Chapter Summaries

After returning to Illusory Sea City, Ji Wuchang cultivated to the peak of the sixth level of the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, explored Threefold Space through a Reincarnation Dream Experience Card, and learned of three major developments in the city. He considered contacting Crimson Dragon about the sea demons’ new plans and heard that three Supreme Realm eighth layer experts were selecting final disciples that day.

• Ji Wuchang returned to his residence, cultivated for over ten days, and bought a Mind-Reading Rune, a Reincarnation Dream Experience Card, and a Supreme Summoning Card.
• Ji Wuchang used the Reincarnation Dream Experience Card, entered a place connected to Threefold Space, and advanced his mastery of the principle of space.
• Ji Wuchang met Li Jian and Chen Yaping outside his courtyard and asked what had happened in Illusory Sea City during his seclusion.
• Li Jian told Ji Wuchang that the Nine Nether Lineage had sealed off the city’s north, provoking factions to organize against them.
• Li Jian reported that dozens of eighth-rank sea demons had arrived to negotiate a joint trading island, and Ji Wuchang suspected a major change among the sea demons and considered contacting Crimson Dragon.
• Li Jian told Ji Wuchang that three Supreme Realm eighth layer experts were choosing final disciples that day, and he and Chen Yaping planned to watch.

Ji Wuchang learned that Illusory Sea City’s three Supreme Realm Eighth Layer experts planned to recruit disciples, then disguised himself to explore the city and entered a cultivator’s shop. After discovering that the shopkeeper was an injured artifact refiner, Ji Wuchang offered to heal his meridians in exchange for payment.

• Ji Wuchang declined Li Jian and Chen Yaping’s invitation to visit the grand plaza and sent Crimson Dragon a message to reach Illusory Sea City within three days.
• Ji Wuchang changed his appearance and walked through the city, where he heard residents discussing the discipleship selection.
• Ji Wuchang entered a small shop and learned from the shopkeeper’s granddaughter that the old man repaired defective spirit weapons.
• Ji Wuchang asked whether the shopkeeper had any supreme weapons, and the old man explained that his damaged meridians prevented him from refining them.
• Ji Wuchang offered to heal the shopkeeper’s meridians and asked what payment he would receive.

Ji Wuchang left six damaged Supreme-Grade Spirit Weapons with an old artifact refiner for repairs, then encountered Ling Yun intervening when the Iron Fist Sect tried to force Fang Siqi into marriage. The chapter ended with Ji Wuchang learning that Fang Siqi’s father had gambled away her Spirit Stones and promised her to two different men, leaving the Iron Fist Sect pursuing her.

• The old artifact refiner declined Ji Wuchang’s offer to heal his meridians, but agreed to repair six Supreme-Grade Spirit Weapons for three hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones within three days.
• The old man told Nuannuan that recovering his meridians would attract dangerous Supreme Realm experts, so he planned to leave Illusory Sea City after she learned his artifact-refining skills.
• Ji Wuchang spotted Ling Yun confronting three Iron Fist Sect members while Fang Siqi wept behind him, and Ling Yun offered to repay her debt so they would let her go.
• Zhang Xingchao and his two fellow sect members objected to Ling Yun’s intervention, while Ji Wuchang learned that Fang Siqi’s father, Fang Chenghe, had gambled away her money and accepted Spirit Stones to betroth her to two different men.
• After Fang Chenghe was killed while fleeing his gambling debts, the other prospective groom demanded Fang Siqi, and she fled the Iron Fist Sect before seeking Ling Yun’s help.

Ling Yun tried to rescue Fang Siqi from the Iron Fist Sect, despite knowing she might be using him, and was confronted with a debt far beyond his means. Ji Wuchang and the academy masters watched as Ling Yun faced the consequences of his choice, leaving him unsure how to proceed.

• Ji Wuchang decided not to help Ling Yun, while Xiao Xueguang and Zhen Xian watched and judged that Ling Yun had failed the trial.
• Ling Yun asked Zhang Xingchao and the others what it would take to release Fang Siqi, despite Zhang Weifeng warning him that she was scheming.
• Zhang Xingchao demanded twenty-five million low-grade spirit stones, and Fang Siqi protested that her father had taken only one million.
• Zhang Xingchao itemized the housing, sect resources, and debts Fang Siqi and her father had accumulated, turning the onlookers against her.
• Ling Yun realized he had only three million low-grade spirit stones and could not pay the amount demanded.

Ling Yun agreed to pay Zhang Xingchao and the others twenty-five million low-grade Spirit Stones to help Fang Siqi, despite his friends’ warnings. Instructor Zhen Xian then expelled him from Heavenly Chen Academy, leaving Ling Yun devastated as he left with Fang Siqi.

• Fang Siqi pleaded with Ling Yun to save her from Zhang Kangyuan, while Zhen Xian, Xiao Xueguang, and Ji Wuchang judged her motives harshly.
• Yu Qinghe and Cai Jianfeng warned Ling Yun not to meddle, but Fang Siqi’s tearful pleas convinced him to stand by her.
• Ling Yun traded Spirit Weapons and pills to raise twenty-five million low-grade Spirit Stones for Zhang Xingchao and his companions, using more than half his savings.
• Yu Qinghe and Cai Jianfeng left disappointed, and Zhang Xingchao’s group accepted the payment before Ling Yun departed with Fang Siqi.
• Instructor Zhen Xian told Ling Yun he could not take part in the Illusory Sea City assessment and had to leave Heavenly Chen Academy, leaving him pale and heartbroken.

After Ling Yun and Fang Siqi left Illusory Sea City, Bo Yanshan arrived with the Nine Nether Lineage and demanded that the city surrender Ji Wuchang, who possessed a poison formula. The city’s strongest cultivators refused, and Bo Yanshan gave them five days before threatening war.

• Ling Yun left Illusory Sea City with Fang Siqi to begin a new life elsewhere.
• Bo Yanshan appeared in northern Illusory Sea City with the aura of a Supreme Realm Eighth Layer expert, prompting Lei Zhenxiao, Nian Chenlong, and Zuo Jiansheng to confront him.
• Bo Yanshan demanded that the city hand over a cultivator surnamed Ji, and Ji Wuchang realized the demand was aimed at him.
• Ji Dongsheng denied killing members of the Nine Nether Lineage, while Bo Yanshan clarified that he wanted a Ji surnamed cultivator in the Celestial Phenomenon Realm.
• Nian Chenlong accused Bo Yanshan of seeking Ji Wuchang’s poison formula, and he and Zuo Jiansheng stood with Lei Zhenxiao against the Nine Nether Lineage.
• Bo Yanshan gave Illusory Sea City five days to hand over Ji Wuchang or face war.

Bo Yanshan’s threat against Illusory Sea City sparked an immediate war with the Nine Nether Lineage, as its cultivators rallied to attack the northern territory. Ji Wuchang joined the battle and encountered several of the Lineage’s different clans.

• Bo Yanshan threatened war, but Lei Zhenxiao and Nian Chenlong rallied Illusory Sea City’s cultivators to attack the north immediately.
• Bo Yanshan fought Lei Zhenxiao in the void, while Nian Chenlong fired arrows at the northern black mist and Zuo Jiansheng challenged another Nine Nether Lineage expert.
• Cultivators from Illusory Sea City poured into the north and clashed with the Nine Nether Lineage across the battlefield.
• Ji Wuchang joined the fighting and saw the Three-Eyed Clan and Barbarian Clan among the Nine Nether Lineage forces.

Ji Wuchang fought the Nine Nether Lineage in Northern Illusory Sea City, killing more than a hundred enemies and defeating a Supreme Realm Third Level fighter. He and a powerful cultivator wielding an iron staff were left surrounded by over a hundred members of the Nine Nether Lineage.

• The factions of Illusory Sea City joined a battle against the Nine Nether Lineage, while Ji Wuchang fought with the Red Flame Saber.
• Ji Wuchang killed four Ninth Level Celestial Phenomenon Realm members of the Barbarian Clan and then slew more than a hundred members of the Nine Nether Lineage.
• Ji Wuchang used the three-eyed man to make a Supreme Realm Third Level fighter's punch strike its own ally, then escaped the Dark Night Cage and killed the fighter.
• A Supreme Realm First Level cultivator wielding an iron staff killed a Supreme Realm Third Level member of the Barbarian Clan, drawing Ji Wuchang's attention.
• More than a hundred members of the Nine Nether Lineage, including over a dozen Supreme Realm experts, surrounded Ji Wuchang and the iron-staff wielder.

Ji Wuchang and the iron-staff wielder competed to kill the Nine Nether Lineage’s forces as Illusory Sea City’s cultivators launched an all-out battle in the northern district. The fighting spread across the city, where its defenders vastly outnumbered the invaders and fought to keep their freedom.

• The iron-staff wielder challenged Ji Wuchang to a killing contest, then used his Dharma Aspect and willow phantom to kill more than ten members of the Nine Nether Lineage.
• Ji Wuchang answered with Slash Wind and Thunder, cutting down more than a dozen enemies, including a Supreme Realm First Level expert.
• Ji Wuchang and the iron-staff wielder charged at the Nine Nether Lineage’s Supreme Realm experts while Nian Chenlong, Xiao Xueguang, and Zhen Xian engaged powerful opponents.
• Illusory Sea City’s cultivators insulted and attacked the Nine Nether Lineage, provoking its Six-Armed Clan and Three-Eyed Clan members to unleash their killing techniques.
• Cultivators from the eastern, southern, and western districts poured into the northern district, overwhelming the Nine Nether Lineage’s forces in a battle that devastated the area.

Ji Wuchang and Chen Shaobo slaughtered the Nine Nether Lineage forces at Illusory Sea City, while Xing Xiujie sent reinforcements after refusing to intervene himself. As Ji Wuchang and Chen Shaobo faced incoming Supreme Realm Sixth Level experts, three sudden sword strikes killed the leaders.

• Ji Wuchang and Chen Shaobo introduced themselves and charged toward a larger group of the Nine Nether Lineage, killing many as they fought alongside Illusory Sea City’s cultivators.
• Xing Xiujie refused to intervene because a Supreme Realm Ninth Level expert was watching, but he sent over ten thousand fighters to support the Nine Nether Lineage.
• Ji Wuchang used his Red Flame Saber and Seven Feather Fan to kill hundreds and had the Thousand Poison Venerable collect remnant souls for the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Ji Wuchang and Chen Shaobo pursued fleeing enemies until reinforcements led by Supreme Realm Sixth Level experts arrived, prompting them to prepare to retreat.
• Three streaks of sword light burst from the void and severed the heads of three Supreme Realm Sixth Level experts.

Ji Wuchang poisoned three Nine Nether Lineage experts, helping the Illusory Sea City forces defeat two more before their Primordial Spirits were captured. Xing Xiujie summoned hundreds of thousands of sea demons with his flute, and Ji Wuchang answered by releasing Blood Demon Poison into the water.

• Ji Wuchang recognized the sword strikes that decapitated three supreme realm sixth level experts, poisoned their headless bodies with flying needles, and escaped as their heads reunited with them.
• An old man and an old woman led cultivators against the Nine Nether Lineage, and poison weakened two of its supreme realm sixth level experts after they clashed with the pair.
• Two sword strikes killed the weakened experts, and the Heaven-Locking Coffin drew in their fleeing Primordial Spirits despite their pleas for Patriarch Xing to save them.
• Xing Xiujie played a bamboo flute that summoned hundreds of thousands of sea demons toward northern Illusory Sea City.
• Ji Wuchang traveled to the shore, threw Blood Demon Poison into the sea, and slashed through sea demons as the poison spread through the bloodied water.

The Sea Demon Clan’s assault on Illusory Sea City collapsed when Ji Wuchang’s poison spread through the sea, killing sea demons by the millions. With the Nine Nether Lineage pushed back, the cultivators of Illusory Sea City counterattacked, and Ji Wuchang confronted a group of Supreme Realm enemies.

• Poisoned seawater spread from the sea, rapidly killing sea demons and driving survivors toward the ocean depths.
• The Sea Demon Clan’s attack on Illusory Sea City was tied to its retaliation for the slaughter at Snake Island and its alliance with Xing Xiujie.
• Shangguan Yan, Liu Cigui, Qin Jiujin, and Du Weiwei recognized that the poison came from the man who had attacked the sea demons at Snake Island, while Liu Cigui led the city’s factions against the Nine Nether Lineage.
• Xing Xiujie examined the black seawater and saw its corrosive power wither a tree, while most sea demons ignored the eighth-rank demons’ orders to attack.
• Ji Wuchang returned to northern Illusory Sea City and killed dozens of Nine Nether Lineage members with his iron chain and Divine Soul Spikes.
• A Supreme Realm Fourth Level cultivator led several enemies toward Ji Wuchang, who used the Demonic Dao Law-Disrupting Immobilization Art and sent a flying needle between the leader’s brows.

Ji Wuchang and Chen Shaobo slaughtered the Nine Nether Lineage’s forces in northern Illusory Sea City, while tens of thousands of imprisoned cultivators broke free and joined the battle. As the Nine Nether Lineage fell back, a large force of sea demons arrived seeking revenge, and Ji Wuchang and Chen Shaobo charged to meet them.

• Ji Wuchang killed seven Nine Nether Lineage Supremes with poisoned needles, then joined Chen Shaobo in killing more than a hundred enemies.
• Chen Shaobo unleashed his willow branches to drain the blood and souls of the Nine Nether Lineage’s fighters, inspiring Illusory Sea City’s cultivators to join the fight.
• A shattered barrier freed tens of thousands of prisoners, whose leader removed the silver needles suppressing their cultivation and led them into battle.
• The freed cultivators pushed the Nine Nether Lineage back, but at least two hundred thousand sea demons arrived to avenge the losses caused by Ji Wuchang’s Blood Demon Poison.
• Chen Shaobo and Ji Wuchang abandoned the remaining Nine Nether Lineage fighters and charged toward the sea demons.

The sea demons joined the battle in Illusory Sea City, drawing the city's cultivators into a massive fight across all districts. Ji Wuchang and Chen Shaobo unleashed powerful abilities that devastated the sea demons and helped drive them back.

• Illusory Sea City's cultivators charged the sea demons, and the battle spread from the northern district across the city.
• Ji Wuchang used his taiji pattern and poisoned needles to kill more than two hundred sea demons.
• Chen Shaobo summoned over a hundred willow branches, slaughtering sea demons and absorbing their blood and vitality.
• Ji Wuchang unleashed his bloodline power and spread a vast sea of purple fire that trapped and consumed sea demons.
• Inspired by Ji Wuchang and Chen Shaobo, Illusory Sea City's cultivators unleashed their full strength and drove the sea demons back.

Ji Jiang and Supreme Elder Feng confronted Xing Xiujie and Beiquan Xiao while Ji Wuchang and Chen Shaobo fought eighth-tier sea demons below. Ji Wuchang found a way to damage his giant turtle opponent, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Ji Jiang and Supreme Elder Feng watched the battle as Ji Jiang praised Ji Wuchang and accused Xing Xiujie and Beiquan Xiao of provoking bloodshed to rally the Nine Nether Lineage.
• Xing Xiujie denied plans to advance south, while Beiquan Xiao claimed the Nine Nether Tower was safe and challenged the Ji Family over the World-Destroying Millstone.
• Ji Wuchang and Chen Shaobo struggled against eighth-tier giant turtles whose shells resisted their attacks.
• Ji Wuchang stomped his giant turtle opponent out of the sky with Heaven-Treading Steps, then detonated three Supreme Weapons beneath it.
• The blast tore open wounds on the giant turtle's belly, and it screamed in pain.

Ji Wuchang and Chen Shaobo fought through Illusory Sea City’s bloody battle, while Ji Wuchang claimed a giant turtle shell. The battle turned when Lei Zhenxiao killed Bo Yanshan and unleashed his power, forcing the sea demons and Nine Nether Lineage to retreat.

• Ji Wuchang poisoned an eighth-rank giant turtle, but its shell began melting before he could claim it.
• Ji Wuchang slaughtered sea demons as the Heaven-Locking Coffin absorbed the battlefield’s Qi and Blood, and his cultivation showed signs of advancing.
• Chen Shaobo tore apart the giant turtle he had fought, and Ji Wuchang took its shell after Chen Shaobo declined it.
• Ji Wuchang and Chen Shaobo returned to the fighting as cultivators on both sides continued battling for several hours.
• Lei Zhenxiao killed Bo Yanshan in the void, destroyed several eighth-rank sea demons and a giant turtle, and drove the enemy forces into retreat.

After Lei Zhenxiao drove the Nine Nether Lineage from Illusory Sea City, the city’s cultivators slaughtered the remaining sea demons and prepared to launch a larger expedition against them. Ji Wuchang returned home, where his Myriad Souls Banner began transforming, but a sudden darkness left him facing an unknown threat.

• Lei Zhenxiao killed Bo Yanshan, and a terrifying voice ordered the Nine Nether Lineage to withdraw from Illusory Sea City.
• Lei Zhenxiao, Nian Chenlong, and Zuo Jiansheng blocked the sea demons’ escape while Illusory Sea City’s cultivators slaughtered them all.
• Lei Zhenxiao ordered every Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivator to join an expedition against the sea demons the following morning or leave the city.
• Ji Wuchang collected storage rings, fed Primordial Spirits and remnant souls into the Myriad Souls Banner, and saw an enormous altar and pillars begin to emerge within it.
• As Ji Wuchang cultivated at home, an unnatural chill surrounded him, and he opened his eyes to find himself in pitch-black darkness.

Ji Wuchang was trapped in Xing Xiujie's Supreme Domain, but with power lent by Ji Yaoyao and Thousand Poison Venerable, he broke free with his strongest strike. He escaped as Ji Jiang confronted Xing Xiujie, the Three-Eyed Clan patriarch who had abducted him.

• Ji Wuchang discovered that he, Ji Yaoyao, and Thousand Poison Venerable had been trapped inside a Supreme Domain.
• Ji Yaoyao and Thousand Poison Venerable lent Ji Wuchang their power so he could attack the domain without exposing them to danger.
• Ji Wuchang combined the Hundredfold Sublimation Instant Kill Technique with the Mysterious Yang Heaven-Slaying Technique and shattered the Supreme Domain with a giant golden sword.
• Ji Wuchang used Shrinking the Target to an Inch to escape, while Ji Jiang attacked Xing Xiujie.
• Xing Xiujie revealed that he had secretly taken Ji Wuchang from Illusory Sea City to bring him north to the Nine Nether Lineage.

Ji Jiang fought Xing Xiujie after Xing Xiujie attacked a member of the Ji Family, while Ji Wuchang fled a relentless Supreme Realm Ninth Level pursuer. The chapter left Ji Wuchang badly injured and nearly out of spiritual power, with the danger still closing in.

• Ji Jiang struck Xing Xiujie with his World-Destroying Millstone Fist, and Xing Xiujie retreated after countering the attack with his third eye.
• Cultivators in Illusory Sea City felt the distant battle, while Zhen Xian and Xiao Xueguang realized Ji Wuchang had vanished from the courtyard.
• Xiao Xueguang went to search for Ji Wuchang, and Zhen Xian agreed to take Yu Qinghe and Cai Jianfeng away from the city.
• Ji Wuchang repeatedly used Shrinking the Ground to an Inch to flee a savage Supreme Realm Ninth Level expert, exhausting most of his spiritual power.
• A streak of light struck the place Ji Wuchang had just escaped from, razing the surrounding area, and Ji Wuchang reappeared elsewhere and spat out blood.

Ji Wuchang escaped Beiquan Xiao by fleeing through the void, but exhausted his spiritual power and lost the aid of Yaoyao and Thousand Poison Venerable. He emerged near a group of young people in Green Mountain Prefecture and learned they had gathered for the Green Mountain Sect.

• Ji Wuchang entered the void with help from Yaoyao and Thousand Poison Venerable, while Beiquan Xiao pursued him.
• Ji Wuchang healed his injuries with pills and the mysterious mark, then used the Hundredfold Sublimation Instant Kill Technique to outrun Beiquan Xiao.
• Beiquan Xiao lost Ji Wuchang's presence and stopped chasing him, furious that he had failed to capture him for the Nine Nether Lineage.
• Yaoyao and Thousand Poison Venerable exhausted their power and told Ji Wuchang they would need to recover.
• After flying through the void for at least a day, Ji Wuchang found a natural fissure, emerged, and landed near a group of young people.
• Ji Wuchang concealed himself, put on a human-skin mask, and overheard that the young people had come for the Green Mountain Sect.