Chapter Summaries

He Zhao impressed Qingyun Sect's leaders by reaching Great Accomplishment in the Five Dragons Spitting Pearls Method and advancing to the Pill-Swallowing Realm overnight. They promoted him to Elite Disciple, explained the sect's higher cultivation paths, and promised generous benefits for his master, leaving He Zhao pleased with his new standing.

• Liu Yong chose Dong Qi to lead an expansion into the South, then Wu Ling arrived with He Zhao and reported his astonishing cultivation progress.
• Liu Yong confirmed that He Zhao had mastered the Five Dragons Spitting Pearls Method overnight and took him to meet Zhang Heng.
• He Zhao revealed that he had advanced to the Pill-Swallowing Realm, and Zhang Heng promoted him to Elite Disciple while promising Malevolent Beast Blood after he reached Golden Elixir.
• Zhang Heng and Liu Yong explained the Yin God Realm and the Visualization Methods, including Qingyun Sect's three Visualization Diagrams.
• He Zhao told Liu Yong that his master was the market master of Ping'an Market, and Liu Yong offered to waive its monthly tribute, complete its mineral veins, and provide two Cultivation Methods.
• Liu Yong told Wu Ling that He Zhao had been promoted to Elite Disciple, leaving Wu Ling stunned by how quickly He Zhao had surpassed his own accumulation.

He Zhao received his elite disciple rewards and used his abilities to improve the tools he was given. He discovered that his new Life Token could collect other people's messages and set out to inspect them.

• Wu Ling realized He Zhao had concealed his Pill-Swallowing Realm cultivation and pledged to follow his lead.
• Wu Ling took He Zhao to the reward office, where Zhang Su handed over an elite disciple's storage ring and its contents.
• He Zhao examined the elite disciple set, magic sword, and Life Token, finding that the Life Token boosted cultivation and comprehension.
• He Zhao used his ability to transform the set's Auspicious Cloud Art into a passive skill that lowered Qingyun disciples' and weaker cultivators' vigilance.
• He Zhao transformed the magic sword's Spirit Sword Technique into a flying sword that pursued a target until its baleful qi ran out, then turned the Life Token's communication function into a message-collecting ability.
• He Zhao decided to check whether the Life Token had collected any unusual messages.

Ping'an Market Master Wei Shan received rewards from Qingyun Sect because He Zhao had become an Elite Disciple, while He Zhao continued draining the sect’s cultivation resources to advance his nine Solid Cores. At the new disciples’ ceremony, He Zhao was summoned after an official failed to notify him, and his Elite Disciple robes stunned the man who came to fetch him.

• Wu Ling told Wei Shan that He Zhao’s achievements had won Ping'an Market a tribute waiver, additional mine veins, five places for Wei Shan’s clansmen to cultivate at Qingyun Sect, and two cultivation methods.
• Wei Shan selected five people to go to Qingyun Sect, ordered that Fan Zhong be treated with respect, and sent the candidates to the Market Master Mansion with their families.
• He Zhao absorbed Crystallized Sha and drained the study’s cultivation resources, leaving other Qingyun Sect disciples unable to cultivate there and accelerating his progress toward turning his nine Solid Cores into Golden Elixirs.
• After a month, Qingyun Sect held a ceremony for more than three hundred newly admitted disciples, including several promoted to inner sect disciples.
• When Zhang Heng learned He Zhao had not been notified about the ceremony, he punished the disciple responsible by withholding his monthly cultivation resources and ordered him to fetch He Zhao.
• He Zhao opened his door in Elite Disciple robes, leaving the messenger astonished by his imposing appearance.

He Zhao was promoted to an Elite Disciple and accepted a mission to subdue the Market Masters in the Southern Sha Refining World and seize Malevolent Jade and mineral veins. Equipped with a borrowed Dao Artifact, a Treasure Boat, and a team of disciples, he set off south to begin the mission.

• He Zhao’s Immortal Style made Zhang Lang apologize and treat him with reverence as he escorted He Zhao to the sect’s initiation ceremony.
• Liu Yong explained that the Seven Sons of Qingyun were competing to become the next chief senior disciple, and He Zhao resolved to pursue the Visualization Diagram and a place in the succession struggle.
• After the ceremony, Liu Yong assigned He Zhao to make the southern Market Masters submit and provide Malevolent Jade and a mineral vein each month; He Zhao accepted and received the Mirror Shield and authority to choose his helpers.
• He Zhao recruited Zhang Lang and nine other Elite Disciples, while Wu Ling brought Dao Artifacts for extracting mineral veins and a restored Treasure Boat.
• He Zhao and his eleven followers boarded the Treasure Boat and flew south toward the Southern Sha Refining World.

He Zhao arrived in the southern lands, killed Qi Shou for neglecting his intelligence mission, and attacked Jiangcheng Market to force the southern market masters to assemble. The market masters gathered at Sihai Market, setting the stage for He Zhao to carry out his plan to catch them in one net.

• Qi Shou admitted that he had neglected his mission in the south to enjoy himself, and He Zhao executed him.
• He Zhao led the Qingyun Sect disciples to Jiangcheng Market, where he killed its market master and ordered Wu Ling and Zhang Lang to seize the mineral vein and loot the Market Master Mansion.
• He Zhao killed other Pill-Swallowing Realm cultivators in Jiangcheng Market and made Replenishment Pills while his disciples took control of the market.
• Escaped residents spread word of the Qingyun Sect’s attack, prompting the southern market masters to gather at Sihai Market.

He Zhao sent his disciples to plunder the southern markets while he prepared to confront the market masters gathered at Four Seas Market. After trapping the market with the Golden Lock Formation, he sent his Yin God inside under the Mirror Shield’s protection.

• He Zhao divided the Malevolent Jade and mineral veins, then sent his disciples to loot weaker markets while he traveled toward Four Seas Market.
• The market masters gathered at Four Seas Market argued over whether to resist or submit until the Four Seas Market Master killed one of them and ordered the others to stay.
• Wu Ling and Zhang Lang led the disciples in plundering sixteen markets, taking wealth and mineral veins while sparing the residents who did not resist.
• He Zhao arrived at Four Seas Market and raised the Golden Lock Formation, sealing the market and shackling the Sha Qi, bodies, spells, and tools of everyone inside.
• He Zhao sent his Yin God into Four Seas Market with the Mirror Shield, which protected it from daylight’s Yang Fire Qi.

He Zhao’s Yin God infiltrated Four Seas Market’s gathering and killed dozens of Market Masters by devouring their essence, qi, and spirit. The survivors blamed the Four Seas Market Master, who revealed his Yin God Realm and tried to protect them, but He Zhao began stripping away his defenses as the chapter ended with the Market Master launching an attack.

• He Zhao’s Yin God slipped into the reception hall and secretly killed thirty-six Market Masters, swallowing their condensed essence, qi, and spirit.
• The other Market Masters discovered the deaths, recognized the resemblance to the Yonghe Market Master’s death, and blamed the Four Seas Market Master.
• More than three hundred Market Masters stormed the Four Seas Market Master’s quarters and demanded an explanation while He Zhao followed them unnoticed.
• The Four Seas Market Master realized that a powerful enemy’s Yin God was nearby, revealed his own Yin God Realm, and shielded the gathered Market Masters.
• He Zhao weakened the protective radiance and absorbed it from successive victims, causing them to collapse as the Four Seas Market Master attempted to counterattack with a huge white fireball.

He Zhao defeated the Four Seas Market Master, consumed his Yin God, and hunted down the fleeing Market Masters across Sihai Market. After the Qingyun Sect disciples returned with the gathered spoils, He Zhao claimed most of the gains and offered them fifty million Malevolent Jades to divide.

• He Zhao's Yin God killed the Four Seas Market Master by seizing and consuming his Yin God, greatly increasing its power and allowing it to affect reality more forcefully.
• He Zhao tracked down and killed the Market Masters who had fled into Sihai Market, then ordered their corpses collected and the Golden Lock Formation released.
• He Zhao spent seven days refining pills from the corpses, transforming all nine of his Solid Cores into Golden Elixirs while waiting for Wu Ling and the other Qingyun Sect Elite Disciples.
• Wu Ling returned with the gathered ore veins, Malevolent Jades, Crystallized Sha, and ritual artifacts, and He Zhao offered the disciples fifty million Malevolent Jades while keeping most of the spoils.

He Zhao's group returned from the southern Sha Refining World with 390 mineral veins after He Zhao killed more than 300 Market Masters, astonishing Zhang Heng and Liu Yong. He received Malevolent Beast Blood and learned about the Netherworld, whose description made him suspect it was connected to the world he entered using the Void Evasion Technique.

• Wu Ling and Zhang Lang confronted the Tool Person, who revealed that He Zhao had killed more than 300 Market Masters at Sihai Market.
• The disciples decided to recruit Qingyun Sect members to He Zhao's camp as they returned to Dragon Head Market with 390 small mineral veins.
• Wu Ling presented the veins to Zhang Heng and Liu Yong, and the Tool Person confirmed that He Zhao had killed 361 Market Masters.
• Zhang Heng and Liu Yong asked He Zhao about the mission and arranged for him to receive Malevolent Beast Blood as a reward.
• Zhang Heng explained the Netherworld and its dangerous malevolent beasts, then promised to take He Zhao there once he reached the Dharma Aspect Realm.
• After returning to Room A-1, He Zhao wondered whether the Netherworld was the same world he had entered through the Void Evasion Technique.

He Zhao gave Malevolent Beast Blood to Wei Shan, helping him advance to the Yin God Realm, then entered the Netherworld to hunt Sha Beasts for his own advancement. After nearly being crushed by a herd of powerful goat-like Sha Beasts, He Zhao enhanced his Blood-Devouring Saber and prepared to lure the beasts into a trap.

• He Zhao brought Wu Ling to Ping'an Market and met privately with Wei Shan.
• He Zhao gave Wei Shan Malevolent Beast Blood, and Wei Shan used it to break through to the Yin God Realm.
• He Zhao entered the Netherworld to assess the Sha Beasts but hid underground when a herd of more than a hundred powerful goats attacked.
• He Zhao returned to the real world and enhanced the Blood-Devouring Saber so it could transform him into any malevolent beast whose blood he consumed.
• He Zhao returned to the Netherworld, released his aura, and tried to draw the Sha Beasts toward him.

He Zhao lured Sha Beasts with his concealed aura, killed one goat by choking it after bringing it into the real world, and gained a second Yin God. When the flock stopped responding to his bait, he ambushed a goat sent to search for a missing herd member and took it back to the real world.

• He Zhao repeatedly baited the goat herd, endured the lead goat’s devastating underground shock waves, and eventually lured one lone goat close enough to attack.
• He Zhao dragged the goat into the real world, snapped its neck, drained its blood with the Blood-Devouring Saber, and refined its body into a pill that gave him a slight boost.
• He Zhao drank the goat’s blood and advanced his cultivation, producing a second Yin God that moved independently alongside the first.
• After the herd stopped responding to his aura, He Zhao hid underground and watched a goat search the rubble for a missing herd member.
• He Zhao ambushed the searching goat with a Guillotine Choke and took it from the Netherworld into the real world.

He Zhao used a transformed Mother Sheepskin to disguise himself as a ewe and infiltrate the goat herd, hoping to collect enough Malevolent Beast Blood to turn his remaining Golden Elixirs into Yin Gods. After luring exhausted rams away one by one, he began killing them, and the hunt continued.

• He Zhao killed a goat, drank its blood to gain a third Yin God, and discovered that its hide was a natural Treasure Tool.
• He Zhao brought the hide to Wei Shan, who refined it into a Dao Artifact with powerful disguising abilities.
• He Zhao discovered that wearing the sheepskin made him resemble a ewe and gave him a mating call that attracted male goats.
• He Zhao disguised himself, lured dozens of rams into a contest, and watched the exhausted winner follow him away from the herd.
• He Zhao snapped the winner's neck, returned in disguise, and began luring and killing more weakened goats.

He Zhao returned to Qingyun Sect after reaching the Yin God Realm and received the sect’s three Visualization Diagrams. He secretly learned all three despite Zhang Heng telling him to choose only one, then claimed he would cultivate the Hou Fighting Three Jiao and Two Dragons Diagram.

• He Zhao lured and killed seven rams in the Netherworld, drank their blood to advance his Golden Elixir into a Yin God, and brought goatskins and tonic pills to Wei Shan.
• After three months of training in Ping'an Market, He Zhao returned to Dragon Head Market and gave Great Tonic Pills to Wu Ling and Zhang Lang.
• He Zhao told Liu Yong that he had reached the Yin God Realm, and Liu Yong went to inform the sect master.
• Zhang Heng confirmed He Zhao's breakthrough and showed him the Kirin Trampling Fire Diagram, the Ao Beast Devouring Ghosts Diagram, and the Hou Fighting Three Jiao and Two Dragons Diagram.
• He Zhao's notifications revealed that he had learned all three diagrams, but he told Zhang Heng he chose the Hou Fighting Three Jiao and Two Dragons Diagram.

He Zhao entered the Qingyun Sect’s Hou visualization diagram and used his ten Yin Gods to experience all six beasts, advancing the diagram to peak Perfection and attaining a Hou aspect. He discovered he could now enter the diagram whenever he wished, and immediately went back in to face the battle again.

• Zhang Heng and Liu Yong guided He Zhao into the Hou Battling Two Dragons and Three Flood Dragons Diagram so he could experience its divine charm.
• He Zhao’s Yin God inhabited the Hou and witnessed it kill a dragon and subdue two Flood Dragons with overwhelming physical strength.
• He Zhao experienced each of the six beasts in turn, driving the diagram’s divine charm to its peak and advancing his visualization from Roughly Understand to Great Accomplishment.
• He Zhao’s Yin God transformed into a Hou, and Zhang Heng declared him Qingyun Sect’s eighth True Disciple while explaining the stages of the Yin God Realm.
• He Zhao returned to his room and advanced the diagram to Peak of Perfection, gaining the ability to enter it anytime and immediately choosing to do so.

He Zhao perfected the Hou and Kirin aspects by repeatedly entering their visualization diagrams, then began struggling to control the Ao Hen’s overwhelming hunger for humans. The chapter left him planning to send multiple Yin Gods into the Ao Beast Devours Ghosts Diagram to overcome the beast’s instincts.

• He Zhao entered the Hou diagram, killed the dragons and flood dragons, and used repeated practice to perfect the Hou Aspect.
• He Zhao raised the Kirin Trampling Fire Diagram to Peak of Perfection and transformed his Yin God into a Fire Kirin.
• He Zhao perfected the Kirin Aspect after experiencing how the Fire Kirin controlled flames and magma.
• He Zhao raised the Ao Beast Devours Ghosts Diagram to Peak of Perfection and entered it, where the Ao Hen’s hunger drove him to attack an old man.
• He Zhao repeatedly failed to control the Ao Hen’s body despite regaining his rationality, then decided to try using several Yin Gods at once.

He Zhao finally condensed the Ao Han Dharma Aspect by following the Ao Beast’s instinct and eating Qingyun Ancestor in the painting, then discovered that his three Dharma Aspects could enter his body together. He moved toward the True Disciple floor as the Seven Sons of Qingyun prepared to challenge him.

• He Zhao failed repeatedly to condense the Ao Han Dharma Aspect until he attacked and ate Qingyun Ancestor inside the painting, after which the aspect formed.
• He Zhao reasoned that the Ao Beast Devours Ghosts Diagram required him to follow the Ao Beast’s instinct, then absorbed the Ao Han Dharma Aspect into his body.
• He Zhao tested the Fire Kirin and Hou Aspects, then absorbed all three Dharma Aspects at once without them clashing.
• He Zhao decided to pursue the remaining Sha-qi Dharma Aspects and considered traveling to Xinyue Kingdom to obtain more diagrams and cultivation methods.
• Number One Lackey told He Zhao to move to the True Disciple floor, and the Seven Sons of Qingyun gathered to plan a show of force against him.

He Zhao confronted the Seven Sons of Qingyun after their attempt to intimidate him was undermined by Zhang Lang recruiting their followers. He Zhao defeated the seven with his Hou Aspect and crippled their leader, prompting Liu Yong to demand an explanation.

• The Seven Sons of Qingyun ordered their followers to gather and planned to confront He Zhao, but Zhang Lang had recruited most of them to support He Zhao instead.
• Zhang Lang led more than thirty followers to escort He Zhao to the True Disciple floor, where the Seven Sons waited.
• He Zhao manifested a four-meter Hou Aspect and challenged all seven to attack him together.
• Yao Qing and five other members of the Seven Sons were overwhelmed when He Zhao's Hou Aspect roared twice and shattered their Dharma Aspects.
• He Zhao's Hou Aspect tore off the Robust Man's Dharma Aspect head and swallowed it, leaving him unconscious and badly injured.
• Liu Yong burst into the hall and angrily demanded to know why He Zhao had not stopped the attack.

He Zhao crippled the leader of the Seven Sons of Qingyun, took gifts from the remaining six, and was confined pending the sect’s decision. The elders chose to send him back to Xinyue Kingdom to investigate the Evil Beast, and he eagerly accepted the assignment despite learning that he would have to cross the Netherworld.

• He Zhao’s Hou Aspect devoured the leader’s Dharma Aspect, leaving him crippled, and Liu Yong confined He Zhao to the True Disciple Floor while the sect considered his punishment.
• He Zhao proposed another sparring match to the remaining six Sons of Qingyun, who begged him to stop and gave him their storage rings instead.
• Zhang Heng and the elders rejected expelling or crippling He Zhao and decided to send him to Xinyue Kingdom to investigate the Evil Beast.
• Wu Ling and Zhang Lang told He Zhao that the sect had ordered him to return through the Netherworld and warned him about its dangers.
• Wu Ling gave He Zhao supplies for the journey, including two Flying Boats and items for dealing with the Netherworld’s bizarre threats.

Wu Ling warned He Zhao about the dangers of crossing the Netherworld to reach Xinyue Kingdom, and Liu Yong explained how to use the supplies meant to keep him alive. The chapter ended when He Zhao recognized the Exorcism Talisman Liu Yong gave him as an imitation Ink Register.

• Wu Ling told He Zhao that the route to Xinyue Kingdom crossed dangerous, unfamiliar Netherworld territory and explained its hazards and rules.
• Liu Yong rebuked He Zhao for crippling Gao Dazhuang, then laid out Bone Ash, Blood Candle, Corpse Oil, Spirit Paper, Dead Person's Food, and a Guiding Lamp for his journey.
• Liu Yong explained how each item could help He Zhao survive Sha Beasts, nightfall, graves, strange entities, and losing his way.
• Liu Yong gave He Zhao an Exorcism Talisman sponsored by him and Sect Master Zhang Heng.
• He Zhao recognized the talisman as an imitation Ink Register and learned that it could channel an exorcising power but might shatter under frequent full-power use.

He Zhao learned that the Netherworld held remnants of the Strange Persons and Unusual Scholars and Secret Blood Warriors, then prepared to travel through it toward Xinyue Kingdom. Zhang Heng sent him through a secret door, and He Zhao immediately found himself in darkness with a mournful suona procession approaching.

• Liu Yong explained that the Netherworld’s ruins revealed earlier eras of Strange Persons and Unusual Scholars and beastlike Ancient Corpses, and told He Zhao that Bone Ash and Corpse Oil came from their remains.
• He Zhao decided against crossing the sea after Liu Yong described his own disastrous voyage and warned that the Evil Beast could attack anyone leaving by the usual route.
• Liu Yong gave He Zhao a half-burned stick of Respect Ghosts and Gods Incense, which could attract Netherworld creatures and help him escape, and Zhang Heng provided a secret door and Qingyun Sect Life Token for his journey.
• He Zhao asked whether he could use the door to travel in and out of the Netherworld, but Zhang Heng kicked him through it and closed it behind him.
• He Zhao landed in the Netherworld as the surroundings plunged into darkness, then heard a mournful suona and saw a procession of white-clad figures approaching.