Chapter Summaries

Tu Shan Jun reached the peak of True Lord, while Qi Yuan and the Yuan Dao Alliance concluded an alliance with Taiyi and blamed the attacks on the Hehuan Sect. The chapter ended with Zhuxi ordering his sect to prepare for war and calling on the Beast Taming Sect.

• Tu Shan Jun comprehended how his power drew on heaven and earth after reaching the peak of True Lord.
• Zhu Xianzong recounted Chen Danming’s death to Qi Yuan and suspected that Taiyi had orchestrated the trap, but Qi Yuan said Black Rhino True Lord had also been killed and ruled out Taiyi’s involvement.
• The Yuan Dao Alliance agreed to ally with Taiyi, and Taiyi offered to help build giant warships and supply the alliance at low prices.
• At a farewell banquet, Qi Zhenzhen told Tu Shan Jun that she was Qi Yuan’s daughter and tried to get close to him, but he pushed her away.
• Zhuxi learned that the Hehuan Sect was being blamed for the deaths and attacks, then ordered an investigation, gathered his disciples, and prepared for war.
• Zhuxi reached out to the Beast Taming Sect for support.

Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun discussed Beastmaster Sect’s secret art and the limits of parent sects’ involvement in branch sect conflicts. As Hehuan Sect prepared for war, Ji Gang received a conscription order, while Zhou Xinglie left for Qianyuan’s Great Central City.

• Taiyi explained that Beastmaster Sect’s secret art let cultivators and spirit beasts share talents and cultivate more efficiently, and he and Tu Shan Jun discussed whether the sect would join the conflict.
• At Mount Mingliang, Senior Brother Chun delivered the parent sect’s order requiring Golden Core and higher Hehuan Sect disciples to join the war, and Ji Gang accepted it despite fearing the danger.
• Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun returned from Tianyuan City to their sect after settling the broad outline of their alliance, leaving detailed negotiations for later.
• Tu Shan Jun learned that most of the returning Foundation Establishment cultivators had advanced, though one had died during the breakthrough.
• Zhou Xinglie asked whether one could attain immortality, then left with his wife for Qianyuan’s Great Central City, and Tu Shan Jun watched their spirit vessel depart.

While refining pills, Tu Shan Jun explored how his peak True Lord realm let him perceive and improve spells, then questioned the essence of his Soul Devouring Dao. After enduring the backlash and reaffirming his understanding, he considered melting the Dao Artifact Dragon Pearl into the Soul Banner to prepare for the Spirit Transformation tribulation.

• Tu Shan Jun found that his peak True Lord realm helped him refine pill techniques and sense how spells and hand seals could be improved.
• Tu Shan Jun examined how true intent manifested through a vessel and questioned whether his Soul Devouring Fist expressed his own obsession or the shared cry of the yin souls.
• Tu Shan Jun’s body cracked and shattered as he confronted the plundering nature of Soul Devouring, then calmly gathered and restored the fragments.
• Taiyi warned Tu Shan Jun not to forget his original aspiration, and Tu Shan Jun agreed that understanding true intent could help him wield it more effectively.
• Tu Shan Jun asked whether he could melt the Dao Artifact Dragon Pearl into the Soul Banner to strengthen it before the Spirit Transformation tribulation, and Taiyi considered the proposal.

Tu Shan Jun asked Taiyi and Lord East Sea about turning the Soul Banner into a dao armament, but learned that the process would take years and require expertise in Dao. Lord East Sea offered to help if Tu Shan Jun returned the dragon scales, leaving Tu Shan Jun to consider what the scales were worth to him.

• Taiyi rejected the idea of elevating the Soul Banner into a dao armament because he lacked the skill and the refinement could keep Tu Shan Jun from the coming war.
• Taiyi advised Tu Shan Jun to focus on completing the ten Nascent Soul Ghost Kings and sent him to ask Lord East Sea for guidance.
• Lord East Sea explained that artifact-spirit treasures were coveted because some believed they carried Dao or the secret of immortality.
• Lord East Sea told Tu Shan Jun that his dragon-pearl dao armament contained the Dao of bloodline and had taken nine years to refine.
• Lord East Sea offered to help Tu Shan Jun if he returned the dragon scales, then asked what use Tu Shan Jun had for them.

Tu Shan Jun admitted that he was afraid, then left the East Sea Lord in a false city with the question of what he was guarding. Meanwhile, the Beast Taming Sect weighed the shifting alliances around Taiyi and considered convening a Star Luo Assembly, while the Heavenly Roc and Kun Cloud Sects remained cautious as their Patriarchs recovered.

• Tu Shan Jun told the East Sea Lord that fear had shown him he had not lost unjustly, then said he could not soften because no one else would take his place.
• Tu Shan Jun walked into the sunlight and vanished, leaving the East Sea Lord to reflect on the city's unreality and pity him for guarding it.
• Illusory Spirit True Lord instructed the Beast Taming Sect to proceed cautiously as it assessed Taiyi's alliances and the deaths of Black Rhinoceros and Chen Danming.
• Yang Puxu proposed that the Beast Taming Sect convene a Star Luo Assembly to express its intentions, weaken Taiyi's alliances, and lure out the person behind the assassination attempt.
• Illusory Spirit True Lord argued that the Beast Taming Sect should prioritize gaining benefits at the lowest cost rather than simply uniting against outsiders.
• Heavenly Roc Sect cultivators learned that their Patriarch remained in seclusion, while the Heavenly Roc and Kun Cloud Sects stayed quiet and the East Sea had also settled down.

Taiyi and the Hehuan Sect prepared for war after the Hehuan Sect rejected peace negotiations and mobilized its fleet against Qianyuan. The Hehuan army headed for the Central City, where Taiyi and Tu Shan Jun prepared the defenses and accepted that their disciples would fight alongside them.

• Taiyi crushed the Beast Taming Sect's invitation, while Great True Lord Zhuxi condemned the peace effort and resolved that the Hehuan Sect would attack the Taiyi Sect.
• Great True Lord Zhuxi ordered the Hehuan Sect to assemble its fleet and army, leaving True Lord Yincha and two others to guard the sect.
• A year and a half later, the Hehuan Sect's enormous fleet appeared near its outpost and traveled through the domain ramparts toward Qianyuan.
• Taiyi learned that the Hehuan Sect's target was the Central City and discussed intercepting its ships with Tu Shan Jun, who could not discover their secret route.
• Taiyi worried that Zhou Xinglie and Wu Rong had joined the defense, but accepted Tu Shan Jun's view that every disciple had to contribute and that they would fight together.

Wu Rong confronted the Wu Patriarch and Wu Yunxu, agreeing to lead the Wu Lineage in the coming war rather than let it flee. As Wu Rong and Yu Long worked at Taiyi Hall, Hehuan Sect arrived near Qianyuan and declared war on Taiyi Sect.

• Wu Rong told the Wu Patriarch and Wu Yunxu that the Wu Lineage should fight for Taiyi Sect and earn merit, then warned he would personally stop them if they tried to defect.
• The Wu Patriarch accepted Wu Rong's leadership and placed the Wu Lineage's future in his hands, while telling him not to die.
• Wu Rong returned to Taiyi Hall, where Zhang Dezi ordered him to make up the work he had missed, and he argued with Yu Long about not covering for him.
• A tremor shook Taiyi Hall as a vast fleet and beast horde appeared in the skies near Qianyuan.
• Hehuan Sect demanded Taiyi Sect surrender, and Taiyi answered by destroying its phantom envoy with sword qi.

The Hehuan Sect encircled Great Central City and sent True Lord Linzhao to challenge the Taiyi Sect’s ancestor. Tu Shan Jun accepted the challenge and walked out to face him as Taiyi invited the gathered leaders to watch.

• The Hehuan Sect's Grand Elder ordered its forces to blockade Great Central City and sent True Lord Linzhao to test the Taiyi Sect.
• Taiyi ordered the city’s defenders and affiliates to carry out their assigned plans as the Hehuan Sect arrived.
• Ouyang Yu and the Wu Clan's old ancestor recognized Tu Shan Jun as the Taiyi Sect’s powerful ghost-cultivator backer.
• True Lord Linzhao challenged Tu Shan Jun outside the city, calling him out by name.
• Tu Shan Jun rose and left the hall to answer the challenge, while Taiyi invited everyone to watch.

Tu Shan Jun fought True Lord Linzhao before the Hehuan Sect's army, overpowering him despite Linzhao's desire-based divine ability. As Tu Shan Jun moved to finish the badly wounded Linzhao, a whip and a beast claw struck from the flanks and a golden melon hammer descended, revealing that the Beast Taming Sect had joined the battle.

• True Lord Linzhao attacked Dacheng City's formation, but Tu Shan Jun deflected his golden-wheel shuttle and challenged the Hehuan Sect's justification for its invasion.
• Tu Shan Jun struck True Lord Linzhao with his spiked mace and blasted him away, alarming the Hehuan Sect's elders watching from the Hall of Joy.
• True Lord Linzhao used the Way of the Lust Maiden to slow Tu Shan Jun, while Taiyi and the Taiyi Sect's allies watched anxiously.
• Tu Shan Jun suddenly appeared before True Lord Linzhao, shattered his body-guarding qi with one punch, and nearly finished him.
• A long whip, a scaled beast claw, and a golden melon hammer attacked Tu Shan Jun together, forcing him to retreat and allowing True Lord Linzhao to recover from his severe wound.
• A Beast Taming Sect cultivator acknowledged Tu Shan Jun as a peak Grand True Lord and thanked his ally for intervening.

Tu Shan Jun revealed himself as a peak Great True Lord and faced the Hehuan Sect’s Grand Elder Miaohe and the Beast King in battle. After Tu Shan Jun charged at Miaohe, the Beast King joined the attack from above while Miaohe and the beast struck at him from the sides.

• The onlookers realized Tu Shan Jun had not been hindered by the earlier attack, while Ouyang Yu worried that the Taiyi Sect lacked the strength to support him.
• Tu Shan Jun rejected Miaohe’s accusations and accepted the fight, while the Beast King remarked on his rapid cultivation and proposed studying its secret.
• The Beast King and Miaohe agreed to attack Tu Shan Jun together, and Tu Shan Jun formed a war hammer from the Soul Banner’s skull fiend.
• Tu Shan Jun charged Miaohe and struck through his protective aura, forcing Miaohe to brace against the attack.
• The Beast King descended from above as Miaohe and the beast attacked Tu Shan Jun from opposite sides.

Tu Shan Jun fought the Beast King, Miaohé, and the tiger-serpent beast, using the Spirit-Devouring True Intent to turn the Beast King's insects into nourishment. The attackers trapped him with layered true intent abilities and prepared a coordinated strike from two giant warships, leaving the battle poised to end in his death.

• Tu Shan Jun dropped his protective astral qi after the Spirit-Devouring True Red Ants began consuming it, then broke free of the attackers’ encirclement as the ants bit into him.
• Tu Shan Jun swallowed the ants and used the Soul-Devouring True Intent to absorb their remains, healing himself and causing the Beast King to feel their deaths through his divine sense.
• The Beast King ordered the insects to self-destruct, but Tu Shan Jun emerged from the blast and attacked him with the Soul-Devouring True Intent and Heaven and Earth Reversal.
• The Beast King and the tiger-serpent suppressed Tu Shan Jun with overlapping true intent abilities, while Miaohé pinned him with the Great Dao Heartstrings.
• Two giant warships targeted Tu Shan Jun with charged spells as the Beast King and Miaohé revealed their plan to trap and kill him.

Tu Shan Jun was bound by the Beast King and Miaohe as Tai Yi held back from intervening and Qi Yuan led the Yuan Dao Alliance toward Great Central City. As Tu Shan Jun struggled against their restraints, Miaohe's search for romantic attachments left him distracted, giving Tu Shan Jun a chance to break free.

• The Beast King used a drowning current and a Beast-Trapping Rope to bind Tu Shan Jun while Miaohe’s true-intent threads closed around him.
• Tai Yi prepared his warship and Dao-protecting puppets but held back after Tu Shan Jun signaled him not to act.
• Qi Yuan dismissed the Yuan Dao Alliance leaders’ doubts and ordered the fleet to advance at full speed toward Great Central City.
• Tu Shan Jun sent the Soul Banner back to Great Central City, leaving Miaohe and the Beast King wary of his calm and unknown defenses.
• Tu Shan Jun strained against the Beast-Trapping Rope, and Miaohe’s attempt to find romantic attachments in his heart left him distracted.
• Tu Shan Jun swept away many of Miaohe’s true-intent threads and snapped several beast tendons, nearing escape.

Tu Shan Jun survived the giant warships’ attacks by sacrificing two incomplete Yin Spirits, but returned to Great Central City severely injured. The Beast Taming Sect and Hehuan Sect began besieging the city as its defenders joined forces with their warships to hold the line.

• The Beast King and Miaohe fired their warships’ large-scale mystic arts at Tu Shan Jun, who used two blood bodies fused with incomplete Yin Spirits to escape the targeting lock and endure the attacks.
• Tu Shan Jun returned to Great Central City alive, explained his costly survival method to Taiyi, and stood with his aura unstable and his body badly damaged.
• The Beast King and Miaohe recognized that Tu Shan Jun was severely injured and ordered their forces to besiege Great Central City.
• The city’s cultivators reinforced the grand formation while their fleet of warships rose from the harbor and combined with the Great Five Elements Formation to repel the assault.

Miaohua’s siege of Great Central City intensified after the Yuandao Alliance cut off his supply route, while Taiyi sought help from True Lord Golden Ao to heal Tu Shan Jun. The chapter ended with Taiyi pointing out that the Sea of Wandering Souls could provide the Baleful Intent Tu Shan Jun needed.

• Miaohua explained that he delayed the assault on Great Central City because the Taiyi Sect’s mountain-protecting formation was at least upper fifth-rank.
• Miaohua spared a defeated Golden Core True Person and learned that Golden Ao Palace forces had ambushed his blockade vessels.
• True Lord Xingjin reported that Qi Yuan’s Yuandao Alliance main force had intercepted the provisions convoy and severely wounded Junior Brother Jile.
• Miaohua ordered Great Central City taken within ten days after learning that the Pill Alliance and Artifact Alliance had concealed the Yuandao Alliance’s movements.
• Taiyi welcomed True Lord Golden Ao, but Golden Ao tried to leave after hearing that Tu Shan Jun was injured.
• Taiyi asked Golden Ao to help find Baleful Intent for Tu Shan Jun’s recovery and reminded him they were in the Sea of Wandering Souls.

Three Golden Core cultivators searched the Ghost Sea for Yu Xuan True Lord’s cave abode, but Golden Ao True Lord drove them away and used a severed finger to release the mist sealed by Tu Shan Jun’s formation. As Great Central City’s defenses collapsed under the Hehuan Sect and Beast Taming Sect’s assault, Tu Shan Jun opened his eyes and confirmed that his task was complete.

• Elder Wei identified the cave abode’s location beneath the Ghost Sea, and the three cultivators descended to search for Yu Xuan True Lord’s secret art.
• After five days, Elder Wei discovered an immense formation he could not break, and Golden Ao True Lord arrived and scattered the three cultivators.
• Golden Ao True Lord used a severed finger to activate the formation, releasing a vast gray mist and revealing that Tu Shan Jun had sealed its source.
• The Hehuan Sect and Beast Taming Sect broke Great Central City’s Great Five Elements Formation, and Miaohe Grand True Lord ordered the city massacred.
• Wu Rong urged the defenders to trust his master’s decision, and Tu Shan Jun opened his eyes and said that it was done.

As the Joyous Union Sect and Beast Taming Sect attacked Grand Central City, Taiyi relied on the Taiyi Hall to cripple the Hall of Joy and prepared to use Baleful Intent as a last resort. Just as the enemy began its assault, a black fog surrounded the battlefield and Taiyi’s junior brother announced that he had recovered.

• Taiyi ordered the city’s defenders to withdraw into the inner city while Sikong Xingye considered betraying the Taiyi Sect and went to find the Qiongjing King.
• The Taiyi Hall fired its accumulated mystic art at the Hall of Joy, badly damaging the warship and forcing Miaohe to pull it back.
• Miaohe and the Beast King ordered their forces to scatter and charge into the city, while Taiyi waited atop the ancient tower for word from his ally.
• After hearing that the task was done, Taiyi activated the Five Elements Spirit Gathering Formation and opened a black-backed, red-edged soul banner.
• As Miaohe ordered the slaughter to begin, black fog engulfed the battlefield and Taiyi’s junior brother declared that he had recovered before summoning the Ten Directions Ghost Kings Slaughtering Formation.

Tu Shan Jun emerged above Great Central City, having recovered enough to command the baleful qi and reveal the immense army within his Soul Banner. He faced the Hehuan Sect and Beast Taming Sect forces, rejecting their demand for surrender and laughing at their accusations.

• Tu Shan Jun arrived above the battlefield, drew in the Sea of Wandering Souls’ baleful qi, and placed ten banners atop Great Central City’s towers.
• Great True Lord Miaohe and the Beast King confronted Tu Shan Jun while their sects assembled cultivators and spirit beasts for battle.
• Ouyang Yu felt overwhelmed by the enemy’s strength, while Zhang De and the Taiyi Sect disciples vowed to fight alongside their sect.
• Tu Shan Jun explained that he had come to prevent Taiyi from sacrificing disciples to restore him, then rejected Miaohe’s demand that he disband the sect and cripple his cultivation.
• Tu Shan Jun unfurled the Soul Banner, revealing nearly two million Yin Spirits, including eight Nascent Soul cultivators, and challenged the enemy army.
• The Beast King and Great True Lord Miaohe called Tu Shan Jun a devil, and Tu Shan Jun mocked them for enslaving spirit beasts and people before laughing at their accusations.

Tu Shan Jun faced six True Lords from the Hehuan Sect and Beast Taming Sect, who encircled him and attacked inside his formation. He countered their spells and divine abilities, but True Lord Zhui Kong revealed his hidden Void Crane as the assault continued.

• The Beast King accused Tu Shan Jun of enslaving spirit beasts, while Miao He stopped him from arguing and the six True Lords surrounded Tu Shan Jun.
• Tu Shan Jun used the Ten-Directional Ghost King Slaughter Array to sever the cultivators’ connection to heaven and earth, disrupting their ability to transform the battlefield.
• True Lord Xing Jin attacked with the Heavenly Ghost Shockslaying Art, but Tu Shan Jun dispersed the spell with wind before it could hit him.
• The Beast King and Miao He attacked Tu Shan Jun with Beast Soul True Intent and binding sinews, but Tu Shan Jun pulled the phantom spirits off balance and blocked the beast-soul assault with a Soul Banner shield.
• True Lord Zhui Kong vanished and revealed his hidden companion beast, a palm-sized Void Crane whose wingbeats appeared to slow the cultivators’ movements.

Tu Shan Jun overwhelmed the Grand Central City defenders with the Ten-Directional Ghost King Slaughter Formation and defeated Peak True Lords Miaohe, Xingjin, the Beast King, and Chasing Void. He left Peak True Lord Miaohe alive after forcing him to surrender, while Taiyi remained strained by sustaining the Great Five Elements Spirit-Gathering Formation.

• True Lord Chasing Void attacked Tu Shan Jun, but Tu Shan Jun freed himself and struck him away with a fist.
• Tu Shan Jun unleashed the Soul Banner’s wind, fire, and lightning, ensnared the Beast King’s tiger-serpent, and smashed the Beast King aside.
• Tu Shan Jun joined the Love-Breaking Art to the Ten-Directional Ghost King Slaughter Formation, weakening the cultivators caught inside it.
• After Taiyi urged him to finish the fight quickly, Tu Shan Jun confronted Miaohe, who used the God-Hindering Pearl to resist the formation.
• Two Hehuan Sect cultivators tried to protect Miaohe, but Tu Shan Jun struck them aside and pierced Xingjin through the chest with the Soul Banner.
• Tu Shan Jun demanded the Hehuan Sect’s surrender, and Miaohe finally yielded.

Ji Gang and the allied cultivators fought the Hehuan Sect and Beast Taming Sect amid a vast army of ghost soldiers commanded by Taiyi. After Green-Faced Ghost defeated their leaders, the Beast King agreed to a ceasefire, and Tu Shan Jun called for them to settle matters through talks.

• Ji Gang fought through the ghost-filled mist as the ghost army’s formation trapped and slaughtered cultivators from both sides.
• True Lord Golden Turtle blocked True Lord Huandu from reaching Ancient Tower, while the battle raged across Great Central City.
• Wu Rong and the yin spirits rescued allied cultivators, and Taiyi sustained the Ten-Directional Ghost King Slaughter Formation from Ancient Tower.
• Green-Faced Ghost defeated True Lord Xingjin and confronted the Beast King, who agreed to surrender and follow Miaohe’s example.
• Tu Shan Jun proposed talks to stop the fighting, and the Beast King accepted a ceasefire.