Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi escaped the Five Elements Yin Fiend Cave into Purple Domain Space, while Liu Ming and Zhu Huang revealed their trap and tried to force Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei into submission. Xu Yi’s lightning tribulation then struck the cave, leaving Liu Ming and the others in danger.

• Xu Yi recognized the Five Elements Profound Yin Land and escaped through a gate of light into Purple Domain Space.
• Liu Ming and Zhu Huang revealed that they had tricked Xu Yi into the cave, and Zhu Huang explained that its Five Elements Yin Fiend Qi made escape impossible for ordinary people.
• Liu Ming demanded that Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei submit, but Mu Yu urged the others to fight rather than risk being turned into Yin Ba.
• Lightning from Xu Yi’s Ninth Tribulation struck the mountainside and cave, forcing everyone to flee.
• Zhu Huang realized that Xu Yi was in the Divine Embryo Realm and undergoing a tribulation to slay his corpse, while Liu Ming panicked at the danger.

Xu Yi escaped Purple Domain Space and underwent the Ninth Tribulation of Lightning in the Five Elements Yin Fiend Land, where its yin energy softened the lightning but the ordeal continued. Liu Ming and the Five Great Evil Lords waited to attack, while Xu Yi feared the remaining cocoon around his divine fetus would keep drawing out the tribulation until he could no longer endure it.

• Xu Yi refined the remaining Purple Wish Beads, shed the transparent shell around his divine fetus, and emerged from Purple Domain Space with Huang Mei.
• Xu Yi’s tribulation began in the Five Elements Yin Fiend Land, and he realized its extreme yin energy weakened the lightning while the Thunder True Intent tempered his divine fetus.
• Liu Ming ordered the others to attack Xu Yi once the lightning stopped, then was blasted into a wall when the twenty-eighth bolt fell unexpectedly.
• Zhu Huang and Qian Mu confirmed the bolt count, leaving Liu Ming and the Five Great Evil Lords despairing that Xu Yi had survived.
• Xu Yi counted the bolts and panicked as the cocoon around his divine fetus continued releasing Clear Light after the twenty-eighth strike.

Xu Yi endured the ongoing lightning tribulation as his corpse began to form, then used the thunder to temper the Bixiu Sword and refine his deepest grief. He learned to preserve a trace of sorrow so he could keep strengthening it without losing access to it.

• Zhu Huang theorized that Xu Yi was dead and that the lightning tribulation continued because it had clashed with the Five Elements baleful intent, while Liu Ming and the others waited from afar.
• Xu Yi used his three aspects to withstand the tribulation as his divine embryo became fetal light and the cocoon's ignorance began forming his corpse.
• Xu Yi tempered the Bixiu Sword with corpse energy and Thunder True Intent.
• Xu Yi repeatedly summoned the True Spirit Sword into the thunder, grinding away his deepest grief before drawing sorrow back out through memories of Xia Zimo.
• Xu Yi preserved a sliver of sorrow and began tempering it again.

Xu Yi survived the eighty-eight lightning strikes in the Five Elements Yin Fiend Cave and emerged having reached the Corpse Slaying Realm. He began fighting Liu Ming, whose treasured cave had been destroyed, and left Liu Ming bleeding after shattering his seal with a massive palm strike.

• Supreme Sorrow Intent spread through Liu Ming and the others as lightning battered the Five Elements Yin Fiend Cave, and Liu Ming sent Yin Fiends to investigate.
• After the eighty-eighth bolt fell, the lightning stopped, and Xu Yi walked out of the cavern alive and newly advanced to the Corpse Slaying Realm.
• Liu Ming attacked Xu Yi with more than ten Corpse Slaying Realm Yin Fiends, while the Five Great Evil Lords and Xu Yi’s allies joined the battle.
• Xu Yi blocked Liu Ming’s giant seal with his sword beam, then merged nine palms of light into one and smashed the seal apart.
• The palm’s force swept across the battlefield, blasting the fighters away and injuring Liu Ming, who spat out black blood.

Xu Yi fought Liu Ming with his enhanced Heaven-Covering Hand and Bixiu Sword, then revealed his own powerful corpse and defeated Liu Ming’s Middle Corpse with Huang Mei’s help. Liu Ming was left stunned as his battle ended in defeat.

• Tong Fang recognized Xu Yi’s enhanced Heaven-Covering Hand, while Zhu Huang sided with Xu Yi and Liu Ming sent his Yin Ba after him.
• Xu Yi’s Heaven-Covering Hand clashed with Liu Ming’s Azure Dragon Pearl, which his Bixiu Sword managed to hold off.
• Liu Ming revealed his Middle Corpse Fifth Grade and attacked Xu Yi, who summoned a jade-skinned corpse of his own.
• Xu Yi’s corpse struck Liu Ming’s corpse and scattered it, sending its corpse energy toward the Five Elements Yin Fiend Cave.
• Huang Mei emerged from the cave, scattered Liu Ming’s corpse again, and swallowed its corpse energy before Xu Yi stopped it.
• Liu Ming stared in disbelief as the battle ended and he realized Xu Yi’s corpse had overpowered his own.

Xu Yi learned that the Purple Radiance Pill Fruit was a fabrication and had Liu Ming kill the four Evil Lords who had plotted against him, while Huang Mei devoured their corpse aura. After searching Liu Ming's possessions, Xu Yi returned his corpse core in exchange for the promise of the sacred fruit, leaving Liu Ming to reveal what he knew.

• Liu Ming killed Zhu Huang, and Huang Mei devoured the corpse aura Zhu Huang left behind.
• Qian Mu and the other Evil Lords urged Xu Yi to kill Liu Ming, but Xu Yi revealed that their promised Purple Radiance Pill Fruit was likely a lie and ordered Liu Ming to deal with the four men.
• Liu Ming smashed the four Evil Lords, while Huang Mei consumed their corpse aura; Xu Yi reassured Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei that they were safe.
• Xu Yi searched Liu Ming's Starry Sky Ring and found no valuable secret, then learned Liu Ming would provide the sacred fruit if Xu Yi returned his corpse core.
• Xu Yi returned Liu Ming's corpse core, trusting he could seize it again, and demanded that Liu Ming reveal the treasure's whereabouts.

Xu Yi discovered five Five Blessings Longevity Fruits and used one to restore his lost lifespan. Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei offered to help him enter the Two-Forget Peak Dojo without the Trial Grand Competition in exchange for the return of their corpse cores, and the chapter ended with Xu Yi resting peacefully at Bamboo Manor.

• Liu Ming revealed that the Thunder True Intent had balanced the Five Elements Yin Fiend Land and might have produced Five Blessings Longevity Fruit.
• Liu Ming uncovered five fruits from a vast underground vine, and Xu Yi took them.
• Xu Yi returned to lecturing at Bamboo Manor and told Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei to stop seeking him out or asking about their corpse cores.
• Tong Fang offered to help Xu Yi enter the Two-Forget Peak Dojo without the Trial Grand Competition, and Xu Yi agreed to return their corpse cores if they succeeded.
• Xu Yi bathed, ate with Yan Zi, and dozed beneath the parasol tree in the courtyard.

Xu Yi impressed Song Zheng Yi by solving a difficult numerology problem, but Song chose to wait two years before taking him as a disciple. Xu Yi accepted the delay, accumulated over ten thousand merit points, and entered seclusion.

• Xu Yi solved Song Zheng Yi’s Three Luminaries Astrology problem and received two Black Origin Beads, but Song left without offering him a place in the dojo.
• Song Zheng Yi praised Xu Yi to Han Bing Qian and said he would take him under his wing before the Grand Competition in two years.
• Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei worried over Song’s decision, while Xu Yi told them he would prepare for the competition and rely on his own abilities.
• Xu Yi returned to lecturing, tending spirit fields, and studying until his lecture tablet held more than ten thousand merit points.
• Xu Yi posted a notice at the Preaching Pavilion and went into seclusion.

After a hundred days in seclusion, Xu Yi emerged with a deeper hunger to study numerology and resumed his quiet life with Yan Zi. As Biyou Academy filled with contenders preparing for the Trial Grand Competition, he watched their fights and wondered how powerful a magical treasure could be.

• Xu Yi used new mathematical tools to solve most of the obscure numerological problems in his collection and grew eager to study at Two Forget Peak.
• Xu Yi ended his hundred-day seclusion, and Yan Zi welcomed him before they planned to go fishing.
• Xu Yi urged Yan Zi to temper her Wish Pearls again and gave her the merit points he had earned from lecturing.
• Xu Yi returned to farming spirit rice and studying as Yan Zi went into seclusion.
• Xu Yi noticed new arrivals and daily fights at Biyou Academy as contenders gathered for the Trial Grand Competition, then wondered about the power of magical treasures.

Xu Yi hired Chen Daozi to teach him the basics of artifact refining and learned that heavenly spirits were the key to magical treasures. After breaking down several treasures and the Bixiu Sword with his Four-Colored Seal, Xu Yi had found faint strands in the treasures and asked Chen Daozi about a weapon that rivaled a magical treasure without heavenly spirits.

• Xu Yi chose Chen Daozi as his artifact-refining lecturer and offered him a Black Origin Bead for a systematic introduction to the subject.
• Chen Daozi accepted Xu Yi's request, and Xu Yi hosted him at Heaven Wind Tower while asking questions about artifact refining.
• Chen Daozi explained that magical treasures depended on heavenly spirits, which he understood as rare forms of change and energy hidden within all things.
• Xu Yi asked Chen Daozi about a weapon that could rival a magical treasure without heavenly spirits, referring to his Bixiu Sword.
• Xu Yi recalled that his Four-Colored Seal had broken down the Five Gloomy Swords, the golden bead, and the Bixiu Sword, revealing faint strands in the first treasures.

Xu Yi learned how magical treasures and formation diagrams worked from Chen Daozi, then returned to Bamboo Manor and reunited with Shi Erli. The chapter ended with Xu Yi showing Shi Erli the precious medicines he had brought back from the Kunlun Ruins.

• Chen Daozi explained that high-quality magical artifacts could become powerful spirit artifacts and that formation diagrams helped magical treasures contain aggregated heavenly spirits.
• Xu Yi thanked Chen Daozi, parted ways with him, and brought food for Yan Zi before returning to Bamboo Manor.
• Shi Erli teased Xu Yi about his feelings for Yan Zi, making Xu Yi blush, then said he had come on business.
• Xu Yi offered Shi Erli a Big Dipper Seven Star Grass, but Shi Erli initially refused it because it was too valuable.
• Xu Yi revealed that he had made a fortune in the Kunlun Ruins and displayed several more precious medicines, leaving Shi Erli amazed.

Shi Erli warned Xu Yi to avoid the Trial Grand Competition, but Xu Yi revealed he had reached the Corpse Slaying Realm and chose to compete rather than accept Two Forget Peak’s invitation. Song Zheng Yi learned of Xu Yi’s refusal and new cultivation, then concluded another academy must be courting him and vowed to bring him into Two Forget Peak.

• Shi Erli took Xu Yi’s Big Dipper Seven Star Grass and warned him that the Trial Grand Competition would be unusually dangerous, advising him to stay out of it.
• Xu Yi revealed that he had become a Corpse, shocking Shi Erli, who left Bamboo Manor.
• Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei offered Xu Yi Two Forget Peak’s invitation, but Xu Yi declined and said he would enter the competition.
• Song Zheng Yi confronted the three men over Xu Yi’s refusal, and Han Bing Qian told him that Xu Yi had reached the Corpse Slaying Realm.
• Han Bing Qian suggested another academy had offered Xu Yi better terms, and Song Zheng Yi vowed to bring Xu Yi to Two Forget Peak himself.

Song Zheng Yi and Han Bing Qian tried to bring Xu Yi into Two Forget Peak, while Xu Yi reconsidered his refusal after recognizing Han Bing Qian as a potential threat. Xu Yi began negotiating for better terms, and Song Zheng Yi invited him to name what another dojo had offered.

• Song Zheng Yi decided Xu Yi should join Two Forget Peak, while Tong Fang, Mu Yu, and Du Fei warned that forcing him could provoke a fight.
• Tong Fang explained Xu Yi's fierce nature and persuaded Song Zheng Yi to send the three of them to negotiate instead of acting by force.
• Xu Yi learned Han Bing Qian's plan and suspected he was the Han family member Shi Erli had warned him about, so he reconsidered joining Two Forget Peak to secure benefits in advance.
• Xu Yi told Tong Fang he was interested in Two Forget Peak but hinted that he expected better terms, prompting Tong Fang to contact Song Zheng Yi.
• Song Zheng Yi appeared through the Ruyi Pearl, praised Xu Yi's mathematical talent, and asked what temptation another dojo had offered him.

Xu Yi joined Two Forget Peak and received its Skin Appearance Sutra, then turned his attention to studying artifact refining. His visit from Xiong Bei Ming was interrupted by Liu Wuzhou and Steward Hong Huang, who demanded that Xu Yi hand over the fugitive slave.

• Xu Yi asked Song Zheng Yi for the Skin Appearance Sutra, and Song Zheng Yi granted it to him along with a Two Forget Peak token.
• Xu Yi officially joined Two Forget Peak, then spent two days studying artifact refining before deciding to seek out Chen Daozi.
• Xiong Bei Ming arrived at Bamboo Manor and urgently asked Xu Yi to speak inside, but Liu Wuzhou and two others surrounded them.
• Xu Yi shattered Liu Wuzhou's attack and declared that Xiong Bei Ming was his sworn brother, not a fugitive slave.
• Hong Huang identified himself as a steward of the Council of Affairs and warned Xu Yi not to interfere, while Liu Wuzhou revealed that Xiong Bei Ming belonged to the Pang Family.

Xu Yi killed Liu Wuzhou and Brother Tie after learning they served Pang Qingyun, then heard Xiong Bei Ming explain that Xuan Lengyan had been imprisoned after resisting Pang’s advances. Xiong Bei Ming revealed that her life was not immediately at risk, but she was suffering in Ghost Cry Underworld Prison, and Xu Yi was left with the knowledge of her plight.

• Hong Huang warned Xu Yi that Liu Wuzhou and Brother Tie belonged to the Pang family, but Xu Yi attacked and killed them both, absorbing their corpse aura.
• Xu Yi asked Hong Huang to delay spreading news of the killings, then brought Xiong Bei Ming into Bamboo Manor to speak privately.
• Xiong Bei Ming explained that the Thearch Sect had sought Xuan Lengyan’s bone flute and had given her an official post after she handed it over.
• Xiong Bei Ming told Xu Yi that Pang Qingyun harassed Xuan Lengyan until she disfigured herself with poison, after which Pang had her imprisoned in Ghost Cry Underworld Prison.
• Xiong Bei Ming revealed that Ning Wuque and Gold Corpse Old Cao had been placed in the Criminal Justice Temple and could help keep Xuan Lengyan alive, while he had infiltrated Pang Qingyun’s party to find Xu Yi.

Xu Yi confronted Old Master Guo after he attacked Xu Yi and Xiong Bei Ming in Biyou Academy. Xu Yi invoked his affiliation with Two Forget Peak and charged Old Master Guo, but the chapter ended as Old Master Guo's Manche Ring clashed with Xu Yi's Bixiu Sword.

• Xiong Bei Ming warned Xu Yi that Pang Qingyun, Zhang Beidou, and Old Master Guo were dangerous figures tied to the Pang Family.
• Old Master Guo shattered the wards and attacked Xu Yi and Xiong Bei Ming, drawing a crowd of cultivators.
• Xu Yi appealed to the council, but Chu Weiming backed Old Master Guo and accused Xu Yi of wrongdoing.
• Xu Yi displayed his Two Forget Peak token, then challenged Old Master Guo to defend the dojo's reputation.
• Old Master Guo attacked with the Manche Ring, and Xu Yi met it with the Bixiu Sword.

Xu Yi defeated Old Master Guo by overpowering his corpse fire and draining his corpse qi with Huang Mei, then killed him and collected his treasures. Though the Bixiu Sword shattered and injured Xu Yi, he left with Xiong Bei Ming after Chu Weiming warned the onlookers against further interference.

• Old Master Guo blocked Xu Yi's escape, but Xu Yi struck him with two Heaven-Covering Hands and gravely wounded him.
• Old Master Guo manifested his Middle Corpse and unleashed corpse fire, but Corpse Xu Yi's stronger flames overwhelmed Corpse Guo.
• Huang Mei drained Old Master Guo's corpse qi, and Xu Yi beheaded him with a Sword Qi strike.
• The Bixiu Sword shattered from its bond with Xu Yi, and the Manche Ring fell; Xu Yi drove off those who tried to seize it and gathered the treasures.
• Chu Weiming threatened an investigation into those who had interfered, then promised to report the events accurately to his superiors.
• Xu Yi nodded to Chu Weiming and left with Xiong Bei Ming.

After defeating a mid-tier Corpse cultivator, Xu Yi moved to Two Forget Peak as a probationary disciple. At the Internal Affairs Hall, he solved much of the supposedly unsolvable Ancient Savage Question, impressing the assembled elders and disciples.

• The crowd praised Xu Yi’s victory, and he left Bamboo Manor to settle at Two Forget Peak.
• Tong Fang escorted Xu Yi to the Internal Affairs Hall, where Elder Old Qian and other disciples had gathered to assess him.
• Old Qian presented Xu Yi with the Ancient Savage Question and gave him two incense sticks to solve it.
• Xu Yi used insights from his memories to find a new approach and wrote a solution reaching the fourth step.
• Qi Jia Biao called Xu Yi’s solution wrong, but Old Qian silenced him, and Qi Jia Biao recognized that Xu Yi had opened an entirely new path.

After Xu Yi impressed Qian Feng with his work on the Ancient Savage Question, he asked Han Bing Qian to guide him, provoking Song Zheng Yi into attacking Han. Han later recovered in his cave while his friends brought gifts and asked why Xu Yi had chosen him.

• Qian Feng praised Xu Yi's brilliance and offered to grant him a request.
• Xu Yi asked Han Bing Qian to guide him, and Qian Feng agreed despite Qi Jia Biao's objection.
• Song Zheng Yi attacked Han Bing Qian after Xu Yi explained that he preferred Han's approach to learning.
• The crowd dispersed, and Xu Yi slipped away while Song Zheng Yi and Han Bing Qian fought until an Enforcement Hall elder intervened.
• Tu Yi and Feng Qing visited the injured Han Bing Qian with gifts and asked whether Xu Yi had chosen him out of spite or genuine interest.

Han Bing Qian learned that his research proposal had been rejected, apparently after Xu Yi’s feud with Pang Daojun’s son gave Elder Wei reason to oppose him. He tried to reassure himself that he could still control Xu Yi, but Elder Qian then revealed that Xu had withdrawn from his guidance, leaving Han vomiting blood in front of Feng Qing and Tu Yi.

• Han Bing Qian boasted that Xu Yi had chosen him over Song Zheng Yi and resolved to make Xu pay for setting him up.
• Feng Qing told Han Bing Qian that his proposal had been rejected and that Elder Wei had opposed his research direction.
• Feng Qing explained that Xu Yi had killed three of Pang Daojun’s son’s trusted men, giving Elder Wei reason to strike at Han; Han vomited black blood.
• Han Bing Qian recovered and convinced himself that he could still guide Xu Yi and eventually crush him.
• Elder Qian told Han Bing Qian that Xu Yi had returned to the trial disciples’ cave dwelling on Shaohua Mountain and refused to choose a mentor to avoid causing trouble.
• Han Bing Qian vomited blood again and collapsed as Feng Qing and Tu Yi watched in shock.