Chapter Summaries

Zheng Yi’s External Avatar endured the heavenly tribulation and emerged from the Blood Cocoon as the Nether River Daoist, who declared the Asura Race’s rise. The chapter ended with four named demonic generals and three hundred newly born Asuras kneeling before him.

• The Blood Lake’s energy and the Blood shadow fought the lightning tiger until the Blood Cocoon’s roar weakened the storm and the blood tentacles destroyed the tiger.
• The Blood Cocoon cracked, and the transformed figure emerged as the Nether River Daoist, naming himself and exchanging greetings with Zheng Yi.
• Nether River Daoist declared the Asura Race’s rise and summoned four evolved beings from the surrounding Blood Cocoons.
• Nether River Daoist named the four demonic generals Indra, Vishnu, Rudra, and Ghost Mother, and the names strengthened their bodies and gave them blood-colored wings.
• The Blood Lake created three hundred Asuras, who gathered before Nether River Daoist and knelt in instinctive worship.

Zheng Yi established the Asura Race’s territory and alliance with the Soul Hall, then learned that the Qin Family had seized Xin Town and the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine after its Old Ancestor broke through to the Purple Mansion realm. He accepted Qi Lin’s decision to retreat and began investigating the Qin Family’s unusual actions.

• The Nether River Daoist created three hundred Blood Asuras, and the Asura Divine Temple appeared in the Incense Fire Dharma Realm.
• Zheng Yi ordered the Soul Hall and Asura Race to form an alliance, and their leaders signed agreements after assessing the Asuras’ formidable strength.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Great Luo Alliance, where Qi Lin reported that Xin Town and the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine had fallen.
• Qi Lin explained that the Qin Family Old Ancestor had broken through to the Purple Mansion realm and forced a path through the Grand Yin Profound Origin Blood Refining Array at great cost.
• Zheng Yi treated Qi Lin’s injuries and accepted his retreat as prudent, while deciding that the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine still had to be reclaimed.
• Qi Lin said the Qin Family had sealed itself off, leaving its reasons for risking so much to seize the mine unknown.

Zheng Yi infiltrated the Qin Family Ancestral Hall and uncovered the family’s deal with the Golden Celestial Sect: the Qin Family had fought to reclaim the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine because it contained Tai Bai Divine Metal needed to strengthen the sect’s Sun Moon Twin Swords. The chapter ended with Qin Family Old Ancestor displaying the dangerous ore and barely suppressing its sharp aura.

• Zheng Yi and Qi Lin concluded that the Qin Family’s desperate attack on the mine concealed a secret, and Zheng Yi later entered the Qin Family Ancestral Hall unseen.
• Qin Family Old Ancestor silenced clan elders who blamed the family head for the casualties suffered in the attack on the Great Luo Alliance.
• Zheng Yi overheard that the Qin Family had found Tai Bai Divine Metal in the mine and was supplying it to the Golden Celestial Sect for its Spiritually Connected Dharma Treasure, the Sun Moon Twin Swords.
• Qin Family Old Ancestor revealed that Golden Celestial Sect ancestor Bao Xuzi would oversee the plan and claimed the completed swords could threaten Golden Core cultivators and destroy the Nine Yin Palace.
• Qin Family Old Ancestor opened the Nameless Treasure Box and seized the fist-sized Tai Bai Divine Metal, whose Sword Qi battered his Purple Mansion protective aura.

Zheng Yi discovered that the Qin Family had obtained Tai Bai Divine Metal and planned to offer it to the Golden Celestial Sect, so he unleashed Nether River Daoist and the Asuras against them. The assault devastated the Qin Family Ancestral Hall as Nether River Daoist fought Qin Fang and the Asuras slaughtered the family cultivators.

• The Qin Family Old Ancestor showed his cultivators the Tai Bai Divine Metal and sealed it inside a Treasure Box.
• Qin Fang explained that the Qin Family intended to give the metal to the Golden Celestial Sect and had attacked Xin Town partly to hide the mine’s secret.
• Zheng Yi decided to seize the Tai Bai Divine Metal and eliminate the Qin Family, then summoned Nether River Daoist, the Four Great Demonic Generals, and the Asuras inside the Ancestral Hall.
• Qin Fang sensed the intruders and attacked, but Nether River Daoist shattered his Void Great Hand Seal and sent the Blood River surging through the hall.
• Nether River Daoist fought Qin Fang while Zheng Yi hid under an Invisibility Talisman, and the Asuras overwhelmed the Qin Family cultivators, draining their blood and leaving the ancestral grounds in ruins.

Zheng Yi seized the Tai Bai Divine Metal as the Asuras overwhelmed the Qin Family, but the Golden Celestial Sect's Purple Mansion reinforcements arrived before he could finish the battle. He ordered the Nether River Daoist to hold them off while he prepared to confront their formidable Grand Elder, Bao Xuzi.

• The Four Great Demonic Generals drained the Qin Family cultivators' blood, and Qin Fang watched his descendant Fifteen die while he remained locked in battle with the Nether River Daoist.
• Zheng Yi tracked down and killed a Qin Family cultivator escaping with the Treasure Box, retrieved the Tai Bai Divine Metal, and discovered that the box could not be stored in his spatial items.
• Zheng Yi sensed three powerful auras approaching, while Qin Fang recognized the arrivals as Golden Celestial Sect reinforcements and rejoiced.
• Grand Elder Bao Xuzi and elders Zhang Luan and Zhao Dian rushed to the burning Qin Family Ancestral Land after Bao Xuzi sensed signs of battle.
• Bao Xuzi demanded that Zheng Yi surrender the Tai Bai Divine Metal, and Zheng Yi ordered the Nether River Daoist to block the three newcomers while he dealt with Bao Xuzi.
• The Nether River Daoist raised a blood barrier against the Golden Celestial Sect elders as Qin Fang identified Zheng Yi as the thief, and Bao Xuzi released a terrifying aura.

Zheng Yi and Nether River Daoist faced Bao Xuzi and two other Golden Celestial Sect Purple Mansion Cultivators over the Tai Bai Divine Metal. While Nether River Daoist held off the two cultivators, Zheng Yi killed Qin Fang and left Bao Xuzi as the remaining threat.

• Bao Xuzi arrived with two Golden Celestial Sect Purple Mansion Cultivators and demanded that Zheng Yi hand over the Tai Bai Divine Metal.
• Zheng Yi ignored Bao Xuzi's offer and attacked Qin Fang while Nether River Daoist moved to stop the other cultivators.
• Nether River Daoist merged the Four Great Demonic Generals and three hundred Asuras into the Blood River, suppressing the halberd and sword wielded against him.
• Zheng Yi used his Small Five Elements Yin Yang Dao Embryo, sword formation, and Nine Hells Soul Slaughtering Flame to overwhelm Qin Fang.
• The Nine Hells Soul Slaughtering Flame entered Qin Fang's heart, crushed his dharma power, and set him ablaze.

Zheng Yi killed Qin Fang and escaped Bao Xuzi’s attack on the Five Yin Scaled Dragon Horse, but Bao Xuzi tracked him with the Golden Celestial Sect’s Soul Locking Brand. Zheng Yi continued fleeing as Bao Xuzi pursued him, and the chapter ended with Zheng Yi breaking through another attack and escaping again.

• Zheng Yi killed Qin Fang with the Nine Nether Soul Slaughtering Fiend Spirit Flame and collected his Divine Soul origin in the Chaos Green Skin Gourd.
• Bao Xuzi struck at Zheng Yi, but Zheng Yi summoned the Five Yin Scaled Dragon Horse and escaped the giant hand’s attack.
• Bao Xuzi used Qin Fang’s mark to track Zheng Yi and pursued him, while Zhang Luan and Zhao Dian fell behind.
• Bao Xuzi caught up with Zheng Yi and demanded the Tai Bai Divine Metal, but Zheng Yi refused to risk returning to the Apocalyptic World while the Soul Locking Brand remained.
• Bao Xuzi unleashed a powerful attack, but Zheng Yi used Sword Qi to break through the encirclement and escaped on the Five Yin Scaled Dragon Horse.

After escaping Bao Xuzi and erasing the tracking mark, Zheng Yi discovered that the Qin Family’s Treasure Box concealed an ancient inheritance: the Earth, Water, Wind, Fire Four Absolutes Grand Array. He began studying its mysteries, unaware of the array’s full origins.

• Bao Xuzi failed to capture Zheng Yi or recover the Tai Bai Divine Metal, while Zheng Yi escaped after three months of pursuit with serious injuries.
• Zheng Yi confirmed he had worn away the Qin Family Old Ancestor’s Ten Thousand Mile Soul Locking Secret Technique and found no other tracking marks.
• Zheng Yi noticed his blood had seeped through a seam in the Qin Family’s Treasure Box and opened it with sword qi.
• Zheng Yi found a powerful cultivator’s Human Skin Parchment inside, and his blood activated its mysterious array patterns.
• The parchment revealed the fearsome powers of wind, ice, fire, and earth before identifying itself as the Four Absolutes Array.
• Zheng Yi read the parchment and learned that special blood, such as his Blood Talisman Dharma Body’s, could activate the inheritance.

After killing the Qin Family Old Ancestor and escaping Bao Xuzi, Zheng Yi secured the Tai Bai Divine Metal and the Human Skin Parchment inheritance for the Four Absolutes Array. He returned to Fengdu Ghost City to study the array diagrams, whose power and steep resource demands remained far beyond his grasp.

• Zheng Yi recognized the Human Skin Parchment as an inheritance for the Four Absolutes Array and studied its Wind Howl, Icy Frost, Blazing Flame, and Earthly Fiery formations.
• Zheng Yi learned that activating each array diagram required a Purple Mansion cultivator's Divine Soul origin, while using all four would demand four such origins and risk drawing the hostility of many forces.
• Zheng Yi removed the Tai Bai Divine Metal from the damaged Treasure Box and fed it into the Chaos Green Skin Gourd, which began to nurture it.
• Two months after escaping Bao Xuzi, Zheng Yi avoided the Da Yi Immortal Domain and returned to Fengdu Ghost City to research the Four Absolutes Array Diagrams.
• Zheng Yi found the array diagrams so profound that he suspected only Nascent Soul cultivators could understand them.

Zheng Yi spent months failing to decipher the Four Absolute Array Diagram before returning to the Great Luo Alliance and discovering it was under severe military pressure. He learned about the crisis from Xin Lingxian and Luo Yaoji, whose recent Foundation Establishment breakthrough briefly lifted his mood.

• Zheng Yi used the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and Super Brain Main God to study the Four Absolute Array Diagram, but months of calculations produced no breakthrough.
• Zheng Yi experimented with the Qin Family Old Ancestor Qin Fang’s Divine Soul origin, but his attempt to simplify the array failed and destroyed the remaining soul power.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Great Luo Alliance and found its mountain-protecting array fully activated, its defenses tightened, and its members anxious and wounded.
• Zheng Yi met with Xin Lingxian and gathered intelligence about the alliance’s crisis, then heard the situation from Luo Yaoji.
• Zheng Yi praised Luo Yaoji for reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm in less than a year, easing his grave expression.

Luo Yaoji reported her rise in the Great Luo Alliance, and Zheng Yi warned Qi Lin before learning that the Golden Celestial Sect had targeted the alliance while searching for the stolen Tai Bai Divine Metal. The chapter left Zheng Yi aware that the Golden Celestial Sect had recruited the Star Devouring Demon City and the Savage Beast Sect to pressure the Nine Yin Palace and was conducting a broad purge of potential suspects.

• Luo Yaoji told Zheng Yi that his support and the alliance’s resources had helped her reach the Foundation Establishment Realm, while her growing influence drew followers into her faction.
• Zheng Yi summoned Qi Lin, warned him about his dependence on Zheng Yi’s authority, and told him to consult the two madams while retaining precedence in alliance affairs.
• Qi Lin explained that the Golden Celestial Sect suspected the Great Luo Alliance after the Qin Family was destroyed and Qin Fang was killed, with the Tai Bai Divine Metal still missing.
• The Great Luo Alliance had occupied nearly half of the Qin Family’s former territory while the Golden Celestial Sect and Nine Yin Palace were distracted by their escalating conflict.
• Qi Lin revealed that the Golden Celestial Sect had moved against the Great Luo Alliance and joined with the Star Devouring Demon City and the Savage Beast Sect to pressure the Nine Yin Palace.
• Zheng Yi concluded that the Golden Celestial Sect’s campaign was a search for the Tai Bai Divine Metal and that it was willing to attack every possible suspect to recover it.

With the Great Luo Alliance facing a siege by the Golden Celestial Sect, Star Devouring Demon City, and the Savage Beast Sect, Zheng Yi arranged for Qi Lin to buy time while he sought a way to repel several Purple Mansion Cultivators. He began refining the Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage in Mount Tai City, leaving its completion unresolved.

• Qi Lin warned Zheng Yi that the three allied sects had surrounded the Great Luo Alliance and that smaller forces might defect, while most Foundation Establishment cultivators remained loyal.
• Zheng Yi ordered Qi Lin to negotiate with the Nine Yin Palace, Star Devouring Demon City, and the Savage Beast Sect, offering the alliance's profits to delay the Golden Celestial Sect for two or three months.
• Zheng Yi left Qi Lin to mobilize the alliance's wealth and hidden elite cultivators, promising to return within three months.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Apocalyptic World and chose to advance the Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage, ordering Ying Yixue to retrieve the Soul Hall's stored white bones and human skin.
• Zheng Yi traveled to Mount Tai City and used its yin qi, the Wisdom Halo, and the Super Brain Main God to begin refining the White Bone Carriage.

Zheng Yi completed the Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage using the Nightmare King’s origin, his own blood, and the Ghost Raising Gourd’s ghostly forces. The terrifying creation stood ready with five Ghost Kings, the Nine-Tailed Ghost King Banner, and a host of yin soldiers, though its power had yet to be tested in battle.

• Zheng Yi sent the Nightmare King into the black mist, where it dissolved and fused with the unfinished ghost carriage.
• Zheng Yi refined the White Bone Carriage through a blood sacrifice, forming a close connection with the finished Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage.
• Zheng Yi summoned five Ghost Kings from the Chaos Green Skin Gourd; four lifted the carriage while the Blood Robe Ghost King led with the Nine-Tailed Ghost King Banner.
• The completed carriage displayed its soul-gathering domain and Soul Restraining Chains, while Zheng Yi assessed its potential power and the Ghost Kings’ strength.
• Zheng Yi remarked that the carriage’s ghostly procession resembled a coffin being lifted for a Ghost Lord’s arrival and questioned whether the Locking Heaven Temple lineage had truly followed a righteous path.

Zheng Yi completed the Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage and spent more than a month recovering while it absorbed Yin Qi in Mount Tai City's Incense Fire Dharma Realm. His Chaos Green Skin Gourd then revealed a fierce new treasure forged from Tai Bai Divine Metal, which Zheng Yi named the Godslaying Immortalslaying Gourd.

• Zheng Yi admired the completed Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage, a powerful puppet artifact made possible by the resources of Soul Hall and the Great Luo Alliance.
• Zheng Yi left the carriage above Mount Tai City's Incense Fire Dharma Realm to refine its essence and rested to recover from the creation process.
• Zheng Yi cultivated for nearly a month, replenishing his strength and bringing his Divine Soul close to Purple Mansion Late Stage.
• Zheng Yi sensed that his Chaos Green Skin Gourd had finished refining the Tai Bai Divine Metal and summoned it to inspect the result.
• Zheng Yi opened the gourd and saw a winged white figure wielding a tiny blade, whose fierce sword aura wounded his eyes and threatened his Divine Soul.
• Zheng Yi named the newly revealed treasure the Godslaying Immortalslaying Gourd, and the gourd responded with powerful Baleful Intent.

Zheng Yi tested the newly completed Godslaying Immortalslaying Gourd and prepared for the Golden Celestial Sect alliance’s siege of the Great Luo Alliance. Nether River Daoist recovered in the Blood Lake and joined Zheng Yi as they set out for battle, while the surrounding factions watched the alliance’s impending collapse.

• Zheng Yi nurtured the Godslaying Immortalslaying Gourd for seven days, then used its chant, “Please turn around, treasure,” to make its blade split the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and leave a wound that faith could not quickly heal.
• Zheng Yi weighed his chances against the coming siege, resolved to flee if necessary, and waited for Nether River Daoist to recover before the three-month deadline.
• Nether River Daoist emerged from the Blood Lake stronger than before, with the lake expanding and the four Asura commanders and three hundred Asura ready for battle.
• Nether River Daoist asked Zheng Yi to let him lead the Asura against Bao Xuzi, and Zheng Yi agreed before they set out for the battlefield.
• The Golden Celestial Sect, Star Devouring Demon City, and Savage Beast Sect began their assault on the Great Luo Alliance as nearby factions sent scouts to watch the conflict.

The Golden Celestial Sect’s allied forces broke through the Great Luo Alliance’s Nine Yin Profound Origin Blood Refining Grand Array and advanced to its mountain gate, while Zheng Yi remained missing. As the alliance’s defenders waited for him to answer the enemy’s summons, the central hall stayed silent.

• Bao Xuzi and the other Purple Mansion Cultivators examined a Blood Lotus Seed after the allied forces destroyed the formation and scattered its defenders.
• Thunderfire Immortal questioned Bao Xuzi’s caution, and Ouyang Duo defended him before Bao Xuzi ordered both men to stop arguing and advance.
• Luo Yaoji and Xin Lingxian pressed Qi Lin to reveal Zheng Yi’s whereabouts, but he said he did not know and urged them to wait.
• Bao Xuzi’s forces reached the Great Luo Alliance’s mountain gate and called for Zheng Yi to come out and answer.
• The Great Luo Alliance members watched the silent central hall, and no one appeared.

The Allied Forces besieged the Great Luo Alliance, while Qi Lin concealed Zheng Yi’s whereabouts and hoped he would return. Just as Thunderfire Immortal prepared to destroy the mountain gate, a dark passage opened and the Blood Robe Ghost King emerged with the Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage.

• Bao Xuzi ordered the Allied Forces to attack the Great Luo Alliance’s mountain gate, but its reinforced protection formation withstood their first assault.
• Qi Lin kept Zheng Yi’s instructions secret as the alliance’s leaders grew uneasy about the Alliance Leader’s absence.
• Thunderfire Immortal gained Bao Xuzi’s permission to attack the mountain gate with his Thunder God Spear.
• As Thunderfire Immortal sensed a deadly threat and checked his strike, dark clouds covered the mountain range and a passage opened in the sky.
• The Blood Robe Ghost King emerged from the passage with his Nine-Tailed Ghost King Banner, followed by the Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage.

Zheng Yi arrived at the Great Luo Alliance’s mountain gate with a vast ghost army and confronted Bao Xuzi, while his return restored the alliance’s morale. As the Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage charged the enemy, Thunderfire Immortal intercepted it with lightning, but the collision left him shocked.

• The Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage and its Yin Soldiers blocked the Golden Celestial Sect allied forces, and Zheng Yi revealed himself to Bao Xuzi.
• Zheng Yi summoned the Blood River and declared that only one of them would leave alive before ordering the ghost army to attack.
• Qi Lin and the Great Luo Alliance celebrated Zheng Yi’s return, and Qi Lin ordered the cultivators to recover and prepare to fight.
• Thunderfire Immortal stepped in front of the carriage, confident that his lightning could destroy the ghost artifact.
• Thunderfire Immortal hurled his Demon-Slaying Divine Spear at the carriage, and the ensuing explosion made him cry out in disbelief.

Zheng Yi unleashed the Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage against the allied forces, killing Thunderfire Immortal and trapping the army in a Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation. As three Purple Mansion Cultivators charged toward him, Zheng Yi used the Godslaying Immortalslaying Gourd to behead Ouyang Duo, leaving the other attackers still approaching.

• Thunderfire Immortal attacked the Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage, but it smashed his body apart and dragged his Divine Soul and Purple Lightning Roc inside.
• The Blood Robe Ghost King opened the Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation, while Soul Restraining Chains seized allied cultivators and turned them against their comrades.
• Bao Xuzi tried to reach the ghost carriage, but the Nether River Daoist blocked him and forced him into battle.
• Zhang Luan and two other Purple Mansion Cultivators agreed to attack Zheng Yi and charged toward him through the ghost domain.
• Zheng Yi sent a blade from the Godslaying Immortalslaying Gourd across the battlefield and beheaded Ouyang Duo.

Zheng Yi used the Godslaying Immortalslaying Gourd to kill the Allied Forces’ remaining Purple Mansion cultivators while the Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage devastated their army. Bao Xuzi was left enraged and isolated, while Zheng Yi, nearly exhausted, prepared to continue the fight.

• The Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage slaughtered the Allied Forces’ scattered cultivators as the Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation blocked their escape.
• Zheng Yi killed Ouyang Duo and Thunderfire Immortal, leaving only the two Golden Celestial Sect cultivators, Zhang Luan and Zhao Dian, among the Allied Forces’ Purple Mansion cultivators.
• Zheng Yi used the Godslaying Immortalslaying Gourd to sever Zhang Luan and Zhao Dian’s heads and draw their Divine Souls into the gourd.
• Bao Xuzi watched the deaths of Zhang Luan and Zhao Dian while trapped fighting the Nether River Daoist, and he swore that he and Zheng Yi would fight until one of them died.
• Zheng Yi concealed his severe exhaustion and resolved to keep pressing the attack against the Golden Celestial Sect.