Recaps

Shen Ge arrived at Yaoguang Island, surveyed its markets and nearby powers, and bought a sea chart and reference books. After studying the region and comparing its formation and talisman techniques with those he knew, he found they were largely similar.

• Shen Ge settled into a courtyard near Yaoguang Island’s inner city and learned about the island’s powers and large cultivators’ market.
• Shen Ge bought a detailed sea chart and books on formations, talismans, plants, minerals, and Demon Beasts from the Treasure Pavilion.
• Shen Ge found few useful Golden Core-stage goods in the market and returned to his courtyard concerned that he was running low on Spirit Stones.
• Shen Ge studied the chart’s nearby powers, resources, and the dangerous Abyssal Whirlpool.
• Shen Ge read the formation and talisman books, then practiced drawing talisman patterns until he succeeded about eight times out of ten.

Shen Ge watched two Jade Slip messages: Zi Nü offered him access to a hidden treasure vault if he killed Ji Rufeng, while Mo Qingyu revealed herself as his master and taught him a sword move. The memories her lesson awakened left him in agony, but after a long period of practice he mastered the sword intent and regained a youthful State of Mind.

• Shen Ge watched Zi Nü’s message, in which she asked him to kill Ji Rufeng, an elder of the Tianquan Sect, and promised that Ji Rufeng’s blood would reveal the location of the Ji Household’s treasure vault.
• Shen Ge opened the second Jade Slip and watched Mo Qingyu demonstrate a sword move that embodied the vigor of youth, calling him her disciple and master.
• Mo Qingyu’s words triggered painful memories in Shen Ge, who cried out names and phrases before collapsing unconscious.
• After waking, Shen Ge sat motionless for more than a month, then began slowly practicing the sword move.
• Shen Ge practiced for weeks until Sword Intent enveloped him, and he thanked Mo Qingyu for teaching him the sword as his State of Mind became youthful and unstained.

Shen Ge cut away his implanted Hehuan Sect memories but remained unable to forget Bai Lili, while people across several sects dealt with his disappearance and its aftermath. The chapter left Shen Ge stranded in the Luo Heaven Sea as Li Xue and others wondered where he was.

• Shen Ge severed his Hehuan Sect memories, blamed Bai Lili for tricking him out of the Samsara Method, and admitted he could not erase his feelings for her.
• Bai Lili sensed unease about Shen Ge and stood by her window for a day, while Bai Mei toasted toward the south and said farewell.
• Li Xue reached the Middle Golden Core Stage and worried that Shen Ge might have been captured.
• Yue Shan broke through to the Golden Core Stage and joked with Han Yu that she had caught up to him.
• Lü Yang recovered from his injuries and left the town near the Spirit Moon Sect to avoid troubling Su Liuyun.
• Su Sui accepted a ten-year punishment cleaning the Scripture Pavilion, while Su Liuyue kept Zhang Sheng's Storage Bag and the flowers Shen Ge had left behind.

Shen Ge accepted Fairy Miaoyin’s invitation to travel to Kaiyang Island for an auction and learned that several other acquaintances planned to attend as well. As he boarded the Thousand Sounds Workshop’s ship, a young man and Elder Di discussed Fairy Miaoyin’s future as the Workshop’s leader and the young man’s hopes of marrying her.

• Fairy Miaoyin invited Shen Ge to the auction on Kaiyang Island and offered him passage with the Thousand Sounds Workshop’s fleet.
• Zhang Lingyu also invited Shen Ge to travel with the Zhang Household, but Shen Ge declined because he already had a ride.
• Shen Ge received and answered several more messages from acquaintances about the auction and travel arrangements.
• Shen Ge arrived at the dock the next morning and boarded the Thousand Sounds Workshop’s ship.
• A young man and Elder Di discussed Fairy Miaoyin’s prospects and the young man’s chances of winning her hand.
• The young man and Elder Di listened as Fairy Miaoyin played the Immortal Ascension Melody for Shen Ge.

Shen Ge traveled with Fairy Miaoyin and the allied fleets, learned the zither from her, and gave her a supreme-grade Law Artifact guqin. The fleet later passed Yuheng Island after paying the Sea Heaven Sect’s protection fee.

• Shen Ge reunited with Zhang Lingyu and Canglan as the fleets joined together, then invited Zhang Lingyu aboard for wine with Fairy Miaoyin.
• The fleet joined the Canghai Sect and continued through the coastal waters without encountering trouble, while Shen Ge and Fairy Miaoyin discussed the dangers of the sea.
• Fairy Miaoyin played the guqin for Shen Ge, who gave her the White Frost guqin and asked her to teach him to play.
• Shen Ge learned an ordinary tune from Fairy Miaoyin and killed a Demon Beast that disturbed the sea near the Thousand Sounds Workshop.
• The fleet passed Yuheng Island, where Zhang Lingyu paid a Sea Heaven Sect cultivator ten thousand Spirit Stones for passage through its waters.

Shen Ge and Fairy Miaoyin discussed the Luo Heaven Sea’s sects as the fleet crossed into the Yellow Sea, where Sandstone Worms lived. When worms attacked, Shen Ge and Zhang Lingyu killed a third-tier worm while the fleet’s cultivators supported them, and Zhang Lingyu recovered its body.

• Fairy Miaoyin told Shen Ge that more than twenty Nascent Soul experts had destroyed the Ji Household, whose head, Ji Ziyue, had reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage in four hundred years.
• Zhang Lingyu explained that the Yellow Sea was home to Sandstone Worms and warned the fleet about a powerful Sandstone Worm King.
• Shen Ge sensed an attack, struck the sea, and joined Zhang Lingyu in pursuing the worms as the ships activated their formations and rose into the air.
• Fairy Miaoyin played her zither to strengthen Shen Ge and Zhang Lingyu, while Shen Ge killed smaller worms and wounded a third-tier worm.
• Zhang Lingyu pinned the third-tier worm with his Law Treasure, and Shen Ge beheaded it with a sword strike.
• Zhang Lingyu lifted the headless Sandstone Worm from the sea to claim its valuable body.

Shen Ge arrived at Kaiyang Island with his companions and learned that his mission target, Ji Rufeng, was there. After buying valuable Black Soul Wood, he began considering how to approach the dangerous target.

• Shen Ge shared the demon core from the slain Demon Beast with Fairy Miaoyin, while Zhang Lingyu prepared the corpse for a meal.
• More than a month later, Shen Ge and the fleet reached Kaiyang Island, where the group parted to handle their own affairs.
• Shen Ge listened in a restaurant and overheard cultivators discussing Ji Rufeng, a Ji Household traitor who had become an elder of the Tianquan Sect.
• Shen Ge decided to observe and prepare before attempting to kill Ji Rufeng, then left the restaurant to browse the stalls.
• Shen Ge bought artifact-refining materials and found half a piece of valuable Black Soul Wood sold as lightning-struck ebony.

Shen Ge bought a Heavenly Heart Stone at a market stall before attending an auction, where he considered bidding on rare materials but held back. The auction continued with its twentieth lot, a Dragon Roar Stone, as bids began.

• Shen Ge spotted a Heavenly Heart Stone, but its stall owner demanded an inflated price from him and an even higher one from a middle-aged man who wanted it for his daughter.
• The middle-aged man left with his daughter after the stall owner raised the price, and Shen Ge bought the stone for seven thousand Spirit Stones.
• Five days later, Shen Ge entered the auction hall and listened as Guan Fei opened the auction with a bottle of Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Shen Ge declined to bid on a Deep Sea Silver Essence flying sword because its price had risen too high, then grew sad remembering Mu Wan and the debt he still owed her.
• Guan Fei introduced the twentieth lot, a Dragon Roar Stone, and bidders began offering more than its eight-thousand-Spirit-Stone starting price.

Shen Ge won the Sword Wings Law Treasure for thirty-five thousand Spirit Stones and collected it after inspecting it. Later, the auction introduced a cracked Sea Dragon egg, and the chapter ended with bidders questioning whether it could hatch or grow beyond the Golden Core Stage.

• Shen Ge outbid a rival and bought the Sword Wings for thirty-five thousand Spirit Stones.
• A young man in a private room considered provoking Shen Ge by bidding against him, but his companion told him not to waste Spirit Stones.
• Shen Ge paid for and inspected the Sword Wings backstage while a Nascent Soul Realm old man noted that Shen Ge's spiritual power was unusual.
• Guan Fei presented a cracked Sea Dragon egg as one of the auction's final ten items, but no one immediately bid on it.
• An attendee argued that the egg was innately deficient and might only reach the Golden Core Stage even if it hatched.

At the auction, Shen Ge decided against bidding on a weak Sea Dragon egg and a fourth-tier Dragon Origin Pill, which the Tianquan Sect ultimately bought for eighty-five thousand Spirit Stones. The auction continued with another lot.

• Shen Ge examined the Sea Dragon egg and judged it too risky to buy, but an anonymous bidder won it for thirty-one thousand Spirit Stones.
• Guan Fei introduced a fourth-tier Dragon Origin Pill from the Kaiyang Sect, explaining that it could strengthen the body and randomly grant dragon traits.
• Shen Ge lost interest in the pill because he lacked the funds and believed his Golden Light Incantation and heavenly heart stone already gave him strong defenses.
• Bidders raised the price from fifty thousand to seventy thousand Spirit Stones, as a Moon Sea Sect member and others competed for the pill.
• A bidder from the Tianquan Sect offered eighty-five thousand Spirit Stones and won the pill after no one else raised the bid.
• Guan Fei brought out the next auction lot.

Shen Ge watched the auction as bidders paid steep prices for a Longevity Pill, Fairy Miaoyin bought the damaged guqin Phoenix Cry, and a Sky-Soaring Eagle chick sold for a high sum. The final item was an unverified painting of a mysterious bamboo grove believed to be somewhere in the Outer Sea.

• An unknown faction bought the fourth-grade Longevity Pill for one hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Fairy Miaoyin outbid a private room and bought Phoenix Cry for seventy thousand Spirit Stones.
• A Sky-Soaring Eagle chick attracted fierce bidding and sold for one hundred and thirty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Guan Fei unveiled the final item, a painting of a bamboo grove thought to depict a location in the Outer Sea, and opened bidding at ten thousand Spirit Stones.

Shen Ge bought an unusual scroll depicting a Sword Bamboo grove after the auction drew no bids, while Ji Rufeng quietly took note of him. Shen Ge then joined Fairy Miaoyin and other Golden Core cultivators for a banquet at the Immortal Sea Tower, unaware that Ji Rufeng was watching from nearby.

• After most of the auction attendees dismissed the scroll as a low-grade Law Artifact, Shen Ge bid twelve thousand Spirit Stones and bought it.
• Ji Rufeng concealed his reaction to the painting, denied knowing the place it depicted, and memorized Shen Ge before leaving the auction with Elder Liu.
• Fairy Miaoyin invited Shen Ge to a banquet at the Immortal Sea Tower, where Zhang Lingyu teased him and he met Li Liu, Huang Ling, and Huang Wen.
• Shen Ge offered to forge Law Treasures for Huang Ling and Huang Wen without charge if they saved Demon Beast materials for him.
• A purple-haired man watched the restaurant from a nearby teahouse and smiled coldly.

Shen Ge agreed to help Fairy Miaoyin repair Phoenix Cry, then left Kaiyang Island and was ambushed by Ji Rufeng. After escaping and luring Ji Rufeng into a formation, Shen Ge turned back as the formation attacked.

• Shen Ge examined Fairy Miaoyin’s damaged Phoenix Cry and said he could repair it if she found suitable materials.
• Shen Ge left Kaiyang Island alone and traveled toward the route to the Tianquan Sect, unaware that a purple-haired figure was following him.
• Ji Rufeng ambushed Shen Ge at sea with wind blades, but Shen Ge defended himself and fought back.
• Shen Ge found Ji Rufeng difficult to catch and fled, prompting Ji Rufeng to pursue him at full speed.
• Shen Ge secretly laid a formation and drew Ji Rufeng into it, where countless flying swords attacked him.
• Shen Ge turned back toward the formation and rushed to confront Ji Rufeng.

Shen Ge nearly killed Ji Rufeng after breaking through the protection of his bronze mirror, but Liu Sheng of the Tianquan Sect arrived and saved him. Liu Sheng attacked Shen Ge over the painting, and the chapter ended as Shen Ge charged at the old swordsman.

• Ji Rufeng escaped Shen Ge's array with a silver talisman, but Shen Ge trapped him beneath a Yin-Yang Diagram and battered him despite the bronze mirror's protection.
• Ji Rufeng cut off power to the bronze mirror to block Shen Ge's sword wings, allowing the Yin-Yang Diagram to crush him and leave him gravely wounded.
• Liu Sheng arrived and split the Yin-Yang Diagram with several sword lights, saving Ji Rufeng from death.
• Liu Sheng demanded that Shen Ge hand over the painting, while Ji Rufeng insisted Liu Sheng kill Shen Ge to learn about it.
• Liu Sheng attacked Shen Ge with a water dragon, but Shen Ge sliced it apart and charged at him after taunting him about his age.

Shen Ge fought Liu Sheng at sea until Fenghuo intervened, allowing Shen Ge to kill Liu Sheng and capture Ji Rufeng. On a deserted island, Shen Ge took Ji Rufeng’s blood, and Fenghuo’s question about the Purple Woman made Ji Rufeng’s expression change.

• Liu Sheng trapped Shen Ge with water dragons, but Shen Ge used an enormous Yin-Yang Diagram to clear a path toward him.
• Fenghuo bound Liu Sheng and Ji Rufeng with ropes, and Shen Ge crushed Liu Sheng with the Yin-Yang Diagram.
• Shen Ge recognized Fenghuo, complained that he had not helped earlier, and then took Liu Sheng’s Storage Bag and carried Ji Rufeng away.
• Fenghuo erased traces of the battle before following Shen Ge to a deserted island about ten thousand li away.
• Shen Ge cut Ji Rufeng’s face and collected three cups of his purple blood, while Fenghuo asked whether the Purple Woman had told him what to do.

Shen Ge and Fenghuo used Ji Ziyue’s token to execute Ji Rufeng and learned about the Ji Household treasury and a map hidden in a painting. They headed toward Shen Ge’s reward while Fenghuo absorbed a potent pill, and Shen Ge began studying the route to the treasury.

• Shen Ge activated the token with Ji Rufeng’s blood, summoning Ji Ziyue, who tortured Ji Rufeng and ordered Shen Ge to kill him after he could not identify who took the Purple Ultimate Sword Embryo.
• Ji Ziyue claimed Ji Rufeng’s soul, revealed the treasury’s location, and taught Shen Ge the Secret Method needed to read a painting of the Cloud-Heaven Bamboo Grove.
• Fenghuo and Shen Ge divided Ji Rufeng’s belongings, then left the island to collect Shen Ge’s reward after Fenghuo proposed refining a pill first.
• Three people followed the trail to the island, found it cold, and decided to leave the matter of the Tianquan Sect’s dead to others.
• Shen Ge reinforced the concealment formation around Fenghuo’s cave and studied a sea chart while Fenghuo continued absorbing the pill.

After Shen Ge's pill restored some of Martial Uncle Fenghuo's primordial Yang, the two prepared to retrieve their belongings on Tianquan Island. Meanwhile, Elder Wang blamed pirates for the deaths of Tianquan Sect members and set out to destroy the Yellow Sand Gang, while Shen Ge and Fenghuo traveled north toward Kaiyang Island.

• Fenghuo celebrated the pill's effects, which strengthened his body and gave him dragon eyes, though his primordial Yang was still not fully restored.
• Shen Ge received a warning from Fairy Miaoyin about the deaths of Tianquan Sect members and told her he might not return with her group.
• Shen Ge and Fenghuo decided to head to Tianquan Island to check whether anyone had stolen their belongings.
• Elder Wang learned that the auction's painting might have been connected to the deaths, but Kaiyang Sect refused to reveal the buyer's identity.
• Elder Wang ordered his men to wipe out the Yellow Sand Gang as a scapegoat and headed south, while Shen Ge and Fenghuo continued north toward Kaiyang Island.

Xuanguang forced his breakthrough to the Spirit Severing stage and faced a devastating lightning tribulation, sacrificing the tribulation’s life-giving golden light to strengthen his Shadowless Sword. As the next strike gathered, he prepared Ziyang and Mo Qingyu for his possible death.

• Xuanguang was struck into the Spirit Severing stage by the first tribulation bolt, then endured four more bolts and used the golden reward to strengthen the Shadowless Sword.
• Mo Qingyu and Ziyang realized Xuanguang had chosen to strengthen his lifebound Law Treasure instead of using the golden light to protect himself.
• Xuanguang defended against a fiery red bolt with Law Treasures, seals, water, and the Shadowless Sword, but it blasted him into a magma-filled ravine and badly injured him.
• Xuanguang survived a second, stronger red bolt only after lying in the magma for half an hour, then swallowed several bottles of pills to heal.
• As the final strike gathered, Xuanguang asked Ziyang to preserve his Law Treasure, Jade Slip, and Storage Bag, reveal the Jade Slip’s contents after his death, and offer incense to Martial Nephew Mu (Qingyou).
• Xuanguang told Mo Qingyu that he had put her in a difficult position.

Xuanguang survived a lightning tribulation and broke through to the Spirit Severing Realm, prompting the demonic sects to fear an attack from the righteous path. Blood Devil staged a display of power that spread rumors of a living Spirit Severing expert among the demonic sects, leaving the Heavenly South on the brink of conflict.

• Xuanguang used defensive treasures and a formation to withstand the lightning tribulation, then was blasted into a crater but survived and reached the Spirit Severing Realm.
• Ziyang and Mo Qingyu brought the badly injured Xuanguang to a secret chamber, and Mo Qingyu left without reading the Jade Slip.
• News of Xuanguang's breakthrough spread across the Heavenly South, causing experts from the three demonic sects to hide or flee.
• Blood Devil, Bai Mei, and Golden Bone Old Devil met to discuss their response, but Bai Mei and Golden Bone chose to leave rather than fight.
• Blood Devil recalled his hidden elders and had them hunt Demon Beasts, then arranged for the Blood Devil Grotto to release a brief burst of Spirit Severing pressure.
• Rumors spread that the Blood Devil Grotto had a living Spirit Severing expert, and the righteous sects prepared for war as both sides and the Rogue Cultivators withdrew.

Shen Ge and Fenghuo reached Crab Island and dealt with the island owner’s surveillance before locating the Ji Household Treasury. After Shen Ge used Ji Rufeng’s blood to open its entrance, he entered the purple-lit cave.

• Shen Ge and Fenghuo disguised themselves and went ashore on Crab Island, where Huang Yue watched them.
• Fenghuo seized Huang Yue, and Shen Ge confronted the island owner before Fenghuo revealed his Golden Core Peak presence and secured an apology token.
• Fenghuo surveyed the island while Shen Ge confirmed the treasury’s location and led them away from town.
• Shen Ge sprinkled Ji Rufeng’s blood onto the cliff, opening a cave entrance after purple qi burst from the rock.
• Shen Ge covered himself in golden light, spread his Sword Yi, and entered the cave.

Shen Ge and Fenghuo escaped with the Ji Household’s hidden treasure and divided the contents on a deserted island. Afterward, they continued away from Tianquan Island, while two figures discovered the destroyed treasury on Crab Island.

• Shen Ge used Ji Rufeng’s blood to open the formation, took thirty-five boxes, and destroyed the cave with talismans before fleeing with Fenghuo.
• The island lord found the cave in ruins and left Crab Island with Huang Yue.
• Shen Ge and Fenghuo rested on a deserted island and opened the treasure boxes, finding valuable materials, three Fire Element Top-Grade Spirit Stones, an unknown fruit, foul-smelling contents, and a feather.
• Fenghuo took some Sword Stone, Rock Marrow, Thousand Demon Vine, ironwood, and the Wood King Fruit, while Shen Ge stored the remaining treasures.
• Shen Ge and Fenghuo left the waters around Tianquan Island, and several days later two figures identified the collapsed cave as the Ji Household’s treasury.

Shen Ge finished refining the Mountain and River Cauldron while Fenghuo considered seeking resources on Tianshu Island. As they prepared to leave Kaiyang Island, ten Golden Core cultivators pursued them, and Shen Ge realized the Kaiyang Sect had betrayed their privacy.

• Huang Shi hid on an island near the Outer Sea, cursed Shen Ge and Fenghuo, and told Huang Yue to reach the Golden Core Stage before a secret realm opened in ten years.
• Fairy Miaoyin left for Yaoguang Island with her junior sisters and sent Shen Ge a warning not to travel alone.
• Shen Ge completed the top-grade defensive Law Treasure, the Mountain and River Cauldron, while Fenghuo said he still lacked what he needed to break through to the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Shen Ge and Fenghuo decided to travel to Tianshu Island, and Shen Ge replied to messages from Fairy Miaoyin and Zhang Lingyu.
• Ten Golden Core cultivators arrived and chased Shen Ge and Fenghuo, who accused the Kaiyang Sect of selling out their customers' privacy and fled.

Shen Ge and Fenghuo turned on their pursuers, killed Golden Core Peak Elder Wang, and escaped while Elder Li convinced the remaining Tianquan Sect elders to stop chasing closely. On a deserted island, Fenghuo proposed setting a trap for them, and Shen Ge agreed to hear his plan.

• Shen Ge and Fenghuo set a trap for the pursuing elders, but Shen Ge immobilized Golden Core Peak Elder Wang instead of the late Golden Core Stage cultivator they had targeted.
• Elder Li fled, and Fenghuo bound Elder Wang while Shen Ge’s Life and Death Sword and Yin-Yang Diagram killed him.
• Elder Li reunited with the others, warned them about Shen Ge’s Law Technique and Fenghuo’s ropes, and persuaded them to follow cautiously rather than continue the chase at full speed.
• After the pursuers slowed down, Shen Ge and Fenghuo reached a deserted island, where Fenghuo proposed laying a trap to capture more Storage Bags and Law Treasures.

Fenghuo and Shen Ge lured their pursuers into a powerful formation, then attacked after Elder Li and three others fled. They killed the five cultivators trapped on the island, but the rest of the pursuit remained at large.

• Fenghuo and Shen Ge set up three formations on an island and used a Storage Bag, foul-smelling chests, and a fake supreme-grade Law Treasure as bait.
• Elder Li sent five early Golden Core elders to retrieve the bait, and a hidden formation trapped them as the Storage Bag exploded and filled the area with black gas.
• Elder Li and three others abandoned the trapped cultivators and fled when Fenghuo and Shen Ge charged at them with a rope.
• Fenghuo contracted the formation while Shen Ge battered the five trapped cultivators and their defensive Law Treasure with sword attacks.
• Fenghuo smashed the defensive treasure with a wooden spear, and he and Shen Ge attacked for a quarter of an hour until they killed all five cultivators.

Shen Ge and Fenghuo tried to evade a Nascent Soul Realm pursuer after fleeing the Tianquan Sect, but Fenghuo split off to confront the threat while Shen Ge continued toward Tianji Island. There, Shen Ge defeated a group seeking the Ji Household’s stolen treasure, and their surviving woman begged him to spare her.

• An old man in a boat appeared near the island, then vanished, while Shen Ge sensed a powerful pursuer closing in.
• Shen Ge and Fenghuo decided to sell everything connected to the Tianquan Sect; Fenghuo went alone to use the pursuer as a chance to break through, and Shen Ge flew toward Tianji Island.
• Half a month later, four cultivators trapped Shen Ge in a Dragon Trapping Formation and demanded the contents of the Ji Household’s treasure vault.
• Shen Ge killed one attacker, then cut down another and overwhelmed the remaining cultivators with his Mountain and River Cauldron and Sword Qi.
• As the old man began to detonate his Golden Core, the woman attacked and killed him, then knelt and begged Shen Ge to spare her.