Chapter Summaries

Golden Vajra Fourth and a middle-aged jianghu expert investigated a towering pillar of light and discovered a motionless figure inside. The figure awakened and threatened them in the name of a King, but stayed still as the two men retreated, leaving the middle-aged man to suspect it was connected to the Great Qi White King.

• Golden Vajra Fourth examined the pillar of light and spotted a figure seated inside it.
• A middle-aged martial expert arrived, confirmed the figure had no life aura, and suggested it was a corpse.
• Golden Vajra Fourth attacked with a palm of true qi, but his strike passed through the figure as it opened its eyes.
• The figure rose and warned Golden Vajra Fourth and the middle-aged man that they would be buried with the King for defying his command.
• Golden Vajra Fourth and the middle-aged man retreated, and the middle-aged man speculated that the figure served the Great Qi White King.
• Golden Vajra Fourth gripped his hammer and dismissed the figure as a dead man from a thousand years ago.

Golden Vajra Fourth and a middle-aged man discovered that the treasures they had taken from the Tomb of the White Emperor carried a curse controlled by a silver-armored figure. They severed their arms to escape the curse, but the figure revealed that the Great Calamity Curse could not be lifted so easily and trapped them with beams of five-colored light.

• The silver-armored figure’s attacks passed harmlessly through Golden Vajra Fourth and the middle-aged man, while the curse on their treasures began spreading onto their bodies.
• The middle-aged man cut off the arm holding his treasure, and Golden Vajra Fourth did the same, temporarily stopping the curse’s spread.
• Golden Vajra Fourth charged the silver-armored figure, and he and the middle-aged man attacked it together.
• The silver-armored figure declared that His Majesty’s Great Calamity Curse could not be easily lifted, then shone beams of five-colored light on the two men.
• The curse surged from their discarded treasures as the beams made Golden Vajra Fourth and the middle-aged man too sluggish to flee.

Golden Vajra Fourth and other martial experts were cursed and taken into the pillars of light, while the remaining jianghu fighters discovered the curse spreading through their bodies. Li Musheng emerged from a white jade tower with a pearl that caused the tower to decay, leaving the others wary and curious about its power.

• The silver-armored figure cursed Golden Vajra Fourth and a middle-aged man, then led them into a pillar of light as walking corpses.
• Jianghu experts who investigated the other pillars suffered the same fate, while curse patterns began appearing on experts searching elsewhere in White Emperor City.
• The red-haired old woman, Earth-Attracting Ancestor, Dragon Cave Old Ghost, and another expert gathered and decided to find shelter to suppress the curse.
• The red-haired old woman approached a white jade tower, whose doors opened to reveal Li Musheng, a bald old man, and Big Black Cat.
• Li Musheng examined a white jade pearl, and the tower behind him rapidly decayed as he remarked on its similarity to the key to the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury.

Li Musheng discovered that the White Jade Orb could preserve people and objects in a near-frozen state, then learned from Prince Xun of Great Chu that the master of Green Mountain Tower was in the Tomb of the White Emperor. He asked Prince Xun to lead him to the master, but Prince Xun requested that his uncle guide Li Musheng instead.

• Li Musheng studied the White Jade Orb's limited stasis power and sealed it away for later research.
• Prince Xun of Great Chu greeted Li Musheng and explained how his group had entered the tomb and what had happened there.
• Li Musheng learned that the master of Green Mountain Tower was in the tomb and realized he might find a Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury Key.
• Prince Xun revealed that Li Musheng was the Eighth Prince of Great Li and the new master of the Hidden Kill Pavilion, alarming the red-haired old woman and her companions.
• Li Musheng asked Prince Xun to take him to the master of Green Mountain Tower, and Prince Xun suggested that Earth-Attracting Ancestor guide him because his eyes were ruined.

Li Musheng found the master of Green Mountain Tower and demanded his key to the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury. The master refused, and Big Black Cat immediately attacked him.

• Prince Xun of Great Chu arranged for Earth-Attracting Ancestor to guide Li Musheng to the master of Green Mountain Tower.
• Li Musheng left the hairless old man behind to search the city and brought Big Black Cat along.
• Dragon Cave Old Ghost and the red-haired old woman chose to seek a safe place to purge their curse inscriptions.
• Earth-Attracting Ancestor led Li Musheng and Prince Xun of Great Chu to the master of Green Mountain Tower atop a stone tower.
• Li Musheng asked the master of Green Mountain Tower to lend him the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury key, but the master refused.
• Big Black Cat charged at the master of Green Mountain Tower and slashed at his face.

Li Musheng imprisoned the Green Mountain Tower Master, who then self-destructed and vanished before the group could trace him. Li Musheng suspected that the dead man was a duplicate and that the real Green Mountain Tower Master remained somewhere in the Tomb of the White Emperor.

• The Green Mountain Tower Master resisted Li Musheng’s attempt to take the key, but Li Musheng suppressed him before he could strike.
• The Green Mountain Tower Master shattered and vanished, leaving Earth-Attracting Ancestor unable to detect how he had departed.
• Another Green Mountain Tower Master traveled with the three elders of the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan and warned them that the new master of the Hidden Kill Pavilion had entered the tomb.
• The Seventh Ancestor found the location they had been seeking with the star-map compass.
• Li Musheng explained that the Green Mountain Tower Master had self-destructed and said the real one might still be inside the tomb, after detecting a connection between the vanished man’s soul and someone elsewhere in the city.

Li Musheng and the Big Black Cat headed through the city while Earth-Attracting Ancestor and Great Chu's Prince Xun decided to follow them, hoping to stay safe and find a way to resolve the curse inscriptions. Meanwhile, the Star Map Compass led the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan and Green Mountain Tower toward the White King's Tomb Chamber, leaving A Xiu behind until Li Musheng found her; she hesitated over whether to tell him where her clansmen had gone.

• Earth-Attracting Ancestor told Great Chu's Prince Xun that he could only suppress the curse inscriptions and believed they had to find the mastermind to remove them.
• Great Chu's Prince Xun persuaded Earth-Attracting Ancestor to follow Li Musheng, and the two pursued him.
• Seventh Ancestor's Star Map Compass merged with the rising Morning Star and shot away, prompting the ancestors and Green Mountain Tower's master to chase it toward the White King's Tomb Chamber.
• A Xiu was left behind when the others rushed after the star, so she used her movement technique to follow them alone.
• Li Musheng caught A Xiu with a hand of true qi and asked how she had entered the tomb; she explained how her clansmen arrived and then hesitated to reveal their destination.

Li Musheng learned that the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan had found the White King's Tomb Chamber and hurried toward it with A Xiu and Big Black Cat. The clan's elders opened the chamber and searched its village, but found nothing before Sixth Ancestor noticed that everyone outside the gate had disappeared.

• A Xiu told Li Musheng that her clan's elders had likely found the White King's Tomb Chamber, and he took her and Big Black Cat with him.
• Fifth Ancestor, Sixth Ancestor, Seventh Ancestor, and the master of Green Mountain Tower followed the Star Map Compass to an ancient stone gate, which Fifth Ancestor opened.
• The group saw a bamboo bridge leading to a shabby village on a lake island and crossed over to search it.
• Fifth Ancestor, Sixth Ancestor, Seventh Ancestor, and the master of Green Mountain Tower searched the village's houses but found nothing.
• Sixth Ancestor noticed that the people who had remained outside the stone gate had vanished.

The Fifth Ancestor and the others found that everyone outside the stone gate had vanished, while a strange barrier separated groups and trapped them in an abnormal place. As silver-armored soldiers repeatedly appeared and the gathered experts discovered their lost cultivation could not be restored, Li Musheng reached a fork in the underground passage and asked Big Black Cat to choose a path.

• The Fifth Ancestor, the Sixth Ancestor, the Seventh Ancestor, and the Green Mountain Tower Master found the village and the area outside the stone gate empty, and the Sixth Ancestor suspected they had entered a legendary secret realm.
• Outside the gate, the blue-robed youth and the red-robed girl saw silver-armored soldiers emerge from the darkness; the blue-robed youth entered the gate after the Fifth Ancestor called for Qing'er, and the girl followed.
• The remaining experts destroyed the soldiers, but another group appeared, and the experts discovered their spent cultivation could not be replenished by absorbing heaven and earth qi.
• Li Musheng noticed the Green Mountain Tower Master's aura had vanished near a fork in the underground passage and asked Big Black Cat to choose a route; Big Black Cat pointed at one path as its paw began to glow.

Li Musheng, A Xiu, and Big Black Cat entered a shabby village inside the White King's Tomb Chamber, where a strange change trapped them in a different version of the village. Li Musheng suspected the village was the true tomb chamber and decided to search beyond it for treasures.

• Big Black Cat revealed an invisible obstruction in the passage, allowing Li Musheng to sense it as well.
• Li Musheng led A Xiu and Big Black Cat through the open stone door into a poor village with a handful of dilapidated houses.
• After they searched the houses, Big Black Cat began glowing brightly and Li Musheng's white jade pearl activated as the world around them changed.
• A Xiu tried entering the houses to return to the previous village, but she emerged beside Li Musheng and Big Black Cat without finding a way out.
• Li Musheng reassured A Xiu and Big Black Cat that the place could not trap him, then suggested it might be the true White King's Tomb Chamber.
• Big Black Cat searched the village and found nothing valuable, so Li Musheng proposed that they search outside the stone door.

Li Musheng, A Xiu, and Big Black Cat passed through the stone door and found a bustling nine-story palace called White Emperor Tower inside the ancient tomb. They learned that the White King was away at war and that the Imperial Maiden who governed the tower lived on its eighth floor, which they could reach only by overcoming the tower’s rules.

• Li Musheng led A Xiu and Big Black Cat through the stone door, where they discovered a brightly lit palace tower filled with revelers.
• Li Musheng asked a maid about the White King, and she told him the king had left for a campaign in the Western Desert and might be gone for months.
• A Xiu began to believe the palace tower was real despite knowing they were inside the White Emperor’s thousand-year-old tomb.
• Li Musheng asked to meet the tower’s leader, and the maid explained that the Imperial Maiden governed from the eighth floor.
• The maid offered to deliver a message to the Imperial Maiden if Li Musheng could take her to the eighth floor.

Li Musheng and A Xiu climbed White Emperor Tower, where guards barred their way according to the tower’s rules and strength. Li Musheng forced his way past them, and the chapter left him questioning the maid’s claim that only the White King could reach the ninth floor.

• Li Musheng ignored Big Black Cat’s warning about their maid guide and followed her toward the second floor with A Xiu and Big Black Cat.
• Silver-armored guards barred Li Musheng from the second floor, but he sent them flying into the darkness below the tower.
• The maid led the group through the second floor’s busy halls, where A Xiu was tempted by wine but refused to drink at Li Musheng’s insistence.
• At the third-floor entrance, stronger guards attacked Li Musheng and were also sent flying into the darkness.
• The maid explained that guards grew twice as strong on each higher floor and that only the White King could reach the ninth floor.
• Li Musheng challenged her claim, saying he had heard that the White King had an elder brother above him.

A Xiu confronted the blue-robed youth and red-robed girl in White Emperor Tower, where they claimed the clan elders had already secured what the clan sought. Li Musheng arrived as the tower’s third floor fell eerily silent, and the maid warned that the guests had been discovered.

• Li Musheng mentioned the White King's elder brother, and the maid warned the group never to speak that person's name in White Emperor Tower.
• A Xiu recognized the blue-robed youth and red-robed girl celebrating in a room and demanded to know where Sixth Ancestor and the others were.
• The blue-robed youth claimed the three clan elders had obtained everything the clan wanted, while the red-robed girl said the elders were guests on a higher floor.
• Li Musheng called A Xiu away, breaking her wavering confidence, then identified himself to the room as the Eighth Prince of Great Li.
• The people in the room turned hostile toward Li Musheng, all sounds on the third floor stopped, and the maid said the guests had been discovered.

Li Musheng destroyed the people on White Emperor Tower’s third floor after they turned on him, leaving A Xiu to question what was real. The azure-clad youth and the girl in red remembered how they arrived and chased after Li Musheng, while the group reached a silent fourth floor where everyone watched without attacking.

• The third-floor crowd advanced on Li Musheng with chilling auras, and he swept an invisible force across the floor.
• As Li Musheng walked toward the maid, the people on the third floor crumbled into ash, and the maid continued leading him onward.
• A Xiu asked Li Musheng whether the people were strange, and he told her to discern the truth herself for the sake of her martial cultivation.
• The azure-clad youth and the girl in red recalled entering White Emperor Tower and questioned whether their experiences were real before pursuing Li Musheng.
• Li Musheng’s group reached the fourth floor, where its silent occupants stared at him but did not move.

Li Musheng ignored the Seventh Ancestor’s warning and pressed through White Emperor Tower, destroying the ancestor’s attack and heading for the seventh floor. On the fifth floor, A Xiu suddenly began bleeding from her eyes, nose, and mouth, while Li Musheng seemed unable to see what was happening to her.

• A Xiu asked Li Musheng how they should handle the hostile people, but Li Musheng told the maid to keep leading them onward.
• The Seventh Ancestor warned Li Musheng to turn back, then attacked him and his companions with a giant palm of black mist; Li Musheng destroyed it with a wave of his hand.
• Li Musheng inferred that the Seventh Ancestor was hiding on the seventh floor and told the maid to take them there, while the maid explained that the Imperial Daughter controlled the tower’s important possessions.
• The youth in blue and the girl in red discussed Li Musheng’s clash with the Seventh Ancestor and followed his group at a distance.
• Li Musheng’s group entered the deserted fifth floor, where A Xiu began bleeding from her seven orifices and called to Li Musheng for help.
• Li Musheng looked at A Xiu’s blood-covered face and asked how she had ended up looking that way, but A Xiu could not answer.

Li Musheng helped A Xiu see White Emperor Tower’s ruined true form and destroyed the blood-red monster that had attacked her. When curse inscriptions erupted from the monster’s remains and tried to invade him, Li Musheng seized them and pulled on their link to a golden-armored figure in the void.

• Li Musheng restored A Xiu after blood streamed from her seven orifices and warned her that White Emperor Tower could control those who ventured deeper.
• A Xiu saw the tower’s true, ruined appearance, and the maidservant said she was fortunate to have followed Li Musheng.
• Li Musheng dragged a many-eyed blood-red monster from the corridor’s darkness and crushed it into blood mist.
• Blood-red curse inscriptions surged from the monster’s remains and struck at Li Musheng, but an invisible barrier stopped them before he grabbed the inscriptions.
• Li Musheng pulled on the curse inscriptions, shaking White Emperor Tower and dragging a golden-armored figure from its seated position in the void.
• The golden-armored figure flared with golden light and strengthened the crimson fire burning across the inscriptions on its left arm.

Li Musheng sealed and destroyed one golden-armored figure, revealing it to be a rune-covered skeleton, and then immobilized two more golden-armored figures who came to its aid. As the three skeletons vanished to attack him, Li Musheng and A Xiu faced a sudden assault inside White Emperor Tower.

• Li Musheng used Six Directions Sealing Meridians, Subduing the Dragon to seal a golden-armored figure and shatter its armor, exposing a golden rune-covered skeleton.
• Two more golden-armored figures arrived, but Li Musheng sealed them as well, revealing skeletons marked with black runes and dark-red talismans.
• The black skeleton vowed to refine Li Musheng into an undying yin puppet, and the three skeletons vanished from the dark space.
• A Xiu asked Li Musheng about his divine art, and he said that he—not the art—was truly formidable.
• A black bone finger, a dark-red bone blade, and golden curse-inscription vines suddenly attacked Li Musheng and A Xiu in the fifth-floor corridor.

Li Musheng subdued three Undying Yin Puppets guarding White Emperor Tower and took them with him to study. Meanwhile, the blue-robed youth and red-robed girl questioned whether the fifth floor and everything they saw there were real.

• Li Musheng shattered the puppets’ attacks and pulled the three humanoid skeletons out of the shadowy void.
• The maid explained that the skeletons had been loyal generals who willingly became Undying Yin Puppets after death to guard White Emperor Tower.
• Li Musheng compressed the three puppets to palm size and continued following the maid with A Xiu and Big Black Cat.
• The blue-robed youth and red-robed girl concluded that the earlier people and events they witnessed were probably illusions, and worried the fifth floor might be unreal too.

Li Musheng reached the seventh floor of White Emperor Tower and confronted the four masters inside a powerful formation. He demanded the Key to the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury from the master of Green Mountain Tower and used the Soul-Seizing Technique when the man said the key was not with him.

• The blue-clad youth and red-clad girl discussed reaching the seventh floor and whether to ally with Li Musheng, then heard Seventh Ancestor demand to know what was happening as the tower shook.
• Li Musheng's group reached the seventh floor after he discovered that the humanoid skeletons had no true soul consciousness and could only be controlled through the Formless Puppet Technique.
• Li Musheng entered the great hall, disrupting the balance of the formation surrounding the three elders of the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan and the master of Green Mountain Tower.
• Li Musheng stopped at the formation's edge and demanded the Key to the Heavenly Revelation Secret Treasury from the master of Green Mountain Tower.
• The master of Green Mountain Tower said he possessed a key but did not have it with him, so Li Musheng used the Soul-Seizing Technique on him.

Li Musheng found that the Green Mountain Tower Lord had no memories he could read and agreed to hear the Exquisite Ancient City Remnant Clan's explanation of the White Emperor Tower. The Sixth Ancestor revealed that the treasures they sought lay on the tower's sealed upper floors, but warned that breaking the protections by force could collapse the unstable secret realm and trap or kill them.

• Li Musheng used the Soul-Seizing Technique on the Green Mountain Tower Lord, found nothing within him, and wondered whether he was alive.
• The Green Mountain Tower Lord proposed that Li Musheng work with the clan to open the White King's Tomb Chamber, and the Sixth Ancestor persuaded the others to cooperate with him.
• The Sixth Ancestor explained that the White Emperor Tower stood within an unstable secret realm linked to the White Tiger's burial ground and the White King's tomb.
• The Sixth Ancestor said the White King's treasures and the clan's target were likely on the tower's sealed upper three floors.
• The Sixth Ancestor warned Li Musheng that brute force against the formations could destroy the treasures or sink the tower into the secret realm, leaving them unable to escape.