Chapter Summaries

Lu Jun warned Minghe that the Asura Clan’s future connection to the Buddhist Sect would bring no good fortune, prompting Minghe to suspect Jieyin and Zhunti planned to absorb his people and undermine the Blood Sea. Minghe grew furious and resolved to treat their invitation as a threat.

• Minghe asked Lu Jun whether Jieyin and Zhunti’s invitation to join Buddhism was tied to his chance of becoming a Saint.
• Lu Jun told Minghe that the Asura Clan and Buddhist Sect would share a deep karmic connection, but not one of good cause and good result.
• Minghe took Lu Jun’s warning as a sign that Jieyin and Zhunti intended to take the Asuras and weaken the Blood Sea.
• Minghe reasoned that Buddhism could use the Asuras as converts and Dharma Protectors to gain Wish Power.
• Lu Jun admired Minghe’s quick deduction, while Tai Yi judged that Minghe had miscalculated.

Tai Yi warned Minghe that Jieyin and Zhunti wanted his Twelve-Petaled Karma Fire Red Lotus, and Minghe resolved to stay within the Netherworld Blood Sea rather than risk a confrontation. Minghe then asked Lu Jun for guidance on another path to the Dao, and Lu Jun began by raising a question of his own.

• Tai Yi told Minghe that Jieyin and Zhunti were pursuing something he possessed, leading Minghe to realize they wanted his Twelve-Petaled Karma Fire Red Lotus.
• Minghe thanked Tai Yi and Lu Jun, then decided to remain within the Netherworld Blood Sea and rely on its defenses to deter Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Minghe asked Lu Jun whether he had any route to sainthood or the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm besides waiting for Primordial Violet Qi or becoming entangled with the Buddhist Sect.
• Lu Jun considered Minghe’s limited options and asked him a question that he and Tai Yi had long wanted answered.

Lu Jun asked Minghe why he had never tried to unite his Three Corpses despite possessing treasures ideally suited to the path. Tai Yi considered Minghe’s fearsome strength and history, while Minghe prepared to explain his reasons.

• Lu Jun questioned Minghe about why he had not pursued Three Corpses Unite despite witnessing Di Jun succeed and owning powerful, compatible treasures.
• Tai Yi recalled how Minghe’s Yuan Tu sword wounded Kun Peng from afar when Kun Peng tried to disrupt Minghe’s creation of the Asura Clan.
• Tai Yi remembered Minghe cursing Hong Yun’s remnant soul, forcing it to abandon the Primordial Violet Qi before it could enter Reincarnation.
• Tai Yi recalled that Zhen Yuanzi confronted Minghe over Hong Yun, but Minghe’s Blood Sea defenses and endless Blood God Sons made their fight too costly to continue.
• Tai Yi judged that his Chaos Bell and True Sun Fire could defeat Minghe even on the Blood Sea, though killing him would be exceedingly difficult and costly.

Minghe explained that his Blood God Sons arose from his obsession with controlling the expanding Blood Sea, and Tai Yi realized that the Sea’s overwhelmingly evil nature had left Minghe’s Good and Evil Corpses dangerously imbalanced. Minghe revealed that this imbalance was only his smallest problem, leaving the deeper obstacle unexplained.

• Minghe recalled how his fear of being assimilated by the Blood Sea led him to split off Blood God Sons to control it, eventually creating Four Hundred and Eighty Million avatars.
• Tai Yi connected Minghe’s Blood God Son ability to his path of Slaying the Three Corpses and asked what he had done.
• Minghe asked Tai Yi and Lu Jun whether the Blood Sea’s accumulated souls, resentment, killing karma, and filth were good or evil.
• Tai Yi concluded that the Blood Sea was nearly pure evil, leaving Minghe’s Evil Corpse powerful and his Good Corpse feeble.
• Lu Jun suggested that a special method might balance the Corpses, but Minghe said their imbalance was only the smallest problem.

Minghe explained that his four hundred eighty million Blood God Sons and their shared existence with the Blood Sea made it impossible to identify a single, unified self from which to sever the Self Corpse. Tai Yi and Lu Jun realized that the Self Corpse was an even greater obstacle than they had expected.

• Tai Yi asked Minghe what greater problem remained after the smallest one.
• Minghe revealed that severing the Self Corpse was his greatest deadlock because he could not determine which of his four hundred eighty million selves was the original.
• Minghe explained that his Evil Corpse and Good Corpse could draw on obsessions and intentions shared by all his incarnations, but his Self Corpse required a unified core of self-recognition.
• Minghe said that designating his throne-bound consciousness as the sole original self would provoke resistance from the Blood God Sons, each of whom considered itself part of him.
• Minghe explained that his self had merged with the Blood Sea, making separation of an original self akin to extracting a drop from the ocean and risking his own foundation.
• Tai Yi and Lu Jun understood that Minghe could survive the death of his true body through his Blood God Sons, but the problem of his Self Corpse remained.

Minghe explained that his Blood God Sons had divided his identity so thoroughly that he could not sever a true Self Corpse, leaving him unable to complete the Three Corpses path to Hunyuan. He ended by accepting that the divine ability that made him nearly immortal had also trapped him within the Blood Sea and closed off transcendence.

• Lu Jun and Tai Yi realized that Minghe's many Blood God Sons had scattered his sense of self and blocked his progress toward Three Corpses Unite.
• Minghe described how he had severed his Evil Corpse and barely formed a Good Corpse, but every attempt to sever his Self Corpse threatened his consciousness and foundation.
• Minghe revealed that the Self Corpse he had managed to sever represented only one of his four hundred eighty million portions of existence.
• Minghe told Tai Yi and Lu Jun that his Blood God Son divine ability had made him a distributed consciousness bound to the Blood Sea, unable to become an independent transcendent being.

Minghe learned that Slaying the Three Corpses had trapped his unique cultivation path in a dead end, leaving him desperate for a way to achieve Hunyuan. Lu Jun proposed that he abandon the orthodox path and pursue All Selves United, but Minghe argued that merging his Blood God Sons could not break through his Quasi-Saint Peak realm.

• Tai Yi and Lu Jun considered how Minghe's countless avatars conflicted with the path of Slaying the Three Corpses.
• Tai Yi explained that Minghe had little prospect of achieving sainthood through merit, force, or Primordial Violet Qi.
• Minghe asked Lu Jun whether he had any hope of reaching Hunyuan, and Lu Jun urged him to abandon Three Corpses Unite.
• Lu Jun proposed that Minghe build a new cultivation path around uniting his Four Hundred and Eighty Million Blood God Sons.
• Minghe said that merging Blood God Sons only gathered power and could not raise his origin or break through the Quasi-Saint realm.

Minghe rejected Lu Jun’s suggestion that he free the Four Hundred and Eighty Million Blood God Sons to become independent versions of himself, fearing it would trigger a war that could destroy the Blood Sea and erase his identity. The chapter left Minghe unwilling to risk his existence on Lu Jun’s proposed path.

• Minghe argued that accumulating energy through the Blood God Sons would not let him break through his Quasi-Saint Peak bottleneck or rival true Heavenly Dao Saints.
• Lu Jun proposed that Minghe abandon absolute control and let every Blood God Son develop independent consciousness and pursue its own Dao.
• Minghe recoiled at the suggestion and considered how independent versions of himself might struggle to devour or replace one another.
• Minghe warned that releasing control could plunge the Blood Sea into civil war, destroy the Asura Clan, and invite outside powers to attack.
• Minghe refused to gamble his entire existence on the possibility that the final surviving version would still be the real Minghe.

Tai Yi proposed that Minghe send his Blood God Sons into distant worlds rather than let them compete within the Blood Sea, giving them independent lives and paths. Minghe saw a possible route to gather their diverse Daos and transcend the Quasi-Saint realm.

• Minghe described how 480 million independent versions of himself could turn the Blood Sea into a battlefield and threaten the Prehistoric World.
• Tai Yi suggested sending the Blood God Sons beyond the Blood Sea to prevent them from fighting over limited resources.
• Tai Yi cited Zhen Yuanzi’s dispersed avatars and Lu Jun’s plan to explore worlds as examples of gathering insight through independent incarnations.
• Tai Yi urged Minghe to release his Blood God Sons in stages into different worlds while retaining only a non-coercive connection between them.
• Tai Yi proposed that Minghe reunite the Blood God Sons only after they had developed distinct paths and accumulated diverse wisdom, potentially enabling him to transcend his limits.

Minghe considered Tai Yi’s proposal to send Blood God Sons into other worlds, but feared that their return would either threaten him or dissolve his identity. Lu Jun challenged him to reconsider what the self truly was, leaving Minghe faced with the possibility that transformation could be a form of transcendence.

• Minghe recognized that Blood God Sons retaining his memories and personality might return as rivals seeking to replace him.
• He feared that erasing their memories would make them alien beings whose eventual fusion could remake his identity and beliefs.
• Lu Jun and Tai Yi understood Minghe’s dilemma, and Lu Jun asked what truly constituted the self.
• Lu Jun argued that the self was not a fixed body, consciousness, or Dao, but could become a higher existence shaped by many selves and paths.
• Lu Jun compared Minghe’s fear of transformation to Pangu’s death and asked whether Pangu had lost himself or achieved sublimation.

Lu Jun urged Minghe to pursue All Selves United by letting Blood God Sons develop independently while preserving a core True Spirit imprint as their fusion axis. The chapter revealed that Minghe’s fear of uncertainty and need for absolute control had kept him from fully attempting that path.

• Lu Jun proposed sealing the Blood God Sons’ memories, allowing them to develop independently in other worlds, and preserving Minghe’s pure True Spirit imprint as a return point.
• Lu Jun urged Minghe to use the Blood Sea Great Dao to fuse the returning selves and their Dao Fruits, accepting the risks of conflict and transformation.
• Lu Jun confronted Minghe with a choice between remaining secure and stagnant in the Blood Sea or risking everything to pursue greater power and control over his Destiny.
• Minghe’s history showed that he had attempted to fuse Blood God Sons, but only within limits that preserved his control and could not break his bottleneck.
• The chapter characterized Minghe as an isolationist who resisted uncertainty, even when it came from parts of himself, and clung to absolute rule over the Blood Sea.

Minghe rejected Lu Jun’s All Selves United path despite seeing it as a chance to escape his declining position. He argued that the method remained untested and he would not risk being its first pioneer.

• Minghe’s past refusal to join the Earthly Dao’s Reincarnation system was recalled as a lost chance to become an Earthly Dao Saint.
• Lu Jun’s proposal of All Selves United stirred Minghe’s fear, greed, and desire for power, but he ultimately refused the path.
• Tai Yi questioned Minghe’s decision and urged him to take what might be his only chance at survival.
• Minghe argued that Lu Jun had not yet fully paved the path and that its unknown dangers made becoming the first to walk it too risky.

Ancestor Minghe refused to risk the unproven All Selves United path, preferring to wait for Lu Jun to test it first and follow if he succeeded. Lu Jun accepted her decision and turned back to established paths to seek a way through their predicament.

• Ancestor Minghe declared that she would follow Lu Jun’s footsteps only after he proved the All Selves United path could lead to Hunyuan.
• Minghe explained that she preferred proven paths and relied on the Netherworld Blood Sea as her eternal refuge.
• Lu Jun recognized Minghe’s cautious, imitative nature and abandoned the idea of urging her to become a pioneer.
• Lu Jun accepted Minghe’s refusal and proposed searching established paths for a slim chance of overcoming their predicament.

Lu Jun proposed that Minghe use Buddhist teachings to address the imbalance among his Three Corpses, secretly drawing on Buddhist methods to strengthen his weak Good Corpse and temper his dangerously powerful Evil Corpse. Minghe was horrified by the suggestion but found it tempting, and Lu Jun began outlining how the Evil Corpse might be tested against Buddhist forces.

• Lu Jun warned Minghe that finding a workaround within an established cultivation path could be as dangerous and costly as creating a new one.
• Lu Jun identified Minghe’s weak Good Corpse, unstable Evil Corpse, and dispersed Self Corpse as the central flaws in his Three Corpses.
• Minghe angrily rejected the idea of relying on the Buddhist Sect, whose Saints Jieyin and Zhunti had tried to trap him and covet his Karma Fire Red Lotus.
• Lu Jun explained that Buddhist methods of salvation, merit, and compassion could secretly nourish Minghe’s Good Corpse and help bring order to the Blood Sea.
• Lu Jun suggested that Minghe’s Evil Corpse could be tempered by confronting Buddhist-marked Heart Demons and karmic forces, or by clashing with Buddhist Karma Fire.

Minghe considered Lu Jun’s dangerous plan to balance his Good and Evil Corpses through Buddhist power and sever his Self Corpse by temporarily uniting all his Blood God Sons. He realized that success would require him to stop creating any new Blood God Sons until the Three Corpses united, leaving him horrified by the implications.

• Minghe weighed using Buddhist power to temper his Evil Corpse but feared corruption and discovery by Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Lu Jun urged Minghe to address the Self Corpse’s scattered origin by temporarily making all four hundred and eighty million Blood God Sons Return to One and severing the Self Corpse in that unified state.
• Lu Jun proposed that Buddhist teachings could strengthen the Good Corpse and restrain and temper the Evil Corpse, potentially bringing the Three Corpses into balance.
• Minghe realized he could not create even one new Blood God Son between their return to one and the completion of Three Corpses Unite, or the attempt could fail and trigger backlash.
• Minghe asked Lu Jun and Taiyi if they understood what it meant for him to stop dividing Blood God Sons.

Minghe rejected Lu Jun’s breakthrough plan because it required him to temporarily give up the Blood Sea’s protection and risk being vulnerable to his enemies. Lu Jun challenged his fear and greed, while Tai Yi grew impatient with Minghe’s hesitation.

• Minghe imagined enemies attacking the Blood Sea and the Asura Clan rebelling while he pursued the breakthrough, and he refused to accept the risk.
• Lu Jun argued that cultivation required risk and cited Nuwa, the Three Pure Ones, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Zhen Yuanzi as examples of those who had made sacrifices.
• Lu Jun told Minghe that his unwillingness to surrender his safeguards could leave him trapped in the Blood Sea or become a resource for the Saints.
• Minghe recognized the truth in Lu Jun’s criticism but remained unwilling to gamble away his immortality.
• Tai Yi showed his disappointment and impatience with Minghe’s fear of death and insatiable desire for advancement.

Tai Yi rebuked Minghe for letting his Blood God Sons and the Blood Sea’s protection turn his pursuit of safety into a prison that stifled his path to Hunyuan. He contrasted Minghe’s fear with the risks he, Di Jun, and the young Ren Jing took in pursuing new paths, leaving Minghe’s Dao Heart shaken by the accusation.

• Tai Yi confronted Minghe and condemned him for using his Blood God Sons, treasures, and Blood Sea chiefly to preserve himself instead of advancing toward Hunyuan.
• Tai Yi warned that Minghe’s fear of risk had turned his Path of Slaughter into a retreat and made the Quasi-Saint Peak his likely limit.
• Tai Yi pointed to Ren Jing enduring Chaos at the edge of the Prehistoric World as an example of risking destruction for transformation.
• Tai Yi recalled that Di Jun had forged his path through the Witch-Demon Great Tribulation and that his own pursuit of Nirvana also risked permanent death.
• Tai Yi declared that Minghe had made the Blood Sea an exquisite prison and that Hunyuan and Sainthood would remain unreachable if he lacked the courage to face risks.
• Tai Yi’s words battered Minghe’s defenses and exposed truths about his fear that he had avoided confronting.

Tai Yi exposed Minghe’s fear-driven obsession with survival and control, while Lu Jun judged that Minghe’s path depended on overcoming that flaw. Minghe still searched for a risk-free route to Hunyuan, prompting Tai Yi to condemn him even more harshly.

• Tai Yi rebuked Minghe for letting his Blood God Sons and need for security corrupt his Path of Slaughter into a Blood Sea Survival Path.
• Lu Jun watched without intervening and concluded that Minghe had to overcome his cowardice to have any hope of advancing.
• Minghe failed to refute Tai Yi and asked Lu Jun whether a safer path to Hunyuan existed beyond All Selves United or relying on the Buddhist Sect.
• Tai Yi erupted at Minghe and declared that his greed, cowardice, and delusions were worse than Jieyin and Zhunti’s schemes.

Tai Yi condemned Minghe for seeking a path to transcendence without accepting risks or making sacrifices, and Lu Jun warned that Minghe’s hesitation could cost him the Karma Fire Red Lotus and destroy his hope of completing the Three Corpses path. The warning left Minghe’s incarnation reeling, its form close to collapse.

• Tai Yi rebuked Minghe for rejecting the dangerous paths Lu Jun had explained while demanding a perfect answer without paying any price.
• Minghe struggled to defend himself but recognized that Tai Yi’s accusations might be true.
• Lu Jun withdrew his earlier guidance and warned that Jieyin and Zhunti could target the Blood Sea and seize Minghe’s Twelve-Petaled Karma Fire Red Lotus.
• Lu Jun explained that losing the lotus would break a crucial link in Minghe’s Three Corpses path and could leave him without any viable route to transcendence.
• Minghe’s Blood God Son incarnation shook violently, its blood light dimming and its form nearly collapsing under the warning.

Minghe left after Lu Jun made clear that their debt and connection were settled, still unable to decide whether to leave the Blood Sea. Lu Jun and Tai Yi then discussed how Minghe's fear of risk had kept him from seizing opportunities and left him with few paths forward.

• Lu Jun told Minghe to make his own choice and bear its consequences, then ended their connection.
• Minghe thanked Lu Jun and Tai Yi, said he needed time to consider, and fled toward the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• Tai Yi criticized Minghe for lacking the resolve to risk everything in pursuit of transcendence, and Lu Jun agreed.
• Lu Jun recalled how Minghe had demanded protection from Zhen Yuanzi before sharing his Blood God Son method, despite having the Blood Sea's defenses.
• Tai Yi recalled that Minghe had rejected Houtu's offer of the Asura Dao Master position and later failed to expand his clan or claim a place in the wider world.