Chapter Summaries

Zheng Yi refined ghosts into his White Bone Soul Devouring Banner, helped the Blood-Clothed Female Ghost advance to Ghost King, and staged a divine manifestation to strengthen the Mount Tai God Temple’s faith. He then turned to his Blood Lotus cultivation grounds and discovered that the seeds had condensed the lotus’s blood qi into powerful Blood Medicine.

• Zheng Yi burned the Black Armor Nether Ghost into a bead, gave it to the Blood-Clothed Female Ghost, and collected and refined three hundred Yin Soldiers into the White Bone Soul Devouring Banner.
• The Blood-Clothed Female Ghost devoured the unstable Ghost Domain, advanced to Ghost King, and received command of the three hundred Yin Soldiers from Zheng Yi.
• Zheng Yi arranged a spectacular Mount Tai God manifestation in the Gathering Place, prompting residents to worship and greatly increasing the temples’ believers and Incense Fire Power.
• The Gathering Place declared the Mount Tai God Temple the sole orthodox sect and cracked down on rival cults as Zheng Yi left temple affairs to the authorities.
• Zheng Yi examined the Blood Lotus Seeds and realized they had concentrated the lotus’s blood qi into valuable Blood Medicine, then ate one.

Zheng Yi perfected his Qi Refining cultivation and Profound Fiend Body Tempering Art, then secured the blooming Progenitor Lotus and returned to the Da Yi Immortal Domain to attempt Foundation Establishment. After secretly fortifying the Qi Family against interference, he began breaking through the first of the three Foundation Establishment barriers.

• Zheng Yi consumed Blood Lotus Seeds for months, reaching the peak of Qi Refining and transforming his White Jade Bone into a Vajra Body.
• Zheng Yi ordered the Gathering Place to double its zombie hunts, then intensified Blood Warrior training after their poor coordination exposed weaknesses.
• The Progenitor Lotus bloomed, releasing a fragrance that restored Blood Warriors, and Zheng Yi plucked the flower for his Foundation Establishment preparations.
• Zheng Yi rejected Qi Lin's plan to recall the family's Blood Cultivators and instead secretly activated the Qi Family's Protective Array and arranged layered guards.
• After several days of preparation, Zheng Yi began breaking the Magic Power Barrier by using the Black Fiend Technique to transform his spiritual energy into purer magic power.

Zheng Yi advanced through the three Foundation Establishment barriers, while the spectacle drew hostile factions to the Qi Family estate and sparked battles outside. After overcoming a Heart Demon illusion, he swallowed the Blood Lotus Progenitor Lotus and began the final Three Spirits as One stage of establishing his foundation.

• Zheng Yi converted his spiritual power into magic power, replenished it, and used his Vajra Body to withstand the lightning that accompanied his breakthrough.
• Qi Lin ordered the Qi Family estate sealed as outsiders gathered, and Zheng Yi's Spirit Infant joined with the Spirit Slashing Sword Embryo to cut through the thunderclouds.
• Zheng Yi broke free of a Heart Demon illusion and passed the Magic Power, Physical Body, and Soul barriers.
• Qi Lin's Blood Cultivators fought off Rogue Cultivators who had gathered outside the estate, while he feared hidden Foundation Establishment cultivators might attack.
• Zheng Yi swallowed the Blood Lotus Progenitor Lotus and began absorbing its blood qi as his body, Divine Soul, and spiritual power evolved together.

Zheng Yi refined the Blood Lotus Progenitor Lotus and broke through to Foundation Establishment while attackers besieged the Qi Family. He drove off Yellow Crane Daoist and routed the surrounding cultivators, leaving the Qi Family’s new standing established as regional powers watched cautiously.

• The Blood Lotus Progenitor Lotus’s fragrance drew greedy demonic cultivators to the Qi Family, and Qi Lin’s Blood Cultivators swallowed Essence Blood Pills to hold off the strongest attackers.
• Several High-Stage Qi Refining cultivators failed to breach the Qi Family’s Foundation Establishment defensive array, while Qi Lin refused Yellow Crane Daoist’s demand to identify the person undergoing a breakthrough.
• Zheng Yi’s Divine Soul power struck Yellow Crane Daoist and revealed that Zheng Yi had successfully reached Foundation Establishment; Yellow Crane Daoist withdrew after warning him.
• Zheng Yi injured the fleeing attackers with his Divine Soul, while Progenitor Demonic Bat Cain and Qi Lin’s Blood Cultivators pursued them and killed many.
• News of Zheng Yi’s breakthrough and Yellow Crane Daoist’s defeat spread through the surrounding region, causing rival powers to slow their advance.

After consolidating his Foundation Establishment breakthrough, Zheng Yi strengthened the Qi Family’s position, approved plans for a Marketplace, and rewarded Qi Lin with a rare Parasitic Bat Egg. The chapter ended when a visitor from the Soul Devouring Sect arrived, and Zheng Yi recognized the name Yi Xunyou.

• Zheng Yi examined how the Progenitor Lotus Blood Lotus had expanded his qi sea and enhanced his blood energy and magical power, while his Divine Soul continued to grow.
• Zheng Yi heard Qi Lin’s report on the Qi Family’s recent purge and approved Qi Lin’s proposal to establish a Marketplace under a separate management system.
• Zheng Yi gave Qi Lin a Second Generation Variant Parasitic Bat Egg and ordered him to enter seclusion for a week to attempt a dangerous fusion.
• Zheng Yi oversaw the Qi Family while Qi Lin secluded himself, then spent half a month meditating and leaving routine affairs to the managers.
• A duty steward reported that someone from the Soul Devouring Sect had arrived, and Zheng Yi recognized the name Yi Xunyou.

Zheng Yi disguised himself as Qi Lin to meet Yi Xunyou, who sought the Qi Family’s help in securing a Foundation Establishment ally for the weakened Soul Devouring Sect. Yi Xunyou secretly poisoned Zheng Yi’s tea with a Corpse God Brain Worm, but the Fire Infant swallowed it, leaving Zheng Yi free to feign control as Yi Xunyou laid out his next move.

• Zheng Yi learned that Yi Xunyou had come to the Qi Family seeking an introduction to its newly advanced Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Zheng Yi posed as Qi Lin and deflected Yi Xunyou’s request, saying the cultivator was in seclusion.
• Yi Xunyou offered Qi Lin a storage bag of sect resources and secretly slipped a Corpse God Brain Worm into his tea.
• Zheng Yi drank the tea, but the Fire Infant swallowed the hatching worm before it could control him.
• Zheng Yi pretended to be Yi Xunyou’s puppet and gave him a vague account of the Foundation Establishment cultivator’s arrival.
• Yi Xunyou produced a porcelain bottle and an incense candle as he began his next step.

Zheng Yi uncovered Yi Xunyou’s plot to poison a Foundation Establishment cultivator, then captured and tortured him until he revealed that Mirage Lord had ordered the scheme. The chapter ended with Yi Xunyou identifying Mirage Lord as Zhao Yong, a former Soul Devouring Sect disciple and Wu Daoren’s martial brother.

• Yi Xunyou ordered the controlled Qi Lin to use Rejuvenation Powder and Precious Color Enlightenment Incense to poison the Foundation Establishment cultivator.
• Zheng Yi secretly followed Yi Xunyou for three days as he used the Corpse God Brain Worm to control the leaders of nearby factions.
• Zheng Yi ambushed Yi Xunyou in a mountain forest and revealed that he was the mysterious Foundation Establishment cultivator, not Qi Lin.
• Zheng Yi subdued Yi Xunyou with Divine Soul pressure and the White Bone Soul Devouring Banner until he agreed to confess.
• Yi Xunyou revealed that Mirage Lord had supplied the poison and ordered him to control the surrounding factions.
• Yi Xunyou identified Mirage Lord as Zhao Yong, Wu Daoren’s former martial brother who had returned to the Soul Devouring Sect after reaching Foundation Establishment.

Zheng Yi used the Fire Ghost Infant to seize Yi Xunyou’s body and infiltrate the Soul Devouring Sect, where the infant killed Mirage Lord and consumed his Divine Soul. Mirage Lord’s memories revealed that Black Cliff Mountain was secretly searching for the Secret Immortal Cave, and the chapter ended with the Ghost Infant taking over Mirage Lord’s Foundation Establishment body.

• Zheng Yi decided to strike back against Mirage Lord and planned to subdue the remaining Ghost Infants after dealing with him.
• The Fire Ghost Infant devoured Yi Xunyou’s Divine Soul, took control of his body, and followed him into the Soul Devouring Sect.
• Mirage Lord detected the possession and attacked, but the Ghost Infant entered his Sea of Consciousness and consumed his Divine Soul.
• Zheng Yi learned from Mirage Lord’s memories that he had secretly served the Soul Devouring Sect while searching with Black Cliff Mountain for the Secret Immortal Cave under Yi Qingzi’s orders.
• The Fire Ghost Infant took possession of Mirage Lord’s Foundation Establishment body, though it could use only part of its power.

Zheng Yi refined the remaining four Blood Fetus Ghost Infants, completed the Five Viscera Temple, and gained the Five Ghosts Path, which connected to his cultivation art. He then ambushed Yin Jade Matriarch and Yellow Crane Daoist while posing as Mirage Lord, leaving both of them severely wounded and their Divine Souls under attack.

• Zheng Yi returned to the Apocalyptic World and refined the remaining four Blood Fetus Ghost Infants into his five viscera, raising his Divine Soul attack range to 190 zhang.
• The Mount Tai God Temple gained five Gourd Temples and Five Directions Sword-Wielding Children, drawing nearly ninety percent of the Gathering Place into its following.
• Zheng Yi studied the Blood-Colored Jade Slip containing the Five Ghosts Path and learned that it and the Five Viscera Temple God-Nourishing Great Art were branches of the Deity Commanding Five Ghosts Art.
• Zheng Yi impersonated Mirage Lord at Soul Sweeping Valley and met Yin Jade Matriarch and Yellow Crane Daoist, who were secretly serving Yi Qingzi and searching for the Secret Immortal Cave.
• When Yin Jade Matriarch and Yellow Crane Daoist realized he was not Mirage Lord, Zheng Yi attacked with Spirit Flames and the Five Ghost Sword Embryos, then used his Divine Soul Power to destroy Yin Jade Matriarch's Divine Soul and shatter Yellow Crane Daoist's.

Zheng Yi killed the rogue cultivators Yin Jade Matriarch and Yellow Crane Daoist, seized their treasures, and consolidated control over the Qi Family, Soul Devouring Sect, and Black Cliff Mountain City through Ghost Dolls. After cultivating on the Soul Devouring Sect’s Second-Grade Spirit Vein, he began refining the Yin Luo Peach Blossom Miasma in the Apocalyptic World.

• Zheng Yi’s Ghost Infants devoured Yin Jade Matriarch and Yellow Crane Daoist, and his Ghost Dolls took control of three Foundation Establishment cultivators’ bodies.
• Zheng Yi opened the two cultivators’ Storage Bags, found the Yin Luo Peach Blossom Miasma, the Honghu Sutra, and other resources, and warned himself against letting his growing Divine Soul destabilize his state of mind.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Qi Family, praised Qi Lin’s breakthrough to the Qi Refining Seventh Layer, and entrusted him with resources to sell through the merchant guild.
• Zheng Yi took control of the Soul Devouring Sect by occupying Yi Xunyou’s identity and purging dissenters, then installed himself as its sect leader, Foundation Establishment Grand Elder, and Guest Elder.
• Zheng Yi cultivated for four days in the Soul Devouring Sect’s secret chamber above its Second-Grade Spirit Vein and planned to use the Demon Implantation of the Dao Heart Art on the sect’s leaders.
• Zheng Yi went to the Zombie Flesh Factory in the Apocalyptic World and began refining the Yin Luo Peach Blossom Miasma by drawing on the concentrated bloodstains and Killing Intent.

Zheng Yi refined Yin Jade Matriarch’s Yin Luo Peach Blossom Miasma and Heavenly Light Yin Jade Divine Needle, using the Zombie Flesh Factory’s Blood Fiend power and zombie blood. After months of work, he had strengthened both artifacts and considered further enhancing the needles with spirits.

• Zheng Yi fed the Blood Fiend power gathered above the Zombie Flesh Factory to the Yin Luo Peach Blossom Miasma, strengthening it.
• Zheng Yi purified zombie flesh with Profound Ink Flame and blood-sacrificed all seventy-two Heavenly Light Yin Jade Divine Needles.
• Zheng Yi merged Vengeful Spirits and Malevolent Ghosts into the divine needles, increasing their red glow and power.
• Zheng Yi spent more than three months refining both artifacts while remaining in the Apocalyptic World.
• Zheng Yi tested the strengthened Yin Luo Peach Blossom Miasma and found it had grown larger, denser, and more dangerous.

Zheng Yi trained with his newly empowered Yin Luo Peach Blossom Miasma and Heavenly Light Yin Jade Divine Needles, then discovered the three Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivators under his control were losing their cultivation. He used Blood Lotus Seeds to stabilize them and decided to seek a secluded Yin Fiend Land to refine them into Living Corpses, while Yi Qingzi remained missing.

• Zheng Yi practiced controlling the Heavenly Light Yin Jade Divine Needles and recognized them and the Yin Luo Peach Blossom Miasma as valuable combat methods.
• Zheng Yi found that the Ghost Infants could control the Huanling Sect Leader, Yin Jade Matriarch, and Yellow Crane Daoist but could not cultivate through their bodies, causing their realms to decline.
• Zheng Yi gave each of the three Rogue Cultivators a Blood Lotus Seed, restoring their blood qi and temporarily stabilizing their cultivation.
• Zheng Yi found no trace of Yi Qingzi and relied on the planned meeting at the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion in Flame Yin City as his only lead.
• Zheng Yi decided to refine the three Rogue Cultivators into Living Corpses and began looking for a secret Yin Fiend Land, since renting one would expose his plans.

Zheng Yi chose an abandoned nuclear power plant as a Yin Fiend Land and cleared its mutated zombies and ghosts to prepare it for refining three Foundation Establishment Realm Living Corpses. He buried the corpses in a ritual formation beneath the reactor and finished preparing the blood pools, leaving the corpse refinement ready to begin.

• Zheng Yi reviewed the exploration team's report and decided to use an abandoned Nuclear Power Plant near Luo City as a Corpse Raising Ground.
• Zheng Yi traveled to the plant, sensed its intense Killing Intent and radiation, and destroyed the mutated zombies and irradiated ghosts within it.
• Zheng Yi and Yin Jade Matriarch and the others defeated two berserk Ghost King-level fierce ghosts, then Zheng Yi inspected the Blood Lotus Seeds rooted in the three corpses.
• Zheng Yi brought Mirage Lord, Yin Jade Matriarch, and Yellow Crane Daoist to the reactor's core Sha Aperture and dug a deep pit at a gathering point of Killing Intent.
• Zheng Yi placed the three corpses in Kui Xing Seven Fiends Coffins, buried them, and set up black banners, red thread, and a ritual.
• Zheng Yi poured zombie flesh and blood into three pits beside the coffins to create Blood Pools for the upcoming Living Corpse refinement.

Zheng Yi completed the transformation of Yin Jade Matriarch, Yellow Crane Daoist, and Mirage Lord into Foundation Establishment Living Corpses infused with nuclear radiation, then used his forces to consolidate control over the Soul Devouring Sect and Black Cliff Mountain. With Yi Qingzi still missing as the one-year deadline arrived, Zheng Yi set out for Flame Yin City with his Living Corpses and Five Direction Ghost Infants to confront him.

• Zheng Yi found that nuclear radiation had altered the Yin Fiend Land and was being absorbed by the three buried Foundation Establishment cultivators through Blood-Colored Lotuses.
• Zheng Yi removed the formations and raised the three Living Corpses, discovering that Mirage Lord, Yin Jade Matriarch, and Yellow Crane Daoist retained their cultivation and appeared almost like living people.
• Zheng Yi had Ying Yixue mark the nuclear power plant area as a restricted resource zone after the corpse-raising process created a powerful Yin Fiend opening.
• Zheng Yi's agents brought the upper ranks of the Soul Devouring Sect and Black Cliff Mountain under his control while he continued searching for Yi Qingzi.
• When the one-year deadline arrived, Zheng Yi stored the three Living Corpses and departed for Flame Yin City with the Five Direction Ghost Infants to wait for Yi Qingzi.

Zheng Yi traveled to Flame Yin City to meet Yi Qingzi, but Yi Qingzi failed to appear, so Zheng Yi stayed for the city’s grand auction. The auction’s final item was revealed as a Three-Tailed Illusion Fox cub, and an enraged roar interrupted the proceedings.

• Zheng Yi reached Flame Yin City and waited several days near Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion for Yi Qingzi, who never showed up.
• Zheng Yi learned that the Flame Yin City Auction would begin soon and decided to stay to attend it.
• Zheng Yi entered the auction, watched rare treasures sell for high prices, and refrained from bidding seriously.
• The auctioneer unveiled the final item as a Three-Tailed Illusion Fox cub, prompting questions about how it had been captured.
• An old man displayed a severed fox tail as proof, and the cub cried out when it sensed its ancestor’s aura.
• A furious roar suddenly rang through the venue as the auctioneer prepared to announce the cub’s sale, and Zheng Yi shielded himself with the Five Viscera Temple.

Zheng Yi tried to escape as a Four-Tailed White Fox and Black Mountain Lord attacked Flame Yin City, forcing its Purple Mansion cultivator to defend the city. As the demons’ assault plunged the city into chaos, looters stormed the auction, and Zheng Yi continued seeking a way out rather than joining them.

• Zheng Yi resisted the Four-Tailed White Fox’s devastating claw strike and watched the Flame Yin City Purple Mansion cultivator arrive to fight her.
• The Four-Tailed White Fox accused human cultivators of slaughtering the Taiyuan Mountain Fox Mound and capturing her descendants, then Black Mountain Lord joined her against the Nine Yin Palace cultivator.
• Black Mountain Lord released Chang Gui into Flame Yin City, while the battle overhead intensified and the city’s cultivators fled or turned to looting.
• Zheng Yi evaded a sword strike that killed a Qi Refining cultivator and saw a bearded man lead looters toward the auction’s rear courtyard.
• Zheng Yi refused to join the looting, suspecting the Nine Yin Palace had preparations in place, and focused on escaping the city.

Zheng Yi escaped Flame Yin City amid the chaos caused by two Shapeshifting Great Demons, but the bearded auction robber passed him a storage bag before fleeing. After leaving the city, Zheng Yi was ambushed by the bearded man and his Foundation Establishment companions, who demanded the item in the bag.

• Zheng Yi recognized the bearded man's attack on the auction treasury as a carefully planned robbery and fled the devastated inner city for the outer city.
• A crimson-haired Purple Mansion Cultivator arrived and struck Black Mountain Lord, while Flame Yin City's guards mobilized to suppress the chaos.
• The bearded man gave Zheng Yi a storage bag as pursuers closed in, and Zheng Yi used a breach in the city's defenses to escape.
• After reflecting on the power of the Purple Mansion Cultivators, Zheng Yi traveled away from Flame Yin City and sensed an ambush waiting in the hills.
• The bearded man and several Foundation Establishment cultivators surrounded Zheng Yi and demanded the item, but Zheng Yi refused to surrender it and prepared to fight.

Zheng Yi fought a bearded highway robber whose bizarre black Evil Buddha resisted his strongest attacks. After the robber slaughtered Zheng Yi’s allies and pressed him with relentless palm strikes, Zheng Yi changed tactics and charged toward the Giant Buddha with his Heavenly Light Yin Jade Divine Needles.

• Zheng Yi summoned his Living Corpses, Ghost King, and Netherworld soldiers to fight the bearded man and his Foundation Establishment subordinates.
• Three Ghost Dolls killed three of the robber’s cultivators, while the bearded man revealed a massive Evil Buddha that blocked Zheng Yi’s attacks.
• The bearded man absorbed his own blood into the Evil Buddha, weakening Zheng Yi’s Living Corpses and blasting them and the Ghost King away.
• The bearded man pursued Zheng Yi with a barrage of powerful palms, while Zheng Yi’s Five Ghost Sword Embryo failed to find the Buddha’s weakness.
• Zheng Yi withdrew the Five Ghost Sword Embryo, brought out seventy-two Heavenly Light Yin Jade Divine Needles, and charged toward the Giant Buddha.

Zheng Yi defeated the bearded highway robber and discovered the Formless Innate Primordial Qi Scattering Divine Light, which he began cultivating with Blood Lotus Seeds in the Apocalyptic World. As the Nine Yin Palace searched for the missing robber without finding a trace, Zheng Yi strengthened his Gathering Place and continued aiming to control all of Luo City.

• Zheng Yi used the Heavenly Light Yin Jade Divine Needles to pierce the bearded man's exposed weakness and dantian, then killed him and collected the robbers' corpses.
• Zheng Yi found the Formless Innate Primordial Qi Scattering Divine Light in the bearded man's storage bag and decided to use Second Generation Blood Lotus Seeds as Talisman Seeds.
• Zheng Yi refined his first acupoint with a Blood Lotus Seed, confirming that the technique could improve his physical strength.
• The Nine Yin Palace issued a bounty for the bearded robber, but its divination expert could not trace him because Zheng Yi had taken the corpses and stolen goods to the Apocalyptic World.
• The Gathering Place expanded its influence in Luo City as Blood Warriors and Ability Blood Warriors strengthened its forces.

After completing his Foundation Establishment body cultivation, Zheng Yi learned that the Gathering Place had clashed with Black God Corporation, a powerful Luo City faction that commanded Ghost Masters. He refused to intervene directly, giving Jin Wuqian and the other leaders a year to defeat them while he considered studying the Ghost Master system himself.

• Zheng Yi refined nine Blood Lotus Seeds, opened nine acupoints, and broke through to Foundation Establishment as a body cultivator after three months of cultivation.
• Zheng Yi emerged from seclusion and learned that the Gathering Place’s expansion had stalled in a bloody conflict with Black God Corporation, whose Ghost Masters could control entities that resisted ordinary weapons.
• Ying Yixue reported that the Gathering Place had lost more than thirty Blood Warriors in its first clash with Black God Corporation and relayed the leaders’ request for Zheng Yi’s support.
• Zheng Yi ordered Ying Yixue to tell Jin Wuqian and the others to defeat Black God Corporation within one year or face death, and warned her to deliver his exact words.
• Zheng Yi decided not to fight personally, viewing the conflict as a trial for the Gathering Place, and considered studying the Ghost Master system.