Chapter Summaries

Chen Shi used repeated divine descents to help cultivators break through, then reached signs of Void Refining perfection and discovered that evil qi was entering his body. Meanwhile, Du Yiran returned to Ganyang Mountain, where Sha Qiutong gathered the Five Great Evils to remove the demons inside Little Ten by temporarily killing him in the Underworld.

• Yutian City and Situ Wen underwent divine descents and advanced to the Void Refining Realm, while Chen Shi’s repeated use of the True God’s insights helped several other cultivators break through.
• Yang Bi heard what Chen Shi had been doing and returned to the Upper Realm to concentrate on his own cultivation.
• Chen Shi entered Dao enlightenment, reached signs of Great Perfection in the Void Refining Realm, and found that evil qi continually entered his body after his barrier with heaven and earth broke.
• Du Yiran returned to Round Building Village, where he reunited with Green Goat and met A Zhuo and Hu Xiaoliang on the way to Sha Qiutong.
• Sha Qiutong gathered the Five Great Evils and proposed taking Little Ten to the Underworld, temporarily killing him so they could destroy the demons within his Sea of Consciousness.

Granny Sha and the others took Chen Shi into the Underworld to draw out the demon inhabiting his body, but the demon escaped with Chen Shi’s physical body into the Yang World. Chen Shi remained in the Underworld beneath the ancient willow, where he realized the tree and stone tablet linked the two worlds, and saw his stolen body fleeing above.

• Granny Sha and her companions went to Huangpo Village, borrowed Black Pot, and brought Chen Shi into the Underworld beneath Yellow Earth Slope.
• Green Goat stopped Chen Shi’s heart so his primordial spirit could escape, awakening the demon that took over his body.
• The demon transformed Chen Shi’s body and unleashed a vast demon domain, trapping Granny Sha and the others while Chen Shi fled with Black Pot’s help.
• Granny Sha and the others weakened the demon, and Black Pot dragged its soul from Chen Shi’s corpse into a Soul Searching Bag.
• The demon suddenly rose again, tore through the boundary between the Underworld and Yang World, and escaped in Chen Shi’s body.
• Chen Shi examined the ancient willow’s roots and stone tablet in the Underworld, then saw his stolen body fleeing across the Yang World.

After dying without his body, Chen Shi struggled through Yin Mountain, learned that he could read ghost script, and began teaching Peng Ju the Blood Lake True Scripture. In the Yang World, Granny Sha and the others continued chasing the demon impersonating Chen Shi, while the chapter left Chen Shi still waiting for a soul-calling that had not come.

• Chen Shi tried to reach the Yang World through the willow tree’s roots but was swept away by Yin winds and injured by the cold.
• Chen Shi warmed himself at Peng Ju’s bonfire, used the Second New Talisman to purge Yin energy, and healed Peng Ju’s wounded wing.
• Peng Ju told Chen Shi that they were in Yin Mountain and stopped him from wandering into a crowd of dangerous wandering souls.
• Chen Shi read Peng Ju’s ancestral scroll and discovered it contained the Blood Lake True Scripture, a cultivation method for soul spirits.
• Granny Sha and her companions pursued the demon impersonating Chen Shi through Niucheng, but he remained elusive.
• After two days without a soul-calling ritual, Peng Ju invited Chen Shi to accompany him on errands for the East Palace.

Chen Shi learned that the underworld he had entered was not governed by the Ten Yama Kings, and he used a skeleton body and the Blood Lake True Scripture to resist the force drawing ghosts along the mist roads. When monsters attacked the ghosts as livestock, Chen Shi struck back and refused Peng Ju’s plea to flee, preparing to face the approaching herding ghost gods.

• Peng Ju explained that the Eastern Palace served the Tianchi Kingdom Lord, and neither he nor the creatures of the Yin Mountains knew of the Ten Yama Kings or the Eighteen Layers of Hell.
• Peng Ju helped Chen Shi possess a skeleton, freeing him from the force pulling ghosts along the mist roads, and Chen Shi tested the body before breaking a leg and replacing its bone.
• Chen Shi practiced the Blood Lake True Scripture and taught Peng Ju to cultivate it as they traveled through the Yin Mountains.
• Chen Shi recognized the mist-dwelling monsters as the creatures that had nearly eaten him at Ganyang Mountain and attacked one with his Heavenly Fire Realm when it seized ghosts.
• Peng Ju warned Chen Shi that the monsters were livestock raised by ghost gods and tried to drag him away, but Chen Shi refused to leave and challenged the ghost gods to treat humans as pasture grass.

Chen Shi and Peng Ju used the Blood Lake True Scripture to defeat a herd of Sheng Sheng and their Shepherd Ghost, discovering that the technique absorbed vital qi and strengthened their bodies and souls. Chen Shi killed the Shepherd Ghost and spared its little yaksha, who left to seek other work.

• Chen Shi absorbed a Sheng Sheng's vital qi with the Blood Lake True Scripture and found that the technique strengthened his skeleton and enlarged his blood pool.
• Chen Shi and Peng Ju fought off several Sheng Sheng, using blood-colored sword qi and Peng Ju's wings to kill them and absorb their vital qi.
• A Shepherd Ghost arrived with dozens of Sheng Sheng and confronted Chen Shi and Peng Ju over the dead herd.
• Chen Shi cut through the Sheng Sheng herd and attacked the Shepherd Ghost, but the ghost god struck him into a locust tree.
• Chen Shi recovered by absorbing stored vital qi, then used his speed and sword qi to pierce the Shepherd Ghost's neck and kill him.
• Chen Shi spared the little yaksha, who gathered his belongings and left to look for odd jobs.

After Chen Shi and Peng Ju escaped the shepherd ghosts, they reached Peng Ju’s home beneath Wuliang Cliff, where Chen Shi discovered that the cliff held countless ancient divine corpses. While Peng Ju left for Tianchi, Chen Shi taught Peng Yan’er cultivation and learned that Tianchi Kingdom’s ghosts and gods were all illiterate.

• Chen Shi absorbed the shepherd ghost’s blood qi, awakening its strange bloodline textures and expanding his sea of blood, while Peng Ju strengthened himself by absorbing the Sheng Sheng’s blood qi.
• Chen Shi and Peng Ju fled the scene and reached Peng Ju’s village, passing a huge iron tripod containing a chained giant skeleton.
• At Peng Ju’s home, Chen Shi discovered divine corpses pinned along Wuliang Cliff, and one corpse briefly awakened before its spear forced it still again.
• Peng Ju left to report to Tianchi, entrusting Chen Shi to his sister Peng Yan’er, who welcomed him and tried to care for him.
• Chen Shi taught Peng Yan’er the Blood Lake True Scripture and sword cultivation, discovering her exceptional aptitude.
• Peng Yan’er told Chen Shi that the ghosts and gods of Tianchi Kingdom could not read, leaving him to compare their lost literacy with True King’s alteration of the cultivation path.

Chen Shi refined divine blood beneath Wuliang Cliff, strengthening his Blood Lake True Scripture and helping Peng Yan'er forge a blood pool before Granny Sha summoned his soul back to the Yang World. During a Fog Moon Night and Chen Shi’s absence, Tianchi forces attacked the Yingniao village to seize the scripture, and Peng Yan'er unleashed her power against them.

• Chen Shi discovered that the divine blood’s rosy light could be refined, though its overwhelming blood qi nearly shattered his skeleton until he used the First New Incantation to endure it.
• Chen Shi shared the divine blood qi with Peng Yan'er, helping her forge a blood pool and greatly strengthen her body, soul, and bloodline.
• After cultivating for several more days, Chen Shi was pulled back to the Yang World by Granny Sha’s spell, leaving his heavy skeleton with Peng Yan'er.
• During a Fog Moon Night, Peng Yan'er sheltered in her home while the mist stirred the ancient corpses and strange forces around Wuliang Cliff.
• Tianchi ghosts and gods surrounded the Yingniao village, accused Peng Ju of killing His Highness’s Shepherd Ghost and Sheng Sheng, and demanded the Blood Lake True Scripture.
• When the attackers began killing the villagers, Peng Yan'er fought back with blood-colored sword qi, cutting down the yaksha and striking the other ghosts and gods.

Peng Yan'er was captured by Pi Chi, while Chen Shi returned to his body and prepared with Chen Tang’s team to extract another demon. When the extraction began in the Underworld, Chen Shi’s demon erupted—and his reassembled skeleton awakened beside the Blood Stream with a little temple above its blood pool.

• Pi Chi defeated Peng Yan'er, captured her, and ordered his followers to break Chen Shi’s skeleton apart before taking her toward Tianchi Capital City.
• Granny Sha and the others brought the demon-possessed Chen Shi back to Huangpo Village, where Chen Tang helped summon Chen Shi’s Primordial Spirit and the group extracted two demons from his body.
• Chen Tang organized careful drills and assigned the team roles for the next extraction, while Chen Shi discovered that his little temple could follow his Primordial Spirit outside his body.
• Chen Tang’s team brought Chen Shi to the Underworld, where Green Goat killed him to trigger the extraction and the demon inside his body rose in his place.
• Chen Shi’s scattered skeleton reassembled beside the Blood Stream, and a little temple appeared above its rotating blood pool as a fierce fire stirred within its ribcage.

Chen Shi pursued the armored ghosts and gods who had kidnapped Peng Ju’s younger sister, with help from Medicine King Sect Master Tong Qianzhou and Deacon Sang Xixi. He ambushed the group, killed Pi Chi and the other ghosts and gods, and advanced the Blood Lake True Scripture to the Blood Lake Hell realm.

• Chen Shi met Tong Qianzhou and Sang Xixi, Medicine King Sect cultivators gathering Yin Chen Flowers in the Underworld, and learned that an armored group carrying a Yingniao girl had passed nearby.
• Tong Qianzhou and Sang Xixi guided Chen Shi toward the ghosts and gods, warning him about Yin Mountain’s dangers and the strength of their three-headed leader, Pi Chi.
• Tong Qianzhou approached the group with a bag of gunpowder while Chen Shi moved in behind him, then Chen Shi charged when he judged the distance sufficient.
• Chen Shi used divine blood to empower his sword strike, pierced Pi Chi’s defense, and cut off his head after killing the other ghosts and gods.
• Chen Shi’s blood pool absorbed the ghosts’ divine souls, and the Blood Lake True Scripture advanced to the Blood Lake Hell realm.

After killing Pi Chi, Chen Shi rescued Peng Yan’er and learned that Peng Ju had been imprisoned in the Crown Prince’s Eastern Palace for knowing the Blood Lake True Scripture. Chen Shi and Peng Yan’er set out to save him, joined by Sang Xixi, while Tong Qianshou returned to the Yang World; Sang Xixi helped prepare for the rescue by taking Chen Shi’s huge stockpile of firearms.

• Chen Shi’s Blood Lake Hell absorbed the power returning from Pi Chi’s death, repeatedly breaking and repairing Chen Shi’s bones and strengthening his body and primordial spirit.
• Chen Shi freed Peng Yan’er from a birdcage and learned that the Eastern Palace had captured Peng Ju to obtain the Blood Lake True Scripture.
• Chen Shi invited Peng Yan’er to help him rescue Peng Ju, and Tong Qianshou deduced that the Crown Prince was holding Peng Ju in the Eastern Palace.
• Sang Xixi joined the rescue while Tong Qianshou used an incense offering and a Soul Summoning Talisman to return to the Yang World.
• Sang Xixi offered to help Chen Shi and Peng Yan’er infiltrate the Eastern Palace, then eagerly packed away Chen Shi’s vast collection of firearms and explosives.

Chen Shi and his companions explored the Tianchi Capital City and learned about its ghost tribes and divine abilities while preparing to rescue people from the Eastern Palace. After the monarch died and the Crown Prince left the palace, Chen Shi led Sang Xixi and Peng Yan'er toward the sealed Eastern Palace, where Ying Rumeng and Monk Wuchen also appeared nearby.

• Sang Xixi showed Chen Shi and Peng Yan'er the Tianchi Kingdom's tribes, and Chen Shi recognized the ghosts' bloodline powers as divine abilities.
• Chen Shi and Sang Xixi discussed skeleton cultivators, the Underworld's inhabitants, and the possibility that some ghosts were cultivators from other worlds.
• Sang Xixi found Chen Shi a physician's robe and hat, then left to gather intelligence while Chen Shi and Peng Yan'er practiced the Blood Lake True Scripture.
• Chen Shi refined divine blood and strengthened his blood lake, while converting the souls of the ghosts and gods he had killed.
• Sang Xixi reported that the Tianchi monarch had died and the Crown Prince had left the Eastern Palace, but the palace was under lockdown.
• Chen Shi, Peng Yan'er, and Sang Xixi headed toward the Eastern Palace as Ying Rumeng and Monk Wuchen stopped nearby after Ying Rumeng glimpsed an old acquaintance.

After learning that the Tianchi Kingdom Lord had died under a mysterious attack during the fog moon, Crown Prince Xiang Kun planned to seize power and force Peng Ju to reveal the Blood Lake True Scripture. Chen Shi and his companions stormed the Eastern Palace, rescued Peng Ju, and fled after Empress Shi Ji recognized the giant copper coin.

• Crown Prince Xiang Kun saw the Kingdom Lord’s half-flesh, half-bone corpse and learned that his last words had been, “There are immortals in the fog.”
• Crown Prince Xiang Kun recalled capturing Peng Ju after he displayed the Blood Lake True Scripture and resolved to extract the scripture from him.
• Chen Shi, Sang Sisi, and Peng Yan'er killed the Eastern Palace guards and fought through its defenders while sparing the little yakshas.
• Chen Shi and his companions reached the palace hall, where Empress Shi Ji removed a towering armored ghost god and Chen Shi freed Peng Ju from a birdcage.
• Empress Shi Ji recognized the gigantic copper coin behind the hall and told Chen Shi it was impossible for it to be there.

Chen Shi and Empress Shi Ji fought their way out of the Tianchi Kingdom palace, where a gigantic copper coin disabled the ghost tribes’ prehistoric relics. After the chieftains recognized Chen Shi’s Blood Lake True Scripture, they brought him to the palace and named him the next Tianchi Kingdom Lord.

• Empress Shi Ji identified the gigantic copper coin as a Huaxia Divine Continent treasure, and Chen Shi fled the East Palace with Peng Ju, Peng Yan'er, and Sang Xixi inside his temple.
• Shi Ji held off pursuing ghosts and gods until powerful chieftains confronted them and prepared to awaken the capital’s prehistoric relics with their blood.
• Chen Shi and Shi Ji raised the copper coin, whose light stripped the relics of their power and allowed them to face the chieftains.
• The chieftains recognized Chen Shi’s Blood Lake True Scripture and asked him to speak with them at the Kingdom Lord’s palace.
• Lei Qu announced that the one hundred and twelve ghost tribes jointly recommended Chen Shi as the next Tianchi Kingdom Lord.

Chen Shi was unexpectedly crowned lord of the Tianchi Ghost Kingdom, and Lei Qu explained that the tribes saw him as the prophesied savior because he understood their lost language and scriptures. As Chen Shi cultivated on the throne, a summons from Granny pulled his primordial spirit back to the Yang World, leaving Empress Shi Ji to guard his kingdom.

• Lei Qu announced that the 112 tribal leaders supported Chen Shi as the next kingdom lord, overruling Crown Prince Xiang Kun and his allies.
• Chen Shi was crowned and, the next day, asked Lei Qu why the tribes had chosen him.
• Lei Qu explained the ghost kingdoms’ lost golden age and said an ancient prophecy described a savior who would restore their knowledge and light.
• Chen Shi offered to share the Blood Lake True Scripture and decipher the tribes’ methods, but Lei Qu warned that doing so without overwhelming strength could plunge the kingdom into war.
• Lei Qu proposed sending female ghosts to Chen Shi’s inner palace, but Chen Shi showed him his skeleton and rejected the idea.
• After cultivating and strengthening his Blood Lake Hell, Chen Shi was summoned by Granny and left Empress Shi Ji in the palace to guard his kingdom.

Chen Shi’s skeleton defended the Tianchi royal palace from assassins and continued cultivating, while Chen Tang’s demon-hunting mission ended with two demons escaping into the Talisman God Heavenly Mechanism and Chen Shi’s body. After Chen Shi awoke, his family discussed safer methods and he shared a tender meal with Wu Qingyu, ending by telling her he had become ruler of the Tianchi Ghost Kingdom.

• Empress Shi Ji discovered Chen Shi’s skeleton retained a single guarding thought, then watched it kill ghosts and gods who stormed the royal palace.
• Over the following days, Chen Shi’s skeleton defeated further assassins, refined its stolen divine blood, and traveled to Wuliang Cliff to harvest divine blood before returning to cultivate.
• Chen Tang explained that the sixty-fifth demon had possessed the Talisman God Heavenly Mechanism while another demon seized Chen Shi’s corpse, forcing the group to fight and recapture both.
• Wu Qingyu warned that multiple demons might emerge from Chen Shi’s abyss, so Granny Sha summoned Chen Shi’s Primordial Spirit while the others planned new countermeasures.
• Chen Shi ate a meal with Wu Qingyu and said he feared their family reunion might be a dream; she reassured him and agreed they still needed to find his grandfather.
• Chen Shi told Wu Qingyu he had become ruler of the Tianchi Ghost Kingdom, and she said she believed him.

Chen Shi expanded the Heavenly Court by recruiting Tong Qianhou and the Medicine King Sect to provide healing and elixirs, then sent a group of allies into the Underworld to join him in pulling demons. Crown Prince Xiang Kun watched the new arrivals with suspicion, while Wu Qingyu worried about the dangers of Chen Shi’s plan and her son’s fate.

• Chen Shi learned that demonic seeds were multiplying across the Western Ox Continent and that some disguised themselves among ordinary people to prey on them.
• Tong Qianhou arrived with Medicine King Sect pharmacists, pledged to support the Red Mountain Hall, and agreed to move the sect to Ganyang Mountain.
• Chen Shi revealed that he was the lord of the Tianchi Kingdom, and Tong Qianhou joined the Heavenly Court under the code name Pharmacist.
• Tong Qianhou used simulated-death medicine and bribed an underworld bailiff to bring Shao Jing, Yutian City, Li Tianqing, and others to the Tianchi Kingdom.
• Crown Prince Xiang Kun resolved to wait for another power to attack Chen Shi, while Chen Shi, Granny Sha, and their companions entered the Underworld to pull demons.

Chen Shi discovered that the Underworld near Ganyang Mountain consisted of two overlapping layers and learned that the Yang World might face the same catastrophe that had destroyed the ghost race’s sun. After identifying Wen Wuyu as a hidden Sky Listener from Despair Slope, he confronted her over the former lord’s death and the removal of his Innate Dao Embryo, ending by challenging her to fight.

• Chen Shi possessed his skeleton body and found that its cultivation and soul had grown enormously, but he still feared entering the Body Integration Realm because of the evil qi.
• Shao Jing and Li Tianqing established the Gathering Immortals Tower to trade Yang World goods for rare Underworld herbs, then used the Youquan Wandering Dragon Sword to discover that two Underworld layers overlapped.
• Chen Shi, Li Tianqing, and Shao Jing learned from Chieftain Lei Qu that the ghost race’s world had once been the Yang World before a cataclysm extinguished its sun and merged Yin and Yang.
• Chen Shi realized Sky Listeners might be connected to the former lord’s death, and he and Li Tianqing watched their movements until they identified a hidden observer.
• Chen Shi and Li Tianqing cornered the little yaksha Wen Wuyu, who returned Chen Shi’s paper money and revealed that she served Despair Slope.
• Wen Wuyu said immortals had killed Lord Xiang Fu and described Despair Slope’s mission; Chen Shi then confronted her about cutting out his Innate Dao Embryo and challenged her to make her move.

Chen Shi battled Wen Wuyu at Heavenly Lake, matching her formidable techniques with his Blood Lake Hell and Spirit Banner Ten Absolute Array before allowing her to escape. Afterward, he worried that the person who had taken his Innate Dao Embryo might have become stronger than he could ever be, but Li Tianqing reminded him that his talent and comprehension were his own.

• Wen Wuyu unleashed five-colored techniques that turned the lake into mountains and sword energy, while Chen Shi blocked her attacks with the ghosts and gods of his Blood Lake Hell.
• Chen Shi closed in and battered Wen Wuyu with a rapid melee assault, even launching his own bones at her as she retreated across the lakes.
• Wen Wuyu and Chen Shi each entered Body Integration, and their powers clashed until Chen Shi formed the Spirit Banner Ten Absolute Array and blasted her away with a pillar of light.
• Wen Wuyu thanked Chen Shi for showing mercy and left the Underworld; Chen Shi stopped Lei Qu and the other chieftains from pursuing her.
• Chen Shi told Li Tianqing he feared the person who had obtained his Innate Dao Embryo might have grown beyond his reach, and Li Tianqing reassured him that his talent could not be taken away.

Chen Shi discovered that reaching the Body Integration Realm had attached a living strand of evil qi to his body and soul, but the white-robed female immortal removed it. He then walked with Wen Wuyu, learned more about her past and Despair Slope, and agreed to investigate the former Lord Xiang Fu’s death and the possible existence of immortals.

• Chen Shi told Li Tianqing that evil qi had entered him during his breakthrough, and Li Tianqing warned that pulling it out would only let the world’s evil qi replace it.
• Chen Shi tried thunder and true fire to destroy the strand, but it returned and began influencing his thoughts.
• The white-robed female immortal pulled the strand from Chen Shi’s ear, severing its connection to him for the time being.
• Wen Wuyu visited Chen Shi, admitted she had worked at Yuanchen Palace for only a few days, and recalled meeting him as a child in Xinxiang County.
• Wen Wuyu told Chen Shi that Despair Slope’s Senior Brother was named Wuwang and had exceptional talent and strength.
• Wen Wuyu invited Chen Shi to investigate the former Lord Xiang Fu’s death and the signs of immortal power on his corpse, and Chen Shi agreed.

Chen Shi and Wen Wuyu disguised themselves as ox-headed imps and led Crown Prince Xiang Kun’s party to a glowing immortal palace chained inside a split mountain. After clashing over whether Huaxia deities were rebels, the two reaffirmed their friendship, then rushed toward the palace when they heard the Feather Kingdom had ambushed the others.

• Chen Shi and Wen Wuyu transformed into ox-headed imps to travel unnoticed, then joined Crown Prince Xiang Kun and other young ghost experts seeking an immortal.
• Xiang Kun declared that his awakened bloodline would make him a better kingdom lord than Chen Shi, while You Huan argued that Chen Shi was the savior foretold in ghost-tribe songs.
• Wen Wuyu led the group to a floating immortal palace locked inside a split mountain, and Chen Shi recognized it as resembling divine halls he had seen in the Yang World.
• Chen Shi and Wen Wuyu argued over whether Huaxia deities were protectors or rebels, but Wen Wuyu called Chen Shi her last friend and quietly hooked her tail around his.
• A roar announced that the Feather Kingdom had ambushed the party near the immortal palace, and Chen Shi and Wen Wuyu hurried to join the fight.