Chapter Summaries

Zhuge Xiang helped Wu Xuefei conceal her theft of the East Sea Dragon Clan’s Dragon’s Eye, then used it with the Phoenix Feather to free the Demon Left Hand and received the God Slaying Spear as a quest reward. After Wu Xuefei left, Zhuge Xiang summoned Ao Bing to settle the dispute over the stolen eye, and Ao Bing arrived at the Asura Sect to meet its Sect Master.

• Zhuge Xiang gave Wu Xuefei Forget-Heart Poison Water so she would forget stealing the East Sea Dragon Clan’s Dragon’s Eye, and replaced it with a True Dragon’s Eye.
• Zhuge Xiang put the True Dragon’s Eye and Phoenix Feather into the sealing beam, breaking the seal on the Demon Left Hand.
• The Demon Left Hand acknowledged Zhuge Xiang and Wu Xuefei before tearing through space and leaving; Zhuge Xiang received 100 million EXP, a Skill Jade Talisman, and the God Slaying Spear.
• Wu Xuefei returned to the Asura Sect, and Zhuge Xiang left the Asura Path for Futuo Mountain before summoning Ao Bing with his communication jade talisman.
• Ao Bing arrived outside the Asura Sect’s mountain-protecting array and asked to see Sect Master Luo Ba, who invited him inside.

Ao Bing confronted Wu Xuefei at the Asura Sect over the gouging of a Dragon Clan member’s eyes, but the Heart Reflecting Mirror cleared her of wrongdoing. Ao Bing apologized and left, while the culprit remained unknown.

• Ao Bing arrived at the Asura Sect with Ao Xiaoyao and accused Wu Xuefei of having ties to the attack on a Dragon Clan member.
• The Great Elder defended Wu Xuefei, and Zhuge Xiang asked Ao Bing to provide evidence.
• Ao Bing presented the Heart Reflecting Mirror, and Wu Xuefei agreed to answer its questions.
• Wu Xuefei denied visiting the East Sea Dragon Palace, knowing about the attack, and being anyone other than herself; the mirror did not react to any answer.
• Ao Bing tested the mirror by claiming he was not a Dragon Clan member, and it flashed, confirming it worked.
• Ao Bing apologized to Wu Xuefei for the mistaken accusation and departed for the Dragon Palace.

After the Heart Reflecting Mirror cleared Wu Xuefei, Ao Bing and Ao Xiaoyao left without finding the culprit, while Zhuge Xiang offered to help recover the young dragon’s gouged-out eye. Zhuge Xiang then planned to investigate the Great Qin Empire’s imperial family and traveled with Ying Wushuang to Xianyang City, where they arrived at the imposing imperial palace.

• Ao Bing thanked Zhuge Xiang for his help, then explained that a thief had gouged out the eye of a young dragon during its centennial birthday celebration.
• Zhuge Xiang asked Ao Bing for communication talismans and promised to contact him if he found the dragon’s eye; Ao Bing and Ao Xiaoyao then returned toward the East Sea Dragon Palace.
• Zhuge Xiang visited Lu Yuling and told her he planned to use Ying Wushuang to approach the Great Qin imperial family while investigating its theft of Great Tang’s national fortune and the replacement of the Great Tang Emperor.
• Three days later, Ying Wushuang told Zhuge Xiang that her imperial father’s birthday celebration would give him a chance to visit the palace, and he decided to go to Xianyang City early.
• Zhuge Xiang and Ying Wushuang traveled to Xianyang City and approached the imperial palace, whose vast walls and formations were supported by several spirit veins.

Zhuge Xiang and Ying Wushuang encountered Ying Yan in the imperial palace, where Zhuge Xiang publicly claimed they planned to marry. Worried that Zhuge Xiang could strengthen Ying Wushuang’s claim to the throne, Ying Yan enlisted Great Ming Prince Zhu Luowen to interfere in their relationship.

• Ying Yan mocked Ying Wushuang and recognized Zhuge Xiang, but treated him cautiously because of his reputation and strength.
• Zhuge Xiang embraced Ying Wushuang, introduced the Little Fire Phoenix as their child, and convinced Ying Yan that they were discussing marriage.
• After Ying Yan left, he realized Zhuge Xiang’s ties to Ying Wushuang could improve her chances in the imperial succession contest.
• Ying Yan went to the Great Ming Empire’s guest quarters and asked Zhu Luowen to help expose Zhuge Xiang as an unsuitable partner for Ying Wushuang.
• Zhu Luowen agreed to confront Zhuge Xiang, believing his cultivation was only at the Spirit Transformation Stage.

Zhuge Xiang gave Ying Wushuang the War Shackles as a birthday gift for the emperor, then accompanied her to Ying Yan’s banquet. There, Great Ming’s Zhu Luowen insulted Zhuge Xiang and challenged his standing as Ying Wushuang’s partner, leaving Zhuge Xiang to respond.

• Zhuge Xiang gave Ying Wushuang the War Shackles to present to the emperor as a birthday gift.
• Ying Wushuang received an invitation from Ying Yan to a banquet for princes, princesses, and foreign guests, and Zhuge Xiang agreed to attend.
• Zhuge Xiang and Ying Wushuang arrived at the banquet, where Ying Yan introduced Zhuge Xiang as Ying Wushuang’s romantic partner.
• Zhu Luowen called Zhuge Xiang a country bumpkin and mocked him for being with Ying Wushuang.
• Ying Wushuang rebuked Zhu Luowen for insulting Zhuge Xiang in Great Qin, but Zhu Luowen taunted Zhuge Xiang as a man hiding behind a woman.

Zhuge Xiang confronted Zhu Luowen and proved that his physical strength surpassed the prince’s True Dragon Art. He left Zhu Luowen’s supposedly formidable Five Dragon Shield cracked by a strike from the God Slaying Spear.

• Zhuge Xiang stood up to Zhu Luowen, revealed his Nascent Soul Stage cultivation, and accepted the prince’s challenge.
• Ying Dongsheng raised a defensive barrier so Zhuge Xiang and Zhu Luowen could fight without damaging the imperial palace.
• Zhu Luowen transformed with the True Dragon Art, while Zhuge Xiang revealed his Demonic True Body and Nine-Orifice Demon Heart.
• Zhuge Xiang met Zhu Luowen’s True Dragon Fist with his own fist and knocked him backward in their contest of strength.
• Zhuge Xiang rushed forward and struck Zhu Luowen’s Five Dragon Shield with the God Slaying Spear, cracking it.

Zhuge Xiang broke Zhu Luowen’s Five Dragon Shield and defeated him after surviving a surprise attack with his Decoy Straw Man. He gained experience, a Dragon Pattern Cloak, and Heaven Collapsing Earth Shattering, while Zhu Luowen lay near death.

• Zhuge Xiang battered the Five Dragon Shield with lightning and spear strikes until it shattered.
• Zhu Luowen used the shield’s protection to prepare Poison Dragon Thorn and pierced Zhuge Xiang’s throat.
• Zhuge Xiang’s body turned out to be a Decoy Straw Man, and he attacked Zhu Luowen from behind.
• Zhuge Xiang smashed Zhu Luowen’s arms with the God Slaying Spear and struck him in the head, leaving him near death.
• Zhuge Xiang received 22 million experience points, a Dragon Pattern Cloak, and Heaven Collapsing Earth Shattering.

Zhuge Xiang defeated Li Luowen at the banquet and gained a powerful cloak and skill, while Ying Dongsheng revealed the location of the Twelve Golden Figures. At the Great Qin Emperor’s birthday banquet, the emperor noticed Zhuge Xiang beside Ying Wushuang and asked who he was.

• Zhuge Xiang prepared to kill the unconscious Li Luowen, but Ying Dongsheng asked him to spare the Great Ming guest, and Zhu Xiaoxi toasted Zhuge Xiang.
• Zhuge Xiang checked his spoils, equipped the Dragon Pattern Cloak, and raised Heaven Collapsing Earth Shattering to Perfection Level.
• Ying Dongsheng told the gathered princes and princesses that he had found the Twelve Golden Figures in a cavern on Mount Xiao and proposed exploring it after the emperor’s birthday.
• The princes and princesses agreed to wait until after the birthday celebrations, and the banquet ended as everyone prepared for the emperor’s celebration.
• The imperial family offered birthday congratulations and gifts to the Great Qin Emperor, who then asked Ying Wushuang who Zhuge Xiang was.

At the emperor’s birthday banquet, Zhuge Xiang joined Ying Wushuang and caught the emperor’s attention after revealing his ties to the Asura Sect. Learning that Zhuge Xiang might become the sect’s next master, the emperor began to see him as a suitable match for Ying Wushuang and a potential ally for Great Qin.

• Ying Yan told the emperor that Zhuge Xiang and Ying Wushuang were romantically involved, but the emperor only invited Zhuge Xiang to sit beside her.
• The Nine Great Sects offered birthday congratulations, though the Yin Yang Demonic Sect sent neither representatives nor a gift.
• Zhuge Xiang left the imperial table to greet his master, Luo Ba, and Luo Ba and the Asura Sect elders congratulated him on reaching the Void Returning Stage.
• The emperor learned of Zhuge Xiang’s past combat achievements, mastery of the Demon Luo Scripture, and potential to become the Asura Sect’s next master.
• The emperor reconsidered Zhuge Xiang as a match for Ying Wushuang and saw the marriage as a way to secure the Asura Sect’s loyalty to Great Qin.

At the Great Qin Emperor’s birthday banquet, the Golden Winged Corpse King appeared as the Golden Body Bodhisattva and declared that he would kill the emperor. After opening the Gate of the Hungry Ghost Path and summoning an army of zombies and evil ghosts, he ordered them to attack everyone present, while targeting the emperor in particular.

• As the Great Qin Emperor began his birthday speech, the Golden Body Bodhisattva interrupted and challenged him for not sending an invitation.
• True Person Changfeng blocked the Bodhisattva’s corpse-qi attack and accused him of being a corpse king.
• The Golden Body Bodhisattva appeared amid sacred Buddhist signs, and Zhuge Xiang recognized him as the Golden Winged Corpse King from the lost Myriad Buddha Temple.
• The Golden Body Bodhisattva turned hostile and threatened to kill the Great Qin Emperor, prompting True Person Changfeng and other powerful cultivators to protect him.
• The Golden Body Bodhisattva opened the Gate of the Hungry Ghost Path, summoned hordes of zombies and evil ghosts, and ordered them to annihilate the gathering.

A zombie horde poured into the Great Qin Imperial Palace, overwhelming its defenders until Zen Master Da Wu used the Heavenly Demon Zen Sound to suppress the undead. A powerful Corpse King charged Da Wu, and Zhuge Xiang intervened to protect him.

• Zombies surged from the Gate of the Hungry Ghost Path and slaughtered palace attendants and soldiers, prompting the Great Qin Emperor to rise in anger.
• True Person Changfeng stopped the emperor from fighting and called on the Void Returning Stage experts to defend the palace.
• Zen Master Da Wu unleashed the Heavenly Demon Zen Sound, weakening the zombie horde and allowing the cultivators to counterattack.
• The Golden Body Bodhisattva sent a powerful Corpse King to silence Da Wu, and the Corpse King blasted him away with his panel axes.
• Zhuge Xiang used Explosive Steps to block the Corpse King and struck at him with the God Slaying Spear.

Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling joined forces to hunt the corpse kings overrunning the Great Qin Imperial Palace, while Zen Master Da Wu’s Heavenly Demon Zen Sound weakened the zombies. After rapidly growing stronger, Zhuge Xiang drew the Golden Body Bodhisattva’s attention and began fighting the three corpse kings sent to test him.

• Zhuge Xiang clashed with a powerful corpse king and used the Yin Yang Demonic Rings to share a 100% attribute enhancement with Lu Yuling.
• Zhuge Xiang overpowered and tore apart the corpse king, then asked Zen Master Da Wu to keep the Heavenly Demon Zen Sound going.
• Zhuge Xiang and Lu Yuling slaughtered corpse kings and groups of zombies, gaining enough experience for Zhuge Xiang to advance through several Nascent Soul Stage layers.
• The Golden Body Bodhisattva recognized Zhuge Xiang as the former Golden Winged Corpse King and sent three corpse kings to test him.
• Lu Yuling slowed one attacker with Ice Eye, and Zhuge Xiang crippled and split the corpse king in two with his broad axe.

Zhuge Xiang used the Yin Yang Demonic Rings and Vast Sword Qi to kill three six-star Zombie Kings, gaining enough experience to advance again. The Golden Body Bodhisattva then tried to kill him, but Luo Ba intervened and challenged the Bodhisattva.

• Zhuge Xiang summoned a Lingbao longsword and used Vast Sword Qi and Instant Slash to kill two Zombie Kings, advancing to the sixth layer of the Nascent Soul Stage.
• The Golden Body Bodhisattva recognized Zhuge Xiang as a threat and fixed him with murderous intent.
• The Golden Body Bodhisattva reached for Zhuge Xiang, leaving him unable to dodge or resist, while Lu Yuling cried out in alarm.
• Luo Ba appeared and blocked the Golden Body Bodhisattva's palm with his Demon Luo Sword, then challenged him to show the Bodhisattva's strength.

Luo Ba intervened to protect Zhuge Xiang and fought the Golden Body Bodhisattva, while Zhuge Xiang joined Lu Yuling in battling the Corpse Kings. The Heavenly Sword Sect Master asked Zhuge Xiang to close the Hungry Ghost Path gates, but Zhuge Xiang accepted the quest and chose to keep killing zombies first as Luo Ba began lifting the Jade Bodhi Tree.

• Luo Ba blocked the Golden Body Bodhisattva’s attack, and Zhuge Xiang realized how far his strength still fell short of the empire’s top powerhouses.
• Luo Ba struck with his Demon Luo Sword and swallowed the Bodhisattva’s Universal Illumination with a Lingbao ring, but the Bodhisattva summoned the Jade Bodhi Tree and attacked him with Buddhist Qi branches.
• Zhuge Xiang left the duel to join Lu Yuling in slaughtering Corpse Kings, while the Heavenly Sword Sect Master urged him to close the Hungry Ghost Path gates.
• Zhuge Xiang accepted a system quest to seal the gates but delayed acting so he could kill more zombies and gain cultivation.
• The Jade Bodhi Tree suppressed Luo Ba, who used the strength of his Demon Luo bracers to grasp and begin lifting it.

The Golden Body Bodhisattva defeated Luo Ba and True Person Changfeng, suppressing the Asura Sect Master beneath the Jade Bodhi Tree and destroying the divine phantom summoned by the Imperial Edict Heavenly Book. He then confronted the Great Qin Emperor and demanded that the emperor reveal the Imperial World Shocking Merit, leaving the emperor facing him without confidence in victory.

• Luo Ba resisted the Golden Body Bodhisattva’s Jade Bodhi Tree with the Demon Luo Scripture, but the Bodhisattva sat on the tree and used a maxim to suppress him.
• The Golden Body Bodhisattva advanced on the Great Qin Emperor, but True Person Changfeng blocked him to protect the emperor.
• True Person Changfeng summoned a divine phantom with the Imperial Edict Heavenly Book, but the Golden Body Bodhisattva destroyed it with Mount Fangzhang.
• The Golden Body Bodhisattva stood before the Great Qin Emperor and demanded that he reveal the Imperial World Shocking Merit.
• The Great Qin Emperor regarded the Golden Body Bodhisattva solemnly and doubted whether his imperial cultivation method could defeat him.

Ying Qianshan appeared on the battlefield, stripped the Golden Winged Corpse King of the faith power that had made him seem like a Bodhisattva, and revealed his true identity to Zhuge Xiang. As Zhuge Xiang and the other cultivators fought to close the Gate of the Hungry Ghost Path, a Ghost Emperor’s power emerged from beyond it, threatening everyone.

• A robed stranger appeared behind the Golden Body Bodhisattva and tore the golden faith power from him, exposing him as the Golden Winged Corpse King.
• The stranger mocked the corpse king’s fraudulent claim to Buddhahood and easily caught his attack.
• Zhuge Xiang recognized the stranger as Ying Qianshan, the twin brother who had usurped Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng’s throne.
• At the Heavenly Sword Sect master’s urging, Zhuge Xiang charged toward the Gate of the Hungry Ghost Path while Void Returning Stage experts cleared a path through the zombies.
• The corpse kings rallied to stop the cultivators from closing the gate, and a powerful Ghost Emperor’s aura began pressing through it.
• Ying Qianshan warned the cultivators to close the gateway quickly, or the Ghost Emperor’s projected power could slaughter them and destroy the imperial palace.

Zhuge Xiang and the gathered powerhouses fought to close the Gate of the Hungry Ghost Path before the Frost Ghost Emperor could emerge. As the gate slowly shut, the Ghost Emperor destroyed Zhuge Xiang’s demonic avatar with one strike, leaving Zhuge Xiang exposed to another attack.

• The Great Qin emperor joined the battle and crushed Corpse Kings with his Imperial Seal while Zhuge Xiang’s King's Aura further suppressed them.
• Zhuge Xiang endured the ghost qi and began forcing the Gate of the Hungry Ghost Path closed as the Heavenly Sword Sect sect master and the Great Qin emperor protected him.
• Zhuge Xiang summoned a demonic avatar to pull the other door panel shut alongside him, and the gathered cultivators fought off the zombies’ desperate assault.
• The Frost Ghost Emperor attacked through the gate and shattered Zhuge Xiang’s avatar in one strike, slowing the closing gate and turning his attention toward Zhuge Xiang.

Zhuge Xiang closed the Gate of the Hungry Ghost Path with Ying Qianshan’s help, ending the Frost Ghost Emperor’s attack and earning enough quest rewards to reach the ninth level of the Nascent Soul Stage. After the palace’s ghosts and zombies were defeated, Ying Qianshan rebuked the Great Qin Emperor for bowing too readily.

• Ying Qianshan blocked the Frost Ghost Emperor’s attack while urging Zhuge Xiang to close the Gate of the Hungry Ghost Path.
• A mysterious powerhouse named Ying Dongsheng fought Ying Qianshan, wounded him, and rescued the Golden Winged Corpse King.
• Ying Qianshan chose to focus on the Frost Ghost Emperor, and Zhuge Xiang shut the gate.
• Zhuge Xiang received three levels and an Advanced Skill Treasure Chest, reaching the ninth level of the Nascent Soul Stage.
• The Great Qin Emperor ordered the remaining zombies and hungry ghosts slain, and the palace forces annihilated them.
• Ying Qianshan told the Great Qin Emperor that their clan ties made his intervention natural and urged him to keep a sovereign’s bearing.

After Ying Qianshan revealed where the Great Qin Emperor might find the final layer of his cultivation art, Luo Ba remained trapped beneath the Jade Bodhi Tree. He explained to Zhuge Xiang that he had accepted the suppression as a way to keep the Imperial Family at ease while Zhuge Xiang grew stronger.

• Ying Qianshan told the Great Qin Emperor that the Xiaoshan Sacred Cave held something needed to complete the Imperial World Shocking Merit, then departed without revealing his identity.
• After the Hungry Ghost Path closed and the birthday guests left, the Great Qin Emperor and others admitted they could not free Luo Ba without the Golden Body Bodhisattva's power.
• Luo Ba sent the Asura Sect elders back to manage the sect, while Lu Yuling returned the Ring of the Underworld to Zhuge Xiang and departed.
• Zhuge Xiang stayed with Luo Ba, who confirmed that only the Golden Body Bodhisattva could release him from the Jade Bodhi Tree.
• Luo Ba revealed that he had chosen to remain suppressed to reduce the Imperial Family's suspicion of the Asura Sect and give Zhuge Xiang room to grow, confident he could escape or ascend when the time came.

Zhuge Xiang learned that Luo Ba had accepted suppression beneath the Jade Bodhi Tree to protect him and give the Asura Sect time to prepare for the future. Luo Ba revealed Liao Wufa was the Yin Yang Demonic Sect’s founding ancestor and warned Zhuge Xiang that rescuing the Golden Body Bodhisattva could bring trouble; Zhuge Xiang then left to visit Ying Wushuang.

• Luo Ba explained that he had allowed the Jade Bodhi Tree to suppress him so Zhuge Xiang could grow safely and eventually lead the Asura Sect.
• Zhuge Xiang kowtowed to Luo Ba, who told him the sect would be entrusted to him after Luo Ba ascended.
• Luo Ba revealed that Liao Wufa was the Yin Yang Demonic Sect’s founding ancestor and had given Zhuge Xiang the treasured Yin Yang Demonic Rings.
• Luo Ba recounted that Liao Wufa’s wife, Empress Kui Haixing, had died, and that Liao Wufa was suppressed after killing a prince of the Great Qin Imperial Family.
• Luo Ba warned Zhuge Xiang that Liao Wufa’s rescue of the Golden Body Bodhisattva could be treated as treason, and urged Zhuge Xiang to persuade him if he defied Heaven’s will.
• Luo Ba told Zhuge Xiang to explore the Asura Path for the hidden highest secret of the Demon Luo Scripture, and Zhuge Xiang left to visit Ying Wushuang.