Chapter Summaries

Li Xian spent his Merit Points and traveled with Nangong Feixu aboard a Heavenly Ark toward her Fief in the Falling Star Sea. There, Nangong Feixu planned to confront reports of Sea Serpent Clan members, while an old acquaintance, Shen Zangxing, left after learning she would not travel with him.

• Li Xian calculated the resources he needed to cultivate Magic Power and complete the first level of the Fuli True Body, but found the materials too expensive.
• Nangong Feixu took Li Xian to a Heavenly Ark bound for the Danxia Sword Sect and explained the dangers of the Falling Star Sea.
• Elder Zong Shuo welcomed Nangong Feixu and Li Xian aboard, warning that the route faced attacks from demons, including the Sea Serpent Clan.
• Shen Zangxing caught up with the Heavenly Ark and offered to accompany Nangong Feixu to her Fief after hearing Sea Serpent Clan members had appeared nearby.
• Nangong Feixu declined Shen Zangxing's offer and told him to leave, then returned to her quarters after he departed.

Yan Cailian and Cheng Wanli planned to kill Li Xian, but learned that Nangong Feixu was protecting him and that his fief lay in the Falling Star Sea. Aboard the Heavenly Ark, Li Xian joined Nangong Feixu, Xiao Baichuan, and An Ruyi in a plan to hunt the Nine Fiends of the Nether Sea.

• Yan Cailian rejected Cheng Wanli’s suggestion to use Great Zhou against Great Wei and insisted that Li Xian had to be eliminated.
• After hearing Li Xian was heading to his fief with Nangong Feixu, Yan Cailian decided to act personally, while Cheng Wanli agreed to help restrain Nangong Feixu.
• Yan Zhenxing discovered that Li Xian’s fief was in the Falling Star Sea, and Cheng Wanli recognized that the Heavenly Ark was headed toward his Danxia Sect connections.
• Nangong Feixu introduced Li Xian to Xiao Baichuan and An Ruyi aboard the Heavenly Ark, and they described their hunt for the Nine Fiends of the Nether Sea.
• Xiao Baichuan offered Li Xian and the others shares of the spoils, and Li Xian agreed to join their hunt once they reached the Falling Star Sea.

As Nangong Feixu, Xiao Baichuan, An Ruyi, and Li Xian pursued the Nine Fiends of the Nether Sea, they found ten enemies waiting on an island inside a demonic formation. Li Xian discovered that devouring Ghost Sha rapidly advanced his Fuli True Body and raised his magic power to ten percent, then chased down the weakened cultivator who had attacked him.

• Xiao Baichuan used the Truth-Seeking Compass to locate the Nine Fiends of the Nether Sea, and Nangong Feixu led the group from the Heavenly Ark to approach them underwater.
• An Ruyi sensed ten people on the island, and the group entered the Black Heaven Demonic Balefulness Formation after Xuanyou raised a banner and mistook them for pursuers.
• Li Xian confronted a gaunt middle-aged cultivator, shattered most of his Ghost Sha with a punch, and discovered he could devour the baleful energy.
• Li Xian absorbed the Ghost Sha and an icy magic-power attack, refining them through the Origin-Devouring Technique and increasing his magic power from five to ten percent.
• Li Xian pursued the middle-aged cultivator as he fled and devoured another attack before the man surrendered and begged for his life.

Li Xian killed several Nine Fiends of the Nether Sea cultivators while Nangong Feixu defeated Xuanyou and uncovered a formation tied to the Heavenly Sha Devil Sect. The group gathered at the formation, where Li Xian discovered that its baleful energy could help his cultivation.

• Li Xian saw through a bandit cultivator’s feigned surrender, killed him, then killed a brawny cultivator and a thin Mana Realm cultivator who attacked him.
• Nangong Feixu defeated Xuanyou, and the demonic qi shrouding the island dispersed as Li Xian and the others regrouped.
• The group compared their kills, with Li Xian reporting that he had killed two Mana Realm cultivators and one Dao Foundation Realm cultivator.
• Nangong Feixu showed the others a formation over a deep fissure that drew out baleful energy using netherworld marrow.
• Nangong Feixu identified the formation and Xuanyou’s techniques as connected to the Heavenly Sha Devil Sect, and explained that he had used the formation to temper his Second-Realm Dharma Treasure.
• Li Xian absorbed and refined the escaping baleful energy, then said it could help him cultivate.

Li Xian absorbed the fissure’s baleful energy to cultivate, but it overwhelmed him until Nangong Feixu gave him her Solar True Gold. He consumed it, balanced the energy, and completed the first level of the Fuli True Body, entering the Mana Realm.

• Nangong Feixu activated the Netherworld Baleful Refining Formation and drew Earth Sha from the fissure while Xiao Baichuan and An Ruyi stood guard.
• Li Xian channeled the baleful energy into himself, rapidly refining Fine Gold and increasing his magic power, but the energy froze his body and threatened to overwhelm him.
• Nangong Feixu gave Li Xian her Solar True Gold to dispel the frost, and Li Xian swallowed it before she could finish explaining what it was.
• The accumulated baleful energy began corroding the Solar True Gold, allowing Li Xian’s magic power to surge and his True Qi to convert completely.
• Li Xian entered the Mana Realm, formed dark-gold armor and weapons from his magic power, and completed the first level of the Fuli True Body.

Li Xian cultivated magic power and refined solar true gold into Xiantian metal qi, learning Sun-Chasing Sword Qi. He set out with Nangong Feixu for their fiefs, but his new sword-flight spell exhausted his magic power over the open sea, leaving Nangong Feixu to carry him onward.

• Li Xian entered the Mana Realm and chose Sun-Chasing Sword Qi to refine solar true gold into Xiantian metal qi, enduring the dangerous process until his lungs adapted.
• After a month of cultivation, Li Xian learned from Nangong Feixu that Elder Xiao and Elder An had returned to the sect, then told her he was heading to his fief.
• Nangong Feixu warned Li Xian that he would need four other powerful kinds of Xiantian qi to balance his five elements and offered to look for profitable missions.
• Li Xian updated his Identity Token and considered developing the traits of his Chaos Heavenly Demon Body if he could not afford the other Xiantian qi.
• Nangong Feixu taught Li Xian how to use sword qi for flight, and he outpaced her with Sun-Chasing Sword Qi before running out of magic power over the sea.
• Nangong Feixu laughed and offered to fly Li Xian the rest of the way.

Nangong Feixu and Li Xian reached her fief in the Zhoutian Archipelago and found it under attack by the Sea Serpent Clan. After they saved the harbor, the elders reported escalating raids and asked Nangong Feixu to consider joining a nearby island’s plan to hunt the sea serpents.

• Nangong Feixu explained to Li Xian the cultivation stages of Three Flowers Gather at the Crown and the danger and abilities involved.
• Nangong Feixu and Li Xian arrived at her fief and found thousands of defenders fighting sea serpents at the harbor.
• Li Xian killed three greater demons with Sun-Chasing Sword Qi, and Nangong Feixu used Lunar Realm Mysterious Light to slay the remaining attackers.
• Elder Sun told Nangong Feixu that this was the third Sea Serpent Clan attack that year and that defending the fief was becoming too costly.
• Another elder told Nangong Feixu that Azure Dragon Island had identified a sea serpent group and asked her to consider joining a joint attack.

Nangong Feixu and Li Xian traveled to Azure Dragon Island to hunt sea serpents that had infiltrated the Falling Star Sea. After learning the serpents’ last known location, they left to pursue them, while Elder Yanbing sent news of their mission to the chief True Inheritor.

• Nangong Feixu agreed to hunt the sea serpents with Li Xian and took the stardust sand from the island before they departed.
• After they left, Elder Sun and Elder Cao praised Li Xian’s exceptional talent and speculated that he could become a True Inheritor and forge an immortal Golden Core.
• Nangong Feixu and Li Xian reached Azure Dragon Island, where Elder Yun Chao reported the sea serpents’ strength and marked their last known location on her map.
• Nangong Feixu declined Elder Yanbing’s invitation and left with Li Xian to pursue the sea serpents.
• Elder Yun Chao reasoned that Nangong Feixu’s small party might draw out the serpents, and Elder Yanbing sent word that they were going after them.

Yan Cailian, Cheng Wanli, and Jiang Rufeng plotted to kill Li Xian and disguise his death as an attack by the Sea Serpent Clan. Unaware of the plot, Li Xian and Nangong Feixu fought the sea serpents on a nearby island, where Li Xian turned his attention to a powerful Fourth Realm serpent.

• Yan Cailian met Cheng Wanli and Jiang Rufeng, and they agreed to travel to the Falling Star Sea to kill Li Xian and make his death appear to be the Sea Serpent Clan’s doing.
• Nangong Feixu used Ripple Art to detect sea serpents approaching them, and she and Li Xian retreated to a nearby island to choose the battlefield.
• Li Xian and Nangong Feixu attacked the sea serpents as they came ashore.
• Li Xian overwhelmed and killed a peak Third Realm Six-Armed Sea Serpent, then asked Nangong Feixu to spare a Fourth Realm serpent so he could fight it himself.

Li Xian fought a Fourth Realm Six-Armed Sea Serpent whose starlight crystal let it resist Nangong Feixu’s freezing spell. After Li Xian knocked the crystal away, he drove the unprotected serpent high into the sky and tore it apart with repeated attacks.

• Nangong Feixu warned Li Xian about the risks of damaging his spell, and he charged the Six-Armed Sea Serpent with his sword.
• The sea serpent’s axe strike revealed its Fourth Realm spiritual sense, and it blasted Li Xian backward before he retaliated with a high-speed dive.
• The serpent’s starlight body resisted Nangong Feixu’s Lunar Realm Mysterious Light, while Li Xian’s repeated attacks exposed a deep-blue crystal beneath its scales.
• Li Xian used Sword Refining into Threads to pull the crystal away, leaving the sea serpent without its starlight protection.
• Li Xian repeatedly struck the sea serpent into the sky until his Sun-Chasing Sword Qi pierced and tore its body apart.

Li Xian and Nangong Feixu discovered that the blue crystal was a spirit treasure capable of imitating and storing different kinds of magic power, then continued hunting sea serpents. After a Danxia Sword Sect outpost sent them to an empty island, Yan Cailian and Jiang Rufeng trapped them, leaving Li Xian and Nangong Feixu facing a deadly ambush.

• Li Xian subdued the blue crystal after it revealed itself as a spirit treasure, and he and Nangong Feixu found that it could imitate different magic powers and might store Sun-Chasing Sword Qi.
• Li Xian and Nangong Feixu divided the sea serpent spoils, then agreed to keep hunting after finding few Six-Armed Sea Serpents over the next three days.
• A Danxia Sword Sect cultivator directed Li Xian and Nangong Feixu to an island where a band of sea serpents was supposedly resting, but they found no trace of them.
• Li Xian spotted someone approaching, and Yan Cailian appeared with Jiang Rufeng and trapped the pair in her Heavenly Net.
• Yan Cailian ordered Jiang Rufeng to hold off Nangong Feixu while she attacked Li Xian, and Nangong Feixu urged Li Xian to kill Jiang Rufeng first.

Li Xian confronted Yan Cailian in a duel, meeting her Heavenly Extremity Sword Intent with his strongest techniques. He blocked her first attack with a newly forged sword strike, but Yan Cailian renewed her assault and declared that she was stronger.

• Li Xian refused Nangong Feixu’s offer to fight Yan Cailian, while Nangong Feixu focused on defeating Jiang Rufeng so she could support him.
• Li Xian and Yan Cailian acknowledged that their feud could end only with one of them dying, and Yan Cailian attacked with Heavenly Extremity Sword Intent.
• Li Xian unleashed his Chaos Heavenly Demon Body, Fuli True Body, Five Elements magic power, and Sun-Chasing Sword Qi, but Yan Cailian shattered his counterattack with her Immortal Sword.
• Li Xian entered a heightened state of perception and used his Rising Sun sword strike to block Yan Cailian’s descending blade.
• Yan Cailian praised Li Xian’s swordsmanship, then strengthened her attack and declared that she was stronger.

Li Xian awakened Sword Intent during his battle with Yan Cailian, and their strongest attacks shattered each other’s spells and left them badly injured. Yan Cailian made one final desperate charge, but Li Xian defeated her in a brutal physical clash, and she finally admitted defeat.

• Yan Cailian used Heavenly Extremity Sword Intent to overwhelm Li Xian’s sword force and batter his Fuli True Body, while Nangong Feixu fought Jiang Rufeng to reach him.
• Yan Cailian unleashed Heavenly Sword Limitless, and Li Xian broke through his limits to awaken Sword Intent and meet her strike, causing both their Sword Intents to collapse.
• Jiang Rufeng fled after Yan Cailian’s spell broke, while Nangong Feixu moved toward the injured fighters and held back when Li Xian’s fighting spirit began to gather.
• Yan Cailian burned her turbulent Magic Power and charged Li Xian, who met her with his Chaos Heavenly Demon Body and fought her with every remaining strength.
• After their powers were exhausted, Li Xian’s final punch struck empty air, and he saw Yan Cailian gravely wounded on the ground; she eventually accepted that she had lost.

Li Xian recovered after killing Yan Cailian, and Nangong Feixu recognized his victory as proof that he could become a True Inheritor. As Nangong hurried back to the sect with a strand of white hair at her temple, the blue crystal’s artifact spirit warned Li Xian that she was in danger from spell backlash.

• Li Xian honored Yan Cailian’s resolve, then used a Second-Tier Spirit Pill to begin recovering from his fatal injuries.
• Nangong Feixu identified Yan Cailian’s Heavenly Extreme Sword and Golden Light Net as Third-Realm treasures and said Li Xian could claim the True Inheritor position.
• Li Xian planned to complete his True Inheritor formalities and travel to Jade Dragon Island, while Nangong Feixu noticed a white strand of hair and urgently left for the sect.
• Li Xian asked Nangong Feixu to sell the treasures and seek authority for him to handle Jiang Rufeng, whom she said had been involved in Yan Cailian’s ambush.
• The blue crystal’s artifact spirit revealed itself and warned Li Xian that Nangong Feixu risked spell backlash because her Dao Body was unbalanced.

Li Xian learned that Nangong Feixu’s Taiyin Dao Body was dangerously imbalanced and obtained a Secret Art from the artifact spirit Lingxu to help her. After giving it to her, he joined her on an uninhabited island to cultivate and began exploring how to combine his Fuli True Body with his Chaos Heavenly Demon Body.

• The artifact spirit explained that Nangong Feixu’s Taiyin Dao Body needed a supreme yang treasure to counter its excess lunar power, and Li Xian realized her solar true gold had been given to him for that purpose.
• The artifact spirit offered the Taiyin Soul-Refining Art in exchange for cooperation, and Li Xian agreed not to reveal its existence or sell it.
• Li Xian caught up with Nangong Feixu and recited the Secret Art, which she recognized as a powerful way to refine her soul and control her Taiyin Dao Body.
• Nangong Feixu brought Li Xian to a nearby uninhabited island, where they cultivated side by side and recovered from the battle with Yan Cailian.
• Li Xian realized the Chaos Heavenly Demon Body could project its power onto the Fuli True Body and considered creating a new spell from their combined traits.

After Yan Cailian died in her failed ambush on Li Xian and Nangong Feixu, Cheng Wanli discovered that she had left evidence tying him and Wang Xiangdong to the plot. He decided to kill Li Xian and Nangong Feixu before the sect could investigate, then blame the scheme on Yan Cailian.

• Jiang Rufeng told Cheng Wanli that Yan Cailian had failed to kill Li Xian, who appeared to wield sword intent, and that Jiang had fled after holding off Nangong Feixu for ten breaths.
• Cheng Wanli learned that Yan Cailian had disappeared from the True Disciple Ranking and told Jiang Rufeng to lie low while he considered escaping the affair himself.
• Cheng Wanli found Yan Cailian's prepared statement, which accused him and Wang Xiangdong of directing the ambush and threatened to deliver evidence to the sect if Li Xian remained alive after three months.
• Yan Cailian's statement burned when Cheng Wanli tried to extinguish it, leaving him convinced that her death had made him look like the mastermind.
• Cheng Wanli decided to forge Yan Cailian's evidence and kill Li Xian and Nangong Feixu before the sect investigated, planning to blame the plot on Yan Cailian.

Yunxi Sect leaders Xu Xuhuai and Fu Xi planned to exploit a Danxia Sect incident to stir conflict among the Falling Star Sea powers. Meanwhile, Li Xian parted from Nangong Feixu, who returned to the sect to pursue a breakthrough, and set out alone toward a place marked by Lingxu.

• Xu Xuhuai told Fu Xi that Xu Rulin was using the Heavenly Dipper Sixteen Baleful Sha, and Fu Xi said Yunxi Sect had to cooperate with the Heavenly Sha Devil Sect to survive coming changes.
• After reading intelligence about Danxia Sect’s chief true inheritor, Fu Xi proposed using the incident to make a Great Luo Immortal Sect inheritor’s death appear to be caused by an outsider.
• Nangong Feixu said the Lunar Realm Soul Refining Art had helped her sense the Upper Origin Grotto-Heaven, and she planned to return to the sect for a year of seclusion rather than travel to Jade Dragon Island with Li Xian.
• Li Xian declined to seek a supreme elder as a master, while Nangong Feixu explained the distinction between lesser cultivators and True Persons and warned him to flee from a True Essence great cultivator.
• Nangong Feixu gave Li Xian pills, Yan Cailian’s Third Realm treasured sword, an imitation Five Elements Pearl, and her storage bracelet before departing.
• Li Xian asked Lingxu to mark a destination on the map, then flew toward an area where demons had recently gathered their plunder.

After Yan Cailian’s death, Yan Zhenxing watched the Yan Family’s influence collapse as former allies abandoned them and their supported disciples faced retaliation. Meanwhile, Li Xian reached a Water Mansion, demonstrated his strengthened sword intent by slaughtering its sea-serpent guards, and found a vast store of valuable supplies.

• Yan Zhenxing learned that Yan Cailian was dead and feared the collapse of the Yan Family’s faction.
• Yan Zhenxing tried to contact disciples who owed Yan Cailian favors, but found some unavailable and others had blocked him.
• Yan Zhenxing received news that Yan Ruyue had been beaten and a supported disciple had fallen from the Entering-the-Dao Candidates Ranking.
• Li Xian followed Lingxu’s directions to a Water Mansion beneath the sea and entered its formation.
• Li Xian killed a Fourth Realm Six-Armed Sea Serpent with a strike combining sword intent and Sun-Chasing Sword Qi, then slaughtered the other sea serpents.
• Li Xian explored the Water Mansion and discovered a great hall filled with supplies worth an estimated twenty to thirty million merit points.

Li Xian used the Nether Kun Egg’s faint traces of Kunpeng blood to attempt the Great Devouring Art, despite Lingxu’s doubts. After a month of cultivation, he unleashed a devouring force that consumed the nearby natural energy and destroyed everything around him, leaving Lingxu to recognize the Great Devouring Art.

• Lingxu showed Li Xian a dead Nether Kun Egg and explained that its Kunpeng blood might help him learn the Kunpeng Heaven-Swallowing Art.
• Li Xian decided to pursue the Great Devouring Art instead and settled in the underwater residence to study it.
• Li Xian spent several days probing the Nether Kun Egg with his spiritual awareness and Magic Power, searching for traces of the Devouring Great Dao.
• Li Xian continued his efforts for a month, gradually consuming the egg while Lingxu concluded that he had wasted his chance to learn the Kunpeng Heaven-Swallowing Art.
• Li Xian suddenly unleashed a devouring force that drained the surrounding natural energy and reduced nearby plants, soil, and rocks to ash and dust.
• Lingxu realized that Li Xian had manifested the Great Devouring Art.

Li Xian used the Great Devouring Art to refine the water mansion’s weapons and treasures, then devoured three Sha demons summoned by a fleeing middle-aged man. The man escaped Li Xian’s pursuit long enough to place a strange curse mark on his arm.

• Lingxu decided to keep a lower profile after realizing how quickly she had mastered the Great Devouring Art.
• Li Xian refined the water mansion’s weapons, red gold, and other materials into Fuli Magic Power, advancing his Fuli True Body toward its second transformation.
• A middle-aged man entered the water mansion, found the sea serpents gone, and attacked Li Xian with a Ghost Sha.
• Li Xian devoured the Ghost Sha and two more Sha demons, advancing his Fuli True Body to its second level and disrupting the middle-aged man’s Magic Power.
• Li Xian pursued the middle-aged man through the seabed, and the man released Killing Intent that left a strange black mark on Li Xian’s arm.