Chapter Summaries

Li Jingning broke free of the Corpse Speaker’s control, recovered in the Blood River, and escaped while Ye Bai and Zhang Lingxue fought the Corpse Speaker. At Southern Heaven Gate Fortress, Jiao Mu Jiao’s bait triggered a devastating explosion that enraged the thunderbirds and left the fortress under attack.

• Li Jingning freed herself from the contract, attacked Blood Demon Du Bo, drained part of the Blood River, and fled toward the ancient tomb.
• Ye Bai and Zhang Lingxue cornered the Corpse Speaker after Li Jingning severed their connection, but the Corpse Speaker revealed he had made himself a Corpse Puppet and attacked Zhang Lingxue.
• Jiao Mu Jiao’s bait exploded near Southern Heaven Gate Fortress, killing one-third of the thunderbirds and damaging the fortress barrier.
• The enraged thunderbirds, led by the Thunderbird Emperor, struck the barrier until it began to shatter, and Jiao Mu Jiao rallied the Pet Beast Masters to fight.

Southern Heaven Gate Fortress came under a devastating Thunderbird assault while Ye Bai lured the birds into a Secret Realm to help Da Hui and the True Goddess of Light Butterfly fight Corpse Speaker. The chapter left Corpse Speaker undergoing ultimate sublimation as Ye Bai and his allies prepared to stop the Thunderbirds, with Jiao Mu Jiao allowing them to abandon their mission if necessary.

• Thunderbirds led by Lei Wu overwhelmed Southern Heaven Gate Fortress's stone lions, and Jiao Mu Jiao learned that repairs to the protective barrier would take thirty minutes.
• Tank and Shark Hunter fought off the attackers while Jiao Mu Jiao worried about the fortress's defenses and the Thunderbirds breaking through.
• Ye Bai asked Zhang Lingxue for a Secret Realm and opened it beneath Corpse Speaker, then left the exit open to draw in the approaching Thunderbirds.
• The Thunderbirds, including Lei Wu, attacked Corpse Speaker with Wild Thunder while Da Hui and the True Goddess of Light Butterfly fought him, forcing him to begin ultimate sublimation.
• Jiao Mu Jiao contacted Ye Bai and told him to have Zhang Lingxue stop the Thunderbirds, adding that they could abandon the mission to kill Corpse Speaker if necessary.

Ye Bai’s plan drew the Thunderbirds into the Secret Realm, where they helped Da Hui defeat the Corpse Speaker, while Jiao Mu Jiao secured the Flame Leopards’ surrender. The researchers discovered that someone had tampered with the Thunderbird bait formula, and the Five Great Marshals ordered an investigation.

• Ye Bai reassured Jiao Mu Jiao that the Thunderbirds would not break through his line and directed him to use Hellfire and the Sunflower Emperor’s Doppelganger to bring the Flame Leopards into the Secret Realm.
• The Sunflower Emperors’ fragrance calmed the Flame Leopards, and they followed the Doppelgangers into the Secret Realm.
• Blood Demon Du Bo found that the Blood River lacked enough energy to summon a powerful Demon God, so he created Blood Doppelgangers to gather blood from slaughterhouses.
• Researchers at Imperial Capital University found that someone had added an explosive drug to the Thunderbird bait formula, prompting the Five Great Marshals to order an investigation.
• At the Heroic Graveyard, Thunderbirds and Da Hui weakened the Corpse Speaker until Da Hui struck him down with the Axe of the Thunder God.

Ye Bai and Da Hui defeated the thunderbirds, and the Eye of the Thunder God enslaved the Leiwu as Da Hui’s mount. With the next Beast Tide delayed, Zhang Lingxue and Ye Bai turned to recovering the fortress’s defenses and preparing its Stone Lions.

• Death God sensed the Corpse Speaker’s death and sent an illusory Death God to investigate, but the Leiwu’s lightning destroyed it and injured him through their connection.
• The Leiwu and its thunderbirds attacked Da Hui, whose Axe of the Thunder God and Eye of the Thunder God absorbed their lightning without harming him.
• The Leiwu gathered its clansmen to unleash Divine Sanction, but the Eye of the Thunder God drained the thunderbirds’ power and forced the Leiwu to the ground.
• Da Hui persuaded the Eye of the Thunder God to spare the Leiwu, which it enslaved and made Da Hui’s mount; the thunderbirds were left weakened for months.
• Zhang Lingxue told Ye Bai that he would miss the Researcher Competition selection while defending Southern Heaven Gate Fortress, and he said the fortress came first.
• Jiao Mu Jiao asked Zhang Lingxue to find a way to restore the Stone Lions, and Ye Bai offered to take the task while Zhang Lingxue helped the medical team.

Ye Bai investigated how to evolve Stone Lion cores and prepared experiments using blood-soaked soil, Earth Stones, and elemental Crystal Cores. At the slaughterhouse, he rescued a Water Qilin Beast and began monitoring the buried cores as they developed.

• Ye Bai deduced that blood-soaked soil with lingering yin energy could evolve Stone Lions into Stone Lion Ghost Kings, and Anna identified the slaughterhouse as a likely source.
• Jiao Mu Jiao, Han Yan, and Zhang Dashan approved Ye Bai's request for resources, and Zhang Lingxue provided control of the Drill Groundhog Secret Realm.
• Ye Bai arranged to bury Stone Lion cores in the slaughterhouse and the Secret Realm, and decided to test Gargoyle cores as well.
• Ye Bai and his companions entered the slaughterhouse, where he recognized the butchers as Blood Demon Doppelgangers and ordered the slaughtering to stop.
• Ye Bai rescued a female Water Qilin Beast, whose Auspicious Beast trait could improve luck, and had the Sunflower Emperor clean her bloodstained scales.
• Ye Bai had Aro's Digging Mouse prepare pits for the cores and Crystal Cores, then stayed behind to observe their evolution through the ground.

Ye Bai observed a Stone Lion core evolve into a Blood Stone Lion while a Beast Tide of Ghost Bats and Black Water Toads attacked Southern Heaven Gate Fortress. After sharing the Strange Beasts’ weaknesses with Zhang Lingxue, Ye Bai welcomed his new Pet Beast and watched more Stone Lion Ghost Kings emerge.

• Ye Bai watched the Stone Lion core absorb Crystal Cores and blood energy before a Blood Cocoon formed around it.
• Blood Demon Du Bo refrained from attacking Ye Bai, judging him too important and too dangerous to kill.
• A Beast Tide of Ghost Bats and Black Water Toads appeared, and Zhang Lingxue asked Ye Bai to identify them and their weaknesses.
• Ye Bai told Zhang Lingxue that Ghost Bats hated allicin and Black Water Toads were vulnerable at their horns, and Jiao Mu Jiao organized the fortress's response.
• Ye Bai placed his mental imprint in the Blood Cocoon, and a docile Sixth Order Blood Stone Lion emerged.
• More Stone Lion cores hatched into imposing Stone Lion Ghost Kings as the Beast Tide threatened the fortress.

Ye Bai's three evolved Stone Lion forms helped Southern Heaven Gate Fortress repel the Ghost Bats and Black Water Toads while he explained his research. Jiao Mu Jiao arranged for Ye Bai to travel to the Imperial Capital for the World Youth Researcher Competition, leaving the fortress guarded by Zhang Lingxue and the arriving Yin Tiger.

• The Ghost Bats infiltrated Southern Heaven Gate Fortress, but holy light exposed them, and the Black Water Toads joined the assault under the Molten Dragon Turtle's command.
• The Earth Stone Lion blocked the Black Water Toads while Pet Beast Masters attacked their unicorn horns; Blood Stone Lions drained their blood, and Stone Lion Ghost Kings killed Ghost Bats and gathered their souls.
• Ye Bai explained the Earth Stone Lion, Blood Stone Lion, and Stone Lion Ghost King to Zhang Lingxue and Jiao Mu Jiao, who praised his research.
• Jiao Mu Jiao sent Ye Bai with Zhang Jie to escort Thunder Sword Li Qinglei, Lan, Lian, and Long to the Imperial Capital for the competition and research into awakening the Corpse Puppets.
• Zhang Jie wondered what her sister had been doing, while Su Qingxian planned to study the Thunder Sword and seek a way to awaken Long, Lian, and Lan's latent consciousness.

Ye Bai returned to Imperial Capital, arranged research on reviving Corpse Puppets, and made plans to supply Pet Beasts to Li Chen and Gao Tu. Meanwhile, the Gargoyle mutated beneath the slaughterhouse, Death God failed to learn how the Corpse Speaker died, and Ye Bai began the Youth Researcher Competition selection by drawing Poisonous Caterpillar cultivation.

• Ye Bai left the Sunflower Emperor at Southern Heaven Gate Fortress to monitor Blood Demon Du Bo and returned to Imperial Capital with Zhang Jie.
• Ye Bai gave Su Qingxian an annotated soul-potion formula to study and said he would return to the fortress after the selection.
• Ye Bai promised Li Chen a new Pet Beast suited to his Fearless talent and offered to find Gao Tu an Earth-attribute Pet Beast.
• The Gargoyle's core began growing beneath the slaughterhouse and mutated under the Blood Demon's influence while Zhang Lingxue missed Ye Bai's warning message.
• Death God summoned the Mirror Fiend Demon to investigate the Corpse Speaker's death, but her divination failed because a stronger demon had interfered with fate.
• At the Imperial Capital University selection, Ye Bai drew Poisonous Caterpillar cultivation as his first assessment.

Ye Bai used his knowledge and the True Sight Eye to evolve the Potent Toxin Caterpillar into a cocoon in under three hours, despite Sun Bing and Mosin choosing it to obstruct his qualification for the World Youth Researcher Competition. The chapter ended with the examiners and contestants stunned by Ye Bai’s rapid progress.

• Sun Bing warned the contestants about the Potent Toxin Caterpillar’s lethal poison and distributed a flawed antidote, while Ye Bai refused it and inspected the caterpillar with the True Sight Eye.
• Ye Bai discovered the caterpillar’s hidden evolution path to Potent Toxin Emperor Butterfly and realized that its poisonous spines fell away as it absorbed more toxins.
• In the monitoring room, Sun Bing and Mosin revealed that they had assigned Ye Bai the dangerous topic to keep him out of the World Youth Researcher Competition, but Mosin forbade Sun Bing from tampering with the experiment or harming Ye Bai.
• Ye Bai fed the Potent Toxin Caterpillar Twin Poison and other toxins, triggering chain reactions that made its poisonous spines fall away until only one remained.
• Ye Bai used venom from the Myriad Changes Silkworm in its Poison Dragon Butterfly form to remove the final spine, and the Potent Toxin Caterpillar spun itself into a cocoon as the observers marveled at its rapid evolution.

Ye Bai won the evolved Potent Toxin Emperor Butterfly and watched the Myriad Changes Silkworm evolve into a Myriad Changes Butterfly. During his leave from returning to Southern Heaven Gate Fortress, he went to the Hidden Dragon Auction House, where the Blood Saint Son’s inheritance was introduced as the second-to-last auction item.

• Ye Bai claimed the Potent Toxin Emperor Butterfly after it evolved, and Sun Bing announced Ye Bai as the competition’s winner while Mosin considered having him assassinated.
• Ye Bai released the Myriad Changes Silkworm beneath the full moon, and it emerged the next morning as the Myriad Changes Butterfly.
• Ye Bai took the Crown of the Dead and followed a butterfly through a spatial gate to the Hidden Dragon Auction House, where he used the alias Mr. Butterfly.
• Ye Bai bought a Heart of the Ocean and a Sixth Order Sun Stone during the auction.
• The auctioneer presented the Blood Saint Son’s inheritance as the second-to-last item and said it would go to the highest bidder under a stated standard.

The Hidden Dragon Auction House auctioned the Blood Saint Son's legacy while powerful factions and individuals competed to claim it. Ye Bai met his legendary Second Martial Uncle, Chu Han, who warned him of impending chaos in the Sea Mystic Realm and offered intelligence about the Thunder God's fall.

• The auctioneer introduced the Blood Saint Son's legacy, and the necromancer prepared to seize it by bidding or force while major factions gathered.
• The Red Knight struggled with her memories of the Blood Saint Son and secretly planned to redeem herself, while Elder Feng pressured her to retrieve the legacy and hand over the Crimson Skeleton Legion.
• Zi Shu resolved to stop the Resurrection Society from reclaiming the legacy, whose treasures included the Blood Pool, a Demon God summoning method, and the Crimson Skeleton Legion.
• Bidding climbed past one trillion Alliance Coins as Ye Bai remembered the legion's secret connection to a fallen god's divine tomb.
• Chu Han appeared before Ye Bai, asked for his help to protect Flame Kingdom from a coming Sea Mystic Realm disaster, and revealed where the Thunder God had fallen.

Chu Han traded with the Necromancer for the Sun Scripture, the Undead Scripture, and the Soul Summoning Technique, while Ye Bai won a mysterious Jade Carving at the auction. Master Jiang then summoned Ye Bai to examine Rooster’s crippled Sun-Radiant Golden Rooster, which had been mutilated by angels.

• Chu Han explained the tiers beyond Tier 9 and warned Ye Bai about the Resurrection Society’s plan to revive a fallen Saint.
• At the auction, the Resurrection Society bought Blood Saint Son’s inheritance, and Chu Han traded the Dakarabi summoning array to the Necromancer for scriptures and the Soul Summoning Technique.
• Ye Bai sensed something hidden in the Jade Carving, bid on it, and secured it before the auction ended.
• Paper Figure Kui brought Ye Bai to Anbaotang, where Master Jiang asked him to help with a difficult case before he went to Southern Heaven Gate Fortress.
• Master Jiang showed Ye Bai Rooster’s Sun-Radiant Golden Rooster, whose wings and limbs angels had severed and prevented from healing.

Ye Bai learned that the Sun-Radiant Golden Rooster had been cursed and weakened, then discovered it could evolve into a Sunlight Golden Crow. He planned to ask Yin Tiger for help gathering the necessary materials, while new intelligence revealed threats and opportunities across the Flame Kingdom.

• Master Jiang told Ye Bai that the Sun-Radiant Golden Rooster had been cursed by angels and was near death.
• Ye Bai summoned Dakarabi, who identified the curse as Eternal Slumber and explained that the rooster’s missing wings and claws had been separated by spatial magic.
• Ye Bai used True Sight Eye to learn that the Sun-Radiant Golden Rooster had fallen to Peak Tier 7 and could evolve into a Sunlight Golden Crow with the Origin of Light and other rare materials.
• Ye Bai told Master Jiang he would speak with Yin Tiger and seek materials for the rooster’s evolution, including a Divine Turtle Longevity Fruit.
• The night’s intelligence reported Golden Crow Blood in the Sea Mystic Realm, Blood Demon Du Bo investigating the Blood River, a Godhead Crystal at Imperial Capital University, angels preparing to besiege Sky Dome, and trials for the Twenty-Eight Mansions’ Soul Artifacts.

Ye Bai began treating Rooster’s cursed Sun-Radiant Golden Rooster and proposed evolving it to break the curse, while Rooster agreed to spare no expense. Master Jiang then revealed that he was Wei Yang and explained the connection between the Twenty-Eight Mansions’ Soul Artifacts and Flame Kingdom’s national destiny, as Ye Bai prepared to travel to the Sea Mystic Realm for Golden Crow Blood.

• Ye Bai met Rooster and explained that the Sun-Radiant Golden Rooster’s soul-bound curse could only be overcome through evolution, though the treatment had less than a ten percent chance of success.
• Rooster agreed to gather Ye Bai’s required treasures and take on decades of debt rather than abandon his companion, and Ye Bai gave the Sun-Radiant Golden Rooster Soul Strengthening Liquid and a television controlled by brainwave devices.
• Ye Bai told Master Jiang to prepare treatments while he sought ten drops of Golden Crow Blood in the Sea Mystic Realm, then passed intelligence about an angel attack to Marshal Azure Dragon.
• Ye Bai asked Master Jiang about the Twenty-Eight Mansions’ Soul Artifacts, prompting Master Jiang to reveal that he was Wei Yang, one of the Twelve Pillars of the Nation.
• Master Jiang explained how the Soul Artifacts drew strength from Flame Kingdom’s national destiny and warned Ye Bai to keep the restricted information secret.

Ye Bai and Paper Figure Kui confronted Svindal, an Abyssal Monster using a human disguise to hide its Godhead Crystal and infiltrate humanity. Ye Bai’s Myriad Changes Butterfly defeated Svindal’s strongest forms, leaving the Godhead Crystal behind and a threat of further attacks from the Demon God.

• Ye Bai lured the disguised Svindal away from the red-light district and exposed it as the statue that carried the Godhead Crystal.
• Svindal revealed its plan to replace humans, stole skins to change forms, and vowed to take Ye Bai’s skin and memories.
• Svindal changed into several Strange Beast forms, but Ye Bai’s pets destroyed its disguises while Paper Figure Kui waited to join the fight.
• Svindal revealed its Seventh Order true form and attacked Ye Bai with a Demon Sword, but Myriad Changes Butterfly raised a Thunder Light Barrier and overwhelmed it with lightning.
• Svindal’s body was destroyed as it warned that the Demon God would seek revenge, and the Godhead Crystal remained floating in the air.

Ye Bai prepared for threats from the Blood Demon God and the Molten Dragon Turtle while returning to the besieged Southern Heaven Gate Fortress. There, Doctor Xia joined the effort to find the Four-armed Vajra Apes’ weakness, and the Great Vajra Ape appeared as Tank fled the apes.

• Ye Bai gave Paper Figure Kui the Godhead Crystal and the Water Qilin Beast’s blessing before she entered seclusion to become an immortal Sacrificial Spirit.
• Ye Bai learned that Blood Demon Du Bo would try to summon the Blood Demon God and that the Molten Dragon Turtle guarded a Flame Dragon Egg.
• At Southern Heaven Gate Fortress, Jiao Mu Jiao assigned Tank to fight a Four-armed Vajra Ape while Doctor Xia began researching the apes’ weakness.
• Ye Bai met Doctor Xia, who explained the apes’ Battle Qi and asked Ye Bai to inherit his research and notes despite his failing health.
• Tank escaped a pack of Four-armed Vajra Apes, and their leader, the Great Vajra Ape, landed near the fortress.

Ye Bai and Doctor Xia identified a way for a female Pet Beast Master to subdue the Great Vajra Ape and control its clan, and Zhang Lingxue accepted the challenge. Doctor Xia died peacefully at Southern Heaven Gate Fortress, while Zhang Lingxue faced the Great Vajra Ape alone.

• Doctor Xia explained that defeating the female Great Vajra Ape in a one-on-one duel could bring the Four-armed Vajra Ape clan under human control, and his bodyguards found him at the fortress.
• Doctor Xia refused to become undead, asked to spend his final days at Southern Heaven Gate Fortress, and left his plans to Ye Bai through Xu Dog.
• Marshal Qilin agreed to honor Doctor Xia's wish for a quiet death, and Ye Bai persuaded Zhang Lingxue to challenge the Great Vajra Ape.
• Zhang Lingxue stepped outside the fortress and declared herself the Great Vajra Ape's opponent as the Four-armed Vajra Apes paused their attack.
• Doctor Xia watched Zhang Lingxue from outside the command room, then died peacefully in the sunlight as his bodyguard closed his eyes.

The Sunflower Emperor evolved into a Sunflower Immortal while Ye Bai's allies mourned Doctor Chen and Zhang Lingxue fought the Asura Demon Ape at the Southern Heaven Gate Fortress. When Anna reported trouble at the slaughterhouse, Ye Bai left to investigate and found that Night Blood Bat Emperors had supplied the blood that hatched the Gargoyles.

• The upper ranks mourned Doctor Chen as Sunflower Emperor doppelgangers guarded his coffin, and the Sunflower Emperor absorbed Essence Blood and evolved into a Sunflower Immortal.
• Zhang Lingxue's Giant Rock Butterfly Kings blocked the Asura Demon Ape, while her Lightning Butterfly Kings attacked and the Star Ripple Butterfly King moved her out of the ape's strike.
• Jiao Mu Jiao worried about Zhang Lingxue's battle, but Zhang Dashan assured him that she was a formidable fighter.
• Anna told Ye Bai that Gargoyle cores had emerged beneath the slaughterhouse, so Ye Bai sent the Space Pelican to watch over Zhang Lingxue and hurried to investigate.
• Ye Bai found hatched Gargoyles and the corpse of a Night Blood Bat Emperor, realizing that the bats had supplied the blood that let the Gargoyles hatch.
• The Blood Demon discovered that many of his Night Blood Bat Emperor spies were missing and used the Blood Demon Mirror technique.

Ye Bai and Zhang Lingxue subdued the Asura Demon Ape, then uncovered Blood Demon Du Bo’s Blood River and launched an attack on him. Du Bo retaliated with blood-based techniques, and the chapter ended with the Giant Rock Butterfly King shielding Ye Bai from a swarm of blood bats.

• Ye Bai’s Bloodthirsty Gargoyles harassed the Asura Demon Ape while Zhang Lingxue’s Poison Dragon Butterfly and Myriad Blood Gu Butterfly King weakened it.
• Zhang Lingxue contracted the exhausted Asura Demon Ape after Ye Bai urged her to seize the opportunity.
• After learning Ye Bai had three days before leaving for the Young Qilin Cup, Zhang Lingxue joined him in attacking Blood Demon Du Bo beneath Southern Heaven Gate Fortress.
• The Bloodthirsty Gargoyles and Blood Flood Dragon drained Du Bo’s Blood River, prompting him to summon blood doppelgangers and attack Ye Bai.
• Du Bo unleashed the Great Waterfall Blood Art and Blood Bat Technique, while the Giant Rock Butterfly King used Absolute Defense to protect Ye Bai.

Blood Demon Du Bo expanded the Blood Sea and tried to convert Ye Bai and his allies, but Ye Bai uncovered Du Bo’s Blood Core and was dragged into the demon’s hidden palace. There, Du Bo revealed that his apparent bodies were Blood Ancestors and prepared to summon Blood Demon God using twelve of them.

• Blood Demon Du Bo expanded the Blood River into a Blood Sea, where the Blood Flood Dragon absorbed Blood Essence while the True Goddess of Light Butterfly melted his blood spikes.
• Da Hui split Du Bo’s body with the Axe of the Thunder God, but Du Bo regenerated from the Blood Sea and separated Ye Bai, Zhang Lingxue, and their companions.
• Du Bo tried to recruit Ye Bai and transform him into a blood demon, but the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Heart absorbed the invading substance and Ye Bai froze Du Bo with the Ice Glass Dragon’s Sigh of the Ice Goddess.
• Du Bo’s Blood Core appeared, and an Abyssal Octopus dragged Ye Bai into a Blood Palace beneath the Blood Sea.
• Du Bo revealed that he was Doctor Du Bo and that his Blood Ancestors were independent doppelgangers, then recognized Ye Bai’s True Sight Eye and Memory Palace talent.
• Du Bo explained that Chu Han had once been Lady Bat of the Twenty-Eight Mansions and said he needed twelve Blood Ancestors to summon Blood Demon God.