Recaps

Wang Ba discovered that Fanming’s stolen treasures included valuable spiritual items, then watched a chick hatch from its egg and identified its Vermilion Bird bloodline. After passing Mu Lian’s assessment of the Ice-Soul Deity-Transmutation Record, he followed her to the North Pole Ice Abyss, the source of the extreme northern cold current.

• The Wu Ape King gave Wang Ba numerous Storage Law Artifacts recovered from Fanming’s shed feathers, and Wang Ba shared valuable spiritual items with Yinghe and Li Yingfu as thanks for their help.
• Wang Ba studied the Ice-Soul Deity-Transmutation Record while waiting, and the egg in the Jade Fire Parasol Tree hatched into a chick carrying the Vermilion Bird bloodline.
• Wang Ba named the chick Er Ya and entrusted it to the Wu Ape King before climbing the Heavenly Pillar to meet the female cultivator.
• The female cultivator answered Wang Ba’s questions, revealed that she was likely the legendary Sect Master Mu Lian, and advised him to cultivate the Ice Dao through an incarnation.
• Mu Lian led Wang Ba north through the deadly cold currents to the North Pole Ice Abyss and identified it as the source of the extreme northern cold current.

Wang Ba studied the Ice-Soul Deity-Transmutation Record under Senior Mu Lian’s guidance, then used the abyss’s abundant Cold Ice Spiritual Qi to help his new incarnation, Ice Daoist, cultivate at astonishing speed. Ice Daoist reached Gold Core perfection but failed to form a Nascent Soul, and he warned Wang Ba that a great beast lurked at the abyss’s bottom.

• Senior Mu Lian taught Wang Ba the principles of the Ice-Soul Deity-Transmutation Record and gave him a high-grade fourth-tier beast and a mass of ice crystal as possible foundations for an incarnation.
• Wang Ba refined the beast into Ice Daoist, who emerged after forty-nine days and showed an emotionless nature; Senior Mu Lian explained that the cultivation method required severing emotions before Spirit Transformation.
• Senior Mu Lian took Wang Ba and Ice Daoist into the icy abyss, where Wang Ba used the Grand Void One Qi Pill to help Ice Daoist absorb fifth-tier Cold Ice Spiritual Qi.
• Ice Daoist rapidly advanced from Qi Refining through Foundation Establishment to Gold Core perfection, while Senior Mu Lian protected them from the abyss’s approaching creatures.
• Ice Daoist failed to achieve Nascent Soul Formation, and after Wang Ba confirmed his incarnation had no hidden injuries, Ice Daoist revealed that a great beast was at the bottom of the abyss.

Wang Ba and Mu Lian Xu discovered that a powerful beast slept in the depths of the ice abyss, then sparred so she could observe their cultivation. After the duel helped Mu Lian Xu understand the Ice Dao and reconnect with her emotions, Wang Ba left for the southwest of the North Sea Continent to deliver a broken sword tip to an acquaintance of Martial Uncle Xumi; the tip began trembling as the Iron Ship neared a range of ice mountains.

• The Ice Daoist sensed an enormous sleeping beast in the depths of the ice abyss, and Wang Ba and Mu Lian Xu decided to return to the North Pole Heavenly Pillar.
• Wang Ba sparred with the Ice Daoist, using an abundance of water and the Five Elements to overcome the Ice Daoist’s freezing attacks.
• Mu Lian Xu recognized the lesson in Wang Ba’s approach, gained insight into the Ice Dao, and revealed that she had known Wang Ba’s master for many years.
• Wang Ba left the Ice Daoist with Mu Lian Xu and departed south aboard the Iron Ship with Yinghe and Li Yingfu.
• Wang Ba guided the Iron Ship southwest to deliver a broken sword tip for Martial Uncle Xumi, and the tip trembled as they approached densely packed ice mountains.

Wang Ba reunited Xumi with Sword-Obsessed, a sword grandmaster from Emperor Pole Continent, and watched their duel end in Xumi’s narrow victory. Sword-Obsessed offered Wang Ba his belongings as the wager, and Wang Ba ended by asking whether he wanted to learn the Ice Dao Method.

• A five-colored Sword Light approached the Iron Ship, and its wielder, Sword-Obsessed, recognized the sword tip Wang Ba carried for Xumi.
• Xumi’s divine sense emerged from the sword tip and challenged Sword-Obsessed, while telling Wang Ba that the grandmaster’s accumulated knowledge could help perfect his Myriad Laws Dao.
• Wang Ba, Yinghe, and Li Yingfu followed the duel and watched Xumi’s sword tip overcome Sword-Obsessed’s Five-Colored Divine Baleful Sword by a narrow margin.
• Sword-Obsessed accepted his loss and gave Wang Ba a Storage Ring containing his belongings, telling him to take what he wanted.
• Wang Ba asked Sword-Obsessed whether he wanted to learn the Ice Dao Method.

Wang Ba helped Sword-Obsessed comprehend the extreme Ice Dao through Ice Daoist and learned how to incorporate the five elements into his saber techniques. As Wang Ba and Sword-Obsessed traveled toward Wind-Approaching Continent, cultivators at Hurricane Sea Pass discovered that Three Continents forces were surrounding the passage exit.

• Sword-Obsessed recognized Ice Daoist's pure Ice Dao Law Power and used it to comprehend the extreme Ice Dao, remaining frozen for three months.
• After thawing, Sword-Obsessed taught Wang Ba how to incorporate the five elements into his saber techniques, and Wang Ba used the method to cleave a distant snowy mountainside.
• Sword-Obsessed agreed to return to Emperor Pole Continent with Wang Ba and accepted amethyst stone marrow; he also asked to travel with Ice Daoist aboard Wang Ba's Iron Ship.
• At the North Sea Death Passage, rogue cultivators learned that a Hanging City from the Three Continents had arrived near Hurricane Sea Pass, while members of the Primordial Sacred Sect discussed how to respond.
• A Nascent Soul elder warned the Three-Eyed Youth and Prince Shen that three late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators were among the newcomers, then reported that the passage exit was already being surrounded.

Shen Fu and Gong Xiyin ambushed Three Continents cultivators at Hurricane Sea Pass, but a powerful Tupi Continent cultivator turned the fight against them and drove them into flight. Aboard an Iron Ship, Wang Ba learned of a theory about the world’s eight-thousand-year breathing cycle and then recognized the fleeing Shen Fu approaching.

• Shen Fu and Gong Xiyin prepared Heavenly Thunder Seeds, Blood Demon Seeds, and an ambush near the Severed Dao exit beneath Hurricane Sea Pass.
• The Primordial Demon Sect’s ambush killed several Three Continents cultivators, but a burly Nascent Soul Perfection cultivator and a black-robed cultivator survived and counterattacked.
• The burly cultivator’s spears killed the Nascent Soul elder and forced Shen Fu and Gong Xiyin to flee.
• Sword-Obsessed told Wang Ba, Yinghe, and Li Yingfu that the world might breathe in an eight-thousand-year cycle, with an exhalation due in thirty or forty years.
• Wang Ba sensed two fleeing cultivators approaching the Iron Ship and recognized one of them as Junior Brother Shen.

Wang Ba reunited with Shen Fu on North Sea Continent, rescued him from pursuit, and learned that Shen Fu faced danger from his Demon Sect teacher, Liang Qiu Yu. After uncovering a secret mission by cultivators from the Three Continents, Wang Ba’s group sailed toward Emperor Pole Continent and spotted a Great Qian fleet in the fog.

• Gong Xiyin and Shen Fu fled a powerful Tupi Continent cultivator until an unkempt swordsman cut down the pursuer’s spear and drove him off.
• Wang Ba arrived aboard an Iron Ship and reunited with Shen Fu, who told him about the Black Spirit Chicken, the treasure hunt, and the deaths of their companions.
• Wang Ba gave Shen Fu the recovered Storage Rings and secretly drew out Jiang Taiyin, who revealed Liang Qiu Yu’s plan to claim Shen Fu’s body and warned that escape from the Demon Sect would be difficult.
• Wang Ba taught Shen Fu protective Curse Techniques, while Sword-Obsessed captured the Tupi Continent pursuer and a Daosheng Continent cultivator for questioning.
• Yinghe learned that the Three Continents’ cultivators had come to awaken a being on North Sea Continent, and Wang Ba ordered the information reported to the sect.
• Wang Ba’s Iron Ship sailed east with Sword-Obsessed and the others, then encountered enormous warships bearing Great Qian dragon banners in the fog.

Wang Ba encountered Sword-Obsessed’s imperial relative, learned that Great Qian faced a crisis, and reluctantly received a Great Qian Dragon Token. After returning to Black Water Harbor and parting from Shen Fu, he received an urgent message that Ling Weizi and Hu Zaixi had gone missing in Sen Kingdom.

• Wang Ba and Sword-Obsessed met Ye Hao and learned Sword-Obsessed was Great Qian’s Eighth Royal Uncle, rushing home because a cult and another threat imperiled Great Qian.
• Sword-Obsessed gave Wang Ba a Great Qian Dragon Token, then secretly sent it back after Wang Ba initially refused it.
• Wang Ba’s Iron Ship returned to Black Water Harbor, where Shen Fu and Gong Xiyin went ashore and Wang Ba discussed his plans for cultivation and spirit-beast breeding.
• Ma Shengxu’s messages reached Wang Ba, reporting that Ling Weizi and Hu Zaixi had gone missing in Sen Kingdom and urging him to return to the Sect.

Wang Ba learned that Ling Weizi, Hu Zaixi, and Elder Jiying had vanished, and went to Chen Kingdom to consult Yao Wudi before investigating. Yao Wudi gave him a sealed mineral that could help track his location, and Wang Ba arrived in Sen Kingdom to question Garrison Commander Qu Zhongqiu.

• Wang Ba learned from Ma Shengxu that Ling Weizi and Hu Zaixi had been missing for over half a year and that Elder Jiying had also disappeared without explanation.
• Ma Shengxu urged Wang Ba to return to the sect, but Wang Ba decided to seek his master Yao Wudi’s advice before investigating in Sen Kingdom.
• At the Myriad Phenomena Sect, a moon-white figure told Zhou Tianqi to eliminate the sect’s infiltrators and declared that he would follow his heart even against ten million.
• Wang Ba met Yao Wudi in Chen Kingdom, and Yao Wudi suspected that a Great Yan mole had abducted Jiying and framed Acting Sect Master Xun Fujun.
• Yao Wudi copied Wang Ba’s Seal Body Technique onto a mineral so he could sense it from a great distance, then sent Wang Ba to investigate while he stayed behind.
• Wang Ba reached Sen Kingdom’s Ghost Market, where Qu Zhongqiu arrived to meet him.

Wang Ba investigated the disappearance of Ling Weizi and Hu Zaixi, but Qu Zhongqiu’s account and his evasiveness deepened his suspicion that sect insiders were involved. A lead about a missing cultivator near the Sen, Li, and Xiang Kingdoms sent Wang Ba toward the border, where another searcher was already looking for signs of a sword cultivator.

• Wang Ba questioned Qu Zhongqiu, who said Ling Weizi and Hu Zaixi had vanished after pursuing a sighting of a sword cultivator believed to be Lu Yu, but withheld the exact location from Wang Ba.
• After Wang Ba left, Qu Zhongqiu contacted Master Du Wei and revealed that the sighting had been near the junction of the Sen, Li, and Xiang Kingdoms; Wang Ba suspected Qu Zhongqiu had lied and changed course to seek help from the Myriad Incantation Sect.
• Wang Haitong and the Myriad Incantation Sect had no useful leads, so Wang Ba went to the Eastern Saint Sect and asked Ji Lan and his disciples about the missing cultivators and a Gold Core Sword Cultivator.
• A waxen-faced cultivator told Wang Ba that a large-headed cultivator carrying a sack had been seen near the Sen-Li border and that a Gold Core cultivator he knew had gone missing; Wang Ba immediately flew toward the border.
• At the junction of the Sen, Li, and Xiang Kingdoms, an aged figure riding a Five-Colored Divine Deer searched the landscape for traces of a sword cultivator but found none.

Du Wei discovered a Longevity Sect cultivator’s ambush and fought to survive while the sect’s allies prepared to refine his Spirit Transformation Dao Domain. After Wang Ba used a warning from Ling Weizi’s Jade Leaf Talisman to locate him, Crane Daoist attacked Wang Ba and fled, leaving Wang Ba wounded by what he recognized as Great Sun Divine Fire.

• Du Wei and his Five-Colored Divine Deer were trapped by dragon-headed vines, and he fought back with his Ghost-Eyed Chi and Bone Flute while the hidden Longevity Sect cultivator cut off his Spirit Rhinoceros Stone.
• Beneath the lake, a refined middle-aged cultivator urged the hidden figure to capture Du Wei so they could extract his Spirit Transformation Dao Domain, explaining that the experiments were meant to strengthen the sect’s most promising cultivators.
• Wang Ba saw Ling Weizi’s Jade Leaf Talisman crack, used it to determine Ling Weizi was about a thousand li away at the junction of three kingdoms, and told Ma Shengxu to alert the sect.
• Wang Ba, Li Yingfu, and Ji Lan encountered Crane Daoist while traveling toward Ling Weizi, and Wang Ba called out to him as the cultivator passed.
• Crane Daoist attacked Wang Ba, but Ji Lan teleported them behind him; Wang Ba then sent out the White Tiger and Ice Daoist and struck with his blade.
• Crane Daoist dodged Wang Ba’s attack, burned through part of his Zen Shadow Robe with a palm strike, and escaped as Wang Ba recognized the scorch on his chest as Great Sun Divine Fire.

Wang Ba discovered that Crane Daoist wielded Great Sun Divine Fire and sent Yao Wudi to help Du Wei fight a powerful opponent. At Pure Yang Palace, Xun Fujun was exposed for imprisoning Elder Jiying and using cultivators to cultivate Dao Opportunity, and as Du Wei challenged him, a familiar voice arrived to confront him.

• Wang Ba recognized Great Sun Divine Fire on Crane Daoist and saw Du Wei’s beasts fighting an overwhelming opponent, so he sent Yao Wudi through Ji Lan’s teleportation array to help.
• The Moon-White Figure summoned sect leaders to discuss the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Raft, then accused Luo Yuzhong of arranging Wang Ba’s ambush and identified him as a Primordial Demon Sect agent.
• Luo Yuzhong revealed that his body was an avatar of Daoist Shangguan, warned that Elder Jiying’s whereabouts had been exposed, and was destroyed by the Moon-White Figure.
• Fei Hua and the other deputy hall masters confronted Xun Fujun over Luo Yuzhong’s message, and Du Wei returned with Xi Kui, a bound cultivator, and proof that Elder Jiying’s Primordial Spirit was being tortured.
• Du Wei condemned Xun Fujun for sacrificing cultivators to pursue a Void Refinement cultivator and declared that he would cleanse the sect, but Xun Fujun claimed Du Wei had no right to judge him.
• A familiar voice behind Du Wei asked Xun Fujun whether he had the right, and Xun Fujun’s expression changed.

Shao Yangzi and Yan Wenzheng tried to capture Xun Fujun for imprisoning fellow disciples and extracting Dao Opportunity, but Supreme Elder Han intervened and took Xun Fujun away. Han revealed his plan to ascend with the entire Primordial Demon Sect, while Wang Ba learned that Xun Fujun had escaped and then sensed an intruder in the Yin God Temple.

• Shao Yangzi returned to confront Xun Fujun, who defended his methods and revealed seven avatars empowered by gathered Dao Opportunity.
• Xun Fujun fled the Myriad Phenomena Sect, but Shao Yangzi and Yan Wenzheng attacked him with the sect formation, the Azure Nether Mirror, and Divine Pattern arrows.
• Supreme Elder Han rescued Xun Fujun and negotiated with Shao Yangzi, promising help when the Myriad Phenomena Sect attempted to leave the realm.
• Han told Xun Fujun that he planned to ascend with every member of the Primordial Demon Sect and offered him a role in the plan.
• Yao Wudi told Wang Ba that Ling Weizi and Hu Zaixi would recover, and Wang Ba learned that Xun Fujun had escaped the sect.
• Wang Ba received word that Shao Yangzi had returned, then sensed that someone had entered the Yin God Temple.

Shao Yangzi reorganized the Myriad Phenomena Sect after Xun Fujun’s defection and revealed that the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Raft was built to carry the sect to the Cloud-Heaven Realm. Meanwhile, Wang Ba realized Han Yanzi might be pursuing the Yin God’s power, then returned to the sect to prepare for a race to reach Nascent Soul first; he learned that Song Dongyang had died in his Spirit Transformation Tribulation.

• Shao Yangzi accepted responsibility for the sect’s troubles but refused to resign, while Fei Hua stepped down as Human Virtue Hall Master and Du Wei was appointed in his place.
• Shao Yangzi reprimanded Pang Xiu, then revealed that the sect planned to leave the Little Cang Realm for the Cloud-Heaven Realm in ten or twenty years.
• Wang Ba sensed another practitioner of the Yin Spirit Great Dream Scripture and concluded that Han Yanzi might be trying to become the Yin God and use its power to deceive heaven and ascend.
• Yao Wudi urged Wang Ba to abandon plans to incorporate his other incarnations and focus on reaching Nascent Soul before the rival could claim the Yin God’s position.
• Wang Ba and Li Yingfu returned to the sect, passed through the Spirit Mirage Heart-Questioning Formation, and heard from Qu Shentong about the sect’s upheavals and Han Yanzi’s appearance.
• A Lesser Yin Mountain deacon escorted Wang Ba toward the Human Virtue Hall, where Wang Ba learned that Song Dongyang had died after failing his Spirit Transformation Tribulation.

After Song Dongyang failed his Spirit Transformation Tribulation, Shao Yangzi examined Wang Ba’s Yin God cultivation and explained its risks. He entrusted Wang Ba with Song Dongyang’s Star Dipper legacy, then sent Song’s remnant True Spirit into Heavenly Capital City to seek reincarnation.

• Wang Ba and Li Yingfu set out to see Song Dongyang off, but Shao Yangzi summoned Wang Ba to Pure Yang Palace.
• Shao Yangzi identified Wang Ba’s Yin God method as an ancient divine Dao method, warned him about the dangers of incense, and asked him to guard the palace entrance.
• Shao Yangzi revealed Song Dongyang’s surviving remnant soul and explained that Song wanted Wang Ba to inherit his remaining Star Dipper Law Power and insights.
• Wang Ba accepted the legacy and promised to protect Star Dipper Peak, while Shao Yangzi condensed Song’s Law Power between his brows for him to absorb.
• Shao Yangzi took Song Dongyang’s remnant soul to Heavenly Capital City, where Song’s True Spirit entered the city to seek reincarnation.

After half a year guarding Pure Yang Palace, Wang Ba urged Shao Yangzi to consider striking the Myriad Gods Kingdom before Han Yanzi could act, and the Sect Master agreed to discuss a joint attack. Back on Myriad Laws Peak, Wang Ba found that Ice Daoist could refine Incense and Fire Prayer Power to strengthen his Divine Soul, then discovered the Emperor Willow had reached the fourth tier.

• Wang Ba overheard Qu Shentong report Xun Fujun's attacks on ghost markets and Shao Yangzi order the withdrawal of all undercover agents in Great Yan.
• Wang Ba told Shao Yangzi about the Emperor Pole Continent's fleet and the heretical cult, then urged him to destroy the Myriad Gods Kingdom before Han Yanzi could make his move.
• Shao Yangzi agreed to discuss a joint attack with the Longevity Sect and Wandering Immortal Temple, then released Wang Ba from guarding Pure Yang Palace so he could return to cultivation.
• Wang Ba reunited with Bu Chan, told her about the coming calamity, and reviewed the areas of his cultivation that needed improvement.
• Wang Ba sent Ice Daoist into the Bead Secret Realm, where Ice Daoist used the Supreme Refining Emotions Art to withstand the Incense and Fire Prayer Power and strengthen their Divine Soul.
• Wang Ba examined the secret realm and discovered that the Emperor Willow had reached the fourth tier.

Wang Ba arranged for the Ice Daoist to bring relief to mortals in the Bead Secret Realm and gather Incense, then began preparing his Spirit Beasts for advancement. He discovered Er Ya could stimulate nearby Spirit Chicken bloodlines and recognized Divine Patterns on the shell of the dormant Profound Tortoise of Enlightenment.

• Wang Ba learned how Evil Gods gathered Incense and rejected forcibly extracting it from mortals, instead asking the Ice Daoist to create a snow disaster and save the villagers.
• The Ice Daoist froze the Secret Realm, then traveled through its kingdoms as the Qingyi Daoist, melting snow and restoring fields while mortals began offering Incense.
• Wang Ba released his Spirit Beasts, planted the Fire Paulownia tree for Er Ya, and found that Spirit Chickens gathered beneath it with unusually active bloodlines.
• Wang Ba planned to use the Emperor Willow's sap and the God-Locking Bell to raise Spirit Chickens to the fourth tier, and released the dormant Profound Tortoise of Enlightenment.
• Wang Ba examined the tortoise's shell and realized its mysterious markings were Divine Patterns.

Wang Ba comprehended 211 Divine Patterns and used them to complete his Divine Patterns Dao before preparing hundreds of spirit chickens for fourth-tier tribulations. As the tribulations unfolded, Yan Wenzheng and Shao Yangzi watched in astonishment and began to recognize Wang Ba’s extraordinary spirit-beast raising ability.

• Wang Ba derived 211 Divine Patterns from his accumulated knowledge, integrated them into his Gold Core, and used them to transform techniques seamlessly.
• Wang Ba placed the Profound Tortoise of Enlightenment among his spirit beasts, where Jia Ten Five and the Wu Ape King gained insights from its shell markings.
• Wang Ba nurtured two hundred supreme grade third-tier spirit chickens and emerged from the Secret Realm to begin their fourth-tier tribulations.
• Yan Wenzheng told Shao Yangzi that the Wandering Immortal Temple and Qin Clan were willing to help, while the Longevity Sect remained hesitant and the Undying Treasure Tree was unavailable.
• Shao Yangzi and Yan Wenzheng watched Wang Ba send spirit chickens into tribulations one after another, with some failing and others succeeding.
• After seeing more than four hundred spirit chickens appear, Yan Wenzheng solemnly confirmed that the Myriad Laws Lineage disciple was named Wang Ba.

Wang Ba’s spirit chickens endured tribulation lightning in huge numbers, pushing his fleshly body to Gold Core perfection and drawing the Sect Master and Grand Elder’s attention. After receiving the sect’s support and preparing to cultivate further, he arrived at Lesser Yang Mountain and heard Garrison Commander Pang expounding on Hehuan Peak’s Dao of Yin-Yang.

• Du Wei, Ding Chun, and Qi Rulian watched Wang Ba’s spirit chickens undergo tribulation, while Du Wei regretted that Wang Ba had not joined Beast Peak.
• At Pure Yang Palace, Yan Wenzheng urged Shao Yangzi to recognize and protect Wang Ba, and Shao Yangzi praised Wang Ba’s abilities and character.
• Wang Ba gave Shao Yangzi more than a hundred newly ascended fourth-tier spirit chickens in exchange for access to the sect’s secret realms and treasures.
• Wang Ba refined the failed spirit chickens into Spirit Cuisine, kept a hundred fourth-tier spirit chickens, and prepared to stabilize his fleshly cultivation.
• Wang Ba arrived at Lesser Yang Mountain and heard that Garrison Commander Pang was expounding on Hehuan Peak’s Daoist arts, prompting him to consider the Dao of Yin-Yang.

Wang Ba studied the Yin-Yang Dao, then secluded himself in the Yongzhi Secret Realm until his Gold Core and Divine Soul reached perfection and he prepared for a looming clash with Han Yanzi. When his Divine Soul would not merge with his Gold Core, he recognized his growing agitation and left the sect to travel.

• Wang Ba asked Garrison Commander Pang how Yin-Yang Qi differed from the Five Elements and learned how cultivators could nurture and use it.
• Wang Ba cultivated in the Yongzhi Secret Realm with the Great Qian Dragon Token Sword-Obsessed had given him, eventually bringing his Gold Core and Yin Spirit Power to perfection.
• Wang Ba cast a modified Hundred-Life Soul-Defiling Curse and gathered Law Treasures and spiritual items from Patriarch Wuhe to prepare for Han Yanzi.
• Wang Ba spent a night with Bu Chan, then returned to secluded cultivation to fuse his physical blood Qi, Gold Core Law Power, and Divine Soul.
• After his physical blood Qi merged with his Gold Core but his Divine Soul did not, Wang Ba realized his state of mind was growing unsettled and decided to travel.
• The Qingyi Daoist left the sect and flew south.

Qingyi Daoist traveled south through Lake-Tail City and the flood-stricken Heichi Kingdom, where helping wounded refugees gave him a new understanding of the discomfort he had felt about ordinary people facing disaster. As he continued healing survivors near the coast, he protected them from attacking Fierce Beasts and met Ni True Person and the other cultivators just as a possible new threat emerged.

• Qingyi Daoist visited a restaurant in Lake-Tail City, where he sensed the ordinary people’s peaceful lives and wondered what would become of them when the Sect left Great Jin.
• He saw Heichi Kingdom refugees fleeing floods, plague, and Fierce Beasts, then restored a woman’s severed arm, healed her child’s legs, and treated other refugees along the route south.
• Qingyi Daoist protected the refugees from a Second-Tier Fierce Beast and a swarm of other beasts, while Qian Baimao sent up a distress signal.
• Ni True Person and several cultivators arrived and recognized Qingyi Daoist as a Gold Core cultivator; after Qian Baimao warned that a Third-Tier Fierce Beast might appear, their expressions froze.

Qingyi Daoist rescued disaster victims and cultivators from Fierce Beasts in the Heichi Kingdom, then headed for Hailing after Qin Shengyi spoke of repaying the good fortune he had received. With Qian Baimao accompanying him, Qingyi Daoist continued fighting Fierce Beasts along the coast, and his Gold Core began to crack as another group of fourth-tier beasts approached.

• Qingyi Daoist froze the sea and moved the Heichi Kingdom’s disaster victims to safety while Qian Baimao warned that the Spiny Red Sea Toads might travel in groups.
• True Person Ni and the other Gold Core cultivators were surrounded by Spiny Red Sea Toads and a Sea-Rising Demon Snake, but Qingyi Daoist froze the beasts and saved the mortals and cultivators.
• Qingyi Daoist defeated the giant Sea-Rising Demon Snake, and Qin Shengyi recognized him as Chief Director Wang and explained why he had chosen to help the mortals.
• Qin Shengyi told Qingyi Daoist that he wanted to repay the good fortune he had received, and Qingyi Daoist thanked him before setting off for Hailing.
• Qingyi Daoist brought Qian Baimao south, killing and capturing Fierce Beasts while clearing a path for refugees to evacuate.
• Qingyi Daoist stood atop a monument of beast skulls as his Gold Core cracked, while a Nascent Soul Cultivator warned that another group of fourth-tier Fierce Beasts was approaching.

Ge Shoucheng and the cultivators fought to defend Hailing Kingdom from a massive flood and a horde of Fierce Beasts, but an adult Sea-Splitting Whale shattered the sea dam. Qingyi Daoist reached Nascent Soul, froze the advancing beasts and waves with the Eternal Cold Qi, and helped secure the coast before news arrived that the Myriad Gods Kingdom had destroyed Great Chu.

• Ge Shoucheng and the other cultivators battled the invading Fierce Beasts while Fan and Lang reinforced the sea dam against the approaching tsunami.
• An adult Sea-Splitting Whale struck the dam and shattered its protective curtain, letting seawater and Fierce Beasts rush inland.
• Fan and Lang urged the cultivators to build a new dam near shore, and Ge Shoucheng led them toward the coast as the flood advanced.
• Qingyi Daoist underwent tribulation and formed a Nascent Soul while the exhausted cultivators struggled to hold back the Fierce Beasts.
• Qingyi Daoist used the Eternal Cold Qi with Ge Shoucheng's cold wind technique to freeze the Fierce Beasts and an enormous wave, then collected beasts as the cultivators rebuilt the dam.
• A message delivered by Ge Shoucheng's Spirit Rhinoceros Stone reported that the Myriad Gods Kingdom had annihilated Great Chu and killed all its Spirit Transformation cultivators.

Wang Ba successfully began merging his Yin Spirit with his Gold Core, then learned that the Myriad Gods Kingdom had destroyed Great Chu. At Jade Emperor Peak, Qingyi Daoist learned that the Myriad Gods Kingdom’s three Divine Emperors had also conquered the Dai Kingdom and left the Chen Kingdom and its remaining allies surrounded.

• Wang Ba used eight-hundred-year-old Spring and Autumn Intoxication to merge his Yin Spirit power with his Ten Thousand Arts Gold Core, but sensed that a rival cultivating the Yin Spirit Great Dream Scripture was rapidly catching up.
• Wang Ba learned from Ice Daoist that the Myriad Gods Kingdom had destroyed Great Chu and wondered whether its recent actions concealed a larger plan.
• Ge Shoucheng escorted Qingyi Daoist and Qian Baimao through the Hailing Kingdom, where he warned Mi Fei that rising seas and floods might force the abandonment of the Hailing and Heichi Kingdoms.
• Qingyi Daoist reached Jade Emperor Peak with Qian Baimao and told Yao Wudi that his main body had begun merging with the Divine Soul.
• Yao Wudi told Qingyi Daoist that the Myriad Gods Kingdom’s three Divine Emperors had destroyed Great Chu, severely wounded Gong Qianqiu, and conquered the Dai Kingdom, leaving the Chen, Sen, and Fu Kingdoms surrounded.

The Myriad Phenomena Sect and its allies gathered at Jade Emperor Peak to plan against the Myriad Gods Kingdom, while Qingyi Daoist argued that the Primordial Demon Sect would ultimately join the campaign for its own benefit. The Primordial Sacred Sect then arrived unexpectedly, asking Great Jin to admit its forces, and the Myriad Phenomena Sect members turned toward Qingyi Daoist.

• Yan Wenzheng arrived with Ren Xiao and three Spirit Transformation elders, scolded Yao Wudi for keeping Qingyi Daoist’s incarnation nearby, and explained that Great Jin was gathering allies against the Myriad Gods Kingdom.
• Qingyi Daoist predicted that the Primordial Demon Sect would help eradicate the Myriad Gods Kingdom, either to claim its gains or because the kingdom had become too powerful for Great Jin to tolerate.
• Xi Lingbo and Chao Wendao arrived from the Wandering Immortal Temple, followed by Qin Dengyuan, the Elder surnamed Xia, and the other representatives of Great Jin’s allied powers.
• The Elder surnamed Xia apologized for the Longevity Sect’s earlier delay, and Yan Wenzheng welcomed the alliance’s resolve to destroy the Myriad Gods Kingdom’s Evil Gods.
• Liang Qiu Yu announced that the Primordial Sacred Sect had brought elders to help eradicate the Myriad Gods Kingdom and asked Great Jin to let them enter, prompting the Myriad Phenomena Sect members to look toward Qingyi Daoist.