Chapter Summaries

Zhou Xun settled his spirit insects on Polar Star Island, prepared Dan Yuan Wine, and continued cultivating his Nascent Soul and physique. Great Master Huaijie arrived to inspect the Rank 4 Mountain Monarch corpse Zhou Xun had promised him.

• Zhou Xun entrusted Jiang Wanning with caring for the Wind-Guiding Butterfly and Thousand Echo Bug while they stayed on Polar Star Island.
• Zhou Xun placed the Dragon Centipede Demon Emperor's inner Dan into Dan Yuan Wine to infuse it with Spiritual Qi over the next few years.
• Zhou Xun cultivated with lightning-attributed Dan Yuan Wine and used his Lightning Pool to temper his body, bringing his physique closer to the eleventh level.
• Great Master Huaijie arrived as promised, and Zhou Xun served him Spirit Mist Tea before presenting the Rank 4 Mountain Monarch's corpse.
• Great Master Huaijie sensed the corpse's Demon Energy and confirmed that it was indeed a Rank 4 Mountain Monarch.

Zhou Xun used Great Master Huaijie’s spiritual cooking to turn Tier 4 demonic beast flesh into a powerful cultivation resource, and the two arranged a way to preserve the feasts for later use. The chapter left Zhou Xun with a supply of Myriad Year Mystic Ice and a growing stock of demon corpses to process.

• Great Master Huaijie cooked the Mountain Monarch into spiritual broth, and Zhou Xun confirmed that it could substantially aid his cultivation.
• Zhou Xun hosted True Lord Yun Shang, Wei Chang'an, and Profound Star True Lord for the feast, and they discussed cultivation principles for half a month.
• Huaijie cooked Zhou Xun’s Mountain Monarch flesh every half year, helping Zhou Xun cultivate and improving Huaijie’s spiritual chef skills and Vajra Body.
• Zhou Xun revealed that he possessed six Tier 4 demonic corpses, including the Hundred-Winged Demon Emperor, and asked Huaijie to cook them as well.
• Huaijie offered to seal the cooked feasts with Mystic Gestures and preserve them with Myriad Year Mystic Ice for at least a hundred years.
• Zhou Xun exchanged a Tier 4 Ironback Demon Dragonfly corpse for Huaijie’s Myriad Year Mystic Ice.

Zhou Xun spent years cultivating on Polar Star Island before the Wind-Guiding Butterfly underwent its second metamorphosis. The butterfly survived and grew stronger, leaving Zhou Xun eager to see how its abilities had developed.

• Great Master Huaijie finished cooking Zhou Xun's demon carcasses into enough flesh-and-blood essence to sustain his cultivation for more than a decade.
• Zhou Xun spent two years studying Perfected Lord Heavenly Star's inheritance and cultivating peacefully on Polar Star Island.
• While cultivating with spiritual food made from the Hundred-Winged Demon Emperor's flesh, Zhou Xun sensed the Wind-Guiding Butterfly beginning its second metamorphosis.
• Zhou Xun freed Jiang Wanning from the butterfly's powerful illusion and watched as Spiritual Qi gathered around its cocoon.
• The Wind-Guiding Butterfly completed its metamorphosis, emerged larger and stronger, and eagerly drank Tier 3 Spirit Elixir from Zhou Xun's hand.

Zhou Xun fed his transformed Wind-Guiding Butterfly, then studied Perfected Lord Heavenly Star’s inheritance until he was ready to attempt Tier 4 array formation mastery. He began refining the Five Elements Yang Thunder Formation, processing Thunder Essence Amethyst for its formation flags.

• Zhou Xun fed the Wind-Guiding Butterfly ten drops of Tier 3 Spirit Elixir before it was satisfied, and it returned to its nest.
• Zhou Xun celebrated the butterfly’s advancement with Jiang Wanning, then spent two years studying Perfected Lord Heavenly Star’s inheritance and improving his understanding of Tier 4 formations.
• Zhou Xun entered seclusion to challenge the Tier 4 Array Formation Master realm by refining the Five Elements Yang Thunder Formation.
• Zhou Xun lit Tier 4 Spirit Soothing Incense, calmed his mind, and prepared the formation materials and refining process.
• Zhou Xun processed Thunder Essence Amethyst for three days until he had enough purified material for the formation, then began the next step.

Zhou Xun completed the Tier 4 Five Elements Yang Thunder Formation and tested its defenses on an uninhabited island with Feng Chong. After Feng Chong failed to break through, Zhou Xun began testing the formation’s offensive power by firing a lightning pillar at him.

• Zhou Xun refined the formation’s three hundred and sixty array flags and its array disc, completing the Five Elements Yang Thunder Formation.
• Zhou Xun brought Feng Chong to an uninhabited island and deployed the formation around it.
• Feng Chong struck the barrier with his claws and then attacked with earth-and-wind wind blades, but the barrier withstood the blows and repaired a crack with lightning.
• Zhou Xun activated the formation’s attack, sending a lightning pillar toward Feng Chong as Feng Chong crossed his wings to block it.

Zhou Xun tested his Five Elements Yang Thunder Formation, then strengthened it by merging several Rank 4 demonic souls into it. He returned to the Eastern Wasteland to relocate a Teleportation Array, while the chapter left Luo Buli’s patrol at the strange Barren Wasteland Valley.

• Zhou Xun saw the Five Elements Yang Thunder Formation blast Feng Zhong’s wings, confirming its power had reached Tier 4 Lower Grade and making him a Tier 4 Array Formation Master.
• Zhou Xun recalled South Peak True One’s Demonic Spirit Transformation and decided to use Rank 4 demonic souls to strengthen his formation.
• Zhou Xun merged the Mountain Monarch’s demonic soul and his other Rank 4 demonic souls into the formation plate.
• Zhou Xun’s true body returned to the Eastern Wasteland to move the Teleportation Array from the White Cloud Mountain Range to Lakeheart Island.
• Luo Buli led a patrol near White Cloud Market to Barren Wasteland Valley, where Luo Hong told the group that Senior Forgetful River had once encountered ghostly mist there.

Ghost mist erupted across the Eastern Wasteland and continued spreading instead of retreating as expected. Forgetful River Lake’s leaders gathered to discuss the growing catastrophe, but they had no clear way to stop it.

• Luo Buli saw ghost mist erupt from Barren Valley and fled with his companions to White Cloud Market.
• Luo Hong reported the Barren Valley eruption to Zhou Jinsong, who said ghost mist had appeared throughout the Eastern Wasteland and advised sealing off affected areas.
• Luo Hong and Luo Buli returned to White Cloud Market and organized a hundred-li restricted zone around Barren Valley.
• The ghost mist kept spreading across the region, contrary to past eruptions, while Forgetful River Lake sent Core Formation cultivators to help defend Fengyuan City.
• Xu Shaoqing convened Forgetful River Lake’s leaders, who admitted they lacked a way to stop the spreading mist and feared it would engulf their territory.

Zhou Xun returned to Forgetful River Lake after reaching Nascent Soul cultivation and discovered that its Spiritual Qi had grown stronger, perhaps because the barrier blocking the Eastern Wasteland from primal energy had cracked. He arrived at a troubled meeting and revealed his breakthrough to his disciples, leaving them astonished and overjoyed.

• Zhou Jinsong and the others wished Zhou Xun were there as they faced a crisis, while Xu Shaoqing said they could use his Teleportation Array to find him if necessary.
• After becoming a Tier 4 Array Formation Master, Zhou Xun comprehended and dismantled the long-distance Teleportation Array at Hundred Savages Mountain, then traveled back to Forgetful River Lake through Heaven Han City.
• Zhou Xun found Heaven Han City under tighter guard, entered unseen, and returned to Forgetful River Lake using the private Teleportation Array in his cave abode.
• Zhou Xun sensed increased Spiritual Qi and a trace of primal energy at Forgetful River Lake, and wondered whether the barrier around the Eastern Wasteland had developed a crack.
• Zhou Xun appeared before Xu Shaoqing and the others in their meeting hall and confirmed that he had formed a Nascent Soul, filling them with astonishment and joy.

Zhou Xun returned to Forgetful River Lake as a Nascent Soul cultivator, told his disciples that the Eastern Wasteland’s spiritual essence and veins were recovering, and set out to investigate the spreading ghost mist. Near White Cloud Market, he reunited with Luo Hong and recognized the origins of his family.

• Zhou Xun’s disciples congratulated him on reaching Nascent Soul, and he revealed that Forgetful River Lake might gain a Fourth-Order Spiritual Vein as the Eastern Wasteland recovered.
• Xu Shaoqing told Zhou Xun about the ghost mist spreading across the Eastern Wasteland, and he decided to investigate it himself.
• Zhou Xun flew toward White Cloud Market while Luo Hong and Luo Buli watched the ghost mist at Barren Valley, now only five thousand miles away.
• Zhou Xun appeared before Luo Hong, recognized him as Wei Hong, and praised his Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivation.

Zhou Xun investigated the ghost mist around Barren Valley and discovered that cracks in the valley were releasing it. He enclosed the valley with his Five Phoenixes Paying Homage Grand Formation, and the ghost mist stopped spreading.

• Zhou Xun asked Luo Buli to recount the ghost mist's eruption and demonstrate his escape speed after taking the Blood Fiend Elixir.
• After learning the mist had spread faster than before, Zhou Xun divined that it was safe to enter and flew inside.
• Zhou Xun reached Barren Valley and found more than ten cracks releasing black qi and ghost creatures.
• Zhou Xun deployed his Tier 4 Lower Grade Five Phoenixes Paying Homage Grand Formation to seal the valley and contain the mist.
• Luo Hong and the others saw that the ghost mist had stopped.

Zhou Xun sealed the ghost fog near White Cloud Market with his only Tier 4 Array and planned to address the remaining outbreaks by gathering the Eastern Wasteland’s major forces. He announced a Nascent Soul Ceremony to draw them to Forgetful River Immortal City, while a former Heaven Feather Sect Second Elder fled after hearing the news.

• Zhou Xun confined the ghost fog near White Cloud Market with a Tier 4 Array and realized that each outbreak would require another array to contain.
• At Forgetful River Immortal City, Xu Shaoqing reported outbreaks near Heaven Han City, the Heaven Feather Sect, and Fengyuan City, while Zhou Xun judged that the Fengyuan ghost fog would be handled by a God Transformation Celestial Lord.
• Zhou Xun decided to hold a Nascent Soul Ceremony in one month and invite the major forces, where he would announce his method for containing the ghost fog.
• The news of Zhou Xun’s breakthrough spread through the Eastern Wasteland, and doubtful leaders and elders decided to attend the ceremony to verify it.
• The former Second Elder of the Heaven Feather Sect scoffed at the news but fled his home that night with his Storage Pouch.

Zhou Xun welcomed the Lin Family and received nearly all of the Eastern Wasteland’s Core Formation cultivators for his Nascent Soul Ceremony. Meanwhile, an order recalled Zhou Xun and Profound Star True Lord from Polar Star Island to Seatown Immortal City, and the chapter ended as Zhou Xun displayed his Nascent Soul pressure before the gathered guests.

• Zhou Xun received Lin Anshu and the Lin Family, then used his spirit wood mana to briefly restore Lin Anshu’s vitality.
• Nearly ninety percent of the Eastern Wasteland’s Core Formation cultivators gathered in Forgetful River Immortal City for Zhou Xun’s Nascent Soul Ceremony.
• Zhou Xun and Profound Star True Lord received orders from Seatown Immortal City to leave Polar Star Island, and they departed with the returning forces.
• Zhou Xun sat in the main hall as representatives presented gifts from their factions.
• Zhou Xun released his Nascent Soul spiritual pressure over the guests, astonishing True Person Xing Yue and the other cultivators.

At Zhou Xun’s Nascent Soul ceremony, True Person Xing Yue was inspired by Zhou Xun’s aura and seized the chance to break through. With Zhou Xun’s help, Xing Yue passed all three trials and emerged as a Nascent Soul True Lord, pledging to follow Zhou Xun.

• True Person Xing Yue felt Zhou Xun’s Nascent Soul pressure, let go of his old grievances, and began advancing.
• Zhou Xun reassured the gathered cultivators that Xing Yue was breaking through and activated the Mountain Protection Grand Formation to gather Spiritual Qi.
• When Xing Yue’s breakthrough faltered for lack of primal energy, Zhou Xun supplied five Top-Grade Spirit Stones, allowing Xing Yue to form his Nascent Soul.
• True Person Xing Yue passed the lightning and Inner Demon Tribulations, becoming a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• After three days, Xing Yue thanked Zhou Xun and pledged to follow Senior Zhou’s lead, and Zhou Xun congratulated him.

At his Nascent Soul celebration, Zhou Xun announced that the Eastern Wasteland's cultivation shackles had vanished and explained how Tier 4 arrays could contain the ghostly mist. After arranging several new alliances and containing eleven mist patches, he returned to Seatown Immortal City, where the South Sea's forces were gathering for a decisive war.

• Zhou Xun announced the end of the Eastern Wasteland's six-thousand-year cultivation shackles, and True Person Xing Yue's breakthrough to Nascent Soul heightened the celebration.
• Zhou Xun revealed that Tier 4 arrays could confine the ghostly mist and offered to build them for free if forces supplied the materials.
• True Lord Xing Yue pledged Celestial Star Palace to Forgetful River Lake, connected Celestial Star City to its teleportation network, and gave Zhou Xun a Void Essence Crystal.
• Cultivators from the Lu Kingdom and other forces asked Zhou Xun to build arrays, and he helped contain at least eleven patches of ghostly mist in one year.
• Zhou Xun arrived at Seatown Immortal City under a mobilization order and reunited with Ironside True Lord, who had returned with nearly ten thousand cultivators.
• Zhou Xun and Ironside True Lord recognized that the South Sea's forces had gathered for a decisive battle against the Demon Race.

Zhou Xun returned to Seatown Immortal City as preparations for the decisive human-demon war intensified, and Monarch Qian Chuan assigned him to the western garrison and replenished his supplies. He reunited with Ironside True Lord and True Lord Tian Ci, and the three shared a feast before the coming battle.

• Zhou Xun entered Seatown Immortal City, saw its urgent war preparations, and reported to Monarch Qian Chuan.
• Monarch Qian Chuan assigned Zhou Xun to the western garrison and promised spirit stones to replenish his depleted supplies.
• Zhou Xun and Ironside True Lord visited True Lord Tian Ci, who welcomed Ironside True Lord back from Ringless Island.
• True Lord Tian Ci invited Zhou Xun and Ironside True Lord into his cave abode and served Spirit Monkey Brew.
• Zhou Xun brought out Tier 4 dishes, and the three friends ate and drank together while discussing the war.

Zhou Xun left the immortal city for the southern front, where the strongest cultivators of Central Continent gathered to plan the decisive battle for control of the South Sea. He arrived as the Demon Race assembled forces from six regions, and Netherfiend True Lord began briefing the gathered leaders.

• Zhou Xun returned to his restored cave abode, then spent the days before the battle visiting friends and receiving guests.
• Wang Erniu told Zhou Xun he felt guilty about leaving Lin Xiu'e and his family, and Zhou Xun urged him to return to the Eastern Wasteland after the battle.
• Wang Erniu, Ironside True Lord, and True Lord Tian Ci received orders to head to the southern front, and Zhou Xun was later ordered there to escort spirit stones.
• Zhou Xun collected High-Grade Spirit Stones and traveled to the defensive line with Jiang Wanning, the Earth Origin Beast, and the Crimson Noon Spirit Turtle.
• Netherfiend True Lord welcomed Zhou Xun to a gathering of Central Continent's leading cultivators and seated him among the highest-ranked figures beneath the great cultivators.
• Netherfiend True Lord declared that the battle would decide control of the South Sea and reported that the Demon Race had gathered beasts from six regions.

Zhou Xun and the other Human Race cultivators assigned opponents for the coming battle against the Demon Race. As Zhou Xun prepared to face the Thunder Plume Demon Emperor, he entrusted his subordinates and War Skiffs to Wang Lingfeng, Jiang Wanning, and his mounts.

• Netherfiend True Lord warned that the Gold Dragon Demon Emperor might be nearing Spirit Transformation, and the Human Race leaders assigned themselves opponents among the fourteen Upper-Grade Demon Emperors.
• Zhou Xun volunteered to fight the Thunder Plume Demon Emperor for its lightning-attributed wings, and reassured True Lord Tian Ci that he could escape if the fight turned against him.
• Zhou Xun told his Foundation Establishment subordinates that he would be occupied with another task and ordered them to follow Wang Lingfeng and Jiang Wanning.
• Zhou Xun assigned Feng Zhong and Crimson Noon to protect the two War Skiffs and his subordinates, then explained that they could not assist him against the Upper-Grade demon roc.

Zhou Xun reassured Jiang Wanning and led the human army into battle against the Demon Race. The armies clashed as Netherfiend True Lord and the Gold Dragon Demon Emperor began a fierce duel, leaving the wider battle underway.

• Jiang Wanning asked Zhou Xun to protect the Jiang Lineage if anything happened to her, and he assured her that his arrangements would keep her safe.
• At dawn, Zhou Xun left Chiwu and Feng Zhong in charge of the War Skiff and told them to come back alive before joining the advancing army.
• The human army encountered the Demon Race, where Zhou Xun spotted the Thunder Plume Demon Emperor and the Gold Dragon Demon Emperor.
• Netherfiend True Lord attacked first, killing hundreds of demon beasts with a colossal black hand.
• The Gold Dragon Demon Emperor summoned a golden dragon phantom and fought Netherfiend True Lord, whose black hand clashed with the dragon's tail and sent shockwaves across the sea.

Zhou Xun faced the upper-grade Thunder Plume Demon Emperor and used his Lightning Pool to absorb the demon’s lightning attacks before trapping him in the Violet Firmament True Thunder Formation. The Wind-Guiding Butterfly bewildered the demon, allowing Zhou Xun to counter his escape and unleash simulated tribulation lightning, though the Thunder Plume Demon Emperor raised a powerful shield to defend himself.

• Perfected Lord Tianyi fought the South Abyss Demon Emperor to a standstill, while Profound Thunder True Lord and the Three Alliance Lords battled the female demon who had once helped besiege him.
• Zhou Xun confronted the Thunder Plume Demon Emperor, whose lightning attacks the Lightning Pool devoured without difficulty.
• Zhou Xun deployed seventy-two Lightning Seeds to seal the surrounding space and trap the Thunder Plume Demon Emperor in his formation.
• The Thunder Plume Demon Emperor took out an ancient bronze bell, but the Wind-Guiding Butterfly bewildered him, causing him to mistake an illusion for Zhou Xun and attack it.
• Zhou Xun used Tribulation Lightning Descent to strike the Thunder Plume Demon Emperor, who failed to escape and raised a massive lightning shield reinforced by his inner Dan.

Zhou Xun tested his strength against Thunder Plume Demon Emperor, breaking his shield and wounding him with Tribulation Lightning Descent before trapping him with the Heavenly Origin Sword Formation. He killed four lower-grade Demon Emperors on the battlefield, but a mysterious figure appeared and caused the Spirit Energy of everyone in the region to stall.

• Zhou Xun’s Tribulation Lightning Descent shattered Thunder Plume Demon Emperor’s Lightning Shield and lightly wounded him in his true form.
• Zhou Xun summoned the Heavenly Origin Sword Formation, but Thunder Plume Demon Emperor defended himself with his Mystic Treasure wings.
• Zhou Xun killed a lower-grade lightning roc with Junmang and captured its corpse, Dan, and divine soul.
• Zhou Xun slew three more lower-grade Demon Emperors before returning to trap Thunder Plume Demon Emperor.
• A figure appeared above the battlefield and caused the Spirit Energy inside cultivators across several thousand li to fall still.