Chapter Summaries

Li Yan learned that Ping Tu’s true body might awaken after receiving the Great Master’s Nascent Soul and spirit stones, then prepared for and married Zhao Min. After the wedding, Li Yan and Zhao Min set cultivation aside to spend their days together.

• Ping Tu revealed that the Great Master’s Nascent Soul and supreme-grade spirit stones had helped restore his true body, and he gave Li Yan the Great Master’s storage ring.
• Li Yan found abundant cultivation resources and more than a hundred and fifty Sandstar Stones in the ring, then congratulated Ping Tu on his recovery.
• More than a year later, Li Yan married Zhao Min at the Wangliang Sect, while Bai Rou stayed away because of an injury and Tang Yuniang attended in her place.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min spent their wedding night together, and Zhao Min’s devil flowers appeared on her skin during their intimacy.
• The next morning, Li Yan asked Zhao Min about the devil flowers, and she grew embarrassed and pushed him away.
• Li Yan and Zhao Min spent the following days together, enjoying each other’s company instead of cultivating.

Li Yan gave Zhao Min a drop of Undying Underworld Phoenix blood essence before leaving the Wangliang Sect to seek more, while Zhao Min entered seclusion. Five years later, Li Yan returned with two more silver-paper sheets, stronger physical combat ability, and a new formation from the Great Master's storage ring.

• Li Yan told Zhao Min that Zhao Zhi planned to enter seclusion again and gave her a drop of Undying Underworld Phoenix blood essence to refine.
• Li Yan explained that he would visit nine sects and clans to seek more blood essence, then quietly left the Wangliang Sect while Zhao Min entered seclusion.
• Five years later, Zhao Min told Li Yan that her Heavenly Demon White Jade Disk cultivation had expelled the blood essence and prevented her from refining it.
• Li Yan said he had visited all nine locations and found two more sheets of silver paper while avoiding killing anyone over them.
• Li Yan revealed that refining his remaining blood essence had raised his physical combat strength to the peak of the nascent soul middle stage.
• Li Yan had also found the Primordial Qi Supreme Clarity Formation and its related jade slip in the Great Master's storage ring.

Li Yan prepared for a journey to the Wind God Continent while Zhao Min stayed behind as her Nascent Soul tribulation drew closer. A year later, the story shifted to Gong Chenying, who defended the Tianli Clan against a relentless Wind Beast offensive and worried that her clan was nearing collapse.

• Li Yan discovered that Heaven's End Stone could power the Primordial Qi Supreme Clarity Array, whose defenses he could not break even with his current strength.
• Zhao Min declined to travel to the Wind God Continent with Li Yan because her heavenly tribulation was approaching and her cultivation bottleneck was loosening.
• Li Yan spent the following year with Zhao Min, then secretly left the Wangliang Sect with Zi Kun and Qianji, heading toward the Northern Underworld Sea.
• On the Wind God Continent, Agen and his squad prepared to recover their fallen clanspeople while staying alert for another Wind Beast attack.
• Gong Chenying, now in the late Golden Core Realm, watched the Tianli Clan's warriors retrieve the dead and wounded after another assault.
• Gong Chenying worried that the Wind Beasts' increasingly reckless attacks and the loss of key elders would leave the Tianli Clan unable to withstand the war.

Gong Chenying prepared the Tianli Clan to face another Wind Beast assault as its territory dwindled, while Li Yan and his companions crossed the perilous Northern Nether Sea. After seven years of dangerous travel, they were still flying over the vast sea with no other cultivators in sight.

• Gong Chenying rallied the Tianli Clan’s cultivators to defend their stronghold against an approaching Wind Beast attack.
• Li Yan, Zi Kun, and Qianji traveled north across the Northern Nether Sea, where Li Yan concealed his aura and warned his companions about the powerful beasts in its depths.
• Li Yan wounded a giant crab and a huge bird during separate encounters, then escaped rather than become entangled with either beast.
• Zhao Min discovered she was pregnant after Li Yan had left and quietly contemplated her changed circumstances in the empty courtyard.
• Li Yan barely escaped a peak-fourth-tier Sea-Overturning Toad, recovered from his injuries, and became more cautious about crossing the sea.
• Li Yan, Zi Kun, and Qianji continued their flight for seven more years, enduring frequent battles while seeing no other cultivators.

After crossing the Northern Underworld Sea, Li Yan reached the far northern region where the barrier between the two worlds was weakest and prepared to search for a way through. Before entering the turbulent space, he helped Qianji settle some Snow Mosquitoes in a concealed cavern and then tore open a spatial fissure.

• Li Yan broke through to the nascent soul middle stage after refining a drop of the Undying Underworld Phoenix's blood essence.
• Li Yan, Zi Kun, and Qianji reached the mainland after nine years crossing the Northern Underworld Sea and followed Zhao Min's map toward the weak point in the barrier between the two worlds.
• Li Yan and the two demons searched the snowy mountains, with Qianji's Snow Mosquitoes helping locate the area that best matched the map.
• Li Yan agreed to let some of Qianji's clansmen remain in the far north and concealed more than fifty thousand Snow Mosquitoes in a glacier cavern.
• Li Yan returned to the snowy mountaintop, tore open a spatial fissure, and entered it alone.

Li Yan crossed the Desolate Moon Continent’s domain barrier, enduring its crushing Realm Force Compression Layer and navigating the directionless Dim Yellow Space with a Phantom Sect secret art. He emerged into the dark void beyond the continent, where fast-moving meteor fragments suddenly attacked him.

• Li Yan forced his way through the Realm Force Compression Layer for thirteen days until he reached the Dim Yellow Space.
• Li Yan used the Phantom Sect secret art White Plum Seeks Snow to find his way through the disorienting Dim Yellow Space.
• When the fifth plum blossom mark found a passage, Li Yan opened a crack, entered it, and punched through into the dark void beyond the barrier.
• An old monk, an old man in hemp clothes, and Yu Xiaofan sensed Li Yan’s departure, and Yu Xiaofan identified Spirit Transformation experts as the continent’s true guardians.
• Li Yan emerged at a relatively safe entry point in the void and surveyed the sparse meteors around him.
• Meteor fragments abruptly accelerated and hurtled toward Li Yan.

Li Yan cautiously crossed turbulent space toward the Wind God Continent, learning to avoid deadly gales, black holes, and moving meteorite belts. After surviving an ambush by a long-faced young man, he encountered a black-robed middle-aged man whose concealed cultivation appeared to be mid-stage Nascent Soul Realm.

• Li Yan endured a burst of razor-sharp gales and confirmed that the area matched the Wei family's markings for relatively stable turbulent space.
• Over forty days, Li Yan cautiously navigated meteorite fields and avoided black holes that threatened to swallow his Divine Sense and pull out his soul.
• Li Yan detoured around a vast moving meteorite belt for nine days and realized how dangerous Shuang Qingqing's earlier journey with them had been.
• A long-faced young man ambushed Li Yan with a bone spear, but Li Yan evaded the attack with the Qiongqi Purgatory Art and countered with a Guiyi Water-Parting Spike.
• The long-faced young man fled through the meteorites, and Li Yan stopped rather than risk pursuing him at full speed.
• A black-robed middle-aged man arrived and silently assessed Li Yan, while Li Yan spread his Divine Sense around them.

Li Yan encountered Stone Shattering Bamboo after Gergan ambushed him, and learned why Stone Shattering Bamboo wanted a Water Attribute cultivator’s help to break into a ruin and capture a Li Bei Beast. Li Yan refused the proposed expedition and demanded the information about Gergan, but Stone Shattering Bamboo’s attempt to stop him left their exchange turning hostile.

• Li Yan found that Gergan had fled and met Stone Shattering Bamboo, who explained that Gergan preyed on inexperienced Nascent Soul cultivators in the turbulent space.
• Li Yan gave the name Zhang Ming and agreed to answer Stone Shattering Bamboo’s question in exchange for information about Gergan.
• Stone Shattering Bamboo asked whether Zhang Ming primarily cultivated a Water Attribute technique, then offered five hundred high-grade spirit stones and Gergan’s information for help breaking a ruin’s array and capturing a Li Bei Beast.
• Li Yan questioned the beast’s rank and whether others might be in its nest, then refused because he needed to leave and find Gong Chenying.
• When Stone Shattering Bamboo tried to stop him, Li Yan warned that he would not tolerate being forced into the deal.

Li Yan agreed to help Shi Pozhu investigate a ruin in exchange for spirit stones, a share of its treasures, and information about the Wind God Continent. As Shi Pozhu led the way, he explained that Ge'erqian's concealment came from a rare suit of armor and warned how the assassin had used it to kill stronger cultivators.

• Shi Pozhu deduced that Li Yan came from the Desolate Moon Continent and was heading toward the Wind God Continent, then revealed that he was from the Wind Calamity Sect.
• Shi Pozhu offered Li Yan two hundred high-grade spirit stones upfront, six hundred in total, and thirty percent of the ruin's treasures, excluding anything from the Li Bei Beast.
• Li Yan agreed to help in exchange for answers about the Wind God Continent's major sects and clans, and Shi Pozhu handed him the advance payment.
• Shi Pozhu led Li Yan through turbulent space and began answering his questions about Ge'erqian.
• Shi Pozhu explained that Ge'erqian's Dumen Obscuring Garment concealed him from Nascent Soul cultivators and had helped him ambush and kill stronger opponents.

Li Yan followed Shi Pozhu through a perilous meteor belt to the hidden site where Shi Pozhu had been waiting to hunt a Li Bei Beast. The chapter ended as Shi Pozhu revealed the concealed pavilion where the beast was hiding.

• Shi Pozhu explained that Ge'erqian's Dumen Huiyi had no known flaw, but careful route selection through turbulent space made ambushes difficult.
• Shi Pozhu warned Li Yan about the danger of Starfall Beasts and described the powerful Li Bei Beast he had failed to catch.
• Shi Pozhu led Li Yan through a dangerous meteor belt, warning him to follow his footsteps and avoid disturbing the unstable formations of meteors.
• After traveling more than two thousand li, the two reached a meteorite where Shi Pozhu used a compass to reveal a concealed pavilion on a small black mountain.
• Shi Pozhu told Li Yan that the Li Bei Beast was hiding in the pavilion and sent a streak of black light toward it.

Li Yan and Shi Pozhu used the Seven-Star Cascading Waterfall Formation to attack the restriction around the ruined pavilion where the Li Bei Beast was trapped. As their efforts strained against the pavilion’s defenses, Shi Pozhu said they seemed close to breaking through, while Li Yan continued channeling power into the formation.

• Shi Pozhu confirmed that the Li Bei Beast remained trapped inside the ruined pavilion and prepared to break its restriction with Li Yan’s help.
• Shi Pozhu deployed the Seven-Star Cascading Waterfall Formation, and Li Yan recognized its function and agreed to assist.
• Li Yan took the Dubhe position while Shi Pozhu took Merak, and they channeled magical power to activate the formation.
• The formation wrapped the pavilion in green chains, but the restriction resisted and repeatedly threatened to break through them.
• Li Yan replenished his magical power with pills as he and Shi Pozhu continued suppressing the pavilion’s resistance.
• Shi Pozhu told Li Yan they seemed close to breaking the restriction, and Li Yan continued powering the formation.

Shi Pozhu ambushed Li Yan, mistaking his evasion for a successful strike, but Li Yan used his movement technique to counterattack and destroy Shi Pozhu’s body. Shi Pozhu escaped by Nascent Soul teleportation, only to be struck down by Li Yan’s blood-red attack.

• Shi Pozhu stabbed at Zhang Ming while clawing at Li Yan, but both attacks hit empty air when Li Yan vanished.
• Li Yan used the “Phoenix Soars to Heaven” movement technique to appear behind Shi Pozhu and punch through his protective barrier.
• Li Yan’s punch tore Shi Pozhu’s body apart, and Shi Pozhu’s Nascent Soul escaped with his storage ring.
• Li Yan fired a faint blood-red line after the fleeing Nascent Soul, which reappeared on a distant asteroid and collapsed.

Li Yan captured Shi Pozhu and used Soul Search, but the Nascent Soul Poison and the death of Shi Pozhu’s contracted Li Bei Beast prevented him from learning much. After escaping the meteor belt, Li Yan recovered and reviewed how he had recognized Shi Pozhu’s trap through the unusual use of the Seven Stars Cascading Waterfall Array, leaving the details of the ambush clearer but his search for a cure to the poison unresolved.

• Li Yan captured the Li Bei Beast, extracted a blood thread from Shi Pozhu’s Nascent Soul, and began searching his soul.
• Shi Pozhu woke in agony, but the Nascent Soul Poison quickly destroyed his Nascent Soul before Li Yan could learn his true origins.
• The Li Bei Beast exploded and died through its master-servant blood contract, while Li Yan destroyed Shi Pozhu’s remains, took his storage ring, and fled the trap.
• Li Yan retrieved the seven flags, escaped the meteor belt, and flew onward without inspecting Shi Pozhu’s cave.
• Five days later, Li Yan stopped to recover and reviewed how Shi Pozhu’s choice to stand on the Tianxuan Star had revealed his knowledge of an improved Seven Stars Cascading Waterfall Array.

Li Yan killed Shi Pochu after evading his carefully planned ambush, then spent three years traveling through turbulent space. When a Starfall Beast attacked him, Li Yan survived its gravity-nullifying ripples, defeated it with his talismans and Demon-Sealing Nails, and harvested its valuable parts.

• Shi Pochu lured Li Yan into the Seven Stars Cascading Waterfall Array and tried to weaken him before launching a surprise attack.
• Li Yan dodged Shi Pochu with the Phoenix Soars to Heaven technique and killed him with a punch empowered by Nine Cauldrons Gui Water.
• Li Yan learned through Soul Search that Shi Pochu had roamed turbulent space to plunder resources, but poison killed him before Li Yan could learn more about the Wind Calamity Sect.
• Three years later, a Starfall Beast ambushed Li Yan and attacked with ripples that nullified gravity across an area.
• Li Yan used a dark crimson talisman to escape the weightless zone, then trapped the Starfall Beast with Demon-Sealing Nails and killed it with his crimson brush.
• Li Yan took the Starfall Beast's demon core, bones, and pelt, then stored them away.

After years crossing the turbulent void, Li Yan finally emerged into the Southern Bamboo Sea Region. As he arrived, he killed a giant osprey-like bird that had attacked him, while back at Small Bamboo Peak, Li Zhaoyan tried to avoid a cultivation lesson by asking to visit Li Changting’s gu insects.

• Li Yan survived the turbulent void, killed three Nascent Soul cultivators, and collected their treasures and information, including Primordial Chaos Heaven-Suppressing Talismans.
• Li Yan once encountered a late-stage Nascent Soul grand cultivator who smiled at him and departed without attacking.
• Li Wuyi found Li Zhaoyan hiding in the main hall and agreed to guide her cultivation while Zhao Min was in seclusion.
• Li Zhaoyan begged to visit Li Changting and her gu insects instead of practicing, but Li Wuyi warned her to focus on Qi Refinement.
• Li Yan emerged from the turbulent void into the Southern Bamboo Sea Region and pierced an attacking giant osprey-like bird with Qi Jinghong’s red long brush.

Li Yan and his companions investigated the source of the destructive Heaven-Eye Wind on the Wind God Continent, then came across a group of mortals trapped by the storm’s devastation. The chapter ended with Zhao Yuan and the others carefully trying to free their buried Master.

• Li Yan recognized a slain Gale Eagle, drove off nearby wind beasts, and flew northeast across the Wind God Continent.
• After half a month of travel, Li Yan, Qianji, and Zi Kun examined a vast pit where twisting wind columns gathered and Li Yan sensed immense power rebuilding below.
• Li Yan and the two demons flew through the ruined land left by Heaven-Eye Wind and later detected several badly injured mortals.
• Zhao Yuan directed the injured survivors to clear rubble from the mountain path, warning Zhao Bing not to move a boulder that could trigger a collapse.
• Zhao Yuan called to his buried Master while the group slowly worked to free those trapped beneath the rocks.

Li Yan and the two demons rescued Zhao Zhihuan and his companions from a landslide, then accepted the old official’s invitation to visit his home. Disguised as traveling martial artists, they went with Zhao Zhihuan’s party while concealing their true identities.

• Zhao Yuan and the exhausted servants struggled to clear the landslide as three trapped people ran out of air.
• Zhao Yuan sent Zhao Wuding to seek help, and Li Yan, Qianji, and Zi Kun arrived and lifted the boulders to free the buried men.
• Li Yan revealed that he had used magic to protect two of the trapped men, and the survivors were revived, though Zhao Wu had died.
• Zhao Zhihuan thanked the three rescuers and insisted they visit his home, while Zhao Yuan persuaded them to accept the invitation.
• Zhao Zhihuan ordered Zhao Wu’s proper burial and care for his family, then traveled home with the disguised Li Yan, Qianji, and Zi Kun.

Li Yan learned about Great Qi, the Heavenly Eye Wind, and the Wind God Continent while traveling with Zhao Zhihuan, then followed him to Jiaoming City to obtain detailed maps. At Zhao Zhihuan's manor, Ling'e suspected that Li Yan and his companions were cultivators, and Zhao Zhihuan invited them to help exterminate wind beasts.

• Li Yan used an illusion technique to question Zhao Zhihuan and his men, learning about Great Qi, the Heavenly Eye Wind, and the Wind God Eye.
• Li Yan decided to obtain Zhao Zhihuan's detailed maps, and Zhao Zhihuan's party later reached Jiaoming City with Li Yan and his companions.
• Zhao Zhihuan welcomed Li Yan, Zi Kun, and Qianji into his manor, where they noticed that the maid Ling'e was unusual.
• Ling'e treated Zhao Yuan, instructed the men in the courtyard, and suspected that Li Yan's group had used the Giant Strength Technique to move a boulder.
• Zhao Zhihuan hosted Li Yan and his companions at dinner and asked whether they would consider exterminating the wind beasts from a region.

Li Yan and his companions refused Zhao Zhihuan’s offer to recruit them, then caught a maid who tried to poison them in the night. Li Yan searched her memories and discovered how the Six-Eyed Demon Moth had gained her unusual abilities, leaving her past at the moment golden blood struck her.

• Li Yan declined Zhao Zhihuan’s attempts to recruit him and obtained a map of Great Qi and the surrounding dynasties.
• After returning to their rooms, Li Yan told Qianji to capture the intruder rather than kill her.
• The maid poisoned the three rooms with gray powder, but Qianji seized her and brought her to Li Yan.
• Li Yan questioned the maid, restored her movement, and used a gentle Soul Search after she pleaded for mercy.
• Li Yan saw the Six-Eyed Demon Moth’s memories of her early cultivation and her encounter with a Golden Fruit Bright Snake.
• A cultivator killed the Golden Fruit Bright Snake, and a drop of its golden blood landed on the Six-Eyed Demon Moth, causing her intense pain.

Ling E’s past with Zhao Fenglou resurfaced when she encountered him gravely wounded and hiding from a pursuer. She chose to help him escape, and half a year later they reached his hidden residence in Jiaoming Province.

• A green-robed cultivator saved the Six-Eyed Demon Moth from the Golden Fruit Bright Snake’s essence blood, sealing it inside her so she could refine it gradually.
• Over the following decades, the Six-Eyed Demon Moth advanced to the second tier, took the name Ling E, and hid behind a waterfall as a wounded Zhao Fenglou arrived.
• Zhao Fenglou subdued Ling E, scattered four Form-Melding Puppets to mislead his pursuer, and concealed them behind the waterfall until the pursuer left.
• When Zhao Fenglou prepared to kill her, Ling E reminded him that she was the Six-Eyed Demon Moth he had spared fifty years earlier.
• Ling E offered to escort Zhao Fenglou and help protect him with her poison, and he accepted her offer.
• After half a year of secret travel, Ling E and Zhao Fenglou reached his residence in Jiaoming Province, with Zhao Fenglou still severely weakened.