Chapter Summaries

Wei Xingchao used the Heavenly Order Guard’s Mother Mirror to investigate Qin Yang’s apparent assassination and uncovered signs of the Mu Clan Descendant and a cultivator of the Void Scripture. Qin Yang returned to Desperate Estate alive, reunited with Yijia and Zhang Zhengyi, and left the Heavenly Order Guard to pursue the former-dynasty remnants he had exposed.

• Wei Xingchao pursued a Huang Clan expert into the void, returned injured, and ordered the Heavenly Order Guard to investigate at all costs.
• The Heavenly Order Guard used its Mother Mirror to reveal that Li Wei had killed Qin Yang with the Head Chopping Flying Knife before fleeing, while a hidden Void Scripture cultivator intervened in the ensuing fight.
• Wei Xingchao ordered the hunt for the Mu Clan Descendant and hurried to report the incident to the Emperor Ying, while the mirror investigation lost Li Wei’s trail near a grave.
• The Puppet Master returned unharmed with Qin Yang, who revived Zhang Zhengyi and waited at Desperate Estate for Yijia.
• Yijia found Qin Yang alive, kicked him in anger, then agreed to resume her usual behavior and let others discover his survival on their own.
• Qin Yang reassured Zhang Zhengyi and resolved to let the Heavenly Order Guard pursue the former-dynasty remnants he had drawn into the open.

The Emperor Ying ordered Wei Xingchao to investigate the Huang Clan with the Son of Heaven Sword, and the clan submitted without resistance. Outside Desperate Estate, Changxia continued searching for Qin Yang before Shui Mohua encountered a masked man from her past.

• The Emperor Ying suspected the former dynasty's Great Emperor was probing the divine dynasty's weakness, so he sent Wei Xingchao to investigate the Huang Clan with an Imperial Decree and the Son of Heaven Sword.
• The Huang Clan Head ordered his clan to cooperate with the Heavenly Order Guard, and the opened cave residence revealed that Huang Ying had disappeared.
• Qin Yang learned of the investigation and judged that the Huang Clan Head had protected the clan by enduring the humiliation without resisting.
• Huang Ying apologized to the Snake Mark Man, who told her to spread news of Qin Yang's death before receiving word that she had been exposed and should not return.
• Changxia told Shui Mohua why she wanted to see the man who had once saved her, and Shui Mohua stopped an intruder's attack near Desperate Estate.
• The masked newcomer called Shui Mohua Chu Rou and refused to remove his Thousand Illusions Mask, prompting Shui Mohua to rush at him in anger.

Shui Mohua reunited with Jie Qizheng, who explained why he had erased his face and urged her to protect Changxia from the danger gathering in Li Capital. While Qin Yang prepared for the Corpse Chief’s awakening, Wei Xingchao abandoned his attempt to question Qin Yang after the Great Emperor Princess’s people intervened.

• Shui Mohua left Desperate Estate with the masked man and Changxia, then recognized the man as Jie Qizheng after he revealed his face.
• Jie Qizheng told Shui Mohua that he had used a forbidden art to erase his face after a traitor exposed his body, and Shui Mohua explained how she had entered a painting to survive the Mu Clan’s calamity.
• Jie Qizheng concluded that Changxia’s supposed Mu Clan Descendant was likely one of Qin Yang’s incarnations and urged Shui Mohua to take Changxia somewhere safe.
• Qin Yang focused on preparing for the Corpse Chief’s awakening and considered where to send it once it was born.
• Wei Xingchao sent people to question Qin Yang, but the Great Emperor Princess’s agents stopped them, and Wei Xingchao ordered his subordinates to leave Qin Yang alone.

Qin Yang learned that Wei Xingchao had been beaten again after provoking Wedding Dress, then decided to reopen the Netherworld Auction. By offering a Buddha Bone Golden Body and True Dragon Blood, he planned to reveal that he was alive and send the Corpse Chief to the Western Desert.

• Wen Yubo told Qin Yang that Wedding Dress had rebuked Wei Xingchao in court, leading Emperor Ying to order him beaten with Court Rods.
• Wei Xingchao blamed his subordinates for trying to question Qin Yang, ordered them not to mention Qin Yang again, and vowed to vent his anger on the former dynasty.
• The Puppet Master told Qin Yang that the Corpse Chief was nearing awakening and that powerful outsiders had recently approached Desperate Estate.
• Qin Yang decided to reopen the Netherworld Auction and asked Wen Yubo to prepare invitations and auction items.
• Qin Yang chose a Buddha Bone Golden Body and a drop of True Dragon Blood as the auction's supreme treasures, and ordered invitations sent to Reincarnation Temple and the Corpse Bone Vein.
• Qin Yang planned to use the auction to show that he was alive, sell the Buddha Bone Golden Body, and send the Corpse Chief to the Western Desert.

Qin Yang prepared the Buddha Bone Golden Body for the Netherworld Auction and tried to reassure any awareness inside it before the sale. As factions across Under the Whole World raised funds and paused their conflicts, the Heavenly Order Guard discovered that Qin Yang’s auction had brought about the sudden calm.

• Qin Yang burned Spirit Incense before the Buddha Bone Golden Body, explained why he planned to sell it, and left feeling reassured.
• News of the Buddha Bone Golden Body auction reached the Corpse Bone Vein and Reincarnation Temple, whose Great Monks suppressed calls to seize it by force and chose to follow the auction’s rules.
• The abbot of Reincarnation Temple assigned Qingxin to accompany the temple’s representatives to the auction and meet the Corpse Bone Vein’s abominations.
• Demons across the Demon Country and Eastern Sea began raising funds after hearing about the auction and the Three-Eyed Dragon Mother’s rise, causing conflicts in several regions to subside.
• The Heavenly Order Guard traced the sudden calm across the regions to Qin Yang’s auction, but the first-rank Outer Marquis in Li Capital refused to report it because his superior had ordered him not to hear news about Qin Yang.

Xu Zhengqiang discreetly handled intelligence while preparing to enter Qin Yang’s Netherworld Auction, and Qin Yang opened the secret realm as invitations arrived. When a lost invitation was found beneath the Sand Sea, Zhang Zhengyi retrieved it from a dangerous beast, and Qin Yang then brought the Corpse Chief to the Sand Sea.

• Xu Zhengqiang hid the reports about Qin Yang from Wei Xingchao and studied an invitation listing treasures for the Netherworld Auction.
• Qin Yang sensed the invitation holders, opened the Netherworld Secret Realm, and asked Zhang Zhengyi to retrieve a lost invitation in the Sand Sea Desert.
• Zhang Zhengyi agreed after Qin Yang mentioned a mountain ghost living in Kui Mountain, then entered the Sand Sea to retrieve the invitation.
• Zhang Zhengyi used his defensive treasures and a three-legged cauldron to escape a giant sandworm and return with the invitation.
• Zhang Zhengyi told Qin Yang that he had taken the cauldron from a ruin associated with the Northern Dipper Star Sect.
• Qin Yang brought the Corpse Chief to the Sand Sea and found that its hot sands and accumulated Yin Qi suited the creature.

Qin Yang left the Corpse Chief to gestate in the Sand Sea, gave Zhang Zhengyi a Strange Fruit, and returned to oversee the Netherworld Auction. At the venue, he surveyed the gathered factions and watched a Vinaya Sect monk begin to investigate him before his companion stopped him.

• A giant sandworm attacked Qin Yang in the Sand Sea, but his Black Jade Divine Gate crushed it and drove the other worms away.
• Qin Yang found a deep hollow of transformed Yin Qi, placed the Corpse Chief there to gestate, and left it an invitation and advice for surviving on its own.
• Qin Yang retrieved the Strange Vine and gave one of its seven Strange Fruits to Zhang Zhengyi, who grew young again and gained thousands of years of lifespan.
• Qin Yang returned to the auction venue in disguise and observed the Puppet Master, the Corpse Bone Vein, Reincarnation Temple, and other factions gathering under tight restraint.
• A Vinaya Sect monk tried to use a secret art to inspect Qin Yang, but his companion stopped him before he broke the auction's rules.

Qin Yang watched the auction’s factions and learned that a slick Heavenly Order Guard Outer Marquis was among the guests before the grand finale began. Reincarnation Temple and Corpse Bone Vein then bid against each other for Profound Yellow Qi, and Reincarnation Temple opened the bidding on Drought Demon Essence Blood.

• Qin Yang noticed a smooth-talking man greeting many guests and learned from Wen Yubo that he was a first-rank Outer Marquis of the Heavenly Order Guard.
• The Puppet Master guarded the auction hall with Destruction Balls and mechanism puppets while Qin Yang tried to reassure him that nobody would dare steal the treasures.
• Wen Yubo began the grand finale, and Reincarnation Temple bought the ten grains of Ten Thousand Year Sand.
• Reincarnation Temple and Corpse Bone Vein competed for Profound Yellow Qi until the young monk from Reincarnation Temple urged his side to stop at eight thousand seven hundred and ten Seventh Grade Spirit Stones.
• Reincarnation Temple began bidding on Drought Demon Essence Blood with an opening bid ten times the starting price.

Qin Yang’s Netherworld Auction ended with the Reincarnation Temple winning the Buddha Bone Golden Body by exploiting the settlement rules, while Qin Yang collected the treasures and proceeds. The Corpse Chief was born safely in the Sand Sea Desert, and Qingxin’s attempt to reclaim the Buddha Bone Golden Body revealed that Qin Yang’s ownership had severed its connection to him.

• The Reincarnation Temple outbid the Corpse Bone Vein for the Drought Demon essence blood, and Qin Yang realized the little monk had used the auction’s payment rules to secure an advantage.
• A great demon called the Scale Armor Demon King won the small drop of True Dragon Blood for one Spirit Vein, and Qin Yang noted he could seek the demon’s help later.
• Qin Yang auctioned the Buddha Bone Golden Body, and the Reincarnation Temple won it for sixteen Spirit Veins after Qingxin confirmed it could settle the bill with treasures at the permitted rate.
• Qin Yang collected the auction’s spoils, including the Profound Yellow Qi and Drought Demon essence blood, while the Corpse Chief awakened in the Sand Sea Desert and concealed the signs of his birth.
• The Corpse Bone Vein decided to seek the Drought Demon essence blood from whoever had acquired it, while one of its experts went to investigate the newly born corpse.
• Qingxin received teachings from the Buddha Bone Golden Body but could not reclaim it, and the old abbot and old monk realized it no longer belonged to him.

Qin Yang reflected on the sect’s repeated relocations and his resolve to protect its incense lineage, then considered returning to the former dynasty’s ranks to investigate those who had impersonated and shot him. Meanwhile, someone disguised as Qin Yang tried to enter the Netherworld Ship and fled after its Evil Gate Spirit exposed him, but Old Turtle caught the impostor near the Sea Dragon and broke his leg.

• The Great Monks of Reincarnation Temple and the Corpse Bone Vein both remained wary, preserving an uneasy peace in the Sand Sea Desert, while other powers recovered and the East Sea’s maritime trade took shape.
• Zhang Zhengyi told Qin Yang that the sect was relocating again, and Qin Yang gave him a piece of wood to return to the tree demon while reaffirming his intention to keep the sect’s incense lineage alive.
• After Zhang Zhengyi left, Qin Yang continued expanding his intelligence network and considered infiltrating the former dynasty as Li Wei to find the person who had impersonated him and the archer who had wounded him.
• An impostor disguised as Qin Yang ordered the Netherworld Ship’s Evil Gate Spirit to open the prison, but the spirit pierced his body and forced him to escape using Golden Cicada Sheds its Shell.
• The impostor fled to the White Wave Sea and approached the Sea Dragon, where Old Turtle grabbed him and broke his leg before realizing he had used too little force.

Verdant Grandma and Old Turtle exposed and captured a Broken-Tailed Spirit Demon who had impersonated Qin Yang, and Qin Yang learned that the Demon Race might also be behind the archer who had attacked him. Back at his residence, Qin Yang received another visit from the Tian Clan and wondered whether Zhang Zhengyi had accepted women in his name.

• Little Seventh smelled the impostor and identified him as a bad person, exposing him to Old Turtle and Verdant Grandma.
• Old Turtle and Verdant Grandma stripped away the impostor’s disguise and discovered he was a Broken-Tailed Spirit Demon; Verdant Grandma handed him to Miss Jellyfish for interrogation.
• Verdant Grandma ordered the Jiao Emperor to investigate the sea folk and planned to question master archers, while Qin Yang received the intelligence report and added the Demon Race, Broken-Tailed Spirit Demon, and possible Six-Armed Spirit Demon suspects to his notebook.
• The Tian Clan’s steward brought gifts and young women to Qin Yang, but Qin Yang refused the attendants and accepted the gifts.
• Qin Yang asked the Puppet Master whether Zhang Zhengyi had accepted any women while staying there in Qin Yang’s name.

Qin Yang learned that unconventional methods might let him cultivate an Innate Dao Body and began considering how to use the Burial Sea Marrow Refinement Canon to strengthen himself. The Tian Family Old Ancestor warned him indirectly about an impending upheaval involving the former dynasty, leaving Qin Yang to plan how to prevent both the Former Dynasty Great Emperor and Emperor Ying from destroying him.

• Qin Yang consulted Black Shadow about Zhang Zhengyi’s plan to become an Innate Primordial Yang Dao Body and realized he could use the Burial Sea Marrow Refinement Canon to build toward similar results.
• Qin Yang visited the Tian Family Old Ancestor, who warned that former dynasty forces might overturn the Great Ying Divine Dynasty within the next decade or so and urged Qin Yang to stay away from the danger.
• Qin Yang inferred that the Tian Family Old Ancestor wanted him to help Tian Clan escape overseas if the coming upheaval became inevitable.
• The Tian Family Old Ancestor ordered the Tian Family Head to give Tian LuanYu more authority and find ways to place Tian Clan members in Qin Yang’s service.
• Qin Yang studied imperial records and identified three ceremonies at which Emperor Ying might leave Li Capital, especially the upcoming Ten Thousand Year Ceremony.
• Qin Yang concluded that he had too little time to manage the conflict between Emperor Ying and the Former Dynasty Great Emperor, so he asked Mo Yang to invite Wedding Dress secretly.

Qin Yang advised JIAYI on the coming imperial ceremonies and warned her to watch Zhou Wang, while concealing the price he had paid to survive the Head Chopping Flying Knife. After rejecting Black Shadow’s dangerous proposal, Qin Yang decided to travel to the Sand Sea and take the initiative against the Former Dynasty.

• Qin Yang clarified how JIAYI should visit him, and she arrived in Li Capital the next day to check on his recovery.
• Qin Yang told JIAYI to prepare for three ceremonies and predicted that he would be chosen to patrol the four directions while another prince performed the Kui Mountain sacrifice.
• Qin Yang warned JIAYI to ignore Zhao Wang and watch the Crown Prince and Zhou Wang, whom he suspected of pursuing immense ambitions.
• Black Shadow proposed that Qin Yang seek the Wrath Art and investigate the corpse of the powerful figure who had killed him, but Qin Yang refused to risk approaching the corpse.
• Qin Yang found inspiration in Black Shadow’s notes for a possible future transformation using Ten Thousand Year Sand and the Sand Sea Desert.
• Qin Yang decided to travel to the Sand Sea with Mo Yang, hoping to disrupt the Former Dynasty’s plans and gain intelligence.

Qin Yang traveled west into the Sand Sea Desert, hoping to test his spiritual body and draw out the former dynasty’s experts, while the Snake Mark Man decided not to pursue him. At the Thieves' Sect, Zhang Zhengyi discovered Wei Feng’s sealed tomb and confirmed that Wei Feng’s body lay inside; after removing the mausoleum, he was sent away with no answers, while Qin Yang’s journey continued without anyone attacking him.

• Qin Yang set out west with the Puppet Master, intending to check on the Corpse Chief, test a method for strengthening his spiritual body, and provoke the former dynasty into revealing its intentions.
• The Snake Mark Man learned Qin Yang had left the estate but wrote that no one should pay attention to him.
• Zhang Zhengyi returned to the Thieves' Sect, delivered Qin Yang’s wood core to the Banyan Tree Demon, and received permission from Meng Yi to challenge a tomb trial.
• Zhang Zhengyi found Wei Feng’s completed epitaph, broke into the tomb, and confirmed that Wei Feng’s body was in the coffin.
• Zhang Zhengyi removed Wei Feng’s mausoleum and questioned Uncle-Master Bai, who gave him no clear answer before sending him out of the sect residence.
• Qin Yang and the Puppet Master crossed the Great Ying Divine Dynasty’s western border without attracting an attack, leaving Qin Yang bored and suspicious.

Bone King searched the Sand Sea for the kindred spirit awakened by the Black Sandstorm and found Corpse Chief, whose presence stirred a crisis over Bone King’s identity. After Corpse Chief named Qin Yang as someone who might help, Bone King gave him the first level of the Undead Treasure Tome and headed out to find Qin Yang.

• Bone King found the ruined cave where Corpse Chief had awakened and felt powerful emotions tied to his former body.
• Bone King nearly attacked the sleeping Corpse Chief, but ancient Dao Patterns stopped him and forced him to question who he was.
• Bone King woke Corpse Chief and asked whether he was his former self or a new being; Corpse Chief admitted he could not tell and suggested Qin Yang might know.
• Bone King gave Corpse Chief the first level of the Undead Treasure Tome in exchange for help finding Qin Yang.
• At a Corpse Bone Vein meeting, Bone King heard that Qin Yang had come to the desert and left to find him himself.

Qin Yang entered the Sand Sea to advance his physique, while the Quicksand Bandits copied the Netherworld Thieves' business model and claimed it as their own. After Qin Yang's cultivation caused a massive sand wave, the Quicksand Bandits' base was struck and their costly secret chamber collapsed.

• Qin Yang discovered that the former dynasty had copied the Netherworld Thieves' business model through the Quicksand Bandits, but he left their marketplace without confronting them.
• Qin Yang entered the Sand Sea, used a Supergravity Killing Array and Ten Thousand Year Sand to evolve his Earth Spirit Body into an Earth Qi Treasure Body and then a Thick Earth True Body.
• Qin Yang damaged the array as he left, unleashing a huge sand wave that surged toward the Quicksand Bandits' base.
• Big Beard ordered the Quicksand Bandits to evacuate, then stayed behind to protect their secret chamber from the wave.
• The base's defenses and Big Beard's strength briefly held back the sand wave, but a second surge destroyed the defenses and buried the secret chamber in ruins.

Qin Yang compensated people for damage caused by his array, then confronted Chief Hu over the destruction of the Quicksand Bandits’ stronghold. When Big Beard began listing the secret chamber’s materials, an unseen attacker killed him, and Qin Yang waited for Snake Mark Man’s next move after the Puppet Master pursued the killer.

• Big Beard discovered that the Quicksand Bandits’ stronghold and secret chamber had been destroyed, then rushed toward Qin Yang after a subordinate identified him as responsible.
• Qin Yang offered compensation to people harmed by the array and paid them for their losses.
• Qin Yang offered Chief Hu compensation for the Quicksand Bandits’ losses, but Chief Hu demanded twenty Spirit Veins and began listing the secret chamber’s materials.
• Snake Mark Man learned that Qin Yang had destroyed his arrangement and ordered Big Beard silenced, then authorized a Dao Palace Expert to kill Qin Yang.
• An attacker sliced Big Beard in two while he named the secret chamber’s materials, and Qin Yang ordered the Puppet Master to pursue the killer.
• Qin Yang stayed behind, expecting another attack and planning to draw out information from whoever came for him.

Qin Yang survived coordinated assassination attempts while pretending to be unaware of the plot, and Bone King intervened to protect him. Afterward, Bone King asked Qin Yang to answer a question, leaving Qin Yang suspicious about who had directed him there.

• Qin Yang convinced the Quicksand Bandits that Big Beard had been silenced by someone else, paid their compensation, and noticed one bandit hiding what he knew about the camp’s treasures.
• The Puppet Master pursued a Black Shadow through the void, destroyed it, and mistakenly believed the target was dead after it escaped using a hidden ability.
• A disguised youth attacked Qin Yang by distorting his senses and freezing the space around him, while a hidden swordsman launched a flying sword and the Puppet Master fought another assailant.
• Bone King blocked the flying sword, killed the swordsman, and drove away a monk from the Reincarnation Temple; Qin Yang then recovered as his attacker died from exhausting himself.
• Qin Yang ordered Mo Yang to retrieve the attacker’s corpse, offered to contact the anonymous owner of the Drought Demon blood essence for Bone King, and heard Bone King say someone had told him Qin Yang could resolve his doubts.

Qin Yang used a rewritten tale of the Thief God Ji Wu Ming and his own past-life memories to help Bone King reconcile his past and present selves. After leaving Bone King to reflect, Qin Yang performed Corpse Touching on three attackers’ bodies, but each time he gained only blue and white orbs.

• Bone King invited Qin Yang to drink Yin Marrow Spirit Liquid and asked for help understanding whether he was his past self or his present self.
• Qin Yang told Bone King a retold story about Ji Wu Ming losing himself, then explained that past experiences were all part of one person’s identity.
• Bone King accepted Qin Yang’s view, shook his hand, and stayed behind to think as Qin Yang departed.
• Qin Yang regretted that Corpse Touching would not work on Bone King, then restored Big Beard’s corpse and sent Mo Yang to return it to the Quicksand Bandits.
• Qin Yang performed Corpse Touching on Big Beard and two other corpses, gaining blue and white orbs each time and wondering why his results were so poor.

After looting the corpses, Qin Yang uncovered a heterodox cultivation method that could turn the Black Jade Divine Gate into a magical treasure and potentially lower its grade. He refined the gate into a treasure, but the Puppet Master warned that safely weakening it would require using it to block attacks in real combat.

• Qin Yang examined Big Beard’s memories and found a secret-chamber blueprint and a Sand Sea navigation manual, which he planned to use later.
• Qin Yang learned that the young elder had burned his lifespan to reach the Dao Palace and had been used as a doomed pawn in the former dynasty’s plans.
• Qin Yang identified the young elder’s Fixed Space Treasure Art and dismissed it as useless without the Void Scripture.
• Qin Yang discovered the final elder’s heterodox weapon-refining method and realized he could forge the Black Jade Divine Gate into a treasure that could lose grades.
• Qin Yang reburied the elder in a white jade coffin, built a mausoleum, and left spirit incense burning there for a hundred years.
• After half a month of practice, Qin Yang refined the Black Jade Divine Gate into a magical artifact, but Mo Yang explained that it would need to block attacks to lose grades safely.