Chapter Summaries

Jiang Dao pursued the corpse’s spatial bracelet amid the Yin Moon Tide, but the other fighters attacked him to claim the treasures. He unleashed Celestial Desolation: Godslayer Form, revealed power on the level of God Grade Ninth Cycle, and trapped the crowd in his Blazing Yang Domain as they began to burn.

• The Yin Moon Tide swept out a purple-robed corpse, and Jiang Dao spotted a black jade bracelet that seemed to absorb the gray waves.
• Jiang Dao destroyed two hidden attacks and burned the attackers to ashes, then struck the Red-Haired Man and tore him in half.
• The gathered fighters turned on Jiang Dao together, prompting him to transform into Celestial Desolation: Godslayer Form.
• Jiang Dao killed a Spirit Eliminator with one blow, and the crowd realized he had reached God Grade Ninth Cycle and tried to flee.
• Jiang Dao spread his Blazing Yang Domain over an area more than ten li wide, immobilizing the fighters as some began burning to ashes.

Jiang Dao killed the Spirit Eliminators, destroyed a corpse transforming under a black palm curse, and claimed its storage bracelet and purple robe. As he left the gray mist, the Nether Hall’s forces arrived and began sealing Yin Moon Gorge.

• Jiang Dao crushed the gaunt Spirit Eliminator who had ambushed him and killed the rest of the prisoners in the Blazing Yang Domain.
• Jiang Dao found the dead man’s heavy purple robe pierced by a black palm print, then burned his body when it began transforming into a corpse monster.
• Jiang Dao discovered a Black Jade Bracelet with an interior space, cleared out the gray tides, and stored the two Yin Moon Stones inside.
• Jiang Dao put on the purple robe and left the area as the Nether Hall’s experts rushed to Yin Moon Gorge and ordered the gorge sealed.

Jiang Dao strengthened several martial arts and escaped the Yin Moon Tide, only to encounter Mu Cang and kill Fang Long and his companions. The Three-Headed Monstrous Bird found him and identified him as the one who killed White Zombie.

• The two Rank 8 Nether Hall elders summoned the Three-Headed Monstrous Bird and ordered it to find the person tainted by White Zombie’s Yin Seed aura.
• Jiang Dao modified five cultivation arts, endured the transformation, and emerged with the strength of God-Level Rank 6 in his normal form and Rank 7 with the Extreme Fiend Overlord Physique.
• Jiang Dao left the fog and caught Mu Cang after Fang Long and his companions attacked him.
• Jiang Dao used the Blazing Sun Demon Eyes to burn Fang Long and the others to ashes as they fled.
• The Three-Headed Monstrous Bird spotted Jiang Dao and declared that it had found White Zombie’s killer.

Jiang Dao used the Emperor Sky Bow to fatally wound the Three-Headed Monstrous Bird, but two Eighth Heaven elders from Nether Hall attacked and buried him in the ground. He emerged in his twelve-meter Extreme Yang Divine Fire Physique and sent both elders flying.

• Jiang Dao drew the Emperor Sky Bow and shot the Three-Headed Monstrous Bird, destroying its left wing and then piercing its heart.
• The Black Fiend Duo rushed from the gray mist as the wounded bird fell from the sky.
• Two Eighth Heaven elders attacked Jiang Dao, overwhelmed him, and pinned him beneath the ground.
• One elder threatened to torture Jiang Dao for killing White Zombie and Red Hair and wounding the Holy Spirit.
• Jiang Dao burst from the ground in his Extreme Yang Divine Fire Physique and struck both elders, sending them flying.

Jiang Dao killed two God-Level Rank 8 elders after transforming into a God-Level Rank 9, then forced the Three-Headed Monstrous Bird to carry him toward the valley exit. He smashed through the grand formation and escaped, leaving the Underworld Hall’s guards devastated and terrified.

• Jiang Dao overwhelmed the two elders with his Extreme Yang attacks, transformed into a God-Level Rank 9, and crushed them to death.
• Jiang Dao caught the recovering Three-Headed Monstrous Bird and spared it in exchange for taking him out of the gray mist region.
• Jiang Dao ordered the bird to charge through the grand formation at the valley exit, where Underworld Hall experts tried to stop them.
• Jiang Dao killed the Spirit Eliminators who rushed toward him with his Blazing Yang Domain.
• Jiang Dao broke the formation with repeated collisions, escaped through the opening, and left most of the guards dead or badly injured.

Jiang Dao smashed through Ghost Spirit City's gate formation and escaped east after resisting the Nether Palace Patriarch's avatar. At the Nether Palace headquarters, the Patriarch identified the Demon Ancestor God-Seed on Jiang Dao and ordered his people to find its recorded host, Fang Tianba.

• Jiang Dao charged through Ghost Spirit City, killing and injuring Spirit Eliminators as he raced to escape the Nether Palace.
• The city gate formation manifested a gigantic face that attacked Jiang Dao with spiritual and soul techniques, but his demon god visualization absorbed and resisted them.
• Jiang Dao broke the formation after repeated collisions, then fled east while Zhuge Cai recognized him as the person they had met before.
• At Nether Palace headquarters, the Patriarch announced that Ghost Spirit City had been breached and his avatar destroyed, then revealed Jiang Dao's image and the Demon Ancestor God-Seed mark.
• An elder identified Fang Tianba as the Demon Ancestor God-Seed's host who had escaped eight years earlier, and the Patriarch ordered the Nether Palace to find him.

Jiang Dao learned that the Nether Hall was tracking him through the Demon Ancestor God-Seed implanted in his body, then faced the Four Saints Hall after its experts mistook him for Fang Tianba. He slaughtered the modified Rank 8 monsters with overwhelming force, leaving the battle still underway.

• Jiang Dao read a Nether Hall expert’s memories and learned that Fang Tianba had carried the Demon Ancestor God-Seed before passing it to him, allowing the Nether Hall to track his aura.
• Jiang Dao spotted hidden Rank 7 experts, killed them, and saw hundreds of Nether Hall forces closing in.
• The Four Saints Hall surrounded Jiang Dao and mistook him for Fang Tianba, demanding he return with them.
• Jiang Dao identified the Four Saints Hall members as Nether Hall experiments and attacked when they charged him.
• Jiang Dao killed several Rank 8 monsters, including a golden figure he swallowed, and smashed others with a golden staff.
• Jiang Dao stomped the bamboo-pole-like monster out of the air, and the wounded creature begged him to spare its life.

Jiang Dao slaughtered Four Saints Hall’s attackers and learned that Tainted Blood from a black dog could conceal his Demon Seed aura. He fled the pursuing Netherworld Hall Ancestor into the Ancient Battlefield, where the region’s radiance shattered the Ancestor’s attack.

• Jiang Dao killed the remaining Four Saints Hall fighters and forced Skinny Bamboo Pole to explain how to conceal a Demon Seed.
• Skinny Bamboo Pole told Jiang Dao that blood from a black dog in the Endless Ruins could break spirit arts and hide the Demon Seed aura.
• Jiang Dao sensed the Netherworld Hall Ancestor approaching and fled at full speed while carrying Skinny Bamboo Pole.
• The Netherworld Hall Ancestor pursued Jiang Dao, but Jiang Dao vanished after entering the Ancient Battlefield, where spirit power and Yin Force rapidly dissipated.
• The Netherworld Hall Ancestor struck the Ancient Battlefield with a black palm, and its sudden radiance shattered his attack.

Jiang Dao and the skinny bamboo pole-like man became trapped in the Ancient Battlefield after escaping Netherworld Hall Ancestor, who unleashed devastating attacks before leaving. They sheltered in a strange ruined temple, but nightfall brought warnings of horrors awakening across the battlefield.

• Netherworld Hall Ancestor's attacks triggered the Ancient Battlefield's restrictions, then he left after believing Jiang Dao would die there.
• Jiang Dao and the skinny bamboo pole-like figure hid in a ruined temple and learned it stood within the Ancient Battlefield, where no one was said to escape.
• The skinny bamboo pole-like figure warned Jiang Dao about the deadly celestial beasts that roamed the battlefield, while Jiang Dao considered hunting one for its tendons.
• Jiang Dao examined strange murals in the temple as night fell, and the skinny bamboo pole-like man warned that dead gods would return and celestial beasts would go berserk.
• When the skinny bamboo pole-like man tried to flee, Jiang Dao broke all four of his limbs and ordered him to stop talking nonsense.

Jiang Dao used his Blazing Sun Demon Eyes to destroy the weeping spirits that attacked him outside the ruined temple. A Heavenly Beast then attacked the temple, and Jiang Dao unleashed Void Severance against it.

• Jiang Dao lit a fire and saw that the ruined temple emitted a faint Xi light as night fell.
• Blood-covered spirits emerged from the darkness, wept about being trapped, and rushed toward the temple.
• Jiang Dao used Blazing Sun Demon Eyes and Sky Shadow to burn the spirits' souls and destroy them.
• A three-headed Heavenly Beast approached and struck the temple, but its Xi light held firm.
• Jiang Dao unleashed Void Severance, summoning three blazing suns to attack the Heavenly Beast.

Jiang Dao struggled to hold back the Heavenly Beast with the ruined temple’s power as a mysterious Night Watcher appeared and turned the creature’s attack against it. The Heavenly Beast recognized her and reacted with fear.

• The Heavenly Beast broke through Jiang Dao’s Blazing Sun Demon Eyes with beams from its eyes and blasted him into a pillar.
• The Heavenly Beast spewed freezing breath, and Jiang Dao used the ruined temple’s power and his Blazing Yang Domain to hold it back.
• A half-withered, half-flourishing Mysterious Woman appeared in the temple’s dark corner.
• The Mysterious Woman absorbed the Heavenly Beast’s blood-colored beam with seven-colored light, then drained the vitality from its eagle head.
• The Heavenly Beast charged the Mysterious Woman, but she stopped it with one raised hand, and the creature seemed to recognize her and fear her.

The Mysterious Woman killed the Heavenly Beast and offered Jiang Dao the Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer manual in exchange for his essence blood. Jiang Dao agreed to the exchange and secured the beast’s corpse as well.

• The Mysterious Woman restrained the Heavenly Beast and drained its essence, killing it with her withered hand.
• The Mysterious Woman entered the ruined temple, frightened Skinny Bamboo Pole, and asked Jiang Dao for essence blood.
• The Mysterious Woman offered Jiang Dao the Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer manual and explained that only living people like him could cultivate it.
• Jiang Dao bargained for the Heavenly Beast’s corpse, accepted the manual, and filled the jade bottle with his Crimson Blood.

Jiang Dao traded his blood to the Mysterious Woman for help harvesting a Heavenly Beast’s tendon, then discovered that Living Corpses had surrounded the ruined temple. The Mysterious Woman fought them, swiftly killing two as the others attacked.

• Jiang Dao gave the Mysterious Woman a bottle of his blood and learned that all other Spirit Eliminators were dead.
• Jiang Dao failed to cut through the Heavenly Beast’s hide, so he gave the Mysterious Woman another bottle of blood in exchange for her help.
• The Mysterious Woman dissected the Heavenly Beast, and Jiang Dao took its tendon, stored the corpse, and picked up Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer.
• A Living Corpse emerged from the darkness, followed by seven or eight more, and the Mysterious Woman recognized them as pursuers.
• The Living Corpses attacked the Mysterious Woman, who split one apart and drained another of its essence.

Jiang Dao escaped the Ancient Battlefield with the Mysterious Woman’s seven-colored passage after she killed the Living Corpses pursuing her. At Netherworld Hall, the Ancestor relived the horrors of an ancient battle and killed his own son after learning Fang Tianba’s divine seed had begun to fluctuate again.

• The Mysterious Woman restrained and drained the Living Corpses, then opened a seven-colored passage for Jiang Dao and reminded him that he owed her another bottle of essence blood.
• Jiang Dao carried the Skinny Bamboo Pole man out of the Ancient Battlefield and headed east toward Falling Star City, asking about a tribe that raised black dogs.
• The Netherworld Hall Ancestor recalled the battle in which four hundred thousand Ancient Gods had died and trembled under the killing intent that had entered his body.
• An old man told the Netherworld Hall Ancestor that Fang Tianba was not dead and that his divine seed had begun fluctuating again.
• The Netherworld Hall Ancestor killed the old man, who was his own son, and ate his remains to conceal his terrified state.

Jiang Dao erased the Underworld Hall’s mark from his chest and set out for the Gloomy Mist Great Canyon, hunting Malevolent Spirits and vicious monsters along the way. After seven days of travel and fourteen modifications, his strength had increased sharply as he raced toward the trade fair.

• Jiang Dao used a black dog’s purple blood to erase the lotus mark on his chest, then learned that the Gloomy Mist Great Canyon lay far to the south.
• Jiang Dao grabbed Skinny Bamboo Pole and sped toward the canyon while scanning for Malevolent Spirits and vicious monsters to hunt.
• During seven days of travel, Jiang Dao killed three Malevolent Spirits and four vicious monsters, earning fourteen modification opportunities.
• Jiang Dao spent all fourteen opportunities improving his martial arts and abilities, raising his strength and speed.
• Jiang Dao learned that Thousand Tribulation Spirit Slayer could devour a target’s strength and essence but might backfire against a much stronger opponent.
• Jiang Dao accelerated toward the Gloomy Mist Great Canyon, expecting its trade fair to begin soon.

Netherworld Hall experts tracked Jiang Dao to Gloomy Mist Great Canyon, while Jiang Dao and Skinny Bamboo Pole headed for Rift Number Nine to trade. Jiang Dao killed a group of canyon men who attacked him with blood-red insects, then arrived before trading began.

• Netherworld Hall experts found traces of Fang Tianba’s yang fire and suspected he had entered Gloomy Mist Great Canyon.
• Skinny Bamboo Pole told Jiang Dao that Rift Number Nine was the canyon’s main trading area.
• Several gaunt men secretly covered Jiang Dao and Skinny Bamboo Pole with blood-red insects.
• Jiang Dao burned the insects away and killed the attackers with his Blazing Sun Demon Eyes.
• Jiang Dao and Skinny Bamboo Pole reached Rift Number Nine before trading time, so Jiang Dao explored the area.

Jiang Dao and Jing Huang waited in the Gloomy Mist Great Canyon for the monthly mutual market as Nether Hall experts gathered outside and decided to contact their ancestor. When the market began, newcomers entering through the mist encountered ancient, supposedly dead monsters.

• Nether Hall seed-level experts searched the area around the Gloomy Mist Great Canyon for Fang Tianba, then chose to contact their ancestor rather than enter the canyon.
• Jing Huang told Jiang Dao that the monthly mutual market would take place that night, and Jiang Dao agreed to wait.
• Yin mist rose around the No. 9 rift, leaving an open space where figures gathered for the mutual market.
• A girl and her relatives entered the mist, and her father warned her that the market was full of dangerous monsters.
• The group recognized the Thousand-Hand Blood Butcher and the Two-Headed Ghost King, ancient figures believed to have died long ago.

Jiang Dao reached the Gloomy Mist Great Canyon’s trading platform after effortlessly overpowering the Bloodthirsty Demon. He offered Yin Moon Radiance in exchange for a Savage Beast Tendon, Nether Dragon Blood, Ice Within Fire, or Blood Within Water.

• The Bloodthirsty Demon attacked a gaunt old man, and Jiang Dao caught the old man before striking the demon and shattering his arm.
• Jiang Dao frightened the Bloodthirsty Demon into fleeing, then tossed the rescued old man aside and continued onward with Skinny Bamboo Pole.
• Jiang Dao and Skinny Bamboo Pole reached the trading platform, where figures in the mist exchanged rare items through a stone table.
• A trader exchanged a Thousand Machine Divine Mirror for Frigid Yin Grass, and another trader offered a 500-Year Blood Ginseng for Millennial Malevolent Spirit Blood.
• Jiang Dao offered a piece of Yin Moon Radiance at least one zhang long for a Savage Beast Tendon or one of several alternative treasures.

Jiang Dao displayed a huge piece of Yin Moon Radiance at the trade fair, but when a trader admitted he had lied about possessing Blood Within Water, Jiang Dao turned on the crowd. He unleashed his Blazing Yang Domain, killed the liar, and began slaughtering the other attendees to seize their belongings.

• Jiang Dao produced a massive piece of Yin Moon Radiance and offered it in exchange for rare treasures.
• A hidden trader revealed that he had lied about owning Blood Within Water, and others prepared to target Jiang Dao after the fair.
• When the crowd charged him for breaking the fair's rules, Jiang Dao unleashed his Blazing Yang Domain and immobilized everyone.
• Jiang Dao confronted and incinerated the pale-faced young man who had deceived him.
• Jiang Dao declared a robbery, killed those who resisted, and began slaughtering the crowd as their belongings scattered across the ground.

Jiang Dao forced Yan Lingtian to guide him to Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor after learning the fiend possessed Nether Dragon Blood and Ice Within Fire. They reached the deepest part of the Tenth Crevice, where Yan Lingtian pointed out the Old Ancestor’s residence beneath a strange locust tree.

• Jiang Dao slaughtered the Spirit Eliminators and vicious monsters in his Blazing Yang Domain until Yan Lingtian offered to lead him to Nether Dragon Blood.
• Jiang Dao collected the scattered treasures and Yin Moon Radiance, then let Yan Lingtian’s companions leave while taking Yan Lingtian with him.
• Yan Lingtian told Jiang Dao that Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor lived in the Tenth Crevice and had offered Nether Dragon Blood in exchange for the Elixir of Rebirth.
• Jiang Dao and Yan Lingtian crossed to the Tenth Crevice and continued past its market toward its icy, sinister depths.
• Yan Lingtian pointed out Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor’s residence beneath a strange old locust tree.