Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ming refined a Wuyue Cult cultivator into a Tree Puppet before learning that Nine Yin Venerable had driven Xi Ying into the underground magma. He rescued Yin Kong from Demon Owl, Nine Yin Venerable’s Split Soul, and destroyed the manifested soul, but remained wary of Nine Yin Venerable’s true body and Thread Piercing ability.

• Yuan Ming transformed the red-faced burly man into a Tree Puppet and stored him in his Spirit Beast Bag.
• Yin Kong told Yuan Ming that Nine Yin Venerable had overpowered Xi Ying and forced her to flee through underground magma, so Yuan Ming sent him back with a fire stoking rod and instructions to buy four days.
• Yuan Ming followed Yin Kong to the Black Wind Desert and watched as Demon Owl used Thread Piercing to pull Yin Kong out of the void.
• Yuan Ming used the Soul Annihilation Sword to sever Demon Owl’s control over Yin Kong, allowing Yin Kong to escape.
• Yuan Ming trapped Demon Owl inside a silver barrier and destroyed the Split Soul with Soul Extinguishing Sword Qi, runes, lightning, and Undying Tree Black Mist.
• Yuan Ming explained that the defeated Demon Owl was only a Split Soul and concealed himself again, wary of Nine Yin Venerable’s true body and long-range Thread Piercing.

Yuan Ming’s allies kept Nine Yin Venerable occupied in the underground magma while Yuan Ming recovered and waited for the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s descent effect to return. After possessing Nine Yin Venerable with Black Incense, Yuan Ming discovered that his Nascent Soul was fused with his sea of consciousness.

• Nine Yin Venerable pursued the weakening Xiying Clone through the magma until Yin Kong arrived with the Black Fire-Stirring Rod and rescued her.
• Yin Kong relayed Yuan Ming’s message, and the Xiying Clone hid in the magma for four days to delay Nine Yin Venerable.
• Yuan Ming recovered his soul with Moon Essence Power while wish power accumulated in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• After the cauldron’s recovery period ended, Yuan Ming used Black Incense to descend into Nine Yin Venerable’s body and overcome the demonic owl in his sea of consciousness.
• Yuan Ming discovered that Nine Yin Venerable’s Nascent Soul existed in his sea of consciousness, fused with its soul power.

Yuan Ming and the Xiying Clone killed Nine Yin Venerable and uncovered orders to find Wulu and collect fresh corpses for an unknown force. The Wuyue God responded by sending the Wuyue Cult army toward Yuhua City, while Yuan Ming recovered from the backlash and prepared to cultivate for three more months before returning to help the Yunhuang Alliance.

• Yuan Ming examined Nine Yin Venerable and had the Xiying Clone search his memories, learning about the Wuyue Cult's plans and its orders to find Wulu and collect intact corpses for someone else.
• The Xiying Clone used a Golden Crow flaming arrow to destroy Nine Yin Venerable's Nascent Soul and Demon Owl Soul, while Yuan Ming used Heavenly Ghost Rogue's Substitute Calamity ability to survive the backlash.
• The Wuyue God sensed Nine Yin Venerable's death and ordered Ni Mu to mobilize the Wuyue Cult army and advance toward Yuhua City.
• The Yunhuang Alliance forces under Wan Tianren retreated as the Wuyue Cult advanced, and the Xiying Clone returned to Yuhua City.
• Yuan Ming met Yinkong, received Nine Yin Venerable's corpse and fire poker, and said he would return to help in three months after cultivating; the Xiying Clone said she would preserve the Alliance if Yuhua City fell.

Yuan Ming examined Nine Yin Venerable’s belongings, discovered the Chaos Hole Secret Art, destroyed the evil Heavenly Silkworm Parasite Art, and turned Nine Yin Venerable’s body into a Tree Puppet for Heavenly Ghost Rogue. The story then shifted to a Wuyue Cult mine outside Wangbei City, where Zhang Xiu endured life as a slave and helped a fallen fellow prisoner.

• Yuan Ming kept Nine Yin Venerable’s Heavenly Mang Needles and learned from the Yin Yang Treasure Codex about the Chaos Hole Secret Art and its rare Chaos Hole Origin Stone.
• Yuan Ming discovered that Nine Yin Venerable had practiced the Heavenly Silkworm Parasite Art and crushed the Jade Slip containing it.
• A black shadow escaped from Nine Yin Venerable’s corpse, prompting Yuan Ming to suspect that it was the Venerable’s remnant soul and might reveal his Black Incense secret.
• Yuan Ming completed a Tree Puppet from Nine Yin Venerable’s body, and Heavenly Ghost Rogue fused with it and began recovering his soul power.
• At a Wuyue Cult mine outside Wangbei City, Zhang Xiu took a whip lash while helping a fallen Qi Refining cultivator return to work.

Zhang Xiu and the other mine slaves faced death when the Black Wind struck, but Yuan Ming dispersed the storm with a single punch and offered Zhang Xiu a request. Zhang Xiu freed the slaves and learned that the powerful cultivator before him was the author of the book that had inspired him.

• Zhang Xiu recalled how the Wuyue Cult had enslaved him and the other cultivators, then watched the mine’s protective formation fail as the Black Wind approached.
• Yuan Ming appeared within the storm and scattered the Black Wind with one punch, then recognized Zhang Xiu and offered to grant him a request.
• Zhang Xiu asked how much cultivation was needed to obtain freedom, and Yuan Ming replied that he was still seeking the answer himself.
• Zhang Xiu requested a saber to break the slaves’ shackles, and Yuan Ming gave him a weapon made from Flower Branch’s vines.
• Zhang Xiu freed the mine slaves, led them in defeating the Wuyue Cult guards, and received a cultivation technique from Yuan Ming before he left.
• Zhang Xiu recognized Yuan Ming as the author of The Grand Young Master's Journey East, the book he had treasured since childhood.

Yuan Ming traveled to the Northern Desert to infiltrate the Wuyue Cult’s lair at Black Witch Mountain and disrupt its plans while the cult attacked Yuhua City. After speaking with Xiying, he secretly mapped the mountain’s defenses and waited for the decisive battle to begin.

• Yuan Ming decided to bypass the Central Plains front and search the Northern Desert for the Wuyue Cult’s lair.
• Yuan Ming possessed Yan Siyun to speak with Xiying, learned that the Wuyue Cult would attack Yuhua City within ten days, and got the location of its lair beneath Black Witch Mountain.
• Xiying warned Yuan Ming to wait until the Wuyue Cult’s forces were occupied attacking Yuhua City, and asked him not to possess other women again.
• Four days later, Yuan Ming reached Black Witch Mountain and used the Undying Tree Root to scout past its grand formation.
• Yuan Ming mapped the cult’s defenses and underground tunnels, found only one Nascent Soul cultivator among the stationed guards, and identified a sealed chamber he could not penetrate.
• Yuan Ming memorized the locations of the cult’s remaining texts and resources, then waited for the decisive battle.

Yuan Ming broke into Black Witch Mountain, destroyed its outer formation, and slaughtered the Wuyue Cult disciples guarding it. He entered the underground passages and looted the pill storehouse while the black-robed Nascent Soul elder waited for guidance from Ni Mu.

• At the Yunhuang Alliance’s defenses, Ni Mu ordered the Wuyue Cult army to attack the stone forts outside Yuhua City.
• Yuan Ming used the Qi Gazing Technique to find a weakness in Black Witch Mountain’s formation, then broke through it with a punch.
• Yuan Ming, Flower Branch, and King Kong killed the Wuyue Cult disciples on the mountain and destroyed the formation’s core.
• Yuan Ming entered the underground passages, evaded the restrictions, and looted the pill storehouse as the black-robed Nascent Soul elder watched through a Bronze Square Mirror.
• The black-robed elder tried to contact a Venerable and saw Yuan Ming mouth a threat before Yuan Ming destroyed the mirror’s scouting magic treasure.
• A thread in the black-robed elder’s hand formed lips, and Ni Mu’s voice came through.

The Wuyue Cult steadily drove the Yunhuang Alliance back to Yuhua City, where Tianjizi’s forces prepared to make their stand. After receiving word that Black Witch Mountain was under attack, Wuyue God unleashed a terrifying power against the city, and Tian Yinzi’s attempt to stop it ended with the city’s own lightning turning on him.

• The Wuyue Cult gradually wore down the Yunhuang Alliance’s defenses, forcing its forces to retreat to Yuhua City after a day and night of fighting.
• Ni Mu received a report that an unknown Aperture Opening Body realm cultivator was attacking Black Witch Mountain, and Wuyue God ordered the Eight Great Asuras released.
• Wuyue God commanded Ni Mu to take Yuhua City before nightfall, then opened the coffin and sent a freezing black wind toward the battlefield.
• The black wind froze the rain into ice and snow, pinned cultivators to the ground, and formed a giant palm that descended on Yuhua City.
• Tian Yinzi used the city’s formation to summon a blood-red lightning spear that shattered the giant palm, but the remaining Black Snakes slipped through his lightning net.
• Tian Yinzi tried to adjust the formation, but the lightning arcs turned around and struck him.

Tian Yinzi merged with Yuhua City's array to become a Thunder Giant and destroy most of the Wuyue God's Black Giant Palms, but pale gray moons put much of the city to sleep and enabled a Wuyue Cult attack. As Xi Ying weighed abandoning the city and the Changchun Temple elders watched anxiously, four Golden Crows rose from Yuhua City to confront the new threat.

• Tian Yinzi's treasures and the Thunder Array failed against the Wuyue God's Black Snakes, but a Golden Firebird burned them away, and Xi Ying explained that Blazing Sun or Thunder Power could overcome them.
• Ni Mu relayed the Wuyue God's orders to Xi Zheng and Venerable Zi Zai, then learned that eight Black Giant Palms were descending on Yuhua City.
• Tian Yinzi crushed a lightning jade talisman, merged with the city's array, and became a Thunder Giant that destroyed five Black Giant Palms and their Black Snakes.
• Two pale gray moons swallowed the remaining palms and cast sleep-inducing moonlight over Yuhua City, while Wuyue Cult disciples attacked and Xi Ying decided the city could no longer be defended.
• At the Changchun Temple Mountain Gate, Wan Tianren spotted four flaming Golden Crows rising from Yuhua City, and the Wuyue God welcomed their challenge.

Xi Ying destroyed the pale moons’ darkness and evacuated Yuhua City before Tian Yinzi’s Thunder Giant vanished, while Changchun Temple and the Wuyue Cult prepared for their next clash. At Black Witch Mountain, Yuan Ming collected scriptures and sent King Kong to fight two Black Armored Warriors, who proved difficult to injure as King Kong fully unleashed Berserk Blood.

• Xi Ying’s Golden Flames destroyed the dark tide and pale moons, awakening the cultivators in Yuhua City before he ended his divine ability.
• Tian Yinzi thanked Xi Ying before the Thunder Giant dissipated, and Tianjizi teleported Yuhua City’s people to Changchun Temple’s mountain.
• The Wuyue God ordered Ni Mu and the others to attack Changchun Temple and capture the soul cultivator from Yuhua City, while Xi Zheng secretly sweated.
• Yuan Ming emptied a secret chamber of cultivation manuals at Black Witch Mountain, then faced eight Black Armored Warriors with King Kong and Flower Branch.
• King Kong battled two Black Armored Warriors, discovered their armor and bodies could recover from heavy damage, and brought out the Black Stone Pillar.
• King Kong activated his Berserk Blood intent realm and vanished from the warriors’ sight behind the pillar.

Yuan Ming fought the Wuyue Cult’s Black Armored Warriors after King Kong defeated two of them, and he recognized the remaining opponents as human puppets called the Eight Great Asuras. He killed a Ghost Blade Asura through Shared Life, but a Ghost Howl Asura’s attack stunned him as three enemies closed in.

• King Kong unleashed Blood Rampage and smashed two Black Armored Warriors before collapsing, so Yuan Ming stored him in the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram.
• Yuan Ming sent Flower Branch to guard the field and faced four Black Armored Warriors, using Shared Life to make one share the injuries he suffered.
• Two warriors revealed themselves as Demonic Flame Asuras, while Qi Ye and Yuan Ming identified the group as human puppets among the Eight Great Asuras.
• Yuan Ming endured the Demonic Flame Asuras’ attacks, then used Shared Life and the Purple Star Nine Dragon Spear to kill a Ghost Blade Asura.
• A Ghost Howl Asura struck Yuan Ming with a piercing howl, and he closed his eyes to sense the three figures approaching him.

Yuan Ming broke through to the Myriad Manifestations Body during the fight against the five Asuras and defeated them and the black-robed cultivators. After escaping the collapsing underground hall, he refined the black-robed elder into a Tree Puppet and ordered it to lead him to a restricted area deep underground.

• Yuan Ming fought off the five Asuras with his Shared Life intent until a formation and black tentacles interrupted his attacks and trapped him.
• Yuan Ming awakened the Myriad Manifestations Body, broke free, and destroyed the five Asuras with his blood flames and Blood-colored Giant Elephant.
• Yuan Ming's roar incapacitated the black-robed cultivators and the fleeing elder, then he carried Flower Branch and the elder out as the underground hall collapsed.
• Yuan Ming hid in a secret chamber and refined the black-robed elder into a Tree Puppet.
• Yuan Ming ordered the Tree Puppet to lead him to a restricted area deep underground.

Yuan Ming broke into the sealed chamber beneath the Wuyue Cult and discovered a Demon Cloud Tree with a mysterious figure fused into its trunk. After the figure effortlessly nullified his attacks and ensnared his mind, Yuan Ming blasted it with an empowered fireball, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Yuan Ming forced Elder Pan Ji to lead him through the underground halls, where Elder Pan Ji revealed he could not unlock the grand formation protecting the chamber.
• After Elder Pan Ji’s attempt to break the formation failed, Yuan Ming struck it repeatedly and shattered it before its counterattack could activate.
• Yuan Ming discovered an ancient black tree and a person embedded in its trunk, and Qi Ye identified the tree as a Demon Cloud Tree.
• Yuan Ming attacked the tree and the figure, but the figure opened its eyes, erased his fist force and sword light, and nearly drew his soul into its black eyes.
• Yuan Ming launched a fireball empowered by Solar Power at the figure and triggered the Explosive Burn Technique, engulfing it in a blast of flames.

Yuan Ming broke free of the Demon Cloud Tree’s layered illusion and discovered that the withered figure’s spoken words could nullify attacks and control life itself. The chapter ended with Yuan Ming identifying the enemy as a Speech Witch, leaving him and Flower Branch unsure how to fight back.

• Yuan Ming realized that his unchanged blood and qi revealed he was still trapped in an illusion, then used the Undying Tree’s Origin Power to escape and find himself bound by the Demon Cloud Tree.
• Yuan Ming fought the Demon Cloud Tree with his own vines and the Soul Annihilation Sword, but the withered figure repeatedly made the sword strikes vanish.
• Yuan Ming freed Flower Branch and Elder Pan Ji, then learned that the figure’s words, “All beings are equal,” severed his control over Elder Pan Ji.
• The withered figure spoke “One year, one withering,” causing Flower Branch’s vines to decay, then nullified Yuan Ming’s lightning with “Sorcery Ceases to Exist.”
• Yuan Ming recognized the enemy as a Speech Witch whose words manifested as law, and Flower Branch asked how they could possibly fight it.

Yuan Ming and his allies discovered that the withered man’s word curses consumed his soul force, so they attacked him repeatedly to weaken him. After his curses lost much of their power, they launched a coordinated assault, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Yuan Ming, Flower Branch, Blood Shadow, and Hong Ling attacked the withered man, but his word curses dispelled their sorcery and disrupted Flower Branch’s senses.
• Yuan Ming determined that the withered man needed different curses to counter different attack types, and Blood Shadow, Hong Ling, and Yuan Ming tested body, sorcery, and soul attacks.
• Yuan Ming’s Soul Crow reached the withered man, but the man’s illusion resisted control; Yuan Ming noticed that his soul force had weakened.
• Yuan Ming and the others took turns attacking for about half an hour, while Yuan Ming used the Qi Gazing Technique to track the withered man’s declining power.
• Yuan Ming unleashed the Hundred Ghosts Night March Scroll, and the weakened curse failed to dispel all the Ghostly Entities.
• Hong Ling, Blood Shadow, and Yuan Ming attacked the withered man with red light, blade strikes, and Solar Power fireballs.

Yuan Ming killed the withered man and secured the Demon Cloud Tree remains, while the battle at Changchun Temple was interrupted by the Wuyue God performing a terrifying ritual. The Wuyue God made an evil ghost devour the name “Yuan Ming,” then watched it vanish toward Black Witch Mountain.

• Yuan Ming used the secretly restored Elder Pan Ji, the Tree Puppet, to stab the withered man, then severed his head and stored the remains of the Demon Cloud Tree.
• The Wuyue Cult and Yunhuang Alliance fought fiercely around Changchun Temple’s grand protective formation as Wan Tianren battled Ni Mu.
• A furious soul fluctuation erupted from the black palace, and the Wuyue God emerged before turning his attention toward Black Witch Mountain.
• The Wuyue God opened a black abyss and wrote the characters “Yuan Ming,” while cultivators who kept watching were killed and their souls became Evil Ghosts.
• A four-armed evil ghost swallowed the name “Yuan Ming,” then exploded into malice and vanished into the void.

Yuan Ming’s soul was attacked by the Wuyue God’s curse, but the White Jade Lotus Platform helped him resist it. At Changchun Temple, the Wuyue God battered the weakened sect-protecting array until Fairy Jinxi brought out the Heaven Talisman Strategy to help reinforce it.

• Yuan Ming collapsed while suppressing the Wuyue Cult remnants, and the White Jade Lotus Platform poured its power of wishes into his soul to contain the spreading malicious thoughts.
• Xi Ying deduced that the Wuyue God had attacked Yuan Ming and that the loss of his physical body had left him vulnerable.
• The Wuyue God struck Tianjizi with the Nili Divine Eye, but the Azure Sea Profound Water Pearl’s Artifact Spirit freed him, allowing him to strengthen Changchun Temple’s grand array.
• Tianjizi and the Artifact Spirit reinforced the array, but Ancestor Mingquan warned that the strain was causing its formation runes to collapse.
• Fairy Jinxi used the Heaven Talisman Strategy, which Xi Ying had given her, to reproduce its recorded runes and help reinforce the array.

Fairy Jinxi stabilized Changchun Temple’s formation with the Heaven Talisman Strategy, and the Wuyue God withdrew after failing to break through it. He then ordered a mass blood sacrifice in Yuhua City, empowering his followers for a renewed assault on Changchun Temple.

• Fairy Jinxi used the Heaven Talisman Strategy to stabilize the sect-protecting formation as Tianjizi and the Yunhuang Alliance resisted the Wuyue God’s attacks.
• At dawn, the Wuyue God ordered Ni Mu to retreat, and the exhausted defenders celebrated surviving the siege.
• The Wuyue God ordered Ni Mu to gather mortals and prepare elite followers for a Blood Sacrifice Method to break the formation.
• Ni Mu and Venerable Zi Zai stirred the Wuyue Cult followers into offering themselves, while the Wuyue God promised them a place in his divine kingdom.
• Ten days later, the Wuyue God sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives in Yuhua City and empowered selected followers with Blood Crystals.
• The transformed followers charged toward Changchun Temple, and Ni Mu led the remaining Wuyue Cult forces in a renewed attack on its formation.

Yuan Ming recovered from the Wuyue God’s soul attack, searched the abandoned Wuyue Cult headquarters, and found mysterious golden-red crystals. As he traveled toward Great Jin, Xiying told him that the Wuyue Cult had breached Changchun Temple after the Cao Family betrayed the Yunhuang Alliance, forcing its survivors to retreat south.

• The Wuyue God possessed a buried body and unleashed powerful crimson devil flames against Changchun Temple’s formation while the Yunhuang Alliance fought to hold the attackers back.
• Yuan Ming exhausted the evil thoughts attacking his soul with the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s help, then searched the deserted Wuyue Cult headquarters beneath Black Witch Mountain.
• Yuan Ming discovered a concealed compartment in a cultivation chamber and took seven or eight golden-red crystals whose purpose he did not recognize.
• Yuan Ming left Black Witch Mountain for Great Jin, while cultivators fled over Huaiji City and its residents mistook them for a divine spectacle.
• Xiying contacted Yuan Ming through Guoguo and told him Changchun Temple had fallen, the Cao Family had sabotaged its formation, and the Yunhuang Alliance had retreated to the Yunling Mountain Range.

Yuan Ming learned that Liu Tianming had led Great Jin’s defense against the Wuyue Cult and might have died, then secretly returned to the devastated capital to search for him. After failing to possess Liu Tianming, Yuan Ming encountered a blind old Night Watchman collecting and arranging the palace dead.

• Xiying told Yuan Ming that Liu Tianming had fought the Wuyue Cult at Great Jin’s capital, and the Liu imperial clan had been wiped out except for the crown prince’s branch.
• Yuan Ming promised to meet Xiying in the Yunling Mountain Range, but seven days later he entered the ruined capital and buried more than a hundred members of his family and household.
• Yuan Ming searched the palace for Liu Tianming, then tried to possess him with Black Incense but could not detect his existence.
• Yuan Ming saw a blind old man gathering palace corpses and learned that he was the Night Watchman, who stayed because he knew no other life or place to go.