Chapter Summaries

Xumi and the Four Great Patriarchs fought the trapped Black Water Buffalo while the cultivators formed an encirclement around the Eightfold Sea. Yuan Magnetism Rail Man held the eastern front alone, gained new insights into his Dao, and joined the formation, but after the buffalo died, another World Eater dragged its body beneath the sea.

• Xumi attacked the Black Water Buffalo but discovered he could not injure it, and Yuan Magnetism Rail Man shielded him from its roar.
• Patriarch Yuyang, Patriarch Jiukong, Patriarch Tankong, and Patriarch Wuchen joined the effort and assigned the cultivators to surround the Eightfold Sea.
• Yuan Magnetism Rail Man held the eastern front alone, repelled an immense wave, and advanced his Nascent Soul toward Spirit Transformation before joining the northern and southern formations.
• The four patriarchs fought together until the Black Water Buffalo died and began breaking down into Primal Chaos Source Substance.
• As Yuyang tried to lift the buffalo, a presence beneath the sea dragged it down, and the patriarchs saw another World Eater.

The Yuan Magnetism Rail Man joined the three patriarchs at the Yuan Magnetism Membrane Eye, where they discovered a World Eater’s shed skin before an agile azure serpent attacked them. Dafu, transformed into a powerful blue-black dragon, appeared and fought the serpent, while a black sea otter called something through the membrane eye.

• The Yuan Magnetism Rail Man formed a Dao Domain, descended into the sea, and learned that another World Eater had dragged the Black Water Buffalo beyond the world.
• The Yuan Magnetism Rail Man and the three patriarchs found a tough white shed skin near the Membrane Eye and prepared to seal the opening.
• An azure, badger-headed serpentine World Eater emerged and attacked Patriarch Wuchen, forcing the patriarchs to fight while the Yuan Magnetism Rail Man sought help.
• A great blue-black dragon burst from the Membrane Eye, seized the azure World Eater, and recognized the Yuan Magnetism Rail Man as his master; the Yuan Magnetism Rail Man realized the dragon was Dafu.
• Dafu and the patriarchs struggled against the azure World Eater, while a black sea otter appeared, spotted the Yuan Magnetism Rail Man, and beckoned toward the world outside.
• A pair of long pink ears emerged from the Membrane Eye after the sea otter called out.

The Yuan Magnetism Rail Man watched Dafu and the pink Plague Demon defeat the World Eater, then chose to remain at the Yuan Magnetism Membrane Eye while Dafu fought beyond the realm. Meanwhile, Wang Ba discovered that Jia Ten Five’s latest hatchling was a three-legged chick with a likely Divine Beast bloodline, and received a message from Martial Uncle Qi.

• The pink rabbit weakened the Azure Snake-Shaped Monster with blue-black vapor, then swallowed it, while Dafu protected the Yuan Magnetism Rail Man from the rabbit’s threat.
• A red-haired arm reached through the Membrane Eye, and Dafu drove it back beyond the realm while the pink rabbit and Burrowing Sea Otter remained nearby.
• The Yuan Magnetism Rail Man activated the formation to seal the Membrane Eye, but stopped the process and used the Azure-Sky Void-Breaking Formation to remain there until Dafu returned.
• The Yuan Magnetism Rail Man joined his Dao Domain to the healing Membrane Eye, and the Patriarchs and cultivators departed after acknowledging his sacrifice.
• Wang Ba found a three-legged chick hatching beside the male peacock and one-legged Golden Crow, recognized its likely Divine Beast bloodline, and received a message from Martial Uncle Qi.

Wang Ba visited Qi Yan, discovered his Dao Intent Spirit Beast research had produced a White Jade Lion-Head Goose, and arranged for Qi Yan to attempt Spirit Transformation after recovering. After learning that the Eightfold Sea tribulation site was no longer usable, Wang Ba prepared to travel to Zhongsheng Continent with Patriarch Yuyang and Patriarch Jiukong, then made arrangements for his spirit beasts and departed through the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s Teleportation Array.

• Wang Ba met Qi Yan and Mo Qi, saw Qi Yan’s White Jade Lion-Head Goose with a dao intent organ, and introduced Jia Ten Five as another Dao Intent Spirit Beast.
• Qi Yan gave Wang Ba a Mixed-Blood White Tiger nearing its fifth-tier tribulation and asked him to look after Mo Qi if Qi Yan failed to survive his own tribulation.
• Wang Ba learned from Qu Shentong that the Yuan Magnetism Membrane Eye in the Eightfold Sea had been filled and that the Yuan Magnetism Rail Man had suppressed it with his body.
• Qu Shentong lent Wang Ba the damaged Yuyang Drum and Patriarch Jiukong’s incense burner to protect him on his journey to Zhongsheng Continent, and Wang Ba declined the offer to become Sect Master for now.
• Wang Ba brought the White Jade Lion-Head Goose and Jia Ten Five to the Bead Secret Realm, named the Three-Legged Chick Sanjin, and arranged for Qi Yan to recuperate before leaving through the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s Teleportation Array.

Wang Ba reached Zhongsheng Continent and resolved to focus on completing the Daoist grounds to give the Little Cang Realm a chance against its decline and the World Eaters. At the Yuan Magnetic Palace, Qin Lingxiao faced growing distrust from Elders Yuchi Shu and Yuchi Lian, who planned to test her by exposing a clan gathering to Fierce Beasts.

• Wang Ba met the Yuan Magnetism Rail Man in the Eightfold Sea, exchanged news, and acknowledged his own responsibility for the incarnation’s troubled heart.
• Wang Ba crossed the Yuan Magnetism Sea, reflected on the Little Cang Realm’s dwindling resources, and decided to set aside distractions and complete the Daoist grounds.
• Wang Ba sensed the Lesser Celestial Circuit Escape-Dissolution Command Token and flew toward the Yuan Magnetic Palace to consult its leaders before his tribulation.
• Qin Lingxiao ordered rebels who had besieged the Yuan Magnetic Palace to fight the invading Fierce Beasts, while privately worrying that Elders Yuchi were testing her authority.
• Yuchi Shu and Yuchi Lian questioned whether Qin Lingxiao was truly Blood Sea Old Mother Li Yuehua’s successor and decided to send her to the Gao Clan gathering while secretly letting Fierce Beasts through.

Wang Ba returned to Zhongsheng Continent and confronted Yuchi Shu and Yuchi Lian after suspecting they had sent Qin Lingxiao into danger. He demanded to know where she was, while the two Palace Masters hesitated before his show of power.

• Wang Ba saw Fierce Beasts racing toward a newly built mortal city and stopped to intervene.
• Qin Lingxiao attended the Gao Clan head’s Succession Ceremony in Flying Deer City, then left without encountering the danger she had expected.
• Yuchi Shu and Yuchi Lian waited for news of the Fierce Beasts’ attack and were startled when Wang Ba arrived at the Yuan Magnetic Palace.
• Wang Ba revealed that the Yuan Magnetism Rail Man had been his incarnation and asked where Qin Lingxiao was; Yuchi Lian challenged him to prove his identity.
• Wang Ba demanded to be taken to Qin Lingxiao and revealed a fifth-tier perfection Law Treasure and a middle-aged figure, leaving Yuchi Shu and Yuchi Lian uncertain.
• A puzzled voice called out, asking what they were doing.

Wang Ba helped Qin Lingxiao reconcile with the Yuchi sisters, then brought Qi Yan to Zhongsheng Continent to undergo his Spirit Transformation tribulation. As Qi Yan’s vitality nearly failed, Wang Ba poured his lifespan into Qi Yan’s bonded Black Ghost-Eyed Chi, and Qi Yan’s vitality surged in response.

• Yuchi Shu and Yuchi Lian apologized to Qin Lingxiao and entrusted the Yuan Magnetic Palace to her before entering seclusion to risk a breakthrough.
• Qin Lingxiao gave Wang Ba a Jade Slip with places where the Yuan Magnetism Sea weakened Tribulation Lightning and accepted his Vermilion Bird Command Token.
• Wang Ba used his Small Heavens Escape-Dissolution Divine Ability to bring Qi Yan from Myriad Laws Peak to Zhongsheng Continent and prepared him for tribulation.
• Qi Yan began his Spirit Transformation tribulation with the Black Ghost-Eyed Chi, but both were badly injured as his vitality faded.
• Wang Ba poured a vast amount of lifespan into the Black Ghost-Eyed Chi, which began transforming and fed renewed vitality back into Qi Yan.

Qi Yan survived his Spirit Transformation Tribulation but remained unconscious and unable to absorb Spiritual Qi, while Wang Ba learned about the obstacles to building Daoist Grounds. A strange premonition then drew Wang Ba into a temple, where a pregnant woman was praying before him.

• Wang Ba's intervention helped Qi Yan and the Ghost-Eyed Chi endure the tribulation, but Qi Yan fell unconscious and could not absorb Spiritual Qi.
• Patriarch Jiukong took Qi Yan into his incense burner, and Qin Lingxiao asked Wang Ba whether he would have rejected her even without Bu Chan; Wang Ba said he would have.
• At the Myriad Phenomena Sect, Jiang Yi explained that Qi Yan might need years or much longer to recover, though nurturing his bonded spirit beast could help.
• Wang Ba asked Jiang Yi how to build Daoist Grounds, and she gave him a Jade Slip describing the method while warning him of its difficulties.
• A premonition led Wang Ba into a temple, where he saw a pregnant middle-aged woman praying before him.

Wang Ba healed a new mother, recognized her son Song Dongyang as Song’s reincarnation, and left the infant with his parents after entrusting him with the Star Water Fou. As Wang Ba’s Yin-Yang Dao reached minor attainment, a shabby Qi Refining Daoist arrived claiming Song Dongyang as his destined disciple and was flung away by an unseen force.

• Wang Ba traveled to Dayu City and waited for the birth of the child whose arrival he had sensed.
• Wang Ba saved née Wang from fatal bleeding and told her and her husband that their son shared a destined bond with him.
• Song Dalang and née Wang chose to raise their son themselves, so Wang Ba left the Star Water Fou with the infant and named him Song Dongyang.
• Wang Ba reflected on Song Dongyang’s reincarnation, and his Yin-Yang Dao reached minor attainment.
• A shabby old Daoist arrived at Song Dalang’s home, claimed Song Dongyang as his disciple, and slipped over the courtyard wall after Song Dalang shut the gate.
• The old Daoist approached the infant, but an unseen force hurled him backward as Wang Ba asked whether he had divined the opportunity before him.

Wang Ba captured Xu Mahayana, learned that he practiced a costly family divination technique, and brought him back to the Myriad Phenomena Sect. He studied the Little Six Ren Tongmiao Finger Method and related divination arts, then entered the Zhou Tian Stars Diagram to explore a way around the technique’s elusive flash of inspiration.

• Xu Mahayana confessed that he had used his family’s divination method to seek fortune, and he offered Wang Ba the incomplete Little Six Ren Tongmiao Finger Method.
• Wang Ba offered Xu Mahayana either cultivation resources or a place in his sect, and Xu Mahayana chose to return with him.
• Wang Ba examined the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s divination texts and concluded that the Little Six Ren Tongmiao Finger Method remained effective because it did not rely on altered celestial cycles.
• Wang Ba reached Entry in the method but still could not divine his own fortune, so he considered combining it with Stellar Numerology and the Nine Palaces.
• Wang Ba reached Entry in related divination methods and merged his consciousness with the Zhou Tian Stars Diagram.

Wang Ba combined the sect’s divination methods with the Little Six Ren Tongmiao Finger Method and created Zhou Tian Doushu, provoking a resonance between heaven and man. After testing the art on the creatures around him, he sent Wang Qingyang to Rongmeng City with the Profound Dragon Dao Soldiers and prepared to help the Mixed-Blood White Tiger.

• Wang Ba studied the Zhou Tian Stars Diagram and fused his divination knowledge into a new technique, which he named Zhou Tian Doushu.
• The technique’s creation triggered a resonance between heaven and man above the Myriad Phenomena Sect, drawing Jiang Yi’s astonishment and Han Yanzi’s wary attention.
• Wang Ba used Zhou Tian Doushu to read the auras of his spirit beasts, finding unusual signs around Sanjin, the Mixed-Blood White Tiger, and several others.
• After divining the Profound Dragon Dao Soldiers, Wang Ba refined them anew and sent Wang Qingyang to find the head of the Xiao Household in Rongmeng City.
• Wang Ba looked at the Mixed-Blood White Tiger and decided it was time to help it.

Wang Ba helped the White Tiger undergo its tribulation, which transformed it into a fifth-tier Divine Beast before it suddenly attacked him. Meanwhile, Wang Qingyang entered Rongmeng City in disguise to investigate the Xiao Household, but the city’s guards identified her as a suspected Gold Core cultivator.

• Wang Ba prepared the White Tiger for its tribulation, and it endured more than twenty bolts of Tribulation Lightning before its Inner Core faced the final strike.
• The White Tiger’s Inner Core split, its Primordial Spirit dispersed the thundercloud, and it became a fifth-tier Divine Beast with a purer bloodline.
• As Wang Ba approached to help it recover, the White Tiger lunged at him, and Wang Ba recognized that its bloody calamity had come to pass.
• Wang Qingyang asked a Ghost Market array guard about the Xiao Household and learned that it controlled Rongmeng City and had two Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Wang Qingyang disguised herself as a Foundation Establishment cultivator and entered Rongmeng City after paying a bottle of Spirit Cuisine as her deposit.
• A city gate guard alerted a Gold Core cultivator, who used a bronze mirror to identify Wang Qingyang and smiled ominously.

Wang Qingyang investigated the Xiao Household in Rongmeng City, where she was nearly captured before the Primordial Sacred Sect attacked. As the sect seized the city and its Xiao Household cultivators, Wang Qingyang revealed overwhelming power, rescued the Xiao Household Head, and destroyed Wu Feng's body.

• Wang Qingyang found Wen Family and Crimson Blood Manor shops closed and learned that their people had gone to a sect treasure land, while the Xiao Household Head was reportedly in seclusion.
• Xiao Yanping and the red-faced Gold Core cultivator plotted to capture Wang Qingyang as a sacrifice for the Xiao Household Head's attempt to open the Mu Lian Family's Secret Cache.
• Four Gold Core cultivators confronted Wang Qingyang as she tried to leave Rongmeng City, but she agreed to meet the Xiao Household Head before a black palm shattered the city's defensive formation.
• The Primordial Sacred Sect invaded Rongmeng City, captured Xiao Yuanhai and many Xiao Household cultivators, and Wu Feng ordered the city sealed while the Xiao Household Head tried to escape.
• Wang Qingyang struck down the tall Demon Sect cultivator's attack, seized the Xiao Household Head, and tried to flee, but Wu Feng blocked her path.
• Wang Qingyang used lightning to destroy Wu Feng's blood-red tentacles and blast apart his body, then flew away with the Xiao Household Head.

Wang Qingyang returned to Rongmeng City with Xiao Xingde, only to discover that he had lured her into a trap to open the Mu Lian Family’s secret treasury. Shen Fu intervened, but Han Yanzi arrived to seize the treasures, and Wang Ba appeared to confront him.

• Wang Qingyang agreed to help Xiao Xingde retrieve a secret cache beneath Rongmeng City and considered asking her master to shelter him in Great Jin.
• Xiao Xingde trapped Wang Qingyang at the Moruo Colossal Elephant statue, but the Profound Dragon Dao Soldiers protected her from its blood-draining mechanism.
• Shen Fu arrived, and Wang Qingyang escaped the trap while Xiao Xingde was pinned to the statue and consumed as the treasury opened.
• Shen Fu captured several flying Law Treasures, while Wang Qingyang caught three more; Han Yanzi then appeared and overwhelmed her defenses.
• Wang Ba arrived and clashed with Han Yanzi over the treasures, and Han Yanzi recognized him with open hostility.

Wang Ba faced Han Yanzi in the underground cavern and forced him to retreat without either side securing a clear victory. Afterward, Wang Ba worried over Han Yanzi’s unexplained plans and revealed that he had obtained a treasure despite Wang Qingyang’s belief that their trip had failed.

• Wang Ba reunited with Wang Qingyang and Shen Fu, then exchanged a brief clash with Han Yanzi, who wondered at Wang Ba’s rapid growth and precise control of Law Power.
• Han Yanzi attacked Wang Ba with blood claws, but Wang Ba evaded them on the White Tiger and protected Wang Qingyang inside a Fifth Tier Law Treasure.
• Han Yanzi used blood Qi to trap Wang Ba and the White Tiger in an array, but withdrew his power when the Will of Heaven and Earth began to respond.
• Han Yanzi took Shen Fu and fled the cavern, while Wang Ba admitted that he had only forced Han Yanzi to abandon the fight rather than defeat him.
• Wang Ba speculated about Han Yanzi’s plans and reassured Wang Qingyang about Shen Fu, then revealed a glass bead containing nine embryonic phantoms of Moruo Colossal Elephants.

Han Yanzi entrusted Shen Fu with a fifth-tier Law Treasure and ordered him to gather intelligence on the True Martial Practitioners while the Primordial Demon Sect continued its campaign. At Myriad Laws Peak, Wang Ba uncovered a method for creating Mara Giant Elephant Dao Soldiers but could not condense their Dao Seeds, and Wang Qingyang ended the chapter with news that Wang Yi'an had reached Nascent Soul.

• Han Yanzi gave Shen Fu a Netherblack Treasure Cauldron and told him to use it to contend with Wang Ba if the opportunity arose.
• Han Yanzi learned that Wang Xu had killed several Third-Rank Evil Gods, ordered Shen Fu to track the True Martial Practitioners, and directed the sect to sweep Wind-Approaching Continent while sparing Great Jin.
• Wang Qingyang brought fourth-tier Law Treasures from Shen Fu and planned to send them to the Myriad Phenomena Treasure Vault for other sect members to use.
• Wang Ba divined the Mara Giant Elephant Dao Soldiers Refining Method and learned that its Dao Seeds could create Moruo Colossal Elephants, but he could not visualize the King of the Moro Colossal Elephants well enough to condense a seed.
• Wang Ba studied Primordial Demon Sect writings, found an account of Mu Lianchi's six Moruo Colossal Elephants, and wondered why the Dao Seeds could no longer be created.
• Wang Qingyang told Wang Ba that Wang Yi'an had passed his tribulation at sea and broken through to Nascent Soul.

Wang Ba learned that the Moruo Colossal Elephant King was a World Eater and experimented with planting its Dao Seed in a Spirit Chicken. As the seed drained the chicken and formed a cocoon, the day of Bu Chan and Wang Qingyang’s tribulations arrived.

• Wang Ba taught Wang Qingyang about her cultivation path and sent her to tell Bu Chan that her tribulation was approaching.
• Wang Ba searched Demon Sect records and the Myriad Phenomena Scripture Repository, where he found an ancient account that the Moruo Colossal Elephant King had been slain by True Person Sanhe.
• Jiang Yi explained that the Moruo Colossal Elephant King had likely been an innately awakened World Eater, and warned Wang Ba that its will might survive if he reconstructed it.
• Wang Ba implanted a Moruo Colossal Elephant Dao Seed in a supreme fourth-tier Spirit Chicken and observed it drain the chicken’s vitality before forming a thick cocoon.
• The day of Bu Chan and Wang Qingyang’s tribulation transcendence arrived.

Wang Ba reunited with Wang Yi'an, then helped Bu Chan and Wang Qingyang overcome their Nascent Soul Tribulations. At a banquet celebrating their breakthroughs, Zhao Feng challenged Wang Ba to exchange a few moves.

• Wang Yi'an returned after decades away, reunited with Wang Ba, and felt relief when he learned Dafu was still alive.
• Wang Yi'an told Wang Ba about his travels with Zhao Feng, including strange lands and Fierce Beasts in the North Sea.
• Wang Ba supplied Bu Chan with Thunder Tribulation Stones, elixirs, and Spirit Cuisine, helping her smoothly enter the Nascent Soul realm before Wang Qingyang survived a more dangerous tribulation and also advanced.
• Bu Chan and Wang Qingyang received congratulations from across the sect, and Wang Qingyang was appointed a deacon of Heavenly Origin Hall.
• Wang Ba hosted a banquet with Zhao Feng and other acquaintances; the gathering remembered the absent Zhen Bo'en and toasted his memory.
• Zhao Feng asked Wang Ba to exchange a few moves for the banquet's amusement.

Zhao Feng and Wang Ba tested each other’s swordsmanship, but stopped before either revealed a winner, leaving Zhao Feng to realize how far his junior brother had advanced. After Wang Ba’s attempt to divine why his Dao Intent spirit beasts produced only dead eggs pointed toward the North Sea, he sent Ice Daoist there to seek a way forward for constructing his Daoist Grounds.

• Zhao Feng challenged Wang Ba to a spar and unleashed a torrent of sword-like water, while Wang Ba answered with a second torrent made from Mother Qi of Ten Thousand Arts.
• Zhao Feng dispersed his attack before the torrents collided, and Wang Ba followed suit; afterward, Zhao Feng concluded that he had no chance against Wang Ba and glimpsed the path toward Spirit Transformation.
• Zhao Feng sent Wang Yi'an to the North Sea to hunt three fourth-tier Fierce Beasts as punishment for lacking discernment, and Wang Yi'an inferred that his father had won.
• Wang Ba discovered that the eggs laid by Jia Ten Five after mating with the Big White Goose were all dead, then failed to divine why his Daoist Grounds could not progress.
• Wang Ba’s turtle-shell divination broke apart and formed a pattern resembling the character for north, leading him to suspect the North Sea Continent held a clue to breeding Dao Intent spirit beasts.
• Wang Ba sent Ice Daoist to the North Sea Continent with a Storage Law Artifact, and the Mara Giant Elephant Dao Seed inside the Fourth Tier Spirit Chicken stirred again a few days later.

Wang Ba raised a Moruo Colossal Elephant from an egg and tested whether lifespan or Yin-Yang Qi could transform it, then began experimenting with Yin-Yang Qi on another Dao Seed. Meanwhile, the Ice Daoist crossed the North Sea to North Sea Continent and found the remains of a bloody attack on newly built temples.

• Wang Ba watched a Moruo Colossal Elephant hatch, then fed and examined the newborn calf.
• Wang Ba supplied the calf with Spirit Beast flesh until it grew into a colossal elephant, but lifespan and Yin-Yang Qi failed to transform it.
• Wang Ba wondered whether a Dao Seed prevented bodily changes and injected Yin-Yang Qi into another Mara Giant Elephant Dao Seed.
• The Ice Daoist learned from the Dai Kingdom Ghost Market Garrison Commander that the True Martial Dao had emptied the region, then crossed the North Sea alone.
• The Ice Daoist reached North Sea Continent and found ruined temples, discarded monk robes and law artifacts, and human skin scattered among the wreckage.