Chapter Summaries

Yue Gongli agreed to Sui Yin’s plan to sacrifice him through the Seed-Spell, and Sui Yin transformed him into Ancestor Li. Before Yue Gongli lost consciousness, Sui Yin surrendered control of the remade body and its forbidden arts to him for fifteen minutes.

• Sui Yin realized Medicine Ancestor intended to sacrifice it, but Dao Qiongchang persuaded it that acting immediately would only benefit their enemies.
• Yue Gongli recalled his past with Dao Qiongchang and asked whether Dao Qiongchang wanted him to die and be absorbed into Sui Yin’s plan; Dao Qiongchang repeatedly answered yes.
• Yue Gongli agreed to cooperate, and Sui Yin used Seed-Spell Returning to Origin and Seed-Spell Nurturing the Divine to remake him.
• Sui Yin used Forbidden Art-Dog Feast to devour the Four Symbols Secret Realm and gather its remnants into the seed-spell.
• Yue Gongli briefly became Ancestor Li before his consciousness began to fade, and Sui Yin gave him control of the body and its forbidden arts for fifteen minutes.

Yue Gongli appeared as a newly ascended Ancestor God, reunited painfully with Moon Palace Slave, and then used Sui Yin’s Forbidden Techniques to defeat and seal Kui Leihan. The chapter left him confronting Shennong Hundred Herbs as life force fled beneath the Ghost Buddha Realm.

• Yue Gongli appeared before Moon Palace Slave, Yu Zhiwen, and the Black Chicken, revealing the purple eye-mark of his Ancestor God ascension.
• Moon Palace Slave tried to reconnect with Yue Gongli, but he withdrew and vanished after sending her a distant farewell.
• Yue Gongli returned to the Ghost Buddha Realm, mocked Kui Leihan, and challenged him to fight.
• Yue Gongli used Sui Yin’s Forbidden Techniques to disable Kui Leihan’s lightning, summon the Technique Dog, and cut Kui Leihan apart before sealing him in a technique tomb.
• Yue Gongli demanded silence from the spectators, then angrily shouted at Shennong Hundred Herbs as life force escaped the Ghost Buddha Realm.

Yue Gongli ignored Medicine Ancestor’s attempts to manipulate him and unleashed Art-Dog Feast, which swallowed Hometown of Flower Fragrance and the City of the Living Futu. Shi Ti and Dong Ling fled toward Siling Mountain, but a new world filled with the Firmament Divine Tree and Heavenly Flames appeared above them.

• Medicine Ancestor tried to turn Yue Gongli against Sui Yin, while Xu Xiaoshou sent him the coordinates of Hometown of Flower Fragrance and Stillwater Lake.
• Yue Gongli chose to act for his elder sister and unleashed Prohibition—Art-Dog Feast, swallowing the Seven Severance Prohibitions and nearby land in the Northern Region.
• The Technique Dog emerged in the Central Region and devoured the City of the Living Futu, leaving Shi Ti and Dong Ling horrified on Saint-Gazing Mountain.
• Dong Ling dragged Shi Ti toward Siling Mountain as Sui Yin roared behind them and an alternate-dimensional world opened overhead.
• Shi Ti recognized the Firmament Divine Tree and numerous Heavenly Flames as they plunged toward him and Dong Ling.

Xu Xiaoshou watched Yue Gongli’s attack expose the Medicine Ancestor’s hidden life-power reserve in the City of the Living Futu, while the Medicine Ancestor fought to reclaim it. At Siling Mountain, Dong Ling and Shi Ti discovered that Purple Pet was under the Devil Ancestor’s control, but both were made to turn away before they could react.

• Xu Xiaoshou recognized the Firmament Tree growing from the rift and concluded that Yue Gongli had chosen to stand with Moon Palace Slave and the Saint Slave.
• The Medicine Ancestor realized that Yue Gongli had swallowed the City of the Living Futu, uncovering a huge reserve of life power and disrupting its plans for the New Heavenly Realm.
• Yue Gongli used Forbidden Seed-Spell Returning to Origin to absorb the life power, but the Medicine Ancestor reclaimed more than half of what escaped.
• Dong Ling carried Shi Ti to Siling Mountain, where Hua Xiang let them through the barrier and they found the Holy Palace’s Half-Saints standing blankly in formation.
• Dong Ling saw that Purple Pet was absorbing a black Origin Crystal while a Baleful Sword pierced her forehead, and realized the Devil Ancestor had corrupted Siling Mountain.
• Purple Pet ordered Dong Ling to turn around, leaving her lifeless, and Shi Ti was similarly compelled to face the sky.

Yue Gongli used Sui Yin’s power to attack Medicine Ancestor with the Evil Sin Bow, but the Spell Seed revealed Medicine Ancestor’s influence and began consuming Yue Gongli’s life. The chapter ended with Yue Gongli raising the bow again despite his agony as the burning Firmament Tree mocked him.

• Yue Gongli and Medicine Ancestor divided the City of the Living Futu’s life force, with Medicine Ancestor taking seven portions and Yue Gongli’s Seed-Spell taking three.
• Yue Gongli opened the Outer Aspect Dharma Eye to search the Five Domains and other realms for Medicine Ancestor and hidden threats.
• Yue Gongli summoned the Evil Sin Bow and fired nine Arrows of Jiuli into the Sorrowful Emperor Realm, badly damaging the Great World Locust Tree and realm.
• The Spell Seed developed a Life Pattern and grew roots through Yue Gongli’s skull, draining his and Sui Yin’s power to transform itself into a World Tree.
• Yue Gongli spotted the burning Firmament Tree at the former City of the Living Futu and struggled to raise the bow again as it declared his farce was over.

Yue Gongli fought through the Spell Seed’s agony, destroyed the Firmament Tree, and forced the Medicine Ancestor to begin returning to zero. As the Spell Seed overtook him, Yue Gongli used his last strength to disrupt the Devil Ancestor’s plans at Crossroads Corner before dying.

• Yue Gongli broke free long enough to shoot the Firmament Tree and blow apart the Medicine Ancestor’s human face, then was dragged back into the Ghost Buddha Realm.
• The Medicine Ancestor sacrificed the Death God’s Scythe and began returning to zero as the Great World Locust Tree took on the powers of life and Reincarnation.
• Bei Huai realized A-Yao had deceived him and considered seizing the Medicine Ancestor’s backup plans for his own return to zero.
• Yue Gongli used Art Law Guidance to raise Crossroads Corner’s Dao Law level and Seal-Destroying Sui to suppress the inner demon and mind arts within the demonized Inverted Buddha Pagoda.
• Yue Gongli died as the Spell Seed consumed him, unable to see his sister or carry out his remaining plans.

Shen Yi plunged into the demonic pool to free Lei Xier, Five Declines of Heaven and Man, and Corpse Binder, then used its power to shatter the Inverted Buddha Pagoda and strike the Devil Ancestor’s Coffin. The chapter ended as he brought down the Overlord with Vertical Cleave.

• Wu Siniang explained that Lei Xier, Five Declines of Heaven and Man, and Corpse Binder had been submerged in the demonic pool for about six hours, while Shen Yi said he had waited fifteen days and three hours.
• Wu Siniang warned that the pool’s ancient demonic power might be tied to the coffin beneath the tower and advised Shen Yi not to interfere with it.
• Shen Yi jumped into the pool, let its power transform him, and used Asura Realm to strike the demonic liquid and send Lei Xier, Five Declines of Heaven and Man, and Corpse Binder flying toward the seventeenth floor.
• Shen Yi changed back to human form and used the borrowed power to smash through the eighteenth floor and the Tower Orb, striking the Devil Ancestor’s Coffin.
• Shen Yi swept the falling demonic liquid away from the coffin, splitting the Inverted Buddha Pagoda and causing part of the City of the Dead Futu to collapse.
• Shen Yi leaped into the air and brought the Overlord down on the bronze coffin with Vertical Cleave.

Ye Xiaotian escaped the Devil Ancestor’s control at Siling Mountain but was attacked when he tried to flee, while the Devil Ancestor’s power erupted over the Central Region. At Crossroads Corner, Bei Huai revealed that Five Declines of Heaven and Man was his creation and tried to summon him, provoking a surge of sinister righteous energy.

• A distant disturbance loosened Purple Pet’s control over Siling Mountain, allowing Ye Xiaotian to teleport away while the Holy Palace saints remained trapped.
• The Devil Ancestor attacked Ye Xiaotian through Purple Pet, but Ye Xiaotian evaded pursuit by circling the Five Domains before reaching Tiansang Spirit Palace.
• Ye Xiaotian sensed a powerful aura near the Heavenly Mystery Gate, then saw a black pillar of the Devil Ancestor’s power rise over the Central Region.
• The Inverted Buddha Pagoda was blasted out of the ground at Crossroads Corner, hurling Jiang Nayi, Lei Xier, Five Declines of Heaven and Man, and others into the open.
• Jiang Nayi discovered that Bei Huai had possessed the bandaged Corpse Binder, who revealed that Five Declines of Heaven and Man was his creation and had fled from him.
• Bei Huai ordered Five Declines of Heaven and Man to come to him, and the latter struggled against the command as sinister awe-inspiring righteous energy erupted from his body.

Shen Yi battered the Mother Coffin of Fetal Origin as the Devil Ancestor trapped and drained the people of the City of the Dead Futu. With Grudge’s guidance, Shen Yi merged Buddhist Dharma with ancient martial arts and manifested a Buddha body to face the coffin.

• The Devil Ancestor sealed the City of the Dead Futu, and Shen Yi’s blows exposed the Mother Coffin of Fetal Origin without cracking it.
• The Mother Coffin formed a Blood-Baleful Essence-Refining Formation that drained the city’s inhabitants, while Liu Guifen, Wu Siniang, Lei Xier, Bei Huai, and Jiang Nayi resisted or broke its effects.
• Shen Yi activated Fourfold Renunciation, Eight Gates, Seven Mansions, and Six Paths, but realized he could not destroy the coffin with his strength alone.
• Grudge’s voice told Shen Yi that the Inverted Buddha Pagoda could aid him, and Shen Yi restored the shattered pagoda in his palm.
• Shen Yi and Grudge’s consciousnesses merged as they reconciled Buddhist Dharma with ancient martial arts, and Shen Yi manifested a Buddha body before the Mother Coffin of Fetal Origin.

Shen Yi combined Resentful Buddha’s power with ancient martial arts to create the Three Realms and pursue the fleeing Devil Ancestor. He formed a Divine Court within the Bitter Sea, shattered the Mother Coffin of Fetal Origin, and exposed the Devil Ancestor inside.

• Shen Yi used Resentful Buddha’s power to manifest the Three Realms, while the Devil Ancestor fled north in the Mother Coffin of Fetal Origin.
• Shen Yi crossed the Bitter Sea after the coffin and used the Nine Palaces, Eight Gates, and Seven Constellations to trap and suppress the Devil Ancestor.
• Shen Yi formed the Six Paths within the Three Realms, creating a Divine Court, then struck the coffin with Overlord Style: Star Shatter.
• Shen Yi cracked the Mother Coffin of Fetal Origin and knocked its lid away, revealing the Devil Ancestor’s body to the Five Domains.
• The Devil Ancestor began to speak, but Shen Yi struck its throat with the Overlord.

As Five Declines of Heaven and Man’s power of decline erupted, Liu Guifen, Wu Siniang, and Jiang Nayi struggled to protect Lei Xier and contain the danger. Lei Xier recognized Xu Xiaoshou controlling Jiang Nayi and prepared to enter the formation to save Five Declines of Heaven and Man, while Xu Xiaoshou said he would go instead.

• Five Declines of Heaven and Man released an expanding gray mist of decline, and Liu Guifen retreated with Wu Siniang as Jiang Nayi tried to spatially transfer Lei Xier.
• Wu Siniang severed Jiang Nayi’s spatial transfer, then used a jade pendant to bring Lei Xier safely to her.
• Jiang Nayi followed the Devil Ancestor’s oracle and asked Liu Guifen and Wu Siniang to help contain the danger, then began weaving a grand formation around Crossroads Corner.
• Jiang Nayi completed a Mystic Cloud Formless Formation that concealed the City of the Dead Futu, and Lei Xier awakened outside it.
• Lei Xier tried to enter the formation to rescue Five Declines of Heaven and Man, but a spiritual thread from Jiang Nayi restrained her and she recognized Xu Xiaoshou behind the puppet.
• Xu Xiaoshou asked Lei Xier where she intended to go, then said he would enter the formation himself.

Shouye’s recovered memories revealed how Bei Huai had manipulated his death at White Cavern, his rebirth as a Red Robes Night Watcher, and his later transformation into Five Declines of Heaven and Man. As Shouye confronted Bei Huai, the Corpse Binder forced his body into Ghost Beast transformation and declared that they would share one name.

• Bei Huai called the mud-strewn Five Declines of Heaven and Man by the names Xingye and Shouye, prompting his memories to return.
• Xingye remembered how Bei Huai had captured and experimented on him, planning to pair him with hundreds of Ghost Feeders.
• Shouye remembered dying after the White Cavern disaster, agreeing to Bei Huai’s bargain, and returning to Red Robes with a new ability and erased memories.
• He recalled leaving Red Robes, joining Yama as Five Declines of Heaven and Man, and eventually being sealed and cast into the Deep Sea, where he died beneath Shouye’s jaws.
• Shouye recognized Bei Huai as the mastermind behind his past and struggled against his conflicting identities and his promise to Bei Huai.
• Bei Huai struck Shouye and used locust branches to begin his Ghost Beast transformation, declaring that they would share the name Bei Huai.

Xu Xiaoshou arrived at Crossroads Corner as Bei Huai seized control of Shouye’s body and absorbed the wills within it. Shouye’s collective will resisted by naming itself “Black Night,” and Xu Xiaoshou confronted the newly possessed Bei Huai.

• Xu Xiaoshou entered Crossroads Corner with Greed God and Hidden Pain, intending to intervene in Shouye’s body seizure and settle the score with Bei Huai.
• Inside the body’s consciousness, Bei Huai climbed toward the throne, devouring the lingering wills and reclaiming the Undying Body, Decaying Body, and Devouring Body.
• Bei Huai confronted the Red Robes Shouye, who revealed that he had gathered the other wills into a collective and declared that they were “Black Night.”
• Bei Huai completed the possession, emerged at Crossroads Corner as Five Declines of Heaven and Man, and laughed that he would refine Black Night through reincarnation.
• Xu Xiaoshou’s appearance and the Heavenly Secrets Grand Formation halted Bei Huai’s uncontrolled powers, and Xu Xiaoshou mocked him as he began to investigate.

Xu Xiaoshou cornered Bei Huai at Crossroads Corner and repeatedly beat, restrained, and tried to force him to cultivate and complete his Reincarnation. When Xu Xiaoshou searched Bei Huai’s many inner voices, he finally heard Shouye reassure him that the ordeal did not hurt.

• Bei Huai discarded the broken Yama Mask, said A-Yao had deceived him, and corrected Xu Xiaoshou that the wills within him were called Black Night, not Shouye.
• Xu Xiaoshou urged Bei Huai to reincarnate inside the Heavenly Secrets Grand Formation, but Bei Huai agreed only to escape, so Xu Xiaoshou attacked him with a series of powerful punches.
• Bei Huai repeatedly regenerated and tried to flee, while Xu Xiaoshou burned away his growth, turned the battlefield into an alchemy furnace, and tried to refine him into a pill.
• Xu Xiaoshou used spirit threads to gather Bei Huai’s scattered flesh, interrupted his Three Aversions Eye, and left him hanging from his arm.
• Xu Xiaoshou activated Thought Deprivation and heard the many voices within Bei Huai before finding Shouye, who weakly assured him that he did not hurt.

Xu Xiaoshou overwhelmed Bei Huai in Crossroads Corner, countering his escape attempts and devouring most of his soul and life force. Bei Huai survived only as a cocooned remnant inside Shouye’s body, leaving Xu Xiaoshou to wait and see whether he would call on Medicine Ancestor.

• Xu Xiaoshou remembered his past connection with Shouye and vowed to avenge him.
• Xu Xiaoshou battered Bei Huai and exposed his plan to escape Crossroads Corner, seize power, and challenge A-Yao.
• Bei Huai tried to flee and summon help, but Xu Xiaoshou stopped him with the Court of Spellbreaking and the Limit Giant.
• Xu Xiaoshou crushed Bei Huai’s divine soul body and devoured its life energy, leaving Bei Huai with only a weak remnant.
• Bei Huai hid inside Shouye’s ruined body and formed a reincarnation cocoon, while Xu Xiaoshou waited for him to seek Medicine Ancestor’s aid.

Xu Xiaoshou used Greed God to interrogate the defenseless Bei Huai, learned about the Life Medicine Pool hidden in the North Sea, and disguised himself as Bei Huai to break into it. He began devouring the pool’s vast reserves of life energy, intending to steal Medicine Ancestor’s contingency before it could be used.

• Xu Xiaoshou had Greed God control Bei Huai during his Reincarnation state and learned that Medicine Ancestor’s return to zero was sensed through a Locust Heart linked to the Great World Locust Tree.
• Bei Huai revealed that he planned to visit the North Sea, where the Life Medicine Pool and Divine Shedding were hidden, and that Medicine Ancestor intended to devour him after returning to zero.
• Xu Xiaoshou took half of Bei Huai’s Locust Heart, transformed himself into Bei Huai, and left a hair clone with Greed God to continue questioning him.
• Xu Xiaoshou found the hidden spatial node beneath the North Sea, broke into the sealed space, and entered the Life Medicine Pool.
• Xu Xiaoshou saw that the pool contained an immense sea of concentrated life energy and began devouring it through Bei Huai’s Devouring Power.

Medicine Ancestor watched the Devil Ancestor, Bei Huai, and the Holy Ancestor’s plans unfold while completing his own return to zero. At Tiansang Spirit Palace, Ye Xiaotian sought answers about Qiao Qianzhi’s strange Saint Ascension and left to summon Zhong Yuanzi, unsettled by A-Jie’s transformation and a cryptic warning.

• Medicine Ancestor observed the Devil Ancestor’s struggle against Shen Yi and identified the Mother Coffin of Fetal Origin as the Devil Ancestor’s dangerous reserve weapon.
• Medicine Ancestor realized Bei Huai was devouring Life Medicine Pools too quickly but remained confident that Bei Huai’s actions would serve his plans.
• Ye Xiaotian dispelled the last of his demonic energy, then sensed danger around Qiao Qianzhi’s Saint Ascension and decided to avoid the Heavenly Mystery Gate.
• A-Jie appeared before Ye Xiaotian, and Qiao Qianzhi used him to ask Ye Xiaotian to bring Zhong Yuanzi to discuss the relationship between array diagrams, Dao patterns, and the Great Dao Diagram.
• Ye Xiaotian left through spatial fragments to find Zhong Yuanzi, then heard a voice warn that the world’s fate was muddied.

Xu Xiaoshou entered the White Mist Forbidden Zone to find Dragon Cave’s Life Medicine Pool and discovered Xu-Grey Blight hidden inside it. He contacted Dao Qiongchang for answers, but the chapter ended just as Dao Qiongchang replied.

• While secretly converting the North Sea Life Medicine Pool’s energy, Xu Xiaoshou reviewed what he knew about Dragon Cave and the White Mist Forbidden Zone.
• Xu Xiaoshou entered the White Mist Forbidden Zone, followed its hidden guidance to a Life Medicine Pool, and sensed an attack on his spirit and consciousness.
• Xu Xiaoshou found a second Life Medicine Pool filled with golden liquid and faint white threads, then transferred Kui Leihan’s Divine Shedding to Crossroads Corner.
• Xu Xiaoshou discovered intelligent grayish-white mist identified as Xu-Grey Blight, one of the First Six Xu, and wondered whether it was Medicine Ancestor’s weapon or a remnant of Their experiments.
• Xu Xiaoshou contacted Bei Huai, who did not recognize the Xu-Grey Blight, then reached out to Dao Qiongchang for information; Dao Qiongchang immediately answered, “I’m here.”

Xu Xiaoshou questioned Dao Qiongchang about the First Six Xu and learned how their powers had been scattered, retrieved, and used in hidden experiments. After realizing Dao Qiongchang had secretly acquired some of them, Xu Xiaoshou revealed he had encountered Xu-Grey Blight and proposed a meeting to trade for a way to retrieve it.

• Xu Xiaoshou asked Dao Qiongchang to explain all the First Six Xu, and Dao Qiongchang traced their origins to Nuo, Saint, and Devil.
• Dao Qiongchang described Devouring Glutton's history, Exile Sand's Power of Withering, and the possibility that the Scale-White Witch and Voodoo Bodies had been divided across generations.
• Xu Xiaoshou inferred that Dao Qiongchang had secretly obtained a substantial share of the Six Xu, including the Gold-Corroding Power he had discarded after defeating Taizai Ci.
• Dao Qiongchang guessed that Xu Xiaoshou had encountered Xu-Grey Blight and offered to help retrieve it in exchange for a share.
• Xu Xiaoshou agreed to share Xu-Grey Blight but challenged Dao Qiongchang to meet at a location he might not dare visit.

Dao Qiongchang entered the Life Medicine Pool and joined Xu Xiaoshou, disguised as Bei Huai, in investigating the Xu-Grey Blight. After they divided the blight between their Demon-Purifying Refinement Bottles, Xu Xiaoshou confronted Dao Qiongchang about his cultivation and learned that his Way of Memory had reached the Extreme Realm.

• Dao Qiongchang emerged from the she-leopard in Dragon Cave and used the Way of Memory to enter the Life Medicine Pool where Xu Xiaoshou was waiting.
• Dao Qiongchang explained how nonliving things could carry memories, prompting Xu Xiaoshou to suspect he cultivated the Dao of "he" by relying on others and objects.
• Dao Qiongchang identified the Xu-Grey Blight as a potent source of mental contamination and gave Xu Xiaoshou a Demon-Purifying Refinement Bottle.
• Xu Xiaoshou and Dao Qiongchang used their bottles to split the Xu-Grey Blight between them.
• Xu Xiaoshou declared that he wanted to move against A-Yao, then openly asked Dao Qiongchang whether his Way of Memory had reached the Extreme Realm.
• Dao Qiongchang confirmed that his Way of Memory had reached the Extreme Realm.