Chapter Summaries

Gu Xi persuaded White Immortal to cooperate by offering Cloud Palace Building Blueprints that could provide lightning-wielding troops, and White Immortal mistook him for the Prefect Reincarnation. White Immortal agreed to exchange Building Blueprints and let Gu Xi explain how to refine the Grass Return Pill.

• White Immortal warned Gu Xi that the Gathering Righteousness Three Immortals would not guarantee the Grass Return Pill’s refinement if Gu Xi disturbed their lives.
• Gu Xi judged that he could not risk fighting White Immortal and Purple Immortal, so he offered to establish a Friendly City and trade Building Blueprints.
• Gu Xi offered seven Cloud Palace Building Blueprints that could produce lightning users, drawing White Immortal’s interest.
• White Immortal examined Gu Xi’s strength and abilities and concluded that he was probably the Prefect Reincarnation.
• White Immortal agreed to give Gu Xi two Building Blueprints in exchange, and Gu Xi handed over several Cloud Palace Building Blueprints before offering to explain the Grass Return Pill arrangements.

Gu Xi traded seven Cloud Palace Building Blueprints to White Immortal for two Champion Unit blueprints and examined their units and requirements. He left with plans for a Wangxiang Militia Corps and a Three Paths Demon Spring that could provide powerful forces for Bailian City.

• Gu Xi saw White Immortal’s sparsely developed Death City and exchanged seven Cloud Palace Building Blueprints for two special blueprints.
• White Immortal gave Gu Xi the Wangxiang Militia Corps blueprint and explained that the militia had once been his elder brother’s force, trained in small groups and assembled into large armies.
• Gu Xi examined the Three Paths Demon Spring blueprint, which trained White Robe Iron Cavalry with two charging styles and a battle-winning luck skill.
• White Immortal explained that the White Robe Iron Cavalry had been his exclusive unit before they were converted into Skeleton Cavalry.
• Gu Xi recognized that both Champion buildings had simple prerequisites and fast production, making their troops valuable potential main forces for Bailian City.

Gu Xi accepted White Immortal’s White Hope Fruits and agreed to make Aryadovi City and Tangguan City Friendly Cities. He asked White Immortal to clear the guardians from a nearby iron mine, but Red Immortal volunteered instead and led Gu Xi and Li Yufang toward it.

• White Immortal explained Burial Ground’s White Hope Fruits and offered them to Gu Xi, who accepted them.
• Gu Xi and White Immortal agreed that Aryadovi City and Tangguan City would share resources and trade.
• White Immortal told Gu Xi about an iron mine Earth Vein and agreed to clear its guardians without moving the mine himself.
• White Immortal sent out the White Robe Iron Cavalry, but Red Immortal insisted on leading the mission instead.
• Gu Xi released the Evil Coffin as his mount, and Red Immortal led him and Li Yufang toward the iron mine.

Red Immortal and Li Yufang fought a herd of Iron-Eating beasts while Gu Xi supported Red Immortal's Death Avatar with a Ghost Domain Battlefield. Gu Xi learned that his support counted toward battle credit and asked Aryadovi City to find the undead formed from the beasts, hoping to build up his forces before leaving the dangerous world.

• Red Immortal and Li Yufang attacked the Iron-Eating beasts after the herd tried to ambush Gu Xi.
• Gu Xi observed that Red Immortal's level 46 Death Avatar was powerful but lacked combat enhancements, and he worried about the strength of the world's top figures.
• Gu Xi cast a Ghost Domain Battlefield on Red Immortal's Death Avatar, which then cut down the beasts with a broadsword.
• Gu Xi contacted Aryadovi City and asked whether enemies killed by Red Immortal's Death Avatar would count toward his battle credit.
• Luna confirmed that the kills counted and said she had sent people to search for undead converted from the beasts.

Gu Xi used the Death Avatar and the Yellow Springs Dragon Robe to uproot an iron mine and transport it to his chosen location near the Burial Ground. The mine was converted into part of the Underworld Court and set down at its destination.

• Luna told Gu Xi that some of the beasts had been converted into three-headed Hellhounds, and Gu Xi gained enough experience to reach Level 9.
• Red Immortal finished clearing the beasts, and Gu Xi told her he would handle the rest.
• Gu Xi circled the iron mine while activating the Burial Dragon Vein, then summoned the Death Avatar-Titan and Death Avatar-Bone Dragon.
• Eighteen Bone Dragons uprooted the iron mine and carried it toward the Burial Ground as the Death Avatar-Titan transformed it into part of the Underworld Court.
• The Bone Dragons plunged into the ground at Gu Xi's chosen location, and the iron mine crashed down onto them.

Gu Xi transformed iron ore into steel ground by channeling Death Qi and heavenly lightning through it, strengthening Death Avatar-Titan in the process. Purple Immortal agreed to help conceal a new Grass Return Pill site by presenting his lightning challenge as its purpose, and White Immortal promised to prepare the site.

• The Yellow Springs Dragon Robe Holder dissolved the eighteen Bone Dragons into Death Qi and fed it into the iron ore.
• Death Avatar-Titan drew heavenly lightning into the ore, and after eight hours the land became steel ground balanced between death and lightning powers.
• Gu Xi noticed that the lightning had further improved Death Avatar-Titan's quality.
• Purple Immortal asked Gu Xi to summon heavenly lightning again so he could challenge it, and Gu Xi proposed using that challenge to conceal a new Grass Return Pill site.
• Purple Immortal agreed and enlisted White Immortal and Red Immortal to help with Gu Xi's arrangements.
• White Immortal reviewed Gu Xi's detailed planting requirements and promised to finish preparing the site before Gu Xi returned.

Gu Xi completed a second Alchemy Land by moving and transforming a gold mine with Purple Immortal’s help, then arranged for Purple Immortal and Hellhounds to guard the site. After Purple Immortal left, Gu Xi explained to Li Yufang why he believed Purple Immortal could overpower most Celestial Immortals in a physical fight.

• White Immortal and Red Immortal arranged the remaining Five Elements conditions, while Gu Xi set up a second Alchemy Land beneath a grassland with Purple Immortal’s help.
• Purple Immortal moved a gold mine, then fought through the heavenly lightning as Gu Xi transformed it over twelve hours.
• Gu Xi asked Purple Immortal to guard the remote site, and Purple Immortal agreed to come by when he could.
• Gu Xi stationed Skeletons and a hundred Hellhounds at the site, and Purple Immortal agreed to help if attackers came.
• After Purple Immortal returned to the Burial Ground, Gu Xi told Li Yufang that Purple Immortal could defeat most Celestial Immortals in a physical fight and had likely already beaten Red Immortal’s Death Avatar.

Gu Xi secretly prepared a hidden site for planting a Grass Return Pill, using a mountain deer corpse as fertilizer and assigning guards to protect the sprout. He left the area without creating a passage to Aryadovi City, wary that powerful beings from this world might use it to enter the city.

• Gu Xi finished concealing the Alchemy Land’s elemental features beneath Princess's Forest and warned Li Yufang to keep the site secret.
• Gu Xi gave a seed to the level 25 Skeleton and explained that Li Yufang should bring fresh flesh and blood only once a year, and stay away if the site came under attack.
• Gu Xi used a level 27 mountain deer corpse as fertilizer while the Skeleton planted the Grass Return Pill seed.
• The seed sprouted, and Gu Xi ordered the Hellhounds to guard it and alert the Zombie if anything approached.
• Gu Xi decided not to create a passage from Aryadovi City to the site because powerful figures from this world might use it to enter the city.

Gu Xi began growing the Grass Return Pill at the Burial Ground, using the spectacle to draw powerful beings toward Purple Immortal. After the sapling appeared, Gu Xi prepared to leave soon and arranged a Special Mirror so Li Yufang could reach him when needed.

• Gu Xi arrived at the Burial Ground with Li Yufang and warned Purple Immortal that growing the Grass Return Pill might attract powerful beings.
• Gu Xi displayed the Yellow Springs Edict and summoned more than sixty thousand White Impermanences to haul beast carcasses to the planting site.
• Gu Xi planted the Grass Return Pill seed among the carcasses, causing a day of violent disturbances before a small sapling emerged.
• Gu Xi assured Purple Immortal that the commotion would spread the news and bring visitors, while Purple Immortal agreed to guard the sapling.
• Gu Xi returned Li Yufang to the Graveyard and gave her Luna's Special Mirror so she could travel to him when needed.

Gu Xi traded ordinary goods with White Immortal for valuable Yin Crystal Stone, then received White Immortal’s Iron Cavalry Strategy Book before leaving the world. After Gu Xi exited, the Celestial Immortals who had been trapped there mysteriously died, settling the account created by the Immortal Pills.

• Luna traded ordinary goods from Aryadovi City with White Immortal’s city and obtained small pieces of Yin Crystal Stone.
• Gu Xi shared his knowledge of Death Cities with White Immortal, who gave him the Iron Cavalry Strategy Book.
• After sensing the Prefect’s signal, Gu Xi instructed Li Yufang to keep sending fresh flesh and blood for Grass Return Pills and then left the Burial Ground.
• Gu Xi chose to exit the game world and was transferred to a range of commonly used routes.
• The trapped Celestial Immortals in the western mountain city died on the same day, and their souls returned to the Underworld Court.

Gu Xi emerged from a public Teleportation Gate in Peixin City and learned that the city’s Seagull messengers delivered mail and newspapers across worlds. He collected newspapers and magazines to stock his libraries while keeping his ability to enter the Real World secret.

• Gu Xi arrived in snowy Peixin City after logging out through a public Teleportation Gate without choosing an exit location.
• A newsstand owner explained that Gu Xi was in Peixin City’s Azure District and pointed out the Post and Telecommunications Building and its Seagull messengers.
• Gu Xi learned that newspapers were updated every five minutes and could protect readers from the effects of certain high-level books.
• Gu Xi worried that newspaper subscriptions might reveal his ability to enter the Real World, which he kept secret while Yuanzu City prepared Genesis.
• Gu Xi asked the newsstand owner for three copies of every newspaper and magazine to fill his libraries.

Gu Xi bought a collection of academic journals and newspapers in Peixin City, learning about the city’s rules and local specialties. After consulting a street vendor and studying a map, he headed for the academy that handled mounts, hoping to upgrade the Evil Coffin.

• Gu Xi bought newspapers and academic journals, especially those about undead professions, after hearing how studying skills could reveal their full potential.
• When Gu Xi tried to summon the Troop Stockade City Gate, the vendor warned him that using skills in Peixin City was forbidden, so Gu Xi stored the publications in his Weird Mirror Space instead.
• Gu Xi asked the vendor what was worth buying in Peixin City, and the vendor explained the specialties of the three cities under Yuanzu City and recommended a city map.
• Using the map and the vendor’s advice about shops near universities, Gu Xi located Peixin City Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Academy, where he hoped to upgrade the Evil Coffin.

Gu Xi traveled to Peixin City Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Academy’s district to find a reliable shop that could upgrade his Evil Coffin. He presented the coffin and its upgrade method to a shopkeeper, who questioned whether a mount shop could work on it.

• Gu Xi rode the automated subway to the academy district while reading Mount Tai Prefect's Secret Records.
• Gu Xi walked past shops selling general-purpose mounts and looked for a reliable carriage workshop.
• Gu Xi found a Millennium Shop inherited through two generations that offered carriage crafting and upgrades.
• The shopkeeper’s daughter called her father when Gu Xi entered, and the father offered to inspect his upgrade plan.
• Gu Xi released the Evil Coffin and showed the shopkeeper its outer shell and upgrade method.
• The shopkeeper was surprised by the coffin and asked whether Gu Xi should take it to a funeral goods shop instead.

Gu Xi hired a craftsman to upgrade the Evil Coffin and modify its Silver Outer Coffin for a more comfortable ride. While inspecting the outer coffin’s carvings, they discovered its layered magic arrays and began deciding which parts to alter.

• The craftsman reviewed Gu Xi’s plan and agreed to strengthen the ghost inside the Evil Coffin and modify the Silver Outer Coffin.
• The craftsman brought Gu Xi into his workshop and sketched the outer coffin’s relief carvings.
• The craftsman demonstrated that the eighteen angels in the carvings formed an Angel Alliance that could cast Prayer Spells and suppress undead.
• Gu Xi and the craftsman examined the carvings and identified seven layers of magic, including arrays that protected the corpse and trapped tomb raiders.
• After they found some carvings damaged or unsuitable, the craftsman proposed an idea.

Gu Xi worked with the Boss and hired specialists to upgrade the Silver Outer Coffin while preparing materials to nurture the Evil Coffin and its evil spirits. The coffin’s exterior and interior were nearly finished, and the Evil Coffin began a three-day nurturing process before its upgrade.

• The Boss proposed preserving the Silver Outer Coffin’s Angel Alliance and replacing damaged arrays with new functions, while Gu Xi requested greater speed, visual impact, energy replenishment, inlay space, and interior improvements.
• Gu Xi and the Boss planned the coffin’s arrays, compartments, and chain anchors, and the Boss brought in specialists to work while Gu Xi supplied high-quality materials.
• The specialists completed the Silver Outer Coffin after about a day, and a green liquid based on a formula from the Mount Tai Prefecture Secret Records was prepared for soaking undead.
• Gu Xi and the Boss used flesh and a golden sphere to nurture the evil spirits inside the Evil Coffin, beginning a three-day adjustment before upgrading them.
• The Boss told Gu Xi that the coffin lid would be finished the next day, the interior had been partitioned for the medicinal liquid, and the Angel Alliance had been protected.

Gu Xi and Boss completed major modifications to the Silver Outer Coffin and prepared to seal the upgraded Evil Coffin inside it. With the coffins and herbs in place, Boss began the final sealing.

• Over three days, Boss and the experts transformed the Silver Outer Coffin with thirteen types of magic and divided its interior into seven spaces, while the Evil Coffin’s upgrade neared completion.
• Gu Xi kept the Emperor Burial Method’s ability to use purple equipment without its negative effects secret, claiming the seven spaces were needed for his items.
• Boss threw the blackened sphere into the Evil Coffin, chained it shut, and had eight people lower it into the green liquid inside the Silver Outer Coffin.
• Gu Xi covered the inner lid and poured in spices and medicinal herbs he had brought from the previous world.
• Boss roared, “Coffin Lid Sealing, close!” as the Silver Outer Coffin’s lid was pushed into place.

Gu Xi received his upgraded Holy Silver Evil Coffin and discussed its future potential with Boss. Before leaving, he agreed to trade undead herbs with a researcher from Pei Xin Agriculture Academy and asked him to investigate a simpler way to grow a rare tree.

• The Silver Outer Coffin transformed into the Holy Silver Evil Coffin (Purple +2), a powerful mount with enhanced movement and combat abilities.
• Boss explained that the coffin might have reached Purple +3 if its exterior had been intact, but Gu Xi was satisfied with the upgrade.
• A researcher from Pei Xin Agriculture Academy asked Gu Xi to sell him undead and poison herbs, offering special herb seeds in trade.
• Gu Xi asked the researcher whether he could simplify the planting requirements for a tree whose ancient formula required fresh corpses above level 30.
• The researcher said he would need to conduct experiments before he could confirm whether he could simplify the method.

Gu Xi brought the Grass Return Pill formula and a seed to Peixin Agricultural University, seeking a cultivation method that would allow the pills to be mass-produced. The university agreed to produce six thousand Green Quality saplings for him, while its experts discussed the tree’s unusual growth restrictions and possible evolution.

• Li Wei brought Gu Xi to meet university president Liu Zengqiang and department heads Li Fei and Shi Fang, who wanted to examine his formula and seed.
• Gu Xi showed them the copied formula and the Grass Return Pill seed, and Liu Zengqiang sensed that it was a simplified immortal-tree seed.
• Liu Zengqiang offered to divide the seed into twelve thousand saplings, but said the university would give Gu Xi six thousand after accounting for the resources needed to maintain their quality and growth.
• Shi Fang suggested that the tree’s Five Elements requirements could be reduced to one direction if Gu Xi did not need its full range of effects.
• Li Fei proposed that the tree’s restrictions fused it with its planter, and Gu Xi asked whether the tree ultimately devoured Treants and smaller trees to reach Orange Quality.
• The three experts recognized that Orange Quality might be possible but would demand too much time and too many Treants, so they planned to study the seed while keeping the remaining saplings.

Gu Xi studied spirit plants and related subjects at Peixin Agricultural University while its experts tested seeds from his Grass Return Pill formula. After twenty-three days, Li Wei brought him to the principal’s underground laboratory, where Li Zengqiang showed him the first results of their cultivation experiments.

• Peixin Agricultural University’s experts began separating and studying the seeds, while Liu Zengqiang arranged for Gu Xi to use the school’s facilities and study with its professors.
• Gu Xi spent twenty-three days attending classes and reading, raising his botany by four levels and his herbalism to level 5.
• Li Wei told Gu Xi that the experiments were ready and led him to the principal’s laboratory.
• Li Zengqiang showed Gu Xi five fruit trees, each bearing thirty fruits, and reported that the school had cultivated 14,300 first-generation saplings.
• Li Zengqiang explained that seeds grown without any of the five elements had died, seeds exposed to all five grew too slowly to accelerate, and single-element conditions produced different fruit effects.

Gu Xi reviewed Peixin Agricultural University’s Grass Return Pill research and learned that the Metal Attribute pill could raise a player’s level beyond their cap. He negotiated with Liu Zengqiang for five thousand saplings, cultivation methods, and a share of the rewards, as the discovery promised to reshape the world before Genesis began.

• Gu Xi learned that saplings grown with individual elements had produced thirty-six fruits each, and that the Fire and Water Grass Return Pills could break through major realms and extend lifespan, respectively.
• Liu Zengqiang received the Metal Attribute Grass Return Pill report and asked Gu Xi to provide another batch of trees.
• Gu Xi refused to give away more saplings and urged the university to propagate them through cuttings and grafting.
• Gu Xi discovered that the Metal Attribute pill could raise a player’s level beyond the cap once, while a second use would add four levels but permanently prevent further leveling.
• Gu Xi and Liu Zengqiang agreed that Gu Xi would receive five thousand saplings, all subsequent propagation methods, and a share of the rewards for the research.