Chapter Summaries

Shen Ge escaped a formation after killing a kneeling cultivator, while Fenghuo fled into the Dead Sea to evade his pursuer and seek a chance to reach Nascent Soul. Inside the forbidden waters, Fenghuo encountered a sinister ship and an undetectable head that demanded he play with her.

• Shen Ge questioned the kneeling woman about her sworn siblings, then killed her and broke through the formation by force.
• Fenghuo, carrying a fortune in Spirit Stones, realized his pursuer would catch him soon and changed course toward the Dead Sea instead of the Tianshu Sect.
• An old man arrived at the Dead Sea, fished up a large fish's skeleton, and entered the waters in his boat.
• Fenghuo sent a Law Treasure toward a battered ship, glimpsed malicious eyes inside its hull, and fled after nearly being affected by them.
• A floating stone-like head appeared beneath Fenghuo, asked him to play, and threatened to get angry when he stayed silent.

The old man recognized the wrecked Yaoguang ship and fled after seeing Yaoqiong appear, while Shen Ge continued escaping Tianji Pavilion cultivators. On the Ice and Snow Plateau, Ao Long and his companions destroyed their formation and prepared to rely on the humans to open a way out.

• The old man recognized the Yaoguang ship from the Tianquan Sect’s records, saw Yaoqiong emerge from black mist, and called Nascent Soul cultivators to guard against her escape.
• Shen Ge evaded attacks from Tianji Pavilion cultivators, including a mechanical bird and a swarm of Soul-Seizing Bees, and ignored their demands for the Ji Household’s items and his Cultivation Method.
• Zi Nü stood on an iceberg and looked toward the deepest part of the Ice and Snow Plateau, drawing the attention of its three overlords.
• Ao Long told the White Tiger King and Bing Qing to abandon the formation and seek refuge with an old fish, while explaining that humans might open a gap in the barrier for them.
• Bing Qing destroyed the formation’s foundation and flew off to arrange the removal of the plateau’s resources, while Ao Long and the White Tiger King watched the sealed barrier.

The Nascent Soul Realm experts gathered outside the Dead Sea to discuss Fairy Yaoqiong and the weakening sea, while Fenghuo was seized by a strange ship. When the experts tried to approach the ship, Fairy Yaoqiong appeared, destroyed Venerable Jihai’s bamboo pole, and drove them all to flee.

• Venerable Tianji said the Dead Sea’s Death Qi had appeared suddenly and was weakening, possibly allowing Fairy Yaoqiong to escape her confinement.
• A black-mist chain shot from the broken ship, bound Fenghuo, and dragged him aboard.
• Venerable Yaoguang and Venerable Tianxuan failed to damage the ship, while Venerable Jihai pushed it farther into the Dead Sea with a bamboo pole.
• Fairy Yaoqiong appeared on the ship, aged Venerable Jihai’s bamboo pole into scraps, and took on a beautiful appearance with a human skin.
• Fairy Yaoqiong ordered the experts to leave or die, then vanished as Venerable Yaoguang tried to question her.
• Venerable Yaoguang, Venerable Jihai, and the other experts fled rather than face Fairy Yaoqiong.

Shen Ge escaped his pursuers by luring them into a giant whale’s attack, then traveled for two months to an island with a teleportation formation. There, he confronted a powerful Fire Tiger, whose unexpectedly fierce flames threatened to break his formation.

• Venerable Jihai and the others attacked the ship, damaging it slightly before it retreated into the Dead Sea.
• Shen Ge evaded his growing group of pursuers and escaped into the Outer Sea, where he provoked a giant whale to drive them off.
• After two months of cautious travel, Shen Ge reached an isolated island and headed for the teleportation formation at its center.
• Shen Ge found a Fire Tiger bathing in a pool and trapped it in his Sword Light Formation.
• The Fire Tiger melted the sword lights and blasted the formation with a powerful pillar of fire, forcing Shen Ge to prepare to fight for his life.

Shen Ge defeated the Fire Tiger and found a fixed-point teleportation formation on the island he had sought. Hoping to reach a grove of Sword Bamboo in the Outer Sea, he activated the formation and disappeared, uncertain whether he could return.

• Shen Ge battered the Fire Tiger with the Mountain and River Cauldron, then pinned it with the Yin-Yang Millstone and killed it with a sword strike.
• Shen Ge collected the Fire Tiger's corpse and put away the damaged Sword Light Formation.
• Shen Ge searched the surrounding area and found the island he had been looking for.
• Shen Ge discovered an intact fixed-point teleportation formation in an underground cave and decided to use it to reach the Outer Sea.
• Shen Ge placed five thousand Spirit Stones into the formation, stepped onto it, and vanished in a flash of light.

Shen Ge harvested ancient Sword Bamboo from a mountain and began cultivating, while the Heavenly South’s leaders organized formation masters and demon beasts to break the barrier trapping them. Xuanguang recruited the demonic sects, and Blood Devil agreed to cooperate, rebuking Li Yu for urging an attack on the injured visitor.

• Shen Ge confirmed the teleportation array worked, harvested three fifteen-thousand-year-old Sword Bamboo stalks and several older stalks, then set up a Spirit Gathering Formation to cultivate.
• Daoist Qingguang, Ziyang, Zi Nü, and Lei Peng agreed to gather formation masters and Nascent Soul Realm Demon Beasts to create an opening in the eighth-tier barrier.
• Ziyang ordered the Spirit Moon Sect to recruit formation masters, and rumors spread among Rogue Cultivators that the sects planned to monopolize Spiritual Qi.
• Xuanguang visited the Blood Devil Sect, and Blood Devil agreed to provide manpower and keep his disciples in line.
• Li Yu suggested killing the injured Xuanguang, but Blood Devil rebuked him and returned to arrange the sect’s participation.

After ten years in the Sword Bamboo grove, Shen Ge broke through to the late Golden Core Stage and returned to the island, where a group of cultivators ambushed him. He escaped the fight after attracting powerful Demon Beasts, while an ancient red Sword Bamboo remained hidden in the grove.

• Shen Ge reached the late Golden Core Stage, uprooted the grove’s Sword Bamboo over a thousand years old, and teleported away.
• An ancient red Sword Bamboo hidden beneath the grove released Sword Intent that rapidly aged its descendants.
• Five cultivators ambushed Shen Ge on the island, but he killed one and pursued their late Golden Core leader until she escaped with a Ten-Thousand-Li Teleportation Talisman.
• Shen Ge caught another late Golden Core cultivator, evaded his attacks, and immobilized him after the man scattered Beast-Luring Powder.
• Shen Ge flew away as four powerful Golden Core Stage Demon Beasts arrived, leaving the trapped cultivator behind.

After escaping the Sky-Soaring Eagle, Shen Ge followed rumors of a newly appeared secret realm and entered its crystal palace complex, where he seized treasures and joined a fierce battle over pills. He collected the final bottle just as the other cultivators turned on him, and several attacks engulfed him.

• Shen Ge used a life-draining Secret Method to escape the Sky-Soaring Eagle, then hid for a month before returning to the near seas.
• On Scorpio Island, Shen Ge heard rumors of a possible secret realm and traveled southwest to investigate, despite his injuries and worry over his unresponsive martial uncle Fenghuo.
• When a vortex opened above a newly appeared island, Shen Ge entered the secret realm and rushed through its crystal palaces, taking the treasures from a side hall while protected by the Mountain and River Cauldron.
• Shen Ge reached the inner palaces and joined a fierce fight over pills, using his defensive treasure and Sword Intent to force his way into the pill-refining hall.
• Shen Ge caught the last bottle of pills, then several cultivators attacked him and their blows engulfed him.

Shen Ge risked a fight against three cultivators to steal the nearly ripe Dragon Blood Fruits, then escaped to the Dragon Palace badly injured. At the exit, he spotted three Golden Core Peak cultivators lying in wait and fled back inside to hide.

• Shen Ge distracted his pursuers by throwing away a pill bottle, then immobilized one and watched another kill him for his possessions.
• Shen Ge went to the medicine garden and found three cultivators in a standoff over a Dragon Blood Tree bearing three nearly ripe fruits.
• Shen Ge drew the three cultivators into attacking him, then uprooted the tree and escaped with the fruits using Gale Escape.
• Shen Ge emerged at the Dragon Palace's main hall, spat golden blood, and estimated he would need two or three years to recover.
• Shen Ge saw three Golden Core Peak cultivators waiting at the exit and turned back into the Dragon Palace to hide.

After surviving the secret realm, Shen Ge recovered from his injuries and traveled to Tianji Island to seek artifact-refining materials and begin planning a sword formation. He arrived in Sun Moon City, where a young guide showed him the city’s unusual mechanical devices and major landmarks.

• Shen Ge watched three Late Golden Core cultivators rob travelers at the secret realm exit, then left and entered seclusion to heal and absorb the pill fragments he had taken.
• Two years later, Shen Ge emerged with healed injuries and improved cultivation, then decided to travel to Tianji Island.
• Shen Ge reached Tianji Island after nearly a month and hired a little girl with a mechanical leg to guide him through Sun Moon City.
• The girl showed Shen Ge the Demon-Repelling Gate, Sun Moon River, and the districts for trading Law Treasures, materials, pills, and spirit pets.
• Shen Ge arrived at the Tianji Pavilion and rewarded the girl with three Spirit Stones before going on his way.

Shen Ge bought materials in Tianji Pavilion and spent four years forging a hundred flying swords and several other items. After leaving his mountain room to explore the city, he bought healing pills and two young beasts before setting out again.

• Shen Ge failed to find the materials he needed in small shops, then bought them all from Tianji Pavilion for 103,000 Spirit Stones.
• Shen Ge rented a spiritually rich room and forged a hundred flying swords over three years, including forty supreme-grade Law Treasures.
• Shen Ge made five brooms and ten fans from leftover scraps, then spent a year refining his flying swords and found he could control only fifty at once.
• Shen Ge checked out and explored the city, but found little of interest on Pill Street and bought only healing pills.
• Shen Ge visited the spirit pet and puppet street, paid 1,500 Spirit Stones for a Golden Wildcat cub, a White Tiger cub, and two spirit beast bags, then left with them.

Shen Ge returned to the waters around Yaoguang Island and visited Zhang Lingyu, where a feast and talk of leaving an heir stirred painful memories. He left the Zhang Household alone, telling Zhang Lingyu he needed to walk and prompting his friend to urge him to let the past go.

• Shen Ge gave the little girl at Sun Moon City five Spirit Stones before leaving, then learned from an illustrated guide that his blood-red pill was a Dragon Blood Body-Tempering Pill.
• After crossing the Tianxuan Sea Area and returning to the waters around Yaoguang Island, Shen Ge went ashore at Sea Billow Island to visit Zhang Lingyu and mooch a meal.
• Zhang Fengge poured Shen Ge wine, and he gave her a supreme-grade flying sword Law Artifact as a gift.
• Zhang Lingyu asked whether Shen Ge had considered leaving an heir, and Shen Ge grew sorrowful and abruptly left the feast.
• Zhang Lingyu caught up with Shen Ge, apologized, and advised him to let the past go with the wind.

After returning to Yaoguang Island, Shen Ge repaired Fairy Miaoyin’s Law Treasure and accepted Zhang Fengge as his third disciple. The chapter ended after Shen Ge suffered a sudden attack of soul-splitting pain and uncontrolled killing intent that seriously injured Zhang Fengge.

• Shen Ge returned to his home on Yaoguang Island, where Fairy Miaoyin brought him Phoenix Cry, parasol wood, and dragon sinew to repair her Law Treasure.
• Zhang Fengge visited Shen Ge’s courtyard and told Fairy Miaoyin she had come to ask Shen Ge to become her master.
• After finishing the repair, Shen Ge agreed to take Zhang Fengge as his third disciple, and she knelt to pay her respects.
• Shen Ge warned Zhang Fengge that he already had two disciples and recalled that his eldest disciple was nearing the Golden Core stage.
• Shen Ge was struck by intense pain, and Fairy Miaoyin played a calming melody until he regained control.
• Shen Ge released a sudden burst of killing intent that injured Zhang Fengge, and Fairy Miaoyin stabilized her with a healing pill before Shen Ge gave her another.

Shen Ge’s memories resurfaced as Fairy Miaoyin played a melody that recalled his past with Mu Wan and stirred Zhang Lingyu’s memories of his first wife. After Shen Ge recovered his composure, Zhang Lingyu arrived, learned Shen Ge had injured his daughter, and then agreed to leave her in Shen Ge’s care as his disciple.

• Fairy Miaoyin asked Shen Ge about his altered memories, and he returned her repaired Phoenix Cry guqin while she urged him to join the Yaoguang Sect for protection.
• Fairy Miaoyin lamented that her master had failed to reach the Nascent Soul realm, and Shen Ge comforted her before reflecting on loss and powerlessness.
• Fairy Miaoyin played a sorrowful piece that Shen Ge named Lovesickness, bringing back his memories of Mu Wan and prompting Zhang Lingyu to remember his first wife.
• Shen Ge recovered his confidence and opened the courtyard gate to find Zhang Lingyu, who had overheard the music and was wiping away tears.
• Zhang Lingyu became furious when Shen Ge admitted he had accidentally injured his daughter, then changed his tune after Shen Ge called her his disciple and agreed to leave her in Shen Ge’s care.

Shen Ge taught Zhang Fengge his talisman knowledge and advised Zhang Lingyu to focus on cultivation instead of managing the Zhang Household. After leaving Yaoguang Island, Shen Ge headed for a teleportation formation while Gu Ye discussed his romantic interest and cultivation priorities with Venerable Yaoguang.

• Shen Ge gave Zhang Fengge his talisman-making knowledge and told her to practice on her own.
• Fairy Miaoyin teased Zhang Lingyu for hinting that she might be jealous of Shen Ge, then warned him not to speak carelessly about Shen Ge's past.
• Shen Ge advised Zhang Lingyu to entrust clan affairs to his capable younger brother, but Zhang Lingyu said he could not risk the Zhang Household's foothold on Sea Billow Island.
• Zhang Lingyu thanked Shen Ge and invited him to dine at the Fortune Source Tower, and three days later Shen Ge left Yaoguang Island to check whether the teleportation formation had been repaired.
• Venerable Yaoguang urged Gu Ye to prioritize cultivation and offered to arrange a marriage proposal, but Gu Ye said he wanted to get to know the young woman from the Thousand Sounds Workshop himself.

Han Yu and Wan Feng reached the Wolf Smoke Realm, and Han Yu ordered the pioneers to investigate disturbances while Song Junjie traveled to the Spirit Moon Sect to learn about a possible breakthrough to Spirit Severing. The chapter left Han Yu watching the heavy snow and planning for Phoenix Kingdom’s future.

• Wan Feng broke through to the Wolf Smoke Realm, and Han Yu followed a quarter of an hour later, regaining her youthful appearance and demonstrating her new strength.
• Han Yu ordered most resources directed to the explorers and sent Wan Feng and the other newly advanced pioneers to deal with Rogue Cultivators who had robbed Phoenix Kingdom’s resources.
• Han Yu told Song Junjie to leave the bald monk and his Mahayana Chan Sect alone for now, and mentioned sending a gift to her cousin after her Golden Core breakthrough.
• Han Yu asked Song Junjie to visit the Spirit Moon Sect and meet Sect Master Ziyang to learn whether they needed a Spirit Severing Realm expert’s help.
• Seven pioneers descended Phoenix Mountain the next day, while Song Junjie set out for the Spirit Moon Sect and Han Yu watched the snowfall from the palace walls.

Shen Ge found the teleportation array still unrepaired, then the story shifted to Wan Feng leading six other martial artists disguised as elderly caravan hands against a group of Foundation Establishment cultivators. The cultivators began to realize the mortals’ immense Qi and Blood, teamwork, and battle sense made them far more dangerous than expected.

• Half a month after his previous visit, Shen Ge found the teleportation array unrepaired and lamented that his master had left him unable to travel.
• Three months later, five cultivators ambushed a caravan in Heavenly Mountain Ravine and ordered Fellow Daoist Wang to kill the mortals who had seen them.
• Wan Feng and six other disguised martial artists revealed their powerful Qi and Blood, struck back with a stone and arrows, and killed one cultivator.
• Fellow Daoist Wang attacked Wan Feng with his flying sword, but Wan Feng used a stone foothold and his greatsaber to evade and repel it.
• The martial artists exploited openings to fire arrows at the remaining cultivators, leaving Fellow Daoist Wang and the others shocked by their strength and coordination.

Song Miaozhen and Wan Feng’s group killed one cultivator and drove two away, prompting rumors that the Phoenix Kingdom used an Evil Method to transform people. Purple Eyes reached the Golden Core Stage and recovered memories of her former life, while Nascent Soul cultivators remained stymied by a grand formation on the Ice and Snow Plateau.

• Song Miaozhen shot one of three Rogue Cultivators dead with her crossbow, while Fellow Daoist Wang and another man escaped.
• Wan Feng, Song Miaozhen, and Xiong Man returned toward Phoenix City, expecting trouble after the survivors spread accusations about the Phoenix Kingdom.
• Within days, rumors of the kingdom’s supposed Evil Method drew cultivators, including Golden Core Stage Rogue Cultivators, toward Phoenix City.
• Purple Eyes reached the Golden Core Stage, recovered memories of being the Devil Cultivator Ghost Demoness, and decided to continue using the Life and Death Art.
• On the Ice and Snow Plateau, Nascent Soul cultivators and formation masters failed to understand how to break the grand formation that reflected attacks.

Shen Ge finished refining the medicinal power and learned that the Abyssal Whirlpool would soon yield the Source of the Deep Sea, a treasure that could safely raise cultivation. After receiving invitations from Fairy Miaoyin and Zhang Lingyu, he agreed to meet them at the whirlpool.

• Venerable Yaoguang and Jixing discussed the coming appearance of the Source of the Deep Sea and decided to let smaller forces enter the secret realm.
• Shen Ge completed his body tempering, corrected Zhang Fengge's talismans, and returned to seclusion to suppress his lingering presence.
• Gu Ye told Fairy Miaoyin that the Abyssal Whirlpool's suction would stop in ten days and revealed that a spring of the Source of the Deep Sea lay within it.
• Fairy Miaoyin sent the news to Shen Ge and invited Zhang Lingyu to join them, while the Yaoguang Immortal Sect spread the word to other cultivators.
• Shen Ge finished refining the remaining medicinal power, read the invitations, and agreed to meet Fairy Miaoyin and Zhang Lingyu at the Abyssal Whirlpool.

Shen Ge fled a Nascent Soul Realm pursuer by repeatedly using a life-draining secret method, then hid on a deserted island to recover. Meanwhile, Han Yu prepared to face cultivators demanding the Martial Dao advancement method and told Wang Yan she was certain she would eventually prevail over rival dynasties.

• Shen Ge fled the Abyssal Whirlpool after Venerable Tianquan detected him, using the Samsara Method to escape despite suffering severe damage.
• Venerable Tianquan lost Shen Ge’s trail, but turned back when his junior brother warned him that the Abyssal Whirlpool had stopped early.
• Shen Ge told Zhang Lingyu and Fairy Miaoyin to go without him, and they continued toward the deepest reaches to seek the Source of the Deep Sea.
• Three days later, Shen Ge hid on a deserted island and realized that escaping had cost him most of his Essence Blood and at least ten years of lifespan.
• Outside Phoenix City, cultivators demanded that the Emperor come out, while Han Yu told Wang Yan she would give them the Martial Dao method and prepare for possible trouble.
• Wang Yan warned Han Yu about the rival Blood Flame and Autumn Leaf Dynasties, but Han Yu insisted she would ultimately win and hinted at preparations she had already made.