Chapter Summaries

Tang San taught children in Tide Sound Village and told Xiao Wu he had no desire to regain his divine positions. After a runner named Old Crow delivered a threatening letter identifying a hidden path beneath the village, Tang San and Xiao Wu prepared to guard Tide Sound Village against the people coming to retrieve him.

• Tang San taught the village children about Soul Rings and the Mysterious Heaven Skill, then told a curious girl that he no longer wanted to be a god.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu that he was content with village life and shared Nan Feng's warning about Abyssal sleeper agents and trouble in the Far North.
• Shi Zhu reported a suspicious stranger at the beach, and Tang San recognized the man's token as the mark of an Abyssal sleeper agent.
• Tang San confronted Old Crow at the beach while Xiao Wu blocked his escape, and they captured him after he delivered a note about a hidden path beneath Tide Sound Village.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu planned to guard opposite ends of the village until Old Crow's contacts arrived at sunset.

Nan Feng discovered that an Abyss agent was stealing the Three Lights Divine Water-nurtured Blue Silver Grass from Yu Xiaogang’s grave and traced the operation to a ruined temple in Suotuo City. He decided to investigate the temple with Ye Lingling before traveling to the Far North to reinforce its seal.

• Nan Feng watered Yu Xiaogang’s grave with Three Lights Divine Water and learned from Old Zhou that a thin man with half his left ear missing had been buying old manuscripts and asking about the grave.
• Nan Feng realized the Blue Silver Grass might be the target, found fresh digging at the hillside, and pursued the culprit to a donkey cart carrying sorted grass.
• The grass thief confessed that a proprietor had hired him and directed deliveries to a ruined temple outside Suotuo City; Nan Feng found an iron token linked to the proprietor’s network and sent the thief away with a warning.
• Nan Feng and Old Huai replanted the stolen grass and concluded that the ruined temple was an Abyss stronghold seeking information from Yu Xiaogang’s Blue Silver Grass manuscript.
• Nan Feng chose to go to Suotuo City first and bring Ye Lingling to examine the manuscript’s medicinal data, postponing his trip to the Far North.