Chapter Summaries

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.

Wang Ba learned Ji Yuan’s blade-nurturing technique and considered how the divine soul might fit into his Gold Core cultivation. After helping Bu Chan with Spirit Plant Department records, he managed his spirit beasts and learned she had become a deacon before a summons from Uncle-Master Qi interrupted their plans.

• Ji Yuan invited Wang Ba to Heavenly Blade Peak, explained that he planned to attempt Nascent Soul, and offered a blade-nurturing method to repay Wang Ba for saving him.
• Wang Ba accepted the One Intent Transforms into Qi Blade technique and concluded that the Blade Dao reflected the cultivator’s divine soul rather than the weapon’s form.
• Wang Ba helped Bu Chan sort the Spirit Plant Department’s records and suggested ways to make future calculations easier.
• Wang Ba tended his spirit beasts, observed the Wu Ape King cultivating, and noted that Jia Ten Five’s offspring included a third-tier low-grade Phoenix Feather Chicken.
• Bu Chan told Wang Ba she had been promoted to deacon, but a Voice Transmission Talisman summoned him to the Beast Taming Department at Uncle-Master Qi’s request.

Wang Ba was summoned to the Beast Taming Department, where Qi Yan put him to work on breeding Copper-Body Xi and disorganized department records. After Wang Ba demonstrated his strength, breeding insight, and skill with records, Qi Yan decided to act on the ideas Wang Ba left behind, while Song Dongyang found that only the Spirit Plant Department and Beast Taming Department had properly organized their records.

• Qi Yan summoned Wang Ba to the Beast Taming Department, introduced him to its deputy ministers, and assigned him to help with the department’s crowded breeding work.
• Deputy Minister Sang took Wang Ba to inspect third-tier low-grade Copper-Body Xi, and Wang Ba restrained the herd with Law Power while considering ways to improve their breeding.
• Wang Ba returned with ideas for the Copper-Body Xi, then helped Sang and the other ministers complete their confusing inventory records.
• Wang Ba organized the department’s records with help from Foundation Establishment cultivators, left at dawn, and forgot the sheet containing his Copper-Body Xi breeding ideas.
• Qi Yan read Wang Ba’s ideas and appeared to make a decision, while Song Dongyang complained that every department except the Spirit Plant Department and Beast Taming Department had submitted poorly organized records.

Wang Ba completed his lifebound Law Artifact and went to Divine Elegance Peak to begin preparing for wind-attribute cultivation, where he learned the peak master had been waiting at Lü Zhuang Mei’s order. At the Earthly Treasures Hall’s Assembly Meeting, Qi Yan sought to bring Wang Ba into the Beast Taming Department and revealed that Sang Gongyang had requested to resign as deputy minister.

• Song Dongyang grew angry over the department ministers’ conduct and decided to demand an explanation at the Assembly Meeting.
• Wang Ba completed his lifebound short-blade Law Artifact, considered his Merit Point needs, and chose to pursue Divine Elegance Peak’s wind-attribute cultivation method.
• Liang Zhongkang mastered the first Riding of the Sixfold Wind-Riding Art, learned that Xi Wushang had entered seclusion to attempt a Nascent Soul breakthrough, and decided to challenge Wang Ba.
• Ge Shoucheng welcomed Wang Ba to Divine Elegance Peak and said his own master had ordered him to wait for Wang Ba.
• At the Assembly Meeting, Qi Yan again requested Wang Ba’s transfer to the Beast Taming Department, and Cui Daqi objected on behalf of the Spirit Cuisine Department.
• Qi Yan presented Sang Gongyang’s deputy minister Identity Token and announced that Sang Gongyang had requested to resign.

Qi Yan and Cui Daqi pressed for Wang Ba to hold deputy minister posts in two departments despite Song Dongyang's objections. Wang Ba opened a wind-attribute Second Dantian and mastered the First Dominion of the Sixfold Wind-Riding Art, then received tokens appointing him to both deputy minister posts and as Earthly Treasures Hall, Right Protector.

• Qi Yan requested Sang Gongyang's resignation and proposed Wang Ba as Beast Taming Department Deputy Minister, while Cui Daqi supported Wang Ba retaining his Spirit Cuisine Department post.
• Song Dongyang deferred the dual appointment, then learned that Wang Ba and his dao companion Bu Chan had organized the records of the departments he praised.
• Ge Shoucheng helped Wang Ba open a Wind Spiritual Root Dantian inside the Wind-Calling Bell and advance it to Foundation Establishment.
• Wang Ba comprehended the First Dominion of the Sixfold Wind-Riding Art, and Ge Shoucheng taught him the Six Dominions and supplied the latest cultivation method.
• Liang Zhongkang bowed to Wang Ba and thanked him for saving his life at Evil Dragon Islet.
• Wang Ba returned to the Spirit Cuisine Department and received tokens naming him deputy minister of both departments and Earthly Treasures Hall, Right Protector.

Wang Ba impressed Song Dongyang with his analysis of the departments’ flawed supply records and was assigned to design better procedures for the Five Elements Offices. He received valuable gifts from He the Drunkard, then discovered that two Hundred-Colored Stone Dragon Lizard hatchlings had unusual bloodlines and that one could exhale water.

• Song Dongyang questioned Wang Ba about the monthly records, then asked him to inspect them and teach the departments how to correct their mistakes at the next Assembly Meeting.
• Wang Ba identified several causes of inaccurate records and proposed dedicated record keepers, department-specific standards, and other reforms, so Song Dongyang assigned him to draft detailed procedures.
• Song Dongyang spoke with the unseen Hall Master, who approved the possibility of promoting Wang Ba and ordered resources sent to Pure Yang Palace and Great Harmony Palace while emphasizing the Exquisite Ghost Market and the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Raft.
• Cui Daqi and He the Drunkard gave Wang Ba the Sprout Melody Group Refining Technique, the Spring and Autumn Intoxication recipe, and a flask of eight-hundred-year-old wine.
• Wang Ba tested his Wind-Calling Bell, then found that two Hundred-Colored Stone Dragon Lizard eggs had hatched and discovered that one hatchling could release a tiny wave of water.

Wang Ba accepted responsibility for auditing the Five Elements Offices’ storehouses and recruited a team to help. He began at the Spirit Mine Department, where Qi Rulian unexpectedly welcomed him and took him to the storeroom.

• Wang Ba noticed that one Hundred-Colored Stone Dragon Lizard hatchling displayed Water Manipulation, recorded ideas about breeding pureblood lizards, and fed the stone lizards to improve their nutrition.
• Song Dongyang gave Wang Ba an order signed by Xi Kui to inspect the resources and records of all Twenty-Five Departments, and Wang Ba negotiated discretion, helpers, and compensation.
• Wang Ba recruited Li Yingfu and Li Yingfu’s disciple, Tao Ruyi, Zhou Lue, Lou Yi, Zhen Bo'en, and cultivators from several peaks to assist with the audit.
• Hu Zaixi examined Wang Ba’s sluggish five-element cultivation and offered to isolate his Mother Qi of Ten Thousand Arts so he could cultivate more freely.
• Wang Ba led his team to the Spirit Mine Department and asked to meet its minister, Qi Rulian, despite Li Yingfu’s warning that Qi was difficult to deal with.
• Wang Ba spoke privately with Qi Rulian, who soon became friendly with him and took him to the Spirit Mine Department’s storeroom, surprising Li Yingfu and Song Dongyang.

Wang Ba inspected and reorganized the Five Elements Offices’ department storerooms, winning cooperation from most ministers and completing the work with the help of Ling Weizi and Hu Zaixi when the Poison Dao Department resisted. After securing new duties and a data-processing Sea Pearl, he gained time to cultivate and visited Qi Rulian at Divine Body Peak to ask about its cultivation method.

• Ling Weizi and Hu Zaixi watched Wang Ba’s negotiations with Qi Rulian and discussed the risks of inspecting the Five Elements Offices’ departments.
• Wang Ba and Li Yingfu led an inventory of the Spirit Mine Department, sorting its storeroom and creating clear records that Qi Rulian agreed to use.
• Wang Ba inspected the other departments, gaining broad cooperation, while Ling Weizi and Hu Zaixi intervened when Chen Huaixuan resisted his entry into the Poison Dao Department.
• Song Dongyang praised Wang Ba’s results, assigned him ongoing responsibility for department records and standards, and arranged official deacon Identity Tokens for his team.
• Wang Ba had Luo Yanshuang encode data-processing rules in a Sea Pearl, then returned to cultivation and raising spirit beasts.
• A little over a month later, Wang Ba visited Qi Rulian at Divine Body Peak, where Qi Rulian warned that mastering its cultivation method would be almost impossible for him.

Wang Ba learned the Pure Dharma Heaven inheritance and tested the Great Sun Divine Body, but failed to sense the Golden Crow Qi it required, so he pursued the Thunder God Body instead. He reached Heaven's Extremity Peak to study tribulation lightning and Thunder Methods, where Uncle-Master Ding asked him to lose deliberately to his Foundation Establishment disciple, Ruan Ziyin.

• Qi Rulian explained the seven divine bodies of Pure Dharma Heaven and warned Wang Ba that the Great Sun Divine Body required a pure Dao heart while the Thunder God Body required repeated tribulation lightning.
• Wang Ba learned Pure Dharma Heaven from Qi Rulian, tried to draw the Great Sun's Golden Crow Qi into his body, and found he could not sense anything beyond its scorching fire qi.
• Wang Ba ordered Mountain-Moving Apes and other spirit beasts from a shop in Black Tortoise Market, then learned from Hai Fangming that Bai Xiaoyun and Lu Yu were missing in the Sen Kingdom.
• Two years later, Wang Ba arrived at Heaven's Extremity Peak, where his slow progress in Pure Dharma Heaven had stalled without access to suitable tribulation lightning.
• Uncle-Master Ding asked Wang Ba to spar with his Foundation Establishment disciple, Ruan Ziyin, and deliberately lose to her.

Over twenty-five years, Wang Ba cultivated under Ding Chun’s guidance, earned merit points, and supported his family and fellow disciples while learning about the dangers of Nascent Soul tribulations. Bu Chan successfully advanced to Gold Core, and the chapter ended with Zhao Feng receiving news that Great Qi had been destroyed.

• Wang Ba sparred with Ruan Ziyin on Heaven’s Extremity Peak, and Ding Chun agreed to teach him the Dragon-Tiger Origin Kan Great Art and help open a second Dantian.
• Ding Chun explained that Heaven’s Extremity Peak’s accumulated Power of Thunder weakened tribulation lightning, gave Wang Ba a thunder-attribute spirit stone, and later helped him open his second Dantian.
• Song Dongyang warned Wang Ba that rewards for Spirit Cuisine Recipes would drop; Wang Ba received 73,500 merit points and caught up with friends and family.
• Ding Chun told Wang Ba that Xi Wushang had failed his Nascent Soul tribulation, and Wang Ba later visited him with Qin Fengyi and shared wine and food.
• Twenty-five years later, Bu Chan survived her Gold Core tribulation, and Wang Ba reunited with her and their son Wang Yi'an on Heart Sword Peak.
• Zhao Feng received a Voice Transmission Talisman and told Wang Ba that Great Qi had been destroyed.

Shao Yangzi assigned Great Jin’s defenses and entrusted Xun Fujun with the Acting Sect Master Token while he went to aid construction of the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Raft. Wang Ba reviewed his Pure-Colored Stone Dragon Lizard breeding and cultivation plans before receiving an urgent summons from Hall Master Song.

• At Pure Yang Palace, Shao Yangzi and the elders discussed Great Qi’s destruction, Han Yanzi, and threats from the Primordial Demon Sect and the cultivators of the Three Continents.
• Shao Yangzi assigned Fei Hua to recruit cultivators from Great Qi, sent Song Dongyang to pursue the Imperial Clan’s wealth, and ordered Ren Xiao and Xumi to the West Sea Kingdom.
• After Xun Fujun urged a more forceful response to Great Jin’s enemies, Shao Yangzi asked him to support the sect and gave him the Acting Sect Master Token before leaving to help build the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Raft.
• Wang Ba assessed his Pure-Colored Stone Dragon Lizards, noting their attributes, qualities, and potential as sources of spiritual energy, and resolved to purify the Thunder Attribute line and increase their numbers.
• Wang Ba checked the lightning-struck stone on the summit, visited Black Tortoise Market, and heard a storyteller recount a demon king’s violence.
• Wang Ba received a Voice Transmission Talisman from Hall Master Song summoning him immediately, and his expression grew grave.