Chapter Summaries

Asura Venerable helped Yuan Ming and Xiying destroy Six Desires Venerable, then used up his remnant soul and asked Yuan Ming to bury his corpse overseas. Yuan Ming recovered the treasures hidden by Silver Kong, who escaped after handing them over, while he and Xiying prepared to deal with a soul leech.

• Asura Venerable emerged from the Spatial Rift, sealed it, and used a curse to weaken Six Desires Venerable.
• Xiying’s flute shattered Six Desires Venerable’s soul, and Yuan Ming’s lightning destroyed its fragments.
• Asura Venerable explained that he had sacrificed his remaining soul power, gave Yuan Ming advice about the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram, and asked him to bury his corpse overseas.
• Silver Kong offered the valuables hidden in his internal space in exchange for his life, and Yuan Ming accepted.
• Silver Kong handed Yuan Ming five items, including the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram and a black gourd, then escaped after Yuan Ming released the sealed space.
• Yuan Ming and Xiying stopped laughing about Silver Kong’s sparse hair and turned their attention to the soul leech.

Yuan Ming and Xi Ying freed Fairy Jinxi from Six Desires’ soul leech and discussed the Wuyue Cult’s growing influence and Xi Ying’s plan to oppose it. After learning that Ni Mu had secured a way for Six Desires to revive, Yuan Ming sent Ni Mu and the others out of Asura Palace.

• Yuan Ming brought Xi Ying to Fairy Jinxi, who revealed she had helped locate Six Desires’ soul leeches, and Xi Ying removed Jinxi’s leech.
• Fairy Jinxi mourned the sect elders who died, then left Asura Palace after asking Xi Ying to help recover the other half of the Heaven Talisman Strategy.
• Xi Ying explained that the Wuyue Cult had recruited her family with the promise of the Nether Moon Art’s seventh level, but she intended to gather allies and break away from the cult.
• Xi Ying told Yuan Ming that the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron could make him a rival to the Wuyue God in gathering faith, and said Six Desires had also killed her elder brother.
• Xi Ying explained that Ni Mu had captured Six Desires’ soul leech avatars, allowing Six Desires to revive if Ni Mu were killed; Yuan Ming noticed Ni Mu looking toward him and expelled Ni Mu and the others from Asura Palace.

After driving Ni Mu’s group out of Asura Palace, Yuan Ming and Xiying moved the palace deep underground to keep it hidden. When Yuan Ming opened the Blood Coffin, Asura Venerable’s corpse rose on its own and attacked them with a powerful phantom elephant leg, leaving its nature unexplained.

• Ni Mu warned Wu Yuezhi and the glamorous woman not to return to Asura Palace, suspecting Xiying had a hidden Sleep Shaman-level ally, and the three left.
• Yuan Ming used the Asura Stone Tablet to release Asura Palace’s restrictions, then shrank and moved the palace away from the abyss.
• Yuan Ming struggled to move Asura Palace and eventually relocated it a thousand li underground with Xiying.
• Yuan Ming opened the Blood Coffin and saw Asura Venerable’s corpse rise amid starlike lights.
• The corpse’s phantom elephant leg shattered Xiying’s attack and broke through Yuan Ming’s defenses, forcing Yuan Ming to teleport himself and Xiying away.

Yuan Ming learned more about Asura Venerable’s body cultivation and used Asura Palace’s restrictions to subdue the Blood Skeleton and the Red Clad Woman. He began refining the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram with the secret technique Asura Venerable had taught him, alarming its Artifact Spirit.

• Xi Ying explained that Asura Venerable’s floating corpse and the giant elephant phantom showed that he had cultivated a powerful body, possibly reaching the late Aperture Opening Body or early Myriad Manifestations Body stage.
• Yuan Ming returned to the collapsed stone chamber, broke the seal on the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram, and released the Blood Skeleton and the Red Clad Woman.
• Yuan Ming used spatial restrictions and the Thunder God's Hammer to defeat the Blood Skeleton, which begged for mercy, while the Red Clad Woman agreed to follow him.
• Yuan Ming began refining the diagram, but the Artifact Spirit secretly expected him to fail and escape its control once he left Asura Palace.
• Yuan Ming switched to the Refining Secret Technique Asura Venerable had taught him, quickly making progress and startling the Artifact Spirit.

Yuan Ming refined the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram, obtained the Demon Elephant Prison Suppressing Technique, and learned more about the diagram and its surviving Blood Slaves. He honored his promise to preserve the Asura Venerable’s corpse, then discovered four separate spaces inside the Void Stone.

• Yuan Ming refined the diagram’s runes and received a jade slip containing the five-level Demon Elephant Prison Suppressing Technique.
• The Blood Skeleton, the Red Clad Woman, and the Artifact Spirit recognized Yuan Ming as their master and explained the diagram’s abilities and the losses it had suffered.
• The Artifact Spirit revealed that it and the Asura Venerable had sworn not to disclose the Overseas World, while Blood Shadow and Hong Ling told Yuan Ming about their origins.
• Yuan Ming gave Blood Shadow the Blood Star Cylinder and Blood Transformation Knife to repair, then learned about Hong Ling’s sect and its Immortal Binding Spiderweb.
• Xi Ying urged Yuan Ming to use the qi and blood in the Asura Venerable’s corpse, but Yuan Ming returned the corpse to its coffin and examined the Void Stone.
• Yuan Ming discovered four silver points inside the Void Stone, each representing an independent space.

Yuan Ming discovered and claimed the Dream of All Beings Rune hidden in the white mist, then entered the fourth space and captured the Colorful-Clothed Child guarding Asura Venerable’s medicinal garden. The garden held many herbs, but Xi Ying revealed that the child, the transformed spirit of the Five Elements Creation Tree, had eaten all the older ones.

• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying entered the white mist, but its illusion overwhelmed them until Yuan Ming escaped with her into the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• Yuan Ming used the Three-Eyed Crow as an anchor to locate the Dream of All Beings Rune and drew it into the Hundred Ghosts Night March Scroll, dispersing the mist.
• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying entered the fourth space and broke through the barrier surrounding a medicinal garden.
• The Colorful-Clothed Child escaped Hong Ling’s Immortal Binding Spiderweb, but Xi Ying trapped it in an illusion and captured it.
• Yuan Ming found that the garden’s herbs were only four or five hundred years old, and Xi Ying explained that the Colorful-Clothed Child had eaten the older herbs and was the transformed spirit of the Five Elements Creation Tree.

After the Asura Palace’s crisis ended, Yuan Ming and Xi Ying discussed the Five Elements Creation Tree, the Nascent Soul Condensing Pill, and their plans to meet in the Eastern Sea. Yuan Ming relocated the palace and searched the fallen cultivators’ belongings, uncovering several valuable cultivation techniques, spirit incense recipes, and treasures.

• Xi Ying told Yuan Ming that the Five Elements Creation Tree’s resin was the key ingredient in a pill that could greatly improve their chances of condensing Nascent Souls, and she revealed secrets about her sister and the Xi Family’s soul-transferring art.
• Xi Ying planned to return to her family and then travel to the Eastern Sea, while Yuan Ming planned to rescue his parents and join her at Dragon King City on the same day next year.
• Xi Ying left the Asura Palace with Yan Sijing to rescue Yan Siyun, and Yuan Ming restored his strength before moving the palace to a concealed underground site in a rocky desert.
• Yuan Ming searched the Storage Artifacts left behind by the dead cultivators and collected nearly a million spirit stones, magic treasures, pills, and spirit materials.
• Yuan Ming found jade slips containing the Flower Transferring Willow Technique, the Great Strength King Kong Art, and high-grade Poison Incense recipes, including Poppy Beauty.
• Yuan Ming examined a star-powered blue inner armor that enabled its wearer to fly and a Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade designed for body cultivators.

Yuan Ming gave King Kong body cultivation techniques and magic treasures before examining the spoils from three Nascent Soul Realm cultivators and the Silver Sky Tree Demon. He discovered powerful soul cultivation methods and realized the Great Black Heaven Divine Palm suited his purified faith power.

• Yuan Ming gave King Kong the Demon Elephant Prison Suppressing Technique and Great Strength King Kong Art, and King Kong recognized the former as a perfect fit for its cultivation.
• Yuan Ming sent King Kong away with the blue inner armor and Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, and took back the Purple Star Nine Dragon Spear.
• Yuan Ming examined the Thunder Seal, cracked its lightning formation with the Thunder God's Hammer, and let Thunder Rain absorb the released lightning power.
• Yuan Ming studied the white jade board's Six Desires Severing Love Great Method and discovered its collection of powerful soul cultivation secret arts.
• Yuan Ming learned that the Great Black Heaven Divine Palm used soul power, mana, and faith power, and realized he could cultivate it with the purified faith power in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.

Yuan Ming identified the azure bead as a Wind-Calming Bead and discovered that the Silver Banner could manipulate nearby spatial power. He then restored the Silver Crystal with power from the Void Stone, enabling the altar to transmit supplies to Xu Che and strengthening his plans to expand the Nether Moon Divine Cult.

• Yuan Ming tested the azure bead and found that its halo destroyed wind-attribute attacks, leading him to suspect it was the legendary Wind-Calming Bead.
• Yuan Ming examined the Silver Banner and learned that it could manipulate nearby Spatial Power to form barriers or redirect attacks.
• Yuan Ming ordered Xu Che to recruit cultivator believers more aggressively, gave him secret techniques and the first three layers of the Heart Cleansing Art, and encouraged him to continue cultivating.
• Yuan Ming transferred Spatial Power from the Void Stone into the exhausted Silver Crystal, though the space containing the black tower shrank in the process.
• Yuan Ming used the restored Silver Crystal to activate the altar and send a storage pouch of supplies to Xu Che across space.
• Xu Che received the pouch and vowed to fulfill Yuan Ming’s expectations.

Yuan Ming reforged the Soul Annihilation Sword with Nine Netherworld Iron, inscribed it with the Consciousness Extinguishing rune, and tested its power on a Blue Scale Python. He then cultivated the Demon Elephant Prison Suppressing Technique for three months, completing its first level and gaining extraordinary physical strength.

• Yuan Ming used the Sun Moon Flame Dawn Cauldron and Pure Yang Flame to fuse Nine Netherworld Iron into the Soul Annihilation Sword, then inscribed it with the Consciousness Extinguishing rune.
• Yuan Ming tested the six-rune Soul Annihilation Sword on a Blue Scale Python, using its Soul-Absorbing Vortex and Consciousness Extinguishing ability to destroy the beast's soul.
• Yuan Ming refined the Blue Scale Python's qi and blood with the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram and began cultivating the Demon Elephant Prison Suppressing Technique, enduring intense pain.
• Yuan Ming recovered in the herb garden while his Split Souls refined the power of wishes, then continued cultivating for three months.
• Yuan Ming completed the technique's first level, gained exceptionally tough demon elephant hide, and tore through the hard Iron Plow Wood with his bare hand.

Yuan Ming left the Asura Palace and cultivated in Lin Yuan City, where a sudden disturbance in the faith power brought on seductive illusions. Suspecting a believer was involved, he searched for Xu Che through a believer in Wuyun City but could not find him.

• Yuan Ming practiced the Auspicious Elephant Bone Forging Technique, then sealed the Asura Palace and left.
• Yuan Ming arrived in Lin Yuan City and cultivated with the growing faith power gathered by Xu Che's believers.
• Yuan Ming was overwhelmed by seductive visions while refining faith power, dispelled them with his soul power, and suspected the faith power was corrupted.
• Yuan Ming tried to locate Xu Che through the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and discovered that Xu Che was missing.
• Yuan Ming used a believer in Wuyun City as an anchor to search the city with his Spiritual Sense, but found no trace of Xu Che.

Yuan Ming traced Xu Che’s disappearance to the Nether Moon Divine Cult’s followers in Wusu City and discovered that their prayers produced wish power tainted by dark red glimmers. He found a strange black disk carved into a god statue, leaving the source of the taint and Xu Che’s fate unresolved.

• After searching more than a dozen underground cities for Xu Che, Yuan Ming left Lin Yuan City to investigate the problem with the wish power.
• Half a month later, Yuan Ming reached Wusu City and met Hu Ji, who said Xu Che had last visited about a month earlier with money, supplies, and god statues.
• Yuan Ming watched nearly a hundred believers gather, share stories of supposed miracles, and pray to the Nether Moon God.
• Yuan Ming saw their prayers gather as wish power, but stopped drawing it in when he noticed dark red glimmers mixed into the light.
• Yuan Ming uncovered the Nether Moon God Statue and found an intricately carved black disk bearing a Blood Moon pattern in its hand.

Yuan Ming investigated the blood-moon pattern on the Nether Moon God Statue and followed two divine envoys to their hidden temple. There, he discovered the Wuyue Cult’s emblem and a vast chamber devoted to a black goddess statue, but he had not yet confronted the figure whose voice might have belonged to Xu Che.

• Yuan Ming saw the blood-moon pattern spread across the Nether Moon God Statue and learned from Hu Ji that Xu Che had delivered the statue and prayer text.
• Hu Ji told Yuan Ming that divine envoys collected the statues at the end of each month, and Yuan Ming waited for them to arrive.
• Two masked Foundation Establishment Realm divine envoys collected statues and offerings from Wusu City and nearby cities, and Yuan Ming secretly followed them to a temple built into a cliff.
• Yuan Ming recognized the Wuyue Cult emblem on a reclining statue and used the Void Transformation Art to pass through a restriction into hidden chambers.
• Yuan Ming followed the envoys to a chamber containing a black goddess statue, a Wuyue Cult disc, and more than three hundred Nether Moon God Statues.

Yuan Ming discovered that Xu Che and the Wuyue God Sect were corrupting his faith power, then confronted the Bald Priest. After resisting the priest’s mind-affecting chant, Yuan Ming trapped him in an illusion and rejected his offer to join the sect.

• Yuan Ming watched Xu Che and the sect members use blood and a ritual formation to taint faith power and channel it into Nether Moon God statues.
• The Bald Priest praised Xu Che, promised him a future position, and gave him a blood-red talisman that fused into his body.
• Yuan Ming unleashed his Spiritual Sense, knocking out the divine envoys, Xu Che, and the gathered sect members, but the Bald Priest recovered and revealed powerful soul abilities.
• The Bald Priest split into a bald man and woman who attacked Yuan Ming with a chant that briefly compelled him to worship Wuyue God.
• Yuan Ming revealed that the attack had taken place within an illusion and bound the Bald Priest in black chains; he refused the priest’s offer to join the sect.

Yuan Ming defeated the Bald Priest’s attacks and trapped him in a powerful illusion, then used torture and a bluff about the Myriad Threads Soul Extraction Technique to make him agree to talk. The Bald Priest began to confess after Yuan Ming asked who he was and why he was targeting the Mingyue Cult.

• The Bald Priest broke Yuan Ming’s illusion and petrified him, but Heavenly Ghost Rogue and the Three-Eyed Soul Doves destroyed the soul snakes he sent to attack.
• Yuan Ming freed himself and trapped the Bald Priest in his Dream Butterfly Illusion, which had reached the Mirage Tower realm with help from the Dream of All Beings Rune.
• The Bald Priest failed to escape when Yuan Ming disrupted his teleportation formation and shattered one corner with the Thunder God’s Hammer.
• Yuan Ming’s soul-searching failed against the Bald Priest’s tough soul, so he tortured him and pretended he could use the Myriad Threads Soul Extraction Technique.
• The Bald Priest broke under the threat and agreed to talk as Yuan Ming asked who he was and why he was targeting the Mingyue Cult.

Yuan Ming interrogated Lu Da and uncovered the Wuyue Cult’s faith-gathering network, along with evidence that Lu Da had abused women and altered Xu Che’s memories. When Yuan Ming tried to investigate the tampering in Lu Da’s soul, Venerable Zi Zai possessed him and turned Yuan Ming’s own illusion against him, leaving him under attack.

• Lu Da told Yuan Ming that the Wuyue Cult had supported the Black River God and used statues to gather faith power, while Yuan Ming seized Lu Da’s belongings and found a memory-altering glove that could restore Xu Che’s memories.
• Yuan Ming found the Dream Entering Art and a Jade Slip mapping Wuyue Cult strongholds across the Black Wind Desert, then discovered a recording booklet showing Lu Da forcing himself on numerous women.
• Lu Da claimed that someone had tampered with his soul and made his desires uncontrollable, so Yuan Ming sent a Soul Crow into Lu Da’s mind to investigate.
• The Soul Crow’s attack triggered a surge of pink power, and Venerable Zi Zai appeared through the goddess statue’s faith power and possessed Lu Da, raising his strength to the Slumber Witch Realm.
• Venerable Zi Zai took control of Yuan Ming’s Dream Butterfly Illusion space and attacked him with a massive pink palm, but Yuan Ming escaped its initial strike with Dugu Feng’s Ghost Shadow Escape Technique.

Yuan Ming fought Venerable Zi Zai, who had descended into Lu Da, and used his treasures and techniques to defeat her clone. After refining her remnant, he learned about her cultivation method and the Soul Descent Technique, though her memories were too damaged to reveal the method’s details.

• Venerable Zi Zai recognized Heavenly Ghost Rogue and attacked Yuan Ming, then used pink faith power to seize control of his treasures and body.
• Yuan Ming shielded himself with the Silver Token and Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, then used the Thunder God's Hammer to break Venerable Zi Zai’s attack and free the Hundred Ghosts Night March Scroll.
• Yuan Ming unleashed the Dream of All Beings Rune, allowing the Three-Eyed Crow to wound Lu Da and disrupt Venerable Zi Zai’s hold over him.
• Yuan Ming trapped and devoured Venerable Zi Zai’s fleeing phantom, then refined its remnants with the Heart Cleansing Art.
• Yuan Ming learned that Venerable Zi Zai was one of the Wuyue Cult’s six great Venerables, cultivated the Great Freedom Heart Sutra, and had used the Soul Descent Technique to possess Lu Da.

Yuan Ming rescued Xu Che and the captives, uncovered more of Venerable Zi Zai’s plans through Lu Da’s memories, and prepared to deal with the Wuyue Cult’s remaining strongholds. The chapter ended with Xu Che warning that attacking them one by one would be risky and slow.

• Yuan Ming healed Lu Da, then turned him into a Ghost Slave with the Hundred Ghosts Night March Scroll.
• Yuan Ming used the Void Void Gloves to restore Xu Che’s memories and learned how Lu Da had manipulated him.
• Xu Che urged Yuan Ming to spread the Mingyue Cult’s faith more cautiously, and Yuan Ming agreed to stop making Nether Moon God statues.
• Xu Che asked Yuan Ming to plant a Soul Descent Technique rune in his soul, and Yuan Ming agreed to do so after learning the technique.
• Yuan Ming killed Lu Da’s disguised divine envoys, freed the captives, and learned from Lu Da’s memories that Heavenly Ghost Rogue had been gathering soul force for Venerable Zi Zai.
• Xu Che proposed removing the Wuyue Cult’s remaining strongholds in the Black Wind Desert, then cautioned that attacking them one by one would take too long and carry risks.

Yuan Ming stirred the Black Wind Desert against the Wuyue Cult, placed Soul Descent Technique runes in Xu Che, and tested their ability to transmit his power. He then returned to Qujiang City to visit his parents, where memories of his childhood led him to the shop that had replaced his favorite dumpling stall.

• Yuan Ming revealed the Wuyue Cult's strongholds to the Spirit Talisman Sect, Five Thunder Sect, and Guiyuan Sect, prompting them and their allies to launch a campaign against the cult.
• Yuan Ming used the White Jade Lotus Platform's power of faith to plant Soul Descent Technique runes in Xu Che's divine soul, then gave him cultivation guidance, a jade pendant, and several techniques to recruit believers.
• Yuan Ming tested the runes by sending soul force and mana to Xu Che, striking the desert with silver lightning, and confirmed that he could project his power through the runes at will.
• Yuan Ming flew to Great Jin and entered Qujiang City in disguise, reflecting on how the city had changed while remaining familiar.
• Yuan Ming found that his childhood fermented-rice-dumpling stall had become a small shop, where a woman holding an infant asked what he wanted to eat.

Yuan Ming returned to the capital and learned that Changchun Temple had been watching and harassing his family while investigating Zuo Qinghui’s disappearance. After revealing that he had reached the Core Formation Stage, Yuan Ming resolved to face Changchun Temple openly and seek an explanation, then caught up with his father until a door opened and interrupted them.

• Yuan Ming visited the rice dumpling shop from his childhood and learned that Li Dazhu’s father had died two years earlier.
• Yuan Ming sensed a Changchun Temple cultivator watching the Yuan Residence, evaded him, and entered the residence to find Fu Qing guarding Yuan Zuochong’s study.
• Yuan Zuochong urged Yuan Ming to flee before Changchun Temple arrived, but Yuan Ming revealed that he had reached the Core Formation Stage.
• Yuan Ming told Yuan Zuochong that he had killed Zuo Qinghui, and his father explained how Changchun Temple had surveilled and searched the residence for years.
• Yuan Ming refused to leave and declared that he would face Changchun Temple openly; he and Yuan Zuochong spoke warmly until a door opened.