Chapter Summaries

Yun Qin’s misfortune drew repeated attacks from Vine Persons, while Zhan Shaoling’s group pressed deeper into the Forbidden Land. Meanwhile, Yunxi and Ziling crossed the sea of vines and confronted a starving ghost, which recognized Ziling as the Tooth Extraction Monster.

• A Vine Person attacked Yun Qin and dozens of cultivators, but Yun Yinxing used the Yun family’s divine token to drive it away.
• Zhan Shaoling persuaded Yun Yinxing to continue, and another Vine Person attacked Yun Qin before Zhan Chonglei repelled it with a Deity-empowered blade.
• An old Vine Person battered Yun Qin and fought Zhan Chonglei until it retreated, leaving him injured; Yun Qin confirmed she carried the jade that warded off evil.
• Yunxi, Ziling, and Mu Wanqing crossed the sea of vines after collecting firewood from five Vine Persons, then spotted an ancient vine across a barren battlefield.
• A starving ghost tried to use its Ghostly Lure on the three women but found no dark desires to feed on.
• Yunxi asked whether the ghost had teeth, then told Ziling to pull them, and the ghost recognized Ziling as the Tooth Extraction Monster.

Ziling extracted the Starving Ghost’s teeth while Yunxi encouraged him to call stronger ghosts, and Zhan Shaoling later struck a bargain with him using an Infant Ghost. Yunxi, Ziling, and Mu Wanqing reached the Giant Vine but found its laws blocked their approach, while Zhan Shaoling turned Yun Qin against Yunxi.

• Ziling made the Starving Ghost pull out his teeth and swear that he had not eaten good people, then told him to eat bad people who came along.
• The Yun and Zhan families defeated another Old Vine, but their group suffered heavy losses before reaching the Giant Vine’s clearing.
• The Starving Ghost used ghostly whispers to drive cultivators into a frenzy and swallowed many of them, until Zhan Shaoling protected Yun Qin with a jade Bodhisattva statue.
• Zhan Shaoling traded an Infant Ghost for the Starving Ghost’s cooperation and learned that Yunxi and the other women had passed through.
• Zhan Shaoling persuaded Yun Qin that Yunxi had arranged the Vine attacks against her, and Yun Qin vowed that she wanted Yunxi dead.
• Yunxi, Ziling, and Mu Wanqing reached the Giant Vine but found its millions of hanging laws formed an invisible barrier.

Yunxi reunited with her grandfather, Yun Qianshan, at the petrified Ancestral Vine, where a single Divine Grape remained. After Yunxi’s hidden power broke the barrier, Ziling saw a vision of ancient sacrifices made to preserve the grape as medicine for a mysterious woman, while the gathered forces rushed to seize it.

• Mu Wanqing, Ziling, and Yunxi found a crystal-clear grape on the dead Ancestral Vine and recognized it as the source of the crystal shard’s glow.
• Yun Qin and Zhan Shaoling summoned their families and allies, and Yun Qianshan rushed into the Burial God Great Wilderness after learning Yunxi was there.
• Yunxi reunited joyfully with Yun Qianshan, who promised to protect her from being forced to marry and tried to break the barrier with a punch.
• Yunxi used a hidden power to tear open the barrier after its backlash threatened Yun Qianshan.
• Ziling witnessed a vision of ancient beings sacrificing themselves to preserve the Divine Grape as medicine for a woman, then wept without understanding why.
• The gathered sects and the Zhan family charged toward the Giant Vine to seize the Divine Fruit.

After the Zhan family slaughtered their rivals and Yun Qin betrayed Yun Qianshan, a Strange Being emerged from the Giant Vine’s roots and began turning Zhan Chonglei into a lifeless creature. Mu Wanqing identified it as the source of terror in the Great Wilderness, leaving everyone facing a calamity even the gods could not stop.

• Zhan Chonglei used a divine relic to slaughter the people rushing toward the Giant Vine, while Zhan Wanren ambushed Yun Qianshan.
• Yun Qin poisoned and stabbed Yun Qianshan, then revealed her hatred of Yunxi and vowed to destroy everything she loved.
• Zhan Shaoling praised Yun Qin, declared victory, and sent Zhan Chonglei to take the grape.
• A Strange Being formed from the Giant Vine’s roots, tainted Zhan Chonglei’s divine umbrella, and transformed him with gray mist.
• The Strange Being frightened Gui Qi and the other ghosts away from the grape.
• Mu Wanqing identified the Strange Being as the source of terror and embodiment of calamity, saying even the gods could not stop it.

The Strange Being emerged from its ancient seal and slaughtered the Zhan family, while Yunxi and the others remained untouched. Ziling destroyed the being with her garden hoe and used the Spring Morning Sun Painting to eradicate the strange gray mist.

• Zhan Wanren summoned a Buddha statue to attack the Strange Being, but the statue shattered and the backlash gravely wounded him.
• The Strange Being killed the Zhan family’s experts, and Zhan Shaoling shoved Yun Qin into the strange corpses so he could escape toward Yunxi and the others.
• Yun Qin begged Yunxi to save her, but Yunxi refused; the strange corruption consumed Yun Qin and turned her into a strange corpse.
• The Strange Being advanced toward Ziling, and Ziling used her garden hoe to cleave it apart before digging its infected roots out of the ground.
• Ziling opened the Spring Morning Sun Painting, whose pure yang light annihilated the gray mist and healed Zhan Wanren and Yun Qianshan.

Ziling recovered the last Divine Fruit and returned with Yunxi, who forced the Dark Ghost Lord to surrender his teeth. The Ghost Lord was left branded as a “good ghost” and ordered to grow more teeth for the Small Courtyard.

• Ziling buried the ancient corpses, took the last Divine Fruit, and told Yunxi and the others they could return.
• Yunxi confronted Zhan Shaoling, who begged for mercy before killing himself; the Starving Ghost swallowed his soul.
• The Dark Ghost Lord slapped the Starving Ghost aside and tried to leave, but Yunxi recognized him as the ghost whose tooth she had taken before.
• Yunxi demanded the Dark Ghost Lord’s teeth, so he knocked himself unconscious and handed over his remaining tooth.
• Ziling wrote “Be a good ghost” on the Dark Ghost Lord’s forehead and warned him to bring more teeth to their village if he wanted to live.

After leaving the Burial God Great Wilderness, Yunxi reassured Yun Qianshan that her mysterious Life Master treated her well, while concealing his village and identity. In Central State, the Zhan family learned that its forces had died and its Yunzhou branches had been wiped out, so Zhan Yuanpeng prepared for war against the Yun family.

• Yunxi told Yun Qianshan she had spent three years in the Yin Realm and had become someone else's Life Slave, then described her master's humble habits and showed him the extraordinary butterflies he had given her.
• Yunxi revealed that her bloodline had transformed, and Yun Qianshan accepted that her master was treating her well before warning her to be careful around him.
• Yun Qianshan returned home while Yunxi caught up with Ziling and the others, keeping the Devil King's village and identity secret.
• In Central State, Zhan Yuanpeng learned that the Soul Lamps of the Zhan family members who had gone to the Eastern Wasteland had gone out and that Yun Qianshan had survived.
• Zhan Yuanpeng heard that the Yun family had destroyed the Zhan family's branches in Yunzhou and ordered the family to prepare for war.

Zhan Bai consulted the Buddha statue after the Zhan Family’s plot against the Yun Family failed, then joined forces with Xuanyin and Lüyang and declared a clan war. As the allied forces marched on the Yun Family, Mu Wanqing sent troops to aid them and hurried to tell Yunxi, while Li Fan told Ziling to eat the last grape from the dead vine to determine whether it could be revived.

• Zhan Bai consulted the Buddha statue, then went to meet Xuanyin and Lüyang after the plot against the Yun Family failed.
• The Zhan Family declared a clan war against the Yun Family and rallied forces across the Central Province to attack.
• Mu Wanqing ordered Elder Zhenkong and Elder Rantian to lead troops to reinforce the Yun Family, then left to inform Yunxi.
• Ziling returned to the Small Mountain Village with the sole remaining ink-purple grape from the dead vine.
• Li Fan told Ziling to eat the grape, saying the vine’s chance of rebirth depended on the result.

Ziling ate the Primal Divine Grape and advanced to the peak of the demigod realm before storing its remaining power. Li Fan planted the grape seed, and the disciples began planning to gather more ghost fangs so they could chill watermelon.

• Ziling ate the Primal Divine Grape and underwent a Sole Venerable breakthrough that the Small Courtyard’s peach-tree branch suppressed before she became a god.
• Ziling spat out the grape seed, and Li Fan planted it beside the Kirin Tree, the Unquenchable Tree, and the World Tree.
• Yunxi gave Li Fan firewood and ghost fangs she and Ziling had collected, and Li Fan told her to share the fangs with everyone and Uncle Zhao Er’s group.
• Ziling revealed more fangs taken from the starving ghost and Gui Qi, and Li Fan suggested piling up fangs to chill watermelon.
• Wu Dade and the others began discussing how to find more ghosts and collect their fangs, while Mu Wanqing called for Senior Li from outside.

After learning that the Zhan Family had rallied forces across the Great Ruin Realm to destroy the Yun Family, Yunxi returned to defend her family with Li Fan’s disciples. The Yun Family was nearly overwhelmed in battle, but the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty arrived as an ally.

• Mu Wanqing told Yunxi that the Zhan Family had accused the Yun Family of murder and gathered forces to attack it, so Yunxi decided to return home.
• Li Fan sent Long Zixuan, Qing Chen, Jiang Li, Wu Dade, Ziling, Nan Feng, Xin Ning, Gongya, and the others to help Yunxi.
• Zhan Yuanpeng led a hundred-thousand-strong allied army to Divine Cloud City and demanded the Primal Dao principles and the Yun Family’s surrender.
• Yun Yinchen led the Yun Family into battle, but Zhan Yuanpeng shattered its four Deity life-bound weapons, and the outnumbered defenders suffered heavy losses.
• As Zhan Yuanpeng declared the Yun Family had no allies, the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty arrived with its army.

The Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty arrived to support the Yun family, and Mu Rantian used a mysterious rice sack to neutralize Zhan Yuanpeng’s Arhat treasure. When three Wandering Gods overwhelmed the defenders and captured Yun Yang, a purple-skirted maiden arrived and drew Zhan Bai’s attention.

• The Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty arrived under the Wood Empress’s command, and Mu Rantian declared that they would fight alongside the Yun family.
• Mu Rantian used a rice sack to swallow Zhan Yuanpeng’s golden Arhat phantom, destroying the power within his jade carving.
• Zhan Bai Wandering God, the Green Sun Wandering God, and the Profound Yin Wandering God defeated Yun Yang and captured him in a cage.
• The three Wandering Gods arrived in Central Province, struck down the defenders’ attempt to activate the rice sack, and prepared to kill them.
• A purple-skirted maiden riding a white heavenly steed appeared, and Zhan Bai turned to look toward her.

Ziling and Yunxi returned to the embattled Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty with their companions, reuniting Yunxi with her family as the Zhan family attacked. Ziling used her mastery of space and time to confront the deities, and Long Zixuan and the others eagerly joined the fight.

• Ziling arrived on a heavenly steed and told Yun Qianshan that Yunxi and the others were following her.
• Yunxi returned alive, and Yun Yinchen tearfully reunited with his daughter before challenging Zhan Yuanpeng.
• Yun Yinchen fought Zhan Yuanpeng and neared a breakthrough, but Ziling saved him from a divine artifact with her brush.
• Zhan Bai attacked Ziling, who altered space and time and drew the three wandering deities into her changed domain.
• Ziling invited her fellow disciples to fight a deity, and Long Zixuan rushed in, followed by Lu Rang and Wu Dade.

The Yun family, the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty, and the Small Courtyard’s disciples battled a hundred-thousand-strong allied army while Ziling suppressed their strongest fighters. As the villagers grew stronger in combat and began routing the enemy, High God Xuan Yin used a True God’s jade talisman to partially break Ziling’s restraint, allowing the three Wandering Gods and the allied forces to unleash stronger attacks.

• Long Zixuan, Wu Dade, and Lu Rang fought Zhan Bai, High God Xuan Yin, and Green Sun Wandering God while Ziling weakened the Wandering Gods’ power.
• Nan Feng, Dugu Yuqing, Qing Chen, Lin Jiuzheng, Jiang Li, Xin Ning, and Gongya joined the battle against the allied army, with Ziling suppressing the eleven Sub-god experts.
• Mu Wanqing and Yun Qianshan led their forces into the fight, and Yun Yinchen broke through to the Spirit Communion Realm before killing Zhan Yuanpeng.
• The villagers grew stronger as they fought, while the three Wandering Gods struggled against Long Zixuan, Wu Dade, and Lu Rang.
• High God Xuan Yin crushed a jade talisman from a True God, partially freeing the battlefield from Ziling’s control, and the Wandering Gods and allied experts unleashed renewed attacks.

Li Fan's disciples endured a combined assault from wandering gods and sub-gods, broke through to Divine Communion, and turned the battle against their enemies. As their foes summoned a powerful deity through a burning portrait, the fight remained unresolved.

• Long Zixuan, Wu Dade, Lu Rang, Xin Ning, Dugu Yuqing, Jiang Li, Gongya, and the other members of Small Mountain Village broke through to Divine Communion while resisting the attacks.
• Dugu Yuqing and the others counterattacked, overpowering Divine Communion fighters and putting the sub-gods under pressure with their distinctive Dao arts.
• Lin Jiuzheng used the Talisman of Heaven to create a devastating Forbidden Land, while Qing Chen attacked the enemies with sutras and his broom.
• High God Lu Yang and Wandering God Zhan Bai decided their side needed a True God, and Lu Yang and Profound Yin awakened a portrait with divine blood.
• The portrait burst into flames and opened a passage through the void, revealing a supreme deity at its far end.

Xun Yuan True God descended on the Great Ruin Realm and tried to force Ziling to submit, while Yun Yinchen warned him that divine law forbade interference in the lower realms. As Xun Yuan prepared to destroy them anyway, Wu Dade bowed to him and triggered a terrifying force that left the True God pleading for his life.

• Xun Yuan True God entered the Great Ruin Realm, and his arrival shattered Wandering God statues across Yun Province.
• Xun Yuan tried to recruit Ziling, then erased her Dao marks and threatened to kill her when she refused him.
• Xun Yuan unleashed his True God aura, but Ziling, Nan Feng, Yunxi, and others remained standing.
• Yun Yinchen warned Xun Yuan that the Divine Realm's laws prohibited interference in lower realms and urged him to leave.
• Xun Yuan rejected the warning and raised his hand to attack, but Wu Dade claimed to be his devout believer and bowed to him.
• Xun Yuan sensed a terrifying force and karma descend upon him and cried out that he was innocent.

Wu Dade killed Xun Yuan True God and Zhan Bai with his bows, while the Wandering Gods begged for mercy and the Yun family watched in shock. Outside the Great Ruin Realm, Yijing fled and Roy True God prepared to report the apparent return of Dark Ghost Lord to Chang Dao Heavenly God.

• Wu Dade's bow caused Xun Yuan True God to explode, leaving the Great Ruin Realm and the Yun family stunned.
• Profound Yin Wandering God and Green Yang Wandering God knelt and begged Wu Dade to spare them, while Yun Qianshan resolved to keep Yunxi obedient as a Life Slave.
• Zhan Bai tried to shield himself with a Buddhist statue, but it shattered, and Wu Dade's bow made Zhan Bai explode.
• Yijing escaped the Great Ruin Realm and decided to keep using others as pawns while he reported what had happened.
• Roy True God and the others mistook Xun Yuan True God's death for a sign that Dark Ghost Lord had acted, so Roy resolved to inform Chang Dao Heavenly God.

Chang Dao Heavenly God ordered Roy True God to activate a formation that would gather surrounding star realms and destroy the Great Ruin Realm to strengthen Dark Ghost Lord. After the Yun Family defeated its enemies, Dark Ghost Lord considered fleeing the Great Ruin Realm, but the formation’s power began closing around it.

• Chang Dao Heavenly God told Roy True God to activate the Star-Gathering Formation, draw nearby star realms together, and turn the Great Ruin Realm into a ghost domain for Dark Ghost Lord.
• Wu Dade destroyed Zhan Bai, and the allied forces surrendered as the Yun Family’s reinforcements turned the battle into a massacre.
• Yun Yinchen ordered the allied forces killed, and Yunxi stayed with her family after Ziling and the others departed.
• Roy True God activated the formation, pulling more than a hundred star realms toward the Great Ruin Realm and preparing to drain its Primal Dao principles.
• The Heavenly Darkness Ghost Lord spoke with Mingzhi Ghost Monarch, decided to flee, then realized the gathering star realms had surrounded the region with power he might not be able to break through.

The formation of a star wheel directed a catastrophic force toward the Great Ruin Realm, threatening to destroy its Primal Dao principles and all life within it. After Yunxi’s presence seemed to shield Yun Yinchen from the realm-wide dread, he suspected she might be key to stopping the calamity.

• Dark Ghost Lord realized someone was orchestrating the star wheel’s formation and feared it was part of an ascension ritual designed to create more Divine Monarchs.
• The Great Fortune Star Realm’s Primal Dao principles attacked the Great Ruin Realm, whose position at the star wheel’s center threatened the Great Fortune Star Realm’s claim to become a constant realm.
• The people of the Great Ruin Realm felt the approaching disaster, while Gui Qi warned Dark Ghost Lord that the force would destroy the realm’s Primal Dao principles and kill its inhabitants.
• Yun Yinchen questioned Yunxi about the powerful being behind her, then felt reassured when she showed him the mythical butterflies that being had given her.
• An alarm warned Yun Yinchen that the Primal Dao principles had been stirred, and he noticed the dread vanished whenever Yunxi stood beside him.
• Yun Yinchen suspected Yunxi could be the key to the calamity and asked her to accompany him to see the Primal Dao principles.

Yunxi and the Yun family tried to protect the Great Ruin Realm’s Primal Dao principles as a Star Wheel’s destructive power descended. With the realm close to destruction, the Dark Ghost Lord and his followers chose to fight rather than let others use them as pawns, leaving the battle against the World-Ending starlight underway.

• Yun Yinchen brought Yunxi into the Yun family’s hidden barrier, where they saw the Primal Dao principles trembling as a Star Wheel formed around the Great Ruin Realm.
• Yun Yang activated the Divine Bone altar, but the ancient Yun Deities it summoned were quickly destroyed by the invading starlight, and the realm’s own protective power collapsed.
• Yunxi urged Yun Yinchen, Yun Qianshan, and the others to take the principles to the Devil King in the Eastern Wasteland, and they hurried off with them.
• Dark Ghost Lord rejected the scheme to turn the Great Ruin Realm into a ghost domain and raised a wall of ghost energy that blocked the first strike of the star realms’ origin power.
• Gui Qi, the Long-Tongued Ghost, the Starving Ghost, and the other ghosts joined Dark Ghost Lord, pouring their strength into his defense as the next wave approached.

Yunxi brought her father, Yun Qianshan, and grandfather, Yun Yinchen, to meet Li Fan at the Small Mountain Village. They mistook Li Fan and his ordinary-looking courtyard for the domain of an unfathomable supreme being, and the chapter ended as they noticed the World Tree.

• Yunxi led Yun Qianshan and Yun Yinchen into the Small Mountain Village while Yun Yang Wandering God waited outside.
• Li Fan welcomed his returning disciples, then lamented that he had no food to hunt or chess partner to keep him company.
• Yunxi arrived with Yun Qianshan and Yun Yinchen, who were overwhelmed by the courtyard's chickens, fish, trees, and other creatures.
• Li Fan greeted Yunxi's relatives warmly, while they privately wondered how such an ordinary-looking man could be so powerful.
• Li Fan went to pour cold tea beside the World Tree, and Yun Qianshan and Yun Yinchen stared at it in shock.