Chapter Summaries

Lei Dong rejected Lan Qisi’s suggestion to enslave Tantai Bingyun and accepted her challenge to a duel, but Lei Long released the Dragon Clan’s aphrodisiac poison, overwhelming Lei Dong’s control and leaving him lunging at Tantai Bingyun.

• Lan Qisi asked Lei Dong why he would not bring Tantai Bingyun under his command, and Lei Dong explained that another soul fusion was dangerous and he did not want to turn Tantai Bingyun into a puppet.
• Tantai Bingyun thanked Lei Dong, voided their alliance, and asked to fight him alone; Lei Dong accepted and summoned his Golden Core high-tier Winged God Clan Soul Slave.
• Tantai Bingyun recognized that Lei Dong had no intention of sparing her and began their duel with her guqin as he attacked with the Black Dragon Chant.
• As Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun fought, Lei Long released a red cloud of potent aphrodisiac poison that enveloped them and Lan Qisi.
• Lei Dong demanded to know what Lei Long was doing, but Lei Long said it was at the Saintess’s order, and the poison overwhelmed Lei Dong’s will as he lunged at Tantai Bingyun.

Lei Dong spent five years in the temple strengthening himself and restoring Yi Kong to Nascent Soul-level power while White Bone Old Devil remained hidden in a trial space. With Yi Kong bound by an oath and ready to fight, Lei Dong prepared to move against the old devil.

• Lei Dong remained in the temple as White Bone Old Devil refused to leave his trial space, while Prophet Kukas joined Lei Dong’s side through Saintess Lan Qisi’s persuasion.
• Lei Dong reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm, strengthened his spiritual sense and fighting forces, and brought the Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger to Golden Core High-tier strength.
• Lei Dong offered Yi Kong a new body and rebirth in exchange for using his peak strength three times, and Yi Kong swore an oath to Heaven before regaining Nascent Soul-level strength.
• Lei Dong decided the time had come to surround White Bone Old Devil and moved to close the net around him.
• White Bone Devil Lord regretted coveting the Soul Tree and sensed that Lei Dong and the others had finally arrived.

Lei Dong assembled his Golden Core forces and trapped White Bone Old Devil, then offered him a chance to survive in exchange for the treasure used to refine Ghost Gu. White Bone Old Devil considered the tempting offer but remained wary as Lei Dong promised further rewards.

• Two Nascent Soul Cultivators and more than a dozen Golden Core fighters gathered to surround White Bone Old Devil in the trial space.
• Lei Dong’s forces included Qian Luo, Black Iron Tower, Han Chao, Saintess Lan Qisi, and Tantai Bingyun, while Qing Niangzi and the Mute Girl stayed behind.
• White Bone Old Devil accepted that escape was impossible and warned Lei Dong that he would drag several fighters down with him if he died.
• Lei Dong offered to let White Bone Old Devil’s Nascent Soul possess another body if he handed over the treasure used to refine Ghost Gu.
• White Bone Old Devil was tempted but suspected Lei Dong might betray him, so Lei Dong promised not to take his other possessions and offered to find him a life-extending pill.

Lei Dong negotiated with White Bone Devil Lord, obtaining his Xuan Bone Great Law and cultivation insights in exchange for one Soul Fruit while securing the old devil’s Nascent Soul. After the deal, Lei Dong rewarded Prophet Karkas for his help and sent his companions away.

• White Bone Devil Lord asked for the Soul Tree, but Lei Dong refused and negotiated over the price of his cultivation method and insights.
• White Bone Devil Lord settled for one Soul Fruit and handed over two Jade Slips containing the Xuan Bone Great Law and his cultivation insights.
• Han Chao examined the Jade Slips and confirmed that they appeared genuine.
• White Bone Devil Lord erased his Storage Bracelet’s imprint and forced his Nascent Soul from his body, and Lei Dong captured it with a Soul Sealing Ball.
• Lei Dong thanked Prophet Karkas and promised him Soul Fruits from the next harvest.

Lei Dong studied White Bone Old Devil's cultivation insights, then set out with his group across the Great Desert toward Kang Prefecture. During the journey, he secretly reclaimed the little cauldron from White Bone Old Devil's Storage Bracelet and watched it merge with the Soul Devouring Pagoda.

• Lei Dong invited Kukas and the others to study White Bone Devil Lord's cultivation insights, and the material helped Lei Dong improve his confidence in reaching the Golden Core.
• Lei Dong decided to return to Kang Prefecture and left Lan Qisi behind among the barbarians to prepare for bringing their clan under his control.
• Lei Dong's group crossed the Great Desert by Flying Boat, following the barbarians' maps around dangerous regions and facing a journey of at least ten million li.
• Lei Dong secretly studied the Xuan Bone Great Law while erasing White Bone Old Devil's divine-soul imprint from an ancient little cauldron.
• After a month, Lei Dong erased the imprint and placed the Soul Devouring Pagoda beside the cauldron, and the pagoda drew it inside.

Lei Dong discovered that the fused Soul Devouring Pagoda could refine powerful Ghost Gu, including one made from a Top Grade Spirit Ghost, and stored them for future use. When a huge flock of Bone-Devouring Vultures pursued his flying boat, he and Tantai Bingyun took to the air to fight while Qian Luo defended the vessel.

• Lei Dong tested the fused Soul Devouring Pagoda and found it could still produce Soul Pills and refine Ghost Gu from Upper Grade Spirit Ghosts.
• Lei Dong refined a more powerful Ghost Gu from a Top Grade Spirit Ghost, then stored both kinds for lack of a suitable person to test them on.
• Qian Luo spotted a flock of hundreds of Monster Beasts led by a Golden Core High-tier Bone-Devouring Vulture, and Lei Dong ordered the Flying Boat to accelerate.
• Tu Lei identified the attackers as Bone-Devouring Vultures, while the Golden Core members of the flock continued to catch up with the Flying Boat.
• Lei Dong assigned Qian Luo to defend the Flying Boat, sent Tantai Bingyun to hold off the Golden Core beasts, and went to fight the Foundation Establishment beasts himself.

Lei Dong led his Golden Core subordinates against a vast flock of Bone-Eating Vultures, relying on his upgraded ghost generals and coordinated attacks to survive the overwhelming numbers. After rescuing Tyrannosaurus from encirclement, he reunited with his six subordinates and shifted them away from the battlefield.

• Lei Dong summoned his Top Grade Ghost General Tyrannosaurus, which transformed and slaughtered Bone-Eating Vultures until the flock began to overwhelm it.
• Lei Dong upgraded his Ghost Guard into the Top Grade Ghost General Ghost Thorn, which used stealth and speed to kill attacking vultures.
• Lei Dong deployed the Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger and three fierce ghosts from the Myriad Ghost Banner, and they fought alongside Tyrannosaurus against the flock.
• Lei Dong ordered his five Golden Core fighters to break through the vultures’ encirclement and reach Tyrannosaurus, while he supported them with the Black Dragon Chant and Crimson Refining Flying Sword.
• Lei Dong regrouped with his six subordinates, enveloped them in Netherworld Ghost Qi, and shifted them away from the battlefield.

Lei Dong and his allies fought through a flock of Bone-Devouring Vultures, splitting and destroying the Foundation Establishment birds while Tantai Bingyun held off their Golden Core leaders. They regrouped at the Flying Boat and killed most of the Golden Core birds attacking it before continuing onward, while the remaining enemies waited to regroup.

• Lei Dong used Ghost Thorn to lure part of the vulture flock away, then teleported in with his Golden Core fighters and slaughtered most of the separated birds.
• Lei Dong attacked the remaining Foundation Establishment vultures while Tantai Bingyun struggled to hold off the Golden Core birds; a Golden Core wraith died, but Lei Dong routed the flock.
• Lei Dong teleported to the Flying Boat with his wounded subordinates, and Tantai Bingyun returned after him.
• Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun sent their remaining fighters to help Qian Luo and the others repel seven Golden Core Demon Birds attacking the Flying Boat.
• The group killed six of the seven attackers, gathered the spoils, and boarded the Flying Boat as the remaining Golden Core birds waited for their companions to regroup.

Lei Dong and his companions destroyed the Bone-Eating Vulture flock and continued across the dangerous Great Desert. Meanwhile, Ding Wanyan pursued a bald monk near Yaksha territory while grieving over Lei Dong’s disappearance and vowing revenge on the Yaksha Tribe and Tianyin Palace.

• Lei Dong and his companions killed nearly all the Bone-Eating Vultures, gathered their spoils, and used the resources to raise two Vengeful Ghosts to Golden Core strength.
• Lei Dong reflected on his debt to Myriad Ghost Ancestor as the Flying Boat continued cautiously through the Great Desert.
• Ding Wanyan reprimanded two Golden Core subordinates for letting a bald monk escape into Yaksha territory and ordered them to pursue him.
• Ding Wanyan told Lei Qing'er to return to Myriad Ghost Cave and cultivate, while Lei Qing'er urged her sister-in-law to stop worrying about Lei Dong.
• Ding Wanyan recalled how Sea God's Wrath had likely killed Lei Dong and resolved to destroy the Yaksha Tribe and Tianyin Palace in revenge.

Ding Wanyan returned from battle and rejected Li Yao’s advances, insisting that she remained devoted to Lei Dong. Meanwhile, Qi Feifei escaped Joyful Union Valley after manipulating a fellow disciple into killing the man selected to become her dual-cultivation partner.

• Ding Wanyan killed two Golden Core Cultivators while helping drive a Vajra Temple battle monk from Yaksha Tribe waters.
• Li Yao offered Ding Wanyan Golden Core Pills, but she rejected him and declared that her heart belonged to her missing husband, Lei Dong.
• Qi Feifei reached Foundation Establishment Perfection, but the Hehuan Sect chose a junior descendant of a Grand Elder to be her dual-cultivation partner.
• Qi Feifei sensed that her soul connection with Lei Dong was growing stronger and believed he was returning.
• Qi Feifei persuaded a powerful-backed senior fellow disciple to kill the chosen partner, then secretly fled Joyful Union Valley with him.

Qi Feifei was hunted across orthodox territories after killing a young master, until the Heavenly Devil rescued her and demanded to know where Lei Dong was. Meanwhile, Monster Beasts across the Great Desert began gathering into a massive tide and charging north.

• Qi Feifei poisoned and killed the young master, but his inherited seal revealed the murder to his Nascent Soul ancestor, prompting the Hehuan Sect to hunt her.
• Qi Feifei fled through orthodox territories while the Hehuan Sect raised a ten-million-Spirit-Stone bounty, drawing more pursuers to her trail.
• Two Golden Core Cultivators and their Foundation Establishment followers cornered Qi Feifei, but the Heavenly Devil appeared and killed them all.
• The Heavenly Devil tried to force Qi Feifei to reveal Lei Dong’s location, then eased her hostility after Qi Feifei implied they shared a grievance over him.
• Monster Beasts across the Great Desert began converging and stampeding north as a massive Beast Tide formed.

Lei Dong and his companions fled the Beast Tide and hid near a small Earth Giant tribe, whose strength and combat tactics impressed him. Seeing an opportunity to recruit the giants, Lei Dong considered using the Beast Tide to win their trust.

• Lei Dong sensed a Nascent Soul-level presence in a Beast Tide and led his group into hiding after fleeing several smaller hordes.
• Lei Dong learned about the Great Desert's history and the Earth Giants, a powerful, nomadic branch of the Ancient Giant Race.
• Lei Dong discovered a small Earth Giant tribe defending its walled basin from more than ten thousand Monster Beasts.
• Lei Dong watched the Earth Giants bombard the beasts with enormous boulders and use their Gravity Technique to drag flying Demon Birds down.
• Lei Dong considered exploiting the Beast Tide to earn the Earth Giants' trust and recruit them.

Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun lured a nearly three-hundred-thousand-strong Beast Tide toward the Earth Giant tribe, forcing its leader and two hundred warriors to hold the horde back while the others escaped. As the giants suffered heavy casualties, Lei Dong brought out his Flying Boat and attacked, but the clan leader urged the humans to flee.

• The Earth Giants defeated the smaller Beast Tide, and Lei Dong decided that a much larger horde could threaten their tribe.
• Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun found a Beast Tide of over two hundred thousand beasts and spent days steering it toward the Earth Giants.
• The horde swelled to nearly three hundred thousand, and Zhao Ge prepared formations to delay it while the tribe evacuated.
• The Earth Giant clan leader led two hundred elite warriors to defend the settlement, and the Beast Tide crashed into their wall.
• As the giants began to fall, Lei Dong ordered the Flying Boat and his subordinates to attack the horde, but the clan leader told them they could not save the tribe and should run.

Lei Dong helped the Earth Giants hold off the Beast Tide while Old Zhao completed a temporary formation, and used Yi Kong to protect the defenders and gather valuable spoils. After the Nascent Soul Monster Beast launched an assault, Lei Dong led the Giants through a secret passage to safety, having earned the Clan Leader’s trust and friendship.

• The Earth Giant Clan Leader fought off Demon Birds, and Lei Dong directed the Giants to defend while Old Zhao and the others set up a formation.
• The Clan Leader ordered the Giants to obey Lei Dong, who summoned Yi Kong to help hold back the Beast Tide.
• Yi Kong drove back Golden Core Demon Beasts as Lei Dong and his companions collected Beast Souls and carcasses.
• After holding the wall for an hour, Lei Dong ordered a retreat when the Nascent Soul Monster Beast led an elite assault.
• Old Zhao activated the illusion formation, causing the Monster Beasts to attack one another, while Lei Dong and the Giants withdrew through a secret passage.
• Lei Dong led the Earth Giants away through the mountains, earning the Clan Leader’s trust and friendship.

Lei Dong strengthened his bond with Clan Leader Rock and persuaded the Earth Giant tribe to help him gather and sell the Great Desert’s resources, advancing his plan to unite the Earth Giant race. After examining the tribe’s stored materials, he found a rare lump of Chaos Essence Iron and decided to keep it.

• Lei Dong shared cultivation pills with the Earth Giants, earning their trust and gratitude by treating them generously.
• Lei Dong persuaded Clan Leader Rock to entrust the tribe’s future plans to him and inspired the Earth Giants with a vision of their race’s restoration.
• Lei Dong proposed that the Earth Giants gather valuable Great Desert resources and sell them through him to fund their growth.
• Clan Leader Rock showed Lei Dong the tribe’s stored ores, wood, Elemental Essences, and Monster Beast materials, which Lei Dong estimated were worth tens of millions of spirit stones.
• Lei Dong identified a lump of Chaos Essence Iron among the materials and chose to keep it for himself.

Lei Dong completed a fair trade with the Earth Giant Tribe and traveled with their warriors across the Hengduan Mountain Range. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Devil confronted Venerable Demon Subduer and the Eighteen Arhats, killing two Arhats before trading blows with the Vajra Temple elder.

• Lei Dong traded stored pills worth thirty million in Kang Prefecture for the Earth Giants' materials and received the Chaos Essence Iron separately.
• Lei Dong left Qian Luo and Black Iron Tower behind to help the Earth Giant Tribe, then traveled toward the Hengduan Mountain Range with twenty Earth Giants.
• Lei Dong and his companions crossed the Monster Beast-filled Hengduan Mountain Range with the Earth Giants clearing their path.
• Venerable Demon Subduer confronted the Heavenly Devil over her killing of Vajra Temple disciples and ordered the Eighteen Arhats to form the Demon-Subduing Arhat Formation.
• The Heavenly Devil revealed her overwhelming Nascent Soul power, killed two Arhats, and shattered the formation.
• Venerable Demon Subduer rushed to avenge the Arhats, and his golden punch clashed with the Heavenly Devil's counterattack, sending both flying backward.

The Heavenly Devil fought Venerable Demon Subduer and his Arhats, killing several but suffering serious injuries as they overwhelmed her. Lei Dong arrived just in time to pull her from the fight, and they fled together while Venerable Demon Subduer and the surviving Arhats pursued them.

• Venerable Demon Subduer and the Arhats attacked the Heavenly Devil, who killed five Arhats by detonating three Yin Sha Heavenly Thunder beads.
• Venerable Demon Subduer transformed into a colossal Vajra and pressed the Heavenly Devil into a defensive fight while she killed more Arhats and was wounded.
• The Heavenly Devil sensed Lei Dong approaching with Qi Feifei and urged him to take Qi Feifei and flee, then prepared to use the Heavenly Devil Disintegration Technique.
• Lei Dong appeared beside the Heavenly Devil, embraced her, and escaped with her using his Asura Wings.
• Lei Dong carried the wounded Heavenly Devil away on the Evil Ghost Banner as Venerable Demon Subduer and ten Arhats chased them.
• The Heavenly Devil accepted that they might die together, while Lei Dong told her he would not abandon her.

Lei Dong reunited with the wounded Heavenly Demon and helped her recover with a Nascent Soul Pill while secretly leading Venerable Demon Subduer toward an ambush. With the Heavenly Demon healed and his Earth Giants in position, Lei Dong launched a counterattack against the pursuing monk.

• The Heavenly Demon told Lei Dong she was glad she had once pulled him from the Evil Ghost Banner, while Venerable Demon Subduer continued pursuing them.
• Lei Dong gave the Heavenly Demon a Nascent Soul Pill from Zhao Prefecture and stood guard as she healed.
• Lei Dong secretly guided Venerable Demon Subduer toward the Hengduan Mountain Range, where twenty Earth Giants waited in ambush.
• The Heavenly Demon recovered fully and agreed to follow Lei Dong’s plan to defeat their pursuer.
• The Earth Giants’ Gravity Technique dragged Venerable Demon Subduer down as boulders, magical treasures, and spells struck at him, and Lei Dong demanded his Nascent Soul.

Lei Dong and the Heavenly Devil overwhelmed Venerable Demon Subduer with the Earth Giants and Lei Dong’s allies, leaving the Vajra Temple cultivator grievously wounded. After Venerable Demon Subduer refused Lei Dong’s offer to serve him, Lei Dong ordered his forces to kill him, and his physical body was destroyed as his Nascent Soul fled.

• Lei Dong’s Earth Giants struck Venerable Demon Subduer with boulders while the Gravity Technique slowed him, weakening his Vajra Indestructible Shield.
• The Heavenly Devil exploited the opening and struck Venerable Demon Subduer, sending him crashing into a ravine.
• The Heavenly Devil and Lei Dong’s forces blocked Venerable Demon Subduer’s escape while the Earth Giants repeatedly battered him.
• Venerable Demon Subduer fought back with his Demon Subduing Pestle, pills, and talismans, but the Heavenly Devil protected the Earth Giants from his attacks.
• Lei Dong offered to spare Venerable Demon Subduer if he accepted a restriction and served him for a hundred years, but Venerable Demon Subduer refused.
• Lei Dong ordered the others to kill Venerable Demon Subduer, whose body broke apart under their assault as his Nascent Soul fled.

Lei Dong captured Venerable Demon Subduer’s fleeing Nascent Soul after defeating him, then offered the spoils to Mu Yanmei. His followers welcomed her as his wife, but she corrected them by saying she was only the woman he kept on the side.

• Lei Dong teleported after Venerable Demon Subduer’s fleeing Nascent Soul, captured it, and sealed it inside the Soul Sealing Ball.
• Han Chao handed Lei Dong the spoils, while Lei Dong’s other followers reflected on their loyalty and hopes of serving him as they grew stronger.
• Lei Dong asked Mu Yanmei to extract the spiritual treasure from Venerable Demon Subduer’s Nascent Soul, and she offered to sell the treasures for better magic treasures for him.
• Lei Dong proposed giving Mu Yanmei the rest of the spoils so she could acquire spiritual treasures, and Shangguan Hong, Zhao Ge, Han Chao, and the Mute Girl greeted her as his wife.
• Mu Yanmei told the gathered followers that she was not Lei Dong’s wife but merely the woman he kept on the side, leaving the group stunned.