Chapter Summaries

At a village bonfire gathering, Yunxi danced for Li Fan before falling asleep, stirring a deep sorrow in him and a solemn response from the divine beings in the Small Courtyard. They recognized Yunxi as a once-mighty figure who had wished in a past life to stay by Li Fan’s side as a carefree girl.

• Second Uncle praised Ming Tianbei and the Devil Marshals, urged them to make something of themselves, and drank with them until they passed out.
• Li Fan carried his drunken disciples back to the Small Courtyard, while Yunxi helped and then danced for him beneath the moon.
• Yunxi collapsed asleep in Li Fan’s arms, and he tucked her into bed before sitting alone and reciting verses beneath the moon.
• The peach tree, Old Mother Hen, and the true dragon discussed the sorrow behind Li Fan’s verses and recognized Yunxi as a legendary figure.
• The peach tree recalled that Yunxi had once said she wished, in her next life, to remain by Li Fan’s side as a carefree little girl.

The Dark Ghost Lord resisted the Blood Demon Ghosts’ plan to infect him with the Netherworld Origin, choosing to absorb the deathly qi threatening the star realms rather than flee. As he prepared to destroy himself if he lost control, Gui Qi defied his order to stay behind and went to find him.

• Xue Jin and Xue Can drove Netherworld Origin-tainted deathly qi into the Dark Ghost Lord, then fled as the bloody ocean threatened the Great Ruins Star Wheel.
• The Dark Ghost Lord began devouring the deathly qi, and the Tooth Extraction Monster’s forehead marks temporarily suppressed his urges to slaughter and destroy.
• The Dark Ghost Lord chose to protect the threatened star realms and used the Heart Concealment Art to engrave an order to detonate himself after absorbing the deathly qi.
• The Dark Ghost Lord ordered his ghosts to stay near the village and return to the Ghost Domain without him.
• Gui Qi restrained the other ghosts, appointed Starving Ghost their commander, and left to find the Dark Ghost Lord.

Li Fan sent Yunxi, Ziling, and Xin Ning to help the ghosts who had come seeking tooth extractions, and Xin Ning freed them from Gui Qi’s ghost domain. The group hurried toward Gui Qi and Heavenly Darkness, while Heavenly Darkness lost himself to the Netherworld Origin as he forced Gui Qi to safety.

• Li Fan told Ziling to get spirit money from Second Uncle and burn it for the ghosts.
• Yunxi and Ziling found the ghosts trapped in Gui Qi’s ghost domain and learned that Heavenly Darkness had gone to face danger outside the Great Ruins Realm.
• Xin Ning entered the ghost domain and absorbed it, freeing the ghosts and frightening them with her Devil Race power.
• The ghosts led Yunxi, Ziling, and Xin Ning toward Gui Qi and Heavenly Darkness.
• Heavenly Darkness threw Gui Qi away from the sea of death energy and lost his remaining clarity to the Netherworld Origin.

Starfall God Lord anticipated making his entrance as the Dark Ghost Lord became a Nether Slave, while Gui Qi and the others sought help for their lost lord. Ziling brought out joss paper, hoping Li Fan had already intervened.

• Starfall God Lord celebrated the Dark Ghost Lord's transformation and prepared to enter the conflict, while Ao Wushuang quietly searched for an escape route.
• A Blood Demon Ghost sensed the Dark Ghost Lord's soul approaching along the Path of the Nether and tried to claim him as a servant.
• Gui Qi reached Ziling and the others, explaining that a Blood Demon Ghost threatened the Great Ruin Star Realm and the Dark Ghost Lord was barely holding it back.
• Ziling stopped Gui Qi from being swept away, then led the group to the Dark Ghost Lord, who ignored them and continued devouring deathly aura.
• Xin Ning said the Dark Ghost Lord had lost his soul fragments and could only be saved if Li Fan intervened, so Ziling took out joss paper and said her master might have acted already.

Ziling and the others used Phoenix True Fire to burn spirit money and called Ghost Lord Heavenly Darkness to collect it. The yellow smoke rescued him from the netherworld, destroyed the Blood Demon Ghost Lord’s arm and lifespan, and left the Blood Demon Ghost Lord furious at Xue Can and Xue Jin.

• Ziling’s spirit money resisted True God Fire, so she used the Phoenix Heaven Brush to ignite it with Phoenix True Fire.
• Yunxi and Ziling called out for Ghost Lord Heavenly Darkness to collect his money, drawing his attention from the Blood Demon Ghost Lord.
• Yellow smoke drifted into the netherworld, collapsed the blood-red passage, and freed Ghost Lord Heavenly Darkness from the Blood Demon Ghost Lord’s control.
• The Blood Demon Ghost Lord’s attack vanished in the smoke, which dissolved his hand and forced him to kneel and beg for mercy.
• The yellow smoke carried Ghost Lord Heavenly Darkness away, while the Blood Demon Ghost Lord discovered that nearly all his lifespan had been cut away.
• The Blood Demon Ghost Lord blamed Xue Can and Xue Jin for involving him in the disaster and vowed to kill them.

The yellow smoke from Ziling and Yunxi’s paper saved the Dark Ghost Lord from becoming a Nether Slave, and he recognized the rescue as a test arranged by the senior in Small Mountain Village. He supplied the ghosts’ teeth for the village and asked Ziling to write another character for him, while Starfall God Lord headed to the Great Ruins Star Wheel unaware that his ritual was likely a funeral.

• Yunxi called the Dark Ghost Lord “Little Egg,” and yellow smoke from the paper restored his clarity and suppressed the Netherworld threat.
• Gui Qi explained that the yellow paper had saved the Dark Ghost Lord, who thanked Ziling, Yunxi, and their companions and concluded that he had passed the senior’s test.
• Ziling told the ghosts to line up for tooth pulling, but the Dark Ghost Lord ordered them to pull their own teeth and presented his to Yunxi.
• Yunxi praised the Dark Ghost Lord as “Little Egg” and told him to grow more teeth for the village’s iced watermelon.
• Starfall God Lord left for the Great Ruins Star Wheel to begin his ritual, while Ao Wushuang warned the celestial gods that they should follow because Starfall God Lord might be lonely.

Ziling wrote auspicious characters on the Dark Ghost Lord and his ghosts, giving them powers they treated as cheats and inspiring them to work harder for the village. Their celebration was interrupted when a sacred middle-aged man arrived at the Great Ruins Star Wheel and challenged the Dark Ghost Lord.

• The Dark Ghost Lord begged Ziling to write “Be a good ghost” on his forehead again, and she agreed.
• The ghosts offered up their teeth and pleaded for characters, so Ziling wrote blessings on each of them that cleansed their ghost energy and gave them confidence.
• The Dark Ghost Lord and his newly empowered followers vowed to pull teeth so the village could eat iced watermelon sooner.
• A sacred middle-aged man arrived at the Great Ruins Star Wheel, accused the Dark Ghost Lord of slaughtering innocents, and challenged him to come out and fight.

Heavenly Darkness fought Starfall God Lord after discovering that the Divine Realm had plotted to use him and countless star wheels in its ritual. Heavenly Darkness gained the advantage while retaining his consciousness, but Starfall God Lord called on his elder brother, whose enormous hand reached into the star region and threatened the universe.

• Starfall God Lord appeared and accused Heavenly Darkness of harming living beings, but Heavenly Darkness revealed that he had kept his consciousness and condemned the Divine Realm’s scheme.
• Heavenly Darkness and Starfall God Lord began a fierce battle as Gui Qi, Yunxi, and the others watched.
• Heavenly Darkness revealed his Purple Extreme Ghost Body and began evolving it further, overwhelming Starfall God Lord while carefully avoiding damage to the star wheel.
• Starfall God Lord failed to provoke Heavenly Darkness into madness and, battered and desperate, called for his elder brother to save him.
• A gigantic palm reached across the Star River, shaking the region as the World Tree and the universe’s laws attempted to block it.

Star Annihilation Divine Monarch revived Heavenly Darkness Ghost Lord’s beloved Bing Ruo as a murderous puppet made from the deaths of dozens of star wheels. After yellow smoke from Ziling and Yunxi’s burning paper began destroying Bing Ruo, Xin Ning explained that the real Bing Ruo was gone, and Heavenly Darkness resolved to kill the puppet himself.

• Star Annihilation Divine Monarch used the lives and death qi of dozens of star wheels to recreate Bing Ruo as a puppet and taunted Heavenly Darkness Ghost Lord with the choice of killing her or letting her destroy everything.
• Bing Ruo attacked Heavenly Darkness Ghost Lord, and he could not bring himself to fight back because he still remembered their love.
• Gui Qi asked Yunxi and Ziling to use the yellow paper to save Bing Ruo, but its smoke began destroying her and everything around her.
• Xin Ning explained that Bing Ruo’s soul had been completely refined and that the smoke was suppressing her rather than restoring her.
• Heavenly Darkness Ghost Lord told Xin Ning that he would kill Bing Ruo himself.

The Dark Ghost Lord realized Bing Ruo could not be saved and prepared to die with her, while Ziling and Yunxi sought Li Fan’s help. Li Fan headed to the village entrance to negotiate with the red-clad ghost by burning paper offerings.

• Starfall God Lord activated a Heavenly Dao Stone formation plate as the Dark Ghost Lord and Bing Ruo fought to a stalemate.
• Ziling and Yunxi decided that the Dark Ghost Lord had to face his trial himself, but left to ask Li Fan for help.
• The Dark Ghost Lord recalled his life with Bing Ruo, embraced her, and prepared to self-detonate with her.
• Ziling and Yunxi found Li Fan and told him that a red-clad female ghost had forgotten her past and was attacking her former lover.
• Li Fan stopped Second Uncle from fetching peachwood nails and decided to burn paper offerings and talk to the ghost first.

Li Fan tried to guide the unseen female ghost toward reincarnation by burning spirit money and urging her to let go. At the same time, a legendary stone bridge appeared before Dark Ghost Lord and Bing Ruo, leaving the battlefield stunned and suggesting that reincarnation had become possible.

• Li Fan burned yellow paper and told the female ghost to seek rebirth and forget the pain of her former life.
• On the battlefield outside the Great Ruins Star Wheel, Starfall God Lord watched Dark Ghost Lord prepare to self-destruct and feared his ritual would fail.
• Yellow smoke spread across the Ghost Domain, and living beings throughout the star region experienced visions of life and death repeating through the ages.
• A stone bridge emerged from the smoke and extended toward Dark Ghost Lord and Bing Ruo, who stopped struggling in his arms.
• Starfall God Lord identified the apparition as possibly the legendary Bridge of Helplessness and revealed ancient records about the Underworld and failed attempts to create reincarnation.
• Dark Ghost Lord recognized the bridge from Ghost Domain legends and trembled as it appeared to have come for Bing Ruo.

Bing Ruo crossed the Bridge of Helplessness and entered reincarnation, while the bridge erased most witnesses’ memories and carried away everything tied to her. As Dark Ghost Lord vowed to find her in a future life, the destruction of the star worlds triggered Starfall God Lord’s ritual and awakened the Heavenly Dao Spirit.

• Bing Ruo crossed the Bridge of Helplessness, recovered her true self, and told Dark Ghost Lord she was entering reincarnation, asking him to remember their life and find her again.
• Star Annihilation Divine Monarch was struck by an unseen power that tortured his Primordial Spirit, and yellow mist carried what remained of Bing Ruo’s connection to him into reincarnation.
• The bridge vanished and erased the memories of Gui Qi, Starfall God Lord, and countless others, but Dark Ghost Lord and Xin Ning still remembered what had happened.
• Dark Ghost Lord accepted Bing Ruo’s choice and vowed to wait for her and find her, while Xin Ning wondered what kind of being Li Fan was.
• The worlds linked to Bing Ruo began exploding, and Starfall God Lord declared that the ritual was awakening the Heavenly Dao Spirit before attacking Dark Ghost Lord and being struck back.
• The Heavenly Dao Spirit appeared as a sleepy little girl and complained that the fighting and destruction had disturbed her sleep.

The Heavenly Dao Spirit appeared after countless worlds were destroyed and prepared to grant Starfall God Lord a Dao Fruit so he could punish Dark Ghost Lord. Xin Ning interrupted the judgment, drew the Heavenly Dao Spirit to her with an offer of food, and spanked her, leaving everyone stunned.

• The Heavenly Dao Spirit appeared over the battlefield, and Starfall God Lord burned Heavenly Rhyme Incense and accused Dark Ghost Lord of destroying worlds.
• The Heavenly Dao Spirit accepted Starfall God Lord's claim and prepared to grant him a Dao Fruit, while Dark Ghost Lord protested that the Heavenly Dao was unjust.
• The Heavenly Dao Spirit tried to kill Dark Ghost Lord, but the vermilion words "Be a good ghost!" protected him, startling the Heavenly Dao Spirit and the assembled ghosts.
• Starfall God Lord urged the Heavenly Dao Spirit to grant him the Dao Fruit, but Xin Ning called her over with an offer of food.
• The Heavenly Dao Spirit recognized Xin Ning as someone of great merit, called her Big Sister, and went to her eagerly.
• Xin Ning offered the Heavenly Dao Spirit bamboo shoots stir-fried with pork, then spanked her until she cried, astonishing everyone present.

Xin Ning subdued the Heavenly Dao Spirit, then let Heavenly Darkness take revenge on Starfall God Lord and the Divine Domain forces. Afterward, Tian Ling'er apologized and hoped to stay near Xin Ning, who left to tell Li Fan about her Dao injury.

• Xin Ning spanked Tian Ling'er until the Heavenly Dao Spirit admitted she had followed the Heavenly Dao Edicts without understanding what she had done wrong.
• Tian Ling'er explained that she had been born with a Dao injury, spent hundreds of thousands of years asleep, and lacked guidance from her grandfather.
• Xin Ning sent Heavenly Darkness to take revenge on Xing Luo, and he killed Starfall God Lord after his plea for help from his big brother went unanswered.
• Gui Qi and the other ghosts killed Chang Ming Heavenly God and the seven other Heavenly Gods, wiping out the Divine Domain forces in the area.
• Heavenly Darkness thanked Xin Ning and embraced his imagined mission to save the ghost domain, only to be reminded that the villagers expected him to supply ghost teeth.
• Xin Ning showed Tian Ling'er what Starfall God Lord had done, told her to behave before asking for food, and left for the Great Ruins Star Wheel to speak with Li Fan; Tian Ling'er then eyed the Dark Ghost Lord and the others.

Tian Ling'er gave Dark Ghost Lord over a hundred Divine Monarch Dao Fruits and granted the other ghosts one each, helping them grow stronger. She then transformed the Great Ruin Realm with a flood of Heavenly Dao origin energy, while Dark Ghost Lord became a Ghost Monarch and set out to confront the Blood Demon Ghosts.

• Tian Ling'er gave Dark Ghost Lord more than a hundred Divine Monarch Dao Fruits, purifying his ghostly body and enabling him to prove the Ghost Monarch Dao.
• Tian Ling'er gave Gui Qi and the other approved ghosts one Dao Fruit each, and they began cultivating.
• Tian Ling'er turned the Great Ruin Realm into a Heavenly Dao Pure Land, causing origin energy to flood the world and transform its people, creatures, and landscape.
• Yun Yinchen and Yun Qianshan realized the outpouring of origin energy was benefiting both the Yun family and the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty, likely through Senior Li.
• Dark Ghost Lord became a Ghost Monarch, thanked the person in the Great Ruin Realm, and led the ghosts toward the Blood Demon Ghosts' hiding place.
• Ao Wushuang urged Roy True God and the others to join the gods, promising great blessings and treasures.

Ao Wushuang persuaded Roy True God and the other True Gods away before Xue Can and Xue Jin captured him, while Heavenly Darkness Ghost Lord followed the Blood Demon Ghosts. At Small Mountain Village, Li Fan’s paper-burning sent Bing Ruo into reincarnation, where she retained her love for Heavenly Darkness; elsewhere, Huo Ling'er and Mu Qianning set out to find Senior Li.

• Ao Wushuang convinced Roy True God and the other True Gods to leave, then tried to escape, but Xue Can and Xue Jin captured him after he claimed to be a Flood Dragon Demon Race spy.
• Heavenly Darkness Ghost Lord recognized the Blood Demon Ghosts’ aura and followed them to locate their race’s base.
• Li Fan burned paper at Small Mountain Village, and Xin Ning told Yunxi and Ziling that she had sent Bing Ruo off; the women brought out bags of ghost teeth before joining Li Fan for iced watermelon.
• At the Bridge of Helplessness, Bing Ruo drank Old Woman Meng’s Soup but retained her memories of Heavenly Darkness, while Old Woman Meng realized a supreme power had commanded that Bing Ruo remember him.
• A baby was born in another world amid a powerful aura, and Mu Qianning sensed a trace of Senior Li; she and Huo Ling'er gathered their treasures and set out to find him.

Li Fan chilled watermelons with Ghost Teeth, and the disciples discovered that eating their seeds let them comprehend countless Great Dao laws and rapidly increase their cultivation. After everyone in the Small Courtyard reached the peak of the True God realm, Xin Ning warned Li Fan that the world’s Heavenly Dao seemed incomplete.

• Li Fan brought three watermelons from his field and chilled them in a pot of Ghost Teeth.
• Li Fan cut the watermelon, and the disciples found that its flesh contained rich energy while its seeds held countless laws.
• Qing Chen swallowed a seed and rapidly advanced, prompting the others to eat their seeds and gain cultivation as well.
• The disciples devoured all three watermelons, and everyone in the Small Courtyard reached the peak of the True God realm.
• Xin Ning told Li Fan that the Heavenly Dao seemed damaged and incomplete, leaving him startled.

Li Fan explained the Dao De Jing to Xin Ning and his disciples, and they each found insight in his words as they refined Dao fragments into personal laws and broke through. Wu Dade reached the Heavenly God Realm through brutal body training, while Bai Xiaoqing ate a watermelon seed and surged to the Divine Lord Realm, leaving the Great Ruin Realm's laws in chaos.

• Xin Ning told Li Fan and the disciples about the Heaven's Dao Spirit, prompting them to condemn the spirit's failures and discuss the Heavenly Dao's corruption.
• Li Fan recited and explained the Dao De Jing's opening line, teaching that the Dao could not be fully expressed and that everyone had to follow their own path.
• The disciples drew insight from Li Fan's explanation and formed personal laws; Qing Chen and Gongya entered the Heavenly God Realm, while the others advanced in their understanding.
• Jiang Li advised Wu Dade to fuse Dao fragments with his body, and Wu Dade beat himself with the spiky Molten Gold Ancestor Tree until he completed his Nine Revolutions Golden Body's fifth revolution and entered the Heavenly God Realm.
• Bai Xiaoqing ate a watermelon seed, triggering a tremendous surge of power that disturbed the Great Ruin Realm until a peach tree branch quelled the chaos; she reached the Divine Lord Realm.

Bai Xiaoqing became a Divine Lord after eating one of Li Fan’s watermelon seeds, then shared the remaining seeds with Big Black and the other animals. Meanwhile, Blood Can and Xue Jin brought Ao Wushuang to the Demon-occupied Ding Star Realm and led him toward Netherworld City, where he hoped his fortune-star powers would keep him safe.

• Bai Xiaoqing reached the Divine Lord realm after eating a watermelon seed, stunning Li Fan’s disciples and Big Black.
• Li Fan pushed the remaining watermelon seeds aside, and Bai Xiaoqing gave one to Big Black and the other six to her animal companions.
• Li Fan explained the Heavenly Dao to Xin Ning and invited her to bring the sick Tian Ling'er to him if she saw her again.
• Blood Can and Xue Jin returned with Ao Wushuang to Ding Star Realm and told him the demons had slaughtered its original inhabitants.
• Ao Wushuang saw Netherworld City, built from human bones above the Netherworld Blood River, and claimed his fortune-star powers could bring the city good fortune.
• Blood Can and Xue Jin led Ao Wushuang up the bone staircase toward Netherworld City.

Xue Can and Xue Jin returned to the Netherworld Grand Palace with Ao Wushuang, where Xue Ding killed them for causing his mysterious injuries. Ao Wushuang halted Xue Ding from killing him by claiming he knew what the yellow smoke was.

• The three Blood Demon Ghost Lords failed to heal Xue Ding and discussed rebuilding the Demon Land and finding a way to save their Old Ancestor.
• Xue Can and Xue Jin arrived at the Netherworld Grand Palace with Ao Wushuang, expecting rewards for their mission.
• Xue Can and Xue Jin discovered that their master Xue Ding had become a one-armed, dying old man.
• Xue Ding blamed Xue Can and Xue Jin for provoking the ghost and killed them, while Ao Wushuang wondered whether his blessing had worked.
• As Xue Ding prepared to kill Ao Wushuang, Ao Wushuang claimed he knew what the yellow smoke was.