Chapter Summaries

Chen Yi equipped the Experience Pack trait, learned Ghostfire Battle Arts, and built Three Fork Ridge into a powerful faction under his rule as the Martial King. He began hunting other Purple Copper Bone Mountain Kings to take their strongest bones, gain cultivation, and strengthen his forces.

• Chen Yi inherited Bone Mountain’s legacy and asked Three Fork Ridge’s Ghost Dao Practitioners to teach him about cultivation, learning Ghostfire Battle Arts from them.
• Chen Yi studied the battle arts and used the Martial Scripture to consider how to unify his bones, while Three Fork Ridge’s generous policies and his victory over a stronger opponent drew more followers.
• Chen Yi welcomed newcomers as the Martial King and asked them for information about other Mountain Kings and tales of rebirth, but learned only about the Mountain Kings.
• Chen Yi sent subordinates to investigate nearby regions and identify the true names of their Mountain Kings.
• Chen Yi challenged and defeated the Purple Copper Bone Mountain Kings, taking their strongest bones for his own body and gaining cultivation and legacies through the Experience Pack trait.

After years of hunting Mountain Kings across the Rift Valley Domain, you encountered two gold-boned Ghost Dao Practitioners fighting in the sky. When Yedoulu announced he planned to sacrifice the domain to open the Taboo Blood treasure trove, you recognized him as an enemy and prepared to intervene on behalf of the wounded Gu Lingling.

• You learned that the Mountain Kings had fled or gone into hiding because of your reputation for hunting them and taking their bones and territories.
• You rushed out of your cave after hearing two powerful Ghost Dao Practitioners flying nearby and saw them battling with gold bones.
• You pursued the fighters while assessing their strength and noticed that the Three-Eyed Race member had a rainbow diamond bone in his skull, while Gu Lingling was wounded and retreating.
• Yedoulu vowed to kill Gu Lingling and sacrifice the Rift Valley Domain to open the Taboo Blood treasure trove.
• You classified Yedoulu as an enemy and Gu Lingling as a non-enemy as they argued over whether she had harmed souls to temper her bones.

The protagonist rescued Gu Lingling from Yedoulu by challenging him to a duel, then escaped his pursuit through an underground maze. After reuniting with his followers, the protagonist learned that Yedoulu ruled the Disc-Watching Domain and asked Gu Lingling about his plan to sacrifice the Rift Valley Domain for a Taboo Blood treasure.

• The protagonist used Yedoulu’s name to summon the Duel Sword Formation, interrupting his attack on the badly injured Gu Lingling and allowing her to escape.
• Yedoulu fought the protagonist’s disguised clone, but the protagonist conceded and burrowed underground using the Cave-Cave Wave.
• Yedoulu lost the protagonist in a maze of tunnels and left in frustration; Number 250 and the other ghosts emerged to confirm he was gone.
• The protagonist emerged from underground and learned from Gu Lingling that Yedoulu was the Domain Master of the Disc-Watching Domain.
• The protagonist told Gu Lingling that he had saved her because they were both human and asked her about Yedoulu’s plan involving the Rift Valley Domain and a Taboo Blood treasure.

Gu Lingling explained that Yedoulu had acquired a powerful Taboo Bone and attacked her when she tried to negotiate, prompting her to flee into the protagonist’s territory. After discovering they had both ascended from the Human World, she learned from the protagonist that their homeland and much of the Void Realm had been destroyed, and the chapter left her stunned by the news.

• Gu Lingling described her role as Rift Valley Domain Master and explained that Yedoulu planned to destroy her domain to obtain Taboo Blood with his Taboo Bone.
• Gu Lingling recounted how Yedoulu attacked her when she went to negotiate, forcing her to flee through the protagonist’s territory.
• The protagonist and Gu Lingling discovered that they had both come from the Human World, and the protagonist explained how he had acquired his mismatched bones.
• The protagonist told Gu Lingling about the Human World’s destruction and the upheavals across the Void Realm, including the world war, the invasion, and the hidden hand behind it.
• Gu Lingling reacted in disbelief to the fate of her homeland, while the protagonist reflected that her sheltered, trusting nature may have made her an easy target after ascending.

You persuaded Gu Lingling to guide you to the Rift Valley Domain’s Mountain Kings so you could take their gold bones and prepare to fight Yedoulu. After years of gathering bones while leaving their ghostfire intact, you gained a complete golden skeleton.

• You asked Gu Lingling to lend you her gold bones, then convinced her to help find Mountain Kings with gold bones instead.
• In year fifty-six, Gu Lingling led you to the Mountain Kings, and you challenged them with your Duel Sword Formation and took their bones without extinguishing their ghostfire.
• In the following years, Gu Lingling guided you to more Mountain Kings and made brief incursions into the Disc-Watching Domain to delay Yedoulu.
• By year sixty-four, you had gathered gold bones from head to toe, and your misshapen body transformed into a humanoid skeleton made entirely of gold bones.

The Martial King mastered switching between human bones and his original skeletal forms, then led his forces to stop Yedoulu from carrying out a sacrifice in the Rift Valley Domain. The two armies confronted each other, and Yedoulu recognized the Martial King as the foe who had escaped him years earlier, though he mistook him for someone else.

• The Martial King learned to switch his bones between human and skeletal forms, impressing Gu Lingling.
• After 250 reported Ghost Dao Practitioners invading from the Disc-Watching Domain, the Martial King ordered his followers to assemble and set out to confront Yedoulu.
• The Martial King led a hundred thousand direct subordinates toward the domain’s center, pursuing Yedoulu’s army as other forces gathered behind them.
• After more than a year of pursuit, the Martial King’s army confronted Yedoulu, and Gu Lingling urged him to perform his sacrifice in an uninhabited domain.
• The Martial King broadcast a threat demanding that Yedoulu leave or die, and Yedoulu recognized his voice but mistakenly thought he was a different person.

The Martial King confronted Yedoulu as the sacrificial formation began spreading, then used seven empowered clones to break through the Dawnbreak Five Heroes and reach him. The Duel Sword Formation pulled the Martial King and Yedoulu away from the formation, leaving Yedoulu’s Taboo Bone outside.

• Yedoulu ordered his troops to attack while he activated the sacrificial formation with a black Taboo Bone.
• The Martial King flew toward Yedoulu, but the Dawnbreak Five Heroes intercepted him as Gu Lingling joined the fight.
• The Martial King summoned seven skeletal clones and empowered them, turning the battle against the Five Heroes in his favor.
• The Martial King broke past the Five Heroes, while Gu Lingling trapped them and the clones inside an enormous lotus.
• The Martial King cast the Duel Sword Formation on Yedoulu, pulling them both away from the Taboo Bone, and Yedoulu recognized him as the spider demon.

Yedoulu tried to stun and kill you inside the Duel Sword Formation, but your “Materialist Warrior” trait nullified his attack and you overpowered him. The Ghost Dao Practitioners watched as you tore apart Yedoulu’s bones and reached for the Taboo Blood Treasure in his chest.

• Yedoulu used Yama Eye to stun you, then charged with Asura Slash, but your transformed bones blocked his halberd and pinned him with a scorpion tail.
• You revealed that Yama Eye had not affected you because “Materialist Warrior” made you immune to the attack, and you noticed Yedoulu was guarding a black box inside his chest.
• Yedoulu’s thoughts revealed that the box held Taboo Blood, which could not be destroyed, so you stopped holding back.
• You moved too quickly for Yedoulu to follow, pinned him again, and snapped the Gold Bone in his chest and upper body to get the treasure.
• The Ghost Dao Practitioners watching the fight were stunned as you dismantled Yedoulu and speculated that you were a World Master.

The protagonist defeated Yedoulu, absorbed his Ghostfire, and claimed the title of Domain Master of the Disc-Watching Domain. After the Ghost Dao Practitioners submitted, the protagonist questioned the Dawnbreak Five Heroes about the Taboo Blood Treasure.

• The protagonist erased Yedoulu's will after he refused to reveal anything about the Taboo Blood Treasure, then absorbed his Ghostfire and rose to Immortal Lord tier three.
• The protagonist emerged with Yedoulu's Taboo Blood Treasure and two Rainbow Diamond skull bones, then declared himself Domain Master and ordered the Disc-Watching Domain's Ghost Dao Practitioners to submit.
• The Disc-Watching Domain's Ghost Dao Practitioners surrendered, while the Dawnbreak Five Heroes stopped fighting and agreed to serve the protagonist.
• Gu Lingling joined the protagonist after he checked on her injuries, and she began tending to herself.
• The protagonist asked the Dawnbreak Five Heroes what they knew about the Taboo Blood Treasure, including its origin, contents, and how to open it.

You gathered taboo blood to open the mysterious object Yedoulu had left behind and traveled with Gu Lingling to a region without Ghost Dao Practitioners. There, you discovered that its dark red ocean was merging blood, which trapped souls and their ghostfire on the seabed.

• You learned that Yedoulu had planned to use the Taboo Bone and an enormous sacrifice of ghostfire to open the object, and you told the Dawnbreak Five Heroes that the treasure would belong only to you.
• You forced the Dawnbreak Five Heroes to hand over their taboo blood and help collect more from their acquaintances.
• By year sixty-eight, you had gathered enough taboo blood, and Gu Lingling agreed to take you to a region without Ghost Dao Practitioners.
• By year seventy, you and Gu Lingling reached an isolated island beside an ocean of dark red merging blood.
• You used the Ghostfire Battle Art to part the merging blood and reveal skulls with trapped ghostfire on the seabed.

You and Gu Lingling explored the palace revealed by the Taboo Bone and discovered that its courtyards described a method for reversing death and returning to Surface Space. Gu Lingling found no emperor’s blood, immortal embryo flesh, or other apparent ingredients, leaving the palace’s secret unexplained.

• You used the Taboo Blood, Taboo Bone, and Ghostfire to reveal a vast palace floating on the Merging Blood.
• You invited Gu Lingling into the palace, and the two of you read its inscriptions before exploring its courtyards.
• You and Gu Lingling found four courtyards whose steles described bones, an emperor’s blood, an immortal embryo, and a divine dragon’s sinews.
• You concluded that the inscriptions promised a way to reverse death and return to Surface Space.
• Gu Lingling searched the palace again but found none of the ingredients the inscriptions described.

You and Gu Lingling discovered a trace of the will of someone who had escaped the Burial Ground through rebirth and destroyed the Void Realm. As you abandoned the palace to flee an approaching threat, the World Master of the Yan Realm, Huoben, blocked your way to keep the Life and Death Hall’s emergence secret.

• You and Gu Lingling found a lingering will in the courtyard stele, which revealed that its owner had rebuilt his body and returned to the living world.
• You told Gu Lingling that the reborn person had destroyed the Void Realm and declared that you would eventually achieve rebirth too.
• You and Gu Lingling left the palace, deciding it was too large and conspicuous to carry away.
• Your Signal Light warned you of danger, so you grabbed Gu Lingling and tried to flee, leaving the palace behind.
• The newcomer blocked your escape with a curtain of light and demanded that you stop, and Gu Lingling identified him as Huoben, the World Master of the Yan Realm.

Huoben attacked the Martial Domain Master and Gu Lingling to keep the Life and Death Hall secret, but Gu Lingling used a Taboo Bone to vanish with him. Left alone, the Martial Domain Master sealed the hall beneath the blood ocean and resolved to pursue rebirth by assembling a skeleton of Supreme Bones.

• Huoben struck the Martial Domain Master and seized Gu Lingling, intending to destroy her and absorb her ghostfire.
• Gu Lingling revealed a Taboo Bone and used her ghostfire to twist space, taking herself and Huoben away.
• The Martial Domain Master mourned Gu Lingling, then decided she might survive and that they could meet again.
• The Martial Domain Master pushed the Life and Death Hall beneath the blood ocean to conceal it from other World Masters.
• The Martial Domain Master examined the hall and concluded that its first step of rebirth required assembling a complete skeleton of Supreme Bones.

Chen Yi resumed upgrading his bones and searching for Gu Lingling and Huoben, while capturing the Dawnbreak Five Heroes and gaining the Indestructible Diamond Divine Art. By age one hundred and thirty-one, he had absorbed bones from many powerful opponents, but still had no news of Gu Lingling or Huoben.

• The Dawnbreak Five Heroes tried to flee while Chen Yi was away, but he caught them and chained them together to bring them back.
• Chen Yi ordered his subordinates to gather information about rainbow diamond bone practitioners and realm leaders, then began upgrading his bones.
• At age one hundred and twenty, Chen Yi drew the Indestructible Diamond Divine Art and equipped it on Chen Ba.
• Chen Yi searched for Gu Lingling and Huoben while collecting rainbow diamond bones, but his followers found no trace of either of them.
• By age one hundred and thirty-one, Chen Yi had defeated many powerful figures, using the Indestructible Diamond Divine Art when necessary and absorbing their bones.