Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu learned that a Second Tier Corpse Refinement arm had been found and arranged to meet an Inner Disciple, while Xu Jiao Jiao blamed him for her father’s troubles and sent assassins after him. When she confronted him near the Corpse Raising Ground, they fought, and Wang Yu trapped her in an Ice Coffin.

• Wang Yu received a message about a Second Tier Corpse Refinement arm and went out three days later to keep an appointment.
• Su Qing Shan convinced Xu Jiao Jiao that Wang Yu was responsible for her father’s detention and the Xu Clan’s losses, then used a secret art to send Outer Disciples after him.
• The Outer Disciples failed to kill Wang Yu, and Su Qing Shan had them name Xu Jiao Jiao to divert suspicion from himself.
• Wang Yu encountered Xu Jiao Jiao near the Corpse Raising Ground and suspected that the Inner Disciple he was meeting had betrayed him.
• Xu Jiao Jiao attacked Wang Yu, dispelled his phantom sword assault with Savage Ghost Roar, and swept away his Ice Swords with a giant ghostly hand.
• Wang Yu used the Ice Coffin Spell to trap Xu Jiao Jiao inside a floating Ice Coffin.

Wang Yu killed Xu Jiao Jiao after a fierce battle, knowing her death had made Steward Xu a powerful enemy and made leaving the sect urgent. While heading to confront the Heavenly Corpse Peak inner disciple who had betrayed him, he found a mysterious book written in Ancient Demonic Script among Xu Jiao Jiao’s belongings.

• Xu Jiao Jiao broke free of Wang Yu’s Ice Coffin and attacked with ghost armor, Mountain Shaking Collision, and chains that bound his legs.
• Wang Yu survived Xu Jiao Jiao’s attacks, exploited the moment her ghost armor vanished, and killed her with a claw through the chest.
• Wang Yu stored Xu Jiao Jiao’s corpse and spoils, realizing Steward Xu would become his enemy and that he needed to leave the sect.
• Wang Yu inspected Xu Jiao Jiao’s Storage Bag and identified her High-Grade Magical Artifact Nether Spirit Iron Chain.
• Wang Yu found a Mysterious Silk Book written in Ancient Demonic Script as he headed toward the meeting place to confront the disciple who had betrayed him.

Wang Yu traded a Second Tier Divine Strength Corpse arm with Gu Zheng Shun, then exchanged his Mountain Lord Token for an ordinary Profound Bone Token and Gu Zheng Shun’s support at Profound Bone Mountain. After reviewing information about the dangerous resource site, Wang Yu left to prepare for their meeting in three months.

• Wang Yu paid Gu Zheng Shun one thousand Spirit Stones for a Second Tier Divine Strength Corpse arm to repair his missing left arm.
• Gu Zheng Shun asked Wang Yu to trade his Mountain Lord Token, explaining that it granted authority over Profound Bone Mountain and that he wanted access to its Profound Bone Wood.
• Gu Zheng Shun offered an ordinary Profound Bone Token, one thousand Spirit Stones, and an alliance at Profound Bone Mountain in exchange for Wang Yu’s token.
• Wang Yu accepted the exchange, returned the Spirit Stones, and received a Jade Slip containing information about Profound Bone Mountain.
• Wang Yu left after agreeing to meet Gu Zheng Shun in three months, then wondered why he had not encountered Su Qing Shan.

Su Qing Shan fled with valuables from the Xu Estate and sought refuge far away, while Wang Yu spent months refining a Second Tier Divine Strength Corpse arm and reconnecting it to his body. As Wang Yu prepared to travel to Profound Bone Mountain, a powerful party of returning Qi Refining cultivators arrived at the sect, and someone called out to him.

• Su Qing Shan took the Xu Estate's valuables and property deeds, then followed Zhao Shang's advice to seek a Profound Bone Token for refuge at Profound Bone Mountain.
• Wang Yu studied the Divine Strength Corpse arm and used the Corpse Demon Secret Art to refine it with Yin Blood Pills.
• After two months, Wang Yu reconnected the corpse arm, but discovered that its Death Qi could threaten his lifespan unless he kept it confined and suppressed it.
• Wang Yu prepared spirit pills and travel supplies for Profound Bone Mountain, relying on his restored, powerful left hand and the Nether Spirit Iron Chain.
• A party of about eighty Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators returned to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect after five years at Profound Bone Mountain, and someone called out, "Junior Brother Wang!"

Wang Yu joined Gu Zheng Shun’s small group of disciples heading to Profound Bone Mountain after learning about the rival factions and their leaders. The group left the sect on a White Bone Boat, beginning a long journey toward the remote outpost near the Endless Ice Field.

• Gu Zheng Shun introduced Wang Yu to Liu Jin Xian and Situ Hong, whose large groups and powerful connections dwarfed Gu’s small following.
• Wang Yu hid among Heavenly Corpse Peak disciples with a spare coffin on his back, while Gu Zheng Shun tried to recruit ordinary disciples and gathered updated information.
• Gu Zheng Shun completed the Mission Hall handover, and the group received five hundred Contribution Points and five hundred Spirit Stones for the five-year assignment.
• Gu Zheng Shun led his twenty-two disciples away from the sect aboard a White Bone Boat, while Liu Jin Xian and Situ Hong departed separately with their own magical artifacts.
• Gu Zheng Shun explained that few Foundation Establishment Cultivators accepted posts at Profound Bone Mountain because they could be stuck there for forty or fifty years, then shared information about the outpost with Wang Yu.

Wang Yu’s group reached Profound Bone Mountain, where Gu Zheng Shun began taking over the sparsely planted mountain and inspecting its formations. Wang Yu surveyed its Bone Woods and discovered the dangerous creatures that made the mountain a difficult assignment, while its resources promised valuable gains.

• After nearly three months of travel, Gu Zheng Shun and the Heavenly Corpse Peak group arrived at Profound Bone Mountain, where the other mountain masters had already claimed two of its three peaks.
• Gu Zheng Shun chose the remaining mountain and ordered his disciples to count the Profound Bone Woods, inspect the formations, and establish defenses.
• Wang Yu searched the Bone Wood Forest for Bone Sacs and recorded plants that might later produce Profound Essence Flowers, which could help cultivators overcome bottlenecks.
• Wang Yu learned that Earthbound Spirits protected the Bone Woods and that Situ Hong and Liu Jin Xian had come seeking resources suited to their cultivation and Gu insects.
• On the mountain’s upper levels, Wang Yu found a Rotting Poison Bee Swarm and marked its location before continuing upward.
• Wang Yu discovered that the upper levels were crowded with Ferocious Bone Lions, making Gu Zheng Shun’s mountain the most dangerous and sparsely wooded of the three.

Wang Yu learned that Gu Zheng Shun planned to secure ten Bone Sac locations before next April, then left to capture a stronghold on the upper levels of Profound Bone Mountain. After defeating a Ferocious Bone Lion and setting up a concealment Formation, he considered the risks of his profitable dealings with Ice Snow Tower.

• Wang Yu learned that Second Tier Bone Wood and Bone Sacs were concentrated on the upper levels, while Gu Zheng Shun planned to secure ten locations before next April.
• Gu Zheng Shun refused to join Situ Hong and Liu Jin Xian at their gathering, and Liu Jin Xian proposed killing him to seize the Rotting Poison Bee Swarms.
• Wang Yu traveled to level two hundred and ninety, killed a Ferocious Bone Lion, and began setting up a Blood Mist Spirit Concealment Formation around his stronghold.
• Wang Yu reflected that his cooperation with Zhao Shang had earned him at least ten thousand Spirit Stones from Ice Snow Tower, but feared their scheme would eventually be discovered.

Wang Yu carefully cultivated and expanded his territory at Profound Bone Mountain while suspecting the area concealed dangers. When Gu Zheng Shun asked him for help against Liu Jin Xian’s encroachment, Wang Yu refused and began to suspect Gu had come to the mountain for a different purpose.

• After leaving, Wang Yu secretly notified Huang Kai and Luo Ping Hu, transferred the Alchemist Society’s authority to Zhou Tao, and withdrew from the mountain gate.
• Wang Yu moved into a ruined Stone House at Profound Bone Mountain, harvested resources from Ferocious Bone Lions, and stayed wary of the mountain’s suspiciously quick infestation.
• A month later, Wang Yu used a perfected Ice Coffin Spell to destroy a Rotting Poison Bee swarm and had already claimed two levels while Gu Zheng Shun’s group struggled.
• Gu Zheng Shun told Wang Yu that Liu Jin Xian wanted to take over his territory, but Wang Yu refused to serve as his backup and suggested surrendering instead.
• After Gu Zheng Shun left, Wang Yu reconsidered his actions and suspected he had not come to Profound Bone Mountain for the Profound Essence Flowers.

Wang Yu suspected Gu Zheng Shun was hiding a greater benefit beneath Profound Bone Mountain, but chose to defend his two levels rather than risk losing them to Liu Jin Xian. When Liu Jin Xian’s forces arrived and two Poison Gu Peak disciples challenged his claim, Wang Yu attacked first.

• Wang Yu considered defecting to Liu Jin Xian but decided to hold the two levels he already controlled, especially the nine Second Tier Bone Woods nearing their flowering season.
• Liu Jin Xian arrived with nearly three hundred cultivators and negotiated permission from Gu Zheng Shun to occupy vacant levels for four years.
• Liu Jin Xian ordered her followers to capture every Rotting Poison Bee Swarm before sending them into Profound Bone Mountain.
• Wang Yu concealed his identity and ambushed two Qi Refining Seventh Layer cultivators who came to claim his levels.
• The two cultivators rejected Wang Yu’s claim, and he launched an attack with five illusory figures and Ice Swords.

Wang Yu killed two Poison Gu Peak disciples and tried to redirect Liu Jin Xian’s suspicion toward Gu Zheng Shun, but she attacked him over the deaths. Their battle ended with Wang Yu crippling her Mosquito Beast before she healed it and regarded his strange strength warily.

• Wang Yu used venom, ice walls, and an iron chain to kill two Poison Gu Peak disciples and take their Storage Bags.
• Liu Jin Xian arrived, confronted Wang Yu, and attacked after he claimed Gu Zheng Shun might be hiding a deeper plan beneath Profound Bone Mountain.
• Wang Yu challenged Liu Jin Xian and used his perfected Ice Sword Technique, but her poisonous smoke and Mosquito Beast countered his spells.
• Wang Yu struck the Mosquito Beast with his Divine Strength Corpse Arm and nearly killed it, forcing Liu Jin Xian to heal it with blood-colored mist.

Wang Yu negotiated with Liu Jin Xian over Gu Zheng Shun’s secrets, then helped her investigate the powerful formation protecting the lower levels of Profound Bone Mountain. He returned to guard his Profound Essence Flower and cultivate, and by the following year the flowers began blooming as dangerous beasts emerged from Wasteland Cave.

• Wang Yu showed Liu Jin Xian the arm of a Second Tier Armored Corpse and claimed Gu Zheng Shun had betrayed him, persuading her to accept his cooperation.
• Liu Jin Xian and Wang Yu attacked the black fog formation, where three Bronze Armor Corpses revealed it was the Earth Yin Corpse Puppet Formation.
• Liu Jin Xian explained the formation’s origin and said she would ask Situ Hong about a formation-breaking treasure, while Wang Yu returned to guard his flower.
• Wang Yu examined the spoils from two Storage Bags, then spent months cultivating and accumulated 423 strands of spiritual power.
• At the end of May the following year, the Profound Essence Flowers began blooming, drawing Rotting Poison Bee Swarms and Ferocious Bone Lions from Wasteland Cave.

Wang Yu discovered that his poor spiritual root wasted most of the Profound Essence Flower’s medicinal power, making advancement far more difficult and leaving him considering spiritual-root theft or the Placement Slot. Liu Jin Xian summoned him to investigate the underground source of the creatures at Profound Bone Mountain, while Wang Yu and Su Qing Shan each secretly contemplated killing the other for his resources.

• Wang Yu tested a Profound Essence Flower and found that his Five Elements Useless Spiritual Root absorbed less than half its effect, meaning he would need vastly more resources to advance.
• Wang Yu concluded that Top-Grade pills or a method to seize spiritual roots might be necessary for him to establish a foundation, then waited for news from Liu Jin Xian.
• A Poison Gu Peak disciple summoned Wang Yu, and Liu Jin Xian gathered him with eighteen Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators to investigate a cave near Profound Bone Mountain.
• Wang Yu and Su Qing Shan exchanged smiles while privately considering how to eliminate the other and take his resources.
• The group entered the nameless cave and found a deep pit where the demon beasts had emerged.

Liu Jin Xian led Wang Yu and the other cultivators through an underground passage beneath Profound Bone Mountain, where they discovered a cluster of ancient palace ruins. As the group approached the central hall, Wang Yu considered who might have known about the ruins and what treasures they could contain.

• Liu Jin Xian sent a Firefly Gu down a pit and learned that an underground passage led north toward the Endless Ice Field.
• Liu Jin Xian divided her eighteen Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators into a rear guard, a vanguard, and a middle group that included Wang Yu.
• The party traveled through the freezing passage, and Liu Jin Xian sent out Gu insects to scout ahead before directing everyone onward.
• The cultivators reached an underground complex with dozens of palaces, and Liu Jin Xian judged it to be the ruins of an ancient sect founded by a Core Formation Cultivator.
• Wang Yu suspected several factions had concealed Profound Bone Mountain's secrets and wondered whether the ruins held a formula for the Top Grade Foundation Establishment Pill.
• As the group reached the steps toward the central hall, pale-blue flames lit in the palace lanterns.

As the group climbed toward Moon Gathering Palace, Liu Jin Xian demanded a share of the treasures from anyone who turned aside, while Wang Yu weighed the danger and plotted to deal with Su Qing Shan. Below the mountain, Gu Zheng Shun and Situ Hong revealed their scheme to exploit the conflict between Wang Yu and Liu Jin Xian, and Su Qing Shan followed Wang Yu with three allies intending to kill him.

• Liu Jin Xian warned the shivering cultivators that those who left the stairs must surrender copies of their cultivation methods and half their treasures, and she told Wang Yu the same rule applied to him.
• At the bottom of the third Profound Bone Mountain, Situ Hong found Gu Zheng Shun newly advanced to Qi Refining Seventh Layer beside a fissure where armored corpses absorbed Corpse Qi.
• Gu Zheng Shun and Situ Hong discussed Liu Jin Xian's backing, Wang Yu's strength, and their plan to let the rivals clash before claiming the Underground Palace's treasures.
• Wang Yu left the stairs for a side hall and beckoned Su Qing Shan to follow, intending to confront him before the larger conflict developed.
• Su Qing Shan persuaded three Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators to help kill Wang Yu in exchange for a share of his Profound Essence Flowers, and they trailed him toward the ancient buildings.

Wang Yu lured Su Qing Shan and three allies into an ambush, then fought them with his Perfection techniques and powerful corpse arm. After killing two attackers and secretly killing Xi Zhi Cai, he faced Su Qing Shan alone, with the fight still unresolved.

• Wang Yu hid by a palace wall and struck the pursuing Su Qing Shan and his three companions with a giant ice sword, killing one and wounding Su Qing Shan.
• Wang Yu used Illusionary Steps and his corpse arm to seize and smash the cultivator who attacked with Ripping Wind Step Force.
• Su Qing Shan pressed Wang Yu with his ice sword while Xi Zhi Cai attacked with a black divine-sense beam, forcing Wang Yu to dodge and lose his Bronze Bell.
• Wang Yu killed Xi Zhi Cai with an Ice Coffin during his clash with Su Qing Shan, then replenished his spiritual energy with a Top Grade Spirit Recovery Pill.
• Wang Yu launched a swarm of ice swords at Su Qing Shan, who dismissed him and prepared to use Profound Yin Hand.

Wang Yu defeated Su Qing Shan with his Illusionary Steps, Nether Spirit Iron Chain, and powerful left arm, then searched the fallen cultivators’ belongings. He found Yin Marrow Liquid and the Profound Yin Hand technique, while mistakenly believing Su Qing Shan had left no warning for Steward Xu.

• Su Qing Shan attacked Wang Yu with Profound Yin Hands, but Wang Yu used illusory bodies and the Nether Spirit Iron Chain to mislead him.
• Wang Yu struck Su Qing Shan’s head with his left fist and killed him.
• Wang Yu searched four Storage Bags and found spirit stones, magical artifacts, and evidence that Su Qing Shan had ransacked the Xu Estate.
• Wang Yu discovered Yin Marrow Liquid, a material needed to refine the Cold Dragon Pill, and brocade silk recording the Profound Yin Hand technique.
• Wang Yu wondered how Su Qing Shan had obtained Yellow Springs Temple’s inheritance and decided Su Qing Shan was unlikely to have alerted Steward Xu.
• Su Qing Shan had secretly left a letter identifying Wang Yu and intended to make him take the blame.

Wang Yu explored the Underground Palace Ruins and found the Scripture Pavilion, where three Poison Gu Peak disciples were studying an unreadable Ancient Demonic Script. After one insulted him, Wang Yu killed all three, leaving him with the pavilion to investigate.

• Wang Yu stored the Profound Essence Flowers for use after he broke through the Qi Refining Sixth Layer and restored Corpse Demon Secret Art to his placement slot.
• Wang Yu reached the Scripture Pavilion and noticed a dead Pavilion Guardian and three Poison Gu Peak disciples watching for someone to approach.
• Wang Yu recognized the tablet’s writing as Blood Script Characters and asked the disciples about the underground palace’s origins.
• After the Zhang-surnamed cultivator insulted him, Wang Yu killed him with a punch and crushed another disciple and his gu worm with the Ice Vein Sword.
• The last disciple fled in terror and asked Wang Yu why he was attacking him.

Wang Yu killed three disciples in the Scripture Pavilion, then faced a newly awakened Corpse Demon whose Core Formation aura concealed Foundation Establishment Early Stage strength. After failing to escape and suffering severe injuries, he tricked the demon in close combat and stole the Black Jade Slip bearing the name [Grand Yin Nether Eye].

• Wang Yu attacked Senior Brother Yuan, who tried to possess a corpse with Dual Possession Gu, but Wang Yu trapped and killed him with ice.
• The corpse awakened as a Corpse Demon, killed the Dual Possession Gu, and struck Wang Yu hard enough to shatter his Nether Spirit Iron Chain.
• Wang Yu tried to flee the Scripture Pavilion with illusory bodies, but the Corpse Demon saw through them, destroyed his Bronze Bell, and wounded his chest.
• Wang Yu noticed the Corpse Demon guarding a Black Jade Slip and decided to risk a close-range feint rather than leave empty-handed.
• Wang Yu slipped past the Corpse Demon's attack, crippled his Divine Strength Corpse Arm, and seized the slip inscribed with [Grand Yin Nether Eye].

Wang Yu escaped the Scripture Pavilion with a Jade Slip, abandoned the dangerous expedition to Moon Gathering Palace, and fought his way out of the Underground Palace. Elsewhere, Gu Zheng Shun and Situ Hong reached a lower cavern filled with graves, bone beasts, and a vast bee nest, then began setting up a corpse formation.

• Wang Yu hid from the Corpse Demon with the Night Concealment Spell, repaired the appearance of his injured hand, and decided not to go to Moon Gathering Palace.
• Wang Yu told three rear guards about the Underground Palace, but when they tried to rob him, he killed them and destroyed the pit leading down.
• Wang Yu returned to Profound Bone Mountain, leaving the other cultivators below with their route out blocked.
• Gu Zheng Shun and Situ Hong led twelve Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators into a lower cavern, where they found burial mounds, a huge foul-smelling beehive, and Ferocious Bone Lions scavenging tombs.
• Gu Zheng Shun deployed twelve Bronze Armor Corpses with talismans and command flags to form the Earth Yin Corpse Puppet Formation.

After recovering from his injuries and counting his gains, Wang Yu moved away from Profound Bone Mountain to cultivate and keep watch. He began training the Profound Yin Hand and Grand Yin Nether Eye, but his slow progress left him still far from the breakthrough he needed to return underground.

• Wang Yu recovered for three days, gathered the spoils from his kills, and refined Yuan Tongmen's Golden Blade Whip and a Black Scale Shield.
• Wang Yu left Profound Bone Mountain and hid in a natural cave near the Spirit Vein so he could watch for Liu Jin Xian's group while cultivating.
• Wang Yu cultivated the Second Tier High-Grade spell Profound Yin Hand and placed the Grand Yin Nether Eye secret art in his third Placement Slot.
• Half a year later, Wang Yu had accumulated 536 strands of spiritual power, but he still needed years of cultivation before reaching his next breakthrough.