Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan hid while Shi Lei and Myriad Phenomena Star Lord battled the Walking Flesh Tree inside the Eighth Star Hall. They stole the Qi Gang Flying Sky Pig’s corpse, and the broken Walking Flesh Tree crashed outside the hall, presenting them with another opportunity.

• Shi Lei fought the Walking Flesh Tree in Blazing Tiger form, then sat down to heal while Myriad Phenomena Star Lord took over the battle.
• Myriad Phenomena Star Lord was knocked out of the Eighth Star Hall and healed his injuries, while Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan used Fang Yuan’s Gu worms to disguise the stolen Qi Gang Flying Sky Pig corpse.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan collected the corpse’s remaining wild Gu and transferred the corpse into Hei Lou Lan’s Immortal Aperture Blessed Land.
• Fang Yuan adjusted his simulated image of the corpse after Hei Lou Lan spotted flaws, and the pair watched the battle continue.
• The broken Walking Flesh Tree fell out of the Eighth Star Hall and crashed to the ground near Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan discovered a powerful Walking Flesh Tree near the Eighth Star Hall, but their attempt to take it was interrupted when a Corpse Dragon emerged and fought Shi Lei. The battle left them unable to approach the tree safely.

• The story of Bei Ming Bing Po described how Fire Gu helped him escape Black Heaven by eating the pursuers, including Walking Flesh Trees, and burning them into cooked meat.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan identified a Walking Flesh Tree and prepared to take it for its strength path materials.
• An explosion shook the Eighth Star Hall, and a powerful Corpse Dragon emerged, forcing Shi Lei and Myriad Phenomena Star Lord outside.
• The Corpse Dragon struck Shi Lei into a mountainside, but Shi Lei retaliated with Heaven Shaking Stone, which the dragon smashed apart.
• Shi Lei charged the Corpse Dragon and fought it in the sky while Fang Yuan concluded its body had likely been affected by an Immortal Dao Defense Gu Worm.
• Hei Lou Lan noted that they could not take the Walking Flesh Tree while the battle raged nearby.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan infiltrated Eighth Star Hall after Shi Lei trapped the Corpse Dragon in a battlefield killer move, only to confront a woman claiming to be Star Lord Immortal Venerable. Meanwhile, Feng Jinhuang awakened and told Fairy Bai Qing that Dream Wings Immortal Gu had brought her into dreams.

• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan judged that Shi Lei was too powerful to challenge directly and retreated while speculating that the intruders had entered through a crack or loophole.
• Shi Lei used Rolling Stone Battlefield to trap himself and the Corpse Dragon, while Myriad Phenomena Star Lord seized the opening to enter Eighth Star Hall.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan followed Myriad Phenomena Star Lord into the unguarded inner hall, where they found him kneeling before a woman with a genuine Rank 9 Aura who called herself Star Lord Immortal Venerable.
• Feng Jinhuang awakened from her strange state, embraced Fairy Bai Qing, and revealed that Dream Wings Immortal Gu had taken her into dreams.

Feng Jinhuang described her encounter with Kong Jue in a dream realm, and Fairy Bai Qing explained the significance of her newfound refinement path knowledge. Meanwhile, Fang Yuan escaped a dream of Star Lord Immortal Venerable only to realize he had fallen into a second dream, with no bat wings left to help him escape.

• Feng Jinhuang told Fairy Bai Qing that she had explored dreams, encountered Kong Jue, and gained deep refinement path insights after waking.
• Fairy Bai Qing identified Kong Jue as Old Immortal Kong Jue and told Feng Jinhuang that her experience was a fortuitous opportunity.
• Fairy Bai Qing recounted how Fire Gu pursued a dream realm that had swallowed Bei Ming Bing Po, eventually waking him from an idyllic false dream.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan encountered Star Lord Immortal Venerable in Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven, while Myriad Phenomena Star Lord begged for mercy.
• Fang Yuan sacrificed his Return Reality Bat Wings to escape Star Lord Immortal Venerable's dream and entered a dream of Seven Star Child.
• Fang Yuan realized he was trapped in a dream within a dream and had no bat wings left to escape.

Fang Yuan escaped Star Lord Immortal Venerable’s dream by destroying Seven Star Child’s dream, awakening Seven Star Child as an immortal zombie. Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan fled the Eighth Star Hall as Seven Star Child attacked, while the Rolling Stone Battlefield remained intact under his assault.

• Fang Yuan used Ice Drill Star Dust to shatter Seven Star Child’s dream and regain his ability to move.
• Seven Star Child awakened as an immortal zombie and nearly killed Myriad Phenomena Star Lord with a stomp.
• Fang Yuan struck Hei Lou Lan with Ice Drill Star Dust, freeing her from Star Lord Immortal Venerable’s dream, and she escaped Seven Star Child’s Star Tide Giant Pillar.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan fled through the forest, and Fang Yuan explained that Seven Star Child’s mind had been damaged by his long entrapment in dreams.
• Seven Star Child attacked the Rolling Stone Battlefield with Star Tide Giant Pillar, but the battlefield remained undamaged.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan recovered Myriad Phenomena Star Lord’s corpse while Shi Lei battled the Seven Star Child Immortal Zombie. Fang Yuan escaped with Hei Lou Lan, and Shi Lei was left fighting as his attempt to seize the Qi Gang Flying Sky Pig’s corpse failed.

• Fang Yuan found Myriad Phenomena Star Lord with Hei Lou Lan and discovered that his soul had vanished into the dream realm.
• Fang Yuan worked to seal Myriad Phenomena Star Lord’s Blessed Land while Hei Lou Lan gathered the required Gu worms and guarded him.
• The Seven Star Child Immortal Zombie broke the Rolling Stone Battlefield, and Shi Lei fought back with the King Mountain Immortal Monkey Transformation.
• After the Seven Star Child Immortal Zombie summoned desolate beasts, Fang Yuan used Immortal Wanderer to escape with Hei Lou Lan and Myriad Phenomena Star Lord’s corpse.
• Shi Lei tried to seize the Qi Gang Flying Sky Pig’s corpse, found it gone, and was struck down by a Star Tide Giant Pillar.

Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei searched for the desolate beasts he had killed, only to discover that Fang Yuan had taken their spoils. He tried to escape Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven, but Seven Star Child’s Seven Son Star Space fooled him, leaving Shi Lei trapped and fleeing through the grotto-heaven.

• Shi Lei fought off desolate beasts while searching for the Star Demon Bat and Flying Bear corpses, then realized they were simulated images and accused Fang Yuan of stealing his spoils.
• Surrounded by desolate beasts and bombarded by Seven Star Child Immortal Zombie, Shi Lei used the Ghost Face Turtle’s Soul Beast Army to reach the grotto-heaven fissure.
• Shi Lei killed the three Flying Sword Rats, used Earth Collapse Disintegration to widen the fissure, and forced his way through it, badly injured.
• Shi Lei discovered he was still inside Seven Son Star Space, where Seven Star Child Immortal Zombie had regained his sanity and restrained him while the Flying Bears attacked.
• Shi Lei pretended to accept Seven Star Child’s challenge, reverted to human form, and escaped into the forest as Seven Star Child angrily pursued him.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan descended into the unexplored depths of the Earth Abyss and established Myriad Phenomena Blessed Land on its fortieth layer. Inside, they found signs of a fierce battle and encountered the blessed land’s young land spirit.

• Fang Yuan led Hei Lou Lan through the Earth Abyss, passing Ancient Soul Sect Gu Masters and reaching a hidden route below the thirty-sixth layer.
• Hei Lou Lan smashed through the nearly thousand-zhang-thick ground while Fang Yuan used six Gu formations to conceal their passage into the thirty-seventh layer.
• At the fortieth layer, Fang Yuan released Myriad Phenomena Star Lord’s corpse, and its immortal aperture descended into a blessed land amid earthquakes and falling rocks.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan entered Myriad Phenomena Blessed Land and saw thriving Star Dust Grass, three injured Spine Ridge Star Dragonfish, and damage from a fierce battle.
• A young land spirit appeared and explained that Myriad Phenomena Star Lord had been badly wounded by Song Zixing before dying in Eighth Star Hall.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan met Myriad Phenomena Child, who offered Starry Sky Blessed Land to whoever brought him Song Zixing’s head. After escaping with a huge haul from Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven, they agreed to compete fairly to claim the blessed land.

• Fang Yuan recognized Myriad Phenomena Child and offered to become his master, but the earth spirit demanded Song Zixing’s head as a condition.
• Myriad Phenomena Child refused to let outside Gu Immortals stay in Starry Sky Blessed Land and sent Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan away.
• Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan erased their traces, returned to Fox Immortal Blessed Land, and laid out the spoils they had taken.
• Hei Lou Lan valued the spoils at 790 Immortal Essence Stones, including several desolate beast corpses and the Qi Gang Flying Sky Pig.
• Fang Yuan proposed that he and Hei Lou Lan compete fairly to fulfill Myriad Phenomena Child’s condition, and Hei Lou Lan agreed.

Feng Jinhuang learned that Fang Yuan had become an immortal zombie and accepted his challenge, deciding to defeat him through Refinement Dao at the upcoming Central Continent Refinement Dao Convention. She began writing a reply that promised him Qingpu Tea while demanding stakes for their match.

• Feng Jinhuang reflected on The Legend of Human Ancestor and discussed how her dream-realm experience had improved her state of mind and raised her Refinement Dao attainment to Quasi-Grandmaster.
• Fairy Bai Qing showed Feng Jinhuang a family letter from Feng Jiuge, who had entered Northern Plains, and Feng Jinhuang was moved by his concern for her.
• Feng Jinhuang read Fang Yuan's letter, which accepted her challenge and asked to taste Spirit Affinity House's Qingpu Tea.
• Fairy Bai Qing told Feng Jinhuang that Fang Yuan had become an immortal zombie, possessed powerful backing, and repelled Immortal Crane Sect's attempt to reclaim Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
• Feng Jinhuang decided to answer Fang Yuan's challenge by competing in Refinement Dao at the upcoming convention and using dream realms to improve her skills.
• Feng Jinhuang began writing Fang Yuan a reply, offering him dozens of jars of Qingpu Tea while planning to demand stakes for their match.

Fang Yuan traded a Yellow Jade Lion to Lang Ya Earth Spirit for the Meeting Not as Acquaintances killer move and negotiated a new arrangement for deducing Immortal Gu Formulas. Lang Ya then asked Fang Yuan to sell captured Gu Immortals’ blessed lands at Qin Baisheng’s auction, and Fang Yuan demanded a six-four split before leaving to let Lang Ya consider it.

• Fang Yuan delivered a living Yellow Jade Lion to Lang Ya Earth Spirit and received eighty-eight Immortal Essence Stones and the Meeting Not as Acquaintances killer move.
• Fang Yuan proposed helping Lang Ya overcome difficult steps in Immortal Gu Formula deductions for two Immortal Essence Stones per hurdle, and Lang Ya agreed after adding a condition.
• Lang Ya revealed that he planned to sell blessed lands taken from Gu Immortals who had attacked Lang Ya Blessed Land, and he wanted Fang Yuan to represent him at the auction.
• Fang Yuan objected that selling the blessed lands would expose him to danger, but Lang Ya urged him to use Meeting Not as Acquaintances to conceal his identity.
• Fang Yuan demanded sixty percent of the proceeds, and Lang Ya angrily rejected the price as Fang Yuan opened a star gate and left.

Fang Yuan bartered primeval beast corpses in Yellow Treasure Heaven for rare resources and continued trying to repair the Star Demon Bat's damaged wings. The first repair attempt failed, but he still had another pair of bat wings to work on.

• Fang Yuan finished treating the Star Demon Bat wings and asked Little Fox Immortal about sales in Yellow Treasure Heaven.
• Little Fox Immortal reported that a Chestnut Yak had been exchanged for primeval beast bat wings and the Hundred Mile Eye killer move.
• Fang Yuan arranged for the hairy men to refine Air Sac Gu and practice refining Group Strength Gu and Petty Qi Gu.
• Fang Yuan's first attempt to restore the Star Demon Bat wings failed, leaving them to crumble into pieces.
• Fang Yuan calmed himself and returned to working on the other pair of bat wings.

Fang Yuan tested his new bat wings and killer moves, reflecting on how using the foundations of predecessors could speed his growth. After disguising his immortal zombie body, he received Feng Jinhuang’s challenge to compete in Gu refinement, which made him suspect she had discovered Dream Wings Immortal Gu’s true use.

• Fang Yuan tested Hundred Mile Eye, Return Reality Bat Wings, and Lion Fur Armor, noting that the armor reduced his flight speed.
• Fang Yuan considered how accumulated legacies helped Gu Immortals advance, recalling Shi Lei’s foundation and the lessons in the Legend of Human Ancestor about following earlier footsteps.
• Fang Yuan activated Meeting Not as Acquaintances and transformed his appearance, concealing his identity from people who knew him.
• Little Fox Immortal Earth Spirit delivered a letter from Spirit Affinity House, and Fang Yuan learned that Feng Jinhuang wanted him to compete with her in Gu refinement at the Refinement Dao Convention.
• Fang Yuan suspected Feng Jinhuang had discovered Dream Wings Immortal Gu’s true use and recalled that he had sought to kill her for it in his previous life.

Fang Yuan learned that dream realms had begun emerging centuries earlier than he believed, and reconsidered how his actions might accelerate their exploration. He accepted Feng Jinhuang’s Refinement Dao Convention challenge and planned to raise funds for the convention and the Northern Plains Auction Conference.

• Fang Yuan reflected on how dream realms transformed the Five Regions and how his late start had hindered him in his previous life.
• Fang Yuan realized that Feng Jinhuang’s early understanding of Dream Wings Immortal Gu might have been caused by his seizure of Fox Immortal Blessed Land.
• Fang Yuan erased the message in Letter Gu Blue Bird and accepted Feng Jinhuang’s challenge to compete at the Refinement Dao Convention.
• Fang Yuan decided to gather Gu refinement materials and attend the Auction Convention held by Qin Baisheng and Fairy Lishan to seek an Immortal Gu exchange.
• Fang Yuan noted that his nearly two hundred Immortal Essence Stones were insufficient for both events and considered selling Gu Immortal blessed lands through Lang Ya Earth Spirit’s plan.

Fang Yuan obtained a fragmented Wisdom Dao inheritance and began refining Malicious Gu to improve his deductions more cheaply. He invested heavily in hairy men and built a second stone nest, which he dedicated to producing Malicious Gu.

• Fang Yuan sold the Qi Gang Flying Sky Pig corpse and received a Wisdom Dao inheritance containing two Gu formulas and the Concealed Malice killer move.
• Fang Yuan refined Malicious Gu and learned that malicious thoughts were more efficient than wills or joyful intent for schemes and deductions.
• Fang Yuan sold more Courageous Gall Gu and spent most of his earnings buying hairy men, but Lang Ya Earth Spirit refused to sell him the hairy men in Lang Ya Blessed Land.
• Fang Yuan built a second Fang Yuan Stone Nest and filled it with hairy men to refine Malicious Gu.

Fang Yuan improved his Malicious Gu formula, secured a deal with Lang Ya Earth Spirit, and arranged to sell a Gu Immortal blessed land at Qin Baisheng’s Auction Convention. The chapter leaves Fang Yuan welcomed into the auction after revealing the major transaction.

• Fang Yuan estimated that he needed two thousand Rank 5 Malicious Gu and improved their formula so they could be refined in two steps instead of many.
• Fang Yuan sold two primeval beast corpses for Primeval Beast Bat Wings and Immortal Essence Stones, while his resources dwindled from continued deductions and refinement.
• Lang Ya Earth Spirit accepted Fang Yuan’s terms and agreed to split their deal sixty-forty.
• Qin Baisheng and Fairy Lishan visited Hundred Feet Heavenly Lord and invited him to attend the Auction Convention.
• Fairy Lishan received Fang Yuan’s message and let him emerge from her immortal aperture to meet Qin Baisheng.
• Fang Yuan, calling himself Sha Huang, offered to arrange the sale of a Gu Immortal blessed land, and Qin Baisheng welcomed him into the Auction Convention.

Disguised as Sha Huang, Fang Yuan spoke with Qin Baisheng, who tried to draw him into sworn brotherhood and investigate his background. After avoiding a trip to meet Crown Prince Feng Xian, Fang Yuan headed toward Withered Wood Mountain to pursue his plan to join the Northern Plains Corpse Alliance.

• Fang Yuan used Meeting Not as Acquaintances and the false name Sha Huang to conceal his identity while meeting Qin Baisheng and Fairy Lishan.
• Qin Baisheng proposed swearing brotherhood with Fang Yuan, but Fang Yuan declined, saying he could not act freely.
• Fang Yuan asked to borrow Fairy Lishan's Mountain Alliance Gu, then let her and Qin Baisheng leave to visit Crown Prince Feng Xian.
• Fang Yuan reflected on Qin Baisheng's cunning and decided to pursue joining the Corpse Alliance after his other plans were disrupted.
• Fang Yuan flew toward Withered Wood Mountain, scattering Green Camel Birds with his immortal zombie aura and avoiding a desolate beast flying snake.

Fang Yuan, posing as Sha Huang, visited Gu Ye at Ancient Wood to seek an introduction to the Northern Plains Corpse Alliance. He watched Gu Ye get forced into selling Withered Essence cheaply and learned that the Corpse Alliance offered little protection.

• Fang Yuan approached Ancient Wood and asked Gu Ye to introduce him to the Northern Plains Corpse Alliance.
• Gu Ye welcomed Fang Yuan into the decaying Ancient Wood City and complained about his injuries and garrison duty.
• Heavenly Capital Divine Lord and Shi Hou arrived and threatened Ancient Wood while demanding three hundred jin of Withered Essence for one Immortal Essence Stone.
• Fang Yuan asked about the attackers and the Corpse Alliance, while Gu Ye explained that he could not afford to seek its intervention.
• Gu Ye accepted the extortion, and Heavenly Capital Divine Lord and Shi Hou departed after mocking him.

Fang Yuan followed Gu Ye to Yin Flow City and learned how the Northern Plains Zombie Alliance operated and what it cost to gain its support. After demonstrating that he was a Northern Plains native, Fang Yuan entered the headquarters as the alliance council began.

• Gu Ye explained that Immortal Zombies relied on outside resources and had to pay for the Zombie Alliance to intervene on their behalf.
• Gu Ye activated the Green Crystal Splendid Dao killer move to transport Fang Yuan from Ancient Wood to Yin Flow City.
• Gu Ye described Yin Flow City’s seven levels and warned Fang Yuan about Yin Liugong, a deputy city lord who commanded Immortal Zombies in battle.
• Gu Ye told Fang Yuan to push open the headquarters doors to qualify for the Zombie Alliance, and Fang Yuan opened them before more than twenty Immortal Zombies.
• Gu Ye welcomed Fang Yuan as a Northern Plains native and said he had arrived in time for the Zombie Alliance council.

Three War Immortal Sect Gu Immortals tried to enter Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven to rescue Shi Lei, but its space-warping power sent them back outside. Meanwhile, Fang Yuan entered Yin Flow Giant City as Sha Huang and was accepted by the Corpse Alliance elders, leaving his infiltration in progress.

• Absolute Void Divine Mother confirmed that Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven had fallen at their location after annexing a fragment of Blue Heaven.
• Absolute Void Divine Mother opened a hole into Starry Sky Grotto-Heaven, but she, Thousand Bamboo Immortal, and the River of Fate Valley Master were sent back to their original place.
• Fang Yuan entered the Corpse Alliance headquarters in Yin Flow Giant City and introduced himself as Sha Huang.
• Yaksa Longshuai asked whether Sha Huang was his real name, and Fang Yuan claimed he had sworn to reclaim his former name only after restoring his physical body.
• Huang Quan Weng said Sha Huang had proved himself and welcomed him as a new source of strength for the Corpse Alliance.