Chapter Summaries

Ye Ming traced the Azure Cloud Sect signal to a cultivator who had destroyed two Demonic Cultivator Hunting Squads and ordered nearby squads to kill him. The cultivator reversed the communication link with a Curse Method, used Ye Ming’s bloodline connection to locate the cavern, and attacked the Demonic Cultivators there.

• Ye Ming learned that two Hunting Squads had been wiped out and ordered every nearby squad to gather and kill the Azure Cloud Sect cultivator whose signal appeared on the screen.
• The signal grew brighter, and a figure appeared inside the eyes of the flesh mass as the Demonic Cultivators realized their monitoring device had been invaded.
• The cultivator explained that he had used the intercepted spiritual energy fluctuations to launch a reverse invasion through a Curse Method.
• Ye Ming asked whether the cultivator had killed his brother, and the voice used their bloodline connection to lock onto the cavern.
• The flesh mass’s eyes turned toward Ye Ming and the others, who were plunged into darkness as the voice said, “I've finally found you.”

Lin Chen used the Soul Devouring Poison to plunge the Demonic Cultivators into sensory darkness, but Ye Ming briefly broke free and identified the flesh sphere as the spell’s medium. Lin Chen struggled to sustain the long-distance curse and began considering deep sleep as a more effective way to incapacitate his enemies.

• Lin Chen’s Soul Devouring Poison stripped the Demonic Cultivators of their senses and trapped them in darkness.
• Ye Ming broke free from the illusion with his soul power and spotted blurry figures inside the flesh sphere’s many eyes.
• Ye Ming charged to destroy the flesh sphere, but the curse took hold again and dropped him before he could strike.
• Ye Ming tried to call on Old Demon Taiyin’s support, but the Ghost Shadow avatar did not respond while True Ancestor Changqing held Taiyin down.
• Lin Chen realized the curse’s long range made it too costly to maintain and considered using deep sleep to incapacitate the Demonic Cultivators.

Lin Chen created the Soul Calming Melody to put Demonic Cultivators to sleep while preserving his ability to track them, then sent it across the Azure Cloud Sect's territory. With their locations revealed and the melody spreading, he prepared to send his insect swarm and incarnations to finish them off.

• Lin Chen considered ways to incapacitate Demonic Cultivators and decided to use sound to lull them to sleep.
• Lin Chen drew on information stored in the Soul Computer and created a soothing spiritual melody called the Soul Calming Melody.
• Lin Chen transmitted the melody through the curse channel, and exhausted Ye Ming and the other Demonic Cultivators fell asleep despite Ye Ming recognizing the danger.
• Lin Chen stole the location information of Demonic Cultivators throughout the Azure Cloud Sect's territory and sent the melody to all of them.
• Lin Chen prepared to send the insect swarm and more incarnations through Soul Networking to kill the sleeping Demonic Cultivators.

Lin Chen used the Soul Calming Melody and his countless Blood Ant Clones to slaughter the demonic cultivators overrunning Azure Cloud Sect territory. After wiping out nearly all the enemies, he reached Ye Ming and the others, but Old Demon Taiyin appeared and stopped his scythe.

• Lin Chen’s melody put the demonic cultivators besieging Zhang Mengyao to sleep, allowing him to kill them and free her from the formation.
• Lin Chen told Zhang Mengyao to leave, then transformed into spirit insects and began attacking demonic cultivators across Azure Cloud Sect territory.
• Lin Chen repeatedly sent clones to fight the demonic cultivators, exhausting and killing them until the surviving enemies fled or fell.
• Lin Chen eliminated cultivators spreading demonic arts and reduced the demonic forces to only a few survivors.
• Lin Chen entered the cave where Ye Ming and the others lay defeated and raised his scythe to kill them.
• Old Demon Taiyin appeared and blocked Lin Chen’s scythe.

Lin Chen survived Old Demon Taiyin’s attack in a nascent Ghost Domain when True Ancestor Changqing intervened. The demonic cultivators suffered heavy losses, but the Azure Cloud Sect still faced the threat of a massive Corpse Tide and an approaching decisive battle.

• Old Demon Taiyin confronted Lin Chen and attacked him with a Ghost Domain, intending to kill him through his avatar technique.
• Lin Chen waited for True Ancestor Changqing to arrive, and Changqing’s light dispelled the ghost shadows and forced Taiyin to retreat.
• The battle between Changqing and Taiyin erased the mountain range and transformed the terrain into Yin Soil suited for raising corpses.
• Changqing praised Lin Chen for defeating more than fifty demonic cultivators, and Lin Chen pointed out the sect’s own casualties and its inability to stop the plan to turn a million mortals into zombies.
• Changqing assured Lin Chen that the Azure Cloud Sect had deep foundations, while Lin Chen concluded that the formation of the Corpse Tide would begin the decisive battle.

Lin Chen and True Ancestor Changqing mourned the Azure Cloud Sect’s heavy losses and discussed the uncertain war and Senior Brother Qingyang’s chances of reaching the Nascent Soul stage. At the Mysterious Yin Gate, Old Demon Taiyin identified Lin Chen as a dangerous enemy, while Ye Ming volunteered to confront him as the sect continued preparing its massive Corpse Tide.

• Lin Chen told True Ancestor Changqing that casualties were unavoidable and that their priority was winning the war; Changqing said nineteen Foundation Establishment elders and more than a thousand disciples had died.
• Lin Chen asked whether Senior Brother Qingyang could break through to the Nascent Soul stage, and True Ancestor Changqing said the outcome depended on his fate.
• Old Demon Taiyin told True Person Yunshi and the Corpse Demon Cultivator that a Foundation Establishment Cultivator had disrupted their plan and caused heavy losses.
• The Corpse Demon Cultivator and Ye Ming discussed how little they knew about Lin Chen and how his strength had grown dramatically after leaving the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Ye Ming volunteered to target Lin Chen during the coming decisive battle and planned to cultivate the Death-Nirvana Soul-Returning Art to reach Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
• Old Demon Taiyin approved Ye Ming’s request for resources and said the Mysterious Yin Gate would rely on its millions-strong Corpse Tide to overwhelm the Azure Cloud Sect.

Azure Cloud Sect's frontline leaders learned that Mysterious Yin Gate was building a vast Yin Soil mountain range to channel yin qi into their territory and raise a million-strong Corpse Tide. The chapter ended with the leaders realizing they faced an Undead Calamity filled with zombies, ghosts, and a death-shrouded landscape.

• A wounded Azure Cloud Sect cultivator delivered two bloodstained jade slips, prompting Zhang Zhiming to issue the highest-level alarm and summon the frontline leaders.
• Zhang Zhiming showed a recording of black rain turning thousands of starving mortals into zombies, alarming the gathered cultivators.
• He revealed that Mysterious Yin Gate had used mass burial pits and accumulated Yin Soil to build an enormous mountain range stretching toward the front lines.
• Zhang Zhiming explained that the range would draw nearly seventy percent of Mysterious Yin Gate's yin qi into Azure Cloud Sect territory to nurture a million-strong Corpse Tide.
• The leaders saw the resulting dead realm of evolving zombies, ghosts, and Yin Clouds and recognized it as an Undead Calamity.

The Azure Cloud Sect’s leaders assessed the Mysterious Yin Gate’s million-strong Undead Calamity and debated whether their own reserves could counter it without leaving them exposed to the Blood Demon cultivators. The chapter ended with True Ancestor Changqing asking the others how they could resolve the demonic cultivators’ methods.

• The Azure Cloud Sect cultivators watched the Nine Nether Scenery and feared that the Wood Pillar Heaven Array might not withstand the Undead Calamity.
• Lin Chen suspected that a powerful force had altered the region’s rules to make the million-scale calamity possible and considered retreating.
• True Person Zhen Tian said the Azure Cloud Sect’s array and treants could counter the calamity, but using them would exhaust their defenses.
• True Person Zhen Tian warned that the Blood Demon cultivators had unknown reserves and that the sect might be forced into costly close combat.
• True Ancestor Changqing asked everyone in the hall how they could resolve the demonic cultivators’ methods.

Lin Chen and the Azure Cloud Sect leaders concluded that the front line could not withstand the million-strong Undead Calamity, so they planned a retreat and a scorched-earth evacuation. Lin Chen then hinted that the way to defeat the calamity lay in the sky.

• True Ancestor Changqing asked the cultivators for a solution, while Lin Chen considered the limits of his abilities and began to form an idea.
• Zhang Mengyao warned that the front line would fail and that the cultivators and mortals remaining in the territory could strengthen the Undead Calamity.
• Zhang Zhiming proposed retreating, and Lin Chen backed the plan, urging the sect to preserve its forces and evacuate mortals and cultivators to the Spiritless Land.
• Lin Chen proposed extracting the region's spirit veins and feeding them into the sect-protecting grand formation so the Corpse Tide would have no resources to expand with.
• True Ancestor Changqing explained that the sect could expend its reserves to destroy the calamity but would then be vulnerable to Blood Demon's cultivators.
• Lin Chen told True Ancestor Changqing that the solution lay in the sky.

Lin Chen proposed using the Great Meteorite Technique to destroy the Undead Calamity, and True Ancestor Changqing agreed to sacrifice Azure Cloud Sect territory and its spirit veins to make it possible. They also planned to turn the front line and any areas whose people refused to evacuate into explosives and traps before returning to Azure Cloud Sect to begin preparations.

• Lin Chen demonstrated how a tree could be lifted and dropped, and True Ancestor Changqing realized he intended to crush the Corpse Tide with objects falling from the heavens.
• Lin Chen warned that destroying a million-strong Corpse Tide might require raising an enormous mountain range and could not be guaranteed against the Nine Nether Scenery.
• True Ancestor Changqing proposed using more than seventy percent of the spirit veins in Azure Cloud Sect territory to form a spirit mountain and launch it as a meteor strike.
• True Ancestor Changqing decided to evacuate the territory and seize subordinate factions' spirit veins, threatening to exterminate those who refused.
• Lin Chen proposed turning the front line and remaining settlements into explosives and traps to weaken the Corpse Tide before the meteor strike.
• Lin Chen and True Ancestor Changqing flew back to Azure Cloud Sect to organize the preparations.

Lin Chen returned to the Azure Cloud Sect with True Ancestor Changqing and asked about the sect’s reserves ahead of the coming battle. He learned the sect could field a vast army of treants and use its mountain peaks for defense, then watched dusk fall over the sect as he anticipated the storm ahead.

• True Ancestor Changqing told Lin Chen to rest while he made preparations for the coming battle.
• Lin Chen asked True Ancestor Changqing about the Azure Cloud Sect’s hidden reserves and learned that its unique spirit plants formed a key part of its inheritance.
• True Ancestor Changqing explained that Lin Chen had missed the chance to refine a Natal Spirit Plant because he left the sect soon after reaching Foundation Establishment.
• Lin Chen asked whether the sect could raise a Treant Army, and True Ancestor Changqing revealed that it had over ten times as many Foundation Establishment treants as cultivators.
• True Ancestor Changqing said the treants and the sect’s thousand mountain peaks would make the Azure Cloud Sect exceptionally difficult to attack.
• Lin Chen watched the sect beneath the dusk, murmured that wind and rain were coming, and vanished into the night.

Azure Cloud Sect's Golden Core True Persons planned a great migration and defenses against the Undead Calamity, while Lin Chen prepared to extract the territory's spirit veins. The migration was underway, and Lin Chen activated the Nine Veins Returning Origin Great Formation to drain a second-order spirit mountain.

• True Person Jian Xuan warned that the collision between the falling-heaven strike and the Undead Calamity could devastate Azure Cloud Sect, so the three Golden Core leaders planned a formation within a formation and ordered everyone to relocate to the Spiritless Land.
• Azure Cloud Sect forces spent three months moving cultivators and mortals, overcoming resistance and suppressing disobedient factions as Lin Chen destroyed thirteen small forces and the Demonic Cultivators focused on building the Corpse Tide and Undead Calamity.
• The Demonic Cultivators slowed their front-line offensive while both sides prepared for a decisive battle.
• Lin Chen asked an Azure Cloud Sect Disciple whether the Nine Veins Returning Origin Great Formation was ready, then activated its Formation Disk atop a second-order spirit mountain.
• The formation spread across the mountain, and the Underground Spirit Vein's spiritual energy surged toward a single point.

Lin Chen extracted spiritual veins across Azure Cloud Sect territory to fuel a massive formation and build a mountain for the Great Meteorite Technique. With the Mountain of Heavenly Fall nearly ready, he planned to launch it from Above the Nine Heavens to destroy the Demonic Cultivators' Undead Calamity.

• Lin Chen used a formation and a jade pearl to extract the spiritual vein beneath a second-order spiritual mountain, then sent the pearl to a designated location.
• Lin Chen returned from controlling a Blood Ant Clone and continued gathering spiritual veins to construct a colossal spiritual mountain.
• Lin Chen and True Ancestor Changqing inspected the mountain, which three Golden Core cultivators had transformed from a volcano and covered with formation nodes.
• Lin Chen explained that the spiritual veins would propel the mountain Above the Nine Heavens, where formations would turn it into a Heavenly Vault Comet for a devastating strike.
• Lin Chen named the mountain, built for the Great Meteorite Technique, the Mountain of Heavenly Fall.

Demon Cultivator Fei Jiang broke through to the Golden Core Realm as the Mysterious Yin Gate learned that Old Ghost Qingyang was nearing a Nascent Soul breakthrough. Old Demon Taiyin agreed to prepare for war while doubting the Blood Demon faction’s motives, and the chapter ended with the Blood Shadow who delivered the warning opening his eyes in an underground cavern.

• Demon Cultivator Fei Jiang completed his Golden Core breakthrough, and Old Demon Taiyin and Corpse Demon congratulated him.
• A Blood Demon cultivator warned Old Demon Taiyin that Old Ghost Qingyang was close to reaching the Nascent Soul Realm and urged the factions to begin the decisive battle.
• Demon Cultivator Fei Jiang and Corpse Demon questioned the Blood Demon faction’s reluctance to commit its inherited strength against the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Old Demon Taiyin concluded that stopping Old Ghost Qingyang’s breakthrough was their priority and argued that the Undead Calamity and Nine Nether Burial Coffin would give them power comparable to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The late-Golden-Core Blood Shadow opened his scarlet eyes in an underground cavern in the Hengduan Mountain Range.

The Blood Demon faction’s forces were revealed to be largely derivative Blood Demons refined from dead Lingnan cultivators, while its master, a Blood Lotus, hungered for the Azure Cloud Sect’s nearly ripe “fruit.” Lin Tianhang and the Heavenly Demon discussed a scheme to use Qingyang and the Asura Body to draw the Immortal Alliance into events in Lingnan, and Lin Tianhang left the cavern to await the plan.

• Blood Demons emerged from the Blood Pool and took human skins, revealing how the faction created cultivators from the souls and blood essence of the dead.
• The late Golden Core Blood Shadow knelt before a Blood Lotus, whose master demanded food and was promised the Azure Cloud Sect’s nearly ripe fruit.
• Lin Tianhang watched the scene unseen and recalled nearly being eaten by the Blood Demon before him.
• Lin Tianhang and the Heavenly Demon discussed using the Asura Body and Qingyang’s possible breakthrough to Nascent Soul to lure the Immortal Alliance into the conflict.
• The Heavenly Demon said the plan would proceed even if Qingyang failed, and Lin Tianhang agreed to wait for an opportunity to seize the Asura Body.
• The Heavenly Demon declared that the show was about to begin, then Lin Tianhang vanished from the cavern.

Lin Chen completed the floating Mountain of Heavenly Fall, then returned to the Azure Cloud Sect and discovered its leaders were using treants, spirit veins, and lightning to awaken a vast formation across their territory. He realized the land might be gaining a life of its own and headed to Azure Cloud Mountain to discuss the coming war.

• Lin Chen activated the formation at Mountain of Heavenly Fall and used lightning and electromagnetic conversion to lift the mountain range into the air.
• Lin Chen received a message that the Azure Cloud Sect's grand formation was complete and connected with his clone there.
• Lin Chen saw more than a thousand green pillars and treants harnessing lightning to charge a formation spanning nearly a thousand miles.
• Lin Chen recognized that the sect's peaks and spirit veins were arranged like a cultivator's body and suspected the land was acquiring life and immense power.
• The lightning storm ended, and Lin Chen flew toward Azure Cloud Mountain to prepare for the coming war.

After a year of uneasy calm, the Mysterious Yin Gate launched an Undead Calamity against the Azure Cloud Sect’s front line, beginning a war that would decide the conflict between the two sects. The chapter ended as cultivators across Azure Cloud gathered and watched the million-strong Corpse Tide approach.

• An elderly cultivator on the front-line wall teased young guards for missing the fighting during the year-long ceasefire.
• A young cultivator spotted a dark mass advancing across the horizon, and the elderly cultivator used the Spirit Eye Technique to see a vast Corpse Tide beneath clouds of bone ash.
• The Mysterious Yin Gate unleashed the Undead Calamity after thirty years of preparation, sending corpses toward the Azure Cloud Sect’s front line.
• Alarm Bells sounded at the front line and Azure Cloud Sect’s mountain gate, drawing cultivators and leaders away from their duties.
• Azure Cloud cultivators of Foundation Establishment and above gathered at the main hall and watched the images of the approaching Corpse Tide as the great war began.

The Azure Cloud Sect prepared for the approaching Undead Calamity as True Ancestor Changqing asked Lin Chen about the Mountain of Heavenly Fall, their plan to destroy the Corpse Tide. The calamity reached the front-line city and struck its defensive formation.

• True Ancestor Changqing ordered Zhang Zhiming to use Hidden Hands against the Corpse Tide if holdouts in the rear refused evacuation, while Zhang Mengyao and Zhang Hao reported on the sect's defenses and preparations.
• True Ancestor Changqing asked Lin Chen about his preparations, and Lin Chen said the Mountain of Heavenly Fall was ready but needed precise positioning to avoid mutual destruction.
• True Ancestor Changqing assigned True Person Zhen Tian to assist Lin Chen, then sent the cultivators in the hall to carry out their wartime tasks.
• Azure Cloud Sect mobilized its alchemists, talisman makers, and Law Enforcement Hall to produce supplies and root out demonic cultivator spies.
• The Undead Calamity reached the front-line city, and the gray world slammed into the city's defensive formation as its defenders watched.

The Mysterious Yin Gate broke the Azure Cloud Sect’s front-line city by corrupting its formation and unleashing the Corpse Tide. Old Demon Taiyin discovered too late that the apparently abandoned city concealed a trap, and a vast white blast engulfed part of the Land of Death.

• Old Demon Taiyin used the Land of Death’s power to corrupt the Four Symbols Demon Punishing Seal and turn the front-line formation’s spiritual energy into death qi.
• The front-line grand formation collapsed, and the Corpse Tide and Mysterious Yin Gate demonic cultivators stormed the city, killing its defenders.
• Three Golden Core demonic cultivators celebrated the city’s fall, but a Foundation Establishment cultivator reported that many residences were empty and no Azure Cloud Sect Foundation Establishment Cultivators remained.
• Old Demon Taiyin sensed violent spiritual energy beneath the city and realized that a formation had been hidden beneath the broken formation’s remaining bases.
• Old Demon Taiyin cried out for the demonic cultivators to withdraw, but a white sphere burst from underground and exploded across part of the Land of Death.

True Ancestor Changqing learned that the Azure Cloud Sect’s front-line trap had devastated the Mysterious Yin Gate forces, but he still needed time for Lin Chen’s plan and a way to observe the Undead Calamity. Old Demon Taiyin survived the blast and ordered an all-out advance toward the Azure Cloud Sect, threatening the Blood Demon faction if it failed to join him.

• True Ancestor Changqing confirmed that the front-line trap had been triggered and pressed the Azure Cloud Sect’s Sect Master to find a way to monitor the Undead Calamity.
• The Sect Master volunteered to use his insight-focused Pupil Technique to observe the calamity despite the risk of backlash and remote curses.
• Old Demon Taiyin contained the explosion’s force and used Five Ghosts Moving to evacuate Mysterious Yin Gate Demonic Cultivators, though he was injured as the city was destroyed.
• Old Demon Taiyin praised Changqing’s ruthlessness and declared that he would answer the Azure Cloud Sect’s willingness to fight to the death.
• Old Demon Taiyin ordered his forces to advance on all fronts and warned the Blood Demon faction to bring its main force or face his retaliation.