Chapter Summaries

Qin Fengming distributed Crimson Soul Sand, made arrangements with Guo Wei and Ji Dongjue, and then traveled to meet Du Shuniang at Lake Ripple Land. He arrived to find Du Shuniang with two unfamiliar peak Integration stage cultivators, whose presence surprised him.

• Qin Fengming gave the gathered cultivators nearly a square of Crimson Soul Sand, and they divided it among themselves.
• Qin Fengming arranged for Guo Wei and the others to meet him at Ice Valley in the island’s seventh year to recover their soul essences.
• Qin Fengming asked Ji Dongjue to seek Soul Essence Stones and agreed to return for the Dragon Soul Beast in five years.
• Qin Fengming left White Stone Valley and received Du Shuniang’s message asking him to meet her at Lake Ripple Land.
• Qin Fengming reached the lake and found Du Shuniang with two unfamiliar peak Integration stage cultivators, whose identities surprised him.

Qin Fengming met Du Shuniang’s companions, including Land Ranking cultivator Zhou Bo, before preparing for the dangers of their journey across Black Mist Island. After seven days of waiting, another invited cultivator arrived.

• Du Shuniang introduced Zhou Bo, ranked eighty-second on the Land Ranking, and her aunt Du Gongwan to Qin Fengming.
• Qin Fengming learned that Du Shuniang had invited one more cultivator and worried that the island’s restrictions could threaten even powerful cultivators.
• Qin Fengming settled apart from the others, activated the Immortal Sealing Six Seals Formation, and used the time to control five humanoid puppets.
• After seven days, a figure arrived, and Qin Fengming put away his formation and puppets before joining the others.

Baili Lingkong, ranked thirty-seventh on the Earth Ranking, joined Du Shuniang’s group as they prepared to enter a perilous land on Black Mist Island. After meeting Qin Fengming with open hostility, Baili set the group moving north with Du Shuniang protected in their midst.

• Baili Lingkong arrived, and Du Shuniang and the others greeted him with respect.
• Du Shuniang introduced Zhou Bo and her aunt to Baili Lingkong, who recognized the aunt and noted her advancement to peak Integration stage.
• Du Shuniang introduced Qin Fengming as the cultivator who had slain Earth Ranking member Ouyang Longhai, and Baili Lingkong challenged him with a wave of cold aura.
• Qin Fengming dismissed his victory as luck and ignored Baili Lingkong’s chill, while Du Shuniang privately explained Baili’s distant manner.
• Baili Lingkong urged everyone to begin the mission, and the group flew north with Du Shuniang protected in the center.

Qin Fengming traveled with the Flower Moon Alliance party through Black Mist Island, witnessing the strength of his companions and their magic treasures. At the edge of the Earth Fire Desert, he learned they would pass through the Dark Forest to reach an unexplored Wilderness.

• Qin Fengming and the four cultivators traveled slowly across the Azure Grassland, wary of ancient formations.
• The group fought off tens of thousands of poisonous flying insects, and Qin Fengming observed Du Gongwan’s thread technique and Du Shuniang’s lotus-platform treasure.
• The five cultivators crossed from the Azure Grassland into the scorching Earth Fire Desert and began veering from their northward route.
• Zhou Bo asked Du Shuniang whether their destination was the Dark Forest, and she said they would pass through it but were headed elsewhere.
• Zhou Bo realized the Flower Moon Alliance intended to enter an unexplored Wilderness, while Qin Fengming remained calm.

Qin Fengming and the others crossed the Earth Fire Desert and entered the Dark Forest while escorting Du Shuniang toward the unexplored Wilderness. Their advance ended when a mid Spirit Severing stage demon python seized Zhou Bo’s puppet scout.

• The five crossed the Earth Fire Desert, where Qin Fengming found two rare fire-attributed materials for artifact refinement.
• Du Shuniang warned that they could not fly through the Dark Forest and that its ancient restrictions and powerful demon beasts made it dangerous.
• Du Shuniang’s Grade 4 spirit beast refused to advance, so Zhou Bo sent a mid Integration stage tiger-beast puppet ahead instead.
• The group traveled for three days through the forest before a mass of black light seized the puppet and cut off Zhou Bo’s connection to it.
• Baili Lingkong identified the attacker as the mid Spirit Severing stage demon python recorded in ancient texts.

Baili Lingkong killed a mid Spirit Severing demonic python with a magic treasure made from poisonous Flood Dragon sinew. Afterward, he set off ahead of the group to lead them through the now-safer area.

• The demonic python crushed Qin Fengming's mid Integration stage puppet and threatened the group.
• Baili Lingkong advanced alone to confront the python, while Du Shuniang stayed ready to help him.
• Baili Lingkong used a black ribbon made from poisonous Flood Dragon sinew to bind the python.
• Baili Lingkong pierced the bound python and sealed its demon core, killing it with little effort.
• Baili Lingkong put away the python's corpse and continued ahead, telling the others to follow.

After crossing the Dark Forest, Qin Fengming and the others entered a region thick with Yin mist, where ghostly souls gathered and Qin Fengming discovered he could absorb the mist’s soul aura. When hundreds of fiends surrounded them, Du Shuniang brought out an ancient lamp whose sacred light drove back the mist, prompting Baili Lingkong to recognize it as the Buddha Heart Lamp.

• Baili Lingkong led the group through the Dark Forest after killing a mid Spirit Severing-stage demonic serpent.
• Du Shuniang warned that the Yin-mist region held powerful ghostly souls and fiends, and the group entered with her protected in the middle.
• Qin Fengming found that he could absorb the faint soul aura in the Yin mist with the Treasure Refining Ghost Art.
• Hundreds of ghostly souls gathered around the group, but Du Shuniang produced a lamp and ignited its pale azure flame.
• The lamp’s sacred aura drove back the Yin mist, and Baili Lingkong asked whether it was the Buddha Heart Lamp.

Qin Fengming and the others used Du Shuniang’s damaged Buddha Heart Lamp to cross the outskirts of the Land of Yin Mist, where Qin sought to capture yin souls for cultivation. As they ventured deeper and stronger Integration Realm creatures pressed in, Baili Lingkong called for the group to fight their way forward.

• Du Shuniang explained that the Buddha Heart Lamp had been damaged and could no longer repel Spirit Severing yin souls, though it still deterred weaker ghosts.
• The group traveled through the yin mist with the lamp holding back more than a thousand pursuing yin souls and ghostly creatures, while Qin Fengming hoped to capture some of them.
• Over three months, the five searched the outskirts without finding any ancient restriction arrays, then continued deeper for five more days.
• As stronger Integration Realm ghostly creatures gathered and pushed closer despite the lamp, Baili Lingkong told Du Shuniang to conserve her magic power and prepare to fight.
• Baili Lingkong proposed that he, Zhou Bo, and Qin Fengming charge forward together while Fairy Du protected Shuniang, who kept the lamp raised and took a restorative pill.

Baili Lingkong, Zhou Bo, and Qin Fengming fought their way through the countless regenerating yin souls. Qin Fengming captured hundreds or thousands of them with his Soul Devouring Claw and revealed that he had collected them for later use.

• Baili Lingkong led the group forward with Qin Fengming and Zhou Bo protecting Du Shuniang and the other woman as yin souls attacked them.
• Baili Lingkong used his rope-shaped magic treasure to shred yin souls, while Zhou Bo's Three Yuan Saber Array destroyed the creatures that entered its reach.
• Qin Fengming moved beyond the Buddha Heart Lamp's protection and drew a swarm of yin souls toward himself.
• Qin Fengming enveloped hundreds or thousands of yin souls in fog and captured them in the Divine Machine Mansion with his Soul Devouring Claw.
• Du Shuniang asked whether Qin Fengming had captured the yin souls, and he confirmed that he had collected them for later use.

Qin Fengming and the others reached the valley sought by Du Shuniang, where overwhelming corpse baleful qi blocked entry. Du Shuniang and her aunt prepared to enter using armor made from Heavy Earth Crystal, while the three seniors stayed behind to guard the valley.

• Qin Fengming used the Ghost Devouring Yin Mist to capture Yin souls as the group traveled through the mist for another month, drawing a growing swarm of ghostly creatures.
• Baili Lingfeng found a valley, and Du Shuniang confirmed its stone emblem matched the location recorded by the Flower Moon Alliance.
• Qin Fengming sensed that pitch-black corpse baleful qi filled the valley and drove out the surrounding Yin mist.
• Zhou Bo tested the qi with his magic-treasure cleaver, which emerged weakened and coated in black mist, and admitted he could not enter.
• Du Shuniang said she and her aunt would enter alone, then both put on heavy armor made from Heavy Earth Crystal as the three seniors prepared to guard them.

Qin Fengming waited with Baili Lingkong and Zhou Bo while Du Shuniang’s two companions entered the valley’s deadly Killing Intent. When two intelligent Spirit Severing ghostly creatures appeared and attacked, Qin Fengming charged into battle, only for one ghost to unleash a curse within his Ghost Devouring Yin Mist.

• The two women used their Heavy Earth Crystal armor to withstand the Killing Intent and entered the valley, while Qin Fengming watched and coveted their armor.
• Qin Fengming, Baili Lingkong, and Zhou Bo waited outside the valley as ghostly creatures gathered nearby, and Qin Fengming sensed that powerful ghosts were approaching.
• Two early Spirit Severing Yin ghosts appeared, and Baili Lingkong proposed that he and Qin Fengming each fight one.
• The Yin ghosts sent hundreds of creatures to intercept them, while Qin Fengming released his Ghost Devouring Yin Mist against the attackers.
• One Spirit Severing ghost uttered a curse, triggering a thunderous explosion of soul energy inside Qin Fengming’s Yin Mist.

Qin Fengming and Baili Lingkong survived the yin souls’ self-detonation of their origins, though Baili Lingkong was badly injured. Baili summoned a Silver Dragon Beast to attack a Spirit Severing ghost cultivator, whose commanded yin souls swarmed to meet it.

• Hundreds of yin souls self-detonated their soul origins, but Qin Fengming endured the blast by circulating the Treasure Refining Ghost Refining Art.
• Qin Fengming discovered that Baili Lingkong had also survived the explosion, though blood at his mouth showed he had suffered severe internal injuries.
• A Spirit Severing ghost cultivator taunted the survivors and declared that they would perish in the region.
• Baili Lingkong summoned a powerful Silver Dragon Beast and sent it diving toward the ghost cultivator.
• The ghost cultivator commanded nearby yin souls to attack, but the Silver Dragon Beast’s lightning kept them from approaching.
• Qin Fengming assessed Baili Lingkong’s survival and turned toward the ghost cultivator with a faint smile.

Qin Fengming resisted the Spirit Severing ghost cultivator’s Yin souls and devoured hundreds of them, leaving the enemy to confront him directly. Before they could clash, Du Shuniang emerged from the valley, warning that a late Spirit Severing stage Baleful Corpse was fighting her aunt.

• Qin Fengming invited the ghost cultivator to make the Yin souls self-detonate, then advanced toward him to provoke another attack.
• The ghost cultivator instead sent the Yin souls to surround Qin Fengming and attack him with claws and ghostfire.
• Qin Fengming enveloped the Yin souls in Ghost Devouring Yin Mist and made more than two hundred of them vanish.
• Qin Fengming taunted the ghost cultivator and moved toward him as the ghost cultivator prepared to attack personally.
• Du Shuniang emerged from the valley in damaged Heavy Earth Crystal armor and warned the three seniors that a late Spirit Severing stage Baleful Corpse was entangled with her aunt.

Qin Fengming and the others learned that a late Spirit Severing stage Baleful-Intent Corpse was fighting Du Gongwan inside the valley. Baili Lingkong entered to help her, but he soon carried her out wounded, and the corpse emerged after warning the group they could not escape.

• Du Shuniang told Qin Fengming and Baili Lingkong that her aunt was holding off a late Spirit Severing stage Baleful-Intent Corpse inside the valley.
• Baili Lingkong entered the valley, shielding himself with silver radiance that purified the Baleful Intent.
• The two Spirit Severing stage ghost cultivators paused their fight with Qin Fengming and watched the valley, wary of the corpse.
• Baili Lingkong emerged from the valley carrying the badly wounded Du Gongwan and urged everyone to retreat.
• Qin Fengming and the others withdrew to the far side of the entrance, where a smoke-wrapped humanoid figure emerged and declared that they would not escape.

Qin Fengming recognized Du Gongwan’s black talisman as a Soul Devouring Talisman and realized it had weakened the newly awakened late Spirit Severing stage Baleful Intent corpse. The corpse attacked Du Gongwan and Du Shuniang with a huge black finger shadow, leaving them in immediate danger.

• The Baleful Intent corpse absorbed the Soul Devouring Talisman’s smoke and threatened to devour everyone’s souls.
• Qin Fengming recognized Du Gongwan’s black talisman as a Soul Devouring Talisman capable of threatening even late Spirit Severing stage cultivators.
• Du Gongwan warned that the corpse had not fully recovered and urged everyone not to let it regain its strength.
• The corpse remembered Du Gongwan’s earlier interference and fired a huge black finger shadow at her and Du Shuniang.
• The finger shadow’s pressure descended on the group as it closed in on the two women.

Du Shuniang and Du Gongwan survived the baleful corpse’s devastating attack with the help of the Mad Wave Azure Wave Talisman, though they were badly injured and Zhou Bo sent them into his Xumi Cave Dwelling. As the baleful corpse tried to recruit the ghost cultivators, Baili Lingkong urged them to join the others, and one agreed to fight beside them.

• Du Shuniang and Du Gongwan used talismans while Qin Fengming, Baili Lingkong, and Zhou Bo attacked the baleful corpse’s finger shadow, but their combined strikes failed to stop it.
• The Mad Wave Azure Wave Talisman protected the two women from the killing blow, though both were injured and spat blood.
• Zhou Bo sent Du Shuniang and Du Gongwan into his Xumi Cave Dwelling to protect them.
• The baleful corpse offered the two ghost cultivators a chance to submit and keep commanding the sinister ghosts.
• Baili Lingkong warned the ghost cultivators that the baleful corpse was still recovering and urged them to join forces against it.
• One ghost cultivator agreed to set aside their differences and help slay the baleful corpse.

Qin Fengming, Zhou Bo, and Baili Lingkong attacked the late Spirit Severing baleful corpse on Black Mist Island, while two ghost cultivators used secret techniques on nearby Yin souls. The corpse dismissed their attacks and summoned figures from the Baleful Intent as the clash continued.

• The baleful corpse drew a vast surge of Baleful Intent from the valley to strengthen himself.
• Zhou Bo unleashed an imitation of the Nine Star Lotus Pod, and Baili Lingkong summoned a lightning-wreathed demonic beast.
• Qin Fengming fused more than a hundred Qinglin Sword Lights into five enormous blades that cut holes through the Baleful Intent.
• Zhou Bo and Baili Lingkong's attacks struck as Qin Fengming's sword lights exposed the baleful corpse.
• The baleful corpse gathered the shattered Baleful Intent into hundreds of shrieking humanoid figures and sent them against the three cultivators.

Qin Fengming, Baili Lingkong, and Zhou Bo destroyed the Baleful Corpse’s first wave of Killing Intent ghostly creatures with their techniques. The Baleful Corpse then unleashed a much stronger wave of armored mid Spirit Severing creatures, leaving the three convinced they had to flee.

• The first wave of ghostly creatures attacked, and their howls disturbed Qin Fengming, Zhou Bo, and the other cultivators.
• Baili Lingkong detonated his Silver Dragon Beast, destroying dozens of creatures with its purifying lightning.
• Zhou Bo’s nine lotus seeds formed a vortex that trapped and shredded another group of ghostly creatures.
• Qin Fengming used Qinglin Sword Light to kill the remaining creatures, and the three defeated the entire first wave within a dozen breaths.
• The Baleful Corpse summoned a stronger wave of armored ghostly creatures whose auras reached the mid Spirit Severing stage, and Qin Fengming, Baili Lingkong, and Zhou Bo realized they had to flee.

Qin Fengming, Baili Lingkong, and Zhou Bo held off the withered baleful corpse and its mid Spirit Severing ghost creatures while two Divine Connection ghost cultivators prepared a secret technique. As the three fighters’ attacks failed and the corpse mocked them, hundreds of yin souls entered its Killing Intent, and the two ghost cultivators shouted for them to explode.

• Qin Fengming agreed to hold the baleful corpse for a dozen breaths and charged toward the ghost creatures, while Baili Lingkong and Zhou Bo prepared attacks but kept their distance.
• The ghost creatures bound and overwhelmed Baili Lingkong’s Silver Dragon Beast, forcing it to self-detonate, while Zhou Bo’s Nine Star Lotus Pod replica failed to overcome their Killing Intent.
• More than a dozen ghost creatures surrounded Qin Fengming and trapped him inside a sphere of Killing Intent as his Qinglin Sword Light lost its effectiveness.
• The baleful corpse mocked the three after their attacks failed, but hundreds of yin-soul ghost creatures flew into its Killing Intent at the two Divine Connection ghost cultivators’ command.
• The baleful corpse sensed danger as the two early Spirit Severing ghost cultivators shouted, “Explode!”

Two ghost cultivators unleashed nearly five hundred Yin souls in a devastating self-detonation that struck the Baleful Intent Corpse and swept through Baili Lingkong and Zhou Bo. As the blast faded, its energy formed a vast vortex, and faint dragon roars sounded from within it.

• The two ghost cultivators ordered their Yin souls and ghost creatures to self-detonate around the Baleful Intent Corpse.
• The soul explosions overwhelmed the Baleful Intent Corpse, whose body was nearly torn apart and whose sea of consciousness was ravaged.
• Baili Lingkong and Zhou Bo endured the shockwaves, and Zhou Bo used the Nine Star Lotus Pod and nine purple beads to protect himself.
• Baili Lingkong and Zhou Bo believed Qin Fengming could not have survived the blast, while remaining wary of the ghost cultivators.
• The lingering soul-explosion energy began spinning into a gigantic vortex, and the four observers heard several faint dragon roars.