Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang asked the academy for five aggregates precious blood, and the dean made him accept three conditions before they would discuss giving it to him. After agreeing to travel to Illusory Sea City, Ji Wuchang learned how dangerous it was and prepared a deadly poison for the journey.

• Ji Wuchang asked Xiao Xueguang to help him obtain the academy’s five aggregates precious blood, and Xiao returned with three conditions set by the deans.
• Xiao Xueguang told Ji Wuchang he had to earn approval in Illusory Sea City, place in the top three of the inner court competition, and eliminate every member of the Nine Nether Lineage in his area of the Heavenly Chen Cauldron.
• Ji Wuchang accepted the conditions, and Xiao Xueguang said Master Zhen would take him to Illusory Sea City the day after tomorrow.
• Ji Wuchang asked Thousand Poison Venerable about Illusory Sea City, and Thousand Poison Venerable warned him that it was lawless, dangerous, and filled with assassins and poison experts.
• Ji Wuchang requested two soul-targeting poisons from Thousand Poison Venerable and mixed them with supreme resentful demon blood, corpse poison, and Qianji Poison to create a deadly poison.

Ji Wuchang completed his cultivation of the Mysterious Heaven Vajra Finger and joined Ling Yun, Yu Qinghe, and Cai Jianfeng for the journey to Illusory Sea City. He boarded Zhen Xian’s flying boat with Xiao Xueguang, who had arranged for Zhen Xian to teach him the Law of Time along the way.

• Ji Wuchang mixed a deadly poison from Myriad Souls Hall into his toxins, then discussed poison-making with the Thousand Poison Venerable before returning to cultivation.
• After two days, Ji Wuchang completed the Mysterious Heaven Vajra Finger and saved the five years of cultivation he had left.
• Ji Wuchang waited in the inner courtyard square and met Ling Yun, who praised his strength and postponed their planned sparring match.
• Yu Qinghe and Cai Jianfeng arrived and greeted Ji Wuchang before joining him and Ling Yun.
• Zhen Xian summoned the four disciples aboard his flying boat, where Ji Wuchang discovered Xiao Xueguang had arranged for Zhen Xian to teach him the Law of Time during the journey.

Ji Wuchang and the other academy disciples began their six-month assessment near Illusory Sea City, where strength ruled and danger awaited at every turn. Disguised as an old man, Ji Wuchang killed a cultivator who attacked him, while scavengers rushed toward the corpse.

• Zhen Xian and Xiao Xueguang sent Ji Wuchang, Ling Yun, Yu Qinghe, and Cai Jianfeng to Illusory Sea City for a six-month assessment and warned them to enter separately.
• Cai Jianfeng and Yu Qinghe urged the others to stay alert and use their jade slips if they faced overwhelming danger.
• Ji Wuchang put on an aged-face mask, changed clothes, and approached the city while displaying Celestial Phenomenon Realm third-level cultivation.
• A middle-aged man at the sixth level attacked Ji Wuchang, then crushed a jade slip and fled after Ji Wuchang dodged his strike and killed the summoned beast.
• Ji Wuchang caught up with the middle-aged man, immobilized him with the Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art, and crushed his head and primordial spirit.
• Several cultivators rushed toward the middle-aged man's corpse to seize his storage ring, and a burly man attacked them with an iron staff.

Ji Wuchang seized a storage ring and used his spatial powers and Thousand Illusions Soul-Shattering Eye to kill the three Celestial Phenomenon Realm Eighth Level men who attacked him. After warning off the onlookers, he grew even more eager to enter Illusory Sea City and test himself.

• The burly man and two swordsmen fought over a storage ring until Ji Wuchang caught it.
• The three men attacked Ji Wuchang, who trapped them in separate spaces and used his Thousand Illusions Soul-Shattering Eye to destroy the burly man's soul and body.
• Ji Wuchang took the burly man's storage ring and iron staff, then used the staff to kill the other two men as they emerged from their separate spaces.
• Ji Wuchang warned the surrounding onlookers not to try to seize the storage rings, and they held back despite their greed.
• Ji Wuchang surveyed the dangerous outskirts and looked forward to entering Illusory Sea City to temper himself.

Ji Wuchang reached Illusory Sea City and killed a scrawny old man who tried to extort him at the entrance. He left the other wall guards facing his display of power, with the old man’s Primordial Spirit in his grasp.

• Zhen Xian and Xiao Xueguang watched Ji Wuchang head for Illusory Sea City and praised his ruthlessness and hidden abilities.
• Ji Wuchang reached the open city entrance and saw corpses being tortured while powerful guards watched from the walls.
• Ji Wuchang paid a hundred low-grade spirit stones to enter, but the scrawny old man demanded one of his storage rings and blocked his path with an attacking corpse.
• Ji Wuchang resisted the old man’s pressure and used the Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art and Mysterious Heaven Vajra Finger to strike him.
• A Supreme Realm second layer guard tried to intervene, but Ji Wuchang vanished with the old man and reappeared holding his severed head and Primordial Spirit.

Ji Wuchang killed two cultivators who attacked him at Illusory Sea City’s gates, using lightning, a black iron chain, and deadly poison. After taking their storage rings and the gate’s Spirit Stones, he entered the city.

• Ji Wuchang crushed the thin old man's Primordial Spirit after the old man attacked him.
• Ji Wuchang trapped the Supreme Realm Second Layer man in Thunder Purgatory, then beheaded him with a black iron chain.
• Ji Wuchang poisoned the man's body with a throwing needle, and the poison destroyed his flesh, bones, and Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Wuchang took both storage rings, destroyed the thin old man's puppet, and warned the onlookers not to challenge him.
• Ji Wuchang collected the Spirit Stones at the gate and entered Illusory Sea City.

Ji Wuchang entered Illusory Sea City, where he saw signs of strict rules alongside grim displays of human skulls. He rejected the Duandao Association’s invitation and intimidated its representative into backing down.

• Ji Wuchang entered Illusory Sea City and saw a blood-written warning that anyone who killed ordinary people would die.
• Ji Wuchang noticed that the streets were clean despite the city’s lawless reputation, while poles bearing strings of human skulls lined the roads.
• A man holding a broken saber invited Ji Wuchang to join the Duandao Association and described its members and leader.
• Ji Wuchang dismissed the association, saying it was too small to contain someone like him.
• The man holding the broken saber protested, but Ji Wuchang threatened to kill him if he spoke again, and the man retreated in silence.

Ji Wuchang went to the Illusory Sea Flowing Cloud Trading Company to find lodging and learned about Illusory Sea City’s deadly nights, exorbitant housing costs, and mandatory sea demon hunts. He questioned who enforced the city’s rules, leaving the mystery of Illusory Sea City’s order unresolved.

• Ji Wuchang examined the skulls displayed on pillars and read the boasts carved into them by their killers.
• Ji Wuchang entered the Illusory Sea Flowing Cloud Trading Company and met its steward, Guan Ping.
• Guan Ping explained the prices and protections for temporary lodging and fixed residences, including luxury residences with a female cultivator.
• Guan Ping warned Ji Wuchang that white fog brought dangerous demon beasts at night and that long-term residents had to hunt sea demons monthly.
• Ji Wuchang questioned who established Illusory Sea City’s rules despite the city having no dominant power.

Guan Ping explained Illusory Sea City's rules and rented Ji Wuchang a courtyard residence, where hostile neighbors threatened him after his three-day protection period. Ji Wuchang rejected the protection and challenged the one-eyed man to a fight.

• Guan Ping explained that Illusory Sea City was governed by cultivators' votes and permitted fighting, robbery, and killing.
• Ji Wuchang paid Guan Ping one million eight hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones to rent a permanent residence.
• Guan Ping brought Ji Wuchang to a courtyard residence and warned nearby residents not to attack him during his three-day protection period.
• The one-eyed man and his companions mocked Ji Wuchang and said they would target him after the protection period ended.
• Ji Wuchang asked whether he could kill someone who provoked him, then challenged the one-eyed man to come out and die.
• The one-eyed man erupted in rage and threatened to twist off Ji Wuchang's head.

Ji Wuchang faced the one-eyed man's gang in Illusory Sea City and revealed overwhelming strength, killing three of them in succession. The onlookers were left stunned by the power of a cultivator they had thought was an easy target.

• The skinny man volunteered to kill Ji Wuchang, and the one-eyed man ordered him to bring back Ji Wuchang's Primordial Spirit.
• Ji Wuchang severed the skinny man's arm and leg, then killed him and shattered his Primordial Spirit after the one-eyed man and two companions joined the fight.
• Ji Wuchang evaded the three men's attacks and sent Soul Annihilation Spikes into their brows, then killed one companion with his iron chain.
• Ji Wuchang stomped the Half-Step Supreme man into blood mist and skewered his Primordial Spirit with the chain.
• The surrounding spectators stared in disbelief as Ji Wuchang killed two Celestial Phenomenon Realm ninth level cultivators and one Half-Step Supreme in succession.

Ji Wuchang killed One-Eye after refusing Senior Lin’s offer to intervene, then entered the small courtyard Guan Ping had arranged for him. He accepted the residence token, though the costly courtyard might still have to be defended from others.

• Ji Wuchang faced the last surviving One-Eye after killing his companions, while One-Eye called on Senior Lin to save him.
• Ji Wuchang rejected Senior Lin’s plea and killed One-Eye, then destroyed the three Primordial Spirits and took their storage rings.
• Ji Wuchang challenged anyone who wanted to seize his residence, but no one dared step forward.
• Guan Ping removed his temporary barrier and showed Ji Wuchang the courtyard, its three-room house, and cultivation chamber with a Spirit Gathering Formation.
• Ji Wuchang accepted the residence token, and Guan Ping left after giving him a few instructions.

Ji Wuchang broke through to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm Fourth Level as Illusory Sea City was engulfed by a sea demon assault. He watched a golden arrow and a flaming palm devastate the swarms, revealing the city's immense hidden power.

• Ji Wuchang activated his courtyard's defensive barrier, prompting people outside to fight over the courtyard left by One-Eye and his companions.
• Ji Wuchang checked in, received ten years of cultivation, and broke through to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm Fourth Level.
• After night fell, white mist covered Illusory Sea City, barriers appeared, and countless sea demons began attacking.
• A golden arrow tore through the sea demon swarm and killed several eighth-tier sea demons.
• A huge palm wreathed in flames descended, burning countless sea demons and killing two eighth-tier sea demons.

Ji Wuchang witnessed sea demons massacre the cultivators behind two breached barriers before the mist retreated at dawn. After encountering a bloodied boy with Supreme Realm Fourth Level cultivation, he learned that Illusory Sea City would hold a Sea Demon Fight, where people could challenge captured sea demons to avoid their monthly hunt assignment.

• The sea demons shattered a defensive barrier and slaughtered nearly all the cultivators who charged out, including several Supreme Realm experts.
• The sea demons breached another barrier and killed its defenders before the white mist and sea demons retreated around midnight.
• Ji Wuchang spent the night meditating, then left his barrier at dawn as nearby tenants regarded him with awe after seeing his strength.
• Ji Wuchang visited the battlefield and found it cleared of corpses, then encountered a bloodied boy whose cultivation was at Supreme Realm Fourth Level.
• An old man told Ji Wuchang that the monthly Sea Demon Fight let people challenge captured sea demons for exemption from the monthly sea hunt.

Ji Wuchang visited Illusory Sea City’s Grand Plaza, where Du Weiwei and the Duandao Association confronted him and invited him to join. He rejected them bluntly, and Du Weiwei made a final appeal, offering to meet his conditions.

• Ji Wuchang arrived at the Grand Plaza and examined the enormous chained sea demons and the cultivators gathered around them.
• A group of nine Duandao Association members surrounded Ji Wuchang, and the man with the broken saber identified him to Du Weiwei as the person who had rejected their invitation.
• Du Weiwei questioned Ji Wuchang about his cultivation and sensed that he was more dangerous than his Celestial Phenomenon Realm fourth level suggested.
• Ji Wuchang refused to join and called the association’s members deadweights, provoking their anger.
• Du Weiwei explained that she wanted Ji Wuchang because of his strength and the association’s need for powerful, trustworthy allies, then offered to meet his conditions.

Ji Wuchang refused to join the Duandao Association unless he could lead it, then demonstrated his strength by swiftly overpowering Du Beibei. Du Weiwei considered letting him take charge because her group faced threats from the Swift Blade Sect and the Zhan Clan, but Ji Wuchang walked away without answering her proposal.

• Ji Wuchang demanded that the Duandao Association accept him as its leader or leave him alone, drawing angry objections from its members.
• Du Weiwei offered to make Ji Wuchang leader if he defeated her, expecting her Supreme Realm strength to prevail.
• Ji Wuchang used the Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art to seize Du Beibei by the neck, then warned the group not to provoke him and left.
• Du Beibei wanted to attack Ji Wuchang, but Du Weiwei stopped her and acknowledged that his methods were formidable.
• Du Weiwei told the group that the Swift Blade Sect threatened them and the Zhan Clan was pursuing them, leaving the Duandao Association desperate for outside help.

Ji Wuchang watched two eighth-tier sea demons fight in Illusory Sea City’s arena and recognized that pills Guan Ping gave them had driven them into a frenzy. After judging that the evenly matched creatures would destroy each other, he lost interest and walked away.

• Ji Wuchang noticed that most of the captured sea demons had unusually unstable Qi and Blood, and wondered whether a great upheaval in the ocean had caused their cultivation to surge.
• Guan Ping announced the sea demons’ fights and explained Illusory Sea City’s ongoing struggle against them.
• Two Supreme Realm Fifth Level experts sent two injured eighth-tier sea demons into the arena, and Guan Ping fed each one a pill before their chains were removed.
• Ji Wuchang saw the pills make the sea demons’ wounds heal while their eyes reddened and madness took hold.
• The sea bull and the other sea demon attacked each other with their bodies and innate abilities, inflicting severe wounds as they fought through the arena’s mist.
• Ji Wuchang concluded that the equally matched sea demons would die together, lost interest in the fight, and walked away.

Ji Wuchang killed two Swift Blade Sect men who attacked him after he refused to join their faction. He prepared to use the Ice and Fire Samsara Palm for the first time, while Du Weiwei and her companions watched.

• Ji Wuchang stopped two Supreme Realm Second Layer men who demanded he meet their Swift Blade Sect boss, then refused their invitation.
• Du Beibei and another man urged Du Weiwei to abandon her plans to recruit Ji Wuchang, but she said they should watch what happened.
• The fat man attacked Ji Wuchang as he walked away, and Ji Wuchang struck back with Heaven-Treading Steps and Divine Soul Spikes, crushing both men.
• Ji Wuchang engulfed the men's remains in flames that reformed their bodies, then invoked the Ice and Fire Samsara Palm as the Thousand Star Flame and Glacial Glazed Fire erupted.

Ji Wuchang killed two Supreme Realm Second Layer members connected to the Zhan Clan and Nine Nether Lineage, then faced Shi Qicheng of the Swift Blade Sect. Shi Qicheng darkened Illusory Sea City with a freezing moon, giving Ji Wuchang the cold conditions he needed to unleash his Ice Barbarian Battle Body.

• Ji Wuchang killed the fat and thin men with his Ice and Fire Samsara Palm, destroying their Primordial Spirits despite their pleas for mercy.
• Onlookers and members of the Duandao Association reacted with awe and fear, while Du Weiwei resolved to recruit Ji Wuchang at any cost.
• Ji Wuchang collected the two storage rings, but Shi Qicheng of the Swift Blade Sect arrived and demanded his life for killing the sect's members.
• Ji Wuchang moved the fight above the street to protect bystanders and challenged Shi Qicheng to follow him.
• Shi Qicheng summoned a dark moon that froze Illusory Sea City, and Ji Wuchang transformed into a giant with the Ice Barbarian Battle Body.

Ji Wuchang overwhelmed Shi Qicheng despite the vast gap in their cultivation and pursued him with a series of devastating attacks. Shi Qicheng’s Primordial Spirit escaped and fled into the distance.

• Ji Wuchang used the Ice Barbarian Battle Body Instruction to overpower Shi Qicheng in a fierce exchange of punches.
• Ji Wuchang pierced Shi Qicheng’s Dharma Aspect with Divine Soul Spikes and shattered it with another blow.
• Ji Wuchang used Threefold Space, sever to slice Shi Qicheng apart, then struck him again as his body reassembled.
• Shi Qicheng unleashed Cold Moon Slash, but Ji Wuchang evaded it and attacked him inside the crater.
• Ji Wuchang destroyed Shi Qicheng’s fleshly body with Thunder-Burning Life and Death Wheel and tried to capture his head with an iron chain.
• Shi Qicheng’s Primordial Spirit escaped the chain and fled in terror.

Ji Wuchang killed Shi Qicheng and an old woman who intervened to save him, then challenged the onlookers before leaving. His strength and ruthlessness impressed Guan Ping and the Duandao Association, while Xiao Xueguang and Zhen Xian watched from a teahouse.

• The onlookers realized Ji Wuchang had fought using only Celestial Phenomenon Realm fourth-level power, and Guan Ping considered involving him in an important matter.
• Ji Wuchang pursued Shi Qicheng's fleeing Primordial Spirit and attacked it with the World-Destroying King Yu's Heavenly Eye.
• An old woman at the Supreme Realm third level tried to save Shi Qicheng, but Ji Wuchang froze her huge hand and struck it with a poisonous flying needle.
• The old woman and Shi Qicheng died as their bodies and Primordial Spirits dissolved, leaving the crowd afraid of Ji Wuchang.
• Ji Wuchang collected two storage rings, challenged anyone else to attack him, and left when no one stepped forward.
• Yu Qinghe watched from the crowd, while Xiao Xueguang defended Ji Wuchang's actions to Zhen Xian from a nearby teahouse.