Recaps

Lei Dong left the Yin Sha Sect to pursue cultivation beyond its safe confines and traveled to Xiu Lake Manor in Hou Chen Country to seize an item that stirred the Soul Devouring Pagoda. Disguised as a black-robed cultivator named Ding, he confronted the Chen family's second-in-command and revealed his power.

• Lei Dong rejected Huangfu Ce's demand to sign a life-and-death duel contract and departed the Yin Sha Sect, promising to kill him in ten years.
• Lei Dong reflected that he needed to leave the sect and face danger to overcome the bottlenecks of Foundation Establishment and pursue the Golden Core Stage.
• Lei Dong traveled to Xiu Lake Manor, intending to obtain the item carried by its Clan Leader that made the Soul Devouring Pagoda ripple.
• Disguised as Ding, Lei Dong asked the Chen family's second-in-command to show him Upper Grade or Top Grade Spirit Items and an advanced Cultivation Method.
• After the Chen elder accused him of causing trouble, Lei Dong displayed Middle Grade Spirit Stones and unleashed the Netherworld Great Law, terrifying the elder.

Lei Dong defeated the old man surnamed Chen, used the Soul Searching Technique to obtain the information he sought, and then unleashed his forces to wipe out the estate. He left the estate’s inhabitants under attack by his ghosts, Ghost Guards, and Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger.

• Lei Dong trapped the two young men with Netherworld Ghost Qi and sent his Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger after them while he battled the old man surnamed Chen.
• Lei Dong broke through the old man’s defenses with the Ghost Guard and Myriad Ghost Banner, and the ghosts devoured the old man’s body.
• Lei Dong seized the old man’s Living Soul and used the Soul Searching Technique to find the information he wanted before sealing the soul in the Myriad Ghost Banner.
• The Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger killed the two young men and swallowed their Living Souls.
• Lei Dong summoned his other two Ghost Guards and commanded his ghosts to slaughter everyone throughout the estate.

Lei Dong ambushed the Chen Lineage’s Clan Leader outside Xiu Lake Manor, using the story of a murdered Rogue Cultivator couple to unsettle him while seeking an inherited object. After killing the old man and recovering the object from his Storage Bracelet, Lei Dong recognized a familiar connection to it.

• The Chen Lineage’s Clan Leader returned from the Yin Sha Sect with two young members and a Foundation Establishment Pill he had won at auction.
• Lei Dong confronted the old man and claimed he had come to avenge the Rogue Cultivator couple the Chens had murdered thirty years earlier.
• Three Ghost Guards joined Lei Dong in battle, and they stopped the old man from escaping with his fire-based technique.
• Lei Dong overwhelmed and killed the Clan Leader, took his Storage Bracelet, and had the Ghost Guards consume the body and clean up the battlefield.
• Lei Dong fled to a secluded cave and broke the spiritual sense imprint on the Storage Bracelet after several days of effort.
• Lei Dong retrieved an ancient hexagonal object from the bracelet and felt it was connected to his bloodline, much like the Soul Devouring Pagoda.

Lei Dong joined the Soul Devouring Pagoda to its base and endured the dangerous fusion with an Emperor Devil Seed. After learning that it had greatly amplified his spiritual sense and passed down an ancient Devil Sect’s legacy, he considered how the power might strengthen his Ghost Guards.

• Lei Dong fitted the Soul Devouring Pagoda into the hexagonal object, causing Black Mist to surge before settling back into the pagoda.
• Lei Dong’s spiritual sense touched a dark, diamond-shaped crystal inside the pagoda, and the crystal struck his forehead, overwhelming him with pain and information until he fainted.
• Lei Dong awoke with far stronger spiritual sense and, after examining the information in his mind, learned that the crystal was an Emperor Devil Seed fused with him.
• Lei Dong learned that the Emperor Devil Seed passed down cultivation methods and amplified spiritual sense, but could not improve his poor Spiritual Root.
• Lei Dong realized the stronger spiritual sense could let him control three Ghost Guards more easily and increase his combat strength and ability to detect danger.

Lei Dong studied Heavenly Devil Transformation in seclusion and mastered its first transformation, Unrivaled Under Heaven. After testing its explosive power and suffering its severe exhaustion, he realized the technique could greatly accelerate his cultivation.

• Lei Dong spent a month studying Heavenly Devil Transformation and learned to enter the proud state of mind required for Unrivaled Under Heaven.
• Lei Dong activated the first transformation, gaining a Green Light aura, immense strength, and speed as he smashed through the cavern and attacked the surrounding landscape.
• Lei Dong exhausted his strength, tore apart a striped tiger, and collapsed after the transformation’s effects faded.
• Lei Dong swallowed a Lesser Five Elements Pill and meditated with a Middle Grade Spirit Stone, recovering several hours later with unusually significant cultivation progress.
• Lei Dong considered using Heavenly Devil Transformation to speed up his cultivation and found no serious injuries, while recognizing that the technique burned through his body’s reserves as well as his true qi.

Lei Dong left seclusion after exhausting his Lesser Five Elements Pills and traveled cautiously to a cultivation market to restock. There, an old Rogue Cultivator asked him to kill someone in exchange for an Upper Grade Spirit Item.

• Lei Dong refined his Heavenly Devil Transformation training into a ten-day cycle that improved his cultivation but consumed ten Lesser Five Elements Pills and one Middle Grade Spirit Stone each time.
• After using up his pills, Lei Dong traveled by night to a distant cultivation market and entered after paying the entrance fee.
• Lei Dong kept a threatening appearance and low profile in the market, which he learned was backed by a cultivation Lineage likely to have a Golden Core Ancestor.
• An elderly Rogue Cultivator led Lei Dong to a secluded stone chamber and asked him to kill someone.
• Lei Dong began to leave, but turned back when the old man offered an Upper Grade Spirit Item as payment.

Lei Dong agreed to consider killing Wu Wenlong for the old man surnamed Zhou in exchange for an Upper Grade Spirit Item. After learning that the Golden Core Ancestor protecting Wu Wenlong was away and that Wu Wenlong secretly met a married woman, Lei Dong demanded the item before taking action.

• The old man surnamed Zhou explained that his family had declined from the legacy of a Golden Core Ancestor and offered an Upper Grade Spirit Item to hire Lei Dong.
• Lei Dong threatened Zhou, then set conditions: he would assess the target first, receive the spirit item before acting, and have no further ties with Zhou afterward.
• Zhou described how he had spent three years searching for a powerful and trustworthy Foundation Establishment cultivator to avenge his family.
• Zhou named Wu Wenlong, a peak third-layer Foundation Establishment cultivator backed by the Wu family, as his target.
• Zhou revealed that Wu Wenlong's Golden Core Ancestor was overseas and that Wu Wenlong secretly met the wife of the Liu family; Lei Dong said he would act as the situation required.
• Zhou knelt and offered to take Lei Dong to retrieve the spirit item, pleading with him to avenge Zhou's dead sons and grandsons.

Lei Dong accepted the Black Dragon Banner from the old man surnamed Zhou and agreed to help him kill Wu Liao after ten days. Disguised as a young nobleman, Lei Dong went to Wan Bao Xuan to buy pills and stunned the attendant by ordering a thousand Lesser Five Elements Pills.

• Lei Dong hid while the old man surnamed Zhou retrieved the Black Dragon Banner, then examined its ability to summon a powerful black Flood Dragon.
• Lei Dong agreed to meet Zhou in ten days to discuss killing Wu Liao and asked him to buy clothes and accessories.
• Zhou disguised Lei Dong with makeup, and Lei Dong returned to the marketplace dressed as a refined young nobleman.
• Lei Dong visited Wan Bao Xuan and asked Xiao Man for pills suited to early Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• Lei Dong casually ordered a thousand Lesser Five Elements Pills, leaving Xiao Man astonished and charmed.

Lei Dong prepared for an assassination by refining his spirit items and tracking the Liu Household’s third young madam to her secret meeting with Wu Wenlong. He launched a surprise attack on the couple, and the chapter ended as his ghosts and Black Dragon Banner descended on Wu Wenlong.

• Lei Dong sold the Chen Household’s spoils, exchanged his wealth for pills and Upper Grade Spirit Stones, and planned to cultivate at great expense.
• Lei Dong refined the Black Dragon Banner and strengthened the Myriad Ghost Banner with souls and ghosts.
• A spy told Lei Dong that the Liu Household’s third young madam had gone out to meet a friend, so he followed her to a secluded wooden house.
• Lei Dong concealed himself near the house, summoned three Ghost Guards, and waited for Wu Wenlong to arrive.
• Lei Dong unleashed the fierce ghosts and Ghost Guards as Wu Wenlong and the woman were together, freezing the house and catching Wu Wenlong off guard.
• Wu Wenlong tried to flee, but the Ghost Guards struck him repeatedly as Lei Dong summoned a huge Black Qi Flood Dragon.

After fleeing into the Heavenly Dao Alliance, Lei Dong cultivated in seclusion for more than two years, advancing to the peak of the second Foundation Establishment layer before hitting a bottleneck. He left for Heavenly Dao City to seek a way forward, where he encountered a young monk from Vajra Temple.

• Lei Dong killed Wu Wenlong and the Liu family's daughter-in-law, collected their souls and belongings, and fled the scene with his subordinates.
• After flying more than a hundred thousand miles, Lei Dong entered the neutral territory of the Heavenly Dao Alliance and hid in a secluded cave to cultivate.
• Lei Dong advanced to the second layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm but became stuck at its peak after exhausting his Lesser Heaven Spirit Pills.
• Lei Dong gave up on cultivating in seclusion and set out for Heavenly Dao City, the alliance's largest city and headquarters.
• Lei Dong arrived near Heavenly Dao City, descended toward its gate, and saw a young monk from Vajra Temple land before him.

Lei Dong fought a powerful Vajra Temple war monk at the city gate, but a Heavenly Sword Sect elder intervened before either could win. After the monk departed, Li Yijian asked Lei Dong how the fight had started.

• Lei Dong and the Vajra Temple monk exchanged insults and battled, with the monk's strength overwhelming Lei Dong's two Ghost Guards at close range.
• Lei Dong summoned the Myriad Ghost Banner, and its Ghost Tide trapped the monk and let the Ghost Guards turn the fight around.
• The monk unleashed a blazing Maitreya Kasaya, and Lei Dong prepared to use the Nirvana Disc before Li Yijian's commanding voice stopped them.
• Lei Dong withdrew his ghosts, introduced himself to Li Yijian, and mentioned that his master, Myriad Ghost Ancestor, had reached the Golden Core Mid Stage.
• The monk left while Lei Dong and Li Yijian spoke, and Li Yijian identified him as a Vajra Temple Battle Hall war monk and asked how the fight began.

Li Yijian brought Lei Dong to the Heavenly Dao Alliance's main hall to qualify him for the Inner Devil Hall, where Lei Dong met the Alliance Leader and several young sect representatives. The chapter left him facing a flirtatious disciple of the Yin Yang Joyful Union Sect as the other representatives sized him up.

• Li Yijian explained that Lei Dong could enter the Inner Devil Hall if his identity, age, and cultivation met the requirements, then escorted him into Heavenly Dao City.
• Li Yijian introduced Lei Dong to Alliance Leader Canglanzi, who recognized Lei Dong as the Yin Sha Sect's representative and invited him to sit.
• Lei Dong noticed four young representatives from the Carefree Dao, Langya Mountain, the Demon Prison Sect, and the Yin Yang Joyful Union Sect.
• The Yin Yang Joyful Union Sect's young woman secretly tried a Charm Technique on Lei Dong, but he remained unaffected and she invited him to sit beside her.

Lei Dong took a seat beside Qi Feifei and learned about the backgrounds and rivalries of the other young disciples gathered for the Inner Devil Hall. After trading barbs with Jie Chen, he watched as Tantai Bingyun and Wu Peng arrived.

• Lei Dong accepted Qi Feifei’s invitation to sit beside her and made small talk to seek a potential ally.
• Wang Hui asked about the Yin Sha Sect’s Twin Yin Sha Heroes, and Xi Donglai mocked their reputation before Wang Hui reminded him of Tantai Bingyun.
• Qi Feifei introduced Lei Dong to Wang Hui, Xi Donglai, and Li Huntian and explained their backgrounds.
• Li Yijian and the Alliance Leader noticed Lei Dong’s keen divine sense and reconsidered letting him join them.
• Jie Chen arrived, exchanged insults with Lei Dong, and drew a warning from Qi Feifei about his combative nature.
• Tantai Bingyun of Tianyin Palace and Wu Peng of Asura Heaven arrived, drawing everyone’s attention.

Wu Peng and Tantai Bingyun arrived at the Heavenly Dao Alliance gathering, where Tantai Bingyun asked why Ding Wanyan had not come and revealed that they had fought before. Lei Dong learned that he had been given an Alliance spot in the Inner Devil Hall and agreed to help its representative obtain a Heart Cleansing Fruit, while considering securing another for Ding Wanyan.

• Wu Peng and Tantai Bingyun entered and paid their respects to Canglanzi, while the gathered sect disciples reacted to Tantai Bingyun’s formidable presence.
• Tantai Bingyun recognized Lei Dong as a disciple of the Yin Sha Sect and asked why Ding Wanyan had not come, explaining that she had fought her several times.
• Canglanzi clarified that Lei Dong was using one of the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s two spots in the Inner Devil Hall, and Li Yijian explained the entry limits and Lei Dong’s task.
• Li Yijian told Lei Dong that the Inner Devil Hall’s changing towers held ten Heart Cleansing Fruits, and that Lei Dong needed to help the Alliance’s weaker representative obtain one first.
• After learning the fruit could strengthen the soul and help break through a bottleneck, Lei Dong considered obtaining one for Ding Wanyan as well.

Lei Dong recruited Dongfang Fu to help his group secure Heart Cleansing Fruits during the Inner Devil Hall expedition. As their plan took shape, Tantai Bingyun asked Lei Dong whether he was also from the Myriad Ghost Cave.

• Canglanzi welcomed Dongfang Fu, who had arrived as the Yin Sha Sect's representative and impressed the gathering with her fifth-level Foundation Establishment cultivation.
• Dongfang Fu recognized Lei Dong, praised his progress, and sat beside him after he invited her over.
• Lei Dong asked Dongfang Fu to help him obtain a Heart Cleansing Fruit, and she readily agreed to secure one for him.
• Lei Dong persuaded Dongfang Fu to team up with him, Qi Feifei, and a Heavenly Dao Alliance disciple to claim five fruits by targeting Jie Chen, Wu Peng, and Xi Donglai.
• Tantai Bingyun asked Lei Dong if he was from the Myriad Ghost Cave too.

Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun vowed to kill each other over their opposing histories with Myriad Ghost Cave before the cultivators entered the Inner Devil Hall. After arriving, Lei Dong was ambushed by a pack of wolves, but he fought back and killed their Silver Wolf leader.

• Tantai Bingyun swore to slaughter every last member of Myriad Ghost Cave, and Lei Dong declared that he would fight her to the death.
• Li Yijian led the cultivators by flying boat to a desolate canyon and activated the ancient teleportation array to the Inner Devil Hall.
• Lei Dong entered the teleportation vortex and, after arriving, raised his Profound Yin Shield to deflect icicles fired by a pack of snow-white wolves.
• Lei Dong used his Netherworld Ghost Qi to ensnare the wolves and sent his Critical Hit Ghost Guard and fierce ghosts after the Silver Wolf.
• Lei Dong's forces killed the Silver Wolf, then his Critical Hit Ghost Guard devoured its body while his Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger consumed its soul.

Lei Dong explored the snowbound forest in the Heart Devil Hall and encountered a huge Foundation Establishment Realm bear. He defeated it with his Ghost Guards and ghost swarm, then distributed its remains among his servants.

• Lei Dong found himself on an icy lake and discovered that a restriction prevented him from flying high above the ground.
• Lei Dong entered the frozen woods with his Ghost Guards, Ghost Soldiers, and Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger, keeping his divine sense alert for danger.
• Lei Dong heard a bear roar and led his entourage toward the beast, then prepared his forces when it charged at them.
• Lei Dong had his three Ghost Guards surround the bear while he unleashed fierce ghosts and used Netherworld Ghost Qi to weaken it.
• Lei Dong's forces killed the bear, and he sent the fierce ghosts back into the Myriad Ghost Banner while the Ghost Guards and Ghost Soldiers divided the spoils and the Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger ate the bear's living soul.

Lei Dong found the first Black Tower in the Inner Devil Hall and cautiously entered, using ghost servants and expendable ghosts to probe its traps. He reached a chamber guarded by two half-snake phantom beasts, which grew stronger instead of vanishing, leaving him facing a more dangerous obstacle than expected.

• Lei Dong continued hunting Foundation Establishment Demon Beasts, and the Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger returned to its Spirit Beast Bag to advance.
• Lei Dong discovered the Black Tower and sent the Shadow Ghost Soldier inside, where hidden spears badly wounded it.
• Lei Dong sent the Critical Hit Ghost Guard into the tower, then used Ghost Souls from the Myriad Ghost Banner to test traps along a passage.
• Lei Dong entered a circular hall, where a Ghost Soul was destroyed and two half-human, half-snake phantom beasts appeared.
• Lei Dong waited for the phantom beasts to fade, but they grew from the first level of Foundation Establishment toward the second.

Lei Dong fought his way through the Black Tower’s layers, collecting several rewards and pushing his Ghost Guards against increasingly powerful phantom beasts. On the Seventh Layer, he faced a gigantic flaming bull that seemed to be a real creature rather than an illusion.

• Lei Dong defeated the first layer’s phantom beasts, received an Upper Grade Spirit Stone, and continued upward after recovering.
• Lei Dong cleared the second layer without receiving a reward, then defeated a powerful winged warrior on the third and collected an unidentified piece of hot ore.
• Lei Dong and his Ghost Guards defeated two yaksha on the fourth layer, earning a Zhu Fruit instead of the Heart Cleansing Fruit he sought.
• Lei Dong overcame a flying phantom on the fifth layer and two mermaid-like phantoms on the sixth, receiving an eight-hundred-year-old Spirit Ginseng.
• Lei Dong reached the seventh layer, where a huge flaming bull charged him and sent the Critical Hit Ghost Guard flying.

Lei Dong wore down and killed the sixth-layer Foundation Establishment Inferno Fire Bull, then discovered Qi Feifei had been watching and waiting for a chance to strike. When she tried to charm him, he ordered his Ghost Guards to attack her.

• Lei Dong used the Myriad Ghost Banner, Netherflame Bullet, and evasive movement to keep the Inferno Fire Bull occupied while avoiding its attacks.
• Lei Dong endured the battle and restored his strength with a Qi-restoring pill and an Upper Grade Spirit Stone as the bull grew exhausted.
• Lei Dong summoned three Ghost Guards, which killed the weakened bull, while he sealed its beast soul in a Soul-Sealing Bead.
• Lei Dong found only a glossy black ore where he had hoped for a Heart Cleansing Fruit, then called Qi Feifei out of hiding.
• Qi Feifei denied plotting against Lei Dong and used her Charm Technique, so Lei Dong sent the crimson-stained Ghost Guards to attack her.

Lei Dong cornered Qi Feifei after discovering she had waited to ambush him, and she tried to bargain for her life by offering the benefits of her Pure Maiden cultivation. When he refused to spare her, she offered to become his Ghost Slave on the condition that he free her after they joined in yin-yang union and he obtained her Yuan Yin.

• Lei Dong sent his three Ghost Guards after Qi Feifei and rejected her plea for mercy, even after she offered her Yin Core and Yuan Yin.
• Lei Dong remembered his vows to Ding Wanyan and chose to kill Qi Feifei rather than trust her promise to serve him.
• Qi Feifei used her Red Silk to deflect Lei Dong's Nirvana Disc, but he blocked her escape and sent a swarm of Yin Souls after her.
• Qi Feifei offered to let Lei Dong refine her soul and control her as a Ghost Slave, provided he swore to release her after taking her Yuan Yin through yin-yang union.
• Lei Dong slowed his attack and asked Qi Feifei to confirm that she was willing to become his Ghost Slave.

Lei Dong swore to release Qi Feifei after taking her Yuan Yin, then used the Soul Refinement and Fusion Technique to bind their souls. He left Qi Feifei under his control, accepting the risks of soul fusion in hopes of breaking through to the Golden Core Path.

• Lei Dong halted the Ghost Guards and swore to release Qi Feifei after obtaining what he was owed.
• Qi Feifei discarded her weapons and belongings, then opened her heart to Lei Dong.
• Lei Dong refined Qi Feifei's soul, carved in his mark, and cut away a wisp of her soul.
• Lei Dong fused Qi Feifei's soul wisp into his own, binding their lives and making her his slave.
• Qi Feifei woke and felt an inexplicable awe and closeness toward Lei Dong.

Lei Dong kept Qi Feifei at his side after learning she could track men marked with her Xun Lang Gui, and they used a Black Devil Tower’s teleportation array to reach a marsh. After splitting up to search, Qi Feifei found a Black Tower near Xi Donglai, and Lei Dong hurried to meet her.

• Lei Dong told Qi Feifei their bond was only a matter of survival, but agreed to keep her with him after she explained that her Xun Lang Gui could track marked men.
• Qi Feifei led Lei Dong to a teleportation array, and they traveled through it together to a vast marsh.
• Lei Dong and Qi Feifei used Telepathic Pearls to stay in contact, then split up to search for a Black Devil Tower.
• Lei Dong killed a Foundation Establishment giant swamp crocodile, and his Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger advanced to become a Foundation Establishment Demon Beast.
• Qi Feifei reported finding a Black Tower near Xi Donglai and showed Lei Dong two Foundation Establishment Monster Beasts she had killed.

Lei Dong and Qi Feifei pursued Xi Donglai through the Black Devil Tower, but he ambushed them and escaped before they could catch him. They cleared several more regions without finding a Heart Cleansing Fruit and entered an eighth area, where they were increasingly likely to encounter other cultivators.

• Lei Dong paid Qi Feifei for her help, then flew with her toward the Black Devil Tower to pursue Xi Donglai.
• Lei Dong and Qi Feifei followed Xi Donglai into the tower, but he caught them with a Sword Qi ambush and escaped faster than they could pursue him.
• Lei Dong and Qi Feifei cleared the fifth through seventh layers, defeated an illusion-casting snake demon, and obtained a spirit herb instead of a Heart Cleansing Fruit.
• Lei Dong and Qi Feifei searched a desert region and four more uninhabited regions, clearing their towers without finding a Heart Cleansing Fruit.
• Qi Feifei explained the tower’s teleportation limits and the special containers needed to preserve Heart Cleansing Fruits, and Lei Dong entered an eighth region with her.

Lei Dong and Qi Feifei entered a volcanic region and encountered a Flame Giant. As its lava attack overwhelmed their defenses, the two were swept beneath the wall of molten rock.

• Lei Dong reflected on the growth of his Ghost Guards and the Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger before arriving with Qi Feifei in a lava-filled world.
• Qi Feifei sensed someone to the southeast, and Lei Dong guided them toward the presence.
• Lava erupted around Lei Dong and Qi Feifei, and a Flame Giant burst from a molten pool.
• Lei Dong ordered Qi Feifei to flee with him, but the Flame Giant hurled a vast wall of lava after them.
• Lei Dong and Qi Feifei combined their shields, magic, and Ghost Guard to resist the lava, but the wall swept over them.