Chapter Summaries

Luo Chen opened the Dead Gate with his immense physical strength, but Li Tian Shi attacked him and exposed his identity as Luo Chen of the Eastern Wasteland Pill Sect. After recovering in the Netherworld, Luo Chen pursued Li Tian Shi and the others to Nether Mountain, where the Yin-Yang Tomb lay.

• Old Ancestor Liancheng opened the Life Gate, and the million-strong cultivator army attacked the Life and Death Gate.
• Luo Chen forced open the Dead Gate, then refused Li Tian Shi’s invitation to enter the tomb and tried to leave the Yin-Yang Realm.
• Li Tian Shi struck Luo Chen from behind, identified him as Luo Chen of the Eastern Wasteland Pill Sect, and led the others into the Dead Gate.
• Luo Chen recovered in a Netherworld hollow, concluded that Li Tian Shi was the Demon Heart Gu Emperor, and followed the group while concealing his aura among the ghost demons.
• Li Tian Shi and the others fought their way to Nether Mountain, where they found a vast host of ghost demons guarding the Yin-Yang Tomb.
• Luo Chen entered Nether Mountain after the group and vowed that Li Tian Shi must survive until he caught up.

Luo Chen pursued Li Tian Shi’s group through Nether Mountain, broke Red Leaf Granny’s formations, and escaped a trap that awakened a powerful Flying Yaksha. After the creature fled from his Nirvana Sacred Fire, Luo Chen reached the Yin-Yang Tomb and confronted the guards outside.

• Luo Chen found a Stiff Poison Gu in a Hairy Zombie and continued following Li Tian Shi’s group toward the Yin-Yang Tomb.
• Li Tian Shi and Red Leaf Granny entered the tomb after distributing promised rewards, while Purple Robe Marquis and three others remained outside to guard it.
• Luo Chen broke four formations Red Leaf Granny had left behind, then used Black King to trigger the fifth formation and expose its concealed danger.
• A Flying Yaksha emerged from the swamp, but Luo Chen’s Nirvana Sacred Fire frightened it into fleeing underground.
• Purple Robe Marquis and the Hidden Sword Manor Lord discovered that the Meng Shentong before them was an illusion, and Bai Xuanjun warned them about the approaching Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen appeared before Bai Xuanjun, Purple Robe Marquis, and the Hidden Sword Manor Lord and asked whether they intended to stop him.

Red Leaf Granny broke the Yin-Yang Tomb’s outer formation and uncovered the immature Same Life, Same Death Gu, prompting Li Tian Shi, Meng Shentong, and Red Leaf Granny to race for it. Meanwhile, Luo Chen fought Bai Xuanjun, Hidden Sword Manor Lord Fan WuJiu, and Purple Robe Marquis, revealing his strength before vanishing and leaving Purple Robe Marquis to wonder whether he had seen everything.

• Red Leaf Granny retrieved the Ten Thousand Arrays Gu after breaking the Yin-Yang Tomb’s outer formation, while Meng Shentong revealed that the tomb held an immature Same Life, Same Death Gu.
• A Black Light figure entered the tomb, and Red Leaf Granny and Meng Shentong rushed after it as Li Tian Shi followed.
• Bai Xuanjun, Hidden Sword Manor Lord Fan WuJiu, and Purple Robe Marquis confronted Luo Chen, who began fighting them with his Chaos Heaven Staff.
• Luo Chen used his defenses and Ghost God Repellent to withstand their attacks, then shattered Purple Robe Marquis’s Purple Blood Soft Sword and unleashed the Great Five Elements Sword Formation.
• Luo Chen killed Hidden Sword Manor Lord Fan WuJiu, wounded Purple Robe Marquis, and forced Bai Xuanjun to flee before he left Nether Mountain.
• Purple Robe Marquis recovered from the blood on the ground and wondered whether Luo Chen had shown his full strength.

Luo Chen entered the Yin-Yang Tomb and discovered Li Tian Shi had badly wounded Hong Ye and trapped the Flying Yaksha. He exposed Li Tian Shi as the Demon Heart Gu Emperor, rejected his offer to cooperate, and attacked as the Demon Heart Gu and a hidden Tier 5 Gu remained at stake.

• Luo Chen entered the Yin-Yang Tomb, found Hong Ye poisoned and the Flying Yaksha bound, and saw Li Tian Shi standing by the black coffin.
• Luo Chen exposed Meng Shentong’s hiding place and accused Li Tian Shi of being the Demon Heart Gu Emperor, citing his Gu expertise and the Mother-Child Traction Gu planted in Luo Chen.
• Li Tian Shi admitted his identity and recounted how he had used Yin-Yang Child’s research to alter the Demon Heart Gu and rise to the Nascent Soul Stage.
• Li Tian Shi offered Luo Chen the Demon Heart Gu in exchange for killing Meng Shentong, while Meng Shentong warned that the coffin held the Tier 5 Same Life, Same Death Gu.
• Luo Chen rejected Li Tian Shi’s offer and declared that he would take the Demon Heart Gu himself, then sent a Flame Dragon crashing toward Li Tian Shi.

Luo Chen and his allies tried to stop Li Tian Shi from opening the Black Coffin, but Li Tian Shi overcame their attacks and revealed the young man and yin-yang fish inside. Luo Chen tore out Li Tian Shi’s heart, which contained the Demon Heart Gu, but Li Tian Shi survived and unleashed his Gu House, Storm Pavilion, against everyone.

• Luo Chen shattered Li Tian Shi’s Lapis Lazuli Gu defense and destroyed three Bean Soldier Gu, while the remaining soldiers delayed Luo Chen and Meng Shentong.
• Luo Chen freed Red Leaf Granny from the sword pinning her down, and she used the Ten Thousand Arrays Gu to draw on the Yin-Yang Tomb’s residual formations.
• Luo Chen and Meng Shentong’s attacks vanished before reaching Li Tian Shi, who reopened the Black Coffin despite the tomb chains trying to shut it.
• Luo Chen used Fire Escape to reach Li Tian Shi and pulled the Demon Heart Gu from his chest, explaining that he had guessed it was housed in Li Tian Shi’s heart.
• Li Tian Shi declared that he could survive without his heart, unleashed the Gu House Storm Pavilion, and prepared to attack Luo Chen, Meng Shentong, and Red Leaf Granny.

Luo Chen and the others fought Li Tian Shi inside his Storm Pavilion Gu House, which absorbed attacks and hindered their movements. After Luo Chen exposed its limits and Meng Shentong was killed, he unleashed Withering and Flourishing against Li Tian Shi, leaving the Gu House’s ability to withstand it unresolved.

• Li Tian Shi attacked Luo Chen, Meng Shentong, and Red Leaf Granny with sword strikes laced with Corpse Rot Poison, while their attacks vanished inside the Storm Pavilion.
• Luo Chen learned from Meng Shentong that the Storm Pavilion was a Gu House, then realized it absorbed attacks released away from their users and urged his allies to fight at close range.
• Luo Chen and the others attacked together, but Li Tian Shi transformed into a Ghoul Weeping Evil Mantis and killed Meng Shentong.
• Luo Chen fought Li Tian Shi through hundreds of close-range exchanges, identifying the Demon Heart Gu as the source of his seemingly endless qi and blood.
• Luo Chen’s Golden Flame overpowered Li Tian Shi’s Avici Void Flame, and Black King held off the Threefold Blood Shackles while Luo Chen gathered Death Qi from across the Netherworld.
• Luo Chen condensed the Death Qi at his fingertip and unleashed Withering and Flourishing against the Storm Pavilion.

Luo Chen defeated Li Tian Shi, took the Same Life, Same Death Gu, and killed Li Tian Shi’s Nascent Soul before a Nether Earth Dragon swallowed it. Trapped inside Nether Mountain with Red Leaf Granny, Luo Chen realized the dragon wanted the Gu and summoned a small tree as blue-white flames engulfed the tomb hall.

• Luo Chen turned the Storm Pavilion’s Gu insects against Li Tian Shi, retrieved the White Gold Sword Pellet, and seized the Same Life, Same Death Gu.
• Li Tian Shi detonated the remaining Gu insects, but Luo Chen suppressed the storm with the Primal Chaos Cauldron and defeated him with his swords and Azure Sun Great Handprint.
• Luo Chen destroyed Li Tian Shi’s Consciousness Sea and attacked his Nascent Soul, but a strange creature burst from the ground and swallowed it.
• Luo Chen and Red Leaf Granny found Nether Mountain’s exit sealed, while the walls rapidly healed from her Blood Sword strikes.
• Red Leaf Granny identified the creature as a Tier 5 Nether Earth Dragon, and Luo Chen realized it wanted the Same Life, Same Death Gu.
• Luo Chen refused to surrender the Gu and summoned a small tree, unleashing blue-white flames throughout the tomb hall.

Luo Chen escaped Nether Mountain and battled the awakened Tier 5 Nether Earth Dragon, but his strongest sword strike failed to defeat it. As the beast trapped him and the Yin-Yang Realm shook, a figure descended from the moon and addressed the dead Nether Earth Dragon as a senior brother.

• Luo Chen burned Red Leaf Granny to ash with the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire, then blasted his way out of Nether Mountain while the Nether Earth Dragon wounded him with its tongue.
• Luo Chen fled as the Nether Earth Dragon emerged and pursued him, striking it with the Wither Bloom Dao Finger, Divine Fire, and other techniques without stopping its advance.
• Luo Chen prepared to fight to the death, but Black King charged the Nether Earth Dragon to buy him time and was torn in two by its ocher halo.
• Luo Chen used the Primal Chaos Cauldron and Yuan Tu Sword to land a powerful strike that wounded the Nether Earth Dragon, but its vitality let it heal, so he fled and left Black King behind.
• The Nether Earth Dragon unleashed pillars of light that shook the Yin-Yang Realm, but moonlight stopped the upheaval as a figure appeared on the moon, called the beast his deceased senior brother, and took the bright moon into his hand.

Luo Chen witnessed Divine Lord You Li use the moon to erase a Flying Yaksha and draw the Nether Earth Dragon into a self-destruction before awakening on Cloud Sea Summit. You Li revealed that he had retrieved the Calamity Gu and explained that its presence had turned the area into a Vitality Ocean, leaving Luo Chen to learn more about the danger it posed.

• Divine Lord You Li’s moonlight erased the Flying Yaksha, and the Nether Earth Dragon exploded its body to send a small figure through the Dead Gate.
• The Fierce Peak Zombie Alliance and Heaven Origin Dao Sect attacked the Life and Death Gate, where Zhu Shanzi confronted the Sungyang Alliance Master and Zhan Bingtao overwhelmed Zhu Shanzi’s Junior Brother.
• The Sungyang Alliance Master revealed that his Fierce Peak Seal had reached Great Accomplishment, while Zhu Shanzi summoned his Life and Death Wheel to face him.
• Luo Chen awoke on Cloud Sea Summit, recognized Divine Lord You Li, and learned that You Li had brought him there to retrieve the Calamity Gu from the Primal Chaos Cauldron.
• Divine Lord You Li explained that the Calamity Gu had caused the surrounding World Vitality to become nearly as dense as a Vitality Ocean, and summoned a red butterfly from the clouds.

Luo Chen learned the origins of the Fortune Gu and the calamity engulfing the Southern Border as Divine Lord You Li recovered the Calamity Gu and revealed ancient secrets about the Mountain Sea World. Divine Lord You Li ascended after crushing the invading forces, leaving the Life and Death Gate to fend for itself and Luo Chen with gifts and a promise of aid.

• Divine Lord You Li explained that he had allowed Feng Jiang to take the Calamity Gu so the Fortune Gu could advance his cultivation, but their separation had drawn a vast Vitality Ocean and caused disasters in the Southern Border.
• Divine Lord You Li reunited the Fortune Gu and Calamity Gu, returned Luo Chen's Primal Chaos Cauldron, and revealed that the five Xuan World sects had descended upon the Mountain Sea World through the Heaven Origin Dao Sect's Star Gate.
• Divine Lord You Li gave Luo Chen a copy of the Mysterious Realm Secret Records, the Fourth Order Same Life, Same Death Gu, and a secret technique to limit its dangers.
• Divine Lord You Li revealed his emerging Dharma Form and began ascending, then used the Vitality Ocean to slaughter invading cultivators and wounded Old Ancestor Liancheng, forcing the survivors to retreat.
• Divine Lord You Li entrusted three streams of light to the Life and Death Gate's Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators, gave Luo Chen a method to use the Calamity Gu's lingering aura, and sent him away before ascending amid the sect's farewell.

Luo Chen recovered from his battle injuries while traveling through the Southern Ocean toward the Eastern Wasteland, carrying Li Tian Shi’s heart and other spoils. As he and Black King hurried onward, the sea turned yellow and a sudden force overwhelmed Luo Chen’s defenses, leaving his fate unclear.

• Luo Chen assessed his injuries and depleted mana, then had Black King carry him through the Southern Ocean while he recovered.
• Luo Chen fed Black King healing pills and his last jar of Millennium Five Temples Immortal Brew before ordering it to head northeast toward the Eastern Wasteland.
• A month later, Luo Chen examined Li Tian Shi’s heart, the Demon Heart Gu, Meng Shentong’s Severing Void Blade, and Red Leaf Granny’s mysterious turtle shell.
• Black King warned that the Blue-Eyed Ghost Ibis had followed them for days, but Luo Chen initially chose to avoid fighting it.
• When the ibis appeared again, Luo Chen sensed danger and hurled Black King away as yellow seawater extinguished his mana and golden flames.

Luo Chen survived the Yellow Springs Sea and recognized that the moving Soul Severing Cliff was a forbidden land that might be a Great Wilderness. After several months of recovery and investigation, he remained stranded on the island, where he noticed an eerie glow on the beach below.

• Luo Chen awoke on the shore with his mana, body, and Nascent Soul severely damaged after the Yellow Springs Sea nearly consumed him.
• Luo Chen recovered enough to escape the returning tide and recognized the Yellow Springs Sea and Soul Severing Cliff.
• Luo Chen recalled that Soul Severing Cliff moved with the Yellow Springs Sea and considered why he had survived its soul-muddling effects.
• Luo Chen spent several months recovering in a cave and discovered that the island and sea moved, while he could draw neither spiritual energy nor World Vitality.
• Luo Chen suspected the island, cliff, and sea were transformed from a Top-Grade Great Wilderness, then noticed an eerie light on the beach below.

Luo Chen discovered that the black grains covering the beach were Soul Stones, which greatly strengthened his Divine Soul Foundation and let him advance the Soul Splitting Art. After five years, he had seven Split Souls and suspected that mastering all nine might help him escape Soul Severing Cliff, whose cliff face appeared to be an immense source of Soul Stones.

• Luo Chen tested a black grain and confirmed it was a Soul Stone, then found that absorbing its essence strengthened his divine soul more effectively than a Great Soul Pill.
• Luo Chen set aside Qi Refining, continued cautious Body Tempering, and focused on using Soul Stones to advance the Soul Splitting Art.
• Luo Chen began splitting his Fourth Soul and continued cultivating alone on the island, eventually reaching six Split Souls.
• Luo Chen discovered that Soul Stones were falling from Soul Severing Cliff itself and realized the entire cliff might be one enormous Soul Stone.
• Luo Chen absorbed more Soul Stone essence and split off his Seventh Soul, resolving to cultivate the Eighth and Ninth Souls in hopes of forming a Primordial Spirit and escaping.

Luo Chen split his Eighth Soul on Soul Severing Cliff and concluded that the moving Yellow Springs Sea might be heading toward the Eastern Wasteland, giving him a chance to escape. Meanwhile, Mo ShouZhuo learned of Luo Chen’s growing power and celebrated the Dao Sect’s progress toward unifying the Mountain Sea World, but then sensed an impending calamity.

• Luo Chen completed the Seventh Soul, struggled to split the Eighth, and resolved to prepare to split the Ninth Soul before Soul Severing Cliff moved again.
• Luo Chen suspected Soul Severing Cliff followed the souls left by great wars and was now heading toward the Eastern Wasteland.
• Mo ShouZhuo and the Five Ancestors of Heaven Origin discussed the Dao Sect’s campaigns, the setback in the Southern Border, and reports that Luo Chen had comprehended a Fire Source and might be connected to Tyrant Cultivator Qi Tian.
• Zhan BuXiu and Tan Feng Yue reported that the Northern Sea campaign was settled and the Western Desert offered the Dao Sect an opening to send troops.
• Mo ShouZhuo predicted that the Dao Sect could unify the Mountain Sea World, then realized the dark clouds above Sitting-Forgetfulness Peak signaled that the Dao Sect Calamity had arrived.

Luo Chen struggled to split off a Ninth Soul and debated whether to risk leaving Soul Severing Cliff, then witnessed a vision of Qixia Yuanjun and four Great Wilderness beings attacking the Heaven Origin Dao Sect. He suspected the assault was part of a larger plan involving the Upper Realm and prepared to leave Soul Island while the Yellow Springs Sea was turbulent.

• Luo Chen considered why he could not split off a Ninth Soul and concluded that staying on Soul Severing Cliff would leave him unable to progress, so he would have to risk crossing the Yellow Springs Sea.
• The Yellow Springs Sea began churning, and at dawn Luo Chen saw a mirage-like vision of four colossal beings, Qixia Yuanjun, and reinforcements emerging from the Star Gate at Heaven Earth Peak as they attacked the Heaven Origin Dao Sect.
• Luo Chen identified Qing He Xian, Ghost Immortal Tower, the Golden Winged Great Peng, and the Nether Earth Dragon among the attackers, and suspected Qixia Yuanjun had planned the assault to confront the colossus in Central Province.
• Luo Chen considered whether the Heaven Origin Dao Sect had summoned aid from its Upper Realm main sect and wondered what Qixia Yuanjun ultimately wanted.
• Luo Chen decided to prepare to leave Soul Island while the Yellow Springs Sea's upheaval offered him an opportunity.

Luo Chen abandoned his attempt to cross the Yellow Springs Sea when the dead Ghost Immortal Tower washed ashore, hoping to use its remains to make a dharma boat. After the Tower’s strange doll-like body vanished into Soul Severing Cliff, a White Bone Dharma Boat arrived carrying Chun Yuan and Qing Shuang, and Luo Chen learned that the cliff was to become a battlefield in a Spirit Transformation conflict.

• Luo Chen prepared to leave Soul Island, using the Ten Thousand Arrays Gu and the Flourishing Decay Divine Fire as safeguards against the Yellow Springs Sea.
• After briefly entering the sea and returning to shore, Luo Chen spotted the Ghost Immortal Tower’s corpse and decided its remains could help him escape.
• A big-headed doll emerged from the Tower, devoured the remaining Soul Stones, then fled into Soul Severing Cliff when it sensed something in the sea.
• Chun Yuan and Qing Shuang arrived aboard a White Bone Dharma Boat, and Chun Yuan confirmed the Ghost Immortal Tower was dead before taking Qing Shuang toward the ridge.
• Luo Chen overheard that Soul Severing Cliff was the planned site of a battle involving Qixia Yuanjun and the Heaven Origin Dao Sect, leaving him shocked and unsure how to escape.

Luo Chen waited for the battle between Qixia Yuanjun and the Heaven Origin Five Elders to begin so he could escape across the Yellow Springs Sea. Qixia arrived, rescued Qing Shuang, and the sect’s formation rose, but Mo ShouZhuo stopped Luo Chen by threatening his Life Soul.

• Chun Yuan searched Soul Island, found signs that someone had lived there, and later welcomed Zhan BuXiu, Tan Feng Yue, Liancheng, and Mo ShouZhuo as they prepared to ambush Qixia Yuanjun.
• Luo Chen concealed himself in a simple formation and planned to flee into the Yellow Springs Sea as soon as the battle began.
• Three days later, Qixia Yuanjun crossed the sea in golden flames and struck Zhan BuXiu, who was quickly driven back.
• Mo ShouZhuo ordered the others to kill Qing Shuang, but Qixia Yuanjun pulled her from the spatial rift, broke her seals, and freed her to leave.
• Mo ShouZhuo activated the great formation while Luo Chen rushed toward the Yellow Springs Sea, and Qixia Yuanjun taunted the elders about letting him escape.
• Mo ShouZhuo threatened Luo Chen’s Life Soul, causing Luo Chen to freeze at the edge of the sea.

Luo Chen learned that Mo ShouZhuo had intercepted part of his Life Soul and agreed to kill Qing Shuang in exchange for its return. He and Qing Shuang fought fiercely across Soul Island, each wounding the other as the larger battle around them continued.

• Qixia Yuanjun attacked Mo ShouZhuo after he revealed that Luo Chen’s Life Soul was defective, while Luo Chen demanded an explanation from him.
• Mo ShouZhuo admitted that he had taken part of Luo Chen’s Life Soul when Luo Chen entered the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, then ordered Luo Chen to kill Qing Shuang in exchange for its return.
• Luo Chen attacked Qing Shuang to keep her occupied, and their close-quarters fight revealed that his body and combat skills had grown stronger.
• Luo Chen used Ghost God Repellent and the Yuan Tu Sword to wound Qing Shuang, but she struck him in return and both questioned how the other had countered their techniques.
• Luo Chen and Qing Shuang resumed their battle above the Yellow Springs Sea as their wounds mounted and the fighting on Soul Island intensified.

Luo Chen and Qing Shuang fought amid the Yellow Springs Sea as Qixia Yuanjun broke free of the Soul Island formation and faced the Heaven Origin Five Elders and the Soul-Hanging Desolate. The Yellow Springs Sea swallowed Qixia Yuanjun and devastated Central Province, while Luo Chen and Qing Shuang later resumed their battle in a scorched wasteland with summoned divine birds.

• Luo Chen realized Qing Shuang used Qi Sensing to counter his Ghost God Repellent, and the two abandoned evasive techniques for a punishing direct battle.
• Qixia Yuanjun shattered the formation on Soul Severing Cliff, killed Chun Yuan with golden flames, and manifested her Phoenix Dharma Form.
• The Yellow Springs Sea surged against Qixia Yuanjun as the Heaven Origin Five Elders attacked and Ghost Immortal Tower charged at her under the Soul-Hanging Desolate's control.
• Qixia Yuanjun unleashed a sea of golden flames, but the Soul-Hanging Desolate dragged her into the Yellow Springs Sea, which swept across and sank the remnants of Central Province.
• Months later, Luo Chen and Qing Shuang fought in a blazing desert; Qing Shuang summoned an Azure Bird, and Luo Chen answered with a Fire Phoenix empowered by Nirvana Sacred Fire.

Luo Chen and Qing Shuang fought to a standstill in the desert, but an ill-timed intervention let Qing Shuang break free and pursue him. As both grew weaker, Qing Shuang severed Luo Chen’s arm, and he fled into a vast demon beast army, where he turned to face her.

• Luo Chen used the Nirvana Sacred Fire, World Vitality, and his Fire Phoenix spell to encircle Qing Shuang, but she charged through his flames and struck his giant true body.
• Luo Chen deployed the Great Five Elements Sword Formation, the Law Suppressing Five Elements Cones, the Soul Weaving Needle, and the Primal Chaos Cauldron to suppress and refine Qing Shuang.
• Zhou Mingxuan led guards toward the battle, and their arrival disrupted Luo Chen’s formation; the backlash killed hundreds, while Qing Shuang escaped and continued pursuing Luo Chen.
• Luo Chen and Qing Shuang fought across the desert, and Qing Shuang used Sub-Space Sever to cut off his left arm before both continued deeper into the sands.
• At dawn, Luo Chen fell beside a vast demon beast army and hurled the Yuan Tu Sword toward it as Qing Shuang caught up.