Chapter Summaries

Blood Mist Venerable summoned his Blood Puppets and attacked Zheng Yi, but Zheng Yi calmly relied on his transformed Divine Soul and called on Nether River to handle the blood-based defenses. Nether River’s Blood River emerged and began devouring the blood mist array, leaving the confrontation underway.

• Blood Mist Venerable summoned five Blood Puppets and armored himself with the Blood Demon Armor before demanding that Chen Dragon surrender.
• Zheng Yi resisted Blood Mist Venerable’s pressure with his transformed Divine Soul, whose power had advanced beyond ordinary Purple Mansion cultivators.
• Blood Mist Venerable recalled Wei Xu’s sacrifice and grew wary of Chen Dragon, but ordered his Blood Puppets to attack.
• Zheng Yi called on Nether River to confront Blood Mist Venerable’s blood-based techniques.
• Nether River’s Blood River surged into the blood mist array and began swallowing its blood aura.

Zheng Yi and Nether River Daoist trapped Blood Mist Venerable after Nether River Daoist devoured the Five Great Blood Puppets. Zheng Yi killed Blood Mist Venerable with a Mental Storm, clearing the way to claim Divine Thought Old Ancestor's inheritance.

• Nether River Daoist summoned the Blood River and swallowed the Five Great Blood Puppets, absorbing their blood qi and growing stronger.
• Zheng Yi used Divine Soul Power to trap Blood Mist Venerable inside an invisible barrier as he tried to flee.
• Blood Mist Venerable recognized Zheng Yi, but Zheng Yi and Nether River Daoist attacked without allowing him to negotiate.
• Nether River Daoist fought Blood Mist Venerable in a fierce stalemate while Zheng Yi observed their battle and sensed the Blood River's changes.
• Zheng Yi unleashed a Mental Storm that struck Blood Mist Venerable's mind and destroyed his remaining Divine Soul will.

Zheng Yi defeated Blood Mist Venerable, captured the Twelve-Winged Skyfire Dragon Centipede, and discovered that Divine Thought Old Ancestor’s true inheritance was the giant skull known as the God Extremes Hall. He awakened a resonance between the skull and the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Divine Thought Heaven-Strike Art, then pushed his Divine Soul Power toward its limit to claim the inheritance.

• Nether River Daoist devoured Blood Mist Venerable and his Blood Demon Armor in the Blood River.
• Nether River Daoist absorbed the surrounding blood energy and formed a Blood Egg as he began evolving.
• Zheng Yi subdued the Twelve-Winged Skyfire Dragon Centipede, extracted its inner core for Wei Xu, and stored its corpse.
• After studying the small space’s formations for three months, Zheng Yi realized the giant skull beneath the Temple was the God Extremes Hall and the source of the space’s confinement.
• Zheng Yi used the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Divine Thought Heaven-Strike Art to resonate with the skull and began awakening Divine Thought Old Ancestor’s inheritance.
• Zheng Yi continued amplifying his Divine Soul Power until his eyes turned silver and the art reached its limit.

Zheng Yi awakened and refined the Giant Skull, uncovering its connection to the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Divine Thought Heaven-Strike Art and glimpsing the ancient creature it came from. The skull shrank into a white pearl and entered his Sea of Consciousness, where its immense pressure left him struggling to endure.

• Zheng Yi used the upper volume of the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Divine Thought Heaven-Strike Art and the Soul Falling Treasure Mirror to sense the matching source hidden within the Giant Skull.
• Zheng Yi spent several months cultivating the secret art and imprinting his consciousness on the skull's source, gradually awakening it.
• Zheng Yi fully awakened the Giant Skull and saw a terrifying vision of the enormous ancient creature it had belonged to.
• The awakened skull shrank over the next three months until it became a small white pearl and flew into Zheng Yi's Sea of Consciousness.
• The white skull pearl shook Zheng Yi's Divine Soul Space with crushing force, and blood tears streamed from his eyes as he struggled to withstand it.

Zheng Yi survived the upheaval caused by the mysterious skull pearl and obtained the complete Nine Heavens Ten Earths Divine Thought Heaven-Strike Art. He learned that the pearl was a Heavenly Demon Relic holding Divine Thought Old Ancestor’s vast Dao Treasury, which he began studying to strengthen his cultivation and prepare for the Golden Core path.

• Zheng Yi stabilized his Sea of Consciousness with the Soul Falling Treasure Mirror and the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Divine Thought Heaven-Strike Art after the white skull pearl nearly overwhelmed him.
• Zheng Yi drew the latter half of the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Divine Thought Heaven-Strike Art from the pearl and learned that the complete art was also called the Paranirmitavasavarti Great Demon Strategy Relic Volume.
• Zheng Yi learned that the pearl was a Heavenly Demon Relic refined from an Other God’s skull and that it had trapped him in the area rather than an array laid by Blood Mist Venerable.
• Zheng Yi discovered that the Heavenly Demon Relic contained Divine Thought Old Ancestor’s Dao Treasury, accumulated from the clans and sects he had destroyed.
• Zheng Yi put away the Heavenly Demon Relic and the inherited treasures, then continued studying them to address the gaps in his cultivation and pursue the Golden Core Dao.

While studying the Dao Treasury, Zheng Yi learned how Golden Core grades depended on a cultivator’s Dao Seeds and discovered that the Divine Thought Old Ancestor’s map led to the Sumeru Senluo Grotto-Heaven Paradise. The map revealed the Heaven Intercepting Vine, a treasure that could raise Golden Core grades, giving Zheng Yi a major opportunity as he considered the Old Ancestor’s rise and downfall.

• Zheng Yi studied Golden Core classifications and learned that nine Innate Divine Power Seeds could form a Nine Rank Golden Core with a path toward the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Zheng Yi discovered a secret map the Divine Thought Old Ancestor had hidden in the Dao Treasury and recognized it as a map of the Sumeru Senluo Grotto-Heaven Paradise.
• Zheng Yi triggered the map’s red marking and learned that the Heaven Intercepting Vine could absorb external Dao essences and raise a cultivator’s Golden Core grade.
• Zheng Yi learned that the Divine Thought Old Ancestor had formed a seventh-grade Golden Core, obtained the Heavenly Demon Relic in the grotto-heaven, and died after opposing the Taiyin Xuantian Sect.
• Zheng Yi weighed the Old Ancestor’s fate and resolved that he would conceal his strength and build his power before challenging a powerful sect.

Zheng Yi placed the Heavenly Demon Relic in the Five Elements Gold Mountain spirit vein and examined treasures in the Incense Fire Dharma Realm. He chose the Five Fire Stone Banners to study the Blazing Flame Formation and began preparing to cultivate Yama Demon Overlord Blood with the Dragon Severing Silver Horn; meanwhile, Fengdu City's influence continued expanding across the Western Alliance.

• Zheng Yi returned to Five Elements Gold Mountain, released the Blood Egg-form Nether River Daoist into the Nine Heavens Blood River Array, and placed the Heavenly Demon Relic at the spirit vein's core to nourish it.
• Zheng Yi studied the Five Fire Stone Banners and recognized that their inscribed flame array could help him comprehend the Blazing Flame Formation and its fire-based principles.
• Zheng Yi examined the Dragon Severing Silver Horn and searched the Heavenly Demon Relic's Dao Treasury for a body-refining method suited to it.
• With the Super Brain Main God's help, Zheng Yi selected the Yama Demon Overlord Blood technique, which used Ferocious Beast blood and the Dragon Severing Silver Horn to develop a God-Demon body.
• The Soul Hall expanded Fengdu City's territory across dozens of surrounding cities, while its population grew more than tenfold.

Zheng Yi expanded his faith-based realm and shaped the Netherworld while trying to create a lasting world within it. He also used the Super Brain Main God and the Five Fire Stone Banner to advance his Four Absolutes Array deductions, ending as a flaming giant began to form.

• The Soul Hall absorbed the Western Alliance, and Fengdu City formally established a nation divided into the living world and the Underworld, with Zheng Yi honored as the Netherworld Son of Heaven.
• Zheng Yi expanded the Incense Fire Dharma Realm into a projected Underworld, while growing faith strengthened both Mount Tai God and the Netherworld Son of Heaven.
• A second generation of Asura began to emerge from the Blood Lake as the expanding realm supplied it with power.
• Zheng Yi attempted to create heaven, earth, the sun, moon, and stars by speaking within the realm, but the constructions collapsed for lack of power.
• Zheng Yi used the Super Brain Main God to deduce the Four Absolute Array Diagram, drawing on the Five Fire Stone Banner to form Blazing Flame Formations.
• Zheng Yi combined the formations into a third-rank array diagram, and a massive flaming giant began to take shape at its center.

Zheng Yi strengthened the Incense Fire Dharma Realm while the Soul Hall expanded across the Western Continent and fought the Hungry Ghost Tribe. When the tribe summoned a gigantic Hungry Ghost King, the Netherworld Son of Heaven appeared through the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and overwhelmed the battlefield with divine pressure.

• Zheng Yi used the Five Fire Stone Banner to enhance the Blazing Flame Formation and form a Flame Giant wrapped in a fiery flood dragon.
• The Soul Hall expanded its territory and accepted refugees, building its strength through the faith of new believers.
• The Soul Hall's advance stalled at the Hungry Ghost Tribe, whose Ghost Emperor Clan commanded a vast legion of Hungry Ghost Slaves.
• Facing defeat after three months of battle, the Ghost Emperor Clan sacrificed human slaves to summon a massive Hungry Ghost King.
• A Soul Hall devotee invoked the Netherworld Son of Heaven, whose enormous divine visage appeared in the clouds and made the Hungry Ghost King hesitate.

Zheng Yi destroyed the Hungry Ghost King, sealed the mysterious passage beneath the earth, and used the Soul Hall’s expansion to establish the Three Realms across most of the Western Continent. As the Incense Fire Dharma Realm grew, he began creating a divine cultivation scripture and continued studying the Four Absolute Array Diagram.

• Zheng Yi used a Divine Decree to erase the Hungry Ghost King, then suppressed the underground passage with lightning and forced the terrifying presence within it back underground.
• The Soul Hall crushed the Hungry Ghost Tribe, absorbed surrendering factions, and extended its control across more than a hundred cities in the Western Continent.
• Zheng Yi manifested across the region and transformed the Incense Fire Dharma Realm into the Three Realms, with the Netherworld under the Netherworld Son of Heaven and the mortal realm ruled by the Soul Emperor.
• Faith Power drew some dead believers and spirits into the newly formed Underworld, separating the living from yin spirits and evil entities.
• Zheng Yi used the Super Brain Main God to create the Incense Divine Path Scripture as the Soul Hall continued expanding.
• Zheng Yi studied the Four Absolute Array Diagram, drawing on newly acquired array knowledge and focusing on its wind, fire, earth, and water systems.

Zheng Yi developed the Four Absolutes Array by studying the transformations of wind, water, fire, and earth, while the Great Luo Alliance expanded under his leadership. After obtaining the Three Transformations Heavenly Yang Pill, he turned his attention to Wei Shuke, as forces in Blood Mist Abyss City and the Wei Residence began probing Wei Xu’s disappearance.

• Zheng Yi experimented with wind and water energies in the Incense Fire Dharma Realm, formed a powerful Wind Tiger, and continued deducing the Four Absolutes Array’s elemental transformations.
• Qi Lin reported that the Great Luo Alliance had expanded its territory and cultivator ranks, including the rise of the Foundation Establishment cultivator Qi Lin and the Purple Mansion cultivator Blood Nether Child.
• Zheng Yi gave Qi Lin the inner core and pill formula for the Three Transformations Heavenly Yang Pill and ordered him to arrange its refinement.
• A Tier 3 Alchemy Master refined a high-grade Three Transformations Heavenly Yang Pill in a single attempt, and Zheng Yi prepared to meet his new disciple, Wei Shuke.
• As the Blood Mist Venerable remained absent, factions in Blood Mist Abyss City maneuvered cautiously, while people began spying on and infiltrating the Wei Residence.

Zheng Yi told Wei Shuke that her grandfather Wei Xu had died, accepted her as his disciple, and used the Three Transformations Heavenly Yang Pill to treat her Innate Supreme Yin Body. The pill and her Innate Cold Qi formed a rare Water and Fire Harmony Spirit Body, leaving her with a promising path to cultivation.

• Zheng Yi entered the Wei Residence and used a thunderous cough to incapacitate the hidden watchers who had been observing him.
• Zheng Yi told Wei Shuke that Wei Xu had died and gave her the Three Transformations Heavenly Yang Pill promised to her grandfather.
• Wei Shuke accepted Zheng Yi as her master and followed him to a secret chamber so he could help refine the pill.
• Wei Shuke's Innate Cold Qi erupted, and Zheng Yi used the pill's medicinal power and his Heavenly Blessed Spirit Source to suppress it and protect her.
• The pill's fire origin and Wei Shuke's water origin balanced within her, transforming her into a rare Water and Fire Harmony Dao Seed with the potential to reach the Purple Mansion realm.

Zheng Yi took Wei Shuke as his inner disciple and arranged for her cultivation before returning to his Earth Vein retreat. There, he began extracting ancient dragon marrow from the Dragon Severing Silver Horn and devised the Five Dragons Divine Fire Shroud as a Divine Ability Dao Seed to strengthen his prospects for Core Formation.

• After confirming Wei Shuke's talent, Zheng Yi gave her the Nine Yin Star Pivot Secret Canon and brought her back to the Great Luo Alliance.
• Zheng Yi held a disciple-taking ceremony, named Wei Shuke his founding eldest disciple and only inner disciple, and ordered Qi Lin to provide her with cultivation resources and teachers.
• Zheng Yi examined the Dragon Severing Silver Horn and discovered a clump of precious Severing Dragon Marrow Blood within it.
• Zheng Yi set up a purification formation to extract the marrow and considered using the Heaven Intercepting Vine and Heavenly Demon Relic to pursue a high-grade Golden Core.
• Zheng Yi combined the Five Fire Stone Banner with the Blazing Flame Formation Diagram and deduced a Divine Ability Dao Seed called the Five Dragons Divine Fire Shroud.

Zheng Yi learned that Soul Hall’s Western Continent expansion had been halted by the Extraterritorial Demonic Kingdom, a civilization of awakened zombies and monsters that enslaved and devoured humans. After discovering that the Four Great Ancestor Spirits had established a faith among the Corpse Race, Zheng Yi declared a divine war and sent Soul Hall to counterattack, while he watched through the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and wondered what had accelerated their Divine Path.

• Zheng Yi ordered the Great Luo Alliance and Soul Hall to search for Spirit Flames while he continued refining the Dragon Severing Silver Horn.
• Le Wuqian reported Soul Hall’s costly defeat against the Extraterritorial Demonic Kingdom and accepted responsibility for the losses.
• Zheng Yi learned that the Corpse Race enslaved humans and worshipped the Four Great Ancestor Spirits, making the conflict a war of faith.
• Zheng Yi declared that only the Netherworld Underworld faith could remain and ordered Soul Hall to launch a counterattack.
• Zheng Yi observed the army’s advance through the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and questioned how the Corpse Race had developed Divine Path power so quickly.

The Soul Hall army confronted the Corpse Race and the vast host of demons, monsters, ghosts, and fiends guarding the Extraterritorial Demon City. As both armies prepared to clash, the humans summoned the Ghost King Battle Formation, leaving its attack poised to begin.

• Zheng Yi watched the Corpse Race army advance and suspected that an unseen power had guided its rapid evolution and military development.
• The human commander ordered the army to form a battle formation, gathering its warriors' blood qi into a towering pillar.
• The Corpse Race appeared with armored troops, colossal mutants, and hordes of strange creatures and spirits under its control.
• A darkened sky and a terrifying face silenced the enemy as the Soul Hall army invoked the Ghost King Battle Formation.
• The Yin Soldiers and War Ghosts merged into a colossal Ghost God Will as the humans called for the Ghost King to descend and unleash Divine Punishment.

Zheng Yi witnessed the Soul Hall’s attack expose the Corpse Race’s horrifying city and its Ancestor Spirit worship, then accelerated the first Ghost God Egg’s birth. He sent the newly awakened Western Ghost Emperor, Bai Daojun, to confront the Corpse Race’s giant demonic shadow as it attacked the human army.

• The Soul Hall’s Divine Punishment devastated the Corpse Race army until a black beam clashed with the Ghost King’s breath and revealed the Demon City beneath its mist.
• Zheng Yi saw the Corpse Race’s White Bone Altar, headless kneeling skeletons, and four Ancestor Spirit Temples, then judged the civilization a major threat and resolved to act sooner.
• Zheng Yi poured Incense Fire Power into one of the five Ghost God Eggs, and the first egg cracked open to reveal Bai Daojun, the Western Ghost Emperor.
• Zheng Yi sent Bai Daojun from the Incense Fire Dharma Realm to the Soul Hall battlefield as a giant Corpse Race shadow struck at the human army.
• Bai Daojun appeared before the army and spread immense Western Geng Metal Qi across the sky, forming a White Tiger-like shadow that enveloped the Corpse Race’s demonic shadow.

Western Ghost Emperor Bai Daojun’s empowered shadow destroyed a Corpse Race city and defeated the Demonic Kingdom’s Hate Heaven Lord, while Zheng Yi prepared the Soul Hall for future conflict. Over the following two years, the Soul Hall expanded and Zheng Yi advanced plans for the Incense Fire Hall and a Perfect Golden Core, using the Dao Treasury to develop powerful divine abilities.

• Western Ghost Emperor Bai Daojun’s god-devil shadow crushed the Corpse Race expert and fought the Hate Heaven Lord, destroying the city before the Lord’s energy ran out and it vanished.
• Zheng Yi judged the Demonic Kingdom and its Four Great Ancestor Spirits a serious threat and resolved to prepare for another confrontation.
• Over two years, the Soul Hall occupied ten Corpse Race cities, controlled more than half the Western Continent, and began rebuilding human civilization while the rival powers avoided direct escalation.
• Zheng Yi ordered the Five Directions Altar built outside Fengdu City, while five god-devil eggs showed signs of hatching and the Five Ghost Soul Lifting Carriage began transforming into the Incense Fire Hall, a Heavenly Dao Artifact.
• Zheng Yi studied the Four Absolute Array Diagrams and the Dao Treasury, using the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and the Super Brain Main God to pursue divine ability Dao Seeds and a Perfect Golden Core.

Zheng Yi used the Super Brain and Faith Power to refine the Soul Falling Treasure Mirror with his Yin Yang Dao Embryo, while the Golden Seed stabilized his Sea of Consciousness. After more than two years, he returned to the Da Yi Immortal Domain and headed to Heavenly Enlightenment Sword Cliff, home of the Little Five Elements Sword Sect.

• Zheng Yi used the Super Brain to deduce new divine abilities from the Four Absolute Array Diagram and judged that strengthening himself was crucial against threats in both worlds.
• Zheng Yi began refining the Soul Falling Treasure Mirror with Yin Yang Energy to make it his source magical treasure and condense a source art.
• The Golden Seed appeared and calmed Zheng Yi's turbulent Sea of Consciousness as he refined the mirror.
• Zheng Yi spent more than two years refining the Soul Falling Treasure Mirror before returning to the Da Yi Immortal Domain.
• Zheng Yi found the Great Luo Alliance still consolidating its territory, with Blood Nether Child Li Wenhua as its only Purple Mansion Cultivator.
• Zheng Yi crossed into Righteous Path territory and went to Heavenly Enlightenment Sword Cliff, belonging to the Little Five Elements Sword Sect.

Zheng Yi invaded Heavenly Enlightenment Sword Cliff to seize its Five Elements Sword Qi Origin Marrow Stone for his cultivation. He escaped with the treasure after overpowering the Little Five Elements Sword Sect's guardian, who pursued him with a sword technique.

• Zheng Yi arrived at Heavenly Enlightenment Sword Cliff and sensed the Five Elements Sword Qi Stone buried deep within the cliff.
• Zheng Yi broke through the Sword Shadow Array and extracted the Five-Colored Sword Qi Origin Marrow Stone, weakening the cliff's sword momentum.
• The white-clad guardian attacked Zheng Yi, but Zheng Yi caught his Serpentine Long Sword and took the treasure.
• The guardian demanded the stone back and threatened Zheng Yi, but Zheng Yi put it away and flew off.
• The guardian recovered his sword and unleashed Sword Qi Like Silk toward Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi escaped after defeating the White-Clad Sword Cultivator and evading Master Xuan Ku, then returned to the Demon Domain with the Five Elements Sword Qi Origin Marrow Stone. He began refining it to develop a source technique for his Small Five Elements Dao Embryo, and the stone revealed the five elemental origins as his work began.

• Zheng Yi destroyed the White-Clad Sword Cultivator’s sword attack, but Master Xuan Ku intervened with his Buddhist Prayer Beads and Great Brahma Heaven Technique.
• Zheng Yi used the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror to freeze heaven and earth briefly, then escaped the White-Clad Sword Cultivator and Master Xuan Ku.
• The Little Five Elements Sword Sect and its allies launched a search for the thief who had stolen the Five Elements Sword Qi Origin Marrow Stone.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Demon Domain and secretly brought the stone to the Core Secret Chamber beneath Asura Mountain Gate.
• Zheng Yi began refining the stone to develop a source technique suited to his Small Five Elements Dao Embryo.
• Zheng Yi pierced the stone with his Innate Formless Sword Qi, causing its metal, wood, water, fire, and earth origins to emerge.