Chapter Summaries

Qin Fengming realized the Yin souls’ self-detonations might benefit the strange force in his sea of consciousness and urged the ghost cultivators to unleash them, but their combined power nearly destroyed him. Just as he was about to lose consciousness, he summoned the Mahayana Heavenly Dragon’s skeleton, whose strange energy weakened the soul-energy explosion.

• The two Divine Connection ghost cultivators were astonished when the Yin souls’ scattered soul energy gathered into a growing vortex.
• Qin Fengming suspected the strange reaction in his sea of consciousness was connected to the five vanished treasure fragments and decided to exploit the Yin souls’ self-detonations.
• The explosions proved far stronger than Qin Fengming had expected, ravaging his sea of consciousness and tearing apart his body.
• As Qin Fengming neared collapse, he summoned the Mahayana Heavenly Dragon skeleton he had refined using Fairy Yaoxi’s method.
• The dragon bone enveloped Qin Fengming in strange energy, and the soul-energy explosion began to weaken.

Qin Fengming's sea of consciousness was overwhelmed by a devastating soul-energy attack until five mysterious Flood Dragons emerged and absorbed the force. After Qin Fengming collapsed, the dragons burst from his body and devoured the surrounding soul-explosion energy, leaving the distant onlookers stunned.

• The strange force ravaged Qin Fengming's sea of consciousness, leaving both Qin Fengming and Sang Tai's souls close to unconsciousness.
• As Qin Fengming struggled to use the Treasure Refining Ghost Art, five powerful Flood Dragons appeared in his sea of consciousness and absorbed the attacking soul energy.
• The five Flood Dragons suddenly surged upward, and Qin Fengming was overcome by agonizing pain and collapsed unconscious.
• The dragons burst from Qin Fengming's body and circled around a black Flood Dragon, forming a vortex that devoured the soul-explosion energy.
• Baili Lingkong, Zhou Bo, and the two ghost cultivators watched in stunned silence as the energy mass slowed, stopped, and dissipated.

Baili Lingkong and Zhou Bo found Qin Fengming apparently lifeless in a crater after the explosion and tried to stop two ghost cultivators from taking his body and the emerald-lit beast skeleton beside him. The skeleton’s radiance repelled the ghost cultivators’ attacks, then the distant black skeleton rose and spoke, threatening the four cultivators.

• Zhou Bo cried out when he recognized Qin Fengming’s bloodied body in the crater beside a massive skeleton glowing with emerald light.
• The two Spirit Severing stage ghost cultivators raced toward Qin Fengming’s body and the skeleton while Baili Lingkong and Zhou Bo attacked to intercept them.
• The ghost cultivators’ claws struck an invisible barrier around the body and skeleton, then exploded after the emerald radiance stopped them.
• A terrifying voice threatened the four cultivators, and the intact black skeleton rose to its feet.

A baleful corpse survived the destruction of its body and revealed its power to Baili Lingkong, Zhou Bo, and the two ghost cultivators. As its skeletal puppets and summoned ghost creatures overwhelmed the group, Baili Lingkong and Zhou Bo fled in opposite directions.

• The skeleton stood up without a Baleful Infant or detectable spirit-soul aura, and Baili Lingkong recognized it as a baleful corpse weakened by the earlier explosion.
• The baleful corpse restored its shriveled skin and sent four skeletal puppets to attack the four cultivators with powerful saber rays.
• Baili Lingkong and Zhou Bo realized the skeletal puppets were controlled by the baleful corpse as their weapons and the ghost cultivators’ claws were suppressed.
• Several mid Spirit Severing stage ghost creatures emerged behind the group, prompting Zhou Bo and Baili Lingkong to flee in opposite directions.

After the four cultivators fled, the Baleful Corpse collapsed from the severe injuries he had concealed after surviving the Yin Soul explosion. Qin Fengming then rose from the ground, revealing that he had survived too, and confronted the weakened Baleful Corpse.

• The Baleful Corpse sent mid Spirit Severing ghostly creatures after Baili Lingkong and Zhou Bo, while skeletal puppets pursued the two Divine Connection ghost cultivators.
• All four cultivators fled at full speed and fought their pursuers in the distant Yin Mist.
• Once the cultivators were gone, the Baleful Corpse collapsed as his suppressed injuries from the Yin Soul explosion overwhelmed him.
• The Baleful Corpse realized Qin Fengming had survived when Qin's corpse began moving, sat up, and struggled to his feet.
• Qin Fengming faced the weakened Baleful Corpse and challenged him to withstand his remaining attacks.

Qin Fengming confronted the badly injured baleful corpse after surviving the soul self-detonation, but the corpse’s remaining power still wounded him. As four skeletal puppets closed in, Qin Fengming summoned the divine hall to face them.

• The baleful corpse summoned his four skeletal puppets and prepared to fight Qin Fengming, believing the puppets could protect him.
• Qin Fengming revealed himself with the dragon bone and charged, confident that the corpse’s injuries left him vulnerable.
• The baleful corpse struck Qin Fengming with two enormous finger shadows, and Qin blocked them with the dragon bone but spat out vital blood from the force.
• The four skeletal puppets returned and rushed toward Qin Fengming, giving the baleful corpse renewed confidence.
• Qin Fengming formed seals and summoned the divine hall, a towering mountain peak, above his head.

Qin Fengming used the divine hall to trap the injured Baleful Corpse and restrain his four skeletal puppets. He followed with soul-binding attacks and a storm of sword strikes, leaving the Baleful Corpse reduced to a skeleton again.

• The Baleful Corpse tried to retreat from Qin Fengming, but the divine hall’s spatial force trapped him beneath the descending mountain.
• The Baleful Corpse enlarged his four skeletal puppets, which blocked the mountain’s descent and slowed its attack.
• Qin Fengming flew toward the trapped Baleful Corpse while the divine hall held back the puppets.
• Qin Fengming struck the Baleful Corpse with two Treasure Refining Ghost Art attacks that immobilized him and tore into his body.
• Qin Fengming unleashed the Profound Micro Pure Radiance Sword, and the Baleful Corpse’s recondensed fleshly body was reduced to a skeleton.

Qin Fengming used his Soul Devouring Beast to uncover and devour the Baleful Intent Corpse’s hidden remnant soul, then destroyed the four skeletons it had controlled. He left with the beast, which showed increased understanding and accepted the name Jin Shi.

• Qin Fengming continued striking the Baleful Intent Corpse’s bones with the Profound Micro Pure Radiance Swords, then summoned the Soul Devouring Beast to inspect the remains.
• The Soul Devouring Beast detected a hidden remnant soul, and Qin Fengming learned that the Baleful Intent Corpse had secretly split off a fragment of its soul.
• The Soul Devouring Beast trapped and devoured the remnant soul while Qin Fengming used the Azure Rainbow Sword and divine palace to destroy the four resisting skeletons.
• The Soul Devouring Beast reacted to Qin Fengming’s words as if it understood them, and accepted the name Jin Shi.

Qin Fengming named the Soul Devouring Beast Jin Shi, then entered the valley to search for the treasure the Flower Moon Alliance had sought. He discovered the Baleful Corpse’s hidden cave abode and found a pool of liquid formed from condensed corpse-baleful energy.

• Qin Fengming marveled that the Soul Devouring Beast could understand him, named it Jin Shi, and returned it to the Spirit Beast Bracelet.
• Qin Fengming collected the Baleful Corpse’s skeleton, burned the remaining skeletal fragments, and headed into the valley.
• Qin Fengming searched the valley and detected an illusion formation concealing an entrance among the rocks.
• Qin Fengming entered the cave abode and found evidence that Du Gongwan had fought the Baleful Corpse there.
• Qin Fengming discovered a pool of black liquid formed from condensed Baleful Intent and realized it was likely what the Flower Moon Alliance had come to obtain.

Qin Fengming approached a pool of highly corrosive Killing Intent liquid and used his broken little bowl to absorb it. The pool was emptied, revealing the stone where the Baleful Intent corpse had once cultivated.

• Qin Fengming discovered that the Killing Intent liquid had been condensed by a formation made by the Baleful Intent corpse.
• Qin Fengming approached the stone platform, but the corrosive Killing Intent nearly overwhelmed his Spirit Devouring Netherflame until Profound Extreme Water strengthened it and consumed the poison.
• Qin Fengming decided his broken little bowl could hold the liquid and summoned it with a giant beast phantom and a powerful suction force.
• Qin Fengming absorbed the entire pool into the bowl, leaving only a tiny mass of liquid at its bottom.
• Qin Fengming found a huge black rock marked with a skeleton imprint and concluded that the Baleful Intent corpse had used it to absorb Killing Intent.

Qin Fengming searched the corpse fiend's caves and found storage bracelets packed with ancient treasures and materials. After recovering from his injuries, he set out to hunt the remaining powerful ghost cultivators and summoned the Soul Devouring Beast.

• Qin Fengming lamented that the Flower Moon Alliance had gained dozens of units of condensed baleful aura while he had asked only for a Divine Connection Pill formula, and resolved to demand more from Du Shuniang if she survived.
• Qin Fengming searched the first cave and found nothing, then entered the corpse fiend's cultivation chamber and saw its coffin, storage bracelets, and the remains of dozens of failed skeleton puppets.
• Qin Fengming removed the seals on the storage bracelets and found countless precious materials, more than a hundred ancient magical treasures, and several hundred scrolls, including dozens that remained intact.
• After several days of recuperation, Qin Fengming left the valley, decided to hunt the two Divine Connection ghost cultivators, and summoned the Soul Devouring Beast.

Qin Fengming swept through the yin-mist region with the Soul Devouring Beast, capturing hundreds of wandering souls before heading toward the Dark Forest. The two Spirit Severing ghost cultivators found him with a mid Spirit Severing ally, surrounded him, and demanded to know where the Baleful Corpse had gone.

• Qin Fengming and the Soul Devouring Beast swept through the region, devouring powerful soul essences and capturing hundreds of wandering souls.
• Qin Fengming stopped the hunt when the Soul Devouring Beast could no longer refine its haul, then set out toward the Dark Forest.
• Two days later, Qin Fengming heard ghostly cries and saw dense yin mist approaching, and he guessed that the Spirit Severing ghost cultivators were behind it.
• The two early Spirit Severing ghost cultivators appeared alongside a mid Spirit Severing ghost cultivator and surrounded Qin Fengming with wandering souls.
• One early Spirit Severing ghost cultivator demanded that Qin Fengming reveal where the Baleful Corpse had gone.

Qin Fengming confronted three Spirit Severing stage ghost cultivators and evaded their attacks by exploiting their fear of Yin soul self-detonations. He stunned the surrounding Yin souls and ghost cultivators with Startled Soul Whisper, but his strike against an early-stage ghost cultivator passed through an uncanny figure, leaving him puzzled.

• Qin Fengming taunted the three ghost cultivators and challenged them to use Yin soul self-detonation while he advanced toward them.
• The mid Spirit Severing stage ghost cultivator attacked Qin Fengming with a huge skeletal claw, while the two early-stage ghost cultivators followed with their own attacks.
• Qin Fengming used Gale Phantom Steps to evade the skeletal claw, though its aura tore apart three of his Shadow Incarnations.
• Qin Fengming unleashed Startled Soul Whisper, leaving hundreds of Yin souls and the three Spirit Severing stage ghost cultivators dazed.
• Qin Fengming attacked a dazed early-stage ghost cultivator with the Glimmering Firefly Sword and Soul Devouring Claw, but both passed through its figure without effect.
• Qin Fengming recognized the figure as an illusion that was somehow not an illusion and turned to look in another direction.

Qin Fengming fought three Spirit Severing ghost cultivators whose strange movement techniques let them evade his attacks and reappear after being destroyed. As their sonic waves invaded his sea of consciousness and threatened his soul, he summoned a gigantic skeleton beside him.

• A middle-stage ghost cultivator sent strange rippling sonic waves through the yin mist toward Qin Fengming.
• Qin Fengming endured the air-sealing restriction and charged the early-stage ghost cultivator, but his sword struck only an illusion.
• Qin Fengming used the Profound Micro Pure Radiance Sword to pin the ghost cultivator when he revealed himself elsewhere.
• The ghost cultivator reappeared after being destroyed, while the sonic waves grew stronger and attacked Qin Fengming's soul.
• A surge of strange energy flooded Qin Fengming's sea of consciousness, and he summoned a gigantic skeleton beside him.

Qin Fengming used the Dragon Bone to defeat and capture a mid-stage Divine Connection ghost cultivator who had tried to seize it. He then summoned the Qiongqi beasts from the small seal, driving the two remaining early-stage ghost cultivators to flee.

• The mid-stage ghost cultivator recognized the Dragon Bone as the remains of a Mahayana Heavenly Dragon and attacked it, but his bone claw shattered against its green radiance.
• Qin Fengming struck the ghost cultivator with the Dragon Bone, destroyed his legs, and captured his unconscious body in the Divine Machine Mansion.
• Qin Fengming turned on the early-stage ghost cultivator whose soul bodies had previously shielded him and sent out the small seal.
• Four strange beasts emerged from the seal, and the two early-stage ghost cultivators fled after recognizing the Qiongqi and suspecting the seal was a Divine Emperor Seal replica spirit treasure.

Qin Fengming defeated the ghost cultivators, captured many Integration Realm ghost souls, and learned that the island was connected to the Sunset Soul Ghost Domain. After clearing the lingering soul energy, he decided to stop pursuing the escaped cultivators and search for Du Shuniang, but a sudden shock interrupted his departure.

• Qiongqi, the Huodou beast, the other beasts, and Qin Fengming attacked the ghost cultivators, scattering them and capturing more than twenty Integration Realm ghost souls.
• Qin Fengming discovered that two early Spirit Severing ghost cultivators had escaped beyond his divine sense and chose to leave the battlefield rather than risk fighting them while his sea of consciousness remained affected.
• After a day, Qin Fengming cleared the strange energy and learned from a captured Nascent Soul ghost cultivator that the island connected to the Sunset Soul Ghost Domain and that the ghosts depended on the island’s yin mist.
• Qin Fengming recalled that the Heavenly Dragon bone had saved him from both the ghost-soul explosions and the Spirit Severing cultivators’ sound-wave attack, and decided to search for Du Shuniang instead of pursuing the escaped ghosts.
• Just as Qin Fengming prepared to leave, his expression changed drastically and shock appeared in his gaze.

Qin Fengming watched the Soul Devouring Beast struggle to refine the powerful Yin souls it had devoured, then realized it was drawing down a Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation. The chapter ended with azure tribulation clouds gathering overhead as he prepared to support the beast with his Silver Sheath Worms.

• Qin Fengming took the Soul Devouring Beast out of the Spirit Beast Bracelet when it began suffering from the violent Yin soul energy inside it.
• The Soul Devouring Beast struggled for several days, repeatedly weakening before recovering and suppressing the energy within its body.
• A vast surge of soul energy erupted from the little beast, and Qin Fengming realized it was provoking a Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation.
• Qin Fengming moved away from the beast and released more than two hundred thousand Silver Sheath Worms because the Five Elements Beast remained asleep.
• A vortex drew in the surrounding Yin and soul energy, and dense azure clouds formed overhead as the Soul Devouring Beast's tribulation began.

Qin Fengming watched the Soul Devouring Beast withstand its Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation and form its first soul infant. He cultivated the Treasure Refining Ghost Art amid the tribulation’s soul energy, then left Black Mist Island resolved to find another place rich in Yin energy before the beast formed another soul infant.

• The Silver Sheath Worms shielded the Soul Devouring Beast from much of the tribulation lightning, while the little beast endured several dangerous strikes.
• The Soul Devouring Beast drew Heaven and Earth energy across hundreds of li and successfully formed one soul infant surrounded by eight soul pearls.
• Qin Fengming used the tribulation’s concentrated soul energy to cultivate the Treasure Refining Ghost Art and sensed that his art was close to a breakthrough.
• After the Heavenly Tribulation ended, Qin Fengming realized the Soul Devouring Beast would need an exceptionally Yin-rich place to form another soul infant.
• Qin Fengming put away the Soul Devouring Beast and Silver Sheath Worms, then left.

Qin Fengming followed the tracking disk through the Wilderness to find Du Shuniang and reunited with her and the others. After Du Shuniang paid his promised reward, he asked her for a fragment of the damaged heavy armor worn by the two women.

• Qin Fengming used his tracking artifact to locate Du Shuniang tens of thousands of miles away and chose to travel through the dark mist and Wilderness to reach her.
• After five days, Qin Fengming encountered Du Shuniang, Zhou Bo, Baili Lingkong, and another cultivator, who were astonished that he had survived the Baleful Corpse.
• Du Shuniang accepted that Qin Fengming was himself and gave him the promised pill formula and materials for refining the Haoling Pill.
• Qin Fengming thanked Du Shuniang and asked her for a fragment of the damaged heavy armor worn by the two women.

Qin Fengming recounted a convincing account of his escape from the Baleful Corpse and traveled back with the four cultivators. After reaching the area where Integration stage cultivators operated, he said farewell to them and flew off alone.

• Du Shuniang gave Qin Fengming a fragment of heavy armor, and he thanked the two women and accepted it.
• Qin Fengming told Baili Lingkong and the others that a mid Spirit Severing stage ghost cultivator had fought the Baleful Corpse, giving him a chance to escape.
• The five cultivators recovered for more than ten days, then traveled together through Black Mist Island and survived several dangers.
• Qin Fengming announced his departure after the group reached the area where Integration stage cultivators operated.
• Du Shuniang thanked Qin Fengming and offered the Flower Moon Alliance's help, and he saluted the group before flying away alone.