Chapter Summaries

Li Yunjing organized the Luozhen Sect’s land-clearing expedition and led the group aboard the Extreme Crossing Boat toward the Azure Jiao Marsh. After twelve days, they reached the vast marsh and surveyed its waters from the boat.

• Li Yunjing assigned seven Nascent Soul Perfection cultivators to the advance team and left four older cultivators to guard the Luozhen Sect.
• The Fire Dragon arrived from the Mysterious Female Realm, and Li Yunjing sent him to join Fang Hexuan’s team.
• Jin Xiaofeng told Li Yunjing that the Jin Household was discussing whether to join the expedition and that his grandfather would come in person.
• Li Yunjing assigned Duan Tianjiao and the other Mysterious Female Dao Realm cultivators to operate the Extreme Crossing Boat and set its destination for the Azure Jiao Marsh.
• After twelve days of travel, Li Yunjing spotted the Azure Jiao Marsh and activated the monitoring array to show its vast waters and scattered islands to the others.

Li Yunjing and his companions reached Azure Jiao Marsh to open a grotto-heaven, but a powerful living killing formation trapped their boat. As the Spirit Transformation cultivators prepared to fight back, Fire Dragon sensed a Fallen Dragon in the marsh.

• Li Yunjing used the Grotto-Heaven Divine Seal to locate the grotto-heaven entrance, and a Spirit Concentration-level Great Demon appeared nearby.
• A blast struck everyone’s seas of consciousness as blue-green runes activated across the marsh, revealing a killing formation.
• The formation compressed the water around the Extreme Crossing Boat and attacked it with water dragons, spears, and Blackwater Mystic Serpents.
• Xie Zheng cut down the water dragons and recognized that the living formation drew power from the marsh’s water veins and a hidden Spirit Concentration-level Demon.
• Fang Hexuan called on the other Spirit Transformation cultivators to act, but Fire Dragon emerged and said he sensed one of his kind.
• Fire Dragon told Li Yunjing that the being in the marsh was a Fallen Dragon, not a True Dragon.

Li Yunjing and the others watched Fire Dragon battle a River Fallen Dragon in Azure Jiao Marsh. Fire Dragon turned the fight around by unleashing his Innate Li Fire, which burned through the Alligator Dragon’s control of the marsh, though the battle’s outcome remained unresolved.

• Fire Dragon sensed a Fallen Dragon nearby, and the killing array around the Extreme Crossing Boat collapsed.
• The Alligator Dragon emerged from the mist and focused on Fire Dragon, whom he hoped to devour and become a True Dragon.
• Fire Dragon refused Fang Hexuan’s offer of help and charged the Alligator Dragon after Li Yunjing asked him to spare its life.
• The Alligator Dragon used Azure Jiao Marsh’s water veins to overwhelm Fire Dragon and bind him in the frigid water.
• Fire Dragon unleashed his Innate Li Fire, burned through the marsh’s water veins, and dried out more than half of Azure Jiao Marsh.

Fire Dragon defeated Alligator Dragon after Azure Jiao Marsh’s water veins were scorched, and Li Yunjing revealed he had spared the Fallen Dragon to make him and the marsh’s Demon Beasts serve the Luozhen Sect. Alligator Dragon rejected the offer on behalf of the gathered beasts and challenged Li Yunjing to kill him instead.

• Fire Dragon overcame Alligator Dragon, sealed his cultivation with dragon flames, and left him alive because Li Yunjing had ordered it.
• Fire Dragon explained that the fight had helped him unleash the potential of his True Dragon bloodline, and Li Yunjing praised his progress.
• Li Yunjing saw the powerful Demon Beasts gathered around Alligator Dragon and said he planned to subdue them as gatekeeping spirit beasts for the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing told Alligator Dragon that Azure Jiao Marsh would belong to the Luozhen Sect and offered the beasts survival and cultivation support if they submitted.
• The Demon Beasts angrily refused to serve humans, and Alligator Dragon told Li Yunjing to kill him rather than demand their submission.

Li Yunjing failed to persuade Alligator Dragon and the other Demon Beasts to submit, but the Grotto-Heaven Divine Seal opened the entrance to the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven. Li Yunjing and his companions entered and discovered a well-preserved ancient Taixuan Sect inheritance site filled with cultivation resources.

• Li Yunjing learned that the Demon Beasts would rather die than join the Luozhen Sect, and he left them behind to focus on the Grotto-Heaven.
• The Grotto-Heaven Divine Seal activated the mountain gate, and Alligator Dragon revealed that he was the Grotto-Heaven's guardian divine beast and offered to submit to Li Yunjing as a Taixuan Sect inheritor.
• Li Yunjing led his companions through the opened entrance after Fang Hexuan warned that his Divine Sense could not probe inside.
• Li Yunjing and the others found a small world with dense Spiritual Qi, ancient Cultivation Method steles, and a vast medicinal garden full of rare, well-preserved plants.
• The group discovered ancient spirit fields, hundreds of intact cave abodes, and halls including the Pill Hall, Artifact Hall, and Scripture Repository.

Li Yunjing and his companions awakened the Taixuan Sect’s founding patriarch, a remnant soul in the Grotto-Heaven Divine Seal, and learned that the sect had been destroyed thirty thousand years earlier. The patriarch gave the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven to Li Yunjing’s group and asked them to rebuild the sect, leaving Li Yunjing to question Fang Hexuan’s account of its fall.

• Li Yunjing placed the Grotto-Heaven Divine Seal into the statue, awakening the patriarch’s remnant soul and revealing his control over the Grotto-Heaven.
• The patriarch learned that Li Yunjing and his companions belonged to the Luozhen Sect, then offered them three treasures each in exchange for finding Taixuan Sect successors.
• Fang Hexuan told the patriarch that the Taixuan Sect had been destroyed thirty thousand years earlier after eight Tribulation Transcendence Dao Lords triggered their Immortal Tribulations together.
• The patriarch accepted the sect’s destruction, granted Li Yunjing’s group the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven, and asked them to rebuild the Taixuan Sect if possible.
• The remnant soul returned to the Grotto-Heaven Divine Seal, and Li Yunjing asked Fang Hexuan whether the Taixuan Sect had truly been destroyed by an Immortal Tribulation.

Fang Hexuan told Li Yunjing that the Taixuan Sect had been destroyed and its surviving lineage had become a devil-path sect. After Li Yunjing agreed to accept Alligator Dragon and the Azure Jiao Marsh demons into the Luozhen Sect, Alligator Dragon learned the Taixuan Sect was gone and realized the ancestral command that kept him guarding the marsh should no longer bind him.

• Fang Hexuan revealed that the Taixuan Sect's successors had continued as Devil Cultivators, with around twenty members and a strongest successor at the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Li Yunjing and Fang Hexuan decided to settle the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven and make it prosper, while Li Yunjing ordered the others to inventory its treasures and inspect it.
• Li Yunjing returned to the Azure Jiao Marsh, where Alligator Dragon explained that the marsh's water vein had revived because the Grand Profound Grotto-Heaven had reopened.
• Alligator Dragon asked Li Yunjing to accept him and the Azure Jiao Marsh demons as Luozhen Sect gatekeeping spirit beasts, explaining that he feared the Taixuan Sect's punishment and did not want his soul used after death.
• Li Yunjing agreed to accept them, then told Alligator Dragon that the Taixuan Sect had been destroyed thirty thousand years earlier and its surviving lineage was on the devil path.
• Alligator Dragon was stunned and realized the Taixuan Sect's destruction should have ended the ancestral command that had compelled his family to guard the Azure Jiao Marsh.

Li Yunjing followed the Alligator Dragon to a giant egg and learned that it contained the Azure Jiao, the ancient ruler of Azure Jiao Marsh, who was undergoing rebirth. The Alligator Dragon warned that the Azure Jiao might soon hatch and threaten the Luozhen Sect, leaving Li Yunjing to consider whether to kill him first.

• Li Yunjing accepted the Alligator Dragon as the Luozhen Sect’s gate-guarding spirit beast, and the Alligator Dragon asked him to come see something.
• The Alligator Dragon led Li Yunjing through Azure Jiao Marsh to a giant blue-green egg patterned with gold.
• The Alligator Dragon revealed that the egg held the Azure Jiao, who had used a Law Technique to begin a powerless rebirth and had been guarded by the Alligator Dragon’s ancestors.
• The Alligator Dragon explained how his ancestor’s neglect led to the fall of the Azure Jiao Kingdom but kept the clan’s promise to guard the marsh and the secret of the egg.
• The Alligator Dragon warned that the Azure Jiao’s growing life might soon hatch and endanger the Luozhen Sect, and Li Yunjing considered whether to kill him before he emerged.

Li Yunjing learned that destroying the Azure Jiao egg would draw the attention of a powerful Loose Immortal, then began transferring the Luozhen Sect’s upgraded buildings and spiritual effects to its new grotto-heaven. He left several arrangements unfinished and headed to the grotto-heaven’s luxurious Sect Master’s cave abode.

• The Five Spirits Lord warned Li Yunjing that the Azure Jiao egg carried karma tied to a likely Loose Immortal and that the Azure Jiao’s cultivation technique had been tampered with.
• Li Yunjing left the egg alone and returned to the grotto-heaven with the Alligator Dragon.
• Li Yunjing asked Fang Hexuan to move the rest of the Luozhen Sect to the grotto-heaven and sent Xie Zheng, Lu Xian, and Wan Tao to survey Azure Jiao Marsh and choose sites for their sects’ bases.
• Li Yunjing transferred the Luozhen Sect’s alchemy room effects to the grotto-heaven’s alchemy hall and removed the Taixuan Grand Hall’s plaque so he could transfer the Sect Grand Hall effects.
• Li Yunjing transferred spiritual effects to the grotto-heaven’s Spirit Fields and other buildings, leaving the Poultry Coop and Patriarch Hall for later, then headed to the Sect Master’s cave abode.

Li Yunjing planned the Luozhen Sect’s expansion beyond the Azure Jiao Marsh and discovered a map of the Northern Dark Earth Vein in the Heaven-Bearing Hall. He chose Black Wind Cliff as the next target and prepared to use the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal to capture its earth vein node.

• Li Yunjing received Xie Zheng’s Demon Beast records and learned where the Seven Treasures Sect, White Jade Palace, and Sky-Soaring Sword Sect planned to establish their bases.
• Li Yunjing told the other sects to bring their disciples from the Mysterious Female Dao Realm to help open up the wilderness.
• Li Yunjing considered expanding into the Thunder Abyss and Soul-Severing Ridge, then discovered a floating sphere in the Heaven-Bearing Hall that projected a map when powered by Origin Essence.
• Li Yunjing studied the map’s Northern Dark Earth Vein nodes and chose Black Wind Cliff as the next target for the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing took out the Northern Dark Vein-Suppressing Seal, which glimmered in response.

Fang Hexuan and the Luozhen Sect’s delegation arrived at the Azure Jiao Marsh, where Li Yunjing welcomed them and proposed securing nearby earth vein nodes to protect the region and support further expansion. The sect agreed to attack Black Wind Cliff in three days and began preparing its forces and equipment.

• Fang Hexuan’s Extreme Crossing Boat passed the crab demon guarding the Azure Jiao Marsh and landed at the central island, where Li Yunjing welcomed the arriving elders and disciples.
• Nangong Chengyu and Wang Qianxue went to explore, while Mo Xuan and Shui Yao helped Fang Tong and the other elders arrange the sect’s belongings and residences.
• Li Yunjing gathered Xie Zheng, Fang Hexuan, and others in the Luozhen Grand Hall and explained his plan to secure earth vein nodes, beginning with Black Wind Cliff.
• After Fang Hexuan asked how the node network would help, Li Yunjing explained that it would support a protective grand formation and future expansion, and the group raised no further objections.
• Li Yunjing set the attack on Black Wind Cliff for three days later and ordered the sect to prepare its cultivators, two Extreme Crossing Boats, and the God-Slaying Cannon.
• Li Yunjing went to the teleportation array as Luozhen Sect disciples reassembled the dismantled array at the new base.

Li Yunjing discovered that a mysterious seal resisted his attempts to refine it, then revealed a golden form as a pillar of light appeared near the Azure Jiao Marsh. The Alligator Dragon identified the light as the emergence of the Nine-Headed Demon King's inheritance, and the Luozhen Sect prepared to claim it.

• Li Yunjing took a black seal found by a disciple to Nangong Chengyu, who could not identify the markings and suggested refining it.
• Li Yunjing tried to refine the seal for half an hour, after which it cracked, shed its black grime, and revealed a brilliant reddish-gold surface.
• Wang Qianxue summoned Li Yunjing outside the Grotto-Heaven, where he saw a huge pillar of light rising northeast of the Azure Jiao Marsh.
• The Alligator Dragon told Li Yunjing that the light marked the emergence of the Nine-Headed Demon King's inheritance at Falling Cloud Mountain.
• Li Yunjing summoned the Luozhen Sect's Spirit Transformation cultivators, and Fang Hexuan urged them to hurry to Falling Cloud Mountain for the inheritance.

Li Yunjing led the Luozhen Sect and Azure Jiao Marsh’s Demon Beasts to Falling Cloud Mountain to support Fang Hexuan, where they found a dangerous landscape and a savage beast tide. The two Extreme Crossing Boats unleashed their killing formations against the beasts as the fighting continued.

• Fang Hexuan and the Spirit Transformation cultivators hurried ahead to Falling Cloud Mountain while Li Yunjing organized the Luozhen Sect disciples and called for the Demon Beasts from Azure Jiao Marsh.
• Li Yunjing brought two Extreme Crossing Boats to Falling Cloud Mountain, confirmed with Alligator Dragon that it was the Nine-Headed Demon King's dwelling, and learned that Fang Hexuan's group had already begun fighting.
• Fire Dragon cleared the surrounding area of Sha Qi and ferocious beasts, and Li Yunjing ordered an Extreme Crossing Boat's killing formation to destroy a stone-like Demon Beast ramming the vessel.
• A massive tide of ferocious beasts, including Bifang and Qiongqi descendants and Spirit-Devouring Insects, surged from the mountains as Alligator Dragon warned that they had lost their intelligence.
• Li Yunjing ordered both Extreme Crossing Boats to unleash their full firepower, and their starry net and blade formations attacked the beast tide.

Li Yunjing and the two Extreme Crossing Boats annihilated the beast tide at Falling Cloud Mountain, then he opened the Nine-Headed Demon King's cave abode with the small seal. The stone gate opened, revealing an abundance of Spiritual Qi, spirit medicines, and treasures.

• Li Yunjing coordinated the two Extreme Crossing Boats as they trapped and destroyed the beast tide.
• Li Yunjing arrived at Falling Cloud Mountain and learned that Fang Hexuan had disappeared; Nangong Chengyu suggested he might have gone to investigate something.
• Li Yunjing ordered the Luozhen Sect disciples to collect the Demon Beast corpses and prepared the small seal to open the cave abode.
• The small seal subdued the awakened restrictions, and the Nine-Headed Demon King's remnant soul appeared before dissolving.
• The restrictions fell, and a massive stone gate opened to reveal dense Spiritual Qi, spirit medicines, and treasures.

Li Yunjing welcomed Jin Ruoxu and agreed to let the Jin Household settle on an unoccupied island in Azure Jiao Marsh. He then explored the Nine-Headed Demon King's cave abode with the Spirit Transformation cultivators, discovering its treasures and a vast repository that could strengthen the Luozhen Sect.

• Jin Ruoxu arrived in Azure Jiao Marsh and told Li Yunjing that the Jin Household had sold its Heaven-Gazing City assets and moved to follow the Luozhen Sect.
• Li Yunjing let the Jin Household choose an unoccupied island and approved its use of floating islands within its territory.
• Li Yunjing entered the Nine-Headed Demon King's cave abode with Xie Zheng and the others, where they found a grand hall, the Demon King's cultivation method, six Dao Integration Realm Demon Cores, and rare materials.
• Li Yunjing used the small seal to remove the restrictions throughout the cave abode, then entered a treasure repository filled with materials, spirit medicines, and Spirit Treasures.
• Li Yunjing considered recruiting more disciples from the Mysterious Female Dao Realm and exploring two other Dao Realms to make use of the Luozhen Sect's growing wealth.

Li Yunjing explored the side halls of the Nine-Headed Demon King's cave abode, finding a Body Refining formation and a records chamber filled with demon techniques and human sect inheritances. He and Xie Zheng then discovered the Demon King's meditation chamber, a vast Spirit Plant garden, and a secluded cultivation chamber containing the Demon King's insights and a complete Dao Integration Realm demon core.

• Li Yunjing inspected a Body Refining formation and considered letting the Demon Beasts of Luozhen Sect use it.
• Li Yunjing found demon cultivation methods and combat techniques, along with human sect inheritances such as the Nanli Fire Control Incantation and the Nine Li Slashing Howl Scripture.
• Li Yunjing met Xie Zheng, and they agreed to inspect the three remaining side halls together.
• Li Yunjing and Xie Zheng found the Demon King's meditation chamber and a Spirit Plant garden filled with ancient spirit medicines.
• Li Yunjing opened a jade box in the secluded cultivation chamber and discovered a complete Dao Integration Realm demon core.

Li Yunjing and the Spirit Transformation cultivators left the Nine-Headed Demon King's cave after claiming its treasures, but outside they witnessed Fang Hexuan undergo a lightning tribulation for Dao Union. Fang Hexuan endured eight waves by letting his body repeatedly collapse and reform, then dispersed his defenses as the ninth bolt descended.

• Li Yunjing let Xie Zheng and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators choose Spirit Plants, reserving the intelligent ones for himself.
• Li Yunjing inspected the Howling Wolf Abode, where he found a guqin that could temper the mind and an ordinary tea set.
• Li Yunjing and the others left the cave abode after taking their treasures and finding the Luozhen Sect's disciples clearing the Demon Beast corpses.
• A surge of Dao lightning gathered, and Li Yunjing and Xie Zheng recognized Fang Hexuan as he flew toward the clouds to break through to Dao Union.
• Fang Hexuan let the first eight waves of lightning destroy and reform his body while his Primordial Spirit endured their power.
• As the ninth bolt gathered, Fang Hexuan dispersed his defenses and allowed the lightning to break down his Primordial Spirit and body into the origin of the Dao of lightning.

Fang Hexuan broke through to the Early Dao Union stage, making him the Luozhen Sect’s first Dao Union cultivator. After the sect rebuilt its teleportation array, Li Yunjing traveled to the resource-rich Chenwei Dao Realm to seek artifact refiners, while Fang Hexuan and others arrived at islands occupied by the Jin Household.

• Fang Hexuan merged with the Thunder Dao and re-formed as an Early Dao Union cultivator.
• Li Yunjing, Xie Zheng, and others congratulated Fang Hexuan, who promised to protect the sect as he cultivated.
• Li Yunjing activated the rebuilt teleportation array and chose to visit Chenwei Dao Realm in search of skilled artifact refiners.
• Li Yunjing instructed a disciple to tell the grand elder to act as sect master and proceed with the planned attack on Black Wind Ridge if he did not return.
• Nangong Chengyu learned Li Yunjing had left, then went north of Azure Jiao Marsh to the islands occupied by the Jin Household, where Fang Hexuan, Xie Zheng, Mo Xuan, and others had arrived.

Li Yunjing entered the Chenwei Dao Realm and discovered a marketplace event run by the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion, where cultivators could earn an inheritance by refining and absorbing a Law Artifact. He watched as one participant began drawing the Azure Scale Sword’s scales around himself.

• Fang Hexuan sealed off the stone stele in the Azure Jiao Marsh and left Jin Ruoxu in charge until Li Yunjing returned.
• Li Yunjing arrived in the Chenwei Dao Realm, checked that the cave was safe, and set out to explore.
• Li Yunjing found a marketplace where the Heavenly Artifact Pavilion was offering an inheritance to anyone who could refine a specified Law Artifact.
• The Heavenly Artifact Pavilion’s elder declared that five newly refined Azure Scale Swords met the standard and gave their makers Jade Slips explaining how to absorb them into their Spirit Roots.
• One of the five cultivators began following the method, causing the Azure Scale Sword’s fish-scale patterns to detach and circle him.

A cultivator successfully refined the Azure Scale Sword into his Spirit Root, but the sword drained his life essence and caused him to explode. After four more cultivators suffered the same fate, Li Yunjing volunteered to try the inheritance, curious about its unusual cultivation method.

• A cultivator fused the Azure Scale Sword with his Wood Spirit Root and briefly demonstrated his new sword ability before his body grew scales and exploded.
• Li Yunjing recognized that the sword had drained the cultivator's life essence and concluded that the initial danger could be endured with potent medicine.
• The four remaining cultivators also refined the sword into their Spirit Roots, but their incompatible roots led them to grow scales and explode as well.
• The Heavenly Artifact Pavilion elder called for the next group, but the frightened crowd refused to step forward.
• Li Yunjing approached the platform and agreed to try the inheritance, puzzling the elder by calling its cultivation method unfamiliar.