Chapter Summaries

Long Ling’s plan caused cultivators who drank the spring water to gestate Xenomorphic Eggs, and attempts to destroy the embryos killed some of them. As the survivors panicked and blamed the Ancient God Sect, Long Ling waited for them to fall into deeper despair before intervening.

• Cultivators who drank the spring water suffered severe abdominal pain and discovered that life was gestating inside their dantians.
• Long Ling told Hei Feng and the Black and White Demons that the cultivators were gestating Xenomorphic Eggs as part of her plan.
• The afflicted cultivators realized they were showing signs of pregnancy, including the men, and failed to find a way to stop it.
• Some cultivators tried to destroy the embryos with their cultivation, but the embryos were linked to their life force and the cultivators died.
• The survivors panicked, blamed the Ancient God Sect, and speculated about its motives while Long Ling chose to wait until they were more desperate before taking control of them.

Long Ling and her companions masqueraded as guardians of the Ancient God Sect ruins and manipulated the afflicted cultivators into surrendering their Souls of Life in exchange for a cure. After crushing the cultivators who resisted, Long Ling manifested the Bone Avatar and claimed it could end their calamity.

• Long Ling and her companions approached the despairing cultivators, claimed to be guardians, and threatened them into considering an offer of help.
• A group of cultivators resisted, but Long Ling, Hei Feng, Elder Qingyun, and Black and White Demons quickly subdued them.
• Long Ling offered to remove the Soul of Life embryos if the cultivators handed over their Souls of Life, and more and more of them agreed.
• Long Ling summoned the Bone Avatar and told the cultivators that it could resolve their affliction.

Long Ling used the Bone Avatar to purify the cultivators of the Aberrant Soul-Embryo, then forced them to lure more cultivators into her trap. After crushing Myriad Prosperity True Person’s resistance through Hei Feng’s torture, Long Ling and Hei Feng planned to gather more Ancient Talismans and build an army.

• Long Ling revealed the Bone Avatar’s power, reassured the cultivators, and used its purifying light to expel the Aberrant Soul-Embryo from them.
• Long Ling ordered the cultivators to crush their jade slips and draw their companions to the Five-Colored Altar, and Hei Feng enforced her command.
• Myriad Prosperity True Person objected to endangering their companions, so Hei Feng tortured his Soul of Life until the other dissenters surrendered.
• The cultivators obeyed and continued sending communication lights, while Long Ling and Hei Feng discussed using them to collect Ancient Talismans and recruit an army.

Long Ling continued gathering Ancient Talismans by drawing cultivators into her territory, while the Ancient God Sect's statue guardian awakened the consciousnesses inside its crystal brain to observe and debate her methods. The chapter ended with the consciousnesses watching the Jungle Trial Grounds through a bronze mirror as Long Ling wondered whether someone was spying on her.

• Long Ling's strategy brought more cultivators into the perilous region, rapidly increasing her stock of Ancient Talismans and earning the admiration of Hei Feng and her followers.
• The statue guardian transmitted Long Ling's actions to the crystal human brain, awakening many ancient consciousnesses that argued over whether her methods were justified.
• The consciousnesses discussed the mystery of Long Ling's Bone Avatar and its possible links to White Bone Contemplation, the Vajra Sect, and the Great Dao.
• The awakened consciousnesses formed a bronze mirror that displayed the Jungle Trial Grounds and the cultivators competing for Ancient Talismans.
• Long Ling sneezed repeatedly, wondered whether someone was watching her, and startled Hei Feng and the others.

Long Ling drew nearly a thousand cultivators from powerful factions to the misty restriction with rumors of treasures, while he prepared to exploit their rivalries and lure them into his scheme. As the restriction opened and the factions entered, Long Ling sent Hei Feng to carry out the next step.

• Long Ling watched nearly a thousand cultivators gather beyond the mist, including Chi Lian, Yao Shuntian, Jiang Qiang, and Nan Yue.
• Yao Shuntian addressed the assembled cultivators, then Jiang Qiang challenged his claim to authority as the Xian Ling cultivator Nan Yue arrived.
• Dream Lord of the Nether Hall joined Nan Yue in proposing that their factions unite to claim and study the treasure, provoking resentment among the other cultivators.
• Long Ling ordered the cultivators with him to hide inside the Myriad Souls Banner and concealed their demonic auras.
• The mist opened a passage, and cultivators from the gathered factions began entering the restricted grounds.
• Long Ling told Hei Feng to take over, and Hei Feng hid in the mist to wait for the right moment.

Long Ling and Hei Feng used illusions in the mist to disorient cultivators and capture those whose Dao hearts collapsed. The survivors reached the illusory Biyou Palace, where a woman offered them a trial to obtain peaches from the Pan Tao Sacred Tree, and Hei Feng realized Long Ling was deceiving them again.

• Long Ling and Hei Feng watched as the mist’s illusions lured cultivators into traps, and Hei Feng captured isolated cultivators with the Myriad Souls Banner.
• The cultivators struggled through the mist’s shifting illusions and discovered the island of Biyou Palace, where Xian Ling Nan Yue and Dream Lord warned them to stay cautious.
• The cultivators followed a mysterious fluctuation to the Pan Tao Sacred Tree and grew eager after learning its fruits supposedly granted immortality.
• A woman emerged from the tree, forbade the cultivators from taking its fruit, and offered them a trial requiring enough Ancient Talismans.
• Hei Feng recognized the Ancient Talismans requirement as one of Long Ling’s tricks and cursed in disbelief.

Long Ling manipulated the cultivators in Biyou Palace into surrendering Ancient Talismans for the illusory Pan Tao, then used the tree’s secrets and a magical fragrance to intensify their struggle. As the battle weakened the cultivators and left many dead, Long Ling and Hei Feng watched from outside the illusory realm, expecting to profit from the chaos.

• Xian Ling Nan Yue, Dream Lord of the Nether Hall, and other cultivators handed over Ancient Talismans in hopes of obtaining Pan Tao, while Long Ling watched and collected the talismans through his scheme.
• When the cultivators tried to pluck the fruit, the Pan Tao vanished; the mysterious woman explained that matching Ancient Talismans were needed to break the tree’s restrictions and make the fruit real.
• The cultivators struggled to match talismans to the Pan Tao’s attributes, and some began killing others to seize the talismans they needed.
• Xian Ling Nan Yue, Dream Lord of the Nether Hall, and other leaders watched the violence while rallying their forces under the pretext of maintaining order.
• Long Ling sent a mysterious fragrance from the Pan Tao Sacred Tree, intensifying the cultivators’ anger and confusion as the fighting spread and many died or were injured.
• Long Ling and Hei Feng observed the weakened survivors from outside the illusory realm, and Long Ling anticipated collecting more Ancient Talismans as a result of the battle.

Long Ling manipulated the cultivators in Biyou Palace into fighting over the Ancient Talismans, then opened a portal to the Ancient God Sect’s Divine Treasure. A gigantic skeleton claimed the talismans and fought the assembled powers; Qin Zhixie joined the battle, and the skeleton and Qin Zhixie shattered Jiang Qiang’s Mountain River Bell.

• Hei Feng, Qing Yun, and the others agreed with Long Ling that the cultivators’ greed would help them seize the Ancient Talismans.
• Jiang Qiang, Yao Shuntian, Xian Ling Nan Yue, and other cultivators fought fiercely over the talismans as Long Ling secretly activated the Pan Tao Sacred Tree’s runes.
• Long Ling opened a portal in the tree, but a gigantic skeleton appeared with more Ancient Talismans than any other cultivator and claimed them for himself.
• Xian Ling Nan Yue, Dream Lord of the Nether Palace, Jiang Qiang, and Yao Shuntian attacked the skeleton, who defeated and severely injured them; Qin Cang then joined the fight.
• Qin Zhixie appeared and reached for the talismans while Qin Cang and the skeleton opposed him, and Jiang Qiang trapped them inside the Mountain River Bell.
• The skeleton and Qin Zhixie broke the Mountain River Bell, sending Jiang Qiang flying and leaving him badly injured.

Long Ling and Hei Feng used Bone’s illusion, clones, and mental attacks to exhaust and confuse the cultivators in Biyou Palace, then entered to subdue them. The cultivators remained trapped in chaos as Long Ling’s plan reached its decisive stage.

• Bone’s avatar battled Qin Zhixie, Xian Ling Nan Yue, Dream Lord of the Nether Palace, Jiang Qiang, and Yao Shuntian, then produced powerful clones that overwhelmed their defenses.
• Long Ling used a strange fragrance to cloud the cultivators’ minds, allowing Bone’s clones to steal their Storage Rings.
• The cultivators discovered their Storage Rings were missing and began accusing one another, while Long Ling and Hei Feng watched from outside the illusion.
• Long Ling spread a second mysterious power through Biyou Palace, causing hallucinations that drove the cultivators to attack phantom clones.
• Long Ling and Hei Feng entered the palace and silently subdued the exhausted cultivators one by one.

Long Ling used the Myriad Souls Banner to break the cultivators in Biyou Palace, capture them, and seize their Souls of Life, binding their lives and wills to her control. As the prisoners resisted and suffered the banner’s ghosts, she challenged the proud cultivators of Xian Ling and the Nether Hall to keep struggling.

• Long Ling let the mind-affecting mist seep into Biyou Palace while the Myriad Souls Banner unleashed ghosts that twisted the cultivators’ minds and turned them against one another.
• Qingyun, Black and White Demons, and Long Ling subdued the disoriented cultivators, while Long Ling and Hei Feng collected their spoils.
• Long Ling used the Myriad Souls Banner to draw the prisoners’ Souls of Life into it, leaving her able to monitor and control their Divine Soul Bodies and physical bodies.
• The captives awoke, discovered their belongings were gone, and confronted Long Ling, but the banner suppressed their resistance and exposed their Souls of Life to its ghosts.
• Long Ling punished those who tried to fight back by ordering the ghosts to attack their Souls of Life, then asked the still-defiant cultivators from Xian Ling and the Nether Hall whether they would keep struggling.

Long Ling offered Xian Ling Nan Yue, Dream Lord of the Underworld Palace, and the other captives a wager that could earn their freedom, while Qin Cang and Chi Lian also challenged her. A mysterious black-robed man revealed a face resembling Long Ling’s and joined their fight, which ended with Long Ling confronting him as Hei Yao and the palace beginning to turn illusory.

• Long Ling used the Myriad Souls Banner’s black mist to offer the captives freedom if they passed her test, and Xian Ling Nan Yue and the others accepted the wager.
• Qin Cang and Chi Lian appealed to their past ties with Long Ling, but she rejected them, so they attacked her instead.
• A powerful aura emerged from Biyou Palace, and a masked man whose face resembled Long Ling’s appeared and attacked her alongside Qin Cang and Chi Lian.
• Long Ling fought off the three attackers, then recognized the black-robed man as Hei Yao and demanded to know how he had escaped her detection.
• Hei Yao urged Qin Cang and Chi Lian to kill Long Ling before the Demon Heart Wheel could no longer sever the Divine Soul Body’s connection to the Soul of Life, and their final assault shook Biyou Palace until it began turning illusory.

Hei Yao revealed that the white-robed middle-aged man was his true body and the mysterious man in black was his clone, then challenged Long Ling for control of the secret realm’s cultivators. Long Ling summoned his Bone Avatar, and their battle continued with neither side defeated.

• Long Ling sensed Hei Yao’s power and clashed with his black pillar of light, but Long Ling’s golden sphere suppressed it.
• A white-robed man emerged and urged Xian Ling Nan Yue, Dream Lord of the Nether Hall, and the others to choose their allegiance.
• The man in black merged into the white-robed man, revealing himself as Hei Yao’s clone; Hei Yao then used his power to make the cultivators submit and severed their connection to the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Hei Yao attacked Long Ling with a black vortex, while Long Ling summoned a massive Bone Avatar to fight him.
• Hei Yao’s returning ghost heads, black spheres, and Devil Swords clashed with Long Ling’s golden defenses and Bone Sea as their battle intensified.

Long Ling defeated Hei Yao in battle, but the Demon Heart Wheel emerged and unleashed the Devil Lord’s dangerous demonic power. Long Ling temporarily sealed the wheel, yet a phantom rescued Hei Yao, leaving him alive as a formidable enemy.

• Qing Yun recognized Hei Yao’s power as the Devil Lord’s inheritance and warned Long Ling that Hei Yao was a demonic cultivator.
• Hei Yao unleashed the Berserk Demon’s power, but Long Ling countered with Bone Tide Splits the Heavens, and both fighters vanished in the resulting explosion.
• The Demon Heart Wheel appeared, and its raging demonic power forced Long Ling to suppress it with Heavenly Thunder, Ten Thousand Seals.
• Long Ling tried to kill the wounded Hei Yao, but a Devil Lord phantom rescued him through a rift in space.
• The Demon Heart Wheel and Hei Yao disappeared, freeing Nan Yue and the others from Hei Yao’s control.

Long Ling exchanged her Ancient Talismans for the Grand Sky Stone and cultivated Supreme Divine Sense after learning that another cultivator had claimed the Ancient God Sect’s inheritance Crystals Stone. When the ruins warned that their entrance would close in a month, greed sparked widespread battles, and Long Ling fought to survive and protect others as the conflict escalated.

• The Ancient God Sect statue ended the trial, announced the rankings, and sent eligible cultivators to the exchange domain, where Long Ling learned the inheritance Crystals Stone was already gone.
• Long Ling exchanged her Ancient Talismans for the Grand Sky Stone and cultivated until she broke through to Supreme Divine Sense.
• The statue warned that the ruins’ entrance and exit would close in a month, and Long Ling sensed cultivators preparing to attack others for their treasures.
• Several cultivators launched attacks, and Long Ling fought off her own ambushers before helping a young cultivator who was surrounded.
• Long Ling called on cultivators to unite and stop the fighting, but the conflict spread across the trial grounds and intensified into a bloody battle.

Long Ling reunited with Hei Feng, Black and White Demons, and their companions, then fought through the Ancient God Sect ruins as factions battled over treasures. As they searched for the exit and used their controlled cultivators as spies, the statue announced that the ruins would close in fifteen days, and Long Ling sensed the warning was driving the fighting to become even more violent.

• Long Ling sensed Hei Feng and Black and White Demons nearby, and they joined forces to clear a path through the battlefield.
• Long Ling led the group away from the fighting and decided to contact the cultivators she had controlled to learn where the exit was.
• Long Ling used the Myriad Souls Banner to communicate with her spies, track their locations, protect them, and subdue more injured cultivators along the way.
• Cultivators around Long Ling speculated about who had obtained the Ancient God Sect inheritance crystal and the Grand Sky Stone.
• The mysterious statue announced that the trial had ended and the entrance and exit would close in fifteen days.
• Long Ling noticed the warning intensified the fighting and silently killed nearby hostile cultivators while suspecting the statue's words concealed another intention.

Long Ling discovered that the ancient religious powers had sealed the ruins’ exit to confiscate cultivators’ treasures, so she used the Essence of Space to open a new passage and escape with her companions. The powers arrived too late, but rumors of Long Ling’s escape spread, and their pursuit was expected to continue.

• Long Ling spotted an Ancient God Sect baleful puppet performing a Blood Sacrifice and led her group away rather than confront it.
• A Soul of Life reported through the Myriad Souls Banner that the exits had been sealed, and Long Ling found cultivators being searched and detained by the major powers.
• Long Ling decided to create a new exit, using the Essence of Space and spatial laws while the Black and White Demons and Hei Feng supplied spiritual power and guarded her.
• An ancient religious power detected Long Ling’s formation, but she led her companions through the spatial vortex and escaped to the outskirts of the ruins.
• The pursuing cultivators found no trace of Long Ling, while rumors spread that she had opened a new exit and escaped the major powers.

Long Ling defended the Black Clan against the Fierce Tiger Sect, and Black Sha defeated its leader, Tie Tu, with the Great Underworld Black Coffin. Hu Lidi arrived to avenge his men, but he recognized Long Ling and reacted in shock.

• Hei Feng invited Long Ling to the Black Clan's base, where she recovered and exchanged cultivation insights with the clan's higher-ups.
• The Fierce Tiger Sect attacked Black City, and Long Ling set formations and directed the Black Clan's experts against the invaders.
• Black Sha fought Tie Tu and pinned him beneath the Great Underworld Black Coffin.
• Hei Feng told Long Ling that Hu Lidi had recently risen to power and was conquering the surrounding factions.
• Hu Lidi arrived in his black tiger Faxiang, and the Black Clan prepared to fight until he saw Long Ling and stammered, "D-demon... demon..."

Long Ling turned Hu Lidi and the Fierce Tiger Sect from enemies of Black City into allies, then welcomed Golden Peng King, who also recognized her as his Demon Master. After the threat passed, Long Ling investigated the Black Clan’s Ghost Dance and Myriad Souls Banner, and Hei Feng invited her to the ancestral hall to discuss the clan’s mystery.

• Hu Lidi recognized Long Ling as his Demon Master, abandoned his attack on Black City, and pledged his loyalty to her.
• Long Ling told Hei Feng to prepare the Black Household and form an alliance with the Fierce Tiger Sect, and Hei Feng secured the elders’ agreement to follow its lead.
• Golden Peng King arrived to help destroy Black City, but Long Ling called him by his childhood nickname, and he recognized her as his Demon Master.
• Long Ling sent Hu Lidi and Golden Peng King away and urged the Black Clan to strengthen itself, while Hei Feng and the Black and White Demons pledged to follow her.
• Long Ling resolved to investigate the connection between the Black Clan’s Ghost Dance and the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Hei Feng told Long Ling that the clan leader had an idea about the Black Clan’s strange inheritance and invited her to the Black Clan Ancestral Hall.

After Earth cultivators learned that Long Ling was in Black City, they sent the Great Immortal Weasel to protect her in secret. Long Ling helped the Black Clan uncover its Divine Treasure, but when she searched the treasury, she knocked over a jade wine jug and triggered a violent disturbance.

• Hu Lidi and the Golden Peng King reported that Long Ling was in Black City, and Earth cultivators chose the Great Immortal Weasel to guard her secretly.
• Long Ling agreed to help the Black Dragon Chieftain find the Black Clan's Divine Treasure and studied the clan's ancient records.
• Long Ling led Black Clan experts to a hidden cave, where they found a rune-covered crystal in an ancient box.
• Long Ling used the crystal to enter a hidden underground palace and activate the treasury's restrictions.
• Long Ling searched the treasury and accidentally knocked over a jade wine jug, causing the entire treasury to shake violently.

Long Ling and the Black Dragon Chieftain led the Black clan through a dangerous cavern where a Hell Nine-Headed Hound guarded an ancient restriction. After destroying its controlling tablet, they discovered their vanished shadows and a blue lotus at the cavern’s heart, and began combining their power to activate it.

• Long Ling and the Black Dragon Chieftain entered the cavern after their shadows vanished, and a Black clan expert triggered a restriction that summoned a Hell Nine-Headed Hound.
• Long Ling identified the stone tablet controlling the hound and held it back while the Black Dragon Chieftain and other experts destroyed the tablet, dispersing the beast.
• Long Ling absorbed the hound’s pure soul essence, strengthening her Supreme Divine Sense, then found blue flames bearing the cultivators’ faces.
• Long Ling led the Black clan deeper into the cavern, where they found a blue lotus surrounded by their missing shadows, which attacked them and proved immune to ordinary strikes.
• Long Ling and the Black clan gathered their power to activate the lotus, causing it to rotate and begin dispelling the shadows.