Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chen Shuangbai decided to deal with Yuandu and Yan Nanlai before leaving Celebrated Splendor Continent, and summoned allies to help hunt Yuandu. He revealed that a piece of Yuandu’s flesh could be used in a Shaman Incantation to locate his true body.

• Chen Shuangbai recognized that his cultivation was constrained by Celebrated Splendor Continent and resolved to remove Yuandu and Yan Nanlai before departing.
• Zhu Ling Sword Immortal and Hong Qing arrived at the Jade Soul Palace after Chen Shuangbai summoned them.
• Chen Shuangbai explained that Yuandu had destroyed the seal on [Black and Yellow Land], released the Nether Sparrow, and hidden in an unknown otherworldly space.
• Chen Shuangbai showed Zhu Ling and Hong Qing a piece of Yuandu’s flesh and blood, which he had cut from him in their previous fight.
• Chen Shuangbai said he could use the flesh to have someone cast a Shaman Incantation and trace Yuandu’s true body.

Chen Shuangbai arranged for True Lord Qingchen and Azure Cloud Sword Lord to pursue Yuandu while he prepared to deal with Yan Nanlai with Hong Qing’s help. At the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect, a mysterious man confronted Hong Qing and pressed him to admit his resentment over the sect’s decline.

• The Dark Crow Tribe’s great shaman used the Soul-Chasing Crow Carving to trace Chen Shuangbai’s target, but the Sword Intent on Chen Shuangbai drove away the tribe’s ancestral spirit.
• Chen Shuangbai gave the carving to True Lord Qingchen, who left with Azure Cloud Sword Lord to hunt Yuandu while Chen Shuangbai prepared to rely on Hong Qing against Yan Nanlai.
• Hong Qing brooded over the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect’s decline after the Far-Reaching Luminous Sword Immortal forced it to seal its mountain.
• A mysterious dark-green-robed man appeared inside the sect’s grounds, ignored Hong Qing’s threats, and challenged him to accept the humiliation and decline of his sect.

Yan Nanlai learned that Chen Shuangbai possessed two Sword Intents and planned to wait until he recovered an item from the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect before confronting him. Chen Shuangbai gathered allies and traveled there to meet Hong Qing, who presented the token used to lure their enemy out.

• Yan Nanlai merged with his dark-green-robed incarnation and resolved to retrieve an item from the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect before challenging Chen Shuangbai.
• Chen Shuangbai received Hong Qing's message that someone had contacted him, then summoned Old Man Fish Pillow, True Lord Suwen, Zhu Ling Sword Immortal, and Yuan Jun Sword Lord.
• Chen Shuangbai sent the group through the Heavenly Gate Spirit Treasure to a valley outside the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect.
• Hong Qing met Chen Shuangbai in the valley and showed him the jade cicada token he had received.

Chen Shuangbai used Hong Qing to draw Yan Nanlai into a meeting, where Yan Nanlai revealed himself as the mastermind behind the attempted exchange. Chen Shuangbai and three allies sealed the area around him, leaving Yan Nanlai trapped beneath a Purple-Gold Heavenly Gate.

• Hong Qing told Chen Shuangbai how Yan Nanlai’s agent had offered him a demonic Secret Method in exchange for the Heavenly Star Mystic Sect’s inheritance.
• Chen Shuangbai had Hong Qing use the jade cicada to arrange an in-person meeting on the next full-moon night.
• Hong Qing met Yan Nanlai’s avatar at Canyuan Mountain and refused to exchange the inheritance until Yan Nanlai showed his true body.
• Yan Nanlai appeared in his true body as a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator and used demonic mysteries to influence Hong Qing.
• Hong Qing resisted Yan Nanlai’s influence, and Chen Shuangbai and three others sealed the space and earth veins around him.
• Chen Shuangbai addressed Yan Nanlai as his martial uncle and said he had gone to great lengths to meet him.

Chen Shuangbai trapped Yan Nanlai inside the Truth-Revering Purple Haoming Mystic Heaven Gate and a sword formation, then confronted him over his betrayal of the sect and Senior Sister A Heng. Yan Nanlai refused to surrender and drew his sword, leaving the two poised to fight.

• Yan Nanlai recognized Chen Shuangbai’s heavenly gate and used hazy colored light to resist its suppression.
• Haoming Boy captured Yan Nanlai’s Yin-Yang Two-Headed Python, while Chen Shuangbai and Yan Nanlai exchanged accusations and hollow pleasantries.
• Zhu Ling Sword Immortal, Yuan Jun Sword Lord, Old Man Fish Pillow, and Hong Qing formed the Blazing Heavenly Light Sword Formation around Yan Nanlai.
• Yan Nanlai offered to return the cauldron and compensate the Jade Spring Sect, but Chen Shuangbai demanded to know about the Devil Cultivation Method and asked about Senior Sister A Heng.
• Chen Shuangbai revealed that A Heng had been imprisoned for fifty years, then left the sect after requesting that her cultivation be crippled, and blamed Yan Nanlai for her fate.
• Yan Nanlai drew a sword and challenged Chen Shuangbai to prove he could keep him there.