Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang arrived in Heavenly Fragrance City and went to the Auspicious Teahouse, where he heard rumors that the Xiao Family had been destroyed after Xiao Xueqing allegedly betrayed the Long River Sect. The account left him doubtful of the accusations, while the teahouse crowd blamed the Long River Sect for the Xiao Family’s fate.

• Ji Wuchang left the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion and sent Li Xueqin a message saying he had arrived in Heavenly Fragrance City.
• A woman at the pavilion received his message and arranged to meet him that evening at the nearby Auspicious Teahouse.
• Ji Wuchang entered the teahouse and overheard cultivators discussing trouble within the Long River Sect and the Xiao Family’s destruction.
• A middle-aged man surnamed Zhao claimed Xiao Xueqing had leaked the secret of a Supreme’s cave abode, poisoned and killed Ma Jianxiong, and poisoned the Long River Sect’s second elder.
• Zhao said Ma Anshan had failed to capture Xiao Xueqing and that the Long River Sect had razed the Xiao Family; Ji Wuchang doubted the accusations, while the patrons blamed the sect.

Ji Wuchang learned that the Hou Clan had joined the attack on the Xiao Family because of Xiao Xueqing, while Xiao Xueqing vowed revenge against the Hou Clan and the Long River Sect. He then met the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion proprietor to discuss the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus and demonstrated his strength against her Celestial Phenomenon Realm elder.

• Ji Wuchang heard that the Hou Clan had helped the Long River Sect attack the Xiao Family because Xiao Xueqing was blamed for Hou Liangyun's death and the loss of other young talents.
• Xiao Xueqing, disguised as an old man, left the teahouse with her two surviving guards and vowed to avenge the Xiao Family against the Hou Clan and the Long River Sect.
• Ji Wuchang recognized the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion proprietor at the Auspicious Teahouse and waited until the appointed time to meet her about the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus.
• The veiled young woman confirmed that Ji Wuchang wanted the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus, while her old companion challenged him by sending a teacup at him.
• Ji Wuchang stopped the teacup with three combat techniques, drank the tea, and sent it back with the Thousand Star Flame and Glacial Glazed Fire.
• The old man extinguished the flames but shattered the cup as ice spread across his palm before his presence melted it away.

Ji Wuchang met a veiled young woman who recognized him and told him about a dangerous underwater secret realm containing the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus. He agreed to join her group, while she and her martial uncle revealed that she had known him as a child.

• Ji Wuchang overcame the old man's casual strike, and the young woman recognized him as Ji Wuchang rather than Jiang Qiye.
• The young woman asked why Ji Wuchang needed the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus, but he refused to disclose his private reasons.
• The young woman told Ji Wuchang about an ancient secret realm beneath the sea on the border of Azure Sea Province and Long River Province, where cultivators would face restrictions.
• Ji Wuchang agreed to enter the secret realm with the group and arranged to meet them at the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion in five days.
• After Ji Wuchang left, the young woman told her martial uncle that she had decided to go with him and remembered the kindness he had shown her in childhood.

Ji Wuchang recalled a woman who had destroyed the Xiao Family and suspected she was connected to the young girl he had seen. After discovering Wang Chengfu had concealed his background, he left without confronting him and broke through in a cultivation tower, opening his Heavenly Dipper Acupoint.

• Ji Wuchang remembered that a woman with a sword had once slaughtered the Xiao Family and gravely wounded Xiao Fan, and wondered whether the memory related to the young girl.
• Ji Wuchang found Wang Chengfu at a butcher shop, where he saw a young girl using spiritual power to expertly dissect a ferocious beast and learned that Wang Chengfu had a master and fellow disciples.
• Ji Wuchang decided not to meet Wang Chengfu again, checked in on Hibiscus Road, and entered a cultivation tower to break through using a Reincarnation Dream Experience Card.
• Ji Wuchang opened his Heavenly Dipper Acupoint, which had no attribute but devoured hundreds of thousands of spirit stones before becoming a vast reserve of spiritual power he could draw on like a second dantian.

Ji Wuchang broke through to the Dao Severing Realm Third Level and cultivated the Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps to great perfection, gaining nearly invisible thunder wings that could help him traverse the void. After recovering from their heavy toll on his blood Qi, he prepared to use another Reincarnation Dream Experience Card.

• Ji Wuchang broke through to the Dao Severing Realm Third Level after purple Qi flowed into his Heavenly Dipper Acupoint.
• Ji Wuchang used the system to cultivate the third stage of the Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, enduring severe pain as thunder wings formed on his back.
• Ji Wuchang lost nearly half of his blood Qi and restored himself by swallowing a drop of blood from the Blood Pool and a pill.
• After a day of recovery, Ji Wuchang tested his nearly transparent thunder wings and confirmed they could help him escape formations by traversing the void.
• Ji Wuchang crushed another Reincarnation Dream Experience Card.

News spread that a newly revealed underwater secret realm was likely the former site of the Azure Sea Sect, drawing cultivators and major factions from across the provinces. At Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion, Chi Qianzhu told her master An Fanmei that Ji Wuchang had been chosen to enter the realm, prompting An Fanmei to arrange to meet him while Chi Qianzhu warned her not to harm him.

• Seven-colored radiance appeared over the ocean between Long River Province and Azure Sea Province, and news spread that an ancient secret realm lay beneath it.
• Cultivators from nearby provinces rushed toward the site after rumors identified the realm as the vanished Azure Sea Sect's former grounds.
• An Fanmei visited Chi Qianzhu at Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion and warned her that the Fire Phoenix Sect might investigate the rumors.
• Chi Qianzhu named Ji Wuchang among those chosen to enter the secret realm, and An Fanmei recognized him as the boy Chi Qianzhu had begged her to take along years ago.
• Chi Qianzhu told An Fanmei that Ji Wuchang had reached Dao Severing Realm Second Level and asked her not to hurt him.
• An Fanmei agreed to arrange a meeting with Ji Wuchang, while Chi Qianzhu said she only wanted to watch him from afar.

Ji Wuchang mastered the Primordial Jade Shattering Finger and gathered information about the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus before joining An Fanmei’s group on their journey to the ancient secret realm. Their flying boat reached the sea near the realm, where many factions had gathered, including the Fire Phoenix Sect.

• Ji Wuchang spent thirty years of cultivation perfecting the Primordial Jade Shattering Finger and checked his system status.
• Ji Wuchang heard cultivators discuss the secret realm, the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus, and the bounties offered for it.
• Ji Wuchang sensed an unseen watcher in Heavenly Fragrance City and went to meet An Fanmei’s group at the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion.
• An Fanmei led the group aboard her flying boat, where the other nine cultivators looked down on Ji Wuchang because of his lower cultivation.
• After five days of travel, Ji Wuchang’s group reached the sea near the secret realm, and Luo Suxing raised the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion flag as their boat approached the gathered factions.

Ji Wuchang faced a deadly contest after An Fanmei agreed that the fight for the contested position could end in death. He entered the sky to confront the Yuan Clan’s Dao Severing Realm seventh-level fighter as onlookers mocked his lower cultivation.

• Ji Wuchang learned that Qin Tianyang and Yuan Jinan both claimed the spot occupied by the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion and proposed settling the dispute through a contest between their weakest members.
• Yuan Jinan arrived and challenged An Fanmei to follow the old rules, while Ji Wuchang’s companions expected him to fight first because he had the lowest cultivation.
• An Fanmei ordered Ji Wuchang to fight and told him he must win, and Ji Wuchang calmly flew into the sky.
• Onlookers mocked Ji Wuchang’s Dao Severing Realm third-level cultivation as the Yuan Clan’s burly Dao Severing Realm seventh-level fighter emerged with an iron staff.
• Yuan Jinan asked whether the fight could be to the death, and An Fanmei nodded in agreement.

Ji Wuchang faced Yuan Dapang and killed him with the Primordial Jade Shattering Finger, stunning the crowd. Yuan Jinan tried to intervene but was blocked by An Fanmei, then apologized with a pill before returning to the Yuan Clan’s flying boat.

• Yuan Dapang challenged Ji Wuchang and attacked him with an enormous iron staff.
• Ji Wuchang dodged onto the staff and killed Yuan Dapang with the Primordial Jade Shattering Finger.
• Yuan Jinan tried to stop Ji Wuchang, but An Fanmei blocked him and condemned his interference.
• Ji Wuchang took Yuan Dapang’s storage ring and returned to the flying boat as the crowd reacted with shock and praise.
• Yuan Jinan offered a pill as compensation, and An Fanmei sent it to Ji Wuchang.

Ji Wuchang walked along the beach with Chi Qianzhu, who revealed that they had known each other before his memories became incomplete. She promised to help him obtain a Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus in the coming secret realm, while Ji Wuchang was left suspecting someone had erased part of his childhood memories.

• An Fanmei and the other six Supremes left the flying boat to meet the Fire Phoenix Sect's delegation.
• Chi Qianzhu invited Ji Wuchang to walk on the beach, where she explained that the secret realm lay underwater and would appear at midnight.
• Ji Wuchang told Chi Qianzhu how he had met Li Xueqin during the Thousand-City Battle and that Li Xueqin was now queen of the Heavenly Star Dynasty.
• Chi Qianzhu mentioned the Old Huang Temple in Muye City, prompting Ji Wuchang to realize she knew him from before and that he could not remember much of his childhood.
• Chi Qianzhu removed her veil and introduced herself again, and Ji Wuchang concluded that someone had erased some of his memories.
• Chi Qianzhu promised to help Ji Wuchang obtain one of the two Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotuses in the secret realm, and he said he had come prepared.

Hou Jian and the Hou Clan learned that Ji Wuchang was at the secret realm and plotted to kill him without exposing themselves to the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion. They planned to frame him as Xiao Xueqing’s fiancé and arrange attacks through the Long River Sect, the Yuan Clan, and hired cultivators.

• Hou Shangtian confirmed that Ji Wuchang had killed Hou Liangyun and warned that Ji was Zhou Haotian’s chief disciple, making the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion a dangerous enemy.
• Hou Yulin proposed tying Ji Wuchang to the Xiao Family so the Long River Sect would target him instead of the Hou Clan.
• Hou Jian decided to tell Ma Anshan that Ji was Xiao Xueqing’s fiancé and had helped her disappear, and to urge Ma to enlist the Yuan Clan.
• Hou Jian ordered the Hou Clan to bribe strong rogue cultivators to assassinate Ji inside the secret realm while Hou Clan members waited in the shadows.

Ji Wuchang watched seven Supreme Realm experts open the secret realm early and entered with Chi Qianzhu’s group, hoping to find the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus. The unstable gate was overwhelmed by sixth-rank ferocious beasts and collapsed, leaving the fate of those inside uncertain.

• Ji Wuchang saw the secret realm’s barrier and palace appear over the sea as seven Supreme Realm experts revealed themselves.
• The female Supreme announced that those below the Celestial Phenomenon Realm could enter during a brief opening that night.
• The seven Supremes formed a formation and forced open a gate in the barrier, allowing cultivators to enter.
• Before Ji Wuchang entered with the fifth group, Chi Qianzhu warned him that they would be randomly separated inside.
• Terrifying presences of many sixth-rank ferocious beasts battered the gate, and the seven Supremes failed to keep it open as it shattered and the secret realm vanished from view.

Ji Wuchang entered the secret realm and discovered that its fierce beasts left no Fortune Points, though a sixth-tier beast dropped a mysterious white pearl. After he watched a woman with a longbow rescue two junior sisters, a pack of snow-white wolves charged toward them, and she urged the younger women to flee.

• Ji Wuchang found that slain fierce beasts faded away without granting Fortune Points, but one sixth-tier beast left behind a white pearl that he stored in a box.
• Ji Wuchang sensed a fight and saw two Dao Severing Realm Fourth Level women being attacked by two sixth-tier fierce beasts while Zhao Fei waited nearby.
• Zhao Fei wounded one beast, but it lunged at an injured woman, so Ji Wuchang prepared to intervene.
• A Dao Severing Realm Eighth Level woman with a longbow killed both beasts with arrows and was greeted by the two women as their Second Senior Sister.
• A pack of at least thirty snow-white wolves, including roughly fifteen sixth-tier beasts, approached, and the Second Senior Sister told her junior sisters to flee.

Ji Wuchang discovered that the white beads inside the snow-white wolves could fuse and grow, and suspected they were connected to the secret realm. Trapped between two wolf packs, he urged the others to fight and charged into battle.

• Ji Wuchang collected two beads from slain wolves and raced ahead of Zhao Fei and the three women as the pack pursued them.
• The longbow woman shot a wolf, provoking the pack to unleash howls that injured the group and drove Zhao Fei to run faster.
• Ji Wuchang spotted wolves blocking their path and used his Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil to see the beads sustaining them.
• Ji Wuchang placed one bead beside another in a box, and the smaller bead fused into the larger one, which grew and showed a faint trace of silver.
• With nearly sixty wolves closing in, Ji Wuchang told the group to attack the smaller pack ahead, and the longbow woman fired as he beheaded a sixth-tier wolf.

Ji Wuchang helped Zhao Fei and the others escape the giant white wolves, then discovered that a silver bead formed a map of the secret realm. He tested his theory about the beads by killing another wolf pack and collecting their drops.

• Ji Wuchang slew several giant white wolves with his sword and used Thousand Thunder Kill to save Zhao Fei and the two injured women from the pack.
• Ji Wuchang collected the wolves’ white beads and found a silver bead in his box.
• Ji Wuchang infused the silver bead with soul power, causing it to enter his mind and form a map that showed his location at the secret realm’s outer edge.
• Ji Wuchang left the others behind, doubled back, and killed another pack of giant white wolves with Grinding Yin and Yang.
• Ji Wuchang collected the pack’s white beads and watched their small drops combine into a thumb-sized bead before placing everything in the box.

Ji Wuchang discovered that collected beads merged by color, then disguised himself and began selling altered secret-realm maps. After proving his strength by killing a pack of black bears, he drew interested buyers, and someone arrived to purchase the first map.

• Ji Wuchang watched white beads combine into silver beads and realized only beads of the same color could fuse.
• Ji Wuchang copied an incomplete version of his map onto twenty jade slips, disguised himself in Myriad Souls Hall robes, and set up a map stall.
• Ji Wuchang killed more than a dozen sixth-rank black bears with the Netherworld Sword and collected their beads, causing the silver bead to gain a faint golden trace.
• Ji Wuchang told the surviving cultivators that his ancestors had ties to the secret realm and defended his decision to sell maps.
• Ji Wuchang offered each jade slip for 120,000 low-grade spirit stones, discounted the first sale to 100,000, and required buyers to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• A voice from afar announced that it would buy a map, startling the gathered cultivators.

Ji Wuchang refused to sell Yao Wucheng a secret realm map for a cheap price and brutally killed him after Yao Wucheng threatened him. As more people arrived, they watched in fear as Ji Wuchang searched Yao Wucheng’s soul, destroyed it, and burned his corpse.

• Yao Wucheng offered Ji Wuchang one thousand low-grade spirit stones for the map and promised the Long River Sect’s protection, but Ji Wuchang refused.
• Yao Wucheng threatened Ji Wuchang, who bound him with the Immortal-Binding Rope and beat him while insulting him.
• Ji Wuchang repeatedly smashed Yao Wucheng into the ground as Zhao Fei and others arrived and watched.
• Ji Wuchang captured Yao Wucheng’s Primordial Spirit, searched his soul, and crushed it, earning 1401 Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang took Yao Wucheng’s storage ring and burned his corpse while the onlookers watched in terror.

Ji Wuchang sold genuine secret realm maps before discovering that ferocious beasts were funneling travelers toward a valley guarded by thunderclouds. When he tested the lightning, his Thunder Dragon absorbed it, and Ji Wuchang drew down enough bolts to engulf the valley.

• Ji Wuchang offered secret realm maps for one hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones each and proved one was genuine to Nian Yuandie.
• Nian Yuandie swore a Heavenly Dao Oath not to reveal the map, and Ji Wuchang sold six maps before leaving for another location.
• Ji Wuchang found that sleeping ferocious beasts blocked nearly every route through the secret realm, directing travelers toward a valley marked on his map.
• Ji Wuchang flew above the valley and was struck by lightning from its thunderclouds.
• Ji Wuchang's Thunder Dragon absorbed the lightning, so he drew down more bolts until they engulfed the entire valley.

Ji Wuchang set up a paid escort service through the lightning zone, while Nian Yuandie and Zhao Fei led a growing group of cultivators fleeing fierce beasts toward the valley. The group reached the valley with the beasts close behind, as Yan Yuliang, Yuan Tieniu, and Qin Hesheng still eyed Zhao Fei over his secret-realm map.

• Ji Wuchang blocked the valley entrance and advertised lightning protection for five hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones per person, offering a free map after the crossing.
• Nian Yuandie and Zhao Fei guided cultivators along their map, but nearly thirty newcomers brought hundreds of pursuing fierce beasts behind them.
• Yan Yuliang, Yuan Tieniu, and Qin Hesheng demanded copies of Zhao Fei's map, and Zhao Fei said a Heavenly Dao Oath prevented him from sharing it.
• A cultivator at the rear was caught and killed by the beasts, prompting the group to race toward the valley.
• Nian Yuandie shot down a beast threatening someone at the rear, and the fleeing cultivators drew closer to the valley.

Ji Wuchang confronted Yan Yuliang, Qin Hesheng, Yuan Tieniu, and their followers at the lightning-sealed valley entrance as beasts gathered behind them. After Yuan Tieniu threatened him, Ji Wuchang launched a sudden slaughter, leaving the rest of the attackers under assault.

• Ji Wuchang watched the fleeing cultivators reach the valley entrance, where lightning blocked their way and ferocious beasts pursued them.
• Zhao Fei told the crowd that Ji Wuchang had sold him a secret realm map, while Ji Wuchang said he was now giving maps away under the conditions written on the cliffs.
• Yan Yuliang demanded a map and threatened Ji Wuchang, while Qin Hesheng and Yuan Tieniu joined in pressuring him.
• When Yuan Tieniu demanded an answer, Ji Wuchang appeared beside him and stabbed him through the temple.
• Yan Yuliang, Qin Hesheng, and their followers attacked, but Ji Wuchang slipped behind them and killed several with a single sword strike, then obliterated escaping Primordial Spirits.
• The system announced that Ji Wuchang had slain Yuan Tieniu, Yan Zhongshan, and Qin Fugui and gained Fortune Points.