Chapter Summaries

Zheng Yi discovered that Cain’s essence blood could create a separate Zombie Blood Bat lineage, then tested its independence from the Blood Bat Palace’s progenitor. He restrained Cain with seven demonic arts and turned back to his own cultivation, while large-scale breeding awaited Cain’s maturity.

• Zheng Yi infused five strong Blood Bat Eggs with Cain’s essence blood; three survived and hatched as Zombie Blood Bats that immediately submitted to Cain.
• Zheng Yi tested Cain and the three new bats in the Da Yi Immortal Domain and confirmed they were isolated from the original Blood Bat lineage.
• Zheng Yi halted the extraction of Cain’s essence blood until Cain matured, judging that mass breeding was not yet possible.
• Zheng Yi searched the Qi Family Library and chose seven demonic arts to control Cain, then applied them while Cain remained suppressed by the Soul Devouring Banner.
• Zheng Yi ended his breeding efforts for the time being and returned his attention to cultivation.

Zheng Yi used Zombie Crystal Cores and the White Bone Body Casting Art to advance his body refinement alongside the White Jade Bone Chapter, transforming much of his skeleton and greatly increasing his strength. After exhausting the green cores, he began using stronger cores to temper the bones around his vital organs.

• Zheng Yi chose not to use a reckless shortcut to raise his cultivation, focusing instead on steady progress and his long-term plans.
• He gathered his Zombie Crystal Cores and began cultivating the White Jade Bone Chapter together with the Qi Family secret art, the White Bone Body Casting Art.
• Zheng Yi crushed green Zombie Crystal Cores to absorb their Life Force, completing the White Jade Bone Chapter and turning about sixty percent of his bones into crystalline white jade.
• He began circulating the White Bone Body Casting Art, which could eventually grow his bones into protective armor, while recognizing that both body-refinement arts consumed enormous resources.
• After using up the green cores, Zheng Yi crushed a yellow Zombie Crystal Core and directed its stronger Life Force toward the untempered bones around his vital organs.

Zheng Yi completed his bone-tempering cultivation, broke through to Qi Refining Seventh Layer, and ordered the Gathering Place to build a factory that used every part of a zombie. The first zombie was fully processed, leaving him with a new system for turning the Apocalyptic World’s resources into supplies for his growing forces.

• Zheng Yi used nearly all his high-grade Zombie Crystal Cores to complete the White Jade Bone Chapter and form White Jade Bone Armor.
• Zheng Yi broke through to Qi Refining Seventh Layer and reflected that his body-tempering and spiritual cultivation strengthened one another.
• Zheng Yi ordered Qi Lin to find Demonic Path Spirit Planter Secret Techniques, seeds, and flesh-grown crops and medicinal herbs.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Apocalyptic World and ordered the Gathering Place’s leaders to establish a factory to process zombies and cultivate crops from the residue.
• Zheng Yi helped equip the factory with formations and machinery, and within half a month its first zombie was processed completely without waste.

Zheng Yi strengthened the Gathering Place’s production system, then hunted mutated creatures in Luo City for higher-quality crystal cores. Three months later, he examined the factory’s accumulated mutant zombie bones and planned to use them to cultivate the White Bone Demonic Path.

• Zheng Yi ordered the Gathering Place to expand its facilities and production, while Blood Rice was prepared as a reward for workers and a resource for Ability Users.
• Zheng Yi left the Gathering Place to hunt and discovered enormous Corpse Fish beneath a broken bridge.
• Zheng Yi killed Corpse Fish for their superior crystal cores and nearly cleared them from that stretch of river.
• Zheng Yi hunted increasingly powerful Mutated Zombies and zombie beasts across Luo City, collecting their crystal cores.
• Three months later, Zheng Yi inspected piles of mutant zombie bones at the No. 3 Zombie Flesh Factory and considered refining them into stronger White Bone Armor.

Zheng Yi consumed Mutated Zombie Crystal Cores and countless zombie skeletons to complete his White Bone Armor and advance to Qi Refining Eighth Layer. In the Apocalyptic World, the Gathering Place prospered, and Cain matured into a powerful Progenitor Zombie Blood Bat nearing the Foundation Establishment Realm.

• Zheng Yi refined White Bone Armor by absorbing Life Force from Zombie Crystal Cores and bone essence from countless zombie skeletons.
• Zheng Yi's armor grew into a complete, spiked suit that he believed could withstand a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator's full-force strike.
• Zheng Yi broke through to Qi Refining Eighth Layer after the remaining Life Force surged through his body.
• The Gathering Place grew more prosperous as workers processed zombie flesh in a mechanized factory.
• Cain matured after devouring the Gathering Place's zombie flesh and approached the threshold of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

Zheng Yi developed Cain’s bloodline into First Generation Zombie Blood Bats and discovered Parasitic Bats that could fuse with humans to grant evolutionary abilities. He announced dangerous but well-compensated experiments at the Gathering Place, aiming to build a powerful army under his control.

• Zheng Yi used seven restraints and his taming methods to keep Cain, the Progenitor Zombie Blood Bat, under control as it matured and began producing bloodline descendants.
• Cain used its essence blood to contaminate ordinary bat eggs, creating First Generation Zombie Blood Bats that would form the top of a descending bloodline hierarchy.
• Zheng Yi discovered that some First Generation Zombie Blood Bats were Parasitic Bats capable of symbiosis with humans, enhancing their physical abilities and granting them control over blood and the capacity to evolve.
• Zheng Yi issued a public bounty notice seeking volunteers for risky Parasitic Bat fusion experiments and promised generous compensation to those who passed preliminary testing.
• Zheng Yi planned to use the Parasitic Bat evolutionary path to strengthen the Gathering Place and create a loyal Blood Bat Army under his control.

Zheng Yi launched Parasitic Bat Egg fusion experiments in the Gathering Place and the Da Yi Immortal Domain, creating distinct Blood Warrior and Blood Demon evolutions. The first successful subjects began training under close supervision, while Qi Lin reported that the secret trials among loyal Qi Family members had begun.

• Zheng Yi selected one hundred applicants from 3,700 volunteers and had them nourished for a week before beginning fusion with Parasitic Bat Eggs.
• During the first experiment, most ordinary volunteers died, but a little over thirty transformed into Blood Bat Warriors; Zheng Yi stopped their frenzy and ordered them into training and monitoring.
• Zheng Yi learned that fusion succeeded for about ninety percent of existing Ability Users, granting them transformation, blood control, and the ability to cultivate using Zombie Crystal Cores and blood.
• In the Da Yi Immortal Domain, death-row cultivators had a similar success rate, but fusion produced Blood Spiritual Roots and Blood Demon Physiques rather than the Apocalyptic World's Blood Warrior form.
• At the Qi Family's secret base in the Ba Dong Town Mine region, Qi Lin told Zheng Yi that the initial experiments were complete and that loyal family members had begun the final tests after passing strict secrecy and screening requirements.

Zheng Yi inspected the Qi Family cultivators transformed by Parasitic Bat Eggs, confirmed their Blood Demon Physiques had greatly improved their cultivation and combat abilities despite their need for blood, and assessed how long it would take them to become a fighting force. He then remained at the Qi Family estate to receive a treasure offered by Qi Yue.

• Zheng Yi observed the Qi Family cultivators training with Blood Demon Path arts and learned from Qi Lin that their symbiotic bat heads enhanced their abilities but left them dependent on blood essence.
• Zheng Yi watched the cultivators generate Yin Erosion Blood Fiend and judged that their Blood Demon Physiques accelerated their Blood Demon Path cultivation while making the valley increasingly dangerous to ordinary people.
• Qi Lin demonstrated the cultivators' combat abilities as one released a Blood Bat for scouting, another displayed exceptional speed, and a third showed great strength and endurance.
• Zheng Yi concluded that the modified cultivators could eventually strengthen the Qi Family but would need months to form combat power and years for large-scale training.
• Qi Lin brought Qi Yue, a merchant caravan leader, before Zheng Yi, and Qi Yue offered him a small treasure.

Zheng Yi received an ancient Gambling Treasure Pouch Skin and opened it with zombie flesh, uncovering the Blood Lotus Womb Lotus Secret Record and its Blood Lotus Seed. He realized the secret record offered a rare Spirit Plant Foundation Establishment method, but cultivating it would require enormous quantities of cultivator flesh and blood.

• Qi Yue presented Zheng Yi with a Gambling Treasure Pouch Skin, and Zheng Yi rewarded him by adding his name to the next Blood Burning Plan.
• Zheng Yi learned that the pouch skin was an ancient Heaven Stealing Sect gambling treasure whose opening condition required the flesh and blood of three hundred cultivators.
• Zheng Yi placed the pouch skin in a spare Flesh Pool in the Zombie Flesh Factory, where it devoured the zombie flesh and opened three days later.
• With Jin Wuqian's help, Zheng Yi opened the pouch skin and found a blood-red jade slip and a shriveled lotus seed inside.
• Zheng Yi read the Blood Lotus Womb Lotus Secret Record and discovered it was a rare Spirit Plant Foundation Establishment method that required vast amounts of cultivator flesh and blood.

Zheng Yi cultivated an ancient Blood Lotus Seed in the Apocalyptic World by feeding it vast quantities of zombie flesh and blood, while the Gathering Place expanded its forces and hunting operations. After months of growth, the pond filled with lotuses, but the central Progenitor Lotus still had not bloomed.

• Zheng Yi concluded that zombie flesh and blood could sustain a Blood Lotus and ordered the seed planted in a Flesh Pool.
• Zheng Yi expanded zombie harvesting as Blood Warriors grew stronger and began clearing large hordes without his direct intervention.
• The Blood Lotus Seed took root and sprouted rapidly, spreading into a lotus pond whose flesh-and-blood consumption depleted the factory's reserves.
• Zheng Yi sent the Progenitor Demonic Bat Cain to hunt, and Cain brought back more spoils than the Gathering Place's forces.
• Zheng Yi secluded himself while his subordinates expanded the Gathering Place and supplied the lotus pond with zombie corpses.
• Another month passed, and the pond filled with lotus leaves and dozens of buds, but the central Progenitor Lotus remained closed.

Zheng Yi harvested Blood Lotus Seeds from the Flesh and Blood Lotus Pond, used them to advance to the peak of Qi Refining, and left the main Progenitor Lotus to keep growing. After returning to the Da Yi Immortal Domain, he learned that the Soul Devouring Sect had been destroyed, and Qi Lin began explaining how its war with the Hundred Beasts Sect led to its fall.

• Zheng Yi watched the branch Blood Lotuses ripen and discovered their seeds were potent Blood Medicine that could replenish essence and Spirit Essence.
• Zheng Yi consumed Blood Lotus Seeds and broke through to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, then reached its peak after two more months of cultivation.
• Zheng Yi left Blood Warriors to guard the lotus pond and returned to the Da Yi Immortal Domain to temper his magic power.
• Qi Lin told Zheng Yi that the Soul Devouring Sect had been destroyed and its sect grounds breached.
• Qi Lin explained that the Soul Devouring Sect's downfall stemmed from its war with the Hundred Beasts Sect over a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone mine, as both sides suffered heavy losses.

Zheng Yi learned that the Soul Devouring Sect and Hundred Beasts Sect had both collapsed after a battle over a Spirit Marrow mine drew in the Savage Beast Sect and unleashed the Soul Devouring Sect’s Ghost King. He stayed out of the sect’s ensuing power struggle, but welcomed Li Mingqi’s followers to the Qi Family, where Li Mingqi soon began acting as though he owned the place.

• The Savage Beast Sect’s Thunderfire Immortal killed the Soul Devouring Sect’s sect master and Foundation Establishment elders, then took control of the Spirit Marrow mine.
• The Hundred Beasts Sect raided the weakened Soul Devouring Sect, but triggered the Ghost King left by Withered Soul Old Ancestor, and its remaining forces were wiped out.
• Qi Lin told Zheng Yi that the two sects had fallen and their surviving members were fighting over the Soul Devouring Sect’s remnants; Zheng Yi ordered him to strengthen the Blood Cultivators and keep the Qi Family cautious.
• Qi Lin reported that Li Mingqi, a True Disciple and descendant of the dead Third Elder, was heading to the Qi Family after losing the struggle for power.
• Zheng Yi and the Qi Family welcomed Li Mingqi and his followers, who settled there after fleeing the sect.
• Li Mingqi began investigating the Qi Family and, days later, occupied its Main Hall and questioned his followers about the family’s strength and intentions.

Li Mingqi and his followers investigated the Qi Family, coveted its resources, and decided to take over its foundation, unaware that Zheng Yi was monitoring them and preparing to close the net. At a banquet, Zheng Yi refused Li Mingqi’s demand to hand over the Qi Family, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Li Mingqi learned that the Qi Family had grown powerful, developed trade caravans, and secretly trained cultivators in the Blood Refinement Art, and he resolved to claim its resources.
• Zheng Yi received Qi Lin’s reports on Li Mingqi’s activities and ordered continued surveillance until he gave the signal to close the net.
• Li Mingqi’s followers urged him to seize the Qi Family, and he agreed that they should take control of it.
• Li Mingqi’s group invited Zheng Yi to a banquet, where one of Li Mingqi’s subordinates told him that Li Mingqi would take over his post.
• Zheng Yi refused to abandon his assignment or surrender the Qi Family, reminding Li Mingqi that it was surnamed Qi, not Zheng.

Zheng Yi exposed Li Mingqi’s attempt to seize the Qi Family, poisoned his followers, and killed him with the help of Progenitor Zombie Blood Bat Cain. After searching Li Mingqi’s soul and hidden Storage Ring, Zheng Yi discovered that he had stolen the Soul Devouring Sect’s Five Viscera Temple God-Nourishing Great Art.

• Zheng Yi rejected Li Mingqi’s orders and revealed that he knew the Soul Devouring Sect had fallen and Li Mingqi intended to take control of the Qi Family.
• Qi Family cultivators entered after silently killing Li Mingqi’s men outside, and Spirit Poison caused Li Mingqi’s followers to collapse.
• Zheng Yi sent the Qi Family cultivators to kill the poisoned followers, then pursued Li Mingqi as he fled.
• Zheng Yi summoned Progenitor Zombie Blood Bat Cain, who overwhelmed Li Mingqi, and Zheng Yi killed him before extracting his Divine Soul and taking his possessions.
• Zheng Yi searched Li Mingqi’s memories and opened the hidden Storage Ring, discovering the Five Viscera Temple God-Nourishing Great Art.

After recovering Li Mingqi’s hidden treasures, Zheng Yi studied the Soul Devouring Sect’s Five Viscera Temple God-Nourishing Great Art and suspected his Golden Seed could remove the karmic poison of its Incense Fire cultivation. He tested the idea in the Apocalyptic World by founding a Mount Tai God temple, where a priest attracted the Gathering Place’s first believers by promising divine blessings and supernatural abilities.

• Zheng Yi opened Li Mingqi’s Storage Ring and recovered his hidden Spirit Stones, manuals, and the Five Viscera Temple God-Nourishing Great Art.
• Zheng Yi learned that the art built five temples within the body and required believers’ Incense Fire, whose Karmic Force could gradually reshape a cultivator’s Divine Soul.
• Zheng Yi suspected the Golden Seed could purify Incense Fire’s Karmic Force and decided to test the art in the Apocalyptic World.
• Zheng Yi established a Mount Tai God temple in the Gathering Place and placed a statue resembling himself inside it.
• A former swindler serving as the temple priest claimed the Mount Tai God could grant believers abilities and demonstrated his ghost-controlling power.
• The crowd worshipped the Mount Tai God as Zheng Yi watched, satisfied that the priest was drawing in believers.

Zheng Yi discovered that the Golden Seed could remove karmic force from Incense Fire Power, allowing him to cultivate the Five Viscera Temple God-Nourishing Great Art. After a Flesh Gourd mutated into a living, predatory plant, he refined its will and began fusing it with himself to forge a Strange Artifact.

• Zheng Yi attracted Faith Power from Mount Tai God worshippers and used the Golden Seed to erase the karmic force hidden within it.
• Zheng Yi visited the Flesh Gourds and was attacked by a blood-colored Flying Sword from the largest one.
• Zheng Yi saw the living Flesh Gourd devour a smaller gourd, then severed and suppressed it.
• Zheng Yi erased the gourd’s will while preserving its ability to devour its kind, then used a secret technique to refine it.
• The Flesh Gourd extended tentacles into Zheng Yi’s chest and began merging with him alongside the Flying Sword within it.

Zheng Yi established a Gourd Temple linked to the Mount Tai God Temple, using the believers’ incense offerings to nurture a fire-element shrine within his heart. He then began preparing to refine the five Blood Fetus Ghost Infants into divine servants, opening the shell of the largest one as his first test.

• Zheng Yi completed the Gourd Temple in his heart, while an external Gourd Temple rose before the Mount Tai God Temple with a sword on its altar.
• The Gathering Place’s people knelt in fear as the fraudulent temple keeper urged them to pray, and their faith strengthened the incense power reaching Zheng Yi.
• Zheng Yi sensed the Stone Sword gaining sharpness from the faith and planned to make the Five Ghosts auxiliary gods under the Mount Tai God.
• Zheng Yi entered the forbidden underground chamber and found the five Blood Fetus Ghost Infants grown plump and powerful after feeding on Zombie flesh and blood.
• Zheng Yi chose to refine the infants as Five Divine Demonic Infants rather than sword spirits and tore open the shell of the largest one.

Zheng Yi subdued the first Blood Fetus Ghost Infant, purified its resentment with the Golden Seed, and refined it into a Heart Fire Spirit Infant enshrined in his heart. The Gourd Temple appeared complete in the Gathering Place, but Zheng Yi concluded that his current cultivation could only support the first shrine.

• Zheng Yi used the Soul Devouring Banner and Ink Spirit Fiend flames to defeat and suppress the first Blood Fetus Ghost Infant after it devastated his Yin Soldiers.
• Zheng Yi bound the Ghost Infant in a Restriction Array and burned away its will, then used the Golden Seed within its soul world to purify its resentment and ghost qi.
• Zheng Yi refined the purified Ghost Infant into a Spirit Infant and enshrined it in the Gourd Shrine around his heart, where it took up the Five Poison Soul Severing Sword as its sword embryo.
• Zheng Yi tested the crimson sword, which flew three kilometers to cut down a withered leaf before returning to his heart.
• Believers at the Mount Tai God Temple witnessed a divine child statue appear in the Gourd Temple, while Zheng Yi sensed his body tempering might advance and judged that he could refine only the first Gourd Temple for now.

Zheng Yi accepted that he had reached his limit in the Qi Refining Stage and chose to wait for the Blood Lotus Progenitor Lotus to mature before attempting Foundation Establishment. He began refining his Soul Devouring Banner with zombie bones, while a Gathering Place squad demonstrated how Blood Warriors hunted a large zombie horde.

• Zheng Yi stopped parasitizing more gods after enshrining the Heart Fire Spirit Infant Sword Embryo and decided to temper his cultivation while waiting for the Blood Lotus Progenitor Lotus.
• Gathering Place Hunting Squad No. 83 scouted a horde of about five hundred zombies and split its attack between the Blood Warriors and the two Ability Blood Warriors.
• The squad killed the horde's Giant Strength Zombies, Speed Zombies, and ordinary zombies, then loaded the corpses onto trucks for transport to the Gathering Place.
• Zheng Yi used the Demonic Bone Refining Art and Profound Ink Flame to extract essence from zombie bones and strengthen the Soul Devouring Banner's banner pole.
• Zheng Yi considered transforming the banner pole into a White Bone Banner and developing it into a White Bone Soul Devouring Banner.

Zheng Yi completed the White Bone Soul Devouring Banner, tested its power, and entered an embryonic Ghost Domain to strengthen its ghosts. After battling the domain’s powerful Black Armor Nether Ghost, he faced it with a newly acquired Heart Fire ability.

• Zheng Yi spent two months refining thirteen warehouses of white bone essence and zombie skin into the White Bone Soul Devouring Banner.
• Zheng Yi tested the advanced banner in a secluded valley and found its power had increased more than tenfold.
• Zheng Yi investigated an underground supermarket Ghost Domain after three Blood Warriors disappeared there and discovered it was still an incomplete Ghost Domain Embryo.
• Zheng Yi released the Blood-Clothed Female Ghost and her Yin Soldiers, who fought through the ghost horde and confronted the Black Armor Nether Ghost.
• The Black Armor Nether Ghost overpowered the Blood-Clothed Female Ghost and charged Zheng Yi, who raised Heart Fire from the Fire-Breathing Infant within the Heart Gourd Shrine.