Recaps

Liu Yu and his allies weighed how to weaken the Han Family, settling on destroying its Demon-Hunting Ship while waiting for more Linghua Island cultivators to advance. After Han Chen formed a Ninth-Grade Dao Foundation, Daoist Liefeng refused to involve the family with the endangered Blood Cloud Bandits and left Han Chen to find a way to deal with Linghua Island.

• Liu Yu, Zhao Yi, and Wang Qing discussed attacking the Han Family, and Liu Yu agreed to target its Demon-Hunting Ship with Zhang Ying while Guiwu kept watch.
• Wang Qing began cultivating with Guiwu on Linghua Island, Zhao Yi returned to Kongqing Island to cultivate, and Liu Yu later placed Wang Ping and Xu Qiyu in charge of Linghua Island's affairs before entering seclusion at the Cold Spring.
• Liu Yu attended Wu Yuying's Dao Foundation celebration, where Wu Yuying asked to see Wu Xiuzhi and Liu Yu refused.
• Three years after entering seclusion, Han Chen formed a Ninth-Grade Dao Foundation, and Daoist Liefeng told him to resume control of the Han Family.
• Han Chen suggested asking his grandfather to destroy Linghua Island, but Daoist Liefeng refused because the Blood Cloud Bandits faced destruction and ordered Han Chen to handle the threat himself.
• News of Han Chen's breakthrough spread through the Yunsha Sea Region, revealing that the Han Family now had two Dao Foundation cultivators.

Li Hai emerged from seclusion with a superior-grade abyssal Dao Foundation, and Linghua Island’s leaders discussed its resources and plans concerning the Han Family and Blood Cloud Bandits. Later, Xu Qiyu reunited with her parents at Yunsha Market before the year-end auction began.

• Zhao Yi, Wang Qing, and Liu Yu guarded Li Hai as he condensed his Dao Foundation, using a formation to gather water spiritual qi.
• Li Hai emerged and revealed that he had succeeded in forming a third-grade abyssal Dao Foundation, then thanked his senior brothers for protecting him.
• Li Hai and the others discussed the Han Family, the Blood Cloud Bandits, and waiting for developments involving Liu Daoyuan before making their plans.
• Zhao Yi assigned resources to hasten Linghua Island’s spirit acupoint growth and sent Li Hai back to Kongqing Island.
• Xu Qiyu reunited with her parents, Xu Changwang and his wife, at Linghua Island’s Yunsha Market shop and shared a meal with them.
• Cultivators filled the first three floors of Yunsha Tower for the year-end auction, while the fourth floor remained reserved for Dao Foundation powers.

The Yunsha Tower auction began under the supervision of Zhao Xinghe and Han Chen, and Zhu Honglou’s energetic hosting drove bids high. Wu Yuying bought the Profound Fire Furnace for Peach Blossom Island, leaving the auction’s final two lots still to come.

• The five families finalized their shares of Yunsha Tower’s auction profits, and Zhao Xinghe and Han Chen oversaw the event with Zhu Honglou as auctioneer.
• Zhu Honglou opened the auction with a freshly made Profound Origin Pill, which sold for 2,550 spirit stones.
• Han Chen asked about Linghua Island’s absent cultivators, and Zhao Xinghe warned him to consult Fellow Daoist Raging Wind before acting against the island.
• Zhu Honglou struggled to attract bids for the Profound Fire Furnace until Blood Orchid Rogue and Qingli Rogue bid, after which Wu Yuying won it for 2,300 spirit stones.
• Wu Yuying planned to use the furnace with the alchemist’s inheritance she had obtained from the Qin Family on Biyun Sea Region.

A Foundation Establishment Pill appeared as the auction’s final lot, sparking a fierce bidding war between Xuanli Island and Xuanqing Island. After the pill was delivered to Xuanqing Island, the chapter revealed that a Tide-Subduing Sect disciple had consigned it to strengthen the Yunsha Sea Region ahead of the sect’s coming sea-opening plan.

• Zhao Xinghe guarded the final lot as Zhu Honglou revealed a Foundation Establishment Pill, and Wu Yuying told Han Chen that it could help a Spirit Drawing cultivator condense a Dao Foundation.
• After Zhao Xinghe announced that the pill came from an honored guest outside the region, Wang Ping sent a Wind Bird to notify Linghua Island.
• Wind Howl Island, West River Island, Greenfish Island, Xuanli Island, and Xuanqing Island bid for the pill, and Xuanqing Island won with an offer of eleven thousand Spirit Stones.
• The next day, Feng Qingshan paid the remaining Spirit Stones and received the pill, escorted by Han Chen and the Xu Family.
• Junior Brother Wu told Chen Qisong that the Tide-Subduing Sect would auction a Foundation Establishment Pill in Yunsha every three years and increase the supply of breakthrough pills.
• Junior Brother Wu explained that the sect planned to open the sea again within ten years and wanted to strengthen Yunsha so it could not become a route for Demon Cultivators into the sect’s waters.

Zhao Yi learned that Wu Qingyun of the Tide-Subduing Sect had auctioned a Foundation Establishment Pill to strengthen the Yunsha Sea Region ahead of a coming war with the Demon Race. The Tide-Subduing Sect planned to open the seas in about ten years, and Zhao Yi and the other powers prepared to tell local cultivators and use the time to build their strength.

• Wan Qizhi delivered Wang Ping’s message about the Foundation Establishment Pill, and Zhao Yi left for Yunsha Market.
• Zhao Yi learned that Xuanqing Island had obtained the pill, then instructed Wang Ping to buy supplies, support Li Hai’s cultivation, and help Zhou Zheng enter the Spirit Attraction Stage.
• Zhao Yi, Zhao Xinghe, and Wu Yuying learned that Wu Qingyun, a Tide-Subduing Sect True Disciple, had consigned the pill and invited Chen Qisong and other local powers to discuss his purpose.
• Chen Qisong revealed that the Tide-Subduing Sect planned to open the seas in about ten years, with its main force in the Biyun Sea Region, and was supplying pills to strengthen Yunsha against Demon Cultivators.
• Zhao Yi proposed announcing the coming war at the Exchange Assembly and urging cultivators to improve their cultivation and seek breakthroughs.

Qingli Rogue sought Zhao Yi’s help hunting two Perfection of Spirit Drawing demon beasts so he could use their demon cores in the Water-Fire Dual Cultivation Spirit Pearl Secret Art. Zhao Yi helped him kill both beasts, and Qingli Rogue returned to Xuanli Island with the materials he needed to pursue cultivation.

• After years of stalled cultivation and failed attempts to advance, Qingli Rogue found a secret art that could balance water and fire spiritual energy but needed demon cores as substitutes for spirit pearls.
• Qingli Rogue went to Linghua Island with two Dao Foundation cultivation methods as payment, and Zhao Yi agreed to help him hunt two Perfection of Spirit Drawing demon beasts.
• Zhao Yi killed a Blackwater Profound Whale with one halberd strike, and Qingli Rogue retrieved its demon core.
• Qingli Rogue drew the Crimson Flame Eagle into a fight while Zhao Yi ambushed and killed it with a flying sword.
• Zhao Yi took the Crimson Flame Eagle’s egg and nest, while Qingli Rogue claimed the eagle’s demon core and later returned to Xuanli Island to cultivate the secret art.

After returning from the Outer Sea, Qingli Rogue entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough, but he suffered cultivation deviation and began slaughtering Xuanli Island’s people. Zhao Yi and Wu Yuying arrived to confront him, and Zhao Yi fought Qingli Rogue as the battle continued.

• Qingli Rogue lectured his disciples for six days, then announced his seclusion and advised them to seek help from Linghua Island or Peach Blossom Island if trouble arose.
• Two years later, Bai Xing reached Linghua Island injured and told Wang Ping that Qingli Rogue had gone mad and killed Xuanli Island’s third and fourth disciples.
• Zhao Yi received a Communication Talisman, learned of the crisis, and traveled to Xuanli Island with Wu Yuying.
• Qingli Rogue used water-and-fire spells and Fire Escape to kill and terrorize Xuanli Island’s mortals and cultivators.
• Zhao Yi stopped Wu Yuying from attacking and confronted Qingli Rogue, who blamed him for stealing his fortune and launched a water-and-fire attack.
• Zhao Yi shattered Qingli Rogue’s combined spells and fought on as Qingli Rogue continued attacking with spells and his flying sword.

Zhao Yi killed Qingli Rogue after the battle devastated Xuanli Island, then discussed the island’s future and its surviving population with Wu Yuying. He arranged an alchemy exchange between Linghua Island and Peach Blossom Island, recognized the origins of Peach Blossom Island’s inheritance, and returned to secluded cultivation.

• Qingli Rogue used Fire Escape to flee Xuanli Island, but Zhao Yi pursued and killed him, then returned with his corpse and two Spirit Pearls.
• Wu Yuying and Wang Ping’s group treated the wounded and repaired damage on Xuanli Island, where only seven cultivators survived and over sixty percent of the mortals were killed or injured.
• Zhao Yi proposed relocating some people from Linghua Island and incorporating Xuanli Island’s surviving cultivators, and he considered forming a Demon-Hunting Ship crew.
• Zhao Yi discovered that Xuanli Island’s cold and hot springs could nurture Spirit Pearls for the Water-Fire Dual Cultivation Spirit Pearl Secret Art, and he gave Qingli Rogue’s two Spirit Pearls to Wu Yuying.
• Zhao Yi offered to let Zheng Tong exchange alchemy knowledge with Peach Blossom Island’s alchemist, then recognized Qin Wuya as the source of the island’s alchemy inheritance.
• Wu Yuying returned to Peach Blossom Island, and Zhao Yi went into secluded cultivation until he could reach the middle Dao Foundation stage.

After the Yunsha Sea Region gained three new Dao Foundation cultivators, Wang Qing failed to open his 168th aperture, and Zhao Yi used the Sect Jade Register to increase Wang Qing and Liu Yu’s fortune. A year later, Zhao Yi refined wu earth essence, broke through to the middle Dao Foundation Stage, and returned to Linghua Island.

• Feng Qingdao, Zhao Changqing, and Wan Chengyun successfully condensed their Dao Foundations, while Qingli Rogue, Li Yufeng, and Blood Orchid Rogue failed to advance.
• Wang Qing’s attempt to open his 168th aperture failed and left him unconscious, so Guiwu sought advice from Zhao Yi.
• Zhao Yi added twenty-five fortune to each of Wang Qing and Liu Yu, then used the remaining fortune on himself.
• Over the following year, Zhao Yi cultivated to the peak of the Dao Foundation third layer using spirit stones from Qingli Rogue’s Storage Bag.
• Zhao Yi refined the wu earth essence, broke through to the Dao Foundation fourth layer, and strengthened his body.
• Zhao Yi collected spirit milk from the cave’s stalactites, tidied the chamber, and returned to Linghua Island.

Zhao Yi returned to Linghua Island, contracted the newly hatched Crimson Flame Eagle, and reviewed the sect’s growth and finances with Wang Ping. He ordered Linghua Island to expand its settlements and secure at least thirty percent of the market’s profits before the sea opened.

• Zhao Yi surveyed Linghua Island’s disciples, island settlements, and Demon-Hunting Ship, then contracted the Crimson Flame Eagle Chick and fed it spirit milk.
• Zhao Yi met Wang Ping at Linghua Hall, congratulated him on becoming Dao companions with Zheng Tong, and planned a ceremony once their senior brothers left seclusion.
• Wang Ping reported that Linghua Island had sixty-three Fourth-Generation Disciples, controlled ten islands, and had earned only a small surplus the previous year.
• Zhao Yi ordered Wang Ping to survey uninhabited islands and relocate islanders to expand their territory before the sea opened.
• Zhao Yi told Wang Ping that Li Hai and he were the sect’s only fighters ready for the coming conflict, and insisted Linghua Island secure at least thirty percent of the market’s profits.

Wang Qing abandoned his pursuit of a superior-grade Dao foundation and successfully condensed a fourth-grade one. On Linghua Island, Zhao Yi completed a spirit vein, which helped Liu Yu begin condensing his own fourth-grade Dao foundation while four spirit plants advanced to middle grade.

• After months of failing to open another aperture, Wang Qing accepted that a superior-grade Dao foundation was beyond his reach and resolved not to delay his cultivation for it.
• Half a month later, Wang Qing emerged from seclusion with his fourth-grade Dao foundation complete.
• Zhao Yi finished nurturing Linghua Island’s spirit acupoint into a spirit vein, causing the island and its mountain to rise and releasing pure spiritual energy.
• Wu Xiuzhu and her Spirit Plant Masters watched four inferior-grade spirit plants advance, while Zhao Yi guarded a disciple through a successful breakthrough to the Spirit Attraction Stage.
• Liu Yu, who had opened 168 apertures, began condensing a fourth-grade Dao foundation in the cultivation chamber with the spirit vein’s energy and Zhao Yi’s support.

Liu Yu and Wang Qing successfully condensed their Dao foundations as Linghua Island prepared for the approaching Sea-Opening and strengthened its defenses. At the Yunsha market meeting, Zhao Yi secured a larger share of the proceeds for Linghua Island after revealing Li Hai’s middle-grade Dao foundation, then set out to explore unfamiliar parts of the Yunsha Sea Region.

• Liu Yu emerged from seclusion after condensing his Dao foundation, and Zhao Yi assigned Wang Qing to defend Kongqing Island and help the Bee Queen advance.
• Zhao Yi had Wang Ping report Liu Yu and Wang Qing’s breakthroughs at the Ancestral Hall, while Liu Yu quietly visited Wu Xiuzhu and his son Liu Cang.
• Zhao Yi and Wang Ping moved a miniature spirit vein to Linghua Island, increasing its spiritual energy and expanding its spirit fields.
• At the Yunsha market meeting, Zhao Yi announced that Li Hai had condensed a middle-grade Dao foundation and demanded twenty percent of the market’s proceeds for Linghua Island.
• Zhao Yi attended the auction and Exchange Assembly, traded a demon core for two Golden-Feather Eagle eggs, and then set out to explore the region’s north and west.

Zhao Yi followed Chen Yu Yan and Huang Zijun to Bamboo Sea Island, infiltrated its protective formation, and overheard the island’s leaders discussing their plans. He learned that Huang Zijun would receive the Foundation Establishment Pill and that Chen Yu Yan would lead a group to guard a mysterious place, so Zhao Yi waited outside to discover what the opportunity was.

• Zhao Yi departed Yunsha Market after reassuring Xu Changwang that his youngest son could remain with his family.
• Zhao Yi spotted Chen Yu Yan and Huang Zijun traveling together and followed them to Bamboo Sea Island.
• Zhao Yi disrupted the island’s formation through its earth veins, slipped inside, and used his Spirit-Piercing Dharma Eye to navigate the bamboo sea.
• Zhao Yi overheard Blood Orchid Rogue and the others praise Linghua Island’s growing strength, while the Plum Gentleman declared Bamboo Sea Island would rise in the future.
• Blood Orchid Rogue gave Huang Zijun the Foundation Establishment Pill and urged him to become Bamboo Sea Island’s first Dao Foundation cultivator.
• Chen Yu Yan announced that he would take Chen Family and Bamboo Sea Island disciples to guard a mysterious place for another year, and Zhao Yi left the island to wait for their party.

Zhao Yi discovered that Chen Yu Yan’s group was secretly mining mid-grade Spirit Stones on a deserted Outer Sea island and brought the news to Linghua Island. He and the other leaders planned a staged attack on Bamboo Sea Island, Greenfish Island, and the mining site to seize the vein while concealing their involvement.

• Zhao Yi followed Chen Yu Yan’s group to a deserted island and hid nearby until two cultivators revealed that they had been mining hundreds of Spirit Stones during their half-month shifts.
• Zhao Yi reasoned that the island held a Spirit Stone vein, then returned to Linghua Island and told Liu Yu, Li Hai, Wang Qing, and Wang Ping about it.
• Wang Ping warned that openly attacking Bamboo Sea Island and Greenfish Island could provoke other powers, so Wang Qing proposed framing the killings as the work of Guiwu and Zhang Ying, two Demon Cultivators.
• Zhao Yi assigned Wang Qing to lead Guiwu and Zhang Ying against Bamboo Sea Island, Li Hai to watch the attack and then eliminate survivors at the mining island, and Liu Yu to meet the group at Greenfish Island.
• Zhao Yi stayed on Linghua Island while Wang Ping waited for other islands’ cultivators to seek help, and Zhao Yi left to offer incense at Yuanhua Hall.

Wang Qing and his companions launched a series of attacks across the Yunsha Sea Region, killing cultivators while sparing mortals and using wind falcons to spread news. At Bamboo Sea Island, Li Hai revealed his sword qi thunderclap and Zhao Yi’s allies destroyed the defenders, then escaped after drawing out Xu Ziqing; Daoist Liefeng arrived afterward and questioned whether the attackers were truly demon cultivators.

• Wang Qing, Guiwu, and Zhang Ying slaughtered cultivators on four islands, then staged an attack on Wind Howl Island to spread fear and news of the demon cultivators.
• Linghua Island’s wind falcon message network expanded across the region, while its trained falcons brought the island substantial profits.
• Wang Qing and Li Hai led Guiwu and Zhang Ying in an assault on Bamboo Sea Island, where they broke through the formation and killed Blood Orchid Rogue and two Spirit Drawing cultivators.
• Huang Zijun emerged with a newly condensed Dao Foundation, but Li Hai killed him with a sword qi thunderclap before he could attack Zhang Ying.
• Wang Qing ordered the island cleared, and Guiwu and Zhang Ying killed its remaining cultivators before confronting Xu Ziqing, who arrived half a day after the plea for help.
• Daoist Liefeng inspected Bamboo Sea Island, questioned the lack of bloody baleful qi, and returned to Yunsha Market with Xu Ziqing.

After the demon cultivators’ attack kept the other island leaders close to home, Zhao Yi negotiated a new market profit distribution and revealed Linghua Island’s strength. He left determined to lead the Yunsha Sea Region openly and flew toward Greenfish Island.

• At Yunsha Tower, Xu Ziqing and then Zhao Xinghe and Daoist Liefeng decided to return to their islands, leaving Zhao Yi to handle the demon cultivator invasion.
• Daoist Liefeng and Zhao Xinghe pressed Zhao Yi to shoulder the defense, and Zhao Yi revealed that Linghua Island had four Dao Foundation cultivators.
• Zhao Yi proposed revoking the market shares of newly advanced cultivators and set a new distribution that gave Linghua Island forty percent, the Chen Family twenty percent, the Han Family and Zhao Family fifteen percent each, and the Xu Family ten percent.
• Zhao Yi disclosed the grades of Linghua Island’s Dao Foundations; Zhao Xinghe pledged support, and Daoist Liefeng apologized and said the Han Family would follow Linghua Island’s lead.
• After leaving Yunsha Market, Zhao Yi cooled off in the sea and resolved to present Linghua Island as the region’s foremost power.
• Zhao Yi flew toward Greenfish Island.

Liu Yu and his allies launched simultaneous attacks on Greenfish Island and the hidden Spirit Stone mine, destroying the Chen Family and killing Chen Yu Yan. Li Hai secured the mine and waited for his senior brothers, while the assault on Greenfish Island ended with Chen Jinde’s suicide and no survivors.

• Liu Yu watched the Chen Family prepare Greenfish Island’s defenses, then joined Wang Qing, Guiwu, and Zhang Ying as they attacked and battered the island’s formation.
• Li Hai struck the concealed mine entrance, defeated Chen Yu Yan in a sword battle, killed the fleeing cultivators, and found a vast store of Spirit Stones.
• Zhang Ying and Guiwu broke Greenfish Island’s formation after a quarter hour and slaughtered the Chen Family cultivators.
• Chen Jinde realized that his greed had brought the Chen Family’s destruction and killed himself outside the Ancestral Hall.
• Zhang Ying destroyed Chen Jinde’s body, and Greenfish Island was left with no living cultivators.

Zhao Yi pursued Guiwu and Zhang Ying across the Yunsha Sea Region, while Linghua Island made Greenfish Island a remote base for Wang Qing’s intelligence work. The chase ended when Chen Qisong intercepted the demons at the Outer Sea boundary, where Zhang Ying escaped with the unconscious Guiwu; Zhao Yi returned to Yuanchen Island as the demons began recovering in hiding.

• Zhao Yi told Wang Qing and Liu Yu that the pursuers had backed down, agreed to postpone Linghua Island’s feud with the Han Family, and planned to pursue Guiwu and Zhang Ying toward the Outer Sea.
• Zhao Yi assigned Wang Qing to form an intelligence team and chose Greenfish Island as its training base in the northern waters.
• During the pursuit, Guiwu and Zhang Ying escaped encounters with Wan Chengyun, Daoist Liefeng, and Feng Qingdao, who stayed inside Xuanqing Island’s Protective Formation.
• At the edge of the Yunsha Sea Region, Chen Qisong shattered Guiwu’s shield and knocked him unconscious, while Zhang Ying used a bloodline spell to flee into the Outer Sea.
• Chen Qisong invited Zhao Yi and Daoist Liefeng to Yuanchen Island, where they celebrated Chen Songyang’s newly formed fifth-grade Dao Foundation.
• In the Outer Sea, Zhang Ying brought Guiwu to a demon beast’s cave, gave him recovery pills, and began treating her own injuries.