Chapter Summaries

Blood Sun Venerable God refined essence blood aura from the Immortal Treasure, confirming that a Sea Pavilion True Lord had used his own essence blood to sustain methods imposed on Azure Waves. Chen Yang asked whether the discovery could help them locate other objects affected by Upper Realm cultivators’ methods.

• Blood Sun Venerable God examined the Immortal Treasure and used the Blood Refining Divine Technique on it while the Azure Waves gods watched.
• Blood Sun Venerable God refined a wisp of essence blood aura and presented it to Chen Yang.
• Chen Yang probed the aura and realized a Sea Pavilion True Lord had sacrificed essence blood to extend the influence of his methods.
• Chen Yang asked Blood Sun Venerable God whether the essence blood could lead them to other objects carrying Upper Realm cultivators’ methods.

Chen Yang and the Azure Waves Divine Host learned that Sea Pavilion True Lord had killed an ancient god who survived the calamity that destroyed the Divine Dao. The god’s final words strengthened Chen Yang’s resolve to rescue surviving gods in the Upper Realm, but he steadied himself and chose patience over rushing ahead.

• Chen Yang realized the dead god had cultivated the divine ability Yingxu and had been refined by Sea Pavilion True Lord.
• Frost Flower Venerable God investigated the god and explained that he had qualified to advance to Lower God but could not master his art without the Great Dao.
• The Azure Waves gods mourned the god and felt gratitude toward Chen Yang for saving them from a similar fate.
• Chen Yang considered how vulnerable the scattered Divine Path creatures were to Upper Realm forces seeking Creation Origin.
• Chen Yang yearned to ascend and rescue them, then calmed himself and decided not to let impatience disrupt his plans.

Chen Yang visited Yang Yuanzhen as she approached Dao Entry and examined her cultivation. Her breakthrough drew the Yang Clan’s attention, while memories of past losses deepened Chen Yang’s guilt toward Yang Yuanhong.

• Chen Yang heard that Yuan Zhen had succeeded and traveled to Shenshuo Peak.
• Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu greeted Chen Yang while guarding Yang Yuanzhen as she cultivated.
• Chen Yang examined Yang Yuanzhen through the crystal coating around her body.
• Chen Yang recalled how Yang Yuanhong had entered the Dao at a young age after receiving a Spirit Pearl.
• Chen Yang remembered Yang Linghu and Yang Xuanzhou’s deaths and felt guilty toward Yang Yuanhong.

After breaking through to the Mystic Insight Realm, Chen Yang comforted Dongfang Yingcai by telling her how bravely Yang Xuanzhou had died, then visited Yun Xiwu and found peace in Yang Yuanzhen’s extraordinary gifts. He left the chapter calmer, with a Spirit Pearl beginning to take the form of a jade blade inside the unborn child.

• Chen Yang visited the pregnant Dongfang Yingcai and tried to protect Yang Xuancang, but no Spirit Pearl entered the unborn child.
• Dongfang Yingcai asked whether Yang Xuanzhou had been brave, and Chen Yang told her how he had protected his younger siblings and faced danger.
• Chen Yang brought Wu Tong to Longyin Peak to care for Dongfang Yingcai, then left grieving and doubting the meaning of his Dao.
• Chen Yang visited Yun Xiwu on Shenshuo Peak and sensed Yang Yuanzhen’s extraordinary natural gifts.
• A Spirit Pearl entered Yang Yuanzhen and began refining into the shape of a jade blade, calming Chen Yang’s troubled mind.

Chen Yang learned that Yang Yuanzhen cultivated the Spirit-Origin Slaughter Dao, which seemed to fall outside the Azure Waves Great Dao, and considered whether it was a foreign art. After reassuring her parents that he would not favor one Dao over another, he confirmed through Xu Cang that Yang Yuanzhen was a native of Canglan Continent and an extraordinarily rare natural mutation.

• Yang Lingrui told Chen Yang that Yang Yuanzhen's cultivation followed the Spirit-Origin Slaughter Dao, which might be a foreign art.
• Yun Xiwu described how she had witnessed Yang Yuanzhen's growth and mind from birth and insisted she was truly her and Yang Lingrui's daughter.
• Chen Yang promised Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu that he would not favor one Dao Path over another for Yang Yuanzhen.
• Chen Yang consulted Xu Cang and learned that Yang Yuanzhen was neither a reincarnated Upper Cultivator nor a creation of an Upper Realm art.
• Xu Cang's analysis led Chen Yang to conclude that Yang Yuanzhen was a uniquely rare mutation born within the Azure Waves Great Dao.

Carefree True Immortal and Zhang Minghe watched the changes in Canglan Continent through a small pool and discussed the extraordinary person emerging in Heavenly Sea. Carefree True Immortal explained that his immortal die had guided him to choose Void Cang Ancient Land, and Zhang Minghe began pondering what lay behind its success.

• Zhang Minghe noticed a tiny, bright speck appear in the pool and asked Carefree True Immortal whether it was an auspicious omen.
• Carefree True Immortal said he had only foreseen that an extraordinary person might emerge in Heavenly Sea, not when or where.
• Zhang Minghe asked why Carefree True Immortal had chosen Void Cang Ancient Land, and he revealed that he had relied on his die-shaped immortal artifact.
• Zhang Minghe complained that the die had repeatedly led her into danger, while Carefree True Immortal insisted that its guidance was more than luck.
• Carefree True Immortal urged Zhang Minghe to consider the underlying order behind the die's choice, and she closed her eyes to ponder it.

Carefree True Immortal explained the deeper meaning behind Zhang Minghe’s experiences with his immortal dice and reflected on the danger hidden beneath her exceptionally smooth cultivation. He had foreseen her path ending abruptly, but could not directly change her fate.

• Zhang Minghe reflected on Carefree True Immortal’s words and the gap between their understanding of the Great Dao.
• Zhang Minghe recalled how the immortal dice repeatedly led her into danger, prompting her to return it to Carefree True Immortal.
• The chapter recounted how Zhang Minghe, once a three-colored dragonfish, received intelligence, became Carefree True Immortal’s disciple, and advanced through cultivation with extraordinary ease.
• Carefree True Immortal worried that Zhang Minghe’s immense fortune and flawless progress left her unable to bear the blessings or withstand future trials.
• Carefree True Immortal performed a rite and saw a vision of Zhang Minghe’s path ending abruptly and a fish being carved up and eaten, but he could not alter her fate.

Yang Yuanzhen stabilized her Dao Initiation at the Third Level of Qi Gathering as the Azure Dragon Clan's evil arts were eradicated and Cang Yu recovered. After the clan was granted permission to return to Azure Waves in stages, Yang Yuanhong planned to use the clan's ancestral bloodline grounds to improve Yang Xuancang's prospects for Dao Initiation.

• Yang Yuanzhen completed her Dao Initiation at the Third Level of Qi Gathering and moved to Shenlin Peak, while Yang Lingrui entered Chen Yang's cave-heaven to study the Life-and-Death Method with Frost Flower Venerable God.
• Ye Chenfeng and Yang Yuanhong helped remove the evil arts from the Azure Dragon Clan Lands, and Yang Lingrui's Slaughter Dao Judgment Edict destroyed the remnants.
• Cang Yu awoke after Yang Yuanhong and the others treated him, thanked Chen Huai'an, and vowed to become his disciple once he reached the True Intent Realm.
• Chen Yang secretly altered Cang Yu's memories to conceal the Dao Fusion divine art, and a month later the Dao Academy permitted the Azure Dragon Clan to return to Azure Waves in stages.
• Yang Yuanhong and Shenwu stayed in the Azure Dragon Clan Lands, and Yang Yuanhong intended to use the clan's ancestral bloodline grounds to seek a Dao Initiation opportunity for Yang Xuancang.

Bai Di and the New Heaven leaders stayed wary as they used the Yang Clan’s fabricated Evil Art story to keep the Upper Cultivators focused elsewhere. Two years later, with the Great Five Elements Secret Realm about to open, the Northwest He Family arrived at Miaomu Immortal Mansion.

• Bai Di and the other leaders prepared for the Upper Cultivators to uncover the New Heaven Project and for the conflict to grow more dangerous.
• The New Heaven leaders relied on Chen Yang and the Yang Clan’s fabricated Ancient Cultivator Evil Art story to conceal their plans while they prepared their next moves.
• Two years passed, and the Great Five Elements Secret Realm’s opening drew attention back to the Five Directions Immortal Mansion.
• At Miaomu Immortal Mansion, an inner disciple reported to Steward Yang that the Northwest He Family’s immortal vessel had reached the mansion’s cloud terrace.

He Shenglai and He Shuping visited the Mystic Ancient Tree, where a Miaomu Immortal Mansion disciple explained the tree’s inheritance and the Mansion’s decline. He Shuping realized Lingxiao Dao Academy had likely collected many of the Mansion’s scattered arts, while the chapter left the Academy’s Six Sons established as an overwhelming force in their era.

• Yang Yuanling appeared as a twig swayed, and the Immortal Mansion disciple brought He Shenglai and He Shuping into the Mystic Ancient Tree.
• The disciple explained that the tree was the Miaomu Immortal Mansion’s inheritance ground and described the Mansion’s former glory and present condition.
• He Shuping asked why the Mansion had failed to reclaim its scattered inheritances, and the disciple said a stronger force had gathered most of them first.
• He Shuping inferred that Lingxiao Dao Academy had taken the inheritances, and He Shenglai transmitted something to her before she stopped questioning the disciple.
• The chapter recounted how the Six Sons of Lingxiao had dominated the Central Region while still in the True Intent Realm.

He Shuping prepared to discuss the Dao with Yuan Ning’s Immortal Estate messenger, while He Shenglai warned her that he would be difficult to defeat. The chapter explained how Yang Lingshu’s Nascent Soul Truth-Seeking Method could strengthen its disciples and inspire Chen Yang’s research into Dao Integration methods, then left the four disciples facing future trials before they could enter Chengzuo Peak.

• He Shenglai warned He Shuping that Yuan Ning’s Immortal Estate messenger was an outstanding cultivator and that she should prepare for defeat.
• He Shuping said she sought to verify her cultivation rather than win, and circulated the condensed spiritual power in her qi reservoir.
• The chapter explained that Yang Lingshu’s Nascent Soul Truth-Seeking Method had been developed with Chen Yang’s guidance and trained its disciples to form a powerful false core.
• Chen Yang considered the method a promising, more accessible path for developing Dao Integration methods that could benefit more Yang Clan cultivators.
• Chen Yang planned individual assessments and trials for Yang Lingshu’s four disciples before they broke through to the Origin Condensation Realm, with success earning them an audience with the Yang Clan Patriarch and entry to Chengzuo Peak.

Yang Yuanling sensed He and Xiao Shuping approaching her cave dwelling at Miaomu Immortal Mansion and invited them inside. Her arrival had drawn widespread attention, as powers across Azure Waves sought information about her family’s cultivation and Yang Lingshu’s Nascent Soul Truth-Seeking Method.

• Yang Yuanling sensed He and Xiao Shuping through her Wood Dao Dharma Aspect and opened her cave dwelling to welcome them.
• Yang Yuanling had joined Miaomu Immortal Mansion as a nominal steward after the Pill Origin Ceremony.
• Yang Lingshu’s achievement of the True Intent Realm made Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao targets of close scrutiny from powers across Azure Waves.
• Cultivators sought to learn whether others could cultivate Yang Lingshu’s Nascent Soul Truth-Seeking Method, but found no useful information about his children’s Dao arts.
• Yang Yuanling’s arrival prompted daily visits from cultivators seeking an audience with her.

He Shenglai decided not to interfere with the demonic cultivators’ suspicious movements before the Five Elements Secret Realm operation, leaving the New Heaven cultivators entering the realm to respond. He encouraged Yang Yuanling and reaffirmed his resolve to fight for the New Heaven Grand Plan.

• He Shenglai considered detaining the demonic cultivators but decided it would reveal too much about the New Heaven Project.
• He concluded that Yang Yuanling, Chen Huai'an, Lin Qiao, and the other New Heaven cultivators entering the Five Elements Secret Realm would have to handle the threat inside.
• He Shenglai warned Yang Yuanling that the operation would be dangerous because the Upper Cultivators were focused on the Yang Clan.
• Yang Yuanling said that serving the New Heaven Grand Plan was her duty and that senior cultivators like He Shenglai would bear greater burdens later.
• He Shenglai took heart from the Yang Clan’s younger generation and resolved to help win a new heaven for Azure Waves’ living beings.

Lin Qiao and Ming Fang investigated a Great Wind Plain Settlement cultivator whom they suspected had been compromised by the Upper Realm Cultivators. Their discussion was interrupted by a visitor bearing a Yang Clan token, which Chen Yang's Stone Body Clone verified as genuine.

• Ming Fang identified the middle-aged cultivator as a former Great Wind Plain Settlement talent who had narrowly missed the Heavenly Talent Ranking.
• Lin Qiao suspected the Upper Cultivators had staged the cultivator's rescue of the Taishi Family's young master to gain access to the Five Elements Secret Realm.
• Lin Qiao decided not to watch the cultivator closely, reasoning that the Upper Cultivators would approach the Yang Clan once they entered the Earth Dao Secret Realm.
• An Immortal Estate cultivator brought Ming Fang a token from a rogue cultivator who claimed to have known the Yang Clan years earlier.
• Chen Yang's Stone Body Clone examined the earthen token and found that its aura came from the Yang Family Sacred Land.

Lin Qiao and Ming Fang learned that Bai Yu was Bai Di’s daughter and understood why the Devil Master had entrusted her with leading the Demonic Path cultivators in the Immortal Abode Secret Realm. Lin Qiao welcomed the chance to work with Bai Yu, recognizing her ties to the Yang Clan and the Northwest of Azure Waves.

• Lin Qiao and Ming Fang realized Bai Yu was the daughter of Devil Master Bai Di.
• The chapter recounted how Upper Realm Cultivator Descent damaged Bai Di’s Dao Foundation and changed his attitude toward his surviving children.
• After the New Heaven Grand Plan was established, Bai Di began nurturing his descendants and brought talented Bai Yu into the New Heaven Project.
• Bai Di entrusted Bai Yu with leading the Demonic Path side of the joint venture in the Immortal Abode Secret Realm.
• Lin Qiao told Bai Yu that she understood her ties to the Yang Clan and welcomed working with her.

Lin Qiao learned that only six Vast Sea cultivators, including Bai Yu and Xu Zheng, knew about the New Heaven Project and would cooperate with it. Bai Yu explained how the Demon Soil had infiltrated the Central Region to hide the project’s future actions, and the chapter left Lin Qiao and Ming Fang weighing the scale of Bai Di’s scheme.

• Xu Zheng handed the intelligence report to Ming Fang, who passed it to Lin Qiao after testing Xu Zheng’s strength with Buddhist light.
• Bai Yu asked Xu Zheng to assess Ming Fang, and Xu Zheng said he could kill him but would find it difficult to handle him without a killing move.
• Lin Qiao read the report and learned that only six Vast Sea cultivators, including Bai Yu and Xu Zheng, knew about the New Heaven Project and would cooperate with it.
• Bai Yu explained that the other Demon Soil cultivators had been sent to infiltrate the Central Region without learning the project’s secret.
• Bai Yu described how Bai Di had planned for the infiltrators to serve as smokescreens when New Heaven cultivators from both paths acted together.

Bai Yu and Lin Qiao discussed Lin Qiao’s friendship with Ming Fang while the group prepared to enter the Secret Realm. Ming Fang and Xu Zheng tested their strength in a training ground, and their clash ended with both displaying powerful Dao arts.

• Lin Qiao arranged an isolated training ground so the four companions could assess each other’s abilities.
• Bai Yu asked Lin Qiao about her connection to Kudhan Temple, and Lin Qiao explained that Ming Fang stayed near her to study Buddhist Dharma and seek a breakthrough.
• Ming Fang and Xu Zheng rose into the air to test their strength while Bai Yu and Lin Qiao watched.
• Xu Zheng attacked with a heavy saber strike, and Ming Fang formed an Adamantine Indestructibility Body using his Earth Dao arts.
• Ming Fang’s golden defense collided with Xu Zheng’s blade radiance, violently shaking the training ground.

Lin Qiao and Bai Yu secretly enhanced Ming Fang and Xu Zheng during their duel, turning the fight into a contest between the two prodigies. Xu Zheng used spatial Daoist Magic to bypass Ming Fang’s defenses and brought a demonic blade within striking distance, leaving Ming Fang to brace for the attack.

• Lin Qiao strengthened Ming Fang with an earth-element seal, while Bai Yu empowered Xu Zheng with a red lotus spell that intensified his blade.
• Xu Zheng’s boosted blade broke through Ming Fang’s golden Buddhist light, but the earthen Buddha manifestation pinned his sword and restored the deadlock.
• Lin Qiao gave the earthen Buddha two additional arms, while Bai Yu made Xu Zheng appear to be struck down in a burst of blood mist.
• Xu Zheng reappeared above Ming Fang inside a red lotus and used spatial Daoist Magic to make his blade pass through the earthen Buddha’s obstruction.
• Ming Fang recognized the spatial technique, gathered his spiritual essence, and prepared to withstand Xu Zheng’s incoming strike.

After tensions eased between the two groups, the New Heaven Project finalized its teams for the Five Elements Secret Realm operation and began checking the five Immortal Estates for enemy infiltration. Their first search found no trace of an Upper Cultivator’s spellwork at Miaomu Immortal Mansion, though Chen Yang could not tell whether the enemy had avoided it or hidden more carefully.

• Lin Qiao and Bai Yu began speaking more often in private, and Xu Zheng sought out Ming Fang to discuss their sparring match.
• The New Heaven Project assigned Chen Huai'an, Yang Yuanling, Lin Qiao, Ning Jiu, and Chi Tian to lead operations in the Secret Realms, while Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang were approved to enter the Fire Dao Secret Realm.
• Mo Yunzhou and four True Intent Cultivators were tasked with guarding the five Immortal Estates and investigating potential infiltration.
• New Heaven cultivators used Yang Clan stone tokens to locate the four people controlled by Ascendant Wills across the Immortal Estates.
• Chen Yang sensed no Ascendant Will aura at Miaomu Immortal Mansion, leaving him unsure whether the enemy had skipped the Wood Dao Secret Realm or concealed its presence.

The third group entered the Immortal Abode Secret Realm, including Yun Xifeng and cultivators from the Fuyao Sect. A Xuanyuan Clan cultivator became inexplicably interested in Yun Xifeng, while his connection to Xuanyuan Jun revealed that Jun had loyal clansmen acting for him without Ascendant Wills.

• The third group prepared to enter the Secret Realm, whose expanded capacity came from the Five Directions Immortal Mansion’s worship of the Blood Sun Venerable God and Chen Yang’s divine power.
• A Xuanyuan Clan cultivator approached the Fuyao Sect group and asked why the young Yun Xifeng was entering the Secret Realm.
• A Fuyao Sect woman praised Yun Xifeng’s talent but withheld details about her identity, and the Xuanyuan Clan cultivator apologized and withdrew.
• The Xuanyuan Clan cultivator privately wondered why Yun Xifeng drew his attention despite her unremarkable appearance and presence.
• The narrative revealed that the cultivator had once served Xuanyuan Jun and that Jun had sent loyal Xuanyuan Clan members who were not possessed by Ascendant Wills.