Chapter Summaries

Ling Wuyuan and Yi Yunhe fought at extreme speed, both suffering severe injuries as Ling Wuyuan pushed his limits and refined his techniques. Yi Yunhe summoned high-grade ghostfire, and Ling Wuyuan deduced that he had once been an important figure in the [Crimson Blood Ghost Sect] who destroyed the sect to hide or cleanse his identity.

• Ling Wuyuan ignored his worsening injuries and accelerated his attacks, exchanging hundreds of lethal clashes with Yi Yunhe.
• Ling Wuyuan realized his force-dissipation techniques failed when the surrounding air had been turned into a vacuum, but the battle helped him improve his techniques and understand his flaws.
• Yi Yunhe used a secret technique to match Ling Wuyuan's speed, sustaining injuries of his own while relying on his greater raw strength.
• A phantom resembling Yi Yunhe appeared beside him, chilling the area before unleashing a vast sea of high-grade blue-black ghostfire.
• Ling Wuyuan identified Yi Yunhe as an expert from the [Crimson Blood Ghost Sect] and suspected he had destroyed the sect to conceal or cleanse his identity.

Ling Wuyuan recognized Yi Yunhe as a former member of the Crimson Blood Ghost Sect who had slaughtered the sect to hide his identity. Yi Yunhe prepared to kill Ling Wuyuan quickly, while Ling Wuyuan assessed the extraordinary level of his opponent’s power.

• Ling Wuyuan recalled learning that Yi Yunhe had destroyed the Crimson Blood Ghost Sect and become celebrated as the Old Dust Kingdom ruins’ savior.
• Yi Yunhe grew angry when Ling Wuyuan exposed his origins and blamed the dead Teng Shenghu for leaving clues behind.
• Yi Yunhe decided to stop hesitating and dispose of Ling Wuyuan as quickly as possible.
• Ling Wuyuan’s knowledge of the Crimson Blood Ghost Sect’s cultivation arts—not Teng Shenghu’s methods—had allowed him to identify Yi Yunhe.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized that Yi Yunhe’s ghostly power had reached a theoretical peak beyond anything the sect’s members had achieved.

Ling Wuyuan fought Yi Yunhe’s ghostfire dragons as My Own Path adapted to the battle, burning his lifespan to rapidly heal him and sharpen his instincts. He effortlessly destroyed the dragon swarm with a single sword stroke, leaving Yi Yunhe stunned.

• Yi Yunhe’s ghostly figure unleashed countless soul-eroding flame dragons, driving weaker creatures and even fierce beasts to flee.
• Ling Wuyuan’s My Own Path increased his regeneration, rapidly healing his wounds while consuming his lifespan at roughly three hundred times the normal rate.
• Ling Wuyuan’s instincts and abilities combined to predict the flame dragons’ attacks and identify how to counter them.
• As the dragons surrounded him, Ling Wuyuan traced a perfect circle with his battered sword and shattered them at their weak points.
• Yi Yunhe stared in disbelief as the flame dragons collapsed into faint glimmers.

Ling Wuyuan and Yi Yunhe reacted to the extraordinary sword technique Ling Wuyuan had just displayed, then prepared to continue their battle. Ling Wuyuan saw Yi Yunhe as a trial he had to overcome, while both fighters unleashed their powers at full force.

• Yi Yunhe was stunned by Ling Wuyuan’s speed and perfect sword technique, then grew furious and despairing over Ling Wuyuan’s overwhelming talent.
• Ling Wuyuan felt he had briefly touched a new realm of sword technique, but quickly steadied himself and believed he would master it in time.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized Yi Yunhe as a trial and resolved to defeat him, believing the battle would help him grasp the fleeting realm.
• Ling Wuyuan increased his lifespan-burning rate from three hundred times to three thousand times, and his wounds began regenerating.
• Yi Yunhe’s ghostly shadow attached itself to him, raising his power to its peak as gravity intensified and blue-black ghostfire surged around him.

Ling Wuyuan and Yi Yunhe continued their fierce battle, as Yi Yunhe’s Soul Devouring Grudge Flame failed to overcome Ling Wuyuan’s resilient gray fog. Ling Wuyuan pushed his speed beyond its limits and used relentless swordsmanship to suppress Yi Yunhe, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Yi Yunhe realized that his Soul Devouring Grudge Flame could not destroy Ling Wuyuan’s gray fog and chose to intensify his attacks.
• Yi Yunhe used his sword, two ghostly arms, and coordinated attacks of ghostfire to press Ling Wuyuan from multiple directions.
• Ling Wuyuan increased his bodily movement and thought acceleration despite the risk of grievous self-injury.
• Ling Wuyuan’s sword shattered under the repeated collisions, but he immediately replaced it with another.
• Ling Wuyuan used his speed, swordsmanship, and timing to suppress Yi Yunhe despite Yi Yunhe’s four-arm advantage.

Ling Wuyuan outmatched Yi Yunhe with his speed and sword technique, but Yi Yunhe exploited Ling Wuyuan’s weak defense by detonating two of his arms at close range. The Soul Devouring Grudge Flames sealed them inside as Yi Yunhe pressed his attack, leaving Ling Wuyuan facing a potentially fatal blast.

• Ling Wuyuan’s speed and precise swordwork repeatedly blocked Yi Yunhe’s many attacks, while Yi Yunhe refused to give up and kept attacking.
• Yi Yunhe recognized that Ling Wuyuan’s defense and raw strength were far weaker than his own.
• When Ling Wuyuan blocked both of his ghostly arms, Yi Yunhe detonated them at close range and protected himself in advance.
• Ling Wuyuan tried to retreat and defend, but the blast dissolved most of his sword before he could retrieve another weapon.
• Yi Yunhe forced his way through the explosion to attack Ling Wuyuan as the Soul Devouring Grudge Flames closed around them in sealed walls.

Ling Wuyuan lost access to his spatial ring as Yi Yunhe pressed him with a self-harming attack and a contracting wall of Soul Devouring Grudge Flame. Unarmed, Ling Wuyuan revealed his mastery of fist techniques and struck Yi Yunhe with a perfect straight punch, leaving Yi Yunhe’s mistaken assumptions about him as a swordsman exposed.

• Yi Yunhe used a self-harming attack while the contracting flames interfered with Ling Wuyuan’s access to his spatial ring.
• Ling Wuyuan discarded his ruined sword and gathered Momentum and Intent into a field that held back the Soul Devouring Grudge Flame.
• Yi Yunhe watched Ling Wuyuan assume a fist stance and realized he had become more formidable without his sword.
• Ling Wuyuan threw a perfect straight punch with overwhelming speed and domineering intent.
• Yi Yunhe tried to intercept the punch, but his mistaken belief that Ling Wuyuan was a swordsman had led him into the punch’s range.

Ling Wuyuan’s punch shattered Yi Yunhe’s ghostly armor despite Yi Yunhe’s superior realm and power. The chapter left Yi Yunhe’s defenses broken after his will faltered in their clash of spirit.

• Yi Yunhe sensed that Ling Wuyuan’s punch posed a mortal threat and realized he could not dodge in time.
• Ling Wuyuan closed the distance and struck Yi Yunhe’s ghostly armor at the perfect angle and range.
• Yi Yunhe felt the overwhelming purity and resolve in Ling Wuyuan’s will as their spirits clashed.
• Yi Yunhe’s confidence wavered, and his ghostly armor shattered under Ling Wuyuan’s punch.

Ling Wuyuan struck Yi Yunhe at a precisely chosen moment, disrupting his True Essence and turning the opposing forces inside him against his body. The chapter left Yi Yunhe with two expanding vortices of torn flesh closing in on his heart.

• Ling Wuyuan's hostile will disrupted the flow of Yi Yunhe's True Essence and weakened his defenses.
• Ling Wuyuan perceived shifting points and lines on Yi Yunhe's body and waited for them to converge into the Death Star.
• Ling Wuyuan struck a vital acupoint on Yi Yunhe's chest as Yi Yunhe's True Essence gathered and his secret art approached a transition.
• The blow sent Yi Yunhe's Qi and Blood flowing backward and his True Essence out of control, ending his life-burning secret art and shattering his vessels and meridians.
• Ling Wuyuan's force and Yi Yunhe's rampaging power formed opposing vortices that tore through Yi Yunhe's chest and back and began advancing toward his heart.

Ling Wuyuan’s strike sent Yi Yunhe’s True Essence into chaos, and two flesh-and-blood vortices began consuming him from within. As both men committed to a final attack, the vortices converged at Yi Yunhe’s heart and Ling Wuyuan’s fist came crashing down.

• Ling Wuyuan disrupted Yi Yunhe’s control over his True Essence, triggering two destructive vortices in Yi Yunhe’s body.
• Yi Yunhe fought through the pain and thrust his sword at Ling Wuyuan rather than surrendering to death.
• Ling Wuyuan chose not to defend himself and poured everything into driving his fist forward.
• The vortices converged at Yi Yunhe’s heart, drawing in his body, soul, sword, and True Essence as his body rapidly withered.
• Ling Wuyuan’s fist struck as the Death Star lit upon Yi Yunhe.

Ling Wuyuan defeated Yi Yunhe with a new technique called [Doomfall Calamity], piercing through Yi Yunhe’s final attack and leaving him mortally wounded. Before dying, Yi Yunhe accepted his defeat, gave Ling Wuyuan his spatial ring, and fell from the sky.

• Yi Yunhe’s flesh vortices fused and devoured most of his power, leaving his chest and upper body almost completely destroyed.
• Ling Wuyuan gathered the vortex’s power into a punch and pierced through Yi Yunhe’s self-detonation attack, splitting the clouds above.
• Ling Wuyuan withdrew his fist from Yi Yunhe’s chest, and Yi Yunhe asked what the technique was called.
• Ling Wuyuan named the newly created move [Doomfall Calamity], and Yi Yunhe praised its power and conceded defeat.
• Yi Yunhe removed the safeguards from his spatial ring, gave it to Ling Wuyuan, and fell lifeless toward the earth.

After defeating Yi Yunhe, Ling Wuyuan celebrated his victory and began healing, but he noticed strange death aura and resentment gathering around Yi Yunhe’s shattered corpse. He suspected the ghostly figure from earlier was a Divine Ability that might revive its user, and watched the corpse for signs of what would happen next.

• Ling Wuyuan watched Yi Yunhe’s corpse fall and felt satisfied that he had won and advanced through the battle.
• Ling Wuyuan’s My Own Path shifted into recovery mode, and he took healing pills while considering how badly the fight had damaged him and his armor.
• Ling Wuyuan sensed unusual death aura and resentment gathering around Yi Yunhe’s corpse despite the destruction of his body and soul.
• Ling Wuyuan wondered whether the ghostly figure he had encountered was a Divine Ability capable of reviving its user after death.

Ling Wuyuan observed the remnants of Yi Yunhe’s ghostly shadow attempting to turn him into a vengeful spirit and deduced that it was an undeveloped part of Yi Yunhe’s Innate Divine Ability. He reflected that Yi Yunhe had died before discovering its full potential and concluded that, since Yi Yunhe was already dead, there was nothing more to do.

• Ling Wuyuan observed a faint power gathering Yi Yunhe’s resentment and deathly aura, and inferred that fragments of the scattered ghostly shadow were trying to transform him into a spirit rather than resurrect him.
• Ling Wuyuan deduced that the ghostly shadow could act independently, strengthen and protect its user, and preserve the user’s will after bodily death.
• Ling Wuyuan concluded that the shadow’s many functions made it a powerful Innate Divine Ability that Yi Yunhe had not yet fully understood.
• Ling Wuyuan regretted briefly that he had killed Yi Yunhe before the ability could mature, then decided the timing had been right and that Yi Yunhe’s identity and motives did not matter.
• Ling Wuyuan realized Yi Yunhe’s deathly transformation might have failed to activate if Yi Yunhe had died without Ling Wuyuan’s shock or his lingering attachment to his family’s wish.

Ling Wuyuan concluded that Yi Yunhe’s shattered body and soul left almost no chance of a meaningful resurrection, then buried his corpse to keep others from claiming it. He left Yi Yunhe to rest in peace as a small sign of respect for a strong opponent who had accepted defeat.

• Ling Wuyuan assessed Yi Yunhe’s injuries and determined that any resurrection would take years and leave him with little memory or personality.
• Ling Wuyuan realized Yi Yunhe’s remaining divine ability was driven by an unwillingness that had nothing to do with him.
• Ling Wuyuan opened a deep fissure beneath Yi Yunhe’s falling corpse and buried it to prevent anyone from retrieving it.
• Ling Wuyuan left Yi Yunhe buried, granting him a small measure of dignity and respect.

After a catastrophic battle destroyed Yellow Leaf Province, local cultivators arrived to inspect the ruins and lamented their inability to identify or punish the powerful culprits. Ling Wuyuan, one of those responsible, ignored their resentment and focused on healing his injuries.

• About an hour after Ling Wuyuan departed, Spirit Infusion Realm and Enlightened Intent Realm cultivators gathered near the battlefield once they judged it safe.
• The cultivators found ruined land, lingering yin winds, and ghostly aura that could poison the surrounding region if left untreated.
• An Enlightened Intent Realm cultivator lamented that Yellow Leaf Province had been devastated, with its provincial capital in ruins and few survivors.
• The gathered cultivators admitted they could neither uncover the culprits nor restrain the powerful experts, and decided to report the disaster to stronger factions.
• Ling Wuyuan, one of the disaster's culprits, ignored the weak cultivators' frustration and raced to heal his injuries.

Ling Wuyuan meditated aboard the Floating Rune Warship, recovering from the severe injuries and life-force loss he had suffered in battle. He reflected on his gains and the unfinished principles of Doomfall Calamity, recognizing that Yi Yunhe’s possible survival exposed a flaw he still needed to correct.

• Ling Wuyuan recalled that activating Abyssal Divine Speed and healing himself during battle had drained his life force and left his injuries severe, but he did not regret the choice.
• Ling Wuyuan swallowed pills and meditated inside a spiritual energy formation barrier aboard the Floating Rune Warship to recover.
• Ling Wuyuan devoted most of his attention to studying his predictive ability and Doomfall Calamity, which he viewed as his exclusive defensive killing art.
• Ling Wuyuan compared Doomfall Calamity’s outward destruction of targets with My Own Path’s inward strengthening of himself.
• Ling Wuyuan realized Doomfall Calamity remained incomplete because Yi Yunhe’s Innate Divine Ability had left open a small possibility of survival.

Ling Wuyuan assessed the limits of [Doomfall Calamity] and concluded that its effectiveness depended on his knowledge and ability to analyze his targets. He resolved to keep studying so he could strengthen the ability and advance My Own Path.

• Ling Wuyuan realized that [Doomfall Calamity] had failed to fully prevent the centipede-like creature from potentially reviving because his own foundations were insufficient.
• Ling Wuyuan judged that [Doomfall Calamity] could still kill most Divine Ability Realm cultivators outright and might overcome powerful regenerative abilities if he analyzed his target successfully.
• Ling Wuyuan attributed Yi Yunhe's defeat to his familiarity with humans, the Crimson Blood Ghost Sect's cultivation technique, and relevant knowledge from Teng Shenghu's spoils.
• Ling Wuyuan concluded that [Doomfall Calamity] was far less reliable against unfamiliar targets and that he needed to keep reading and studying.

A News Report powerhouse and investigators from the Sovereign State examined the battlefield, where unusually pure ghostly aura and the absence of other traces left them unable to identify the fighters. Divination suggested no Divine Ability Realm cultivators had fought there, so the investigators concluded that the truth had been concealed, unaware the culprit was only at the Spirit Infusion Realm.

• A mature woman from [News Report] arrived five hours after Ling Wuyuan withdrew and sensed exceptionally pure ghostly aura at the battlefield.
• The woman ruled out local heretical cultivators and considered two nearby Divine Ability Realm ghost refiners, but knew they had not left their territories in decades.
• The Sovereign State sent three Divine Ability Realm cultivators to investigate the destroyed province.
• The investigators found no trace of a second cultivator's true essence and used rune artifacts to inspect the scene.
• The investigators paid a considerable price for divination and received a sign that no Divine Ability Realm cultivators had fought there.
• The investigators wondered whether the truth had been concealed, unaware that the person responsible was a Spirit Infusion Realm cultivator.

Investigators linked the Yellow Leaf Province Incident to the Crimson Blood Ghost Sect after identifying the residual ghostfire as its Soul Devouring Grudge Flame. They suspected a powerful hidden sect member had attacked Yi Yunhe, and Song Jie concluded that Yi Yunhe had most likely died, though the circumstances remained unclear.

• Investigators shifted their attention to the Old Dust Kingdom ruins after learning that Yi Yunhe had disappeared while returning from the area.
• An expert identified the residual ghostfire as the Crimson Blood Ghost Sect's Soul Devouring Grudge Flame, and Song Jie confirmed the identification.
• Song Jie judged that the attacker was likely a powerful Divine Ability Realm cultivator who had concealed his strength.
• The gathered cultivators considered whether the hidden expert had retaliated against Yi Yunhe for destroying the Crimson Blood Ghost Sect.
• Song Jie concluded that Yi Yunhe had most likely died, while the location and circumstances of the supposed fight remained unexplained.

Ling Wuyuan traveled aboard his Floating Rune Warship, unaware that other factions had mistaken him for a hidden powerhouse of the Crimson Blood Ghost Sect. He accepted responsibility for the Yellow Leaf Province Incident and any retaliation that followed, believing that his fatal confrontation with Yi Yunhe would have devastated the surrounding area wherever it took place.

• The factions investigating the Yellow Leaf Province Incident concluded that a hidden powerhouse of the Crimson Blood Ghost Sect was likely responsible.
• Ling Wuyuan silently recuperated aboard his Floating Rune Warship as it sped far from Yellow Leaf Province.
• Ling Wuyuan accepted that the incident would bring retaliation and refused to justify his actions or demand that others share his beliefs.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized that the people caught in the destruction had every right to retaliate against him.
• Ling Wuyuan understood that Yi Yunhe's decision to track him had made a deadly battle inevitable, one whose collateral damage would have devastated the surrounding region wherever it occurred.