Chapter Summaries

Shen Fu escaped the Black Spirit Chicken by detonating Gong Xiyin’s Law Treasure, and Gong Xiyin swore an oath to follow him, convinced he was blessed by destiny. As Shen Fu and Gong Xiyin headed toward the Severed Dao, the Black Spirit Chicken fled north, while Wang Ba studied the True Martial Sutra and considered who could cultivate it.

• The Black Spirit Chicken swallowed Yan Zhenyi, Bian Burang, and their Dao protectors, but Shen Fu detonated Gong Xiyin’s Spirit-Devouring Twelve Ghost Pouch Net and escaped with him.
• Gong Xiyin accused Shen Fu of knowing about the monster, but Shen Fu reminded him that the other Holy Sons had excluded him from their spoils and that he had saved Gong Xiyin.
• Gong Xiyin recognized Shen Fu’s technique as resembling Device Demon Jiang Taiyin’s methods, then swore a Heaven and Earth Oath to follow Shen Fu because he believed Shen Fu was favored by destiny.
• Shen Fu and Gong Xiyin agreed to search the North Sea for a treasure before returning to the sect, and the Black Spirit Chicken carried its egg and the Jade Fire Parasol Tree north.
• Wang Ba studied the True Martial Sutra and concluded that its flesh-focused cultivation conflicted with ordinary cultivation, leaving him wondering what kind of being could practice it.

Wang Ba tested the True Martial Sutra on his Spirit Beasts and concluded that it could greatly strengthen weaker beings but had serious limits and costs. Meanwhile, Wang Xu survived punishment in the Hanging City and resolved to deepen the method, while the Black Spirit Chicken reached a strange sea suspended in the sky.

• Wang Ba entered North Sea Continent and learned that reaching the Far North Plateau would require crossing the North Pole Heavenly Sea, where Fifth-Tier Fierce Beasts lived.
• Wang Ba taught Jia Ten Five and other Spirit Beasts the True Martial Sutra, finding that it benefited humanlike beasts most but could deplete their spiritual foundations and offered little improvement to those above the Fourth Tier.
• Wang Ba reflected on Wang Xu's extraordinary lifespan and suspected the True Martial Dao had untapped potential, then erased Jia Ten Five's memories of the sutra.
• Wang Xu begged the Revered Master in the Hanging City for forgiveness after his companions were killed, endured a hundred lashes, and resolved to keep exploring the True Martial Sutra before escaping the world.
• The Black Spirit Chicken flew through a vast fog and entered a sea suspended in midair, unaware that a huge shadow moved beneath its surface.

The Black Spirit Chicken escaped a colossal Fifth Tier Divine Beast in the North Pole Heavenly Sea, but the beast’s Primordial Yang caused its second egg to grow dangerously large. Meanwhile, Wang Ba’s party arrived at the Far North Plateau, where the God-Locking Bell warned of danger as they headed toward the Heavenly Pillar.

• The Black Spirit Chicken approached a seabed opening, recognized its mist as Primordial Yang, and was attacked by tentacles before discovering that the undersea mountains were a gigantic fish.
• The great fish swallowed the White Bear and the sea beasts, then leaped from the Heavenly Sea as the Black Spirit Chicken fled with the Fire Paulownia.
• The Black Spirit Chicken reached the North Pole Heavenly Pillar and found that the Primordial Yang had revived its weakened egg, which then began growing until it threatened to trap the chicken inside its body.
• Wang Ba, Yinghe, and Li Yingfu passed the North Pole Heavenly Sea and entered the cyclone passage aboard their iron ship.
• After emerging onto the Far North Plateau, Wang Ba used the Six-Yao Ruler Fire Lamp to shield the ship from the cold current, but the God-Locking Bell warned him of danger.

Wang Ba reached the North Pole Heavenly Pillar seeking his master Yao Wudi’s old friend, only to discover that Fanming was hiding in a fiery paulownia tree nearby. As Wang Ba and Fanming began fighting, a mysterious figure descended from the collapsing Ice Pillar.

• Wang Ba hurried across the snowy plain with Yinghe and Li Yingfu as the God-Locking Bell’s warning about Fanming grew stronger.
• The group reached the North Pole Heavenly Pillar and found an emerald paulownia tree that had melted the surrounding snow.
• Wang Ba rang the God-Locking Bell and revealed Fanming hiding in the tree; Fanming attacked with its winged pupils, but Wang Ba broke its illusion.
• Fanming lunged at Wang Ba, and Yinghe and Li Yingfu tried to protect him; Li Yingfu’s treasures briefly engulfed Fanming, revealing its swollen belly and protruding egg.
• Wang Ba strengthened himself and sent out an injured White Tiger, while Fanming charged through his saber attack; Fanming then began freezing as a dark figure descended with the collapsing Ice Pillar.

Wang Ba witnessed a mysterious female cultivator suppress Fanming at the North Pole Heavenly Pillar and received her Ice-Soul Deity-Transmutation Record. Fanming escaped with an egg, while Wang Ba later discovered another egg hidden in the Jade-Hued Fire Parasol Tree beginning to hatch.

• The white-robed female cultivator used the Ice Dao to pin Fanming beneath an iceberg, but Fanming broke free and escaped after unleashing a blinding sun with its Black Feather Chicken innate talent.
• The female cultivator said she had wounded Fanming, restored the collapsed heavenly pillar, and gave Wang Ba the Ice-Soul Deity-Transmutation Record.
• Fanming fled east with an egg, struggled against Bing Yi within its body, and eventually laid the egg in warm waters before settling on a distant continent.
• Fanming's egg hatched into a ravenous chick that grew into a giant, eagle-like creature, prompting Fanming to raid human settlements and hunt for food.
• The Wu Ape King showed Wang Ba a cracking egg hidden in the Jade-Hued Fire Parasol Tree, and Wang Ba suspected it belonged to Fanming.

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.