Arc 35The Seas’ New Order

Chen Shuangbai destroyed the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s defenses and defeated its leaders, then helped the Jade Spring Sect establish an overseas branch. The stretch ended with Chen Shuangbai and True Lord Qingchen trying to draw Cavern Abyss Heaven from the seabed as True Lord Yunyi watched in astonishment.

  • Chen Shuangbai captured the island’s hidden True Net Cult inheritance, while Feiguang pursued and swallowed Tingqiao’s escaped Nascent Soul.
  • Chen Shuangbai’s army seized Divine Register City, where he overcame the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s earth-element cauldron formation and took one of its four cauldrons.
  • Chen Shuangbai attacked Profound Peak Spirit Mountain, killed Jinxuan, and destroyed Hentian after purging the heavenly devil’s remains.
  • Chen Shuangbai spared True Lord Baishi at Azure Cloud Sword Lord’s request but ordered the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect to seal its mountain for a hundred years and answer future summons.
  • True Lord Ling Yuan and the Vast Sea Elder told Chen Shuangbai about Jade Spring High Person’s instructions to restore the Heavenly River Dao lineage and the long effort to prepare a shuttle for the return journey.
  • Chen Shuangbai drove Beigong Xuan back with a sword decree, then agreed to help Yun Yi establish a Jade Spring Sect branch overseas.
  • True Lord Qingchen named the new maritime branch Spirit Sea Prefecture, appointed Ling Yuan as its prefect and Canxia as an Attendant, and Chen Shuangbai arranged for the White Water Chen Clan to join it.
  • Chen Shuangbai began drawing Cavern Abyss Heaven from the seabed, and True Lord Qingchen lent his strength after calling on Yajie to display its divine might.
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Ch. 851The blazing sun hung high, the Spirit Vein merged

Shenyang battered the island’s formation while Chen Shuangbai discovered that Xiaoyun was merging with the island’s Spirit Vein. Chen Shuangbai froze Xiaoyun with his crimson star and confronted her about Xuanchengzi’s promise.

  • Shenyang struck the island’s formation repeatedly as Chen Shuangbai and Feiguang watched from concealment.
  • Feiguang and Chen Shuangbai judged that the formation was close to breaking, and Chen Shuangbai urged Shenyang to stop playing around.
  • Shenyang prepared the Golden Light Heaven-Soaring Divine Fist and demanded that the defenders open the formation or die.
  • Tingqiao asked Xiaoyun to open the formation and escape, but Xiaoyun resisted, warning that Shenyang’s attack could destroy the coastal waters.
  • Chen Shuangbai noticed that Xiaoyun was merging with the island’s Spirit Vein, then descended through the formation and asked what Xuanchengzi had promised her.
  • Chen Shuangbai’s crimson star immobilized everyone on the island and suppressed Xiaoyun’s Law Power and Divine Abilities.

Ch. 852The Treasure Platform's Mystic Stele, Tingqiao's Escape

Chen Shuangbai broke the restriction guarding Xuanchengzi’s treasure and discovered a True Net Cult inheritance mystic stele inside a treasure platform. After taking the platform, he found that Tingqiao had escaped by abandoning his body, and sent Feiguang to pursue Tingqiao’s Nascent Soul.

  • Chen Shuangbai used Fallen Toad Light to break the restriction at the island’s Spirit Vein confluence and reveal a miniature treasure platform.
  • Chen Shuangbai entered the platform, identified its mystic stele as a likely True Net Cult inheritance, and took the platform with him.
  • Chen Shuangbai discovered that Tingqiao had escaped by leaving his fleshly body behind and transferring his soul elsewhere.
  • Chen Shuangbai summoned Feiguang and Shenyang, then gave Feiguang a comet star and ordered him to retrieve Tingqiao’s escaped Nascent Soul.
  • Feiguang flew off carrying the comet star to pursue Tingqiao.

Ch. 853Pursuit across the Spirit Sea, toying with Tingqiao

True Lord Tingqiao fled across the Spirit Gauze Sea as a nascent soul, hoping to reach a hidden refuge, but Feiguang intercepted him repeatedly. Feiguang defeated and captured Tingqiao, then took his demonic banners and ghost ship as spoils.

  • Tingqiao sacrificed nascent soul essence to flee deep into the Spirit Gauze Sea and planned to hide, rebuild his strength, and eventually seek revenge on Chen Shuangbai.
  • Feiguang pursued Tingqiao, using his lord's Sword Intent to track him and repeatedly cutting off his escape routes by splitting the void.
  • Tingqiao summoned nine demonic banners and a ghost ship to halt his nascent soul's depletion, but rejected Feiguang's demand to surrender.
  • Feiguang countered Tingqiao's techniques with his glazed-glass demonic light and defeated him in less than a quarter of an hour.
  • Feiguang swallowed Tingqiao's nascent soul to suppress him, collected the banners and ghost ship, and departed.

Ch. 854The northern expedition broke through the passes, defeat after defeat

Chen Shuangbai’s Vast Waves Alliance forces destroyed an Arrayed Mystery Sect stronghold as their invasion of the Zheng Kingdom continued. At Profound Peak Spirit Mountain, the battered sect’s leaders gathered with the last two Compassionate Chan Way masters, facing an increasingly desperate war.

  • Chen Shuangbai’s army advanced into the Zheng Kingdom and attacked an Arrayed Mystery Sect stronghold, with Feiguang’s demon fire overwhelming its defenders.
  • Shenyang gave Chen Shuangbai a talisman treasure called Heaven Sundering, which had let Tingqiao’s soul escape Chen Shuangbai’s Sword Intent.
  • Feiguang consumed Tingqiao after Shenyang had interrogated him, and the Vast Waves Alliance’s forces captured the stronghold in less than half a day.
  • The Vast Waves Alliance’s army regrouped and continued toward the Zheng Kingdom’s heartland, leaving the ruined stronghold behind.
  • At Profound Peak Spirit Mountain, the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s nascent souls met with Jiali and Jiaxi, the last surviving masters of the Compassionate Chan Way.

Ch. 855Strife within the sect, the final trump card

Jixuan convened the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators as the Vast Waves Alliance advanced, and proposed activating a costly last-resort measure to defend the sect. Chen Shuangbai learned the sect had retreated to fortified passes and might possess a trump card designed to counter him.

  • Jixuan told the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s leaders that Chen Shuangbai’s army would reach their final defensive pass within ten days and urged them to delay the alliance’s advance.
  • True Lord Purple Thunder objected to sacrificing more disciples, and Jixuan proposed withdrawing behind fortified positions while elite squads harassed the enemy’s supply lines.
  • Jixuan announced his intention to activate the sect’s secret last resort, which True Lord Linyuan and Purple Thunder recognized could consume generations of the sect’s reserves.
  • Qu Heng reported to Chen Shuangbai that the Arrayed Mystery Sect had withdrawn into three provinces and fortified three passes guarded by Nascent Soul cultivators.
  • Qu Heng warned Chen Shuangbai that the sect’s leaders had been meeting frequently and might be preparing a trump card capable of countering the Sword Immortal.

Ch. 856An army at the mighty pass, treasure cauldrons anchoring the world

Chen Shuangbai’s army reached Divine Register City, where Jixuan revealed four linked treasure cauldrons as the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s final defense. The cauldrons strengthened the city’s formation, and Jixuan challenged Chen Shuangbai to break through it.

  • Chen Shuangbai’s army advanced through the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s outposts and arrived at the fortified Divine Register City.
  • Qu Heng identified Jixuan, True Lord Purple Thunder, and an unknown Buddhist cultivator as the city’s defenders.
  • Chen Shuangbai taunted Jixuan and the other defenders, asking whether they could stop him and his army.
  • The mountain at the center of Divine Register City split open as a treasure cauldron released dark-yellow light, while three matching cauldrons awakened elsewhere in Zheng Kingdom.
  • Jixuan explained that the four cauldrons had been forged from two late-stage Nascent Soul earth-element horned dragons and claimed their linked power could resist even a Nascent Soul peak cultivator.

Ch. 857Grand Yin concealment, drawn into the Heavenly Gate

Chen Shuangbai used his Grand Yin Authority to pass through the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s earth-element barrier and appear behind Jixuan, Purple Thunder, and Shijia. He trapped the three in his Purple-Gold Heavenly Gates, leaving their fate uncertain.

  • The Arrayed Mystery Sect activated four precious cauldrons to form a powerful earth-element barrier, while the Vast Waves Alliance linked its flying boats’ formations to withstand the pressure.
  • Jixuan proposed that the Vast Waves Alliance withdraw and negotiate, but Chen Shuangbai responded by disappearing with his Conceal Form and Hide Traces Divine Ability.
  • Chen Shuangbai moved unseen through the cauldron formation and emerged behind Jixuan, who was stunned by his sudden appearance.
  • Purple Thunder prepared to attack Chen Shuangbai, but Chen Shuangbai summoned the Purple-Gold Heavenly Gates and enclosed Jixuan, Purple Thunder, and Shijia within them.

Ch. 858Divine Register City falls, Sword Intent subdues the cauldron

Chen Shuangbai overwhelmed Divine Register City’s defenders and claimed its precious cauldron, using two strands of Sword Intent to subdue its unruly power. With the city under Vast Waves Alliance control and the cauldron’s loss weakening the other defenses, he considered how it might benefit Sunken Jade Valley and the Jade Spring Sect.

  • Chen Shuangbai suppressed the Nascent Soul True Lords in Divine Register City, causing its defenders to flee and its formations to fade.
  • Shenyang ordered the Vast Waves Alliance cultivators to seize the city, while Chen Shuangbai knocked Xue Zheng away and Feiguang killed him with demonic fire.
  • Feiguang tried to approach the precious cauldron but was driven back by its earth-aspect power.
  • Chen Shuangbai reached the cauldron and used gold-white and crimson-black Sword Intent to quiet its draconic will and withdraw its radiance.
  • Shenyang joined Chen Shuangbai, and they found Divine Register City taken; the cauldron’s loss weakened the other passes and the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s headquarters.
  • Chen Shuangbai considered using the cauldron to nourish Sunken Jade Valley’s earth Qi or sustain the Jade Parasol Tree.

Ch. 859The army encircled the mountain, the Heavenly Gate held the field

Chen Shuangbai led the Vast Waves Alliance’s forces to Profound Peak Spirit Mountain and joined with two other armies, bringing nine Nascent Soul True Lords together against the Arrayed Mystery Sect. He summoned his newly elevated supreme-grade Heavenly Gate Spirit Treasure and called on Jin Xuan to appear.

  • After taking Divine Register City, Chen Shuangbai led the flying-boat army toward the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s headquarters at Profound Peak Spirit Mountain, while the sect’s other forces withdrew there with two precious cauldrons.
  • Chen Shuangbai’s army waited beyond the protective formation as the precious cauldron he had captured resonated with the three cauldrons inside the mountain.
  • Two more Vast Waves Alliance armies arrived, joining Chen Shuangbai and bringing the alliance’s force to nine Nascent Soul True Lords.
  • Old Man Fish Pillow praised Chen Shuangbai for overcoming Divine Register City’s precious cauldron, and the assembled cultivators discussed Jin Xuan’s decision to defend the mountain.
  • Chen Shuangbai summoned the supreme-grade Truth-Revering Purple Radiance Brightness-Inheriting Profound Heavenly Gate, whose power shook Profound Peak Spirit Mountain and frightened its defenders.
  • Chen Shuangbai called on Jin Xuan to come out and meet them.

Ch. 860Troops at Profound Peak, each with their own stance

Chen Shuangbai and the Vast Waves Alliance confronted True Lord Jinxuan at the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s headquarters, where Jinxuan refused to regret his actions and warned that the alliance’s expansion threatened other powers. The Heaven-Hating Devil Lord and True Lord Baishi appeared, with Baishi seeking to mediate rather than support the Arrayed Mystery Sect.

  • Chen Shuangbai demanded that True Lord Jinxuan either end his own life or face the destruction of the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s inheritance.
  • Jinxuan rejected the demand, defended his ruthless pursuit of cultivation, and warned that the Vast Waves Alliance would grow dangerously powerful if it absorbed the sect and the Zheng Kingdom.
  • The Purple-Gold Heavenly Gate trembled as the Heaven-Hating Devil Lord and True Lord Baishi arrived at Profound Peak Spirit Mountain.
  • Chen Shuangbai questioned Baishi’s presence, reminding him that the Vast Waves Alliance had previously saved the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect.
  • Baishi acknowledged that debt but asked Chen Shuangbai to spare the Arrayed Mystery Sect for now and negotiate compensation, revealing his concern about the Vast Waves Alliance becoming too powerful.

Ch. 861One against three, the grand formation shattered

Chen Shuangbai faced three Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators alone and used the heavenly gate to seal the battlefield before unleashing his sword. His strike split the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s mountain-protecting formation, allowing Purple Sun Heavenly Fire to flood Profound Peak Spirit Mountain.

  • Jin Xuan offered to negotiate if the Vast Waves Alliance withdrew its troops, but Chen Shuangbai refused and summoned twelve Purple-Gold Heavenly Pillars around Profound Peak Spirit Mountain.
  • Chen Shuangbai’s crimson Sword Intent kept Jin Xuan, Hentian, and True Lord Baishi at bay while Purple Sun Heavenly Fire weakened the sect’s formation.
  • Jin Xuan used the Green Goat Expounding Mystery Pearl to amplify the three cultivators, but True Lord Baishi tried to flee and discovered Chen Shuangbai had sealed the void with the heavenly gate.
  • Chen Shuangbai drew Foot-Long Silk and struck Profound Peak Spirit Mountain; Jin Xuan’s amplified defense could not stop the sword from cleaving the formation.
  • The sword devastated buildings and disciples along one side of the sect grounds, and Purple Sun Heavenly Fire poured through the breach, overwhelming the remaining defenses.

Ch. 862Three Lords Encircle Him, Hentian's Face Destroyed

Chen Shuangbai attacked the three Nascent Soul cultivators, burning the Arrayed Mystery Sect’s mountain and overwhelming Jin Xuan and Hentian. After Hentian’s face was destroyed, Baishi was pressured into joining the fight, and he summoned a sea of stars with five dragons of light.

  • Chen Shuangbai’s Purple Sun Heavenly Fire swept through the mountain, killing disciples while True Lord Linyuan struggled to protect those nearby.
  • Chen Shuangbai struck the Heaven-Hating Devil Lord, shattered his defensive formations, and forced him to call on Jin Xuan and Baishi for help.
  • Jin Xuan fired a lightning arrow at Chen Shuangbai, but Chen Shuangbai’s sword strike turned it to ash.
  • Hentian used his flying sabers and Heart Devil Terror Great Incantation to distract Chen Shuangbai, but Chen Shuangbai resisted and struck Hentian’s face with Fallen Toad Light.
  • Jin Xuan deflected Chen Shuangbai’s next sword strike enough for Hentian to escape, then urged Baishi to fight; Baishi summoned a sea of stars with five dragons of light.

Ch. 863Only This Instant, Jin Xuan Falls

Chen Shuangbai suppressed the sect-guarding treasures of True Lord Baishi and True Lord Jinxuan, then used [Only This Instant] to fatally strike Jinxuan. True Lord Jinxuan died, while Heaven-Hating Devil Lord and Baishi remained facing Chen Shuangbai.

  • Haoming Boy appeared beside Chen Shuangbai and suppressed the [Five Dragons Five Luminaries Devil-Suppressing Wheel] and the [Nine Heavens Thunderstrike Bow] with the [Truth-Revering Purple Haoming Mystic Heaven Gate].
  • True Lord Jinxuan urged Heaven-Hating Devil Lord and True Lord Baishi to use their remaining trump cards.
  • Heaven-Hating Devil Lord manifested the [Primordial Void Devil Shadow Body], while Jinxuan empowered the [Green Goat Expounding Mystery Pearl] and Baishi strengthened his spirit treasure with a stellar core.
  • Chen Shuangbai used [Only This Instant] to appear before True Lord Jinxuan and plunge the Grand Yin treasured sword into his chest and abdomen.
  • The sword intent cracked Jinxuan's Nascent Soul, and the Arrayed Mystery Sect's master died as golden Qi fell from the sky.

Ch. 864Hentian's madness, a Heavenly Devil's remains

After Chen Shuangbai killed Jin Xuan, Hentian tried to escape and then threatened to unleash the Heavenly Devil remains refined into his body. Chen Shuangbai advanced despite the danger, while Haoming Boy restrained True Lord Baishi.

  • Jin Xuan’s death revitalized the Zheng Kingdom, while True Lord Linyuan and the Arrayed Mystery Sect disciples collapsed in grief.
  • Hentian tried to flee through the void with a serpentine dagger, but Haoming Boy’s supreme-grade mystic gate sealed him back into place.
  • Hentian revealed the Heavenly Devil remains in his body and threatened to release their corrupting devilish nature if Chen Shuangbai attacked.
  • Old Man Fish Pillow shielded the flying boat’s disciples, and the watching cultivators realized Hentian’s threat could ruin their foundations.
  • Chen Shuangbai stepped toward Hentian as Haoming Boy suppressed True Lord Baishi and ordered him to stay put.

Ch. 865Grand Yin Purges the Demonic, Hentian Falls

Chen Shuangbai used his concealed Dao Fruit and Great Yin Illusory Radiance to purify the heavenly devil’s remains and defeat Hentian. Hentian and the demonic manifestations tied to him disintegrated, leaving the battlefield covered in gray-white powder.

  • Hentian realized Chen Shuangbai would not yield and attacked him with his serpent dagger.
  • Haoming Boy blocked Hentian’s strike as the Heaven-Hating Devil Lord exposed the heavenly devil’s remains and threatened to die with Chen Shuangbai.
  • Chen Shuangbai pressed his hand against the remains and used Grand Yin radiance to stop their Demonic Qi and demonic nature from erupting.
  • Chen Shuangbai’s moonlight purged the remains, while the clash shattered Hentian’s Dantian and crippled his Nascent Soul.
  • The heavenly devil’s remains disintegrated, and Hentian, his bats, and other demonic manifestations dissolved into gray-white powder.

Ch. 866The Sword Alliance Pleaded for Mercy, the Seas Saw a Change of Heaven

After killing Old Devil Hentian and True Lord Linyuan, Chen Shuangbai accepted the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect’s surrender and spared True Lord Baishi under strict conditions. The Sword Alliance pledged its support as the seas’ cultivation world faced a complete upheaval.

  • Old Man Fish Pillow and the other Vast Waves Alliance cultivators congratulated Chen Shuangbai, who examined his changed Divine Ability and suppressed the hostile spirit of the [Nine Heavens Thunderstrike Bow] in the Heavenly Gate.
  • Haoming Boy announced the arrival of Azure Cloud Sword Lord and Hong Qing, who came to plead the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect’s case.
  • Hong Qing apologized for his sect’s interference, and Azure Cloud Sword Lord asked Chen Shuangbai to spare True Lord Baishi.
  • Chen Shuangbai spared True Lord Baishi but ordered the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect to seal its mountain for a hundred years, conceal its disciples’ identities when they traveled, and answer summons from the Sword Alliance or Vast Waves Alliance.
  • Hong Qing led True Lord Baishi away, while Azure Cloud Sword Lord declared that the seas’ order would be overturned and pledged the Sword Alliance’s support to Chen Shuangbai.

Ch. 867Peace across the seas and rivers, the founding patriarch's final instructions

After peace returned to the seas, Chen Shuangbai watched Vast Sea Elder complete the initial refinement of a defensive flying shuttle and asked why the Jade Spring Sect had no surviving elders. True Lord Ling Yuan explained that Jade Spring High Person had fled from the ruined Heavenly River Dao Lineage and left instructions for a future talent to return to Eastern Radiance and restore it.

  • The Vast Waves Alliance emerged as the victor, and sects across the seas sought the Jade Spring Sect's protection while Sword Alliance remained content with peace.
  • Vast Sea Elder completed the flying shuttle's initial refinement, explaining that it still needed decades of tempering before becoming a Spirit Treasure.
  • Chen Shuangbai asked Vast Sea Elder why no Jade Spring Sect patriarchs had survived to protect the sect.
  • True Lord Ling Yuan arrived and told Chen Shuangbai that Jade Spring High Person had escaped the destruction of the Heavenly River Dao Lineage on Eastern Radiance Continent.
  • Ling Yuan recounted Jade Spring High Person's final instructions: a future outstanding talent should return to Eastern Radiance, restore the ancestral Dao lineage, and revive the name of Heavenly River.

Ch. 868A tragic, heroic journey, largely to your credit

Chen Shuangbai learned that five generations of Jade Spring Sect ancestral masters had vanished while attempting to return to Eastern Radiance, and that the Vast Sea Elder had spent centuries preparing a divine shuttle for the next journey. The Vast Sea Elder began describing the lost ancestral seat as a former sacred land, but his account stopped mid-description.

  • True Lord Ling Yuan told Chen Shuangbai that five ancestral masters had set out across the Buried Wind Ocean to return to Eastern Radiance and never came back.
  • The Vast Sea Elder explained that the sect had drawn on Azure Firmament Heaven’s reserves to support Nascent Soul cultivators, while others had perished over the generations.
  • Ling Yuan credited Chen Shuangbai with most of the Jade Spring Sect’s present prosperity.
  • The Vast Sea Elder revealed that he had spent more than six hundred years refining the Earth-Cleaving Ocean-Escaping Divine Shuttle to protect the next disciple making the return journey.
  • The Vast Sea Elder said that tribulation-warding purple gold, provided by the Gao Clan after Chen Shuangbai slew Xuanchengzi, had strengthened the shuttle’s defenses.
  • Chen Shuangbai asked about the ancestral seat, and the Vast Sea Elder began recalling its former grandeur before trailing off.

Ch. 869Seeking a sword at Clouds Arrive, a decree to slay a dragon

Tower Lord Yunlai visited Chen Shuangbai with a gift and asked him to stop the Flood Dragon Clan from encroaching on human territory. Chen Shuangbai accepted, and his decree warned Beigong Xuan against crossing the boundary again.

  • Feiguang presented Chen Shuangbai with a supreme-grade robe sent by Clouds Arrive Immortal Market, and Tower Lord Yunlai arrived in person.
  • Yun Yi revealed that Beigong Xuan was pressuring the coastal human cultivators and asked Chen Shuangbai to fight the flood dragons.
  • Chen Shuangbai agreed to help after confirming that Yun Yi had no regrets about asking him to intervene.
  • Feiguang carried Chen Shuangbai's decree to the Vermilion Dew Sea, where Beigong Xuan attacked him and lost half of his dark dragon claw to the decree's sword light.
  • Chen Shuangbai's decree warned Beigong Xuan that crossing the boundary again would cost him more than half a dragon claw.

Ch. 870Coveting power, Yun Yi's worries

True Lord Yunyi prepared to receive the Far-Reaching Luminous Sword Immortal and defend his decision to let the Jade Spring Sect establish a branch at sea. He left the Yun Clan’s future to its descendants, while worrying that the new sect would eventually challenge the eight great immortal markets.

  • A blue-robed Yun Clan junior questioned Yun Yi’s plan to host the Far-Reaching Luminous Sword Immortal and invite the Jade Spring Sect to establish a branch sect.
  • Yun Yi accused the junior and other clan members of fearing for their power and safety, then asked whether they could defend the market against Beigong Xuan or preserve it without him.
  • The junior knelt and could not answer Yun Yi’s questions, and Yun Yi said he would stop returning to the immortal market except in a life-or-death crisis.
  • Yun Yi reflected that the Jade Spring Sect’s maritime branch could expand after the flood dragons withdrew and threaten the standing of Clouds Arrive Immortal Market and the other seven markets.

Ch. 871The Sword Immortal arrived, a grand feast welcomed the guests

Chen Shuangbai arrived with the Jade Spring Sect at the Yun clan’s spiritual island, where Tower Lord Yunyi welcomed him with a lavish feast. The guests toasted him and tried to learn why the sect had come, but he revealed nothing.

  • The Jade Spring Sect’s magnificent flying ship arrived at the Yun clan’s island, drawing excited attention from cultivators who recognized its banner.
  • Chen Shuangbai, Demon Lord Feiguang, and True Lord Canxia descended from the ship and were greeted by Tower Lord Yunyi and the Yun clan.
  • Chen Shuangbai declined the seat of honor and entered the Imperial Hall with the Jade Spring Sect’s party.
  • Tower Lord Yunyi hosted a feast with spiritual wine, delicacies, musicians, and dancers, then toasted Chen Shuangbai for driving back Beigong Xuan.
  • Sea cultivators toasted Chen Shuangbai and indirectly probed the Jade Spring Sect’s purpose, but he offered no explanation.

Ch. 872An invitation to the sea, founding a branch sect

At a banquet on the spirit island, True Lord Yunyi proposed that the Jade Spring Immortal Sect establish a branch sect at sea to help protect cultivators from demons and fiends. After silencing opposition from Wu Pingzi, Yun Yi and his supporters formally urged Chen Shuangbai to accept the invitation.

  • True Lord Yunyi announced that he wanted the Jade Spring Immortal Sect to establish a branch sect overseas and help deter demons and fiends.
  • Wu Pingzi questioned whether a mainland sect could adapt to the unsettled seas, while True Lord Canxia told Chen Shuangbai that Wu’s allies feared the proposal would threaten the eight great immortal markets.
  • Yun Yi challenged Wu Pingzi to deal with Beigong Xuan himself if he opposed the plan, and Wu sat down without answering.
  • Yun Yi appealed to Chen Shuangbai to let the Jade Spring Immortal Sect preside over the seas and strengthen human cultivators’ position.
  • Several cultivators joined Yun Yi in formally inviting the Jade Spring Immortal Sect to establish a branch sect at sea.

Ch. 873Deliberations in the Myriad Phenomena Hall, establishing Spirit Sea Prefecture

The Jade Spring Sect decided to establish Spirit Sea Prefecture in the Silken Gauze Archipelago, appointing True Lord Ling Yuan as its prefecture lord and True Person Yuchuan to organize its founding. Ling Yuan reluctantly accepted True Lord Canxia’s protection despite their strained relationship as father and daughter.

  • True Lord Qingchen announced that True Person Yuchuan would oversee the establishment of a maritime branch at the Silken Gauze Archipelago, to be named Spirit Sea Prefecture.
  • Qingchen stated that Ling Yuan would serve as prefecture lord and Canxia as an Attendant, while Yuchuan would return to the main sect after completing the work.
  • Qingchen required all who migrated to the branch to transfer their names voluntarily from the main sect’s jade register to the branch’s register, warning against coercion.
  • After the others left, Qingchen promised Yuchuan a reward for his service and cautioned him not to grant improper favors to those seeking his help.
  • Ling Yuan objected to Canxia’s assignment, and Jihai recalled how grief over Yuanxin’s death had kept Canxia from accepting his daughter for years.
  • Chen Shuangbai urged Ling Yuan to accept Canxia’s protection, and she agreed, joking that she could send him to a remote corner of the branch.

Ch. 874A Summons to Jade Soul Palace, a Way Out for the Chen Clan

Chen Shuangbai summoned the White Water Chen Clan’s leading members and offered them a place among the cultivation lineages establishing Jade Spring Sect’s new branch overseas. He warned Chen Tianjun that the clan’s prosperity depended on his influence and urged it to preserve its path among mortals as a safeguard for the future.

  • Feiguang escorted eight prominent members of the White Water Chen Clan into Jade Soul Palace to meet Chen Shuangbai.
  • Chen Shuangbai asked about Yuan Bikong, the eight juniors’ cultivation, and the clan’s affairs, while Chen Ji'an reported that the clan had become one of the foremost lineages affiliated with Jade Spring Sect.
  • Chen Shuangbai told the clan members that the sect’s plans to establish a branch overseas offered them an opportunity and a way out.
  • Feiguang gave Chen Tianjun a jade token to present to True Person Yuchuan so the White Water Chen Clan could join the lineages establishing the branch sect.
  • After the others left, Chen Shuangbai warned Chen Tianjun that the clan’s glory rested on his influence and urged him to preserve its mortal branch as a safeguard.

Ch. 875Spirit Sea Prefecture Founded, a Grotto-Heaven in Hand

Spirit Sea Prefecture opened under the protection of Ling Yuan and Canxia, while Chen Shuangbai moved to relocate the long-sealed Cavern Abyss Heaven for the Jade Spring Sect. As he began drawing it from the sea, True Lord Qingchen arrived and joined the effort, ending the chapter as he lent his strength to Chen Shuangbai.

  • Ling Yuan and Canxia oversaw Spirit Sea Prefecture's construction, and the Jade Spring Sect marked its opening with a treasure cauldron and a plaque bearing Chen Shuangbai's Sword Intent.
  • Chen Shuangbai explained that he intended to move the empty Cavern Abyss Heaven to give the Jade Spring Sect a refuge.
  • Zhanlu sensed the grotto-heaven's exit, and Chen Shuangbai used his Divine Ability to draw it from the seabed as nearby Nascent Soul cultivators watched.
  • True Lord Yunyi recognized Cavern Abyss Heaven and was astonished as Chen Shuangbai attempted to grasp it.
  • True Lord Qingchen arrived and called on Yajie to display its divine might, then lent his strength to Chen Shuangbai.
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Arc 35 of 37