Recaps

After Chaos is left desolate, Pangu studies three green lotuses and meets Xuanhuang, who explains their connection to the Chaos Green Lotus and the Great Dao’s plans. Pangu realizes that the Method of Slaying Corpses may offer a way to escape his fate, and settles on creation and evolution as his path while preparing to open a world.

• Pangu reflected on Yang Mei’s uncertain fate and studied the three green lotuses that remained in Chaos.
• A nine-colored light carried Pangu into one of the lotuses, where he met Xuanhuang in an ancient green hall.
• Xuanhuang explained that the Great Dao had created the Chaos Living Beings to evolve the world and that the lotuses were parts of the Chaos Green Lotus.
• Pangu found Dao Lord Lu Ya’s Method of Slaying Corpses among the purple lights and considered using it to free himself from attachments and his destined end.
• Pangu told Xuanhuang that his path was creation and evolution, then returned to Chaos to contemplate the three lotuses and the world he would open.

Pangu’s Evil Corpse opened Heaven and Earth but was forced to transform into the Primordial World, while Pangu watched from beyond it. Ages later, Ji Tian awakened in the Netherworld Blood Sea and connected with the broken Heaven Devouring Halberd blade.

• Pangu severed his Evil Corpse, which borrowed the Sky-Opening Axe and struck open Heaven and Earth.
• Evil Corpse Pangu forged the Heaven Devouring Halberd from Xuanhuang essence and defied Xuanhuang, but was overwhelmed and shattered the weapon as he fell.
• Evil Corpse Pangu transformed into the Primordial World, while Xuanhuang carried his soul into the depths of Heaven and Earth.
• Pangu watched the world evolve and noted its abundant treasures and Savage Beasts, while a strange presence remained sealed in the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• Ji Tian fled through a dark abyss of wailing souls and Fierce Ghosts until his Spiritual Sense broke through a barrier and revealed a broken halberd blade.
• Ji Tian joined his Spiritual Sense with the Dragon-shaped Halberd Blade and murmured that he understood.

Ji Tian awakened as a sentient spirit within the Heaven Devouring Halberd and worked with the Black Bone Arm to break through a seal, only to find himself trapped in a blood sea. After drifting in despair, he confronted his fear and resolved to control his own fate through cultivation.

• Ji Tian rejected the identity of the weapon’s former owner, and the Black Bone Arm taught him the Mysterious Ghost Yin Yang Art.
• Ji Tian formed a Spiritual Ghost Body, then merged into the Heaven Devouring Halberd as the Black Bone Arm struck the seal and opened a gap.
• Ji Tian emerged into a blood sea, where the Black Bone Arm fell into a deep slumber after helping him escape the first restriction.
• A black shadow attacked Ji Tian, but the Black Bone Arm devoured it and used its Soul Power before returning to Ji Tian.
• Ji Tian drifted through the blood sea in despair until he questioned his fear and resolved to take control of his fate, even if he had to defy heaven.

Ji Tian was swallowed by a skeleton lion but used his Core Elixir to refine its Soul Flame and absorb its memories. He learned to attack with thrown stones and began hunting weak skeletons to strengthen himself, becoming a force in the outskirts of the Withered Bone Mountain Range.

• Ji Tian encountered a skeleton lion, which attacked him and swallowed him to refine his soul power.
• Ji Tian used his Core Elixir to turn purple flames on the lion’s Soul Flame, refined it, and absorbed the lion’s memories and basic combat knowledge.
• Ji Tian learned that undead creatures survived by devouring Soul Flames and that stronger prey lived deeper in the Withered Bone Mountain Range.
• Ji Tian experimented with his Core Elixir until he used its energy to lift and hurl stones.
• Ji Tian smashed the skulls of wandering Skeleton Soldiers with stones and absorbed their weak Soul Flames.
• Ji Tian became dominant among the low-level skeletons in the outer region and cautiously continued hunting while his Core Elixir darkened toward black.

Ji Tian lured a Blue Flame Demonic Ox into a gorge trap and absorbed its Soul Flame after nearly being killed. He decided to craft weapons from the Ox’s bones as he prepared to grow stronger.

• Ji Tian watched a Blue Flame Demonic Ox’s Skeleton Squad fight a powerful two-headed Skeleton Demonic Wolf, then revealed himself and attacked the Ox with a stone.
• Ji Tian fled from the Ox into a gorge and used falling rocks to trap it beneath a boulder, crushing its spine and damaging its skull.
• The wounded Ox launched its horns into Ji Tian’s chest and swallowed him, but Ji Tian’s Purple Flame overcame the Ox’s Soul Flame and he devoured it.
• Ji Tian learned that Purple Flame Skeletons ranked above Blue Flame Skeletons and reflected on his need for combat experience, techniques, and stronger weapons.
• Ji Tian examined the Demonic Ox’s bones and decided its glowing horns would make suitable flying knives.

Ji Tian forged bone weapons and defeated a Blue Flame lizard Skeleton by striking its Soul Flame, then witnessed a powerful Bone Dragon pass overhead. Afterward, his Soul Power began condensing into liquid, but he remained determined to grow stronger and find better ways to cultivate.

• Ji Tian refined a Bone Arrow and ten Bone Needles, then searched the stone forest for a chance to test his combat strength.
• Ji Tian challenged a six-legged Blue Flame lizard Skeleton and wounded it by coating a Bone Needle with spiritual power and piercing its Soul Flame.
• Ji Tian fired his spiritual-power-coated Bone Arrow into the lizard's skull, shattered it, and quickly defeated the other Skeletons.
• A gigantic Bone Dragon with a Golden Flame in its skull flew over Ji Tian, causing his Core Elixir to pulse and leaving him shaken by the dangers around him.
• While refining a blue Soul Flame, Ji Tian's Soul Power condensed into a drop of liquid, greatly increasing his control over the Bone Arrow.
• Ji Tian decided to keep hunting stronger opponents and considered how to improve his cultivation and find offensive techniques.

Ji Tian fought off the Bone Snake and Giant White Bone Bird, but the Flying Demonic Tiger ambushed him and offered to recruit him. With the tiger watching, Ji Tian kept refining the Bone Snake’s Soul Flame and discovered that its black horn contained poison.

• Ji Tian lured a Bone Snake into a canyon and attacked it, but its extendable bones and poisonous black mist drove him into a corner.
• A Giant White Bone Bird joined the ambush, and Ji Tian used his stored liquid spiritual power and Bone Arrows to destroy it before breaking the Bone Snake apart.
• The Flying Demonic Tiger appeared, swallowed the vulture’s Soul Flame, and offered Ji Tian a chance to follow it.
• Ji Tian continued refining the Bone Snake’s Soul Flame and black horn while the tiger watched, sensing that the horn contained poison.

Ji Tian fought the Flying Demonic Tiger and discovered that he could absorb and subdue the wind energy it controlled. As the Tiger charged him, a purple-black Core Fire erupted from Ji Tian and burned its bones, leaving only its Soul Flame.

• Ji Tian tested the Flying Demonic Tiger’s fear, then attacked it with bone blades and detonated a poisoned bone dagger to disable its wing.
• Ji Tian resisted the Tiger’s whirlwind with a Spiritual Power Shield and used a purple-flame-coated needle to pierce its wing.
• Ji Tian endured the Tiger’s Wind Blades and drew its invading energy into his Core Elixir, where he forced the White Tiger and Wind Spirit to submit to his will.
• Ji Tian formed a black hole in his Core Elixir to devour the Tiger’s energy, but the tiger-shaped wind nearly broke free.
• A purple-black blaze appeared inside Ji Tian’s Core Elixir, engulfed the tiger-shaped wind, and burst out to burn the Flying Demonic Tiger’s bones.

Ji Tian refined purple Soul Flames and learned that his Core Elixir had transformed, while the Black Remnant Bone urged him to seek its scattered remnants and embrace the Way of Slaughter. The chapter left Ji Tian wavering under its arguments, convincing himself that killing was necessary for survival and aligned with the Heavenly Dao.

• Ji Tian refined the Soul Flames, discovered his black liquid Core Elixir and purple markings, and learned how the Undead Clan cultivated by devouring others.
• Ji Tian found a withered bamboo among the Flying Demonic Tiger’s belongings and learned from its memories of a sealed treasure in a deep-pool cave.
• The Black Remnant Bone stirred the bamboo spirit’s remains and offered to help Ji Tian advance if he searched for its remnant bones.
• Ji Tian resisted carrying out the Black Remnant Bone’s will, but it warned that he would not survive the coming primordial world without greater power.
• The Black Remnant Bone argued that the Way of Slaughter was the path to survival, and Ji Tian began to accept that his killing followed the Heavenly Dao’s will.

Ji Tian investigated a strange deep pool and discovered that his Black Remnant Bone had advanced him to the Primordial Spirit Stage. After entering the pool’s sealed darkness, he subdued a death spirit and learned that a powerful master had once overcome the restriction but was now asleep.

• Ji Tian tested the pool’s intelligent restriction, then confronted a Demonic Dragon and shattered its Bone Body with a phantom fist.
• Ji Tian entered the pool and was trapped in a dark space, where a black stone filled him with the sorrow of a mighty being’s death.
• A death spirit attacked Ji Tian with Death Qi, but he swept it aside and devoured both the Qi and the spirit.
• Ji Tian questioned the death spirit and learned that its sleeping master had once scattered the restriction’s white light with a single finger.

Ji Tian struggled to escape a restriction in the pool, discovering that the Black Remnant Bone and Black Stone were tied to an ancient being sealed there. As the bone and its companions held the restriction back, Ji Tian began refining the stone but had yet to overcome its resistance.

• Ji Tian examined the restriction and realized it could be trapping him through his own thoughts, while suspecting the pool and the Flying Demonic Tiger had been part of a scheme.
• Ji Tian concluded the trap was meant for the Black Remnant Bone and painfully tried to separate it from his Primordial Spirit.
• The Black Remnant Bone and a phantom black finger attacked the mercury-like force, breaking its hold and awakening the ancient beings sealed in the bone.
• The ancient beings told Ji Tian the Black Stone held marrow from their original body and urged him to refine it before they were overwhelmed by the restriction.
• Ji Tian burned the Black Stone with his Ghost Fire, then realized he might need to use the Heaven-and-Earth patterns in his Primordial Spirit to manifest Purple Fire as the Black Remnant Bone began to falter.

Ji Tian tried to refine the Black Stone by using the wraith’s soul flame to create Purple Flame, while the Black Remnant Bone sought to escape with the stone’s marrow. Ji Tian gained partial control of the pool’s restriction and unleashed it against the Black Remnant Bone, but the fight remained unresolved.

• Ji Tian seized the wraith and used Soul Power, Death Qi, and seals to turn its Soul Flame purple and form a black Core Elixir.
• Ji Tian devoured the pool’s restriction energy to sustain the Purple Flame, which burned away the Black Stone’s shell and revealed Pangu’s life force.
• The Black Remnant Bone escaped as white light, but Ji Tian used the black Core Elixir to pursue it and revealed that he had helped the wraith break free of the bone’s control.
• The black Core Elixir exploded, and the Black Remnant Bone threatened to seal everyone in the pool while Ji Tian reclaimed the Black Bone Arm.
• Ji Tian made peace with the restriction inside himself and used the Heaven and Earth Seal to control part of the pool, though he admitted he had not refined the Black Stone.
• The Black Remnant Bone’s giant water finger collided with Ji Tian’s whirlpool, and Ji Tian summoned four silver-white fish to send a giant wave against it.

Ji Tian freed the pool’s undead spirit, gained a Sealing Bone, and recruited the Demon Dragon before entering the ominous Demon Hall. Inside, a Nine-Headed Monster Lion’s erratic soul power overwhelmed him, leaving Ji Tian trapped and struggling to protect his primordial spirit.

• Ji Tian recalled gambling on the undead’s plan to become the pool’s spirit and subdue the remnant soul, then set the transformed pool down and wished its new spirit success.
• The pool gave Ji Tian a finger bone, and he freed the Demon Dragon from its guardian’s restraint and asked it to follow him.
• Ji Tian approached the Demon Hall on the Bone Mountain, while the terrified Demon Dragon refused to enter.
• Inside the dark hall, Ji Tian encountered a Nine-Headed Monster Lion whose shifting moods seized his emotions and nearly exhausted his spiritual power.
• Ji Tian sheltered his soul inside the Black Remnant Bone, but the monster’s power still shook him, leaving him wondering how to escape another prison.

Ji Tian comprehended Pangu’s Way of Slaughter and the Nine-Headed Monster Lion’s Soul Law while cultivating with the Black Bone Relic. After the Lion briefly awakened a sealed power and attacked, Ji Tian’s relic destroyed it, leaving its fate uncertain as it absorbed the hall’s Demonic Cloud and fragments of Spiritual Sense.

• Ji Tian reflected on his incomplete cultivation methods and considered how he might refine Death Qi, Malevolent Qi, and other powers.
• The Nine-Headed Monster Lion’s confused memories stirred the Black Bone Relic, revealing Pangu’s defiance of Heaven’s will and inspiring Ji Tian to comprehend the Way of Slaughter.
• Ji Tian studied the Soul Law carried by the Lion’s Soul Power, strengthened his sea of consciousness, and tempered his primordial spirit with killing intent and conviction.
• The Nine-Headed Monster Lion opened one of its sealed eyes, gained formidable power, and unleashed nine golden Soul Power swords at the Black Bone Relic.
• The Black Bone Relic countered with a black finger and phantom fist, shattering the swords and dispersing the Nine-Headed Monster Lion into Demonic Cloud and fragments of Spiritual Sense.
• The Black Bone Relic swallowed the remaining Demonic Cloud and some Spiritual Sense fragments as Ji Tian struggled to keep it aloft.

Ji Tian refined the Nine-Headed Monster Lion’s remnant souls, learned its Soul Refining Technique and Death Spirit Technique, and broke through the hall floor into a space filled with Spatial Rifts. Trapped in shifting spaces where his attacks were dangerous to use, he wandered in isolation and struggled to steady his Dao Heart.

• Ji Tian absorbed the Nine-Headed Monster Lion’s independent remnant souls, strengthening his soul and deepening his understanding of its techniques.
• Ji Tian tested the Death Spirit Technique, but his attempt caused backlash that shook his sea of consciousness.
• Ji Tian used the Sky Covering Seal to smash through the great hall floor and reveal a strange space beyond it.
• Ji Tian found bone powder and shifting Spatial Rifts, then realized the space itself might be a formation or restriction.
• Ji Tian’s attacks were swallowed or caused further danger, so he carefully navigated the rifts and became trapped in monotonous, lonely wandering.
• Ji Tian reflected that conviction and a steady Dao Heart were necessary to withstand loneliness and fear.

Ji Tian overcame the fear in his soul, refined it into Fear Mountain, and used the Soul Summoning Technique to summon and refine the Nine-Headed Monster Lion. He learned about the Nine Nether White Bone Array and named the fear-dominated creature Nine Fear, while remaining trapped in the strange space.

• Ji Tian stopped fleeing his black counterpart and used his conviction to dissolve the fear consuming his soul.
• Ji Tian refined the remaining fear into a black sphere that became Fear Mountain in his sea of consciousness.
• Ji Tian used the Nine-Headed Monster Lion's Spiritual Sense and the Soul Summoning Technique to summon it, striking it with a Sword of Fear.
• Ji Tian refined the Nine-Headed Monster Lion and gained hazy memories about soul arts, ghostly bodies, and the Nine Nether White Bone Array.
• Ji Tian found the sleeping creature atop Fear Mountain and named it Nine Fear.

Ji Tian and the Demonic Dragon entered a Blood Pool hidden beneath Withered Bone Mountain Range, where Ji Tian fought the Corpse King and discovered the pool’s power. The Demonic Dragon overcame its fear and devoured a Blood Dragon’s soul, while Ji Tian absorbed ancient slaughterous aura to strengthen his Way of Slaughter.

• Ji Tian followed the Demonic Dragon into its old cave, where they encountered the Corpse King among the bones.
• Ji Tian severed the Corpse King’s head with a Blade of Space, but the Corpse King escaped by dissolving into Corpse Water.
• Ji Tian broke through the blood-mist formation and found a Blood Pool that gathered spiritual energy from Blood Qi, Yin Energy, and Killing Intent.
• The Corpse King revived in the pool and summoned a Blood Dragon, so Ji Tian urged the Demonic Dragon to fight it and sent it soul-refining and cultivation methods.
• The Demonic Dragon struck apart the Blood Dragon and swallowed its soul, while Ji Tian absorbed the forming blood shadows and experienced scenes of ancient slaughter.

Ji Tian defeated the Corpse King’s mud giant and sealed the Yellow Springs Origin’s divine sense, learning that an Innate Deity was gestating within the Netherworld’s Yellow Springs. After discovering a Blood Soul Stone, he ordered the Demonic Dragon to refine it, while the dragon resolved to grow strong enough to rule the Primordial Continent.

• Ji Tian split the Yellow Springs clone’s mud body apart and used the Death Spirit Technique to restrain its divine sense, then sealed the sense in his sea of consciousness when he could not refine it.
• The Yellow Springs Origin transformed into its true form, and Ji Tian realized it might help restore the Pangu Remnant Soul’s lost memories.
• The gestating Innate Deity sensed that its clone’s divine sense had been sealed and stirred the Nine Nether Yellow Springs into a fury.
• Ji Tian punched through the Blood Pool floor searching for a hidden treasure but found nothing, while the Demonic Dragon gained power from refining a Dragon Soul.
• After the Demonic Dragon’s tail shattered the mountaintop, Ji Tian spotted a red-glowing Blood Soul Stone among the rubble and told the dragon to refine it.
• The Demonic Dragon accepted Ji Tian’s order and vowed to become strong enough to rule the Primordial Continent.

Ji Tian and the Demonic Dragon encountered a Fire Phoenix while exploring a volcanic range, and Ji Tian learned why Earth Fire could not fuse with his Ghost Fire. After taking the Fire Phoenix’s memories, he shared cultivation insights with it and left with the Demonic Dragon.

• The Demonic Dragon killed an Emperor-level skeleton and swallowed its golden Soul Flame, while Ji Tian noted there was no Blood Pool nearby.
• Ji Tian and the Demonic Dragon found a Fire Phoenix in the volcano and fought it; Ji Tian entered the volcanic cave to examine its flames.
• Ji Tian tried to fuse a wisp of blue Earth Fire with his Primordial Spirit Fire, but their opposing attributes caused the flame to go out.
• Ji Tian dragged the Fire Phoenix into the volcano, searched its soul, and learned about the distinctions between Yin Fire and Yang Fire.
• Ji Tian concluded that he could withstand only low-grade Earth Fire and asked the battered Fire Phoenix whether it would join him.
• The Fire Phoenix chose to keep cultivating, so Ji Tian shared soul insights with it and departed on the Demonic Dragon.

Jitian explored a mountain where violent elemental forces converged, then studied a pillar of baleful energy and confronted the emptiness of his Dao of Slaughter. He established his convictions as the basis for killing, gained control of the Sword of Killing Intent, and reached the Earth Immortal realm while a second deity emerged within him.

• Jitian and the Demon Dragon explored the mountain’s destructive elemental regions but found no pattern and left without discovering a treasure.
• Jitian went to a pillar of baleful energy to comprehend its killing intent and sent the Demon Dragon to search for soul stones.
• Jitian realized his Dao of Slaughter lacked convictions, and a trial of the heart nearly let a black sword destroy his sea of consciousness.
• A divine thought helped Jitian define killing as upholding the Dao, formed the Hall of Conviction, and brought the Sword of Killing Intent under his control.
• Jitian drew killing intent from the pillar, awakening a horned, six-armed creature within his sea of consciousness as a second deity.
• Jitian absorbed the power of slaughter, advanced to the Earth Immortal realm, and reached the peak of Refining Spirit, Returning to Emptiness.

Ji Tian defeated the Raging Ape, used its flesh to restore the Demonic Dragon’s body, and discovered that the sealed land was the Netherworld Land. He learned that Yellow Springs had driven the Raging Ape to emerge early, leaving him to face a powerful enemy as he moved toward the land’s center.

• Ji Tian rescued the battered Demonic Dragon and defeated the Raging Ape with his bone arm and sword techniques, then captured its soul.
• Ji Tian refined the Raging Ape’s flesh with the Demonic Dragon’s remains and gave the dragon a new body covered in black scales.
• At another Tongtian Killing Qi pillar, a phantom Raging Ape appeared and explained that it had broken through the pillar early to kill the devil sealed in the Netherworld Land.
• The phantom’s Spiritual Sense merged into Ji Tian’s sea of consciousness, forming another deity alongside Nine Fear, Slaughter, and the golden hall remnant soul.
• Ji Tian realized Yellow Springs might have sent the Raging Ape’s clone to awaken the savage intent and kill him, and he understood that he would eventually have to confront Yellow Springs.

Ji Tian defeated a shadow’s incomplete Gathering Yin Demonic Array by absorbing its Killing Qi and Demonic Qi, then turned to the deep pool to seek a way to form a spirit of Death Qi. After helping suppress the remnant soul of Pangu, he drew a mass of shadow into his sea of consciousness and began searching its memories for the obsession that had shaped its Death Qi body.

• Ji Tian and the Demonic Dragon fought the shadow as it attacked with yellow mud, sword auras, and the Gathering Yin Demonic Array.
• Ji Tian used his Sword of Slaughter to absorb the array’s Killing Qi and Demonic Qi, forcing the shadow to withdraw the formation.
• Ji Tian considered how to form a spirit of Death Qi and decided to visit the deep pool.
• Ji Tian learned that the remnant soul of Pangu could barely be kept suppressed and offered to help subdue it.
• Ji Tian bound the remnant soul with the Soul Restraint Technique, pulled a mass of shadow into his sea of consciousness, and searched it for the obsession that had formed its body of Death Qi.

Ji Tian climbed Netherworld Mountain, defeated the Great Desolate Skeleton, and learned that the mountain had been formed from Pangu’s remains. As the remnant soul’s hatred surged inside him, the Demonic Dragon arrived to help, and the Great Desolate Skeleton trapped them with its Undead Bone Prison.

• Ji Tian entered Netherworld Mountain and overcame an illusion that drew on his fear.
• Ji Tian shattered the Great Desolate Skeleton with his sword and Sky Covering Seal, but the skeleton reassembled because it was one with the mountain.
• A voice from Ji Tian’s golden palace revealed that Netherworld Mountain had been formed from Pangu’s remains and that only two fragments of his bones remained.
• The remnant soul’s hatred erupted against its golden cage, and Ji Tian struggled to suppress it.
• The Demonic Dragon arrived and blocked the Great Desolate Skeleton’s attack on Ji Tian.
• The Great Desolate Skeleton summoned its Undead Army, then unleashed Undead Bone Prison to trap Ji Tian and the Demonic Dragon.

Ji Tian fought off a remnant soul of hatred that threatened to consume his consciousness, then awoke and escaped the Great Desolate Skeleton’s bone prison with the Demonic Dragon. After defeating the skeleton, he asked it to follow him, and it agreed.

• The Demonic Dragon shielded the unresponsive Ji Tian from the Bone Worms and endured the Great Desolate Skeleton’s Yin-Yang Bone Fire.
• Inside his sea of consciousness, Ji Tian resisted the remnant soul urging him to destroy Heaven and Earth, then sealed and expelled much of the hatred while vowing to reclaim it one day.
• Ji Tian awakened and broke through the bone prison with a devastating punch, freeing himself and the Demonic Dragon.
• The Demonic Dragon shattered the Great Desolate Skeleton and froze its original bones, but the skeleton reformed from ordinary bones and fragments of bone essence.
• Ji Tian stopped the Demonic Dragon and asked the Great Desolate Skeleton to follow him, and it agreed.

Ji Tian and his companions fought the Heavenly Ghost while climbing Netherworld Mountain, then continued toward the summit after it surrendered. They reached a region where powerful lightning threatened their ghostly bodies, and Ji Tian wondered if the mountain’s danger would force them to stop.

• Ji Tian and the Demonic Dragon absorbed ghost mist and defeated the Ghost King that tried to possess the Demonic Dragon.
• The Heavenly Ghost attacked the group, but Ji Tian used the power of slaughter and the humanoid bat’s Demon Kills the World to overcome its Ghost Devour Divine Ability.
• The Heavenly Ghost reluctantly surrendered after the Great Desolate Skeleton persuaded it.
• Ji Tian and his companions passed through the Heavenly Ghost’s territory and climbed to two-thirds of the way up Netherworld Mountain.
• Thunder and boundless lightning surrounded the group, and the Demonic Dragon accused the Great Desolate Skeleton of hiding the danger from Ji Tian.