Chapter Summaries

Jiang Dao entered Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor’s cave to offer an Elixir of Rebirth, but the ancestor attacked him, forcing Jiang Dao to smash through the cave’s defenses and confront him in his hall. The chapter ended as Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor activated a formation that bound Jiang Dao in layers of glowing chains.

• Jiang Dao left Jing Huang and approached the cave beneath the old locust tree, where black crows swooped at him and were driven back by his blazing aura.
• A puppet attacked Jiang Dao from the cave, but he burned it and crushed it against the cave wall.
• Jiang Dao offered to trade an Elixir of Rebirth, but Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor demanded it and attacked him with poisoned bone arrows.
• Jiang Dao transformed with his Extreme Fiend Overlord Physique and fought his way through the cave, destroying its puppets, traps, and formations.
• Jiang Dao reached Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor’s hall and smashed his way inside, prompting the ancestor to activate a formation that wrapped Jiang Dao in chains of light.

Jiang Dao overpowered Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor and forced him to reveal the Nether Dragon Blood and Ice Within Fire, but the items released a strange light that stiffened Jiang Dao and gave Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor a chance to escape.

• Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor attacked Jiang Dao with chains of order, but Jiang Dao transformed into his Godslaying Form and shattered them.
• Jiang Dao seized Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor, tore off one of his arms, and demanded the Nether Dragon Blood and Ice Within Fire.
• Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor revealed a hidden passage and led Jiang Dao to a secret chamber containing the two items.
• Jiang Dao grabbed both jade bottles, but their strange light spread over his body and began freezing his limbs.
• Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor escaped Jiang Dao's grip and taunted him as Jiang Dao's yang fire burned more fiercely.

Jiang Dao forced Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor’s curses out of his body, killed him, and seized the cursed jade bottles and other treasures. After reuniting with Jing Huang and Yan Lingtian, he asked Yan Lingtian where he could find Blood Within Water or Savage Beast Tendon.

• Jiang Dao’s yang fire and Celestial Desolation: God-Slaying Form expelled the curses from Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor’s jade bottles and freed him from their effects.
• Jiang Dao swallowed Ghost Spirit Old Ancestor, killed him, and took the jade bottles containing Nether Dragon Blood and Ice Within Fire.
• Jiang Dao collected the remaining items in the cave, changed clothes, and left after confirming he had taken everything.
• Jiang Dao met Jing Huang and Yan Lingtian outside the cave and recovered from his injuries with the Elixir of Rebirth.
• Jiang Dao asked Yan Lingtian where to find Blood Within Water or Savage Beast Tendon, and Yan Lingtian said he knew of a dangerous place that might contain Blood Within Water.

Jiang Dao learned that Blood Within Water might be found in the Divine Burial Grounds and discovered the Nether Hall had surrounded the Gloomy Mist Great Canyon. As he searched for a way to escape without alerting them, Yan Lingtian recalled an Ancient Teleportation Array.

• Yan Lingtian told Jiang Dao that Blood Within Water had been sighted in the dangerous Divine Burial Grounds, and Jiang Dao promised to release him if he led him there.
• Jiang Dao gave Yan Lingtian a piece of Yin Moon Radiance as a reward.
• Jiang Dao caught a man spying on them, killed him, and learned from his memories that the Nether Hall had surrounded the canyon and was contacting the Ancient Gods.
• Jiang Dao decided to hide rather than leave through the canyon entrance, and Yan Lingtian revealed there might be an Ancient Teleportation Array inside.

After Jiang Dao and his companions left the Ninth Crevice, two Living Gods issued a Hundred-Day Extermination Decree ordering the canyon’s inhabitants to hunt down the living intruder. Jiang Dao continued with Yan Lingtian and Jing Huang, who led them to a remote cave containing his hidden teleportation array.

• Yan Lingtian led Jiang Dao and Jing Huang away to find the Ancient Teleportation Array he had discovered decades earlier.
• News spread that everyone in the Ninth Crevice had been slaughtered, drawing two Living Gods to inspect the bloody scene.
• The two Living Gods suspected a living human had killed the residents and issued the Hundred-Day Extermination Decree, commanding the canyon’s inhabitants to find and kill the murderer.
• Jing Huang and Yan Lingtian recognized the decree, but Jiang Dao ordered them to keep moving and continued through several deserted crevices.
• Yan Lingtian found the remote cave where he had hidden the array and began breaking its remaining restriction.

Jiang Dao found an ancient teleportation array and set out with Yan Lingtian to recruit Withered Bones True Person to repair it. Meanwhile, the Hundred-Day Extermination Decree stirred powerful canyon residents into action, all seeking to kill Jiang Dao and earn the Living Gods’ favor.

• Jiang Dao inspected the damaged teleportation array and ordered Yan Lingtian to lead him to Withered Bones True Person while Jing Huang guarded the cave.
• Jiang Dao and Yan Lingtian left the cave and raced toward Yin Mist Marsh as the canyon descended into chaos under the Living Gods’ decree.
• A Spirit Eliminator ancestor emerged in a blood coffin and vowed to be the first to hunt Jiang Dao.
• A black-cloaked God-Level Rank 9 expert decided that killing Jiang Dao could earn him guidance from the Living Gods.
• A figure cultivating in an icy stream heard the decree, opened his eyes, and released killing intent.

Jiang Dao sought an audience with Withered Bones True Person and used Elixir of Rebirth to win his attention. After Jiang Dao proved he possessed the elixir, Withered Bones True Person sent an attendant to receive him, but ordered the attendant to test him on the route past the White Bone Serpent.

• Jiang Dao and Yan Lingtian reached Hidden Mist Swamp, where visitors sent blood-written messages to Withered Bones True Person by Three-Headed Monstrous Birds.
• Jiang Dao offered a bird Yin Moon Radiance and sent a message promising Elixir of Rebirth.
• Withered Bones True Person asked Jiang Dao to prove he possessed the elixir, and Jiang Dao sent back a drop of golden liquid from a porcelain bottle.
• After confirming the liquid was Elixir of Rebirth, Withered Bones True Person told his attendant to bring Jiang Dao in by the White Bone Serpent route and see whether he could withstand it.
• The attendant set out across the swamp, drawing the crowd's attention as Withered Bones True Person's envoy.

Jiang Dao and Yan Lingtian traveled by black paper boat into the swamp, where the boy sent by the Withered Bone True Person turned on them. Jiang Dao defeated the White Bone Dragon and captured the boy, who revealed that the attack had been a test; Jiang Dao had yet to meet the True Person.

• Jiang Dao and Yan Lingtian boarded the boy's black paper boat and traveled into the swamp toward the Withered Bone True Person.
• The boy leaped into the swamp, triggering an attack as the swamp surged and a White Bone Dragon emerged.
• Jiang Dao held the dragon's jaws open, shattered its bones, and hurled it through the air until it begged for mercy.
• Jiang Dao pulled Yan Lingtian out of the swamp's grasp and seized the boy from beneath the mire.
• The boy told Jiang Dao that the Withered Bone True Person had ordered the attack as a test to decide whether Jiang Dao could meet him.

Jiang Dao forced the White Bone Dragon and the boy to take him to True Person Withered Bones, then offered fifty drops of Elixir of Rebirth for the old man to repair an Ancient Teleportation Array within three days. While waiting outside the sealed cabin, Jiang Dao learned that Withered Bones possessed the Dragon Tendon shed by the bone dragon and began considering how to obtain it.

• Jiang Dao threatened the boy and White Bone Dragon into leading him to True Person Withered Bones’s bone-built sailing ship.
• Jiang Dao entered the ship with Yan Lingtian, holding onto the boy as a precaution, and offered the Elixir of Rebirth in exchange for array repairs.
• Jiang Dao revealed the incomplete Ancient Teleportation Array diagram and raised his offer to fifty drops if Withered Bones repaired it and prepared its materials within three days.
• True Person Withered Bones accepted the deadline and sealed the cabin entrance so no one could disturb him while he worked.
• While waiting on deck, Jiang Dao learned that Withered Bones had taken the dead dragon’s Dragon Tendon and considered acquiring it for the Emperor Sky Bow.

Jiang Dao waited for Withered Bones True Person to repair a grand formation and prepare its materials, while keeping an eye on the treasures in his warehouse. Meanwhile, Heavenly Calculators used Jiang Dao’s footprint to trace his karmic thread, and he suddenly sensed that someone was watching him.

• Withered Bones True Person emerged with a repaired formation scroll, and Jiang Dao gave him twenty drops of Elixir of Rebirth to prepare the materials and explain the formation.
• Jiang Dao followed Withered Bones True Person into his warehouse, noticed a huge Dragon Tendon, and waited to ask about it until the formation materials were ready.
• Old Devils, monsters, and evil entities searched the great canyon for Jiang Dao, while some used divination to locate him.
• A circle of Heavenly Calculators used soil and Jiang Dao’s footprint from the Ninth Crevice to trace his karmic thread.
• Jiang Dao sensed that someone was watching him and felt alarmed.

Jiang Dao repelled a mysterious attempt to sense him, but Black Mountain’s diviners identified his location as Yin Mist Marsh, drawing powerful factions toward him. Withered Bones True Person finished preparing the materials and began explaining their arrangement to Jiang Dao.

• Jiang Dao summoned a Demon Shade in his consciousness and sent a terrifying backlash through the Heavenly Calculators who had been tracking him.
• A Heavenly Calculator revealed that Fang Tianba was in Yin Mist Marsh, and the Black Mountain elder ordered the news spread to gather forces against him.
• Old monsters across the Endless Grand Canyon learned Fang Tianba’s location, and a bear-like fighter and a blood-coffin ancestor set out for Yin Mist Marsh.
• Jiang Dao asked Withered Bones True Person how much longer the preparations would take, then waited while Withered Bones True Person completed the materials.
• Withered Bones True Person began teaching Jiang Dao how to arrange the materials, and Jiang Dao watched closely.

Jiang Dao learned how to arrange the grand formation from True Person Withered Bones, then traded Elixir of Rebirth for a Jiaolong Sinew and had its essence and a Heavenly Beast Sinew’s essence shaved out. As Jiang Dao and Yan Lingtian left the swamp, they found a gathering of powerful demons and Malevolent Spirits, including the notorious Huang Rusha.

• Jiang Dao paid True Person Withered Bones with Elixir of Rebirth for the formation materials and the Jiaolong Sinew.
• Jiang Dao paid True Person Withered Bones to shave the essence from the Jiaolong Sinew and a Heavenly Beast Sinew, then combined and stored the essence.
• Jiang Dao and Yan Lingtian left the swamp on the bone dragon after True Person Withered Bones sent them off.
• Jiang Dao and Yan Lingtian found the swamp surrounded by experts, fiendish monsters, Malevolent Spirits, and Spirit Eliminators.
• The onlookers identified the burly Huang Rusha as a notorious devil who had once swallowed more than a thousand people.

Huang Rusha and other God-Level Rank 9 experts entered the swamp to hunt Fang Tianba, while Jiang Dao prepared his newly restrung Emperor Sky Bow. Huang Rusha attacked Jiang Dao, who met the blow with a punch, and the two forces collided.

• Huang Rusha mocked the Bloodfiend Ancestor and Frost Ancestor before charging into the swamp to kill Fang Tianba.
• The other gathered experts followed Huang Rusha toward the swamp’s depths.
• Jiang Dao tied the Celestial Beast Tendon and Dragon Tendon together as a new bowstring for the Emperor Sky Bow, greatly strengthening it.
• Jiang Dao spotted the approaching experts and realized they might have come for him.
• Huang Rusha recognized Jiang Dao as Fang Tianba’s target and attacked him with a punch.
• Jiang Dao countered with a golden punch, and the two attacks collided in a violent shockwave.

Jiang Dao used the Emperor Sky Bow to badly wound Huang Rusha, then transformed into a towering, flame-wreathed form. He unleashed a barrage of thirty arrows at Huang Rusha, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Jiang Dao fired an arrow from the Emperor Sky Bow that shattered Huang Rusha’s attack and pursued him despite his attempts to evade it.
• Huang Rusha tried to seize the arrow but was pierced through the chest and left gravely wounded.
• Jiang Dao transformed into a towering, spiked, golden-flamed form as the swamp around him began to burn.
• Jiang Dao fired a far more powerful arrow at Huang Rusha and followed it with twenty-nine more arrows.

Jiang Dao unleashed a relentless barrage of divine arrows across the Yin Mist Marsh, killing Huang Rusha and the other powerful beings gathered there. The slaughter left the boy trembling on the bone dragon as the marsh became a burning field of devastation.

• Jiang Dao fired dozens of golden arrows that targeted Huang Rusha and the surrounding spectators.
• Huang Rusha transformed into his monstrous true form and tried to resist the arrows.
• Jiang Dao's arrows pierced Huang Rusha repeatedly, and he exploded and died while trying to flee.
• Jiang Dao's arrows shattered the blood coffin and the ice around other powerful figures, killing many demons, Spirit Eliminators, and Malevolent Spirits.
• The blood coffin's occupant fled as scarlet lightning, but Jiang Dao's arrows caught and killed him.
• The boy collapsed in terror on the bone dragon as the Yin Mist Marsh burned around him.

Jiang Dao annihilated the Ninth Cycle experts and other creatures in Yin Mist Marsh with the Emperor Sky Bow, then fled before the gods could arrive. Black Mountain Lord, who had lured the experts there, survived by hiding and later rushed to seek the gods.

• Jiang Dao killed Frost Ancestor and burned the creatures across Yin Mist Marsh to ash with several hundred arrows from the Emperor Sky Bow.
• Jiang Dao left the marsh with Yan Lingtian, giving a Yin Moon Radiance each to the bone dragon and the boy.
• Jiang Dao sensed spies in the distance and shot them dead before continuing his escape with Yan Lingtian.
• Black Mountain Lord watched in terror, hid his aura until Jiang Dao had left, then fled toward the gods.

After the Hundred-Day Extermination Decree failed, five Ancient Gods pursued Jiang Dao as he fled with Yan Lingtian. Jiang Dao used the Emperor Sky Bow to halt the god closest to him, but the god countered with a black-hole technique.

• The Black Mountain Lord reported the destruction at Yin Mist Marsh, and visitors found it transformed into a blazing sea of divine fire.
• Five Ancient Gods set out to hunt Jiang Dao after one of them deduced his location through an ancient forbidden art.
• Jiang Dao sensed the gods closing in, transformed into Celestial Desolation: Godslayer Form, and sped away with Yan Lingtian.
• Jiang Dao fired more than eight hundred arrows at the nearest god, forcing it backward.
• The god conjured a terrifying black hole that began devouring Jiang Dao's golden arrows.

Jiang Dao fought off five pursuing gods with the Emperor Sky Bow while Yan Lingtian repaired a teleportation formation. Jiang Dao escaped with Jing Huang and Yan Lingtian, destroying the formation as the gods reached it.

• Jiang Dao blasted two pursuing gods with waves of golden arrows, breaking their black hole and spatial-rift defenses and leaving them wounded.
• Jiang Dao raced back to the cave dwelling while firing arrows at the gods pursuing from all directions.
• Jiang Dao ordered Yan Lingtian to repair the grand formation as he held the five gods off outside the cave.
• The five gods joined forces to open a vast spatial rift that swallowed Jiang Dao's arrows, and Yan Lingtian told Jiang Dao the formation was ready.
• Jiang Dao entered the cave, brought Jing Huang and Yan Lingtian onto the formation, and activated it as the gods charged in.
• Jiang Dao teleported away with Jing Huang and Yan Lingtian, then the formation shattered into fragments.

Jiang Dao, Jing Huang, and Yan Lingtian escaped the Endless Ruins through a teleportation array and emerged in the eastern region of the Great Yu Dynasty. Jiang Dao let Yan Lingtian leave with two pieces of Yin Moon Radiance and set off with Jing Huang.

• The five Living Gods failed to trace Jiang Dao and his companions through the teleportation array, then learned from the Netherworld Hall Ancestor that Fang Tianba had come from the outside world.
• Jiang Dao, Jing Huang, and Yan Lingtian emerged from the spatial tunnel and reached the outside world.
• Jiang Dao identified their location as the eastern region of the Great Yu Dynasty, near the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend's region.
• Jiang Dao gave Yan Lingtian two pieces of Yin Moon Radiance and released him, warning him not to return to the Endless Ruins.
• Jiang Dao headed off with Jing Huang following him.

Jiang Dao returned from the Endless Ruins after surviving the pursuit of five gods and brought back three ingredients for the Human Monarch Pill. The Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend told him that Blood Within Water might be found at the Sword Cemetery, where a dying god was supposedly seeking an heir, and Jiang Dao agreed to investigate and possibly kill him.

• Jiang Dao told the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend that five gods had pursued him after he destroyed Gloomy Mist Great Canyon and Ghost Spirit City.
• Jiang Dao showed the Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend the Yin Moon Radiance, Nether Dragon Blood, and Ice Within Fire he had obtained.
• The Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend said Blood Within Water might be found at the Sword Cemetery in the southern region of the Great Yu Dynasty.
• The Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend warned that the dying god at the Sword Cemetery might be seeking a body to possess rather than an heir.
• The Corpse-Devouring Pill Fiend urged Jiang Dao to risk killing the weakened god for his legacy and divine blood, and Jiang Dao agreed.