Chapter Summaries

Zhang Sanxian killed Qin Erhu after learning the escort chief had been bitten, then took the medicinal herbs toward World-Saving Hall to investigate the plague. He reached the western district and found the medicine hall surrounded by hordes of zombies.

• Qin Erhu told Zhang Sanxian that Old Physician Wang had found a treatment for the plague but needed the herbs on the cart, and that the authorities had fled while the Eight Desolations Sect had sealed off Lian City.
• After Qin Erhu revealed his bite and asked Zhang Sanxian to deliver the medicine, Zhang Sanxian beheaded him and stored the herbs in the Immortal Mirror.
• Zhang Sanxian crossed Lian City and discovered that its streets were filled with wandering zombies as night fell.
• Zhang Sanxian found a zombified woman rocking her dead child and used music to let her see Little Treasure before killing her with a blade of sound from Xiuran.
• Zhang Sanxian reached the western district and saw that World-Saving Hall was an isolated island surrounded by hordes of zombies.

Zhang Sanxian brought a cartload of medicinal herbs to World-Saving Hall, giving Old Physician Wang the ingredients needed to pursue a plague remedy. As the shelter prepared to brew the medicine, Zhang Sanxian wondered whether each Immortal Mirror would cause him to experience an increasingly long span of time.

• Zhang Sanxian approached World-Saving Hall and saw the frightened civilians sheltering behind its makeshift wall while Old Physician Wang researched a cure.
• Zhang Sanxian used the Immortal Mirror to produce a cartload of medicinal herbs outside the wall, astonishing the guards and civilians.
• The guards opened the way, and the crowd welcomed Zhang Sanxian with gratitude as Old Physician Wang rushed to the medicine.
• Old Physician Wang said he had nearly completed a prescription to restrain the plague, then ordered the herbs moved inside and the medicine brewed.
• As the shelter prepared the medicine, Zhang Sanxian recalled the time distortion in Black Wind Town and wondered whether gathering all eight Immortal Mirrors might expose him to thousands of years in an instant.

Old Physician Wang tested his antidote on a zombie girl, but the medicine made her evolve instead of curing her. Zhang Sanxian stopped the furious refugees from attacking Wang, then left as the old physician died in despair.

• Old Physician Wang gave his medicine to a zombie girl while her father restrained her.
• The zombie girl briefly quieted, then convulsed, grew larger, and became more frenzied.
• Zhang Sanxian recognized that the medicine had caused the girl to evolve, and the refugees turned on Old Physician Wang.
• Zhang Sanxian’s chilling presence stopped the crowd from striking Wang and sent them retreating.
• Zhang Sanxian left, and Old Physician Wang died peacefully among the silent refugees.

Zhang Sanxian investigated the Eight Desolations Sect and found its main hall consumed by a battle between terrified disciples and martial-arts-using zombies. Concluding that Lei Zhenyue had sealed Lian City to conduct a horrific experiment beneath the sect, Zhang Sanxian headed for the underground palace.

• Zhang Sanxian reached the Eight Desolations Sect's main hall and saw living disciples fighting zombies transformed from their fellow sect members.
• The Eight Desolations Sect disciples cried out that Lei Zhenyue and several Elders were secluded in the underground palace while the sect's defenses collapsed.
• A zombie senior disciple killed a resentful sect member, then mechanically continued following its old orders alongside two other advanced zombies.
• Zhang Sanxian pieced together the disciples' remarks and suspected that Lei Zhenyue had made Lian City a sealed testing ground for the plague.
• Zhang Sanxian's precognition confirmed his suspicion, and he sped toward the depths of the Eight Desolations Sect's main hall.

Zhang Sanxian slaughtered fighters and zombies to collect Stronger Fragments, then infiltrated the Eight Desolations Sect’s underground palace using his corrosive martial art and Demon Melody Soul Seizure. He tested the melody’s limits on two guards while searching deeper inside.

• Zhang Sanxian and Xiuran attacked the battlefield from the air, killing fighters and zombies and gaining seven fragments.
• Zhang Sanxian corroded the ironstone gate of a secluded tower and descended into the underground palace.
• Zhang Sanxian spread Demon Melody Soul Seizure through the palace, making its guards unable to perceive him or the noises he caused.
• Zhang Sanxian overheard two guards discussing the Sect Master’s seclusion and a maidservant kept underground.
• Zhang Sanxian beheaded Guard B while Guard A remained unaware, then observed that the melody’s visual illusion had limits and restored Guard A’s senses.

Zhang Sanxian reached the Eight Desolations Sect’s Nine Nether Truth-Realization Hall and witnessed Lei Zhenyue transform into a being beyond ordinary human categories through a grotesque ritual. He realized Lei Zhenyue had caused the zombie plague across Lian City to gather vital and death energy for that transformation.

• Guard A fled after discovering the real Guard B’s headless corpse, but his distorted perception led him into a spike pit, where he died.
• Zhang Sanxian followed the eerie sound to the Nine Nether Truth-Realization Hall and found Lei Zhenyue performing a ritual before a mysterious mirror while a chained young woman was forced to watch.
• Lei Zhenyue proclaimed his intent to ascend beyond ordinary humanity, and two torrents of power descended from Heaven.
• Four bloody cavities opened on Lei Zhenyue’s body and swallowed the four Eight Desolations Sect Elders before his body transformed into a being neither male nor female.
• Zhang Sanxian realized Lei Zhenyue had spread the zombie plague across Lian City to harvest vital energy and death energy for his transformation.

Lei Zhenyue celebrated his rebirth as a Yin-Yang Celestial Body and challenged Zhang Sanxian, believing his new strength made him invincible. Zhang Sanxian used deceptive afterimages to pierce Lei Zhenyue’s skull, but Lei Zhenyue retaliated with a furious claw strike.

• Lei Zhenyue revealed his Yin-Yang Celestial Body, displayed its supernatural strength, and declared himself a god.
• Zhang Sanxian confronted Lei Zhenyue, who dismissed his past victories and attacked him with a devastating punch.
• Zhang Sanxian split into four figures and evaded Lei Zhenyue’s attacks with a combination of real movements and cold-mist afterimages.
• Lei Zhenyue mistook Zhang Sanxian’s afterimages and sword lights for genuine attacks while Zhang Sanxian struck the crown of his head with Corroding Baleful Intent.
• Wounded and enraged, Lei Zhenyue roared and reached up to claw at Zhang Sanxian.

Zhang Sanxian used illusions, zither music, and Corroding Baleful Sword Finger to disorient and torment Lei Zhenyue, weakening his aura while raising his own. The chapter ended with Zhang Sanxian stunning Lei Zhenyue with Three Baleful Tiger Roar Force · Overawing Baleful Intent.

• Lei Zhenyue healed his head wound and vowed to fight Zhang Sanxian seriously after his earlier sneak attack had frightened him.
• Zhang Sanxian used his phantoms and Demon Melody Soul Seizure to confuse Lei Zhenyue’s sense of direction and make his aura decline.
• Zhang Sanxian repeatedly evaded Lei Zhenyue’s attacks and struck his weak points with Corroding Baleful Sword Finger, inflicting pain despite Lei Zhenyue’s rapid healing.
• Lei Zhenyue’s aura fell to the threshold of Level 3 as Zhang Sanxian’s rose to the same level.
• Zhang Sanxian unleashed Three Baleful Tiger Roar Force · Overawing Baleful Intent, stunning Lei Zhenyue and freezing him in place.

Zhang Sanxian killed Lei Zhenyue and reclaimed the Yin-Yang Mirror, then hid in the underground palace as Yin Wuchuan and six Wind Envoys arrived to retrieve the mirror and investigate the experiment. The chapter left Zhang Sanxian waiting in ambush for the demonic cult group.

• Zhang Sanxian used Frenzied Baleful Intent and Corroding Baleful Intent to reduce Lei Zhenyue’s body to a skeleton, and Lei Zhenyue died when his regeneration failed.
• Zhang Sanxian took the mirror from the sculpture and returned it to the Immortal Mirror, then told the recovering maid to hide because dangerous people were approaching.
• Zhang Sanxian sensed seven auras descending into the underground palace, including one as powerful as Lei Zhenyue after his transformation.
• Yin Wuchuan told six Wind Envoys that Lei Zhenyue had served as a vessel in an experiment involving the Frenzied Corpse Gu and Yin-Yang Mirror.
• Yin Wuchuan and the six Wind Envoys entered the underground palace to retrieve the Yin-Yang Mirror, while Zhang Sanxian concealed himself and watched for them.

Yin Wuchuan and six Wind Envoys entered Wuzhen’s chamber and discovered Lei Zhenyue dead and the Yin-Yang Mirror missing. Zhang Sanxian’s Demon Melody Soul Seizure drove the Wind Envoys to attack one another, and Yin Wuchuan killed one while trying to stop the chaos before fixing his gaze on a dense patch of shadow.

• Yin Wuchuan led six Wind Envoys through the subterranean palace as strange whimpering sounds unsettled them.
• The seven reached Wuzhen’s chamber, where the Yin-Yang Mirror was missing and Lei Zhenyue lay dead among a pile of bones.
• The whimpering became Zhang Sanxian’s Demon Melody Soul Seizure, trapping the six Wind Envoys in hallucinations and making them attack one another.
• Yin Wuchuan saw through the illusions and tried to awaken his subordinates with a Gu Arts Division technique, but the melody intensified their confusion.
• Xiuran mistook Yin Wuchuan for an enemy and attacked him, so Yin Wuchuan evaded the blow and killed Xiuran by crushing his heart.
• Yin Wuchuan turned his attention to a dense patch of shadow in the chamber.

Zhang Sanxian ambushed Yin Wuchuan and evaded his deadly sword techniques with uncanny precision. The chapter ended as Zhang Sanxian’s Dog-Beating Sword Art struck toward Yin Wuchuan’s extended wrist.

• Yin Wuchuan unleashed his Hundred Pupils Annihilation at a shadow, but Zhang Sanxian appeared behind him and attacked with a dragon of black sword light.
• Yin Wuchuan used Boiling Blood—Burning Marrow to withstand Zhang Sanxian’s assault, while stray sword lights killed nearby Wind Envoys and earned Zhang Sanxian seven fragments.
• Yin Wuchuan challenged Zhang Sanxian with his snake-headed flexible sword and unleashed Nine Serpent-Shedding Flashes, but Zhang Sanxian slipped through the attack unharmed.
• Zhang Sanxian countered with a swift, precise black slash aimed at Yin Wuchuan’s right wrist.

Zhang Sanxian defeated and killed Yin Wuchuan, a powerful Demon Sect swordsman, despite Yin’s bizarre flesh-and-blood escape techniques. Afterward, Zhang Sanxian used the inspiration from his recent battles to create a new cultivation art, unlocking a new system.

• Yin Wuchuan unleashed Myriad Serpent Strangulation, but Zhang Sanxian passed through the Sword Qi vortex and held his sword to Yin’s brow.
• Zhang Sanxian stabbed Yin through the head and slashed his corpse in half, but Yin’s body halves escaped because of his Flesh-and-Blood Martial Way.
• Zhang Sanxian stopped time and returned Yin’s body halves to their original spot, then shredded them until the system announced that three fragments had been received.
• Zhang Sanxian sat down to create a technique, using the Spiritual Inspiration gained from his recent battles.
• A quarter of an hour later, Zhang Sanxian created Wave-Breaking Demon Body Art, and the [Awakening of Insects Hidden Treasury] system appeared.

Zhang Sanxian created the Wave-Breaking Demon Body Art, a cultivation system that awakened hidden powers and gave him extraordinary regeneration, control over severed body parts, and other abilities. After raising his powers to the third level, he grew new eyes that unleashed devastating beams into a rock wall.

• Zhang Sanxian explained that the Awakening of Insects Hidden Treasury system awakened latent powers through extreme trials, with each power carrying a cost.
• Zhang Sanxian created the Wave-Breaking Demon Body Art by combining insights from the Yin-Yang Celestials and the Flesh-and-Blood Martial Way.
• Zhang Sanxian advanced the art to the peak of the Dragon Molt Realm and raised his other abilities to the third level.
• Zhang Sanxian grew new eyes and opened them, revealing that they were ghastly white.
• Zhang Sanxian's eyes fired two beams that vaporized and bored through the rock wall, melting the surrounding stone into magma.

After surviving an attack, Zhang Sanxian discovered his new eyes could fire powerful lasers but required death qi, then learned from a Rain-Listening Tower agent about an impending martial arts gathering and conflict between the Central Plains and Northern Di. The chapter ended when the maidservant recognized Zhang Sanxian’s Xun Immortal Mirror as a divine artifact.

• Zhang Sanxian tested his laser eyes, learned they consumed death qi, and covered them with black cloth because they could not see.
• Zhang Sanxian woke the maidservant and left the underground chamber with her.
• Zhang Sanxian identified the maidservant as a Rain-Listening Tower agent, and she confirmed it.
• The maidservant told Zhang Sanxian that martial sects would gather in Screen Sea to discuss Ba Wulie and his disciple Bo Geyu challenging the Central Plains masters.
• The maidservant explained that Ba Wulie had reached the highest martial arts realm, the Intent-Force Sacred Embryo Ultimate Realm.
• Zhang Sanxian showed the maidservant the Xun Immortal Mirror, and she recognized it as a divine artifact.

Zhang Sanxian learned where two more Immortal Mirrors were hidden, then headed east to join the Martial Arts Assembly. At a slaughtered village, he found a dying pregnant woman and rescued her newborn, whose arrival stirred his foresight and revealed the name Qiu Fangzheng.

• Zhang Sanxian paid the Rain-Listening Tower maid for information and learned that one Immortal Mirror was guarded by Ba Wulie in the Northern Di ancestral temple and another was enshrined in Shenluo Kingdom.
• Zhang Sanxian left Lian City, having gathered enough deathly aura, and traveled east toward the Martial Arts Assembly.
• Zhang Sanxian found a remote village where forty-seven farmers had been killed and sensed a survivor in a courtyard.
• Zhang Sanxian reached a pregnant woman pinned to a wall by a blade; she died after begging him to save her child, and he caught the newborn.
• Zhang Sanxian's dormant power of foresight stirred as the baby clutched his finger, revealing the name Qiu Fangzheng.

Zhang Sanxian discovered that the newborn he rescued was the reincarnation of his sworn brother, Qiu Fangzheng, and set out to protect him and uncover who destroyed the Qiu clan. At a roadside inn, he exposed a poisoned-drink ambush and faced a group of attackers who recognized him as the Listening Wind Yama.

• Zhang Sanxian realized the infant was Qiu Fangzheng reborn in another universe and resolved to avenge the slaughtered Qiu clan.
• Zhang Sanxian cleaned, swaddled, and fed the newborn, then rested with him until morning.
• Zhang Sanxian buried the village’s dead in a mass grave, found the sign for Qiu Family Village, and headed east with little Fangzheng.
• At a wilderness inn, Zhang Sanxian asked the proprietor about Qiu Family Village, recent travelers, and a woman who could nurse the infant.
• Zhang Sanxian recognized that the proprietor was growing anxious and revealed he knew the wine was poisoned; the proprietor called for an attack, and four assailants dropped from the roof.

Zhang Sanxian killed the Ghost Den of Northern Yan assassins who had been hired to ambush him and learned that Qiu Family Village carried the surviving lineage of Wind Thunder Hall. After reaching Green Ox Town with the infant Fangzheng, he severed a drunkard’s hand for threatening the child.

• Zhang Sanxian defeated the attackers at the roadside inn and forced the shopkeeper to reveal that Yan Zikun of the Canal River Gang had ordered the ambush.
• The shopkeeper told Zhang Sanxian that Fangzheng was the last surviving root of Wind Thunder Hall’s lineage and that Yan Zikun would attend a martial arts convention in Screen Sea City.
• Zhang Sanxian killed the remaining Ghost Den of Northern Yan members and gained five Stronger Fragments.
• Zhang Sanxian traveled to Green Ox Town with Fangzheng and asked the innkeeper for food and milk for the infant.
• When a drunkard threatened Fangzheng, Zhang Sanxian cut off his hand and calmly soothed the child.

Zhang Sanxian fed Xiao Fangzheng at an inn and discovered that men planned to ambush him at Soulfall Slope. When a gang confronted him outside, he ordered eight coffins and offered to send them to collect his money.

• Zhang Sanxian fed Xiao Fangzheng while overhearing a plot to use ghost-luring incense against him at Soulfall Slope.
• Zhang Sanxian left the inn with Xiao Fangzheng and encountered Li Tieshuan and a gang of thugs.
• Zhang Sanxian walked through the gang to a coffin shop and ordered eight coffins for their bodies.
• The gang leader demanded one hundred taels and Zhang Sanxian's hidden weapon, and Zhang Sanxian pointed to the coffins and offered to send him in to collect the money.

Zhang Sanxian cut down the thugs threatening him and Little Fangzheng in Green Ox Town, then continued toward Soulfall Slope. There, ghostly figures appeared in the fog as he assured the child that one sword would be enough to face a demon.

• Zhang Sanxian killed seven thugs with a single swift sword strike and spared the frightened young follower who begged for mercy.
• Zhang Sanxian told the youth to live honestly, then ordered seven cheap coffins and gave the remaining money to him.
• Zhang Sanxian left Green Ox Town with Little Fangzheng and headed toward Soulfall Slope.
• At Soulfall Slope, eerie sounds, fog, and a ghostly fragrance unsettled Little Fangzheng, whom Zhang Sanxian calmly reassured.
• Green ghostfire appeared in the fog and revealed six or seven tall figures in tattered armor carrying halberds.

Zhang Sanxian defeated an ambush, tortured the surviving assassin for information, and learned that Yan Zikun served both the Canal River Gang and the Mirage Pavilion. A day later, a storyteller in Screen Sea City began introducing the Wind-Listening King of Hell as a rising star.

• Seven ghostly figures and seven assassins attacked Zhang Sanxian and the infant Fangzheng, but Zhang Sanxian drew his sword and killed or disabled them.
• Zhang Sanxian tortured the surviving assassin until he revealed that Yan Zikun was an Elder of the righteous Canal River Gang and a member of the demonic Mirage Pavilion.
• The assassin told Zhang Sanxian that a Mirage Pavilion squad had exterminated the surviving bloodline of Wind Thunder Hall in Qiu Family Village.
• Zhang Sanxian killed the assassin and resolved to hunt down those responsible for attacking him.
• A day later, a storyteller in a Screen Sea City tavern announced that he would speak about rising stars and introduced the Wind-Listening King of Hell.