Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan fought Ju Yang's Will while the Great Harmony Wind Screen kept shrinking the battlefield. After Ju Yang's Will destroyed Near Water Pavilion and Mo Yao's remaining immortal essence was lost, Fang Yuan fled with Wanderer Gu, but Ju Yang's Will pursued him and expected the confined space to leave him nowhere to escape.

• Ju Yang's Will battered Fang Yuan while Mo Yao's Will used Near Water Pavilion to protect him, and Fang Yuan endured the assault to wear down Ju Yang's Will.
• Hei Lou Lan and the other Gu Masters prepared to attack as the wind screen closed in and Wisdom Gu resisted the approaching destruction.
• Ju Yang's Will lured a seven-finger Handless Killer Move toward Fang Yuan, and Mo Yao's Will sacrificed Near Water Pavilion to keep it from taking Fang Yuan.
• The Handless Killer Move seized Water-Milk Blending Gu, causing Near Water Pavilion to collapse, while Ju Yang's Will attacked Fang Yuan and destroyed the Gu worms carrying Mo Yao's Red Date Immortal Essence.
• Fang Yuan opened his immortal aperture, let Mo Yao's Will bring in the remaining Gu worms, and used Wanderer Gu to escape Ju Yang's Will temporarily.
• Ju Yang's Will pursued Fang Yuan through the shrinking space and warned that he could not evade it forever, while Fang Yuan refused to give up.

Fang Yuan took refuge in Wisdom Gu’s halo to escape Ju Yang’s Will, but his lifespan dwindled as Hei Lou Lan and the others attacked him. Ju Yang’s Will armed them with the Three-Eight Sealing Technique, leaving Fang Yuan’s Gu sealed and his defenses failing under their assault.

• Fang Yuan stopped inside Wisdom Gu’s halo, forcing Ju Yang’s Will to halt its pursuit while his lifespan steadily drained.
• Ju Yang’s Will ordered Hei Lou Lan and the others to attack Fang Yuan and drive him closer to Wisdom Gu.
• Fang Yuan used his many mortal Gu to counter their long-range attacks, but Ju Yang’s Will distributed refined Gu and taught the group the Three-Eight Sealing Technique.
• Hei Lou Lan and the others struck Fang Yuan with purple light qi that sealed the mortal Gu he was using, including his defenses.
• Yelü Sang, Gu Guo Long, and the remaining Gu Masters intensified their attacks, wounding Fang Yuan as Ju Yang’s Will warned them not to disturb Wisdom Gu.

Fang Yuan endured the Gu Masters’ assault after Ju Yang's Will forced him into complete zombification, leaving him unable to advance his cultivation. When Ju Yang's Will offered him a chance to surrender and regain a human body, Fang Yuan claimed he had a final trump card: Spring Autumn Cicada.

• Fang Yuan rejected Mo Yao's Will's pleas to cancel the Six-armed Heavenly Corpse King transformation and became completely zombified.
• Fang Yuan stopped using his Gu worms, which prevented the Three-Eight Sealing Technique from sealing them, and endured the Gu Masters’ attacks with his corpse body.
• The Gu Masters repeatedly battered Fang Yuan, severing one of his arms, until Ju Yang's Will ordered them to stop.
• Ju Yang's Will offered Fang Yuan survival and a chance to regain his human body if he acknowledged it as his master and helped rebuild the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.
• As Ju Yang's Will counted down, Fang Yuan said he possessed Spring Autumn Cicada, shocking Mo Yao's Will.

Fang Yuan exposed Mo Yao's Will's plan to manipulate him into using the Spring Autumn Cicada so she could seize it and return to the past. Mo Yao admitted her deception and began explaining how she had discovered the cicada while helping refine Calamity Gu.

• Fang Yuan accused Mo Yao's Will of secretly influencing his thoughts and steering him toward dangerous choices.
• Fang Yuan cited Mo Yao's Will's actions with Near Water Pavilion and his Six-Armed Heavenly Corpse transformation as evidence of her scheme.
• Fang Yuan explained that Mo Yao's Will hoped to replace his will in the Spring Autumn Cicada and use it to return to the past.
• Mo Yao's Will stopped denying the accusations and praised Fang Yuan for seeing through her plan.
• Mo Yao's Will revealed that she had discovered the Spring Autumn Cicada while Fang Yuan refined Calamity Gu, because she had planted her will in the Gu during its refinement.

Fang Yuan explained how he uncovered Mo Yao's Will's plot and rejected her plan to use Spring Autumn Cicada, while Mo Yao revealed her scheme to reach Hong Lian Demon Venerable's inheritance. Outside the Wisdom Halo, Ju Yang's Will and the gathered Gu Masters prepared to confront Fang Yuan as the Great Harmony Wind Screen closed in.

• Fang Yuan explained that Mo Yao had used Near Water Pavilion and false will to influence his thoughts, and revealed how he had deliberately taken Ju Yang's Will's attack to confirm his suspicions.
• Mo Yao admitted that the six-fingered Handless Killer Move had taken Immortal Wanderer by chance, and described how her limited will and immortal essence had constrained her plan.
• Fang Yuan credited Wisdom Gu's halo with sharpening his thoughts and learned that Mo Yao's will was called false will, which disguised itself as his thoughts.
• Mo Yao argued that Fang Yuan had no escape and revealed she intended to use Spring Autumn Cicada to seek Hong Lian Demon Venerable's inheritance, but Fang Yuan remained silent.
• Ju Yang's Will finished counting down, the crowd called for Fang Yuan's death, and the Great Harmony Wind Screen approached the Wisdom Halo.

Ju Yang's Will rallied Hei Lou Lan and the other Gu Masters to attack Fang Yuan after Wisdom Gu fled, leaving him exposed. As the attackers charged, Hei Lou Lan suddenly vomited blood, and Fang Yuan seized the opening with a punch.

• Ju Yang's Will gave Hei Lou Lan a Strength Dao Immortal Gu, promised the others rewards, and urged them to kill Fang Yuan.
• Hei Lou Lan revealed that Fang Yuan was a zombie who could not die of old age, convincing the Gu Masters that they had to fight him.
• Wisdom Gu withdrew its halo and hid among the flying Gu, allowing Ju Yang's Will to join the coming battle.
• Fang Yuan laughed, declared that the road lay beneath his feet, and recalled Human Ancestor discovering Self Gu and forging a new path.
• The Gu Masters charged Fang Yuan, but Hei Lou Lan suddenly spat blood, and Fang Yuan answered with a punch that formed a Strength Dao Phantasm.

Fang Yuan unveiled a killer move that fused Strength and Slavery Dao, creating an army of intelligent Strength Dao Phantasms to overwhelm his attackers. After Ju Yang's Will ambushed him, Fang Yuan exposed a false opening and smashed the Will into fragments.

• Fang Yuan first summoned a Strength Dao Phantasm modeled on Hei Lou Lan, but the charging Gu Masters quickly destroyed it.
• Fang Yuan unleashed a vast army of Strength Dao Phantasms, which coordinated their attacks and pushed the Gu Masters' battle line toward collapse.
• Fang Yuan explained that he had refined an Immortal Gu with Wisdom Gu's Rank 9 Aura, enabling his Slavery and Strength Dao Fusion killer move.
• Mo Yao's Will admitted Fang Yuan had solved the long-standing fusion problem, then revealed she had been trying to force him to activate Spring Autumn Cicada and seize a chance at rebirth.
• Ju Yang's Will attacked Fang Yuan, but Fang Yuan used his phantasms to bait it into a trap and struck it with a powerful punch, shattering it.

Fang Yuan used his Strength Dao Phantom Army to overwhelm Ju Yang's Will and the Gu Masters while battling Hei Lou Lan. Hei Lou Lan turned on Ju Yang's Will and swallowed its three Immortal Gu, but a handful of its Golden Thoughts escaped.

• Fang Yuan shattered Ju Yang's Will, and Hei Lou Lan revealed her Great Strength True Martial Body to attack him.
• Fang Yuan's Strength Dao Phantasms trapped Hei Lou Lan and killed Yelü Sang and the other Gu Masters while Ju Yang's Will launched failed surprise attacks.
• Hei Lou Lan recalled her mother Su Xian warning her about the Strength Dao Phantasms, then rejected Fang Yuan's offer to escape and renewed her attack.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan fought evenly until Ju Yang's Will tried to exploit an opening and called on Hei Lou Lan to strike Fang Yuan.
• Hei Lou Lan attacked Ju Yang's Will instead, swallowed its three Immortal Gu, and Fang Yuan's Strength Dao Phantasms self-destructed against it, leaving only four or five Golden Thoughts alive.

Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan joined forces after she ambushed Ju Yang's Will and seized the Immortal Gu, then negotiated a temporary alliance. As the Great Harmony Wind Screen closed in, Hei Lou Lan escaped with Immortal Wanderer, while Fang Yuan opened a stargate and drew Wisdom Gu toward him.

• Hei Lou Lan revealed that she had deceived Ju Yang's Will, suppressed four Immortal Gu, and taken them with Fang Yuan's help.
• Ju Yang's Will self-destructed to keep its secrets from being exposed.
• Hei Lou Lan offered Dark Passage Immortal Gu, Immortal Wanderer, her Strength Dao Killer Move, and support for Tai Bai Yun Sheng in exchange for Fang Yuan protecting her as she became immortal and helping her kill her father.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan reached a preliminary agreement, and she used Immortal Wanderer to escape the contracting Great Harmony Wind Screen.
• Fang Yuan opened a stargate but stayed behind, and Wisdom Gu flew toward him.

After returning from Northern Plains, Fang Yuan recovered from his exhaustion and examined the damage caused by his zombie transformation, while Little Fox Immortal reported new trouble with Immortal Crane Sect. He remained determined to find a way back to life, but his dead aperture and slowed thoughts left him facing serious obstacles.

• Fang Yuan woke after sleeping for two days and three nights in Fox Immortal Blessed Land, and Little Fox Immortal comforted him over his monstrous appearance.
• Fang Yuan inspected his dead apertures and inventory of Gu, confirming that his strength path immortal aperture had become a ruined dead land and that he had seven Immortal Gu within it.
• Fang Yuan considered how to reverse his zombie transformation and identified interrogating Mo Yao's Will and borrowing Wisdom Gu's power as possible approaches.
• Little Fox Immortal told Fang Yuan that Tai Bai Yun Sheng had repeatedly tried to visit him and that Immortal Crane Sect had ended its rockman trade.
• Fang Yuan recognized that Immortal Crane Sect's move was likely connected to its demand for Courageous Gall Gu and worried about further pressure on Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
• Fang Yuan realized that becoming a zombie had slowed his thinking and left him struggling to plan an effective response.

Fang Yuan met Tai Bai Yun Sheng after becoming a zombie and comforted him while concealing his own schemes. Tai Bai Yun Sheng swore to help restore Fang Yuan, and the two parted on warmer terms while still disputing who was the senior brother.

• Fang Yuan reflected on how his zombie body slowed his thinking, then asked Little Fox Immortal to bring Tai Bai Yun Sheng to him.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng grieved over Fang Yuan's condition and offered to use Man Like Old Immortal Gu, but Fang Yuan explained it could not restore him.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng blamed himself for not lending Fang Yuan Man Like Old earlier, and Fang Yuan consoled him by citing Wisdom Gu, Mo Yao's will, and their supposed master, Purple Mountain True Lord.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng swore to devote his life to reviving Fang Yuan, while Fang Yuan inwardly welcomed his guilt and asked him to recognize Fang Yuan as the senior brother.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng refused to change their seniority without their master's approval, and the two laughed together.

Fang Yuan weighed how to use Tai Bai Yun Sheng and decided to keep him as a useful, trusted ally rather than kill him. He visited Wisdom Gu in the blessed land and used its Wisdom Halo to overcome the rigid thinking caused by his zombie body, leaving him with clearer memories and possible ways to solve his problems.

• Fang Yuan concluded that Tai Bai Yun Sheng's usefulness, guilt, and trust made him a valuable ally, and that keeping him alive also let Fang Yuan benefit from his Immortal Essence and avoid feeding two more Immortal Gu.
• Fang Yuan summoned Little Fox Immortal and asked where Wisdom Gu was hibernating in the blessed land.
• Little Fox Immortal teleported Fang Yuan to Wisdom Gu's underground cave, where Wisdom Gu spread its Wisdom Halo around them.
• Little Fox Immortal enjoyed the halo's effect but began to fade, so Fang Yuan sent her back to the blessed land.
• Fang Yuan confirmed that the Wisdom Halo did not affect Mo Yao's Will inside his immortal aperture, then used his stored wills to think beneath the halo.
• Fang Yuan's memories and inspiration became clearer, and he saw several possible paths toward solving his problems.

After the fall of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Fang Yuan assessed his dangerous position, his financial ruin, and his need to revive from his zombie body. He planned to seek help from Corpse Alliance, while waiting for Hei Lou Lan to arrive.

• Fang Yuan concluded that hiding in Fox Immortal Blessed Land would not keep him safe and considered obtaining Dark Passage Immortal Gu from Hei Lou Lan to evade deductions.
• Fang Yuan reflected that he had exhausted his resources, leaving Fox Immortal Blessed Land barren and himself without any Immortal Essence Stones.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng read a message from Fang Yuan’s invented Master, who told Fang Yuan to solve his predicament himself and suggested joining Corpse Alliance.
• Fang Yuan explained that Corpse Alliance was an organization of zombies researching ways to regain physical bodies, and said he intended to join its Northern Plains branch.
• Fang Yuan told Tai Bai Yun Sheng they had to wait for Hei Lou Lan before proceeding.

Fang Yuan questioned Mo Yao's Will about Spirit Affinity House and learned that Immortal Crane Sect had threatened to attack Fox Immortal Blessed Land unless he opened the Courageous Gall Gu trade. He decided to contact Spirit Affinity House with a special letter, hoping to exploit Immortal Crane Sect's fear of interference from the other great sects.

• Fang Yuan's Will brought Mo Yao's Will a mirror willow, and she shared outdated information about Spirit Affinity House while asking for Qingpu Tea.
• Mo Yao's Will explained that Fang Yuan lacked the wisdom dao methods needed to search her will, so he agreed to keep her and bring her tea.
• Little Fox Immortal delivered Immortal Crane Sect's demand that Fang Yuan open the Courageous Gall Gu trade or face an attack on Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng proposed seeking help from Hei Lou Lan or the Corpse Alliance, but Fang Yuan explained why neither option would work.
• Fang Yuan told Tai Bai Yun Sheng that he would send Spirit Affinity House a special letter to take advantage of Immortal Crane Sect's vulnerability.

Fang Yuan tested using Mountain Water Harmony Immortal Gu to supply the wills needed for Wisdom Gu’s halo, advancing the Muddying the Waters Immortal Gu formula by one percent. He and Tai Bai Yun Sheng concluded that the cost made formula-selling impractical for now, then considered seeking Lang Ya Earth Spirit’s help.

• Fang Yuan found that mortal Gu could not produce enough wills for formula derivation, so he activated Mountain Water Harmony Immortal Gu and gained a large supply of joyful will.
• Under Wisdom Gu’s halo, Fang Yuan advanced the Muddying the Waters Immortal Gu formula by one percent before the joyful will ran out.
• Fang Yuan told Tai Bai Yun Sheng that deriving formulas required too much immortal essence and that their reserves had to be saved for threats.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng proposed cooperating with Lang Ya Earth Spirit, who might possess more complete incomplete formulas, and Fang Yuan agreed that it was a promising idea.

Fang Yuan planned to use Tai Bai Yun Sheng to contact Lang Ya Earth Spirit while quietly drawing Tai Bai Yun Sheng closer under his control. Meanwhile, Fang Zheng advanced within Immortal Crane Sect and committed himself to the sect’s plan to reclaim Fox Immortal Blessed Land and kill his elder brother.

• Fang Yuan explained that he could not contact Lang Ya Earth Spirit directly, so Tai Bai Yun Sheng agreed to watch Yellow Treasure Heaven for the earth spirit’s divine sense.
• Fang Yuan assessed Tai Bai Yun Sheng as capable but lacking leadership skills and used their discussions to strengthen his dependence on Fang Yuan’s judgment.
• Fang Zheng trained his Iron Beak Flying Cranes, and Immortal Master Tian He urged him to take the Flying Crane Commander examination for a rank five Five-Aperture Jade Flute Gu.
• At Immortal Crane Sect, Fang Zheng heard disciples praise his elder brother Fang Yuan and credited Fang Zheng’s progress to his brother’s Courageous Gall Gu, stirring resentment in him.
• Immortal Master Tian He told Fang Zheng that three Grand Elders would be sent to reclaim Fox Immortal Blessed Land, and Fang Zheng vowed to kill Fang Yuan and avenge his kin.

Fang Yuan reflected on the limits of Wisdom Gu and Learn from Nature, then considered the vanished Heavenly Mystery Gu and the difficulty others would face uncovering his secrets. In Jade Pool Blessed Land, Dongfang Changfan offered deductions to Northern Plains Righteous Path forces in exchange for an alliance protecting the Eastern Tribes, and Dongfang Yikong revealed Square Inch Mountain as the means to swear their oath.

• Fang Yuan concluded that his failed deduction about Immortal Crane Sect came from a lack of evidence and compared Wisdom Gu's deductions with Learn from Nature's direct answers.
• Fang Yuan considered how Heavenly Mystery Gu could expose secrets and judged that, without it, wisdom path Gu Masters would need time and evidence to identify him.
• Dongfang Changfan welcomed Northern Plains Righteous Path Gu Immortals to Jade Pool Blessed Land and proposed one deduction for each force in return for fifty years of peace for the Eastern Tribes after his death.
• Tongzu, the Hei Family representative, and the Murong Family representative accepted Dongfang Changfan's alliance terms.
• Dongfang Changfan called for Fairy Lishan, and Dongfang Yikong revealed Square Inch Mountain when the Gu Immortals questioned how they would swear an oath.

Fang Yuan struggled to find the resources and allies needed to protect Fox Immortal Blessed Land while the Spring Autumn Cicada threatened his aperture and Immortal Crane Sect prepared to attack. Hei Lou Lan arrived early from Northern Plains, saying the situation had changed and demanding stronger cooperation.

• Fang Yuan deduced that sealing the Spring Autumn Cicada would require thousands of Gu and about twenty-three Immortal Essence Stones, which he could not afford.
• Tai Bai Yun Sheng reported that Lang Ya Earth Spirit had vanished from Yellow Treasure Heaven and showed Fang Yuan Immortal Crane Sect's increasingly aggressive demand for surrender.
• Fang Yuan told Tai Bai Yun Sheng they would resist Immortal Crane Sect and seek alliances with other ancient sects, while agreeing to wait seven more days for Spirit Affinity House to reply.
• Fang Yuan questioned Mo Yao about Immortal Gu Formula Fragments, but she refused to help him.
• Hei Lou Lan arrived at Soul-Shaking Mountain ahead of their agreed deadline, claiming Northern Plains had changed and admitting she had come to catch Fang Yuan off guard.
• Fang Yuan said their Northern Plains alliance required both sides to cooperate, but Hei Lou Lan's previous conditions were insufficient.

Fang Yuan forced Hei Lou Lan to agree to cooperate, and she revealed why she wanted to kill her father, Hei Cheng. The chapter ended with Fang Yuan reflecting on the sacrifices behind success as Human Ancestor stepped into foul mud and Self Gu urged him to keep walking.

• Hei Lou Lan threatened to expose Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng as the culprits behind True Yang Building's collapse and claimed they possessed Wisdom Gu.
• Fang Yuan negotiated Hei Lou Lan's return of Immortal Wanderer, a forty-sixty split of battle spoils, and an explanation of her revenge.
• Hei Lou Lan revealed that Hei Cheng had used the Yin-Yang Longevity Method to steal Su Xian'er's lifespan and now planned to take hers.
• Hei Lou Lan recounted how Su Xian'er had rescued and married Hei Cheng, who later concealed the truth about her death and stole her aperture and Gu worms.
• Fang Yuan reflected that achievement often demanded sacrifice as Human Ancestor stepped into foul mud and Self Gu told him not to fear the filth.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng formed an alliance with Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Lishan at Great Snow Mountain. Meanwhile, Dongfang Changfan died after entrusting Dongfang Yuliang with a secret inheritance, and Fang Yuan continued searching for the passage to Lang Ya Blessed Land.

• Fairy Lishan welcomed Fang Yuan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, and Hei Lou Lan at Great Snow Mountain, where she revealed herself as Hei Lou Lan's aunt and the Third Boss of Great Snow Mountain Blessed Land.
• Fang Yuan agreed to use Fairy Lishan's Rank 6 faith path Immortal Gu to swear an alliance oath upon Great Snow Mountain.
• Dongfang Changfan gave Dongfang Yuliang a Gu that would lead him to hidden resources and warned him that demonic path spies were inside Eastern Tribe before he died.
• The Northern Plains forces mourned Dongfang Changfan's death while Gu Immortals felt relieved that the feared wisdom path master was gone.
• Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng traveled to Crescent Lake to search for the passage to Lang Ya Blessed Land, but the changed landscape made locating the purple stone forest difficult.