Chapter Summaries

After assessing the Xia Kingdom’s rapid modernization, Yi Xuan prepared to leave for the Eternal Sea and gave Liang Shi a Pangu unit housing his Evil Corpse to oversee technological development. He concealed the truth about his Good and Evil Twin Corpses by claiming the Pangu was his Second Primordial Spirit.

• Yi Xuan praised Zhuo Ning and Liang Shi’s work modernizing the Xia Kingdom and refused their offer to report on its progress.
• Liang Shi asked Yi Xuan to stay and oversee technological development, but Yi Xuan said he was leaving for the Eternal Sea.
• Yi Xuan brought out a Pangu unit that spoke and acted like him, confusing Liang Shi and prompting Zhuo Ning to suggest it was a Second Primordial Spirit.
• Yi Xuan explained that his Good and Evil Twin Corpses were housed in specially designed Pangu units and could support technological research from afar.
• Yi Xuan let Zhuo Ning’s suggestion stand and told Liang Shi the Pangu was his Second Primordial Spirit, while Zhuo Ning accepted the explanation despite his doubts.

Yi Xuan traveled through the Eternal Sea aboard an ark while searching for Mu Anqing, whose extraordinary strength suggested she had been possessed by a powerful being. After a year without answers, he and Lü Huang encountered Sea Race raiders targeting their caravan.

• Lü Huang told Yi Xuan that a year of searching had yielded no information about Mu Anqing, and Yi Xuan said ordinary Sea Race cultivators were unlikely to know about her situation.
• Yi Xuan reasoned that Mu Anqing’s power during the tsunami had far exceeded the Spirit Transformation Realm and likely came from possession.
• A tremor shook the ark, and Yi Xuan and Lü Huang saw a giant ray carrying Sea Race members approach.
• Lü Huang identified the Sea Race members as sea raiders who usually demanded half of a human caravan’s valuables.
• Lü Huang explained that humans were weakened in the Eternal Sea and could not rely on the Sea Race to protect them as the raiders shouted outside the ark.

Yi Xuan and Lü Huang learned that sea bandits had boarded the Great Qian Merchant Caravan’s ark despite its paid toll, and the sea race leader demanded every passenger’s valuables. The leader turned his attention to Lü Huang and promised to spare their lives if they surrendered everything.

• Lü Huang explained to Yi Xuan that sea race cities organized bandits to collect tolls from human merchant caravans, but this group ignored the usual rules.
• The sea bandit leader struck the ark, weakened its protective barrier, and forced the Great Qian Merchant Caravan to let his group aboard.
• The sea race leader slapped Liu Yusen twice after Liu explained that the caravan had already paid North Wave City.
• The sea race leader declared that his own rules prevailed in the Eternal Sea and demanded all valuables from the passengers, promising to let them live.

Sea bandits robbed the ark’s passengers, killing one man who challenged their authority. After collecting everyone’s belongings, the sea clan leader changed his rules and demanded that the captives play a game to earn their freedom.

• A young man challenged the sea bandits, and their leader killed him before ordering everyone to surrender their Storage Bags.
• Lü Huang urged Yi Xuan to accept the robbery, while Yi Xuan secretly relied on his camouflaged aerospace carrier hovering above the ark.
• Yi Xuan, Lü Huang, and the other passengers handed over their belongings and waited as the sea bandits searched the ark.
• Liu Yusen asked the leader to let the passengers leave as promised, but the leader changed the rules and proposed a game for their freedom.
• Yi Xuan watched the sea clan leader with curiosity as the other passengers grew grim.

The Sea Clan challenged the humans aboard the ark to fight a young warrior, while secretly making escape impossible. After Liu Yusen was badly injured, Yi Xuan retrieved his Storage Bag and summoned the Black Tortoise to block the boy’s attack, leaving the boy unable to strike.

• The Sea Clan leader offered to let anyone who defeated a Late Grain Avoidance Stage child leave with their belongings, and the humans realized the offer was a trap.
• Liu Yusen stepped forward to face the child but was struck in the abdomen and badly injured before Lü Huang caught him.
• Yi Xuan asked to fight next and insisted that the Sea Clan return his Storage Bag so he could retrieve his weapons.
• The boy attacked Yi Xuan from behind, but Yi Xuan summoned the Black Tortoise to stop the spear and declared that the boy had no chance.

Yi Xuan used the upgraded Black Tortoise No. 4 to overpower the Sea Folk raiders and seize Qing Song. After the leader offered to release the humans and return their cargo, Yi Xuan crushed Qing Song and declared his rules, prompting the raiders to charge.

• The Black Tortoise No. 4 captured Qing Song and resisted the Sea Folk's attacks with its energy shield.
• Yi Xuan explained that he had upgraded the Black Tortoise with an Arc Reactor and underwater adaptations that let it fight effectively in the Eternal Sea.
• The Sea Folk leader offered to release the humans and return their cargo if Yi Xuan freed Qing Song.
• Yi Xuan tightened his grip on Qing Song, then crushed him after the Sea Folk leader agreed to follow his rules.
• The enraged leader ordered the Sea Folk to attack the Black Tortoise, and Yi Xuan watched them charge.

Yi Xuan and his Black Tortoises defeated the sea pirates who had boarded the ark, while the surviving pirates outside fled. The sea pirate leader killed himself after blaming Yi Xuan for Qing Song’s death, leaving Yi Xuan to wonder whether he had stirred up trouble.

• Ten Black Tortoises appeared around Yi Xuan’s mount, and the sea pirate leader sent the Water Butterfly Beast to shake the ark while his crew rushed inside.
• Black Tortoise No. 4 clashed with the sea pirate leader, and Yi Xuan ordered its laser to burn the leader’s right arm.
• The other ten Black Tortoises killed the sea pirates aboard the ark, leaving the leader alone.
• Yi Xuan let the Water Butterfly Beast carry off the pirates outside, then asked the leader whether he would have spared the ark’s people.
• The leader blamed Yi Xuan for Qing Song’s death and thrust his neck against the Black Tortoise’s saber, killing himself.

After Yi Xuan saved the ark from sea bandits, some passengers complained about his companion and refused to show gratitude, while others thanked him sincerely or left in silence. Yi Xuan secretly sent miniature tracking robots after the ungrateful passengers as the caravan continued toward North Wave City.

• Liu Yusen and the other survivors thanked Yi Xuan after he defeated the sea bandits.
• Lü Huang criticized passengers who hurried to recover their Storage Bags before thanking Yi Xuan, and some merchants angrily defended themselves.
• One passenger blamed Lü Huang for his remarks, withdrew a promised gift, and left while spreading suspicions about Yi Xuan and the Great Qian Merchant Association.
• Yi Xuan stopped Lü Huang from confronting the passengers and explained that he would not waste force on petty people; Liu Yusen apologized and promised the association would offer Yi Xuan its best prices in North Wave City.
• Yi Xuan's miniature robots secretly attached themselves to the departing passengers to track and surveil them.
• The remaining passengers showed varied reactions, with some offering sincere thanks, some going through the motions, and many leaving silently.

Yi Xuan reached North Wave City and accepted Liu Yusen’s invitation to the Great Qian Merchant Association, hoping its connections might provide news of Junior Sister Mu. Meanwhile, the city lord mourned his murdered son Song’er, while his eldest son secretly reacted with alarm to a human bringing news about Qi Feiyu.

• Yi Xuan arrived at North Wave City aboard Liu Yusen’s ark and saw the passengers safely disembark.
• Liu Yusen invited Yi Xuan and his men to the Great Qian Merchant Association’s shop, and Yi Xuan accepted in hopes of learning about Junior Sister Mu.
• The North Wave City lord discovered that the candle representing Song’er had gone out and vowed to find his son’s killer.
• The city lord sent his eldest son to investigate Song’er’s whereabouts and ordered him to question the household.
• A butler told the eldest son that a human had news about Qi Feiyu, and the eldest son hurried to his study after concealing his alarm.

Zhang Xinzhi told Hai Qingshi and Hai Yue that Yi Xuan had killed Hai Song and Qi Feiyu, prompting the city lord to assess Yi Xuan’s strength. Hai Qingshi then led soldiers to surround the Great Qian Merchant Caravan, where he ordered Yi Xuan and his companions seized.

• Zhang Xinzhi told Hai Qingshi that Qi Feiyu had led sea bandits and that Yi Xuan had killed him and the city lord’s second son, Hai Song.
• Butler reported that Hai Song had left the manor with Qi Feiyu, and Hai Qingshi brought Butler and Zhang Xinzhi to see Hai Yue.
• Hai Yue heard the witnesses’ accounts, sent word to Sea Emperor City, and considered how to respond to Yi Xuan’s unknown strength.
• Yi Xuan learned through his miniature robot that his killings had reached the city lord’s manor and warned Liu Yusen that trouble was coming.
• Hai Qingshi surrounded the Great Qian Merchant Caravan with sea folk soldiers, and Yi Xuan mocked the people he had rescued before Hai Qingshi ordered his men to seize them, dead or alive.

Yi Xuan avoided a confrontation with Hai Qingshi when Hai Yue arrived and invited him to dinner in three days. Hai Yue then revealed that he feared Yi Xuan’s strength and sent Hai Qingshi to deliver a letter to Xing Qi, the city lord of East Yan City.

• Liu Yusen stepped between Yi Xuan and Hai Qingshi, asking Hai Qingshi not to trouble his guest.
• Hai Yue arrived, slapped Hai Qingshi twice for mobilizing troops without permission, and ordered him back to his room.
• Hai Yue apologized to Liu Yusen, invited Yi Xuan to dine at his residence in three days, and withdrew the troops.
• Yi Xuan accepted the invitation while privately suspecting Hai Yue was setting a trap for him.
• Hai Yue told Hai Qingshi that Yi Xuan might be as strong as a Spirit Transformation expert and ordered him to take a letter to Xing Qi.

Yi Xuan watched Hai Qingshi retrieve his dead younger brother's remains and use a secret art to replace his Spirit Root with a Seventh-Grade Spirit Root. Hai Qingshi also reported that East Yan City's lord had agreed to join Hai Yue's plan against Yi Xuan, while Yi Xuan realized the secret art could be what he had long wanted.

• Hai Qingshi secretly took out a cauldron containing his younger brother Qing Song's remains, while Yi Xuan watched through a miniature robot hidden in Hai Qingshi's hair.
• Hai Qingshi spoke to an unseen Elder Hai and said he would report to his father before they began their plan.
• Hai Qingshi told Hai Yue that Xing Qi of East Yan City had agreed to join their plan against Yi Xuan if they handed over the Water Cloud Stone mine first, and Hai Yue accepted the condition.
• After Hai Qingshi left, Hai Yue questioned his hidden guard Shadow about whether Qingshi had been involved in Qing Song's death and learned that news of the death had reached Sea Emperor City.
• Hai Qingshi entered a secret chamber and used the cauldron to replace his four-colored Spirit Root with a seven-colored one, becoming a genius with a Seventh-Grade Spirit Root.
• Yi Xuan realized Hai Qingshi's secret art could replace Spirit Roots and that he wanted to obtain it.

Yi Xuan used Hai Yue’s banquet invitation to uncover the plan to capture him and decided to draw out Xing Qi without provoking the Sea Clan openly. As Hai Yue and Xing Qi waited to ambush him, Hai Qingshi wrestled with Elder Hai’s warnings and chose to stay; Yi Xuan arrived and called for the confrontation to begin.

• Yi Xuan concluded that Hai Yue planned to recruit Xing Qi to help capture him, and chose to target Xing Qi rather than attack the city lords outright.
• At Hai Yue’s banquet, Yi Xuan pretended to be drunk and friendly, then said he would leave North Wave City the next morning.
• Elder Hai revealed to Hai Qingshi that he had sensed a connection between Hai Qingshi’s Spirit Root and something Yi Xuan carried, and suspected Yi Xuan had seen Hai Qingshi use Stealing Heaven.
• Hai Yue led Hai Qingshi and Nascent Soul Cultivators out before dawn to join Xing Qi in waiting for Yi Xuan, while Elder Hai urged Hai Qingshi to flee.
• Hai Qingshi insisted on seeing whether Hai Yue cared about him, and Elder Hai agreed to stay but promised to take him away if Hai Yue and Xing Qi fell behind.
• Yi Xuan arrived with Lü Huang and the others, saw Hai Yue and Xing Qi waiting, and called out for the confrontation to begin.

Yi Xuan summoned mechanical sharks to turn the Sea Clan ambush against Xing Qi and Hai Yue’s forces. As the sharks began killing the Nascent Soul cultivators, Xing Qi entered the battle while Hai Yue stayed behind to protect Hai Qingshi.

• Xing Qi and Hai Yue questioned how Yi Xuan had learned of their plan, while Hai Yue suspected Hai Qingshi but ultimately dismissed the idea.
• Xing Qi and Hai Yue sent nearly a hundred Nascent Soul cultivators to attack Yi Xuan and his companions.
• Yi Xuan summoned over twenty Black Tortoises, several of which were damaged or destroyed in the first assault.
• Yi Xuan opened two portals and released enormous mechanical sharks, leaving both sides momentarily unsure how to respond.
• The mechanical sharks attacked the Sea Clan cultivators with bladed fins, powerful bites, lasers, and torpedoes, killing them one by one.
• Xing Qi went to fight the sharks while Hai Yue promised to move Hai Qingshi to safety before joining him.

Xing Qi drove back Yi Xuan’s mechanical sharks, but Hai Yue used the battle as a diversion to attack East Yan City and abandon Xing Qi’s forces. Hai Yue escaped after throwing Hai Qingshi at Xing Qi, leaving Xing Qi to face the sharks surrounding his remaining subordinates.

• Xing Qi rallied the Nascent Soul Cultivators and destroyed enough mechanical sharks that Yi Xuan ordered the rest to withdraw.
• Hai Qingshi realized Hai Yue had used the promise of safety as a pretext and resolved to stop seeking his father’s approval.
• Hai Yue withdrew his Nascent Soul subordinates toward North Wave City, and Xing Qi’s city lord token shattered as Hai Yue’s attack on East Yan City took effect.
• Xing Qi confronted Hai Yue, who revealed that he had lured Xing Qi away with the water cloud stone mine as bait.
• Hai Yue hurled Hai Qingshi into Xing Qi’s arms and escaped; Xing Qi spared Hai Qingshi, then found Yi Xuan’s sharks surrounding the remaining Nascent Soul Cultivators.

Yi Xuan cornered Hai Qingshi and Xing Qi with a laser cannon, but Elder Hai teleported Hai Qingshi away at the cost of falling into a deep sleep. Yi Xuan then used his Soul Control Secret Technique on Xing Qi, promising to help him reclaim what was his and take revenge on Hai Yue.

• A pillar of light trapped Xing Qi and Hai Qingshi, and Yi Xuan demanded that Hai Qingshi hand over his secret technique for obtaining Spirit Roots.
• Elder Hai used a last resort to teleport Hai Qingshi ten thousand li away, then told him the Tomb of the Sea God would open in three years and held the key to his awakening.
• Yi Xuan lost the signal from the miniature robot on Hai Qingshi and realized he could no longer track him.
• Yi Xuan offered to help Xing Qi reclaim what was his and make Hai Yue regret manipulating them, then compelled Xing Qi to accept his Soul Control Secret Technique.
• Yi Xuan ordered the mechanical sharks to release the Nascent Souls and recalled the sharks through the black holes above his head.

Yi Xuan led Xing Qi and his followers to attack North Wave City, despite Xing Qi’s preference to retake East Yan City first. Yi Xuan used mother-and-child sea mines to destroy North Wave City’s protective formation, leaving the attack ready to begin.

• Yi Xuan told Xing Qi to present him as an adviser and promised to help him seize East Yan City and North Wave City.
• Xing Qi led his loyal Nascent Soul Cultivators to North Wave City, where Hai Yue had activated the city-protecting formation.
• Yi Xuan launched mother mines that exploded above the city and released child mines against its formation.
• Yi Xuan detonated the child mines, and North Wave City’s formation collapsed after three seconds.

Xing Qi attacked Hai Yue at the city lord’s residence in North Wave City while Yi Xuan blocked reinforcements from East Yan City. Yi Xuan then sent mechanical octopuses into the city and piloted the Black Tortoise toward the residence.

• After North Wave City's defensive formation fell, Xing Qi led his forces into the city and confronted Hai Yue at the city lord's residence.
• Xing Qi and Hai Yue exchanged attacks as their followers fought, with Xing Qi's side gaining the advantage.
• Hai Yue summoned the city garrison to stall for time while reinforcements traveled from East Yan City.
• Xing Qi warned Yi Xuan about Hai Yue's missing top fighters, and Yi Xuan sent mechanical sharks to intercept the reinforcements.
• Yi Xuan released mechanical octopuses into North Wave City, where they fought the defenders, then piloted the Black Tortoise toward the city lord's residence.

Hai Yue's mechanical octopuses overwhelmed North Wave City as he fought Xing Qi, who trapped him in an array of Nascent Soul cultivators. Just as Yi Xuan confronted the pinned Hai Yue, an attacker destroyed the Black Tortoise and cut off Yi Xuan's head.

• Hai Yue's mechanical octopuses flooded North Wave City while the defenders fought them and his remaining Nascent Soul cultivators surrendered.
• Hai Yue and Xing Qi fought fiercely, and Xing Qi realized Hai Yue had grown stronger since their last encounter.
• Xing Qi drew Hai Yue into an array formed by dozens of Nascent Soul cultivators, pinning him in place.
• Yi Xuan piloted the Black Tortoise to confront Hai Yue and revealed that he had known about Hai Yue's scheme.
• A small, thin figure cut into the Black Tortoise, causing its upper body to split open and Yi Xuan's head to fall at Xing Qi's feet.

Shadow killed Yi Xuan’s apparent body and broke the formation, allowing Hai Yue to fight Xing Qi and drive his forces from North Wave City. Xing Qi then watched Hai Yue and Shadow vanish beneath a beam of light, while the real Yi Xuan remained aboard his aerospace carrier and transferred into a mechanical octopus.

• Shadow killed Yi Xuan and the Sea Clan cultivator maintaining the formation, freeing Hai Yue and disabling the barrier.
• Hai Yue revealed his Spirit Transformation strength, while Shadow slaughtered Xing Qi’s Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Xing Qi disarmed by Hai Yue ordered his forces to retreat from North Wave City.
• A pillar of light enveloped Hai Yue and Shadow, and a second beam made them dissipate before Xing Qi’s eyes.
• A mechanical octopus retrieved a white sphere from Yi Xuan’s severed body and took in his voice as Yi Xuan revealed he had survived.