Chapter Summaries

Sang Ying and her companions planned to rescue Red Lotus and the other captives by seeking aid from the Beast Soul Sect and the Array Sect. Dong Fuzhu, Bai Kejin, and Lan Fusheng left the Listening Tide Sect under a cover story, while Zhao Ting mistakenly saw their departure as an opportunity to act.

• Sang Ying reasoned that the Listening Tide Sect was secretly capturing outside cultivators for a sacrifice and that its secrecy meant the Cloud Mulberry Realm would oppose the plan if it became public.
• Lan Fusheng rejected a direct rescue, and Jiang Zhuoxue gave the group a jade carp pendant to take to the Beast Soul Sect and the Array Sect for help.
• Sang Ying decided to stay with Jiang Zhuoxue and Duan Hanyi while Dong Fuzhu, Bai Kejin, and Lan Fusheng left to seek aid.
• Sang Ying told Zhao Ting they were leaving to look for a boat so Dong Fuzhu could see the Jiaoren, and Dong Fuzhu stormed out with Bai Kejin and Lan Fusheng following her.
• Zhao Ting dismissed the three as spoiled young cultivators and thought their departure would make it easier for him to act, unaware it marked the Listening Tide Sect's decline.

Dong Fuzhu, Lan Fusheng, and another junior disciple slipped away from the Listening Tide Sect, leaving Zhao Ting desperate to keep Sang Ying and her companions from leaving too. After Sang Ying agreed to let the sect search for the missing juniors, Zhao Ting sent people out to find them.

• Dong Fuzhu, Lan Fusheng, and their companion used a staged argument to leave the Listening Tide Sect unnoticed.
• Zhao Ting learned Sang Ying had stopped visiting her junior sister and went to question her.
• Sang Ying told Zhao Ting that Dong Fuzhu and the two junior brothers had vanished with their bamboo house Law Artifact.
• Jiang Zhuoxue and Duan Hanyi defended Sang Ying and threatened to leave the sect with her.
• Zhao Ting apologized, persuaded the three to stay, and promised to send people to search for the missing juniors.
• Sang Ying reluctantly agreed to the search, allowing Zhao Ting to dispatch the sect’s people without raising suspicion.

Sang Ying and her companions learned that the Listening Tide Sect was nearing its sacrifice and began investigating the Gu worms hidden in Zhao Ting’s food deliveries. The chapter ended with Sang Ying asking a Gu cultivator projected through a communication talisman to identify the worms.

• Zhao Ting told He Lun that Dong Fuzhu and two others had escaped, and He Lun ordered his disciples to capture them before the sacrifice.
• He Lun also ordered his nephew to seize three outside cultivators as backup sacrifices, and Zhao Ting targeted Green Lotus, who soon disappeared with two others.
• Zhao Ting visited Sang Ying with fish delicacy as an apology, while Duan Hanyi pretended to argue with Sang Ying and accepted the food box.
• After Zhao Ting confirmed that Sang Ying, Duan Hanyi, and Jiang Zhuoxue had eaten the tainted food several times, he prepared to begin his plan.
• Sang Ying showed the Gu worms found in the food to a Gu cultivator through a communication talisman and asked what they did.

Sang Ying learned that the black insects planted in the food were Black Sheath Gu, which could drain a cultivator’s Spiritual Qi before forming a powerful Spirit Crystal. As the Listening Tide Sect prepared its sacrifice, Sang Ying and her companions left their courtyard when a dense wave of Spiritual Qi drew the trapped cultivators toward the uncovered spirit pool.

• Sang Ying asked the Gu cultivator to identify the black insects she had found growing in the food.
• The Gu cultivator recognized them as Black Sheath Gu and explained that they could eventually form Spirit Crystals, but might also drive their hosts to seek places rich in Spiritual Qi.
• Sang Ying learned that Black Sheath Gu could not be removed before maturing or dying, and took comfort that the dark chamber offered poor conditions for them to mature.
• Sang Ying received word that her junior brothers and sisters had secured the Beast Soul Sect master's help, while Zhao Ting and the others prepared their sacrifice.
• Sang Ying and her two companions left their courtyard as Spiritual Qi gathered inside the Listening Tide Sect, while the trapped cultivators turned toward the uncovered spirit pool.

Sang Ying and her companions were imprisoned by the Listening Tide Sect, where they learned the sect had poisoned their food to suppress their spiritual power. Meanwhile, Lan Fusheng and Bai Kejin subdued the sect’s pursuers, but the Beast Soul Sect and Array Sect refused to help, leaving the rescue plan uncertain.

• Duan Hanyi discovered that his spiritual power was gone, and a Listening Tide Sect guard revealed that the sect had tampered with the visitors’ food.
• Red Lotus avoided looking at her captured sister Green Lotus, while Green Lotus held on to hope that Sang Ying and her companions would rescue the prisoners.
• Sang Ying worried that she and her companions could no longer contact Lan Fusheng and hoped their junior companions would bring reinforcements as planned.
• Dong Fuzhu boarded a demonic bird, but the Beast Soul Sect and Array Sect disciples refused to help capture the Listening Tide Sect pursuers.
• Lan Fusheng and Bai Kejin trapped the pursuers in a confinement array, then Lan Fusheng worried that the other sects’ doubts might derail the rescue plan.

Lan Fusheng and his companions learned that the Beast Soul Sect and Array Sect would not confront the Listening Tide Sect, and He Lun denied holding the captured outsider cultivators. Dong Fuzhu challenged him about the human sacrifices, and the hall doors slammed shut as the situation turned threatening.

• The Beast Soul Sect and Array Sect leaders instructed their disciples to avoid conflict with the Listening Tide Sect and merely ask it to release the outsider cultivators.
• Jing Huan and the others revealed their plan at the sect gates, angering Lan Fusheng and Dong Fuzhu and exposing that the sect leaders had misled them.
• He Lun learned that Sang Ying and her companions had seen through his scheme, then ordered his aides to prepare to capture the visitors as food for the Beast God.
• He Lun denied that the Listening Tide Sect had captured any outsider cultivators and claimed Lan Fusheng's senior sister had left to search for the three companions.
• Dong Fuzhu confronted He Lun about his talk of living sacrificial offerings, and the hall doors slammed shut as a terrifying atmosphere spread.

He Lun revealed that the Listening Tide Sect planned to sacrifice outside cultivators and trapped Jing Huan, Dong Fuzhu, Lan Fusheng, Bai Kejin, and the others as offerings. As the battle turned against them, a mysterious whistle stopped every Demon Beast, and He Lun prepared to meet the being he hoped to summon.

• Jing Huan realized Dong Fuzhu had exposed the truth about He Lun's sacrifice, and the hall doors shut, trapping everyone inside.
• He Lun admitted that he had intended to keep the visitors as offerings, and Jing Huan tried to negotiate while signaling his disciples to prepare.
• He Lun ordered his cultivators to seize everyone, but Jing Huan's Demon Birds broke open the hall as the Beast Soul Sect and Array Sect fought back.
• The group tried to escape the Listening Tide Sect, but an invisible barrier knocked down a Demon Bird rider, and He Lun said they were the second batch of offerings.
• He Lun ordered an elder to use an unknown device, and a piercing whistle made all the Demon Beasts stop moving.
• He Lun rejoiced that the sacrifice was real and that he was about to meet the legendary being.

He Lun’s ceremony caused the Beast Soul Sect’s contracted Demon Beasts to turn against their masters, and the Beast Soul and Array Sect disciples were overwhelmed. Bai Kejin escaped through the closing barrier, while He Lun revealed that he planned to welcome back the Beast God.

• The Demon Beasts suddenly stopped obeying their masters and attacked the Beast Soul Sect disciples, forcing Bai Kejin to protect Jing Huan.
• Jing Huan urged the Array Sect leader to escape and seek help, but a demon bird knocked him back before he could pass through the barrier.
• Bai Kejin leaped for the shrinking gap as Dong Fuzhu, Lan Fusheng, and the other disciples held off the attackers, allowing him to escape.
• He Lun’s forces subdued Jing Huan and the others, and He Lun forced Black Sheaths into Jing Huan’s stomach.
• He Lun told Jing Huan that the Demon Beasts’ betrayal was connected to the Beast God and declared that the ceremony was meant to welcome the Beast God back.

Sang Ying and the others were captured after the Beast Soul Sect and Array Sect refused to help their rescue plan, and the Listening Tide Sect prepared to sacrifice them to summon the Beast God. Sang Ying recognized the Beast God from her dream as Bai Kejin hurried toward the two sects with an Image-Retaining Stone.

• The Listening Tide Sect brought a large group of captured cultivators into the secret chamber and said the sacrifice would take place the next day.
• A disciple exposed Sang Ying as one of the people who had planned to attack the Listening Tide Sect, and the guard dragged her from her cage and beat her.
• Jiang Zhuoxue and Duan Hanyi tried to take the blame for the plan, while Dong Fuzhu and the others could not break free to protect Sang Ying.
• The guard declared that the captives would be sacrificed to summon the Beast God, and Sang Ying recognized the figure from her dream.
• He Lun completed preparations at the altar as Bai Kejin hurried toward the Beast Soul Sect and the Array Sect carrying an Image-Retaining Stone.

He Lun began the Listening Tide Sect’s sacrifice to awaken the Beast God before the other sects could learn their secret. As the ritual started, the Beast God’s remains arrived and Jin Liner sensed that her enemy was about to awaken.

• He Lun released the imprisoned cultivators and brought them to the altar, where Zhao Ting singled out Sang Ying.
• Sang Ying rejected He Lun’s offer of pity and blamed the Cloud Mulberry Realm cultivators for trusting the wrong people, deepening Jing Huan and his group’s guilt.
• He Lun uncovered the altar’s pool and began the ritual, sending the first bound sacrifices onto it.
• Demon Beasts and spirit beasts cried out as an enormous skeleton was carried to the altar, and the cultivators recognized it as the previous Beast God’s remains.
• Jin Liner sensed the Beast God’s presence and realized her enemy was about to awaken.

Sang Ying and Duan Hanyi waited for the spirit pool to awaken the gu worms inside the captives, while a mysterious creature took control of their guard and freed them. As the Listening Tide Sect faced an attack by foreign cultivators, Sang Ying announced the moment to strike, and a barrage of Sword Qi Balls devastated the sect.

• Sang Ying told Duan Hanyi to wait until the spirit pool awakened the dormant gu worms so they would die and restore the captives' spiritual power.
• A small lump of flesh entered the guard's head and made him free Jing Huan and the other captives, then kill a Listening Tide Sect disciple.
• Jing Huan and the freed cultivators escaped their restraints and released the other members of the Beast Soul Sect and the Array Sect.
• Injured disciples warned He Lun that foreign cultivators were attacking the Listening Tide Sect and publicizing its plans involving the Beast God.
• Sang Ying declared that the time had come, and more than a dozen Sword Qi Balls struck the Listening Tide Sect, destroying nearly half of it.

Green Lotus freed Red Lotus and the other captives, then led them out of the Listening Tide Sect while Sang Ying and Jiang Zhuoxue kept He Lun occupied. As the escaped cultivators reached safety and outsiders began to enter the sect, He Lun struck Sang Ying, sending her into the pool containing the Beast God's remains.

• Green Lotus untied Red Lotus and used a Law Artifact to free other captives, whose spiritual power and Spirit Artifacts returned.
• Sang Ying told Green Lotus to lead everyone away while she and Jiang Zhuoxue held off He Lun, and Red Lotus persuaded her sister to go.
• Green Lotus's group met other outside cultivators at the entrance and withdrew from the Listening Tide Sect with them.
• Onlookers saw the captives escape and began entering the unguarded sect, suspecting its wrongdoing.
• He Lun attacked Sang Ying, and she fell into the pool of spirit liquid containing the Beast God's remains.

After Sang Ying was dragged beneath the spiritual pool, Jiang Zhuoxue lost control and revealed his dragon nature while attacking He Lun. Sang Ying awoke somewhere else and recognized the enormous white beast watching her as the Beast God.

• He Lun struck Sang Ying, and a force pulled her into the spiritual pool as Jiang Zhuoxue and Duan Hanyi rushed to find her.
• Jiang Zhuoxue revealed his beastlike eyes and scales, and Duan Hanyi realized he was not human.
• He Lun taunted Jiang Zhuoxue about Sang Ying, so Jiang Zhuoxue seized him by the throat and dismissed his offer to help rescue her.
• Sang Ying awoke in a strange place and recognized the white, tiger-faced beast as the Beast God.

Sang Ying encountered the newly born Beast God, a small white creature who followed her and begged for the dragon scales Bai Qinglong had given her. After eating one, the Beast God suddenly doubled in size and broke the tree she had been climbing.

• Sang Ying recognized the little white creature as the Beast God and learned that she had remained immature for ten thousand years because the previous Beast God had died before accumulating enough energy.
• The Beast God followed Sang Ying and pawed at her Storage Bag, then eagerly watched as Sang Ying brought out her treasures.
• The Beast God showed particular interest in the dragon scales and teeth Bai Qinglong had given Sang Ying, and Sang Ying offered her one scale.
• The Beast God swallowed the scale, then doubled in size while climbing a tree and broke it, letting out a faint squeak as she fell.

Sang Ying fed White Dumpling dragon scales and heart’s blood, helping it grow into a powerful new Beast God. After it broke out of its space and destroyed the altar, it appeared before the chaotic Listening Tide Sect with Sang Ying standing on its shoulder.

• Sang Ying gave White Dumpling two dragon scales and then a drop of Bai Qinglong’s heart’s blood, which sent it into a deep sleep as it grew.
• Sang Ying explored the Beast God’s small, empty space and realized White Dumpling had lived alone there for ten thousand years.
• After two months, White Dumpling had grown to fill the space, awakened with the Beast God’s inheritance, and learned to speak.
• White Dumpling tore open the space’s barrier, causing the skeleton to turn to dust and the spiritual pool’s liquid to flow into it and Sang Ying.
• White Dumpling stepped out and broke the altar, drawing the attention of Jiang Zhuoxue, the Listening Tide Sect disciples, and the other cultivators.

Sang Ying returned from the Beast God's space on the giant white Beast God and reunited with Jiang Zhuoxue at the Listening Tide Sect. The Beast God rejected He Lun's plan to revive it with human blood, leaving He Lun's long-held faith shattered.

• Sang Ying rode the giant white Beast God back to the Listening Tide Sect, where Jiang Zhuoxue rushed to catch her and asked if she was safe.
• Sang Ying explained that she had fallen into the Beast God's space, absorbed spirit liquid, and returned unharmed.
• Jiang Zhuoxue claimed He Lun had beaten him, while He Lun denied it and said Jiang Zhuoxue was the one who had injured him.
• Sang Ying told the Beast God that He Lun had planned to feed it the blood of more than ten people, including her blood.
• The Beast God angrily struck He Lun into the ruined main hall and declared that it did not want to hurt people or need He Lun's help being born.
• He Lun was carried up by the disciples, and his belief that he had spent years waiting for the Beast God began to crumble.

Sang Ying exposed the Listening Tide Sect’s plot to sacrifice cultivators, while Jing Huan revealed that He Lun had also imprisoned disciples from the Beast Soul Sect and the Array Sect. The two sects’ masters arrived with their forces, ready to settle the score with the Listening Tide Sect.

• Sang Ying questioned the cultivators who had arrived, and they said they had come to save people.
• Jing Huan emerged and accused He Lun and the Listening Tide Sect of kidnapping him and other Beast Soul Sect and Array Sect disciples for sacrifice.
• A Listening Tide Sect elder denied the accusation, but Jing Huan pointed to the wounds on himself and his contracted Demon Beasts as evidence.
• Bai Kejin returned with Lan Fusheng and Dong Fuzhu, and Dong Fuzhu revealed that they had brought people to confront the sect.
• Demon Birds arrived carrying Sect Master Luo of the Beast Soul Sect and Sect Master Fu of the Array Sect, along with most of their disciples.
• Sect Master Luo gave Jing Huan medicine and sent disciples to retrieve the captives before he and Sect Master Fu declared they had come to settle the score with He Lun.

Jing Huan revealed that the Listening Tide Sect had found the Beast God’s remains, and Big White Dumpling rejected He Lun’s claim that he had brought the Beast God back through sacrifices. Sang Ying challenged He Lun’s accusations against outsider cultivators, and Big White Dumpling knocked him into the rubble again.

• Jing Huan told Sect Master Luo that the Listening Tide Sect had found the Beast God’s remains and wanted to revive the Beast God.
• Sect Master Luo seized He Lun and demanded to know how he had found the remains and what he had done with them.
• Sang Ying accused He Lun of acting for his own benefit, and Big White Dumpling said he did not want living sacrifices or human blood.
• He Lun blamed outsider cultivators for the Beast God’s death and defended killing them, but Sang Ying called him a coward for taking revenge on innocent people.
• He Lun charged at Sang Ying, and Big White Dumpling struck him into the rubble; he then asked whether he had done something wrong.

After the Listening Tide Sect’s crimes were exposed, the Cloud Mulberry Realm imprisoned He Lun and Zhao Ting and welcomed the newborn Beast God. Sang Ying and her companions prepared to sail, but the shipyards tried to pressure them into granting access to Bai Ze, so Dong Fuzhu eagerly awaited their departure with a ship Law Artifact.

• Witnesses and an Image-Retaining Stone exposed the Listening Tide Sect, and He Lun, Zhao Ting, and other senior members were imprisoned.
• Zhao Ting confessed what he knew about the Black Sheath Gu, which the Gu cultivators gathered to take back to the Immortal Spirit Realm.
• Jing Huan apologized to Sang Ying and her companions, and promised that the Beast Soul Sect would treat outside cultivators more fairly.
• Big White Dumpling refused to stay behind, transformed into a rabbit-sized creature, and went to sea with Sang Ying under the name Bai Ze.
• Shipyard managers offered ships in hopes of meeting Bai Ze, then tried to prevent Sang Ying’s group from sailing after she refused.
• Sang Ying reassured Dong Fuzhu that she would let her sail their ship, and Dong Fuzhu watched the shipyard managers while gripping her ship Law Artifact.

Sang Ying and her companions faced the shipyards’ attempt to humiliate them for refusing an exorbitant ship rental. Dong Fuzhu released their hidden vessel before the crowd, leaving the Subdue the Sea Shipyard’s manager stunned.

• Jing Huan offered Sang Ying’s group a Beast Soul Sect ship, but Lan Fusheng said they already had a solution.
• A shipyard manager rallied the other shipyards to block Sang Ying’s group from setting sail and sent planted onlookers to spread rumors against them.
• The Subdue the Sea Shipyard’s manager mocked Sang Ying’s group for having no ship, while Dong Fuzhu denied that they had insulted the shipyard’s vessels.
• Sang Ying told Dong Fuzhu to reveal their ship and reminded the crowd that the shipyard had demanded two hundred Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones per month.
• Dong Fuzhu tossed the bubble holding their ship into the sea, and a colossal vessel appeared, silencing the Subdue the Sea Shipyard’s manager.