Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei and Jiang Qingyue fought to a draw while Su Tianshuang and Liu Meng’s spar turned into a vicious brawl. Lin Fei and Jiang Qingyue stopped the fight by overpowering and sealing both of them, leaving Su Tianshuang and Liu Meng furious.

• Su Tianshuang and Liu Meng exchanged powerful attacks as their fight grew increasingly personal, while Lin Fei and Jiang Qingyue battled with their manifestations.
• Lin Fei’s sword technique and Jiang Qingyue’s Supreme Yin Physique proved evenly matched, so Lin Fei stopped fighting to avoid delaying the ice soul’s choice.
• Su Tianshuang and Liu Meng continued attacking each other with matching techniques until both were badly injured and their protective energy was shattered.
• Lin Fei and Jiang Qingyue joined forces to break up the brawl, but Su Tianshuang and Liu Meng turned on them instead.
• Jiang Qingyue and Lin Fei overwhelmed Su Tianshuang and Liu Meng and sealed them, prompting both fighters to angrily protest their intervention.

After the South Radiance Ice Soul drifted between Jiang Qingyue and Lin Fei, Lin Fei cut it in two and gave Jiang Qingyue the larger portion. The group looted South Radiance Palace, and Lin Fei secretly kept his smaller piece for Nüba before returning to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa.

• Li Changhe and Wang Ping stopped fighting and pretended they had only been sparring.
• The South Radiance Ice Soul drifted toward Jiang Qingyue and Lin Fei, then hesitated between them.
• Lin Fei sliced off a small piece of the Ice Soul and gave the larger remainder to Jiang Qingyue.
• Jiang Qingyue gave up his share of the other cultivation resources, and Lin Fei also declined his personal share.
• Everyone looted South Radiance Palace, which ceased to exist, and Lin Fei secretly sealed his Ice Soul fragment for Nüba.
• Lin Fei pretended to return to Wuming Palace but went to Flying Cloud Mountain Villa instead.

Lin Fei gave Nüba the South Radiance Ice Soul, allowing her to unseal her cultivation without unleashing her destructive aura, and stayed to guide the others. Meanwhile, Duan Canghai found himself treated as a brother by True Lord Black Serpent, who offered him a revolting swamp toad to eat.

• Qiushui played the guqin, Xiayue sang, and Dongxue performed a sword dance while the others watched.
• Lin Fei revealed the South Radiance Ice Soul and gave it to Nüba to suppress her drought goddess aura.
• Nüba swallowed the ice soul, and Lin Fei removed the seal between her brows without triggering a drought.
• The women celebrated Nüba's success, and Lin Fei stayed at Flying Cloud Mountain Villa to help everyone cultivate.
• In Blackwater Swamp, True Lord Black Serpent offered Duan Canghai a dead, mud-covered swamp toad and demanded that he accept it.

Duan Canghai realized True Lord Black Serpent intended to use him to break the formation around Chiyou’s corpse, so he stalled to gain time to absorb its power. Meanwhile, Triton attacked the East China Sea Dragon Palace’s forces, leaving a merchant ship overturned and its crew struggling in the waves.

• True Lord Black Serpent forced Duan Canghai to eat raw meat while pretending to treat him like a younger brother.
• Duan Canghai discovered that the formation around Chiyou’s corpse was its core and suspected True Lord Black Serpent planned to kill him once he finished the work.
• Duan Canghai claimed that breaking the linked formations would take three to five days, hoping to absorb Chiyou’s power and reach the Void Insight Realm.
• True Lord Black Serpent agreed to guard Duan Canghai while secretly planning to eat him afterward.
• Triton led a tide of sea beasts against the shrimp soldiers and crab generals near the East China Sea Dragon Palace.
• The charging sea beasts and waves overturned a hundred-thousand-ton merchant ship, killing and stranding people at sea.

Triton’s sea beast army routed the East China Sea Dragon Palace’s forces, and Triton killed Prime Minister Turtle after breaking through his shell. As the beasts charged toward the Dragon Palace, Ao Yi called for the Heavenly Venerable, who arrived just in time.

• Triton led the sea beasts in a slaughter of the East China Sea Dragon Palace’s fleeing soldiers.
• Prime Minister Turtle encountered Triton’s army, sealed himself inside his shell, and withstood the crayfish’s attacks.
• Triton pierced Prime Minister Turtle’s shell, tore it from his back, killed him, and swallowed his nascent soul.
• Triton claimed Prime Minister Turtle’s shell and ordered the sea beasts to slaughter everyone in the Dragon Palace.
• Ao Yi spotted Prime Minister Turtle’s shell, realized he was dead, and called for the Heavenly Venerable, who appeared behind him.

Lin Fei arrived at the East China Sea Dragon Palace and stood against Triton, who had slaughtered its subjects and killed Prime Minister Turtle. As Ao Yi fought Triton’s sea beast army, Triton attacked Lin Fei with the Sea God’s Trident, and Lin Fei remained motionless.

• Ao Yi and the Dragon Palace pleaded with Lin Fei to save them, and Lin Fei faced Triton at the palace walls.
• Triton boasted that he had eaten Prime Minister Turtle’s Nascent Soul, enraging Ao Yi and prompting Lin Fei to challenge him.
• Triton ordered his sea beasts to attack while holding back to test Lin Fei, and Ao Yi charged the army with a spear made from his dragon spine.
• Triton dispelled Ao Yi’s draconic might and then struck directly at Lin Fei with the Sea God’s Trident.
• Lin Fei did not move as Triton’s powerful strike rushed toward his chest.

Lin Fei easily destroyed Triton’s divine artifacts, crushed his sea beast army, and tortured him until he revealed that he had given the Heaven-Mending Stone to Poseidon. Ao Yi urged Lin Fei not to spare Triton, and Lin Fei ordered him dragged away and fed to the dogs.

• Triton’s Sea God’s Trident broke when it struck Lin Fei, who then snapped it in two himself.
• Triton sounded the Sea God’s Conch Shell, but Lin Fei’s rebuke destroyed the sea beast army and shattered the conch.
• Lin Fei dragged Triton close, tore off his arm, and repeatedly wounded him as he demanded the Heaven-Mending Stone’s location.
• Triton confessed that he had given the Heaven-Mending Stone to Poseidon and begged Lin Fei to spare him.
• Ao Yi urged Lin Fei not to let Triton live, and Lin Fei ordered him dragged away and fed to the dogs.

Lin Fei and Ao Yi killed Triton, prompting Poseidon to manifest in the East China Sea and threaten the Dragon Palace. Lin Fei destroyed Poseidon’s attack, but Poseidon’s true body vowed revenge from his divine throne.

• Ao Yi chopped Triton into pieces and killed him despite his pleas for mercy.
• Poseidon sensed Triton’s death and manifested from his son’s divine blood in the East China Sea Dragon Palace.
• Ao Yi condemned Triton for killing East China Sea inhabitants and Prime Minister Turtle, while Poseidon insulted the Dragon Palace and threatened to destroy it.
• Lin Fei ordered Poseidon to hand over the Heaven-Mending Stone, but Poseidon attacked him with a trident, causing deadly sea turmoil above.
• Lin Fei shattered the trident and absorbed its power, while Poseidon’s fading divine will threatened a divine war.
• Poseidon’s true body vowed to show Lin Fei the consequences of defying him.

After returning from the East China Sea, Lin Fei resumed his false seclusion while his companions cultivated. In Blackwater Swamp, Duan Canghai tried to break through to Void Insight inside the Demon-Locking Pagoda, but True Lord Black Serpent’s attack badly injured him and threatened to ruin his breakthrough.

• Lin Fei reassured Ao Yi that he would kill Poseidon if he threatened the East China Sea Dragon Palace, then declined the Dragon King’s invitation and returned to the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace.
• Su Tianshuang and the others entered seclusion to pursue Spirit Transformation, while Lin Fei pretended to be cultivating toward early spirit transformation.
• Duan Canghai, secretly drawing on the power of Chiyou’s corpse, sealed himself inside the Demon-Locking Pagoda and began breaking through.
• As demonic power gathered into a flower above Duan Canghai’s infant, True Lord Black Serpent realized he had hidden his strength and struck the pagoda.
• The pagoda withstood most of the blow, but the impact severely injured Duan Canghai and made his forming flower flicker; he lamented that his life was over.

Duan Canghai broke through to the Void Insight Realm after Zhu Yudie intervened to stop True Lord Black Serpent. His attempt to celebrate by smoking swamp grass ended in horror when he learned it had been used by the serpent clan to wipe themselves, and he attacked True Lord Black Serpent in rage.

• Zhu Yudie appeared atop the Demon-Locking Pagoda and warned True Lord Black Serpent to stop attacking Duan Canghai.
• Duan Canghai used the pause to break through to the Void Insight Realm, summoning black clouds and taking the Plain Shadow Sword in hand.
• Duan Canghai pulled up swamp grass, rolled it into a cigarette, and lit it, leaving Zhu Yudie and True Lord Black Serpent bewildered.
• Duan Canghai choked on the smoke and vomited after True Lord Black Serpent explained that his clan used the grass to wipe themselves.
• Duan Canghai flew into a rage and unleashed a towering sword strike at True Lord Black Serpent.

After realizing the Blackwater Swamp was filthy with the Blackwater Dark Serpent Clan’s excrement, Duan Canghai flew into a rage and nearly killed True Lord Black Serpent with the Plain Shadow Immortal Sword. Heaven-Rending Demon Butterfly intervened, but Duan Canghai refused to stop, forcing her to resort to her trump card.

• Duan Canghai unleashed a barrage of sword techniques against True Lord Black Serpent, severing part of his legs and leaving him desperately defending himself with the clan’s reverse scale.
• Heaven-Rending Demon Butterfly joined the battle and tried to stop Duan Canghai, but his next strike wounded True Lord Black Serpent and split the reverse scale in two.
• Heaven-Rending Demon Butterfly struck Duan Canghai with a streak of black light, while True Lord Black Serpent cut a large piece of flesh from his wound to escape the sword qi destroying his life source.
• Howling Heaven Demon Dog and the Black Water Mystic Serpents hid from the fight, while Heaven-Rending Demon Butterfly warned Duan Canghai to stop and then used a powder that left True Lord Black Serpent dazed.
• Duan Canghai ignored Heaven-Rending Demon Butterfly’s attack and charged again; she evaded his lethal strike and cried, “Fellow Daoist, don't do this! I'm going to scream!”

Duan Canghai removed Chiyou’s corpse from the formation’s core, releasing the Eastern Wasteland Demon Realm’s imprisoned spiritual energy and awakening powerful demons. He escaped to a town, where a tramp mistook him for a rival beggar.

• The Heaven-Rending Demon Butterfly stopped Duan Canghai from leaving unless he removed Chiyou’s corpse from the formation’s core, and Duan Canghai agreed.
• Duan Canghai kicked the mud-covered Howling Heaven Demon Dog away, then pulled Chiyou’s corpse from the formation.
• The released spiritual energy spread across the Eastern Wasteland, drawing out countless demons and awakening the Ancestor, who ordered his followers to retrieve the supreme treasures of the four forbidden grounds and find the human sage.
• Duan Canghai fled the Eastern Wasteland with the Howling Heaven Demon Dog while the Heaven-Rending Demon Butterfly and True Lord Black Serpent devoured the released spiritual energy.
• Duan Canghai reached a distant town and wondered why a tramp feared him, but the tramp told him to beg somewhere else.

Duan Canghai killed people who mistook him for a beggar, stole cigarettes and clothes, and checked into an inn with the Howling Heaven Demon Dog. After savoring cigarettes in his room, Duan Canghai left the dog smoking pensively at the window, where a couple photographed him.

• Duan Canghai ordered the Howling Heaven Demon Dog to kill a tramp, then killed a supermarket owner who insulted him and stole the store's cigarettes.
• Duan Canghai used his spatial ring to take clothing from a shop, then gave the Howling Heaven Demon Dog a ring that turned into a collar so it could carry dog food.
• Duan Canghai frightened an innkeeper by smashing a wall while killing a fly, took a room, and tore its door off when he went upstairs.
• Duan Canghai smoked several cigarettes with delight before taking a shower.
• The Howling Heaven Demon Dog tried smoking a cigarette and pondered its appeal while a high school boy and his girlfriend took its photo.

Lin Fei, Ji Yaoguang, and Nüba arrived in Atlantis, where Poseidon confronted them over the death of his divine son. Lin Fei lent Nüba enough power to reach the Mahayana Realm temporarily, and she began her fight with Poseidon.

• Lin Fei, Ji Yaoguang, and Nüba appeared above the sea in Atlantis, provoking Poseidon and his sea monsters.
• Poseidon threatened Lin Fei for killing his divine son, and Nüba asked to fight him.
• Lin Fei used a drop of his blood to raise Nüba to the Mahayana Realm temporarily.
• Lin Fei promised to spare Poseidon if he defeated Nüba, then encouraged her to fight freely.
• Nüba opened the battle with her Four Supreme Move, Meteor Pierce, and sent a beam of finger light through the collapsing void.

Nüba fought Poseidon in Atlantis, but the Sea God’s command of the ocean and his divine trident overcame her Four Absolutes. She unleashed the Nine Nether Underworld Void Hegemon, shattering his trident and blasting his badly injured body out of Earth’s atmosphere.

• Nüba used the first three moves of the Four Absolutes against Poseidon, but he blocked her attacks and emerged ready to fight seriously.
• Nüba’s Lightning Grab failed to defeat Poseidon, who drew power from the ocean and sent her flying.
• Although Lin Fei urged her to stop, Nüba sank to the seabed and drew power from the Earth, lifting Atlantis and the surrounding seawater.
• Nüba endured the strain of the Nine Nether Underworld Void Hegemon and unleashed a punch that shattered Poseidon’s ocean power and Sea God’s Trident.
• Nüba’s punch crushed Poseidon’s chest and sent his burning body out of the atmosphere, where an astronaut witnessed him flying past.

After Nüba killed Poseidon with the Nine Nether Underworld Void Hegemon, Lin Fei retrieved the Heaven-Mending Stone and began repairing the Kunlun Mirror. Ji Yaoguang asked about Lin Fei’s origins, and he began telling her that he had first awakened in primordial chaos alongside two other lifeforms.

• Nüba’s final strike annihilated Poseidon, and Lin Fei restored her shattered body and soul.
• Nüba retrieved the Heaven-Mending Stone from Poseidon’s temple, and Lin Fei took it away with Ji Yaoguang and Nüba.
• Lin Fei told Ji Yaoguang that repairing the Kunlun Mirror would take time, and she worried that she was too weak to help him.
• Lin Fei reassured Ji Yaoguang by explaining that he had once been weak and agreed to tell her about his origins.
• Lin Fei said he had first become conscious in chaos, where he sensed two other lifeforms like himself.

Lin Fei recounted how a cataclysm sent him hurtling through the multiverse before he awoke in a humanlike child’s body around two hundred million years ago. Alone in the Jurassic wilderness, he learned to shelter himself and encountered a puzzled herbivorous dinosaur.

• Lin Fei described sensing primordial darkness and another chaotic life-form before the three beings were scattered by the collapse of their space.
• After crashing through stars and universes, Lin Fei fell into a state between life and death and eventually revived on Earth as a child around two hundred million years ago.
• During a storm, the frightened and freezing Lin Fei crawled into a cave, learned to stand, and blocked its entrance with branches and leaves.
• After waking feverish and desperately hungry, Lin Fei left the cave and came face to face with a large herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur.
• Lin Fei understood the dinosaur’s puzzled call and tried to communicate by miming that he was eating.

Lin Fei befriended an injured ornithischian dinosaur after waking hungry and cold in the Jurassic Era. The dinosaur told him its herd had been scattered by Dilophosaurus and that its two children were missing, while Lin Fei settled down to sleep beside it; later, he told Ji Yaoguang that his story could take years to recount.

• Lin Fei ate bitter plants after the ornithischian dinosaur showed him how to find food on the ground.
• When the dinosaur tried to leave, Lin Fei clung to its tail until it agreed to take him along.
• Lin Fei noticed the dinosaur's bite wound and learned that Dilophosaurus had scattered its herd and that its two children were missing.
• The exhausted dinosaur fell asleep while Lin Fei tried to learn about the world from it.
• Lin Fei wrapped himself in leaves and fell asleep against the dinosaur to keep warm.
• Ji Yaoguang reacted with surprise as Lin Fei explained that telling his story could take years.

Lin Fei sent Ji Yaoguang a mental imprint of his childhood memories while he repaired the Kunlun Mirror, and she became absorbed in his past. In the memories, young Lin Fei befriended an ornithischian dinosaur and began mapping the dangerous land to search for its lost herd.

• Lin Fei sent Ji Yaoguang a mental imprint of his memories and went into seclusion to repair the Kunlun Mirror.
• Young Lin Fei woke hungry, ate plants he disliked, and wondered whether he was a carnivore.
• Lin Fei and the ornithischian dinosaur lived together, and the dinosaur helped him gather fruit and roots.
• Lin Fei explained that he felt safer with the dinosaur and wanted to find his own kind, while the dinosaur searched for its herd and children.
• Lin Fei used a mountain vantage point to map nearby dangers and plan a route toward clues about the dinosaur's herd.
• The ornithischian dinosaur carried Lin Fei on its back and ran as he shouted excitedly.

Lin Fei and the ornithischian dinosaur survived an attack by a crocodilian creature, and Lin Fei treated the dinosaur’s wounded leg before naming her Little Dragon Mama. They later found the remains of one of her missing children.

• A crocodilian creature attacked Lin Fei at the water’s edge, and the ornithischian dinosaur drove it off but suffered a badly wounded leg.
• Lin Fei made a paste from plants and wrapped the wound with leaves until the bleeding stopped.
• After learning that Lin Fei had no mother, the dinosaur grew more protective, and Lin Fei named her Little Dragon Mama.
• The injured Little Dragon Mama and Lin Fei searched for her scattered herd and followed a blood trail to the broken skeletal remains of one of her children.