Chapter Summaries

Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson spent a century drifting through the Forbidden Sea, growing wealthy and searching for Teleportation Array diagrams. After they killed a Sea-Pacifying Carp in one strike, Yu Chen’s fleet tried to negotiate for its corpse, and Chen Xun appeared to demand a higher price.

• Chen Xun and his companions sorted their spoils, but found no Teleportation Array diagrams among the Slaughter Arrays and other treasures.
• The Giant Ship drifted through the Forbidden Sea for a hundred years as Little Crimson’s cultivation slowly rose and the companions continued collecting loot.
• Yu Chen’s fleet encountered a Demonic Qi-tainted Sea-Pacifying Carp, and Yu Chen identified the beast while considering its valuable Nascent Soul.
• Big Black Ox and Little Crimson emerged from the mist after a single strike split the Sea-Pacifying Carp in two, then captured its Nascent Soul.
• Yu Chen called out to the departing pair and offered to buy the Sea-Pacifying Carp, prompting Little Crimson to ask whether his family had Teleportation Array diagrams.
• Chen Xun stood up aboard the Giant Ship and told Yu Chen to pay more for the beast they had worked hard to kill.

Yu Chen braved the Purple Qi Remnant Will to board Chen Xun’s ship and propose a transaction for rare materials, Body Refining Techniques, and the Water Spirit Art’s later methods. He revealed that the forbidden fifth layer was tied to the destroyed Ji Clan, while Chen Xun remained intent on examining it.

• Little Crimson demanded that Yu Chen board alone, and Yu Chen crossed the Purple Qi Remnant Will with his Extinguishing Divine Magical Artifact despite being injured.
• Chen Xun welcomed Yu Chen aboard the Giant Ship and spoke with him in the Lookout Pavilion while Big Black Ox guarded outside.
• Yu Chen proposed trading for the Sea-Pacifying Carp and other rare materials, and Chen Xun requested Body Refining Techniques and methods beyond the Water Spirit Art’s third layer.
• Yu Chen explained that the Water Spirit Art had five layers, was forbidden in Great Li, and supposedly brought a shortened lifespan to those who reached its fourth layer.
• Yu Chen connected the art to the destroyed Ji Clan, Great Li’s former foremost cultivation family, whose members had tried to Reverse Fate Against Heaven.
• Chen Xun said he only wanted to examine the Water Spirit Art, while privately considering its ability to ripen spiritual herbs and its possible backlash.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox traded with Yu Chen and learned that Extinguishing Divine Magical Artifacts were used against Defiled Lifespans beyond the Upside-Down Heavenly Pass. Yu Chen returned to his fleet with a Sea-Pacifying Carp and a Sound Transmission Jade Slip, while Chen Xun’s ship vanished into the Forbidden Sea.

• Chen Xun offered to trade with Yu Chen once a year and showed him a thousand-year Lotus Demon Coral, which Yu Chen eagerly sought.
• Yu Chen explained that Great Li cultivators entered the Upside-Down Heavenly Pass for cultivation opportunities and divine sense enhancement, and that Extinguishing Divine Magical Artifacts were useful against Defiled Lifespans.
• Chen Xun gave Yu Chen a Sea-Pacifying Carp and a Sound Transmission Jade Slip, arranging to meet him in the Forbidden Sea the following year.
• Chen Xun warned Yu Chen that any accident could bind him and the Yu Family to them through karma, and Yu Chen promised to return.
• Yu Chen flew back to his fleet, and Chen Xun’s Giant Ship accelerated away and disappeared into the mists.

Yu Chen returned with his family after buying the Sea-Pacifying Carp, while Chen Xun and his companions reached their island lair and resumed mining Star-Shifting Profound Stone. Chen Xun was buried in a tunnel collapse as the group worked toward gathering materials for Big Black Ox’s teleportation arrays.

• Yu Chen told Yu Yiwei that meeting the three seniors mattered more than entering the ancient secret realm, then departed with the Yu Family fleet.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson returned to their island lair in the Forbidden Sea.
• Chen Xun announced they would mine the Star-Shifting Profound Stone vein while Big Black Ox planned to use the ore for teleportation arrays.
• Little Crimson dug energetically until Chen Xun warned it not to damage the vein, and Chen Xun ambushed Big Black Ox after it laughed at him.
• The three mined and sorted ore, while Chen Xun excavated a tunnel that repeatedly collapsed and buried him.

Chen Xun confided in the Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree, considered the dangers surrounding his plans, and continued mining with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson. A year later, the Yu Family fleet entered the Forbidden Sea and found the Giant Ship, whose powerful Extinguishing Divine Power alarmed an old expert.

• Chen Xun visited the Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree and hoped that when it gained human form, they would not become enemies.
• Chen Xun studied the War Realm Camp token, considered the dangers of the Heaven Severing Great Ravine and the Yu Family, and wrote down plans for his brothers' survival.
• Little Crimson celebrated the rich ore and their abundant Spirit Stones while Big Black Ox suspected Chen Xun was hiding things from it.
• Chen Xun returned to the mine, and the brothers continued excavating the Star-Shifting Profound Stone Mine.
• A year later, Yu Chen led a large Yu Family fleet into the Forbidden Sea in search of the three seniors.
• Yu Chen recognized their Giant Ship in the mist, while the drowsy old man sensed its overwhelming Extinguishing Divine Power and became wary.

Chen Xun struck Long Guanzhi after he probed Little Crimson, then let Yu Chen resume their trade aboard the Giant Ship. The two began exchanging Body Refining Techniques and Lotus Demon Corals while Long Guanzhi waited nearby.

• Long Guanzhi tried to probe Little Crimson, so Chen Xun attacked him with a Sky Covering Great Palm and forced him to apologize.
• Chen Xun demanded that Yu Chen repay what he owed, while Big Black Ox prepared the Giant Ship in case they needed to flee.
• Yu Chen apologized to Chen Xun and brought out the Body Refining Techniques he had collected.
• Chen Xun offered two Lotus Demon Corals and proposed trading for Yu Chen's supply at market prices.
• Yu Chen prepared to trade and had also brought array diagrams for small, medium, and Large Teleportation Arrays.

Chen Xun traded Forbidden Sea treasures with Yu Chen, while Long Guanzhi secretly summoned the Yu Family Ancestor to seize the mysterious cultivators. The Giant Ship escaped through an illusion array, leaving Yu Chen under orders to find them as the fleet returned.

• Chen Xun agreed to trade Boundless Ancient Tree Vine and Mountain-Shaking Demon Spirit Essence for Yu Chen’s Body Refining Techniques and the Water Spirit Art Fourth Layer.
• Yu Chen completed the trade and told Long Guanzhi that the Water Spirit Art and Extinguishing Divine Magical Artifacts would require further discussion.
• Long Guanzhi waited for the Giant Ship to answer, then summoned the Yu Family Ancestor’s power and attacked the mist.
• Long Guanzhi discovered that the Giant Ship was an illusion and that the three cultivators had already fled.
• Long Guanzhi ordered Yu Chen to find the missing cultivators, and the fleet began its return voyage.

Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson escaped a trap set by the Yu Family and returned safely to their island. Chen Xun began studying a Body Refining Technique while Big Black Ox prepared to build a Teleportation Array.

• Chen Xun and his companions fled the Yu Family’s attack aboard their concealed giant ship, and Chen Xun vowed to settle the grudge with Long Guanzhi once they were stronger.
• Chen Xun decided they would avoid further contact with powerful factions and had Big Black Ox take charge of the Teleportation Array while he studied the Body Refining Technique.
• The giant ship reached the island several days later, where Chen Xun gave Big Black Ox formation diagrams and asked Little Crimson to help him construct the array.
• Chen Xun studied the Body Refining Technique and learned that it relied on spirit medicines and beasts’ essence blood to strengthen the body, making the path arduous and blood-soaked.

After discovering that his meridians were severed and the Spirit Qi Immortal Path was closed to him, Chen Xun began cultivating body refinement with the Heavenly Tribulation Body Tempering Power. He used his comprehension to create a Five Elements body-refinement technique, while Big Black Ox and Little Crimson worked on a teleportation array on the island.

• Chen Xun examined body-refinement techniques and concluded they required immense resources, but chose to cultivate one to release the Heavenly Tribulation Body Tempering Power he had suppressed.
• Chen Xun circulated the power through his body, unleashing white lightning that sent huge waves across the Black Sea and scorched fish.
• Little Crimson and Big Black Ox watched the lightning before returning to work on a Five Elements Teleportation Array using materials from the Star-Shifting Profound Stone Mine.
• Chen Xun softened his gaze toward Big Black Ox and began studying body-refinement techniques with the system's spell enhancement power.
• Chen Xun realized that the power had revealed essence qi to him and began devising a body-aperture technique he named the Five Elements Profound Technique.

Big Black Ox and Little Crimson developed Five Elements Stones and worked on stabilizing a new teleportation array while Chen Xun remained in seclusion. Fifty years later, Chen Xun awakened on an island in the Forbidden Sea, and his overwhelming presence left Little Crimson terrified and suppressed.

• Big Black Ox tested a Five Elements teleportation array powered by Extinguishing Divine Stones, but the transported stone exploded.
• Big Black Ox reviewed Chen Xun’s notes and continued researching the array while Little Crimson mined Star-Shifting Profound Ore.
• The Yu Family searched the Forbidden Sea for Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson, then scaled back its efforts after suffering losses.
• Yu Chen withdrew from family disputes and secretly prepared to attempt the Thousand Year Heavenly Pass.
• After fifty years of seclusion, Chen Xun awakened and unleashed a terrifying presence that split the sea and suppressed Little Crimson.

After fifty years in seclusion, Chen Xun reunited with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson and learned that they had completed a Five Elements Teleportation Array. The trio celebrated its speed and self-replenishing Five Elements Stone, and Chen Xun left eager to set up another array on the Heaven Severing Great Plains.

• Chen Xun reunited with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson, who told him he had been in seclusion for fifty years.
• Little Crimson showed Chen Xun their records, and Big Black Ox brought him to the completed Five Elements Teleportation Array.
• Chen Xun activated the array with Five Elements Power and tested its rapid teleportation between distant points.
• Big Black Ox explained that he had stabilized the array by stacking three arrays and that its Five Elements Stone replenished itself from heaven and earth.
• Chen Xun celebrated the savings and agreed with Little Crimson to set up a Five Elements Teleportation Array on the Heaven Severing Great Plains.
• Big Black Ox explained how the array used heaven and earth as its foundation, and Chen Xun recorded his explanation.

Chen Xun explained to Big Black Ox and Little Crimson that he planned to cultivate a Rootless Essence Qi Flower using essence blood from myriad races. He demonstrated how his qi and blood and Five Elements Qi gathered the Essence of Heaven and Earth, leaving the flower as an unfinished vessel that still needed suitable essence blood to take shape.

• Chen Xun asked Little Crimson for a drop of essence blood and gave the listless spirit beast to Big Black Ox to care for.
• Chen Xun explained that he had opened eighty Body Apertures and wanted to collect essence blood from intelligent races, with proper compensation and without harming them.
• Chen Xun revealed that he had spent years deriving a method to draw the Essence of Heaven and Earth through his qi and blood and Five Elements Qi.
• Chen Xun formed a phantom Rootless Essence Qi Flower and explained that essence blood was needed to make it take shape.
• Chen Xun said that essence blood from black fish had failed, while blood from several Foundation Establishment sea beasts had worked, leading him to conclude that quality mattered more than quantity.

Chen Xun and Little Crimson spent years mining the island while Big Black Ox mastered body refinement and awakened with formidable power. After they exhausted the island’s mineral veins, the three began preparing an Absolute Kill Plan against Long Guanzhi and whoever was behind him, leaving their island as the site of their planned ambush.

• Chen Xun gave Big Black Ox his Body Refinement Booklet and promised Little Crimson he would help it change its bloodline if the chance arose.
• Chen Xun and Little Crimson mined for twenty years while Big Black Ox cultivated, then Big Black Ox completed his body refinement and awakened with a powerful aura.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson searched the island for more veins and spent another year mining its central deposits clean.
• Chen Xun ordered the others to prepare their Absolute Kill Plan against Long Guanzhi, whom they intended to kill after reaching Spirit Transformation.
• Big Black Ox set up an array while Little Crimson helped create Five Elements Stones, and Chen Xun declared the island Long Guanzhi’s burial ground.

Yu Jingxin explained to two Yu Family ancestors that three Nascent Soul cultivators had escaped his attack in the Forbidden Sea, prompting the family to prepare to hunt them down. He later revealed to an ally that the apparent failure was part of his plan, and he waited as bait for the three to make their next move.

• Yu Jingxin told his two elder brothers that three cultivators had escaped him in the Forbidden Sea, and they warned that the matter could bring disaster upon the Yu Family.
• Yu Jingxin said he had placed Teleportation Arrays near the Forbidden Sea and would use Yu Family disciples as bait to catch the three if they appeared again.
• The elder brothers agreed to consult the Jiang Clan and prepare for the possibility that the three had reached Spirit Transformation.
• In Spirit Enlightenment City, Yu Jingxin secretly spoke with a woman and admitted that the three had escaped because he had allowed them to become his chess pieces.
• Yu Jingxin revealed that he had prepared a killing formation in his cave abode and planned to wait there with two guards, using himself as bait.

Yu Jingxin revealed the Jiang Clan’s plan to exploit the Yu Family’s secret connection to the Ji Clan’s Water Spirit Art and use Chen Xun and his companions as bait. Meanwhile, Chen Xun’s group prepared a teleportation trap for the Spirit Transformation cultivator and sailed deeper into the Forbidden Sea to explore the way ahead.

• Yu Jingxin explained that the Jiang Clan had infiltrated the Yu Family for generations to uncover the hidden secret of the Water Spirit Art.
• Yu Jingxin planned to lure the Yu Family members into acting so the Jiang Clan could search the Yu Family Ancestral Land and seize the secret.
• On an uninhabited island in the Forbidden Sea, the Big Black Ox and Little Lion worked on a Medium Teleportation Array while Chen Xun planned to use it to forcibly teleport the Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Three months later, Chen Xun and his companions sailed the Giant Ship toward the deepest reaches of the Forbidden Sea to explore the route ahead.

Half a year later, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson reached the Qi Gong Thunder Vein Divine Mountain in the Forbidden Sea. Little Crane awakened enough to protect them, and Chen Xun stopped the Giant Ship to paint the mountain rather than enter the ongoing battles.

• Little Crane spread its branches over the Giant Ship and shielded Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson from the lingering will.
• Chen Xun summoned the Death Qi Mountain-Splitting Axe, frightening Little Crimson and causing Little Crane to draw back its branches.
• Big Black Ox and Little Crimson confirmed that the ship’s Teleportation Array was ready as they traveled deeper into the Forbidden Sea.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson spotted the Qi Gong Thunder Vein Divine Mountain surrounded by cultivators, sea beasts, and fierce battles.
• Chen Xun stopped the Giant Ship to paint the divine mountain and said they would not enter the secret realm.
• Big Black Ox beat Little Crimson after he brought up the Heaven Severing Great Plains, and Little Crimson quietly watched Chen Xun paint.

Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson sailed toward the Divine Mountain, where Big Black Ox repelled a heavenly lightning strike and the Giant Ship entered the surrounding sea of lightning. The vessel pressed into the dangerous depths as cultivators and sea beasts watched in astonishment.

• Chen Xun finished his painting while Big Black Ox and Little Crimson criticized it, and the trio set sail toward the Divine Mountain.
• Several sect cultivators sensed an unknown presence passing near them, but could not detect Chen Xun's Giant Ship.
• Big Black Ox leapt from the deck and scattered a powerful bolt of heavenly lightning with its palm, leaving its body unharmed.
• Little Crimson worried about holding Chen Xun and Big Black Ox back, but Chen Xun reassured it by recalling Big Black Ox's past weakness.
• The Giant Ship reached the sea of lightning beside the Divine Mountain, where Big Black Ox's array could no longer suppress the thunderbolts.
• As cultivators and sea beasts watched, Chen Xun's Giant Ship sailed into the depths of the sea of lightning.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox steered their ship through the endless Thunder Sea Area, where Chen Xun reflected on the Forbidden Sea’s ancient lingering wills and vowed to fulfill Senior Brother Ji’s final wish. After half a year, they reached the end of the Forbidden Sea and found a vast purple-gold Ancient Array blocking the way.

• Big Black Ox piloted the giant ship through the lightning while Chen Xun fought off bolts, and Little Crimson overcame its fear and resolved to stay with them.
• Chen Xun concluded that the Forbidden Sea’s lingering wills had been resisting its Demonic Qi and protecting the living beings of Great Li.
• Chen Xun recalled Senior Brother Ji’s wish and promised to take the ancient book onward with Big Black Ox.
• After half a year, Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson emerged from the Thunder Sea Area and saw an immense Ancient Array spanning the sea and sky.
• The War Realm Camp token hummed rapidly but remained suppressed by the array, leaving Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson stunned.

Chen Xun and his companions reached an impenetrable ancient array at the end of the Forbidden Sea and planned to study it while using a nearby island as a base. In Great Li, the Chan Sound Temple Abbot emerged as the Heavenly Pass neared opening, drawing powerful factions toward the Ten Provinces Dao Discussion.

• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Little Crimson found that even Five Elements Divine Light could not affect the ancient array, then decided to study it and establish a Teleportation Array on an island.
• The Chan Sound Temple Old Abbot left the temple for the first time in centuries and set out for the Ten Provinces Dao Discussion as cultivators from across Great Li gathered around him.
• A cultivator informed the Baili Clan that the Young Master had emerged, and the Clan Head ordered him protected on the journey while warning the Pure Buddha Great Teaching to keep its rules.
• At the Saint Mountain, Qi Ji Bodhisattva and others discussed the Abbot's arrival and anticipated meeting him at the Ten Provinces Dao Discussion.
• Six figures walked along a yellow-sand road toward the looming dangers, while Chen Xun continued catching fish on a desolate island at the end of the Forbidden Sea.

Chen Xun investigated strange blood from a Forbidden Sea beast and suspected there might be enemies beyond the sea, then prepared to leave the Forbidden Sea with Big Black Ox and Little Crimson. The Medium Teleportation Array was completed, and the group set out toward it.

• Chen Xun extracted blood essence from a Foundation Establishment Realm fish and found it strangely defiled, leading him to wonder whether something beyond the sea could threaten cultivators' lifespans.
• Chen Xun planned to return to Great Li and cross the sea to investigate the Upside-Down Heavenly Pass, while reflecting on the Abbot's unusual second golden core.
• Big Black Ox and Little Crimson completed the Medium Teleportation Array, which could cross the Thunder Sea Area and be controlled through the Five Elements Array Flags.
• Chen Xun ordered Little Crimson not to speak of Brother Crane as though it were playing dead, and Little Crimson apologized to Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, and Brother Crane.
• Chen Xun, Big Black Ox, Little Crimson, and the concealed Crane Spirit Five Elements Tree headed for the array to leave the Forbidden Sea.