Chapter Summaries

Qin Mingyuan forced A'nu to reveal why she had come to the Ten Thousand Reefs Sea Area and made her lead him to the Haitang Gel. After A'nu noticed the Beichuan’s foreign origins, the Qin Clan disguised the ship and continued deeper into the sea area, learning about major factions in the Eight Immortals Sea.

• A'nu told Qin Mingyuan that the Haitang Demon Plant secreted rare Haitang Gel and that she had diverted a school of Eight-Tailed Octopus Sharks toward him to escape them.
• Qin Mingyuan planted a restriction in A'nu’s soul and ordered her to lead him to the Haitang Gel aboard the Beichuan.
• A'nu recognized that the Beichuan and its crew were not from the Eight Immortals Sea, prompting Qin Mingyuan and his people to conceal their distinctive clothing and alter the ship’s appearance.
• Qin Mingyuan tested A'nu’s account by having captured hunting-season Warriors inspect the Beichuan, then threw them into the sea after they confirmed there were no problems.
• A'nu guided the Beichuan along a hidden route that avoided several high-tier Demon Beast lairs and shared news about divisions among the righteous sects, Old Devil Fang, and Gu Jinsheng.

Qin Mingyuan’s group reached the Haitang Demon Plant and concealed the Beichuan and a killing formation to ambush cultivators seeking Haitang Gel. When the plant awakened beneath the full moon, more than forty cultivators arrived, formed rival alliances, and plunged into battle.

• A'nu explained that the Haitang Demon Plant would awaken at the next full moon and produce Haitang Gel, drawing Qin Mingyuan and his companions to wait three days.
• Huang Liang helped the Qin Clan deploy a Third-Tier killing formation, and Qin Mingyuan hid the Beichuan beneath the sea while planning to slaughter the arriving cultivators and kill A'nu.
• The Haitang Demon Plant awakened beneath the full moon, and more than forty cultivators from four factions gathered above it.
• The neutral cultivators allied with the demonic path, while the Rogue Cultivators joined the righteous path, and the rival groups immediately began a chaotic battle.

Qin Mingyuan and his companions watched the overseas cultivators battle, studying their techniques while the factions repeatedly changed sides. With only ten survivors left and everyone wary of one another, Qin Mingyuan’s group prepared to make their move.

• Qin Mingyuan asked Qin Xin'an and the others to assess the overseas cultivators, and they judged them formidable fighters with dangerous methods.
• Qin Mingyuan recorded the overseas techniques in a Jade Slip as the righteous and devil paths continued fighting.
• Moyunzi unleashed his Ten Thousand Souls Banner, nearly overwhelming the righteous cultivators until a protective talisman summoned lightning to destroy thousands of ghosts.
• Fairy Song and Long Xuan joined forces with the righteous path against Moyunzi, but the Rogue Cultivators switched sides and attacked the righteous cultivators.
• After the battle reduced the fighters to ten, the survivors formed uneasy alliances and watched one another suspiciously.
• Qin Mingyuan and his companions decided to emerge while the remaining cultivators were distracted and depleted.

Qin Mingyuan’s group sprung a formation ambush on the exhausted cultivators, while Fairy Song turned on her allies and helped wipe out the survivors. After the two Rogue Cultivators surrendered and accepted her restrictions, the formation bore down on Fairy Song and both men, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Qin Mingyuan told A'nu to send a voice transmission to the Joyous Union Sect's female cultivators and have them cooperate with his group.
• A treasure ship surfaced and activated a Third-Tier formation that suppressed the cultivators and wrested control of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner from Moyunzi.
• Fairy Song escaped the formation's restraints, killed Moyunzi and the cultivator surnamed Sun, and joined the attack that killed the remaining Devil Cultivators and Long Xuan and his junior brother.
• Fairy Song's junior sister killed a Joyous Union Sect cultivator after she had killed the Myriad Dharma Sect cultivators, then confessed her jealousy and murdered her junior sister.
• The two Rogue Cultivators accepted Fairy Song's restrictions to save themselves, but the formation's power descended on them and Fairy Song as well.

A'nu betrayed Fairy Song, but Qin Mingyuan's grand array killed the Rogue Cultivators and left Song Wei dead after a mutual strike. Qin Mingyuan's ancestor spared A'nu and sent her back to her sect with a hidden Soul Seed inside her.

• A'nu admitted she had betrayed Fairy Song to survive, and the Rogue Cultivators attacked the array's controllers.
• Qin Mingyuan strengthened the array, whose giant bear crushed one Rogue Cultivator into blood mist.
• The surviving Rogue Cultivator unleashed a final strike on Song Wei, but a restriction in his mind killed him; Song Wei also perished.
• Qin Mingyuan and the others surrounded A'nu, but their ancestor appeared and ordered them to remove her restriction and let her return.
• Qin Mingyuan freed A'nu, while the ancestor secretly implanted a Soul Seed in her that began changing her thoughts after she returned to her sect.

Qin Lu entered the inner space within the Bright Moon Begonia and met Haiyue, a Third-Tier Peak Wood Demon. After learning she possessed a second drop of water of nothingness, he offered to help her survive her lightning tribulation in exchange for the water and an alliance.

• Qin Lu plunged into the begonia and discovered an inner space, where he met its graceful mistress.
• Haiyue challenged Qin Lu for entering her dwelling, and he explained his curiosity about her inner space and impending breakthrough.
• Qin Lu gave Haiyue Third-Tier demon plant tea, and she introduced herself as Haiyue, a Bright Moon Begonia.
• Haiyue explained that a deceased friend had implanted a drop of water of nothingness in her, creating the inner space, and revealed she had another drop.
• Qin Lu told Haiyue that his clan had a Wood Demon, his descendant’s partner, and offered to introduce them.
• Qin Lu proposed helping Haiyue overcome her lightning tribulation in exchange for the water of nothingness and her support for his clan; Haiyue questioned his motives.

Qin Lu returned from meeting Haiyue with a gift of Haitang Gel, and the Beichuan crew set off home with the spoils from their battle. Qin Xinzhou examined his share of the loot and planned to use the Joyous Union Sect’s resources to advance his cultivation.

• Haiyue gave Qin Lu sixteen blocks of Haitang Gel and agreed to consider his alliance proposal, while Qin Lu left her a soul tablet she could use to summon him.
• Qin Lu returned to the Beichuan, gave Qin Mingyuan a pile of Haitang Gel, and became a Soul Seed that flowed back into Qin Mingyuan’s mind.
• Qin Mingyuan gave one block each to Qin Xin'an, Qin Xinmu, and Qin Xinzhou, kept the remaining twelve for the Lineage, and ordered the group to keep Qin Lu’s appearance secret.
• The Beichuan submerged and headed home, escorted by the Eight-Tailed Octopus Shark King and his tribe, now its vassals.
• Qin Xinzhou broke through to the Qi Condensation Third Layer and examined his share of the Qiankun Pouches taken from Joyous Union Sect disciples, hoping their resources would help him reach the Dao Foundation Realm.

Heaven Burial advanced to a Third-Tier Middle Grade Law Treasure, and Qin Lu reached the Dao Foundation Seventh Layer after ten years of cultivation. The chapter ended with Qin Lu nearing Core Formation and possessing immense Divine Sense and physical strength.

• Heaven Burial reached the Third-Tier Middle Grade and revealed three powerful ghost kings, ghost generals, and ghost soldiers.
• Qin Xinzhi and Qin Xinyang fed Heaven Burial with remnant souls, then discussed their awe and faith in Qin Lu.
• Qin Lu awakened from cultivation and assessed his perfected Dao Principles, seven refined layers of Ninefold Essence Tempering, and progress toward Core Formation.
• Qin Lu demonstrated the power of his Nether Soul and Soul Wood Dao Principles, while his expanded Divine Sense far exceeded that of ordinary Dao Foundation cultivators.

After ten years in seclusion, Qin Lu emerged and watched Qin Hui undergo a dangerous breakthrough on Tea Mountain. With Bi’s help, Qin Hui successfully reached Dao Foundation and reunited with her.

• Qin Lu emerged from seclusion with Heaven Burial, his bonded Law Treasure, transformed into a Third-Tier Middle Grade treasure.
• Qin Lu saw a Spiritual Qi vortex gathering over Tea Mountain and realized Qin Hui was breaking through to Dao Foundation.
• Qin Zhuang asked Qin Wu whether he could defeat Qin Hui, and Qin Wu estimated his chances at less than thirty percent.
• As Qin Hui absorbed Spiritual Power and his Jade Origin Dao Rhyme sublimated, Bi shared her Divine Sense with him, helping his soul transform and form a sea of Divine Sense.
• Qin Hui completed his breakthrough as his Jade Origin Dao Rhyme became the Jade Origin Dao Principle, then embraced Bi and reflected on their life together.

Qin Lu controlled A'nu to explore the Joyous Union Sect, where he learned two Dao Foundation techniques and searched for information. He left the sect's Dual Cultivation Tower with rumors of upheaval across the Eight Immortals Sea to investigate.

• Qin Lu took control of A'nu and inspected the Joyous Union Sect's territory and resources.
• Qin Lu used A'nu's contribution points to obtain a male harvesting-and-replenishment technique and an orthodox dual-cultivation technique.
• Qin Lu found that A'nu's low status limited his access to the sect's deeper secrets.
• Qin Lu went to the Dual Cultivation Tower and eavesdropped on disciples' conversations.
• Qin Lu heard rumors of infighting among the demonic path, a split among the three righteous factions, the Seven Emotions Cult patriarch's disappearance, and a Cloud Sea Flood Dragon destroying several affiliated forces.

Qin Lu assessed the turmoil in the Eight Immortals Sea, prepared the Qin Clan to expand, and set out alone to hunt the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon and investigate his suspicions. At Mystic Inscription Island, two Joyous Union Sect elders found the island overrun by demons and discussed how to handle the flood dragon and a newly advanced Crab King.

• Qin Lu suspected that the unrest among the sects, Haiyue’s delayed tribulation, and the Eight Immortals Sea’s isolation might be connected, and resolved to form his Golden Core while expanding the Qin Clan.
• Qin Lu sent Qin Hui and Bi east to meet Haiyue, while Qin Xiao organized the clan’s expansion and Qin Mingyi helped settle its members.
• Qin Zhuang entered life-or-death seclusion with three pieces of Haitang Gel, Qin Zhao and Black Dragon led the vanguard, and Qin Wu commanded the main force while Qin Wen improved the clan’s inheritances and combat methods.
• Qiao Mei received a Third-Tier cultivation method, Haitang Gel, and precious jade from Qin Lu, and reflected on their past as dual cultivation partners.
• Qin Lu left for Joyous Union Sect territory to hunt the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon and inspect the Eight Immortals Sea.
• At Mystic Inscription Island, two Joyous Union Sect elders found the ruins swarming with seal and crab demons; Senior brother Yan claimed he could face the flood dragon while junior sister Bai occupied the Crab King.

The cultivator surnamed Yan and the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon fought fiercely until the female cultivator surnamed Bai joined the battle. Qin Lu arrived, devoured the Crab King’s soul, and recognized the flood dragon as a possible acquaintance from the past.

• The cultivator surnamed Yan attacked Mystic Inscription Island with the Yang Separation Pearl, drawing out the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon.
• The Cloud Sea Flood Dragon fought the cultivator surnamed Yan to a standstill and began gaining the advantage, forcing him to call for help.
• The female cultivator surnamed Bai distracted the Crab King with the Moon Nether Treasure Jade and struck the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon with moonlight.
• Qin Lu appeared before the Crab King, extracted and refined its soul into a soul pill, and put away its remains.
• Qin Lu watched the battle and suspected the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon was the Second-Tier white flood dragon that had escaped before.

Qin Lu intervened after the cultivators and the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon had exhausted themselves, using his ghost kings and Qing Centipede to overwhelm them. He killed the flood dragon, took its Frost Dao Principle to strengthen the Frost and Snow Robe, and planned how its remains could benefit the Qin Clan and his son Qin Xiao.

• Qin Lu summoned the three ghost kings and Qing Centipede, forcing the cultivator surnamed Yan and the cultivator surnamed Bai to stop fighting the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon.
• The cultivator surnamed Yan fled with his junior sister, but the Nether Thunder Ghost King intercepted him while the Soul Frost Ghost King and Ghost Fire Ghost King attacked the cultivators.
• Qing Centipede fought the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon and used its poisonous blood to weaken it, revealing that the two were old enemies.
• Qin Lu blocked the flood dragon’s Frost Dao Principle attack, stunned it with Heaven Burial, destroyed its soul, and let Qing Centipede devour the soul.
• Qin Lu extracted the flood dragon’s Frost Dao Principle and used it to upgrade the Frost and Snow Robe to a Third-Tier Lower Grade Law Treasure.
• Qin Lu planned to use the flood dragon’s blood, flesh, bones, and scales to strengthen Black Dragon, raise the Black Armor Crocodiles, build a warship, and craft treasures for Qin Xiao.

Qin Lu watched his three Ghost Kings kill two Joyous Union Sect cultivators, then absorbed their souls and claimed their treasures. The Cloud Sea Flood Dragon’s memories and the cultivators’ knowledge revealed how the Eight Immortals Sea had been sealed off by an ancient formation, leaving Qin Lu with new theories about Haiyue and the Water of Nothingness.

• Qin Lu ignored the female cultivator surnamed Bai’s offer to serve him as her master and watched the three Ghost Kings overwhelm her and the cultivator surnamed Yan.
• The Nether Thunder Ghost King gravely wounded Yan, and the three Ghost Kings surrounded and killed him before pursuing Bai and killing her as well.
• The Ghost Kings returned with Yan and Bai’s souls, which Qin Lu turned into soul pills and swallowed, strengthening his Divine Sense and cultivation.
• Qin Lu recovered the pair’s bonded Law Treasures and learned from their memories that the Eight Immortals Sea had once been linked to the Northern Nether Domain and had produced a Nascent Soul Cultivator.
• Qin Lu learned that eight Core Formation Ancestors of the Eight Seas Dao Sect had sacrificed themselves to create a barrier that kept Core Formation Demon Kings and stronger beings from entering or leaving the Eight Immortals Sea.
• Qin Lu connected the barrier’s backlash to Haiyue’s old friend’s failed tribulation and suspected the water demon had left her the Water of Nothingness to help her avoid that backlash.

Qin Lu explored the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon’s lair and found its daughter, Cang Yao, who pleaded for her life. He agreed to spare her in exchange for three Fourth-Tier inheritances and the dragon egg, then let her leave under a Great Dao Oath.

• Qin Lu sent the three Ghost Kings and Qing Centipede to hunt and plunder while he went to the Cloud Sea Flood Dragon’s lair.
• Qin Lu killed the pseudo-flood dragons in the lair and found a vast cavern lined with ten-thousand-year profound ice.
• Cang Yao revealed she was the Azure Dragon King’s daughter and asked Qin Lu to spare her and her child.
• The Azure Dragon King offered Qin Lu a dragon egg and three Fourth-Tier inheritances in exchange for Cang Yao’s safety.
• Qin Lu and Cang Yao made a Great Dao Oath, and he accepted the inheritances and egg before Cang Yao departed for the Nine Dragons Sea.

Qin Lu prepared the dragon egg to refine into an Infant Embryo Fruit, then disguised himself as a Devil Path cultivator and traveled toward the Seven Emotions Cult. He seized control of the Yin Corpse Sect and became known as Old Devil Lu.

• Qin Lu sealed the dragon egg in ten-thousand-year mystic ice with a nether soul Dao principle to refine it over more than ten years.
• Qin Lu stripped the cavern of its mystic ice and cold spring, then disguised himself as a Devil Path cultivator and left for the southwest.
• Qin Lu traveled through the Devil Path sea region for three months and observed the factions’ brutal use of mortals and corpses.
• Qin Lu killed the Yin Corpse Sect’s Dao Foundation ancestor and took over the sect as its grand patriarch.
• The Yin Corpse Sect’s disciples accepted Qin Lu as their new ancestor, and outsiders began calling him Old Devil Lu.

Neighboring devil-cultivator forces agreed to attack the Yin Corpse Sect and lure out Qin Lu, hoping to kill him with help from Yang Fan of the Seven Emotions Cult. Meanwhile, Qin Lu finished forging the Frost Extreme Great Spear and gave it to the Soul Frost Ghost King, strengthening his sect’s defenses.

• Old Daoist Gu told the other cultivators that Old Devil Lu had overwhelmed the Yin Corpse Sect’s defenses and apparently killed Old Ghost Xuan Shi, warning them not to provoke him.
• The gathered cultivators debated whether Xuan Shi was dead and whether their forces could defeat Old Devil Lu, then Yang Fan’s fellow disciple proposed bringing the Dao Foundation Ninth Layer cultivator into a joint hunt.
• The cultivators agreed to attack the Yin Corpse Sect directly to force Old Devil Lu into battle, though each had private motives for joining.
• Qin Lu completed the Third-Tier Lower Grade Law Treasure Frost Extreme Great Spear from ten-thousand-year profound ice and spirit metals.
• Qin Lu gave the spear to the Soul Frost Ghost King, whose strength rose to rival a Dao Foundation Sixth Layer cultivator.

Qin Lu used Old Daoist Gu as bait to draw Yang Fan and six other Dao Foundation cultivators to Yin Corpse Island, where his forces engaged them in battle. After Yang Fan’s Soul-Capturing Ding clashed with Qin Lu’s sword strike, Qin Lu prepared to attack again.

• Qin Lu revealed that he had planted a Soul Seed in Old Daoist Gu and used him to lure Heart Fear Yang Fan, one of the Seven Emotions Cult’s remaining holy sons.
• A week later, Yang Fan arrived at Yin Corpse Island with six other cultivators, and Old Daoist Gu set up a formation around the island.
• Yang Fan summoned his Soul-Capturing Ding, while Flying Zombie Old Monster and the brute joined the attack.
• The three Ghost Kings and the Azure Giant Centipede engaged the attackers, leaving their battles at a stalemate.
• Yang Fan sent his enlarged ding crashing toward the island’s center, and Qin Lu met it with his Extreme Dao: Heaven Cleaving strike.
• Qin Lu’s sword light and Yang Fan’s ding collided, and Qin Lu gathered his sword intent to attack again.

Qin Lu defeated Yang Fan with his completed Soul, Sword, and Wood Dao Principles, then devoured Yang Fan’s soul and broke through to the Dao Foundation Eighth Layer. He turned his attention to the remaining fighters, while Old Daoist Gu blocked their escape as a puppet.

• Qin Lu unleashed his Extreme Dao sword strike, splitting Yang Fan’s bonded Soul-Capturing Treasure Ding and gravely wounding him.
• Yang Fan used his Fear Intent Dao Principle against Qin Lu, but Qin Lu broke free of its illusion and declared that Yang Fan had lost.
• Qin Lu pulled Yang Fan’s soul from his body, refined and swallowed it, and advanced to the Dao Foundation Eighth Layer.
• Qin Lu reached for the fighters battling the ghost kings, sending them into a panic after they witnessed Yang Fan’s defeat.
• Old Daoist Gu blocked the fighters’ escape as a puppet, and the Ghost Fire Ghost King killed the vicious man and extracted his soul.

Qin Lu used the Seeking Dao Alliance to reshape the Eight Immortals Sea’s power balance while the righteous factions fought among themselves. The Seeking Dao Alliance recruited widely, and Qin Lu sought to exploit the resulting chaos for his Qin Clan.

• Qin Lu’s ghost kings killed the remaining attackers, and Qin Lu refined their souls into pills while Qing Centipede received a corpse.
• Qin Lu planned to disguise himself behind a new faction after deciding his bait scheme could not work again.
• The Yin Corpse Sect and four other devil path forces merged into the Seeking Dao Alliance, which invited devil path groups to join.
• The Zhengyuan Great War ended with the Supreme Mystery Immortal Sect victorious, while the Seeking Dao Sect was destroyed and other powers formed new alliances or withdrew.
• Qin Lu opened inherited Dao Foundation cultivation methods to attract allies and Rogue Cultivators to the Seeking Dao Alliance.