Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ming fought the Green Robe Old Man, using Emotional Stirring, the Curse Rune, and his Crow Formation to overcome the old man's resurrection ability and capture him. After learning the cavern's secrets from the captive, Yuan Ming entered a hidden chamber and subdued the Three-Eyed Crow.

• Yuan Ming exploited the Green Robe Old Man's emotional instability, then weakened him with the Curse Rune and trapped him with the Crow Formation's illusions.
• The Green Robe Old Man repeatedly revived through a substitute-death ability, but Yuan Ming kept poisoning and weakening him until the Curse Rune shattered his golden core.
• Yuan Ming sensed a clue from his first Split Soul, searched the Green Robe Old Man's soul, and sealed the unconscious captive in his Spirit Beast Bag.
• Yuan Ming used the old man's command token to open a hidden passage and reached a stone chamber containing the Three-Eyed Crow.
• Yuan Ming struck the Three-Eyed Crow with his white bone saber and crow-call illusions, leaving it trapped and unable to move.

Yuan Ming learned how the Hundred Ghosts Night March Scroll worked, killed the Heavenly Ghost Rogue for good, and claimed the scroll. He refined the corpses of the Heavenly Ghost Rogue and others into Ghost Slaves, gaining access to the Rogue’s Substitute Calamity ability.

• Yuan Ming examined the Hundred Ghosts Night March Scroll and learned from the Heavenly Ghost Rogue’s memories how it collected ghosts, created Ghost Slaves, and enabled the Rogue’s Substitute Calamity ability.
• Yuan Ming used repeated Sword Qi strikes to exhaust the Heavenly Ghost Rogue’s soul manifestation and kill him permanently, freeing the Ghost Slaves from his control.
• Yuan Ming claimed the Hundred Ghosts Night March Scroll with his blood and entered the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron to refine it.
• Yuan Ming refined the corpses of the Heavenly Ghost Rogue, Fang You Ting, Feng Qi, and Ya Xian into Ghost Slaves.
• Yuan Ming discovered that the Heavenly Ghost Rogue retained Substitute Calamity as a Ghost Slave, while Fang You Ting’s lightning had transformed into Yin Lightning.

Yuan Ming investigated the Heavenly Ghost Rogue’s treasures and learned that the Nether Moon Art might share its origins with the Wuyue Cult, an ancient soul-cultivation sect. While pursuing the Ghost Slaves drawn to a newly appeared fissure, he was captured by its blood-colored glow as Soul Burial Abyss erupted into chaos.

• Yuan Ming examined the Heavenly Ghost Rogue’s treasures and found that his Mystic Moon Art closely resembled the Nether Moon Art.
• Fang You Ting told Yuan Ming that the Wuyue Cult had been the birthplace of soul cultivation, and he recorded what he remembered about its history and ranks.
• Yuan Ming learned the Wuyue Cult’s soul-cultivation realms and wondered whether someone had erased the Heavenly Ghost Rogue’s memories of the sect.
• Yuan Ming found the escaped Ghost Slaves gathered at a fissure emitting black qi and bloody light, but a blood-colored glow devoured them and bound him.
• A pillar of black qi rose above Soul Burial Abyss, driving beasts and ghosts into a frenzy and alarming the Core Formation Cultivators nearby.

Yuan Ming was transported from Soul Burial Abyss into a sealed hall, where he found five altered murals and a mysterious White Ring with freezing powers. Unable to escape, he contacted his second Split Soul, which remained outside the hall.

• The black qi above Soul Burial Abyss transformed into spiritual light, revealing a purple-jade palace that cultivators could not yet enter.
• Yuan Ming emerged from the blood-colored rosy light inside a dim great hall and summoned King Kong, but the walls blocked their attempts to sense beyond it.
• Yuan Ming examined five murals depicting a young man's life and discovered that striking the final mural's right eye released a White Ring.
• Yuan Ming tested the White Ring and found that its white mist could freeze objects and sluggishly affect souls.
• Yuan Ming failed to break out of the hall or pass the corridor's restriction, so he contacted his second Split Soul through their surviving connection.

Zuo Qinghui gathered news in Lin Yuan City and sent his second Split Soul toward Soul Burial Abyss, where Nascent Soul ancestors were debating how to enter the immortal estate. As Fairy Jinxi explained that the restrictions would soon fade, Wan Sihu of Changchun Temple arrived.

• Zuo Qinghui learned that the immortal estate's restrictions remained closed and that Nascent Soul ancestors from several powers had gathered at Soul Burial Abyss.
• After seeing a sword-like escape light streak toward the abyss, Zuo Qinghui sealed his spiritual power and sent his second Split Soul underground toward it.
• Su Zimo proposed rules for exploring the immortal estate, but Ancestor Lei Ming mocked him and the two exchanged barbs.
• Dugu Feng urged the others to stop arguing, and Fairy Jinxi said the restrictions would weaken and disperse within a few days.
• Wan Sihu of Changchun Temple arrived at the gathered Nascent Soul ancestors and announced that he had come for the immortal estate.

Yuan Ming prepared for the Nascent Soul Cultivators to discover him as they broke into the immortal residence. After the five shattered its restriction and entered, Yuan Ming passed Wan Sihu’s initial scrutiny, but Fairy Jinxi asked him to explain how he had become trapped there.

• Yuan Ming’s second Split Soul observed the Nascent Soul Cultivators gathering outside and warned Yuan Ming that they would soon enter; Yuan Ming hid Flower Branch, King Kong, and other suspicious items in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• Wan Sihu refused Su Zimo’s suggestion to clear away the rogue cultivators, then joined Ancestor Lei Ming, Fairy Jinxi, Dugu Feng, and Su Zimo in attacking the restriction.
• The five Nascent Soul Cultivators shattered the spiritual-light pillar and entered the immortal residence, while Yuan Ming’s second Split Soul left its scorpion and hid inside Yan Sijing.
• The cultivators found Yuan Ming seated in the hall; Fang Dafu and Pi Xiu recognized him, and Pi Xiu told him that Fairy Jinxi would protect him.
• Yuan Ming claimed he had been swept into the residence by red light while hunting beasts, and Wan Sihu stopped questioning him after inspecting the hall.
• Fairy Jinxi explained that the red light had come from the immortal residence’s restriction and ordered Yuan Ming to recount how he had become trapped.

Yuan Ming faced suspicion from the Nascent Soul cultivators, but Fairy Jinxi and Dugu Feng intervened to protect him. The group found the mansion’s inheritance formation and began entering it, leaving the remaining Core Formation Cultivators in a tense standoff.

• Ancestor Lei Ming attacked Yuan Ming with purple lightning and tried to use his Thunder Sound Soul Shaking Technique, but Fairy Jinxi freed him with the Brilliant Gold Scroll.
• Fairy Jinxi persuaded Ancestor Lei Ming and Su Zimo to inspect Yuan Ming’s Storage Artifacts, which contained no great treasure.
• Dugu Feng claimed Yuan Ming’s Black Branch in exchange for promising to help him, and Yuan Ming asked for guidance after they left the mansion.
• Yuan Ming declined Dugu Feng’s offer to join the Black Desert Rogue Alliance and stayed with Fairy Jinxi.
• Wan Sihu and the other cultivators broke the corridor restriction and found a teleportation formation leading to the mansion’s inheritance.
• Wan Sihu and the other Nascent Soul Realm cultivators entered the formation, leaving the Core Formation Cultivators behind in a tense chamber.

Yuan Ming entered the yin-filled valley and faced Hai Dafu, who sent three Demonic Core cultivators to attack him. Hai Dafu fell to Yuan Ming’s illusion and died after confronting his guilt over his father and his own choices.

• Wen Zaifou warned Yuan Ming that the Guiyuan Sect and Five Thunder Sect might ambush him, then entered the teleportation formation with him.
• Yuan Ming arrived in a valley filled with yin energy, where Yan Sijing appeared before Fang Dafu joined them.
• Fang Dafu revealed that he was Hai Dafu, accused Yuan Ming of killing Hai Qing, and ordered three Demonic Core cultivators to attack.
• Yuan Ming drove Yan Sijing out of the fight and countered the corpse puppets’ attacks with the Golden Sun Ruler and Bronze Small Cauldron.
• Yuan Ming’s illusion made Hai Dafu mistake him for Hai Qing, and Hai Dafu killed himself while reliving his guilt and regret.

Yuan Ming killed Hai Dafu and reunited with Yan Sijing, who revealed that Ancestor Lei Ming had captured her and her sister and forced them into his service. Yuan Ming urged Yan Sijing to sincerely follow the Nether Moon God’s path of self-rescue, leaving her with hope that she could escape and save her sister.

• Yuan Ming collected Hai Dafu’s belongings after using illusion arts and his emotion-stirring ability to make Hai Dafu’s insect-armed cultivator kill him.
• Yuan Ming greeted Yan Sijing, who was astonished by his strength and congratulated him on forming a Golden Core.
• Yan Sijing explained that Ancestor Lei Ming had captured her and her sister, forced her cultivation to the Golden Core Realm, and kept her as a potential dual-cultivation cauldron.
• Yan Sijing challenged Yuan Ming over why the Nether Moon God had not protected her when she prayed for help.
• Yuan Ming told Yan Sijing that the god offered a path to self-rescue rather than granting every request, and said sincere prayer could help her break free of Ancestor Lei Ming’s control.
• Yan Sijing promised to believe in the Nether Moon God and hoped to gain the power to save her sister.

Yuan Ming and Yan Sijing entered a Yin-filled valley after Yuan Ming dealt with an illusion-wielding stranger and prepared for their journey. As they pressed deeper through the Ghost Miasma, Yuan Ming absorbed it with the Hundred Ghosts Night March Scroll and captured a powerful Gray-Clad Female Ghost to refine into a Ghost Slave.

• A black-robed cultivator ignored Yuan Ming's illusion and induced Fang You Ting and Yan Sijing to fall into illusions, but Yuan Ming broke them with the Ten Directions Soul Wave.
• The black-robed cultivator escaped into the valley, and Yuan Ming made preparations behind protective screens before setting out with Yan Sijing.
• Yuan Ming and Yan Sijing entered the Ghost Miasma, which the Hundred Ghosts Night March Scroll absorbed to strengthen its Ghost Slaves and Yin Attribute treasures.
• A Gray-Clad Female Ghost attacked Yan Sijing with a soul-shaking shriek, but Yuan Ming rescued her and captured the ghost in the scroll.
• Yuan Ming began refining the Gray-Clad Female Ghost into a Ghost Slave, intending to preserve her powerful ghostly howl.

Yuan Ming and Yan Sijing reached Yindu City after crossing the ghost-filled valley, while Ancestor Lei Ming, Wan Sihu, and Su Zimo encountered identical cities along their own routes. Inside the city, Yuan Ming discovered that several of his ghostly entities had vanished without a trace.

• Yuan Ming subdued ghostly entities along the valley route, and Yan Sijing began to believe the Nether Moon God might rival Ancestor Lei Ming.
• Yuan Ming and Yan Sijing found Yindu City and entered after reading a stele promising treasures to those fated to find them.
• Ancestor Lei Ming reached another Yindu City, sent a Female Cultivator inside to scout, and watched her disappear before entering himself.
• Wan Sihu and Su Zimo also arrived at separate versions of Yindu City, while Yuan Ming and Yan Sijing discovered that the city suppressed Spiritual Sense and flight.
• Yuan Ming sent ghostly entities to search the city, but several, including Heavenly Ghost Rogue, suddenly vanished without a trace.

Yuan Ming discovered that Yindu City’s strange restriction separated people and concealed their presence, then fought off a blood shadow disguised as Yan Sijing. As the restriction trapped other cultivators and a blood-red orb hunted for vital blood, Yuan Ming found the manor where his connection to Yan Sijing indicated she was waiting, though neither could sense the other.

• Yuan Ming and Yan Sijing tried to leave Yindu City but found that the distant walls never seemed to get closer, even when Yuan Ming flew toward them.
• A false Yan Sijing attacked Yuan Ming with a blood mist and shadow, but Yuan Ming, Flower Branch, and King Kong drove the shadow away; Yuan Ming recognized the impostor because it lacked Yan Sijing’s second Split Soul.
• Yuan Ming concluded that people and Ghost Slaves disappeared from view when they moved away from him, while Yan Sijing continued searching the city alone.
• A green-robed Core Formation cultivator entered a garden for shelter, where blood-eyed flowers attacked and the ground swallowed her.
• Wan Sihu was repeatedly displaced from the City Lord’s Mansion by a spatial restriction, while a Bloody Ghostly Shadow crept up behind him.
• The Guiyuan Sect White-robed Man retrieved a blue pearl from a well, but it transformed into a blood-red orb and drained him dry before flying away in search of an Innate Body cultivator; Yuan Ming then reached the manor where Yan Sijing was concealed.

Yuan Ming used the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron to communicate with Yan Sijing, inspect Yindu City’s illusion array, and kill a blood-red phantom. He then recognized and reunited with Xi Ying, and the two began sharing what had brought them to the immortal estate.

• Yuan Ming had Yan Sijing pray to Nether Moon God, using her faith as an anchor to see through Yindu City’s restrictions and observe the city’s Black Mist Illusion Array.
• Yuan Ming killed a blood-red face inside an orb with the Soul Annihilation Sword, then gave the orb to Flower Branch, who began refining it.
• Yuan Ming sent his first Split Soul into a black-robed cultivator, stopped Xi Ying’s golden flames, and revealed that he had recognized her from her illusion techniques.
• Yuan Ming explained his connection to Yan Sijing and recounted his encounter with Heavenly Ghost Rogue and the Hundred Ghosts Night March Scroll.
• Xi Ying said she would explain her reasons for coming later, then reacted with delight when Yuan Ming confirmed the scroll was in his hands.

Yuan Ming and Xiying broke the Black Mist Illusion Array in Yindu City, freeing the trapped cultivators and revealing a signal flare that drew the group together. When the Nascent Soul leaders investigated a scorched mark left by the array’s destruction, Xiying claimed responsibility and drew offers and praise from rival leaders.

• Yuan Ming described the Black Mist array to Xiying, who identified three nodes that had to be destroyed simultaneously to break it.
• Yuan Ming, Xiying, and King Kong destroyed the three nodes, causing the illusion to collapse and weakening the city’s restrictions.
• Yuan Ming found Yan Sijing, recovered the returning Ghost Slaves into the Hundred Ghosts Night March Scroll, and followed a distant fire pillar with her.
• Yuan Ming and Yan Sijing joined the gathered cultivators at a plaza, where the Nascent Soul leaders learned that four Core Formation Cultivators had not arrived.
• Fairy Jinxi used the Brilliant Gold Scroll to reveal a scorched mark left by a Golden Core-level lightning technique, and Xiying admitted that she had broken the array.
• Dugu Feng promised Xiying a reward, while Ancestor Lei Ming invited her to leave the Black Desert Rogue Alliance and join the Five Thunder Sect.

Yuan Ming declined to enter the City Lord’s Mansion with the Nascent Soul Cultivators and went to search the eastern gardens instead. After collecting an ancient pine, he grew suspicious of the unguarded garden and turned back toward the forest.

• Wan Sihu revealed that a powerful restriction barred the City Lord’s Mansion and led the other cultivators there to seek their help.
• The cultivators entered the mansion, while Yuan Ming stayed at the entrance and then ran toward the eastern gardens.
• Yuan Ming cautiously explored the overgrown garden, collecting aged spirit trees as he crossed the forest.
• Yuan Ming chopped down and collected a two-thousand-year-old ancient pine, then wondered why it had no guardian.
• Yuan Ming looked toward the pavilion on the island, considered it briefly, and retraced his steps.

Yuan Ming explored a flower garden, identified and killed a Drilling Fang, then searched the lake for treasures and found a Five-Colored Lotus. As he approached it, Blood Vines trapped him and attacked, leaving Flower Branch and King Kong fighting to free him.

• Yuan Ming recognized that the garden's floral fragrance caused bodily illusions, sealed off his sense of smell, and escaped the earth-swallowing Drilling Fang with Flower Branch and King Kong's help.
• Yuan Ming used his white bone blade and white flames to capture and kill the Drilling Fang, then collected several spiritual herbs from the garden.
• Yuan Ming crossed the covered bridge with Flower Branch and King Kong, gathering spiritually potent lotus seeds and Spiritual Lotus Root from the lake.
• Yuan Ming found a radiant Five-Colored Lotus and approached it, but Blood Vines seized his ankle and hung him upside down.
• Yuan Ming summoned a Bronze Small Cauldron to shield himself as the Blood Vines attacked, while Flower Branch struck at them and King Kong tried to tear one free.

Yuan Ming and his allies battled a Level Four blood willow whose regenerative roots overwhelmed King Kong, while five Nascent Soul cultivators fought a Blood Skeleton in the City Lord's Mansion. The chapter left both battles ongoing as the Blood Skeleton's river produced phantoms of its five opponents.

• Yuan Ming freed himself from the Blood Vines with his pale-flamed bone blade, while Flower Branch used the Blood-red Orb to destroy the vines draining him.
• A Level Four blood willow erupted from the island and attacked Yuan Ming and Flower Branch; King Kong defended Yuan Ming with the Purple Star Nine Dragon Spear.
• The blood willow fired seed-like spheres that spawned new roots whenever they were cut or touched soil, leaving King Kong struggling; Yuan Ming released Ghost Slaves to help and contacted Yan Sijing from the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• In the City Lord's Mansion, the Blood Skeleton attacked Wan Sihu, Su Zimo, Ancestor Lei Ming, Dugu Feng, and Fairy Jinxi with corrosive blood weapons, damaging or contaminating their techniques and artifacts.
• The Blood Skeleton drew the shattered weapons back into its phantom river, then formed five blood-colored cultivator phantoms resembling Wan Sihu and the others.

Yuan Ming used Yan Sijing’s prayer to find the battle in the eastern gardens and intervened against the Blood Willow. With the Blood Willow distracted and trapped in illusions, Flower Branch pierced its tree heart with the Purple-black Vine and began absorbing its power.

• Yan Sijing prayed to the Nether Moon God, allowing Yuan Ming to locate the gardens and see Flower Branch, King Kong, and the Ghost Slaves struggling against the Blood Willow and Drilling Fang.
• Yuan Ming used the Soul Crow’s illusion to turn Drilling Fang against the Blood Willow, and the resulting fight reduced the pressure on King Kong.
• Yuan Ming cast an illusion on the Blood Willow, making it unleash its attacks against five incoming cultivators and withdraw its roots from Flower Branch.
• Yuan Ming told King Kong to attack the distracted Blood Willow, but King Kong’s spear strikes barely damaged its trunk.
• Flower Branch asked Yuan Ming for permission to act, then pierced the Blood Willow with the Purple-black Vine as Yuan Ming used eight Soul Crows to keep the tree trapped in an illusion.
• Flower Branch found the Blood Willow’s tree heart, pierced its Blood Crystal, and began absorbing its demonic power.

Yuan Ming and his companions killed the Blood Willow, allowing Flower Branch to absorb its power, and Yuan Ming then explored a dark pavilion and found two powerful magic treasures. On the pavilion’s empty third floor, he discovered a key marked “Asura,” which activated a magic array and transported him away.

• Yuan Ming and the Ghost Slaves overwhelmed the weakened Blood Willow with soul attacks while Flower Branch drained its demonic power and formed a cocoon around its remains.
• Yuan Ming stored Flower Branch and King Kong, then traveled deeper into the island and reached a three-story pavilion protected by a water-attributed restriction.
• Yuan Ming froze and shattered the pavilion’s entrance, then found and claimed the Bloodbone Mask and Thunder God's Hammer on the second floor.
• Yuan Ming searched the dusty third floor and discovered a black key engraved with “Asura.”
• The characters on the key lit up, and a black magic array appeared beneath Yuan Ming and transported him away.

Yuan Ming and the others were teleported from the City Lord's Mansion to an unknown grassland, where the Blood Skeleton escaped and Wan Sihu tried to take Yuan Ming's Black Key. Yuan Ming offered the key in exchange for Nine Netherworld Iron, and Dugu Feng produced a piece, leaving him and Wan Sihu on the verge of conflict.

• A Black Magic Array teleported Yuan Ming, Wan Sihu's group, and the Blood Skeleton away from the City Lord's Mansion, and the Blood Skeleton fled across the grassland.
• When Wan Sihu tried to pull the Black Key from Yuan Ming, Yuan Ming used the White Ring to freeze the suction force, and Fairy Jinxi intervened to protect him.
• Wan Sihu and Dugu Feng both asked to buy the Black Key, and Yuan Ming offered it in exchange for a substantial piece of Nine Netherworld Iron.
• Dugu Feng produced a fist-sized piece of Nine Netherworld Iron, but Wan Sihu reacted with hostility, and Dugu Feng and the Black Desert Rogue Alliance stood against him.