Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yang fought an Iron-backed Grey-beaked Goose, ate three spiritual fruits, and traveled toward Wang Ergou’s village through a dangerous wilderness. He destroyed a Bound Spirit’s Crooked-Neck Tree and claimed the spiritual energy left in its ashes.

• Zhang Yang killed the Iron-backed Grey-beaked Goose and ate its meat along with three scarlet fruits that contained Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
• After studying Wang Ergou’s memories, Zhang Yang learned that the boy had sought to become a Cultivator Apprentice and set out toward his village.
• Zhang Yang encountered a Bound Spirit that repeatedly asked whether he had seen its Qing Shan, then charged through its domain with blood-soaked wooden spears.
• Zhang Yang escaped the Bound Spirit’s domain and spotted the withered Crooked-Neck Tree that anchored it.
• Zhang Yang cast a Fireball Spell that burned the Crooked-Neck Tree to ash, then found a gray-white bead containing a wisp of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

Zhang Yang entered Li Village and discovered its people were starving and sick despite the village’s cultivation protections. After using Spiritual Qi to repair three damaged acupoints in Wang Ergou’s Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, he woke to find his breathing greatly improved, though he still could not cultivate.

• Village patrolmen tested Zhang Yang with incense ash mixed into red water, then let him enter Li Village.
• Zhang Yang reached Wang Ergou’s home, met Xiao Cui and his sick grandfather, and cooked meat porridge from the goose he had brought back.
• Zhang Yang concluded that Wang Ergou’s body was severely mutated and that repairing it had to come before cultivation.
• Zhang Yang chose the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian as his first repair target and used sewing needles and a unit of Spiritual Qi to mend three acupoints.
• Zhang Yang woke at midnight with easier breathing and learned that the three most damaged acupoints had been repaired, though he still could not practice a cultivation technique.

Zhang Yang rejected his brother-in-law’s offer to join the patrol and volunteered to become a Cultivator Apprentice, hoping to repair his mutated meridians. During the selection, he secretly sealed and repaired three acupoints in the Hand Taiyin Heart Meridian, surviving the spirit liquid and proving he could withstand a small amount of spiritual energy.

• Zhang Yang’s brother-in-law urged him to join the patrol team, but Zhang Yang insisted on trying to become a Cultivator Apprentice.
• Zhang Yang went to the village’s selection and joined the refugee youths entering the Foundation Establishment cultivator’s house.
• When the spirit liquid began overwhelming the boys, Zhang Yang pulled them away, sealed three acupoints with sewing needles, and drank several jin of spirit liquid.
• Zhang Yang endured the spiritual energy’s damage and repaired the three acupoints in the Hand Taiyin Heart Meridian.
• Zhang Yang removed the needles and stopped before repairing more meridians, concealing his soul’s reverse transmigration.

After surviving the failed examination, Zhang Yang joined Qingfengzi’s sect as Yun Yangzi and learned that the Great Tribulation of Heavenly Dao was steadily weakening cultivators. While tending the Daoist Academy’s ancient well, he recognized it as a projection of Nie Xiaoqian’s Well and began studying a Soul Nurturing Talisman to strengthen his body’s soul.

• Zhang Yang was the sole survivor among twenty-one refugee youths, and Qingfengzi accepted him as a direct disciple named Yun Yangzi.
• Qingfengzi explained that the Great Tribulation of Heavenly Dao had eroded his cultivation and gave Zhang Yang the Lesser Wind Dao Scripture and talisman techniques.
• Yun Chuzi assigned Zhang Yang to draw water from the ancient well and operate the Clear Water Spirit Array.
• Zhang Yang recognized the well as the Nie Xiaoqian’s Well projected into Lidu City and wondered whether the world was a projection of the Immortal Cultivation True Realm.
• Zhang Yang completed his chores and began studying the Soul Nurturing Talisman to strengthen the soul of his body, Wang Ergou.

Zhang Yang cultivated the first layer of the Soul Nurturing Talisman and studied the Lesser Wind Dao Scripture before a monster threatened Li Village. He and Yun Chuzi reached the northern wall, where Yun Chuzi identified the approaching creature as an Iron Thread Mother Worm.

• Zhang Yang used a crimson potion and spiritual energy to cultivate the first layer of the Soul Nurturing Talisman, which clarified and nourished his mind.
• Zhang Yang read the Lesser Wind Dao Scripture, chose its most basic cultivation technique, and brought flatbreads home for his grandfather.
• The next morning, Zhang Yang drank spiritual liquid to address renewed mutations in his acupoints and collected his black blood for study.
• Yun Yuzi reported that a monster was approaching Li Village, and Yun Chuzi took Zhang Yang to the northern wall while Qingfengzi remained in seclusion.
• Zhang Yang and Yun Chuzi saw a huge white mushroom-shaped monster approaching the village, and Yun Chuzi identified it as an Iron Thread Mother Worm carrying eighty thousand insect eggs.

Zhang Yang learned that the Iron Thread Mother Worm could be weakened by forcing it to give birth prematurely, but the untested poison required someone to approach the monster. He took the medicine packets and tried using Ancient Demonic Language on it, only to trigger an unexpected hatching.

• Yun Chuzi explained that the Iron Thread Mother Worm laid eighty thousand dangerous eggs and that an untested potion might induce premature birth.
• Yun Chuzi hinted that Qingfengzi and his disciples might abandon Li Village, while Zhang Yang decided he needed to preserve their support.
• Zhang Yang took all five medicine packets and approached the Iron Thread Mother Worm alone.
• Zhang Yang used the Soul Nurturing Talisman to release his soul briefly and began speaking the Ancient Demonic Language: Frighten.
• The Iron Thread Mother Worm's shell began glowing in response, and it hatched ahead of schedule.

After Zhang Yang’s soul entered an unhatched Iron Thread Worm, he used the Soul Nourishing Talisman to resist hatching and eventually escaped his eggshell. He acquired authority over a Miniature Zerg Village Building Order and chose a Zergling body as his next form.

• Zhang Yang realized he had awakened inside an unhatched Iron Thread Worm and resisted its hunger to avoid hatching into a creature with a three-hour lifespan.
• Zhang Yang cultivated the Soul Nourishing Talisman to its third layer and sent his soul threads through the eggshell toward a faint light.
• The Miniature Zerg Village Building Order transferred its authority and village-building module to Zhang Yang after its village chief died.
• Zhang Yang examined the available Zerg templates, rejected the Iron Thread Mother Worm and Gordian Flying Worm, and chose the burrowing Zerglings.

Zhang Yang used his new Zergling body to improve its lifespan and attributes, then returned to the ruins of Li Village and killed a level 15 Plague Serpent Maiden. After discovering that the Zergling was immune to the curse carried by Plague information, he decided to develop the Infinite Zerg Village Building Order as a way to investigate and eventually confront the Plague Serpent.

• Zhang Yang examined his Zergling body and salvaged Blue, Green, and Red Crystals from the Iron Thread Mother Worm's mushroom shell.
• Zhang Yang spent a Red Crystal to upgrade the gene authority database, then used Blue Crystals to raise his Zergling's attributes and lifespan.
• Zhang Yang returned to the overgrown ruins of Li Village, where a zombie attacked him and a village girl snake struck him from behind.
• Zhang Yang cast Bind with the Jueque Ancient Demonic Language, then killed the level 15 Plague Serpent Maiden using his Zergling's Burrowing talent.
• Zhang Yang opened the Fragmentary Plague Information Card and found that the Zergling was unaffected by its curse, so he resolved to cultivate the Infinite Zerg Village Building Order.

Zhang Yang built up his Infinite Zerg forces by refining Plague Serpent Maiden corpses into crystals, then used reconnaissance and the Jueque Ancient Demonic Language to hunt more of them at the Li Village ruins. After raising his gene authority to lv5, he upgraded himself and his Mantis Worms, leaving his expanding force ready to grow further.

• Zhang Yang built an Energy Smelter and a Zerg Cultivation Pool underground, then refined the Plague Serpent Maiden's corpse into crystals and raised his gene authority to lv3.
• Zhang Yang recruited five Gordian Worms and used their shared vision to find and lure a Plague Serpent Maiden, sacrificing the worms while he bound and killed it.
• Zhang Yang spent the night hunting three Plague Serpent Maidens at the Li Village ruins, gaining crystals and raising his gene authority to lv4 after daybreak.
• Zhang Yang recruited and upgraded ten Mantis Worms, then led them to the ruins and used the Jueque Ancient Demonic Language to defeat four Plague Serpent Maidens.
• Zhang Yang discovered that Mantis Worms could level up through hunting, raised his authority to lv5, and upgraded himself and four Mantis Worms.

Zhang Yang strengthened the soul wisp inhabiting a Zerg body, transformed four Mantis Worms through Royal Eggs, and led an assault into the Lizhuang Ruins. He encountered a Plague Serpent Monk and trapped it briefly, but the S-rank enemy regenerated from injuries and began crushing his forces.

• Zhang Yang sent more Soul Power to his soul wisp, raising its Soul Nurturing Talisman to level six and its soul strength to B-rank.
• Zhang Yang used ten Red Crystals, one hundred Green Crystals, and an Iron Thread Mother Worm corpse to create four Royal Eggs for Zhang One, Zhang Two, Zhang Three, and Zhang Four.
• After three days of incubation, the four Mantis Worms emerged transformed, with stronger attributes, new limbs, and level-one Magic Reversal.
• Zhang Yang led the four transformed Mantis Worms and twenty others into the Lizhuang Ruins, where his Gordian Worms shared vision across a three-thousand-meter radius.
• A Plague Serpent Monk attacked after Zhang Yang's group advanced about eight hundred meters into the ruins, and Zhang Yang bound it with the Jueque Ancient Demonic Language.
• The Mantis Worms battered the monk, but it broke free, smashed three of Zhang One's limbs, and regenerated after Zhang Two pierced its chest before flinging Zhang Two's head hundreds of meters away.

Zhang Yang and his Zerg forces killed the level 30 Plague Serpent Monk and gained a Plague Information Card and Legendary-grade corpse. After using Purple Crystal to unlock powerful General-grade troops, he marched toward the Li Village Ruins to claim its suspected Plague Village Building Order.

• Zhang San and Zhang Si helped sever the Plague Serpent Monk's tail, while Zhang Yang's Intimidation let the Gordian Flying Worm and Zhang Da cut off its tongue.
• The Plague Serpent Monk tried to curse Zhang Yang, but his curse immunity protected him, and the monk died after its eyes were pierced.
• Zhang Yang inspected the Plague Information Card, saw a vision of an eight-headed serpent, and lost the protection of his sixth-level Soul Nurturing Talisman.
• Zhang Yang refined the Plague Serpent Monk's corpse into three Purple Crystal, twelve Red Crystal, and two hundred Green Crystal.
• Zhang Yang used Purple Crystal to unlock the General-grade Gene Authority Database and recruit 60 Iron-Armored Insect Slaves and 40 Exploding Insect Queens.
• Zhang Yang led his army toward the Li Village Ruins, expecting to find a Plague Village Building Order there.

Zhang Yang defeated the Plague Serpent’s forces at Li Village and used the Fate Immortal Sword and Anchors of Death to capture its second clone, completing the Fate Village Building Order’s main mission. He briefly explored the contaminated Immortal Cultivation World, then returned to the Ashen Graveyard to develop a Zerglings alt account.

• Zhang Yang attacked Li Village’s temple with Exploding Insect Queens and used one hundred thousand Exploding Insects to destroy Huijian’s fiery cloud kasaya.
• Huijian summoned three Plague Serpent Monks, but Zhang Yang’s Iron-Armored Insect Slaves held them back while his troops advanced into the temple.
• Huijian sacrificed himself before the Eight-Headed Great Serpent Statue, causing the Plague Serpent to descend and overwhelm Zhang Yang’s Zerg forces.
• Zhang Yang’s main body traveled to the battlefield and threw three Anchors of Death, capturing the Plague Serpent’s second clone and completing the Fate Village Building Order’s main mission.
• Zhang Yang examined the Immortal Cultivation World, sensed that its spiritual energy had been heavily contaminated, and used the Death Black Sail to return to the Ashen Graveyard.

After fleeing the Plague Serpent’s territory, Zhang Yang rebuilt his Zerg base, refined the serpent monks’ corpses, and unlocked stronger Zerg units. He chose a Ghost Blade Slave as his new body and began cultivating while waiting for a King Egg to develop.

• Zhang Yang abandoned his weakened Exploding Insect Queens and migrated his Zerg base, fleeing more than a thousand kilometers from the Plague Serpent’s territory.
• Zhang Yang hid the Miniature Zerg Village Building Order in a deep tunnel and rebuilt his base’s authority and Energy Smelters.
• The Energy Smelters refined the three Plague Serpent Monk corpses into five Purple Crystals, one hundred eighty-five Red Crystals, and five hundred eighty Blue Crystals.
• Zhang Yang raised special authority to Level 2, unlocked the Ghost Blade Slave and Thunderbolt Broodmother, and recruited five of each.
• Zhang Yang chose a Ghost Blade Slave as his new body, increased its life to 18000 and lifespan to 108 months, then began copying and visualizing the Soul Nurturing Talisman.

After receiving the Infinite Zerg ancestor’s summons, Zhang Yang refused to join its war and instead upgraded a Thunderbolt Broodmother to hunt mysterious creatures near his base. He tested the limits of the alliance’s protections and left off attacking a powerful Post Station Anomaly with a large Zerg force.

• Zhang Yang received the Infinite Zerg ancestor’s command to gather and fight at Mount Chu Phoenix, but decided not to obey.
• Zhang Yang used his final Purple Crystal and five Red Crystals to give a Thunderbolt Broodmother its first turn, gaining a powerful unit that could harm spiritual entities.
• Zhang Yang tested his new unit on a human Bound Spirit and killed it without triggering any kill notification or apparent punishment.
• Zhang Yang began hunting wandering mysterious creatures and, after a month without repercussions, led his Zerg forces to surround a Stationary Anomaly at an abandoned post station.
• Zhang Yang used Bind to stop the Post Station Anomaly from escaping while the first-turn Thunderbolt Broodmother formed a prison of furious thunder around it.

Zhang Yang experimented with the Post Station Anomaly’s Blood Jade and discovered a way to record a deformed Zerg anomaly in the Infinite Zerg Gene Bank, earning increased ordinary access. He then hunted wraiths and other spiritual entities for a month, building up resources while avoiding further anomalies.

• Zhang Yang found the Blood Jade in the Post Station Anomaly’s ashes and tested it with the Miniature Zerg Village Building Order, an energy furnace, and several Zergs.
• Zhang Yang fed the Blood Jade to a first-stage Thunderbolt Broodmother and hatched five thousand Lightning Worms, producing a deformed Zerg anomaly.
• Zhang Yang recycled the deformed Zerg anomaly through the Infinite Zerg Gene Bank and chose two levels of ordinary access as his reward.
• Zhang Yang concluded that the Infinite Zerg and its mysterious-side allies might be studying each other’s weaknesses, then decided to avoid anomalies and target wraiths, spiritual entities, and vengeful ghosts.
• Zhang Yang hunted allied forces for a month and accumulated 2,000 Blue Crystals, 1,000 Green Crystals, 50 Red Crystals, and 100 Spiritual Qi Orbs.

Zhang Yang and the Heavenly Sword Clan forged the Azure Nether Sword Body into Azure Nether Mountain, strengthening their sect and preparing spirit-and-sword cultivators to support the Zerg avatar. At the battlefield, the avatar was discovered by the Infinite Zerg's Supervision Squad and absorbed into a force attacking a human fortress.

• Zhang Yang and the Heavenly Sword Clan's disciples spent twelve days forging an Azure Nether Sword Body with sword qi compressed to nine hundred and ninety-ninefold.
• Zhang Yang fused the Wild True Realm Fruit with the sword body, creating Azure Nether Mountain as the core and new mountain gate of the True Realm fragments.
• Zhang Yang ordered core disciples to cultivate both spirit and sword, and eight disciples reached the required levels to support the Zerg avatar.
• Zhang Yang's Zerg avatar scouted the edge of the main battlefield and saw the human cultivators fighting the Infinite Zerg and the mysterious side.
• The Infinite Zerg's Supervision Squad discovered Zhang Yang's avatar and forced it into a large Zerg force attacking a human fortress.

Zhang Yang was swept into a Zerg assault on a human fortress, where his main body and eight sword cultivators appeared and slaughtered the attackers. He then used Nie Xiaoqian's Well and a Transcendence True Realm Fruit to force an investment into the Zerg Village Building Order, leaving his team to seize the Supervision Zerg's permissions and conceal the operation.

• Zhang Yang and his twelve Ghost Blade Slaves were pushed into a Zerg assault on the human fortress, and the exhausted defenders eventually lost their iron wall.
• Zhang Yang's main body arrived with eight sword cultivator disciples, whose Soul Domain and sword light killed nearly one hundred and fifty thousand Zerg soldiers and fifteen Supervision Zerg.
• Zhang Yang ordered Wu County to use the Time Dagger, golden blood, Nie Xiaoqian's Well, and a Transcendence True Realm Fruit to turn the well into a True Realm.
• Nie Xiaoqian's Well invested in the Miniature Zerg Village Building Order, forcibly restructuring its core assets.
• Zhang Yang ordered his companions to collect the Zerg corpses and decipher the Supervision Zerg's permissions while Tao Yao and Qu Shang maintained the Spirit Domain.

Zhang Yang infiltrated the Infinite Zerg by establishing a concealed Zerg base and used the True Realm Fruit, Wu County’s blessing, and dream protections to secure his forces’ loyalty. He expanded his army with powerful units, including a Golden Armored King Worm, and left the base prepared for future battles and deeper infiltration.

• Zhang Yang returned to his Zerg base with Tao Yao, Qu Shang, Wu County, and the others, then integrated a new Zerg Village Building Order into the base.
• Zhang Yang activated the base’s gene databases and True God of the Ancient Well, while Tao Yao and the others hid inside.
• Wu County blessed the Zerg soldiers at the ancient well as Tao Yao, Qu Shang, and the others wove protective dreams into their minds.
• Zhang Yang recruited Ice Insect Queens and Thunderbolt Broodmothers to prepare for battles against the mysterious-side allies.
• Zhang Yang recruited a Golden Armored King Worm, and Tao Yao and Wu County restrained it after it resisted his rule.

Zhang Yang negotiated with the Destiny Shareholder for permission to cultivate a second True Realm Seed by accepting a new mission, then advanced his sword cultivation and prepared an invasion with the Heavenly Sword Clan. He left aboard the Death Black Sail with ninety-nine elite disciples to join his Zerg avatar in another world.

• Zhang Yang demanded sole ownership of a Desolate Wild-grade True Realm Seed in exchange for accepting another Destiny Village Building Task.
• After rejecting a mission to slay one of three powerful insects, Zhang Yang accepted a task to calm the effects of a giant egg's accelerated entry into the Fifth Sequence.
• Zhang Yang postponed negotiations with the Death Shareholder and planned to use the Death Black Sail to invade an Immortal Cultivation World with help from his Zerg avatar.
• Zhang Yang cultivated on Azure Nether Mountain and broke through from the Nascent Soul Stage to the Soul Separation Realm in less than three minutes.
• Zhang Yang gathered ninety-nine elite Heavenly Sword Clan disciples, including Mu Yizhuo, and led them aboard the Death Black Sail toward the other world.

Zhang Yang led his disciples into a cursed wilderness and used Zerg scouts to uncover its Cursed Objects and lure out the Cursed Farmer. After tracking down and killing the farmer, he revealed the ruins of a city filled with a million skeletons and sent his Zerg army to harvest the spoils.

• Zhang Yang sent Gordian Worms and Stealth Zerglings into the wilderness, and the surviving scouts returned with a hoe, a cleaver, and a Dog Chain.
• Tao Yao and Qu Shang established a Spirit Domain while Zhao Baiyi’s team used the Fivefold Sword Formation to seal the objects’ contamination.
• The Cursed Farmer appeared and turned Jiang Rong into a barking dog, while Zhang Yang’s Myriad Swords Return to One failed to hit him.
• Zhang Yang used Tracking Mother-Child Worms to locate the Cursed Farmer’s true body and killed him with a second sword attack, restoring Jiang Rong and exposing the ruined city.
• Zhang Yang ordered his forces onward as his Ghost Blade Slave avatar arrived with a Zerg army and began harvesting the city’s treasures, including an Orange Crystal.