Chapter Summaries

Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao recruited Duan WuLiang as a Dragon Source Power Leveling distributor, then used the flying warship's Mystic Nuclear Bomb to destroy Tianya City and harvest its souls with their banners. As nearby cultivators rushed toward the devastation, black-robed men who sensed a Sacred Infant Banner also headed for the site.

• Zhao Jianhua persuaded Duan WuLiang to apply as a Dragon Source Power Leveling distributor by promising him a flying warship after ten thousand orders.
• Duan WuLiang urged Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao to enter Tianya City and target only the Feilian Gang, but Zhao Jianhua fired a Mystic Nuclear Bomb at the city.
• The Mystic Nuclear Bomb obliterated Tianya City, and Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao used their banners to draw in the dead city's souls.
• Zhao Jianhua claimed that he and Wu ZhengHao were Shattered Ghost Sect disciples, while Duan WuLiang recoiled in terror at the massacre.
• Cultivators from nearby cities saw the mushroom cloud and began gathering at the site of Tianya City.
• A group of black-robed men in Cloudsea City sensed a Sacred Infant Banner and flew toward Tianya City.

Cultivators blamed the destruction of Tianya City on the Shattered Ghost Sect and attacked its disciples, while Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao secretly manipulated events to provoke the fight. Zhou Zheng was left fighting alone and realized that the two supposed survivors had deceived everyone.

• Survivors described a black banner devouring the souls of Tianya City's inhabitants, leading cultivators to suspect the Shattered Ghost Sect had destroyed the city.
• Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao staged an accusation against Zhou Zheng and the Shattered Ghost Sect, while Feng Xiangtian and Chu Wanxian confronted them.
• Feng Xiangtian called on the cultivators to attack, and the gathered Rogue Cultivators fought the Shattered Ghost Sect disciples as Chu Wanxian blocked Zhou Zheng's abilities.
• The cultivators killed more than a dozen Shattered Ghost Sect disciples, leaving Zhou Zheng badly wounded and outnumbered.
• Zhou Zheng accused Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao of deceiving everyone, and the two secretly gave each other a triumphant thumbs-up.

Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao provoked a massive battle between righteous and evil cultivators at Tianya City, then disguised themselves as Shattered Ghost Sect disciples and used the fighting to seize loot and captives. As powerful figures from both sides arrived, Long Yutian attacked Zhao Jianhua, escalating the conflict further.

• Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao spread false reports across the Primal Spirit Domain to draw righteous and evil cultivators to Tianya City.
• Duan WuLiang amplified the rumors near Cloudsea City, sending cultivators from both factions rushing to the battlefield.
• Reinforcements joined the battle, and Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao disguised themselves in Shattered Ghost Sect clothes before charging in with their Myriad Souls Banners.
• Great Immortal Weasel secretly gathered wounded cultivators into the Pet Pouch and collected resources while Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao fought.
• Long Yutian, Zi Jinghong, Miao Yan, and Xing Ye arrived as the battle intensified, and Long Yutian attacked Zhao Jianhua with the Sky Dragon Chain.

Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao provoked the orthodox and evil factions into a bloody war while Earth cultivators used the battle to capture enemies, gather resources, and advertise Dragon Source Power Leveling. The Earth cultivators then revealed matching Myriad Souls Banners and trapped both sides beneath a gigantic soul shadow.

• Zhao Jianhua insulted Long Yutian and used the Myriad Souls Banner to attack him, intensifying the war between orthodox and evil cultivators.
• Wu ZhengHao and Miao Yan joined the fighting, while the banners' soul attacks left orthodox cultivators vulnerable and strengthened the evil faction's assault.
• Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao secretly coordinated with Sun Zhenbang, Xie Yixuan, and other Earth cultivators, who entered the battle disguised among the orthodox and attacked the evil cultivators.
• Sun Zhenbang advertised Dragon Source Power Leveling while defeating Xing Ye with a lightning talisman, and Great Immortal Weasel captured Xing Ye and other Cosmos cultivators.
• Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao retreated as Sun Zhenbang led the Earth cultivators to activate the Cloudmist Life-Reversal Formation around the battlefield.
• A gigantic soul shadow trapped the orthodox and evil cultivators, who saw that the Earth cultivators also carried black soul banners and heard them proclaim Dragon Source's dominance.

Dragon Source Power Leveling revealed its betrayal at Tianya City, capturing survivors and harvesting souls while framing the demonic sects. Its leaders planned to exploit the resulting conflict and promote their service, and rumors of the massacre began reaching powerful orthodox cultivators.

• Dragon Source cultivators turned against the righteous and demonic forces at Tianya City, while Feng Xiangtian and Chu Wanxian fell and Zhou Zheng and Miao Yan surrendered to Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao.
• Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao captured the surrendered cultivators, and Xie Yixuan’s group harvested the souls of the remaining righteous and demonic fighters.
• Great Immortal Weasel and Sun Zhenbang planned to send the captured resources and human pets to Da Ci Stronghold, spread a false account blaming the demonic path, and use the chaos to expand Dragon Source Power Leveling.
• Zhao Jianhua reassured Duan WuLiang that the Shattered Ghost Sect would support him as he promoted Dragon Source Power Leveling to righteous cultivators seeking revenge.
• Earth cultivators spread fabricated accounts of the Tianya City battle in restaurants across the Primal Spirit Domain, and Lei Yao of the Wind Thunder Pavilion heard the story and left to report it to his sect.

The four great orthodox sects besieged the Shattered Ghost Sect after Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao framed it for the destruction of Tianya City. While the sect elders fought, Zhao Jianhua and his companions broke into the Treasure Pavilion and began looting its immense stores of treasures and Celestial Essence.

• Feng Youxiang, Chu Mengji, Long Zhantian, and Zi Tiandu gathered outside the Shattered Ghost Sect to demand the release of their captured disciples and relatives.
• Niu Jingtian learned that the sect was accused of slaughtering a million people in Tianya City, while Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao urged the orthodox cultivators to attack.
• Wu ZhengHao faked his death in a clash with Niu Jingtian, enraging the four sect leaders and prompting Niu Jingtian to summon Gui Xiao, Gui Li, and Gui Wan.
• Gui Xiao, Gui Li, and Gui Wan fought the orthodox powerhouses with their Sacred Infant Formation as Zhao Jianhua and Wu ZhengHao slipped toward the Treasure Pavilion.
• Wu ZhengHao used the Pangolin King Claws to tunnel into the Treasure Pavilion, where Zhao Jianhua and the others found countless valuables and tens of millions of pieces of Celestial Essence.

Zhao Jianhua and the Earth cultivators looted and destroyed the Shattered Ghost Sect’s Treasure Pavilion while the sect fought the four great factions. After disguised Earth cultivators captured the Shattered Ghost elders and Long Zhantian, they turned their attention to Zi Tiandu, Feng Youxiang, and Chu Wanxian.

• Zhao Jianhua ordered the Earth cultivators to loot the Treasure Pavilion, and Sun Zhenbang told them to demolish it with explosives before they left.
• Ji Ze detonated the explosives, destroying the pavilion and enraging Gui Xiao, Gui Li, and Niu Jingtian, who accused the four righteous sects of the theft.
• Long Zhantian attacked the Shattered Ghost elders, while Feng Youxiang, Chu Mengji, and Zi Tiandu fought Gui Li and Niu Jingtian.
• Sun Zhenbang, Xie Yixuan, Zhao Jianhua, and Wu ZhengHao appeared in Shattered Ghost Sect clothing, captured the three wounded elders with the Pet Pouch, and Zhao Jianhua defeated and captured Long Zhantian with the Myriad Souls Banner.
• After the Shattered Ghost Sect disciples celebrated the newcomers’ victory, Zhao Jianhua and the others tossed a Pet Pouch toward Zi Tiandu, Feng Youxiang, and Chu Wanxian and ordered them to get inside.

Zhao Jianhua and the Earth cultivators used the Shattered Ghost Sect’s stronghold to capture Long Zhantian, Zi Tiandu, Feng Youxiang, and Chu Wanxian, while claiming they had stolen the sect’s treasure vault. After overwhelming the orthodox elders, they led the surviving Shattered Ghost Sect disciples into the underground palace, where terrified cries soon rang out.

• Zhao Jianhua’s group accused the orthodox sects of stealing the Shattered Ghost Sect’s treasure vault, while Xing Wuhen and Zhen Mi urged Zi Tiandu, Feng Youxiang, and Chu Wanxian to return it.
• Zi Tiandu, Feng Youxiang, and Chu Wanxian denied taking the treasure vault, and Zhao Jianhua ordered his companions to capture them as leverage.
• Wu ZhengHao unleashed the Myriad Souls Banner’s soul attack, and the black bags captured Zi Tiandu, Feng Youxiang, and Chu Wanxian.
• Zhen Mi and Xing Wuhen watched as vengeful souls attacked the remaining cultivators and absorbed their souls into the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Zhao Jianhua led the surviving Shattered Ghost Sect disciples into the underground palace, where terrified cries soon came from its depths.

Xie Yixuan brought Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng and Zhang Boduan to take charge of the Shattered Ghost Sect's headquarters, where Earth cultivators planned to disguise their expansion as an internal sect conflict. When Reed Flame Valley attacked Dragon Source Power Leveling in Silver Severed City, Zhao Jianhua led reinforcements to support Duan WuLiang and Sun Min.

• Xie Yixuan arrived at the Shattered Ghost Sect's headquarters with Earth cultivators, including Ying Zheng and Zhang Boduan, whom Sun Zhenbang and the others welcomed.
• The abbot of Qiguang Temple explained that his upgraded Pudu Sutra had converted Shattered Ghost Sect disciples into obedient followers who could help conceal the Earth cultivators' control of the headquarters.
• Ying Zheng revealed a plan to present Li Shixiong as the headquarters' representative and make its conflict with the main sect appear genuine.
• Duan WuLiang reported that Reed Flame Valley was trying to seize Dragon Source Power Leveling's business in Silver Severed City, so Zhao Jianhua requested Qiguang Temple's help and led reinforcements there.
• At the Dragon Source estate, Duan WuLiang and Sun Min's group held off Reed Flame Valley with vengeful spirits and aphrodisiac powder while Duan WuLiang taunted Mao Dadan from behind their defenses.

Duan WuLiang and Sun Min defended Dragon Source Power Leveling’s estate from Reed Flame Valley using pink mist and black banners while they waited for Zhao Jianhua’s reinforcements. As Reed Flame Valley lifted the estate with its Return Origin Grand Formation, a host of ghosts approached, leaving Tu Tianyue stunned.

• Tu Tianyue demanded that Duan WuLiang surrender the Penguin Messaging Jade Slips, while Sun Min explained that Earth’s pink mist had incapacitated Reed Flame Valley disciples and kept them from entering the estate.
• Yang Wei urged Yi Jing to collect the pink mist, claiming it brought him bliss, and Yi Jing secretly bottled some.
• Duan WuLiang asked Sun Min for a Sacred Infant Banner, and Sun Min promised one if he submitted to Dragon Source and revealed that Zhao Jianhua’s reinforcements were close.
• Tu Tianyue ordered Reed Flame Valley to use the Return Origin Grand Formation, and Lu Wushuang led the disciples in lifting the entire Dragon Source estate into the air with a web of red paper cranes.
• Duan WuLiang feared the estate’s defenders would be refined before reinforcements arrived, but black banners and a tide of ghosts appeared in the sky, shocking Tu Tianyue.

The Shattered Ghost Sect arrived in Silver Severed City and attacked Tu Tianyue and the Reed Flame Valley cultivators, who had been targeting the Dragon Source residence. The Earth cultivators used the battle to provoke a wider conflict, and the chapter ended with Qiguang Temple’s abbot confronting Tu Tianyue’s captured soul.

• Sun Zhenbang dismissed Tu Tianyue’s warning and refused to let the Reed Flame Valley cultivators leave peacefully.
• Tu Tianyue ordered his disciples to retreat, and the Dragon Source cultivators escaped the residence and joined the Shattered Ghost Sect.
• Sun Zhenbang sealed Tu Tianyue’s escape and unleashed the Myriad Souls Banner against Reed Flame Valley.
• The monks of Qiguang Temple chanted the True Scripture of Universal Salvation, dissolving the souls of fallen Reed Flame Valley disciples.
• The vengeful souls overwhelmed Tu Tianyue and dragged his soul from his body, and the abbot of Qiguang Temple declared that he would deliver Tu Tianyue to salvation.

Daoist Qingwei revealed Reed Flame Valley’s slaughter of rogue cultivators, established the Shangqing Sect, and lectured cultivators in Silver Severed City, helping Hai Rui and Shui Bingyue advance. Meanwhile, Shattered Ghost Sect inspectors arrived at its Cosmos City base, where Li Shixiong received them while concealing his intentions.

• Daoist Qingwei used Tu Tianyue’s soul to expose that Reed Flame Valley had sacrificed most of the rogue cultivators it recruited as nourishment for its powerful members.
• Daoist Qingwei announced the founding of the Shangqing Sect and expounded its Dao, inspiring cultivators in Silver Severed City to meditate and break through.
• Hai Rui perfected his Earth Origin Realm cultivation, while Shui Bingyue perfected her Profound Water Art and formed the Soul-Jade Frost Phoenix.
• Sun Zhenbang warned that Shattered Ghost Sect officials would soon inspect their Cosmos City base, and the abbot of Qiguang Temple said they could be dealt with when they arrived.
• Wang Mei and Chen Chong arrived at the Shattered Ghost Sect base to investigate Li Shixiong’s account, and Li Shixiong welcomed them after bribing Chen Chong.

Qin Shi Huang’s forces used the Shattered Ghost Sect’s stronghold to capture and convert Wang Mei and the other Enforcement Hall inspectors, tightening their control over the sect. Qin Shi Huang then planned to exploit the sect’s ambitions by leading its forces against Reed Flame Valley.

• Wang Mei and the inspectors entered the stronghold, where Li Shixiong explained the Myriad Souls Banners and led them to the Council Hall.
• Niu Jingtian accepted Wang Mei’s memorial and learned that the Shattered Ghost Sect leader had ordered them to follow events and fish in troubled waters.
• The Evil Bat Disaster Heart Formation lulled Wang Mei and the inspectors into unconsciousness, and Qin Shi Huang had Master Juexin convert them with the Pudu Sutra.
• Perfected Person Ziyang and Qin Shi Huang discussed using Wang Mei to influence the Enforcement Hall and protect Earth’s agents in the Shattered Ghost Sect.
• Qin Shi Huang announced plans to gather the sect’s cultivators and attack Reed Flame Valley, while rewarding Li Shixiong and Niu Jingtian with merit points for Myriad Souls Banners.

Qin Shi Huang planned to destroy Reed Flame Valley by manipulating rival sects, planting converted spies, and spreading Ice Craving among its cultivators. As the captured orthodox cultivators returned to their sects and news of Daoist Qingwei’s Shangqing Sect drew crowds, the major factions grew wary of the Shattered Ghost Sect’s movements.

• Qin Shi Huang told Niu Jingtian and Li Shixiong to prepare for an attack on Reed Flame Valley, use spies within the orthodox sects, and turn rogue cultivators against the valley by exposing its crimes.
• Qin Shi Huang studied a medicinal manual of herbs and recipes, then planned to use Ice Craving as a weapon against Reed Flame Valley and eventually the Shattered Ghost Sect’s main sect.
• News of Daoist Qingwei’s Shangqing Sect and sermons spread through the Primal Spirit Domain, drawing cultivators toward Silver Severed City.
• Situ Fang, Ni Zhenshu, Long Xiu'ao, Zi Haoyue, and Nangong Fei reacted cautiously to the Shattered Ghost Sect’s actions, while Long Xiu'ao and Nangong Fei received word that returning elders had arrived.
• Sun Zhenbang and the others tested Ice Craving and discovered that it caused addiction and hallucinations, weakened cultivators, and could pass through their spiritual power to others.
• Qin Shi Huang revealed that he meant to expose Ice Craving after the Shattered Ghost Sect’s main sect spread it, prompting the Cosmos sects to attack the headquarters while Earth’s cultivators benefited.

The Shattered Ghost Sect planned to spread the addictive Ice Addiction Pill throughout the Cosmos, while Wang Mei secretly supplied targets for Li Shixiong, Sun Min, and Duan WuLiang to raid. The trio attacked the Netherworld Palace, where Gong WuHou faced them as his disciples’ souls were turned into puppets.

• Zhou Yuan presented the Ice Addiction Pill to the Shattered Ghost Sect’s Council Hall and explained its addictive, life-draining effects.
• Zhou Yuan proposed using the pill to control cultivators across the Cosmos, and Gong Han and Yang Haonan supported the plan.
• Wang Mei received Li Shixiong’s request for another target and directed him to exterminate the Netherworld Palace in Myriad Abundance City.
• Li Shixiong, Sun Min, and Duan WuLiang flew to the Netherworld Palace, while the First Emperor and Zhao Jianhua watched them depart.
• The trio breached the Netherworld Palace’s protective formation and turned many disciples’ extracted souls into puppets.
• Gong WuHou recognized the attackers as Shattered Ghost Sect cultivators, and Duan WuLiang and Sun Min competed to capture his soul while Li Shixiong attacked the other disciples.

Duan WuLiang, Sun Min, and Li Shixiong destroyed Netherworld Palace with the Myriad Souls Banner and the Qiguang Recording Orb, but Wind Thunder Pavilion ambushed them and stole the orb. The chapter left them surrounded by Lei Wuya and his experts as Sun Min secretly prepared a chance to escape.

• Duan WuLiang and Sun Min overwhelmed Gong WuHou, whose soul puppets helped destroy Netherworld Palace and extract its treasures.
• Duan WuLiang used the Qiguang Recording Orb to play the Pudu Sutra, dissolving the extracted spirits, including Gong WuHou’s, into light.
• Sun Min’s soul puppets looted Netherworld Palace’s treasure vault, and Li Shixiong told the group it was time to leave.
• A Heaven Shaking Arrow snatched the Qiguang Recording Orb, so Duan WuLiang, Sun Min, and Li Shixiong pursued it to a river and found Lei Wuya’s ambush.
• Lei Wuya revealed that Wind Thunder Pavilion had planned to seize the orb, while Sun Min crushed a Desire Pill and Duan WuLiang pretended to surrender.

Sun Min and his companions drugged Wind Thunder Pavilion cultivators, captured Heaven's Secret Pavilion spies, and used a recording of the ensuing scandal to demand thirty million units of Celestial Essence from Manager Wan. Manager Wan confronted them at the Heaven's Secret Pavilion and ordered his guards to seize them.

• Lei Wuya accepted Sun Min's ice cream, which contained Softening Bone Powder, while the Desire Pill took effect on him and the other Wind Thunder Pavilion cultivators.
• Sun Min, Duan WuLiang, and Li Shixiong subdued the disabled cultivators, and Pang Dayuan begged to join their Myriad Souls Banner rather than be left with them.
• Li Shixiong captured three Heaven's Secret Pavilion spies, and Sun Min recorded what happened to the Heaven's Secret Pavilion and Wind Thunder Pavilion cultivators.
• Wu Feng reported that the Heaven's Secret Pavilion's spies had died, then Manager Wan viewed Sun Min's recording and flew into a rage.
• Sun Min and his companions demanded thirty million units of Celestial Essence at the Heaven's Secret Pavilion, and Manager Wan recognized them and ordered them seized.

Sun Min and his companions extorted thirty million Celestial Essence from Heaven's Secret Pavilion by threatening to expose its scandal, then sent the money to Da Ci Stronghold. The chapter ended with them receiving Daoist Qingwei's alert that the Shangqing Sect in Silver Severed City was in danger.

• Li Shixiong prepared to fight as Heaven's Secret Pavilion cultivators moved to surround the trio, but Sun Min threatened to spread memory crystal orb footage across the Primal Spirit Domain.
• Manager Wan backed down after Sun Min warned that Heaven's Secret Pavilion would become a laughingstock, and Wu Feng invited the trio upstairs to settle matters.
• Sun Min's trio left Heaven's Secret Pavilion with thirty million Celestial Essence, while Manager Wan and Wu Feng doubled sale prices and halved purchase prices to recoup the loss.
• Sun Min handed the money to the Earth cultivators at Netherworld Palace and told them to send it to Da Ci Stronghold.
• Sun Min, Duan WuLiang, and Li Shixiong received Daoist Qingwei's alert that the Shangqing Sect in Silver Severed City was in danger and sprang to their feet.

Reed Flame Valley surrounded the Shangqing Sect in Silver Severed City, and Daoist Qingwei planned to use Stink Bombs disguised on Origami Crane Paper Figures to retaliate. The figures appeared to break through the encirclement and were captured, leaving them in front of Fan Ru and the other elders.

• Fifth Master announced a bounty for Cosmos cultivators who injured or killed Reed Flame Valley disciples, and Daoist Qingwei agreed to escalate the conflict.
• Professor Song Ze prepared Stink Bombs, while Fifth Master proposed attaching them to Origami Crane Paper Figures coated with Omni-adhesive Gel.
• The Shangqing Sect opened its formation and sent figures fleeing into Reed Flame Valley's encirclement, where the disciples captured them as cauldrons.
• Fan Ru ordered the captured figures brought before him and threatened Daoist Qingwei, who pretended to be furious while recognizing an opportunity to get the figures close to Reed Flame Valley's elders.

Daoist Qingwei’s trap caused the captured Shangqing Sect disciples to explode into foul Stink Bombs, crippling Reed Flame Valley’s army and breaking Silver Severed City’s blockade. He ordered the Shangqing Sect to counterattack as reinforcements approached.

• Fan Ru demanded the Shangqing Sect’s defensive formation blueprints and threatened to kill captured disciples unless Qingwei surrendered.
• Fan Ru ordered the execution of the captives, triggering the hidden Stink Bombs inside the Origami Crane Paper Figures and causing the captured Shangqing Sect cultivators to burst apart.
• The black liquid covered Reed Flame Valley’s cultivators and Silver Severed City, leaving the four elders and thousands of disciples vomiting and unable to fight.
• The Shangqing Sect disciples emerged from their formation and mocked the afflicted Reed Flame Valley army as the city’s defensive restriction collapsed and its residents fled.
• Daoist Qingwei ordered the Shangqing Sect’s stronger cultivators to attack Reed Flame Valley while weaker disciples supported them from within the formation, noting that Earth cultivator groups were nearing the city.