Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu watched the disciples at Profound Bone Mountain struggle with Liu Jin Xian and the others’ disappearance while he weighed whether to investigate the underground palace himself. A year later, the disciples negotiated over the Profound Essence Flower harvest, and the Five Yin Peak revealed that their excavation had reopened a passage underground, though something had changed below.

• Wang Yu learned that Liu Jin Xian and the others had been missing for over half a year, while Five Yin Peak and Poison Gu Peak disciples argued over whether to search for them or pursue the underground palace’s secrets.
• Wang Yu saw that most cultivators had left to search for caverns or dig through rock, leaving fewer than a hundred to tend the Bone Wood, and he decided to wait before investigating.
• The next June, fewer Profound Essence Flowers bloomed, and the eight newly advanced Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators struggled to protect the three mountains from demonic beasts.
• The Five Yin Peak and Poison Gu Peak disciples met to discuss cooperation, as Poison Gu Peak warned that Liu Jin Xian’s missing spiritual power left its controlled cultivators at risk of dying.
• A Five Yin Peak disciple announced that his group had reopened the underground passage after nearly a year of digging, but something below had changed.

Wang Yu watched the Poison Gu Peak and Five Yin Peak disciples form a tense alliance to clear Profound Bone Mountain while he completed the first stage of the Grand Yin Nether Eye. Ten days later, Poison Gu Peak descended into the underground passage with Liu Jin Xian’s unstable Bee Gu, while Five Yin Peak held its stronger cultivators back.

• Five Yin Peak pressured the Poison Gu Peak disciples into accepting help controlling the Rotting Poison Bee Gu in exchange for clearing Profound Bone Mountain and giving up seventy percent of the Profound Essence Flower profits.
• Wang Yu watched the alliance form and considered using the coming conflict to seize Profound Essence Flowers while remaining hidden underground.
• Wang Yu completed the first stage of the Grand Yin Nether Eye, gained Moon Observation, and resumed cultivating the Corpse Demon Secret Art in the vacant placement slot.
• Ten days later, Poison Gu Peak disciples and several hundred followers gathered at the Nameless Cave with Liu Jin Xian’s unstable Bee Gu, controlled by a Nether Mountain Sect secret art.
• The Poison Gu Peak disciples descended into the underground passage, while Five Yin Peak sent only three Qi Refining Sixth Layer cultivators after waiting thirty breaths.

Wang Yu raided the Five Yin Peak disciples’ storehouse on Profound Bone Mountain, killing several cultivators and stealing half the Profound Essence Flowers and a third of the Bone Wood. He escaped to his Cave Abode and preserved the flowers, leaving him prepared to pursue his cultivation plans.

• Five Yin Peak’s new leader ordered weaker cultivators to retreat and arranged for disciples to guard Profound Bone Mountain while their people sought another route to the surface.
• Wang Yu returned to Profound Bone Mountain and ambushed Five Yin Peak disciples who were gambling, killing several with his Golden Blade Whip and Profound Yin Hand.
• Wang Yu broke the storehouse’s Formation and took half the Profound Essence Flowers and a third of the Bone Wood before escaping through the surrounding shadows.
• Five Yin Peak’s leaders blamed Poison Gu Peak for the theft and ordered Fang Zhuo to open a new route quickly.
• Wang Yu returned to his Cave Abode, preserved the stolen flowers with the Sealing Pill Method, and concluded that he was ready for the next step.

Situ Hong, Liu Jin Xian, and Gu Zheng Shun remained trapped in Moon Gathering Palace’s opposing Yin and Yang formations with a Poison Bee King and a Foundation Establishment Corpse Demon. When Poison Gu Peak disciples finally arrived, most fled, but five entered to help Liu Jin Xian activate the Yang Formation Eye, setting up a fierce battle.

• Liu Jin Xian explained that the Yin and Yang formations required cooperation to open the next palace gate, but approaching the Yang Eye loosened the chains restraining the two evil creatures.
• Situ Hong pressed Gu Zheng Shun to act before Poison Gu Peak disciples arrived, while Liu Jin Xian said her followers would come within half a month.
• More than a hundred Poison Gu Peak disciples reached the restriction barrier, but most scattered after seeing the Poison Bee King and Corpse Demon; five stayed.
• Liu Jin Xian learned that four of her missing subordinates had been killed by the Poison Bee King and two by Situ Hong, while the others remained unaccounted for.
• Liu Jin Xian used her Second Tier High-Grade Magical Artifact to break a hole in the restriction, and the five disciples entered to help activate the Yang Formation Eye.

Wang Yu survived as demons slaughtered the disciples at Profound Bone Three Mountains, then looted their supplies while Liu Jin Xian and the others escaped a deadly underground palace. When they returned, they found the mountains deserted and questioned Wang Yu about his survival.

• A Second-Order Ferocious Bone Lion killed most of the Five Yin Peak disciples, while Wang Yu watched from hiding and waited until the survivors fled before looting the stores and their Storage Bags.
• Liu Jin Xian used Gu Zheng Shun and Situ Hong’s subordinates to open the way into the Third Layer of Moon Gathering Palace, but she and the others fled within moments as the palace’s dangers killed their followers.
• A remnant soul emerged from the Corpse Demon, lamented its failed escape from the cage, and vanished, leaving the restored demon to pursue the humans.
• Three days later, Liu Jin Xian, Gu Zheng Shun, and Situ Hong escaped the underground palace and discovered Profound Bone Three Mountains empty except for the Ferocious Bone Lion.
• Wang Yu met the three and described the slaughter, claiming he had barely survived through concealment; Liu Jin Xian challenged him for not helping, and Situ Hong defended him.

Wang Yu and the others stayed at Profound Bone Mountain, where he spent the next year cultivating in seclusion and advanced from Qi Refining Sixth Layer to Qi Refining Seventh Layer. He continued refining the Profound Essence Flower essence, aiming to further purify his spiritual power.

• Liu Jin Xian, Situ Hong, and Wang Yu agreed to remain at Profound Bone Mountain, while Gu Zheng Shun withdrew into the Formation.
• Over the following year, Liu Jin Xian searched for Rotting Poison Bees, Situ Hong raised Yin Ghost Servants, and Wang Yu cultivated in seclusion.
• Wang Yu turned twenty-two and broke through to Qi Refining Sixth Layer after cultivating his thousandth strand of Spiritual Power.
• Wang Yu soaked in a pool of Profound Essence Flower essence and used the medicine to refine his spiritual power.
• After about three months, Wang Yu completed his second spirit refinement and broke through to Qi Refining Seventh Layer.
• Wang Yu continued cultivating to purify his spiritual power further and began transforming it into semi-liquid true essence.

Wang Yu gained a fourth Placement Slot and used it to cultivate Profound Yin Hand, then sought information about the Underground Palace and the Blood Talisman Runes. After Liu Jin Xian and Gu Zheng Shun refused to see him, he went to Situ Hong’s cave and used the Grand Yin Nether Eye to look inside.

• Wang Yu saw that the fourth Placement Slot had appeared and assigned it to Profound Yin Hand to improve his battle strength.
• Three months later, Wang Yu’s spiritual power became fully semi-liquefied, and he advanced from Qi Refining Fifth Layer to Qi Refining Seventh Layer over the three years since leaving home.
• Wang Yu decided to seek Liu Jin Xian’s help understanding the Blood Talisman Runes and the Demonic Script Stone Tablet, but she refused to meet with him.
• Wang Yu went to Gu Zheng Shun next, but Gu gave no response from behind his formation.
• Wang Yu visited Situ Hong’s temporary cave abode, received no answer, and used the Grand Yin Nether Eye to peer through the mountain rock and formation.

Wang Yu asked Situ Hong to decipher Blood Talisman Script and learned that studying it could awaken dangerous power in the blood. After using his Placement Slot to process the script analysis, Wang Yu found he could place the Mysterious Silk Book in the slot without comprehending it himself.

• Wang Yu pressured Situ Hong into letting him enter the temporary Cave Abode, then asked him to explain several Blood Talisman Runes.
• Situ Hong explained the runes and warned Wang Yu that Blood Talisman Script could awaken blood and turn a cultivator into a slaughtering demon creature.
• Situ Hong gave Wang Yu three Jade Slips containing Blood Talisman Script analysis, and Wang Yu returned to his Cave Abode.
• Wang Yu suspected the Mysterious Silk Book had caused Xu Jiao Jiao's unusual appearance and wondered if its contents could be cultivated without direct comprehension.
• Wang Yu used his Placement Slot to absorb the Jade Slips' knowledge, then found he could place the Mysterious Silk Book in the slot while keeping his mind empty.

Wang Yu began cultivating the Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique, a miracle art that strengthened his defense without its usual backlash when practiced through the placement slot. As he prepared to revisit the Underground Palace with Situ Hong, Steward Xu suddenly arrived on Profound Bone Mountain seeking him, leaving Wang Yu to retreat while the Bone Lion King engaged the Foundation Establishment cultivator.

• Wang Yu recognized the Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique as a defensive miracle art that used Yin Spirits, and realized the placement slot could cultivate it without triggering its backlash.
• Black Fiend Armor Patterns began forming on Wang Yu's body as pure Yin Spirit Power flowed into him through the placement slot.
• Ten days later, Wang Yu swallowed his fourth Top-Grade Cold Blood Pill, and in the first month of his sixth Outer Sect year he set out to find Situ Hong about exploring the Underground Palace again.
• Steward Xu arrived on Profound Bone Mountain and called out Wang Yu, who recognized him as Xu Jiao Jiao's father and retreated under the Night Concealment Spell.
• The Bone Lion King charged Steward Xu, and the two fought until Steward Xu sacrificed a Second Tier Low Grade sword Magical Artifact and gained the upper hand.

Wang Yu fled Profound Bone Mountain and decided to seek refuge in Maple Province City rather than return to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect. After Steward Xu cornered Liu Jin Xian, she unleashed a powerful gu-path trump card, leaving him badly wounded as she pursued him.

• Wang Yu rejected returning to the sect and chose to flee east-southeast toward Maple Province City.
• Steward Xu killed the Bone Lion King, then restrained Liu Jin Xian and demanded to know where Wang Yu had gone.
• Liu Jin Xian escaped Steward Xu's grip and bit him with an Azure Snake Venom Thread Gu, then triggered a Core Formation-level attack.
• Steward Xu severed his poisoned arm and defended himself, but the giant snake's attack destroyed his defenses and badly injured him.
• Liu Jin Xian ordered Situ Hong and Gu Zheng Shun to help kill the fleeing Steward Xu, but both refused, so she chased him alone.

Wang Yu fled toward Maple Province City while Steward Xu, badly poisoned and wounded by Liu Jin Xian, lured her onward as he tried to recover enough strength to kill her. Wang Yu decided to join the pursuit, but after two hours he had fallen behind and could only follow Liu Jin Xian’s lingering aura.

• Wang Yu ran toward Maple Province City, relying on his Night Concealment Spell and plentiful Top Grade Spirit Recovery Pills to keep going.
• Steward Xu recalled how the Zhu family, Evil God Peak, and Steward Zhuo had stripped him of his wealth, then accepted that his conflict with Liu Jin Xian had become a fight to the death.
• Steward Xu slowed just enough to keep Liu Jin Xian pursuing him while he secretly recovered his true essence, then flew toward Maple Province City.
• Liu Jin Xian noticed Steward Xu heading for the city and accelerated after him, believing he was afraid to face her.
• Wang Yu hid beneath a giant boulder as the two flew overhead, then chose to pursue them and help kill Steward Xu.
• After two hours, Wang Yu had fallen far behind the pair and continued by following Liu Jin Xian’s lingering aura.

Steward Xu recovered enough strength to counterattack Liu Jin Xian, but she defeated him with her Gu worms and poison. After Liu Jin Xian beheaded him, Steward Xu’s corpse transformed into a Ferocious Ghost and swallowed her, leaving Wang Yu to face a new crisis.

• Steward Xu halted his escape and attacked Liu Jin Xian with waves of fire, but she protected herself with a Gu worm’s carapace.
• Liu Jin Xian sprang a poison trap and used her Blood Mosquito Gu and Grey-White Poison Bee to overwhelm Steward Xu and disable his sword.
• Steward Xu, burned and poisoned, offered to become Liu Jin Xian’s slave, but she cut off his head instead.
• Steward Xu’s corpse released a smoke-like Ferocious Ghost that bound and swallowed Liu Jin Xian after Wang Yu arrived too late to stop it.

Wang Yu defeated the vicious ghost formed from Steward Xu by using Heavenly Yin Blood and the Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique, rescuing Liu Jin Xian. He returned toward Profound Bone Mountain with her and discovered that Steward Xu’s belongings included valuable pill formulas and the Ghost Transformation Evil Curse.

• Wang Yu realized the vicious ghost was consuming Liu Jin Xian and used Heavenly Yin Blood to lure it into the forest.
• Wang Yu activated his Corpse Demon traits and Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique, weakening the ghost until sunlight destroyed it and Liu Jin Xian emerged alive.
• Wang Yu recovered Steward Xu’s corpse and Storage Bag, and the experience advanced his Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique while leaving a Ghost Skull Pattern below his navel.
• Wang Yu carried Liu Jin Xian back toward Profound Bone Mountain and chose not to take her Storage Bag.
• Wang Yu found pill formulas and a Mysterious Silk Book in Steward Xu’s Storage Bag, identifying the book’s art as the Ghost Transformation Evil Curse.

Wang Yu returned Liu Jin Xian to Profound Bone Mountain, traded for Gu Zheng Shun’s promise to buy the Foundation Establishment corpse, and spent the final two years of the mission in seclusion. As the mission ended, Wang Yu planned to pursue Cold Dragon Pills and continued developing his cultivation and techniques.

• Wang Yu brought the injured Liu Jin Xian back to Situ Hong and Gu Zheng Shun, explaining that she had killed the Foundation Establishment Cultivator but suffered damage to her divine sense and soul.
• Wang Yu sold the cultivator’s corpse to Gu Zheng Shun for a Second Tier cold-attribute python demon core and three thousand spirit stones, to be exchanged when they returned to the sect.
• Wang Yu and Gu Zheng Shun entered seclusion while Situ Hong remained to care for Liu Jin Xian.
• Over the next two years, the survivors gathered Profound Essence Flowers and Bone Wood, and Liu Jin Xian recovered while offering Wang Yu a gu-insect bond that he refused.
• At the mission’s end, Wang Yu calculated that he had accumulated 149 strands of spiritual power and planned to refine Cold Dragon Pills to speed his cultivation.
• Wang Yu perfected the Soul Devouring Evil Armor Technique, gaining a swiftly activated defensive armor that was especially effective against divine sense attacks.

Wang Yu and his companions left Profound Bone Mountain and began their return to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect. On the journey, Wang Yu discussed the Underground Palace, revealing that it was a trap.

• Wang Yu switched the Placement Slot to the Cold Dragon Pill formula and planned to focus his remaining slots on cultivation methods.
• Wang Yu chose to ride with Gu Zheng Shun, then calmed Liu Jin Xian by explaining his Spirit Slave past and making light of his white hair and short lifespan.
• The four cultivators departed Profound Bone Mountain and flew toward the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect.
• During the return journey, Wang Yu and Gu Zheng Shun discussed the Underground Palace, and Gu Zheng Shun was shocked to learn it was a trap.

After returning to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect, Wang Yu sought to trade his spoils and learned that Zhao Shang had reportedly died. He left Ice Snow Tower wary of Lan Ji and still needing a way to sell his goods.

• Wang Yu returned to the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect with Gu Zheng Shun, and they arranged to meet five days later at the Eight Treasures Pavilion in Evil God Ward.
• Wang Yu went to Ice Snow Tower to ask Zhao Shang to exchange his spoils for spirit stones, but found Lan Ji had taken over as steward.
• Lan Ji told Wang Yu that Zhao Shang had died after Zhou Tao exposed his theft of Ice Snow Tower's profits and handed over four thousand spirit stones.
• Wang Yu doubted Lan Ji's account, refused her offer of the Essence Qi Chamber, and left Ice Snow Tower to seek another way to sell his goods.

Wang Yu completed a trade with Gu Zheng Shun for the materials needed to refine the Cold Dragon Pill and commissioned him to investigate Ice Snow Tower. After the pill formula reached perfection, Wang Yu rented an Earth Fire Room and began refining the pill to form the Cold Flame Fire Seed.

• Wang Yu accepted Gu Zheng Shun’s Ice Python Demon Core and spirit stones, then gave him a Foundation Establishment corpse in exchange.
• Wang Yu paid Gu Zheng Shun with a Storage Bag of spoils to investigate Ice Snow Tower’s intelligence from the past five years and discussed selling him Profound Essence Flowers.
• Wang Yu learned that Zhou Tao had expanded the Alchemist Society into a large, profitable business, while its former members had mostly left.
• The Cold Dragon Pill formula reached perfection in Wang Yu’s Placement Slot, and he rented an Earth Fire Room at the Alchemy Hall.
• Wang Yu began refining the Cold Dragon Pill, expertly preparing and fusing the herbs before entering the pill-nurturing stage.

Wang Yu refined a Cold Flame Fire Seed and used it to improve his Cold Blood Pills, then left seclusion to collect intelligence about Cold Blood Ward. The intelligence revealed that Zhao Shang had fled into Blood Abyss, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Wang Yu swallowed the Top Grade Cold Dragon Pill, refined its power, and gained a cold flame that could take the form of a python.
• Wang Yu used the cold flame to refine Top-Grade Cold Blood Pills whose effects increased by more than fifty percent, then stored six pills.
• Wang Yu placed Profound Yin Hand into Slot Four and went to Eight Treasures Pavilion to meet Gu Zheng Shun.
• Gu Zheng Shun gave Wang Yu intelligence covering the five years he had been away from Cold Blood Ward.
• Wang Yu learned that Zhao Shang had escaped into Blood Abyss, a perilous place southwest of the sect.

Wang Yu learned that a Cold Blood Peak true inheritor was about to emerge after completing Core Formation, threatening the other true inheritors and potentially putting Wang Yu in danger. He sought allies and an escape route while researching ways to improve his aptitude, then studied the Foundation Establishment Three Barriers in the Sutra Repository Hall.

• Wang Yu learned that a Cold Blood Peak true inheritor had passed the Core Formation Lightning Tribulation and would soon emerge, forcing the other true inheritors to leave, surrender their positions, or face consequences.
• Wang Yu decided to contact True Inheritor Su through Duan Ping and asked Lan Ji to arrange a meeting at Ice Snow Tower.
• Wang Yu went to the Sutra Repository Hall to investigate secret methods for improving aptitude in case he had to flee the sect.
• Wang Yu spent several days searching the disorganized library and read books on cultivation, including Secrets of the Foundation Establishment Three Barriers.
• Wang Yu learned that the Spirit Energy, Qi and Blood, and Divine Sense Barriers governed Foundation Establishment, and that divine sense was especially difficult to strengthen.

Wang Yu studied the Three Barriers of Foundation Establishment and found that his weak qi and blood were his greatest obstacle. While searching for ways to improve his aptitude, he uncovered three demonic arts, and the last one seemed to offer a promising path.

• Wang Yu learned that his spiritual energy and divine sense were well prepared for Foundation Establishment, but his missing arm, burned lifespan, and fragile meridians left his Qi and Blood Barrier weak.
• After nearly three months of study, Wang Yu found records of three demonic arts related to aptitude improvement.
• Wang Yu learned that the Foundation Stealing Grand Art could grant Foundation Establishment cultivation but could not change spiritual roots, and he considered it a useful cover for a future breakthrough.
• Wang Yu read about the Blood Spring Evil Art, which required a hundred matching cultivators and could supposedly grant a Blood Spiritual Root, but its core inheritance was unavailable to him.
• Wang Yu discovered the Demonic Fetus Profound Origin Secret Incantation, which any cultivator could practice by chanting daily to transform their body into a Profound Origin Demonic Fetus.