Chapter Summaries

As monsters overwhelmed Bai'er Stockade, Long Yan risked his life to save Long Qing, while Bai Sang and the Miao people prayed to Lord Beast God. A radiant power erupted from the Beast God Abyss, freezing the monsters and carving a vast, scorched path through the forest and mountains.

• The parasitized Miao people swarmed Bai'er Stockade, broke through its gates, and began overrunning the settlement.
• Long Qing and Long Yan fought on the walls as Bai Sang rallied the defenders to fight for the Miao people and Lord Beast God.
• Long Yan saved Long Qing from the monsters but fell from the wall into their midst after his saber broke.
• Light rose from the Beast God Abyss, and the monsters stopped moving before they could attack Long Yan.
• A pillar of light blasted through the forest and mountains, destroying everything in its path and leaving a scorched trail where Gu poison and miasma had vanished.

Gao Yunyi recovered his powers after witnessing Gray Cicada’s vision of a god who had created and sealed a Devil Creature a thousand years earlier. He turned the dying Ma Yi into a zombie with a Corpse-Shedding Pill, leaving her alive but transformed.

• Gao Yunyi reached level 30, passed the Red Dust Tribulation, and regained his Law Power, skills, and system panel.
• Gao Yunyi watched an illusion in which a compassionate god created a Devil Creature to overcome death, then sealed it after it turned violent.
• Gao Yunyi suspected the god in the illusion was the unseen observer who had been watching him and defiantly looked toward the sky.
• Ma Yi used her final strength to apologize to Gao Yunyi, but he told her he did not care.
• Gao Yunyi fed Ma Yi a Corpse-Shedding Pill, and her damaged body healed as she became a gray-skinned zombie.

Ma Yi’s roar summoned the parasitized monsters to the Beast God Abyss, where she became their new queen as Gao Yunyi watched. He chose to leave her and the hundred thousand-odd Gu corpses in the abyss, while the survivors of Bai'er Stockade worshipped the event as a miracle of the Beast God.

• Ma Yi roared, and the hundred thousand-odd monsters stopped attacking Bai'er Stockade and marched toward the Beast God Abyss.
• Bai Sang and the other Miao survivors knelt and praised the Beast God, believing the events were a divine manifestation.
• Gao Yunyi watched the monsters gather beside Ma Yi, reflecting on how he had brought her back from the dead as a zombie.
• The Corpse Sha Qi gathered into Ma Yi, making her the queen of the Gu corpses and strengthening her new body.
• Gao Yunyi dismissed Ma Yi’s devotion and left her and the Gu corpses in the Beast God Abyss.

Gao Yunyi fed the Mountain Lord a pill that transformed him into a powerful black tiger, then reunited with Bai Suzhen and sat upon the throne formed by her coils. The black tiger submitted as his guardian while the Beast God Abyss’s vast ranks of Gu corpses stood beneath him.

• Gao Yunyi gave the Mountain Lord a pill, and Green Flame tempered the tiger’s body as he endured intense pain.
• The Mountain Lord shed his old fur, grew stronger and more intelligent, and bowed in submission to Gao Yunyi.
• Gao Yunyi summoned Bai Suzhen, whose Dragon Might made the Gu corpses tremble while Ma Yi watched with jealousy.
• Bai Suzhen pressed her head against Gao Yunyi’s hand, and he greeted her affectionately after their year apart.
• Bai Suzhen coiled her body into a throne for Gao Yunyi, while the black tiger guarded him before the silent Gu corpses.

Gao Yunyi renamed Ma Yi as Nüba and ordered her to remain in Beast God Abyss while he left with Bai Suzhen and the Mountain Lord. After watching him depart, Nüba erupted with resentment and evolved into a blue-eyed zombie.

• Bai Suzhen blocked Ma Yi from approaching Gao Yunyi, and Ma Yi stood back after realizing how distant she was from him.
• Gao Yunyi renamed Ma Yi as Nüba and forbade her from calling him Master, ordering her to stay in Beast God Abyss until he returned.
• Gao Yunyi formed a spirit contract with the Mountain Lord and left the abyss with Bai Suzhen, leaving Nüba and the Gu Corpses behind.
• After Gao Yunyi disappeared, Nüba released her Corpse Sha and evolved from a white-eyed zombie into a blue-eyed zombie.

After completing his tribulation and reaching Golden Core, Gao Yunyi received and equipped the Ten-Thousand-Souls Banner despite its demonic appearance. Flying over a land suffering a devastating drought, he answered the people’s pleas for rain, and Bai Suzhen brought down a downpour.

• Gao Yunyi checked his transformed attributes after breaking through to Golden Core and received the Ten-Thousand-Souls Banner as a system reward.
• Gao Yunyi equipped the banner, embracing its sinister appearance and deciding that no one could dictate whether a righteous disciple used an Evil Dao Law Treasure.
• Gao Yunyi flew over drought-stricken villages where the people prayed to Azure Profound Immortal Venerable for rain.
• Gao Yunyi signaled Bai Suzhen, who summoned clouds and rain over the parched land.
• The commoners rejoiced and thanked Azure Profound Immortal Venerable as the rain fell.

Empress Xiao Zhaohuang learned that the Azure Profound Immortal Venerable had reappeared in drought-stricken Eastern Sichuan and ordered a search for him while launching a harsh investigation into embezzled disaster relief. After court, she comforted Xiao Gaoyi, who missed his big brother, then returned to the Imperial Study and gazed at the portrait of the absent man.

• A report said the Azure Profound Immortal Venerable had summoned rain in drought-stricken Eastern Sichuan, and Xiao Zhaohuang ordered the Pacification Investigation Guard to track him without disturbing him.
• Xiao Zhaohuang discovered that Jingzhao Prefecture's disaster relief funds had been embezzled and ordered officials investigated, arrested, and stripped of their ill-gotten wealth while relief grain was distributed.
• Xiao Gaoyi listened to court proceedings while thinking about his absent big brother and the little courtyard where he had grown chives.
• After court, Xiao Zhaohuang warned Xiao Gaoyi to keep his thoughts steady, then reassured him that his big brother would return.
• Xiao Zhaohuang returned to the Imperial Study and stood lost in thought before a portrait.

Gao Yunyi heard the people of Great Liang praise him for ending the drought in Jingzhao Prefecture and visited the temple built in his honor. He quietly listened to worshippers’ prayers and wondered at their belief that he could grant every wish.

• Gao Yunyi listened in a restaurant as people praised the Azure Profound Immortal Venerable for saving the drought-stricken people, though he had acted partly to complete a mission.
• Gao Yunyi heard diners discuss the empress Xiao Zhaohuang and the corruption case in Jingzhao Prefecture, then left without correcting a man who mistook him for resembling his statue.
• Gao Yunyi walked through the crowded streets toward the Immortal Venerable's temple, keeping his ordinary appearance and using an invisible force to part the crowd.
• Gao Yunyi watched worshippers pray for their families, careers, harvests, marriages, and children, and was surprised they thought he could grant every request.

Gao Yunyi discovered that the Ten-Thousand-Souls Banner needed actual ghosts, then gave the dying Zhao Bufan a choice between forgetting his family’s murder or becoming a vengeful spirit. Zhao Bufan chose revenge, and after he became a ghost and flew toward the Zhou Family, Gao Yunyi resolved to create ghosts himself.

• Gao Yunyi activated the Ten-Thousand-Souls Banner at a mass grave, but the skill failed because it required ghosts.
• Gao Yunyi found Zhao Bufan dying beneath rocks after the Zhou Family had killed his family and left him to die.
• Gao Yunyi offered Zhao Bufan a Dust-Forgetting Pill for a new life or a Nether-Soul Pill that would turn him into a ghost and prevent reincarnation.
• Zhao Bufan chose the Nether-Soul Pill, became a vengeful ghost, and flew toward the Zhou Family to take revenge.
• Gao Yunyi watched Zhao Bufan depart and said he would create ghosts if none existed in the world.

Zhao Bufan returned as a vengeful ghost and took revenge on Master Zhou and the people who had helped destroy his family. After killing them and extracting their souls, he flew toward the mass grave, intending to imprison them in endless torment.

• Zhao Bufan entered the Zhou Family estate and confronted Master Zhou, who had boasted about destroying the Zhao Family.
• Zhao Bufan seized Master Zhou and poured resentful Sha into him while the servants’ weapons passed harmlessly through the ghost.
• Zhao Bufan sealed the estate and tormented the servants and steward with visions of the Zhao Family’s suffering.
• Zhao Bufan rejected Master Zhou’s pleas for mercy and killed him, then killed everyone in the Zhou Family who had taken part in persecuting the Zhao Family.
• Zhao Bufan drew the dead into wandering souls and flew toward the mass grave, vowing to keep them from reincarnation or release.

After Zhao Bufan avenged himself, Gao Yunyi recruited him as the main soul of the Ten-Thousand-Souls Banner, strengthening the treasure and granting it new abilities. Gao Yunyi then decided to build a mortal underworld, with Zhao Bufan serving as its chief soul-hooking envoy.

• Zhao Bufan arrived at the mass grave and, intimidated by Gao Yunyi’s black tiger and white Jiaolong, thanked him for granting his revenge.
• Gao Yunyi absorbed the Zhou Family’s mindless Yin souls into the Ten-Thousand-Souls Banner and ordered Zhao Bufan to become its main soul.
• Zhao Bufan agreed and entered the banner, where he merged with it and empowered its soul-based abilities.
• Gao Yunyi considered a world without judgment or reincarnation and resolved to create an underworld bureaucracy himself.
• Gao Yunyi planned to make the Ten-Thousand-Souls Banner the foundation of the underworld, with Zhao Bufan as chief soul-hooking envoy and other Yin souls assigned duties.

After creating the Demon Race, Corpse Race, and Ghost Race, Gao Yunyi traveled northeast toward Liaodong and intervened when mountain bandits attacked a merchant caravan. The swordsman Ximen Changhai recognized Gao’s extraordinary swordsmanship and asked his name, and Gao introduced himself as Gao Yi.

• Gao Yunyi created demons, zombies, and vengeful ghosts, then confined or sent them away to give humanity time to develop.
• Gao Yunyi traveled northeast from Yongping Prefecture toward Liaodong and heard a merchant caravan under attack by mountain bandits.
• A gray-robed swordsman killed the bandit chief and defeated most of the bandits, while Gao Yunyi secretly killed the fleeing bandits with sword strikes.
• The swordsman noticed the dead bandits and realized that Gao Yunyi had killed them, though Gao appeared to have no sword.
• The swordsman introduced himself as Ximen Changhai and respectfully asked Gao Yunyi for his name; Gao answered that he was Gao Yi.

After Gao Yunyi and Ximen Changhai saved Wang Shoucai’s caravan, they agreed to travel with it north to Liaodong. Wang Shoucai’s daughter Wang Zhirou became enamored with Gao Yunyi, and her father began considering him as a potential husband for her.

• Wang Shoucai thanked Ximen Changhai and learned that his other benefactor was called Gao Yi.
• Wang Shoucai invited the two men to accompany his caravan to Liaodong, and Gao Yunyi agreed.
• Wang Zhirou secretly watched Gao Yunyi and blushed when she was struck by his handsome appearance.
• Wang Shoucai questioned Gao Yunyi about his background and marriage plans until Ximen Changhai told him to stop; Gao Yunyi remained indifferent.

The caravan made camp, where Wang Zhirou awkwardly tried to serve Gao Yunyi wine and Ximen Changhai explained that he was traveling north to find a thousand-year-old ginseng root for his dying daughter. Though Wang Shoucai urged him to seek the Azure Profound Immortal Venerable, Gao Yunyi listened without revealing that he was the Immortal Venerable himself.

• Wang Shoucai called Wang Zhirou over to serve wine, and she nervously offered a cup to Gao Yunyi.
• Gao Yunyi declined the wine, leaving Wang Zhirou embarrassed, and she then served Ximen Changhai.
• Wang Shoucai asked Ximen Changhai why he was traveling to Liaodong, and Ximen said he hoped to find a thousand-year-old ginseng root to save his ill daughter.
• Wang Shoucai suggested that Ximen seek the Azure Profound Immortal Venerable and ask for an Immortal Elixir.
• Ximen Changhai said he had searched for the Immortal Venerable for a year without success and had turned to the mountain ginseng instead.
• Gao Yunyi recognized Ximen's anguish but stayed silent about his identity and did not offer help.

As the caravan traveled through the northern snow, Ximen Changhai asked Gao Yunyi to demonstrate the pinnacle of the Sword Dao. Gao Yunyi revealed Sword Qi Manifestation, leaving Ximen Changhai awed and Wang Shoucai afraid to pursue his former plan to marry his daughter to him.

• The caravan continued north through heavy snow, while Wang Zhirou secretly watched Gao Yunyi and Wang Shoucai stopped pressing him about marriage.
• Ximen Changhai asked Gao Yunyi whether he was the vanished Murong Sword Saint and requested a strike to witness supreme Sword Intent.
• Gao Yunyi flicked a finger and sent Sword Qi past Ximen Changhai, cleanly splitting a great pine without harming him.
• Ximen Changhai bowed to Gao Yunyi and said he could die without regret after witnessing Sword Qi Manifestation; Gao Yunyi denied being Murong Wudi and encouraged his potential.
• Wang Shoucai witnessed the demonstration, abandoned his plan to arrange a marriage, and resolved to serve Gao Yunyi respectfully.
• Ximen Changhai stayed awake beneath the broken pine, meditating on Gao Yunyi's Sword Qi as snow gathered on him.

Ximen Changhai mastered Sword Intent after Gao Yunyi’s guidance, and the two traveled with Wang Shoucai’s caravan to Jinzhou Prefecture before parting ways. Gao Yunyi continued deeper into Liaodong, intending to find and destroy a force that might rise there and threaten the Central Plains.

• Ximen Changhai awakened Sword Intent and thanked Gao Yunyi for his guidance.
• Gao Yunyi said he sought wild boar hide, baffling Wang Shoucai, and declined the caravan leader’s invitation and gifts at Jinzhou Prefecture.
• Wang Zhirou watched Gao Yunyi leave but kept her feelings to herself.
• Ximen Changhai set off alone for Changbai Mountain to seek thousand-year-old wild ginseng for his daughter.
• Gao Yunyi continued beyond the pass, hoping to stop a dangerous force from emerging in Liaodong.

Gao Yunyi found barbarians slaughtering a remote village and killed nearly all of them with effortless strikes. He set out to find their tribe with a surviving boy, but killed the guide before they could leave.

• Gao Yunyi followed the scent of blood to a village where barbarians were killing and tormenting its residents.
• When the barbarian leader threatened him, Gao Yunyi killed the leader and slaughtered the attacking barbarians with flicks of his finger.
• Gao Yunyi spared a terrified young barbarian and ordered him to lead the way to his tribe.
• A surviving boy carrying an infant translated Gao Yunyi’s order and offered to guide him because the barbarians had killed his family.
• After the boy joined them, Gao Yunyi decapitated the barbarian guide and prepared to continue with the boy.

Tie Lehun gathered hundreds of thousands of Hezhen beneath Changbai Mountain and urged them to invade Liaodong, dismissing rumors of immortals as Liang propaganda. As he began to command the army south, a colossal White Dragon appeared overhead and shattered his confidence.

• Tie Lehun united the Hezhen tribes and assembled their people at the foot of Changbai Mountain.
• An elder leader warned Tie Lehun that immortals might intervene if the Hezhen attacked Liang Kingdom.
• Tie Lehun dismissed the Azure Profound Immortal Venerable as a lie and urged the Hezhen to seize Liaodong and establish their own country.
• Tie Lehun drew his saber and began to order the troops to march south.
• A dragon roared above Changbai Mountain, and a gigantic White Dragon emerged from the clouds.
• Tie Lehun stared at the White Dragon in terror and could not finish his command.

Gao Yunyi brought Zhang Qishan and his infant younger brother, Zhang Qiling, by dragon to the Hezhen army camp at Changbai Mountain. Khan Tie Lehun defied the Immortal and declared that his warriors would fight, but Bai Suzhen’s Dragon Might overwhelmed the camp and left him facing a seemingly hopeless defeat.

• As they flew toward the Hezhen camp, Gao Yunyi asked the boy’s name and learned he was Zhang Qishan, carrying his younger brother, Zhang Qiling.
• Gao Yunyi and Bai Suzhen arrived above the Hezhen camp, where the sight of the white dragon threw the soldiers into panic.
• Tie Lehun recognized Gao Yunyi as a Central Plains Immortal and asked what guidance he had come to offer.
• Tie Lehun argued that the Hezhen had to fight for fertile lands and declared that even an Immortal could be challenged by hundreds of thousands of warriors.
• When Hezhen archers aimed their bows at the dragon, Gao Yunyi laughed and Bai Suzhen unleashed a roar that swept snow through the valley and forced many soldiers to collapse.

Gao Yunyi and Bai Suzhen attacked the Hezhen forces gathered beneath White Mountain, killing many and trapping the survivors in a Sword Domain. As Tie Lehun protested that his people had not invaded Han territory, Gao Yunyi remained silent, leaving their fate certain.

• Tie Lehun ordered tens of thousands of Hezhen archers to shoot Gao Yunyi and Bai Suzhen, but the arrows fell short of the dragon.
• Bai Suzhen summoned a storm and unleashed a deadly rain of ice spikes on the Hezhen camp.
• Gao Yunyi formed the Clear Sky Sword Domain around the valley, trapping more than a hundred thousand surviving Hezhen.
• Tie Lehun accused Gao Yunyi of unjustly attacking his people, and the survivors begged the Immortal for mercy.
• Gao Yunyi gave no reply and prepared to settle the reckoning with the Hezhen.