Chapter Summaries

Yi Xuan revealed that his Good Corpse had impersonated him in the Eternal Sea, then returned to North Wave City after Xing Qi seized control of it. He hid at the Great Qian Merchant Association's store, where Liu Yusen welcomed him inside.

• Yi Xuan explained that his Good Corpse had inhabited a bionic-skinned Pangu and followed Lü Huang into the Eternal Sea while his true body stayed aboard the aerospace carrier.
• At the Good Corpse's request, Yi Xuan sent a Black Tortoise to transfer the white pearl into a new Pangu body, restoring his human appearance.
• Xing Qi led his Nascent Soul cultivators into North Wave City, where the Sea Clan troops surrendered, and found Yi Xuan unharmed.
• Yi Xuan ordered the mechanical octopuses to withdraw into two concealed mechanical whales, then left Xing Qi to finish taking control of the city.
• Yi Xuan went to the Great Qian Merchant Association's store, and Liu Yusen let him inside to shelter while the city settled down.

Yi Xuan met with Xing Qi after the affairs in North Wave City and East Yan City were settled, then asked him to investigate Hai Yue's youngest son and find Mu Anqing. Xing Qi warned that Hai Qing Song's master was a Tribulation Transcendence expert and suspected Mu Anqing had been possessed, linking her disappearance to the Tomb of the Sea God.

• After North Wave City reopened, Xing Qi entered Liu Yusen's shop and went to the back hall to see Yi Xuan.
• Xing Qi revealed that he had brought East Yan City under his control, and Yi Xuan asked about Hai Qing Song's connection to Sea Emperor City.
• Xing Qi said Hai Qing Song's master might be a Tribulation Transcendence expert, but Yi Xuan showed no alarm.
• Yi Xuan showed Xing Qi Mu Anqing's image and asked him to search for her throughout the Eternal Sea.
• After hearing how Mu Anqing disappeared and learning she was not yet forty, Xing Qi suspected she had been possessed by a Sea Clan expert and named the Tomb of the Sea God.

Xing Qi explained that the Tomb of the Sea God would open in three years and might lead Yi Xuan to Junior Sister Mu and Hai Qingshi. Yi Xuan arranged for Xing Qi to expand human-Sea Clan trade, find a secluded location, and search for Junior Sister Mu while Lü Huang returned to the Xia Kingdom.

• Xing Qi told Yi Xuan that the Tomb of the Sea God opened once every hundred years and would admit cultivators under fifty, including humans and Demon Beasts.
• Yi Xuan realized Junior Sister Mu and Hai Qingshi might appear when the tomb opened in three years, giving him a chance to find Mu and obtain Hai Qingshi's secret technique for replacing Spirit Roots.
• Yi Xuan discussed North Wave and East Expanses with Xing Qi and asked him to promote trade between the Sea Clan and humans and find a secluded place between the cities.
• Yi Xuan ordered Xing Qi's subordinates to search throughout the Eternal Sea for Junior Sister Mu rather than rely on her appearing at the tomb.
• Yi Xuan had Lü Huang hand over the caravan's affairs and return to the Xia Kingdom.

After finding Hai Yue’s hidden vaults, Yi Xuan claimed their rare materials and realized the Eternal Sea could provide far more resources than he had originally sought. He began planning an expansive effort to exploit the sea’s resources, leaving the story with the “Eternal Sea Excavation Plan.”

• Xing Qi showed Yi Xuan Hai Yue’s hidden vaults, and Yi Xuan took some pills and Law Artifacts while giving Xing Qi most of the contents.
• Yi Xuan found a much larger final chamber filled with rare materials, including heavenly martial illusory crystal, and claimed everything inside.
• Xing Qi explained the properties of materials unique to the Eternal Sea as Yi Xuan collected them.
• No. 01 organized the material information and prepared specific arrangements for some of the resources.
• Yi Xuan realized the Eternal Sea could serve as a vast resource trove and discussed an excavation plan with No. 01.

Yi Xuan established a concealed deep-sea trench as the site for an underwater research base, then returned to the Azure Cloud Sect for its centennial celebration. There, he was surprised by Ning Yun’s transformation and gave her pills that could help her advance to the Golden Core stage.

• Xing Qi helped Yi Xuan choose a concealed trench, where No. 01 directed mechanical workers to prepare for an underwater research base.
• Liang Shi passed on Shi Zhenghao’s invitation to the Azure Cloud Sect’s centennial celebration, and Yi Xuan left the trench to return to the sect.
• Yi Xuan found his courtyard clean and met Ning Yun, who had transformed into a young woman and reached the Qi Refining Eleventh Layer.
• Ning Yun explained that she had been looking after Yi Xuan’s courtyard to repay him for helping bring her into the sect.
• Yi Xuan gave Ning Yun pills that might help her break through to the Golden Core stage, and she accepted them.

Yi Xuan returned to the Azure Cloud Sect after more than a year away and attended its celebration, where the leaders discussed the missing Mu Anqing and rumors about the Qianyuan Sect’s supreme elder. The Qianyuan Sect’s invitation confirmed Chu Longcheng would hold an ascension ceremony the following month, and the Azure Cloud Sect agreed to attend.

• Yi Xuan visited No. 1 Base and saw that Liang Shi had moved its research equipment to the Xia Kingdom, leaving only the grenade production lines and Nüwa units.
• Shi Zhenghao brought Yi Xuan to meet the three supreme elders, who had worried about his long absence.
• Xiao Anhe guessed that Yi Xuan had gone to the Eternal Sea, and Yi Xuan confirmed he had found no news of Mu Anqing.
• Shi Zhenghao raised rumors that the Qianyuan Sect’s supreme elder was about to ascend, and the old supreme elder explained how Chu Longcheng had helped the sect rise to power.
• The Qianyuan Sect’s disciples delivered an invitation to Chu Longcheng’s ascension ceremony, and the old supreme elder pledged that the Azure Cloud Sect would attend.

At the Azure Cloud Sect’s hundred-year celebration, Cui Yan announced that the senior grand elder had advanced to Spirit Transformation, prompting neighboring sects to react to the Azure Cloud Sect’s rise. Yi Xuan and Xiao Anhe arranged to visit the Qianyuan Sect to witness its grand elder’s ascension, and Yi Xuan went to No. 2 Base.

• Cui Yan announced the senior grand elder’s advancement to Spirit Transformation at the Azure Cloud Sect’s celebration.
• Representatives from neighboring sects began leaving and sending messages as the Azure Cloud Sect became a second-rate sect.
• The senior grand elder said he would remain in the sect and sent Xiao Anhe to witness the Qianyuan Sect grand elder’s ascension with Yi Xuan.
• Yi Xuan and Xiao Anhe agreed to depart for the Qianyuan Sect in half a month so Xiao Anhe could consult its grand elder.
• Yi Xuan went to No. 2 Base after leaving the sect.

Yi Xuan brought Starlink’s second stage into view, adding laser and space-based weapons to the planetary satellite network. In the control room, he examined a strange, doughnut-shaped satellite made of eight space capsules.

• Yi Xuan reviewed Starlink, which had expanded rapidly with resources from the Blood Asura Gate.
• Yi Xuan deployed high-energy laser satellites capable of striking ground targets and groups.
• Yi Xuan tested a space-based weapon in a Xia Kingdom desert and found it could devastate a limited area but could not cause mass destruction or reliably hit moving targets.
• Yi Xuan kept the space-based satellites for precision strikes against formations and buildings, while Starlink also supported planetary monitoring and future interstellar communication.
• Yi Xuan zoomed in on a huge doughnut-shaped satellite and recognized its eight cylindrical sections as space capsules.

Yi Xuan used the Seeking Immortality Space Station to test equipment and prepare to observe the Qianyuan Sect grand elder’s ascension, hoping to learn whether immortals entered the cosmos. On a trip with Xiao Anhe, Yi Xuan thanked his master for protecting the Xia Kingdom from neighboring sects.

• Yi Xuan named his eight-module station the Seeking Immortality Space Station and used robots and instruments to search for Immortal Qi, but detected nothing.
• Yi Xuan arranged for No. 01 to monitor the Qianyuan Sect grand elder’s imminent ascension while the station tested equipment for use in space.
• Yi Xuan returned to the Azure Cloud Sect, where Xiao Anhe said they were leaving at once, and Yi Xuan took his master aboard the Firmament.
• Yi Xuan thanked Xiao Anhe for suppressing neighboring sects’ interest in the Xia Kingdom after they grew envious of its rapid development and heard rumors of a Spirit Stone mine.

Xiao Anhe brought Yi Xuan to the Qianyuan Sect for Chu Longcheng’s ascension ceremony, then revealed that the Qianyuan Sect’s supreme elder was his former senior brother from the Azure Cloud Sect. He explained how Chu Longcheng left after his cultivation stalled because the sect lacked a compatible Nascent Soul method, and left Yi Xuan poised to meet him.

• Yi Xuan and Xiao Anhe reached the Qianyuan Sect aboard the Firmament in less than three days and settled into an assigned courtyard.
• As the ascension ceremony approached, Xiao Anhe spent days lost in thought before telling Yi Xuan they would visit Chu Longcheng the next morning.
• Yi Xuan realized Xiao Anhe spoke of Chu Longcheng with unusual familiarity, and Xiao Anhe revealed they were fellow disciples and Chu Longcheng had been his senior brother.
• Xiao Anhe recounted how Chu Longcheng rose quickly to Nascent Soul but could not advance because the Azure Cloud Sect’s method did not suit him.
• Chu Longcheng left the Azure Cloud Sect, disappeared for a time, and later reemerged as a supreme elder of the Qianyuan Sect.

Yi Xuan learned that Xiao Anhe planned to ask Chu Longcheng for a Spirit Transformation Realm Cultivation Method to help the Azure Cloud Sect’s old supreme elder. As Xiao Anhe struggled to secure one, Yi Xuan gave him two methods from his own collection, leaving his master numb with shock.

• Yi Xuan realized the Azure Cloud Sect’s old supreme elder lacked a suitable Spirit Transformation Realm Cultivation Method and decided to use his system to optimize the sect’s higher-level methods after returning.
• Xiao Anhe explained that he planned to ask his former senior brother Chu Longcheng for a method and showed Yi Xuan the five hundred Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones he had brought as payment.
• Seeing Xiao Anhe’s predicament, Yi Xuan handed him the Blood God Scripture, which Xiao Anhe recognized as a genuine Spirit Transformation Realm Cultivation Method.
• Xiao Anhe stored the scripture, searched the courtyard with his Divine Sense, and warned Yi Xuan about the danger of carrying such a valuable method.
• Yi Xuan revealed a second Spirit Transformation Realm Cultivation Method, and Xiao Anhe examined and hid it before discovering Yi Xuan had another one ready.

Yi Xuan gave two Spirit Transformation realm Cultivation Methods to the Azure Cloud Sect, and Xiao Anhe insisted that he accept compensation in Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones. Their discussion was interrupted by a visit from Chu Longcheng, Xiao Anhe’s former senior brother, who recognized Yi Xuan as a Rootless Person and brought up their old conflict.

• Xiao Anhe accepted one of Yi Xuan’s three Spirit Transformation realm Cultivation Methods and returned the other two to him, insisting the Azure Cloud Sect compensate him with Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Yi Xuan accepted the Cultivation Methods and Spirit Stones after realizing Xiao Anhe would not let the sect take his contribution without payment.
• Chu Longcheng, the Qianyuan Sect’s grand elder and Xiao Anhe’s former senior brother, arrived at Yi Xuan and Xiao Anhe’s room.
• Chu Longcheng probed Yi Xuan and asked why a Rootless Person was a Sect Protector.
• Xiao Anhe rebuked Chu Longcheng for questioning Azure Cloud Sect affairs, and Chu Longcheng said he had had no choice in the past.

Chu Longcheng offered the Azure Cloud Sect a Spirit Transformation cultivation method as atonement for leaving, but Xiao Anhe refused to accept it on his deceased master's behalf. Chu Longcheng then tried to recruit Yi Xuan with promises of help for his Rootless Person condition, and left insisting he had no regrets.

• Xiao Anhe accused Chu Longcheng of betraying the Azure Cloud Sect and reminded him that their master had believed he would return.
• Chu Longcheng offered Xiao Anhe a Jade Slip containing a cultivation method suited to the old grand elder, but Xiao Anhe refused to accept it because he could not forgive Chu Longcheng on his master's behalf.
• Chu Longcheng insisted that he had left to pursue the summit and could not bear to remain in a sect where his cultivation would stagnate.
• Yi Xuan refused Chu Longcheng's offer to join the Qianyuan Sect, saying he would not act against his conscience.
• Chu Longcheng left the room declaring that he did not regret his choices and that reaching the summit had made them worthwhile.

At Chu Longcheng’s ascension ceremony, Xiao Anhe made peace with his lingering resentment as Chu prepared to face the Heavenly Tribulation. Two men from the Mystic Gate interrupted the tribulation and asked Chu whether he would undergo Liberation by Violence and become a Loose Immortal instead.

• Xiao Anhe watched Chu Longcheng’s ascension ceremony and finally let go of his resentment toward his former senior martial uncle.
• Chu Longcheng addressed the gathered cultivators, then flew beyond Qianyuan Sect’s mountain gate to summon the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Yi Xuan had No. 01 monitor Chu Longcheng through Starlink while the Seeking Immortality Space Station and its robots prepared to observe his ascension.
• As dark clouds gathered, two young men from the Mystic Gate arrived and dispersed the tribulation clouds with a pillar of light.
• The young men explained that the Mystic Gate had previously intervened in an ascension and asked Chu Longcheng whether he would undergo Liberation by Violence and cultivate as a Loose Immortal.

Chu Longcheng rejected two mysterious men’s offer to abandon his tribulation and become a Loose Immortal, then resumed facing the heavenly lightning. He cleaved through successive bolts with his Azure Dragon Saber, and the sixth bolt hesitated.

• Two men claiming to be from the Mystic Gate asked Chu Longcheng to use Liberation by Violence and become a Loose Immortal.
• Chu Longcheng struck the men with his saber, but they emerged unharmed and pressed him for an answer.
• Chu Longcheng demanded a reason, then refused their proposal and told them to leave.
• The men moved away but stayed to watch as Chu Longcheng’s tribulation clouds gathered again.
• Chu Longcheng cleaved apart the first five bolts of lightning, and the sixth bolt began to hesitate.

Chu Longcheng endured the final bolts of tribulation lightning and successfully transcended, while Yi Xuan overheard the Mystic Gate envoys hinting at a hidden danger tied to immortal cultivation. Chu Longcheng began ascending to the Immortal Realm after bidding farewell, glancing down as Xiao Anhe nodded to him.

• The sixth bolt shattered Chu Longcheng’s Azure Dragon Saber and drove him into a crater, but he emerged unharmed and met the seventh bolt head-on.
• Chu Longcheng seized the seventh bolt with his hands and tore it apart as Bai Mian and his companion watched and discussed the Mystic Gate’s rules.
• Yi Xuan’s microrobots recorded the envoys’ conversation, leading him to connect their advice to the High Antiquity Artifact Sect’s warning against cultivating immortality.
• Chu Longcheng survived the eighth bolt and the final black bolt, then recovered as the tribulation clouds disappeared.
• Chu Longcheng announced that he had completed Tribulation Transcendence and began ascending toward the Immortal Realm, while Xiao Anhe nodded up at him.

After Chu Longcheng ascended, Yi Xuan used Starlink to observe his journey into space and discovered that an unknown force devoured the Spiritual Qi around him. Chu Longcheng traveled to the moon and sat motionless, while Yi Xuan left monitoring to No. 01 and flew with Xiao Anhe toward the Azure Cloud Sect.

• Chu Longcheng vanished into the sky, and the Qianyuan Sect held a feast after his ascension ceremony.
• Xiao Anhe reflected on how his loyalty to the Azure Cloud Sect might eventually lead him to the same fate as his master, while Yi Xuan watched Chu Longcheng's ascension through Starlink.
• Yi Xuan observed Chu Longcheng accelerate through the atmosphere and stop absorbing Spiritual Qi as he neared its edge.
• When Chu Longcheng entered space, a mass of Spiritual Qi burst from him and was rapidly devoured by an unknown force.
• Chu Longcheng flew to the moon, searched his surroundings, then sat motionless; Yi Xuan assigned No. 01 to monitor him and left with Xiao Anhe for the Azure Cloud Sect.

Yi Xuan returned to the Azure Cloud Sect, copied its Cultivation Methods for No. 01 to optimize, and continued his research at No. 2 Base. Liang Shi summoned him to Imperial University to show him a major breakthrough, where Yi Xuan recognized the creature in the projection as the Scorpion King.

• Yi Xuan fended off questioning from the Azure Cloud Sect's supreme elders by claiming he had found his Cultivation Method in a cave, and Xiao Anhe helped bring the matter to a close.
• Yi Xuan copied the Cultivation Methods in the sect's scripture repository for No. 01 to optimize, then spent nearly half a month working on the Seeking Immortality Space Station and monitoring other projects.
• Liang Shi reported a critical technological breakthrough, prompting Yi Xuan to hurry to the Xia Kingdom's capital and visit Imperial University.
• Liang Shi showed Yi Xuan his underground research base, where Yi Xuan saw cultivation pods holding death-row criminals and a team of university students.
• Liang Shi led Yi Xuan to an observation room, where Yi Xuan saw a projected creature and asked if it was the Scorpion King.

Liang Shi showed Yi Xuan the mass-producible Demon Scorpion Soldiers, a hybrid of human and Purple Flame Demon Scorpion genes that could reach Nascent Soul Late Stage and cultivate by both methods. Their strength came with a serious control problem, and Yi Xuan considered implantable chips as a solution.

• Liang Shi revealed a human-bodied creature with scorpion claws and a tail, while a projection showed a giant Purple Flame Demon Scorpion.
• Liang Shi explained that he had combined human and Purple Flame Demon Scorpion genes to create the Demon Scorpion Soldier and could mass-produce it.
• Liang Shi told Yi Xuan that an adult Demon Scorpion Soldier could reach Nascent Soul Late Stage and practice human Cultivation Methods without losing its instinctive Demon Beast cultivation.
• Liang Shi warned that the soldiers were difficult to control, bloodthirsty, and possessed small, violence-filled seas of consciousness.
• Yi Xuan considered using implantable chips to control the Demon Scorpion Soldiers.

Yi Xuan and Liang Shi developed a brain control chip to control the Demon Scorpion Soldiers, overcoming design and manufacturing obstacles. The first chip was completed just as Yi Xuan's Spirit Refining Instruction broke through again, raising his Divine Sense to the Nascent Soul Late Stage level.

• Yi Xuan watched Liang Shi's videos and saw how Soul Control made a Demon Scorpion Soldier obedient but stripped it of its instincts and ability to cultivate.
• Yi Xuan and Liang Shi spent a month designing the brain control chip, then another month using No. 01's simulations to resolve problems and finalize the model.
• Yi Xuan used his Divine Sense to boost the lithography machine's precision because the chip required more accuracy than the machine could normally provide.
• As manufacturing drained Yi Xuan's Divine Sense, Liang Shi's knocking startled him, and Yi Xuan circulated the Spirit Refining Instruction to replenish it faster.
• The brain control chip was completed, and Yi Xuan's Spirit Refining Instruction broke through, strengthening his Divine Sense to the Nascent Soul Late Stage level.