Recaps

Qin Chen emerged from half a year of seclusion as Qin Yu completed his breakthrough to External Cultivation Xiantian and returned to the Imperial City. Qin Yu reunited with Qin De and finally saw Qin Chen, eager to show his Third Brother what he had achieved.

• Qin Chen left seclusion after strengthening his body and soul, and reflected on his new Star Cloud Armor.
• Qin Yu completed the Seventy-Second Form of the second Tongtian Diagram and reached External Cultivation Xiantian.
• Qin Yu and Little Black flew to the Great Qin Imperial City, where Qin De recognized them and welcomed his son.
• Qin Yu told Qin De about his breakthrough and asked whether Qin Chen had emerged from seclusion.
• Qin Chen appeared on the Martial Arts Field, and Qin Yu excitedly called out to his Third Brother.

Qin Chen reunited with his family and revealed that he planned to leave the Qianlong Continent for the Overseas Cultivation World. He left Qin Yu to strengthen himself first and promised to return for Qin De, Qin Feng, and Qin Zheng after establishing a foothold overseas.

• Qin Yu challenged Qin Chen with a full-strength punch, but Qin Chen stopped it effortlessly and sent him flying with a light touch.
• Qin De ended their sparring and invited Qin Chen and Qin Yu to celebrate with Qin Feng and Qin Zheng.
• At the family banquet, Qin Chen explained that the Qianlong Continent lacked the spiritual energy needed for higher cultivation and announced he would go overseas.
• Qin Yu asked to accompany Qin Chen, but Qin Chen told him to master the third Tongtian Diagram and reach a new realm before joining him.
• Qin Chen entrusted Great Qin to Qin De, Qin Feng, and Qin Zheng and promised to return for them after establishing a Qin Family force overseas.

Qin Chen left Great Qin after entrusting Qin Zheng with cultivation resources and promising Qin Yu they would meet again. At sea, he effortlessly killed a mid Nascent Soul stage demon general who was attacking five human cultivators, leaving both sides stunned.

• Qin Chen said farewell to Qin De, Qin Feng, Qin Zheng, and Qin Yu before setting out overseas.
• Qin Chen gave Qin Zheng a jade slip with formation methods and pill formulas to strengthen Great Qin.
• Qin Chen reminded Qin Yu of their agreement, and Qin Yu vowed to find him after obtaining the third Tongtian Diagram.
• Qin Chen encountered five human cultivators under attack by the Green-Scaled Demon General and over a hundred undersea demonic beasts.
• Qin Chen caught the demon general's axe-light between two fingers and killed him with a single palm strike.
• The surviving demonic beasts and human cultivators stared in shock as the battle fell silent.

Qin Chen saved Lin Xuan and his fellow disciples, then learned about Azure Water Manor and its ruler, Jiao Sha. He went to seize the manor and declared that its sea demons must submit or die, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Qin Chen stopped the fleeing sea demons with a gravitational field after killing their commander, the Green-Scaled Demon General.
• Lin Xuan offered Qin Chen a Violet Spirit Coral, but Qin Chen refused it and asked about Azure Water Manor.
• Lin Xuan explained that Jiao Sha ruled the Azure Water Sea with a hundred thousand sea demons and eight Nascent Soul elders.
• Qin Chen released the captured sea demons and ordered one to lead him to Azure Water Manor.
• Jiao Sha confronted Qin Chen outside the manor with his army, and Qin Chen announced that he had come to take over and would reward submission or punish resistance.

Qin Chen defeated Jiao Sha and seven Nascent Soul elders, then used Xiaobai’s divine-beast aura to make Jiao Sha submit and establish the Star Pavilion. Lin Xuan pledged Azure Cloud Island’s three hundred cultivators to the new force, and Jiao Sha presented the former manor’s treasury inventory to Qin Chen.

• Qin Chen killed the seven Nascent Soul elders with one punch and crushed Jiao Sha beneath his foot.
• Xiaobai’s super divine beast aura subdued the sea demon army and broke Jiao Sha’s resistance.
• Jiao Sha submitted to Qin Chen, offered his soul essence blood, and received the first three levels of the Dragon Transformation Art.
• Qin Chen renamed Azure Water Manor the Star Pavilion, and Lin Xuan pledged the three hundred cultivators of Azure Cloud Island to it.
• Jiao Sha presented Qin Chen with a jade slip listing the former Azure Water Manor’s treasury.

Qin Chen took Jiao Sha’s finest treasures for his father and gave the remaining treasury resources to the newly established Star Pavilion. After learning about the nearby powers and their Dongxu-stage backer, he set out to absorb the surrounding territories and killed the Blood Shark Cave’s master with one strike.

• Qin Chen took Jiao Sha’s top treasures, sent them to his father with Xiaobai, and told Jiao Sha to distribute the remaining wealth to strengthen the Star Pavilion.
• Jiao Sha told Qin Chen about the Blood Shark Cave, the Illusory Sea Mirage Pavilion, Dark Nether Island, and the Azure Abyss Prefect, a Dongxu-stage greater demon.
• Qin Chen ordered his forces to muster and absorb the neighboring powers.
• At the Blood Shark Cave, its master insulted Jiao Sha and attacked Qin Chen with blood-red water dragons.
• Qin Chen killed the Blood Shark Cave’s master with a strand of starlight sword energy, and Lin Xuan crossed the cave off his list.

Qin Chen defeated the Mirage Demon and reached Dark Nether Island, where he shattered Gui Qianshou’s defenses and killed him despite the intervention of a Void Refinement expert’s projection. The projection remained furious as Qin Chen stood unmoved by its threat.

• Qin Chen dispelled the Illusory Sea Mirage Pavilion’s mist with his mental power and killed the Mirage Demon with a single strike.
• Qin Chen and Jiao Sha arrived at Dark Nether Island, where Gui Qianshou challenged them behind his formations and boasted of his defenses.
• Qin Chen bypassed the formations and cracked Gui Qianshou’s Dark Nether Tortoise Shell with a punch.
• Gui Qianshou crushed a jade talisman, summoning a Void Refinement projection of the Azure Abyss Prefect, who threatened Qin Chen.
• Qin Chen ignored the Prefect’s attack, appeared beside Gui Qianshou, and stomped him into bloody mist.

Qin Chen destroyed a Dongxu stage cultivator’s will projection with a single physical strike, then looted Gui Qianshou’s treasury on Dark Nether Island. After finding Deep-Sea Starfall Iron, he announced that he would attack Azure Abyss Prefecture, the projection’s lair.

• The blue phantom unleashed a furious attack on Qin Chen, but Qin Chen met its enormous palm with a punch and shattered the will projection.
• The projection vowed revenge as it dissipated, and Qin Chen challenged its master to wait for his visit.
• Jiao Sha and Lin Xuan recovered from the pressure, and Qin Chen ordered Jiao Sha to open Gui Qianshou’s treasury.
• Qin Chen found Deep-Sea Starfall Iron in the treasury, took it, and let Jiao Sha handle the remaining treasures.
• Qin Chen told Jiao Sha that they would attack Azure Abyss Prefecture, leaving Jiao Sha stunned by the plan.

The Prefect of Azure Abyss vowed revenge after Qin Chen destroyed his projection, but Qin Chen then stormed Azure Abyss Prefecture with Jiao Sha and Lin Xuan. The Prefect confronted him and began drawing on the seabed’s earth veins, setting the stage for their battle.

• Gui Wannian begged the Prefect of Azure Abyss to avenge Gui Qianshou, and the Prefect ordered thirty thousand sea demons to march on Dark Nether Island.
• A shrimp soldier reported that a boy in white had breached the prefecture’s formation with one kick, and the Prefect realized Qin Chen had come to Azure Abyss Prefecture.
• Qin Chen waited outside the breach with Jiao Sha and Lin Xuan as the Prefect and tens of thousands of sea demons emerged to face them.
• Qin Chen identified the Prefect as a mutated blue flood dragon and said he would take the demon’s blood essence for his cultivation.
• The Prefect raised his trident and began shaking the seabed’s earth veins beneath Azure Abyss Prefecture.

Qin Chen survived the Qingyuan Prefect’s strongest attack without injury and countered by shattering his trident and crushing his chest with one punch. The wounded Qingyuan Prefect transformed into a thousand-zhang flood dragon and attacked Qin Chen with freezing dragon breath.

• The Qingyuan Prefect gathered the seabed’s power and unleashed Sea God’s Wrath, engulfing Qin Chen in hundreds of water dragons.
• Qin Chen emerged unharmed and mocked the Qingyuan Prefect’s attack, challenging him to show his full strength.
• Qin Chen activated the Heavenly Cycle Star Body, broke the Qingyuan Prefect’s trident with one punch, and sent him crashing through undersea peaks.
• The Qingyuan Prefect transformed into his flood-dragon form and spewed freezing blue dragon breath at Qin Chen.
• Qin Chen dismissed the attack and declared that he would show the Qingyuan Prefect true draconic might.

Qin Chen used Primordial Ancestral Dragon bloodline suppression and overwhelming force to defeat the Azure Abyss Flood Dragon and subjugate Azure Abyss Prefecture. He bound the prefect to his will and took the treasury’s ancient spirit herbs to strengthen his Heavenly Cycle Star Body.

• Qin Chen’s Ancestral Dragon pressure immobilized the Azure Abyss Flood Dragon, and he battered the prefect until he surrendered.
• Qin Chen placed a bloodline restriction on the Azure Abyss Prefect, who identified himself as Qingyuan and pledged loyalty; the sea demon army also surrendered.
• Qin Chen ordered Jiao Sha to claim Azure Abyss Prefecture for Star Pavilion, and Gui Wannian handed over the treasury key.
• Qin Chen entered the underground treasury with Qingyuan and found vast wealth and a garden of ancient deep-sea spirit herbs.
• Qin Chen uprooted the spirit herbs, including Sea Star Grass and Netherblue Ice Lotus, to help ignite the twelfth micro star-dust of his Heavenly Cycle Star Body.

Qin Chen sent a ring of deep-sea treasures to his father, Qin De, and received powerful cultivation resources through the system. After years of seclusion, he broke through to the late Nascent Soul stage and prepared to leave the treasury.

• Qin Chen had Xiaobai deliver deep-sea herbs, spirit stones, and artifact materials to Qin De, while Xiaobai crossed space to return to Yanjing City.
• The system gave Qin Chen ten hundred-thousand-year-old Star-Core Sea Lotuses, top-grade star stones, Primordial Dragon Whale blood essence, and three top-grade spirit veins as a tenfold return.
• Qin Chen ordered the Azure Abyss Prefecture Lord and Jiao Sha to survey nearby factions and warned them to kill anyone approaching the treasury.
• Qin Chen entered seclusion, refined a Star-Core Sea Lotus and the Primordial Dragon Whale blood essence, and cultivated with the three spirit veins.
• After an unknown number of years, Qin Chen reached the late Nascent Soul stage with eighteen motes of micro star-dust and punched toward the Dragon-Severing Stone.

After a year in seclusion, Qin Chen learned that the Shark King had threatened the Azure Abyss Prefecture and went to confront him. Qin Chen crushed the Blood Shark Army’s advance with one punch, revealing the lost Primordial Sea God Ruins beneath the Soul-Breaking Trench, while the battered Shark King crawled from the rubble.

• Qin Chen emerged from a year of seclusion after punching apart the Dragon-Sealing Stone, and the Azure Abyss Prefecture Lord told him the Shark King had demanded the treasury key and the Lord as his mount.
• Qin Chen went with the Azure Abyss Prefecture Lord and Jiao Sha to the Soul-Breaking Trench, where the Shark King prepared to invade with his hundred-thousand-strong Blood Shark Army.
• The Shark King mocked Qin Chen and ordered his army to charge, but Qin Chen’s punch killed thousands of soldiers and sent the Shark King crashing into the trench wall.
• Qin Chen’s punch opened a vast passage in the sea and exposed an ancient Bronze Giant Gate, which the Azure Abyss Prefecture Lord recognized as the lost Primordial Sea God Ruins.
• The remaining Blood Shark Army cowered as the injured Shark King crawled from the rubble.

Qin Chen defeated the Shark King, bound him as a subordinate, and opened the Sea God's Tomb despite its deadly restriction. Inside, Qin Chen and his three subordinates entered a white-jade passage, where the beast statues began to awaken.

• The Shark King begged Qin Chen for mercy and surrendered his Sea of Consciousness, accepting a soul restriction.
• Qin Chen ordered the Shark King and his blood shark army to seal off the trench, then learned that the bronze doors marked the entrance to the legendary Sea God's Tomb.
• Qin Chen suppressed the doors' restriction with his ancestral dragon aura and forced the bronze doors open.
• Qin Chen, the Azure Abyss Prefecture Lord, Jiao Sha, and the Shark King entered the dry tomb passage, where cracks spread across the beast statues and revealed metallic bodies beneath.

Qin Chen destroyed the puppets guarding the Sea God Marrow, let his subordinates absorb what remained, and gained Primordial Chaos Water through a system reward. After they grew stronger, he claimed an immortal-artifact trident, activating a spatial formation that revealed a storm-wracked gorge.

• Shark King, Qingyuan Prefect, and Jiao Sha fought thirty-six combat puppets until Qin Chen smashed them all.
• Qin Chen collected most of the Sea God Marrow and let the three subordinates refine the rest, earning a drop of Primordial Chaos Water from the system.
• Qingyuan Prefect, Jiao Sha, and Shark King absorbed the marrow and advanced in cultivation, deepening their loyalty to Qin Chen.
• Qin Chen found an icy blue trident on a black altar and suppressed its remaining imprint to claim it.
• The altar's spatial formation activated when Qin Chen removed the trident, forming a water mirror that showed a gorge filled with lightning and wind.

Qin Chen and his followers entered a lightning-filled secret realm, where he tested his Heavenly Cycle Star Body against a middle Void Darkness-stage Thunder Remnant Beast. After reaching thirty-six motes of micro star-dust, he struck the Three-Headed Thunder Qilin with his Star Annihilation Fist.

• Qin Chen entered the damaged secret realm hidden behind the Sea God's Tomb's water mirror, followed by the Qingyuan Prefect, Jiao Sha, and the Shark King.
• The realm's hundredfold gravity crushed the three followers to the ground, while Qin Chen stood firm and a middle Void Darkness-stage Three-Headed Thunder Qilin emerged to attack them.
• Qin Chen put away his Immortal Artifact Trident and used his Heavenly Cycle Star Body to punch apart the beast's lightning and fight it at close range.
• As the Thunder Qilin's lightning tempered his body, Qin Chen's micro star-dust count rose from eighteen to thirty-six, and he broke one of its horns.
• Qin Chen declared the warm-up over and hit the Three-Headed Thunder Qilin in the chest with his Star Annihilation Fist, shattering its purple-gold scales.

Qin Chen plundered the Thunderfall Secret Realm and ordered his subordinates to conquer the surrounding waters for resources. After the Blood Fiend Ancestor defeated Shark King, Qingyuan, and Jiao Sha and demanded Qin Chen surrender, Qin Chen set out to confront him.

• Qin Chen killed the Thunder Qilin, harvested its body and demon core, and stripped the Thunderfall Secret Realm of its treasures, including the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Grass.
• Qin Chen returned to the Raging Shark Grotto-Heaven and ordered Shark King, Qingyuan, and Jiao Sha to make every demonic beast faction within a million li submit or die.
• Shark King, Qingyuan, and Jiao Sha led a campaign that subdued factions across the seas while Qin Chen gathered resources and cultivated toward seventy-two motes of micro star-dust.
• The Blood Fiend Ancestor, a Void Darkness early-stage Bloodthirsty Mad Demon Whale, defeated the three subordinates in the Blood Fiend Trench and demanded Qin Chen apologize and surrender his treasures.
• Qin Chen healed the three subordinates with Nine-Turn Great Restoration Pills and set off for the Blood Fiend Trench, saying they would have braised whale that night.

Qin Chen and his three followers confronted Blood Fiend Ancestor at his lair in Blood Fiend Trench. After Qin Chen shrugged off the Blood-Transforming Divine Light, he defeated the ancestor with one slap and left him buried in the White Bone Palace’s ruins.

• Shark King led Qin Chen, Qingyuan Prefect, and Jiao Sha to Blood Fiend Ancestor’s lair, where the ancestor emerged and mocked them.
• Shark King insulted Blood Fiend Ancestor and demanded that he surrender his gourd, so the ancestor attacked with the Blood-Transforming Divine Light.
• Qin Chen discussed how to cook Blood Fiend Ancestor while the light engulfed him, then emerged completely unharmed.
• Blood Fiend Ancestor panicked and asked what defensive treasure Qin Chen had used, but Qin Chen said he needed no treasure to handle seafood like him.
• Qin Chen appeared before Blood Fiend Ancestor and slapped him through his protective energy, sending him crashing into and destroying the White Bone Palace.
• Shark King told Qingyuan Prefect that Blood Fiend Ancestor’s meat would now be tender after Qin Chen’s slap.

Qin Chen killed Blood Fiend Ancestor and claimed a mysterious black token from his treasury. Touching the token summoned a terrifying phantom that fixed its gaze on Qin Chen.

• Blood Fiend Ancestor transformed into his Mutated Bloodthirsty Mad Demon Whale form and attacked Qin Chen.
• Qin Chen activated the Heavenly Cycle Star Body, shattered the whale's bone plates, and beat Blood Fiend Ancestor into submission.
• Qin Chen rejected Blood Fiend Ancestor's plea, extracted his demon core, and ordered Shark King and the others to plunder the ruins and butcher the whale.
• Shark King brought Qin Chen a restricted jade box containing a broken black token carved with a Nine Nether Dark Sparrow.
• Qin Chen removed the token's restrictions and touched it, triggering a dark pressure that crushed Shark King and Qingyuan Prefect to the seabed.
• A ten-thousand-zhang phantom emerged above the trench and locked its golden eyes on Qin Chen.