Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu avoided a confrontation at the Immortal Demon Exorcism Division while Yuan Xiang turned a clash with three powerful young officials into leverage. Wang Yu then entered the division, where he joined a long queue for a patrol territory and requested a Cave Abode.

• Wang Yu left a divine-power avatar behind and slipped past the three officials, while Yuan Xiang confronted them and their powerful backers’ seals appeared.
• After Wang Yu warned Yuan Xiang that the three had been used as pawns, Yuan Xiang staged injuries and recorded the officials’ response, making them fear exposure to their fathers.
• Yuan Xiang demanded that the three swear a Heavenly Dao Oath, avoid him, and name whoever had instructed them.
• Wang Yu entered the Immortal Demon Exorcism Division and learned that about 1,300 people were waiting for patrol territories, with an estimated wait of three thousand years.
• Wang Yu asked about patrol posts in Princes’ and Marquises’ private fiefs, then chose to join the queue and requested a Cave Abode.

Wang Yu spent years in seclusion at the Vast Immortal Palace, advancing his cultivation and refining his spirit treasures while investigating the political conflict surrounding the Snake Woman sisters and a time-type Heaven Profound Spirit Treasure. After preparing to leave the headquarters, he used Karma Transformation to seek a land of opportunity and began looking for his old friends and disciple.

• Wang Yu cultivated in his assigned cave abode, expanded his Internal Grotto-Heaven, and learned from Yuan Xiang and Zhou Wusheng that Venerable Su had stirred up a conflict over a time-type Heaven Profound Spirit Treasure.
• Wang Yu completed the transformation of his Natal Spirit Treasures, repaired the World-Breaking Divine Ark, and refined the five Slaughter Swords and the Lightning Summoning Pool.
• Wang Yu grew dissatisfied with waiting for an assignment and decided to leave the Vast Immortal Palace headquarters to travel the Cosmic Sea.
• Wang Yu used Karma Transformation to identify the Heavenly Human Clan as a land of opportunity suited to his treasure-refining needs.
• Wang Yu learned that Jin Miaoshan might be in the Lion Camel Realm and Yu Tang Tang had gone to the Heavenly Demon Realm, while he found no clear leads on Waste Fox, Yan Ling, or Tantai Chan.
• Wang Yu planned to use Karma Transformation to locate Tantai Chan and his disciple Dou Zhao.

Wang Yu traveled to the Heavenly Human Immortal Domain in his Ice Phoenix form and arrived at the Tanggu Great World during a gathering for the Fusang Divine Wood’s Golden Fruit. He joined the Heavenly Human Clan’s group as the Golden Crow Divine King began announcing the secret realm contest.

• Wang Yu set aside searching for Dou Zhao and planned to visit the Heavenly Human Immortal Domain, where his opportunity and Tantai Chan’s karma pointed.
• Wang Yu departed the Thirty-Third Heaven aboard the World-Breaking Divine Ark, concealed his identity as Ice Phoenix, and spent nearly two years traveling to the Heavenly Human Immortal Domain.
• Wang Yu reached Tanggu Great World, where the Golden Crow Clan, Heavenly Human Clan, Heavenly Demon cultivators, and other contenders gathered for the Fusang Divine Wood’s Golden Fruit.
• The Golden Crow Divine King warned his son about Fairy Xi and Yang Shuo, while Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate explained to Fairy Xi why the Heavenly Human Clan opposed the Golden Crow Clan obtaining the fruit.
• Wang Yu arrived at the gathering in his Ice Phoenix form, transformed into human form, and accepted Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate’s invitation to join the Heavenly Human Clan’s group.
• Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate asked whether Wang Yu had come for a Golden Fruit, and the Golden Crow Divine King announced the rules for the Tanggu Secret Realm contest.

Under the alias Feng Jiuge, Wang Yu negotiated with Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate for Fusang Wood and watched the Tanggu Secret Realm’s Golden Fruit contest. After Fairy Xi’s unusual Myriad Souls Banner revealed a possible connection to Tantai Chan, Wang Yu arranged to question her and began asking about his old friend.

• Wang Yu introduced himself as Feng Jiuge, requested Fusang Wood, and agreed to stay with the Heavenly Human Clan while Qing Xu sought an arrangement with the Golden Crow Patriarch.
• The Tanggu Secret Realm opened, and Wang Yu watched Fairy Xi, Yang Shuo, the Blazing Sun Kirin, and the Golden Crow Crown Prince compete for the Golden Fruit.
• Wang Yu recognized the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect’s aura on Xi’s Myriad Souls Banner and suspected that Tantai Chan had helped her obtain or refine it.
• Yang Shuo claimed two portions of the Golden Fruit, the Blazing Sun Kirin claimed one, Xi destroyed one, and the Golden Crow Crown Prince received none.
• Wang Yu heard Heavenly Human cultivators disparage Xi, then agreed to return with Qing Xu and asked to speak with her about the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Wang Yu told Xi that its aura belonged to an old human friend who had spent time in the Wutong Realm, and Xi began explaining the story.

Fairy Xi explained the struggle between the Heavenly Human Clan and the Ghost Spirit Race over the Soul Refining Great World, including how Tantai Chan became a ghost cultivator under her care. Wang Yu arrived at Heavenly Human City with Xi and began exploring, where Mao Si approached them and Xi warned him not to interfere with the clan’s affairs.

• Fairy Xi told Wang Yu that the Heavenly Human Clan and the Ghost Spirit Race had agreed to let their younger generations compete for control of the Soul Refining Great World.
• Fairy Xi explained that Tantai Chan had entered the Soul Refining World through a Spatial Rift, lost her physical body, and received the Heavenly Human Clan’s support to cultivate the ghost Dao.
• Wang Yu connected his visit to the Soul Honoring Banner and the Fusang Divine Wood, and decided he would meet Tantai Chan after entering the Soul Refining Great World.
• Wang Yu arrived at Heavenly Human City ten days later, and Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate asked Xi to show him around.
• Xi introduced Heavenly Dew Jade Nectar to Wang Yu, then Mao Si approached them and asked Xi to introduce him to her elder brother.
• Xi rebuked Mao Si for trying to manipulate the situation, but Mao Si questioned whether his trick would fail on Wang Yu.

While posing as Feng Jiuge, Wang Yu cultivated among the Heavenly Human Clan, studied Mao Si’s political methods, and advanced to the Dao Integration Second Layer. Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate then arrived with compensation and a Golden Fruit, leaving Wang Yu poised to discuss the Soul Refining Great World.

• Fairy Xi rejected Mao Si’s approach, while Mao Si planned to use the Heavenly Human Clan’s beauties and resources to draw Wang Yu closer and obtain his True Spirit bloodline.
• Mao Si introduced Wang Yu to the Soaring Cloud Medical Immortal and other Heavenly Human Clan women at a private gathering; Wang Yu played along while assessing Mao Si’s influence and considering how to use the connection for the human race.
• Fairy Xi criticized Mao Si for using talented clan women to please outsiders, but Mao Si argued that the clan’s resources were better spent elsewhere; Wang Yu later left with two women.
• During half a year as the Heavenly Human Clan’s guest, Wang Yu combined Grotto-Heaven cultivation with body tempering and broke through to the Dao Integration Second Layer.
• Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate visited Wang Yu to discuss the Soul Refining Great World and brought the promised Fusang Divine Wood offshoot along with a Golden Fruit as additional compensation.
• Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate asked Wang Yu whether he had been comfortable living among the Heavenly Human Clan.

Wang Yu received intelligence about the Soul Refining Great World and traveled with the Heavenly Human Clan prodigies to the Eye of Chaos, where he entered the world using his nascent divinity. He found a small Death Soul Mountain that resembled a statue of the Lord of Buried Stars.

• Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate gave Wang Yu information about the Soul Refining Great World, its cultivation paths, and the Ghost Spirit Race participants.
• Wang Yu suspected the world was connected to the Lord of Buried Stars and asked to conceal his abilities, which Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate approved.
• Wang Yu and the Heavenly Human Clan prodigies reached the Eye of Chaos, where Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate sent them inside ahead of the delayed Ghost Spirit Race team.
• Wang Yu entered the Soul Refining Great World as his Grand Yin Nascent Divinity, carrying the Soul Honoring Banner and Moon Phase Divine Eye.
• Wang Yu searched for a Death Soul Mountain and found one shaped like a statue of the Lord of Buried Stars.

Wang Yu discovered that the Soul Refining Great World was the Buried Star Placenta and used the Fierce God Tribe’s inheritance to strengthen the Soul Honoring Banner. He left a demonic seed behind and headed for the city where Tantai Chan was hiding, while the Jade Void Glazed Wall gained its third layer and improved his protection from karma.

• Wang Yu recognized Death Soul Mountain as a statue tied to the Lord of Buried Stars and deduced that the Soul Refining Great World was the Buried Star Placenta.
• Wang Yu demonized and absorbed Qiongqi, learned the Fierce God Tribe’s history and Heaven Burying Dao inheritance, then captured the tribe and its Death Soul Statue in the Soul Honoring Banner.
• Wang Yu mastered the Four Fierce God Heaven Burying Dao Scripture, refined its four runes into the Soul Honoring Banner, and advanced it to a Mid-Grade Earth Profound Spirit Treasure.
• Wang Yu left a Demonic Evil Thought seed in the ruined tribe and abandoned the Heavenly Human Clan’s mission to imprint a True Immortal mark on the World Origin.
• The Jade Void Glazed Wall gained its third layer, Pure Water Glazed, which prevented karma from attaching to Wang Yu.
• Wang Yu reached a great city where Tantai Chan was hiding.

Wang Yu reunited with Tantai Chan in Cold Blood City, learned how she had risen to power, and brought her under his protection. He took the city for himself, replacing its native souls with banner spirits and ordering Zhunü to begin conquering nearby cities.

• Tantai Chan recalled her journey to the Soul Refining Great World and learned that the Heaven Stabilizing Instrument had lit up, prompting her to summon her clansmen.
• General Chan Gong pressured Tantai Chan to become his Dao companion and threatened to expose her allies, but Wang Yu appeared and devoured him, absorbing his memories.
• Wang Yu revealed himself to Tantai Chan, reunited with her, and explained his rise to Dao Integration; he also gave her the Prajna Heart Sutra and helped strengthen her Dao heart.
• Wang Yu and Tantai Chan discovered that the Heavenly Human Clan prodigies had not arrived, then decided to take Cold Blood City while keeping their attention on their own opportunities.
• Wang Yu used the Soul Honoring Banner to capture Cold Blood City's souls and turn them into banner spirits, then ordered Zhunü to lead the former generals in an attack on a nearby fifth-rank city.

Wang Yu advanced his Grand Yin cultivation to fifty percent while preparing to strengthen his techniques in the Soul Refining Great World. As Cold Blood City’s banner army grew and the threat of a major battle loomed, Fairy Xi’s weakened group tried to summon Feng Jiuge for help.

• Wang Yu explained the Soul Refining Great World to Zhunü, who sensed that the realm was strangely familiar and seemed to favor her, then ordered her to capture more Death Soul Statues.
• Wang Yu and Tantai Chan practiced the Six Desires Heavenly Manual together while Zhunü’s army destroyed Death Soul Cities and rapidly expanded the Soul Honoring Banner.
• After five years of cultivation, Wang Yu condensed his fifth Grand Yin Divine Rune, reached fifty percent Grand Yin Dao Principles, and shifted his Enlightenment Slot to the Yellow Springs Dao.
• Wang Yu found that Cold Blood City’s banner spirits had neared a hundred million and that the Four Fierce God Heaven Burying Dao Scripture had reached the Sixth Tier, then prepared to summon lightning across worlds.
• Fairy Xi and several Heavenly Human Clan Heaven’s Chosen, weakened and hunted near Cold Blood City, decided to use Zhiyi’s Fire Phoenix Wings to try to draw Feng Jiuge to them.

Wang Yu arrived to protect Fairy Xi and the other Heavenly Human Clan members, then fought a Death Soul Master from Emperor Burial City while completing his Primordial Thunder Pool baptism. After the Death Soul Master summoned a powerful Incense Godly Body, Wang Yu revealed his true cultivation and overwhelmed his opponent with an aura comparable to Dao Integration Perfection.

• Fairy Zhiyi used the Fire Phoenix Wing to begin the gamble, drawing a Dao Integration Early Stage Death Soul Master and his Emperor Burial City subordinates to the group.
• Wang Yu appeared amid the Primordial Thunder Pool’s lightning, told Fairy Xi and the others to retreat, and trapped the enemies within an ice cage.
• Wang Yu used the Nine Heavens Ten Lands Cave God Death Song to torment the enemies, while the Death Soul Master protected his subordinates with an Incense Godly Body.
• Wang Yu suppressed the Death Soul Master’s curse with Taiyin · Soul Suppression Moon Disc and countered his Burial Dao power with Yellow Springs Finger.
• The Death Soul Master sacrificed his companions’ Soul Bodies to enlarge his Incense Godly Body and break Wang Yu’s ice cage.
• Wang Yu revealed the full might of his Grand Yin Nascent Divinity, frightening the Death Soul Master with an aura comparable to Dao Integration Perfection.

Wang Yu defeated a Death Soul Master, strengthened the Soul Honoring Banner, and turned Cold Blood City into a base for expanding across the Soul Refining World. After recruiting Fairy Xi and her companions, he advanced the banner to a High-Grade Earth Profound Spirit Treasure and began his next undertaking: fishing for Heavenly Demons.

• Wang Yu crushed the Death Soul Master with his Grand Yin Nascent Divinity, captured it as nourishment for the Soul Honoring Banner, and brought Fairy Xi's group back to Cold Blood City.
• Wang Yu refined the captured soul into the banner's first Dao Integration-level Banner Spirit and continued cultivating while the banner and Cold Blood City grew stronger.
• Wang Yu completed the second stage of Invulnerable to All Laws, then removed the seals on Fairy Xi and the other Heavenly Human Clan cultivators and asked them to help him campaign against native cities.
• Wang Yu told Fairy Xi that his Grand Yin Dao Principles had reached the Mahayana standard, preventing him from approaching the World Origin, and advised her to delay the Ghost Spirit Race rather than pursue sovereignty.
• Fairy Xi and her companions joined Wang Yu's expansion, and over two years Cold Blood City amassed more than a hundred million Banner Spirits and six Dao Integration-level spirits.
• Wang Yu advanced the Soul Honoring Banner to a High-Grade Earth Profound Spirit Treasure, fully manifested its Ancient Four Fierce, and began fishing for Heavenly Demons.

Wang Yu opened a passage between his grotto-heaven and nascent divinity, then used Heavenly Demon Star God power as bait to attract a new Heavenly Demon lineage. He drew in a powerful Bell Demon and fought back with his time-based techniques and Soul Honoring Banner.

• Wang Yu reasoned that the Yin Body Divine Embryo and Heavenly Demon Star God power could serve as universal bait to attract the first Heavenly Demon lineage.
• Wang Yu opened a palm-sized passage between his grotto-heaven and nascent divinity, allowing him to borrow power and transfer people and gains between them.
• Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate mocked Yin Xu while the two played chess at the Eye of Chaos.
• Wang Yu sent the Heavenly Demon Diagram through the passage and began fishing for demons as Cold Blood City's expansion continued.
• Wang Yu attracted a powerful Bell Demon, whose Death Funeral Bell corroded his body and attacked his Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Yu stripped away the Bell Demon's attack with his Time Dao Fruit Prototype, then empowered the Taotie Banner Spirit with over a hundred million banner spirits and reached Dao Integration Late Stage.

Wang Yu refined the Bell Demon and advanced his Yellow Springs Dao Fruit while Cold Blood City's expansion provoked a siege by local forces. As he withdrew his armies, Huang Shengchu confronted him, and Wang Yu swiftly suppressed the Ghost Spirit Race cultivator.

• Wang Yu broke the Bell Demon's Final Demonic Sound, suppressed it with the Heavenly Demon Diagram, and began refining it into a Bell Demon Sigil.
• Wang Yu advanced his Three Burials Dao Fruit, developed Yellow Springs curse techniques, and strengthened the Four Fierce Soul Honoring Banner.
• After Cold Blood City came under attack, Wang Yu told Fairy Xi and the others to withdraw their Banner Spirit armies and abandon the city.
• Huang Shengchu appeared and challenged Wang Yu, but Wang Yu struck him with Yellow Springs Yin Thunder and destroyed the Artifact Spirit of his Myriad Ghosts Pot.
• Wang Yu used the Soul Suppressing Moon Disc to pin Huang Shengchu in place after he tried to flee.

Wang Yu extracted Huang Shengchu’s memories and learned that the Ghost Spirit Race planned to use the Buried Star Placenta to seize the Soul Refining World. He abandoned the risk of infiltrating their scheme and instead began arranging a cautious plan to draw the Heavenly Human Clan into the conflict.

• Wang Yu subdued Huang Shengchu, used Yellow Springs Water to extract his memories, and left Cold Blood City with him and Fairy Xi’s group.
• Wang Yu learned that Huang Shengchu had reached Dao Integration by using the Buried Star Placenta, which could also help the Ghost Spirit Race’s chosen advance and connect the race to the Soul Refining World.
• Wang Yu discovered that the Ghost Spirit Race had spent four rounds preparing for its current struggle with the Heavenly Human Clan and might be working toward exploiting the Lord of Buried Stars’ legacy.
• Wang Yu considered infiltrating the Ghost Spirit Race’s plan for greater rewards, but decided the danger was not worth taking and devoured Huang Shengchu instead.
• Wang Yu told Fairy Xi that the Ghost Spirit Race was working with native experts and asked her to warn the other Heavenly Human Clan team, hoping to provoke a response and bring Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate into the conflict.

Wang Yu continued cultivating and managing his grotto-heaven while the Ghost Spirit Race and Heavenly Human Clan maneuvered around Emperor Burial City. As Lu Tianxing arrived to confront Yin Li, the Ghost Spirit Race’s plan to weaken the Lord of Buried Stars’ revival contingencies faced an uncertain new complication.

• Wang Yu sent an ice-bird Feather Sword to watch Emperor Burial City, then continued refining Bell Demons and developing his grotto-heaven while guiding Tantai Chan’s cultivation.
• Lu Tianxing’s Heavenly Human Clan team debated Fairy Xi’s warning, and Lu Tianxing decided to investigate whether the Ghost Spirit Race had allied with Emperor Burial City.
• The Ghost Spirit Race’s standing among the natives made Lu Tianxing’s attempt to probe their cooperation unlikely to succeed, while their plan depended on keeping both the Heavenly Humans and natives under control.
• Yin Li continued draining Emperor Burial City’s Death Soul Statue to strengthen her bloodline, knowing the Ghost Spirit Race feared its reaching the tenth tier and reviving the Lord of Buried Stars.
• Lu Tianxing announced his visit to Yin Li, alarming her as she wondered how he had learned her name and what he intended.

Wang Yu watched Yin Li and Emperor Burial City manipulate Lu Tianxing, then pondered their hidden motives. Zhunü asked to leave his service, and Wang Yu demanded to know why.

• Death Soul Masters of Emperor Burial City sent Gui Ye and Yin Li to confront Lu Tianxing, who offered them benefits in exchange for neutrality.
• Gui Ye and Yin Li staged a confrontation that ended with Lu Tianxing retreating under the protection of his Five Elements Five Emperors Tribulation Treasure Umbrella.
• Gui Ye and Emperor Burial City's Ninth-Tier Great Death Soul Master secretly persuaded Lu Tianxing that the Ghost Spirit Race controlled their fate and that they wanted help advancing a Tenth-Tier Death Soul Statue.
• After Lu Tianxing fled, Yin Li told Gui Ye to summon the Death Soul Master elders and accelerate the Sacred Clan's plan, unaware that the natives were pursuing their own agenda.
• Two or three days later, Wang Yu reviewed the attack with Tantai Chan and questioned Yin Li's contradictory behavior.
• Zhunü told Wang Yu she wanted to leave because he no longer needed her, and he asked her to give him a reason.

Wang Yu parted on good terms with Zhunü, prepared to exploit the conflict among the Soul Refining World’s factions, and advanced to Dao Integration Third Layer while developing the Yellow Springs Immortal-Breaking Curse. After the natives sealed the world and trapped the Ghost Spirit Race’s chosen, he decided to approach Yin Li for cover as the struggle intensified.

• Wang Yu let Zhunü leave without pressing her secrets and offered to help if she encountered trouble; she promised to assist him if needed.
• Wang Yu dismissed Fairy Xi and her companions, warned them to leave the Soul Refining Great World, and disguised himself as an incomplete Grand Yin Star God.
• Lu Tianxing turned Returning Nether Earth Sacred City against Emperor Burial City, but Yin Li’s trap later wounded him and wiped out the Heavenly Human Clan’s chosen squad.
• The native living beings activated nine light pillars that sealed the Soul Refining World, cutting the Ghost Spirit Race’s chosen off from their fleshly bodies.
• Wang Yu advanced to Dao Integration Third Layer and comprehended the Yellow Springs Immortal-Breaking Curse.
• Wang Yu chose to cooperate with Yin Li and use the Ghost Spirit treasure for concealment while keeping an escape route ready.

Wang Yu found the hunted Yin Li and negotiated a partnership to pursue the Lord of Buried Stars’ legacy and their own gains. As Heavenly Human Clan Loose Immortals tried to breach the Soul Refining World, a Divine Thought Incarnation of the Lord of Buried Stars appeared and halted them.

• Wang Yu revealed himself to Yin Li, provoked her to test her strength, and persuaded her to share intelligence in exchange for a chance at the Buried Immortal Dao Fruit.
• Wang Yu and Yin Li agreed to work together, targeting the high-rank Death Soul Statues Lu Tianxing had accumulated for their respective cultivation goals.
• Wang Yu told Yin Li that the Heavenly Human Clan outside would act, while Qing Xu Heavenly Venerate learned that the Lord of Buried Stars was central to the crisis.
• The Five Tribulation Fire Virtue Loose Immortal and Eight Tribulation Tribulation End Loose Immortal arrived to break the Soul Refining World's seal and rescue Lu Tianxing.
• A world-shaking Divine Thought Incarnation appeared as Du E and Huo De attacked the seal, making them recognize the Lord of Buried Stars and summon Qingxu for an explanation.

Wang Yu and Yin Li were summoned into the Lord of Buried Stars’ presence after his consciousness revived, forcing Wang Yu to abandon his plans and answer questions about the Star Gods and the current era. Outside the Soul Refining World, Huo De and Du E chose to wait, while the Ghost Spirit Race sent Yin Xu inside to investigate.

• Wang Yu realized that Yin Li’s fear came from the Lord of Buried Stars’ immense power and concluded that the Dao Master could have more than one Dao Fruit and another means of revival.
• Wang Yu tried to escape with Yin Li, but the Lord of Buried Stars pulled them into a dark space and questioned them about the Star Gods and the Immortal Dao Era.
• Yin Li bowed to the Lord of Buried Stars, while Wang Yu greeted him respectfully and explained that the Star Gods had fallen and the Human Race now ruled the Vast Immortal Domain.
• Huo De and Du E interrogated Qing Xu about Feng Jiuge and decided to wait outside the sealed Soul Refining World while trying to contact Lu Tianxing.
• A Ghost Spirit Great Power dismissed the Lord of Buried Stars’ eye as an evadable Shinto method and ordered Yin Xu to enter the world with a Quasi-Immortal Artifact to find Yin Li and restore contact with Heaven and Earth Will.