Chapter Summaries

General Li decided to return to the Jade Water Kingdom to avenge the Flowing Cloud Kingdom, and the princess and soldiers insisted on joining him. The group turned back together, hoping the powerful senior's attack would give them a chance to strike.

• General Li revealed that he planned to exploit the chaos caused by the senior's attack on the Jade Water Kingdom to kill his enemies.
• The soldiers warned General Li that returning to the Jade Water Kingdom would likely get him killed, but he refused to abandon his revenge.
• The princess said she would go back with General Li, unwilling to leave her destroyed kingdom and family unavenged.
• The soldiers chose to join the princess and General Li, declaring that they would fight their way back together.
• General Li agreed to lead them back, saying the senior's strength might keep them from dying.

The Sea Clan gathered in a hidden ocean trench after the Jade Water Kingdom slaughtered most of their people and seized their homes and resources. A powerful flood-dragon leader called on the surviving clans to unite and fight back.

• Peng Shan and the others agreed to return to the Jade Water Kingdom together and try to kill more enemies, even if they died doing so.
• The Jade Water Kingdom remained unaware of Peng Shan and the others' deaths while it continued crushing opposition and expanding its influence.
• The Jade Water Kingdom built its capital above the ocean and plundered the Sea Clan, killing nearly eighty percent of its people.
• The surviving Sea Clan formed an alliance and gathered in a hidden, chaotic trench to plan how to resist the Jade Water Kingdom.
• A powerful humanoid flood dragon urged the gathered Sea Clan to unite their strength and fight the Jade Water Kingdom.

The surviving Sea Clans gathered in the Dark Trench resolved to unite against the Jade Water Kingdom, and Han Ping proposed targeting the water pillar supporting its capital. The alliance leaders recognized that the pillar was protected, leaving them to rely on a single coordinated strike.

• Han Ping lost control of his fury over the destruction of the Cold Abyss Submerged Flood Dragon Clan until Bei Yao dispelled his pressure and urged him to save his anger for the battlefield.
• Han Ping apologized, and Bei Yao called on the Sea Clans to set aside their divisions and establish an alliance; they shouted that they could unite.
• Bei Yao counted the survivors as forty-five God Emperor experts and two hundred and eighty God King experts, and declared that their united force could defeat the Jade Water Kingdom.
• Han Ping proposed attacking the water pillar that supported the kingdom's capital, arguing that severing it would throw the capital into chaos.
• Bei Yao warned that the pillar was linked to the capital's great formation, and Han Ping said they must deliver one simultaneous strike because they would have only one chance.

Han Ping proposed that the Sea Clan destroy the Jade Water Kingdom’s water pillar and explained how they could evade detection and concentrate their attacks. After sharing a concealment method that resonated among its users, the Sea Clan mastered it and prepared to approach the pillar.

• Han Ping proposed breaking the water pillar, and Bei Yao and Hai Shan questioned how the Sea Clan could get close and strike together.
• Han Ping proposed using one formation to conceal the Sea Clan and another to gather their strength.
• Han Ping shared his concealment cultivation method and his insights with the assembled Sea Clan members.
• Most of the Sea Clan mastered the method, and its effects grew stronger as nearby users cultivated it together.
• Bei Yao tested the method and declared that it would let them approach the water pillar.

The Sea Clan prepared a formation to combine their strength against the Jade Water Kingdom, using Floating Life Spirit Illusion Stones as substitutes for the rarer Floating Life Dream Illusion Stones. With the stones inscribed and distributed, they were ready to carry out their plan.

• Mengran explained that Floating Life Dream Illusion Stones could channel many people’s power through a mother-and-child formation, but the clan lacked enough stones.
• God Emperor Mosha emerged from hiding and offered a large supply of Floating Life Spirit Illusion Stones as temporary substitutes.
• Mengran agreed to Mosha’s proposal and organized the Sea Clan formation experts to inscribe child formations onto the stones.
• The Sea Clan finished the inscriptions and distributed stones to nearly eighty percent of its members, leaving the group ready to execute the plan.

The Sea Clan used the Floating Life Spirit Illusion Stones to channel their combined power into a devastating attack that destroyed the water pillar supporting the Jade Water Kingdom's capital. As the capital began to fall, the Sea Clan launched into battle against the kingdom's furious experts.

• Mengran led the concealed Sea Clan beings to within a hundred zhang of the water pillar without being detected.
• The Sea Clan poured their power into the subsidiary arrays in their stones, transferring it to the parent array in Mengran's stone.
• Mengran threw the overcharged stone at the water pillar, and its blast collapsed the pillar and damaged the capital.
• The falling capital sent its residents fleeing, while the kingdom's experts emerged and roared that they were under attack.
• God Emperor Mosha and the Sea Clan charged the Jade Water Kingdom's experts, and the brawny man with a battle-axe began fighting God Emperor Mosha.

The Sea Clan fought the Jade Water Kingdom, but the battle shifted when supposedly dead Sea Clan experts appeared from the kingdom’s capital and attacked their former kin. Mengran realized the newcomers had embraced a mysterious pilgrimage, while God Emperor Mosha fought a former Sea Clan ally.

• Mengran and the Sea Clan charged the Jade Water Kingdom’s forces, forcing them to focus on holding their ground.
• God Emperor Mosha fought the tall, axe-wielding man as the Jade Water Kingdom’s top experts joined the battle.
• More fighters emerged from the Jade Water Kingdom’s capital, including Sea Clan experts whom God Emperor Mosha had believed dead.
• A gray octopus attacked God Emperor Mosha and declared that the Sea Clan must join them or die.
• An enormous crocodile ambushed Mengran, who questioned why it had joined the enemy despite being presumed dead.
• The crocodile denied betraying the Sea Clan and said pilgrimage would free them from the world’s cage.

Ye Chen and his disciples watched the battle between the Jade Water Kingdom and the Sea Clan to learn whether the Sea Clan experts infected by Strange Power still recognized their own kind. Ye Chen explained that the infected had been transformed from body to soul, and the fighting continued with the Sea Clan experts attacking their former clansmen.

• Mengran fought a giant crocodile who attacked her with killing intent, while the Jade Water Kingdom gained the upper hand against the Sea Clan.
• Ye Chen and his disciples watched from above as he tested whether infected Sea Clan experts retained their awareness of their former identities.
• Youruo and Xie Purou wondered why the Sea Clan experts inside the Jade Water Kingdom were fighting their own kind and guessed that their bodies had been possessed.
• Ye Chen explained that Strange Power replaced a person's identity and could alter their body, soul, memories, and sense of self.
• Ye Chen connected the infected Sea Clan experts to the scrawny old man he had killed, who believed he had awakened his true identity from the Holy Realm.

Ye Chen told Xie Purou that she would understand the strange power when she and the other disciples grew stronger. Meanwhile, Mengran defeated the giant crocodile but was badly wounded by a sword-wielding fighter, then discovered a red power invading her body through her wounds.

• Ye Chen told Xie Purou that his disciples would eventually become the main force against strange power.
• Mengran revealed her rainbow jellyfish form and used her venomous tentacles to weaken and defeat the giant crocodile.
• A thin sword-wielding fighter launched a sneak attack, and Mengran shattered his first Sword Qi strike.
• The fighter used the Great Yi Wind Dance Instruction to disperse Mengran's poisonous mist and pierced her body with a sword strike.
• Mengran plunged into the sea to recover, but found red power entering her body through her wounds.

Mengran’s attempt to expel the red strange power only accelerated its invasion, and she feared she would soon lose herself like the Sea Clan experts. Ye Chen rescued her from the sea and removed the power, leaving her to realize he had saved her from becoming another strange lifeform.

• Mengran tried to drive the red strange power from her body, but it spread faster and began to take control of her.
• Mengran suspected the power had controlled the Sea Clan experts and feared she would become like them within moments.
• An invisible force carried Mengran from the sea into the sky, where she found Ye Chen and two other unfamiliar people.
• Ye Chen pulled the writhing red threads from Mengran’s body with a simple gesture.
• Mengran thanked Ye Chen for saving her, and he explained that he had not wanted another strange lifeform.

Mengran watched the Sea Clan lose ground to the Jade Water Kingdom’s experts, who used Strange Power to infect their opponents while claiming they were freeing them. As the Sea Clan neared defeat, Ye Chen finally intervened, appearing as a colossal Dharma manifestation of light and striking down toward the battlefield.

• Mengran tried to return to the battle, but Ye Chen stopped her from risking her life again.
• Han Ping fought three opponents in his flood-dragon form and suffered severe injuries as the Sea Clan’s forces fell into despair.
• The Jade Water Kingdom’s experts urged the Sea Clan to surrender, insisting that Strange Power would awaken their true nature and give them freedom.
• Ye Chen vanished from above the battlefield, and Youruo and Xie Purou assured Mengran that he would defeat the Jade Water Kingdom.
• A gigantic Dharma manifestation of light appeared between heaven and earth and pointed an enormous finger down at the battlefield.

Ye Chen’s enormous Dharma manifestation overwhelmed the Jade Water Kingdom and Sea Clan forces, and the Jade Water Kingdom’s experts mistakenly believed a hidden Sea Clan supreme being had appeared. The manifestation erased the Jade Water Kingdom fighters while sparing the Sea Clan, leaving Han Ping to realize something was wrong.

• Ye Chen’s hundred-thousand-zhang Dharma manifestation opened its eyes and froze the combatants with its immense pressure.
• The manifestation’s descending finger battered both armies and rendered their cultivation and defenses useless.
• Jade Water Kingdom experts guessed the manifestation belonged to a Hundun Saint Emperor and unleashed their strange power in a desperate attempt to resist.
• The finger crushed the strange power and turned the Jade Water Kingdom experts to dust.
• Han Ping saw that the Sea Clan remained unharmed while the Jade Water Kingdom fighters died and realized the attack was not affecting his side.

A mysterious Dharma manifestation annihilated the Jade Water Kingdom forces while leaving the Sea Clan alive, rescuing Han Ping, Bei Yao, and the surviving merfolk. The Sea Clan celebrated its sudden victory, but Bei Yao could find no trace of Mengran.

• Han Ping realized the Dharma manifestation crushed the Jade Water Kingdom soldiers while the Sea Clan survived its overwhelming pressure.
• Bei Yao watched the giant finger strike, killing the Jade Water Kingdom's ruler and gathering the enemies' red mist into a sphere.
• The Dharma manifestation vanished after the last Jade Water Kingdom soldier died, leaving the Sea Clan alive among the bloodied reefs.
• Han Ping and the Sea Clan recognized their victory and erupted into cheers, mourning their fallen clansmen.
• Bei Yao searched with her Divine Sense but could not detect any trace of Mengran.

Ye Chen examined the Strange Power he had gathered after destroying the Jade Water Kingdom and explained that it came from outside their world. He warned Youruo and Xie Purou that Strange Lifeforms would one day be their enemies, leaving them to take the threat seriously.

• Mengran appeared unharmed and told Bei Yao that Ye Chen and his companions had saved them from the Jade Water Kingdom.
• Bei Yao and the Sea Clan experts learned that Ye Chen had created the Dharma manifestation and knelt to thank him.
• Ye Chen examined the gathered Strange Power while the Sea Clan experts realized he had removed it from their bodies without their noticing.
• Xie Purou asked Ye Chen about the power, and he explained that it came from outside their world and that they would face Strange Lifeforms in the future.
• Ye Chen warned Youruo and Xie Purou that Strange Power could overwhelm them if it invaded their bodies.

Youruo and Xie Purou insisted on testing the strange power, and Ye Chen let them experience its invasion under his watch. As the power began assimilating their bodies and immortal energy, they realized how dangerous it was, while Ye Chen remained confident they could endure the trial.

• Xie Purou and Youruo asked Ye Chen to let them test the strange power without intervening unless absolutely necessary.
• Ye Chen split the strange power in two and sent one half into each disciple as the Sea Clan experts watched.
• Xie Purou tried to drive out the invading power with her immortal energy, but it assimilated her energy and began spreading through her body.
• Youruo also tried to resist and recognized the strange power as a law that sought to assimilate her.
• Mengran and Bei Yao worried that the disciples would succumb, while Ye Chen calmly watched over them.

Xie Purou awakened the Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning as the Strange Power threatened to consume her, and the lightning began destroying it and reclaiming her body. God Emperor Mosha recognized her likely Nine Tribulations Immortal Physique, while the others watched in shock as the Strange Power was ground away.

• As the Strange Power nearly consumed Xie Purou, she defiantly mobilized the Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning within her body.
• The red lightning clashed with the Strange Power, blocked its advance, and began destroying it.
• Han Ping and Bei Yao were stunned by the lightning’s terrifying destructive presence, and Bei Yao suspected Xie Purou had a special physique.
• God Emperor Mosha identified the lightning as a sign of the Nine Tribulations Immortal Physique and explained its fearsome potential to the others.
• Xie Purou cried out as her Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning erupted, grinding away the Strange Power that had been corroding her body.

Xie Purou and Youruo each used their own powers to expel the strange power from their bodies. Youruo revealed her Jade-Scaled Mermaid Clan form and a bloodline that awed the Sea Clan experts.

• Xie Purou unleashed the Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning, forcing back the strange power and driving Sea Clan beings to flee or endure its destructive force.
• Xie Purou completely purged the strange power, exhausted herself, and told Ye Chen she had succeeded.
• Youruo resisted the strange power as her deep-blue origin power struck it in successive waves.
• Youruo expelled the remaining strange power and recovered as her deep-blue water nourished her body.
• Youruo transformed into her Jade-Scaled Mermaid Clan form, and the Sea Clan experts sensed her bloodline's overwhelming superiority.

Ye Chen located the source of the strange power in the Ashen Extinction Abyss after Xie Purou and Youruo successfully resisted its influence. He brought his disciples there to investigate, where they learned the abyss had been blasted open by a powerful expert.

• Youruo recovered from the strange power and, alongside Xie Purou, received Ye Chen's praise for resisting it.
• Ye Chen sensed the strange power's source across the Spirit Creek Continent and took Xie Purou and Youruo to deal with it.
• The Sea Clan survivors left the sunken capital, while the Flowing Cloud Kingdom's princess and General Li arrived too late to find any fighting.
• Ye Chen brought his disciples to the Ashen Extinction Abyss and identified its dark-red depths as the source of the strange power.
• Ye Chen explained that an expert had blasted open the abyss, prompting Xie Purou to ask how that expert's strength compared with his.

Ye Chen took Youruo and Xie Purou into the Ashen Extinction Abyss to test their resolve and train them, leaving them to face the monsters on its upper levels. The two disciples defeated the first wave of attackers, and their descent through the abyss continued.

• Ye Chen brought Youruo and Xie Purou to the Ashen Extinction Abyss and made them withstand its chaotic will without his help.
• Youruo and Xie Purou endured the abyss's pressure and followed Ye Chen down to its second level.
• When a monster attacked, Ye Chen vanished and left his disciples to handle it themselves.
• Youruo decapitated the two-headed monster with her deep-blue sword, while Xie Purou killed a spider-like creature with her immortal sword.
• Ye Chen stopped Xie Purou from using Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning, so she and Youruo fought the surrounding monsters with their other techniques until the fighting subsided.

Ye Chen brought Youruo and Xie Purou deeper into Ashen Extinction Abyss, where they fought increasingly dangerous monsters and proved they could overcome foes above their realm. After they survived a huge swarm but faced another approaching wave, Ye Chen said one final battle would complete their training before they continued to the abyss’s bottom.

• Ye Chen took Youruo and Xie Purou to a level where monsters had reached the early Hunyuan Divine King realm, and the two defeated their first opponents while he watched.
• Youruo and Xie Purou judged the monsters individually weaker than genuine early God King experts, but Ye Chen warned that their numbers were overwhelming.
• More than fifty monsters charged the pair, and Youruo used Tidal Dirge while Xie Purou unleashed the Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning to kill many of them.
• Exhausted by the battle, Youruo and Xie Purou complained about another approaching wave, and Ye Chen told them it would be their final test.
• Youruo proposed combining their attacks against the incoming monsters, and Xie Purou agreed to follow her plan.