Chapter Summaries

Meng Zhao used his understanding of the Life-Death Great Dao to draw out the dangerous eyeball, but its Dao Fruit power threatened to consume his insights. After surviving its attack in dragon form with the Azure Dragon Battle Armor, he witnessed Emperor Yu’s silhouette destroy the demonic thought inside the eyeball and fuse its remaining power with his reverse scale.

• Meng Zhao tried to attract the eyeball with his Life-Death Dao rhythm, then hid that aura with Ziwei’s protection and attacked it with the Profound Origin Water Controlling Banner’s Weak Water.
• The eyeball unleashed a world-destroying hurricane that tore apart the Weak Water flood dragon, forcing Meng Zhao to transform into his true dragon form and activate his bloodline power.
• Meng Zhao’s Azure Dragon Battle Armor and Azure Dragon Battle Soul shielded him as he endured the hurricane’s Divine Demonic Power without injury.
• A hazy silhouette of Emperor Yu appeared, drew the eyeball to Meng Zhao’s reverse scale, and erased the demonic thought within it.
• The remaining Yin-Yang Qi formed a black-and-white scale and fused with Meng Zhao’s reverse scale.

Meng Zhao discovered that Emperor Yu's Undying Dao Shadow had destroyed the Bone Demon God's divine thought and fused its Life-Death Dao Fruit power into his reverse scale, while revealing the Azure Dragon Battle Armor's ability to summon Emperor Yu. Suspecting the Bone Demon God still lurked in the forest, Meng Zhao reunited with Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin and urged them to flee.

• Emperor Yu's Undying Dao Shadow erased the divine thought in the strange eyeball, merged its Yin-Yang power into Meng Zhao's reverse scale, and frightened the Bone Demon God into hiding.
• Meng Zhao realized the Azure Dragon Battle Armor had let him summon one-fifth of Emperor Yu's Undying Dao Shadow, though he could not yet rely on the power or summon the complete shadow.
• Meng Zhao recognized the fused power as a latent portion of the Life-Death Dao Fruit that he could only fully control after reaching a higher level of strength.
• Seeing the Bone Forest's treasured acupoint lose its power, Meng Zhao suspected the Bone Demon God had survived and decided they needed to leave before it recovered its nerve.
• Meng Zhao found Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin prostrating themselves after witnessing Emperor Yu's shadow, snapped them out of their daze, and ordered them to flee the Bone Forest.

Meng Zhao fled the Bone Forest with Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin, but the Bone Demon God attacked him with a bone spear. By drawing on the Life-Death Dao Fruit power within his body, Meng Zhao survived the strike and believed he had escaped the fate shown in his vision.

• Meng Zhao carried Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin toward the Nameless Mountains as the Bone Demon God sensed his departure and forged a bone spear identical to the one from Meng Zhao’s vision.
• The Bone Demon God hurled the spear at Meng Zhao, who sensed the danger, set Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin aside, and formed a divine light barrier using his cultivation, Life-Death Dao Fruit power, and Eye of Heavenly Punishment.
• The bone spear shattered Meng Zhao’s barrier and struck his abdomen, but its broken tip could not penetrate the Emperor Yu Battle Armor, and Meng Zhao survived the impact.
• Meng Zhao pulled the broken spear from his abdomen and considered whether the Life-Death Dao Fruit power had strengthened the place where his reverse scale had been.
• Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin rushed back to Meng Zhao, who told them he was unharmed and said the Bone Demon God would have no more chances unless it left the mountain.

Meng Zhao and his companions left Bone Forest and reached a prairie, where he discovered that the distant mountain range was actually the body of a colossal creature awakened by Emperor Yu’s Undying Dao Shadow. Faced with the creature’s growing aura and the monsters it created, Meng Zhao abandoned the route to the Great Xia Battlefield and headed for Corpse Demon Plain.

• Meng Zhao led Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin out of Bone Forest and across the prairie toward a mountain range said to hold a passage to the Great Xia Battlefield.
• The mountain range began to rise, and Meng Zhao used the Emperor’s Qi Gazing Technique to recognize it as the body of an immense sleeping creature.
• Meng Zhao suspected that Emperor Yu’s Undying Dao Shadow had awakened the creature, while its spreading aura mutated the prairie’s grazing beasts into monsters.
• Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin urged Meng Zhao not to approach the creature and suggested taking the route to Corpse Demon Plain instead.
• Meng Zhao agreed, swept Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin away from the prairie, and turned toward Corpse Demon Plain.

Monk Huikong and a Heavenly Being expert of the Qi Devouring Sect fled the awakening creature beneath the Nameless Mountains and decided to seek shelter in the Bone Forest. After the Qi Devouring Sect expert used a devouring technique against the creature’s sound wave, the beast targeted them with a supernatural maw that threatened to swallow their bodies and souls.

• Monk Huikong and the Qi Devouring Sect’s Heavenly Being expert escaped the upheaving Nameless Mountains and discussed whether Emperor Yu’s aura had awakened the enormous creature beneath them.
• Monk Huikong suspected Meng Zhao was connected to the upheaval, while his companion proposed abandoning the mountains and traveling to the comparatively safer Bone Forest.
• The two agreed to head for the Bone Forest, where Monk Huikong hoped to meet Meng Zhao and the Qi Devouring Sect expert hoped to make his acquaintance.
• The awakened creature unleashed a piercing sound wave that destroyed everything in its path; Monk Huikong countered with a lion’s roar, and the Qi Devouring Sect expert swallowed the attack with the Reverse Flow God Devouring Technique.
• The creature abruptly manifested an abyssal maw that swallowed the sky and drew both Heavenly Beings in, suppressing their Primordial Spirits and leaving them in desperate danger.

Monk Huikong and the Qi Devouring Sect Celestial fought to survive after the Abyssal Maw targeted them, then faced a mountain range hurled down by the giant creature. Monk Huikong weakened the strike with Karma Continuation, and the Qi Devouring Sect Celestial blasted the creature back, leaving it wounded but alive.

• Monk Huikong broke free of the Abyssal Maw’s suction with the Brahma Sacred Canon and fled toward Bone Forest, while the Qi Devouring Sect Celestial escaped by absorbing the force into seven black vortexes.
• The giant creature raised part of a mountain range and crushed it toward the two men, trapping them in a space that rejected their escape.
• Monk Huikong unleashed Karma Continuation, severed his connection to the attack, and weakened the mountain’s crushing force by more than thirty percent.
• The Qi Devouring Sect Celestial formed a giant mouth, swallowed surrounding qi, and fired a vital energy bomb at the mountain range.
• The blast shattered the creature’s scales and drew blood, while the resulting destruction set thousands of li of grassland ablaze; Monk Huikong watched in astonishment.

Monk Huikong and the Qi Devouring Sect Celestial Being survived the awakening giant by working together and fled to Bone Forest, where they suspected the creature was a Flood Dragon. They discovered traces of Meng Zhao and two others, and the Qi Devouring Sect Celestial Being wondered whether Meng Zhao had inadvertently awakened the beast.

• Monk Huikong used a giant palm to divert the mountain’s force, giving the exhausted Qi Devouring Sect Celestial Being a chance to escape.
• Monk Huikong and the Qi Devouring Sect Celestial Being fled to Bone Forest as the giant settled back into sleep and reshaped the mountains.
• The Qi Devouring Sect Celestial Being said his inheritance came from a Human Clan expert inspired by Taotie, and he and Monk Huikong suspected the giant was a Flood Dragon.
• Monk Huikong and the Qi Devouring Sect Celestial Being detected traces of two people and Meng Zhao in Bone Forest.
• The Qi Devouring Sect Celestial Being speculated that Meng Zhao’s presence might have awakened the Flood Dragon.

Monk Huikong and the Qi Devouring Sect celestial being searched Bone Forest for its treasures, then were ambushed by the Bone Demon God. They escaped its netherworld Demise Qi, but faced its enormous bone-built form and prepared to fight together.

• Monk Huikong agreed to explore Bone Forest with the Qi Devouring Sect celestial being before heading toward Corpse Demon Plain and looking for Meng Zhao.
• The two found few worthwhile gains and debated whether to continue exploring, while suspecting Meng Zhao had already taken the best treasures.
• The Bone Demon God surrounded them with netherworld Demise Qi, which corroded the Qi Devouring Sect celestial being's attack.
• Monk Huikong used Buddhist seals to create a sacred passage, and both celestial beings fled the deadly aura.
• The Bone Demon God appeared as a hundred-zhang monster assembled from bones and corpses, and the Qi Devouring Sect celestial being planned to support Monk Huikong in battle.

The Qi Devouring Sect Celestial Being empowered Monk Huikong, who used his Subduing Tiger Arhat Body and Great Brahma Sacred Palm to destroy the White Bone Asura. Just as Monk Huikong thought the battle was over, a sudden bone spear pierced him and sent his colossal body flying.

• The Qi Devouring Sect Celestial Being poured pure primordial qi into Monk Huikong, greatly increasing his strength.
• Monk Huikong activated the Subduing Tiger Arhat Body and fought the White Bone Asura through roughly a hundred exchanges.
• Monk Huikong used Great Brahma Sacred Palm, Sacred Light Emerges to burn the weakened White Bone Asura into green smoke.
• A bone spear suddenly struck Monk Huikong, piercing his colossal body and hurling him into the sky.

Monk Huikong was gravely wounded by the White Bone Spear’s Life-Death Profound Light, but used his hidden Incense Golden Body to heal himself. After the Qi Devouring Sect celestial being survived another spear attack, Huikong decided they had to flee to Corpse Demon Plain and join Meng Zhao.

• The White Bone Spear pierced Monk Huikong and tainted his wound with the power of the Life-Death Great Dao, leaving him unable to heal normally.
• The Qi Devouring Sect celestial being tried to treat Monk Huikong, but the strange aura recoiled and began consuming the vitality in his hand.
• Monk Huikong summoned the Great Pudu Buddha Venerable, whose Buddhist light expelled the tainted matter and restored his body.
• A second White Bone Spear attacked the Qi Devouring Sect celestial being, but his prepared vortex-like protective true qi deflected it.
• Monk Huikong urged the Qi Devouring Sect celestial being to leave for Corpse Demon Plain and catch up with Meng Zhao.

Meng Zhao, Jiang Zixuan, and Hua Xin entered Corpse Demon Plain, a vast ruined city saturated with negative auras, and encountered a zombie that survived attacks until Meng Zhao discovered the spark of life in its heart. To improve Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin’s chances of surviving the city, Meng Zhao used Life-Death Yin-Yang Qi to give them temporary zombie-like bodies that could absorb its hostile atmosphere.

• Monk Huikong and the Qi Devouring Sect Celestial agreed to leave Bone Forest, but Zhu Shisan suddenly appeared as the Bone Demon God attacked again.
• Meng Zhao, Jiang Zixuan, and Hua Xin entered Corpse Demon Plain and found an immense ancient city filled with dense negative auras that weakened Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin.
• A zombie attacked the group, and Meng Zhao discovered that its hidden spark of life was in its heart before destroying it.
• Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin feared they would not survive the dangers ahead, so Meng Zhao used Life-Death Yin-Yang Qi to make them temporarily resemble zombies and withstand the surrounding auras.

Meng Zhao, Jiang Zixuan, and Hua Xin crossed the zombie-filled avenue using Meng Zhao’s Life-Death Profound Light and found a map leading to a Stone House. Inside, Meng Zhao uncovered a grave owner’s possession trap, destroyed the Primordial Spirit, and found a piece of pitch-black wood that seemed tied to its survival.

• Meng Zhao disguised himself, Jiang Zixuan, and Hua Xin as zombies, allowing them to move through the avenue and collect useful items.
• Meng Zhao found a Beast Skin Map and a bronze War Sword whose Killing Intent restrained zombies and corpse demons.
• At the Stone House, the bronze-axe corpse demon sensed Meng Zhao and struck, but Meng Zhao blocked the attack and entered through a window.
• Meng Zhao read the Stone Tablet and learned that the grave’s owner had died after exploring the Corpse Demon Plain, leaving a supposed inheritance behind.
• Meng Zhao crushed the grave, exposing the owner’s azure-and-black Primordial Spirit, then destroyed it with the Buddha Heart Bead and golden Sword Light.
• Meng Zhao found a piece of pitch-black wood among the remains and suspected it had sustained the grave owner’s Primordial Spirit.

Meng Zhao discovered that the black wood could shelter a Primordial Spirit, then uncovered a Thunder Dragon Horn fragment beneath the Stone Tablet and fed it to Flood Dragon Little Nine. When Meng Zhao left the Stone House, the bronze-axe corpse demon attacked him, and his clash with it drew a swarm of zombies as he fought his way back toward it.

• Meng Zhao determined that the black wood was a rare treasure that could preserve a Primordial Spirit, though it did not suit his immediate needs.
• Meng Zhao smashed the Stone Tablet and found a fragment of a Thunder Dragon Horn hidden beneath it.
• Meng Zhao fed the Thunder Dragon Horn fragment to Flood Dragon Little Nine, giving it an opportunity to advance toward becoming a True Dragon.
• Meng Zhao left the Stone House with his War Sword and encountered the bronze-axe corpse demon, which attacked him again.
• Meng Zhao clashed with the corpse demon and attracted the attention of nearby zombies, then cut through the horde with his sword.
• Meng Zhao reached the bronze-axe corpse demon and attacked with a flowing, river-like sword technique.

Meng Zhao used the War Sword to destroy the Corpse Demons and clear much of a street, then continued with Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin into a plain of military tents to search for ancient techniques. As Meng Zhao plundered the tents, a mysterious woman appeared beside his companions, learned what he had done, and considered whether to kill him.

• Meng Zhao killed the Corpse Demon with the bronze axe, seized its weapon, and defeated another Corpse Demon whose fists carried Deathly Qi.
• Meng Zhao cleared nearly four-fifths of the zombies on the street, then led Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin onward after sensing that a powerful presence had noticed them.
• An unknown Corpse Demon in a golden coffin stirred the city’s undead, but a distant breath quelled the disturbance before disaster struck.
• Meng Zhao reached a plain covered in military tents and searched them for ancient secret arts, divine abilities, and combat techniques.
• A mysterious woman appeared beside Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin, used her bewitching gaze to make them reveal Meng Zhao’s actions, and drew the Deathly Qi from their bodies.
• The woman recognized Meng Zhao’s grasp of the Life-Death Great Dao and wondered whether to kill him, while concealing Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin from the undead.

Meng Zhao met Aunt Hong in Heavenly Corpse Ancient City and learned about the terrifying Heavenly Corpse and the city’s dangers. Although she warned him to keep a low profile, he remained interested in the other opportunities guarded by Gods and Devils-level corpse demons.

• Meng Zhao returned to Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin, met Aunt Hong, and cautiously asked about her identity and martial arts.
• Aunt Hong said she practiced the Heavenly Maze Sacred Canon and explained that Heavenly Corpse Ancient City was ruled by a powerful Heavenly Corpse, with multiple Gods and Devils-level corpse demons inside.
• Aunt Hong warned Meng Zhao that at least five opportunities in the city could help someone become one of Gods and Devils, including a Flower of Hell guarded by the Heavenly Corpse.
• Meng Zhao decided the Flower of Hell was too dangerous and unsuitable for his martial path, but remained interested in the other resources.
• Meng Zhao wondered what the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord had done to provoke the corpse demons into pursuing him.

Meng Zhao suspected that Aunt Hong was a powerful, intelligent corpse demon, but she said she would leave the Heavenly Corpse Ancient City with him. She then revealed that an ancient tower nearby held an Imperial Masterpiece that Meng Zhao’s unusual physique and imperial fate might let him cultivate.

• Meng Zhao questioned Aunt Hong about why she was helping him, and she immediately said she would leave the ancient city with him.
• Meng Zhao summoned Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin and concealed them with the Life-Death Great Dao.
• Aunt Hong told Meng Zhao that an ancient tower across from the Heavenly Corpse Ancient City contained an Imperial Masterpiece that no living person had taken away.
• Aunt Hong explained that Meng Zhao’s physique, bloodline, and intertwined fates made him exceptionally suited to cultivate Imperial Masterpieces.
• Meng Zhao realized the masterpiece could become the core of his martial arts and asked Aunt Hong who created it and what it was called.

Meng Zhao learned more about Aunt Hong’s power and her connection to the Heavenly Corpse, then encountered Valley Tong the Corpse Demon as he tried to leave Heavenly Corpse Ancient City. Valley Tong wounded Meng Zhao with a gaze, but Meng Zhao’s injuries healed within moments.

• Aunt Hong told Meng Zhao that the Heavenly Corpse had suffered irreversible injuries after attacking the creator of the Imperial Masterpiece, and she warned him not to covet the Flower of Hell.
• Meng Zhao asked whether Aunt Hong could stop the Heavenly Corpse, and she urged him to leave before it awakened and targeted him.
• Valley Tong the Corpse Demon blocked Meng Zhao, Jiang Zixuan, Hua Xin, and Aunt Hong, and Aunt Hong revealed his identity while challenging him over Heavenly Corpse Ancient City’s rules.
• Aunt Hong mocked Valley Tong for failing to capture the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord, and Valley Tong explained that the Lord’s Heavenly Demon Blood and Heavenly Demon Token made him too dangerous to pursue.
• Valley Tong recognized the possibility that Emperor Yu’s Undying Dao Shadow had protected Meng Zhao, then struck Meng Zhao’s Primordial Spirit with a gaze.
• Meng Zhao’s blood and aura quickly recovered, and his injuries healed within a few breaths.

After Valley Tong the Corpse Demon’s sneak attack, Meng Zhao quickly recovered and learned that Aunt Hong was prepared to fight to protect him. Valley Tong demanded proof of Meng Zhao’s hidden power, so Meng Zhao summoned Emperor Yu’s aura for Valley Tong and the concealed Mystic Shark the Corpse Demon to witness.

• Meng Zhao recovered from Valley Tong the Corpse Demon’s Spiritual Damage, while Aunt Hong and Valley Tong were shocked by his healing.
• Aunt Hong confronted Valley Tong for attacking Meng Zhao and warned that she would retaliate if he tried to kill him.
• Aunt Hong asked where Mystic Shark the Corpse Demon was, and Valley Tong demanded that Meng Zhao reveal his hidden power before he could leave Heavenly Corpse Ancient City.
• Meng Zhao asked Mystic Shark to appear so he could demonstrate his abilities to both corpse demons, and Mystic Shark answered that she was watching from nearby.
• Aunt Hong explained the corpse demons’ powers to Meng Zhao and warned him that Mystic Shark was concealed around them.
• Meng Zhao activated his Purple Origin Dragon Blood and Azure Dragon Battle Armor, manifesting a powerful aura from Emperor Yu that impressed the corpse demons and Aunt Hong.

Meng Zhao proved his connection to Emperor Yu and persuaded Valley Tong the Corpse Demon to let him live. Mystic Shark the Corpse Demon then tested Meng Zhao in an illusory world, which he escaped after absorbing its demonic arts without being corrupted, leaving him unsure whether the trial had been genuine or a way to pass on teachings.

• Meng Zhao summoned a trace of Emperor Yu's Undying Dao Shadow to prove his connection to a Supreme expert, and Valley Tong the Corpse Demon agreed to let him pass.
• Aunt Hong urged Meng Zhao to try the Ascending Heaven Tower's inheritance, while Mystic Shark the Corpse Demon proposed testing his potential first.
• Mystic Shark the Corpse Demon transported Meng Zhao into a peaceful illusory world and said the trial would test his Primordial Spirit.
• Meng Zhao used the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and the Emperor's Qi Gazing Technique to examine the illusion, gaining demonic secret arts before purging their influence with purple light.
• Meng Zhao returned to the Heavenly Corpse Ancient City and wondered whether Mystic Shark's trial had been a real test or a way to transmit her cultivation.

Meng Zhao broke through Mystic Shark the Corpse Demon's illusory trial by comprehending the Dao of reality and illusion, earning her respect and learning that the corpse demons hoped he would inherit a martial art capable of freeing them from the Heavenly Corpse. He warned them that the Heavenly Demon Palace Lord and other experts were approaching Heavenly Corpse Ancient City, then asked Aunt Hong to explain what she had been keeping from him.

• Meng Zhao told Mystic Shark the Corpse Demon that he had comprehended the Dao of reality and illusion, and she praised his insight.
• Mystic Shark the Corpse Demon revealed that she hoped Meng Zhao would obtain the inheritance and free the corpse demons from the Heavenly Corpse's restraints.
• Meng Zhao realized the corpse demons were testing and supporting him because they wanted him to challenge the Heavenly Corpse, though he worried about becoming a pawn in their plans.
• Meng Zhao told Mystic Shark the Corpse Demon and Valley Tong the Corpse Demon that the Heavenly Demon Palace's inheritor and other powerful Celestial martial artists had entered the Ancient Battlefield seeking an inheritance.
• Valley Tong the Corpse Demon and Mystic Shark the Corpse Demon departed after warning Meng Zhao that Aunt Hong's protection had kept him safe.
• Jiang Zixuan and Hua Xin collapsed from exhaustion, and Meng Zhao asked Aunt Hong to tell him what she had been withholding.