Chapter Summaries

Lei Dong arranged for Qian Luo to control Black Iron Tower through soul fusion in exchange for Black Iron Tower’s freedom after twenty years. He learned that Qing Niangzi held the Ghost Gu formula and found that its permanent antidote could free Tantai Bingyun without needing White Bone Devil Lord’s rare treasure.

• Lei Dong offered Black Iron Tower freedom after twenty years of loyal service, and Black Iron Tower accepted.
• Lei Dong ordered Qian Luo to fuse souls with Black Iron Tower, and Qian Luo completed the fusion after swearing to treat him as a brother if he remained loyal.
• Tantai Bingyun explained how the Ghost Gu worked and said its formula could make an antidote, though refining Ghost Gu also required White Bone Devil Lord’s rare treasure.
• Tantai Bingyun asked Qing Niangzi for the formula, and Lei Dong persuaded Qing Niangzi to lend him the Jade Slip.
• Lei Dong examined the formula and discovered that its permanent antidote could remove the Ghost Gu, though doing so would destroy it.

Lei Dong led his companions from the sea into Zhao Prefecture, where they bought pills and prepared antidotes for the Ghost Gu. He then brought them to the Senluo Ghost Realm to capture Yin Souls, leaving the group with an enormous nightly haul.

• Lei Dong escaped White Bone Hall territory with his companions and sold the captured Flying Boats after they reached Zhao Prefecture.
• Lei Dong and his companions spent their wealth buying pills, while Lei Dong arranged for Qing Niangzi to refine Ghost Gu antidotes and charged Black Iron Tower and Tantai Bingyun for them.
• Lei Dong led the group to the Senluo Ghost Realm, a vast ghost-rearing ground created by Fierce Ghost Sect.
• Lei Dong distributed Soul Nurturing Pagodas and taught his companions how to capture Yin Ghosts.
• Lei Dong and his companions gathered tens of thousands of Yin Souls each day, and Lei Dong appraised them for valuable finds.

After four months of hunting Yin Souls, Lei Dong revealed that he had obtained a Top Grade Spirit Ghost and offered to share its value with his companions. They urged him to keep it, so he promised to buy each of them two Upper Grade Spirit Ghosts instead, while secretly knowing he already had many to sell.

• Lei Dong led his companions out of the Senluo Ghost Realm as the Fierce Ghost Sect increased patrols, then revealed a Top Grade Spirit Ghost among their gains.
• Lei Dong's companions were astonished by the rare ghost, and they recognized that he could have kept it secret but chose to share the windfall.
• Lei Dong proposed selling the Top Grade Spirit Ghost and giving the squad a share, including five million Spirit Stones each for Tantai Bingyun and Black Iron Tower.
• Qian Luo, Shangguan, Old Zhao, Qing Niangzi, and Tantai Bingyun urged Lei Dong to keep the ghost and accept only a modest lucky bonus.
• Lei Dong declined to sell the Top Grade Spirit Ghost and promised to buy two Upper Grade Spirit Ghosts for each companion, knowing he had already refined fifty of them.

Lei Dong built up his allies by acquiring Upper Grade Spirit Ghosts while searching for the Fierce Ghost Sect’s Heavenly Soul Great Law. Just as he prepared to give up, Shangguan Hong revealed he might be able to obtain the technique and the Ghost Dance Technique through his family connections.

• Lei Dong sold twenty Upper Grade Spirit Ghosts and secretly bought twelve back at auctions, giving two each to Qian Luo, Shangguan, Qing Niangzi, and Old Zhao while reserving others for Wan Yan and Qing'er.
• Lei Dong searched for a worthy Ghost Taming Art and became fixated on the Fierce Ghost Sect’s Heavenly Soul Great Law, but Soul Searching Art and other attempts failed to reveal its secrets.
• After months without a solution, Lei Dong decided to settle for a lesser Ghost Taming Art and plan his return to Kang Prefecture.
• Shangguan Hong approached Lei Dong and said he had a way to get the Heavenly Soul Great Law and the Ghost Dance Technique.
• Shangguan Hong explained that he had fled his prominent family after they arranged his engagement to Wen Xiaoxue, whom his family favored, and Lei Dong laughed in relief at hearing he was not the only one forced into an unwanted match.

Lei Dong studied Wen Xiaoxue’s copied Heavenly Soul Great Law and Ghost Taming insights during the journey, then combined ideas from different techniques to create the rudimentary Devil Emperor Art. The team continued toward the Great Desert as Lei Dong’s new method drew everyone’s astonishment.

• Shangguan Hong gave Lei Dong a Jade Slip containing a reconstructed Heavenly Soul Great Law, the Fierce Ghost Sect’s Ghost Taming Technique, and Wen Xiaoxue’s cultivation insights.
• Lei Dong led the team toward the Great Desert by a cautious route and studied the Jade Slip aboard the Flying Boat.
• Lei Dong compared the Yin Sha Sect’s intelligence-focused Ghost Taming Art with the Fierce Ghost Sect’s more ferocious methods.
• Lei Dong organized Ghost Taming techniques around loyalty, intelligence, ferocity, and efficiency, and experimented with combining their strengths.
• After three months, Lei Dong created the rudimentary Devil Emperor Art for refining and commanding Ghost Servants, astonishing his companions.

Lei Dong and his companions developed their ghost-taming abilities while traveling covertly toward the Great Desert, but their journey was interrupted when enemy Flying Boats closed in. Tantai Bingyun identified the pursuers as forces from White Bone Hall, though White Bone Old Devil was not with them.

• Lei Dong shared his Devil Emperor Art and ghost-taming notes, and Qian Luo successfully used Blood Sacrifice to refine an Upper Grade Spirit Ghost into an eighth-level Ghost Soldier.
• Lei Dong and his group traveled covertly, strengthening their forces along the way.
• Lei Dong detected a large Flying Boat approaching, and the group discovered that three Flying Boats were circling to surround them.
• Lei Dong sent Tantai Bingyun to inspect the pursuers and search for other enemy ships.
• Tantai Bingyun returned and reported that one ship belonged to White Bone Hall, which had likely tracked them after their recent purchase of Upper Grade Spirit Ghosts, but White Bone Old Devil was absent.

Lei Dong's group encountered Young Lord White Bone as White Bone Hall's Flying Boats closed in, and Lei Dong provoked him over Tantai Bingyun. The chapter ended with Lei Dong warning Young Lord White Bone to stay away from her.

• Lei Dong sensed someone hiding in the gale and struck the figure with a Netherflame Bullet, breaking his concealment.
• The newcomer revealed himself as Young Lord White Bone, whose cultivation had reached the Golden Core Path, and Black Iron Tower recognized him.
• Young Lord White Bone asked Tantai Bingyun why she had left, and she reminded him that he and White Bone Devil Lord had mistreated her.
• Lei Dong challenged Young Lord White Bone to hand over a wisp of his soul and belittled his status, provoking him to demand Lei Dong's identity.
• Lei Dong pretended to be Tantai Bingyun's lover and warned Young Lord White Bone to stay away from her.

Lei Dong challenged Young Lord White Bone to a duel to rescue Tantai Bingyun, then used his ghosts and beasts to battle White Bone’s skeleton army. Tantai Bingyun and Lei Dong’s allies joined the fight, leaving Young Lord White Bone besieged and under attack.

• Lei Dong claimed he and Tantai Bingyun had been devoted to each other since childhood, provoking Young Lord White Bone into accepting a one-on-one fight.
• Lei Dong used Ghost Shadow Escape to attack as Young Lord White Bone summoned more than a hundred skeletons.
• Lei Dong sent five commander-level vicious ghosts and the Critical Ghost General to hold back the skeleton army.
• Young Lord White Bone used an ancient tower and black arrows to pin down the Ghost General, but Lei Dong summoned a Golden Core Shadow Tiger to tear through the skeletons.
• Young Lord White Bone hurled a White Bone Spear at Lei Dong, who evaded it and counterattacked with his Crimson-Refining Flying Sword and Black Dragon Chant.
• Tantai Bingyun struck Young Lord White Bone with Green Lotus Sword Tune, and Lei Dong, Qian Luo, Black Iron Tower, Qing Niangzi, and the others attacked him together.

Lei Dong captured Young Lord White Bone and killed an isolated Golden Core Cultivator before helping his allies fight the remaining enemies. He offered the three surviving Golden Core Cultivators freedom from their Ghost Gu in exchange for twenty years of service, then ordered Black Iron Tower to choose one to recruit and kill the others.

• Lei Dong and his companions overwhelmed Young Lord White Bone, and Qian Luo bound him and seized his belongings.
• Lei Dong and Tantai Bingyun intercepted and killed an isolated Golden Core Cultivator, then returned to support their allies against the other three.
• Lei Dong threatened to kill Young Lord White Bone if his allies were hurt, and Qing Niangzi snapped the captive’s arm to make the enemy hesitate.
• Lei Dong offered the three Golden Core Cultivators freedom from their Ghost Gu in exchange for twenty years of service, and Black Iron Tower confirmed he could remove it.
• Lei Dong ordered Black Iron Tower to choose one of the three to surrender, saying the other two would be killed.

Lei Dong repelled White Bone Hall’s pursuit, captured the enemies’ Living Souls, and collected a huge fortune before leaving the battlefield. As his group strengthened their Ghost Servants, he kept Young Lord White Bone alive as protection against White Bone Old Devil while planning to kill him if the Devil did not appear before they left Zhao Prefecture.

• Black Iron Tower chose Han Chao to join Lei Dong, and Lei Dong ordered them to kill the two Golden Core Cultivators who refused to surrender.
• Qing Niangzi, Shangguan Hong, and Qian Luo defeated one Golden Core Cultivator and sealed his Living Soul, while Black Iron Tower, Han Chao, and Tantai Bingyun defeated the other.
• Lei Dong’s group destroyed the three remaining Flying Boats, captured all the White Bone Hall cultivators, and took their valuable ships, treasures, and Young Lord White Bone’s wealth.
• After escaping, Lei Dong’s group divided the spoils, with Lei Dong receiving twenty million Spirit Stones, and trained their Ghost Servants using the supplies they had gathered.
• Lei Dong gave Han Chao three-year antidotes and promised him a permanent antidote after twenty years, while keeping Young Lord White Bone alive as a shield against White Bone Old Devil.

Lei Dong and Shangguan Hong reached North Pass and secured permission to pass through, but an Alien Race invasion forced the city to reactivate its Anti-air Formation. City Lord Li summoned Shangguan and his companions to the main hall, delaying their journey into the Great Desert.

• Lei Dong and Shangguan Hong traveled to North Pass, where Shangguan's ties to Beilanshan helped them gain the city lord's approval to pass through.
• Lei Dong and Shangguan returned to the Flying Boat, and North Pass deactivated its Anti-air Formation to let them cross.
• An Alien Race invasion began, with smoke, red light, and alarms erupting in the distance.
• The Anti-air Formation began pulling the Flying Boat down, so Lei Dong ordered Old Zhao to descend into the city.
• City Lord Li reactivated the formation and summoned Shangguan Hong and his companions to the main hall for an urgent discussion.

Lei Dong and his companions prepared to defend North Pass as more than thirty thousand Swift Shadow Insects approached. The chapter ended with the first third of the swarm charging and the Fire Dragon Cannons firing.

• Lei Dong agreed to help City Lord Li defend North Pass and earned the defenders’ gratitude.
• Lei Dong sensed a vast army of Swift Shadow Insects, and City Lord Li explained how dangerous their swarms were.
• Shangguan Hong told Lei Dong that a past invasion of more than ten thousand insects had destroyed North Pass, and Lei Dong told his group to fight but retreat if the city fell.
• More than ten thousand Swift Shadow Insects charged toward North Pass as City Lord Li ordered the Fire Dragon Cannons to fire.
• Lei Dong summoned his puppets and ghost generals while the cannons launched fireballs at the swarm.

At North Pass, Swift Shadow Insects and Earth Giants battered the city’s defenses while Lei Dong and the defenders fought to hold the Mountain Protecting Formation. Far beyond the battlefield, the Saintess directed the unified barbarian army to wait rather than launch an immediate invasion, leaving North Pass under mounting pressure from the giants’ boulders.

• Fire Dragon Cannons tore through hundreds of Swift Shadow Insects, but the swarm quickly filled the cleared ground again.
• Doji asked the Saintess why the barbarians did not send their full army to break through North Pass, and she explained that they needed to prevent Zhao Prefecture’s Nascent Soul Cultivators from gathering.
• The Saintess told Doji and Prophet Karkas to wait, while the barbarian army remained organized far beyond the defenders’ spiritual sense.
• More than a hundred Earth Giants rose from within the swarm and hurled boulders at North Pass, battering the Mountain Protecting Formation.
• Lei Dong and his wraiths, Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger, and puppets attacked the Swift Shadow Insects as the formation neared collapse.

Lei Dong and the defenders struggled to hold back the Swift Shadow Insects as the Mountain Protecting Formation collapsed, and he prepared to retreat. The White Bone Old Devil arrived, and Lei Dong used Young Lord White Bone as a hostage to prevent an immediate attack.

• Lei Dong and the other defenders killed many Swift Shadow Insects, but the Mountain Protecting Formation soon collapsed and the insects began climbing the city wall.
• City Lord Li refused to retreat because the swarm threatened Zhao Prefecture, while Lei Dong decided to withdraw with his allies after they unleashed their strongest attacks.
• Lei Dong sensed a Nascent Soul Cultivator approaching, used his Asura Wings to retrieve Mute Girl and Young Lord White Bone, and returned to the city wall.
• City Lord Li recognized the newcomer as the White Bone Devil Lord, who fixed his attention on Lei Dong and the hostage.
• Lei Dong warned the White Bone Old Devil that their misunderstanding could be resolved while keeping his hand pressed against Young Lord White Bone's crown.
• The White Bone Old Devil laughed at Lei Dong for daring to threaten him with his great-grandson.

Lei Dong negotiated with White Bone Devil Lord after taking Young Lord White Bone hostage, securing a ten-day pursuit wager to protect his companions from retaliation. He released the captive and prepared to flee, while Tantai Bingyun promised to avenge him if he died.

• Lei Dong threatened Young Lord White Bone and refused to release him unless White Bone Devil Lord swore not to attack Lei Dong's party.
• White Bone Devil Lord rejected Lei Dong's demand for an oath, and City Lord Li intervened to mediate.
• When White Bone Devil Lord demanded that Lei Dong surrender his companions, Lei Dong proposed a wager: if he survived ten days of pursuit, the whole party would be spared.
• White Bone Devil Lord swore to honor the wager, and Tantai Bingyun offered to face the challenge with Lei Dong.
• Lei Dong told Tantai Bingyun to return to Kang Prefecture and inform Ding Wanyan if he died, then released Young Lord White Bone and readied himself to run.

Lei Dong escaped North Pass by exploiting the Anti-air Formation’s limits and using his Asura Wings and Five Ghosts to glide while restoring his true qi. When White Bone Old Devil finally began pursuing him, Lei Dong used the wings to surge more than a hundred li ahead, nearing safety beyond the old devil’s divine-sense range.

• Lei Dong bowed farewell to White Bone Old Devil, then used Ghost Shadow Escape and his Asura Wings to flee from North Pass.
• Lei Dong swallowed a Misty Spirit Replenishing Pill and summoned five leader-level fierce ghosts, but their attempt to fly him upward was suppressed by the Anti-air Formation.
• Lei Dong discovered that the formation allowed the Five Ghosts to push him forward and downward while his wings let him glide, and he used the method to recover his true qi.
• White Bone Old Devil honored his promise to wait for one incense stick to burn before pursuing Lei Dong at full speed.
• Lei Dong recalled the Five Ghosts and repeatedly beat his Asura Wings, moving more than a hundred li ahead of White Bone Old Devil.

Lei Dong escaped White Bone Devil Lord by using Heavenly Devil Transformation and the Asura Wings to vanish into the desert, then took a False Death Pill and hid as a corpse beneath the sand. The Saintess ordered Doji to capture White Bone Devil Lord, who remained stranded searching for Lei Dong.

• White Bone Devil Lord used a Space Talisman to catch up with Lei Dong and attacked him with thousands of skeletons, but Lei Dong evaded them with his Asura Wings.
• As Lei Dong's true qi dwindled, he swallowed several Incense Pills and a Top Grade Spirit Stone, then used Heavenly Devil Transformation to greatly amplify his power.
• Lei Dong tore through space in several leaps, exhausted his strength, swallowed a False Death Pill, and buried himself in the sand.
• White Bone Devil Lord searched the desert but could not determine where Lei Dong had gone or find his motionless body.
• The Saintess, Prophet Karkas, and Doji watched White Bone Devil Lord through a crystal ball, and the Saintess ordered Doji to capture him.
• Doji turned into a whirlwind of yellow sand and departed to confront White Bone Devil Lord.

The White Bone Devil Lord searched for Lei Dong but encountered Doji, the Barbarian clan leader, who challenged him and revealed a trap. Surrounded by over ten thousand Swift Shadow Insects and unable to escape, the Devil Lord summoned his forces and fought back as the insect tide charged.

• The White Bone Devil Lord failed to find Lei Dong, then encountered Doji, who demanded that he surrender.
• Doji and the White Bone Devil Lord traded attacks with the Mad Sand Art and Thousand Skulls technique, ending their first clash in a draw.
• Doji revealed that over ten thousand Swift Shadow Insects had surrounded the Devil Lord within the Anti-air Formation.
• The Devil Lord refused to surrender and summoned skulls, a Two-headed Silver Wolf, and two Level 9 Ghost Generals.
• Doji signaled the insect tide to attack, and the Devil Lord sent his skeletal army to meet it.

Lei Dong rescued White Bone Devil Lord from Doji and the Swift Shadow Insects after weighing the risks and hoping to earn the old devil’s gratitude. As they escaped, Lei Dong continued flattering White Bone Devil Lord, who began to regard him more favorably.

• Doji trapped White Bone Devil Lord with the Swift Shadow Insects while the Anti-air Formation prevented him from escaping, and the old devil’s plea for help was intercepted.
• After several days of resistance, White Bone Devil Lord ran out of strength and threatened to detonate his Nascent Soul rather than surrender to Doji.
• Lei Dong emerged from the gravel, seized White Bone Devil Lord, and escaped more than ten miles using his Asura Wings.
• Lei Dong explained that he had watched the battle for a day and chose to rescue White Bone Devil Lord because he admired his refusal to yield and saw a chance to earn a powerful ally.
• White Bone Devil Lord warned Lei Dong not to exploit his weakness, but Lei Dong’s earnest flattery eased the old devil’s suspicion and increased his fondness for him.

Lei Dong escaped the barbarian blockade with the weakened White Bone Devil Lord and earned the older cultivator’s trust by sharing supplies and shelter. After recovering in a hidden cave, Lei Dong sensed a powerful Monster Beast nearby, and the White Bone Devil Lord announced that he had healed.

• Lei Dong and the White Bone Devil Lord evaded the barbarian forces and left the Anti-air Formation’s range, then Lei Dong carried them onward with his Evil Ghost Banner.
• Lei Dong gave the White Bone Devil Lord Incense Pills and a Top Grade Spirit Stone and claimed that a Nascent Soul Cultivator backed his family.
• Lei Dong hid with the White Bone Devil Lord in a cave, set the Soul Devouring Shadow Tiger and Critical Ghost General to guard the entrance, and recovered his true energy by dawn.
• Lei Dong sensed that his cultivation bottleneck was nearing a breakthrough while the White Bone Devil Lord remained motionless on the Evil Ghost Banner.
• After seven or eight days, Lei Dong detected a faint disturbance that suggested a powerful Monster Beast nearby, and the White Bone Devil Lord said his injuries had healed.