Chapter Summaries

Tu Shan Jun and True Person Fallen Flame entered Yanfu’s inheritance ground, where Yanfu offered the remaining path of immortal cultivation to the one who had passed the trials. True Person Fallen Flame considered accepting it, and the chapter ended with Tu Shan Jun agreeing that they should discuss the inheritance’s terms.

• The ancient bronze gate opened, and Tu Shan Jun and True Person Fallen Flame entered the inheritance ground together.
• True Person Fallen Flame’s golden core cracked as his long-held pursuit was fulfilled, and Yanfu’s figure appeared before them.
• Yanfu explained that three inheritances had been left behind and offered the remaining path of immortal cultivation to the person who passed the thousand and one steps.
• True Person Fallen Flame realized that Tu Shan Jun had the stronger claim but said his inherited bloodline needed cultivation to flourish.
• Tu Shan Jun told True Person Fallen Flame not to yield the opportunity and proposed that they discuss the details.

Tu Shan Jun let True Person Fallen Flame begin inheriting the Yama Floating Light-shadow’s cultivation path while he questioned the light-shadow about reincarnation and the inheritance’s history. Before leaving to refine pills, Tu Shan Jun learned the woman beneath the tree was a peak Nascent Soul cultivator and raised his soul banner to kill her, but the light-shadow warned him to stop.

• True Person Fallen Flame agreed to inherit the Yama Floating Light-shadow’s Dao and asked Tu Shan Jun to kill him if the process proved dangerous.
• True Person Fallen Flame sat on the third meditation cushion to begin the inheritance, and the Yama Floating Light-shadow returned the Black Mountain Seal to Tu Shan Jun.
• Tu Shan Jun learned that the seal and the talisman treasure opened the land of inheritance, and he heard how reincarnation could cause a cultivator’s past and present selves to clash.
• Tu Shan Jun recognized the woman on the second meditation cushion as the Spirit Demon Sect’s hope for restoration and learned she had reached peak Nascent Soul.
• Tu Shan Jun suspected the Faceless Ghost had sought Jinghong as a possible body for the woman, then aimed his soul banner at her head.
• The Yama Floating Light-shadow warned Tu Shan Jun not to attack the woman.

Tu Shan Jun weighed killing a dormant Spirit Demon Sect Nascent Soul against the danger of freeing her, then left her under guarded watch while Yin Yan True Person received Yama’s inheritance. Back in the Dan Pavilion, he arranged to refine several batches of pills and ordered an auction designed to draw Golden Core cultivators toward the Great Black Mountain Seal.

• Tu Shan Jun learned that killing the dormant Nascent Soul would free her to seize Yin Yan True Person’s body, so he put away his spiritual treasure and chose not to attack.
• Tu Shan Jun ordered a fiend to watch the dormant Nascent Soul and protect Yin Yan True Person, then secretly planted a Yin Spirit fragment in the fiend and controlled it with a pale ring.
• Yama’s phantom discovered Tu Shan Jun’s hidden safeguards, while the fiend attacked him and then tried to reach Yin Yan True Person before being stopped.
• Tu Shan Jun left the inheritance ground and returned to the Dan Pavilion’s top story, where he summoned Zi Yang True Person and Zi Shaoqing and gave them Yin Yan’s inheritance token.
• Tu Shan Jun promised to refine several batches of fifth-grade pills and Nascent Soul-grade Yin Soul Pills, then ordered Zi Yang True Person to organize a widely advertised auction centered on the Great Black Mountain Seal.

Sun City drew cultivators from across the region as a grand auction drove down the prices of yin souls and vicious ghosts. With the auction only half a month away, Tu Shan Jun reviewed the Golden Core cultivators in the city and decided not to spend effort tracking Spirit Gate.

• Qi Refiners at Notice Long Street discussed falling prices for yin souls and vicious ghosts as cultivators arrived to compete for business ahead of the auction.
• Two concealed Golden Core cultivators toured Sun City, and the feather-fan cultivator urged his nervous companion to keep calm among the many powerful visitors.
• At Spirit Terrace Tower, Master Jianwen, Qingxu True Person, Yu Huan Old Devil, Changshui True Person, Lingshu True Person, and Jifeng True Person gathered and discussed the auction and their sects' plans.
• Ziyang True Person brought Tu Shan Jun a record of more than one hundred and thirty Golden Core cultivators in Sun City.
• Tu Shan Jun inspected Spirit Gate's history, then decided there was no need to monitor its cultivators and that the Dharma treasure would go to whoever won it.

Tu Shan Jun waited for the enemy to reveal itself while Sun City prepared for an auction at the Treasure-Gathering Tower. A disguised attacker breached the tower’s formation, and the guards identified him as the one breaking in.

• Tu Shan Jun dismissed an investigation of the suspicious Golden Core cultivators and told True Person Ziyang to believe in his master’s chances of inheriting the legacy.
• An amiable cultivator paid Xiao Wei one hundred Spirit Stones to carry a jade slip into the Treasure-Gathering Tower, where Xiao Wei secretly approached the black seal.
• The tower’s guards noticed Xiao Wei’s suspicious behavior, but Zi Shaoqing ordered them to let him go.
• The amiable cultivator revealed his ghostly face and transformed his feather fan into a White Luan Treasure Fan.
• The attacker swept the fan through the formation, raised thirty-six pillars of light, and punched holes through the tower’s defenses.

Purple Sun True Person and Heavenly Corpse High Person turned the Treasure Pavilion auction into a battle, offering treasures to cultivators who killed members of the Blood Fiend Sect, Corpse Fiend Sect, and Spirit Demon Sect. More than a hundred Golden Core Grandmasters and over a thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators rushed into the pavilion as Sun City's leaders contained the disturbance and maintained order.

• The Treasure Pavilion's display formations failed, and cultivators began seizing treasures as Golden Core Grandmasters and Foundation Establishment cultivators rushed toward the tower.
• Purple Sun True Person let the cultivators enter, while Sun City's leaders kept the city's residents calm and contained the battle's aftershocks.
• A voice announced that the auction's payment would be killing remnants of the Spirit Demon Sect, and Heavenly Corpse High Person urged the gathered cultivators to fight.
• Clear Void True Person and other high-level cultivators accepted the chance to fight, while Spirit Pivot True Person urged his allies to find their disciples and plan their departure.
• The auction drew more than a hundred Golden Core Grandmasters and over a thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators into the Treasure Pavilion, where they fought over treasures and the targeted sects' cultivators.

Du Chen and Faceless Ghost of the Spirit Demon Sect arrived at the Treasure Gathering Tower, but Tu Shan Jun killed Faceless Ghost before he could act. As the auction forced the trapped cultivators to trade corpses for treasures, a man used a Golden Core corpse to claim a black seal and cried out that he had completed his magic treasure and could restore the sect.

• Du Chen revealed his identity to Elder Xu and urged the Blood Fiend Sect cultivators to ally with the Spirit Demon Sect against Tu Shan Jun.
• Faceless Ghost confronted Tu Shan Jun on the tower’s top floor, explained the Blood Slaughter Art, and was killed and absorbed into the Soul Banner.
• True Person Qingxu and other cultivators killed opponents and exchanged their corpses for auction treasures, while the righteous and demonic sects grew desperate to obtain the remaining items.
• Tu Shan Jun used the tower’s grand formation to gather the slaughter’s baleful qi and urged the Spirit Demon Sect to act before its allies were wiped out.
• A man placed a Golden Core corpse on an auction formation, claimed the black seal it revealed, and shouted that he could restore the sect.

Taichi and Zhentan opened the seal to the underground ruins, drawing rival Golden Core Grandmasters into a tense standoff over the Spirit Demon Sect’s inheritance. High Person Heavenly Corpse forced most of the opposing cultivators to withdraw, then led the three Spirit Demon Sect remnants through the gate despite suspecting the Soul-Devouring Devil Lord had arranged an open trap.

• Taichi confirmed that the black seal was genuine as Qingxu True Person confronted the Spirit Demon Sect remnants.
• Great Monk Jianwen, Jifeng True Person, Old Devil Yuhuan, and High Person Heavenly Corpse arrived, bringing the gathering to six against six.
• Old Devil Yuhuan withdrew, and Lingshu True Person, Qingxu True Person, Xuanyu True Person, the great monk of White Bone Temple, and Jifeng True Person also left rather than risk a deadly fight.
• Jifeng True Person asked High Person Heavenly Corpse whether he had found a way to cross the lightning tribulation, but Heavenly Corpse admitted he had no confidence.
• Taichi, Zhentan, and their companion touched the seal with their mana and opened the gate to the underground ruins.
• High Person Heavenly Corpse acknowledged the gate might be a trap but insisted on pursuing the opportunity, and the group prepared to enter.

Tu Shan Jun confronted Heavenly Corpse and the three Sacred Spirit Sect cultivators at the Pillar of Inheritance, then attacked while they formed a great divine ability. The attack shattered their spell, but a voice and converging lights revealed that someone had survived and emerged.

• Tai Chi explained that the ruined landscape was the Sacred Spirit Sect's inherited land, and Zhen Tan recognized signs that someone had already been there.
• Tu Shan Jun appeared on the steps, and High Person Heavenly Corpse and the three Sacred Spirit Sect cultivators formally greeted him.
• Tu Shan Jun asked where the Faceless Ghost was, and Zhen Tan reluctantly agreed with Tai Chi and Du Chen to summon him so the sect could be restored.
• The three Sacred Spirit Sect cultivators combined their qi into a great divine ability, and Tu Shan Jun struck before they could complete it.
• Tu Shan Jun's black hand seal shattered the divine ability and overwhelmed Heavenly Corpse's defense, but a voice declared that preparations had been made as lights converged on a figure.

Tu Shan Jun confronted the Spirit Devil Sect’s hidden survivor and High Person Heavenly Corpse, then opened the ancient bronze gate by throwing the recovered seal into it. With their cultivation suppressed inside the inheritance grounds, the two opponents prepared to challenge him, and Heavenly Corpse summoned the corpse fiend’s body.

• A man with a three-flower crown and five-qi robe revealed himself, and Tu Shan Jun recognized that he had been waiting for the seal and the inheritance gate.
• Tu Shan Jun revealed that he had taken the black seal from the Great Black Mountain Ghost King and threw it onto the ancient bronze gate, opening it.
• The group discovered that the gate’s formation suppressed High Person Heavenly Corpse’s cultivation, but Heavenly Corpse resolved to fight with the corpse fiend’s physical strength.
• Tu Shan Jun and the man attacked each other, and Tu Shan Jun struck the man down with a powerful blow.
• High Person Heavenly Corpse formed his hexagonal ancient treasure and summoned the corpse fiend’s tall, crimson-haired body.

Tu Shan Jun fought High Person Heavenly Corpse and his ancient treasure corpse, then recognized the headless corpse released from the bronze coffin as Third Tiger. He broke down in tears and condemned them for using the body to refine a corpse.

• High Person Heavenly Corpse summoned an ancient treasure corpse, and Forty-Nine urged him to release its restriction so it could fight by instinct.
• The ancient treasure corpse gained the upper hand against Tu Shan Jun until Tu Shan Jun drew a spirit treasure staff and smashed it apart.
• High Person Heavenly Corpse opened the bronze coffin, and its headless corpse flew out to shield him.
• Tu Shan Jun froze at the sight of the headless corpse, then wept and recognized it as Third Tiger.
• Tu Shan Jun asked how they dared use Third Tiger's body to refine a corpse.

Tu Shan Jun fought High Person Heavenly Corpse’s awakened Corpse Fiend while trying to protect the path to the inheritance ground. He discovered Three Tigers’s soul remained within the headless corpse, then summoned Wen Yue, whose voice stopped Three Tigers in his tracks.

• Tu Shan Jun nearly struck High Person Heavenly Corpse, but the Spirit Demon Sect man blocked the blow with his Feather Ascension Umbrella.
• High Person Heavenly Corpse fused the Corpse Fiend Talisman into the headless corpse and awakened it to attack Tu Shan Jun.
• Tu Shan Jun used Realm of No Light to discover that High Person Earth Corpse controlled Three Tigers’s body and that Three Tigers’s soul remained in the ghost hands.
• The Spirit Demon Sect man armored the headless corpse with his umbrella and urged High Person Heavenly Corpse to leave for the inheritance ground.
• Tu Shan Jun called to Three Tigers and briefly made the headless corpse pause, then shook his soul banner and summoned the white-haired figure of his disciple.
• The summoned figure said, “Three Tigers,” and the headless corpse stopped moving.

High Person Heavenly Corpse entered the inheritance ground, where Forty-Nine revealed that he had engineered the Spirit Devil Sect’s restoration to free his master. The awakened woman rejected his schemes and moved to possess True Person Falling Flame, but a powerful attack struck from behind.

• High Person Heavenly Corpse found his prayer mat lifeless, tried to seize another, and was stopped by a black devil guarding True Person Falling Flame.
• High Person Heavenly Corpse struck the woman on the remaining prayer mat, and she possessed his body as his Yin Spirit fled.
• Forty-Nine greeted his freed master and confessed that he had betrayed the Holy Spirit Sect, founded and destroyed other sects, and manipulated the restoration effort to bring her back.
• Forty-Nine claimed he had switched the key to the Central Origin Domain and urged his master not to waste her effort in the restricted inheritance ground.
• The woman attacked the black devil and approached True Person Falling Flame, but a powerful gale struck her from behind.

Tu Shan Jun confronted the woman possessing High Person Heavenly Corpse and watched Yama Float offer reincarnation to the inheritance’s next heir. The woman and Forty-Nine escaped with their own plans, while High Person Heavenly Corpse begged Yama Float to save him.

• Tu Shan Jun blocked the woman controlling High Person Heavenly Corpse and threatened her with his spirit treasure, while the refined corpse guarded him.
• The woman revealed the Spirit Devil Sect’s blood-jade gourd and urged Forty-Nine to take the seated inheritor’s body, but Forty-Nine refused to challenge Tu Shan Jun.
• Yama Float appeared and forced the woman to choose reincarnation, then gave Tu Shan Jun a twin-fish jade pendant to protect him as he recovered memories from his previous life.
• The woman sent the blood-jade gourd into Tu Shan Jun’s body before departing, and Forty-Nine left behind a jade slip and the Feathered Ascension Umbrella before escaping as Escape One.
• High Person Heavenly Corpse pleaded with Yama Float to save him and offered to reincarnate and cultivate anew.

Tu Shan Jun captured High Person Heavenly Corpse’s Yin Spirit, left the inheritance ground, and calmed himself after the vanished seal and the strain of the encounter unsettled him. He ended the formation in Sun City, where the escaped cultivators were restrained, then turned to refining the pavilion and preparing to make the Nascent Transformation Pill.

• High Person Heavenly Corpse surrendered a golden jade slip and the Ruler of Suppression to Tu Shan Jun, then Tu Shan Jun drew his Yin Spirit into the soul banner.
• Tu Shan Jun left the inheritance ground with the black ball demon, and the Black Mountain seal crumbled after the ancient bronze gate closed.
• Tu Shan Jun swept the chess pieces from the board, rejected the Emotion-Severing Art, and steadied himself with a visualization method.
• Tu Shan Jun undid the Treasure Gathering Pavilion’s great formation, releasing the cultivators inside.
• True Person Purple Sun activated the air-forbidding formation, and the garrison restrained and treated the fleeing cultivators.
• Tu Shan Jun left the aftermath to True Person Purple Sun and planned to refine the formation, collect the Yin Spirits, and prepare the Nascent Transformation Pill.

Tu Shan Jun gathered the spoils of the battle, examined the Corpse Demon Sect inheritance and the mysterious blood-jade gourd, then set out to take Sanhu back to Little Spirit Province. In Great Liang, Young Master Wen learned that the family’s old ancestor had returned and was speaking with his grandfather.

• Tu Shan Jun added the fallen cultivators’ Yin Spirits to his soul banner and arranged for two righteous Golden Core Yin Spirits to be returned to their sects in exchange for evil ghosts.
• Tu Shan Jun put away Du Yi’s divine ability jade slip and examined the Corpse Demon Sect’s inheritance, but found its corpse-refining arts useless to him and could not safely free Sanhu’s soul.
• Tu Shan Jun refined the blood-jade gourd enough to produce a drop of crimson spiritual fluid, but could not decipher its inscriptions and remembered the name Yuan Saint Spirit Demon.
• After assessing his remaining mana, Tu Shan Jun decided to fly back to Little Spirit Province with Sanhu.
• In Great Liang, guards dragged Young Master Wen away from a pleasure barge and brought him home after his father summoned him.
• Young Master Wen learned that the family’s old ancestor had returned and was speaking in his grandfather’s study.

Wen Peng returned to the Wen-Song Ducal Estate and told Wen Hu that he planned to leave Spirit Prefecture to pursue a higher realm. After Wen Peng visited his parents' grave, Tu Shan Jun secretly gave him a true-method inheritance, Golden Core resources, and Third Tiger to protect him.

• Wen Peng told Wen Hu that his cultivation had reached late Foundation Establishment and that he intended to leave for a place where he could advance further.
• The Wen and Song family heads arrived to pay their respects to Wen Peng, while Tu Shan Jun and Third Tiger remained in the study without revealing themselves to the family.
• Wen Peng left without meeting his other relatives, and Tu Shan Jun departed with Third Tiger after seeing the estate had changed.
• Wen Peng performed rites at the shared grave of Wen Yue and his wife, then heard an unseen cultivator say he lacked opportunity and resources.
• The mysterious cultivator left Wen Peng a storage pouch, a golden jade slip containing a true-method inheritance, resources for forming a Golden Core, and Third Tiger as protection.
• Wen Peng called after the vanished senior, then opened the pouch and was stunned by what it contained.

Wen Peng discovered a store of Yin Soul Pills and Spirit Stones and suspected that the mysterious Teacher in his father’s records had left them. Tu Shan Jun prepared to refine a Nascent Transformation Pill, but after forty-nine days the furnace began to make a dangerous sound.

• Wen Peng found crates of Yin Soul Pills and hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones, then compared them with his father’s inheritance records about a mysterious Teacher.
• Tu Shan Jun watched over Wen Peng, extracted Sanhu’s yin god into a soul banner, and left for Great Liang’s Attendant Tower.
• Tu Shan Jun returned to the alchemy pavilion, unsealed the Dragon Roar, Tiger Howl Cauldron, and awakened the solar-flame earthfire beneath Sun City.
• Tu Shan Jun spent forty-nine days refining the Nascent Transformation Pill with rare materials and thousands of spells and seals.
• Tu Shan Jun heard the pill furnace hum abnormally and realized it was about to explode.

Tu Shan Jun discovered that someone had sabotaged the mysterious yellow dragon and tiger qi, ruining the first batch of pills intended to help True Person Meteor Flame form a Nascent Soul. As Meteor Flame emerged from seclusion and his disciples waited anxiously, Tu Shan Jun devised a new method and began refining the final batch.

• Tu Shan Jun found the dragon and tiger qi fighting inside the pill furnace, removed it, and stored the cracked, wasted pill.
• Tu Shan Jun checked the furnace for further tampering, then hesitated over using the last batch of ingredients without the qi that had increased the pill-forming chances.
• Zi Shaoqing and Zi Shaoyan urged True Person Ziyang to open the formation, but he ordered them not to interfere with Tu Shan Jun's pill refinement.
• True Person Meteor Flame emerged after completing his inheritance, reassured his disciples, and chose to trust Tu Shan Jun.
• After two months of thought, Tu Shan Jun began refining again with a new method, summoning ten Golden Core Ghost Kings to help lock down the pill cauldron.

Tu Shan Jun refined a spiritual Dragon-Pattern Nascent Transformation Pill with the aid of the Soul Banner’s ghost kings, then prepared to give it to True Person Fallen Flame. Before he could reveal the pill, a powerful golden warship arrived over Sun City and its immense divine consciousness locked onto them.

• Tu Shan Jun used ten ghost kings and Yin Soul Pill essence to replace the missing Mysterious Yellow Dragon-Tiger Qi and refine the pill.
• The Dragon-Pattern Nascent Transformation Pill developed spirituality and a black dragon phantom, but Tu Shan Jun sealed its pill marks before the ninth could fully form and suppressed the phantom.
• Tu Shan Jun sealed the finished pill in a black jade box and stored it, then dismantled the formations concealing his pill-refining work.
• True Person Fallen Flame approached and said he had nearly finished copying portions of a great power’s inheritance.
• A golden warship bearing the Heavenly Yang Fire Phoenix Banner arrived above Sun City, and Tu Shan Jun sensed a Venerable’s immense divine consciousness locking onto them.