Chapter Summaries

Mu Wanqing returned to the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty’s wedding ceremony with Marquis Nanshan and Mu Rantian to confront those who stole her Heavenly Blood. After Mu Wanxiu challenged her, Mu Wanqing defeated her in one strike and was identified as possessing the legendary Wood Spirit Divine Body.

• Mu Wanqing’s arrival interrupted the wedding, and Mu Zhenfeng was killed and thrown into the hall.
• Mu Qingcang gathered royal experts and clan elders Mu Hongyun and Mu Hongbo to face Mu Wanqing, Marquis Nanshan, and Mu Rantian.
• Mu Zhenkong accused Mu Qingcang and Shangguan Tongruo of stealing Mu Wanqing’s Heavenly Blood for Mu Wanxiu.
• Mu Hongyun and Mu Hongbo defended the theft as a sacrifice for the dynasty, while Mu Wanqing offered to spare anyone who laid down their weapons.
• Mu Wanxiu challenged Mu Wanqing and promised to spare her if she survived three moves, but Mu Wanqing defeated her with one palm strike.
• Daoist Si Dong recognized Mu Wanqing as a Wood Spirit Divine Body.

Mu Xuanfeng broke through to the Spirit Attunement Realm and learned that the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty had stolen Mu Wanqing’s bloodline. When he attacked Mu Wanqing, Mu Rantian, and Mu Nanshan, Mu Wanqing revealed a scroll that released a terrifying aura.

• Mu Xuanfeng absorbed the Spirit Attunement Pill, broke through, and emerged above the imperial city as a Spirit Attunement powerhouse.
• Mu Qingcang told Mu Xuanfeng that Mu Rantian had killed Mu Hongbo and Mu Hongyun and taken an ancestral treasure.
• Mu Rantian explained that the dynasty had stripped Mu Wanqing’s Wood Spirit Celestial Body and grafted it onto Mu Wanxiu.
• Mu Xuanfeng approved Mu Qingcang’s actions and offered to spare Mu Wanqing if she forgot her grudge and served the dynasty, but she refused.
• Mu Xuanfeng attacked Mu Rantian and Mu Nanshan, overwhelmed them as they used the sack, and reached to seize them.
• Mu Wanqing stepped forward and unfurled a scroll whose terrifying aura shook the heavens and forced countless people to their knees.

Mu Wanqing revealed a Wood Spirit Divine Body and defeated Mu Wanxiu, but the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty’s Clan Elders attacked her with ancestral artifacts. Mu Rantian’s rice bag swallowed the Elders and their weapons, leaving the dynasty to summon its Old Ancestor as the palace began to shake.

• Mu Wanxiu raged over losing to Mu Wanqing, who said that Mu Wanxiu’s selfishness had brought about her defeat.
• Shangguan Tongruo and Mu Qingcang urged the Clan Elders to seize Mu Wanqing’s divine body, and Mu Hongbo and Mu Hongyun agreed to kill her.
• Mu Hongbo and Mu Hongyun attacked Mu Wanqing with a corroded iron ax and broken spear, but Mu Rantian used an old rice bag to swallow them and their ancestral artifacts.
• Shangguan Tongruo panicked and told Mu Qingcang to summon the Old Ancestor, and Mu Qingcang called for help as the ground beneath the palace trembled.

Mu Xuanfeng emerged from seclusion after reaching the Spirit Attunement Realm and learned that Mu Qingcang had stripped Mu Wanqing’s bloodline. He sided with the dynasty and attacked Mu Wanqing and her companions, but she brought out a scroll bearing a senior’s decree as the heavens trembled.

• Mu Xuanfeng absorbed the Spirit Attunement Pill, broke through to the Spirit Attunement Realm, and emerged above the imperial city.
• Mu Qingcang told Mu Xuanfeng that Mu Rantian had killed the clan elders and that Mu Wanqing had come to demand an explanation for the stolen bloodline.
• Mu Qingcang admitted that the dynasty had stripped Mu Wanqing’s Wood Spirit Celestial Body and grafted it onto Mu Wanxiu, and Mu Xuanfeng praised his decision.
• Mu Xuanfeng offered to spare Mu Wanqing if she forgot her grudge and served the dynasty, but she refused and challenged him.
• Mu Xuanfeng overwhelmed Mu Rantian and Mu Nanshan, draining their spiritual power until the rice sack fell from their grasp.
• Mu Wanqing unfurled a scroll to carry out a senior’s decree, releasing an aura that shook the heavens and forced countless people to their knees.

Mu Wanqing used Senior Li’s rice-paper edict to punish the wicked in the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty and restore the strength of the righteous, causing the dynasty to fall. With Mu Zhenkong’s support, she agreed to become empress and lead the dynasty in Senior Li’s service.

• Mu Wanqing unfurled Senior Li’s edict, which shattered Mu Xuanfeng’s ancestral treasures and stripped the cultivation of those who harbored evil intent while empowering Mu Zhenkong and her companions.
• Mu Zhenkong regained his lost cultivation and broke through to the Divine Communion Realm as Mu Rantian, Mu Nanshan, Mu Wanqing, and the grapevine also grew stronger.
• Mu Wanqing killed Mu Wanxiu and Shangguan Tongruo, then drove the Qingyang Sect and the other major powers from the fallen dynasty.
• Mu Zhenkong urged Mu Wanqing to take the throne, and she agreed, saying she wished to repay Senior Li’s kindness.
• Mu Wanqing ascended the throne as the people of Wood Spirit Village arrived, and news of the dynasty’s upheaval spread across the Eastern Wasteland.

After Mu Wanqing ascended the throne, the Eastern Wasteland’s factions learned that a powerful ghost, not a deity, stood behind her. The Yang Wei Imperial Dynasty offered a heavenly horse Yin Spirit as bait for the ghost, while the ghost commander learned of it and resolved to claim it.

• Yang Ding Tian learned that High God Xuan Yin had not chosen Mu Wanqing, and High God Lu Yang killed Gu Fengyun and Daoist Si Dong after detecting ghostly breath on Gu Fengyun.
• High God Lu Yang revealed that an old ghost had marked Gu Fengyun and ordered the Qingyang Sect to prepare a Ghost-Slaying Formation for the God-Worshipping Festival.
• Yang Ding Tian proposed using the Yang Wei Imperial Dynasty’s Heavenly Horse Yin Spirit to lure the ghost, and the leaders agreed to invite Mu Wanqing and announce the offering.
• Mu Wanqing ascended the throne and received a wisp of the Heavenly Horse Yin Spirit from Yang Xiao, but she and her advisers suspected the invitation was a trap.
• The Starving Ghost and Hanging Ghost reported the Heavenly Horse Yin Spirit to their commander, who decided to obtain it as nourishment for the Ghost Lord.

Yunxi returned to Small Mountain Village after retrieving a ghost tooth from a sealed spirit in Burial God Great Wilderness, then showed it to Li Fan. When she offered to take him back to pull out the ghost’s teeth, Mu Wanqing arrived to pay her respects.

• Yunxi found her buried message crystal in a canyon, where a ghost tried to persuade her to carry its ghost tooth out of Burial God Great Wilderness.
• Yunxi took the ghost tooth, left the wilderness, and sent Yun Qianshan a message that she had returned.
• Yunxi reached Unique Leisurely Courtyard, ate Li Fan’s pastries, and told him about the ghost tooth.
• Li Fan examined the tooth and treated it as a possible pendant, while Lin Jiuzheng recognized it as a rare treasure.
• Yunxi offered to take Li Fan to pull out the ghost’s teeth, and Mu Wanqing knocked at the door to pay her respects to Senior Li.

Mu Wanqing told Li Fan that his calligraphy had helped her group gain a foothold in the Eastern Wasteland, then warned him that an invitation to the Deity Worship Festival might be a trap. Li Fan mistook the empty jade box they received for an insult and sent Ziling to attend in his place; she left with Mu Wanqing and the others for the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty.

• Mu Wanqing reported that her group had left the Great Wilderness Wood Spirit Village and prospered in the Eastern Wasteland with Li Fan's calligraphy.
• Li Fan rejected Mu Wanqing's suggestion to build a divine statue, and she and the others interpreted his words as proof that he surpassed the Deities.
• Mu Wanqing showed Li Fan an invitation and empty jade box for the upcoming Deity Worship Festival, which he took as a deliberate insult from rival calligraphy and painting merchants.
• Wu Dade's crystal shard glowed near the box, and Ziling sensed familiar yin energy inside it and volunteered to go in Li Fan's place.
• Li Fan sent Ziling to the festival with one of his paintings, and Yunxi asked her to find out whether Zhan Shaoling was married.
• Ziling accepted Yunxi's ghost tooth and traveled with Mu Wanqing and the others to the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty.

Mu Wanqing and Ziling arrived at the Three Divine Continents for the Reverence for the Gods Festival, where the factions prepared a ghost-slaying formation and presented a Tianma as an offering to the Deities. The ghost Gui Qi possessed Wang Feng and followed them onto the altar, while Ziling sensed something was wrong.

• Mu Wanqing and Ziling returned to the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty, where Mu Wanqing forbade the creation of divine statues and planned to attend the festival.
• The factions gathered in the Three Divine Continents and prepared a Ghost-Slaying Grand Formation as reports of ghosts spread across the Eastern Wasteland.
• Gui Qi entered the city unseen, sensed an unusual aura around Ziling, and possessed Wang Feng.
• Gui Qi followed Mu Wanqing and Ziling to the altar, where he mistakenly believed two Profound Water Sect elders had discovered him.
• Mo Xuan announced that the Yang Wei Imperial Dynasty had prepared a Tianma for the Deities, shocking the gathered crowd.

At the god-worshiping festival, the Servant God Sects used a Heavenly Horse Yin spirit to lure out the ghost they believed was behind Mu Wanqing. Wang Feng revealed that he was the ghost, transforming into an old ghost in gray robes as the crowd watched in shock.

• The Yang Wei Imperial Dynasty presented a Heavenly Horse Yin spirit, and Wang Feng became eager to obtain it.
• Gu Changfeng detected ghostly energy and, with Mo Xuan, revealed the ghost-slaying trap set around the altar.
• Mo Xuan accused Mu Wanqing and Ziling of serving the ghost, while divine radiance sealed the area and the crowd fled from them.
• Gu Changfeng and the others summoned powerful Divine Spirit Incarnations and demanded that the old ghost show itself.
• Wang Feng stepped forward, declared that he was done pretending, and transformed into an old ghost in gray robes.

Gui Qi destroyed the Demon-Slaying Grand Formation, killed Gu Changfeng, and turned on the wandering deities Lu Yang and Xuan Yin when they arrived to collect incense offerings. The two escaped with a True God's Talisman, leaving the crowd stunned as Gui Qi remained poised to claim the Heavenly Horse Yin Spirit.

• Gui Qi shattered the Divine Spirit Incarnations and destroyed the Demon-Slaying Grand Formation, leaving Mo Xuan and the others terrified.
• Lu Yang and Xuan Yin learned that their statue incarnations had been destroyed and descended to the Altar of Sacrifice.
• Gui Qi seized Gu Changfeng and swallowed him, then turned toward the Heavenly Horse Yin Spirit in its crystal cage.
• Lu Yang and Xuan Yin arrived and challenged Gui Qi, but he began sucking out their divine souls.
• Lu Yang crushed Xun Yuan True God's Talisman, and he and Xuan Yin fled while the onlookers watched in disbelief.

After the Deity fled, Gui Qi tried to seize the heavenly steed, but it escaped to Ziling and recognized her as its master. Ziling used the Spring Morning Sun Painting to force Gui Qi to surrender, then inspected the life tooth he offered and left him shaken by another ghost tooth she carried.

• Gui Qi shattered the heavenly steed’s crystal cage and pursued it after it escaped into his Ghost Domain.
• The heavenly steed fled to Ziling, who recalled their bond, mounted it, and rode through the sky.
• Gui Qi attacked Ziling and the heavenly steed, but Ziling brought out the Spring Morning Sun Painting and made him withdraw his Ghost Domain and kneel.
• Gui Qi swore a soul oath, surrendered his life tooth, and begged Ziling to spare him.
• Ziling compared Gui Qi’s tooth with the one Yunxi had given her, and Gui Qi recognized Yunxi’s tooth as the Ghost Lord’s.

Ziling learned that the old ghost knew the Ghost Lord’s location, took all his teeth, and marked him with a binding command before letting him go. After Yang Ding Tian attacked her and was killed, the Eastern Wasteland sects joined Mu Wanqing’s Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty, where a decree exposed and punished many infiltrators; Gui Qi then led his ghost soldiers toward the Burial Forest Great Wilderness to find the Ghost Ancestor.

• The old ghost recognized the Ghost Lord’s tooth and revealed its message pointed to the Great Wasteland, so Ziling took all his teeth and wrote “Be a Good Ghost” on his forehead.
• Ziling gave Mu Wanqing a ghost tooth and rejected the sects’ offers to serve her master, then condemned the Yang Wei Imperial Dynasty for its crimes against the Yin Realm.
• Yang Ding Tian attacked Ziling, but the Heavenly Horse carried her away and Mo Xuan killed Yang Ding Tian; the sects then pledged themselves to Mu Wanqing’s Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty.
• A decree at the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty’s capital crippled or killed newcomers with ulterior motives, and the remaining sect members pledged to serve the Lord of the Desolate Heavens.
• Gui Qi failed to remove the words from his forehead, concealed them with a mask, and led his ghost soldiers toward the Burial Forest Great Wilderness to find the Ghost Ancestor.

Gui Qi and his ghost horde freed Heavenly Darkness Ghost Lord from a mysterious barrier, which shattered when the words on Gui Qi’s forehead flared. Heavenly Darkness decided to enter the newly revealed Secret Realm and turn the supposed mastermind’s scheme to his advantage, while the resulting eruption triggered a Great Beast Tide and the chapter ended with an old man being asked to visit Yunxi’s grave.

• Gui Qi led the ghosts to a cave in the Burial God Great Wilderness and used soul-summoning banners to try to free Heavenly Darkness Ghost Lord, but the barrier resisted their attacks.
• Gui Qi burned his ghostfire against the barrier, and the four vermilion characters on his forehead, “Be a good ghost,” flared and shattered it, revealing a Secret Realm.
• Heavenly Darkness Ghost Lord emerged and learned from Gui Qi about the purple-skirted maiden who had subdued him and taken his ghost teeth.
• Heavenly Darkness suspected a hidden mastermind had engineered his release, but decided to enter the Secret Realm, seize its opportunity, and use the supposed plotter in return.
• The barrier’s destruction released countless auras, shook the Great Wilderness, and drove birds and beasts into a Great Beast Tide.
• In the Central Province, an old man emerged from seclusion after making a breakthrough, and a middle-aged man asked whether he would visit Yunxi’s grave on her death anniversary.

A terrifying presence emerged from the Burial God Great Wilderness, alarming powers across the Great Ruin Realm. At the Yun Family, Yun Qianshan heard a new message from Yunxi and realized she might still be alive.

• The Old Vine warned Mu Wanqing that something extraordinary was about to emerge from the wilderness and urged her to find the Lord of the Desolate Heavens.
• Green Sun Wandering God and Profound Yin Wandering God reported the wilderness disturbance to Xun Yuan True God, who told them to keep watching.
• Xun Yuan True God told other powerful beings that the disturbance might be connected to Dark Ghost Lord and warned them not to alert him.
• Yun Yinchen and Yun Qianshan visited Yunxi's grave, then discussed the Yun Family's planned marriage alliance with the Zhan Family through Yun Qin.
• Yun Qianshan replayed a message crystal and heard Yunxi say, “Grandpa, I'm back!” He hurried to check her Soul Lamp.

The Yun and Zhan families renewed their marriage alliance through Yun Qin and Zhan Shaoling as news spread of a cataclysmic upheaval in the Eastern Wasteland. Yun Qianshan set out to find the living Yunxi, while Zhan Yuanpeng secretly ordered Zhan Wanren to kill him and planned to use the marriage to control the Yun family.

• Zhan Wanren and Zhan Shaoling delivered the Zhan family's marriage contract and betrothal gifts, and Yun Yinchen arranged for Yun Qin to marry Zhan Shaoling within the month.
• A messenger reported that a mysterious being had destroyed the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty and that a Great Beast Tide had erupted in the Burial God Great Wilderness.
• Yun Qianshan revealed that Yunxi had sent him a message saying she had returned, and he decided to travel to the Eastern Wasteland with Yun Qin to find her.
• Yun Yinchen remained behind to oversee the Yun family as Yun Qianshan led its forces toward the Eastern Wasteland.
• Zhan Yuanpeng ordered Zhan Wanren to ensure Yun Qianshan did not return alive, explaining that the Zhan family sought to control the Yun family and obtain the Great Ruin Realm's Primal Dao principles.

Ziling returned to Small Mountain Village with a heavenly steed, and Mu Wanqing brought news of an upheaval in Burial God Great Wilderness and a root containing clues to a rare plant. Yunxi, Ziling, and Mu Wanqing set out for the Great Wilderness, where they arrived amid a gathering of powerful forces.

• Ziling brought a heavenly steed to Small Courtyard, and Li Fan praised it and let her raise it.
• Mu Wanqing reported a beast tide in Burial God Great Wilderness and gave Li Fan a section of Old Vine's root, which made his crystal tablet glow.
• Yunxi volunteered to explore the Great Wilderness, and Ziling and Mu Wanqing agreed to accompany her; Li Fan told Ziling to take his medicinal hoe.
• Yunxi asked Ziling about Zhan Shaoling, learned he was about to become engaged to Yun Qin, and worried that Yun Qin would be unhappy.
• Yunxi, Ziling, and Mu Wanqing reached the collapsed canyon in Burial God Great Wilderness, where forces from across the Great Ruin Realm had gathered.

Zhan Chonglei led the cultivators into a dangerous part of the Secret Realm despite Mu Rantian’s warning, and deadly vines slaughtered hundreds. After Zhan Chonglei attacked Mu Rantian and threatened the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty, three young women arrived to challenge him.

• Yun Qin and Zhan Shaoling agreed to enter the Secret Realm together as the gathered sects prepared to follow them.
• Mu Rantian warned everyone that the vines were dangerous, but Zhan Chonglei dismissed his warning and led the cultivators toward them.
• The vines awakened and killed hundreds of cultivators, including a powerful middle-aged cultivator, as the survivors fled.
• Mu Rantian showed the gathered forces visions from the Sacrificial Spirit, but Zhan Chonglei struck him and seized the old tree root.
• Zhan Chonglei threatened to wipe out the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty, and three young women arrived and asked whether he was worthy.

Yunxi reunited with Yun Qin before entering the Secret Realm with Ziling and Mu Wanqing, while Zhan Shaoling tried to learn what Yunxi was planning. Inside, he realized Yun Qin had feelings for him and declared his love, intending to use her.

• Yunxi reunited with Yun Yinxing and Yun Qin, but was surprised when Yun Qin insisted she wanted to marry Zhan Shaoling.
• Zhan Shaoling apologized to Mu Rantian and returned the stolen root after Ziling confronted Zhan Chonglei.
• Yunxi refused Zhan Shaoling's offer to enter the Secret Realm together, and Yun Qin gave her the Evil-Repelling Divine Jade before staying with Shaoling.
• Zhan Shaoling's group entered the Secret Realm under a divine umbrella, and Yun Qin used the jade pendant to ward off evil.
• After Yun Qin told Zhan Shaoling that Yunxi had someone she liked, he declared his love for Yun Qin and decided to use her.

Yunxi, Ziling, and Mu Wanqing entered the vine-filled Secret Realm, defeated a powerful Vine Person, and took its precious Dao bones to use as firewood. Later, another Vine Person mistook Yun Qin for Yunxi and relentlessly pursued her as the Yun and Zhan families fled.

• Mu Wanqing warned Yunxi and Ziling that powerful Vine People might dwell deep within the Secret Realm, and Yunxi crushed the evil jade pendant that awakened the surrounding vines.
• Ziling burned back the attacking vines, and Yunxi defeated a Spirit Transformation realm Vine Person with her butterfly before Ziling set it aflame.
• After learning the Vine Person’s fragrant body could be used for smoking meat, Yunxi and Ziling took its silver-white Dao bones and persuaded it to direct them toward more Vine People.
• The Zhan and Yun families arrived and encountered the recovering Vine Person, which attacked them and drove the elites to flee.
• The Vine Person mistook Yun Qin for the woman who had taken its Dao bones and chased her relentlessly despite the families’ attempts to intervene.