Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo used the Soul Parasite Gu and borrowed lifespans to control the Immortal Corpse, diverting the seven venerables by hurling the Immortal Artifact Blank away. After collecting the corpse’s brain, he found himself surrounded by Venerable Kuchai and two other cultivators who also wanted the Immortal Corpse.

• Chen Luo used the Soul Parasite Gu and Life Borrowing Gu to make the Immortal Corpse rise, draining the lifespans of nearby cultivators.
• Chen Luo made the Immortal Corpse seize the Immortal Artifact Blank and throw it toward the horizon, drawing the seven venerables away in pursuit.
• The Immortal Corpse collapsed after its movements killed nearly a hundred cultivators, and Chen Luo reclaimed the Life Borrowing Gu and Soul Parasite Gu.
• Chen Luo returned to the lava pool and read the Immortal Corpse’s brain, gaining a new brain for his External Brain.
• Venerable Kuchai, a Sword Cultivator, and another cultivator surrounded Chen Luo and demanded a share of the Immortal Corpse.

Chen Luo took the immortal corpse as Daoist Wusheng and the Myriad Stars Gate ancestors unleashed their Dao Artifacts against each other, devastating the Dao Palace. As the survivors were battered by the clash, Chen Luo prepared to seize the abandoned hammer and summoned Fortune Child, Star Cluster Immortals, and Yellow Springs Ghost Master.

• Venerable Kuchai sensed familiarity in Chen Luo and warned him to flee as a giant dragon and roc appeared around the Dao Palace.
• Chen Luo stored the immortal corpse in the Grotto-heaven Gourd and repelled the sword cultivator man and spell cultivator woman.
• Daoist Wusheng used the Octagonal Bronze Cauldron to suppress the battlefield, and Immortal Venerable Haori, Moon Venerable, and Star Venerable answered with Myriad Stars Gate's square seal.
• The Dao Artifacts collided, shattering the force field and devastating the mountain while Chen Luo remained unharmed.
• Chen Luo spotted the abandoned immortal artifact hammer and brought out the statues of Fortune Child, Star Cluster Immortals, and Yellow Springs Ghost Master.

Chen Luo helped unleash three Incense Offering Spirits, which began eroding the region and drove the Void Return Venerables to flee. After repelling Moon Venerable and securing the Immortal Artifact Blank, he headed toward the Dao Palace's edge as four survivors faced the spirits' forces.

• Chen Luo's three divine statues opened a breach in the sky, allowing the Incense Offering Spirits to emerge and break the battle apart.
• Fortune Child, the Yellow Springs Ghost Master, and the Myriad Stars Immortal Master spread out to establish Incense Offering Holy Lands, while Chen Luo blocked Moon Venerable's attack and struck her with his Chessboard.
• Chen Luo stored the Immortal Artifact Blank in the Grotto-heaven Gourd and flew toward the edge, claiming he wanted to help safeguard Immortal Venerable Haori's Dao Artifact.
• Four figures at the Dao Palace's edge discovered their subordinates dead, including Ox-Head, and blamed Silent Valley's actions for the disaster.
• The four survivors saw Incense Offering subordinate deities filling three divine temples and joined forces, seeking a way to cut off the spirits' incense supply.

The three great Incense Offering Spirits defeated the Myriad Stars Gate’s forces, while the Fortune Child and Daoist Wusheng helped drive the Immortal Cultivators away. After the battle, Gu He returned to the Purple Green Sword Sect and found the grave and stele he had left before reincarnating.

• The Yellow Springs Ghost Master crushed the leopard-headed person’s group, but Old Ghost Wuyin betrayed the leopard-headed person and left him to die while the other three escaped.
• Moon Venerable returned without the Immortal Artifact Blank, and the Myriad Stars Gate’s leaders retreated as the Square Seal suffered damage.
• Daoist Wusheng absorbed the Immortal Artifact Tribulation Power, thanked the Myriad Stars Immortal Master, and disappeared.
• Chen Luo welcomed the three Incense Offering Spirits after they claimed the territory as their dojo.
• Gu He returned to the Purple Green Sword Sect, uncovered the broken stele at the lonely grave, and recalled his life before reincarnation.

Gu He reunited with Mu Jian Yu in the Upper Realm and learned that Silent Valley's Daoist Wusheng had helped fracture the Qionghua Sect, so he set out to recover the sect's Dao. Meanwhile, Chen Luo removed Moon Venerable's tracking mark and withdrew to refine his gains, while Venerable Kuchai accepted the losses the Ancient God Sect had suffered.

• Gu He told Mu Jian Yu that his reincarnation had led him to the true Immortal Path, and she revealed that Daoist Wusheng of Silent Valley had left her scar and might hold the Qionghua Sect's Dao.
• Mu Jian Yu recalled guarding the Qionghua Sect for 2,700 years because Gu He had promised to return, then accepted that her guardianship was over.
• Chen Luo's allies gave him Incense Offering rights and rebuilding duties, and he removed Moon Venerable's tracking mark before leaving to refine the Immortal Corpse Brain and hammer.
• Venerable Kuchai chopped wood at the Ancient God Sect, mourned the sect members and Younger Brother Kuzhu he had lost, and stopped forcing himself to pursue further answers.

Chen Luo returned to the Lower Realm and headed toward the Southern Sky Region, while Ning Chenye confronted the Centipede Spirit in Myriad Demon Mountain. Their encounter ended with both Soul Transformation cultivators unleashing their Dharma Seeds and beginning a fight.

• Chen Luo revealed to Venerable Kuchai that he could switch between Divine Dao and Body Cultivation, then took Venerable Kuchai's token to travel to the Lower Realm.
• Chen Luo arrived in the Southern Sky Region, where the Qionghua Sect had grown stronger under Yu Jun Yao and the other peak disciples.
• Ning Chenye waited at Myriad Demon Mountain and met the Centipede Spirit, who had emerged from seclusion after reaching the Soul Transformation Realm.
• Ning Chenye revealed his identity as the Yin Yang Demon Lord and challenged the Centipede Spirit, intending to devour him.
• The Centipede Spirit attacked with his Plague Poison Dharma Seed, and Ning Chenye answered with the inn's Dharma Seed, which he called Reenactment.

Chen Luo returned to Myriad Demon Mountain and effortlessly captured the Centipede Spirit and killed Ning Chenye before returning to Qionghua Sect. After studying the Immortal Corpse brain and beginning another round of refinement, he left Moon Venerable, Sun Venerable, and Star Venerable unable to find him.

• Chen Luo emerged in Red Stone Valley, suppressed the Centipede Spirit and Ning Chenye, captured the centipede in his Grotto-heaven Gourd, and killed Ning Chenye.
• Chen Luo returned to Qionghua Sect, punished Ao Ye, and gave guidance to Mu Xiao Yu, Shen Lin, and his other Registered Disciples.
• Chen Luo studied the Immortal Corpse brain’s cultivation insights for three days, then began refining the Pseudo-Immortal Artifact hammer again.
• Moon Venerable brought Sun Venerable and Star Venerable to the location of the mark, but found only rubble and realized she had lost the person.

Chen Luo traveled toward the Demon Realm to rescue the Flower-Backed Turtle and found the ancient Destined Inn in the starry sky. After cautiously scouting inside, he encountered Venerable Black Bird, who offered him a business deal.

• Chen Luo sent Ouyang Lian and the other Artifact Forger brains to continue refining the Pseudo-Immortal Artifact hammer.
• Chen Luo received a message from the Flower-Backed Turtle asking for help at the ancestral tomb of the Demon Race, then returned to the Upper Realm and set out for the Demon Realm.
• After five years crossing the void, Chen Luo encountered a floating island and discovered the Destined Inn, where Venerable Black Bird could answer one question.
• Chen Luo used Talisman Figures and Puppets to scout the inn before entering and finding Venerable Black Bird waiting at the counter.
• Venerable Black Bird noticed Chen Luo and offered him a business deal.

Chen Luo agreed to refine a Yang Soul Pill for Venerable Black Bird in exchange for rare treasures and information about the Demon Race. After inspecting the unusual pill recipe, Chen Luo warned that he could try but could not guarantee success.

• Venerable Black Bird offered Chen Luo a Sixth-tier White Deer heart, a Blood Condensing Fruit, and a low-grade Spirit Artifact as payment for refining a pill.
• Chen Luo agreed to refine the pill if Venerable Black Bird also shared what he knew about the Demon Race, and Venerable Black Bird promised the three waiting cultivators each a chance to ask one question.
• Venerable Black Bird led Chen Luo to the inn's alchemy courtyard, where he revealed the Third-tier Earth Fire and the Yang Soul Pill recipe he had spent centuries preparing for.
• Chen Luo's Alchemist Brains identified serious difficulties in the recipe, and Chen Luo told Venerable Black Bird he would attempt the refinement without promising success.

Chen Luo spent a year struggling to refine the Yang Soul Pill for Venerable Black Bird, then tested his first successful batch on Lu Neng and accidentally transformed him into a woman while boosting his cultivation. After refining a better-looking batch, Chen Luo and Venerable Black Bird wondered how to test the pills without repeating the coercive experiment.

• Chen Luo accepted Demon Race information as advance payment and repeatedly failed to refine the Yang Soul Pill while Venerable Black Bird supplied ingredients.
• Chen Luo produced seven pitch-black pills, and he and Venerable Black Bird summoned Lu Neng, Fang Zhonghai, and Tian Gou to test them.
• Venerable Black Bird forced Lu Neng to swallow a pill, which erased his yang energy, transformed him into a woman, and advanced his cultivation.
• Chen Luo acknowledged that the pill had too little yang energy, while Fang Zhonghai and Tian Gou secretly took the remaining pills with them.
• Chen Luo refined a second batch of twelve smooth pills, and he suggested that Venerable Black Bird secretly mix them into the three men's food or water.

After completing a half-year pill-refining deal with Venerable Black Bird, Chen Luo left Destined Inn and crossed a natural formation into Demon Race territory. He landed in an unnaturally cold region and, after walking through the snow, spotted a line of upright black bears.

• Venerable Black Bird returned Tian Gou, Fang Zhonghai, and Lu Neng their contracts and sent them away from Destined Inn.
• Chen Luo finished refining nine Yang Soul Pills with Venerable Black Bird, then departed for the Demon Race.
• Chen Luo passed through a natural formation at the Demon Race border and was pulled down into its territory.
• Chen Luo landed in an icy region shaped by a Demon Race Innate Divine Ability and proceeded on foot after sensing danger in the air.
• Chen Luo walked through the freezing snow for about half an hour and saw a line of black bears walking upright.

Chen Luo disguised himself as a Black Bear Demon and followed Silver Pine Seed’s group to Silverfang King’s cave, where he sensed valuable Cold Dew and revealed himself as a fifth-tier great demon. He abandoned his plan to seize the cave after warnings from Old Brother Changqing, the Immortal Corpse, and a grudge revealed that a dangerous big fish slept beneath the cold pool.

• Chen Luo disguised himself as a second-tier Black Bear Demon and joined Silver Pine Seed’s procession to Silverfang King’s birthday celebration.
• Silver Pine Seed delivered Flower Honey to Silverfang King, who rewarded the Black Bear Demons with Cold Dew.
• Chen Luo revealed himself as a fifth-tier great demon and accepted Silverfang King’s invitation to sit.
• Chen Luo sensed the Cold Dew’s value and considered taking action, but warnings from Old Brother Changqing, the Immortal Corpse, and a grudge alerted him to the big fish beneath the cold pool.

Chen Luo attended Silverfang King’s birthday gathering and learned about the Demon Race’s hierarchy while investigating the Cold Pool. He left with gifts after his External Brains warned that the being beneath the pool was awakening, while Silverfang King remained bound to the place by that living creature.

• Silverfang King mistook Chen Luo for a descendant of the Eight-Armed Pig King and recounted meeting the ancient Demon King seven thousand years earlier.
• Chen Luo probed the Cold Pool with his Divine Sense and sensed an unseen danger, while Silverfang King said the pool was left by his master.
• Silverfang King hosted a three-day exchange meeting where Chen Luo observed demons trading mostly raw materials and learned about their loose alliance and hierarchy.
• Chen Luo departed after his External Brains warned that the creature beneath the Cold Pool was awakening, and Silverfang King gave him three thousand drops of Cold Dew and an Ice Spirit Flower.
• After Chen Luo left, Silverfang King admitted he valued Chen Luo’s potential and revealed that the living creature beneath the Cold Pool kept him from leaving.

Chen Luo escaped the Extreme Cold Land after Silverfang King's flower broke its demon-power restriction, then searched for the missing Flower-Backed Turtle, Yuwen Ling, and Ding Jian. He traced the Turtle's message to an isolated Demon Race village where only Wood-attribute spiritual power could be used, and entered to investigate.

• Chen Luo fled the Cold Pool Ice Cave after sensing a dangerous creature beneath it, then used Silverfang King's Ice Blue Small Flower to pass through the Demon Power Restriction and leave the Extreme Cold Land.
• Several days later, Chen Luo reached the mountain range where the Flower-Backed Turtle had located a Great Tomb, but could not contact the Turtle, Yuwen Ling, or Ding Jian.
• Chen Luo searched a pangolin's memories and learned that it had seen an eerie red sunset two years earlier, twenty li northwest of its mountain.
• Chen Luo found a strange Demon Race village where untrained demons lived like humans, changed himself into a fox demon, and discovered the Flower-Backed Turtle's tortoise shell bearing the message, "Eldest Brother, save me."
• Chen Luo entered the village, accepted the Black-Backed Pig Demon's directions to an empty house, and sensed that only Wood-attribute spiritual power could be used there.

After months of searching the village for the Great Tomb, Chen Luo discovered that its entrance was alive and that the Demon Race’s Legendary Realm was separate from the one he knew. He entered this realm to establish his legend and found a gray-mist version of the village, where an unknown legend began to call to him.

• Chen Luo learned from the Willow Tree Spirit that the village had existed for ages and that its residents descended from outsiders, including two humans who had once vanished there.
• Chen Luo used wooden hummingbird puppets to investigate the village and concluded that the Great Tomb’s entrance was alive and linked to the power of a Legendary Realm.
• Chen Luo opened a hidden chamber through the Painting Resentment and entered the Demon Race’s Legendary Realm after an unseen hand pulled him in.
• Chen Luo defeated the hand in a brief Chess Dao contest and surveyed a gray-mist village that mirrored the one outside.
• Chen Luo heard a bamboo-tube-like knocking sound and descended toward it, passing through mist filled with blurry, tentacle-like shadows.

Chen Luo traded a Yang Soul Pill to the Willow Tree Spirit for a mark in the Demon Valley Mountain Village’s legend, letting him use his strength there. He then found a wandering door into a bustling human kingdom and began searching for its Legend Source, hoping it would lead him to Flower-Backed Turtle.

• Chen Luo found a demon skull in the Legendary Realm and learned that its owner had entered with both its body and spirit soul before dying there.
• Chen Luo met the Willow Tree Spirit, who revealed he had recognized Chen Luo as a human Void Refinement Realm cultivator and offered to help him leave a mark in the legend for a Yang Soul Pill.
• Chen Luo gave the Willow Tree Spirit a Yang Soul Pill, and the Willow Tree Spirit imprinted Chen Luo’s mark on the village well.
• Chen Luo returned to his body and confirmed that he could use spirit flame in the wood-only Demon Valley through the power of his legend.
• Chen Luo followed a swaying ribbon through a wandering door and emerged on a busy street in a human kingdom, where he began looking for the Legend Source.

Chen Luo found the Flower-Backed Turtle’s trail in the Red Immortal Aunt’s domain and reached a second, demonic Legendary Realm hidden beyond an ancient temple. He sent a vast force of scouting puppets and paper figures into its graveyard, where Evil Creatures began attacking them.

• The Red Immortal Aunt stopped Chen Luo in the street, and he told her he was the Flower-Backed Turtle’s eldest brother.
• The Red Immortal Aunt led Chen Luo to a temple at the edge of her domain and explained that a separate, dangerous legend lay beyond its gate.
• Chen Luo identified the place beyond the gate as a mass grave and found a Tortoise Shell left behind by the Flower-Backed Turtle.
• Chen Luo deployed paper figures and scouting puppets to search the graveyard while the Red Immortal Aunt watched from hiding.
• Withered Corpses, bloodthirsty Old Women, and other Evil Creatures emerged and attacked the scouting force, and a Stone Tablet Person smashed a puppet.

Chen Luo entered a graveyard in a Legendary Realm connected to the Demon Race Ancestral Land, where he encountered dangerous supernatural beings and searched for clues about its inhabitants. After destroying a suspicious gravestone and finding only mindless corpses, he reached a thatched cottage, where the strange presence returned.

• Chen Luo entered the graveyard after his scouting puppets returned, and he learned from the Flower-Backed Turtle's tortoise shell that the route led to the Demon Race Ancestral Land through a Legendary Realm.
• Chen Luo stomped a blood-limbed stone stele into rubble, then blasted a hidden attacker behind him with his chessboard, destroying nearby graves and ghost fires.
• Chen Luo questioned Ghost Fire Granny about the attacker, but she could not answer, so he crushed her and continued onward with his Three-Headed Eight-Armed Demonic Image active.
• Chen Luo dug up a grave and found a mindless Corpse Puppet that knelt and kowtowed to him, then smashed a gravestone marked 'Tomb of the Undying Great Mountain Man' with his chessboard and hammer.
• Chen Luo searched more graves without finding any brains and, after walking for half a day, reached a thatched cottage where the strange feeling returned despite his careful search.

Chen Luo entered the Demon Race’s Legendary Realm and encountered a fox-faced illusion that his divine sense and borrowed brains could not perceive. After destroying the chamber and its mural with the Soul Banner’s baleful souls, he continued onward but realized his spirit could not remain away from his body much longer.

• Chen Luo followed a strange passage into a secret chamber, where a mural showed a fox-faced woman clinging to a man carrying a Soul Banner.
• A fox-faced presence trapped Chen Luo in an illusion of black mud and grasping skeletal hands, but he broke free with his demon power.
• Chen Luo released the Soul Banner’s baleful souls to destroy the chamber, and Master Lin Feng, the Seed Demon Sect Master, and the Old Bladesman sacrificed themselves to shatter the mural and expose a collapsing mud cavern.
• Chen Luo continued through the passage for half a day until his fleshly body began pulling at his spirit, warning that he had stayed away too long.
• Chen Luo marked the ground so he could resume from that spot the next time he entered the Legendary Realm.

Chen Luo returned to Demon Valley Mountain Village and encountered the Fox-faced Demoness, an ancient legend that pursued him beyond the Legendary Realm. After learning that Wang Chengguan was the foundation of her existence, Chen Luo suspected Old Wang had secretly set him up and resolved to return to Yue Kingdom after excavating the Demon Race’s Great Tomb.

• Chen Luo returned to the village and found every demon gone, along with a beast hide covered in legends about the Fox-faced Demoness.
• A voice from the well revealed that the Fox-faced Demoness had followed Chen Luo out of the Legendary Realm, so he attacked the well without destroying it.
• The Willow Tree Spirit recognized the Fox-faced Demoness clinging to Chen Luo, and Chen Luo returned to the village after the legend dispersed.
• Chen Luo briefly transformed into the Fox-faced Woman, then returned to normal and asked the Willow Tree Spirit about her origins.
• The Willow Tree Spirit said the Fox-faced Demoness’s legend was at least seven thousand years old and founded on a mysterious man named Wang Chengguan.
• Chen Luo suspected Old Wang had planted a hidden trick on him and decided to finish excavating the Demon Race’s Great Tomb before returning to Yue Kingdom to seek help from more old brothers.