Chapter Summaries

After the Azure Cloud Sect defeated the Mystic Snow Pavilion, Yi Xuan demanded compensation, copies of its secret manuals, and control of its mortal kingdoms and Spirit Stone mines. When the Mystic Snow Pavilion’s Grand Elders rejected the final terms, Yi Xuan destroyed its mountain-protecting formation and challenged them again.

• Yi Xuan arrived at the Azure Cloud Sect, where Cui Yan and the sect’s leaders and disciples thanked him for saving them.
• News of the defeat reached the Southern Frontier, and the Qianyuan Sect’s master worried about the rise of a new top-tier power.
• Three days later, Yi Xuan went to the Mystic Snow Pavilion with Cui Yan and Xiao Anhe to deliver his demands.
• The Mystic Snow Pavilion’s sect master said the sect would pay fifty thousand Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and provide copies of its secret manuals, but the Grand Elders grew furious when they learned Yi Xuan also demanded its mortal kingdoms and Spirit Stone mines.
• Yi Xuan heard the Grand Elders reject his proposal, then used space-based weapons to destroy the Mystic Snow Pavilion’s mountain-protecting formation and asked what they thought now.

After securing the Mystic Snow Pavilion’s resources, Yi Xuan spread Xia Kingdom technology through the Southern Frontier and returned to the Eternal Sea as the Twin Cities prospered. He then focused on his underwater base when Xing Qi announced that the Tomb of the Sea God would open in ten days.

• The Mystic Snow Pavilion handed its resources and territories to the Azure Cloud Sect, whose disciples began cultivating under Yi Xuan’s protection.
• Yi Xuan ordered Xia Kingdom technology to spread through the Azure Cloud Sect’s territories, and other Southern Frontier kingdoms gradually adopted it.
• After three months, Yi Xuan returned to the Eternal Sea, where a year passed as the Twin Cities and their human-Sea Clan trade grew.
• More Southern Frontier merchants and immigrants flocked to the Twin Cities, and the human city grew more prosperous than the underwater Sea Clan city.
• Yi Xuan shut himself in his underwater base as the Tomb of the Sea God’s opening approached, and Xing Qi told him it would open in ten days.

Yi Xuan and Xing Qi reached the Tomb of the Sea God, a vast floating island at the center of the Eternal Sea, where prodigies and nearly a hundred Sea Clan emperors had gathered. As they waited for the tomb to open, Xing Qi worried that Emperor Lin might appear, while Yi Xuan trusted that the ring he carried would let him escape if the Sea Clan turned against him.

• Yi Xuan followed Xing Qi into the Eternal Sea, hoping the Tomb of the Sea God might lead him to news of Junior Sister Mu.
• Yi Xuan and Xing Qi arrived at the tomb and saw that it was an enormous floating island said to have been created by Lord Sea God.
• Yi Xuan and Xing Qi waited two days as prodigies under fifty gathered to enter the tomb.
• Yi Xuan noticed that nearly a hundred Tribulation Transcendence Sea Clan emperors had escorted their factions' prodigies, and Xing Qi explained that the gathering also served as a meeting and trading occasion for the great experts.
• Xing Qi worried that Emperor Lin might attend, while Yi Xuan touched his ring and reassured himself that he could escape if necessary.

Yi Xuan waited for Junior Sister Mu as the Tomb of the Sea God opened, then spotted her entering the island and followed in the Black Tortoise. He woke in an isolated, flooded environment and learned the entire island had flipped upside down.

• Yi Xuan waited with Xing Qi for Junior Sister Mu while Emperor Lin arrived but did not confront him.
• As the Tomb of the Sea God opened, Yi Xuan prepared to leave when Starlink identified Junior Sister Mu charging onto the floating island.
• Yi Xuan entered the island aboard the Black Tortoise, lost consciousness, and was awakened by its emergency system.
• Yi Xuan discovered that the island was flooded and all connections to the outside had failed.
• No. 01 told Yi Xuan that the island had flipped a hundred and eighty degrees and was now upside down in the Eternal Sea.

Yi Xuan learned how the Tomb of the Sea God appeared when the island flipped, then sent mechanical octopuses to search for Junior Sister Mu and headed toward the central tower. After meeting Fu Qianqiu, he agreed to explore the tomb with him as they traveled toward the center.

• Yi Xuan learned that the island turned upside down when the Tomb of the Sea God opened, revealing the central tower.
• Yi Xuan released mechanical octopuses to search for Junior Sister Mu and sent the mechanical whale into optical stealth mode as a signal base station.
• Yi Xuan flew the Black Tortoise toward the tower, but after a day of travel had covered only one-fifth of the distance.
• Fu Qianqiu approached Yi Xuan, recognized his puppet as one like those commanded by Protector Yi, and introduced himself as a disciple of the Thousand Talisman Sect.
• Yi Xuan used the name Shi Zhenghao and accepted Fu Qianqiu's invitation to explore the Tomb of the Sea God together.

Yi Xuan traveled with Fu Qianqiu toward the central tower of the Tomb of the Sea God, learning that treasures were scattered across the island. When Fu Qianqiu's Treasure-Seeking Talisman led them to a buried prize, Yi Xuan used the Black Tortoise's palm cannons to dig it up and found a ring packed with Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones.

• Fu Qianqiu told Yi Xuan that the central tower was the true Tomb of the Sea God and that treasures from stranded heaven's chosen could be found across the island.
• Yi Xuan and Fu Qianqiu traveled together for two days as Fu Qianqiu used a Treasure-Seeking Talisman to summon a smoke crane that led them to a patch of grass.
• Fu Qianqiu began digging with an iron shovel and pickaxe, explaining that treasure hunting required sincerity and that using True Essence could spoil the find.
• Yi Xuan fired the Black Tortoise's palm cannons to excavate the spot without using True Essence, and its sensors found a ring in the pit.
• Fu Qianqiu inspected the ring and discovered at least two thousand Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones, then reconsidered his traditional treasure-hunting methods.

Yi Xuan and Fu Qianqiu reached the lake surrounding the tower and found Junior Sister Mu waiting for its barrier to vanish. When the Lake of Fate opened, Junior Sister Mu and the other cultivators set out in boats formed from their Root Bone and sails formed from their fortune, while Yi Xuan tried to reach her.

• Fu Qianqiu shared half the treasure with Yi Xuan, then told him about the turmoil in the Blazing Sun Immortal Kingdom and helped search for Junior Sister Mu.
• Eight days later, Yi Xuan and Fu Qianqiu reached the tower and learned that a barrier around the lake would disappear on the tenth day after the Tomb of the Sea God opened.
• Yi Xuan spotted Junior Sister Mu waiting by the lake, but the tower's blue light made the barrier vanish before he could greet her.
• A whisper instructed the gathered cultivators to cross the Lake of Fate using their Root Bone as a boat and their fortune as a sail.
• Junior Sister Mu and the other cultivators boarded their boats and sailed toward the lake's middle, while Yi Xuan called out to her without getting a response.
• Yi Xuan saw that Fu Qianqiu's modest pleasure boat carried a vast sail, marking his fortune as exceptional.

Yi Xuan’s fate-made boat proved too flimsy to cross the Lake of Fate, so he used a destroyer instead and sped toward the Tomb of the Sea God. As the lake grew more violent and lightning struck the boats, only Junior Sister Mu and Fu Qianqiu remained ahead of him.

• Yi Xuan formed a tiny sampan with a ragged sail, then retreated to shore when it failed to grow.
• Fu Qianqiu sailed onward, while Yi Xuan saw cultivators killed by lightning after they tried to leave the Lake of Fate.
• Yi Xuan realized the lake judged travelers by their Root Bone and fate, then summoned a destroyer and ordered No. 01 to drive it across.
• The destroyer overtook the other boats, forcing them to make way as its wake rocked them.
• Near the lake’s center, waves and lightning destroyed boats and killed their passengers until only Junior Sister Mu and Fu Qianqiu remained ahead of Yi Xuan.

Yi Xuan crossed the stormy lake in his destroyer and entered a tower where he passed up a selection of powerful Jade Slips to try another test. Unable to approach Stone Mountain or Copper Mountain, he began shaping a Divine Sense walking stick to climb Gold Mountain.

• Yi Xuan steered his destroyer safely across the stormy lake and entered the tower, where Fu Qianqiu and Junior Sister Mu were nowhere to be seen.
• Yi Xuan examined the Jade Slips but gave up his chance to take three and walked through a gate of light instead.
• Yi Xuan saw Fu Qianqiu climbing Copper Mountain and Junior Sister Mu nearing the summit of Stone Mountain with walking sticks made from Divine Sense.
• Yi Xuan tried to approach Stone Mountain, then Copper Mountain, but found both inaccessible.
• Yi Xuan went to Gold Mountain and began constructing a walking stick with his Divine Sense.

Yi Xuan discovered that the golden mountain limited his Divine Sense walking stick according to his Qi Refining Realm cultivation, so he replaced it with a Black Tortoise that carried him uphill. He then found that cultivating the Spirit Refining Instruction beside the mountain was over ten times faster and stopped to cultivate.

• Yi Xuan found that his walking stick used less than a ten-thousandth of his Divine Sense, while Junior Sister Mu and Fu Qianqiu's sticks reflected their full strength.
• Yi Xuan realized the mountain had set his Divine Sense limit according to his Qi Refining Realm cultivation rather than his actual strength.
• Yi Xuan discarded the walking stick, manifested a Black Tortoise, and rode it toward the summit.
• Yi Xuan began cultivating the Spirit Refining Instruction inside the Black Tortoise and discovered his cultivation speed had increased more than tenfold.
• Yi Xuan left the Black Tortoise beside the path and began cultivating, causing the construct to dissipate back into his sea of consciousness.

Mu Anqing and Fu Qianqiu passed the mountain trial while Yi Xuan remained on the gold mountain path, refining his Divine Sense. His Divine Sense broke through to Spirit Transformation, but his sea of consciousness began collapsing, leaving him near death as the Book of Technology remained unresponsive.

• Mu Anqing reached the summit first and disappeared, while Fu Qianqiu later reached the copper mountain summit and saw Yi Xuan sitting on the gold mountain path.
• More cultivators began climbing the mountains, and those who chose the gold mountain were crushed by its pressure; some lost their walking sticks and Divine Sense.
• Yi Xuan completed a tower-like construct in his sea of consciousness as the Spirit Refining Instruction consumed Blood Venerable's mental power.
• Yi Xuan's Divine Sense surged into the Spirit Transformation realm, but the strain caused cracks to spread through his sea of consciousness.
• Yi Xuan watched his sea of consciousness collapse and his Divine Sense leak away, while the Book of Technology did not respond and nearby cultivators believed he could not be saved.

Yi Xuan’s sea of consciousness collapsed while his cultivation rose uncontrollably to the Qi Refining Realm Thousandth Layer, leaving him unconscious in a featureless darkness. The black hole in his Dantian restored his consciousness and reforged his sea of consciousness, and he awoke on Gold Mountain with an immense pressure emanating from him.

• Yi Xuan’s uncontrolled True Qi pushed his cultivation to the Qi Refining Realm Thousandth Layer as his sea of consciousness crumbled, and he lost consciousness.
• Yi Xuan drifted through darkness, nearly falling asleep, until a glowing hole drew him into its light.
• Yi Xuan recognized the hole’s familiar presence as his own before it sucked him back into his sea of consciousness.
• The black hole in Yi Xuan’s Dantian released energy that rebuilt his sea of consciousness and restored his Divine Sense and Blood Venerable’s mental power, now fused together.
• Yi Xuan’s restored sea of consciousness flared, and his immense pressure pinned the cultivators climbing Gold Mountain to the ground.

Yi Xuan’s Divine Sense surged as the black hole in his Dantian helped reforge his Sea of Consciousness, bringing his Divine Sense to the level of an Early Tribulation Transcendence expert. He left through the gate of light, while the chosen on the three mountains recovered from the pressure of his presence.

• Yi Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness expanded to a hundred times its former size and became sturdy enough to withstand Divine Sense at the immortal level.
• Yi Xuan discovered that the black hole in his Dantian had exhausted its True Qi to reforge his Sea of Consciousness, so he cultivated until its exhaustion vanished at the Qi Refining Realm, 1,200th Layer.
• Yi Xuan found that his Divine Sense had improved to rival an Early Tribulation Transcendence expert, greatly strengthening the Barrett and strange tower he had created.
• Yi Xuan saw motionless people lying across the three mountains, built a flying Black Tortoise with his Divine Sense, and passed through the gate of light at the summit.
• After Yi Xuan left, the people on the mountains began moving again and realized his Tribulation Transcendence presence had pinned them in place.

Yi Xuan passed on the supreme-grade Law Artifacts and entered a new trial, where the Tomb of the Sea God revealed a star-filled cosmos and an unfinished grand array. He learned that the array’s creator had left it for the selected entrants to study and perfect.

• Yi Xuan found more than a thousand supreme-grade Law Artifacts but left without taking one because he had no use for them.
• Yi Xuan entered another hall and found Fu Qianqiu, Mu Anqing, and fifteen others staring at the ceiling without noticing him.
• A voice instructed the entrants to visualize the cosmos and use the stars as array nodes, and Yi Xuan found himself surrounded by a starry sky.
• Yi Xuan asked No. 01 to identify the stars and learned that they matched the Cultivation Realm’s sky from ten million years ago.
• Yi Xuan read the Jade Slip and learned that the Tomb of the Sea God’s master had left an unfinished grand array and basic array knowledge for the selected entrants to improve it.

Yi Xuan confronted the possessor controlling Mu Anqing, then rejected the motionless star map as an inadequate model of the universe. He used No. 01’s moving universe model to begin correcting the formation, while Mu Anqing’s fate remained uncertain.

• Yi Xuan reappeared beside Mu Anqing and accused the person controlling her body of possessing his junior sister.
• Fu Qianqiu questioned whether Mu Anqing was really Yi Xuan’s junior sister, and Yi Xuan insisted that she was possessed.
• The possessor matched Yi Xuan’s Divine Sense, warned him not to interfere, and returned to contemplating the stars.
• Yi Xuan examined the others’ formations, noticing that Fu Qianqiu alone had not altered his original formation.
• Yi Xuan concluded that the motionless star map could not represent the moving universe and had No. 01 project his universe model into his mind.
• Yi Xuan compared the formation with the moving model and began modifying it.

Yi Xuan rebuilt his array disk from scratch using No. 01’s model of the universe, while Mu Anqing steadily drew in the most star power. Just as the trial’s rankings were about to be decided, Fu Qianqiu’s last-second change unleashed a torrent of star power and eclipsed Mu Anqing’s array disk, while Yi Xuan’s remained inert.

• Yi Xuan discarded his array disk’s original layout and used No. 01’s calculations to build a new one around 108 nearby stars.
• Mu Anqing made flawless adjustments and accumulated more star power than the other contestants, while Yi Xuan’s array disk drew in none.
• A voice announced that rankings would be decided after a quarter of an hour and that the top three could enter the true Tomb of the Sea God for its final reward.
• As the countdown began, Fu Qianqiu pressed his palm against his completed array disk, abruptly changing its layout and drawing down a vast torrent of star power.
• Fu Qianqiu’s brilliant array disk dimmed Mu Anqing’s, leaving her furious, while Yi Xuan’s array disk showed no response.

Fu Qianqiu won first place in the array competition, while Yi Xuan appeared to fail before completing an array that drew down a vast surge of the Power of the Stars. The descent shook the Cultivation Realm and drew the attention of powerful figures across the continent.

• The mysterious voice announced the rankings, awarding first place to Fu Qianqiu and second to Mu Anqing, while Yi Xuan received no ranking.
• The Immortal Ascension Platform appeared, and Fu Qianqiu and Mu Anqing entered, but the third-place contestant was repeatedly repelled.
• Yi Xuan completed his array with No. 01’s calculations, incorporating the trajectories of all one hundred and eight stars.
• The Power of the Stars shattered the space overhead and poured into the virtual universe, where one hundred and eight stars formed a distinct pattern.
• Powerful figures across the Cultivation Realm sensed the descent of the Power of the Stars and turned their attention toward the Tomb of the Sea God.

The virtual universe collapsed, revealing a plain filled with the graves of Sea Clan emperors, while Yi Xuan broke through to Nascent Soul-level physical strength. After the person possessing Mu Anqing released her, she woke and warned Yi Xuan that the Tomb of the Sea God was a trap.

• The virtual universe contracted onto the stone platform, and the people inside appeared on a plain alongside countless gravestones belonging to Sea Clan emperors.
• A mysterious voice welcomed everyone to the Tomb of the Sea God and announced that it would close in one day.
• The power of the stars strengthened Yi Xuan’s body to the Nascent Soul level, breaking the world’s limits on martial artists.
• The person inside Mu Anqing told Yi Xuan he could have her back, then fell silent as Mu Anqing regained consciousness.
• Mu Anqing warned Yi Xuan to flee because the Tomb of the Sea God was a trap.

Yi Xuan tried to escape the sudden pressure in the Tomb of the Sea God with Mu Anqing and Fu Qianqiu, but both became vacant as a wave of apparent possession spread through the graveyard. A Sea Clan emperor invaded Yi Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness to claim his body, but a golden shield repelled the attack.

• Yi Xuan left the stone platform with Mu Anqing and Fu Qianqiu after Fu Qianqiu sensed danger, but an overwhelming pressure descended and Mu Anqing panicked.
• Fu Qianqiu and Mu Anqing abruptly became vacant, so Yi Xuan put them in Black Tortoises and ordered No. 01 to flee with them.
• Yi Xuan saw people across the graveyard turn vacant or flee as the same phenomenon spread among those searching the tombs.
• A Sea Clan emperor appeared in Yi Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness and revealed his intent to possess Yi Xuan’s body.
• The emperor attacked Yi Xuan as a giant maw, but a golden shield appeared and broke several of his teeth.

Yi Xuan defeated the old man who had invaded his Sea of Consciousness by using a tower to amplify his Divine Sense. He returned to the Black Tortoise and activated a larger version of the tower, causing Mu Anqing and Fu Qianqiu to begin regaining awareness.

• The old man attacked Yi Xuan as a giant axe, but the strike cracked apart and left him badly injured.
• Yi Xuan revealed that his tower amplified Divine Sense, and the old man melted away after striking it.
• The tower absorbed the old man's mental energy and passed his remaining memories to Yi Xuan, who realized Mu Anqing and Fu Qianqiu were still in danger.
• Yi Xuan returned to the Black Tortoise, ordered No. 01 to land the three ships, and created a large tower between them.
• Yi Xuan used the miniature tower in his hand to activate the large tower, whose amplified fluctuations spread through the space and began restoring Mu Anqing and Fu Qianqiu's awareness.