Chapter Summaries

Mu Qingyao and NanGong HeLing attended White Jade True Lord’s Dao exposition, while Feng Jinyu waited for He Ling and clashed with Xu Chen. The chapter left Feng Jinyu demanding an apology as Xu Chen and Chi Ye faced his challenge.

• White Jade True Lord reprimanded the late-arriving Mu Qingyao and NanGong HeLing, then welcomed them and offered to make up the time they had missed.
• NanGong HeLing recorded her insights for her big brother while Mu Qingyao listened and thought about He Ling’s remarkable elder brother.
• Feng Jinyu waited below the mountain for He Ling, but Xu Chen mocked him and insulted his friend.
• Feng Jinyu challenged Xu Chen to a battle, but Chi Ye arrived and summoned Xu Chen to deal with an evil presence in a secret realm.
• Feng Jinyu blocked Xu Chen from leaving and demanded that he apologize, while Xu Chen bristled under the pressure.

Chi Ye summoned Dao Academy cultivators to surround Feng Jinyu after he blocked her path, leaving him trapped for three days. When Mu Qingyao arrived and challenged the group’s treatment of him, she clashed with Xiao Yi as Feng Jinyu protested that he had only meant to confront Xu Chen.

• Chi Ye called Dao Academy cultivators for help, then left with Xu Chen after asking them to deal with Feng Jinyu for blocking her path.
• More than twenty cultivators surrounded and suppressed Feng Jinyu, warning him not to harass Chi Ye and urging him to challenge them at the Dao Academy Arena if he objected.
• The cultivators kept Feng Jinyu surrounded for three days, refusing to fight him while disciples descended from Heavenly Pillar Peak.
• Mu Qingyao arrived with NanGong HeLing and questioned why the cultivators were bullying Feng Jinyu with their numbers.
• Feng Jinyu insisted that he had blocked Xu Chen rather than Chi Ye, while Mu Qingyao argued with Xiao Yi and the two women’s auras clashed.

Mu Qingyao confronted Chi Ye and Xiao Yi over their treatment of Feng Jinyu, while NanGong HeLing challenged Chi Ye’s account of the dispute. Chi Ye turned her attention to NanGong HeLing and rebuked her for interrupting.

• Mu Qingyao refused to let Xiao Yi and Chi Ye’s group block her path and challenged Mu Qingyao’s opponents to fight on the Dao Academy arena.
• Chi Ye arrived and asked Mu Qingyao not to make trouble for the cultivators, while Mu Qingyao defended Feng Jinyu and accused Xiao Yi of blocking their path.
• A refined young man and his companion confirmed that Xiao Yi had tried to block Mu Qingyao’s path.
• NanGong HeLing argued that Feng Jinyu’s fault did not justify three days of pressure and that Chi Ye should offer a sincere apology for Xiao Yi’s rudeness.
• Chi Ye asked NanGong HeLing’s name and rebuked her for interrupting before their conversation was finished.

Mo Yehan intervened when Chi Ye and Xiao Yi targeted NanGong HeLing, disciplining them and dispersing the crowd. After warmly greeting He Ling, he turned to two men and called one of them “Brother-in-law,” hinting at a reunion.

• Xiao Yi identified NanGong HeLing to Chi Ye, who realized He Ling’s powerful connections and admitted her mistake when Mo Yehan arrived.
• Mo Yehan struck Xiao Yi for investigating He Ling and warned her against bringing outside conduct into the Dao Academy.
• Mo Yehan ordered the gathered cultivators to disperse, and Chi Ye left while silently resolving to remember He Ling.
• Mo Yehan greeted He Ling warmly and explained that he had come to protect her because her Big Brother had entrusted her to the Dao Academy.
• Mo Yehan turned to two men who remained and greeted one of them as “Brother-in-law.”

Mo Yehan introduced Ling YunShen, an extraordinary Immortal Dao Prodigy who had come to the Dao Academy to meet Chen Xun. After Mo Yehan departed to prepare for the future Immortal Dao Grand Competition, Feng Jinyu returned to cultivate, while NanGong HeLing set off to find White Jade True Lord.

• Mo Yehan introduced Ling YunShen as his fiancée’s blood brother, who had come from Cloud Heaven Immortal Splendor and entered the Dao Academy to see Chen Xun.
• Ling YunShen said he hoped to meet Chen Xun before leaving the Dao Academy, and Mo Yehan agreed to introduce them when an opportunity arose.
• Mo Yehan explained to Mu Qingyao that Ling YunShen was an Immortal Dao Prodigy and compared his freedom from restraint to Chen Xun’s.
• Mo Yehan urged the others to cultivate for the Immortal Dao Grand Competition a thousand years later, then left with his companions.
• Feng Jinyu thanked Mu Qingyao and NanGong HeLing before returning to cultivate, while NanGong HeLing left to find White Jade True Lord.

White Jade True Lord taught NanGong HeLing about cultivating a peaceful heart and accepting one’s place in immortal history. Meanwhile, Yun Shao and Demon Moon captured twelve spies and prepared to interrogate them.

• White Jade True Lord asked NanGong HeLing about her insights from his three days of teachings, and she described feeling a resonance with immortals across history.
• White Jade True Lord explained that cultivators should accept their mediocrity, cultivate their hearts, and avoid losing their original purpose to the desire for longer life.
• White Jade True Lord invited NanGong HeLing to return whenever she had questions, and she bowed before leaving him to meditate.
• Yun Shao and Demon Moon held twelve captured spies from the five Garbage Islands within a sealed sea formation, while their Nascent Souls were suppressed in a magical artifact.
• Demon Moon suggested soul searching or possession to learn the captives’ secrets, but Yun Shao warned her not to act recklessly as the terrified prisoners faced a force of over a hundred Late Stage Refining Void cultivators.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Demon Moon interrogates and eliminates treasure hunters who had targeted Garbage Island.
• Yun Shao and Ji Yan discuss the threat to NanGong HeLing and the need to protect her.
• Ji Yan meets with the Blue Scale Clan, suppresses them, and offers them a job to collect cultivation-world trash, marking the beginning of his influence over the sea clan.

Character Developments

• Demon Moon: Shows ruthlessness and amusement in interrogation, revealing her cold and calculating nature.
• Yun Shao: Demonstrates concern for NanGong HeLing's safety and understanding of Ji Yan's strategic thinking.
• Ji Yan: Exhibits long-term planning and manipulation skills, using strength, promises, and small tasks to gain the Blue Scale Clan's trust and loyalty.
• Blue Scale Clan: Initially terrified and resentful, they become grateful and loyal to Ji Yan after he offers them a solution to their clan's weakness and a chance for advancement.

Significant Themes

• Power and Control: Ji Yan uses strength and promises to control the Blue Scale Clan and gain their loyalty.
• Long-term Planning: Ji Yan's strategy involves multiple steps to ensure the sea clan's trust and cooperation.
• Trust and Loyalty: The Blue Scale Clan's trust in Ji Yan deepens as he offers them a solution to their most urgent need and involves them in small tasks.

Character Interactions

• Demon Moon and Li Minghua: Demon Moon interrogates Li Minghua, revealing his involvement in targeting Garbage Island and his family's connection to other factions.
• Yun Shao and Ji Yan: They discuss the threat to NanGong HeLing and Ji Yan's plans to protect her and gain control over the sea clan.
• Ji Yan and the Blue Scale Clan: Ji Yan suppresses the Blue Scale Clan, offers them a job, and gains their trust and loyalty, marking the beginning of his influence over the sea clan.

Ji Yan warned NanGong HeLing that the people around her might be maneuvering against her and urged her to stay cautious, while concealing his own plans to investigate. He and Tian Li then continued their journey as a fishing competition began at Spotless Immortal Ridge.

• Ji Yan questioned NanGong HeLing about her friends and recent encounters at the Dao Academy, then pointed out suspicious coincidences involving Feng Jinyu, Mu Qingyao, Xu Chen, and Chi Ye.
• Ji Yan warned NanGong HeLing that multiple groups might be targeting her, and she agreed to investigate while asking him not to tell her Big Brother.
• After ending the call, Ji Yan told Tian Li that he had only wanted NanGong HeLing to stay guarded and instructed him to bid for Immortal Slaves and Blessed Grotto Heavens as gifts for the Dao Academy.
• At Spotless Immortal Ridge, five figures began a fishing competition while Mo Fuyang watched and Qing Li and Qing Wan welcomed the Factory Owner's return.
• Xian Jue caught a small fish by hand and wondered whether fishing required a rod.

Chen Xun and his companions held a fishing competition, while Little Crimson and Song Heng plotted to raid immortal tombs. Xian Jue worried that he had waited too long to rebuild the Severing Immortal Path, but Chen Xun encouraged him to start now and promised to help with his lifespan.

• Chen Xun scared away the fish with a shout, prompting Big Black Ox, Song Heng, and Gu Li Sheng to complain until he released the fish.
• Chen Xun thanked Gu Li Sheng for his help a thousand years earlier and promised to help him find his missing corporeal souls.
• Little Crimson and Song Heng discussed using Song Heng's tomb-finding method to raid ownerless immortal tombs once they reached the Great Vehicle Realm.
• Chen Xun called Xian Jue out of the lake and told him to sit behind him after Xian Jue's presence disrupted the fishing.
• Xian Jue asked Chen Xun whether it was too late to rebuild the Severing Immortal Path, and Chen Xun urged him to begin now and promised to help with his lifespan.
• Mo Fuyang wondered whether he should secretly gather fish for Chen Xun so the Dao Ancestor would not lose face.

Chen Xun won the First Spotless Immortal Ridge Fishing Competition by outsmarting Gu Li Sheng, then bragged about his Fishing Emperor title until Ji Yan contacted him about an auction and asked whether Miss NanGong had another identity. Chen Xun confirmed she did and asked if she was in danger, while the chapter revealed Little Crane’s extraordinary nature and hidden secrets.

• Chen Xun tangled Big Black Ox’s line, used the chaos to catch a fish, and claimed to Gu Li Sheng that he was the Fishing Emperor.
• Chen Xun and Gu Li Sheng exchanged fishing talk as if they were worthy rivals, while Big Black Ox realized Chen Xun had schemed against it.
• Mo Fuyang declared the Garbage Recycling Plant the winner, and Gu Li Sheng left after snapping his fishing rod in anger.
• Chen Xun spent the next two days boasting about his title, then learned from Ji Yan that the auction had cost thirty million mid-grade spirit stones.
• Ji Yan asked whether Miss NanGong had another identity, and Chen Xun confirmed it before asking whether she was in danger.
• The narration revealed that Little Crane’s main body was the Crane Spirit Yin Yang Five Elements Tree and that she bore a Small Realm, world origins, and the forbidden being Defiled Lifespan.

Chen Xun learned that powerful clans might threaten NanGong and the Garbage Recycling Plant, so he sought Shi Jianbai’s help in the Star Pivot. The chapter ended with Shi Jianbai objecting to Chen Xun’s request for five Great Vehicle Honored Ones.

• Ji Yan agreed to keep quiet about NanGong’s situation while investigating the forces behind it and arranging for Yun Shao’s group to protect her in the Dao Academy.
• Chen Xun vowed to destroy the Wood Clan if it harmed Third Sister, then entered the Star Pivot with Big Black Ox guarding him.
• Chen Xun summoned Shi Jianbai’s true body and asked to borrow people, explaining that the Garbage Recycling Plant and his younger sister would be vulnerable if he could not return.
• Shi Jianbai warned Chen Xun that the Chi Clan was interested in the Garbage Recycling Plant.
• Chen Xun requested at least five Great Vehicle Honored Ones, and Shi Jianbai rebuked him for asking for so many.

Chen Xun arranged for five Great Vehicle Honored Ones to protect his Third Sister for a thousand years, paying them with Grand Micro Purple Immortal Fruits and cultivation resources. Ten years later, four Nascent Soul cultivators arrived on Leaving Dust Island as four more Great Vehicle Honored Ones secretly entered the Mengmu Great Sea Region.

• Chen Xun offered Shi Jianbai five Grand Micro Purple Immortal Fruits and cultivation resources to recruit five Great Vehicle Honored Ones to protect his Third Sister for a thousand years.
• Shi Jianbai agreed to arrange the deal at Jade Terrace Immortal Academy, while warning Chen Xun that the Honored Ones might not go far in carrying out their protection.
• Five aged Great Vehicle Honored Ones departed the Desolate Heaven Domain aboard a Ninth Grade World Crossing Space Ship, discussing the risks of their assignment.
• Ten years later, new arrivals reached Leaving Dust Island, where the Nine Heavens Immortal Sound Pavilion broadcast notices about the Garbage Recycling Plant.
• Yu Fangshuo led three companions around Leaving Dust Island as they marveled at its size and asked about its offerings.
• Four more Great Vehicle Honored Ones quietly descended upon the Mengmu Great Sea Region.

Yu Fangshuo and three associates began a thousand-year mission to infiltrate the ancient Wood Clan, while NanGong HeLing learned that the Xu and Feng Families were tied to rival Eight Meridians Jiaolong factions. The chapter ended with the forces behind those factions targeting her to seize control of the Garbage Recycling Plant.

• Yu Fangshuo briefed his three associates on the Wood Clan, its allies, and their mission, which was paid for with lifespan.
• The four lured an Eight Meridians Jiaolong into an illusion and passed through its territory without being detected.
• Ling YunShen told NanGong HeLing that Yu Xuan Honored One would come to oversee the Profound Cave Dao Academy and offered his help.
• NanGong HeLing read Ling YunShen's information and discovered that both the Xu Family and the Feng Family had pledged themselves to Eight Meridians Jiaolong factions.
• NanGong HeLing realized that the forces behind the factions intended to control her and take over the Garbage Recycling Plant.

Ling YunShen warned NanGong HeLing about the threats surrounding her and promised to help her retreat safely, while his servant uncovered a suspicious influence behind Feng Jinyu’s troubles. The next day, Mu Qingyao told NanGong HeLing that Feng Jinyu had been injured, and the two went to visit him as he recovered.

• Ling YunShen told NanGong HeLing that unknown cultivators and hostile elders threatened her, and offered to ensure she could retreat safely if danger came.
• Jiang Liu reported that someone had been guiding Feng Jinyu and identified his close friend Zhang Qingyun as suspicious.
• A concealed woman revealed herself and said she was protecting NanGong HeLing; Ling YunShen instructed Jiang Liu not to make trouble for her.
• Mu Qingyao told NanGong HeLing that she had fought Chi Ye to a draw and that Feng Jinyu had been injured by Xu Chen after defending NanGong HeLing.
• NanGong HeLing and Mu Qingyao went to Feng Jinyu’s cave abode, where he was recovering from an injury that had nearly blasted his soul from his body.

Feng Jinyu recovered from his injuries and agreed to attend the Immortal Island’s grand event with NanGong HeLing and Mu Qingyao. Meanwhile, Ji Yan prepared to seek the Profound Azure Sea Dragon Race’s support, revealing plans to expand his campaign across sea regions.

• NanGong HeLing visited Feng Jinyu, checked that his foundation was unharmed, and urged him not to provoke Xu Chen again.
• Mu Qingyao invited NanGong HeLing and her companions to a grand event outside the Immortal Island, and Feng Jinyu eagerly agreed to attend.
• Five aged figures beneath the sea noted the outsiders gathering near the Immortal Island and kept their World Crossing Space Ship ready to evacuate NanGong HeLing if needed.
• Ji Yan learned that the Azure Dragon Sect and Xu Family had moved, but ordered his people to keep watching while they awaited the larger threat.
• Ji Yan ordered Tian Li to deliver a letter to the Profound Azure Sea Dragon Race, saying he had already investigated the region and would offer its interests in exchange for support.

Chen Xun urged Yin Tianshou to use the Great World Rules to protect his younger sister from the Chi Clan, then persuaded him to accept two Longevity Fruits. Yin Tianshou agreed to act if the Chi Clan made an open move and watched Chen Xun and Big Black Ox leave, hoping they would travel farther than he had.

• Chen Xun told Yin Tianshou that the Chi Clan of the Southern Yu Continent planned to target his younger sister and asked the Immortal Hall to enforce the rules.
• Yin Tianshou explained that arresting people required evidence and could not be done through private authority, but agreed the rules could be used if the Chi Clan acted openly.
• Chen Xun offered Yin Tianshou and Senior Cui two Longevity Fruits, each able to extend a person's lifespan by three thousand years.
• When Yin Tianshou declined, Chen Xun brought out a suona and Big Black Ox shook bells until Yin Tianshou agreed to accept the fruits.
• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox left the Immortal Hall, and Yin Tianshou watched them go, wishing they could see the Great Age in full.

Luo Shuang met with the Five Great Sects’ masters to propose a campaign against the Azure Dragon Sect and its allies, promising that powerful backers would handle the greater forces. The sect masters realized her plan involved a far wider conflict than they had expected, including the Immortal Hall, and the chapter ended with them grasping the danger of being drawn into it.

• Chen Xun and Big Black Ox returned to Spotless Immortal Ridge as Yun Jin’s Garbage Recycling Plant expanded across Leaving Dust Island and Luo Shuang gained influence among the region’s powers.
• Luo Shuang met the Five Great Sects’ masters at Phoenix Cry Platform and proposed that they move against the Azure Dragon Sect.
• The sect masters warned that the Azure Dragon Sect had ancient ties to the Eight Meridians Jiaolong and said their elders would oppose a reckless war.
• Luo Shuang told the sect masters that their greater backers could handle the powerful forces while the Five Sects dealt with the local conflict.
• Luo Shuang revealed jade plaques listing a broad network of targets and participants, including the Immortal Hall, leaving the sect masters alarmed at the scale of the planned conflict.

Luo Shuang persuaded the Five Great Sects’ masters to help the Garbage Recycling Plant expand across the Mengmu Great Sea Region by promising immense profits and protection for their Dao Lineages. After Ji Yan set them the task of keeping the Azure Dragon Sect and two Cultivation Families in check, they left eager to prepare.

• Luo Shuang offered the five sect masters twenty percent of the profits from recycling cultivation garbage throughout the Mengmu Great Sea Region, promising returns comparable to a large Mid-Grade Spirit Stone mine every hundred years.
• Luo Shuang introduced the sect masters to Ji Yan through a Void Transmission Disc, and Ji Yan warned them not to let temporary benefits cloud their judgment.
• Ji Yan assigned the Five Great Sects to keep the Azure Dragon Sect and two Cultivation Families in check, with the methods left to them, and promised an Immortal Dao Covenant if they proved capable.
• The five sect masters accepted the task, believing cooperation could secure their sects’ Dao Lineages for ten thousand years, and departed to consult their elders.
• Luo Shuang reflected on her wish to follow Ji Yan and contrasted his attachment to his faction with Chen Xun’s distant, businesslike nature.

Chen Xun imparted the Five Elements Immortal Path to Xian Jue by stripping away his Sacred Spirit Root, leaving him able to absorb Five Elements Qi. The procedure succeeded, and Chen Xun left with Big Black Ox, eager to study the Spirit Root’s mysterious law patterns.

• Chen Xun told Xian Jue that his remaining debt was 800,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones after discounting the cost of his treatment, and Xian Jue praised him as the Dao Ancestor.
• Chen Xun announced that he would impart the Five Elements Immortal Path to Xian Jue, while Big Black Ox created auspicious effects outside the array.
• Chen Xun used the Essence Qi Flower and Five Elements Furnace to suppress Xian Jue and strip apart his Sacred Spirit Root as he taught him the Five Elements Immortal Scripture.
• After a month, Chen Xun transformed Xian Jue’s Sacred Spirit Root into a Five Elements Pseudo Spirit Root, and Xian Jue began absorbing Heaven and Earth Five Elements Qi.
• Chen Xun told Big Black Ox to check on Lao Mo in seclusion and said they would visit the Heavenly Passage Tower after Big Black Ox learned talisman arrays.

Chen Xun and Big Black Ox discussed their hopes of finding their lost companions, then spoke with Little Crane about an upcoming gathering at Profound Cave Dao Academy. Meanwhile, Ghost Face Race assassins followed news of Mu Jin’s return, but both they and a group hiding underwater sensed danger and withdrew.

• Chen Xun reassured Big Black Ox that the Three-Eyed Race had likely rescued their Qian Kingdom companions, though he had made up the explanation.
• Little Crane told Chen Xun that Qing Yao’s Second Sister wanted everyone to meet at a grand event near the Dao Academy, and Chen Xun agreed to travel there with Big Black Ox.
• Chen Xun learned that Little Crimson and Little Crane exchanged messages daily, then told Little Crane to keep cultivating and said he would review her insights.
• Fang Shuo and three Ghost Face Race assassins learned that Mu Jin had returned to attend the event at Profound Cave Dao Academy and planned to follow her to discover the Wood Clan’s ancestral land.
• Near the Dao Academy, the assassins and five people hiding underwater sensed one another’s spiritual power and separately retreated to find safer places to make arrangements.