Chapter Summaries

Crow disguised himself as Ye Yaya to evade detection, but Kurumi suspected him and ordered Gu Zhen to have Lin Lin inspect the girl. Lin Lin exposed Crow’s true sex, and Crow broke his seal, killed nearby disciples, and attacked Kurumi in an attempt to escape.

• Ye Huancai mistook the disguised Crow for a promising disciple named Ye Yaya and told him to wait while she inspected the survivors.
• Kurumi suspected Ye Yaya was Crow and quietly alerted Gu Zhen, who ordered Lin Lin to examine the girl.
• Lin Lin discovered that Ye Yaya was anatomically male, and Crow broke through Gu Zhen’s seal and struck Lin Lin with a powerful kick.
• Crow’s aura killed dozens of nearby female disciples as Gu Zhen tried to capture him alive.
• Crow targeted Kurumi, believing he could seize her and escape despite the gap between their realms.

Gu Zhen captured Crow and crippled him after Crow tried to escape, while Ye Huancai recognized him as the man who had ruined her sect. Kurumi questioned Crow about Earth, but he died when his consciousness and soul suddenly shattered before she could search his memories.

• Crow tried to use a substitute puppet and flee, but Gu Zhen repeatedly caught him, destroyed his dantian, sealed his soul consciousness, and bound him with Black Annihilation Army chains.
• Ye Huancai realized Crow had impersonated Ye Yaya and blamed him for the Illusion Rainbow Sect’s destruction and her disciple’s death.
• Gu Zhen tortured Crow for information, but he refused to speak, and Kurumi stopped Gu Zhen from searching his soul without her permission.
• Kurumi asked Crow whether he knew Earth and mentioned another person like him, prompting Crow to believe his squad faced a confrontation or hunting mission.
• Crow cursed Kurumi and declared she would die, but his sea of consciousness shattered and his soul dissolved before Kurumi could search it.

After the crow vanished and left behind a silver chest, Kurumi found an ancient-looking book and gave it to Gu Zhen to read. Gu Zhen discovered it was a male cultivation manual, and its strange instructor appeared to demonstrate its contents.

• The crow's corpse dissolved into starlight and left a silver chest behind, baffling Kurumi, Gu Zhen, Ye Huancai, and the Black Annihilation Army soldiers.
• Kurumi opened the chest and found a tattered book and a small club-shaped technological object.
• Kurumi identified the book as the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon and learned it was a rubbing edition of a volume intended for male cultivation.
• Kurumi gave the book to Gu Zhen and asked him to pass it to Lin Lin after reading it without spreading it around.
• Gu Zhen activated the book's contents, watched a dignified middle-aged man explain obscure principles, and then saw Xuanyuan Aotian appear to give a practical demonstration.

Gu Zhen learned the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon from Instructor Xuanyuan Aotian in an awareness space, then watched the text disappear when he left. Kurumi told him to teach what he had learned to Lin Lin personally, leaving Gu Zhen anxious about how to demonstrate the cultivation method.

• Gu Zhen watched Xuanyuan Aotian demonstrate and explain the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, realizing it was a dual-cultivation method and memorizing its acupoints and energy flows.
• Xuanyuan Aotian ended the lesson and asked Gu Zhen to leave a five-star review, which Gu Zhen gave before learning that the book would be destroyed when he exited.
• Gu Zhen spent hours memorizing the instruction, then left the awareness space and saw the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon vanish into starlight.
• Kurumi noticed the book had disappeared, and Gu Zhen confirmed it was gone without explaining what he had learned.
• Kurumi told Gu Zhen to teach the method to Lin Lin personally, and Gu Zhen looked toward the recovering Lin Lin with unease.

Kurumi examined a depleted hypnosis device and planned to act against the Black Annihilation Army’s intelligence department after her strength increased. She considered the upcoming Imperial Altar Baptism and its matchmaking customs, then opened her eyes to Xun’er’s arrival.

• Kurumi suspected someone was targeting her through the intelligence department and planned to challenge it after the Imperial Altar Baptism.
• Kurumi studied the club-shaped device, identified its hypnosis abilities, and stored it while considering how to recharge it.
• Kurumi reflected on how the Imperial Altar Baptism helped Gu Clan members advance and how the event brought young women from subordinate factions into matchmaking arrangements.
• Kurumi recalled that Gu Lie’s Eastern Region mother had helped elevate her sect’s fortunes and that young men who challenged the Gu Clan’s matches rarely took their chosen women away.
• Kurumi opened her golden eyes as Xun’er entered, and her spiritual power placed pressure on her.

On the eve of the Imperial Altar Baptism, Gu Clan descendants gathered in Ancient Saint City for a bloodline test to determine the ceremony’s arrangements. Gu Xun’er displayed the strength of her bloodline, and Gu Mo’er began her test as hidden Saints watched.

• The Gu Clan held a small-scale bloodline test for its direct descendants before the Imperial Altar Baptism.
• Gu Yao watched the tests while brooding over Gu Mo’er’s achievements and his rivalry with other Black Annihilation Army commanders.
• Gu Xing displayed a Seventh-grade Bloodline, Gu Hua’s was denser, and Gu Qingyang reached the Eighth-grade level.
• Gu Xun’er lit eight stars on the Star Disk and withdrew before the ninth, so Elder Tong Xuan announced her as having an Eighth-grade Bloodline.
• Gu Mo’er stepped up as hidden Saint-level figures watched, then began drawing golden blood droplets into her arm to activate her bloodline.

Gu Mo'er revealed a Divine Bloodline so powerful that she destroyed the Star Disk during the test, drawing the attention of Gu Lie and changing how some clan members addressed her. The next day, the Imperial Altar Baptism began, and Gu Qingyang saw Gu Mo'er arriving by White Jade Flying Boat.

• Gu Mo'er mobilized a fraction of her Divine Bloodline, illuminated all ten stars on the Star Disk, and shattered it.
• Elder Tong Xuan announced Gu Mo'er's Divine Bloodline, while Gu Lie watched from above and the observing Saints speculated that he would support her.
• News of Gu Mo'er's test spread among the direct descendants, and some Dou Zuns began calling her Young Mistress.
• The Imperial Altar Baptism began as subordinate factions gathered around the altar and Black Annihilation soldiers guarded the grounds.
• Gu Qingyang and Gu Hua arrived with soldiers, asked whether Gu Mo'er had entered, and saw her White Jade Flying Boat approaching.

Lin Yiyi watched the Black Annihilation Army’s commanders and other guests gather at the Imperial Altar before the baptism began. As pure energy poured from the Eye of Heaven, Kurumi used the Flame Mantra and her four Heavenly Flames to draw it all into a funnel above her.

• Lin Yiyi saw Gu Qingyang greet the Black Annihilation soldiers, then watched the Second Commander arrive with her group and enter the altar grounds.
• A high-ranking Venerable announced the Imperial Altar Baptism’s rules and directed invitees to enter through the numbered passages after inspection.
• Kurumi surveyed the pyramid’s seating, where Xun'er, Gu Qingyang, Gu Hua, Gu Yao, Gu Xing, and Gu Zhen sat below her.
• The baptism began as the Eye of Heaven opened in the clouds and released liquid pure energy onto Kurumi.
• Kurumi activated the Flame Mantra with her four Heavenly Flames and formed a funnel that gathered the cascading energy.

During the Gu Clan’s Imperial Altar Baptism, Kurumi monopolized the energy at the summit and broke through to eight-star Dou Zong. She redirected much of the remaining energy to Xun’er while continuing to advance, leaving Gu Qingyang with only a trickle.

• Elder Tong Xuan reassured the presiding High-level Dou Zun that the Gu Realm had enough energy for the baptism and recognized Gu Mo’er’s potential as a Half-Emperor.
• Gu Qingyang and the other participants discovered that Kurumi’s funnel was absorbing nearly all the energy liquid, while Xun’er watched her sister with pride.
• Kurumi reached eight-star Dou Zong as her Heavenly Flame funnel neared collapse under the vast energy and crushed space around it.
• Kurumi told Xun’er to control the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and prepared to redirect energy to her.
• Kurumi’s funnel partly shattered, sending a great stream of energy toward Xun’er while only a small stream reached Gu Qingyang.
• Kurumi continued cultivating as her aura climbed toward the Dou Zun realm.

The Imperial Altar Baptism’s energy flowed through the pyramid, benefiting cultivators across the Gu clan and its Eastern Region allies. Kurumi absorbed enough energy to break through to One-star Dou Zun, leaving Gu Qingyang frustrated at being overtaken.

• The damaged funnel of three Heavenly Flames collapsed, sending liquid energy down the pyramid and allowing Black Annihilation Army soldiers, Gu clan branches, and Eastern Region cultivators to absorb it.
• The energy baptism pushed many participants toward breakthroughs, while observers focused on the seven cultivators at the pyramid’s peak, including Gu Mo'er, Gu Xun'er, and Gu Qingyang.
• Kurumi used her hypnosis tool during cultivation, and the Flame Mantra expanded the capacity of her Dou Qi container as four Heavenly Flames drew in more energy.
• Kurumi’s aura surged into Dou Zun territory, interrupting Gu Qingyang’s expected breakthrough and making him feel like the unluckiest second-tier cultivator in the Gu clan’s history.
• Kurumi opened her eyes after stabilizing her strength at One-star Dou Zun.

During the half-month Imperial Altar Baptism, Kurumi broke through to Dou Zun and studied spatial principles while Xun'er tempered her bloodline. As the ceremony ended, Kurumi collected her charged hypnosis tool and beckoned Xun'er to go home.

• Kurumi exceeded her expectations by reaching One-star Dou Zun, then contemplated space as her divine flame consumed the altar's energy.
• Gu Qingyang broke through to Dou Zun and continued advancing, while Xun'er used the energy curtain to strengthen her bloodline.
• The Elder Council's conservative faction worried about Xun'er's growing strength and the Yan Clan gifts they had accepted to support her marriage.
• Over half a month, Kurumi advanced to late-stage One-star Dou Zun, Gu Qingyang stabilized at Three-star Dou Zun, and several other participants made breakthroughs.
• After the Heavenly Eye closed, most participants and visitors left, while Kurumi and Xun'er remained in contemplation.
• Kurumi rose, retrieved her hypnosis tool, and told Xun'er, "Let's go home."

The Black Annihilation Army commander exposed Ling Quan’s fabricated intelligence and announced that the intelligence department would be abolished, with poorly disciplined officers losing reassignment and retirement benefits. After the officers decided to complain to the Elder Council, Kurumi confronted the Elders and warned them not to make her repeat herself.

• The commander questioned Ling Quan’s false report about a rebellion and learned that he had relied on the Huang Family of Lanmu City without investigating.
• The commander announced that the Black Annihilation Army’s intelligence department would be abolished and poorly disciplined members would lose their benefits.
• The commander revealed that he had already retired and left the officers to surrender their armor and weapons.
• The intelligence officers blamed Ling Quan, then decided he should take their complaint to the Elder Council.
• Kurumi sat before the Elder Council and told the Elders she would not repeat herself.

Kurumi dismantled the Black Annihilation Army's intelligence department and later prepared to take a year-long garrison assignment in the Beast Domain. After overcoming doubts that had brought her close to an inner demon, she advanced to Two-star Dou Zun and set out with Zi Yan.

• Kurumi opposed the Elder Council's plan to rebuild the intelligence department, and the department was dismantled as she and her allies redirected debate toward soldiers' welfare.
• Kurumi studied reports about the Beast Domain, where ancient clans faced massive beast tides and harvested resources and medicinal herbs.
• Kurumi questioned whether the body or soul mattered more as her Divine Bloodline spread, but the Deathly Aura Tablet helped her realize she had been overthinking and avoid an inner demon.
• After consuming her stored medicinal herbs, Kurumi broke through to Two-star Dou Zun and recognized that she needed more resources.
• Kurumi rented a Deathly Aura Tablet to Gu Huatian, then boarded a Black Annihilation flying vessel for the Beast Domain with Zi Yan.

Kurumi and Zi Yan traveled to the Black Annihilation Army’s Bone Mountain Range outpost in the Beast Domain, where Kurumi reflected on luck, the Ancient Clan, and its outsiders. Zi Yan learned that the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan no longer controlled the Beast Domain and angrily called its current rulers thieves.

• Kurumi tested how easily she could manipulate space outside the Ancient Realm, and Zi Yan showed that she could do the same with her racial talent.
• Kurumi wondered what had become of Xiao Yi Xian and used the faint presence of the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame’s sub-flame to gauge that she was far away.
• Kurumi considered why outsiders risked their lives in the Black Annihilation Army’s Beast Domain forces and criticized the Ancient Clan elders who had targeted her and Xun'er.
• Kurumi and Zi Yan arrived at the Bone Mountain Range outpost as soldiers rose from the encampment to greet them.
• Kurumi told Zi Yan that the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan had once ruled the Beast Domain but had withdrawn, leaving the Heavenly Demon Phoenix and Nine Nether Underworld Python clans in control, and Zi Yan called them thieves.

Viper planned to escape the Beast Domain through the Bone Mountain Range, but Kurumi’s arrival made her wary. As Kurumi took command and received magical beast clan representatives, a Qingluan elder arrived with a young girl, whom Zi Yan rejected as inedible.

• Viper recalled how she escaped the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan, devoured ancient snake bones, and decided to flee through the Bone Mountain Range.
• Viper noticed Kurumi’s flying ship arrive and sent low-level magical beasts to spy on the garrison.
• Kurumi took command of the Black Annihilation garrison and learned from her adjutant that magical beast clans were bringing gifts because news of her Imperial Altar Baptism had spread.
• Kurumi and Gu Feng sensed a powerful Dou Zun aura and went to the courtyard to meet a Qingluan Clan elder and a young girl.
• The Qingluan elder asked Little Luan to keep Zi Yan company, but Zi Yan walked away and said Little Luan was not tasty.

Kurumi learned about the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan and accepted gifts from the Qingluan Clan, then used Zi Yan to lead patrols that gathered treasures for military merit. Two months later, Little Seven-colored emerged from the Seven Illusions Clear Spirit Saliva and sensed a bloodline summons.

• Mu Qingluan explained the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan to Zi Yan before leaving Kurumi rare gifts and a promise that no beast tide would attack during her garrison duty.
• Kurumi inspected the Qingluan Clan's gifts and continued cultivating her bloodline after advancing to two-star Dou Zun.
• Kurumi assigned Zi Yan to lead Black Annihilation patrol squads in searching for treasures, earning military merit and boosting Kurumi's prestige.
• Over the following two months, Kurumi's aura grew steadier while the Bone Mountain Range remained peaceful.
• Kurumi opened the bottle of Seven Illusions Clear Spirit Saliva, and Little Seven-colored emerged, coiled around her, and indicated it had sensed a bloodline summons.

Kurumi connected Little Seven-colored's bloodline summons to an unknown serpent and ordered a secret investigation as Viper triggered a beast tide to feed. With the mysterious beast detected, Kurumi prepared to confront it using the Black Annihilation Blood Spirit Array's core.

• Little Seven-colored indicated that she sensed a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, prompting Kurumi to suspect a dangerous beast was nearby.
• Kurumi ordered Gu Feng to cancel patrols and send concealed elite squads to investigate the Bone Mountain Range, then told Zi Yan to stay in the encampment.
• Viper, driven by hunger and confident in her strength and items, used a strange ripple to send nearby magical beasts charging toward the Bone Mountain Range.
• Viper burrowed away while concealing her aura, unaware of the Black Annihilation Army's array and the Qingluan Clan's assurances about controlling beast tides.
• Kurumi detected the mysterious beast, took the Black Annihilation Blood Spirit Array's core, and went outside to confront it.

Kurumi activated the Black Annihilation Blood Spirit Array while the Black Annihilation Army drove the beast tide deeper into the Bone Mountain Range. She trapped Viper underground and tried to seize her, but Viper broke the first attack and fought to escape.

• Gu Feng ordered the Black Annihilation Army to drive the beast tide beyond the formation, where the soldiers slaughtered magical beasts for military merit and meat quotas.
• Kurumi told Gu Feng to keep commanding the army while she used the formation to capture the burrowing Viper.
• Kurumi mapped the formation nodes and used the Black Annihilation Blood Spirit Array to seal Viper in space and strike at her with a giant blood-energy hand.
• Viper's golden light broke the formation's suppression, and she blasted apart Kurumi's blood-energy hand with gray mist.

Kurumi used the Black Annihilation Blood Spirit Array to trap Viper and attacked her with a blood-colored Mountain Splitting Seal and Heavenly Flame spears. Viper drank a potion that rapidly enlarged and strengthened her, while Kurumi sent a spatially concealed blood arrow toward her vital point.

• Kurumi let Viper enter the array’s core region, then struck her with a blood-colored Mountain Splitting Seal that collapsed the mountain beneath the encampment.
• Kurumi restrained Viper with the blood spirit dragon as Gu Feng shielded Zi Yan and watched the battle.
• Kurumi launched four Heavenly Flame spears at Viper, whose golden light repeatedly refreshed to remove their harmful effects.
• Viper produced a potion from her stomach and drank it, forcing out the flames and growing to several hundred zhang long as her aura rose.
• Kurumi turned the blood spirit dragon into an arrow and sent it through a ripple of space toward Viper’s vital point, causing Viper intense pain.

Kurumi used the Blood Spirit Array to attack Viper, whose golden light and healing potions let her withstand devastating injuries. Viper’s escape failed, and Kurumi sealed her soul before unleashing divine flame into the poisonous fog.

• Kurumi sent a blood-red giant arrow through Viper’s vital point and transformed it into a blood spirit that tore open her wound.
• Viper resisted the blood spirit with golden protection, healing potions, and repeated attacks while Kurumi controlled the array from its core.
• Viper tried to flee deeper into the Beast Domain, but the sealed space and blood spirit kept her trapped.
• With fewer than a dozen dispel talismans left, Viper detonated her venom sacs and fell into the Bone Mountain Range beneath the poisonous fog.
• Kurumi sealed Viper’s soul with Netherworld Malevolent Qi and threw divine flame into the black fog, where it rapidly grew brighter.