Chapter Summaries

The Firecloud Sect moved to take over Red Mountain’s defenses ahead of Venerable Burning Heaven’s arrival, while Venerable Drooping Clouds and the flood dragon clan’s ancestor prepared to exploit the conflict to attack the Thousand Plains Domain. Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun discussed the risks, then joined the Crystal Palace’s masked force as it departed beneath the domain barrier.

• A Firecloud Sect cultivator told Red Mountain’s garrison commander that his sect would take over the defenses and redeploy the fleet, and the commander sent the news to his sect.
• Venerable Drooping Clouds confirmed that Venerable Burning Heaven would come to the Thousand Souls Sea, while the flood dragon clan’s ancestor declared his intent to bring down the Firecloud Sect before his lifespan ran out.
• Ao Ang worried over the flood dragon clan’s weakening position, and Tu Shan Jun examined Taiyi after he coughed and found no illness or hidden problem.
• Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun discussed why Venerable Burning Heaven might enter a trap, and Taiyi said they would prepare to intercept Nascent Soul True Lords of the Thousand Plains Domain.
• Three months later, Taiyi and the other cultivators put on robes and masks supplied by Venerable Drooping Clouds and departed aboard the Crystal Palace.
• The Crystal Palace plunged through a vortex and began traveling beneath the domain barrier.

Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun broke Red Mountain’s grand formation and replaced its central hub with a dragon-imprisoning formation, while Burning Heaven Venerable faced a betrayal-backed attack from three Venerables. The chapter ended with Taiyi blocking a Nascent Soul cultivator from advancing.

• A Red Luan Sect disciple killed a caravan leader who challenged the sealed pass, and a Golden Core cultivator warned his companions that Red Mountain’s formation made forcing passage too dangerous.
• Taiyi watched Red Mountain’s grand formation collapse, then used a dragon-imprisoning pillar to establish the tenth central hub of the Dragon-Imprisoning God-Locking Grand Formation.
• Tu Shan Jun warned Taiyi that traitors within could cripple a formation, and Taiyi agreed that their sect should strengthen its purge of internal traitors.
• Five Viscera Venerable, Cloud-Drooping Venerable, and the Dragon King confronted Burning Heaven Venerable and demanded Thousand Plains Domain, revealing that insiders had taken over the grand formation.
• Fire Phoenix Venerable joined Burning Heaven Venerable, turning the confrontation into a three-against-two standoff.
• Taiyi stopped a Nascent Soul cultivator with sword qi and declared that he would not be allowed to pass.

Taiyi guarded the formation’s stone platform and fought True Lord Scarlet Fire and True Lord Honghu when they tried to break through. He drove both Nascent Soul cultivators away, then returned to the platform to recover his mana.

• Taiyi remained at the stone platform as True Lord Scarlet Fire and True Lord Honghu demanded passage and prepared to break the formation.
• Scarlet Fire attacked Taiyi with a fire formation, while Honghu sent sword feathers at him, but Taiyi’s armor and astral qi withstood their attacks.
• Taiyi charged Scarlet Fire with his heavy sword as Honghu attacked from behind with a dagger empowered by Sharp Metal True Intent.
• Taiyi’s puppet body seized both opponents’ weapons, struck Scarlet Fire, and broke Honghu’s arm with a counterattack.
• Scarlet Fire and Honghu fled, and Taiyi returned to the platform and swallowed pills to restore his mana.

Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi let Crimson Fire and Honghu escape to avoid exposing their sect, while Taiyi weighed the political risks surrounding the battle at Red Mountain. Crimson Fire brought the injured Honghu to his allies, and True Lord Kuiye recognized the lingering attack as powerful yin lightning as Firecloud Sect forces mobilized.

• True Lord Taiyi explained that killing the retreating Crimson Fire and Honghu would expose the sect and provoke other powers, so he chose to preserve room for negotiation.
• Crimson Fire and Honghu discussed the masked opponent's strength, and Crimson Fire tried to remove the yin-baleful energy eroding Honghu's body.
• Crimson Fire carried Honghu toward Dushan Prefecture to find his senior brother and gather reinforcements.
• The old man at Dushan Prefecture, True Lord Kuiye, mobilized Firecloud Sect forces and examined Honghu's black palm print.
• True Lord Kuiye identified the lingering attack as yin lightning, expelled its residue, and warned the others not to provoke the opponent for now.

True Lord Taiyi waited as the Dragon-Imprisoning God-Locking Grand Formation fell, then entered the dangerous Star Abyss ruins instead of fleeing with the other cultivators. He said he needed to personally confirm something, while Tu Shan Jun reluctantly agreed to follow him.

• Chen Danming discovered that several cultivators, including a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator and a fleet of giant warships, were bearing down on his formation.
• Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun judged that the formation would break in two hours and chose to wait for an opportunity rather than reinforce the battle.
• After two hours, the inner formation broke, and the black-iron-masked cultivators fled, fought, or plunged into the Star Abyss ruins.
• Tu Shan Jun urged Taiyi to escape, but Taiyi insisted he had something to confirm and flew into the ruins.

Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun ambushed and killed Ge Tianyue, True Lord Bearer of Mountains, before escaping into the Star Abyss Ruins. Firecloud Sect reinforcements rushed to support their Patriarch, while Venerable Drooping Clouds prepared to pursue Old Monster He with Fellow Daoist Five Viscera.

• Ge Tianyue intercepted Taiyi and demanded his storage ring and protective spirit treasure, so Taiyi attacked him.
• Tu Shan Jun’s ghostly hand crushed Ge Tianyue’s head and trapped his Nascent Soul and Yin Spirit, which the Soul Banner absorbed.
• Taiyi looted Ge Tianyue’s belongings, erased traces of the battle, and hurried toward the ruins rather than wait for reinforcements.
• Firecloud Sect cultivators found Ge Tianyue dead and hurried toward the depths of the Star Abyss Ruins to support the Patriarch.
• Venerable Drooping Clouds told the injured old Dragon King to recover while he and Fellow Daoist Five Viscera pursued Old Monster He.

Burning Heaven Venerable and his allies converged on the medicinal valley in the Star Abyss ruins, while Firecloud Sect cultivators gathered to support their Patriarch. Taiyi reached the wounded one-horned Venerable and attacked him by surprise.

• Old Monster He carried Fire Phoenix Venerable into the medicinal valley, where Burning Heaven Venerable spotted the Nine Illumination Divine Spirit Flower and encountered Drooping Cloud Venerable.
• Five Viscera Venerable and Drooping Cloud Venerable discussed their allies, including Fuyao Venerable, as they prepared to confront Burning Heaven Venerable.
• Kuiye True Lord learned that Burning Heaven Venerable was in the depths of the ruins and waited for more Firecloud Sect cultivators to assemble.
• Taiyi met Crimson Fire and his senior brother, who withdrew after realizing the masked cultivator might be far more powerful than he appeared.
• Kuiye led ten Firecloud Sect cultivators into the ruins to aid their Patriarch, and Taiyi approached the wounded one-horned Venerable while claiming to be a survivor from Taiyi Sect.
• Taiyi attacked the one-horned Venerable with his heavy sword and a blue-white palm strike, provoking the Venerable's fury.

Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun committed to killing the wounded dragon clan ancestor before he could threaten Taiyi Sect. Taiyi’s defenses and puppet failed to stop the Venerable, but Tu Shan Jun emerged from the soul banner and struck him with Soul Devour and True Intent, sending him flying.

• Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun decided they could not let the dragon clan ancestor leave alive, since he planned to destroy Taiyi Sect and other powers.
• Taiyi summoned a Heavenly Mechanism Puppet, equipped it with his armor and greatsword, and sent it against the dragon clan ancestor while Tu Shan Jun waited.
• The dragon clan ancestor broke the puppet with two punches, then seized its greatsword and attacked Taiyi at close range.
• Taiyi’s Heavenly Baleful True Spirit Aura was torn apart, but his Three Flowers Crown shattered a pearl and saved his life as the ancestor’s sword shortened and missed him.
• Tu Shan Jun emerged from the soul banner and struck the dragon clan ancestor in the chest with Soul Devour and True Intent, breaking through his protective aura and hurling him backward.

Tu Shan Jun protected True Lord Taiyi from the Flood Dragon Patriarch and used his domain and shrine technique to cripple the Venerable’s hand. As the Flood Dragon Patriarch unleashed a divine ability that threatened to shatter the domain, Tu Shan Jun stabilized it with the Soul Banner, and True Lord Taiyi took command of the assembled formation.

• Tu Shan Jun stopped the Flood Dragon Patriarch from attacking True Lord Taiyi and opened his Divine Spirit Bright Death Realm domain.
• The Flood Dragon Patriarch tried to turn Tu Shan Jun against True Lord Taiyi, but Tu Shan Jun affirmed his trust in his senior brother and began activating the shrine technique.
• Tu Shan Jun’s black-red threads destroyed the Flood Dragon Patriarch’s left palm, forcing the Venerable to sever his own wrist to escape their grasp.
• The Flood Dragon Patriarch used Turning Rivers and Overturning Seas, shaking Tu Shan Jun’s domain, but Tu Shan Jun stabilized it with the Soul Banner and gathered the Yin Spirits into a great formation.
• True Lord Taiyi entered the formation, raised the Soul Banner, and took command of the Ten Direction Ghost Kings and the million Yin spirits.

Taiyi used the Soul Banner and its grand formation to battle the gravely wounded Flood Dragon Patriarch, who revealed a powerful Dao Soldier Dragon Pearl. The Patriarch broke through the formation’s attacks and appeared before Taiyi, launching the Dragon Pearl at him.

• Taiyi revealed the Soul Banner’s full formation, and the Flood Dragon Patriarch recognized Tu Shan Jun as an intelligent artifact spirit.
• The Flood Dragon Patriarch summoned a river of water and used his Dao Soldier Dragon Pearl to suppress the formation.
• Taiyi deployed Yin wind, Yin fire, Yin thunder, and the Five Decays banners to injure and weaken the Patriarch.
• Taiyi poured liquor over the Soul Banner and sent Bearing Mountain to hurl it at the Patriarch.
• The Flood Dragon Patriarch used the Dragon Pearl to withstand the attack, crossed the Dharma domain, and launched the Dragon Pearl at Taiyi.

Tu Shan Jun burned his soul and fell into madness to hold off the Flood Dragon Patriarch while Taiyi prepared the Taiyi Divine Firmament Demon-Subduing Talisman. Tu Shan Jun used the soul banner to sever the Patriarch from heaven and earth and suppress him, but the Patriarch shattered Tu Shan Jun’s head; the chapter ended with the Patriarch’s body pinned by black-red threads and most of his Yin God escaping.

• Tu Shan Jun used Endure Death and burned his Yin God to fight the Flood Dragon Patriarch while Taiyi prepared the sect’s final talisman.
• Taiyi crushed his gourd and revealed the Taiyi Divine Firmament Demon-Subduing Talisman, but Tu Shan Jun stopped him from using it.
• Tu Shan Jun burned his Nascent Soul and wielded the soul banner marked ‘Sever,’ cutting the Flood Dragon Patriarch off from heaven and earth.
• Tu Shan Jun summoned the nine shrines and used black-red threads and blood to suppress the Flood Dragon Patriarch.
• The Flood Dragon Patriarch struck Tu Shan Jun’s head apart, but Tu Shan Jun’s headless body pinned him to the river of blood as most of his Yin God escaped.

Tu Shan Jun and Taiyi defeated the East Sea dragon ancestor, but Tu Shan Jun vanished into the Soul Banner after using No Shore, Return to the Ruins. Taiyi could not sense him and resolved to seek Baleful Intent and Yin Spirits to restore him before returning to the sect.

• The dragon ancestor abandoned his body and tried to escape with his divine soul, but Tu Shan Jun and Taiyi trapped him beneath the shrines and Soul Banner.
• The dragon ancestor tried to unleash a true dragon's reverse scale, but Tu Shan Jun's blood-jade gourd swallowed its heavenly light.
• Tu Shan Jun used No Shore, Return to the Ruins, compressing the formation and dragon ancestor into a black orb before his own body dissolved into Baleful Intent and replenished the Soul Banner.
• Taiyi collected the dragon corpse, dragon pearl, and broken scale, then discovered that Tu Shan Jun's Main Soul was unreachable and the Soul Banner had lost its power.
• Taiyi reasoned that Baleful Intent and Yin Spirits might restore Tu Shan Jun, recovered his strength, and decided to leave Red Mountain and return to the sect.

Twelve years after the Battle of Red Mountain, Hu Qi returned to the Taiyi Sect after hunting ghosts, while the sect continued to grow under Taiyi’s leadership. Taiyi’s Soul Banner gathered strength, and Tu Shan Jun finally appeared before the exhausted Spirit Transformation Venerable who had been trapped and fighting for twelve years.

• Wu Daofu received an inspection from a Taiyi Sect cultivator, along with a sealed letter from an unknown fellow sect member.
• Hu Qi captured a gray-robed cultivator’s soul after defeating him, then rode back to the sect with the ghosts he had collected.
• Hu Qi sold his Yin souls for Spirit Stones and contribution points, bought pills, and paid to have his flying sword repaired.
• Taiyi added newly collected Yin souls to the Soul Banner and reflected on how the Taiyi Sect had flourished during Tu Shan Jun’s absence.
• A Spirit Transformation Venerable, exhausted after twelve years of fighting Yin gods, heard Tu Shan Jun ask if he had been looking for him.

Tu Shan Jun kept the Lord of the Eastern Sea imprisoned inside Shoreless Return to Ruin while the two discussed the fragmentary realm, their fading lives, and the flood dragon clan. After twelve years, Tu Shan Jun agreed it was time to leave, but the Lord of the Eastern Sea remained trapped and powerless.

• Tu Shan Jun spoke with the Lord of the Eastern Sea, who recognized that Tu Shan Jun had burned his divine soul and marveled that he was still alive.
• Tu Shan Jun showed the Lord of the Eastern Sea Shoreless Return to Ruin, and the old cultivator identified it as an incomplete fragment eroded by baleful qi.
• Tu Shan Jun brought the empty city to life, and the Lord of the Eastern Sea recalled how his clan rose after he obtained part of a true dragon's corpse and how he eventually outlived everyone close to him.
• Tu Shan Jun said he had not underestimated the Lord of the Eastern Sea and calculated that twelve years had passed.
• The Lord of the Eastern Sea urged Tu Shan Jun to leave, and Tu Shan Jun agreed before departing and leaving him alone in the city without mana.

The Flood Dragon Clan debated how to find its missing Patriarch while preserving its strength, and the devil at Taiyi Sect decided to flee after concluding Tu Shan Jun was likely lost. Tu Shan Jun emerged from seclusion just as the devil faced off against the sect’s puppet guardian, leaving the devil captured and Zhou Xinglie reunited with his master.

• The Flood Dragon Clan elders discussed the Patriarch’s disappearance, weighed secretly questioning cultivators who had entered the Star Abyss ruins, and agreed to keep searching while strengthening the clan.
• The devil concluded that Tu Shan Jun had run into trouble and tried to leave Taiyi Sect while True Lord Taiyi was away at the Artifact Alliance summit.
• An elder puppet used the bone-white ring’s activation incantation to prevent the devil from leaving, and Zhou Xinglie arrived seeking news of his master.
• Tu Shan Jun emerged from seclusion, seized the devil, and threatened to break its legs if it tried to run again.
• Zhou Xinglie joyfully greeted Tu Shan Jun, who asked the elder puppet where the Sect Master had gone.

After emerging from seclusion, Tu Shan Jun reunited with his disciples, assessed their cultivation, and lectured them on the Golden Core Great Dao. He sent Zhou Xinglie away with advice about his marriage, then ordered the devil to investigate Zhou Xinglie’s wife and her family.

• Tu Shan Jun subdued the devil again, extracted its souls, and sent it back into the Ghost King Hall while the puppet elder left to resume guarding the sect.
• Tu Shan Jun questioned Zhou Xinglie about his slow cultivation and studies, then welcomed Wu Daoxian and praised his progress balancing yin and yang.
• Tu Shan Jun gave both disciples storage pouches and lectured them on cultivation, beginning with the Hundred-Day Foundation Establishment and the Golden Core Great Dao.
• Wu Daoxian returned to Ghost Peak to digest the guidance, while Tu Shan Jun asked Zhou Xinglie about his marriage to Fang Yingxue of the Hehuan Sect.
• After Zhou Xinglie left, Tu Shan Jun ordered the devil to investigate the Fang family and how Fang Yingxue had met his disciple.

Tu Shan Jun woke after the destruction of his Yin Spirit Nascent Soul and Soul Banner, while Taiyi hurried back to the sect after negotiations and a meeting with the East Sea dragon clan. The chapter ended with Taiyi welcoming his long-missing Junior Brother back.

• Tu Shan Jun reflected that, with the banner master absent, he had no one to rely on besides demons.
• True Lord Taiyi clashed with the Artifact Alliance, Pill Alliance, and Yuan Dao Alliance over market shares, diagrams, and high-grade Yin Spirits, then left after sensing a fluctuation.
• Ao Shuang of the East Sea dragon clan asked Taiyi about the Star Abyss Ruins and the Dragon-Eyed Hongbao Pill, and Taiyi gave a guarded account of his escape.
• Taiyi returned to the sect, where he discovered that Tu Shan Jun had awakened.
• Taiyi welcomed Tu Shan Jun back as his Junior Brother.

Taiyi recounted how the sect had grown during Tu Shan Jun’s twelve-year slumber and asked him to help replenish its depleted pill stores. Their discussion of trade and the sect’s political dangers ended with Taiyi revealing that the Dragon Ancestor might still be alive or that others were seeking his inheritance.

• Taiyi explained that the sect had begun accepting deceased disciples’ Yin souls into the Soul Banner, and Tu Shan Jun agreed to respect their choices and ensure they were compensated properly.
• Taiyi told Tu Shan Jun that the sect’s pills were nearly depleted after rapid growth, and described its new disciples, cultivators, settlement, and commercial expansion.
• Tu Shan Jun warned Taiyi that selling the internal combustion pill furnace and flooding the market with pills could provoke powerful factions, and Taiyi said the furnace’s blueprint had to be sold because it had already been revealed.
• Taiyi explained that Golden Ao Palace had grown stronger than Taiyi Sect and had absorbed cultivators who resented them, including Nascent Soul cultivator Sikong Xingye.
• Tu Shan Jun urged Taiyi to kill Sikong Xingye, but Taiyi refused because Sikong had shown no hostility and an attack would undermine their alliance.
• Taiyi told Tu Shan Jun that the Dragon Ancestor might not be dead and that cultivators had been investigating Red Mountain and asking about its Star Abyss.

Tu Shan Jun and Lord East Sea discussed the Soul Banner’s yin-soul city and the East Sea’s interest in its captured ancestor, while rival powers maneuvered around Taiyi Sect’s rising strength. Zhou Xinglie returned to Yunjing City to bring his wife Fang Yingxue to meet his master, who had emerged from seclusion.

• Tu Shan Jun told Taiyi that Lord East Sea had warned him the East Sea might be searching for its ancestor, and confirmed that his true body still guarded the sect’s grand formation.
• Lord East Sea examined the repeating city of yin souls, learned how their consciousnesses were renewed, and proposed an alliance with Taiyi Sect in exchange for his release.
• True Lord Golden Ao planned to exploit Tu Shan Jun’s seclusion, copy Taiyi Sect’s artifact methods, and use Sikong Xingye to strengthen Golden Ao Palace.
• Sikong Xingye and True Person Chimei reflected on their lost chance to claim Pengyuan and their dependence on Golden Ao Palace’s favor.
• Zhou Xinglie traveled to Yunjing City, found that Fang Yingxue had arrived safely, and told her his master wanted to meet her.

Tu Shan Jun accepted Wu Daoxian as his final disciple, gave him the courtesy name Wu Rong, and taught him the Dao of Fate and ghostly arts. Wu Rong returned to Ghost Peak, where a letter invited him to explore a secret realm, while Tu Shan Jun investigated his disciple’s wife; the chapter ended as Fang Yingxue looked toward Tu Shan Jun at a family banquet.

• Wu Daoxian told Tu Shan Jun he had comprehended the scripture’s final riddle, and Tu Shan Jun gave him the courtesy name Wu Rong.
• Tu Shan Jun explained Wu Rong’s weak constitution and taught him the Dao of Fate and several ghostly arts.
• Tu Shan Jun warned Wu Rong against evil deeds and asked whether he would seek a core-forming treasure in eight years or compete for one himself.
• Wu Rong returned to Ghost Peak and found a letter from Yu Long inviting him to explore a secret realm.
• Tu Shan Jun read the devil head’s report about Wu Rong’s wife, Fang Yingxue, while she attended a family banquet with Zhou Xinglie and met Tu Shan Jun.