Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo treated Li Fugui and watched him recover from an unusual illness tied to the Inner Demon Tribulation. He discovered that all thirty-six affected people had changed after waking, and concluded that their transformation involved fortune.

• Butcher Li told Chen Luo that Li Fugui was sick, and Chen Luo went with him to treat the boy.
• Chen Luo used Water Attribute Spiritual Power to lower Li Fugui’s fever, then put him back to sleep while he investigated the unusual changes.
• Chen Luo found thirty-six people affected by the Inner Demon Tribulation and observed them for three days as their conditions stabilized.
• The thirty-six people woke with changed dispositions and improved luck, while Li Fugui showed extraordinary intelligence and continued good fortune.
• Chen Luo realized the changes were connected to fortune and wondered whether it was the same power the Fox Clan could perceive.

Chen Luo left the Qionghua Sect for a secluded valley near Myriad Demon Mountain to undergo the One-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, hoping to use its power to form an Inner Demon Golden Core. The first lightning strike nearly overwhelmed his protective formation, and the tribulation had only just begun.

• Chen Luo returned to the Qionghua Sect after teaching Li Fugui for three months, and Gu He gave him seven tribulation treasures, including three fourth-rank magic artifacts.
• Chen Luo chose a remote valley near Myriad Demon Mountain, where he set up the third-tier Yin-Yang Black Tortoise Formation and prepared his pills, magic artifacts, and Gu insects.
• Chen Luo recalled the Inner Demon Golden Core cultivation method devised from his External Brains and brought himself to peak condition.
• Chen Luo circulated the Inner Demon Art, drawing down the One-Nine Heavenly Tribulation as his formation blocked most of its oppressive force.
• The first Thunder Tribulation struck, and the Yin-Yang Black Tortoise Formation began to crack under its power.

Chen Luo endured the first three strikes of his Heavenly Tribulation, completed the first step of forming a Perfect Golden Core, and faced the fourth strike as Thunder Rain. The tribulation awakened the Thousand-Eyed Centipede, which sent seven Spider Spirits toward the Evil Cultivator Territory, while the Ghost Temple spread into the Land of the Seven Kingdoms.

• Chen Luo absorbed the first Thunder Tribulation’s power, transforming his pseudo core and awakening his ability to sense Heaven and Earth Vital Qi.
• When the formation shattered under the second strike, Chen Luo used a saber to disrupt the lightning, then absorbed its remaining power as his Golden Core materialized further.
• Chen Luo dodged and redirected the third strike with a magic sword, completing the first step of Core Formation as his Golden Core became solid.
• As the fourth Thunder Tribulation descended in dense lightning spheres, Chen Luo raised a magic umbrella and used his External Brains to draw in vital qi and manage the absorbed tribulation power.
• The Thousand-Eyed Centipede awakened to the tribulation’s aura and sent seven Spider Spirits to find This Life Inn and Earth Dragon Essence in the Evil Cultivator Territory.
• The neglected Ghost Temple spread across the border into the Land of the Seven Kingdoms, where the Yin Corpse Sect became its first target.

Chen Luo advanced to Core Formation during his thunder tribulation and entered the tribulation clouds to seize a fragment that the Dried Corpse Brain identified as a Fragment of the Void Realm. He gained a second Demonic Bone pattern, survived the combined fifth and sixth Heavenly Thunders, and prepared to use Gu insects against the later tribulations.

• Chen Luo broke through to Core Formation with seven crystalline spiritual qi dots and used a Spiritual Banner and Copper Mirror to withstand the fifth Heavenly Thunder.
• Following the Dried Corpse Brain's instincts, Chen Luo flew into the tribulation clouds and retrieved a crystalline bone through a crack identified as a Fragment of the Void Realm.
• The crystalline bone formed Chen Luo's second Demonic Bone pattern, strengthening his body before the fifth and sixth Heavenly Thunders blasted him from the clouds and destroyed his Copper Mirror and Ancient Cauldron.
• Chen Luo recovered from the lightning and caught the seventh and eighth Heavenly Thunders with his bare hands.
• Chen Luo sent two Gu insects and the Soul Parasite Gu's insect swarm toward the Heavenly Thunder.

Chen Luo faced the far more powerful Ninth Thunder Tribulation, using his treasures, Gu insects, and Silver Armored Corpse King to endure it before preparing to absorb the lightning himself. Meanwhile, the Thousand-Eyed Centipede interfered with the tribulation clouds, and the seven Spider Spirits returned with news of the Ghost Temple’s advance into the Seven Kingdoms Region.

• The Ninth Thunder Tribulation condensed into a black bolt that cracked Chen Luo’s chessboard and overwhelmed his Wind Dragon Tornado, so he sent the Silver Armored Corpse King to meet it.
• The seven Spider Spirits searched for This Life Inn and Earth Dragon Essence, discovered Ghost Cultivators and signs that the Ghost Temple was invading the Seven Kingdoms Region, and turned back to report to the Thousand-Eyed Centipede.
• Chen Luo used his sword formation and Demonic Bone Formation Technique to protect the Silver Armored Corpse King and reduce the pressure of the lightning, then reached out to swallow the remaining tribulation.
• The Thousand-Eyed Centipede opened one hundred eyes and struck the tribulation clouds with a golden beam, enveloping Chen Luo and the clouds in grayish-white mist.
• The seven Spider Spirits returned to Myriad Demon Mountain and warned the Thousand-Eyed Centipede that something terrible had happened.

After surviving the Ninth Thunder Tribulation and forming a Golden Core, Chen Luo used an intricate formation to seize the Thousand-Eyed Centipede's demonic power and teleport away. The Centipede's attempt to steal the tribulation's reward failed, and he was forced back into slumber beneath Myriad Demon Mountain.

• The Thousand-Eyed Centipede flew into a rage over the disappearance of This Life Inn and Earth Dragon Marsh, killed one Spider Spirit, and tried to steal Chen Luo's Heavenly Tribulation Source.
• Grand Profound Ancestor suppressed Myriad Demon Mountain before the Thousand-Eyed Centipede could free the Inner Demon Ancestor's heart beneath it.
• Chen Luo completed his Ninth Thunder Tribulation, entered the Core Formation Realm, and discovered the Centipede's demonic power intercepting his tribulation reward.
• Chen Luo combined numerous divine arts into a Three Talents Demonic Formation, swallowed the Centipede's demonic power, and transformed the formation into a Teleportation Formation.
• As Chen Luo vanished, the Inner Demon Ancestor's brain began extracting the remaining Inner Demon Tribulation into Tribulation Qi.
• Two Qi Refining cultivators searched the ruined valley and collected Chen Luo's discarded items, while Ancestor Tai Qing struck the weakened Thousand-Eyed Centipede and forced him into slumber.

After surviving the ambush, Chen Luo returned to Black Mountain Village and began considering how to reopen the route to the Great Tomb of Yue Kingdom. Meanwhile, the Ghost Temple’s advance devastated the Seven Kingdoms Region, and the Corpse Raising Sect’s leaders met to discuss escape as danger reached their door.

• Chen Luo absorbed the Thunder Tribulation’s feedback and the Thousand-Eyed Centipede Spirit’s demonic power, then survived the Inner Demon Tribulation with three strands of Tribulation Qi stored inside him.
• Chen Luo awakened in the cave at Black Mountain Village, found that his divine sense had expanded, and determined he needed to locate the node connecting it to the Great Tomb of Yue Kingdom.
• Ding Xiaoxia learned that the Ghost Temple had infiltrated the Rogue Cultivator Alliance and seized territory across the Seven Kingdoms, while cultivators on Heavenly Talisman Peak and other peaks vanished into strange shadows.
• The Corpse Raising Sect Master and his elders discussed the Ghost Temple, suspected Black Stone Ancestor, and considered routes south to the sea region and the Evil Cultivator Territory.
• When the Corpse Raising Sect elder called for the items documenting those routes, no one outside the door answered.

Chen Luo silently wiped out the Corpse Raising Sect’s gathering and returned to Dao Comprehension Peak after forming his core. He arrived as True Person Wuwei and the remaining Divine Lake Immortal Sect leaders debated fleeing the Ghost Temple, and interrupted their discussion.

• The Corpse Raising Sect Master and elders were picked off by an unseen force until the mountain peak was left empty.
• Chen Luo flew back to the Divine Lake Immortal Sect, his Core Formation cultivation and demonic aura startling Immortal Crane Chengfeng.
• Immortal Crane Chengfeng realized that the powerful visitor might be the junior he had once rescued.
• True Person Wuwei, Bai Su, Huang Ying, and two elders discussed the Ghost Temple’s growing threat and whether they should flee.
• Chen Luo entered the hall and asked what they needed him for.

After returning to Dao Comprehension Peak, Chen Luo absorbed the power of his tribulation and demonstrated his Core Formation mastery. Meanwhile, Ghost Cultivator Xue Ning attacked Nine Poisons Valley, forcing its survivors to flee toward Chen Luo and True Person Wuwei.

• Chen Luo finished digesting the tribulation's power, formed a Thunder Pattern, and assigned the Dried Corpse Brain to study the Nascent Soul Path.
• The Nine Poisons Valley Master learned that only Mo Wenjian and two elders had returned from scouting for an escape route, while the rest had been lost to the Ghost Temple.
• The Nine Poisons Valley Master ordered his remaining followers to prepare yang-aligned talismans and artifacts, then Ghost Cultivator Xue Ning attacked Medicine King Peak.
• The Nine Poisons Valley Master fought Xue Ning and rescued the unconscious Ling'er, ordering Mo Wenjian and the two elders to take her to Dao Comprehension Peak.
• Mo Wenjian fled with Ling'er as the survivors recognized that Xue Ning's Sky-Shrouding Magic Artifact had concealed the battle from True Person Wuwei.

Chen Luo emerged from seclusion as the Ghost Temple attacked the Divine Lake Immortal Sect, and he revealed his Core Formation strength while confronting the invaders. He seized the Ghost Temple's hidden cultivators, but the chapter ended with him demanding to know what one of them had said.

• Chen Luo left his Cultivation Chamber and joined True Person Wuwei and the others after they sensed trouble on Medicine King Peak.
• Mo Wenjian arrived wounded with news that Ghost Temple evil cultivators had invaded, and the Corpse Raising Sect Master's severed head rolled into the hall.
• Chen Luo absorbed the Corpse Raising Sect Master's head and repelled the Ghost Temple's Yin Evil Qi, revealing that he had reached the Core Formation Realm.
• Chen Luo used the Inner Demon Ancestor's brain to locate two invisible Ghost Temple cultivators and trapped them with Heaven and Earth Vital Qi.
• Chen Luo smashed one cultivator's head with a lightning-laced fist, then seized the other by the neck and asked what the first one had said.

Chen Luo killed Ghost Temple cultivators and pursued Xue Ning to Medicine King Peak, where he defeated her with overwhelming physical strength and lightning. He tried to read her brain but failed, while the arriving cultivators questioned whether he was a sword, spell, or body cultivator.

• Chen Luo crushed two low-level ghost cultivators and destroyed their Shadow Curse, then sensed Xue Ning and headed for Medicine King Peak.
• Xue Ning defeated the Nine Poisons Valley Master after his Blood Pill self-destruction left the area in ruins.
• Chen Luo greeted Xue Ning with a lightning-charged slap, then broke her defenses and destroyed her cloth artifact with his chessboard.
• Chen Luo battered Xue Ning until only her head remained intact, but he could not read her brain and ignored her curses and poison.
• True Person Wuwei and the Dao Comprehension Peak experts arrived, and Mo Wenjian, Ding Xiaoxia, Huang Ying, and Bai Su debated what kind of cultivator Chen Luo was.

Chen Luo killed Xue Ning after discovering how to read her ghost cultivator brain, learning that she was a Spider Spirit from Myriad Demon Mountain and that Han Jiu's corpse was with the National Preceptor. He left the Seven Kingdoms Region's sects unified under True Person Wuwei, while strange shadows continued appearing and vanishing in an abandoned temple.

• Chen Luo questioned Xue Ning about Han Jiu's corpse, and she revealed that the National Preceptor held it and had awakened Han Jiu as a ghost cultivator.
• Xue Ning summoned Qi and Blood Old Ghost and the Old Man Carrying Coffin, but Chen Luo killed both ghost souls.
• Chen Luo used the Dried Corpse Brain's suggestion to cut off Xue Ning's Yin Qi, then read her brain as her body turned to stone.
• Chen Luo learned from Xue Ning's memories that she was a Spider Spirit from Myriad Demon Mountain who had pursued the Thousand Silk Art and an Upper Realm cultivation method.
• Chen Luo left the Divine Lake Immortal Sect, while True Person Wuwei began rebuilding and Mo Wenjian pledged Nine Poisons Valley's remaining elder to him.
• Half a day later, shadows repeatedly appeared and disappeared in an abandoned Desolate Temple in the northwestern wilderness.

Chen Luo destroyed the Ghost Temple’s remaining shadows, looted its secret chamber, and discovered a painting containing a powerful scripture and a Ghost Cultivator technique. Years later, the Seven Kingdoms had united as the Cang Kingdom and honored him as True Person Longevity, while five cultivators arrived at Black Mountain Village to investigate Xue Ning’s killer.

• Chen Luo used Yin Lightning to destroy the Chang Ghosts and followed Xue Ning’s perspective into the Ghost Temple’s hidden path.
• Chen Luo entered Xue Ning’s secret chamber, collected its treasures and the Corpse King, and took the painting of the Temple of Immortality and a bottle of Soul Liquid.
• Chen Luo recognized the Sea of Suffering Scripture in the painting and suspected that the Millennium Ancient Kingdom’s National Preceptor was the centipede depicted in it.
• Several years later, the Seven Kingdoms united under the Cang Kingdom, whose emperor honored Chen Luo as True Person Longevity and made Black Mountain Village a celebrated destination.
• Lu Kuang and four cultivators arrived in Black Mountain Village to investigate the person who had killed Xue Ning, then heard a storyteller recount an inaccurate version of Chen Luo’s battle with the Ghost Cultivators.

Chen Luo reunited with Du De, who asked for help securing a place in the Divine Lake Immortal Sect for his son, Qiu Xian. When Ghost Temple cultivators attacked the tavern, Chen Luo tested a newly cracked divine ability and transformed them into small creatures.

• Du De told Chen Luo that he had abandoned cultivation after failing to establish his foundation and had returned to Black Mountain Village, where he married Yu Donglan and raised their son, Qiu Xian.
• Du De explained that Qiu Xian had a mid-grade Four-Attribute Spirit Root and hoped to enter the Divine Lake Immortal Sect, whose new rules made admission difficult.
• Chen Luo gave Yu Donglan a medicinal pill and introduced his Foundation Establishment disciple, Mu Xiao Yu, to Du De and his family.
• Lu Kuang and the other Ghost Temple cultivators attacked the tavern after growing frustrated with the storyteller's tales, and Tianhong tried to bite Mu Xiao Yu.
• Chen Luo transformed Tianhong into a mouse and then used Heaven and Earth Vital Qi to capture Lu Kuang and the other Ghost Cultivators as grasshoppers.

Chen Luo returned to the Divine Lake Immortal Sect after capturing Ghost Cultivators, then spent several years studying Xue Ning’s cultivation method and planning to spread its Dao in the Southern Sea Region. He left Shenhu Peak to claim the force Xue Ning had established there, while Immortal Crane Chengfeng was left guarding the mountain.

• Chen Luo transformed the Ghost Cultivators into small creatures, then accepted Du De’s request to arrange for Qiu Xian to seek immortality at the Divine Lake Immortal Sect.
• Chen Luo returned to the sect with Mu Xiao Yu and the captured Ghost Cultivators, and True Person Wuwei assigned him Shenhu Peak.
• Over the next several years, Chen Luo cultivated until Xue Ning’s resources were nearly exhausted and studied her method for gathering power from dependent Chang Ghosts to form a Nascent Soul.
• Chen Luo decided that imparting the Dao in the Southern Sea Region would be safer than doing so in the contested Seven Kingdoms or Southern Sky Regions, and resolved to take over Xue Ning’s established force there.
• Chen Luo flew south from Shenhu Peak, leaving a voice transmission instructing Immortal Crane Chengfeng to guard the mountain.

Chen Luo traveled to a remote valley near the Sea Realm to take over the forces Xue Ning had left behind, but found the place abandoned. After learning from local woodcutters that a giant Long Worm had occupied a cave nearby, he attacked it with curses from the Demon Seed stone and left its fate uncertain.

• Chen Luo searched Xue Ning’s valley and found the grass hut abandoned and undisturbed for at least ten years.
• Chen Luo questioned nearby woodcutters, who told him in broken She Kingdom official language that a Long Worm had appeared and led him to its cave.
• Chen Luo sent Talisman Paper Figures into the cave, but a roar broke his connection to them and the demon aura inside swept out.
• Chen Luo used the Demon Seed stone to send curses into the gigantic black snake after it swallowed the paper figures.
• Chen Luo crushed the snake-shaped soul formed from the curse, and the cave shook violently before falling silent.

Chen Luo recovered Xue Ning’s relics and took control of her weakened Azure Dragon Gang, learning that Black Horn King had destroyed much of the organization and seized the remaining treasures. He secretly began cultivating the Inner Demon Art and collecting unusual brains while the gang expanded across the islands.

• Chen Luo found Xue Ning’s bone token and Treasure Orb in the cave, summoned the Mute Slave’s ghost, and stored the dead Foundation Building Realm snake.
• Chen Luo visited Xue Ning’s gang and learned that Black Horn King had eaten the Altar Master and seized the remaining relics.
• Chen Luo subdued the suspicious Acting Altar Master, ordered him to gather information on Black Horn King and other gangs, and told him to recruit vicious people.
• Chen Luo instructed the Azure Dragon Gang to recruit members and spread the divine art used to plant demon seeds.
• Over the following months, Chen Luo began waiting for the seeds to grow and selected unusual brains from skulls the gang acquired through the markets.

Chen Luo took control of the Azure Dragon Gang’s affairs after Yu Ping arrived and agreed to gather materials for him. He then disguised himself as Gu Demon Han Jiu and joined a band of robbing cultivators planning to raid Black Horn King’s Water Mansion.

• Yu Ping confronted Wei Jiang over his use of gang resources, but Chen Luo revealed his Core Formation aura and pulled her into the Cultivation Chamber.
• Chen Luo claimed the title of Order Master and assigned Yu Ping to gather materials while he was away; he told her Xue Ning had died and showed her his mastery of her Soul Restriction.
• Several days later, Chen Luo disguised himself as Gu Demon Han Jiu and went to Black Horn Island with supplies Wei Jiang had prepared.
• Chen Luo joined a band of robbing cultivators and proposed targeting Black Horn King’s Water Mansion while Black Horn King was away.
• The group agreed to raid the Water Mansion together in three days and not leave the operation early.

Chen Luo infiltrated Black Horn King's Water Mansion with a band of Robbing Cultivators, where a hidden formation trapped them and revealed a scheme orchestrated by a woman inside the mansion. He noticed Ao Ye's intense resentment and recognized him as a promising cultivator of the Inner Demon Art.

• The chapter revealed that the First Wife had kept Ao Ye isolated and uneducated for years, tricking him into memorizing a book of folk tales as a fake secret manual.
• Chen Luo and the Robbing Cultivators broke into the Water Mansion, and the leader, Zuoqiu Long, led them into a courtyard that trapped them in a water-mist formation.
• The Robbing Cultivators blasted their way out and reached a courtyard where Ao Ye was hiding with his book.
• Chen Luo sensed Ao Ye's intense emotions and judged that the boy had great potential for cultivating the Inner Demon Art.
• Zuoqiu Long reported to a woman that the raiders had been lured inside, and she outlined a false story blaming them for stealing the Glazed Blood Dragon Ginseng and burning the Water Mansion's account books.

Lady Hong lured the rogue cultivators to the empty treasury to frame them for its missing wealth and Ao Ye’s supposed betrayal. The rogue cultivators attacked when they realized the trap, while Chen Luo was still carrying Ao Ye.

• Lady Hong ordered Zuoqiu Long to kill Ao Ye and the rogue cultivators after they were led to Ao Ye’s courtyard.
• Chen Luo stopped the Blood Knife rogue cultivator from killing Ao Ye and took the child under his protection.
• Lady Hong appeared with Water Mansion forces nearby and offered to lead the rogue cultivators to the treasury.
• Lady Hong accused Ao Ye of conspiring with outsiders to steal the Water Mansion’s treasures after the rogue cultivators blasted open the empty treasury.
• The Blood Knife rogue cultivator struck Ao Ye, and the other rogue cultivators attacked.