zhou Xun and the Thousand Crab Demon Emperor agreed to resume their unfinished duel, and Zhou summoned his Violet Firmament True Thunder Formation.
• Zhou used thunder chains to bind the Thousand Crab Demon Emperor, who strained against them as Zhou reinforced the restraints with lightning.

Zhou Xun overwhelmed the Thousand Crab Demon Emperor with tribulation lightning and a vast sword formation, destroying its body and trapping its fleeing demon core. As Zhou Xun moved to capture it, the South Abyss Demon Emperor intervened with Dark Radiance, forcing Zhou Xun to defend himself.

• The Thousand Crab Demon Emperor broke Zhou Xun's lightning chains and transformed into its colossal crab form, but Zhou Xun summoned Tribulation Lightning Descent.
• The Thousand Crab Demon Emperor's shield shattered under Zhou Xun's lightning bolts, and its Undying Physique struggled to repair the damage.
• Zhou Xun formed the Heavenly Origin Sword Formation, and its seven hundred and twenty lightning swords destroyed the Thousand Crab Demon Emperor's body.
• The Thousand Crab Demon Emperor's demon core tried to escape, but Zhou Xun's Azure Jade Chalice blocked its teleportation and Zhou Xun pursued it with lightning wings.
• The South Abyss Demon Emperor attacked Zhou Xun with Dark Radiance, and the black pillar shattered several of Zhou Xun's lightning shields.

Zhou Xun helped repel the Demon Race at the southern defensive line and returned to the immortal city after the battle. As he considered improving his mastery of void power, Wang Lingfeng arrived with a visitor, Perfected Hua Du.

• Zhou Xun blocked South Abyss Demon Emperor's attack, but Thousand Crab Demon Emperor escaped; Zhou Xun took the demon's refined pincers, armor, legs, and flesh.
• South Abyss Demon Emperor ordered the Demon Race to retreat after Netherfiend True Lord defeated him, preserving the defensive line.
• Netherfiend True Lord praised Zhou Xun's strength and remained at the southern defensive line while Zhou Xun returned to the immortal city with Thousand Severance True Lord.
• Zhou Xun went into seclusion and resolved to develop void power for his attacks, but a message from Wang Lingfeng summoned him to meet Perfected Hua Du.

Zhou Xun was summoned to Seatown Grand Hall, where Monarch Qian Chuan asked him and two other Nascent Soul cultivators to reinforce Polar Star Island as war with the Demon Race loomed. After Yun Shang revealed that Zhou Xun had defeated the Thousand Crab Demon Emperor, the group accepted command of the island’s reinforcements.

• Wang Lingfeng escorted Zhou Xun from his cave abode to Seatown Grand Hall at Monarch Qian Chuan’s invitation.
• Monarch Qian Chuan and Zhou Xun discussed Old Hong’s death in the battle at the southern defensive line.
• Wei Chang'an and Yun Shang arrived, and Yun Shang thanked Zhou Xun for saving him from the Thousand Crab Demon Emperor.
• Yun Shang revealed that Zhou Xun had defeated the Thousand Crab Demon Emperor and forced its demon soul to flee, surprising Wei Chang'an and Monarch Qian Chuan.
• Monarch Qian Chuan assigned Zhou Xun, Wei Chang'an, and Yun Shang to reinforce Polar Star Island with thirty thousand cultivators, and they agreed to go.

Zhou Xun prepared to lead thirty thousand cultivators and his companions from Seatown Immortal City to reinforce Polar Star Island, while learning that powerful sect treasures were being mobilized for an impending decisive battle. As his fleet traveled west, a vast demon horde approached the island, led by a mysterious horned young man who ordered an immediate assault.

• Monarch Qian Chuan ordered Zhou Xun to take command of the expedition to Polar Star Island and defend it from the Demon Race.
• Zhou Xun summoned Jiang Wanning, the Crimson Noon Spirit Turtle, and the Earth Origin Beast, and arranged for all three to accompany him.
• Zhou Xun met True Lord Yun Shang and Wei Chang'an at the west city gate, where they discussed the war spirit skiffs and the powerful treasures being mobilized by the major sects.
• Zhou Xun led thirty thousand cultivators aboard five war spirit skiffs toward Polar Star Island, where Profound Star True Lord and Great Master Huaijie commanded the defenses.
• A hundred thousand li south of the island, a vast demonic beast horde advanced under the command of a horned young man, who ordered his forces to accelerate and breach Polar Star Island.

A demon beast army led by a young man and seven Demon Emperors surrounded Polar Star Island, where Profound Star True Lord and Great Master Huaijie prepared to defend the island behind a Tier 4 formation. The attack began at dawn, and the chapter ended as the young man sent two figures forward, including a middle-aged man who transformed into a massive Mukade Dragon Centipede.

• Demon beasts appeared on the horizon and charged toward Polar Star Island, alarming the stationed cultivators and revealing seven Demon Emperors among their ranks.
• Profound Star True Lord organized the island’s defenders while Great Master Huaijie activated the Mountain Protection Grand Formation.
• The young man leading the demon forces inspected the Tier 4 Middle-Grade formation and ordered his army to rest before attacking the next day.
• Profound Star True Lord and Great Master Huaijie watched the demon army surround the island and prepared their nearly five thousand cultivators for battle.
• At dawn, the demon beasts attacked the Azure Tide Listening Array, and the young man sent two figures forward as the middle-aged man transformed into a seven-hundred-zhang Mukade Dragon Centipede.

The Demon Race attacked Polar Star Island’s Azure Tide Listening Array, and the young Demon Emperor directed a coordinated assault against a single point. Great Master Huaijie led a surprise sortie to disrupt the attackers, but the young Demon Emperor struck him with a black pillar of light.

• The Dragon Centipede and a giant catfish Demon Emperor attacked the Azure Tide Listening Array, but Kun Yuan True Person and the other Array Formation Masters replenished it with the South Sea’s water Spirit Energy.
• Profound Star True Lord and Great Master Huaijie recognized the two Demon Emperors’ unusual powers as the young Demon Emperor gathered his forces and ordered them to concentrate their attacks on one point.
• The Demon Race’s combined assault battered the formation, which held temporarily with the support of Profound Star True Lord, Great Master Huaijie, and tens of thousands of cultivators.
• Great Master Huaijie led three hundred Foundation Establishment and Dan cultivators out in a surprise attack, smashing demon beasts with his Buddhist staff and disrupting their formation.
• The young Demon Emperor fired a black pillar of light at Huaijie; it vanished and reappeared near him, grazing him as he tried to dodge.

Zhou Xun and the Human Race reinforcements reached Polar Star Island just as the Azure Tide Listening Array neared collapse. The Black Reef Demon Emperor split his forces to intercept them while the Dragon Centipede Demon Emperor continued the siege, leaving the defenders hopeful but still under pressure to endure.

• The Black Horned Youth wounded Great Master Huaijie and drove the Human Race defenders back behind the Azure Tide Listening Array.
• Zhou Xun, Wei Chang'an, and the others arrived near Polar Star Island and saw that the demon beasts were close to breaking through.
• The Black Horned Youth spotted five approaching war Spirit Skiffs and ordered the Dragon Centipede Demon Emperor to keep attacking while he led four Demon Emperors to intercept the reinforcements.
• Wei Chang'an credited Zhou Xun with urging them to hurry, and Zhou Xun recognized the Black Reef Demon Emperor among the opposing forces.
• The Human Race defenders on Polar Star Island saw the Spirit Skiffs arrive and hoped to hold out until the Demon Race was forced to retreat.

Zhou Xun tested the power of five Spirit Skiffs against the demonic beast horde, then divided the battle between his allies and the Demon Emperors. He confronted the Black Reef Demon Emperor with the Mystic Thunder Sword, and the chapter ended as Black Reef launched his black beam at Zhou Xun’s Lightning Shields.

• Zhou Xun ordered five Spirit Skiffs to fire on the advancing demonic beasts, destroying many and gravely wounding others.
• The Black Reef Demon Emperor transformed into a colossal Ink Dragon and blocked a second Spirit Skiff barrage with a beam of Demon Energy.
• Zhou Xun assigned Wei Chang'an and True Lord Yun Shang to fight two Demon Emperors, while the Crimson Noon Spirit Turtle and Earth Origin Beast took on the other two.
• Zhou Xun sent the Mystic Thunder Sword, empowered by eighty-one sword lights, crashing into Black Reef and breaking his scales.
• Black Reef recognized Zhou Xun and vowed to erase his past humiliation, then attacked with a black beam that Zhou Xun met with dozens of Lightning Shields.

After the Black Reef Demon Emperor fled, Zhou Xun pursued the Dragon Centipede Demon Emperor to claim its core and began fighting it. The Dragon Centipede shrugged off Zhou Xun’s first lightning strike and challenged him to use stronger attacks.

• The Black Reef Demon Emperor fled after his innate divine ability failed to break through Zhou Xun’s Lightning Shields, and the other Demon Emperors soon followed.
• With the beast army in disarray, Zhou Xun told Wei Chang'an and True Lord Yunshang to guard Polar Star Island, then chased the Dragon Centipede Demon Emperor.
• Zhou Xun caught up with the Dragon Centipede, rejected its attempt to negotiate, and attacked it with lightning.
• The Dragon Centipede summoned a fire dragon, while Zhou Xun countered with a lightning wyrm and surrounded it with seventy-two Lightning Seeds.
• The Dragon Centipede transformed into its massive true form and nullified Zhou Xun’s next lightning strike, then taunted him to try stronger techniques.

Zhou Xun defeated the Dragon Centipede Demon Emperor with simulated tribulation lightning and a surprise spear strike, then captured his soul and inner Dan. He returned to Polar Star Island, where Profound Star True Lord introduced him to Great Master Huaijie.

• Zhou Xun used Tribulation Lightning Descent to break the Dragon Centipede Demon Emperor's flame shield and paralyze him.
• Zhou Xun pierced the Dragon Centipede Demon Emperor's head with the Junmang Short Spear while his body was numb.
• Zhou Xun used a Void Treasure to prevent the demon soul from escaping, sealed the soul and inner Dan, and stored them separately.
• Zhou Xun collected the Dragon Centipede Demon Emperor's body and returned to Polar Star Island.
• Profound Star True Lord welcomed Zhou Xun and introduced him to Great Master Huaijie, who praised Zhou Xun's strength.

Zhou Xun enjoyed Great Master Huaijie's Tier 4 spirit cooking and arranged for him to prepare a Rank 4 Mountain Monarch into a spiritual feast. He settled into his new cave abode on Polar Star Island, secured it with a formation, and began arranging his spirit insects.

• Great Master Huaijie invited Zhou Xun to a banquet of spiritual delicacies, and Zhou praised the dishes' flavor and cultivation benefits.
• Zhou Xun asked Great Master Huaijie about preparing Tier 4 Demonic Beasts, and Huaijie explained the care and skill required.
• Zhou Xun offered the Rank 4 Mountain Monarch for Huaijie to prepare, and they agreed that Huaijie would keep two-tenths of the feast as payment.
• Zhou Xun accepted Profound Star True Lord's former cave abode on Polar Star Island and invited the other Daoists to share the Mountain Monarch feast.
• Zhou Xun installed a Tier 4 Lower Grade Five Phoenixes Paying Homage Grand Formation around his cave abode, then placed the Wind-Guiding Butterfly's nest in the insect chamber.