Recaps

Wang Ba and Qin Lingxiao explored the Sea Barrier by traveling inside Dafu, where they observed hurricanes strengthening the barrier and spotted a mysterious vortex resembling something Qin Lingxiao’s Spirit Transformation great-grandfather had warned her about. After retreating and continuing their journey, they reached a new island, where Dafu’s catch included a rare Burrowing Sea Otter that made Wang Ba suspect they were nearing the coast.

• Dafu searched the seabed for an earth-vein entrance but found nothing, then carried Wang Ba, Qin Lingxiao, and four Feathered Serpent Tribe Gold Core cultivators along the Sea Barrier.
• Wang Ba and Qin Lingxiao reached a crescent-shaped island and watched hurricanes sweep seawater into the Sea Barrier, causing it to surge; Wang Ba suspected the storms played a role in its behavior.
• Wang Ba used a Replay-Eye Bird to inspect a hurricane and, after Qin Lingxiao identified a dangerous black vortex as possibly a Membrane Eye or Aperture, ordered Dafu to leave immediately.
• Half a month later, Wang Ba found Dafu and the Wu Ape King fighting on another island and stopped them before examining Dafu’s catch.
• Wang Ba recognized a Burrowing Sea Otter among the catch and realized that the rare coastal spirit beast might mean they were near the coast.

Wang Ba and Qin Lingxiao followed a Burrowing Sea Otter to an abandoned Zhongsheng Continent cave abode, where they found a map that revealed their location and a route around the Sea Barriers. As the otter began digging a passage beneath a Sea Barrier, Wang Ba spotted a Supreme Grade Fourth Tier black octopus dragging a chained monk, who opened his eyes.

• Wang Ba lured the Burrowing Sea Otter with food, and it returned with a token that blocked the surrounding Yuan Magnetic Power.
• The Burrowing Sea Otter led Wang Ba and Qin Lingxiao through an underwater mountain passage to an abandoned cave abode containing a nautical chart and a fading Fourth Tier Law Treasure.
• Wang Ba copied the chart and recognized its marks as the Sea Barriers and their current location, giving them a way to navigate back toward the West Sea Kingdom.
• After the cave flooded, the Burrowing Sea Otter led them toward a Sea Barrier and began digging beneath the seabed with Dafu's help.
• Wang Ba spotted a Supreme Grade Fourth Tier black octopus near the Sea Barrier with a monk chained to one of its arms, and the monk opened his eyes.

Wang Ba and Qin Lingxiao escaped through the Sea Barrier, where the monk Ciwu explained that the great flood originated from a Membrane Eye and entrusted his Yuan Void Formlessness legacy to the Wu Ape King. After Wang Ba returned to Qin Lingxiao, Ciwu watched two approaching figures and his chains fell away.

• Wang Ba, Qin Lingxiao, and the Burrowing Sea Otter dug through the rock beneath the Sea Barrier and emerged on its other side, where Ciwu summoned Wang Ba to speak with him.
• Ciwu questioned Wang Ba about the conflict between the Three Continents and Wind-Approaching Continent, then explained that Membrane Eyes caused calamities and that one at the source of the great flood had grown too large to plug.
• Wang Ba said he would try to leave with those close to him in such a crisis, and Ciwu revealed he had been seeking a successor for his legacy because he could not bear to abandon Xituo Continent's people or kill for their survival.
• Ciwu chose the Wu Ape King, whose innate Buddha-nature suited the Yuan Void Formlessness lineage, and imparted the legacy to him before sending Wang Ba away.
• Wang Ba reappeared beside Qin Lingxiao and set off home with her and the beasts, while Ciwu watched two figures approach and his chains fell away.

Wang Ba and Qin Lingxiao navigated the Sea Barrier, where rising Yuan Magnetic Power led them to an unfamiliar barrier and forced them to cross again. The Blue-Black Token suddenly dragged Wang Ba out of the passage, leaving him and Qin Lingxiao facing a lone figure in the turbulent currents.

• Wang Ba and Qin Lingxiao argued over their map, then fled inside Dafu when a violent shaking made Wang Ba suspect Spirit Transformation cultivators were fighting nearby.
• Wang Ba promised the Burrowing Sea Otter Spirit Chicken Essence, and Qin Lingxiao questioned him about his sect, his friends, and whether he had a female cultivator in mind before learning he had a dao companion named Bu Chan and a son named Yi'an.
• Wang Ba discovered that Yuan Magnetic Power was growing stronger as they traveled, and three days after spotting an archipelago, he found an unfamiliar Sea Barrier ahead.
• At the first Sea Barrier, Ciwu confronted a white-robed boy and a palace-robed woman, revealed his Spirit Transformation Perfection cultivation, and protected falling cultivators with Buddhist light as the fight began.
• At Evil Dragon Islet, Ma Shengxu, Hu Zaixi, and Miao Jilong prepared to cross the Sea Barrier again to search for Wang Ba, while Wang Ba and Qin Lingxiao set out through the unfamiliar barrier with Dafu and the Burrowing Sea Otter.
• The Blue-Black Token pulled Wang Ba out of the passage during the crossing; he shielded Qin Lingxiao from the flying sand and stones, then opened his eyes to see a lone figure seated before him in the turbulent currents.

Wang Ba and Qin Lingxiao found Yu Chen’s remains inside the Sea Barrier, learned that his sacrifice had delayed the formation of a True Membrane Eye, and recovered his inheritance tokens. When the True Membrane Eye emerged and the Sea Barrier’s currents surged, Wang Ba fled with Qin Lingxiao and encountered Martial Uncle Xumi beyond an invisible barrier.

• Wang Ba rescued Qin Lingxiao from the turbulent currents, and Dafu absorbed Yuan Magnetic Power from Yu Chen’s body, awakening a powerful gray-light attack.
• Yu Chen’s recorded message explained that he had used his body to hold back the Membrane Eye and asked that his remains be returned to Zhongsheng Continent and his wife, Li Yuehua, be told of his fate.
• Wang Ba and Qin Lingxiao paid their respects, retrieved the two Blue-Black Tokens containing Yu Chen and Li Yuehua’s Yuan Magnetic True Method, and had Dafu swallow Yu Chen’s remains.
• A True Membrane Eye appeared, forcing Wang Ba to flee with Qin Lingxiao as the currents surged and Fierce Beasts pursued them.
• Wang Ba entered blood-red waters, carried the unconscious Qin Lingxiao upward, and passed through an invisible barrier before an unremarkable Sword Qi streak descended toward him.
• Wang Ba summoned the Azurewater Spirit Turtle to shield himself, then recognized the armless cultivator beneath the sword curtain as Martial Uncle Xumi.

Wang Ba returned to help Xumi, who was trapped by Wu Ju’s Six-Corner Yuan Magnetic Formation, and used his lifespan breakthrough method to help Xumi attempt Spirit Transformation. As Xumi’s Nascent Soul merged with his shattered Sword Artifact, the Winged Serpent found them and recognized the approaching weapon as a Spirit Transformation power.

• Xumi warned Wang Ba to flee because Wu Ju had trapped him in a formation, but Wang Ba returned and revealed he could evade Yuan Magnetic Power.
• Xumi launched his cracked Sword Artifact at Wu Ju’s Winged Serpent, while Wang Ba escaped the clash with Qin Lingxiao and Xumi’s help from Dafu.
• Surrounded by fierce beasts, Wang Ba chose to return to Xumi and used Yin Spirit Power to hide them near the formation’s edge.
• Wang Ba offered Xumi a fifty-fifty chance to reach Spirit Transformation through a lifespan breakthrough, and Xumi accepted the infusion.
• Xumi’s Nascent Soul grew and began to distort, then plunged into the remaining Sword Artifact as its last fragment fell away.
• Wu Ju’s Winged Serpent found Wang Ba, Xumi, and Dafu, but the Sword Artifact flew toward it, prompting the serpent to cry out that it sensed Spirit Transformation.

Wang Ba and the weakened Xumi fled the Feathered Serpent Tribe after Xumi’s sword killed Wu Ju, while Wang Ba used tricks and concealment to evade the tribe’s cultivators. As the pursuers closed in, a golden projectile struck one of them and six figures raced toward Wang Ba.

• Ciwu trapped Chieftain Wuyan with the incomplete Buddha statue and sensed a Spirit Transformation tribulation beyond the Sea Barrier, while Shao Yangzi and the Longevity Sect sent aid toward the deep sea.
• Xumi’s sword failed to catch Wu Ju’s fleeing Winged Serpent, but later killed Wu Ju and retrieved his Storage Law Artifacts as Wang Ba carried Xumi and Qin Lingxiao away.
• Wang Ba evaded five Feathered Serpent Tribe cultivators with Jadeite Emerald Pearl Bursts, disposable Law Artifacts, and Yin Spirit Power, but the pursuers eventually discovered him and killed Wu Xi after Wang Ba threw him toward them.
• As a Feathered Serpent Tribe cultivator caught up with Wang Ba and the Wu Ape King emerged to defend him, a golden ball of light struck the pursuer, and six figures appeared racing across the sea toward Wang Ba.

Wang Ba reunited with Qi Yan and the other Myriad Phenomena Sect cultivators, who defeated the Feathered Serpent Tribe and recovered a Plague Demon before a massive Sea Barrier collapse forced their escape. After returning to safety, Xumi was taken away to face his Spirit Transformation crisis, Qin Lingxiao reunited with her family, and Wang Ba learned that his Master had been badly injured and lost much of his lifespan.

• Qi Yan, Ma Shengxu, Hu Zaixi, Ling Weizi, Wei Rong, and Miao Jilong rescued Wang Ba and killed the Feathered Serpent Tribe cultivators and their Winged Serpents.
• Wang Ba led the cultivators to the Sea Barrier, where Qi Yan found and sealed the Plague Demon inside a crystal.
• The Sea Barrier collapsed, and Wang Ba and the others escaped the deluge before spotting a Golden Buddha Statue and strange lights beyond it.
• Xumi's Spirit Transformation tribulation began, but the Third Elder took him to seek the Sect Master; Shen Ying and a Longevity Sect cultivator then stopped the waves threatening Evil Dragon Islet.
• Qin Lingxiao reunited with Qin Fengyi and later admitted to her great-grandfather that she had feelings for Wang Ba, prompting him to plan a marriage proposal to the Myriad Phenomena Sect.
• At Wind Islet Mountain, Wang Ba asked Shen Ying whether his Master had been injured and lost much of his lifespan.

Wang Ba returned to the Myriad Phenomena Sect after learning about Yao Wudi’s failing lifespan and reporting the True Membrane Eye to Sect Master Shao Yangzi. He reunited with Bu Chan and their son, Six Jin, and promised he would not leave again, while Xumi’s unusual condition and a visit from the Qin Clan’s Prince of Zhending left the sect facing further uncertainty.

• Shen Ying told Wang Ba that Yao Wudi’s lifespan had dwindled and persuaded him to return to the sect rather than travel to the dangerous Western Front.
• Wang Ba reported the True Membrane Eye beneath Evil Dragon Islet’s Sea Barrier to Qu Shentong and then to Sect Master Shao Yangzi, who said Yao Wudi should live at least ten more years.
• Shao Yangzi questioned Wang Ba about the True Membrane Eye, then reflected that the Patriarch’s warning about the world was coming true.
• Wang Ba bought gifts for Bu Chan and their son, returned to Myriad Laws Peak, and reunited joyfully with Bu Chan and Six Jin.
• Wang Ba promised Bu Chan he would not leave again, while Shao Yangzi and a young cultivator discussed Xumi’s unexplained condition after surviving his tribulation.
• Xu Ying announced that the Qin Clan’s Prince of Zhending had requested an audience with Shao Yangzi.

Shao Yangzi learned that the True Membrane Eye near the Eightfold Sea threatened Great Jin and gathered the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s leaders to plan a response. At the same time, Qin Dengyuan arrived to arrange Wang Ba’s marriage to Qin Lingxiao, leaving Wang Ba stunned when Shao Yangzi announced the match before the assembled cultivators.

• Shao Yangzi sent Ren Xiao to gather the sect’s leaders after learning that the True Membrane Eye could pose a danger comparable to the Aperture at the source of the Great Flood.
• Prince of Zhending Qin Huo told Shao Yangzi that Qin Lingxiao and Wang Ba wished to marry, and Shao Yangzi said the match would depend on the young couple and Wang Ba’s master, Yao Wudi.
• Shao Yangzi told the assembled cultivators that he intended to suppress the True Membrane Eye and prepare a Disaster-Crossing Treasure Raft in case that effort failed.
• Qin Dengyuan arrived with Qin Lingxiao to discuss her marriage to Wang Ba, and Shao Yangzi sent Xu Ying to summon him.
• Wang Ba returned from Myriad Laws Peak after caring for Six Jin and Bu Chan, then froze when Shao Yangzi announced his proposed match to Qin Lingxiao before the gathered cultivators.

Wang Ba publicly rejected a betrothal to Qin Lingxiao, recounting how his wife, Bu Chan, had stood by him through their hardships. After Bu Chan became Ma Shengxu’s disciple, Wang Ba struggled with whether to travel to the dangerous West Sea Kingdom to help his master, Yao Wudi, and the chapter ended with a message from Xi Wushang about Senior Brother Zhao joining the sect.

• Wang Ba refused the Qin Clan’s proposed marriage, explaining that he already had a wife, Bu Chan, and would not betray her.
• Shao Yangzi shielded Wang Ba from Qin Dengyuan’s anger, while Qin Lingxiao asked Qin Dengyuan to dissolve the Jiaolong Method she had cultivated so she could pursue the Great Dao.
• Qin Lingxiao used her remaining Law Power to activate the Blue-Black Token, while Ma Shengxu accepted Bu Chan as his seventh disciple.
• Wang Ba stayed with Bu Chan and Six Jin as he weighed whether to go to the West Sea Kingdom, and Bu Chan urged him to follow his wishes without treating them as a burden.
• Xi Wushang sent Wang Ba a Voice Transmission Talisman saying that Senior Brother Zhao was about to join the sect.

Wang Ba reunited with Zhao Feng after Zhao Feng passed the Sect entrance assessment, then resolved to travel to the West Sea Kingdom but was barred from going there because he was below Gold Core. As he prepared to leave, Six Jin called him “Dada,” and Wang Ba began securing his home and discovered Jia Ten Five nesting on eggs.

• Xi Wushang told Wang Ba that the Incense Dao had destroyed the Yan, Qiao, and Song Kingdoms, stirring memories of the battle at Yan-Qiao Pass.
• Xi Wushang received word that Zhao Feng earned Grade A Middle on the heart-questioning assessment and learned that Xumi had survived the Spirit Transformation Tribulation but remained unconscious.
• Wang Ba and Xi Wushang welcomed Zhao Feng, who chose to stay near Xumi and use the Sword Dao to try to awaken his master rather than take up a Sect post.
• After reflecting on Zhao Feng's devotion to Xumi and his own master Yao Wudi, Wang Ba decided to travel to the West Sea Kingdom, but the Teleportation Array guards refused him passage because he was below Gold Core.
• Wang Ba returned to Myriad Laws Peak, heard Six Jin call him “Dada,” then began sealing the grounds and gathering his spirit animals before leaving.
• While securing the animals, Wang Ba found Jia Ten Five in a chicken nest with several eggs beneath it.

Wang Ba returned to Myriad Laws Peak, discovered unusual changes among his Spirit Chickens, and led more than sixty Spirit Beasts through their tribulations, drawing attention across the sect. After five years of accelerated cultivation in the Fragrant Secret Realm, he completed his Law Power and began preparing to form a Gold Core, leaving the secret realm as a tribulation cloud gathered above Lesser Yang Mountain.

• Wang Ba found Jia Ten Five incubating fertilized eggs and discovered two male Snow Phoenix Chickens whose pale-yellow flames showed promise, then learned Jia Ten Five had both male and female reproductive organs.
• Wang Ba inspected his Spirit Beasts, released the Wu Ape King and a third-tier Azurewater Spirit Turtle, and triggered a succession of tribulations as he brought dozens of beasts through breakthroughs, with some dying in the process.
• Shao Yangzi and the Three Hall masters watched over sixty tribulations and discussed Wang Ba's Beast Taming talent, while Du Wei lamented that Wang Ba had joined Myriad Laws Peak instead of Beast Peak.
• Xun Fujun heard that Yao Wudi's foundations had been damaged, praised his resolve, and rejected a suggestion to use Wang Ba against him.
• Wang Ba sorted his spoils, earned forty thousand merit points by contributing unfinished Law Artifacts, and entered the Fragrant Secret Realm to accelerate his cultivation.
• After five years, Wang Ba completed his Law Power and spent another two years preparing to transform it into golden liquid and condense a core; when he emerged, a tribulation cloud gathered above Lesser Yang Mountain.

Wang Ba endured a powerful tribulation and formed an extraordinary Five Elements Gold Core, drawing the attention of the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s elders. After reuniting with Bu Chan and their son, Wang Yi'an, he learned that Yao Wudi was nearing a decisive stage in his path to Spirit Transformation and resolved to go to the West Sea Kingdom.

• Wang Ba left the Fragrant Secret Realm and learned from Deacon Lu that rapid cultivation in secret realms could unsettle a cultivator’s Dao Heart.
• Wang Ba underwent tribulation on Myriad Laws Peak, used Mother Qi of Ten Thousand Arts and his saber Qi to withstand the lightning, and formed a Gold Core marked with five-colored patterns.
• Bu Chan, Wang Yi'an, and Hu Zaixi watched Wang Ba’s tribulation; Hu Zaixi showed Wang Yi'an the Gold Core and said that no more than ten people in the Myriad Phenomena Sect could match it.
• Wang Ba greeted the elders, learned that Wang Yi'an had innate Grade A Middle triple Spiritual Roots, and heard that Sect Master Shao Yangzi and others had not returned from the West Sea Kingdom.
• Bu Chan told Wang Ba that Yao Wudi was fighting Seng Wangxin and a Spirit Transformation puppet almost monthly, so Wang Ba decided to travel to the West Sea Kingdom after half a month of preparation.
• Wang Ba examined the Profound Dragon Dao Soldiers hanging from the Coral Dragon Rhinoceros Dragon Bone and sensed that the cocoon-like mass was close to breaking open.

Wang Ba’s Profound Dragon Dao Soldiers survived a tribulation, and he visited Xumi, who explained the dangerous method that had helped him reach Spirit Transformation. After learning that the West Sea Kingdom’s teleportation array had been destroyed, Wang Ba and Zhao Feng traveled there to find Yao Wudi, who was still struggling to break through while defending Sea-Repelling City.

• The Profound Dragon Dao Soldiers endured nine bolts of tribulation lightning, and Wang Ba revealed that they had become far more dangerous.
• Zhao Feng arrived and told Wang Ba that Xumi had awakened and wanted to see him; the two went to Heart Sword Peak, where Xumi explained how Wang Ba’s method had pushed him toward Spirit Transformation and nearly destroyed him.
• Xumi warned Wang Ba that the method was perilous and should not be used lightly, then helped him open Wu Ju’s Storage Law Artifacts.
• Zhao Feng told Wang Ba that the West Sea Kingdom’s teleportation array had been destroyed, and agreed to accompany him there; they traveled with Lou Yi and Deacon Shi by Iron Ray Boat.
• At the Western Front, Yao Wudi told Guan Ao that he was close to Spirit Transformation but still short of what he needed, with only about two years of lifespan remaining; Guan Ao ordered Xugou Commandery abandoned when Three Continents cultivators infiltrated it.
• Wang Ba and Zhao Feng reached Nanji Commandery and flew west toward Sea-Repelling City, planning to pass through Xugou and Dishui Commanderies.

Wang Ba and Zhao Feng uncovered a Daosheng Province plot involving disguised puppets targeting the Capital of the West Sea Kingdom, then raced to defend it as the Three Continents prepared a major assault. The chapter ended with True Disciple Xue ordering the City of Unceasing Breath and Sea-Repelling City to mobilize for battle.

• Wang Ba and Zhao Feng met cultivators near Xugou Commandery and learned that Daosheng Province agents might be heading for the capital.
• Wang Ba and Zhao Feng exposed five Myriad Phenomena Sect impostors as puppets, survived their explosive attack, and realized the capital was in danger.
• At Wang Immortal Village, Wang Xu watched black-robed figures descend on the settlement with threads of Law Power.
• Wang Ba and Zhao Feng joined forces with cultivator Jin and hurried toward the capital, finding a slain West Sea Kingdom Gold Core cultivator along the way.
• True Disciple Xue saw Heavenly Land City of the Three Continents approaching and ordered reinforcements and Nascent Soul cultivators to assemble.

Wang Xu tried to flee the attack on the Great Capital with his pregnant wife and mother, but the city’s defenders shut the gates and the ensuing slaughter killed both women and Wang Xu. Meanwhile, Wang Ba and his allies fought a puppet master carrying out a blood sacrifice, while their forces prepared for a decisive battle and Yao Wudi received Wang Ba’s jade pendant.

• Wang Xu raced toward the Great Capital with his wife and mother, but guards closed the gates and a barrier crushed the crowd outside.
• Threads seized Wang Xu’s mother, and he caught her after the immortals struck the attackers; a blast then killed her and his wife, and a streak of light fatally wounded him.
• Wang Ba, Zhao Feng, and Fellow Daoist Jin confronted a wooden spider puppet and its puppet master while the attackers fed captives into a blood-sacrifice cauldron.
• Wang Ba sent Zhao Feng to Sea-Repelling City with a jade pendant for Yao Wudi and asked him to tell Yao Wudi not to send reinforcements; Wang Ba stayed behind with Fellow Daoist Jin to resist the sacrifice.
• True Disciple Xue chose to keep his forces at the front, while Guan Ao ordered Sea-Repelling City to prepare for a bitter battle and kept the danger to its rear from Yao Wudi.
• Yao Wudi accepted Wang Ba’s pendant, and two hidden figures discussed how refining emotions into divinity might be the last path to Spirit Transformation.

Wang Ba used his spirit beasts and a fourth-tier white tiger to fight the Daosheng Province Puppet Master’s forces and the Six-Headed White Dragonfly, while a bloody battle erupted near Sea-Repelling City. After Guan Ao died defending the city, Yao Wudi seized the moment and attacked Zhaoxin.

• Wang Ba and the yellow-haired cultivator tried to stop the blood sacrifice as the hidden Puppet Master ambushed them, but the cultivator used a fourth-tier talisman and rescued mortals with his flying knives.
• Wang Ba unleashed Azurewater Spirit Turtles and spirit chickens to restrain the puppets, but the puppets transformed and broke free while the reinforcements failed to arrive.
• A puppet completed the blood sacrifice and summoned the fourth-tier-perfection Six-Headed White Dragonfly, so Wang Ba released Wu Ju’s uncontrollable white tiger, which attacked the totem beast.
• Wang Ba sensed that a Nascent Soul battle had begun in the west as blood rain spread across the sky, while two concealed figures watched the fighting and discussed Yao Wudi and the sect’s losses.
• At Sea-Repelling City, Zhaoxin killed Guan Ao and pinned his body to the city wall; Yao Wudi recognized his chance to attain Spirit Transformation and charged at Zhaoxin as a Spirit Transformation puppet attacked him.

Yao Wudi defeated the Three Continents’ Spirit Transformation enemies, then faced his Spirit Transformation tribulation despite his depleted body. With Wang Ba’s aid, he survived the final bolts and reached Spirit Transformation, while the True Membrane Eye unexpectedly began growing again.

• Yao Wudi tricked the gaunt monk, killed him, and then defeated Black Rong Emperor and the Linjiao Emperor as the Three Continents’ forces recoiled.
• Shao Yangzi and the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s cultivators found that the True Membrane Eye had shrunk slightly, while Wang Ba sensed danger and discovered a Puppet Master hiding inside the wooden spider.
• Wang Ba killed the concealed dwarf cultivator with help from the striped white tiger, then rushed toward Sea-Repelling City as Yao Wudi’s Spirit Transformation tribulation began.
• Yao Wudi endured the first twenty-five lightning bolts but was left nearly dead, until Wang Ba appeared through a Nine Palaces mark and lent him power before vanishing.
• Yao Wudi rose to meet the final bolts, reached Spirit Transformation, and formed a Dao Domain as Xun Fujun and Zhang Songnian watched in shock.
• Shao Yangzi discovered that the True Membrane Eye had grown larger again.

Yao Wudi reached Spirit Transformation and destroyed Heavenly Land City, while Wang Ba found the white tiger alive among the ruins of the West Sea Kingdom’s capital. At the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s True Disciple ceremony, Shen Fu encountered a boy named Wang Yi'an and froze when he realized the child shared his senior brother’s surname.

• Shao Yangzi and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators abandoned their efforts at the True Membrane Eye and left the Sea Barrier.
• Yao Wudi shattered Heavenly Land City with one punch after his tribulation, then refused Xun Fujun’s help and replenished himself with Earth Vein Marrow Pulp.
• Shao Yangzi arrived and ordered Yao Wudi and Xun Fujun to return with him after noticing Guan Ao’s corpse.
• Wang Ba found the White Tiger Fierce Beast barely alive in the ruined capital, subdued it into a Spirit Beast Bag, and left; a badly wounded survivor emerged afterward and cried out in grief.
• At the Myriad Phenomena Sect, Shen Fu met a mischievous boy protected by a high-grade third-tier spirit beast, then heard someone call him Wang Yi'an and realized his surname was Wang.

Shen Fu reunited with Wang Ba after discovering that Wang Yi'an was his nephew, while sect leaders debated the wars and the True Membrane Eye and Xun Fujun secretly met Shangguan Ci. After the True Disciple Ceremony, Wang Ba returned to the Spirit Cuisine Department and learned that he had been selected as its new Deputy Minister.

• Shen Fu followed Wang Yi'an toward Tiger Head Mountain, where Wang Yi'an accused him of prying into sect secrets and summoned Xi Wuyin, before Wang Ba arrived and recognized Shen Fu as his long-lost junior brother.
• Wang Ba and Shen Fu reunited on Myriad Laws Peak, discussed Yao Wudi's rise to Spirit Transformation and the wars threatening the continent, and spent time with Bu Chan and Wang Yi'an before Shen Fu departed.
• At Pure Yang Palace, Shangguan Ci refused to help Great Jin oppose the Incense Dao, while Shao Yangzi confronted Xun Fujun over Guan Ao's death and ordered him to face punishment.
• Shangguan Ci offered Xun Fujun the prospect of Void Refinement and ascension, then gave him a Voice Transmission Talisman; Xun Fujun later secretly delivered a Hexagonal Box to a shadowed figure.
• Wang Yi'an promised to cultivate so he could contact Shen Fu, and Wang Ba returned to the Spirit Cuisine Department after his leave ended early.
• Cui Daqi announced that Wang Ba had been selected as the Spirit Cuisine Department's new Deputy Minister.

Wang Ba was appointed deputy minister of the Spirit Cuisine Department and learned that the Myriad Phenomena Sect was preparing for a great flood by building the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Raft. After returning to work, he began winning over the resentful deacons by working quickly, offering guidance, and revealing unfamiliar Spirit Beasts that might inspire a new recipe.

• Cui Daqi announced Wang Ba's appointment as deputy minister, and Wang Ba learned from him that the Human Virtue Hall had approved it partly as a gesture toward Yao Wudi.
• Cui Daqi explained the deputy minister's benefits and urged Wang Ba to earn merit points by helping the deacons, then brought him to a meeting at the Earthly Treasures Hall.
• Hall Master Xi told the gathered officials to complete the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Raft and increase production, while Song Dongyang said rejected goods would go through a substandard-goods channel and merit points would compensate for their loss.
• Ma Shengxu advised Wang Ba to have Wang Yi'an assessed by the Human Virtue Hall before choosing a path of cultivation, and Wang Ba returned to work despite the deacons' resentment.
• Wang Ba prepared Spirit Cuisine quickly and gave attendants pointers, then brought out unfamiliar third-tier Spirit Beast carcasses and asked the deacons to help dress them, suggesting they could yield a new recipe.

Wang Ba won over most of the Spirit Cuisine Department’s deacons by sharing authorship and merit points from new recipes, then accepted Cui Daqi’s assignment to redirect wastage allotments. At Beast Peak, Qi Yan examined Wang Ba’s Mixed-Blood White Tiger and Dafu, agreed to study the Stone Dragon Lizard offspring, and impulsively offered to take Wang Ba as his disciple.

• Wang Ba invited the Spirit Cuisine Department’s deacons to help develop recipes from spirit beast corpses and promised to divide the authorship and merit points among contributors.
• Cui Daqi assigned Wang Ba to announce the transfer of wastage allotments into the substandard-goods channel, and Wang Ba’s calm handling of the change surprised Cui Daqi.
• Wang Ba visited Beast Peak and asked Qi Yan about taming the injured Mixed-Blood White Tiger; Qi Yan explained its divine-beast bloodline and the nature of divine beasts.
• Wang Ba showed Qi Yan Dafu, the Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard’s offspring, and asked him for guidance on its development.
• Qi Yan agreed to study Dafu, gave Wang Ba the third volume of the Beast Taming Scroll, and then took the spirit beasts to Great Harmony Palace, where Du Wei angrily called him a fool.

Du Wei recognized Wang Ba’s mutated Ghost-Patterned Stone Dragon Lizard as an opportunity for Qi Yan, while Wang Ba impressed Cui Daqi by organizing the Spirit Cuisine Department’s records. After Wang Yi'an underwent talent testing, Wang Ba reunited with his West Sea Kingdom companions and asked Zhao Feng to take his son as a disciple.

• Du Wei berated Qi Yan for sending Wang Ba to Yao Wudi and urged him to use the Stone Dragon Lizard to explore his cultivation and help the beast advance.
• Wang Ba and Bu Chan spent the night organizing the Spirit Cuisine Department’s inconsistent records, and Cui Daqi was astonished by Wang Ba’s clear statistical tables.
• Cui Daqi arranged for Wang Ba to take over more administrative work, while Qi Yan secured Wang Ba a nominal deacon post in the Beast Taming Department.
• Wang Ba and Bu Chan took Wang Yi'an to the Human Virtue Hall, where Protector Dai used a Sea Pearl to test the boy’s talents and show him a vision.
• Wang Ba reunited with Tao Ruyi, Ji Yuan, Zhou Lue, Xi Wushang, Zhao Feng, and their other companions on Myriad Laws Peak, then asked Zhao Feng to take Wang Yi'an as his disciple.

Zhao Feng accepted Wang Yi'an as his disciple and took him to Heart Sword Peak, while Wang Ba and Bu Chan watched him leave. At the Earthly Treasures Hall, Song Dongyang praised Cui Daqi for a clear supply-record table, learned Wang Ba had made it, and faced a dispute over transferring Wang Ba to the Beast Taming Department; Wang Ba later left the Spirit Cuisine Department for Heavenly Blade Peak.

• Zhao Feng accepted Wang Yi'an as his disciple after demonstrating his sword skills, then took the boy to Heart Sword Peak despite his parents' worry.
• Protector Li reported shortages and confused supply records to Song Dongyang, who grew angry until he found the Spirit Cuisine Department's clear records table.
• Song Dongyang praised Cui Daqi's table at the Ministers' Assembly Meeting, and the other ministers received copies to use as a model.
• Qi Yan asked to transfer Wang Ba to the understaffed Beast Taming Department, but Cui Daqi objected and privately revealed that Wang Ba had made the table.
• Wang Ba finished his shift at the Spirit Cuisine Department, sent Bu Chan a Voice Transmission Talisman, and flew toward Heavenly Blade Peak.