Chapter Summaries

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.

Ji Tian and his companions faced the lightning covering Netherworld Mountain, and Ji Tian pressed on after the Demonic Dragon charged ahead. The Demonic Dragon gained a new golden body through the lightning, while Ji Tian gave up his protection and endured the Purple Divine Lightning, ending with his conviction and a surge of vitality still alive within him.

• Ji Tian sent a Ghost into the lightning, where it was destroyed, and then watched the Demonic Dragon charge into the storm.
• Inspired by the Demonic Dragon, Ji Tian entered the lightning and used Pangu's Remains to shield himself and absorb its strange power.
• Ji Tian found the Demonic Dragon reduced to Flesh and Blood and hurled the Black Bone Relic at a bolt of Purple Divine Lightning aimed at its head.
• A Dragon Pearl formed from the Demonic Dragon's battle intent and gathered its Flesh and Blood into a new golden body.
• Believing the lightning could transform him, Ji Tian withdrew the relic's protection and endured strikes that destroyed his ghostly body and sea of consciousness.
• Ji Tian clung to his conviction as the sun remained in his mind, surrounded by boundless vitality and surging spiritual energy.

Ji Tian awakened as a Ghost Immortal and reunited with the transformed Demonic Dragon, whom he named Ao Cang. At the mountaintop, Nine Fear drained the Heavenly Pool and revealed a black lotus that lured Ji Tian toward it, so Ji Tian refined Soul Stabilizing Grass to resist its influence.

• Ji Tian discovered he had become a Ghost Immortal with a Yang God and formed a robe from spiritual energy.
• Ji Tian reunited with the Demonic Dragon, taught him to change his shape, and named him Ao Cang.
• Ji Tian and Ao Cang reached the mountaintop, where Ao Cang nearly lost his vitality to the Heavenly Pool before Ji Tian pulled him back.
• The Spirit of Fear entered the pool, absorbed its power, and took physical form as the nine-headed Nine Fear.
• As Nine Fear devoured the pool, a black lotus appeared and drew Ji Tian toward it, but Ao Cang's warning brought him back to his senses.
• Ji Tian refined Soul Stabilizing Grass to resist the lotus's influence, while Nine Fear finished draining the pool and fell asleep.

Ji Tian nearly lost himself in the Demonic Lotus’s illusion, but Nine Fear destroyed it and awakened him. After Ji Tian began recovering on Netherworld Mountain, Ao Cang and the others searched Netherworld Land for a way out.

• Ji Tian tried to refine the black lotus, but its power trapped him in an illusion of a beautiful valley and mountains.
• Nine Fear attacked the illusion with black rain and corrupted the lotus, restoring Ji Tian’s killing intent and resentment.
• Nine Fear used his primordial spirit to break through the mist in Ji Tian’s sea of consciousness and wake him.
• Ao Cang told Ji Tian that Nine Fear had returned to his body and that the Demonic Lotus seemed to have entered with him.
• Ji Tian began recovering on the mountaintop while Ao Cang accused the Great Desolate Skeleton and Heavenly Ghost of being untrustworthy.

Luo Hou fought Yellow Springs in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, drawing on the Netherworld Land’s death qi and overpowering Yellow Springs’ attacks. As Ji Tian and his companions approached, Heavenly Ghost reported that Yellow Springs was losing and had established a deadly formation.

• Ji Tian sensed a familiar aura in the gorge and sent Heavenly Ghost to investigate before following with Ao Cang and Great Desolate.
• Luo Hou attacked Yellow Springs and revealed that he was the demon sealed by the Heavenly Dao.
• Yellow Springs fought back with blood-red swords and Blood God Sons, but Luo Hou destroyed the creatures and refined their curse with death qi.
• Luo Hou gathered the Netherworld Land’s death qi, formed a blood-red halberd, and used it to resist Yellow Springs’ attacks.
• Yellow Springs considered summoning his companion treasure despite the risk of Heavenly Dao punishment, while Ji Tian and his companions rushed toward the battle.
• Heavenly Ghost arrived trembling and told Ji Tian that Yellow Springs was losing and had set up a deadly formation.

Luo Hou battled Yellow Springs and the Heavenly Ghost before confronting Ji Tian, who tried to stop his killing. Luo Hou revealed he could use the Mysterious Ghost Yin Yang Art to turn Ji Tian back into an Artifact Spirit, but Ji Tian was swallowed by a nine-headed Black Lion.

• Yellow Springs trapped Luo Hou in a blood drop and attacked him with the Asura Blood Sword, but Luo Hou broke free and overwhelmed Yellow Springs.
• The Heavenly Ghost trapped Luo Hou in shifting illusions and attacked with Nether Bamboo, but Luo Hou tore off its hand and drove it away.
• Ji Tian appeared and tried to stop Luo Hou, arguing that he should follow the Heavenly Dao's rules.
• Luo Hou attacked Ji Tian, then summoned the Heaven Devouring Halberd and used the Mysterious Ghost Yin Yang Art to pull Ji Tian toward becoming an Artifact Spirit again.
• Ji Tian resisted Luo Hou's control, but a nine-headed Black Lion pounced on Luo Hou and swallowed him whole.

Luo Hou and Ji Tian’s clash with the sword mountain left them both gravely wounded, and Ji Tian detonated his primordial spirit to stop Luo Hou from taking over his body. Yellow Springs survived the battle and sent Ao Cang and the Great Desolate Skeleton toward the Blood Sea, while the Black Lotus returned to Luo Hou.

• Luo Hou forced his way through the sword mountain’s killing intent and clashed with its Dao Sword, but the attack shattered his wings and badly wounded him.
• The sword mountain’s backlash shattered the Nine Fear and devastated Ji Tian’s sea of consciousness, while Luo Hou used the turmoil to try to seize Ji Tian’s body.
• Ji Tian refused to submit and detonated his primordial spirit, blasting Luo Hou into the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Yellow Springs tried to take the Black Lotus, but it evaded him and flew toward Luo Hou, so he chose not to pursue.
• Yellow Springs opened a portal to the Blood Sea and told Ao Cang and the Great Desolate Skeleton to escape before returning to his cultivation place.

Ao Cang encountered a Black Tiger whose body was protected by an earthy-yellow pearl, then refined the pearl and broke through to the Heavenly Immortal realm. He identified it as the Earth Spirit Pearl, a treasure containing the essence and laws of the earth.

• Ao Cang wandered the Primordial World, unable to break through to the Heavenly Immortal realm and troubled by a violent aura within him.
• Ao Cang spared a Black Tiger, but it repeatedly attacked him, so he fought back and discovered that its body could withstand his blows.
• Ao Cang transformed into a dragon, but the Black Tiger wounded him until he froze and shattered it with his Dragon Breath.
• Ao Cang found an earthy-yellow pearl inside the Black Tiger, then concealed himself when a Hou appeared above the mountain.
• Ao Cang refined the Earth Spirit Pearl over time, strengthening his body and primordial spirit and breaking through to the Heavenly Immortal realm.

After breaking through to Heaven Immortal, Ao Cang fought the Fire Hou, whose Flame Blade nearly overwhelmed him. Ao Cang detonated the high-temperature earthen beads he had prepared, but the Fire Hou survived the explosions.

• Ao Cang broke through, killed three Savage Bulls, and devoured their Inner Cores before the Fire Hou appeared.
• The Fire Hou attacked Ao Cang with blazing kicks, but Ao Cang held his ground and struck it down with his tail.
• The Fire Hou summoned its Flame Blade and attacked with Cross-Shaped Fire Chains, while Ao Cang used the Earth Spirit Pearl to form a stone wall and scatter the flames into high-temperature earthen beads.
• The Fire Hou pressed its attack with the Flame Blade, severely injuring Ao Cang and nearly exhausting his spiritual power.
• Ao Cang activated the earthen beads, unleashing a barrage of explosions that devastated the mountains, but the Fire Hou roared from within the smoke.

Ao Cang survived his battle with Fire Hou after Ao Qu rescued him and brought him to the Dragon Clan’s ancestral home. As the Ancestral Dragon learned of Ao Cang’s arrival and ordered him rewarded, Ao Cang began cultivating with renewed determination amid the rising tensions among the clans.

• Ao Cang fought on despite his exhaustion, and Ao Qu trapped and destroyed Fire Hou before freeing him.
• Ao Qu urged Ao Cang to abandon mercy in the dangerous Primordial World and invited him to return to the Dragon Clan.
• Ao Qu explained the origins and rivalries of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans during their journey to the Dragon Clan’s ancestral mountains.
• Ao Qu reported Ao Cang’s arrival to the Ancestral Dragon, who ordered a spiritual treasure granted to him and the news of an Innate Spiritual Root kept secret.
• Ao Cang absorbed Dragon Qi in his cave and vowed to cultivate until he could rival the world’s strongest beings.

Ao Cang rescued a young Dragon Clan member from a Kirin and accidentally sent a broken crescent treasure toward the Sea of Blood. There, the fragment joined Luo Hou’s Heaven Devouring Halberd and helped him break Yellow Springs’ Blood River Great Formation, leaving Yellow Springs to attack.

• Ao Cang used his aura to stop a Kirin from killing an injured young Dragon Clan member, then gave the young man a healing elixir.
• The young Dragon Clan member left Ao Cang with a radiant treasure, which resisted Ao Cang’s control and flew toward the Sea of Blood.
• Luo Hou confronted Yellow Springs over a sealed treasure as Yellow Springs trapped him inside the Blood River Great Formation.
• Luo Hou’s black lotus absorbed Yellow Springs’ Blood God Sons, while a broken Heaven Devouring Halberd fragment emerged from Luo Hou’s body.
• Ao Cang’s fragment pierced the formation and merged with Luo Hou’s Heaven Devouring Halberd, destroying several Blood River banners.
• Yellow Springs unleashed two enormous swords of Killing Qi and Killing Intent at Luo Hou.