Chapter Summaries

Zheng Yi searched the ruined Lut Military base and discovered that its biochemical research had centered on a mutated Skeleton Man-Eating Tree that produced Evolution Fruits. The tree devoured the surviving researchers, and Zheng Yi remained to investigate its powers and the fruits it bore.

• Zheng Yi searched the destroyed underground laboratories while the Soul Hall Army secured the base and hunted down its escaped mutants.
• Zheng Yi learned from captured researchers’ memories that a Skeleton Man-Eating Tree lay at the heart of the Lut Military’s experiments.
• Zheng Yi reached the deepest level and found the enormous tree, which had formed a soul-like spirit and could influence mutated creatures.
• The Skeleton Man-Eating Tree summoned researchers and drained them to bones while Zheng Yi watched without intervening.
• The tree grew colorful Evolution Fruits after consuming the researchers, and Zheng Yi recognized their role in the Lut Military’s human-modification experiments.

Zheng Yi captured the Skeleton Man-Eating Tree and the surrounding zombie evolutions, then discovered a rare yin-yang Earth Vein aperture beneath it. After securing the site for Soul Hall, he began cultivating there with his gourds, whose struggle with the aperture’s Black Tiger defense remained unresolved.

• Zheng Yi used the Ghost Raising Gourd to absorb the Skeleton Man-Eating Tree and the zombie evolutions it had drawn around him.
• With the tree gone, Zheng Yi used his Yin Yang Eye to discover a Heaven and Earth Unique Aperture containing a Two Elements Yin Yang Creation Destruction Grand Array.
• Zheng Yi concealed and secured the aperture, expanded Soul Hall’s control of the Lut Military base, and moved the military’s research materials to Soul Hall.
• Zheng Yi began cultivating at the array eye, placing the Ten Thousand Swords Gourd and Ghost Raising Gourd in the twin springs to absorb yang and yin qi.
• The aperture’s Black Tiger attacked the Ghost Raising Gourd, but the Ghost King’s hands held its jaws open until black chains emerged and bound the tiger.

Zheng Yi used the Yin Yang Unique Aperture to nurture the Ghost Raising Gourd and Ten Thousand Swords Gourd while cultivating in seclusion for three years. He emerged at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage with greatly strengthened body, Divine Soul, and treasures.

• Black Tiger tried to devour the Ghost Raising Gourd, but the gourd bound and swallowed it, transforming it into the Black Tiger spirit within the gourd.
• The Ten Thousand Swords Gourd transformed its White Dragon, and Zheng Yi spent three months initially fusing and refining the two gourds with Yin Spring and Yang Spring.
• Zheng Yi began cultivating in the Yin Yang Twin Springs, using the White Dragon and Black Tiger's Yin Yang Energy to temper his body and magic power.
• The Heaven and Earth Yin Yang Array formed around Zheng Yi, and he continued cultivating as the two gourds developed their spirits over three years.
• Zheng Yi opened fifty-two apertures, raised his Divine Soul strength to about three hundred and eighty zhang, and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

After three years of seclusion, Zheng Yi returned to find Soul Hall and the Great Luo Alliance flourishing under his command. News of a White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine led him to learn that the Xin Family’s new head, Xin Lingxian, had been detained by Nine Yin Palace, and the chapter left him considering the family’s plea for help.

• Zheng Yi left the Yin Yang Twin Springs, returned to Soul Hall, and reviewed Ying Yixue’s records of its growth during his three-year absence.
• Zheng Yi visited the Great Luo Alliance, praised Qi Lin’s management, and rewarded him with Blood Lotus Seeds.
• Qi Lin reported that the Xin Family had revealed a White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine and that Xin Lingxian had been detained by Nine Yin Palace.
• A Xin Family elder explained that the Qin Family had killed the family head and elders while seizing the mine, forcing Xin Lingxian and the surviving clansmen to flee.
• The Xin Family elder pleaded with Zheng Yi to rescue Xin Lingxian, and Zheng Yi listened in silence.

Zheng Yi considered rescuing Xin Lingxian by bargaining with Nine Yin Palace, but concluded he needed Purple Mansion-level strength to negotiate safely and challenge the Golden Celestial Sect. In the Apocalyptic World, he refined ghost dens until his Demonic Flame became Purple Demon Flame and his Hundred Ghost Banner advanced into a powerful Thousand Ghost Banner.

• Zheng Yi weighed using the White Yi Sword Qi Mine to secure Nine Yin Palace's help and shelter the Xin Family, then decided he needed Purple Mansion-level strength before pursuing the plan.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Apocalyptic World and targeted a dangerous ghost den to strengthen his Black Fiend Technique.
• Zheng Yi defeated and refined the ghost den's two Ghost Kings and its other Malevolent Ghosts, using his Ghost Raising Gourd and Demonic Flame.
• Zheng Yi spent about a month clearing ghost dens around Luo City, turning the Demonic Flame completely purple and evolving the Hundred Ghost Banner into the Thousand Soul Banner.
• Zheng Yi's Ghost Domain grew to five Ghost Kings, and his Thousand Ghost Banner became powerful enough to threaten Purple Mansion Cultivators.

Zheng Yi used his Purple Demon Flame and the last of the Yin Yang Energy beneath the Lut Military ruins to complete the Ten Thousand Swords Gourd and Ghost Raising Gourd, sacrificing two powerful magic artifacts in the process. The gourds then unexpectedly fused into a single Chaos Gourd, leaving Zheng Yi unsure of its nature but hopeful that its altered appearance would conceal its origin from Nine Yin Palace.

• Zheng Yi returned to the underground Yin Yang Cave and found that its Yin and Yang springs had nearly run dry, while the two gourds still lacked the energy to complete their transformation.
• Zheng Yi sacrificed the Yin Luo Peach Blossom Miasma and the Heavenly Light Yin Jade Divine Needles, melting them with Purple Demon Flame and feeding their origins into the two gourds.
• The Ten Thousand Swords Gourd produced a White Dragon and the Ghost Raising Gourd produced a Black Tiger, triggering a powerful Yin Yang phenomenon that alarmed Soul Hall guards outside.
• The springs dried up as the two gourds completed their transformations, and Zheng Yi discovered that they were spiritual, jade-like treasures that responded to his commands.
• When Zheng Yi brought the black and white gourds together, they attracted and merged into a smaller Chaos Gourd, an unexpected change beyond the Artifact True Form Diagram's instructions.
• Zheng Yi considered how the fusion might help conceal the treasure's connection to Nine Yin Palace as he prepared to seek Purple Mansion-level strength and negotiate with them.

Zheng Yi fused the Ten Thousand Swords Gourd and Ghost Raising Gourd into a Purple Golden Gourd, and the process pushed his Divine Soul beyond the four-hundred-zhang threshold into the Purple Mansion level. After returning to the Great Luo Alliance, he prepared to travel to the Nine Yin Palace to handle the alliance and the matter of Xin Lingxian.

• Zheng Yi discovered that the Flesh Gourd’s ability to devour its own kind had caused the Ten Thousand Swords Gourd and Ghost Raising Gourd to merge, and he intensified their fusion with Purple Demon Flame.
• The two gourds became a Purple Golden Gourd with Innate Array Patterns, retaining their original traits and their ability to cultivate Yin Yang Energy.
• The fusion caused Zheng Yi’s Divine Soul to break through from four hundred zhang to four hundred and one zhang, reaching the Purple Mansion threshold.
• Zheng Yi concealed the ruined Yin Yang Eye with an Illusion Array and returned to the Da Yi Immortal Domain before heading to the Nine Yin Palace.
• Qi Lin reported that the Great Luo Alliance’s handover preparations were complete, and Zheng Yi ordered the delegation to depart.
• Zheng Yi led the Great Luo Alliance delegation aboard its Sky Soaring Divine Boats toward the Nine Yin Palace.

Zheng Yi diverted the Sky Soaring Divine Boat to investigate a fight in the Demon Domain and killed the Righteous Path sword cultivator who attacked it. He discovered the unconscious young woman the swordsman had pursued was a Half-Demon with Great Demon Origin and identified her as an Innate Peach God Holy Embryo.

• Qi Lin reported a battle in the barren mountains, but Zheng Yi initially ordered the divine boat to pass over it.
• Zheng Yi sensed the Righteous Path sword cultivator's strange pursuit and redirected the Sky Soaring Divine Boat to investigate.
• The sword cultivator attacked the divine boat, and Zheng Yi crushed him with his Divine Soul Power before ordering Qi Lin's men to retrieve the survivors and the man's storage bag.
• Zheng Yi found an unconscious young woman among the slain and sensed that she was a Half-Demon carrying Great Demon Origin.
• Zheng Yi examined the young woman and recognized her as an Innate Peach God Holy Embryo, surrounded by Yi Wood Azure Qi.

Zheng Yi rescued a young woman with an Innate Peach God Holy Embryo, then continued to the Nine Yin Palace to seek an alliance against the Golden Celestial Sect. After testing each other with Divine Soul illusions, Zheng Yi and the Nine Yin Palace’s Purple Mansion Cultivators agreed to form an alliance.

• Zheng Yi ordered his followers to conceal the sword cultivator’s death and escort the unconscious young woman back to the Soul Devouring Sect for care.
• Zheng Yi led the main force toward the Nine Yin Palace, intending to secure its support against the Golden Celestial Sect and the Qin Family and to claim the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine.
• A Nine Yin Palace cultivator escorted Zheng Yi to the Nine Yin Great Hall, where the palace’s Purple Mansion Cultivator drew him into a Divine Soul illusion.
• Zheng Yi and the Purple Mansion Cultivator exchanged displays of illusion and Divine Soul power, with Zheng Yi conjuring a banquet and dancing women that stirred the illusion’s inhabitants.
• The Nine Yin Palace’s Purple Mansion Cultivators answered yes when Zheng Yi asked whether they could form an alliance.

Zheng Yi finalized an alliance with Nine Yin Palace, brought Xin Lingxian back to the Great Luo Alliance, and cleared the curse from the woman in the pink dress. He then returned to the Apocalyptic World to inspect the growing Progenitor Demonic Bat Cain and examine the changing Tai Sui Brain.

• Zheng Yi and Pu You Shangren discussed cultivation while their subordinates finalized the agreement between Nine Yin Palace and the Great Luo Alliance.
• Zheng Yi secured Xin Lingxian’s release, returned her to the Xin Family, and arranged for the family to join the Great Luo Alliance and establish an Artifact Refining branch.
• Zheng Yi used the Soul Cleansing Spell to remove the curse and resentful Baleful Intent from the woman in the pink dress, though she remained unconscious with a weak Divine Soul.
• Zheng Yi entered Black God Tower’s Void Space and inspected Progenitor Demonic Bat Cain, whose growth and aura had increased while its will remained suppressed.
• Zheng Yi examined the gradually turning transparent Tai Sui Brain and used the Golden Seed’s light to wash over it.

Zheng Yi purified the Tai Sui Brain and joined it with the Purple Golden Gourd to create the Super Brain Main God, then fused it into the Mount Tai God Statue. The transformation connected the statue to its believers’ faith and formed an Incense Fire Dharma Realm over Luo City.

• Zheng Yi spent several years using the Golden Seed’s light to cleanse the Tai Sui Brain of its evil essence.
• Zheng Yi named the purified optical brain the Super Brain—Main God and planned to use it to organize Soul Hall’s faith into a vast network.
• Zheng Yi carried the Super Brain Main God to the Mount Tai God Temple and refined it into the Mount Tai God Statue with purple flames.
• The transformed statue revealed golden threads linking it to believers throughout Soul Hall’s territory.
• Zheng Yi watched incense-fire power create an Imaginary Space centered on the Mount Tai God Temple and covering Luo City, which he identified as the Incense Fire Dharma Realm.

Zheng Yi formed the Incense Fire Dharma Realm, where Mount Tai God manifested to Fengdu’s believers and deepened their faith. Using his nascent Divine Authority, he began shaping the realm into Mount Tai City, leaving it divided between the divine temple and the emerging city.

• Zheng Yi’s fusion of the Super God Brain and Mount Tai God’s statue created an Incense Fire Dharma Realm in Imaginary Space.
• The realm’s emergence drew countless residents into a shared vision where they saw Mount Tai God and became fervent believers.
• The Supreme Management Committee of the Soul Hall renamed Luo City Fengdu and established Mount Tai God’s place and hierarchy within the Divine Realm.
• The Five Direction Ghost Infants fell into slumber as five enormous divine eggs absorbed Incense Fire Power in the Five Direction Ghost Emperor Palace.
• Zheng Yi sensed the forming Divine Authority seal and used his power over the Dharma Realm to move Mount Tai God Temple inside it.
• Zheng Yi summoned Mount Tai City into the Dharma Realm, where it rose beside Mount Tai God Temple as a separate world.

Zheng Yi created Mount Tai City and discovered that its Reincarnation Pool could grant devoted believers a second life, though it lacked the faith power to operate. Back in the Da Yi Immortal Domain, he negotiated with Luo Yaoji over her Five-Hundred-Year Innate Peach God Holy Embryo and ended by asking what she wanted.

• Zheng Yi formed Mount Tai City within the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and learned that its Reincarnation Pool could reincarnate or revive exceptionally devout believers.
• Zheng Yi concluded that he needed more believers and Incense Fire Power to expand Fengdu and establish his Divine Dao System.
• Qi Lin told Zheng Yi that Luo Yaoji had awakened, and Zheng Yi prepared to negotiate for the Innate Peach God Holy Embryo.
• Luo Yaoji thanked Zheng Yi, then offered to discuss a transaction and cooperate with him as a concubine or Cauldron.
• Luo Yaoji revealed that her Holy Embryo was a Five-Hundred-Year Innate Peach God Holy Embryo, and Zheng Yi asked what she wanted.

Luo Yaoji negotiated with Zheng Yi, offering herself and the Innate Peach God Holy Embryo in exchange for revenge and the chance to cultivate. Zheng Yi accepted her conditions but made clear that she would be an attendant concubine, with no claim to descendants or a romantic partnership.

• Luo Yaoji told Zheng Yi that she would become his Cauldron and offer the Five-Hundred-Year Innate Peach God Holy Embryo if he granted her two requests.
• Luo Yaoji recounted how the Peach God Tree's fall left Peach Immortal Village vulnerable, how factions attacked the Peach God Sect, and how the Peach God transferred its origin into her before she fled with loyal followers.
• Zheng Yi agreed to give Luo Yaoji three years to prove herself, after which he might place the Soul Devouring Sect under her command so she could pursue revenge.
• Luo Yaoji asked Zheng Yi to provide cultivation resources and treat her with compassion rather than as a plaything, and Zheng Yi agreed to support her while leaving revenge to her own efforts.
• Zheng Yi stated that Luo Yaoji could only become his attendant concubine and that he would not take Dao companions or leave bloodline descendants while pursuing the Dao.

Zheng Yi accepted Luo Yaoji’s cultivation bargain and arranged for Qi Lin to assist her, then received the Xin Family’s proposal to marry Xin Lingxian. The Xin Family offered its body-refining inheritance and loyalty in exchange for his patronage, and Xin Lingxian personally explained her terms.

• Zheng Yi accepted Luo Yaoji’s deal, promising cultivation resources and three years to prove herself before he considered placing the Soul Devouring Sect under her management.
• Zheng Yi instructed Qi Lin to handle Luo Yaoji’s needs and turned to refining his magical power in preparation for advancing his cultivation.
• Xin Youqiu asked Zheng Yi to take Xin Lingxian as a concubine and offered the Xin Family’s Thirty-Six Apertures Saint Armor Refining God Method.
• Zheng Yi inspected the Jade Slip, recognized the value of its body-refining method, and asked whether Xin Lingxian had agreed to the proposal.
• Xin Lingxian told Zheng Yi she would accept concubine status in return for his protection while the Xin Family rebuilt, and offered its Saint Armor Insects and loyalty to his command.

Zheng Yi agreed to take Xin Lingxian as a concubine alongside Luo Yaoji, and the Great Luo Alliance held a wedding that showcased its strength to the surrounding cultivation forces. The chapter ended with the two women receiving formal greetings as Zheng Yi’s concubines.

• Xin Lingxian offered Zheng Yi the benefits of her family's Source Treasure Qi, and Zheng Yi agreed to marry her as a concubine alongside Luo Yaoji.
• Qi Lin arranged the wedding, and news of Zheng Yi taking two concubines spread throughout the surrounding region as forces prepared to offer congratulations.
• Zheng Yi hosted a lavish wedding banquet attended by a Nine Yin Palace representative and many cultivation forces.
• Zheng Yi revealed the Great Luo Alliance's many Foundation Establishment cultivators, shocking the guests and deterring forces that had considered opposing him.
• After the wedding, Qi Lin managed the visiting forces while Zheng Yi considered helping him reach the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• The next day, Luo Yaoji and Xin Lingxian sat beside Zheng Yi and received greetings from the alliance's subordinates.

Zheng Yi studied the Xin Family’s Saint Armor Refining God Method and began cultivating Corpse Beetles with zombie flesh and blood in Fengdu Ghost City. Afterward, he learned that Yi Qingzi had been found, and the search ended with the discovery of Yi Qingzi’s mangled corpse.

• Zheng Yi absorbed the Peach God Holy Embryo’s Origin Qi, examined the Saint Armor Refining God Method, and decided to raise Corpse Beetles on zombie flesh and blood.
• Zheng Yi traveled to Fengdu Ghost City, built a guarded formation, and placed Corpse Beetle larvae and a large supply of zombie flesh and blood inside it.
• Ying Yixue arranged guards around Zheng Yi’s restricted site while Fengdu Ghost City continued expanding under his orders.
• Zheng Yi received news of Yi Qingzi and sent Great Luo Alliance cultivators to search for him, prompting concern among nearby factions and an inquiry from the Nine Yin Palace.
• After three days and nights of searching, Zheng Yi’s cultivators found Yi Qingzi’s mangled corpse in a stone cavern and sent it back with items he had left behind.

Zheng Yi learned from Yi Qingzi’s final message that the Secret Immortal Cave came from a destroyed sect in the Profound Spirit Domain and was tied to the Soul Devouring Sect. Yi Qingzi revealed that three cultivators from beyond the domain had taken the key and were waiting to open the cave, leaving Zheng Yi to decide whether to confront them.

• Qi Lin reported that Yi Qingzi had died from severe injuries and handed Zheng Yi the Storage Ring found beside his body.
• Zheng Yi gave Qi Lin the Storage Ring and its damaged artifacts, then sealed the hall and examined the Jade Slip inside it.
• Yi Qingzi’s remnant-soul projection told Zheng Yi that he had come from the Profound Spirit Domain and had spent decades seeking the Secret Immortal Cave.
• Yi Qingzi explained that the cave held the inheritance of the destroyed Secret Immortal Sect and would reappear at a fixed location during the Full Moon Shift five years later.
• Yi Qingzi revealed that three Profound Spirit Domain cultivators had ambushed him, taken the item needed to open the cave, and were guarding its hidden grotto.
• Zheng Yi connected the Secret Immortal Sect’s history to Soul Devouring Old Ancestor and recognized that Yi Qingzi had left the message to provoke him into fighting the three cultivators.

Zheng Yi learned from Yi Qingzi’s message that the Secret Immortal Cave contained an Ascension Silkworm capable of transforming a cultivator’s aptitude, and he decided to seize it and avenge Yi Qingzi by killing the three foreign cultivators. He ordered the Great Luo Alliance to track them down and began preparing his forces for an ambush.

• Zheng Yi read Yi Qingzi’s account of the Ascension Silkworm, its Celestial Rebirth Technique, and the Secret Immortal Sect’s destruction.
• Zheng Yi recognized that the Ascension Silkworm could overcome the limits of his Four-Element Mixed Spiritual Roots and resolved to claim it.
• Zheng Yi accepted Yi Qingzi’s scheme and decided to eliminate the three foreign cultivators before the Secret Immortal Cave opened on the Full Moon Day.
• Zheng Yi ordered Qi Lin to use the alliance’s intelligence network and the Qi Observation Technique to locate the foreign cultivators.
• Zheng Yi assembled trusted Foundation Establishment blood cultivators and elite Qi Refining practitioners to train in the Grand Yin Profound Origin Blood Refining Array.

Zheng Yi trained the Great Luo Alliance to wield the Grand Yin Profound Origin Blood Refining Array and learned that three Locking Heaven Temple cultivators had found the Secret Immortal Cave and the Ascension Immortal Silkworm. He prepared to ambush them, while the cultivators waited in their cave for Full Moon Day to open the cave and claim its treasures.

• Zheng Yi coordinated the Great Luo Alliance’s cultivators in the Grand Yin Profound Origin Blood Refining Array and demonstrated its power to threaten a Purple Mansion Cultivator.
• Qi Lin reported that the three cultivators from beyond the domain had settled in a remote valley, and Zheng Yi decided to kill them all to claim the Ascension Immortal Silkworm.
• Zheng Yi secretly located the three cultivators in a sealed cave and identified their strongest member as a Half-Step Purple Mansion Cultivator suppressing his cultivation.
• Zheng Yi concealed elite Blood Cultivators around the valley while he assessed the cave and the three cultivators’ strength.
• Inside the cave, the three Locking Heaven Temple cultivators argued about their pursuit of Yi Qingzi, and their leader told them to wait for Full Moon Day to open the Secret Immortal Cave.
• The leader revealed that the Secret Immortal Sect’s inherited treasure was an extraterrestrial marvel called the Ascension Immortal Silkworm.