Chapter Summaries

Qin Yang watched the Bone King resolve the conflict within himself and grow stronger, securing the Corpse Chief’s safety and earning Qin Yang’s gratitude. After leaving the Sand Sea Desert, Qin Yang’s trap for the inheritor of the Void Scripture detonated a swarm of Destruction Balls, though the attacker’s fate remained unknown.

• Qin Yang saw that the Bone King’s aura had settled into order, and the Bone King thanked him for helping him understand that his past and present selves were one.
• The Bone King offered to avenge an earlier assassination attempt, but Qin Yang declined and instead discussed arranging a sale of Drought Demon blood essence.
• Qin Yang left the Quicksand Bandits to choose their own leader, gave them Spirit Stones to rebuild their base, and departed the Sand Sea Desert.
• An unknown phantom dug up the grave where Qin Yang had buried the old man in a youth’s body, but found an empty coffin, a taunting note, and an activated Destruction Ball.
• The phantom fled into the void as thirty or forty Destruction Balls exploded, and Qin Yang took satisfaction in the trap he had prepared.

Qin Yang returned to Li Capital and traded information about a secret chamber with Xu Zhengqiang, a first-rank Outer Marquis of the Heavenly Order Guard, under the guise of becoming drinking buddies. Back at Desperate Estate, he found Zhang Zhengyi’s corpse and began repairing him so he could learn why he had climbed over the wall.

• Xu Zhengqiang reported the Void Scripture inheritor’s attempt to kill Qin Yang to Wei Xingchao, who ordered him to meet Qin Yang and gather information.
• Xu Zhengqiang intercepted Qin Yang near Li Capital and invited him to drink, while Qin Yang agreed to become his drinking buddy.
• Xu Zhengqiang met Qin Yang again and received a Jade Slip listing materials used in the secret chamber; Qin Yang expected the Heavenly Order Guard to investigate its purpose in return for a favor.
• Qin Yang returned to Desperate Estate and found Zhang Zhengyi split in two by a puppet after climbing over the wall.
• Qin Yang carried Zhang Zhengyi’s two halves back to repair him and waited for him to revive.

Qin Yang learned from Zhang Zhengyi that Old Man Wei had died after a clash with the Yan Luo Clan, then used the corpse’s memories to identify the woman who killed him. After speaking with Meng Yi about the Thief Sect’s plans, Qin Yang sent Zhang Zhengyi to investigate the Yan Luo Clan and find out whether the woman was dead.

• Zhang Zhengyi revived after the puppet guards killed him several times for climbing into Qin Yang’s estate, then told Qin Yang he had found Old Man Wei’s corpse.
• Qin Yang repaired Old Man Wei’s body and used Corpse Touching to see his final memories, which showed a woman from the Yan Luo Clan defeating him before his last strike grievously wounded her.
• Qin Yang spoke with Meng Yi through a portrait, learned that the Thief Sect had separated him and Zhang Zhengyi from its affairs to preserve its incense and flame, and urged Meng Yi not to risk his life against the Yan Luo Clan.
• Qin Yang sent Zhang Zhengyi to the Great Yan Divine Dynasty to watch for Meng Yi and gather information about the woman who killed Old Man Wei.
• After reviewing Xu Zhengqiang’s intelligence, Qin Yang found that the woman was the former Yan Luo Clan head and suspected she had died from Old Man Wei’s final strike.
• Qin Yang ordered Zhang Zhengyi to investigate whether the woman was dead and, if so, bring back her corpse for relocation.

Qin Yang pieced together the Yan Luo Clan family head’s death and the Former Dynasty’s plan to use Kill Word Tablets to finish making God-Killing Arrows. The chapter ended with the Yan Luo Clan’s Young Master Luo secretly charging a metal case at the Shadow Kill Word Tablet.

• Qin Yang organized scraps of intelligence and confirmed that the Yan Luo Clan family head had died suddenly, prompting the clan to swiftly install an elder as its new head.
• The Tian Family Old Ancestor warned Qin Yang that the materials he had traced pointed to a Heaven-Stealing Coffin tied to the Former Dynasty’s resurrection plans.
• The Tian Family Old Ancestor told Qin Yang that the Yan Luo Clan family head had died fighting at Veda Mountain in the Great Yan Divine Dynasty.
• Qin Yang connected the family head’s death, the battles near Veda Mountain, and the Kill Word Tablets, deducing that she had died defending Great Yan from the Void Scripture inheritor and that the Former Dynasty sought to create God-Killing Arrows.
• A group sent by the Great Yan Great Emperor inspected Old Azure Mountain, where Young Master Luo of the Yan Luo Clan served as guard.
• After the group left, Young Master Luo placed a metal case before the Shadow Kill Word Tablet and secretly drew its killing intent into the case.

Snake Mark Man and the inheritor of the Void Scripture disagreed over whether to pursue Qin Yang, while Snake Mark Man’s plan to charge the God-Killing Arrows depended on Yan Luo Clan. After losing contact with Meng Yi, Qin Yang devised a way to make a convincing fake arrow and draw out the former dynasty’s hidden plan, as a young Yan Luo Clan member plotted revenge with the real arrows.

• Snake Mark Man insisted Qin Yang had to die, but the inheritor of the Void Scripture refused to keep helping him and challenged him to recover the God-Killing Arrows.
• Snake Mark Man revealed that he had given Yan Luo Clan an opportunity and a reason for hatred, expecting its members to use the Kill Word Tablet to complete the arrows.
• Qin Yang failed to contact Meng Yi and concluded that his connection to the Thief Sect had been severed, leaving him without answers about the Heaven-Stealing Coffin.
• Qin Yang considered the danger the fifty uncharged God-Killing Arrows posed to Wedding Dress’s coming patrol and realized their disappearance remained an urgent threat.
• Qin Yang drew on the killing aura in his Black Jade Divine Gate and began crafting a fake God-Killing Arrow to lure the former dynasty’s people into revealing their plan.
• A young member of Yan Luo Clan sat by the Kill Word Tablet in Old Azure Mountain and pondered how to open a metal box containing God-Killing Arrows for revenge.

Qin Yang forged fifty counterfeit God-Killing Arrows and devised a plan to draw out the former dynasty’s people near Old Azure Mountain. He sent Zhang Zhengyi to expose a box of counterfeits, and two groups detected the killing intent and pursued him.

• Qin Yang forged fifty counterfeit God-Killing Arrows and refined each one so others could not easily take control of them.
• Qin Yang reasoned that the former dynasty would most likely charge the real arrows near Old Azure Mountain, where the Yan Luo Clan’s guard might be easier to exploit.
• Qin Yang summoned Second Sword Lord, who transported him to Great Yan, and they inspected Little Azure Mountain and Old Azure Mountain before choosing the latter as the likely target.
• Qin Yang lured Zhang Zhengyi out with a fake missing-person notice and explained that he needed Zhang to help bait the former dynasty’s people.
• Zhang Zhengyi took a box of ten counterfeit arrows to the forest near Old Azure Mountain and briefly let its killing intent escape.
• Two separate groups detected the killing intent and set off after Zhang Zhengyi.

Qin Yang planted a second box of counterfeit God-Killing Arrows beneath Old Azure Mountain to test Luo Song and the former dynasty. Luo Song found it and concluded he had been deceived, while the news of his discovery reached Snake Mark Man.

• Zhang Zhengyi staged his death while two cultivators fought over a box of counterfeit God-Killing Arrows, and Qin Yang collected the remains and revived him.
• Qin Yang spread news of the arrows, prompting Luo Song to suspect that the box he possessed might be fake and Snake Mark Man to dismiss the public appearance as a trap.
• Qin Yang realized he had overlooked the Yan Luo Clan, gathered information about its three brothers, and decided Luo Song was his next target.
• Qin Yang buried another box of counterfeit God-Killing Arrows beneath Old Azure Mountain, where it began absorbing the Kill Word Tablet’s killing aura.
• Luo Song detected and retrieved the hidden box, then concluded that the former dynasty had misled him with a fake box in plain sight.
• News of Luo Song’s discovery spread from Old Azure Mountain, and Snake Mark Man could no longer remain calm.

Qin Yang uncovered that the Snake Mark Man had maneuvered Luo Song into forging the genuine God-Killing Arrows, while Qin Yang’s convincing counterfeits had disrupted the plan. After infiltrating Old Azure Mountain, Qin Yang approached Luo Song in person and introduced himself.

• The Snake Mark Man sent Huang Ying to investigate the newly surfaced God-Killing Arrows and locate the genuine arrows, ordering her to kill Luo Song if they were complete.
• Qin Yang planted more counterfeit arrows around Old Azure Mountain and Little Azure Mountain, where people began searching for them and Great Yan’s Imperial Grandson found one.
• Qin Yang recognized the Evergreen Merchant Guild as the former dynasty’s forces and deduced that their sudden concern over Luo Song meant the genuine God-Killing Arrows were in Luo Song’s hands.
• Qin Yang realized the Snake Mark Man had killed Luo Song’s mother and manipulated Luo Song into completing the arrows, while Luo Song had exposed the news to test his enemies.
• Qin Yang used his Earth Energy True Body to bypass Old Azure Mountain’s defenses and reached the passage outside its innermost core.
• Luo Song sealed Qin Yang’s retreat with white smoke, and Qin Yang calmly introduced himself as Qin Yang.

Qin Yang met Luo Song at Old Azure Mountain and struck a deal to cooperate against the Void Scripture inheritor, offering help opening metal boxes in exchange for Yan Luo Clan treasures. After leaving, Qin Yang made thirty empty boxes that absorbed killing aura and arranged to plant them around several locations to further confuse everyone about the God-Killing Arrows.

• Qin Yang introduced himself to Luo Song as the Void Scripture inheritor’s enemy, and Luo Song left to check intelligence before deciding whether to trust him.
• Qin Yang opened a metal box containing ten God-Killing Arrows and showed Luo Song the arrows while revealing that he had come to propose cooperation.
• Luo Song agreed to share intelligence and trade Yan Luo Clan treasures for Qin Yang’s help opening the sealed boxes, and Qin Yang accepted a reduced offer of rare incense and Escaping Smoke.
• Luo Bai arrived, and Qin Yang vanished with his arrows before Luo Song could explain their meeting; Luo Song told Luo Bai to wait two days while he pursued clues to opening a box.
• Qin Yang left Old Azure Mountain, made thirty empty boxes that absorbed the Kill Word Tablet’s killing aura, and had Second Didi help bury them near Old Azure Mountain, Little Azure Mountain, and the Great Ying border.

Qin Yang opened one genuine box of God-Killing Arrows for Luo Song, secretly swapped another box for an empty one, and drew the Kill Word Tablets’ murderous aura into the Black Jade Divine Gate. After returning to his lodging, Qin Yang discovered that the final box had a password-triggered defense that would teleport away its contents, a device he recognized from the Thieves' Sect.

• Qin Yang entered Old Azure Mountain and opened one of Luo Song’s three metal boxes, revealing ten God-Killing Arrows, then secretly replaced a nearby box with an empty one.
• Luo Song offered Qin Yang treasures in exchange for the arrows, and Qin Yang negotiated additional payment before continuing to work on the other boxes.
• Qin Yang opened the substituted empty box, whose stored murderous aura surged into him and stirred the Black Jade Divine Gate; he concealed his reaction from Luo Song.
• Luo Song gave Qin Yang the final unopened box, believing it was probably empty, and Qin Yang left without being noticed by the guards.
• At his lodging, Qin Yang examined the final box and discovered that forcing it open would activate a defense that teleported away the God-Killing Arrows inside.
• Qin Yang recognized the password-protected empty-box mechanism as a device once invented by a Sect Master of the Thieves' Sect.

Qin Yang forged convincing counterfeit Empty Boxes and God-Killing Arrows, then planted Treasure Chests across Great Yan to manipulate the market and lure the previous dynasty into revealing the casket password. As empty boxes dampened public interest and powerful factions quietly tried to buy up the chests, Qin Yang arranged for the Netherworld Auction to reopen and prepared to profit from the scheme.

• Qin Yang built counterfeit Empty Boxes with a device that relayed the password entered into them, then filled them with deadly poison and a murderous-aura bomb.
• Qin Yang made more counterfeit boxes and fifty revised counterfeit God-Killing Arrows, then buried Treasure Chests throughout the world, including deep beneath Old Azure Mountain and Little Azure Mountain.
• Cultivators began finding empty boxes, causing interest to fall, while Great Yan's major powers spread rumors that the boxes were worthless and secretly tried to acquire them.
• Qin Yang learned that the major powers had heard Luo Song opened ten confirmed God-Killing Arrows, and that a Spirit Platform cultivator who sold a chest had been robbed and disappeared.
• Qin Yang decided to appear publicly as Qin Youde and announced that the Netherworld Auction would accept Treasure Chests for consignment.
• Qin Yang told Wen Yubo the Netherworld Auction would proceed and hoped to recoup his costs while drawing the previous dynasty into revealing the casket password.

Snake Mark Man sent the Treasure Chests to the Netherworld Auction, while Qin Yang prepared to use the auction as bait to lure out the Void Scripture inheritor. Huang Ying recognized the trap and refused to join the planned attack, but the inheritor remained determined to target Qin Yang.

• Snake Mark Man ordered his people to consign their boxes to the Netherworld Auction and spread word that they were probably Empty Boxes.
• Qin Yang gathered twenty-eight consigned Treasure Chests and prepared three of his own, including one containing fifty God-Killing Arrows and two counterfeits.
• Qin Yang sent Wen Yubo ahead with Escaping Smoke and disguised himself as he carried the thirty-one Treasure Chests toward the auction.
• Luo Bai held Official Wang back from interfering with the Netherworld Ship, following Luo Song's plan to keep the Great Yan court out of the trap.
• The Void Scripture inheritor decided Qin Yang's thirty-one Treasure Chests made the wilderness an ideal place to attack, but Huang Ying insisted it was a trap and refused to help.

Qin Yang lured the inheritor of the Void Scripture into a layered ambush, using the Yan Luo Clan’s attack to make him flee into the Starfall Array. The array overwhelmed the badly wounded pursuer, and Qin Yang watched from safety as it struck him down.

• Qin Yang traveled alone as bait while Huang Ying and the inheritor of the Void Scripture argued over whether to seize the Treasure Chests.
• The inheritor of the Void Scripture attacked Qin Yang, but struck a clone and was caught inside a Space Fixing Array built around ninety-nine mountains.
• Luo Song summoned an ancestral phantom, and Second Young Master Luo and three elders used Bewitching God Incense to trap and injure the inheritor of the Void Scripture.
• The inheritor of the Void Scripture tore off an arm and escaped, only to discover he had entered Qin Yang’s Starfall Array in the void.
• Qin Yang revealed that the earlier ambushes were bait, then let the Starfall Array crush the nearly defeated inheritor of the Void Scripture while he stayed out of reach.

Qin Yang destroyed the Void Scripture heir’s Dharma manifestation in the Starfall Array, then escaped with the Yan Luo Clan after realizing the heir’s true body had survived. On the day the Netherworld Secret Realm opened for the auction, Qin Yang spotted Huang Ying and Xu Zhengqiang, who asked to deliver a letter from the Great Emperor Princess.

• Qin Yang realized the Void Scripture heir had used a Dharma manifestation as a backup plan, and he hurried back to the Great Wilderness with the Yan Luo Clan.
• The Void Scripture heir and Huang Ying arrived at the battlefield, discussed Qin Yang’s strength, and left after the heir suppressed the backlash from losing his Dharma manifestation.
• Qin Yang told Luo Song the plan had succeeded but the heir might still be alive, then left to meet Wen Yubo and prepare for the auction.
• Qin Yang brought the Puppet Master into the Netherworld Secret Realm, set up the Starfall Array Disk, and arranged how visitors would enter and leave.
• Huang Ying entered the secret realm in disguise, followed by Xu Zhengqiang, who asked Wen Yubo to pass Qin Yang a sealed letter from the Great Emperor Princess.

Qin Yang used the auction of Treasure Chests to help Xu Zhengqiang identify the former dynasty’s likely strategy and secretly replace the genuine box of God-Killing Arrows with counterfeits. The Evergreen Merchant Guild bought the dangerous final box, while the Heavenly Order Guard took another box, and Qin Yang prepared to leave before either group discovered the deception.

• Qin Yang received a warning letter from the wedding gown, then used a private drinking session with Xu Zhengqiang to suggest that the former dynasty had released empty Treasure Chests to conceal the genuine one.
• Xu Zhengqiang recognized that Qin Yang’s theory could let the Heavenly Order Guard identify the former dynasty’s agents by watching which Treasure Chests they pursued at auction.
• Huang Ying had the Evergreen Merchant Guild buy a Treasure Chest and inspected it in a sealed chamber, but it opened empty after three breaths.
• Qin Yang recorded the passwords Huang Ying entered, opened the genuine Treasure Chest, replaced its fifty God-Killing Arrows with enhanced counterfeits, and returned it to the auction.
• The Heavenly Order Guard won a Treasure Chest containing counterfeit arrows, while the Evergreen Merchant Guild paid three Spirit Veins for the ominous final box.
• Qin Yang saw the buyers leave, ordered his people to clean up and withdraw, and hoped they would not open their Treasure Chests until safely away.

A Treasure Chest’s fused killing aura drove Huang Ying and the Void Scripture inheritor mad, letting Meng Yi kill Huang Ying and grievously injure the Snake Mark Man. Qin Yang learned that the Old Crown Prince’s lifespan was nearly exhausted, while the Crown Prince knelt in the desolate Eastern Palace, seemingly reconciled to death.

• Huang Ying opened the Treasure Chest, and its black-red killing aura corrupted her phoenix hairpin, her mind, and the Void Scripture inheritor, sending the two into a rampage.
• Meng Yi summoned his Grandmaster, who planted a deadly formation inside Huang Ying; Huang Ying’s self-destruction shattered two fingers of the Snake Mark Man’s giant hand, and the Snake Mark Man later recognized Meng Yi’s revenge.
• The Void Scripture inheritor recovered the God-Killing Arrows from the void, while the Heavenly Order Guard’s attempt to open their Empty Box failed, leaving Wei Xingchao blamed for their disappearance.
• Xu Zhengqiang gave Qin Yang intelligence that included the planned route map and revealed that Zhao Wang had withdrawn from consideration to patrol the Four Directions while Zhou Wang had volunteered.
• Qin Yang learned that the Old Crown Prince’s lifespan was nearly exhausted and realized this explained the princes’ recent restraint; the Old Crown Prince knelt before a woman’s portrait in the Eastern Palace, showing signs of approaching death.

The Old Crown Prince accepted his approaching death as the first choice he had ever made freely, forcing the Emperor Ying to confront whether he would attend his funeral. Qin Yang realized the former dynasty had built a long-running scheme around the Crown Prince’s death, then listened as Wedding Robe reflected on her own lack of control and asked to meet the Crown Prince.

• The Old Crown Prince told the Emperor Ying that he had spent his life without choices and now welcomed death, then asked whether his father would appear after he died.
• The Emperor Ying silently left, while the Crown Prince continued to kneel peacefully as his vitality faded.
• Qin Yang deduced that the former dynasty had planned to exploit the Crown Prince’s death to test the Emperor Ying’s absence and launch its next moves.
• Wedding Robe visited Qin Yang and described the Crown Prince’s newfound calm, while admitting that she too had never controlled her own fate.
• Qin Yang encouraged Wedding Robe to keep pursuing her goals, and she asked him to arrange a meeting with the Crown Prince.

Qin Yang visited the dying Crown Prince and persuaded him that his impending death might be part of others’ plans rather than his own choice. He agreed to extend the Crown Prince’s life so he could travel and choose his own end, while hoping to disrupt the former dynasty’s plans and delay a wider attack on Great Ying.

• Jia Yi agreed to take Qin Yang into the palace to see the Crown Prince, and the next day she escorted him through the heavily guarded palace city.
• Qin Yang entered the deserted Eastern Palace, paid Eunuch Huo for assistance, and found the Crown Prince kneeling beneath a painting of his mother.
• Qin Yang argued that the Crown Prince’s death could trigger a plot by the former dynasty and might have been arranged by others, stirring the Crown Prince’s anger and doubts.
• The Crown Prince admitted that he wanted to see the world beyond Li Capital and be buried on Peach Blossom Island, so Qin Yang offered to extend his life and agreed to help fulfill those wishes.
• Qin Yang left the palace intending to keep the Crown Prince alive longer, delay the former dynasty’s attack, and preserve the balance in Great Ying.

Qin Yang received Beast Kings and a sealed great demon in the form of a golden, pink-fuzzed suckling pig, then used his Treasure Cauldron to force the demon to provide intelligence. As the Crown Prince’s funeral approached, Qin Yang continued investigating the pig demon and wondered why Emperor Ying had sent it to him.

• Qin Yang told Wedding Robe that the Crown Prince’s funeral procession would be a chance for something to happen, while Emperor Ying listened to Qin Yang’s conversation and ordered Xiao Jing to send the sealed great demon with the Beast Kings.
• Qin Yang’s men brought the Beast Kings and the sealed suckling pig to Desperate Estate, where Qin Yang tried to stew the pig and made it agree to reveal information in exchange for its life.
• The suckling pig attempted to deceive Qin Yang with false intelligence, but Qin Yang recognized its lies about Hu Liang and the Great Demons, then made it submit to repeated cooking as punishment.
• Qin Yang ordered the pig to write everything it knew about the Land of No Life, Hu Liang, and its capture, while he used the Beast Kings for treasure soup and fed another to the Strange Vine.
• Half a month later, Qin Yang caught more lies in the pig’s account and forced it to accept a deal to provide reliable intelligence for safe passage out of Great Ying.
• Qin Yang wondered why Emperor Ying had sent him the pig demon and whether Emperor Ying knew the Treasure Cauldron could overcome its seals.

Qin Yang revived the Old Crown Prince with a Strange Fruit shortly before his funeral, giving him years more to live. After the Crown Prince chose to face the funeral procession and withdrew from public life, the Death Knell rang across Li Capital, and Qin Yang prepared to set people up.

• Qin Yang learned how Pink Piggy had been sealed and imprisoned for over ten thousand years, then kept him alive to study his seals and gather intelligence.
• As the Old Crown Prince's funeral approached, Qin Yang waited until the day before the procession to enter the palace with Wedding Dress.
• Qin Yang gave the dying Old Crown Prince a Strange Fruit, restoring enough vitality for him to live about twenty years if he avoided action.
• The Old Crown Prince accepted that he would soon face the funeral procession, dismissed everyone, and lay in the Black Stone Coffin under his birth name, Chang, courtesy name Long Sheng.
• Three hours later, the Death Knell tolled across Li Capital, and Qin Yang told Mo Yang they were going to set people up.