Chapter Summaries

After completing his Affinity Talent transformation, Lin Sheng controlled his new Flesh Control ability and learned that the Radiant Light was heading toward the Mogu Star Starfield. Naka secretly recognized Lin Sheng’s elevated order of existence, while Lin Sheng remained unaware of Naka’s predatory nature.

• Lin Sheng rewarded Little Black with two strands of rainbow spiritual liquid, and it eagerly swallowed them.
• Lin Sheng practiced controlling the perceptions granted by Flesh Control until he could conceal them at will.
• Xiwei told Lin Sheng that the Radiant Light had entered the Outer Domain’s Void Turbulence belt and estimated the journey to the Ghost Whale World would take less than half a year.
• Naka met Lin Sheng in the corridor, sensed his elevated order of existence, and concealed his interest behind a polite conversation.
• Lin Sheng continued on, considering Naka unusually gifted and remarking on the purity of his spiritual true spirit.

Lin Sheng discovered that his Flesh Control carried existential-rank authority, but learned that his Erosion Martial body could not safely withstand its full power. Meanwhile, Ling Yu prepared Jushi City’s forces to face the advancing Yan Lord while insisting Lin Sheng would return.

• Lin Sheng used Flesh Control to draw flesh rule energy into his cultivation, then nearly ruptured his body when he released the ability without restraint.
• Little Black explained that Lin Sheng had gained incomplete existential-rank power, which attracted flesh rules from far away but exceeded what his body could withstand.
• Lin Sheng resumed cultivation more cautiously after learning he must strengthen his foundation before using his authority freely.
• At Jushi City, Ling Yu and Tang Chong learned that Zhao Lingxiu had sacrificed the hundred thousand defenders at Yuanqi Mountain Range, strengthening Northern Yan.
• Ling Yu rejected a proposal to make blood sacrifices, affirmed that Lin Sheng would return, and ordered all troops to assemble outside Jushi City against the Yan Lord.

Lin Sheng reached the ninth erosion martial layer and completed his third limit break in the Endless Void, drawing an enormous response from the flesh origin. As the phenomenon ended, a Thousand-Legged Demon Shadow attacked the Radiant Light, and Little Black fought to protect Lin Sheng.

• Lin Sheng broke through to the ninth erosion martial layer and prepared to perform his third limit break in the Endless Void.
• Lin Sheng and Little Black set up the Flesh Origin-Summoning Grand Array around the Radiant Light, and Lin Sheng passed the physical body and true spirit trials.
• Lin Sheng summoned a vast sea of flesh origin clouds, whose power tempered his body for seven days before his limit break was completed.
• A Thousand-Legged Demon Shadow emerged from a spatial fold and attacked Lin Sheng as the origin phenomenon faded.
• Little Black intercepted the creature's corrosive strike and battled it outside the Radiant Light.

Lin Sheng saved the Radiant Light from the Thousand-Legged Demon Shadow with a single strike, then cultivated to the tenth erosion martial realm during the journey through the Disordered Region. As the ship neared the Mogu Star Starfield, a swarm of Drifting Jellyfish appeared, and Xiwei ordered the crew to lower their defenses and stand down their weapons.

• Lin Sheng formed a giant palm of flesh rule power and crushed the Thousand-Legged Demon Shadow, ending its attack on the Radiant Light.
• Lin Sheng returned to the ship, and the Radiant Light continued toward the Spiritless Zone as Little Black marveled at his strength.
• After more than two months of cultivation, Lin Sheng broke through to the tenth erosion martial realm and recovered from his fatigue.
• Xiwei told Lin Sheng that the Radiant Light would soon leave the Disordered Region and reach the Spirit-Severing Zone coordinates in about a month.
• A lookout reported a large swarm of spatial Void Lifeforms ahead, and Xiwei ordered the Radiant Light to lower its shields and stop charging its weapons after identifying them as Drifting Jellyfish.

Lin Sheng discovered a Desolate Tier Void Broodmother Jellyfish near the Radiant Light and drove it away by invoking Flesh Control, though the encounter drained him. Meanwhile, Zhao Lingxiu’s Northern Yan had destroyed Southern Qi, and she sat on its throne as her surviving enemies hid underground.

• The Drifting Jellyfish swarm scattered after the Radiant Light reduced its energy output, but the ship then lost power and began to slow.
• Lin Sheng used Erosion Spirit power to reveal a concealed Void Broodmother Jellyfish that had been hunting the ship.
• Lin Sheng activated Flesh Control and released the aura of the Flesh Rule, causing the Broodmother Jellyfish to manifest and then vanish.
• The Radiant Light’s crew increased power to flee, while Naka quietly left the bridge.
• Zhao Lingxiu’s Northern Yan forces conquered Southern Qi, slaughtered its ruling family, and drove Ling Yu and Tang Chong’s remaining troops into hiding.
• Zhao Lingxiu sat on Southern Qi’s abandoned throne as a trembling elderly official approached her.

After Zhao Lingxiu ordered the slaughter of Jushi City's civilians and captured Southern Qi officials, she revealed that she sought to sacrifice everyone in the Ghost Whale World to grow stronger. Underground, Ling Yu resolved to lead Southern Qi's survivors to the Eastern Sea while trusting Lin Sheng to return.

• Zhao Lingxiu rejected proposals to restore Jushi City's residents and employ surrendered officials, ordering both groups killed for the Evil God.
• Zhao Lingxiu revealed her monstrous features and thought that slaughtering everyone in the Ghost Whale World would make her stronger.
• Ling Yu and three thousand battered Southern Qi troops hid in abandoned mining tunnels as blood sacrifices continued across the land.
• Tang Chong told Ling Yu she had not been wrong to reject blood sacrifices and warned that Zhao Lingxiu might no longer be herself.
• Ling Yu regained her resolve, believed Lin Sheng would return, and ordered the survivors to leave for a shelter in the Misty Sea Region.

Lin Sheng cultivated aboard the Radiant Light as it entered the Mogu Star Starfield, while Little Black befriended Naka, whose quiet remarks revealed his hostility toward hypocrisy. In Ghost Whale World, Zhou Yuanhu’s Black Tiger Army ambushed Ling Yu and Tang Chong’s retreating force, then learned the location of the Southern Qi survivors’ eastern base and prepared to destroy them.

• Lin Sheng sensed that Return-to-Quiescence Will Rules energy dominated the Mogu Star Starfield and began cultivating the Thousand Tribulations Ashen Wheel Sutra during the voyage.
• Little Black relaxed in the Radiant Light’s lounge with Naka, who agreed that hypocrisy should be erased while concealing his true intent.
• Ling Yu and Tang Chong led their exhausted troops toward East Sea Prefecture, but the Black Tiger Army ambushed them at Soul-Severing Gorge.
• Tang Chong escaped east with Ling Yu and a small group while Southern Qi’s rear guard was killed holding back the pursuing army.
• Zhou Yuanhu revealed that he had deliberately let Ling Yu and Tang Chong escape, then killed Xu Kai and learned that the survivors were based on Whale-Hiding Island.
• Zhou Yuanhu ordered his troops to follow the survivors in secret and attack after they reached the island and reunited with their allies.

Zhou Yuanhu learned that Lin Sheng had once been Southern Qi’s famed Imperial Son-in-law, while Zhao Lingxiu dismissed him as dead and pursued her blood-sacrifice array. Meanwhile, Lin Sheng neared a breakthrough aboard the Radiant Light as it approached Ghost Whale World.

• Zhou Yuanhu asked Wang Da about Lin Sheng and learned of his past as Southern Qi’s Imperial Son-in-law and a Supreme Grandmaster.
• Wang Da said Lin Sheng had left the world after the calamity and had been gone for thirty years, but Zhou Yuanhu dismissed the idea that he had escaped the world.
• An official told Zhao Lingxiu that the blood sacrifices were complete and the Sky-reaching Great Array would be finished in three days.
• Zhao Lingxiu read Zhou Hu’s letter, called Lin Sheng a dead man, and seized and devoured the Guard Officer as her black markings split open.
• Aboard the Radiant Light, Lin Sheng trained with Inferno Black Flame and realized he was only days from a minor breakthrough, but chose not to pursue it as the ship neared Ghost Whale World.

Lin Sheng traveled into the Spiritless Zone to return to the Ghost Whale World and visit old friends, while Ling Yu and Tang Chong reached Whale-Hiding Island and reunited with Dark Star. Near the Ghost Whale World, Lin Sheng discovered a colossal creature wrapped around the planet and learned it was a Desolate Tier life-form.

• Lin Sheng chose to take a Small Transport Ship into the Spiritless Zone, with Naka piloting and Little Black accompanying him.
• Ling Yu and Tang Chong brought the survivors to Whale-Hiding Island, where Gray Fang welcomed them on behalf of Dark Star; an unidentified strange fish followed their boats.
• Little Black explained that Spirit-Severing Zones formed from ancient clashes between great wills that shattered space and drained its energy.
• After three days of travel, Naka detected the Ghost Whale World and a huge shadow covering more than half the planet.
• Lin Sheng ordered Naka to maximize the ship's concealment and stop ten thousand li away, then sensed the creature; Little Black identified it as Desolate Tier.

Lin Sheng, Little Black, and Naka approached Ghost Whale World and found a vast centipede Desolate Beast corpse that had been refined with ominous runes. On Whale-Hiding Island, Ling Yu reunited with Dark Star allies, but Zhou Yuanhu and Northern Yan’s Black Tiger Army attacked, leaving the islanders facing a sudden battle.

• Lin Sheng identified the motionless centipede as a refined Desolate Beast corpse and brought Little Black and Naka down toward Ghost Whale World.
• Ling Yu arrived at Whale-Hiding Island with over a hundred battered soldiers and reunited with Qi Ning, Lan Man, and Luo Yin.
• Zhou Yuanhu led Northern Yan’s Black Tiger Army through the mist and confronted Ling Yu’s group and Dark Star’s defenders.
• Qi Ning ordered the island’s archers to loose a volley at Zhou Yuanhu, who raised his hand without moving.

Zhou Yuanhu’s Black Tiger Army stormed Whale-Hiding Island, forcing Ling Yu and the others to retreat while Lin Sheng arrived in Southern Qi and learned that the kingdom had fallen to Northern Yan. Lin Sheng raced toward the Eastern Sea to find the survivors, as Zhou Yuanhu caught up with the fleeing group inside the hidden stronghold.

• Zhou Yuanhu overwhelmed Tang Chong and Luo Yin, then led the Black Tiger Army through Whale-Hiding Island’s gate as the Dark Star members fought back.
• Ling Yu used Lin Sheng’s Talisman Seal to repel the Black Tiger Army’s battle formation, but Zhou Yuanhu cracked the barrier and Qi Ning and Lan Man led her toward the hidden stronghold.
• Lin Sheng, Naka, and Little Black arrived in Southern Qi and found Northern Yan soldiers roasting people in Flying Eagle Pass.
• Lin Sheng killed the soldiers’ commander, learned from his memories that Northern Yan had conquered Southern Qi, and headed toward the Eastern Sea after realizing Ling Yu’s group was likely fleeing to the Dark Star Base.
• Qi Ning led Ling Yu and the others toward a secret passage, while Tang Chong turned back to hold off their pursuers; Zhou Yuanhu then broke through the stronghold’s ceiling and confronted them.

Lin Sheng returned to the hidden fortress just as Zhou Yuanhu was about to kill Ling Yu and the others, then effortlessly destroyed Zhou Yuanhu and the remaining Black Tiger Army. He reunited with Ling Yu and the survivors after thirty years away.

• Zhou Yuanhu trapped Ling Yu, Tang Chong, and the others, then overwhelmed them with his Evil God-enhanced power.
• Ling Yu used Lin Sheng's Talisman Seal to unleash his stored strike, but Zhou Yuanhu transformed and shattered it.
• Zhou Yuanhu broke Ling Yu's Blood Seal and prepared to kill the battered survivors.
• Lin Sheng broke through the rock ceiling and destroyed Zhou Yuanhu's tiger phantom with a single word.
• Lin Sheng crushed Zhou Yuanhu and erased the remaining Black Tiger Army soldiers.
• Lin Sheng told Ling Yu he had returned, and she and the others reacted with relief and disbelief.

Lin Sheng healed his old allies, gathered them and brought them to the Southern Qi Imperial City, where he killed Zhao Lingxiu after she transformed through the blood sacrifice. The city fell silent beneath Lin Sheng’s blood cloud.

• Lin Sheng healed Tang Chong, Luo Yin, and the others, then invited them to leave the doomed world with him; they agreed.
• Lin Sheng gathered his old acquaintances, including Lin Hong and Xie Guilan, and led everyone to the Southern Qi Imperial City.
• Zhao Lingxiu began the blood sacrifice and transformed into a powerful half-human, half-insect monster.
• Lin Sheng appeared above the city and crushed Zhao Lingxiu with an enormous finger formed from his blood cloud.
• Zhao Lingxiu vanished, leaving the Imperial Capital silent.

Lin Sheng destroyed Zhao Lingxiu and a Fallen Spirit Church demonic beast, then faced a Desolate Tier presence that abruptly withdrew. Realizing Naka had been manipulating the strange retreats and warnings around them, Lin Sheng confronted him, and Naka revealed a sinister side.

• Lin Sheng killed Zhao Lingxiu and the Four-Armed Demonic Beast, then eliminated the remaining Northern Yan officers and Blood Sacrifice Priests.
• A Desolate Tier being appeared through the Black Sun, but withdrew after sensing something at the Imperial Capital, and its Giant Centipede Desolate Beast Corpse fled into the void.
• Lin Sheng sent Little Black, Tang Chong, Ling Yu, and the others toward the Transport Ship while he stayed behind with Naka.
• Lin Sheng attacked Naka, but Naka's defenses held and he evaded Lin Sheng's follow-up strike.
• Lin Sheng deduced that Naka was behind the mysterious protection and retreats they had encountered, and he challenged Naka, who dropped his innocent facade.

Naka overwhelmed Lin Sheng and began searching his memories and extracting his erosion spirit origin qi. Lin Sheng then revealed the Dark Teal Longsword and drove it through Naka’s chest, leaving Naka shocked and terrified.

• Naka revealed that he planned to take Lin Sheng’s body, examine his true spirit, and destroy Lin Sheng’s companions.
• Lin Sheng attacked with Flesh: Prison Suppression and then Four Rules: Annihilation, but Naka erased both attacks with Inferno Black Flame.
• Lin Sheng pushed his powers beyond their limit, collapsed, and was seized by Naka, who began browsing his memories.
• The erosion spirit origin qi inside Lin Sheng glowed and helped him break free of Naka’s mental control as Naka tried to extract it.
• Lin Sheng summoned the Dark Teal Longsword and stabbed Naka through the chest, piercing his inferno barrier and body.

Lin Sheng wounded Naka with the Dark Teal Longsword and unleashed a devastating attack, but the battle was interrupted by Simo, who attacked both of them. The Ghost Whale World was shattered in the ensuing fight, leaving Lin Sheng unconscious in the void while Naka escaped gravely injured and fled toward the Sunstar Starfield.

• Lin Sheng drove the Dark Teal Longsword into Naka and struck him with a torrent of origin power, while the sword’s destructive force spread through Naka’s body.
• As Lin Sheng and Naka prepared to finish each other, Simo emerged from a spatial rift and attacked them, hoping to devour both.
• Naka and Simo fought at full strength, devastating much of the Ghost Whale World and blasting Lin Sheng into the Endless Void, where he lost consciousness while clinging to a meteor fragment.
• Little Black piloted the Transport Ship away from the Ghost Whale World and hoped Lin Sheng would survive, while the battle continued to ravage the planet.
• Simo crawled from the ruins badly wounded, failed to find Lin Sheng, and fled through a spatial rift.
• Naka escaped into the Void Turbulence with the sword still embedded in his chest and raced toward the Sunstar Starfield to save his cultivation.

Severely wounded after escaping Ghost Whale World, Lin Sheng was captured with the Fang Family by Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain. He woke in the raiders’ prison, learned that their peak demigod Hall Master Su Zhe was aboard, and began secretly recovering while waiting for a chance to act.

• Lin Sheng drifted unconscious through the Void Turbulence as the Fang Family fleet approached the Spirit-Severing Zone.
• Fang Chun recognized Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain’s Ghost Face Spider Warship and ordered the Fang ships to flee, but the Ten Thousand Poisons Heavenly Net destroyed them.
• Su Zhe ordered his cultivators to capture the surviving Fang Family members, and a blood-red toad poisoned Fang Chun before he could escape.
• A Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain cultivator mistook Lin Sheng for a Fang Family survivor and captured him along with Fang Chun.
• Lin Sheng awoke in the warship’s prison, gathered information from dying Fang Family disciples, and learned that Su Zhe was a veteran peak demigod.
• Lin Sheng decided to lie low and used his flesh power and erosion spirit power to begin repairing his injuries and nourishing his divine soul.

Su Zhe killed Fang Chun after taking the Void Blood Eye and ordered the Ghost Face Spider Warship toward Azure Snake Domain to seize the Fang Family’s heavenly baleful origin wood. As the ship neared its destination, Lin Sheng recovered in captivity, learned more about Mogu Star Starfield, and began planning an escape before the Fang Family prisoners were taken to Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain.

• Fang Chun offered Su Zhe the Void Blood Eye and promised to steal the Fang Family’s heavenly baleful origin wood, but Su Zhe fed him to his Five-Colored Toad and ordered the warship to turn toward Azure Snake Domain.
• Lin Sheng spent half a month recovering from his injuries in the warship’s prison while monitoring the vessel and assessing the powerful cultivators aboard.
• Lin Sheng learned that Azure Snake Domain was dominated by return-to-quiescence will and that its factions relied on sinister cultivation methods and sacrifices.
• A Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain disciple revealed under Lin Sheng’s influence that the ship would reach Azure Snake Domain the next day and stop before reaching Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain.
• Lin Sheng decided to escape before the remaining Fang Family captives were taken to Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain.

Lin Sheng escaped the Ghost Face Spider Warship by taking on Gray Spider’s appearance and slipping into the return-to-stillness miasma around the Azure Snake Domain. Su Zhe discovered the deception and ordered a shipwide search, leaving Lin Sheng concealed in the miasma as Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain’s forces swept the area.

• Lin Sheng used Erosion Spirit power to control Red Rat and Gray Spider, killed Gray Spider, and disguised himself as him.
• Su Zhe received the Fallen Spirit Church’s bounty for capturing a Flesh Rule cultivator and decided to investigate the Fang Family prisoners for clues.
• Shi Hang used Memory-Sifting Lice to verify the prisoners, but Su Zhe’s Five-Colored Orchid Toad detected a trace of Lin Sheng’s flesh aura and revealed Red Rat’s altered memories.
• Su Zhe realized the wanted cultivator had escaped from his ship and ordered the crew to search the miasma belt, promising a Saintly Poison Pill and personal discipleship to whoever captured him.
• Lin Sheng escaped through a stern hatch and concealed his aura by matching the surrounding miasma, while more than a hundred Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain disciples and several demigods began searching for him.

Lin Sheng fled Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain through the miasma belt and into a Dense Forest, where he tried to evade his pursuers while avoiding Eerie Beasts. After witnessing a giant earthworm devour several Corrosion Beasts, he realized he had reached a deeper, more dangerous region and turned back toward the Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain disciples.

• Lin Sheng passed through the miasma belt and cautiously entered the Dense Forest, sensing numerous dangerous Eerie Beasts nearby.
• Shi Hang unleashed a swarm of poisonous beetles to search for Lin Sheng, and Su Zhe used the Five-Colored Toad to determine that Lin Sheng was below the miasma belt.
• Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain disciples descended into the Dense Forest and began searching with poisonous insects while Lin Sheng continued moving away from them.
• Lin Sheng encountered a giant earthworm Eerie Beast that swallowed several Corrosion Beasts, then concealed himself until the monster left.
• Lin Sheng realized that the scarcity of Eerie Beasts meant he had reached a deeper region, and he turned back, deciding the Ten Thousand Poisons Mountain disciples were less dangerous.