Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye and his companions secured their release from Mount Sumeru and traveled with Pang Huanyin toward the Purple Star Dao Palace. Lu Ye explained that he hoped to enlist the Dao Palace’s help against the Corpse Calamity, with Hua Ci’s medical skills likely to be essential.

• Lu Ye threatened the Mount Sumeru elder, but Pang Huanyin urged him to spare the Human Race; Hua Ci gave the elder Detoxification Pills, and he confirmed they worked.
• Pang Huanyin and the others left Mount Sumeru through its portal after she urged the elder to consider joining the fight against the Corpse Calamity.
• Ying Wuji confirmed that their task was done, and Old Xiao began leading the group toward the Purple Star Dao Palace portal.
• Lu Ye introduced Lan Ziyi as his Second Junior Sister and Hua Ci as his Youngest Junior Sister, then explained that the titles were part of the story they told people in this world.
• Lu Ye told Hua Ci that the Purple Star Dao Palace could help them fight the Corpse Calamity and that her medical abilities would be needed when battle began.

Lu Ye learned that Hua Ci could cure Origin Corpse Poison and discovered that the Heavenly Saint Hall Mystic Realm was the Corpse Race’s stronghold. He entered the realm to place a sealed Heaven’s Mystery Pillar, but the Golden Corpse King noticed him and he retreated as the Corpse Race swarmed.

• Hua Ci told Lu Ye and Pang Huanyin that she had cured cultivators poisoned by Origin Corpse Poison, explaining why Liu Zhenguan had coveted her.
• Pang Huanyin described the Human Race’s losses and warned Lu Ye about the Golden Corpse King and the Corpse Race gathered near the Heavenly Saint Hall.
• Lu Ye flew toward the Heavenly Saint Hall to investigate and find a way to enter its Mystic Realm with the final sealed Heaven’s Mystery Pillar.
• Lu Ye concealed himself and slipped through the gateway, only to find the Mystic Realm crowded with Corpse Race members.
• The Golden Corpse King’s malice descended on Lu Ye, and the Corpse Race charged him, so he retreated through the gateway as his concealment broke.

Lu Ye failed to place the final Heaven's Mystery Pillar in the Heavenly Saint Hall Mystic Realm and escaped with Mu Qingyun, then explained the mission to him. Back at the Purple Star Dao Palace, Lu Ye told Pang Huanyin that reaching the pillar would require fighting into the Mystic Realm, and she promised an answer the next day.

• Lu Ye fled the Heavenly Saint Hall Mystic Realm after the Golden Corpse King discovered him, and Mu Qingyun joined him as they fought through the pursuing Corpse Race.
• Mu Qingyun explained that he had waited near the Mystic Realm, and Lu Ye told him about the four Heaven's Mystery Pillars and his plan to place them in the four Secret Realms.
• Lu Ye and Mu Qingyun returned to Pang Huanyin and the others, and Lu Ye reported that the Corpse Race's numbers and strength made the mission difficult.
• After everyone returned to the Purple Star Dao Palace, Lu Ye told Pang Huanyin that they would need to fight into the Heavenly Saint Hall Mystic Realm to place the final pillar.
• Pang Huanyin asked for one night to consider the risks and promised Lu Ye an answer the next day.

Lu Ye explained the plan to the Nine Provinces cultivators and sought their agreement to enter the Heavenly Saint Hall Mystic Realm with the Purple Star Dao Palace. After Old Xiao persuaded Pang Huanyin to take the risk, she agreed to join them, and Lu Ye began arranging a discussion.

• Lü Qing and the others confronted Lu Ye for withholding information, so he explained the Heaven's Mystery Pillars and the need to enter the Heavenly Saint Hall Mystic Realm.
• Lu Ye asked who agreed or objected to the plan, and Lü Qing agreed but warned that they needed the Purple Star Dao Palace's strength.
• Pang Huanyin told Old Xiao about the Nine Provinces and weighed whether to risk the Dao Palace's survival by cooperating.
• Old Xiao urged Pang Huanyin to seize the chance to change the Peerless Continent's fate, and she decided to help Lu Ye's group.
• At dawn, Pang Huanyin asked the Nine Provinces cultivators to help eradicate the Corpse Calamity, and Lu Ye agreed before ordering Ying Wuji to bring chairs.

The Purple Star Dao Palace prepared for a full-scale assault on Heavenly Saint Hall, bolstered by Lu Ye's Spiritual Artifacts and Hua Ci's treatment for Origin Corpse Poison. On the day of battle, Pang Huanyin led the Dao Palace forces through the mystic realm portal, where Lu Ye reunited with Yang Yuan and Jujia.

• The Palace Master's order mobilized every Dao Palace cultivator for an attack on Heavenly Saint Hall in ten days, and news that Hua Ci could neutralize Origin Corpse Poison raised morale.
• Lu Ye supplied the Dao Palace with Spiritual Artifacts while Hua Ci, Lu Ye, Ying Wuji, and the others prepared medicine, Soaring Dragon Boats, and combat training for the campaign.
• Pang Huanyin rallied around ten thousand cultivators, then sent Lu Ye and the others through the portal to begin the assault.
• Lu Ye's group met Fengyun Qianli and Fengyun Wanli in the wilderness, where Yang Yuan and Jujia were waiting to join them.

Lu Ye and the Nine Provinces Squad set out for the Heavenly Saint Hall as the Purple Star Dao Palace launched its planned attack to draw the Corpse Race’s forces. The Dao Palace and arriving stronghold cultivators held their line against the overwhelming horde, while Pang Huanyin and Old Xiao kept Zhou Yun occupied.

• The Wind and Cloud Brothers wished Lu Ye and the Nine Provinces Squad well and departed, while Lu Ye led the others toward the Heavenly Saint Hall.
• Zhou Yun spotted the Purple Star Dao Palace’s portal and rushed to enter, but Pang Huanyin struck him back and engaged him with Old Xiao.
• Dao Palace cultivators poured through the portal, formed battle lines, and used three Soaring Dragon Boats to attack the approaching Corpse Race.
• Pang Huanyin saw stronghold cultivators arriving from across the region and realized they had come to support the Dao Palace.
• The Corpse Race pressed hard against the Dao Palace’s defenses, and the stronghold reinforcements helped stabilize the line.

The Nine Provinces Squad fought through the Corpse Race surrounding the Huntian Sacred Hall Mystic Realm portal and killed the Bronze Corpse Commander. After the squad entered the mystic realm, Pang Huanyin kept the Dao Palace forces in the battle to support them.

• The Nine Provinces Squad charged through the Corpse Race, using their coordinated roles to break toward the portal.
• The Bronze Corpse Commander left the Dao Palace battlefield and attacked the squad with a vast Corpse Horde.
• The squad found and heavily injured the Bronze Corpse Commander, causing his Corpse Horde to collapse.
• Mu Qingyun killed the fleeing Bronze Corpse Commander, rallying the Dao Palace and stronghold cultivators.
• Yang Yuan and Jujia entered the portal first, followed by Lu Ye and the rest of the squad.
• Pang Huanyin kept the Dao Palace forces in place to share the pressure while the squad continued into the mystic realm.

The Nine Provinces Squad forced its way into the Huntian Sacred Hall Mystic Realm and fought through the Corpse Horde so Lu Ye could place the final Heaven's Mystery Pillar. The pillar began resonating with the other three, but the squad had to hold its ground under mounting attacks as the Five Great Families discovered a matching pillar in Five Elements City.

• Pang Huanyin ordered the Dao Palace forces to attack while the Silver Corpse Commander, Iron Corpse Commander, and other Corpse Race members rushed to stop the Nine Provinces Squad.
• The squad fought through the Corpse Horde and sensed the terrifying aura of the Golden Corpse King, Corpse Fiend.
• Yang Yuan and Jujia helped Lu Ye reach a suitable Spirit Peak, where he buried the final Heaven's Mystery Pillar.
• The pillar began resonating with the other three pillars, and Lu Ye led the squad in defending their position as the Corpse Horde and two Corpse Commanders attacked.
• The pillar drew in the mystic realm's Spiritual Energy, while Chu Ruoyu and the Five Great Families uncovered another pillar in Five Elements City.

The Heaven's Mystery Pillars drained the Earth Veins of four Secret Realms, exposing them to Peerless Continent and the Corpse Race. In the Heavenly Saint Hall Mystic Realm, Lu Ye and the Nine Provinces Squad struggled to escape the Corpse Horde, but the Golden Corpse King broke through their formation.

• The cultivators of Silver Snake Valley and Mount Sumeru discovered that the Heaven's Mystery Pillars had connected to their Earth Veins and could not be moved.
• The four Heaven's Mystery Pillars drained the Secret Realms' Spiritual Energy, grew nearly ten zhang tall, and exposed the Secret Realms within Peerless Continent.
• Lu Ye and the other seven members of the Nine Provinces Squad fought to break out of the Corpse Horde, while Ying Wuji narrowly escaped a Silver Corpse Commander's attack.
• Lu Ye struck a seemingly ordinary Zombie and was thrown backward when his blows revealed golden bones and failed to stop its punch.
• Lü Qing identified the attacker as the Golden Corpse King after it repelled Lan Ziyi and Mu Qingyun and tore open the squad's formation.

The Nine Provinces Squad fought to survive as the Corpse Fiend nearly killed Mu Qingyun and Yang Yuan before Lu Ye drove it away. Their Battlefield Marks then reactivated, revealing that the Nine Provinces had connected to the Peerless Continent and that killing Corpse Race earned Battle Merit.

• The Corpse Fiend attacked Mu Qingyun, but Yang Yuan stepped in and took a grievous wound while his shield failed to stop the fiend’s claws.
• Lu Ye struck at the Corpse Fiend, forcing it to retreat into the Corpse Horde, and Yang Yuan swallowed a Spiritual Pill to suppress the Origin Corpse Poison.
• The eight members of the Nine Provinces Squad regrouped and kept fighting while Lü Qing, Ying Wuji, and the others traded bleak jokes about their chances of survival.
• Light specks from slain Corpse Race members entered the squad’s hands, and all eight discovered their Battlefield Marks had revived.
• Ying Wuji realized that killing the Corpse Race now granted Battle Merit, and regretted the enemies he had slain before the marks responded.

Gateways appeared before Heaven's Mystery Pillars across the Cloud River Battlefield, drawing cultivators into a mysterious realm. Trapped in the Huntian Sacred Hall Mystic Realm, the Nine Provinces Squad realized the gateways connected them to Nine Provinces and that reinforcements were coming.

• A gateway appeared before the Heaven's Mystery Pillar in West Thirty-Five Heaven's Mystery City, and the merchant guild expert said it might be an opportunity bestowed by Heaven's Mystery.
• Cultivators rushed through gateways that appeared at merchant guilds across the Cloud River Battlefield.
• Ying Wuji discovered that killing Corpse Race enemies earned Battle Merit, but Lü Qing warned that the squad was trapped and four members were infected with Origin Corpse Poison.
• The Heaven's Mystery Pillar in the Huntian Sacred Hall Mystic Realm erupted with light, creating thousands of gateways across the realm.
• Lü Qing recognized the familiar aura of Nine Provinces in a nearby gateway, and Lu Ye explained that Nine Provinces cultivators could teleport to them through the Heaven's Mystery Pillar.

Portals brought cultivators from the Nine Provinces into the Peerless Continent, where they joined the war against the Corpse Race. With the reinforcements turning the tide, Pang Huanyin led the Dao Palace and Stronghold cultivators in a counterattack.

• Nine Provinces cultivators poured through the portals and learned their mission was to exterminate the Corpse Race.
• Yuan Lie arrived, saw the battle, and tried to save a female cultivator from a Corpse Race attacker, but it killed her.
• Nine Provinces cultivators suffered early losses before organizing defenses and discovering that killing the Corpse Race earned Battle Merit.
• Pang Huanyin learned from Hua Ci that the newcomers came from the Nine Provinces and that Lu Ye had likely succeeded.
• Pang Huanyin rallied the Peerless cultivators and led them from defense into a counterattack against the Corpse Race.

After the battle eased, Lu Ye, Jujia, and Lan Ziyi set out to hunt for the elusive Corpse Race target while recovering their strength. They came upon a Nine Provinces team in danger and confronted the Iron Corpse Commander, who fled when Lu Ye wounded him, only to be intercepted by another saber wielder.

• Feng Rulie and the other poisoned members of the squad left to seek Hua Ci, while Lu Ye, Jujia, and Lan Ziyi remained behind.
• Lu Ye swallowed many Spiritual Pills and used Taotie Meal to restore his Spiritual Power, while Jujia recovered in just a few breaths.
• Lu Ye, Jujia, and Lan Ziyi advanced through the battlefield, killing Corpse Race and searching for the target whose aura Lu Ye had memorized.
• Lu Ye rushed toward a small Nine Provinces team being overwhelmed by Corpse Race and the Iron Corpse Commander.
• Lu Ye struck the Iron Corpse Commander hard enough to wound his arm, but the commander fled and was met by a tall, slender figure wielding two long sabers.

Lu Ye, Lan Ziyi, and Jujia killed the Iron Corpse Commander and searched for the Golden Corpse King, who Lan Ziyi revealed was waiting in a great hall atop Heavenly Saint Hall’s tallest Spirit Peak. The three reached the hall and sensed the Golden Corpse King inside, poised for a final battle.

• Jujia restrained the Iron Corpse Commander while Lu Ye unleashed a powerful saber strike that beheaded him.
• Lan Ziyi and Lu Ye received Battle Merit for their contributions to killing the Iron Corpse Commander.
• Lu Ye, Lan Ziyi, and Jujia helped clear the nearby Corpse Race before continuing to search for the Golden Corpse King.
• Lan Ziyi told Lu Ye that the Golden Corpse King had remained in a great hall atop the tallest Spirit Peak, where he had killed cultivators who entered.
• Lu Ye, Lan Ziyi, and Jujia arrived at the hall and sensed the Golden Corpse King’s aura and the blood of his victims within.

Lu Ye, Lan Ziyi, and Jujia confronted the Golden Corpse King in the great hall, where his overwhelming strength initially left all three badly wounded. As Lu Ye’s Blood Dye Spirit Pattern took effect and his strength increased, Lan Ziyi saw a chance to defeat him.

• Lan Ziyi sensed the Golden Corpse King’s immense aura, and she followed Lu Ye and Jujia into the hall, where they found the corpses of slain Nine Provinces cultivators.
• The Golden Corpse King asked where the rest of Lu Ye’s eight-person squad was, and Lu Ye answered that the three of them were enough to kill him.
• Jujia, Lan Ziyi, and Lu Ye attacked in turn, but the Golden Corpse King easily repelled them and remained unharmed as the fighting wrecked the hall.
• After barely thirty breaths, all three were wounded, but Lu Ye’s strength began rising as his Blood Dye Spirit Pattern took effect.
• Lu Ye withstood one of the Golden Corpse King’s blows without being sent flying, and Lan Ziyi realized they might have a chance to kill him.

Lu Ye, Lan Ziyi, and Jujia struggled to wound the Golden Corpse King, whose power seemed to be amplified by an unseen force in the ruins. As Lan Ziyi urged a retreat, Jujia's fury awakened a profound ability that let him draw on the surrounding spiritual energy and stand against the enemy.

• Lan Ziyi merged her twin sabers and struck the Golden Corpse King, inflicting a small wound before he hurled Jujia away and attacked her.
• Lu Ye protected Lan Ziyi from the Golden Corpse King's claw and kept fighting while searching for the source of the enemy's extraordinary strength.
• Lan Ziyi concluded that the three could not kill the Golden Corpse King and called on Lu Ye to withdraw, but Lu Ye continued probing for an opening.
• The Golden Corpse King roared in anger, and Jujia charged back with his body wrapped in Blood Qi and his eyes glowing red.
• Jujia's fury made him draw on the surrounding spiritual energy, and Lu Ye sensed that he had gained a profound ability that made him seem as heavy as a mountain.

Jujia transformed and seized the Golden Corpse King, allowing Lu Ye to unleash his Beast Transformation and threaten the enemy with rapid saber strikes. The Golden Corpse King survived Lu Ye’s first attack, but Jujia was freed to fight as Lu Ye and Lan Ziyi kept up their assault.

• Jujia comprehended a Secret Technique, endured the Golden Corpse King’s blow, and locked the enemy’s fist in his grip.
• Lan Ziyi joined Jujia in restraining the Golden Corpse King while Lu Ye activated the Beast Transformation Secret Technique with Amber.
• Lu Ye transformed, rushed to Jujia’s aid, and stabbed at the Golden Corpse King’s eye, tearing his eyelid but failing to kill him.
• Lu Ye darted around the Golden Corpse King with repeated saber attacks as Lan Ziyi distracted him, freeing Jujia from being the enemy’s target.

Lu Ye and his companions fought the Golden Corpse King as it unleashed powerful Origin Corpse Poison, forcing Lan Ziyi to retreat while Lu Ye continued the pursuit. The Golden Corpse King finally stopped fleeing and seized an ancient severed palm, whose power seemed to be the source of his strength.

• The Golden Corpse King released Origin Corpse Poison, and Lan Ziyi, Jujia, and Lu Ye felt it invade their wounds.
• Lu Ye kept cutting into the Golden Corpse King while Jujia restrained him, but the king severed his own arm to escape.
• The Golden Corpse King fled within five hundred zhang of the great hall as Lu Ye pursued him, and Lan Ziyi retreated when the poison began affecting her.
• Lan Ziyi used a Sound Transmission Stone to call Hua Ci for help while Lu Ye continued fighting the king.
• The Golden Corpse King stopped fleeing, reached into the ground, and seized an ancient severed palm, causing white down to sprout across his body.

Lu Ye defeated the Golden Corpse King with his strongest saber technique, surviving the king’s final attack thanks to Jujia’s protection. With the source of the Corpse Calamity dead, Lu Ye and Lan Ziyi turned to the dangerous severed hand left behind.

• The Golden Corpse King unleashed the severed hand’s overwhelming power, and Lu Ye countered with Myriad Stars.
• Jujia shielded Lu Ye with a Black Tortoise-like defense, using his Demonic Core to keep it from breaking as they crashed into the palace ruins.
• Lu Ye rose from the ruins, and his Weapon Casket struck the already-fatal Golden Corpse King, killing him.
• Lu Ye left the severed hand untouched and found Jujia badly injured but alive.
• Lan Ziyi told Lu Ye that Hua Ci was on her way, then asked how they should handle the severed hand while Lu Ye checked his Battle Merit.

After Lu Ye and his companions killed the Golden Corpse King, Nine Provinces cultivators swept across Peerless Continent to hunt the remaining Corpse Race and earn Battle Merit. The Dao Palace and other human factions joined the fight, while Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan arrived to defend Purple Star Dao Palace and Hua Ci left to treat poisoned cultivators.

• Lu Ye offered Lan Ziyi the Golden Corpse King's severed hand, then learned from Li Baxian that Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan had arrived near Purple Star Dao Palace.
• Mu Qingyun brought Hua Ci to Lu Ye and Jujia, and Hua Ci treated their injuries and removed Lan Ziyi's Origin Corpse Poison.
• Nine Provinces cultivators pursued fleeing Corpse Race members through Heavenly Saint Hall as Dao Palace fighters recovered and celebrated the Golden Corpse King's defeat.
• Pang Huanyin explained to Old Xiao that Battle Merit motivated the Nine Provinces cultivators to hunt the Corpse Race.
• The exposed gateways forced Silver Snake Valley and Mount Sumeru to defend themselves against Corpse Race attacks, while newcomers emerged near Purple Star Dao Palace with orders to protect it.
• Hua Ci left under Mu Qingyun's protection to treat other cultivators poisoned by Origin Corpse Poison.