Chapter Summaries

Qing Huang fought the resurrected Ning Ruofei inside Pure Dust Temple while Yu Hong investigated the temple’s isolation and encountered a mysterious visitor. After Qing Huang returned and reported on the Spirit Disaster, he identified the visitor as one of the Seven Fiends.

• Ning Ruofei reformed after exploding into black smoke, and Qing Huang attacked him with his strengthened Spirit Art: All Phenomena are Shadows.
• Yu Hong found Pure Dust Temple isolated, restored Agris from a black fragment, and sensed a strange new will in the Dragon of Law.
• Yu Hong entered the empty temple and spoke with a middle-aged visitor who hinted he knew Qing Huang’s secret and left a phone number.
• Qing Huang returned with a shoulder wound and told Yu Hong that the Spirit Disaster could occupy and strengthen the bodies of its victims.
• Qing Huang recognized Yu Hong’s visitor as one of the Seven Fiends.

Yu Hong’s intervention at Pure Dust Temple frightened Zhao Yanjun, one of the Seven Fiends, into withdrawing and reporting that he had encountered a terrifying monster. Two days later, Yu Hong completed his cultivation, gained new traits, and emerged as Pure Dust Temple’s new temple master.

• Qing Huang told Yu Hong that Zhao Yanjun had withdrawn, and Yu Hong turned his attention to the temple’s casualties and Master Yu Mo.
• Zhao Yanjun met an ugly-faced ally at a bun shop and described Yu Hong as a terrifying monster he had narrowly escaped provoking.
• Zhao Yanjun and his ally decided to report the encounter to the Alliance Leader and leave the opened Yin Qi Sky Pillar alone.
• Yu Hong completed his Five Spirits Spring cultivation and gained the Limit Summoning and Mental Sharpening traits.
• Yu Hong emerged from seclusion, and Yu Mo and the Pure Dust Temple disciples welcomed him as their new temple master.

Yu Hong accepted the position of temple master of Pure Dust Temple, aiming to use his new standing to warn the Daoist lineage about the Black Calamity and Spirit Calamity. After the succession ceremony, he reviewed the temple’s resources and learned that several powerful former members might be persuaded to return.

• Yu Hong completed his sharpening, fused with the Five Spirits Spring, and declined to explain the Mutual Aid Alliance’s secret to Yu Mo.
• Yu Hen offered Yu Hong the position of temple master, and Yu Hong accepted so he could speak with the Daoist lineage about the calamities.
• Yu Hong received the Purple-Gold Lotus Crown in a ceremony attended by Pure Dust Temple, local officials, and other groups.
• Yu Hen briefed Yu Hong on the temple’s finances, reserves, personnel, and limited number of experts.
• Yu Hong asked about three former Pure Dust Temple members who could soon reach temple-master level, and Yu Hen explained why they had left.
• Yu Hong began considering a way to address the temple’s conflict between earning money and tempering its disciples.

Yu Hong prepared to investigate the Yin Qi Sky Pillar by bringing three hundred Dragon Lizards from Hope City, while a young Daoist and a hidden voice plotted against key figures and resources in the Dao lineage. He reached the Sky Pillar off Taizhou and sensed countless living creatures trapped inside its smoke.

• Yu Hong rejected Yu Hen’s idea of collecting protection fees and planned to expand talisman production, then said he would investigate the Yin Qi Sky Pillar.
• Yu Hong returned to Hope City, awakened more than three hundred Dragon Lizards, and loaded them onto the Black Ship while leaving the rest to guard the camp.
• Mo Wen visited Lu Zhengshun’s courtyard and learned that Lu had urgently left to purge resentful marks.
• A hidden voice discussed eliminating Mo Wen and other Daoist leaders, and identified Purple Harmony Palace’s pools and spirit arts as obstacles to its plan.
• Yu Hong reached the Yin Qi Sky Pillar near Taizhou and sensed countless living creatures seemingly trapped within its gray smoke.

Yu Hong investigated the Yin Qi Sky Pillar, encountered a powerful Dragon-Headed Person and a swarm of similar beings, and recovered a stone that strengthened Guanghan. After returning to Taizhou, he began exterminating spirit calamity cases, where a massive Black Humanoid appeared to protect Pure Dust Temple Daoists from a Pig-Headed Humanoid.

• Yu Hong tested the Yin Qi Sky Pillar, discovered it had immense mental fluctuations but no red value, and lost the dragon lizard after sending it into the smoke.
• A Dragon-Headed Person called itself the True God and pressured Yu Hong to kneel, then withdrew after identifying him as a Moon Remnant Vein.
• Yu Hong sent Agris into the pillar; it returned badly injured with a black-and-purple stone, while a host of armored Dragon-Headed People gathered and created a vast mental vortex.
• Yu Hong escaped the pillar and read the stone's inscription as "xing" before it shattered and its powder was absorbed by Guanghan, strengthening Constantly Hungry.
• Yu Hong reported his investigation to Cloud Number Mountain and began clearing spirit calamity cases in Taizhou.
• A massive Black Humanoid blocked a butcher's knife thrown by the Pig-Headed Humanoid as Zheng Ming and two Pure Dust Temple Daoists fought it.

Yu Hong arrived at two dangerous incidents and rapidly defeated the monsters with overwhelming Shadow Terror strength. After rescuing Zheng Ming and Zheng Ying’s teams, he sent his dragon lizards to hunt similar monsters throughout Taizhou.

• Yu Hong arrived at Zheng Ming’s battle and crushed the Pig-Headed Humanoid with the Black Giant, then left to handle other incidents.
• Zheng Ying and nearby Daoists and sorcerers struggled against a Rhino-Headed Monster as it battered her Shadow Terror and injured her.
• Yu Hong arrived at the girls’ school and summoned dozens of dragon lizards to surround the Rhino-Headed Monster.
• Yu Hong ordered the dragon lizards to attack, and their Dark Red Flames burned the Rhino-Headed Monster to ash.
• Yu Hong sent the dragon lizards throughout Taizhou to deal with similar monsters.

Yu Hong ordered every sorcerer in Taizhou to register at Pure Dust Temple, then crushed a group of protestors who challenged the order. When Iron Arhat You Qingzong confronted him on behalf of the Vajra Sect, Yu Hong summoned the Little Black Giant to attack, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Yu Hong ordered Taizhou’s sorcerers to register at Pure Dust Temple and declared that those who refused would be treated as Seven Fiends Alliance members and killed.
• Two-Headed Scorpion Xu Yeshan led men into Pure Dust Temple to protest, but Yu Hong’s mental attack and wave of air knocked them all down.
• Iron Arhat You Qingzong arrived and challenged Yu Hong’s authority to regulate Taizhou’s sorcerers, while onlookers identified him as a Vajra Sect operative.
• You Qingzong used Buddhist talisman chains and radiance to suppress Yu Hong’s mental fluctuation, but Yu Hong summoned the Little Black Giant and ordered it to disable him.
• The Little Black Giant broke through You Qingzong’s defenses and charged straight at him.

Yu Hong battled the hidden Buddhist agent You Qingzong, whose Vajra Sect arts countered Yu Hong’s Terror Shadows. After his enormous Black Giant failed, Yu Hong switched to close combat, knocked You Qingzong unconscious, and left the onlookers stunned.

• You Qingzong blocked Yu Hong’s Little Black Giant with a golden light and summoned an illusory Buddha to defend himself.
• Yu Hong summoned four Little Black Giants, but You Qingzong’s Myriad Transformation Tara crushed them.
• Yu Hong tried to summon a complete Black Giant, but his mental power ran short and the incomplete giant shattered against Tara.
• Yu Hong used his speed and physical strength to strike You Qingzong, who collapsed unconscious after Tara vanished.
• Yu Hong walked away as the onlookers and Pure Dust Temple disciples stared in shock and carried You Qingzong off for treatment.

Yu Hong strengthened Pure Dust Temple’s position in Taizhou, began empowering its disciples with defensive spiritual light, and prepared the sect for an approaching disaster. As the Black Mark finished strengthening three talismans, a Dao lineage envoy arrived to investigate Yu Hong’s warning.

• Yu Hong completed the purge and registration of Taizhou’s sorcerers, restoring public trust in Pure Dust Temple and consolidating its authority with the Mutual Aid Alliance’s support.
• Yu Hong started strengthening three disaster-fighting talismans and gave Zheng Ying defensive spiritual light to compensate for the strength she had lost with her severed arm.
• Yu Hong sent Zheng Ying to persuade Martial Uncle Yu Tan and the others to return, while the Dao lineage replied that it had received Master Zheng Rou’s warning and would send an envoy.
• Over the next few days, Yu Hong gave defensive spiritual light to the Dao Seed disciples, bringing their protection close to the level of his strengthened Gray Lizard Set.
• After the talisman-strengthening countdown began nearing its end, Yu Hong went to receive Qing Hongzi, an envoy from the Lower Origin Celestial Master Mansion.

Yu Hong accompanied Qing Hongzi to destroy the Yin Qi Sky Pillar near Taizhou with the Heaven Stabilizing Plate, but noticed gray mist still rising from the sea afterward. Qing Hongzi dismissed the residue and explained the limits of the Dao Lineage’s plates as they returned, leaving Yu Hong uneasy about the Sky Pillars being left alone in remote areas.

• Yu Hong met Qing Hongzi, who said he had dealt with many Yin Qi Sky Pillars and insisted that the Seven Fiends Alliance posed the greater threat.
• Yu Hong and Qing Hongzi traveled to the Taizhou Sky Pillar, where Qing Hongzi used the Heaven Stabilizing Plate to make it vanish in thirty seconds.
• Yu Hong noticed gray mist rising from the sea, but Qing Hongzi called it harmless residue and advised keeping people away from the area for ten years.
• Qing Hongzi explained that the Dao Lineage had nine Heaven Stabilizing Plates, each a limited-use vessel for a clone, and said remote Sky Pillars could be left to collapse on their own.
• Yu Hong remained doubtful as Qing Hongzi reassured him that two Celestial Masters could use the main plate to suppress the threat if matters worsened.

Yu Hong doubted that the Heaven Stabilizing Plate had fully suppressed the Yin Qi Sky Pillar’s Spirit Calamity and prepared Pure Dust Temple for another outbreak. The chapter ended with Qing Huang appearing beside Yu Hong at the increasingly ominous Sky Pillar.

• Qing Hongzi returned to Taizhou after Yu Hong paid him, while Immaculate Mountain declined to pay for help with its Sky Pillar.
• On Cloud Number Mountain, an old Daoist ordered four reports monitored, including one that identified Yu Hong as suspicious, and decided to reorganize the Qing Yang Action Group to investigate missing Dao lineage members.
• Yu Hong warned Pure Dust Temple’s elders that abnormal mental fluctuations could affect people and said the Spirit Calamity might not have been fully suppressed.
• Yu Hong persuaded the elders to recruit outer disciples to learn the Spirit Light Secret Art and introduced three enhanced talismans for detecting, escaping, or hiding from abnormal spirits.
• Yu Hong returned to the Sky Pillar, found its gray aura and mental fluctuations worsening, and met Qing Huang, whom he asked about the Seven Fiends Alliance and the Black Calamity Spirit Calamity.

Yu Hong investigated the growing Calamity threat and expanded the Pure Dust Temple by recruiting sorcerers through the Spirit Light Secret Art. As he began enhancing medicines to support cultivation, two Daoist elders encountered a strange boat at sea and suspected an attack by Xuan Jing Zi.

• Yu Hong learned that the Seven Fiends Alliance dismissed the Black and Spirit Calamities, then witnessed a white creature burst from the sea and registered a reading above one on his Multimeter.
• A month later, Yu Hong opened Pure Dust Temple recruitment to wandering sorcerers using the accessible Spirit Light Secret Art, attracting more than three hundred recruits and their families.
• Yu Hong asked Yu Zhong and other alchemy Daoists for cultivation aids, then used the Black Mark to enhance the Mind Focusing Soup and Heart Gathering Pill for the Great Spirit Art.
• Fa Ming and Yuan Chun searched for a missing island, discussed the Daoist lineage’s concealed enemy, and saw a black boat approach across the open sea.
• Fa Ming realized their perception of distance had been distorted and warned that the technique might belong to Xuan Jing Zi.

Xuan Jing and a black-cloaked woman killed Yuan Chun and Fa Ming, then vanished after setting a device in the sea, while the fishing boat disappeared soon afterward. In the Hope City world, Yu Hong brought armed guards to Black Wind Camp to test a safe zone near the Gate of Ultimate and invited Zhang Kaijing to come with him as he prepared to draw on Hope City’s growing strength.

• Xuan Jing stabbed Yuan Chun through the chest, and Fa Ming’s whale attack was cut down before both veteran warlocks died.
• Xuan Jing and the Azure Jade Sect woman sank a black circular plate into the sea, sensed a terrifying mental fluctuation, and left by boat.
• A fish-shaped beam of white light flashed over the sea, and the abandoned fishing boat disappeared.
• Yu Hong returned to Black Wind Camp with two Spirit Armor soldiers and assigned them to patrol while he researched the Gate of Ultimate’s safe-zone potential.
• Yu Hong confirmed Zhang Kaijing was alive, then beckoned her out of her cave and offered to take her somewhere nice.
• Yu Hong planned a three-week test of the new outpost and considered bringing Hope City’s more than a thousand fifth-level Dao Arts cultivators to the Dao Lineage world.

Yu Hong tested Zhang Kaijing by having her absorb Spirit Light, then prepared to bring her to Taizhou. Meanwhile, Pure Dust Temple established Spirit Control Stations, and Zheng Ying confronted Yu Shan to recruit him, ending with their summoned creatures charging at each other.

• Zhang Kaijing agreed to absorb Yu Hong’s Spirit Light, and he confirmed that it had fused into her body.
• Yu Hong told Zhang Kaijing he would call for her after he had made preparations.
• Pure Dust Temple built eight Spirit Control Stations around the Daoist Temple to monitor spirit-energy disasters.
• Zheng Ying found Yu Shan and urged him to return to Pure Dust Temple, but he refused despite hearing about Yu Hong’s leadership and achievements.
• Zheng Ying threatened that Yu Shan’s loved ones could be endangered by the Seven Fiends Alliance, then summoned a silver-coated mummy when he still refused.
• Yu Shan summoned a black elephant-headed warrior with a Dark Gold Saber and Shield, and the two creatures charged toward each other.

Zheng Ying captured Yu Shan after his strongest attacks failed to penetrate her silver defense, then prepared to target the other Daoists. Elsewhere, a crack appeared in the Heaven Stabilizing Plate, and Yu Hong investigated a mass die-off of coastal creatures, catching a living crab that attacked him.

• Zheng Ying's silver-skinned mummy resisted Yu Shan's elephant-headed shadow, and her dagger shattered his golden lion shadow.
• Yu Shan's eight-armed shadow hurled eight spears at Zheng Ying, but her silver spiritual radiance absorbed the attack and quickly recovered.
• Zheng Ying punched Yu Shan, disrupted his control of the shadow, and ordered Daoists to bind and carry him away before naming Yu Long and Yu Guang as their next targets.
• A crack appeared in the Heaven Stabilizing Plate in the sealed hall of the Upper Origin Celestial Master Mansion during a thunderstorm, unnoticed by everyone there.
• Xu Jianfeng asked Yu Hong to investigate the unexplained deaths of coastal creatures near Taizhou, and Yu Hong found a living black sea crab that lunged at him.
• Yu Hong dodged the crab, struck it with inner force, and caught it in his hand.

Yu Hong investigated signs of the Spirit Calamity around Taizhou and learned that the Dao Lineage was at war with the Seven Fiends Alliance. As Pure Dust Temple prepared for the threat, Yu Hen revealed that a spirit domain had engulfed Lu Mountain Village, where 372 people had disappeared, and the temple was being sent to investigate.

• Yu Hong found that a sea crab had been dead for days but had still attacked him, then asked Xu Jianfeng to gather real-time data on Taizhou’s plants and animals.
• Yu Hong noticed people on the street looked exhausted and agitated, then returned to cultivating the Observe Self Art while awaiting Black Mark’s strengthened medicine.
• Tang He delivered an official letter announcing that the Seven Fiends Alliance had launched deadly attacks on the Buddhist Vajra Sect, the Supreme Palace of Ethereal Nullity, and Golden Firmament Temple.
• Yu Hong reassured Pure Dust Temple’s disciples that the Dao Lineage had more top spellcasters than the Seven Fiends Alliance and explained that their main targets were the nine gates.
• Yu Hen told Yu Hong that a spirit domain had covered Lu Mountain Village, all 372 residents had disappeared, and the garrison military district wanted Pure Dust Temple to help investigate.

Yu Hong investigated signs that a spirit disaster was spreading through Taizhou and found that it was harming the environment and driving people violently insane. After an armed soldier attacked him and a driver tried to run him down, Yu Hong learned that chaos had erupted across the city.

• Yu Hong ordered the Spirit Control Stations linked into a defensive formation, sent Zheng Ming to investigate Lu Mountain Village, and warned the government to use the stations as refuges.
• Two days later, Yu Hong investigated the gray, lifeless land near Seven Peaks Mountain and heard reports of dead river life and worsening nightmares.
• Soldier Xiao Li became delirious, fired his gun, and detonated his grenade, killing himself while Yu Hong shielded the old professor and survived the blast.
• Yu Hong stopped a sedan with spirit light, restrained its frenzied driver, and measured his abnormal mental fluctuations.
• Zheng Xia called Yu Hong and reported that cars were crashing throughout the city and attackers were roaming the streets.

Yu Hong organized the Pure Dust Temple to respond to the Spirit Calamity as attacks and pollution spread through Taizhou, while two women unleashed powerful creatures near Purple Harmony Palace. The chapter ended with Yu Shan studying Yu Hong’s guide to the calamity as the disaster’s scope and dangers remained uncertain.

• Yu Hong instructed Zheng Xia to contact Mayor Xu and guide people to safety inside the Spirit Control Station network formation.
• A long-haired woman and her companion opened two Spirit Calamity Gates near Purple Harmony Palace, releasing enormous Dragon-Headed People as Daoist Yu Qin and the palace thaumaturges rushed to respond.
• A chemical plant exploded in Taizhou, and Yu Hong discussed the escalating attacks, pollution, and lack of support from the Dao lineage with his followers.
• Yu Hong distributed his Spirit Calamity overview to the returning elderly Daoists, explaining the Phantom Body and Yin Spirit classifications.

Yu Hong organized a response to escalating spirit disasters by proposing Taizhou’s first Spirit Light Assembly and expanding the Mutual Aid Alliance. The group established the Alliance’s basic structure and combat ranks, while Qing Huang concluded that Yu Hong had absolute confidence in his own strength.

• Yu Hong warned the group about the dangers of Phantom Bodies, Yin Spirits, and Evil Spirits, then proposed holding Taizhou’s first Spirit Light Assembly to strengthen their protection.
• Qing Huang reported that the Seven Fiends Alliance had ignored his appeals and recommended recruiting small and medium-sized sorcerer groups instead.
• Qing Huang proposed appointing Deputy Alliance Leaders, defining combat ranks, and recruiting powerful sorcerers; Yu Hong agreed to create an incentive system that rewarded contributions with more Spirit Light.
• As the group discussed the Mutual Aid Alliance’s structure, Qing Huang inferred from Yu Hong’s composure that he was confident nobody could defeat him.
• The group set Yu Hong as Alliance Leader, planned three Deputy Alliance Leaders, separated administration from combat, and defined ranks from Enhancement One through Enhancement Nine, followed by Evil, War, Nightmare, and Despair Grades.

Yu Hong and the Mutual Aid Alliance sought out injured and retired masters who could be restored with Spirit Light, including the legendary Quan He True Monarch. At the Qian'an Sanatorium, Quan He woke and spoke to Yu Hen telepathically, leaving Yu Hong startled by her presence.

• Qing Huang proposed recruiting powerful but injured sorcerers, and Yu Hong asked Yu Hen to contact his old Daoist connections.
• Yu Hen revealed he could reach retired masters of the Nine Gates and arranged to approach Quan He True Monarch, a gravely injured former abbot sustained by life support.
• Three days later, as unrest spread beyond Taizhou, Yu Hong and Yu Hen arrived at Qian'an Sanatorium to visit Quan He.
• Yu Hong sensed an invisible mental fluctuation near Quan He's ward, though Yu Hen could not detect it.
• After Yu Hen called to her through the door, Quan He opened her eyes and spoke directly into their minds.