Chapter Summaries

After escaping the Netherworld Pavilion assassins, Lin Taichu went to Profound Heaven Hall to demand that it stop pursuing him and to seek support against the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild. He was lured into a trap inside the hall and left wounded and restrained as a mysterious starlight-filled phenomenon appeared.

• Lin Taichu escaped the Ghost Market after the Netherworld Pavilion assassins suffered heavy losses.
• Lin Taichu realized the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild had been behind the attacks and decided to seek help from the Profound Heaven Sect.
• Lin Taichu forced his way into Profound Heaven Hall and warned its elder not to send anyone after him again.
• The elder challenged Lin Taichu and drew him to Tian Xuan Peak, where a massive black shadow struck him and the crowd mocked his demand for a fair fight.
• Lin Taichu entered Profound Heaven Hall, where a hidden force immobilized him and a black beam pierced his chest.
• Dazzling stars and radiant crystals appeared inside Profound Heaven Hall while Lin Taichu remained injured and trapped.

Lin Taichu recovered rapidly inside the Profound Heaven Hall and fought the elder and his disciples. After a sudden Bell Chime prompted the elder to flee toward the Teleportation Array, Lin Taichu pursued him but was badly wounded in their ongoing clash.

• Lin Taichu absorbed the Profound Heaven Hall's spiritual energy and Star Power, healing his injuries and improving his cultivation.
• Lin Taichu killed more than a dozen peak Martial King disciples with a golden sword attack, shocking the elder with his strength.
• The elder attacked Lin Taichu with a low-grade divine artifact, and Lin Taichu blocked its black radiance with two fingers before they fought fiercely.
• A sudden Bell Chime rang through the Profound Heaven Hall, and the elder raced toward the Teleportation Array to escape.
• Lin Taichu pursued the elder, but the elder shattered the bones in Lin Taichu's right arm and wounded his chest as their battle continued.

Lin Taichu defeated and humiliated the elders who had attacked him, then began a breakthrough in the Profound Heaven Hall’s Starlight Hall. When the breakthrough revealed a Spirit Devouring Gu restriction and Xuanjizi arrived with seventeen black-robed men, Lin Taichu unleashed the Heaven Burning Sword Art fragment, turning the plaza into a blazing furnace.

• Lin Taichu crippled the elder’s right foot, seized him by the throat, and slapped him while ignoring the other elders’ threats.
• Lin Taichu sent the disciple away, then activated the Lightning Control Art and sat cross-legged in the void to attempt a breakthrough.
• The Starlight Hall’s Star Power surged into Lin Taichu, forming a Star Core that contained turbid qi and a restriction resembling the Spirit Devouring Gu planted in his father.
• Xuanjizi and seventeen black-robed men arrived with bone lamps, binding Lin Taichu’s meridians and unleashing the Spirit Devouring Gu.
• Lin Taichu used the Imperial Clan Secret Seal to scatter most of the Gu, summoned his golden sword, and activated the Heaven Burning Sword Art fragment.
• The golden light from the sword art engulfed the plaza, setting its decaying buildings ablaze.

Lin Taichu defeated the Profound Heaven Sect elders and discovered a link between the Spirit Devouring Gu and the imperial bloodline. He joined the Netherworld Pavilion's Soul Ferry Boat and faced a trial to reach its Pavilion Master.

• Lin Taichu survived a five-clawed golden dragon's attack, then used the Heaven Burning Sword Art to kill most of the Profound Heaven Sect elders.
• Lin Taichu saw his Phoenix Totem glow and found a bronze compass beneath the ruins that matched the markings on the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild's token.
• Huowuchang emerged from the black mist and attacked Lin Taichu with soul bells, but Lin Taichu turned the Yin Souls into stellar Origin Energy.
• Huowuchang offered Lin Taichu a chance to enter the Netherworld Pavilion if he survived the Santu River trial and reached Naihe Bridge.
• Huowuchang explained the trial's three levels aboard the Soul Ferry Boat and asked Lin Taichu which one he would choose.

Lin Taichu uncovered the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s scheme to use him as a reincarnation vessel and destroyed the reincarnation core, awakening a new power. The guild’s forces fled, but their leader called for the Reincarnation Venerable to descend.

• Lin Taichu descended into the blood pool, defeated Blood River Ancestor, and reached Naihe Bridge, where he met acting Pavilion Master Meng Qi.
• Meng Qi revealed that the guild used Spirit Devouring Gu and reincarnation power to control and revive cultivators, and that Lin Taichu had been chosen as a vessel to sustain the Reincarnation Realm.
• The guild’s sinister leader arrived with armed men and demanded Lin Taichu hand over the Star Core.
• Lin Taichu used the Heaven Burning Sword Art to purify the Spirit Devouring Gu and destroyed the reincarnation core, merging star, True Fire, and Reincarnation Power.
• Lin Taichu unleashed the Wrath of the Stars against the attackers, and the survivors fled while calling for the Reincarnation Venerable.

Lin Taichu learned that Huo Yun, president of the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild, had orchestrated the demonic beast crisis and fought to destroy the guild. He burned Huo Yun with the Flame of Reincarnation and pressed his attack on the guild’s fighters.

• Lin Taichu unleashed the shattered Star Core’s energy across the Reincarnation Realm, destroying the guild’s Spirit Devouring Gu formation cores.
• A black-robed man appeared before the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild, killed a woman who insulted Lin Taichu, and called him the Child of Reincarnation.
• Huo Yun stabbed Lin Taichu and confessed that he had released the demonic beasts to make money.
• Lin Taichu trapped Huo Yun in the Flame of Reincarnation and began melting him, saying the Netherworld Pavilion had helped him.
• Over three hundred guild members, including more than twenty Nascent Soul powerhouses, attacked Lin Taichu, but he evaded their strikes and killed one cultivator.
• Lin Taichu gained the upper hand in a fight against another guild cultivator.

Lin Taichu fought Huo Yun with the Yin Yang Ancient Castle, but the treasure broke under the clash and Huo Yun revealed a hidden protective Formation. Lin Taichu shattered the Formation with a Bronze Cauldron, leaving Huo Yun facing its attack.

• Lin Taichu killed a cultivator, sealed his soul, and trapped the two fleeing men with the Yin Yang Ancient Castle.
• Huo Yun used the castle’s Yin Sha energy and Evil Extermination law to repeatedly destroy Lin Taichu’s body.
• The Yin Yang Ancient Castle cracked and exploded, leaving Huo Yun badly injured as Lin Taichu recovered.
• Lin Taichu revealed Netherflame and demanded that Huo Yun surrender or die, but Huo Yun refused and activated a hidden protective Formation.
• Lin Taichu summoned a massive Bronze Cauldron that shattered the Formation, terrifying Huo Yun.

Lin Taichu survived Huo Yun and the Yin Yang Ancient Tower, escaped the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild's pursuers, and cultivated in Black Wind Valley. Huowuchang arrived with an offer of protection from Netherworld Pavilion, but Lin Taichu questioned whether he could be trusted.

• The Bronze Cauldron destroyed the Yin Yang Ancient Tower and absorbed Huo Yun, while Lin Taichu recovered from severe injuries.
• Huo Yun survived inside the Bronze Cauldron, but Lin Taichu fled before the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild's pursuers arrived.
• Lin Taichu entered Black Wind Valley and discovered that its miasma contained Lingering Souls of Spirit Devouring Gu.
• After three days of cultivation, Lin Taichu sensed Huowuchang approaching and learned that the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild had surrounded the valley.
• Huowuchang offered Lin Taichu protection from Netherworld Pavilion and warned him that the miasma had been increased to trap him, but Lin Taichu asked why he should believe him.

Lin Taichu took refuge in a hidden cave in Black Wind Valley while the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild and other forces surrounded the valley. Meng Qi and the Guild’s elders activated a powerful formation to break through the black barrier sealing the entrance.

• Huowuchang led Lin Taichu to a hidden cave, where Meng Qi advised him to cultivate while the Netherworld Pavilion handled its internal affairs.
• Lin Taichu discovered old monsters from the Profound Heaven Sect and the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild sleeping in crystal coffins and sat down to cultivate.
• A group led by King Yan attacked Black Wind Valley, and Meng Qi used a compass and secret treasure to help Lin Taichu resist the intruders.
• A ghostly stone wall trapped and killed cultivators who charged into the valley, while King Yan and the others passed through a stone gate that sealed the entrance.
• Meng Qi and twelve Golden Core elders activated a formation, sending a purple lightning pillar into the black barrier and opening a crack.

Meng Qi used Netherworld Pavilion’s artifacts and techniques to destroy the forces attacking Black Wind Valley and kill Shopkeeper Sima. The surviving attackers fled as Meng Qi’s defenders remained in control of the valley.

• Purple lightning destroyed Black Wind Valley’s barrier, exposing the corpses of victims Netherworld Hall had used for soul refinement, and Cultivators rushed inside to attack its people.
• Meng Qi used the Stone Gate’s lightning to kill more than twenty Golden Core Cultivators from the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s vanguard.
• Meng Qi blocked the allied forces with Yin Souls, then used the Soul Hooking Bell to destroy Shopkeeper Sima’s Ironclad Demon Rhinoceros and kill him.
• Meng Qi unleashed the Eternal Netherwind against the Profound Heaven Sect, killing over a hundred Cultivators and wiping out nearly half its experts.
• Shopkeeper Sima’s surviving allies and the other attackers fled Black Wind Valley in panic.

Meng Qi slaughtered the Profound Heaven Sect cultivators in the canyon, then faced attackers whose strange powers let them transform and heal from wounds. The chapter left Meng Qi confronting Steward Situ as he charged at her with the Netherworld Blade.

• Meng Qi used the Netherworld Bell and Soul Hooking Bell to kill and disable the Profound Heaven Sect cultivators, then executed those who begged for mercy.
• A blood drop transformed one cultivator into a monstrous creature that attacked Meng Qi, but she destroyed it with the Netherworld Bell.
• Meng Qi discovered Steward Situ had faked unconsciousness and knocked him down before attacking him with a demonic blade.
• Steward Situ blocked the demonic blade with a black rope, but Meng Qi pinned him with the Netherworld Flag and severed his left arm.
• Steward Situ's wound healed rapidly, his eyes turned blood-red, and he raised the Netherworld Blade to strike Meng Qi.

Lin Taichu and Meng Qi faced Steward Situ, the Great Elder, Xuanjizi, and Mo Wuchang in the canyon. Lin Taichu transformed after his Star Core shattered and broke the Heavenly Net formation, but the battle remained unresolved as the three enemies launched a coordinated attack.

• Meng Qi used a Heart-Protecting Talisman to survive Steward Situ’s Blood Demon Technique, while Lin Taichu attacked Steward Situ with the Bronze Cauldron and Imperial Clan Secret Seal.
• The Great Elder, Xuanjizi, and Mo Wuchang arrived, trapped Lin Taichu and Meng Qi in the Heavenly Net formation, and demanded the Star Core and Netherworld Pavilion’s secret canon.
• Mo Wuchang attacked Lin Taichu with Netherworld Ghost Fire, but Lin Taichu swallowed and purified it as his Star Core shattered and fused his Phoenix Bloodline and Reincarnation Power into a new foundation.
• Lin Taichu broke free of the formation and countered the trio’s attacks with the Xuanhuang Cauldron and Bronze Ancient Bell, sending the Soul Devouring Worm into the path of Xuanjizi’s silver threads.
• Xuanjizi evaded the Soul Devouring Worm and appeared behind Lin Taichu, bringing both fists down on him.

Lin Taichu defeated the Netherworld Hall Great Elder and then killed Xuanjizi, while Meng Qi fled and Mo Wuchang seized her Netherworld Ghost Fire gourd. The battle ended with Lin Taichu standing over the survivors after discovering that his own wound had healed mysteriously.

• Lin Taichu overwhelmed the Great Elder, destroyed the Netherworld Ghost Banner with Heaven Burning, Earth Extinguishing, and burned him to ash.
• Meng Qi escaped as Lin Taichu fought, while Mo Wuchang took the porcelain bottle she had thrown to him.
• Lin Taichu shattered Xuanjizi's Imperial Seal and wounded him, then noticed his own injury had healed through an unfamiliar green glow.
• Mo Wuchang knocked Meng Qi down and took her Netherworld Ghost Fire gourd as Xuanjizi fled.
• Lin Taichu caught Xuanjizi, crushed him to death despite his pleas to submit, and threw his corpse off a cliff.

After killing an enemy, Lin Taichu submitted to the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild and was taken to its mysterious Dreamlike Immortal Palace. When the guild tightened surveillance on him, he disguised himself as a beggar and entered the crowd at an Artifact Refiner assessment, where he noticed the guild’s Truth-Revealing Tokens.

• Lin Taichu returned to the cave with Meng Qi, then went alone to the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild and signed its contract.
• Lin Taichu woke in the Dreamlike Immortal Palace, where Xiao Die served him food rich in Origin Spirit.
• Lin Taichu sent a letter by pigeon, but three days later learned the guild was watching him as a suspected remnant.
• Lin Taichu disguised himself as a diseased beggar to evade the guild’s surveillance.
• Lin Taichu blended in with examinees at the Floating Palace assessment and spotted the Truth-Revealing Tokens worn by the supervising Cultivators.

Lin Taichu concealed his strength to pass the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s artifact-refining tests and gained a place among its official refiners. After receiving a token tied to the mysterious Su family, he entered his new workshop and discovered a trace of a lost Spirit Concealment Array.

• Lin Taichu posed as a weak cultivator, passed the C-grade test by refining sturdy Profound Iron threads, and advanced to the final test.
• Lin Taichu used his Rusty Iron Furnace, Profound Ice Iron, and Golden Flames to refine the Spirit Devouring Egg into a shield that absorbed spiritual energy, impressing the chief examiner.
• The chief examiner made Lin Taichu an official Artifact Refiner of the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild, and the one-eyed Old Man secretly gave him a guild token marked with the character Su.
• Lin Taichu connected the Su token to rumors of a vanished artifact-refining clan and the guild’s Spirit Devouring Worms, then went to his assigned C-grade workshop.
• Lin Taichu found a trace of a lost Spirit Concealment Array etched into the bottom of the workshop’s furnace.

Lin Taichu uncovered evidence that the Su family had opposed the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s experiments with Spirit Devouring Eggs and received a Phoenix Fire Seed meant for the Floating Palace’s Guixu Well. After escaping the Guild’s attack and evading suspicion, he discovered that Su Sangeng’s Black Token activated a hidden message on the Fire Seed’s box.

• Lin Taichu used Cauldron Insight to find Jade Slip fragments that showed a Su family elder entrusting a child with a Fire Seed and warning about Spirit Devouring Eggs.
• Su Sangeng revealed that the Guild had used living people to refine Spirit Devouring Eggs and gave Lin Taichu the Phoenix Fire Seed, urging him to take it to the Guixu Well.
• Poison Fang Guards attacked the workshop, and Zhao Wujiu killed Su Sangeng as Lin Taichu escaped with the Fire Seed and Su Sangeng’s Black Token.
• Lin Taichu hid in a drainage ditch, evaded the Enforcement Hall patrol, and learned that the Guild blamed the attack on the Su family.
• The chief examiner questioned Lin Taichu, but accepted his story that he had slept in a drainage ditch.
• Lin Taichu placed Su Sangeng’s Black Token on the box, and its seven glowing indentations projected strange symbols across the lid.

Lin Taichu uncovered how the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild had used the Guixu Well to devour the Su Family’s Spirit Vein and learned how to destroy the Spirit Devouring Eggs. After destroying the Main Egg and gaining the Su Family’s Reincarnation Dao Foundation, he confronted the merchant guild to avenge Su Sangeng and the clan.

• Lin Taichu revealed the Su-character token to Su Shi, who identified himself as Su Sangeng’s clan uncle and led him to a hidden chamber beneath the guild.
• Lin Taichu and Su Shi learned from the Golden Blood projection and damaged genealogy that the guild had used Spirit Devouring Eggs to consume the Su Family’s Spirit Vein, and that Xuanhuang Qi could break the eggs’ reverse-scale markings.
• Zhao Wujiu and his forces attacked the chamber, but Lin Taichu used the Bronze Cauldron’s Su Family spirit fire to burn the vines and escape with Su Shi.
• Su Shi gave Lin Taichu a map of the Floating Palace and explained that he had to extinguish its ninety-nine Soul Suppressing Lamps before midnight to deliver the Phoenix Fire Seed to the Guixu Well.
• Lin Taichu infiltrated the Floating Palace, destroyed all ninety-nine lamps, entered the Guixu Well, and swallowed the Phoenix Fire Seed to unleash a pillar of fire that destroyed the Main Egg.
• The Guixu Well’s energy reversed, sweeping Zhao Wujiu away, while Lin Taichu gained the Su Family’s Reincarnation Dao Foundation and emerged to declare vengeance on the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild.

Lin Taichu confronted Zhang Qiankun, the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s final guard, after exposing the Su family ancestral shrine. Their battle escalated as Zhang summoned a Chaos Fierce Beast, leaving Lin Taichu to unleash a fusion of Phoenix Nirvana and his Reincarnation Dao Foundation.

• Lin Taichu restored the jade pendant in the Su family shrine by placing Meng Qi's Heart-Protecting Talisman fragment atop it.
• Zhang Qiankun emerged from an underground chamber and revealed that he had guarded the guild’s final checkpoint for three thousand years.
• Zhang attacked Lin Taichu with the Nine Fierce Soul Devouring Bells, but Lin blocked the assault with Xuanhuang Qi and the Bronze Cauldron fragment.
• Zhang wounded Lin with the Netherworld's Cold Iron Blade, and Lin used Phoenix True Fire to resist its freezing effect.
• Zhang combined the nine bells into a colossal Chaos Fierce Beast and attacked Lin, who answered with Phoenix Nirvana, Reincarnation Reversal.

Lin Taichu fought Zhang Qiankun through their strongest techniques, but a Divine Monarch from the Blood Robe Sect intervened before either could finish the other. Zhang Qiankun then unleashed one final blood-powered move, forming an array as the confrontation continued.

• Lin Taichu and Zhang Qiankun survived their collision, and Zhang Qiankun summoned a powerful one-eyed beast phantom with his remaining bronze bells.
• Lin Taichu suppressed Zhang Qiankun’s beast with his Reincarnation Dao Foundation, but Zhang Qiankun sacrificed his Essence Blood, lifespan, and soul to trap Lin Taichu in eight black vortices.
• Lin Taichu’s strength ran out, so he transformed into a blood dragon and attacked Zhang Qiankun, forcing him to retreat.
• A Divine Monarch from the Blood Robe Sect attacked Lin Taichu, who narrowly escaped, and then threatened Zhang Qiankun.
• Zhang Qiankun activated the Bronze Ancient Bell with his blood and formed an array from the resulting crimson light and runes.

Lin Taichu defeated Zhang Qiankun and fought the Blood Robe Sect Divine Lord as the Spirit Devouring Worm Main Egg emerged beneath the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild. With Meng Qi and two Netherworld Pavilion elders holding off his enemies, Lin Taichu descended into the Guixu Well to destroy the split egg.

• Lin Taichu used the Blood Dragon Transformation to defeat Zhang Qiankun, seize and crush his Divine Infant, then killed the fleeing Blood Robe Sect cultivators with the Bronze Ancient Mirror.
• The Blood Robe Sect Divine Lord demanded the Phoenix Fire Seed, but Lin Taichu attacked him; their clash was interrupted by a Golden Blood arrow and the awakening Spirit Devouring Worm swarm.
• Meng Qi and two Netherworld Pavilion elders arrived to help Lin Taichu repel the swarm and hold off the Divine Lord.
• Lin Taichu discovered that the Spirit Devouring Worm Main Egg had split and descended into the Guixu Well, where he fought through Worm Kings while searching for the remaining one.