Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiao confronted Yin Qiu, who admitted he was stalling for his Physical Body to arrive, but Jiang Qiao revealed he was waiting for it too. Jiang Qiao left the Dark Domain to face the approaching Earth Lord and recognized it as a living mass of Space Gaps tied to desire and obsession.

• Yin Qiu warned Jiang Qiao that he had killed many people of great fortune, while Jiang Qiao dismissed those victims as supporting characters and claimed he could not be killed.
• Jiang Qiao deduced that Yin Qiu was stalling for his battered Physical Body and the Earth Lord, and said he was waiting to ensure Yin Qiu died completely.
• Jiang Qiao abruptly vanished from the Dark Domain, leaving Yin Qiu searching for him behind a web of blood-red threads.
• Jiang Qiao returned outside and saw the Earth Lord approaching as a massive, tangled ball of black lines.
• Jiang Qiao used his Dual Pupils to discern that the Earth Lord consisted of animated Space Gaps, each associated with intense desire and obsession.

Jiang Qiao faced the Earth Lord and Yin Qiu, whose combined presence exerted Demigod-level power that threatened to destroy him. He summoned the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal to counter it, but Yin Qiu dismissed the Taboo Weapon as insufficient against a Half-God.

• Jiang Qiao reflected on the nature of desire and judged that Yin Qiu’s Abyssal origins made him an enemy of the world.
• The Earth Lord noticed Jiang Qiao as Yin Qiu emerged from the Dark Domain, and their mysterious resonance amplified their power.
• The Earth Lord’s dark-red lines warped spacetime and began to destabilize Jiang Qiao’s body and consciousness.
• Yin Qiu taunted Jiang Qiao for staying to face a Half-God and challenged him to reveal how he planned to survive.
• Jiang Qiao summoned the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal, whose Sea of Thunder rapidly burned away the Earth Lord’s dark-red lines.
• Yin Qiu recognized the seal as a Taboo Weapon but mocked Jiang Qiao’s belief that it could resist a Half-God.

Jiang Qiao provoked Yin Qiu as the Earth Lord and Yin Qiu unleashed a catastrophic clash that spread through the Ten Thousand Ghost Forest and reached the town. The town’s people were left trapped amid deadly black-purple rain and blood mist as the disaster devastated the Evil Spirits and forced them to flee.

• Jiang Qiao mocked Yin Qiu for hiding from the Child King and challenged him to act.
• Jiang Qiao vanished as cracks appeared, then the Earth Lord and Yin Qiu’s powers erupted into a vast clash of thunder and blood-red barriers.
• The battle spread through the Ten Thousand Ghost Forest, driving Evil Spirits into a frenzy and swallowing adventurers who had not escaped.
• People in town tried to flee but were driven back by the stampeding Evil Spirits, and they learned that the leaders of the six Major Factions were missing.
• Black-purple rain and blood mist reached the town, rotting people it touched, while most Evil Spirits outside were reduced to ash and the survivors fled.

Jiang Qiao battled Yin Qiu in Ten Thousand Ghost Forest, using the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal and several rules to resist Yin Qiu’s attacks on his consciousness. He shattered Yin Qiu’s Wood Door and approached him, but Yin Qiu claimed Jiang Qiao’s evil-spirit aura exposed a weakness he could exploit.

• Jiang Qiao unleashed the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal and his Thunder Art, tearing through Yin Qiu’s blood threads as the Sea of Thunder clashed with Yin Qiu’s sea of rotten blood.
• Yin Qiu used the sea of blood to intensify Jiang Qiao’s craving for death and conjured a Wood Door that promised eternal peace if Jiang Qiao crossed it.
• Jiang Qiao resisted the temptation and shattered the Wood Door with a strike, disrupting Yin Qiu’s sea of blood.
• Jiang Qiao advanced toward Yin Qiu, but Yin Qiu’s influence made him agitated and threatened to overwhelm his reason.
• Jiang Qiao shielded himself with Black Tortoise while Vermilion Bird and Teng Snake stabilized his mind, and Yin Qiu revealed that Jiang Qiao’s evil-spirit aura gave him a flaw he could exploit.

Jiang Qiao used the Fate Weaver’s scissors to cut the tangled Fate Lines surrounding Yin Qiu, injuring Earth Lord and turning Yin Qiu’s own power against him. Yin Qiu was overwhelmed by the desires and wishes for death he had manipulated, leaving the battle at a sudden turning point.

• Yin Qiu’s influence destabilized Jiang Qiao’s mind, but Jiang Qiao summoned a pair of red scissors.
• Jiang Qiao recognized that Yin Qiu’s Evil Spirit gathered despairing Fate Lines to drive people to suicide.
• Jiang Qiao snipped the tangled Fate Lines, causing a pale thread of damage to appear in Earth Lord’s body.
• Yin Qiu unleashed a storm of blood and began summoning Wood Doors against Jiang Qiao.
• The severed Fate Lines attached to Yin Qiu’s own Fate Line, flooding him with desires and wishes for death and backfiring on his ability.

Jiang Qiao tracked down Yin Qiu by editing his Fate Line, then overwhelmed him and trapped him in a Supernatural Space. Yin Qiu threatened revenge, but flames associated with the stove appeared and engulfed him.

• Jiang Qiao used the Fate Weaver to graft Yin Qiu’s Fate Line onto him, exposing his location and disrupting his consciousness.
• Jiang Qiao broke through the Earth Lord’s defense and repeatedly struck Yin Qiu, shattering his body as he resurrected.
• Jiang Qiao’s six divine beasts formed a Supernatural Space and swallowed Yin Qiu, while the Divine Firmament Thunder Seal held back the Earth Lord.
• Jiang Qiao beat Yin Qiu inside the Supernatural Space and used Gou Chen’s gravity to force him to kneel.
• Yin Qiu vowed to kill Jiang Qiao and everyone connected to him, but flames appeared and consumed him as he recognized the stove.

Jiang Qiao killed Yin Qiu with Stove Fire, causing the Earth Lord to retreat, but the complete half-god Child King appeared to pursue it. As the battle shook the Ten Thousand Ghost Forest and a vast Abyss Passage opened, Jiang Qiao fled toward safety.

• Jiang Qiao burned Yin Qiu to ashes with Stove Fire and wondered what would happen to the Earth Lord now that its primary consciousness was dead.
• The Earth Lord lost its color and withdrew, while Jiang Qiao chose not to attack it.
• Jiang Qiao spotted the Child King, recognized it as a complete half-god, and fled as it chased the Earth Lord.
• The Child King's battle with the Earth Lord caused violent shaking and spatial rifts throughout the Ten Thousand Ghost Forest.
• Jiang Qiao returned to the ruined town, saw adventurers fleeing, and spotted a vast black hole in the forest's depths that suggested the Abyss Passage had opened further.

Jiang Qiao reached Horse Head Slope after leaving Ten Thousand Ghost Forest and reviewed his newly upgraded talents, whose descriptions led him to suspect they pointed toward a path. He examined the Jade Gourd he had found in the forest, sensing a fresh, pure Life Aura within it.

• The major forces sealed off the abyss left by Ten Thousand Ghost Forest, and explorers found an ancient corpse-covered forest where none returned.
• Jiang Qiao reached Horse Head Slope, learned that Stone Man Village and Yi City lay farther ahead, and considered revisiting Yi City.
• Jiang Qiao reviewed his Simulator panel and noticed that Share with Those Who See and Live Commerce had upgraded after he killed the evil spirit.
• Jiang Qiao connected the talents’ updated descriptions to Moon Laurel’s earlier words and wondered whether they revealed a path.
• Jiang Qiao took out the Jade Gourd he had found in Ten Thousand Ghost Forest and sensed a fresh, pure Life Aura flowing through it.

Jiang Qiao kept the Jade Gourd after surviving the Ten Thousand Ghost Forest, while news spread in Horse Head Slope that the forest had become an abyss after a battle involving a new supernatural force. A young man claimed that a living outsider had used lightning and killed people there, but the listeners dismissed him as a liar.

• Jiang Qiao examined the Jade Gourd and decided he had to keep his clone alive to bring it back, reflecting that killing Yin Qiu had also upgraded two talents.
• A merchant in Horse Head Slope described the Ten Thousand Ghost Forest’s transformation into an abyss and said the disaster followed a battle that may have involved a half-god and an unknown supernatural force.
• The merchant explained that the Earth Lord had caused an earlier earthquake but was not thought to be solely responsible for the latest disaster.
• A young man challenged the merchant’s account and claimed a living outsider had visited the Ten Thousand Ghost Forest, killed people, and wielded lightning.
• The teahouse listeners rejected the young man’s claim, arguing that a living man could not cross the Death Realm and kill freely in a place controlled by powerful factions.

A Blood Aversion Island Inspection Department agent arrived at Horse Head Slope and used his token to silence the locals after one resident challenged him. He ordered them to search for Jiang Qiao, whose portrait left the old man overwhelmed by its depicted presence.

• The gaudily dressed young man claimed he had killed people in the Ten Thousand Ghost Forest, and the tea house crowd mocked him.
• When a resident threatened him, the young man revealed a Blood Aversion Island Inspection Department token, silencing everyone.
• The young man cut the resident's face with the token and forced him to apologize.
• An extravagantly dressed old man arrived, bowed to the Inspector, and had the injured resident carried away.
• The Inspector gave the old man a portrait and ordered him to report any sighting of Jiang Qiao, who was connected to the Ten Thousand Ghost Forest and powerful factions of the living.

Jiang Qiao learned that Blood Aversion Island had identified him and posted a portrait in Horse Head Slope, so he followed the inspectors to ask about the portrait’s unusual likeness. The inspectors’ group, led by Ye Tian, mocked Jiang Qiao and the outside factions until Jiang Qiao appeared and challenged their praise of Ye Tian.

• The village chief reassured the teahouse customers after the inspectors left, then hurried to post Jiang Qiao’s portrait around Horse Head Slope.
• Jiang Qiao realized Blood Aversion Island had investigated him, studied his portrait at the bulletin board, and followed the inspectors to ask about its strange accuracy.
• Ye Tian and his companions discussed their mission to find Jiang Qiao, while Ye Tian dismissed the Ten Thousand Ghost Forest’s powers and the factions of the outside world.
• Ye Tian boasted that he would capture Jiang Qiao if they met him, and Jiang Qiao interrupted to ask whether Ye Tian was amazing but Jiang Brother was not.

Jiang Qiao encountered Ye Tian and other Blood Aversion Island youths, who underestimated his strength and challenged him with a terrifying Supernatural Item. Jiang Qiao struck Ye Tian into a cliff, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Wu Ya recognized Jiang Qiao by his aura and told Ye Tian and the others who he was.
• Ye Tian taunted Jiang Qiao and demanded that he kneel, believing Jiang Qiao was only around the fifth step of the Divinity Staircase.
• Jiang Qiao realized the group had incomplete information about him and noticed that Wu Ya had already stepped onto the Divinity Staircase.
• Ye Tian summoned a rusty bell whose power matched an evil spirit on the Sixth Step of the Divinity Staircase and challenged Jiang Qiao to attack.
• Jiang Qiao struck Ye Tian so hard that he flew into a nearby cliff.

Jiang Qiao repeatedly battered Ye Tian, overcoming the supernatural bell and its mind-affecting phantoms. After Lin Ying revealed Ye Tian’s powerful family ties, Ye Tian summoned his grandfather through the bell, and a terrifying aura emerged.

• Jiang Qiao slapped Ye Tian twice, sending him flying and interrupting the bell’s attempt to manifest its rules.
• Ye Tian shook the bell and unleashed earless phantoms whose footsteps and cries isolated the area and tried to scour Jiang Qiao’s memories.
• Jiang Qiao slapped Ye Tian again, destroying the phantom attack and asking Yang Li who Ye Tian was.
• Lin Ying revealed that Ye Tian’s grandfather was Blood Aversion Island’s Great Elder and described the island’s ties to Duke Guangchuan and Old Ancestor Wuchang.
• Ye Tian called to his grandfather through the bell, and a terrifying aura erupted as his grandfather angrily confronted Jiang Qiao.

Ye Tian summoned his grandfather, Ye Chen, the Great Elder of Blood Aversion Island, after Jiang Qiao defeated him and rendered his copper bell useless. Ye Chen confronted Jiang Qiao, who mocked Ye Tian’s foolishness as something inherited.

• Ye Tian, humiliated and furious, used his copper bell to summon his grandfather for help against Jiang Qiao.
• Ye Chen emerged from the bell’s black aura and promised Ye Tian he would capture Jiang Qiao for him to deal with.
• Jiang Qiao noted that Ye Chen had descended through a Supernatural Item, unlike his own true-body descent through a clone.
• Ye Chen introduced himself and criticized Jiang Qiao for hiding from the factions that had wanted him for years.
• Jiang Qiao replied that he understood why Ye Tian was an idiot, saying it had all been inherited.

Ye Chen trapped Jiang Qiao inside a supernatural space shaped like a coffin, but Jiang Qiao vanished from his perception and appeared behind him. Ye Chen tried to flee, but Jiang Qiao struck him with lightning and made him spit blood.

• Ye Chen told Jiang Qiao that Medicine King City had requested their cooperation and that he planned to capture him for Ye Tian.
• Ye Chen summoned a supernatural space filled with vicious ghosts and sealed Jiang Qiao inside it.
• Ye Chen compressed the space but could not find Jiang Qiao within it.
• Jiang Qiao appeared behind Ye Chen and offered to help him find what had disappeared.
• Ye Chen tried to escape, but Jiang Qiao hit him with lightning, making him stagger and spit blood.

Jiang Qiao withstood Ye Chen’s attacks, including the Cold Crow Altar’s summoned domain of despair. Ye Chen believed Jiang Qiao had been struck, but his confidence collapsed when he saw the result.

• Ye Chen attacked Jiang Qiao with Ghost Hands and Vicious Ghosts, but they could barely affect his Evil Spirit Body.
• Jiang Qiao released black lightning that scattered and shattered many of Ye Chen’s Vicious Ghosts.
• Ye Chen summoned the Cold Crow Altar and used a wisp of despair from the Land of the Cold Crow to call forth its domain.
• Ye Chen declared that Jiang Qiao could not survive the domain, but his smile froze and he cried out in disbelief.

Jiang Qiao used the Stove Fire to calm the despair-born Ghost Hands, surprising Ye Chen, who then unleashed his core spatial rule. The chapter ended with Ye Chen merging into the ghostly flames and declaring himself ruler of the altered space.

• Jiang Qiao revealed that the Stove Fire soothed the Ghost Hands and kept him safe from the Land of the Cold Crow’s despair.
• Jiang Qiao reflected on Ye Chen’s journey to the Land of the Cold Crow and the mysteries surrounding the Zhan.
• Ye Chen called Jiang Qiao one of the greatest enemies he had faced and summoned ghostly flames that spread across the sky and earth.
• At Horse Head Slope, the village chief warned his subordinate not to interfere in the battle and feared that the Land of the Cold Crow had appeared.
• Ye Chen transformed the space, confusing Jiang Qiao’s strength and senses, then merged with the fiery clouds and declared that those who offended him must die.

Jiang Qiao attacked Ye Chen despite the Death Realm rejecting his fortune and abilities, overwhelming him with lightning. The chapter ended with Jiang Qiao holding Ye Chen’s severed head and preparing to question him.

• Ye Chen declared that the Death Realm would kill Jiang Qiao and urged him to surrender.
• Jiang Qiao appeared behind Ye Chen and struck him with a lightning-charged fist.
• Jiang Qiao crushed Ye Chen’s neck and continued attacking despite the Death Realm’s rejection.
• Ye Chen’s body repeatedly reassembled, but Jiang Qiao blasted it apart until only his head remained.
• Jiang Qiao told Ye Chen that they would discuss his experiences in a friendly atmosphere.

Jiang Qiao defeated Ye Chen and questioned him about how to reach the Land of the Cold Crow. Ye Chen agreed to answer but first demanded to know why the world's rejection had failed against Jiang Qiao.

• Jiang Qiao defeated Ye Chen, leaving him alive with only his head, while Ye Tian, Wu Ya, Yang Li, and Lin Ying reacted with shock and fear.
• Ye Chen realized Jiang Qiao had treated their battle as a chance to test his abilities and asked Jiang Qiao to kill him.
• Jiang Qiao threatened to seal Ye Chen's head in a cesspit unless he answered his questions.
• Jiang Qiao asked Ye Chen how to reach the Land of the Cold Crow.
• Ye Chen agreed to explain the route but demanded to know why the world's rejection had been useless against Jiang Qiao.

After killing Ye Chen, Jiang Qiao learned that the Land of the Cold Crow was an island in the River of History, reached through a passage in Changyang Mountain. Ye Chen described his journey through an ancient battlefield to an abandoned harbor, where he was trapped by curved walls and decided he had to escape by boat.

• Jiang Qiao killed Ye Chen and concluded that the Land of the Cold Crow lay in the River of History rather than the current world or the Nether Sea.
• Ye Chen recounted entering a strange battlefield in Changyang Mountain, where he found ancient corpses and damaged weapons before reaching a river filled with rigid, wormlike insects.
• Ye Chen crossed the river and traveled beneath a black sun across a strange grassland to a wasteland of deep pits.
• Ye Chen fell through a collapsing pit into a shaft, lost consciousness, and awoke at an abandoned harbor on the River of History.
• Ye Chen spent months trying to escape the harbor, discovered that its smooth walls curved him back to the ground, and decided to leave by boat.