Chapter Summaries

Zijun completed his return through countless reincarnations, ascended to the peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and claimed the last saintly fruit position. He entered Lianshan Town to find Ziming and confronted Kong Xuanji at Green Bamboo Courtyard.

• Hongjun, Yuanshi Tianzun, Tongtian Cult Master, and hidden saints sensed the coming Grand Primordial Calamity as Zijun faced the heavenly tribulation.
• Zijun climbed the Chaos Great Dao Staircase, recalled his past lives, and reached the peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, becoming the world's final saint beneath the Heavenly Dao.
• Cultivators learned that Zijun's attainment had ended the possibility of becoming saints, and Jiuhu collapsed in despair.
• The ten remaining Chaos Demon Gods decided to watch and wait, then sent their leader to act after discussing whether Hongjun should test Zijun.
• Zijun entered Lianshan Town, discovered that the local array did not suppress his power, and sensed Ziming unconscious while undergoing a thunder tribulation.
• Zijun appeared at Green Bamboo Courtyard, where Kong Xuanji came outside with the Book Boy and recognized the young man’s extraordinary immortal bearing.

Zijun rescued Ziming, identified the treasures he had found, and set out with him to continue wandering the mortal world. Meanwhile, Qingzhu left Kong Xuanji to pursue cultivation, and Zijun and Ziming arrived in the dangerous Shebishi Kingdom.

• Zijun gave Qingzhu the Eight-Nine Arcane Art and Kong Xuanji a Saint Yang Pill and the Celestial Star Array Technique, then warned him of the approaching Grand Primordial Calamity.
• Zijun brought the sleeping Ziming back to Yanlian Mountain Cave and woke him with the Power of Life.
• Ziming showed Zijun the Five-Colored God Stone and a jade bowl, which Zijun revealed contained a fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation and urged him to keep secret.
• Zijun and Ziming decided to resume their travels through the mortal world.
• After recovering, Kong Xuanji saw Qingzhu off toward Youxuan Mountain and told him to report to the Mysterious Mechanism Pavilion.
• Zijun and Ziming entered the Shebishi Kingdom, where Ziming worried about its dangers and Zijun encouraged him with the promise of treasure.

Zijun and Ziming entered Ziteng City, where they learned that ghosts hunted the streets after midnight on the third day of the third month. Zijun chose to remain at the inn, while a bizarre creature began searching the city for humans.

• Ziming refused to risk his life for the treasure, and he and Zijun continued toward the Shebi Kingdom.
• Zijun and Ziming entered the vine-covered city and found its residents hurrying through the streets.
• Ziming knocked down the young sword cultivator Cuicheng after he bumped into Zijun, then Zijun asked why everyone was in such a hurry.
• Cuicheng warned them that a hundred ghosts appeared after midnight and tried to flee, but the innkeeper locked the door and refused to let him out.
• The innkeeper explained that the Ghost King came to feed at the hour of Xu on the third day of the third month, then hid in a secret chamber.
• Zijun reassured Ziming that he could handle the danger, while a grotesque creature prowled Ziteng City, sniffing for humans.

Zijun sheltered Ziming and Cuicheng from the Rakshasa Ghosts haunting Willow Vine City and learned that the Ghost Kingdom’s Shebi Corpse fed on the people it had transformed into monsters. After hearing how many innocents had suffered, Zijun agreed to kill the Ghost Immortal.

• Zijun hid Fortune Inn with a Spatial Array as Rakshasa Ghosts roamed Willow Vine City, then destroyed one that approached his window.
• Cuicheng escaped into Zijun’s room using an Evasion Talisman and explained that the Rakshasa Ghosts hunted outsiders at night.
• Cuicheng said the Rakshasa Ghosts had once been commoners who drank water from Dragon Spring Pool and served the Shebi Corpse, the Ghost Kingdom’s ruler.
• Zijun realized the Ghost Kingdom’s vast population of transformed commoners supplied the Shebi Corpse with essence, blood, and spiritual power.
• Ziming urged Zijun to act, and Zijun agreed to kill the Shebi Corpse for harming so many innocent people.

Zijun killed the Rakshasa Ghosts attacking civilians at the inn, then traveled with Ziming and Cuicheng toward Tanyue City, the Ghost Kingdom’s capital. As a mysterious group sought the Tanyue Spirit Pearl and a monstrous flesh creature prepared a blood-haired warrior, Cuicheng revealed his Shushan Sect connections, while Zijun clarified that he was an unaffiliated cultivator.

• Zijun killed five Rakshasa Ghosts at the inn, then told Ziming that the strange energy sustaining them made them like walking corpses.
• Zijun, Ziming, and Cuicheng planned to set out for Tanyue City, while Zijun gave the frightened pair quilts for the night.
• In Tanyue City, a mysterious flesh creature consumed a Rakshasa Ghost and produced a rotting woman, while a bearded man led black-robed figures toward the imperial city to seek the Tanyue Spirit Pearl.
• The flesh creature created a blood-haired, armored young man and sent him out with a blood-red sword.
• The next morning, Cuicheng told Zijun and Ziming that he planned to seek a Cold Pool Flower and revealed that his master was Yang Jian of the Shushan Sect.
• Zijun corrected Cuicheng’s assumption that he belonged to a major sect, saying he was an unaffiliated cultivator.