Chapter Summaries

Gu Ye saved Fairy Miaoyin during the struggle for the Source of the Deep Sea, while Venerable Yaoguang fought Venerable Tianquan and drove the Tianquan Sect away. Shen Ge healed his injuries by consuming two Dragon Blood Fruits and learned from Zhang Lingyu that visitors were still gathered at the Yaoguang Sect for a likely exchange competition.

• Gu Ye protected Fairy Miaoyin, claimed the Source of the Deep Sea for the Yaoguang Immortal Sect, and sent her away after she promised him free music at the Thousand Sounds Workshop.
• Venerable Yaoguang fought Venerable Tianquan, and their battle destroyed a nearby Source of the Deep Sea and devastated the area.
• Venerable Tianquan withdrew and threatened the Yaoguang Sect before leaving with his junior brother.
• Shen Ge swallowed two ripe Dragon Blood Fruits and spent four months recovering, fully healing his injuries and slightly advancing his cultivation.
• Shen Ge messaged Zhang Lingyu, who warned him that other visitors remained at the Yaoguang Sect and advised him to ask Fairy Miaoyin about when they would leave.

A new mermaid queen named Ao Xi was born in the South Sea, while the Demon Beasts of the Luo Heaven Sea gathered in response to human incursions. The Eagle King ordered a beast tide, and the demons began mobilizing for a major battle.

• The Mermaid Matriarch named the newborn mermaid queen Ao Xi and moved her parents into the Mermaid Palace so she could train the child.
• The Eagle King met with Bai Yu, Five Colors, and other powerful Demon Beasts at his mountaintop home.
• The gathering discussed Sea Dragon being flayed by human cultivators and the Fire Tiger killed by a human.
• The Eagle King decided to unleash a beast tide against the humans, and Five Colors and Bai Yu agreed to lead it.
• More than a dozen demons left the mountaintop, stirring nearby Demon Beasts into motion as a massive beast tide formed.

After returning from seclusion, Shen Ge learned that a Demon Beast tide threatened the Luo Heaven Sea and joined the defense of the East Sea Gate. He fought through the horde and intervened as Zhang Lingyu faced a Sky-Soaring Eagle and a devil ray, but the battle remained underway.

• A presence aboard a ship in the Dead Sea devoured a black-fog figure, which later reformed and walked into the cabin.
• After more than a year in seclusion, Shen Ge returned to Yaoguang Island and learned from Gu Ye that a Demon Beast tide threatened the barrier and the East Sea Gate.
• Three days later, Shen Ge, Zhang Lingyu, and others reached the East Sea Gate, where Shen Ge cut down lesser beasts and protected Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Sky-Soaring Eagle.
• Zhang Lingyu intercepted the Sky-Soaring Eagle while Shen Ge pursued an injured devil ray, but a white peacock slowed Shen Ge and blocked his attack.
• The devil ray and Sky-Soaring Eagle attacked Zhang Lingyu, who was blasted away and badly injured before Shen Ge used Imprison to halt the eagle long enough for him to escape.

Shen Ge fought to hold back the Demon Beast tide and nearly killed the white peacock, but the Sky-Soaring Eagle revealed Peak Nascent Soul Stage power and devastated the battlefield. Shen Ge survived the eagle’s attack, though he was badly injured.

• Shen Ge killed a blue fish and then blocked the gap with his sword formation, slaughtering tens of thousands of lesser Demon Beasts before his spiritual power ran low.
• The white peacock escaped through the gap, while the Sky-Soaring Eagle and other Demon Beasts killed two Middle Golden Core Stage cultivators and forced the humans onto the defensive.
• After the white peacock and Sky-Soaring Eagle attacked him together, Shen Ge bound the peacock and wounded it with his sword.
• The Sky-Soaring Eagle charged into Shen Ge’s sword formation, and Shen Ge sensed its Peak Nascent Soul Stage presence and fled.
• The Sky-Soaring Eagle unleashed a blast of Gang wind that pulverized everything across a twenty-li stretch, but Shen Ge survived at the battlefield’s edge, badly injured.

After the battle against the Demon Beasts, Shen Ge tried to block their retreat while the humans faced a crisis at South Sea Gate. At the Dead Sea, Venerable Tianxuan and two fellow cultivators struck at the eerie forces, but a battered boat emerged and drifted toward their sect.

• Shen Ge intercepted three late third-tier Demon Beasts as the other humans surrounded weaker enemies, and the fighting ended with five Demon Beast corpses and three more human Golden Core deaths.
• Tianji Pavilion learned that the Tianxuan Sect could not reinforce South Sea Gate because trouble had erupted in the Dead Sea, so Kaiyang and Yuheng were asked for aid.
• Venerable Tianxuan and two fellow cultivators poured their spiritual power into the Tianxuan Sword, unleashing a strike that cleared the black fog and destroyed eerie beings near the Dead Sea's edge.
• A battered boat emerged from the Dead Sea and passed through the Tianxuan Sect's encirclement as storms gathered, leaving the three Nascent Soul cultivators too frightened to attack.
• Venerable Tianxuan warned his disciples to flee and sent Venerable Yaoguang a message that the boat's occupant was heading toward their sect.

The Eagle King and his allies clashed with the Yaoguang Immortal Sect’s Nascent Soul experts after the Demon Beast tide began to lose. The sect unleashed its Star Chart, forcing the Eagle King to flee with Blood Shark as a star greatsword pursued them.

• Venerable Yaoguang questioned the Eagle King about his failed attempt to break through, and the Eagle King suddenly attacked Tianxing while Blood Shark and Bai Yu struck the human cultivators.
• The Eagle King killed Tianxing and swallowed his body, while Tianxing’s Nascent Soul escaped behind Venerable Yaoguang.
• Venerable Yaoguang and three other cultivators activated the Star Chart, whose falling stars devastated the Demon Beast tide.
• Venerable Yaoguang and the others poured more spiritual power into the Star Chart, intensifying its attack as the Eagle King tried to abandon Blood Shark.
• Blood Shark clung to the Eagle King, who transformed into a giant Sky-Soaring Eagle and fled with him as a star greatsword chased them.

Blood Shark, Bai Yu, and Eagle King fled after the Star Sword pursued them, while Bai Yu later returned to attack the Yaoguang Immortal Sect’s island defenses. Shen Ge escaped her strike and concluded that the sect’s Nascent Soul experts had left because of a more serious crisis near the Dead Sea; Jixing then led the survivors back, hoping Bai Yu would not follow.

• Blood Shark and Bai Yu failed to stop the Star Sword, so they split from Eagle King, who continued fleeing with the weapon locked onto him.
• Blood Shark headed toward Tianji Island, while Bai Yu secretly returned to see whether the defenders had left and to seek further gains.
• After recovering from his injuries, Shen Ge sensed danger and warned everyone to flee as Bai Yu’s white beam erased three deserted islands and killed those left behind.
• Shen Ge and Zhang Lingyu escaped to a distant island, where Shen Ge reasoned that the Yaoguang Immortal Sect’s leaders had rushed away to deal with trouble near the Dead Sea.
• Jixing praised Shen Ge’s warning and led the survivors back, admitting that he could only hope Bai Yu would not pursue them.

Venerable Yaoguang and Venerable Tianxuan followed Yaoqiong’s ship and concluded she was heading toward the Heavenly Desolation Domain, while Bai Yu attacked Yaoguang Island’s protective formation. The chapter left Bai Yu flying away and Jixing choosing not to pursue her.

• Venerable Yaoguang and Venerable Tianxuan caught up with Yaoqiong’s ship and watched it continue toward the North Sea Gate.
• Venerable Yaoguang guessed that Yaoqiong was heading for the Heavenly Desolation Domain, and Venerable Tianxuan warned him against following her.
• Venerable Yaoguang left to support Tianshu, while Venerable Tianxuan prepared to go to the Tianquan Sect.
• Shen Ge, Fairy Miaoyin, and Gu Ye watched Bai Yu attack Yaoguang Island’s sect-protecting grand formation.
• Bai Yu stopped attacking and flew away, and Jixing did not leave the formation to pursue her.

Venerable Yaoguang’s group returned to repair the breached array while Fairy Miaoyin, Shen Ge, and Zhang Lingyu searched the ruined Sea Spirit Island and found one surviving baby. At Tianji Island, Venerable Tianji restrained his fleeing junior brother as the Demon Beasts launched an attack and Venerable Kaiyang activated a spirit treasure.

• Venerable Yaoguang changed his orders and led the group to repair the breach in the array, while Fairy Miaoyin returned to Sea Spirit Island with Shen Ge and Zhang Lingyu.
• Fairy Miaoyin, Shen Ge, and Zhang Lingyu searched the devastated island and found a baby with a severed leg, apparently its only survivor.
• A Tianji Pavilion cultivator urged Venerable Tianji to retreat, but Venerable Tianji stabbed and restrained him, insisting he would not abandon the people of the Tianji Sea.
• Blood Shark assigned Hegemon Turtle and the Heaven-Devouring Fish to hold off the giant puppet turtle as Venerable Tianji entered it with his junior brother.
• Blood Shark ordered the Demon Beasts to attack, and Venerable Kaiyang and his companion activated their spirit treasure, drawing the giant octopus and a sea demon into its fiery scroll.

Venerable Tianji and his junior brother fought the Demon Beasts with the turtle puppet while Venerable Kaiyang used the Mountains and Rivers Painting Scroll to capture enemies. The battle left the Heaven-Devouring Fish mangled, the Hegemon Turtle fleeing under attack, and Blood Shark moving to confront a survivor as the Azure Desolation Eagle was ordered to support Five Colors.

• Venerable Tianji and his junior brother controlled the turtle puppet, which fought the Hegemon Turtle and tore into the Heaven-Devouring Fish.
• Blood Shark wounded Venerable Kaiyang’s companion, and Venerable Kaiyang used the Mountains and Rivers Painting Scroll to suck in Demon Beasts and pull the Heaven-Devouring Fish toward it.
• The Mountains and Rivers Painting Scroll dissipated after the Heaven-Devouring Fish was badly mangled, while the Hegemon Turtle held firm against the puppet’s attacks.
• The puppet blasted away part of the Hegemon Turtle’s shell, and Venerable Kaiyang pursued him as the junior brother died from the strain of controlling the puppet.
• Blood Shark saw that an old enemy had survived and rushed toward him, while the Eagle King ordered the Azure Desolation Eagle to support Five Colors.

Venerable Tianshu stayed behind to hold off three fourth-tier Demon Beasts while the rest of the Tianshu Sect went to support the Tianxuan Sea. Facing defeat, he took the life-consuming Sha Pill and reached Half-Step Spirit Severing strength, then burrowed into the electric fish as the two snakes joined their attacks against it.

• After receiving news that the Tianji Sea had fallen and the fighting had spread to the Tianxuan Sea, Venerable Tianshu sent Jingqing and two junior brothers to help, leaving himself to face the three Demon Beasts.
• The electric fish rushed Venerable Tianshu, and the black snake and green snake held back until they were sure no reinforcements were coming.
• Venerable Tianshu wounded the electric fish but was forced back by all three beasts and lost a defensive Law Treasure.
• Venerable Tianshu swallowed his Sha Pill, unleashing its power and transforming his eyes blood-red as he charged through the electric fish's violet lightning.
• Venerable Tianshu pierced the electric fish and burrowed into its body, while the black snake and green snake attacked it from outside.

Venerable Tianshu fought the Primordial Serpent after the creature revealed its true form, but the serpent vanished and let Tianshu rampage through the Demon Beast tide. Elsewhere, Bai Yu avoided North Sea Gate and headed for East Sea Gate, while the Eagle King confronted Venerable Yaoguang and lamented their confinement to a tiny world.

• The Primordial Serpent emerged from the electric fish’s corpse and fought Venerable Tianshu amid poisonous gas, leaving both badly wounded.
• The Primordial Serpent concealed himself, planning to wait for Venerable Tianshu’s pill to wear off before killing him and attacking his sect.
• Venerable Tianshu lost sight of the Primordial Serpent and charged into the Demon Beast tide, slaughtering indiscriminately.
• Bai Yu left North Sea Gate because she disliked the serpents and headed for East Sea Gate, unknowingly avoiding a fatal encounter.
• The Eagle King spoke with Venerable Yaoguang and lamented that they were trapped in a tiny world, unable to see what lay beyond it.

Shen Ge watched the devastation spreading across the Luo Heaven Sea as news arrived that Tianji Island Sea had fallen. At North Sea Gate, a black-mist-shrouded boat decimated both sides, while the standoff in the Tianxuan Sea brought the human cultivators and Demon Beast kings to the brink of battle.

• Cultivators reported that Tianji Pavilion’s Nascent Soul experts had died and that Venerable Tianji had fallen fighting, prompting five Golden Core experts to lead a support party toward the Tianxuan Sea.
• A dilapidated boat released black mist at North Sea Gate that drained everyone it touched to bare bones, forcing Five Colors and his companions to flee as Venerable Tianquan and Venerable Jihai let it pass.
• Venerable Jihai left for the Tianxuan Sea after helping clear the remaining lesser Demon Beasts, while Venerable Tianquan stayed to deal with the breach.
• At the Tianxuan Sea, the human Nascent Soul experts weighed their limited Spirit Treasures against the Eagle King and Blood Shark King, and decided to stall for Tianshu Sect’s arrival.
• The Eagle King and Blood Shark King sent Hegemon Turtle away, while the human cultivators destroyed most of the lesser Demon Beast tide and continued waiting rather than risk using their treasures.
• The Eagle King suddenly charged toward the minor cultivators behind the human formation, and Venerable Tianxuan roared and unleashed the Xuan Star Sword’s Sword Qi.

The Eagle King survived the combined attacks of the Blood Shark King and the cultivators, then escaped with the Blood Shark King's remains and the Shadow Sect's Secret Method. The cultivators discussed the future of the devastated Tianji Sea as Venerable Jihai arrived and warned that Tianshu Island had suffered heavy losses.

• The Eagle King turned the Blood Shark King against him, and Yaoguang and his fellow cultivators struck both Demon Kings with their Spirit Treasures.
• The cultivators found two apparently lifeless corpses, but the wounded Eagle King emerged, seized the Blood Shark King's remains, and escaped despite their pursuit.
• Venerable Kaiyang said the Eagle King had obtained the Shadow Sect's Secret Method, though the world could no longer support a Spirit Severing Realm expert.
• Venerable Yaoguang, Venerable Kaiyang, and the others discussed resettling people in the Tianji Sea and leaving its lingering dangers to the Tianji Pavilion.
• Venerable Jihai arrived, declined Kaiyang's offer to take over the Tianji Sea, and told Yaofeng that Tianshu Island had suffered heavy losses.

After the war ended, the surviving Tianji Pavilion disciples pledged to keep governing Tianji Island, while the Spirit Moon Sect welcomed Su Liuyue’s return from seclusion. Su Sui spoke wistfully of missing Shen Ge, and Su Liuyue gave her a Storage Bag containing some of his belongings.

• News reached Yaoguang Island that one Demon Beast king had been killed, the other wounded, and the Demon Beast tide defeated.
• At the ruins of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, Liu Zongyuan vowed that the remaining disciples would preserve the Tianji Pavilion and prevent chaos in the Tianji Sea.
• Venerable Kaiyang warned Liu Zongyuan that the weakened pavilion might struggle to retain control of Tianji Island, while Venerable Yaoguang promised to send people to help restore it.
• After ten years of seclusion, Su Liuyue met Su Sui at the Windwatch Pavilion and learned that Su Sui had reached the Golden Core Stage.
• Su Sui admitted that she missed Shen Ge and worried about what had become of him, while Su Liuyue believed he was alive and advancing in cultivation.
• Su Liuyue gave Su Sui a Storage Bag of Shen Ge’s belongings and told her to share anything useful with her junior sister.

After reaching Golden Core Peak, Shen Ge urged Zhang Fengge to face her Golden Core breakthrough with confidence and thought of his estranged disciple Su Sui. Meanwhile, the Yaoguang Immortal Sect prepared for Gu Ye’s wedding, and its elders reflected on the sect’s losses and the exceptional talents of the younger generation.

• Shen Ge emerged from thirty years of seclusion at Golden Core Peak and met Zhang Fengge, who had waited a year to see him.
• Zhang Fengge revealed that she was preparing to break through to Golden Core and, at 120 years old, feared this might be her last chance.
• Shen Ge sternly told Zhang Fengge to return to seclusion and not see him again until she succeeded.
• After Zhang Fengge left, Shen Ge thought of Su Sui, regretted not being a better master, and reaffirmed that he did not regret betraying the Spirit Moon Sect over Mu Wan.
• At the Yaoguang Immortal Sect, Gu Ye supervised preparations for his wedding while the elders teased him and discussed the sect’s losses in the Demon Beast battle.
• The elders praised Gu Ye and Fairy Miaoyin’s talents, then compared the younger generation with Liu Zongyuan, Venerable Heavenly Secrets’ gifted disciple.

Gu Ye invited Shen Ge to his wedding and learned that Shen Ge came from the Heavenly South but had been exiled there. Venerable Yaoguang explained the vast world beyond the Luo Heaven Sea, leaving Gu Ye awed by the Eight Great Domains and eager to see them.

• Gu Ye invited Shen Ge to attend his wedding to Fairy Miaoyin, and Shen Ge agreed while teasing him about winning her over.
• Gu Ye asked whether Shen Ge came from the Heavenly South, and Shen Ge confirmed it but said he could not return because he had been exiled there.
• Gu Ye told Venerable Yaoguang what Shen Ge had revealed, and Venerable Yaoguang explained that the Spirit Moon Sect was a branch of a powerful sect in Heaven's Edge Domain.
• Venerable Yaoguang described the Luo Heaven Sea's place in the Endless Sea and named the Eight Great Domains beyond the Heavenly South.
• Gu Ye stared at the map in wonder and thought about seeing the wider world, while Venerable Yaoguang warned him that escaping their isolated region would be dangerous.

Shen Ge attended Fairy Miaoyin and Gu Ye’s wedding at the Yaoguang Immortal Sect, where the celebration stirred his grief for Mu Wan. He reunited with Zhang Lingyu and Li Liu, discussed gifts and formations, and the chapter left the wedding guests preparing to celebrate the newlyweds.

• Shen Ge watched Gu Ye’s wedding procession pass and mourned Mu Wan, before Fairy Miaoyin comforted him through their mind-link.
• Shen Ge advised Zhang Lingyu to choose a wedding gift based on Fairy Miaoyin’s tastes, and they entered the Yaoguang Immortal Sect together.
• Shen Ge and Zhang Lingyu met Li Liu, who agreed to study a combat formation for Shen Ge and help repair the Zhang Household’s protective formation.
• Fairy Miaoyin and Gu Ye arrived with two Golden Core experts from the Thousand Sounds Workshop, and Shen Ge, Zhang Lingyu, and Li Liu went to register their gifts.
• Shen Ge gave Fairy Miaoyin a middle-grade Law Treasure Sword Bamboo flying sword, Zhang Lingyu gave her a third-tier Demon Beast tendon, and Li Liu gave her two tail feathers.

After Gu Ye and Miaoyin’s wedding banquet, Venerable Yaoguang summoned Shen Ge to meet representatives of the Luo Heaven Sea’s major sects. Shen Ge explained how the formation connecting the Luo Heaven Sea to the Heavenly South might be restored, then clashed with a Tianquan Sect cultivator who accused him of attacking Ji Rufeng.

• Gu Ye and Miaoyin toasted their wedding guests, and Li Liu embarrassed Miaoyin by urging the couple to have a child soon.
• Gu Ye told Shen Ge that Venerable Yaoguang wanted to see him, so Shen Ge went with him to the Yaoguang Immortal Sect’s great hall.
• Venerable Yaoguang asked Shen Ge about his origins and the formation foundation connecting the Luo Heaven Sea to the Heavenly South; Shen Ge said its restoration depended on whether his grandmaster lived or died.
• A Tianquan Sect cultivator challenged Shen Ge about his martial uncle and accused him of ambushing Ji Rufeng at Ji Ziyue’s behest.
• Shen Ge threatened the Tianquan Sect cultivator with Sword Qi, and Venerable Yaoguang intervened to stop the argument.

Shen Ge learned that his martial uncle Fenghuo had become a powerful eerie being in the Dead Sea, then exchanged information with the gathered cultivators and secured a chance to enter the Primordial Secret Realm. After the gathering, he met Luo Sheng and his disciple Ye Li, who asked his age.

• Venerable Yaoguang told Shen Ge that Fenghuo had become an eerie being with Nascent Soul strength while working as a boatman in the Dead Sea.
• Shen Ge mourned Fenghuo and then learned from the gathered cultivators about the Primordial Secret Realm, which would open in three years.
• Venerable Yaoguang offered Shen Ge entry to the secret realm, and he accepted before Yaoguang silenced a mocking Tianquan Sect cultivator with a threatening glare.
• After the gathering dispersed, Shen Ge met Luo Sheng and his golden-haired disciple Ye Li, who introduced herself and asked Shen Ge how old he was.