Chapter Summaries

Qin Yang watched the divine tree crash near Five Fingers Island as the Heavenly Tribulation weakened Chou Ge Beast and the Black Robed Woman, while an azure snake that left the buffer zone was devoured in the Dead Sea. Nearby, Verdant Grandma and the others confronted Black Shadow, who explained the outsiders’ likely plan and urged them to attack.

• Qin Yang reasoned that harmless arrivals such as Green Caterpillar and the featherless Black Bird received mild tribulations, while Chou Ge Beast and the Black Robed Woman faced lethal rejection.
• Chou Ge Beast and the Black Robed Woman endured the tribulation until it vanished near Five Fingers Island, leaving them gravely damaged.
• The azure snake entered the Dead Sea, where the Soul Devouring Beast and the giant octopus trapped and consumed it.
• The divine tree landed near Five Fingers Island, and Green Caterpillar told Qin Yang that the azure snake had died after leaving the tree.
• Verdant Grandma and Old Ghost questioned Black Shadow, who identified the divine tree and proposed that its passengers had come to escape the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Black Shadow urged Verdant Grandma and the others to kill the outsiders while they were weakened.

Verdant Grandma sealed Black Shadow with a dragon ability and set the Sea Dragon on course for Five Fingers Island, where she expected the foreign races to seek a way to evade Heavenly Tribulation. Qin Yang and Ugly Chicken also headed for the island, as Qin Yang realized Chou Ge Beast and the Black Robed Woman might be trying to seize Black Shadow’s powerful hand.

• Verdant Grandma confronted Black Shadow over his past role in the Dead Sea’s calamities and used her dragon-headed cane to bind him to a transformation that would either strengthen his True Dragon Bloodline or leave him a little demon.
• Old Turtle explained that Verdant Grandma had spent her life protecting the sea clans, then beat Black Shadow and urged him to help collect his hand before the foreign races could act.
• Black Shadow sensed Ugly Chicken’s aura near Five Fingers Island and warned Verdant Grandma that Qin Yang was there, but Little Seventh overheard him and Black Shadow tried to deny what he had said.
• Verdant Grandma ordered the Sea Dragon to make full speed for Five Fingers Island, reasoning that the foreign races had come to solve their Heavenly Tribulation problem and would need the island.
• Qin Yang left the divine tree with Ugly Chicken, sent Green Caterpillar and the unconscious featherless Black Bird into the sea eye, and hurried toward Five Fingers Island after losing track of Chou Ge Beast and the Black Robed Woman.
• Qin Yang sensed that Black Shadow’s hand had reached Dao Lord-level power and concluded the outsiders might want to occupy it, while his stomach began hurting as he prepared to face them.

Qin Yang reunited with Black Shadow and joined forces with the sea demons to face the weakened Chou Ge Beast. When the Chou Ge Beast suddenly went berserk, Old Turtle and the dragon whale held him off while Qin Yang raced toward the depths of Five Fingers Island to find the Black Robed Woman.

• Qin Yang pulled Black Shadow from a crater, and Black Shadow explained that he had come with the Sea Dragon and been sent ahead to scout.
• Qin Yang warned the Sea Dragon’s crew to stay aboard and keep away from the island, then explained the Black Robed Woman’s mind-twisting power to Old Turtle and the dragon whale.
• Qin Yang’s group found the severely weakened Chou Ge Beast and attacked him, but Qin Yang realized the Black Robed Woman was missing and suspected the Chou Ge Beast was stalling.
• The Chou Ge Beast erupted into a savage rampage, badly injuring Qin Yang and Black Shadow before Old Turtle and the dragon whale blocked his charge.
• Qin Yang left the two sea demons to fight the Chou Ge Beast and hurried toward the great hall, convinced the Black Robed Woman had reached it ahead of him.

Qin Yang discovered that the Sacred Tree Race was being twisted into disposable servants by the Black Robed Woman and followed her to the underground sealing formation. He deduced that her crumbling carriage was made from the Chou Ge Beast’s father’s or grandfather’s corpse, destroyed it at the cost of his right arm, and escaped after confirming his clue.

• Qin Yang found the Sacred Tree Race’s poisonous underground passage and realized its clansmen were still serving the Black Robed Woman.
• Qin Yang reached the underground hollow first and watched a Sacred Tree Race clansman collapse after his consciousness had been forcibly twisted.
• Qin Yang hid as the Black Robed Woman arrived in a carriage that was crumbling and shedding traces of newly formed death qi.
• Qin Yang touched the carriage, and the Black Robed Woman pierced and pinned his right arm before the carriage exploded into powder.
• Qin Yang escaped with a severed arm and deduced that the carriage was a hall made from the Chou Ge Beast’s father’s or grandfather’s corpse.

Qin Yang escaped the Black Robed Woman and hid to recover while she used the forbidden Art of Deception, Time's Up, to restore her strength and descend into the abyss for the Black Shadow's left hand. She reached the sea of Black Oil, where Bald Headed Youth appeared and recognized her as the woman Qin Youde had mentioned.

• Qin Yang realized the tiger-headed, wolf-bodied statue had reacted to him, warned it to leave him alone, and went to hide among ruined buildings to heal his injuries.
• The Black Robed Woman's body began collapsing after Qin Yang destroyed her place of parasitism, so she consumed the Sacred Tree Race members' vitality and cast Time's Up.
• The Black Robed Woman learned that Vermilion Bird's method still prevented her from breaking free of the body, and she resolved to obtain the sealed power before Time's Up expired.
• The Black Robed Woman leaped into the abyss and reached the sea of Black Oil surrounding the Black Shadow's left hand, hoping to use its power to survive the spell's cost.
• Bald Headed Youth rose from the Black Oil and asked the Black Robed Woman if she was the woman Qin Youde had mentioned.

Black Shadow confronted the Black Robed Woman, whose fear awakened the power of the Fear Art, while Qin Yang entered the sealed realm to stop her from absorbing its power. Qin Yang claimed Black Shadow’s left hand and the Black Oil Sea, then escaped as the realm collapsed, with the still-frightened woman following him.

• The Black Robed Woman recognized Black Shadow and was overwhelmed by fear when he asked who had told her about the place.
• The Black Robed Woman’s fear activated the Fear Art, transforming her into a raging force that began absorbing power from the seal.
• Qin Yang entered the seal and learned from Black Shadow that the woman’s Time’s Up could let her survive by absorbing enough power before its countdown ended.
• Qin Yang spread his True Essence across the island, picked up Black Shadow’s left hand, and absorbed the Black Oil Sea into it.
• Black Shadow warned that the secret realm was collapsing, and Qin Yang placed the hand in the Sea Eye before following him out.
• The Black Robed Woman followed Qin Yang out of the collapsing realm while her countdown had less than an hour remaining.

Qin Yang used Black Shadow’s Five Fingers Surging Thunder Spell and the refined left hand to destroy the Chou Ge Beast, then collapsed from the backlash. Black Shadow dealt with the Black Robed Woman and explained the events to Qin Yang after he woke, while the fate of Vermilion Bird’s divine soul remained uncertain.

• As Five Fingers Island began collapsing, Qin Yang found Old Turtle and the dragon whale fighting the Chou Ge Beast and urged them to flee.
• The Black Robed Woman entered the Chou Ge Beast’s heart as its new vessel, while Black Shadow used the Nine Apertures Heart Locking Spell to restrain them both.
• Black Shadow told Qin Yang to use the Five Fingers Surging Thunder Spell, and Qin Yang killed the transformed Chou Ge Beast with the left hand before collapsing from the backlash.
• Death Knell absorbed the Black Robed Woman’s power, and Vermilion Bird’s divine soul appeared briefly before being swept into the bell.
• Old Turtle carried the unconscious Qin Yang away, and Black Shadow later warned him not to use the left hand unless he faced certain death.
• After Qin Yang woke two days later, Black Shadow explained what had happened and advised him to avoid the collapsed secret realm until it stabilized.

As Five Fingers Island collapsed, the rhinoceros beetle carried the crooked immortal herb into the void while Black Oil escaped through a crack. Qin Yang learned the divine tree had once been an immortal herb, and Wang Baiqiang awakened in Great Qin’s military camp as a new story appeared in his Dharma Idol Book.

• Five Fingers Island imploded, and a ghostly blue Sky-Lantern Soulfire absorbed other burning soulfires before escaping with Black Oil in pursuit.
• The rhinoceros beetle carried the tribulation-struck divine tree through a crack into the void, while Black Oil escaped through another route.
• Qin Yang confronted Black Shadow about his hidden strength, and Black Shadow revealed that the divine tree had been a crooked immortal herb.
• Qin Yang checked the leaves and branches he had collected and decided to make Vegetable Treasure Soup.
• Wang Baiqiang awakened inside a formation in Great Qin’s military camp, and his Dharma Idol Book displayed a new story.

After returning from the Dead Sea, Qin Yang visited Old Ancestor Cui and received Conditioning Clear Soup made from divine tree leaves. New intelligence revealed that Wang Baiqiang had died over a thousand years ago, so Qin Yang hurried to the Northern Border and confronted him about his Dharma Idol Book.

• Qin Yang returned to the South Barbarian Land, where Old Ancestor Cui brewed Conditioning Clear Soup from the divine tree leaves and discovered that it could cleanse impurities and help repair his damaged foundation.
• Qin Yang spent a month at the Yellow Springs Demon Sect, then left carrying gourds of soup as he reviewed reports about developments across the Great Wilderness.
• Qin Yang learned from his intelligence network that Wang Baiqiang had died more than a thousand years ago and that the man beside him was an impostor of unknown identity.
• Qin Yang traveled to the Northern Border and found Wang Baiqiang, who greeted him with unusual delight.
• Qin Yang asked Wang Baiqiang whether his Dharma Idol Book had gained new stories, and Wang Baiqiang visibly faltered.

Qin Yang read the Dharma Idol Book’s account of the Chou Ge Beast and learned how the Beast’s plans led him to the Netherworld Ship and Qin Yang. Wang Baiqiang revealed that he had died long ago and could no longer distinguish his own identity from the lives recorded in the book, while Qin Yang was left investigating the Netherworld Ship’s connection to the Black Robed Woman’s body.

• Wang Baiqiang gave Qin Yang the Dharma Idol Book, whose new protagonist was the Chou Ge Beast known to Qin Yang as the last of his race.
• Qin Yang read how the Chou Ge Beast survived the destruction of his people, rescued his pen pal, and later planned to enter the Great Wilderness to restore her body and soul.
• Qin Yang learned that the Chou Ge Beast’s plan depended on clues about the Netherworld Ship and on using Qin Yang, before Qin Yang killed him with the Five Fingers Surging Thunder Spell.
• Wang Baiqiang denied helping the Chou Ge Beast and explained that he had died long ago, then lost control as he questioned whether he was himself or another story’s protagonist.
• Qin Yang knocked Wang Baiqiang unconscious, reread the story, and began wondering why the Black Robed Woman’s body was connected to the Netherworld Ship and its eight dungeon levels.

Qin Yang reconsidered Captain Lin Feng’s warning and uncovered possible links between the Netherworld Ship, the Stupa Demon Sect, Five Fingers Island, and outer space. While examining stored memories, he witnessed Emperor Ying’s sword strike, was struck by its manifested power, and realized he might be able to learn it.

• Qin Yang recalled Captain Lin Feng’s warning not to bring the Netherworld Ship to the Desolate Land and wondered whether the ship was tied to the Stupa Demon Sect, Five Fingers Island, and the Burial Sea Dao Lord.
• Qin Yang examined a Sacred Tree Race member’s light spheres and found a Wood-aspect cultivation method called the Longevity Art and a memory of black qi corrupting the race.
• Qin Yang watched a memory in which the Emperor Ying killed the Chou Ge Beast’s father and grandfather with a single sword strike, and the strike wounded him through the memory.
• Qin Yang watched the Emperor Ying’s strike a second time, endured its power again, and recognized a possibility of learning the sword technique.
• Wang Baiqiang woke up and saw Qin Yang fly backward, while a nearby general protested that he had not attacked him.

Qin Yang investigated Wang Baiqiang’s memory-loss condition, then traveled with him to the East Sea after sensing that the Netherworld Ship had been damaged. He found the ship bearing a huge crater from an unknown power that had driven Blackie berserk, and the cause remained unclear.

• Qin Yang examined the Supporting the Heavens cultivation method and considered the clues about Ruo Bing in the black mist.
• Wang Baiqiang explained that probing his past repeatedly threw his consciousness into chaos, and Qin Yang suspected he had severed his former identity and memories but chose not to tell him.
• Qin Yang exchanged array knowledge with Wang Baiqiang for several days before sensing trouble with the Netherworld Ship and inviting him along.
• Qin Yang and Wang Baiqiang traveled through the void to the East Sea, where Qin Yang found the Netherworld Ship with a huge dent in its side.
• Wen Yubo told Qin Yang that an unknown force had burst from a seabed cave estate and struck the ship, while Blackie had gone berserk after touching the lingering power and recovered after eating.

Qin Yang inspected the Netherworld Ship after its hull was damaged, then explored the ship’s dungeon and uncovered signs that its history might be tied to the Black Robed Woman and an earlier infiltration. He left the deepest sealed cells unopened, deciding to investigate before taking risks.

• Qin Yang absorbed the scorching power from the hull, sealed it in a metal box, and asked Wang Baiqiang to repair the outer arrays.
• Qin Yang checked the ship’s core furnace and tower base, then went to inspect the dungeon.
• Qin Yang recalled that a disguised Broken-Tailed Spirit Demon had infiltrated the dungeon years earlier, and grew suspicious that the new damage was connected to the divine tree’s fall.
• Qin Yang silenced the dungeon’s prisoners with his aura and asked the Golden Pig to identify potential ingredients, but the Golden Pig found the upper-level prisoners unsuitable.
• The Golden Pig identified several powerful beasts sealed on the seventh level, while Qin Yang realized the Netherworld Ship’s original captain had likely been a major figure.
• Qin Yang and the Golden Pig reached the pitch-black cells on the eighth level, where Qin Yang wondered whether the Black Robed Woman’s body or the infiltrator’s target was sealed, then chose to leave and investigate further.

Qin Yang investigated the Flame Dragon Cave and discovered that the Flame Dragons were connected to the plot targeting the Netherworld Ship and its dungeon. After finding a statue named Ruo Bing, he was surrounded by Flame Dragons and used a Heavenly Tribulation to throw their forces into chaos.

• Qin Yang studied the Netherworld Ship's records and concluded that past events involving Little Seventh had been part of a plan aimed at the ship.
• Wen Yubo gave Qin Yang intelligence identifying the emerging cave dwelling as Flame Dragon Cave, and Qin Yang suspected the Flame Dragons had arranged Great Orange's long sleep.
• Qin Yang followed a Flame Dragon through a magma sea to its hidden home and found a statue whose inscription named the woman Ruo Bing.
• Qin Yang took the statue, provoking the Flame Dragons, and summoned the Green Caterpillar, the featherless Black Bird, and Ugly Chicken as the surrounding enemies prepared to attack.
• Qin Yang used the featherless Black Bird's Heavenly Tribulation to obscure the Flame Dragons' senses and attacked amid the chaos, while the Green Caterpillar concluded that Ugly Chicken was not a good person.

Qin Yang used the lightning tribulation to kill the Flame Dragons, then learned from their memories that the Black Robed Woman was connected to the sea race and the Three Bodies Treasure Technique. Ge Lou identified her as Ruo Bing, the woman known as the Three Bodies Dao Lord, leaving Qin Yang stunned as he understood how she had once been defeated.

• Qin Yang drew the lightning tribulation through the featherless Black Bird and used it to kill the Flame Dragons, finishing the largest with his sword strike, One Sword.
• Qin Yang used Corpse Touching on the largest Flame Dragon and received the Ritual Canon and memories revealing a Soul Devouring Beast, a dragon-headed figure, and the Three Bodies Treasure Technique.
• Qin Yang inferred that the dragon-headed figure had called the Black Robed Woman Dragon Lord and contacted Ge Lou to ask about Ruo Bing.
• Ge Lou searched the Li Clan records and told Qin Yang that Ruo Bing had once been known as the Three Bodies Dao Lord.
• Qin Yang realized that the Fear Art could have spread soul-destroying poison through the Three Bodies Dao Lord's incarnations and explained how they had been eliminated.

Qin Yang realized the Black Robed Woman had been an awareness of the Three Bodies Dao Lord and feared the danger surrounding her sealed body and loyalists. He summoned the Second Sword Lord for help, and after the Dragon Head Giant tracked his movements, the Second Sword Lord’s sword strike forced the giant to retreat.

• Qin Yang reconsidered the Black Robed Woman’s identity and worried that the Three Bodies Dao Lord’s sealed body and surviving loyalists could threaten him.
• Qin Yang summoned Yilou’s phantom, gathered two medicinal soups for the Second Sword Lord’s wife, and activated the sword talisman.
• The Second Sword Lord arrived, accepted Qin Yang’s gifts, and carried him toward Bugu Island and Black Li while Qin Yang left a clone behind.
• The Dragon Head Giant discovered that the statue was missing, devastated the underwater cavern, and used his power to trace Qin Yang’s movements.
• The Second Sword Lord sensed the Dragon Head Giant’s search and pierced the giant’s hand with sword intent through the phantom trail.
• The Dragon Head Giant recognized the threat posed by the Eastern Sea Sword Cultivator and ordered the sea demons to retreat to the Endless Sea.

Second Sword Lord wounded a powerful sea clansman who had tried to spy on Qin Yang, while Qin Yang asked the Movie Emperor to help protect the Netherworld Ship. At Black Dawn, Yilou failed to seal a statue and recognized it as a contingency left by Three Bodies Dao Lord, leaving Qin Yang wondering why he had been able to pick it up.

• Black Dragon Head recalled how the Azure Lotus Sword Immortal had killed a Dao Lord sea clansman with a distant sword strike, then fled east after Second Sword Lord wounded him.
• Second Sword Lord told Qin Yang that the wounded sea clansman was strong but that his sword intent could mark and kill him if he returned within range.
• Qin Yang ordered Wen Yubo to keep the Netherworld Ship away from the Endless Sea and distributed Conditioning Clear Soup and peerless treasure soup to the crew.
• Qin Yang warned the Movie Emperor that enemies might destroy the Netherworld Ship and endanger the Wood Spirit, prompting the Movie Emperor to spread a fierce aura that drove sea beasts to gather nearby.
• Second Sword Lord sensed the Movie Emperor's power and warned Qin Yang that the creature was an unparalleled ferocious beast.
• Yilou examined Qin Yang's statue, failed to seal it, and identified it as a contingency left by Three Bodies Dao Lord that contained part of her.

Qin Yang weighed the danger of the statue that might contain part of Three Bodies Dao Lord, then chose to handle it without involving the Li Clan. After training his water body in the Black Forest Sea, he carried the statue to the Yellow Springs Water vein and hurled it in.

• Qin Yang considered whether the statue was an ownerless object, an abandoned part of Three Bodies Dao Lord, or a gift from her surviving consciousness, but decided not to leave it with the Li Clan.
• Qin Yang stored the statue in the Sea Eye, searched the Black Li records, and left the Li Clan's territory alone after half a month.
• Qin Yang learned from Ugly Chicken that the Ji Ying Race member had died beneath the Sea Eye Demon Stone, then began adapting his water body to the embroideress's dye water.
• Qin Yang evolved his water body into a form focused on adapting to spirit water and true water, and traveled into the Black Forest Sea to reach a fragment of the Ancient Underworld.
• Qin Yang went to the Yellow Springs Water vein, took out the statue, and hurled it into the river.

Qin Yang used the Yellow Springs to destroy the statue and reveal a mysterious girl, whom he suspected was connected to Three Bodies Dao Lord. The girl refused the ferryman’s offer to leave the Yellow Springs, and Qin Yang departed, deciding to focus on strengthening himself.

• Qin Yang threw the statue into the Yellow Springs, where its power awakened and its stone shell vanished to reveal a young girl.
• The girl’s gaze filled Qin Yang with a powerful urge to rescue her, but he resisted it and fled from the riverbank.
• The ferryman arrived and told the girl that turning back would bring her to the shore, but she refused to abandon her obsession and returned to the Yellow Springs.
• Qin Yang reasoned that the girl was likely a young Three Bodies Dao Lord who could not escape because she would not let go of her conviction.
• Qin Yang raised a cup toward the Yellow Springs, then left to focus on growing stronger and advancing the White Jade Divine Gate or Ruins Dao Palace.

Qin Yang returned to Desperate Estate, reunited with Wedding Garment, and told her about the dangers he had faced. More than ten days later, Old Ox arrived with the Azure Ox Demons to pledge allegiance, believing Qin Yang had secured their safe passage to the Great Wilderness, though Qin Yang had forgotten about them.

• Qin Yang left the Black Forest Sea, returned to Desperate Estate, and fell asleep in the sun while Wedding Garment quietly watched over him.
• Wedding Garment and Qin Yang drank tea together, and he explained the trouble involving the Three Bodies Dao Lord before she left for morning court.
• Qin Yang considered the coming Time Tide and continued his quiet life as the world passed without major events.
• Old Ox arrived with a group of Azure Ox Demons and offered to serve beneath Qin Yang's banner.
• Old Ox explained that Wedding Garment had helped the Azure Ox Demons reach the Great Wilderness after learning they had assisted Qin Yang.
• Qin Yang realized he had forgotten about the Azure Ox Demons and wondered why Old Ox had come.