Chapter Summaries

Zheng Yi trapped three cultivators from beyond Da Yi Domain in the Grand Yin Profound Origin Blood Refining Array after learning they sought the Secret Immortal Sect’s inherited treasure. The array weakened and ensnared them as Zheng Yi attacked, leaving all three on the verge of defeat.

• A Half-Step Purple Mansion Cultivator told his companions that he had led them to the Secret Immortal Cave to pursue concealed information about the Secret Immortal Sect’s destruction and its inherited treasure.
• Zheng Yi located the three men and prepared to eliminate them with the Great Luo Alliance’s forces, while concealing their deaths from other factions.
• At night, the three emerged from their cave after sensing trouble, and Zheng Yi confronted them over secretly harming Yi Qingzi.
• Nearly a hundred Great Luo Alliance cultivators activated the Grand Yin Profound Origin Blood Refining Array, trapping the three men in blood mist and suppressing their mana.
• The array’s blood-red threads bound the three and drained their blood and qi as Zheng Yi attacked the Half-Step Purple Mansion Cultivator with the Five Ghost Sword Embryo.
• Zheng Yi rejected the Half-Step Purple Mansion Cultivator’s offer to cooperate, while the other two cultivators were overwhelmed by the Great Luo Alliance’s forces.

Zheng Yi killed three foreign cultivators who had discovered the Secret Immortal Cave, using the Ten Thousand Swords Gourd and the Grand Yin Profound Origin Blood Refining Array. After capturing their Divine Souls and learning they belonged to the Nascent Soul-level Locking Heaven Temple, he confirmed they had kept the cave’s discovery secret and returned quietly to the Great Luo Alliance headquarters.

• The dark-skinned Half-Step Purple Mansion cultivator transformed his lifebound vertical flute into a Netherflame Divine Steed and attacked Zheng Yi, but Zheng Yi fused five sword embryos into a five-colored sword and destroyed the steed and flute.
• Zheng Yi split the dark-skinned cultivator’s body in two, then used the Ghost Raising Gourd to capture his escaped Divine Soul.
• The Grand Yin Profound Origin Blood Refining Array and the allied cultivators killed the other two foreign cultivators and collected their fleeing Divine Souls.
• Zheng Yi withdrew the array, sent the Foundation Establishment cultivators back in separate groups, left Qi Lin to watch the valley, and returned alone to the Great Luo Alliance headquarters.
• Zheng Yi searched the three cultivators’ memories and learned they came from Locking Heaven Temple, a Nascent Soul-level sect, but had not reported the Secret Immortal Cave’s location.
• Zheng Yi discovered that the dark-skinned cultivator had withheld details about the cave and planned to use his two junior brothers as pathfinders before killing them.

After eliminating three foreign cultivators, Zheng Yi refined their souls and absorbed them into the Soul Devouring Tree, then studied their belongings and discovered a complete Locking Heaven Temple Creation Art inheritance. He focused on the Five Yin Leather Horse Living Puppet Technique and recognized that his resources made its corpse- and soul-based requirements attainable.

• Zheng Yi purified the three foreign cultivators’ souls in the Ghost Raising Gourd, where the Soul Devouring Tree absorbed them and began producing Soul Fruits.
• Zheng Yi opened the three Storage Bags and spent a day absorbing the Jade Slips’ contents.
• Zheng Yi discovered a complete Creation Art inheritance left by Five Yin True Lord, a Locking Heaven Temple puppet master, in the dark-skinned man’s Storage Bag.
• Zheng Yi learned that the Creation Art’s Five Yin Leather Horse Living Puppet Technique used hides, yin energy, and Specters to create semi-living puppets.
• Zheng Yi concluded that his resources gave him an advantage in refining the Five Yin Leather Horses, though the higher-level creations would have to wait.

Zheng Yi strengthened Luo Yaoji while absorbing her Innate Peach God Holy Embryo, expanded Fengdu Ghost City's power in the Apocalyptic World, and studied the Five Yin Leather Horse Living Puppet Technique. After several failed attempts, he refined eighty living puppet horses and sent them to the Ghost Domain to grow.

• Zheng Yi absorbed Luo Yaoji's Innate Peach God Holy Embryo while nourishing her body, and her cultivation rose to Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
• Zheng Yi studied the Creation Art of Five Yin True Lord and refined zombie skin into Five Yin Human Skin in the Apocalyptic World.
• Fengdu Ghost City gathered nearly three hundred thousand people, expanded its military and religious systems, and occupied nearby towns.
• Zheng Yi infused a Five Yin Leather Horse with a ghostly entity, but the first attempt exploded when its body could not contain the yin qi.
• Zheng Yi mastered the Living Puppet Technique, successfully refined eighty Five Yin Human Skin Horses, and stored them in the Ghost Raising Gourd's second-layer Ghost Domain.

Zheng Yi used the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and the Super Brain Main God's calculations to sort through his techniques and begin fusing his body-refining arts in preparation for Celestial Rebirth. The process stopped when his Divine Soul was exhausted, leaving him in severe pain and needing time to recover.

• Zheng Yi set aside refining the Five Yin Human-Skin Horse and went to Mount Tai Ghost City to organize his cultivation before entering the Secret Immortal Cave.
• He connected his Divine Soul to the Super Brain Main God and used its computational power to analyze and combine his cultivation techniques.
• The Formless Innate Primordial Qi Scattering Divine Light and the Xin Family's Saint Armor Refining God Method began merging across his seventy-two Flesh Acupoints.
• The fusion advanced through nearly half the acupoints, transforming Blood Lotus Seeds into blood and qi as the two techniques' energies collided.
• Zheng Yi's Divine Soul power ran low and forced the process to stop, severing his connection to the Super Brain Main God and leaving him in intense pain.

Zheng Yi used the Super Brain Main God to outline a new cultivation system and recover from the strain of his deductions. He then awakened a Five Yin Leather Horse with the Five Yin Creation Art, and it devoured its fellows to become a powerful Nightmare King, laying groundwork for further puppet evolutions.

• Zheng Yi completed a preliminary model for fusing cultivation techniques, exhausted himself, and later recovered some Divine Soul Power through meditation.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Soul Hall Tower and used the Five Yin Creation Art to form a spirit-bearing orb of light.
• Zheng Yi placed the orb into the first Five Yin Leather Horse, awakening its spirituality and allowing it to respond to him.
• The awakened horse asked to eat the other Five Yin Leather Horses, and Zheng Yi let it devour nearly a hundred of them.
• The horse grew into a ten-zhang-tall Nightmare King with power comparable to a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, and Zheng Yi recognized its potential for future evolutions.

Zheng Yi completed the fusion of the Saint Armor Method and the Formless Innate Primordial Qi Scattering Divine Light, opening all seventy-two Flesh Acupoints. He then devised the Eight Nine Mysterious Talisman System, using the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend talismans to build on his new foundation and prepare for Celestial Rebirth.

• Zheng Yi tested his fused Five Yin Leather Horses, confirmed that their lead horse commanded the entire ghost cavalry, and stored them in the Ghost Raising Gourd.
• After recovering his Divine Soul power, Zheng Yi used the Super Brain Main God to fuse his body-refining methods and opened four more Flesh Acupoints.
• Over three months in Fengdu City, Zheng Yi refined the techniques until he opened and linked all seventy-two Flesh Acupoints.
• Zheng Yi concluded that talismans were the core of his body-refining system and designed the Talisman Armor Insect System to fuse talismans, artifacts, formations, and acupoints.
• Zheng Yi chose the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend talismans to form an acupoint formation and named his combined body-refining system the Eight Nine Mysterious Talisman System.

Zheng Yi inspected the Saint Armor Insects cultivated in Fengdu City and began organizing Talisman Masters in the Great Luo Alliance to inscribe runes on them. Five experienced Talisman Masters received the first insects, but their attempts immediately proved difficult.

• Zheng Yi found that about five Saint Armor Insects had fully transformed and ordered Fengdu City to raise more while he took the first batch back to the Da Yi Immortal Domain.
• Zheng Yi had the Great Luo Alliance recruit Talisman Masters at generous rates, requiring confidentiality agreements and Heavenly Dao Oaths.
• The Great Luo Alliance selected Rogue Cultivator Talisman Masters and gave unsuitable applicants generous travel expenses while seeking more capable candidates.
• The alliance chose five Talisman Masters to test rune inscription on five Golden Saint Armor Insects.
• The five Talisman Masters struggled to engrave the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Spells runes on the insects' hard, spiritually active shells.

Zheng Yi oversaw repeated attempts to engrave runes onto Golden Saint Armor Insects until a Talisman Master successfully inscribed an Invisibility Talisman. He fused the insect into one of his acupoints, tested its concealment power, and confirmed that the Talisman Armor System was viable.

• The first five rune-engraved Golden Saint Armor Insects exploded, so Zheng Yi ordered more mature insects brought from the Apocalyptic World and encouraged the Talisman Masters to keep experimenting.
• A Talisman Master successfully engraved an Invisibility Talisman onto a Golden Saint Armor Insect, and the rune remained stable through a week of testing.
• Qi Lin delivered the successful insect to Zheng Yi, who rewarded its Talisman Master with one thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones and took the insect to a secret cultivation chamber.
• Zheng Yi used his cultivation method to fuse the rune-engraved insect into one of his seventy-two acupoints, binding the rune with blood qi and Source Treasure Qi.
• Zheng Yi activated the Invisibility Talisman and concealed himself so completely that he approached a heavily guarded area without being detected.
• Zheng Yi judged that the Invisibility Talisman could fool ordinary Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators and concluded that his Talisman Armor System was workable.

Zheng Yi expanded his Golden Saint Armor Insect rune system and practiced its abilities while the Great Luo Alliance prepared for conflict with the Qin Family. After learning that fighting over the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine had begun, Zheng Yi set out to intervene, using Xin Lingxian’s family’s destruction as his public justification.

• The Great Luo Alliance’s Talisman Masters inscribed Transportation, Spirit Summoning, and Bird Control runes on three Golden Saint Armor Insects, and Zheng Yi ordered them to prioritize the Swordsmanship Talisman next.
• Zheng Yi fused the three newly inscribed insects into his flesh acupoints, then delivered dozens of mature Golden Saint Armor Insects to Qi Lin for further inscription.
• Zheng Yi practiced the Bird Control Talisman in a forest, using birds as eyes and ears while honing his newly acquired rune abilities.
• Qi Lin sent Zheng Yi word that war had erupted between the Great Luo Alliance and the Qin Family over the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine.
• Zheng Yi decided to intervene under the pretext of avenging Xin Lingxian’s Xin Family, while seeking to take control of the mine.
• Foundation Establishment cultivators from both sides began fighting at the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine.

Zheng Yi arrived as the Great Luo Alliance and the Qin Family fought over the Xin Family and its territory. After the Alliance rejected Qin Wufeng’s attempt to negotiate, a Purple Mansion-level attacker seized and crushed him, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Zheng Yi arrived at the height of the battle between the Great Luo Alliance and the Qin Family.
• Qin Wufeng entered the fight and offered to compensate the Xin Family if the Alliance withdrew.
• Gongliang Shu demanded that the Qin Family surrender the murderer, return the Xin Family’s territory, pay one hundred thousand Spirit Stones, and apologize.
• Qin Wufeng refused the terms and used the Qin Family’s Lion God Roar to challenge the Alliance.
• An unseen Purple Mansion-level attacker trapped Qin Wufeng in a colossal hand and crushed him despite his threat of retaliation.

Zheng Yi’s surprise attack killed Qin Wufeng and Qin Jue, letting the Great Luo Alliance seize the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine and much of the Qin Family’s territory. After the conflict settled, Zheng Yi began extracting Sword Qi from the mine’s rare ore.

• Zheng Yi used an Invisibility Talisman to kill Qin Wufeng and Qin Jue, breaking the Qin Family’s morale and turning the battle in the Great Luo Alliance’s favor.
• The Great Luo Alliance seized mines and territory, then fortified the Xin Family’s former lands instead of pressing farther into Qin Family territory.
• The Qin Family sought aid from the Golden Celestial Sect, but the Golden Celestial Sect and Nine Yin Palace remained occupied with each other while the Qin Family recovered from heavy losses.
• Zheng Yi secured control of the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine, assigned Qi Lin to oversee its excavation, and left four Foundation Establishment blood cultivators to guard him.
• Zheng Yi used the Ten Thousand Swords Gourd to draw Killing Intent from the White Yi Sword Qi Stones and condense it into sharp Sword Qi.

Zheng Yi refined the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine, mastered the Formless Body-Piercing Sword Domain and Little Zhou Tian Sumeru Sword Array, and demonstrated that he could break the Great Luo Alliance’s Blood Refining Array. Back in the Apocalyptic World, he advanced Fengdu City’s development and continued consolidating his cultivation as he prepared to reach the Purple Mansion Stage.

• Zheng Yi refined the White Yi Sword Qi Stone Mine with the Ten Thousand Swords Gourd and gained Formless Body Piercing Sword Qi.
• Over half a year, Zheng Yi used the Ten Thousand Swords Gourd and the Little Zhou Tian Sumeri Sword Array to form a powerful Formless Body-Piercing Sword Domain.
• Zheng Yi entered the Grand Yin Profound Origin Blood Refining Array and broke its suppression with his Sword Domain and Rune, Sword Art, astonishing the assembled cultivators.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Apocalyptic World, checked the Golden Saint Armor Insects, and heard reports on Fengdu City’s growth and development.
• Zheng Yi promoted the spread of faith in the Mount Tai God, then used the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and Super Brain Main God to merge his cultivation systems and prepare for the Purple Mansion Stage.
• Zheng Yi brought a new batch of mature Golden Saint Armor Insects back to the Great Luo Alliance.

After completing his Talisman Armor System and preparing his body, Zheng Yi entered the Secret Immortal Cave to find the Ascension Silkworms. One cocoon revived and drained his power, leaving him wrapped in a cocoon as the Celestial Rebirth Technique began merging his cultivation systems.

• Zheng Yi completed the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Spells Talisman Armor System and finished nurturing the Innate Peach God Holy Embryo.
• Zheng Yi used the Invisibility Talisman to reach the Secret Immortal Cave and opened its entrance with the rune Yi Qingzi had provided.
• Zheng Yi found an emptied hall and a depleted Jade Marrow Mountain containing seven Ascension Silkworm cocoons, only one of which retained vitality.
• Zheng Yi revived the viable cocoon, but the creature inside entered his Dantian Qi Sea and devoured his magical power, Divine Soul Power, and qi and blood power.
• Zheng Yi collapsed, and white threads wrapped him in a cocoon as the Celestial Rebirth Technique appeared in his mind and began merging his cultivation systems.

After completing Celestial Rebirth, Zheng Yi emerged from his old body as an infant and rapidly grew back into an adult by consuming blood and mana pills. As his Sea of Consciousness recovered, he discovered and destroyed the Peach God Tree’s hidden consciousness, leaving its power absorbed into himself.

• Zheng Yi shed his old body through the Celestial Rebirth Technique and crawled out of the cocoon as an infant.
• Zheng Yi used pills from his storage bag to replenish his blood qi and mana, growing from an infant into an adult in three months.
• Zheng Yi’s Divine Soul recovered alongside his body, and he sensed an alien consciousness concealed in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Zheng Yi seized and crushed the Peach God Tree’s consciousness, absorbing its remnants and expanding his Divine Aperture.
• Zheng Yi realized the Peach God consciousness had intended to possess Luo Yaoji, but his rebirth had thwarted its plan.

After rebirthing through the Celestial Rebirth Technique and Ascension Immortal Silkworm, Zheng Yi inspected the transformed body and discovered powerful new constitutions and abilities. He finished assessing his gains, leaving his future cultivation prospects greatly expanded.

• Zheng Yi arranged nine hundred and ninety-nine Spirit Stones into a Spirit Gathering Array and absorbed its spiritual energy to restore his mana.
• Zheng Yi discovered that Fetal Transformation had cleansed his body and formed the Small Five Elements Yin Yang Dao Embryo, granting him affinity with Five Elements particles and Yin Yang Energy.
• Zheng Yi found that his seventy-two Golden Saint Armor Insects had become Talisman Seeds, while the ancient Blood Lotus had become a seventy-third Blood Talisman Seed, forming the Eight Nine Blood Talisman Body.
• Zheng Yi discovered that his five Five Elements Gourds and Cosmos Yin Yang Two Qi Gourd had fused into the seven-layered Chaos Green Skin Gourd, which contained a newly formed Artifact Spirit.
• Zheng Yi completed his inspection and recognized that the transformations had strengthened his foundations and expanded his future cultivation potential.

After restoring his strength, Zheng Yi discovered that the Nine Nether Soul Slaughtering Fiend had formed within him and used it to break through into the Purple Mansion realm. Half a month later, he had stabilized and mastered his new cultivation, leaving him with nowhere further to advance for the moment.

• Zheng Yi set up Spirit Gathering Arrays for a month, but his transformed body still had not absorbed enough spiritual energy.
• Zheng Yi realized the Black Fiend Technique had condensed into the Nine Nether Soul Slaughtering Fiend, a violet-gold flame that became his natal spirit flame.
• Zheng Yi swallowed the flame and refined it into his magic power as he began opening his Purple Mansion.
• Zheng Yi broke through to the Purple Mansion realm, greatly increasing his strength and Divine Soul detection range.
• Half a month later, Zheng Yi completed his spiritual transformation and mastered his Purple Mansion cultivation.

Zheng Yi used the Blood Talisman Seed to transform Progenitor Zombie Blood Bat Cain into an External Avatar, securing its progenitor bloodline as his own. After the Blood Egg matured in the Soul Hall Tower, it produced the Blood Robe Daoist, who greeted Zheng Yi as a fellow Daoist.

• Zheng Yi chose the hidden Secret Immortal Cave as a safe place to store his transformed old body and returned to the Apocalyptic World.
• Zheng Yi descended to the seventh underground floor of the Soul Hall Tower to deal with the growing Progenitor Zombie Blood Bat Cain.
• Zheng Yi inserted his Blood Talisman Seed into the sleeping monster, compressing it into a Blood Egg that began forming his Second External Incarnation.
• Zheng Yi meditated for weeks as the Blood Egg matured, then contained its explosive eruption with his dharma power.
• The Blood Egg released the Blood Robe Daoist, an incarnation resembling Zheng Yi, and the two exchanged Daoist greetings.

After refining his Blood Robe Daoist External Avatar, Zheng Yi followed its sudden intuition to Blood City, where the avatar entered the Blood Spring at the heart of the monster-producing Blood Lake. As the avatar struggled to merge with the spring, it summoned four zombies, which became ensnared in blood-red cocoons.

• The Blood Robe Daoist sensed an opportunity at Blood City's Blood Spring, and Zheng Yi followed him there.
• Zheng Yi saw the Blood Lake spawn monsters for its battle against Fengdu Ghost City and sensed that the lake possessed an instinctive awareness.
• The Blood Robe Daoist plunged into the lake and began merging with the spring, causing vivid crimson to spread and the lake's monsters to dissolve.
• A gigantic Blood Lotus bloomed over the lake's center, and Zheng Yi sensed that the Blood Robe Daoist had merged with the Blood Spring.
• The Blood Robe Daoist summoned Yellow Crane Daoist, Mirage Lord, Yi Xunyou, and another zombie from the underground Nuclear Power Plant.
• The four zombies plunged into the Blood Lake and became wrapped in scarlet threads that formed enormous blood-red cocoons.

Zheng Yi watched as the Blood Robe Daoist’s fusion with the Blood Spring formed a massive Blood Cocoon and drew down heavenly punishment. The cocoon endured repeated lightning strikes, but the tribulation took shape as a Silver Giant Tiger, leaving Zheng Yi prepared to intervene if his avatar could not survive.

• The four smaller Blood Cocoons and the central cocoon suppressed the Blood Spring and drew in its blood qi, calming the Blood Lake.
• Dark clouds gathered as the central Blood Cocoon released a beam of red light, and the heavens struck it with Thunderbolt Spears.
• The Blood Cocoon endured two rounds of lightning strikes, while Zheng Yi recognized the tribulation as a test of the transformation and chose not to interfere.
• The cocoon’s avatar roared for more punishment, and the dark clouds formed into a Silver Giant Tiger.
• Zheng Yi prepared to intervene if necessary as the fully formed thunder tiger descended toward the Blood Cocoon.