Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen killed Lu Baichi and refused to flee, choosing to stay until he could see the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness's Emperor Mark. Wang Meiling summoned him to the back mountain grove, where she revealed that Master Su had sent her, leaving Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat surprised.

• Yang Zhen took Lu Baichi's storage ring and dragged Shameless Cat away after killing Lu Baichi with a hammer.
• The crowd reacted in shock, while Wang Meiling entered the smithy with the middle-aged man to investigate.
• Yang Zhen told Shameless Cat he would stay to see the Emperor Mark and defended killing Lu Baichi as necessary.
• A girl in yellow invited Yang Zhen to meet her young lady in a back mountain grove, and Yang Zhen disguised Shameless Cat as a dog on the way there.
• Wang Meiling met Yang Zhen in the grove and said Master Su had sent her to find him.

Wang Meiling invited Yang Zhen to the Sea Dragon Pool, where the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness’s Emperor Mark had appeared on the Great Emperor Stele. After Shameless Cat urged him to seek a possible supreme art there, Yang Zhen agreed to go, leaving Wang Meiling stunned as he and Shameless Cat ran off arguing.

• Wang Meiling explained that she was a constellation master who practiced star divination, and Shameless Cat recognized her rare cultivation path.
• Wang Meiling said a constellation master had predicted Yang Zhen possessed great fortune, and Yang Zhen wondered whether his troubles contradicted that prediction.
• Wang Meiling invited Yang Zhen to the Sea Dragon Pool, where cultivators had gathered after the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness’s Emperor Mark appeared on the Great Emperor Stele.
• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that visiting the stele might let him gain insight into a supreme art, and Yang Zhen decided he was interested in going.
• Yang Zhen joked that the Emperor Mark might have come from the great emperor’s fart, and Shameless Cat teased him about having been killed by one in a past life before they ran off bickering.

Yang Zhen negotiated with Wang Meiling for payment and supplies in exchange for helping her, then told Shameless Cat he intended to go with her to the Sea Dragon Pool because she likely knew something the others did not. The two prepared to follow her lead.

• Yang Zhen agreed to Wang Meiling's request but bargained for crystals, Ten Thousand Flowers Banquets, Transformation Fruits, shops, and information about the Sea Dragon Pool and the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness.
• Wang Meiling accepted most of Yang Zhen's terms and promised to try to obtain the Transformation Fruits.
• Shameless Cat returned and teased Yang Zhen about flirting with Wang Meiling and negotiating such generous benefits.
• Yang Zhen told Shameless Cat he would go with Wang Meiling to the Sea Dragon Pool because her delay in going suggested she knew more than the others.

Wang Meiling learned from Master Su that Yang Zhen’s tangled fate might be linked to the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness and the Heavenly Fire hidden at the Sea Dragon Pool. Yang Zhen woke from a strange dream convinced that the pool’s real treasure was neither the Great Emperor Stele nor an Emperor Mark.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat speculated about the Wang Household’s secret before falling asleep.
• Master Su told Wang Meiling that she could not divine Yang Zhen’s fate and believed he was a variable in the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness’s destiny.
• Master Su revealed that the Wang Household’s Heavenly Wilderness Technique came from the Great Emperor and needed the Heavenly Fire he left at the Sea Dragon Pool.
• Master Su said Yang Zhen might possess something connected to the Great Emperor, and Wang Meiling resolved to follow him to find the Heavenly Fire.
• Yang Zhen dreamed of blood, strange creatures, and treasures, then woke believing the Sea Dragon Pool’s real treasure was not the Great Emperor Stele or an Emperor Mark.

Yang Zhen, Wang Meiling, Shameless Cat, and four Wang Household disciples traveled to the Sea Dragon Pool to comprehend the Emperor Marks. After seeing its immense waterfall and learning it flowed backward on full-moon nights, Yang Zhen realized the next night would bring a blood moon and thought of the Blood Seed.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat shared breakfast with Wang Meiling, then bickered as they prepared to leave for the Sea Dragon Pool.
• Four young Nascent Soul Realm disciples from the Wang Household arrived, and Yang Zhen objected to traveling with Wang Ba before setting out with the group.
• Wang Meiling explained that they were going to the Great Emperor Stele to comprehend the Emperor Marks, while Wang Ba pestered Yang Zhen about killing Lu Baichi.
• Wang Meiling showed Yang Zhen Broken Jade Mountain and the Sea Dragon Pool, and Wang Ba explained that the waterfall flowed backward on full-moon nights.
• Wang Meiling revealed that the next night would be a special full moon, and Shameless Cat identified it as a blood moon, prompting Yang Zhen to think of the Blood Seed.

Yang Zhen investigated the Great Emperor’s restriction around the island in the Sea Dragon Pool and nearly died after probing it. He learned that the island remained inaccessible during the blood moon, then proposed using a submarine to cross the pool.

• Yang Zhen remembered the blood seed and resolved to inspect it later, then asked Wang Meiling about the blood moon and the island that appeared in the Sea Dragon Pool.
• Shameless Cat explained that a Great Emperor had sealed the island with a restriction that even a Great Sage could not force through.
• Yang Zhen probed the restriction, nearly suffered the destruction of his spiritual consciousness, and survived when the little sapling stabilized it.
• Yang Zhen told Wang Meiling that the island might hold the Sea Dragon Pool’s secret, and she explained that flight, boats, swimming, and movement underwater were all impossible during the blood moon.
• Yang Zhen proposed crossing the pool along the bottom with a submarine, prompting Shameless Cat to ask what tool he meant.

Yang Zhen set out to build his own way across the Sea Dragon Pool, where flight, swimming, and using True Essence were impossible. As other factions revealed their huge vessels and a tamed Heavenly Dragon Beast, Shameless Cat warned Yang Zhen that Flower Mountain Blessed Land had threatened his life.

• Wang Meiling explained that her faction had built an underwater boat but lacked a safe way to replenish its air, and Yang Zhen decided he could still reach the island.
• Yang Zhen reasoned that an underwater vessel was the only practical way to cross the Sea Dragon Pool and began refining one in secret.
• As night fell, Flower Mountain Blessed Land revealed its enormous underwater vessel, Megatron, while the Beast Taming Sect displayed a powerful Heavenly Dragon Beast.
• Elder Gu and the others brought out their massive Sea-Breaking Shuttle near the Great Emperor Stele as the blood-red mist gathered.
• Shameless Cat rushed into Yang Zhen's cave and urged him to leave, warning that Flower Mountain Blessed Land's elder had threatened to kill him.

Yang Zhen and the others watched Emperor Island emerge from the Sea Dragon Pool on the blood moon night, as cultivators and their craft prepared to reach it. After Elder Yang threatened to kill Yang Zhen when he returned, Yang Zhen declared the old man would not survive the night and called out his diving centipede.

• Wang Meiling warned Yang Zhen that mud and Demon Beasts made underwater travel dangerous, but a cataclysmic upheaval began before they could decide what to do.
• Emperor Island rose from the Sea Dragon Pool as blood-red waves and a powerful ancient presence swept over the area.
• Cultivators gathered at the pool, where the Sea-Breaking Shuttle entered the water and Flower Mountain Blessed Land's Megatron prepared to follow.
• Elder Yang threatened to kill Yang Zhen after returning from Emperor Island, and Yang Zhen shouted back that the old man would not survive the night.
• Yang Zhen summoned his Wutuo Gang Heaven-Blasting Diving Giant Centipede in front of the crowd.

Yang Zhen revealed the Wutuo Gang Giant Centipede and took Wang Meiling and the Shameless Cat inside, where they discovered its hidden mechanisms and luxurious interior. After transforming it and driving into the Sea Dragon Pool, Yang Zhen armed it with Nine-Fold Divine Iron Saws and prepared to attack the Trick Blade Sect’s shuttle boat.

• Yang Zhen unveiled the tiny-looking Wutuo Gang Giant Centipede, and the crowd mocked it as unfit to cross the Sea Dragon Pool.
• Yang Zhen lured the Shameless Cat aboard with the promise of a camping barbecue party, and Wang Meiling followed despite her doubts.
• Wang Meiling and the Shameless Cat discovered the Giant Centipede’s luxurious interior, hidden formations, and control levers.
• The Shameless Cat pulled a lever that revealed the Giant Centipede’s legs, and Yang Zhen drove it into the Sea Dragon Pool.
• Wang Meiling spotted the Trick Blade Sect’s Black Crystal Evil Maiden’s shuttle boat, and Yang Zhen deployed Nine-Fold Divine Iron Saws as the Shameless Cat urged him to ram it.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat drove the Giant Centipede through the Sea Dragon Pool, tearing apart boats that blocked their way and provoking Elder Yang. They left at high speed toward Megatron, while the other factions watched in anger and fear.

• Shameless Cat took control of the Giant Centipede’s front claws and helped Yang Zhen tear through nearby shuttle boats.
• The Giant Centipede chased down Wicked Woman’s shuttle boat, and Wang Meiling welcomed the chance to avenge her father.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat wrecked a shuttle boat’s stern, forcing its passengers into the flooded pool and scattering the other vessels.
• Elder Yang warned Yang Zhen that his actions would make enemies of the gathered factions, but Yang Zhen mocked him and urged Shameless Cat to stab his boat.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat pretended to discuss keeping quiet, then sped the Giant Centipede toward Megatron.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat used the giant centipede’s speed and a ridiculous dance to taunt Yang Baiming as Megatron charged. Yang Zhen then sent the centipede to Megatron’s flank and ordered Shameless Cat to attack.

• Yang Baiming ordered Megatron to ram the giant centipede and crush Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat.
• Yang Zhen rapidly maneuvered the centipede around Megatron while singing, and Shameless Cat joined in the dance.
• Yang Baiming erupted in anger and vowed to hunt Yang Zhen down, while Yang Zhen pretended to regret provoking him before declaring they should kill him.
• Yang Baiming spat blood as Yang Zhen mocked him, then the centipede raced to Megatron’s flank and Yang Zhen told Shameless Cat to stab him.

Yang Zhen chased Yang Baiming through the Sea Dragon Pool until Yang Baiming drowned, then raced toward Emperor Island after a restriction was triggered. Meanwhile, Wan Tianchen of the Flower Mountain Blessed Land breached the island’s barrier on a Heavenly Dragon Beast.

• Yang Zhen used the giant centipede to tear open Megatron, forcing Yang Baiming to flee into the Sea Dragon Pool and swim for his life.
• Yang Baiming drowned in the pool, and Demon Beasts shredded his corpse as Yang Zhen continued toward Emperor Island.
• Shameless Cat discovered the giant centipede’s air valve, and Yang Zhen offered to give him the vessel.
• A disturbance sent shuttle boats flying, so Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat hurried toward Emperor Island after realizing the Heavenly Dragon Beasts might have reached it.
• Elder Gu praised Yang Zhen’s artifact-making skill while others warned that he had offended the Flower Mountain Blessed Land.
• Wan Tianchen rode a Heavenly Dragon Beast through the island’s restriction, and onlookers recognized him as the Flower Mountain Blessed Land’s gifted successor.

Yang Zhen, Wang Meiling, and Shameless Cat discovered that Emperor Island was a hidden world where the Sea Dragon Clan had survived the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness’s attempt to suppress them. As cultivators battled the Sea Dragons across the island, Yang Zhen suspected they had overlooked something important.

• Yang Zhen led Wang Meiling and Shameless Cat onto Emperor Island and found a peaceful world unlike the violent Sea Dragon Pool outside.
• Shameless Cat spotted a towering pillar of blood, and Yang Zhen saw a wounded young man fighting a powerful humanoid creature within it.
• Wang Meiling identified the creature as a Sea Dragon and explained that the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness had once tried to suppress the clan beneath the Sea Dragon Pool.
• Emperor Island shook as the Sea Dragons surged into battle, and Elder Gu and a thousand cultivators arrived to fight them.
• Elder Gu recognized the Sea Dragon Clan and rallied the cultivators, while people launching skiffs toward the island remained unaware of the battle.
• Yang Zhen noticed something strange about Emperor Island and wondered what important detail they had missed.

Yang Zhen realized Emperor Island was a Dragon-Stealing Platform that diverted the fortune of three islands to preserve Ten Thousand Flowers Island, while the Sea Dragon Clan had been sealed as collateral damage. After Shameless Cat woke him, Yang Zhen asked what catastrophe had driven the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness to such lengths, and Shameless Cat recalled that powerful figures had been preparing for their deaths during the Upper Gen era.

• A blood-red Sea Dragon clansman crushed a human cultivator and charged Elder Gu, who met him in battle as both displayed Spirit Wandering Realm power.
• Yang Zhen studied the surrounding terrain and saw that Tortoise and Snake, Eastern Forest, and Ten Thousand Flowers Island formed a Coiled Hidden Dragon formation centered on Emperor Island.
• Yang Zhen realized Emperor Island was a Dragon-Stealing Platform that stole heaven's mandate, earth's veins, and an age's fortune to preserve Ten Thousand Flowers Island for ten thousand years.
• Shameless Cat stopped Wang Meiling from disturbing Yang Zhen, then shouted to wake him when the realization caused him pain.
• Yang Zhen asked Shameless Cat what had happened in the Upper Gen era, and Shameless Cat recalled that everyone above the Great Saint Realm had been arranging their affairs for after death.

Yang Zhen absorbed the Blood Seed and endured a transformation in which his soul and body fused, allowing him to refine a golden flame and obtain the Desolate Heaven Technique. After waking, he ignored Shameless Cat’s questions and shouted for Elder Gu and the Sea Dragon Clan to stop fighting.

• Yang Zhen remembered that the Sea Dragon Clan had appeared in his dream before he reached the Sea Dragon Pool.
• The Blood Seed merged into Yang Zhen’s hand, and he collapsed unconscious.
• Yang Zhen endured a sea of blood and a primeval island as the Emperor Mark’s bloody fire tried to change his body.
• Yang Zhen resisted the fire, fused his divine soul with his body, and refined it into a golden flame.
• Yang Zhen gained the Desolate Heaven Technique, and the Emperor Mark disappeared.
• Yang Zhen woke beside Wang Meiling, went beneath Elder Gu and the Sea Dragon Clan’s fight, and shouted, “Stop!”

Yang Zhen stopped Elder Quan from attacking and claimed he wanted to speak with his good brother. He walked up to the Sea Dragon Clan leader and spoke with him as if they were close, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

• Yang Zhen shouted for everyone to stop as cultivators and Sea Dragon Clan members fought on the island.
• Elder Quan arrived and charged at Yang Zhen, seeking revenge for the deaths of Lu Baichi and Elder Yang.
• Yang Zhen raised a hand and shouted, “Whoa,” causing Elder Quan to halt.
• Yang Zhen said he had nothing to say but asked to exchange a few words with his good brother before he died.
• Yang Zhen walked to the Sea Dragon Clan leader, draped an arm over his shoulder, and spoke with him while the leader nodded and laughed.

Yang Zhen befriended the Sea Dragon Clan leader and turned Elder Quan’s threat against him. When Elder Quan revealed his Spirit Wandering Realm power, the leader summoned a vast Sea Dragon force, leaving Yang Zhen taunting Elder Quan to strike him.

• Yang Zhen spoke with the Sea Dragon Clan leader and put his arm around his shoulders, astonishing the onlookers.
• Elder Quan ordered his people to block Yang Zhen’s escape and warned that he intended to kill him.
• Yang Zhen persuaded the Sea Dragon Clan leader to oppose Elder Quan, and the leader nearly attacked him before Yang Zhen held him back.
• Yang Zhen approached Elder Quan and challenged him to repeat his threat, while the Sea Dragon Clan leader followed behind.
• Elder Quan unleashed his Spirit Wandering Realm power, and the Sea Dragon Clan leader summoned countless Sea Dragon members, including more than a dozen Spirit Wandering Realm experts.
• Yang Zhen pointed at his head and taunted Elder Quan to hit him there.

Elder Quan tried to turn the Sea Dragon Clan’s arrival into a moral accusation, portraying Yang Zhen as a traitor to humanity if he let the clan attack. Yang Zhen rejected the moral blackmail, and the Sea Dragon Clan leader charged at Elder Quan.

• More than three thousand Sea Dragon Clan members, including over a dozen Spirit Wandering Realm experts, converged on Emperor Island and frightened the human cultivators into abandoning the area.
• Elder Quan refrained from attacking Yang Zhen, recognizing that the Sea Dragon Clan would retaliate, and argued that their earlier dispute was no grave wrongdoing.
• Elder Quan accused Yang Zhen of betraying humanity if he allowed the Sea Dragon Clan to attack, turning the crowd against him.
• Shameless Cat and Wang Meiling worried that Elder Quan’s accusations would leave Yang Zhen branded a traitor.
• Yang Zhen mocked Elder Quan’s moral blackmail, and the Sea Dragon Clan leader charged at him with overwhelming power.

Yang Zhen stopped the Sea Dragon Clan from attacking the gathered cultivators and explained that he was trying to keep the clan from harming humans. As he claimed the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness had told him about the clan, an ancient voice confirmed that everything he said was true.

• Yang Zhen ordered the Sea Dragon Clan leader to beat Elder Quan, while the other cultivators stood by.
• Elder Gu urged Yang Zhen to stop, and Yang Zhen agreed to talk after explaining that he did not want the Sea Dragon Clan to incur more karmic sin.
• Yang Zhen sent the Sea Dragon Clan away from the gathered cultivators and said they were peaceful and only wanted a place to live.
• When the cultivators questioned how Yang Zhen knew the Sea Dragon Clan's language and intentions, he said the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness had told him.
• An ancient voice confirmed that every word Yang Zhen had said was true.

The Sea Dragon Clan elder exposed Wan Tianchen as the one who stole the clan’s treasure and explained that the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness had warned of a coming Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth. After talk of the ancient secrets triggered ominous thunderclouds, the Sea Dragon Clan led everyone to a crystal cave and entrusted its fate to Yang Zhen.

• The Sea Dragon Clan elder recovered the clan’s spoon-shaped treasure from Wan Tianchen and revealed that the Flower Mountain Blessed Land expert had started the conflict by stealing it.
• The elder told Shameless Cat that the Great Emperor had saved the Sea Dragon Clan, then revealed the Emperor had warned of a Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.
• Shameless Cat warned Yang Zhen that the ancient secrets involved Principles, and black clouds gathered overhead as thunder rumbled.
• Shameless Cat asked Yang Zhen about the Great Emperor and the Dragon-Stealing Platform while Wang Meiling watched him in astonishment.
• The Sea Dragon Clan led everyone to a vast crystal cave filled with treasures and asked Yang Zhen to take responsibility for what lay ahead.