Chapter Summaries

After killing twenty-three chieftains of the Thirty-Six Ghost Fiends, Chen Changqing spent ten million AFK Points to begin training the Primordial Nine-Turn Body Refining Art’s Sixth Turn and headed to the Black Wind Plain to await retaliation. At the Hundred Ghost Hall, Youming Kuang learned of the massacre and detected Chen Changqing’s traces.

• Chen Changqing counted his 11.2 million AFK Points and the wealth he had taken from the slain Tribulation Immortals and True Lords.
• Chen Changqing spent ten million AFK Points to begin ten days of training toward a Sixth Turn physique comparable to a Quasi-Immortal Artifact.
• Chen Changqing flew toward the Black Wind Plain, expecting the surviving Thirty-Six Ghost Fiends to seek revenge for their slain chieftains.
• At the Hundred Ghost Hall, the soul plaques of twenty-three chieftains shattered, and the guards reported the deaths to Youming Kuang.
• Youming Kuang emerged from seclusion as a Middle Heavenly Monarch and used his forehead eye to reveal traces of Chen Changqing’s Sword Qi and Chaos Qi.

Youming Kuang gathered the Thirty-Six Ghost Fiends and led them to the Black Wind Plain after discovering that Chen Changqing had killed their allies and taken the Token. Chen Changqing sensed the approaching army as he cultivated near the Nine Nether Ghost Domain.

• Youming Kuang ordered the remaining thirteen chieftains and their elite forces to gather and attack the Black Wind Plain.
• The Thirty-Six Ghost Fiends crossed the wasteland in force, alarming Rogue Cultivators and caravans near Xuanming City.
• Youming Kuang and the chieftains found the battlefield where twenty-three Ghost Cultivators had been killed, and Yin Wujiu identified the traces of powerful swordsmanship and Immortal Artifacts.
• Youming Kuang traced Chen Changqing's Sword-Ray north and led the Ghost Cultivators in pursuit, intending to kill him and recover the Token.
• Chen Changqing cultivated the Sixth Turn of the Primordial Nine-Turn Body Refining Art before sensing Youming Kuang's army approaching.

Chen Changqing waited on Stone Mountain for Youming Kuang and the Thirty-Six Ghost Fiends, then killed two chieftains with the Human Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Seal. Youming Kuang suspected Chen Changqing belonged to the Nine Provinces Divine Dynasty, but chose to attack him anyway.

• Youming Kuang and Yin Wujiu found Chen Changqing on Stone Mountain and surrounded him with hundreds of Ghost Cultivators.
• Chen Changqing revealed he had waited three days for Youming Kuang, angering the chieftain.
• Youming Kuang ordered Ninth and Fifteenth to seize Chen Changqing, but Chen Changqing crushed them with the Human Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Seal.
• Youming Kuang recognized the seal as a Secret Art of the Nine Provinces Divine Dynasty and asked Chen Changqing if he was from the dynasty.
• Chen Changqing neither confirmed nor denied his ties, and Youming Kuang renewed his killing intent before unleashing his Middle Heavenly Monarch cultivation.

Chen Changqing fought Youming Kuang and overwhelmed the Middle Heavenly Monarch with the Immortal Execution Sword Technique, revealing combat strength at least equal to a Half-Step Heavenly Monarch. As Youming Kuang failed to escape the sealed Sword Domain, Yin Wujiu and the remaining chiefs attacked Chen Changqing together to buy their leader time.

• Youming Kuang ordered his eleven chiefs and the Ten Thousand Ghost Array to attack Chen Changqing, who swallowed a Nine-Turn Battle Pill and unleashed the Invincible Sword Domain.
• Chen Changqing charged Youming Kuang and wounded him with the Immortal Execution Sword, while Yin Wujiu used the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade Painting to shield the Ghost Cultivators from the Sword Domain.
• Youming Kuang unleashed the Netherworld Heavenly Eye, but Chen Changqing countered with Dao Reversal, shattered his law barriers, and cut his throat.
• Yin Wujiu recognized that Chen Changqing had at least the combat strength of a Half-Step Heavenly Monarch, while Youming Kuang failed to escape because the Sword Domain suppressed spatial laws.
• Yin Wujiu released one hundred and eight Fierce Ghosts as the remaining chiefs attacked Chen Changqing together.

Chen Changqing survived the Thirty-Six Ghost Fiends’ combined assault without a scratch, then revealed his identity as Mount Shu’s First Sequence Holy Son and Azure Dragon Ranking champion. The Ghost Fiends recognized him and fled, while Chen Changqing prepared to stop them with his Invincible Sword Domain.

• Yin Wujiu and the eleven remaining chiefs unleashed their ghosts, Law Treasures, and attacks on Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing’s body withstood the assault unharmed, and several of the Ghost Fiends’ weapons broke against him.
• Youming Kuang demanded to know who Chen Changqing was, and Chen Changqing identified himself as Mount Shu’s First Sequence Holy Son, next Sect Master, and Azure Dragon Ranking champion.
• The Ghost Fiends recognized Chen Changqing and panicked; Youming Kuang and the others fled in every direction.
• Chen Changqing raised his sword and said they could not leave his Invincible Sword Domain as they pleased.

Chen Changqing annihilated Youming Kuang and the Thirty-Six Ghost Fiends, gaining 5.8 million AFK Points and their accumulated treasures. After recovering his True Essence, he headed north toward the Nine Nether Ghost Domain and stopped at a black cliff in the Living Person Forbidden Zone.

• Chen Changqing trapped Yin Wujiu, the chieftains, and hundreds of Ghost Cultivator Elites inside the Invincible Sword Domain and slaughtered them with his Sword Qi and Avatars.
• Youming Kuang threatened to detonate his Dao Fruit, but Chen Changqing used the Immortal Execution Form to kill him and erase his body, Primordial Spirit, and Law Dao Fruit.
• Chen Changqing collected the Storage Treasures and received 5.8 million AFK Points, bringing his balance to seven million.
• Chen Changqing stored the spoils, swallowed two High-Grade Qi-Replenishing Pills, and recovered his True Essence.
• Chen Changqing flew north into the Nine Nether Ghost Domain and stopped atop a black cliff in the Living Person Forbidden Zone.

Chen Changqing entered the Nine Nether Ghost Domain to find Xiaoqian, whose True Soul still responded to his Soul-Guiding Lamp. After reaching the domain, he was surrounded by corpse wolves, which he began to burn away with his Pure Yang Blood Qi.

• Chen Changqing used a Nine Nether Domain-Entry Token to open the barrier and crossed into the Nine Nether Ghost Domain, protected from its soul-corroding venom by a Jade Pendant from Daoist Chen Yuan.
• Chen Changqing found that the domain’s rules suppressed his Divine Sense, limiting his perception to about five hundred li.
• Chen Changqing followed the Soul-Guiding Lamp’s guidance toward Xiaoqian and confirmed that her True Soul had not been extinguished.
• More than a hundred Nine Nether Corpse Wolves surrounded Chen Changqing and lunged at him.
• Chen Changqing unleashed his Pure Yang Blood Qi, setting the leading corpse wolves ablaze and driving the others to flee.

Chen Changqing reached the Shattered Void Bone Plains, where spatial turbulence disrupted the Soul-Guiding Lamp’s trail to Xiaoqian. A patrol serving the Dark Moon Ghost King attacked him, and Chen Changqing calmly prepared to respond to their soul-devouring assault.

• Chen Changqing crossed the Ghost Domain’s outskirts while using the Pure Yang Soul-Protecting Jade to conceal his living presence.
• The Soul-Guiding Lamp lost Xiaoqian’s direction amid unstable spatial rifts, so Chen Changqing decided to seek a local Ghost Cultivator for guidance.
• A patrol of Yin Soldiers led by a Middle True Lord Ghost General emerged from the Purple Mist and identified Chen Changqing as a living outsider.
• The Ghost General declared that Chen Changqing had entered the Dark Moon Ghost King’s territory and charged him with the Three-Headed Ghost Leopard.
• The Ghost General unleashed Ten Thousand Souls Heavenly Burial while the Yin Soldiers formed a Soul-Locking Grand Formation around Chen Changqing.
• Chen Changqing remained unruffled and pointed two fingers at the void as the soul storm rushed toward him.

Chen Changqing defeated the Ghost General and learned that Xiaoqian had been taken to the Yama Heavenly Palace for a sacrifice meant to awaken an ancient evil god. With fewer than twenty days until the full moon, he set his sights on Dark Moon Ghost City, where the only teleportation formation to the Central Domain stood.

• Chen Changqing destroyed the Ghost General’s sword and mount with his Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique, then crushed the Yin Soldiers with the Human Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Seal.
• Chen Changqing stopped the wounded Ghost General from escaping and searched his memories.
• Chen Changqing learned that Xiaoqian had been captured by the Netherworld Palace and was being taken to the Yama Heavenly Palace for the Ten Thousand Ghosts Worshipping Heaven Grand Sacrifice.
• Chen Changqing killed the Ghost General, collected his Storage Bag, and looked toward Dark Moon Ghost City, the route to the Yama Heavenly Palace.

Chen Changqing stormed into Dark Moon City, destroying its defenses and defeating the forces sent to stop him. He reached the City Lord Mansion, where the Dark Moon Ghost Lord was cultivating in seclusion.

• Chen Changqing crushed the undead horde outside Dark Moon City with the Human Emperor Heaven-Suppressing Seal.
• Chen Changqing shattered the city's protective formation and gate with one strike of the Immortal Execution Sword, prompting a commander to send a distress signal.
• Chen Changqing destroyed the Nine Netherworlds Battle Soul and killed the five Yin Generals who confronted him.
• Chen Changqing swept through the city toward the City Lord Mansion, cutting down guards who tried to stop him.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord sat cultivating in a secret chamber beneath the City Lord Mansion.

Chen Changqing fought through Dark Moon City to reach the teleportation array leading to the Yama Heavenly Palace, prompting the Dark Moon Ghost Lord and her Ten Great Ghost Generals to confront him. The Ghost Lord recognized the power of his sword and demanded to know who he was.

• A black-robed elder told the Dark Moon Ghost Lord that an outsider had stormed through the southern gate, killed the defenders and five Yin General commanders, and was approaching the City Lord Mansion.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord summoned the Ten Great Ghost Generals and led them toward the plaza to stop the intruder.
• Chen Changqing reached the teleportation array after killing the forces in his way and said he only wanted to borrow it.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord and the ten Ghost Generals surrounded Chen Changqing, and the First Ghost General threatened to kill him.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord sensed Chen Changqing's Late True Lord cultivation and his sword's extraordinary power, then asked him to identify himself.

Chen Changqing agreed to fight for Dark Moon City in the Ghost Domain War in exchange for a teleportation to the Central Region and a Soul-Guiding Jade Register. He secluded himself in the Purple Sky Villa and began training the second stage of the Myriad Transformations Starry Skies Art.

• Chen Changqing identified himself as a Mount Shu Sword Sect disciple and confirmed he needed Dark Moon City's teleportation formation.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord offered to provide the teleportation and a Soul-Guiding Jade Register if Chen Changqing won the Ghost Domain War for her.
• Chen Changqing agreed to compete and demanded a quiet chamber, payment of the teleportation's Supreme Yin Crystal costs, and ownership of all his spoils; the Dark Moon Ghost Lord accepted.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord ordered scouts to watch Chen Changqing and sent him the participant list from White Bone Territory and Myriad Poison Ridge.
• In the Purple Sky Villa, Chen Changqing reinforced his meditation chamber and spent five million AFK Points to train the second stage of the Myriad Transformations Starry Skies Art.

Chen Changqing broke through to the Sixth Turn of the Primordial Nine-Turn Body Refining Art, reaching a body as tough as a Quasi-Immortal Artifact. He joined the Dark Moon Ghost Lord’s expedition to the Heavenly Nether Abyss, where the four factions gathered for a contest over its ore vein.

• Chen Changqing invested his remaining AFK Points into body refinement and completed the breakthrough to the Sixth Turn after two days and nights.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord sensed Chen Changqing’s immense Pure Yang Qi and welcomed his strength as an advantage in the coming contest.
• Chen Changqing boarded the Netherworld Warship with the Dark Moon Ghost Lord, the First Ghost General, and two Ghost Cultivator Elites, then traveled toward the Heavenly Nether Abyss.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord explained that twelve fighters would enter the Lightless Forbidden Land, where the three survivors or those who seized a Netherworld Command Banner would advance to the final battle.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord confronted the leaders of White Bone Territory and Myriad Poison Ridge as Bone Li and Poison Boy taunted Dark Moon City’s fighters and singled out Chen Changqing.
• Rakshasa City’s warship arrived, bringing the Rakshasa Ghost King and completing the gathering of all four factions.

Chen Changqing entered the Lightless Forbidden Land to compete for one of three Netherworld Command Banners, then rescued the First Ghost General from a joint ambush by White Bone Territory and Myriad Poison Ridge. After learning that the banners lay in the Black-Blood Deep Valley, guarded by an Archaic Bone Fiend, he set off there alone.

• A Ghost Immortal from the Yama Heavenly Palace opened the contest and sent twelve candidates into the Lightless Forbidden Land to find three Netherworld Command Banners.
• Chen Changqing was randomly transported across the forbidden land and used his Divine Sense to locate a battle in the northwest.
• The First Ghost General and another Dark Moon City cultivator were cornered by four opponents from White Bone Territory and Myriad Poison Ridge.
• Chen Changqing arrived and killed all four attackers with his fists, then asked the First Ghost General where the banner was.
• The First Ghost General revealed that all three banners were sealed at the Black-Blood Deep Valley altar, guarded by an Archaic Bone Fiend, and Chen Changqing headed there alone.

Chen Changqing reached the Central Altar in Black-Blood Deep Valley, where he seized a Netherworld Command Banner and became the Bone Baleful Intent's target. As the other factions fought over the remaining banners, he discovered the altar sustained the guardian and attacked one of its stone pillars.

• Chen Changqing found Gu Li, Poison Boy, and Rakshasa City's cultivators waiting outside the altar, then killed both White Bone Commanders and forced the Bone Fiend to awaken.
• The altar activated its contest rules, binding the four groups to Black-Blood Deep Valley until they obtained a banner and marking Chen Changqing as a target for the Bone Fiend.
• Chen Changqing seized the first Netherworld Command Banner, while Bone Baleful Intent turned its full attention toward him.
• Chen Changqing fought Bone Baleful Intent as Gu Li, Poison Boy, and Rakshasa City's cultivators clashed over the other banners.
• Chen Changqing realized the altar's nine stone pillars sustained Bone Baleful Intent, pinned down its arms with the Three Extremes Origin Seal, and struck at a pillar, whose Deathly Stillness Law blocked his sword.

Chen Changqing seized two Netherworld Command Banners and fought his way through the collapsing Lightless Forbidden Land while trying to save Dark Moon City’s other contestants. He escaped with the First Ghost General and another cultivator, but the awakened Primordial Remnant Will recorded his presence.

• Chen Changqing broke altar pillars, claimed the second Netherworld Command Banner, and learned that the forbidden land would collapse unless its contestants escaped within an incense stick’s time.
• Gu Li and Poison Boy attacked Chen Changqing, but he destroyed more altar pillars, killed Gu Li, and then killed Poison Boy after the First Ghost General called for help.
• Chen Changqing rescued the First Ghost General and another Dark Moon City cultivator, then led them toward the Spatial Gate as the Primordial Remnant Will crushed Bone Baleful Intent.
• The Primordial Remnant Will watched Chen Changqing leave and recorded his presence before Chen Changqing and his companions emerged from the Blackstone Ancient Gate.

Chen Changqing survived the first round of the competition with two Netherworld Command Banners, while Blood Butcher advanced with one. After the White-Robed Ghost Immortal stopped two lords from attacking Chen, the Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch and Thousand Poisons Old Monster began plotting with the Rakshasa Ghost King to destroy Dark Moon City.

• Chen Changqing emerged from the Blackstone Ancient Gate alive with the First Ghost General and another Dark Moon City cultivator, while the other entrants from White Bone Territory and Myriad Poison Ridge had perished.
• The Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch and Thousand Poisons Old Monster attacked Chen Changqing, but the White-Robed Ghost Immortal erased their attacks and warned them against violating the competition rules.
• The White-Robed Ghost Immortal declared that Chen Changqing held two Netherworld Command Banners and Blood Butcher held one, and announced that the three survivors would advance to the final battle in three days.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord took Chen Changqing and the other Dark Moon City survivors away as the Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch and Thousand Poisons Old Monster threatened revenge.
• The Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch and Thousand Poisons Old Monster urged the Rakshasa Ghost King to join them in attacking Dark Moon City and dividing its territory and Taiyin Ore Vein.

The Rakshasa Ghost King refused to join the Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch and the Thousand Poisons Old Monster, who then marched on Dark Moon City with a hundred thousand soldiers. Chen Changqing used ten million AFK Points to strengthen his Star Primordial Spirits and prepared to face the invaders as they approached the city.

• The Rakshasa Ghost King declined the offer to attack Dark Moon City, so the Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch and the Thousand Poisons Old Monster agreed to join forces and besiege it in three days.
• Aboard the Netherworld Warship, the Dark Moon Ghost Lord promised Chen Changqing the Soul-Guiding Jade Register and warned him that Bone Demon and Thousand Poisons would attack; Chen Changqing said they would kill them if they came.
• Chen Changqing spent ten million AFK Points cultivating the Myriad Transformations Starry Skies Art, completing the transformation of his three Star Primordial Spirits and raising his Divine Sense range to five thousand li.
• The Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch and the Thousand Poisons Old Monster advanced on Dark Moon City with a hundred thousand ghost soldiers and five Half-Step Heavenly Monarchs.
• When the Dark Moon Ghost Lord asked Chen Changqing to help stop the attackers, he asked which gate they were approaching and went to wait atop the south wall.
• The Dark Moon Ghost Lord ordered the city's defenders to prepare and announced that she would oversee the battle at the south gate.

Chen Changqing charged alone into the hundred-thousand-strong army besieging Dark Moon City, eager to turn the attackers into AFK Points. He annihilated an elite cavalry formation with one punch and stood ready to continue fighting.

• Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch and Thousand Poisons Old Monster demanded Dark Moon City surrender Chen Changqing and most of its Taiyin Ore Vein profits.
• Dark Moon Ghost Lord defied the two attackers and reinforced the city's defensive barrier.
• Chen Changqing ignored the defenders' shock and charged alone toward the allied army.
• Chen Changqing shattered the White Bone Heavy Cavalry's three-thousand-strong formation with one punch, killing countless soldiers and scattering Myriad Poison Ridge's forces.
• Chen Changqing emerged from the crater and told the retreating ghost soldiers to continue.

Chen Changqing used the Invincible Avatar Technique to slaughter five Half-Step Heavenly Monarch elders, then formed an Immortal Execution Sword Formation to withstand the attacks of Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch and Thousand Poisons Old Monster. With both rulers and their hundred-thousand-strong army trapped inside his Sword World, he began his counterattack.

• Chen Changqing summoned five powerful Avatars, each wielding a formidable weapon, as the five Half-Step Heavenly Monarch elders attacked him.
• Chen Changqing's Avatars and original body killed all five elders in a few breaths, shocking the allied army and Dark Moon Ghost Lord.
• Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch and Thousand Poisons Old Monster unleashed their full strength against Chen Changqing, while Dark Moon Ghost Lord rushed out to aid him.
• Chen Changqing positioned his five Avatars and activated the Invincible Sword Domain and Immortal Execution Sword Formation, creating a Sword World that cut apart the poison river and shattered Bone Demon Heavenly Monarch's claw.
• Chen Changqing declared that the two Heavenly Monarchs and their army would die there, then sent the Sword Gales surging toward them.