Chapter Summaries

Jiang Dao attacked God City and the Southern Sky Alliance summoned the Crimson Blood Evil God, which panicked at seeing him and turned on its summoners. Jiang Dao destroyed the city's defenses and pursued the fleeing Mo Jiao, intending to reach Old Ancestor Zhao.

• Jiang Dao fired hundreds of arrows at God City's grand formation, damaging it but failing to break through at first.
• Mo Jiao ordered the Southern Sky Alliance elders to slaughter God City's inhabitants and gather their blood to summon the Crimson Blood Evil God.
• The Crimson Blood Evil God recognized Jiang Dao, admitted it could not defeat him, and killed several elders before burning itself to ashes when Jiang Dao challenged it.
• Jiang Dao's arrow struck Mo Jiao, and his Blazing Sun Demon Eyes' Sky Shadow killed Spirit Eliminators across God City by burning their souls.
• Jiang Dao tore open the damaged formation, entered God City, transformed into his Godslaying Form, and followed Mo Jiao toward Old Ancestor Zhao.

Jiang Dao defeated and killed Old Ancestor Zhao and Mo Jiao, ending the Southern Sky Alliance. After recovering from the battle, he emerged from the pond and told Wang Daoling that the alliance had been disbanded, then fixed his golden eyes on him.

• Mo Jiao fled to Old Ancestor Zhao’s hidden underwater cave, where Jiang Dao caught up with her.
• Jiang Dao attacked Old Ancestor Zhao while he was immobilized by the struggle between red and black blood, destroying his body and crushing his head.
• Jiang Dao killed Mo Jiao and burned her body to ashes, then used the Elixir of Rebirth to heal his injuries.
• Jiang Dao searched the cave for treasures, found only books and clothes, and left wearing new clothes.
• Wang Daoling met Jiang Dao amid the devastation in God City, and Jiang Dao told him the Southern Sky Alliance had been disbanded.
• Jiang Dao’s golden eyes turned toward Wang Daoling, leaving him terrified.

Jiang Dao forced Wang Daoling and the Great Southwest Alliance to submit, then searched the Southern Sky Alliance’s vaults and found a blood-written book that revealed the ancient betrayal of humanity by the Spirit Eliminators. He pieced together the conflict between red-blooded humans, the Ancient Gods, and the beings above, and realized that his own rise could make him their target.

• Jiang Dao made Wang Daoling swear a Blood Curse and ordered the Great Southwest Alliance to take over the Southern Sky Alliance’s territory while leaving the Southern Domain of Daye alone.
• Jiang Dao searched the Southern Sky Alliance’s vaults, found Baleful Bloodstones and a Nine Dragon God Herb, and ordered the other medicinal herbs sent to the Southern Domain of Daye.
• Jiang Dao discovered a black ancient book whose blood-red writing described the City God and Underworld Department’s defeat and the Spirit Eliminators’ betrayal of humanity.
• Jiang Dao deduced that the Spirit Eliminators had replaced their red blood with ghost blood, and that the beings above had created new gods after casting the Ancient Gods down as evil gods.
• Jiang Dao realized ordinary people with red blood could potentially transform, but feared the beings above would target him if he continued toward godhood.

Jiang Dao searched the treasure vault for a bowstring for the Emperor Sky Bow, then learned that the Endless Ruins might hold the sinews of living desolate beasts. He set out toward Yun Province after assigning Wang Daoling to secure the Southern Domain, and used his remaining modification attempts to improve his cultivation arts.

• Jiang Dao found no suitable bowstring in the treasure vault, and Wang Daoling told him about the Endless Ruins in Celestial Ring Province and the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend in nearby White Dragon Town.
• Wang Daoling warned Jiang Dao that the Endless Ruins held powerful experts and Millennial Malevolent Spirits, which sometimes emerged to drain cities of their inhabitants.
• Jiang Dao borrowed Wang Daoling’s map, ordered him to manage the Southern Domain and make White Bone Mountain disband or leave, and threatened his family if trouble arose.
• After Jiang Dao departed, Wang Daoling rejoiced that the Great Southwest Alliance could take over territory left by the defeated Southern Sky Alliance and White Bone Mountain.
• Jiang Dao used his remaining modification attempts on the Heavenly Demon Contemplation Diagram, the Yin-Wrath Profound Heart Art, and the Extreme Path Fire Dragon Fist, then sped toward Yun Province.

Jiang Dao entered White Dragon Town, where the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend refined pills for visitors bringing suitable corpses. He discovered the town’s residents were sentient pills and counted five Malevolent Spirits and ferocious monsters, while other Spirit Eliminators waited for the pill fiend to finish serving the Fengdu Wang Clan’s Fourth Ancestor.

• News spread across the Great Yu Dynasty that Jiang Dao had destroyed the Southern Sky Alliance and defeated the Crimson Blood Evil God twice.
• Spirit Eliminator lineages worried that the promised opportunity for transcendence had not appeared, and an old ancestor of the Fengdu Wang Clan suggested they were being raised like livestock.
• Jiang Dao disguised himself as a wandering martial man and rode an ox cart toward White Dragon Town.
• Jiang Dao recognized the town’s pale residents as pills that had taken human form and sensed five Malevolent Spirits and ferocious monsters nearby.
• A young Spirit Eliminator summoned a Malevolent Spirit to scare Jiang Dao as his cart entered town.
• Other Spirit Eliminators discussed how the Fengdu Wang Clan’s Fourth Ancestor had arrived to seek pills from the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend.

Jiang Dao killed the Pang Clan Spirit Eliminators with his Blazing Sun Demon Eyes and continued toward the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend. He attacked two Fengdu Wang Clan guards who tried to stop his ox cart, shocking the Spirit Eliminators following him.

• A Malevolent Spirit attacked Jiang Dao’s ox cart and was destroyed by an invisible force, giving him two more modification opportunities.
• Jiang Dao killed the Pang Clan Spirit Eliminators, including their Third Elder, and onlookers identified his power as the lost Blazing Sun Demon Eyes.
• Jiang Dao heard Spirit Eliminators discussing the Fengdu Wang Clan and the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend, while a distant Malevolent Spirit watched him.
• Two Fengdu Wang Clan Spirit Eliminators blocked the ox cart outside a Grass Cottage, and Jiang Dao blasted them through nearby houses.
• The Spirit Eliminators trailing Jiang Dao were shocked that he had attacked the Fengdu Wang Clan guards.

Jiang Dao arrived at the village where the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend was meeting with the Fengdu Wang Clan and intimidated the forces guarding the area. He entered the cottage, where the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend was negotiating to refine a pill, and asked him for help with the heat burning inside his body.

• Jiang Dao immobilized the Fengdu Wang Clan guards with his blazing aura and sent their leader flying.
• Jiang Dao warned the watching Malevolent Spirits not to harm his driver, then killed one with the Emperor Sky Bow.
• The driver left the village with Jiang Dao's silver, while Jiang Dao walked toward the thatched cottage.
• The Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend demanded two God-Level Rank 5 corpses from the Fengdu Wang Clan middle-aged man in exchange for refining the Three Corpse Blood God Pill.
• Jiang Dao entered the cottage, and the middle-aged man recognized him and stayed silent out of fear.
• Jiang Dao took the middle-aged man's seat and asked the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend about the burning heat in his body.

Jiang Dao learned that the Human Monarch Pill might let him control his overwhelming yang energy, though nearly everyone who took it died. He traded the two God-Level Rank 5 corpses prepared by the Fengdu Wang Clan for details about the pill’s ingredients and where to find them.

• The Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend touched Jiang Dao’s wrist and burned his hand on Jiang Dao’s intense yang energy.
• The Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend recommended the Human Monarch Pill as a way to control Jiang Dao’s yang energy, warning that only two people had survived taking it.
• The Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend wrote down the pill’s ingredients, and Jiang Dao asked about four unfamiliar materials.
• When the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend demanded his payment, Jiang Dao seized the middle-aged man and offered him as a corpse.
• The middle-aged man pleaded for his life and offered two God-Level Rank 5 corpses, which the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend accepted in exchange for explaining key ingredients and where to find them.

The Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend explained the rare materials Jiang Dao needed and warned him that the Endless Ruins contained powerful factions and living gods. After giving Jiang Dao a detailed map, he was confronted by experts from Azure Province Myriad Pill Mountain, and Jiang Dao prepared to intervene.

• The Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend explained Ice Within Fire, Blood Within Water, Nether Dragon Blood, and Yin Moon Radiance, noting that the latter two could be found in the Endless Ruins.
• He warned Jiang Dao that the Endless Ruins held numerous powerful experts, ancient monsters, and the Nether Hall, whose leader was an Ancient God who had severed his divine status.
• Jiang Dao asked for a detailed map, and the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend gave him one while warning that much of the Endless Ruins remained unexplored and dangerous.
• Jiang Dao resolved to pursue the Human Monarch Pill to control his growing yang energy.
• Azure Province Myriad Pill Mountain arrived at the Grass Cottage, and the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend recognized that they had come for him.
• The visitors smashed the door and gathered in the courtyard as Jiang Dao prepared to protect the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend.

Qingqiu and Myriad Pill Mountain came to seize the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend, but Wang Dong refused to hand him over. Jiang Dao intervened and left Qingqiu’s group dead or dying, while the Pill Fiend recognized Jiang Dao’s abilities.

• Qingqiu arrived with Myriad Pill Mountain’s Spirit Eliminators and demanded that the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend come with them.
• Wang Dong refused Qingqiu’s offer and warned that Jiang Dao would prevent them from taking the Pill Fiend.
• Jiang Dao agreed to clear away Qingqiu’s group after the Pill Fiend called them flies.
• Jiang Dao used his Blazing Sun Demon Eyes to burn several attackers to ashes.
• Jiang Dao unleashed another strange power that drained the remaining Spirit Eliminators, including Qingqiu, as the Pill Fiend praised his divine arts.

Jiang Dao learned that Myriad Pill Mountain used a cruel infant-rearing art to create Odd Infants that let old masters escape death by taking new bodies. After killing the remaining monsters in White Dragon Town, he left the Spirit Eliminators fleeing in terror.

• Jiang Dao captured Qingqiu’s Odd Infant after it crawled from his corpse and handed it to the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend.
• The Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend explained that Myriad Pill Mountain cultivated spirit infants using the blood of thousands of babies, and said several ancient masters had survived through the art.
• The Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend warned Jiang Dao that hidden powers secretly absorbed human fortune, while Jiang Dao realized the world held experts as powerful as Old Ancestor Zhao.
• Wang Dong chose not to approach Jiang Dao, fearing the Fengdu Wang Clan would be implicated by his conflict with Myriad Pill Mountain.
• Jiang Dao shot and killed a fourth-turn fiendish monster and two Malevolent Spirits with the Emperor Sky Bow, sending White Dragon Town’s Spirit Eliminators fleeing.

Jiang Dao reached Blackwind Town on his way to Ghost Soul Ridge, killed four Spirit Eliminators who ambushed him, and agreed to escort the Emperor Dragon Merchant Guild’s party. He left the town with Zhuge Cai’s group, who were seeking a Nine Netherworld Soul-Returning Grass to prolong their young lady’s life.

• After racing through the Endless Ruins for two and a half days, Jiang Dao reached Blackwind Town and considered the Nether Palace mark on his chest and his past killings of its experts.
• Four Spirit Eliminators ambushed Jiang Dao with poisoned arrows, but he killed them all with his bare hands.
• Blackwind Town’s traders recognized the slain attackers as the Blackwind Four Fiends and were alarmed by Jiang Dao’s strength.
• Zhuge Cai of the Emperor Dragon Merchant Guild asked Jiang Dao to travel with his party to Ghost Soul Ridge, and Jiang Dao negotiated for fifty percent of their profits.
• Zhuge Cai accepted the deal because his party needed to obtain a Nine Netherworld Soul-Returning Grass to prolong their young lady’s life, and Jiang Dao agreed to join them.

Jiang Dao learned that the Nether Hall might be cultivating Divine Seeds and that Ghost Soul Ridge opened for searches for Yin Moon Radiance on the twentieth of each month. As the Emperor Dragon Merchant Guild hurried toward Ghost Soul Ridge, Three-Headed Serpent Pang Long led Blackwater Stronghold in an ambush, ending with a boulder flying toward Jiang Dao’s carriage.

• Zhuge Cai told Jiang Dao about the Nether Hall’s rumored Divine Seed experiment, prompting Jiang Dao to wonder whether the tattoo on his chest was a Divine Seed.
• Zhuge Cai explained that Ghost Soul Ridge opened on the twentieth for experts seeking Yin Moon Radiance, and Jiang Dao confirmed that he needed it.
• Zhuge Cai ordered the Emperor Dragon Merchant Guild caravan to hurry so it could reach Ghost Soul Ridge in time.
• Three-Headed Serpent Pang Long learned that the caravan was approaching Soulrend Pass and ordered Blackwater Stronghold to attack it for its valuable goods.
• As the caravan crossed chaotic ruins, a huge boulder hurtled toward Jiang Dao’s carriage, and the merchants cried out that they were under attack.

Jiang Dao defended the Emperor Dragon Merchant Guild from Pang Long and Blackwater Stronghold, revealing overwhelming strength and transforming into a twelve-meter giant. After killing Pang Long, he turned toward the fleeing Mo Li and Feng Hu.

• Jiang Dao shattered a boulder hurled at the carriage and burned the attacker who killed Ninth Brother.
• Pang Long confronted Jiang Dao and threatened the merchant guild, but Jiang Dao killed Fifth Brother with one punch.
• Jiang Dao restrained the Blackwater Stronghold fighters with blazing energy, killing hundreds while Pang Long, Mo Li, and Feng Hu remained free.
• Pang Long enlarged his body and attacked Jiang Dao, who transformed into his Extreme Yang Divine Fire Physique and seized him.
• Jiang Dao smashed Pang Long's head against his chest, killing him, while Mo Li and Feng Hu tried to flee.

Jiang Dao killed Mo Li and Feng Hu, tested Pang Long’s regeneration until he exhausted his body, and then continued his journey. He reached Ghost Soul Ridge two days before the next gathering of Yin Moon Radiance and set out to explore the city.

• Jiang Dao killed Mo Li and Feng Hu, gaining two modification chances, then repeatedly crushed Pang Long’s regenerating heads until he burned the weakened body to ashes.
• Jiang Dao changed into clean clothes and continued traveling with Zhuge Cai, who treated him with fearful respect.
• On the seventh day, Jiang Dao and Zhuge Cai arrived at Ghost Soul Ridge and saw crowds of powerful people gathering near its ancient city.
• Zhuge Cai explained that experts gathered Yin Moon Radiance at the Underworld Hall each month and that the next gathering was about two days away.
• Jiang Dao left to explore the city and reminded Zhuge Cai not to renege on his fifty percent share of the profits.

Jiang Dao explored Ghost Soul Ridge City and learned about Gloomy Mist Great Canyon, where a dangerous monthly market might offer Savage Beast Tendon. When Yin Moon Gorge opened, he prepared to enter by disguising his unusual red blood as black blood.

• Jiang Dao searched the city’s stalls for exceptionally tough tendons, and a vendor told him Gloomy Mist Great Canyon held a chaotic market on the third day of each month.
• Jiang Dao checked his map, decided to seek Yin Moon Radiance first, and explored the city, including a slave market where Spirit Eliminators from the outside world were imprisoned.
• Jiang Dao spent two days at an inn before bronze gongs announced that Yin Moon Gorge had opened.
• Jiang Dao saw that entrants had to place their blood on scrolls, then used the poison of his Fire Demon God-Rending Hand to turn his red blood black.
• Jiang Dao walked toward the entrance with his blood disguised.

Jiang Dao entered the queue for Yin Moon Gorge, evading the Nether Hall’s contract by using mutated poisonous blood, and joined Mu Cang as the two waited for nightfall. As another group arrived, Mu Cang was confronted by Fang Long, who demanded most of his share of whatever he found.

• Jiang Dao signed the Nether Hall’s agreement with blackened, poisonous blood that he believed the contract could not restrain, then met Mu Cang and agreed to look after each other in the gorge.
• The Red-Haired Man led the gathered Spirit Eliminators to Yin Moon Gorge, where Mu Cang explained the dangerous Yin Moon Tides and the Nether Hall guards watching for hidden treasures.
• Jiang Dao and Mu Cang settled in to wait for nightfall, and a second group arrived under a white-haired White Stiff Corpse who had attained the Dao.
• Fang Long and four companions approached Mu Cang, and Fang Long demanded eighty percent of Mu Cang’s share after the Nether Hall’s cut; Mu Cang angrily protested.

Jiang Dao killed Tong Feng with a glance after Tong Feng tried to attack him, frightening Fang Long and the others into fleeing. When the Yin Moon Radiance appeared over Yin Moon Gorge, Jiang Dao collected a crystal and wondered whether the blood moon resembled an eye shedding tears.

• Fang Long demanded an additional share of Jiang Dao's resources, and Tong Feng sent venomous insects crawling toward him.
• Jiang Dao's golden eyes ignited Tong Feng, burning him to ashes and making Fang Long and the other two flee.
• The Red-Haired Man ordered someone to watch Jiang Dao from the Underworld Hall.
• A blood-colored moon appeared over Yin Moon Gorge, and the Yin Moon Radiance began falling as crystals through the gray mist.
• Jiang Dao used his Blazing Sun Demon Eyes to find and seize a crystal, then suspected the blood moon resembled an eye shedding tears.

Jiang Dao killed a Netherworld Hall expert who had been following him, then raced after two enormous pieces of Yin Moon Radiance. Both crystals landed in the deadly Yin Moon Tide, leaving the crowd facing a deadly disaster.

• Jiang Dao repelled a bizarre attacker with his Blazing Sun Demon Eyes, but it escaped by shedding its burning body.
• Jiang Dao used Sky Shadow to kill a hidden Netherworld Hall expert who had been stalking him.
• Jiang Dao swallowed his fifth Yin Moon Radiance and hurried toward a giant crystal falling from the sky.
• A second, even larger piece of Yin Moon Radiance appeared, drawing Jiang Dao, the Red-Haired Man, the White-Haired Corpse, and countless others toward the same area.
• The first crystal landed in the Yin Moon Tide, whose gray waters dissolved people into skeletons, and the second crystal crashed into the tide as the crowd fled.

Jiang Dao entered the deadly Yin Moon Tide, rescued Mu Cang, and fought his way toward the enormous Yin Moon Radiances. He killed the White-Haired Corpse with ease, then turned his attention to the remaining fighters and the other radiance.

• The Yin Moon Tide erupted and killed or dragged away many people, but Jiang Dao discovered its gray liquid could not harm him.
• Jiang Dao charged into the tide and hurled Mu Cang out of its suction before transforming into his Extreme Fiend Overlord Physique.
• Jiang Dao gathered and swallowed fragments of a Yin Moon Radiance while the Red-Haired Man and White-Haired Corpse battled others for control of the radiances.
• The White-Haired Corpse confronted Jiang Dao, who seized him, drained his essence with Blazing Sun Demon Eyes—Sky Shadow, and crushed him to ashes.
• The Red-Haired Man challenged Jiang Dao, but Jiang Dao ignored him and looked between the Yin Moon Radiance and the other fighters.