Chapter Summaries

Zhang Chu questioned Jiang Yao about Dugu Weiwo and the Star Dao Master, learning how the Demonic Cult had formed and collapsed. Before leaving, Jiang Yao revealed that Zhang Chu’s Stone Carving was one of the Seven Limits, and he discovered the character “覆” on its back.

• Zhang Chu asked Jiang Yao about Dugu Weiwo, and she recounted his extraordinary rise, his efforts to unite the Demonic Cult, and his disappearance after a three-year war with the Imperial Court and righteous sects.
• Jiang Yao explained that the Demonic Cult split and scattered after Dugu Weiwo vanished, while her master, the Star Dao Master, left and later hoped to rebuild it.
• Jiang Yao described her strict, injured master and explained that she had traveled the martial world to recover the Sacred Cult’s lost ultimate arts.
• Zhang Chu honored their agreement and let Jiang Yao leave after she answered his questions, but she returned to tell him the Stone Carving was a Seven Limits divine skill capable of breaking human limits.
• Jiang Yao said the Martial Saint had concluded that seven Heavenly Stele Divine Skills existed and could be cultivated under extremely harsh conditions, and Zhang Chu noticed the character “覆” on his carving.

Zhang Chu discovered that the Fu Character Stele contained a corrupting martial art that drove its practitioner to sow chaos and fight heaven. After Jiang Yao warned him to discard it and left, Zhang Chu chose to cultivate the technique despite promising her he would not.

• Zhang Chu touched the Fu Character Stele and was pulled into a vision of corpses, blood, and a figure whose will urged him to overturn everything.
• Zhang Chu used his Spiritual Power to purge the violent emotions and realized the Fu Character Technique corrupted its practitioner while granting terrifying power.
• Jiang Yao recognized the Fu Character Stele and warned Zhang Chu that it represented calamity and could draw every major faction into a hunt.
• Zhang Chu suspected the Samsara Hall Master had deliberately guided him to the stele, but assured Jiang Yao he would not cultivate it or let it endanger others.
• Jiang Yao left the desert, and Zhang Chu declared that he would cultivate the Fu Character Technique.

Zhang Chu used Shenlan to analyze the Fu Character Technique and learned that removing its dangerous mental contamination would cost ten million Merit Points, so he planned to gather more by purging evil forces. At Western Regions Sky Patrol Guard headquarters, he learned that King Zhao had secured him the authority of Envoy, requested intelligence on the region’s remaining evil forces, and selected two supreme arts for his Chaos Phenomenon.

• Zhang Chu had Shenlan analyze the Fu Character Technique, which revealed its power and the Calamity Qi corruption it caused, along with a ten-million-Merit-Point cost to remove the danger.
• Zhang Chu decided to visit the Western Regions Sky Patrol Guard headquarters to study supreme arts and gather targets for a new purge.
• Duan Yongzhong welcomed Zhang Chu as a Sky Patrol Guard Envoy and explained that King Zhao had recommended him for the post, granting him broad investigative and archival authority.
• Duan Yongzhong told Zhang Chu that Marshal Hong Yue had sent Sun Youwei back to the Southern Regions and said Zhang Chu need not worry about affairs there.
• Zhang Chu asked Duan Yongzhong to compile information on the Western Regions’ major evil forces and entered the Secret Technique Pavilion to study its manuals.
• Zhang Chu left the pavilion with two selected classics: Return to Ruins Sea Burial Hand and Moon Illumination Technique.

Zhang Chu enhanced Return to Ruins Sea Burial Hand and Moon Illumination Technique, then fused them into the Sea Moon Residual Illumination Technique. After reviewing three major threats in the Western Regions with Duan Yongzhong, he left to deal with the fiercest one first.

• Zhang Chu enhanced all three layers of Return to Ruins Sea Burial Hand, mastering its nine-wave Sea Burial strike.
• Zhang Chu enhanced all three tiers of Moon Illumination Technique, forming a moon soul and opening the Moon Eye.
• Zhang Chu fused the two techniques into the beginner-stage Sea Moon Residual Illumination Technique, then left the cultivation room to seek more merit points.
• Duan Yongzhong presented Zhang Chu with dossiers on Sand Saint Cave, Green Trace Sect, and White Bone Villa, warning that Lady White Bone had killed a Bone Law Realm inspector.
• Zhang Chu said he would deal with the fiercest threat first and vanished, while Duan Yongzhong worried for the evil forces he would confront.

Zhang Chu reached Red Sand Ridge as Sand Saint Cave attacked Tongyuan Escort Agency and confronted its leader, Zuo Xiao. He destroyed Zuo Xiao and the Blood Sand Thirteen Riders with one palm strike, earning 1,380,000 merit points.

• Zhang Chu followed Duan Yongzhong’s case files to Red Sand Ridge, where he found Tongyuan Escort Agency’s caravan slaughtered and its survivors surrounded.
• Qin Cang rallied the remaining escort guards and warned Zuo Xiao that the Sky Patrol Guard and Yellow Court Dao Master would come after Sand Saint Cave.
• Zuo Xiao ordered the Blood Sand Thirteen Riders to finish off Tongyuan Escort Agency, dismissing the threat posed by the Yellow Court Dao Master.
• Zhang Chu arrived alone, identified himself as a Sky Patrol Guard Special Envoy, and declared that he would destroy Sand Saint Cave and behead Zuo Xiao.
• Zhang Chu used Nine Waves Fully Stacked to kill Zuo Xiao and the Blood Sand Thirteen Riders, gaining 1,380,000 merit points.

Zhang Chu saved the surviving Tongyuan Escort Agency escorts and learned they were carrying Gold Powder for an Imperial Court client to Red Mountain Temple. The temple’s name matched an inscription from God Burial Abyss that Zhang Chu recognized as his master’s handwriting, leaving him with a possible lead to investigate.

• Zhang Chu’s palm strike killed Zuo Xiao and the Thirteen Riders, ending the attack on the Tongyuan Escort Agency.
• Qin Cang and the surviving escorts thanked Zhang Chu, and an old escort recognized him as the Yellow Court Dao Master.
• Qin Cang revealed that the escort cart carried Gold Powder and that the Imperial Court had hired them to deliver it to Red Mountain Temple.
• Qin Cang explained that the Imperial Court had promised the escort agency permission to travel freely through the four regions and one province if they completed the delivery.
• Zhang Chu connected Red Mountain Temple to the words carved at God Burial Abyss, which he knew were written by his master.
• The Old Escort said Red Mountain Temple was the only place in the Western Regions named Red Mountain and located it on the southern foothills of Great Snow Mountain.

Zhang Chu joined Tongyuan Escort Agency on its journey to Great Snow Mountain and destroyed Sand Saint Cave along the way. At the deserted White Bone Villa, the escorts learned the legend of Lady White Bone, then heard a woman's voice outside calling their names.

• Qin Cang vowed that Tongyuan Escort Agency would deliver its escort job despite the losses, and Zhang Chu agreed to travel with them toward Great Snow Mountain.
• Zhang Chu secretly wiped out Sand Saint Cave and returned with its treasures after killing more than two hundred people.
• The group reached White Bone Villa and found it deserted, with its rooms and supplies undisturbed but long abandoned.
• The old escort told the group how Miss White had healed people before villagers and hunters began disappearing and following her like soulless zombies.
• Several people in the Great Hall, including Qin Cang, heard a woman's voice calling their names from beyond the gate.

Zhang Chu discovered that the strange voice at White Bone Villa came from poison rising from an underground chamber, where Lady White Bone had stored ancient corpse parts and Gold Powder. He and two escorts found a Corpse Raising Pool beneath the villa, and a Flying Zombie emerged from the ice.

• Zhang Chu protected the escorts’ minds from the toxin and blasted open the hollow ground beneath the Great Hall.
• Zhang Chu, Qin Cang, and the old escort descended into an underground chamber and found ancient corpse parts sealed in jars with Gold Powder.
• Zhang Chu explained that wind carried the activated Gold Powder from the jars to the surface, causing the hallucinations.
• The three followed freezing copper pipes to a pool of Thousand-Year Ice, which the old escort recognized as a Corpse Raising Pool.
• The ice cracked, and a nearly two-zhang-tall Flying Zombie with bone wings rose from the pool as Zhang Chu watched it curiously.

Zhang Chu fought a Flying Zombie that the Esoteric Sect lamas identified as the Nine Zombie God Child, a creature carrying the Evil God's Immortality Authority. He erased the authority and destroyed the creature, leaving the lamas and escorts stunned.

• Wu Guangchuan and Qin Cang warned Zhang Chu that the awakened Flying Zombie was nearly impossible to kill, while Zhang Chu attacked it and sent them to safety.
• Zhang Chu fought the Flying Zombie underground, then blasted it through the chamber roof and continued battling it aboveground as its injuries repeatedly healed.
• Three Esoteric Sect lamas arrived and identified the creature as the Nine Zombie God Child, explaining that only a Daoist Scripture Realm expert or Gold Powder could suppress its Immortality Authority.
• The Flying Zombie's strength surged when it recognized the lamas, but Zhang Chu calmly raised his hand and struck it with an attack that erased its authority and made its body vanish.

After Zhang Chu erased the Flying Zombie, White Eyebrow explained the Nine Zombie Mother God, its Immortality Authority, and the origins of the Nine Zombie God Children. Zhang Chu realized the creature had been artificially created from stolen Evil God Remnants and began to understand what the mysterious Medicine Dao Master was trying to do.

• Zhang Chu erased the Flying Zombie with one palm strike, leaving Qin Cang, the escorts, and White Eyebrow and his Junior Brothers stunned.
• White Eyebrow introduced himself as chief of Red Mountain Temple’s Samsara Courtyard and explained that he had tracked an ancient Evil God’s aura to White Bone Villa.
• White Eyebrow told Zhang Chu that the Nine Zombie Mother God had once created a Death Domain in North of Mobei and possessed the Immortality Authority, which let it revive after destruction.
• White Eyebrow revealed that a woman had stolen Evil God Remnants from Red Mountain Temple and used them to create the Flying Zombie, which could have become a Ba within five years.
• White Eyebrow recognized that Zhang Chu’s palm strike had destroyed the authority that made the Flying Zombie immortal, while Zhang Chu considered the danger such creatures posed.
• Zhang Chu pieced together the events and began to understand the plan of the mysterious Medicine Dao Master.

Zhang Chu realized the Demonic Cult had formed around the pursuit of godhood and concluded that Lady White Bone was the Medicine Dao Master seeking the Nine Zombie Mother God's authority. He learned Red Mountain Temple was one of the Eight Profound, declined an invitation to visit, and resolved to grow stronger as questions about Red Mountain and the old man remained unanswered.

• Zhang Chu pieced together that the Demonic Cult's factions had joined to pursue godhood and that Lady White Bone was the Medicine Dao Master conducting experiments at White Bone Villa.
• Zhang Chu asked White Eyebrow about Huang Xugu, but White Eyebrow and the other monks said no such Daoist had visited Red Mountain Temple.
• White Eyebrow revealed that Red Mountain Temple was one of the Eight Profound and that its Fire of Heart Image helped Living Buddhas enter the Daoist Scripture Realm but bound them to the mountain.
• Zhang Chu declined White Eyebrow's invitation to visit Red Mountain Temple, then arranged for Qin Cang's Imperial Court consignment of Gold Powder to return with the monks.
• White Eyebrow recognized the Gold Powder as the consignment King Zhao had sent, while Zhang Chu grew wary of King Zhao's influence.
• After Qin Cang and the monks departed, Zhang Chu considered the unanswered mysteries and decided to use his merit to strengthen himself.

Zhang Chu strengthened the Sea Moon Residual Illumination Technique, awakening its Tide, Moon Surge, and Silver Eye layers, then set out for Western Regions Ancient City to seek the final chapters of the Twelve Chapters of the Yellow Court. In the city, rumors spread that Zhang Chu and Heavenly Evil Blade Zhu Xi were both seeking a chance to advance, raising the possibility that they would clash.

• Zhang Chu spent 1.4 million Merit Points strengthening the Sea Moon Residual Illumination Technique through its first three layers, gaining Tide, Moon Surge, and Silver Eye.
• Zhang Chu discovered a silver slit forming on his brow and concluded that the Silver Eye needed the Bottom-Supporting Divine Technique to fully develop.
• Zhang Chu decided to travel to Western Regions Ancient City to search for clues about the old man and the final three chapters of the Twelve Chapters of the Yellow Court.
• People in a tavern discussed how Heavenly Evil Blade Zhu Xi had severed Horse King Buddha’s arm and returned to the Western Regions despite the threat from Lesser Thunderclap Temple.
• A bearded man told the tavern crowd that Zhang Chu had also been spotted heading toward the ancient city, prompting speculation that Zhang Chu and Zhu Xi might fight.

Zhang Chu learned that Shatuo Flowers could help people resist Illusionary City's illusions as Meng Huan was exposed for murdering Chen Du and attacking Lv Zheng to claim the flowers. Lv Zheng invoked Zhang Chu’s name to threaten Meng Huan, and Zhang Chu answered from the tavern across the street.

• Zhang Chu listened in disguise as people debated his strength and the Heavenly Evil Blade Zhu Xi’s search for Illusionary City.
• A fight between Meng Huan and Lv Zheng erupted outside the tavern, and the Thin Old Man explained the dangers of the Sinking Sand Ruins and the value of Shatuo Flowers.
• Lv Zheng accused Meng Huan of ambushing and killing Chen Du after Chen Du saved him in the Sinking Sand Ruins, then demanded to know whether Lv Zheng had the flowers.
• Lv Zheng warned Meng Huan that Zhang Chu was on his way to the ancient city, but Meng Huan claimed he could escape or defeat Zhang Chu.
• Zhang Chu calmly replied from the tavern, “Is that so?”

Zhang Chu revealed himself as the Yellow Court Dao Master and killed Meng Huan with a glance after Meng Huan tried to flee. Lv Zheng gave Zhang Chu the Shatuo Flower and told him that Heavenly Evil Blade Zhu Xi and a mysterious white-clad swordsman had taken the other two and entered Illusionary City.

• Zhang Chu descended from the tavern and challenged Meng Huan, who recognized him as the Yellow Court Dao Master.
• Meng Huan unleashed his sword and tried to escape, but Zhang Chu shattered the Black Cloud Sword and killed him with a glance.
• Lv Zheng thanked Zhang Chu for saving him and presented him with the Shatuo Flower.
• Lv Zheng told Zhang Chu that Zhu Xi and a mysterious white-clad swordsman had taken the other two Shatuo Flowers and entered Illusionary City.
• Zhang Chu accepted the flower, healed Lv Zheng, and left as the onlookers anticipated a clash among the three experts in Illusionary City.

Zhang Chu entered Illusionary City through a hidden opening in the desert and discovered an underground palace ending in a coffin containing a woman from the Eight Profound of Heaven and Earth. He removed her mask and recognized the face as Jiang Yao’s.

• Zhang Chu found martial artists tempering their wills in the desert and ignored their warnings to enter Illusionary City.
• The round-faced young man recognized Zhang Chu as the Yellow Court Dao Master after Zhang Chu headed toward the desert’s depths.
• Zhang Chu followed the Shatuo Flower’s response and used One Palm Samsara to open the entrance to Illusionary City.
• Zhang Chu explored an empty underground passage and reached a great hall containing a recently opened coffin.
• Zhang Chu lifted the female corpse’s White Jade Mask and recognized her face as Jiang Yao’s.

Zhang Chu awakened Jiang Yao in a coffin inside Illusionary City, then realized she and the surrounding palace were an illusion woven from his own memories. After the illusion collapsed, he found a stone stele and two armed figures in a vast void, where one swordsman regarded him as a competitor.

• Zhang Chu removed the White Jade Mask and saw Jiang Yao revive in the coffin as vitality flowed into her.
• Jiang Yao told Zhang Chu that a Black Sandstorm had swept her underground before she lost consciousness, while he tried to help her recover.
• When Zhang Chu touched Jiang Yao, the Sand Mound Flower's warning made him realize that the missing Three Manifestations Combine Chaos Phenomenon proved she was an illusion.
• Zhang Chu recognized that Illusionary City had turned his memories and questions into a convincing dream, and the Sand Mound Flower had helped him see through it.
• The illusion collapsed, revealing a floating stone platform, an ancient stele, and two figures carrying a sinister saber and a sharp sword.
• The young man with the sword noticed Zhang Chu and called him a competitor whose strength was barely worth looking at.

Zhang Chu entered Illusionary City and realized that its stone stele, secret method, and the Swordsman and Zhu Xi were illusions built from his memories. He broke through the deception and found himself back in the desert beneath a mysterious, eye-like light, with three figures standing below it.

• Zhang Chu attacked the Swordsman, but Zhu Xi intervened, and the stele's rules forcibly stopped their fight.
• Zhang Chu and the two others studied the inscription, and Zhang Chu thought he had begun opening the Illusionary Aperture.
• Zhang Chu noticed that the system had not recorded the method and recognized the Swordsman and Zhu Xi's techniques as moves drawn from his past-life memories.
• Zhang Chu understood that Illusionary City had altered his memories and manifested the stele and the two fighters as illusions.
• The illusory figures and void shattered, leaving Zhang Chu in the desert beneath a glowing eye-like light, with three figures standing below it.

Zhang Chu learned that Illusionary City’s relic was an Ancient God’s Eye Aperture, then seized it when it attacked him and survived its devastating power with his Chaos Phenomenon. Wounded but holding the relic, he faced the Mysterious Swordsman and Water Elder as they demanded it, and challenged them both to fight him.

• Water Elder told Zhang Chu that Illusionary City had once been Godfall Land and that its eyeball relic could open the Eye Aperture.
• The Ancient God Relic shrank and flew at Zhang Chu, who caught it but was badly injured when its seven-colored power erupted.
• Zhang Chu contained the still-living eyeball with his Chaos Phenomenon and realized that the Medicine Dao Master had likely died to Ancient God power.
• The Mysterious Swordsman demanded that Zhang Chu hand over the relic, while Water Elder said he wanted to borrow it for study.
• Zhang Chu refused to yield and invited the Mysterious Swordsman and Water Elder to attack him together.

Zhang Chu fought the Swordsman and Water Walker at once, overcoming their strongest techniques with his regenerative cultivation and Golden Heavenly Saber. He killed both opponents and began healing from their attacks.

• The Swordsman attacked Zhang Chu with the Heaven Splitting Nine Swords, but Zhang Chu countered with Samsara Force and the Heaven-Covering Divine Palm.
• Water Elder unleashed the Heavy Water Sky Curtain, but Zhang Chu’s Moon Surge shattered it and drove him back.
• The Swordsman’s ninth form and Water Elder’s Heavy Water Ring Blade struck together, but Zhang Chu blocked them with Nine Feathers and left both men badly injured.
• Water Elder transformed into his Water Emperor True Body while the Swordsman prepared his final technique, No Distance.
• Zhang Chu’s Golden Heavenly Saber shattered the Water Emperor True Body and killed the Water Walker, then cut down the Swordsman despite being stabbed through the heart.
• Zhang Chu activated the South Bright Longevity Technique and began recovering from his wounds.

Zhang Chu learned from Zhu Xi that Illusionary City remained after the Ancient God Relic was removed, then discovered that Chaos Qi could erase the White Eye’s rainbow blood and earn vast Merit Points. He began repeatedly suppressing the relic despite its dangerous backlash, leaving his Divine Mansion Rudiment unstable as his Merit Points surged.

• Zhang Chu recovered from the Swordsman and Water Walker’s attacks, and Zhu Xi warned him that the Heavenly Evil Cult would seek revenge and that the Ancient God Relic could attract powerful enemies.
• Zhu Xi explained that the White Eye had occupied Illusionary City’s entrance but was not the city itself, and that removing it would allow the ownerless land to emerge into the world.
• At an abandoned earthen city, Zhang Chu realized the White Eye was influencing his thoughts and resisted the temptation to fuse it with his Silver Eye.
• Zhang Chu used Chaos Qi on the White Eye and erased a trace of its rainbow blood, earning one million Merit Points but nearly shattering his Divine Mansion Rudiment.
• After healing, Zhang Chu suppressed the White Eye again, earned another million Merit Points, and suffered severe backlash; he continued the process and gained a third million as the chapter ended.